Aug 6th 2019
MacBreak Weekly 673
There. Are. Four. Hosts!
Apple Card is Here!
Records live every Tuesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Alex Lindsay
This Week's Stories
• Apple Card starts rolling out
• Apple Q3 Earnings
• Apple spends big on R&D
• Apple stops talking about AR, starts talking about tariffs
• 16" MacBook Pro will have up to 8 cores
• Apple patents FaceID on Macs
• TouchID coming back to iPhone in 2021?
• FileMaker changes name back to Claris
Picks of the Week:
• Leo's Pick: Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator
• Andy's Pick: Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski
• Rene's Pick: Samsung X5 portable SDD
• Lory's Pick: Journey for iOS
• Alex's Pick: AudioKit Pro
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Links
- Apple rolls out Apple Card Preview to select users
- Apple Card will not allow purchase of cryptocurrencies - Reuters
- Apple Card Terms and Conditions PDF
- Apple third-quarter 2019 results and charts! - Six Colors
- The iPhone now makes up less than half of Apple’s business - The Verge
- Apple R&D spend increases, fulfilling 'Tim Cook doctrine'
- Apple baits Trump by saying it wants to keep making Mac Pro in the US - The Verge
- Kuo: Apple Likely to Absorb Any US Tariff Cost Increases on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Report: 16-inch MacBook Pro to use 9th-gen Intel processors, 15-inch to be discontinued
- Apple granted patent for Face ID on Macs, with smart auto-wake feature
- Kuo: Apple to release iPhone with both Face ID and under-screen Touch ID in 2021
- Apple subsidiary FileMaker Inc. changes its name (back) to Claris
- AudioKit Pro
- Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator
- Journey
- Samsung X5
- "Becoming Superman" by J. Michael Straczynski