Essential Apple Podcast 101: iMac is 20!

Recorded 18th August 2018

This week I am joined by Nick Riley (@spligosh) and Vic Hudson (Pocket Sized Podcast, Bubblesort Podcast and more) and despite some initial technical difficulties we discuss the iMac’s 20th Birthday, Facetime Group Calls getting delayed, Ming Chi Kuo predictions, robot cars, Apple’s data centre in Arizona, the Hacky Hack Hack, why the ARM roadmap might mean a non Intel Mac is more likely, a bucketful of security stories and more…
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On this week’s show:

VIC HUDSON

Pragmatic
Bubblesort
Bubblesort TV
Announcing The New BubbleSort TV Podcast 🎙 📺
Pocket Sized Podcast
App Story Podcast
Vic’s app Health Up Display, now in beta.
Vic’s other perpetual beta, Mowing Meter: Fitness Tracking for the back yard!
Vic on Twitter
Vic on Micro.blog

APPLE

20 years of the iMac at Ars Technica, in reviews and pictures – Ars Technica
Group FaceTime delayed until later this fall – Six Colors
Kuo: AR glasses coming in 2020, Apple Car launch 3-5 years later – 9to5 Mac
New photos show depths of Apple’s expanding Mesa, Ariz. data center – Apple Insider
High school student hacked into Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of ‘secure files’ – 9to5 Mac
- Apple says no customer information involved in hack by Australian teen – AppleInsider

SECURITY

Invisible Mouse Clicks Let Hackers Burrow Deep into MacOS – WIRED
Hackers can compromise your network just by sending a Fax – The Hacker News
Verizon Didn’t Bother to Write a Privacy Policy for its ‘Privacy Protecting’ VPN – Motherboard
AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not – AP News
- Leaving “Web & App Activity” on and turning “Location History” off only prevents Google from adding your movements to the “timeline,” its visualization of your daily travels.
Turns out iOS 12 isn’t safe from ‘brute force’ iPhone unlockers – [Cult of Mac](https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb
- Bit late on this one CoM and from what I heard on the Magnet AXIOM Forensics Webinar earlier this month – that statement’s not 100% true either.

TECHNOLOGY

ARM announces Client CPU roadmap – ARM
- ARM’s future CPUs said to outperform Intel chips; if so, look for ‘em in future Macs – Apple World Today
- The year Windows died at home and nobody cared – ZDNet

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

Robot cars start delivering groceries in Arizona – The Verge

WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

Protecting Your Data From Camera to Archive – Backblaze Blog
AirPower Clone Hits the Market for a Fraction of Apple’s Reported Cost – Inverse

Nemo’s Hardware Store (xx:xx)

No Hardware Store this week as John is on holiday

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