Essential Apple Podcast 110: Scrap-Book Air?

This week of course Apple had a keynote event in New York and revealed a host of items, some expected (iPad), some only hoped for (Mac Minis and MacBook Airs)… Also they had an earnings call – not something we tend to get overly wrapped up in on this show but there were a couple of points of interest. Unsrprisingly there wasn’t really much other news of note to us but even so we run extra long…
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Recorded 4th November 2018

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On this week’s show:

WEYHAN NG

• On Twitter as @weyhan
• On GitHub as weyhan
• iOS Developer who goes by handle the Eccentric iOS developer
• Developer / Maintainer of the iOS Compo writing app

MARK CHAPPELL

• @Oceanspeed on Twitter and occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube

NICK RILEY

• @spligosh on Twitter, sometimes on the Let’s Talk Apple Podcast

TALKING POINTS

• Hardware
  • New in MacBook Air
    • Retina Display
    • Touch ID
    • 100% Recycled Aluminium
    • 35% Post Consumer recycled plastic
  • New in Mac mini
    • SSD
    • 4-6 Core CPU
    • Same port strategy
    • Space Gray
  • New in iPad Pro
    • Formfactor
    • USB-C vs Lightning
    • New Pencil
    • New Smart Keyboard case
    • Configuration
• Apple downplay Intel
  • Intel vs Apple’s S-series CPU
  • Intel remains supplier for modem chip
  • ARM as bargaining chip against Intel
• ARM Macs
  • Explain the difference between Apple’s OS variants
  • Machine code
  • Endian
  • UI Paradigm
  • SDK
• Apple’s OS strategy around ARM Macs
  • Keep current strategy
  • OS unification
  • Redrawing lines

APPLE EVENT

• Apple Special Event. October 30, 2018. From the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House. “Here’s what we announced” – Apple
  • Apple unveiled its new iPad Pro, Pencil and MacBook at event stressing ‘creativity’ – ABC News

APPLE EARNINGS

• Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results – Apple
• Apple Financial Results – Q4 2018 Listen to streaming audio from the conference call,
  held on November 1, 2018 – Apple
  • Apple tumbles 7% after earnings on light guidance – CNBC

APPLE

• Jony Ive interview: Apple design guru on how he created the new iPad – and the philosophy behind it – The Independent

IN THE NEWS

• Tomorrow’s World to return for one-off show – BBC News

TECHNOLOGY

• Royole’s bendy-screen FlexPai phone unveiled in China – BBC News
  • And on BGR

SECURITY

• TunnelBear Completes 2nd Annual Independent Security Audit – TunnelBear Blog
• Yes, you should update your iPhone to iOS 12.1, but its lock screen is still unsafe – HOT for Security
  • Turn off Siri via the lock screen people…

WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

• Ghostery Lite for Safari on Mac – Ghostery Lite

Nemo’s Hardware Store (39:16)

• Olympus www.getolympus.com (http://www.getolympus.com/)
• This is the current updated model I think. A bit confusing
• MacAlly Keyboard
• Hip Product Factory](https://hipproductfactory.com (https://hipproductfactory.com/))
  • Orbit
  • [Twig]https://hipproductfactory.com/#twig

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