Essential Apple Podcast 139: The obligatory WWDC edition!

This week is of course the obligatory post WWDC edition! I am joined by Weyhan Ng our resident iOS developer and by Donny Yankellow to talk about what we felt about this year’s keynote, and what it might mean for the Apple ecosystem going forward. With such a huge number of announcements we could never cover them all so we wander where the whim takes us…

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Recorded 9th June 2019

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DONNY YANKELLOW

@rtteachr on Twitter
Find his work at hedgehogalley.com
Find his stuff in iBooks, a load of sticker packs in the App Store under Donny Yankellow and DesignBundles.net as Skrbly
Skrbly Studio on YouTube
New store on 2FunDads.com
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Skrbly Store
Latest sticker pack Skribble Doods

WEYHAN NG

On Twitter as @weyhan on Twitter
On GitHub as weyhan
iOS Developer who goes by handle the Eccentric iOS developer
Developer / Maintainer of the iOS Compo writing app
WWDC video downloader script. Use the script to download 1080p WWDC keynote and sessions video/slides

APPLE

WWDC – That Mac Pro! The “grand stand” debacle. iPad OS, Swift UI, Sidecar, and more…
Craig Federighi: The AppStories Interview – MacStories
John Gruber’s The Talk Show LIVE FROM WWDC 2019 WITH CRAIG FEDERIGHI AND GREG JOSWIAK https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2019/06/04/ep-254
Why SwiftUI might be the biggest thing to come out of WWDC – Cult of Mac
Here’s a question for the show: the new Mac Pro; who is really aimed for and why is there no middle ground Mac between the iMac Pro and new Mac Pro? Do you think they’ll keep the trash can Mac Pro around for that or will it die when the new model arrives?
- Here’s what creatives think of the new Mac Pro – The Verge
Apple’s $999 Pro Stand is just the latest sign of its identity crisis – VentureBeat
These Are the Macs That Officially Support Sidecar – iClarified
The makers of Duet Display and Luna on life after Apple’s Sidecar – Tech Crunch
Apple officially kills Dashboard in macOS 10.15 Catalina – 9to5 Mac
New and changed Apple Podcasts categories: summer 2019 – Pod News

TECHNOLOGY

By calling Huawei Android fork a security risk, Google contradicts its own open source arguments – VentureBeat

SECURITY & PRIVACY

Microsoft deletes massive face recognition database – BBC News

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

Apple iMac 21.5″ Intel i3-2100 Dual Core 3.1GHz 250GB (Certified-Refurbished 2010 Model) – Mashable Shop
Donny says “I don’t like the magic mouse but target has it for $40 for those interested” – Target
Seek by iNaturalist – App Store
Affinity suite updates to 1.7, Publisher leaves beta and they have a 20% off everything sale to celebrate – Serif

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff – Tech Crunch
Skype screen sharing now out of beta on iOS and Android – 9to5 Mac

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