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MyMac Podcast 953: Scary Wrong

Remember just a few weeks ago when we thought there wouldn’t be another Mac event this year? Or did we actually say the exact

The Talk Show: ‘Are There Ever Too Many Love Songs?’

Elon Musk Predicts X Will Replace Banks Next Year

iOS 17.2 (Beta) Sticker Reactions Stink

Google Spends $26 Billion Annually to Be the Default Search Engine Almost Everywhere (and Most of It Goes to You Know Who)

More like RipoffOS, Am I Right?

iCloud Drive Switches to Dataless Files

Howard Oakley: In the recent past, when a file has been evicted to iCloud (its download being removed from local storage), it has been represented by a placeholder or stub file in its original folder on the Mac. Taking the file named MyDocument.extn…

Amazon Drive Is Shutting Down

Chris Welch (in 2022): The company says Amazon Drive will no longer be supported as of December 31st, 2023. That’s when access will be completely cut off. Uploads are going away earlier and won’t be accepted as of January 31st. The Amazon Drive apps…

Improper App Store Contact With Developers

Wayne Ma: Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company’s App Store in China following an internal probe into business misconduct, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. Juli Clover: App Store employees with revi…

Bitten by the Black Box of iCloud

Dan Moren: While I was nominally able to log back into iCloud, most of my data wasn’t actually syncing back. A dialog box told me that I needed to verify my account in order to re-establish end-to-end encryption for sensitive information like my key…

The Aftermath of a Massacre Is Always the Time to Push for Gun Legislation

CT Scans Reveal the Complexity of Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt Cable

★ Apple Again Hikes Prices for Its Media Services

Of the three component services whose standalone prices went up, TV+ and Arcade seem justified. News+, however, does not.

★ Apple to Broadcast ‘Scary Fast’ Event Next Monday Night

So I’m just guessing here, but I’m thinking this event might be about iMacs only, and just an upgrade to the M2, and maybe some design changes, like, say, fresh colors. It’d be a lot more fun if it’s the debut of the M3, but my spidey sense says tha…

★ Apple and AI

The anxiety inside Apple is that many people inside do not believe Apple’s own AI/ML team can deliver.

Apple Services Price Hikes

Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): The price changes in the U.S. are as follows:Apple TV+: $6.99 per month → $9.99 per monthApple Arcade: $4.99 per month → $6.99 per monthApple News+: $9.99 per month → $12.99 per month […] In the U.S., these are the first…

macOS 13.6.1 and macOS 12.7.1

Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.1. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.7.1. Previously: macOS 14.1 macOS 13.6 and macOS 12.7