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The Talk Show With John Gruber

245: ‘40 Hours a Day of Murder’ With Rene Ritchie

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include, but are not limited to, privacy concerns with apps from the App Store, Google's payments to Apple to keep Google Search the default in Safari, Apple's Shot on iPhone contest winners, and speculation about Apple's purported March 25 media event.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I feel like you're on a roll.

0:01.2

Oh, thank you.

0:02.0

But you had a really good video the other day.

0:03.7

I don't have it in the notes yet, but I will.

0:09.0

On this analytics situation in the App Store,

0:14.8

we're just jumping right in.

0:15.8

No small talk today.

0:17.0

Yeah, absolutely.

0:18.1

But this analytics situation in the App Store

0:21.0

and with these apps being discovered,

0:23.4

it's like everything with Facebook.

0:26.0

It's an un-rolling scandal.

0:29.2

Like, it's not like never ending.

0:31.1

Never ending.

0:31.9

It's, it's one, we learn one thing after another.

0:36.7

But basically, the Wall Street Journal

0:38.7

had a story last week that really escalated this

0:41.9

where they did some research on a bunch of apps

0:47.3

that take by, by, by nature of the app.

0:50.9

They take very personal information.

0:52.7

These are things like menstrual cycle calendar trackers

0:57.1

for women.

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