27: Apple's New Privacy Disaster
Genius Bar
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🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Jon Prosser and Sam Kohl return to discuss the Apple's privacy disaster, a botched announcement of new features meant to protect kids that we share privacy concerns about. The duo covers the recent announcements in-depth for a thoughtful discussion that we hope encourages more debate on these upcoming tweaks. This episode is sponsored by Rise! Go to http://risescience.com/genius and try the Rise app for 7 days, free! This episode is also sponsored by our amazing friends at BetterHelp! Get started today and enjoy 10% off your first month! Discount code “geniusbar" will be automatically applied when you use our link http://betterhelp.com/geniusbar This episode was also sponsored by Magic Spoon. Go to http://magicspoon.com/GENIUSBAR to grab a variety pack and try it today! And be sure to use our promo code GENIUSBAR at checkout to save five dollars off your order! Follow Genius Bar Genius Bar on Twitter: https://twitter.com/geniusbarcast Sam on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/iupdate Jon on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/frontpag... Sam on Twitter: http://twitter.com/iupdate Jon on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jon_prosser
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| 0:00.0 | Wouldn't it be great if when you went to buy a computer or after you bought a computer? |
| 0:06.4 | If you had any questions, you could ask a genius. Well, that's what we've got. This is called the Genius Bar. |
| 0:24.1 | Okay, so here's the thing Sam. |
| 0:26.7 | We, it's been, we've had a bit of a news drought and we've been struggling here on the show on Genius Bar. |
| 0:35.3 | And, and I wanted the news drought to end, right? I wanted it to go away and so we could go back to normal and have news. |
| 0:44.4 | Any, every week we do the show, we're like, maybe this will be the week where the news comes back. |
| 0:48.9 | This is not what I wanted. This is not the way I wanted it to happen. |
| 0:54.6 | This week has not been, there's been some, there's been some drama. |
| 0:58.6 | Oh, there's been some drama. There's been some, what do we call it? Controversy? |
| 1:03.8 | I mean, this is the biggest controversy in a long time that I can remember. |
| 1:08.6 | I think it's the biggest since they found out that Apple was actually tweaking the battery performance. |
| 1:14.4 | You remember in like December of 2017, I think it was like December 2017, 2018. |
| 1:20.1 | I think it was 17 because I remember being at home on Christmas break from college and going, |
| 1:24.7 | oh, this is going to get so many years because it was something, I mean, that one was really big |
| 1:32.5 | because it was actually a, what we thought was a falsehood that got confirmed, which was Apple |
| 1:38.5 | doesn't throw out a year old phone, but it turns out they were. And now this is similar. |
| 1:45.2 | This is like there's morals here. There's good versus evil. |
| 1:49.0 | At least that's what the internet is making it out to be. There's a lot, there's a lot happening. |
| 1:54.0 | I feel like, I mean, what do we do? Do we, do we just start talking about that? |
| 1:59.9 | Or do we start with why the fuck are you in that vest? He came on. |
| 2:05.7 | Audio listeners. Audio listeners. He called in a vest. |
| 2:08.4 | He called in and popped up like this. And we talked before the show. |
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