Let me help you let me help you here with Lord of the Rings it is like 44 hours of film with a bunch of people walking around trying to throw a ring in a volcano that's the whole thing that's all you need to know that is it it was the biggest waste of my life of my time in the world it's not even worth it Marco don't do it thank you all right.

Let's start with the Mac Pro whole design because we can't get away from the trip of phobia whatever it's called I don't even remember anymore but a friend of the show Stephen Hackett has collected a bunch of links and information that he conveniently put on one post I think expressly for us so John tell us what's going on here.

Yeah, a few tidbits first in one of the popular feedback items we got last week people are pointing us to the design page on Apple's website for the Mac Pro they actually have a little movie animation thing showing how the holes are created they show a side view sort of a cut side view cut away of the thing and they show.

So hemispherical divots appearing for us on one side and then the other offset so that's what we theorized and we should have gone to Apple's website because they confirmed that is indeed how those things are shaped how they're made you know we don't know but that's how they're shaped and then the speculation about where the design came from and about you know that the poorly heard conversation between Johnny I've and Tim Cook about it coming from the G4 cube Stephen Hackett took out his G4 cube and looked at the box.

And you can see it's the bottom of the top anyway one side of the the negative about a core thing has a bunch of big holes and then behind that another piece of metal with a bunch of small holes and they are offset in the same sort of arrangement where through each big hole you can see a bit of three other holes right but it's not the 3d thing so it's unclear based on the overheard conversation whether Johnny was referring to this like oh the Mac Pro it looks kind of like the the G4 cube or

as I originally thought that they actually did think about this machined pattern with the hemispheres but then just didn't actually put it on the G4 cube and just did something that's much much cheaper and simpler to manufacture but also not as cool and not as prominent like these are much smaller scale holes and then finally somebody who sent this Evar mages sent us an article by Ian Parker in the New Yorker that is an although article from 2015 talking about Johnny Ive and I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see this in the next video.

In it they talk about a particular person in the design studio who used to come in early in the morning and make a bunch of geometrically complex objects then they would have the machinist mill which doesn't seem cost effective like I know people are coming in just wasting the time of your machine is on staff and you know spending material and electricity and wear and tear on the tools just to make cool designs anyway.

And they say sometimes when they're having a meeting about a speaker hole pattern or something Johnny will say last the guy can you get your box of patterns like that this is ready made box of weird patterns they can try out which is fun and you know that's kind of like brainstorming and just coming with ideas and and sucking them away and then saying we have to you know we have a need for this.

Instead of having to come up with something on the fly that you have just sort of a parts been of interesting design ideas that you may or not be able to apply so that may have happened in this case as well so I think we have thoroughly.

Thirdly exhausted the origins and design merits and.

Aspects of the whole pattern in the front of our Mac pros I think we can put this one to bet please know are given here I had seen some information about this fly by but I didn't get a chance to read it what we had put in the show notes is Apple reverse this course on MDM which is mobile device management in parental control apps.

Can someone pinch hit as the chief summarizer in chief let me know what this is about it's you basically summarized it remember before we talked about yeah you did it accidentally.

When we talked about before that there's parental control applications that we're using mobile device management features that are normally used to control a fleet of company owned or company controlled devices.

And there was there using for parental control and Apple told them they couldn't do that anymore apparently Apple has reversed that decision and it's a now says the year allowed to do it for vertical control applications.

As long as you don't sell use or disclose any data to third parties for any purpose.

How Apple is going to enforce that I have no idea but bottom line is that apparently they there are enough companies making and selling parental control applications using this technology and their cries were heard by Apple.

And they have re-lented and they are allowed to continue to have businesses using this technology honestly Apple really needs to create purpose built APIs just for this if they want this if apparently they do want this this sort of market this third party market for parental control stuff that have these powers.

They want that to exist because if they don't want to exist they could have just held fast inside sorry you know your businesses over it's screen time or nothing now obviously they want it to exist they should do better than MDM because MDM really is.

Not the best tool for that job and not really intended for that purpose and having these multiple sets of rules about if you're parental control app you have this but if you're an enterprise enterprise you know actual mobile device might have not you have that set of rules is.

Just weird but anyway i'm so i'm sure they'll resolve it in a few more years.

Kind of intentionally related around the same time that this parental control brew ha ha happened there was the like illicit app store thing where.

People or companies were using enterprise certificates in order to distribute apps to people that were not part of their company so to recap.

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