#442 - Our interview with Jon Prosser—the aftermath!

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week: we discuss the strange controversy around our episode with Jon Prosser, and the surprising depth of Prosser’s Apple sources. Plus: Apple is prepping big changes to Messages for Mac; Future AirPods could count steps, track heart rate and monitor health conditions; and we discuss AppleTV+’s best new shows!

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This week's stories

Mark Gurman calls Prosser’s iGlass report “Complete Fiction"

Apple could save Messages on Mac with new iPad app port

Apple looks to be gearing up to port iPad’s built-in Messages app over to Mac. The move could immediately fix Messages’ biggest problems on Mac, including its glaring lack of features.

Future AirPods could count steps, track heart rate and monitor health conditions

Future AirPods could boast ambient light sensors that track users’ heart rate, head movements and steps taken, Digitimes claimed Monday.

Bob’s Burgers creator can’t make lightning strike twice in Central Park [Apple TV+ review]

Despite an impressive pedigree and a marketable cast, new Apple TV+ show Central Park seems primed to annoy as many people as it will please.

Defending Jacob finally justifies the existence of Apple TV+ [Review]

With a hot cast and a true-crime sheen, Defending Jacob is one of the most highly anticipated Apple TV+ series so far. It’s based on a best-selling novel. It’s helmed by an Oscar-nominated director. And the first three episodes arrived Friday, primed for a literally captive audience seeking its latest obsession.

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0:00.0	And what's so exciting about Macintosh is while Lisa pioneered this amazing technology,
0:06.2	this amazing software technology that makes this possible.
0:10.2	With Macintosh we've been able to take that software technology and pull it down into a price range that's going to be affordable, not just to the corporation, as Lisa is, but to the individual.
0:21.0	And we're going to find people buying Macintosh's for their own use or for use in a dormitory or for use in a corner of a corporation that might never have gotten a computer before.
0:30.0	And coupled with this radical ease of use which Lisa technology provides I think we're going to be able to bring these products to not just hundreds of thousands or a few million people but tens of millions of people.
0:41.0	And that's really what the personal computer revolution is all about.
0:48.6	Hello and welcome to Coolcaste E-B-30 plus minute out conversation.
0:52.1	You're gonna hear all week long.
0:54.7	I'm your host, Aerof and Eliza.
0:55.9	Joining me today, he's the founder of Koltamak.
0:58.1	He's part tech journalist, part author, part MMA, bar, brawler. Le Leander Caney is here.
1:04.4	Hello?
1:05.4	What'd you say about me?
1:07.4	Gove!
1:08.4	So you gem your fingers right in his eye sockets, right?
1:10.4	Decisely.
1:11.4	Wait the headlock.
1:12.4	Also with us, he's one heck of an editor. precisely. Oh my God, God. Do you give the hair sniff too? I haven't had one of those.
1:25.0	Oh no, I do not sniff hair and in fact I don't know if I've ever rubbed anyone's shoulders.
1:30.0	Never Leanders?
1:32.0	Never one needs like, God, it's been a hard day at once.
1:35.0	Just don't worry, buddy.
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