Fri. 10/05 - Evan Spiegel's Plan For Snap's Survival

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🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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He said she said on that Bloomberg Bombshell, Evan Spiegel’s plan for survival, new Macs are un-repairable, why are Apple Watch faces such a mess, and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Stories from: @jsnell, @bizcarson Tweets: @karaswisher, @AdamMinter Links: Instagram prototypes handling your location history to Facebook (TechCrunch) Instagram is testing the ability to share your precise location history with Facebook (The Verge) 9 highlights from Snapchat CEO’s 6,000-word leaked memo on survival (TechCrunch) iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook Pro Systems Must Pass Apple Diagnostics to Function After Certain Repairs (MacRumors) Facebook’s Oculus Looking to Invest in Location-Based Virtual Reality (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety) Why are Apple Watch faces such a mess? (Macworld) Norway's petabyte plan: Store everything ever published in a 1,000-year archive (ZDNet) The Betterment Weekend Longreads: The iPhone XS & XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets (AnAndTech) Sex Workers Pioneered the Early Internet—and It Screwed Them Over (Motherboard) Raised by YouTube (The Atlantic) Old Unicorn, New Tricks: Airbnb Has A Sky-High Valuation. Here's Its Audacious Plan To Earn It (Forbes) EA announces ‘FIFA 19’ PS4 esports tournament (Engadget) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, October 5th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	He said, she said, on that Bloomberg bombshell from yesterday.
0:14.0	Evan Spiegel's plans for survival.
0:17.0	New Macs are unrepairable.
0:20.0	Why are Apple Watch Faces such a mess and the Weekend Long Reed's suggestions?
0:26.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. So the Fallout from that Blockbuster Business Week story about Chinese spies inserting
0:38.6	chips into products for U.S. Base motherboard giant Super Micro continues a pace and frankly I have
0:45.8	absolutely no idea what to make of the state of things. Apple especially
0:50.7	continues to push back vehemently.
0:54.0	And at this point, they're basically straight up calling the Business Week piece a fabrication.
0:59.0	Listen to this statement from Apple.
1:01.0	Quote, the October 8th, 2018 issue of Bloomberg Business Week incorrectly reports
1:05.6	that Apple found malicious chips in servers on its network in 2015.
1:10.1	As Apple has repeatedly explained to Bloomberg reporters and editors over the past 12 months,
1:14.8	there is no truth to these claims.
1:17.6	Finally, in response to questions we have received from other news organizations
1:21.2	since Business Week published its story, we are not under any kind
1:25.7	of gag order or other confidentiality obligations."
1:29.3	Many, including me, were wondering if there was some sort of national security or homeland security clearance stuff going on here.
1:38.0	And Apple literally could maybe not talk about anything or fess up to anything without running seriously
1:43.8	afoul of the law, but they're saying even that is not the case. Jessica Powell
1:49.3	tweeted, I'm inclined to believe Apple, but I also remember a time when all the tech companies screamed
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