MBW 905: Tequila For Your Eyes - Macintosh Turns 40, iOS 17.3, Apple Music
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Robles from the Primary Technology podcast joins the show to talk about his experience ordering the Apple Vision Pro headset and the accessories he got for it. Following Netflix's lead, YouTube and Spotify won't launch Vision Pro apps. iOS 17.3 is out now, adding a Stolen Device Protection feature to iPhones. And Apple TV+ gains 13 Oscar nominations for 'Killers of the Flower Moon' and 'Napoleon.'
- The Mac turns 40: read Apple's announcement from 1984.
- Apple has already sold up to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets.
- YouTube and Spotify Won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix.
- Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028.
- Daring Fireball: 'Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand'
- iOS 17.3 is out, adding Stolen Device Protection for your iPhone.
- About the security content of macOS Sonoma 14.3.
- Apple Music will now pay 10% higher royalties to artists for Spatial Audio music.
- watchOS 10.3 now available with new 'Unity Bloom' Apple Watch face.
- Apple TV+ scores 13 Oscar nominations for 'Killers of the Flower Moon' and 'Napoleon'
Picks of the Week:
- Andy's Pick: Black Ink for iOS
- Stephen's Picks: Mapper & the Anker Qi2 MagSafe Battery Pack
- Jason's Pick: Sleeve 2
- Leo's Pick: Death Stranding Director's Cut.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
Guest: Stephen Robles
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| 0:00.0 | It's here. |
| 0:02.0 | Jason Snells here, filling in for Alex, Lindsay, the bearded tutor, |
| 0:07.0 | the wonderful Stephen Robles, and of course we have a big, big birthday to celebrate an anniversary. |
| 0:14.4 | We're gonna get the balloons, |
| 0:15.3 | we're gonna get the cake, |
| 0:16.1 | and we're gonna see if we can boot |
| 0:17.8 | this 40 year old Macintosh. |
| 0:19.6 | Next, on Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:21.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:27.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:30.0 | This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 905 recorded Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024. |
| 0:41.3 | Tequila for your eyes. 24. There's one line where TSA agents check your ID, and then there's another where the machine |
| 0:55.4 | scans your bag, right? Well, in a way, the same thing happens in enterprise security, |
| 0:59.7 | but instead of passengers and luggage, it's end users in their devices. |
| 1:05.0 | And these days most companies are pretty good at the first part of the equation |
| 1:08.0 | where they check user identity. |
| 1:10.0 | But very bad at the second part. |
| 1:12.0 | User devices can roll right through authentication |
| 1:15.2 | and they never get inspected. In fact 47% of companies almost half allow |
| 1:20.3 | unmanaged, untrusted devices into their network to access their data. |
| 1:25.0 | Which is a terrible thing if you think about it. |
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