MBW 931: Piledriving - Foldable iPhone, CrowdStrike, Privacy
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
Could foldable iPhones be coming in 2026? Apple is making a marketing push to warn users to stop using Google Chrome. India is cutting import tax on smartphones. And Apple scored 72 total Emmy Award nominations for its Apple TV+ lineup.
- Foldable iPhone is coming in 2026 with top-down fold design.
- The DOJ's assault on Apple will harm consumers.
- CrowdStrike aftermath: Microsoft claims it cannot legally implement the same protections as Apple.
- Apple warns millions Of iPhone users—stop using Google Chrome.
- India cuts import tax on smartphones in boost for Apple.
- Adobe's Photoshop can now generate AI images via prompts like Dall-E or Midjourney.
- Apple scores record 72 Emmy Award nominations and sweeps across top categories...
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, Andy Anoco is here, and filling in for Jason Snell, the one and only Micah Sergeant. |
| 0:06.3 | Is Apple about to do a foldable iPhone? We'll talk about the rumors, |
| 0:10.7 | and what Apple should and should not do if it does make such a thing. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll dance around crowing because we didn't get hit by the crowd strike bug, |
| 0:19.0 | none of the Mac people did. |
| 0:21.0 | We'll explain why, and why it's unlikely we ever will. |
| 0:25.0 | Apple gets 72 Emmy Award nominations, a new record. |
| 0:29.0 | And maybe you've seen the ad, Apple's trying to encourage you not to use Chrome, but to use |
| 0:34.7 | Safari and they've done a take-off on the birds. It's pretty wild. All that and more |
| 0:39.1 | coming up next on Mac Break Weekly. Podcasts you love. |
| 0:45.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:47.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:50.0 | This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 931, recorded Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024, pile driving. |
| 1:03.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, the show we cover the latest Apple News |
| 1:07.0 | with a fabulous panel of Apple News experts. |
| 1:11.0 | Alex Lindsey from Office Hours. Global is in the house. Well his house. |
| 1:15.3 | Hello Alex how are you? I'm doing well how about yourself? Very very well. |
| 1:20.3 | Very very well. Andy Anko is in the library. |
| 1:24.0 | From WG B. B. |
| 1:26.0 | Boston? |
| 1:27.0 | Yes, because there's construction crews in my neighborhood |
| 1:30.0 | and they wouldn't let me play with their pile driver. |
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