Episode 442

442: Bob’s Barbecue

Music apps, new Mac Pro GPUs, NSO and Apple's bug-bounty program, and how Apple knows you attended a concert.

August 5, 20211h 56m

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Show Notes

Pre-show:
- Phish is back. Yay? (Yay. -ed.)
- Days of the New’s new album
  - Travis Meeks
  - Days of the New II
Follow-up:
- Apple Music
  - Everyone (including Andrew Bement) pointed Casey to SongShift (App Store link)
  - There are lots of third-party music players, which Marc Barrowclift reviewed
- Photos
  - Regarding concert pairing
    - WWDC 2018 keynote, 29m25s (via Benjamin)
    - See also KBase
  - Deleting all your photos from Google Photos is… the worst.
  - Photo editing tips from Henrik
    - See also PHAdjustmentData
AMD Radeon PRO W6000X-series GPUs now available for Mac Pro
- Brewster’s Millions
Apple, NSO, and bug bounties
#askatp
- Do we still use e-readers? (via Aryan Aneja)
- Do we use a VNC app to remote into our Macs? (via Stephen Robles)
- Why hasn’t Apple built their own chip foundry? (via Philip Wilkinson)
  - TSMC
  - PA Semi
Post-show: App Store keyword squatters
- Weather • (App Store link)
- Review of iPadOS 15’s Weather App