Panel:
- Bart Busschots (host) – @bbusschots
- Adam Christianson from The Mac Cast – @maccast
- Gazmaz from the My Mac Podcast – @gazmaz
- Bren Finan – @BrenFinan
The show starts with a quick roundup of some of the court-related Apple news for May 2015, before jumping into the main stores of the month. First, a promotion for Jony Ive, then a roundup of the some of the news around Apple Watch, then the demise of the perennial Apple TV rumour, and finally, the banishment of the much maligned discoveryd, and the return of mDNSResponder.
The show finishes with a quick roundup of some other important Apple-related news that broke in May, including some small tweaks to the Mac line, some more big US retailers moving towards Apple Pay, and Microsoft’s announcement of plans to bring Cortana to iOS.
You’ll find detailed show notes below the fold, and if you enjoy this free show, please consider clicking on the donate button at the top of the left side bar – the show is free for you to listen to, but not for Bart to Produce!
Links:
Legal Latest
- OpenTV file a patent suit against Apple and Samsung – unlike most patent cases against Apple, OpenTV actually use their patents, and, have existing licensing deals with companies like Disney, Google & Cisco – www.macobserver.com/…
- The US Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling that Samsung copied Apple, but has struck down the financial penalties over trade dress that formed part of the billion dollar ruling, reducing what Samsung owes Apple to 'just' $550M – www.macobserver.com/… & arstechnica.com/…
- The fight between Apple and Ericsson heats up, spreading from the US to the UK, Netherlands & Germany – www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple end the employee poaching suit filed against them by battery company A123 with an out of court settlement – www.macobserver.com/…
- The US Second Court of Appeals rejects Apple's request to remove Antitrust Monitor Bromwich, scolds Apple for not using the proper appeals process, and has some harsh criticisms for Bromwich – www.macobserver.com/… & fortune.com/…
Main Stories
- Jony Ive promoted to Chief Design Officer
- The news was announced in a rather odd way, as part of a Steven Fry piece for the British newspaper The Telegraph – www.telegraph.co.uk/…
- 9to5Mac get a copy of Tim Cook's email to all staff about the promotion – 9to5mac.com/…
- For context, Gruber looks at Apple's history of C-level titles – they've had very few – daringfireball.net/…, plus a correction – daringfireball.net/…
- Apple Watch Developments
- Tim Cook says Apple Watches will be in stores by June – 9to5mac.com/…
- Consumer Reports ranks the Apple Watch as best of the 11 smart watches it tested – 9to5mac.com/…
- Apple Watch gets it's first update, inducing bug fixes AND security fixes – www.macobserver.com/… & www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple release new Guidelines for developers, and launches official 'made for Apple Watch' program 3rd party band manufacturers – www.macobserver.com/… & 9to5mac.com/…
- Jeff Williams (SVP of Operations) tells Walt Mossberg on-stage at the Code conference that a native Apple Watch SDK is coming at WWDC – techcrunch.com/…
- The internet has a collective hissy-fit and tries to turn the fact that the Apple Watch does not have a feature no other watch has into some kind of scandal – there is no activation lock on Appple Watch, but doing a factory reset WILL wipe your data – arstechnica.com/…
- Researchers point out that if a thief can steal your watch very quickly and get their finger under the sensors in less than 1 second, then Apple Pay will remain active on the watch, so, if your watch gets stolen, it's probably a good idea to disassociate all credit cards using the Apple Watch app on your iPhone – nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
- It's about as official as it's like to get – Apple are not working on a full television
- Events seem to have been triggered by and open letter to Apple from activist investor Carl Icahn which confidently predicted a TV on the way – www.shareholderssquaretable.com/…
- Then the WSJ report that Apple were working on a TV, but abandoned the project some time ago – arstechnica.com/…
- Long-time Apple-TV-Faithful Gene Munster admits he was wrong about the TV – www.cnbc.com/…
- Apple throws in the towel on the disastrous discoveryd
- The underlying reason for many of OS X 10.10 Yosemite's foibles is the introduction of a new networking daemon called discoveryd which replaced the old mDNSResponder daemon. – furbo.org/… (NSFW!)
- The latest beta of OS X 10.10.4 is dicveryd-free, and mDNSResponder is back – 9to5mac.com/…
Quick Stories
- Apple Tweaks it's product lineup:
- Existing 5K iMac price dropped from ¢2,499 to $2,229, and new entry level model added for just $1,999 – www.macobserver.com/…
- MacBook Pro with retina gets some spec bumps, and a force-touch trackpad – www.macobserver.com/…
- More good news for Apple Pay (and bad news for CurrentC)
- HomeDepot drop unofficial Apple Pay support, say they want in officially now – www.macobserver.com/…
- Target CEO Brian Cornell says he wants Apple Pay in his stores – www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple's relationship with IBM continues to grow
- Apple starts adding Apple Watch support to some enterprise Apps being sold through their partnership with IBM – 9to5mac.com/…
- IBM employees can now choose a Mac or a PC – 9to5mac.com/…
- Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, the EFF, security exerts and others write an open letter to President Obama arguing strongly against back doors – www.macobserver.com/…
- Microsoft Announces that Cortana is coming to iOS & android – www.macobserver.com/…
- The first trailer for the Aaron Sorkin film 'Jobs' has been released – 9to5mac.com/…
Reminder – WWDC starts on June 8 with a Tim Cook keynote at 10am PST – developer.apple.com/…