Panel:

• Bart Busschots (host) - @bbusschots
• Chuck Joiner from MacVoices - @chuckjoiner
• Mark chappell from the Essential Apple Podcast - @oceanspeed
• Nick Riley - @spligosh
• Allister Jenks - @zkarj

The show starts with some Apple-related legal stories that made the news in October before moving on to look at some interesting Apple-related statistics and staffing changes. The four main stories for the month are Apple’s Q4 earnings call, the release of the iPhone X, the end of Windows Phone, and a bad month for Google. The show finishes with a quick rundown of some shorter Apple-related stories that made the news in October.

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Legal Latest

• Apple -v- Qualcomm
  • Qualcomm Wants China to Ban iPhones, Claims to Have Invented Force Touch — www.macobserver.com/…
  • Qualcomm sues Apple for giving rival Intel classified information — www.imore.com/…
• Apple -v- Samsung
  • Judge Koh Grants Samsung New Damages Trial in Apple iPhone Patent Infringement Trial — www.macobserver.com/…
• Apple lose to VirnetX’s patent claims for a third time, this time the judge increases the bill for Apple to $440M — arstechnica.com/…
• Apple sued over ‘Animoji’ trademark, allegedly tried to buy IP rights prior to iPhone X debut — appleinsider.com/…

Notable Numbers

• Rigorous testing by FutureMark shows what we all knew anyway – iPhones do not get slower over time — www.futuremark.com/…
• A CNBC poll finds that the average American household has two Apple devices — www.cnbc.com/…
• Piper Jaffray teen poll shows iPhone & Apple Watch continue to dominate — 9to5mac.com/…
• Apple Pay at three: 20 markets covering 70% of payments, 4,000 issuers — www.imore.com/… & social.techcrunch.com/…

Notable Staffing Changes

• Apple Poaches Amazon Video Exec to Head International Development — www.macobserver.com/…

Main Stories

1. Apple’s Q4 2017 Earnings Call — www.apple.com/…
   • Apple’s Data Summary PDF — www.apple.com/…
   • Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook on the company’s 2017 Q4 earnings — www.imore.com/…
   • Jason Snell’s earnings report charts — sixcolors.com/…
   • Highlights from Apple’s Q4 2017 investors call — www.imore.com/…
   • Shares of Apple Up in After Hours as Market Reacts to iPhone, iPad, and Mac Sales — www.macobserver.com/…
   • Apple CEO Tim Cook Expects Record Breaking December Quarter — www.macobserver.com/…
2. iPhone X released
   • Apple says iPhone X pre-orders are ‘off the charts’ — www.reuters.com/…
   • The iPhone X is sold out, currently offering delivery 5–6 weeks out — www.loopinsight.com/…
   • iPhone X Selling for More than $3,000 on Ebay — www.macobserver.com/…
   • Face ID FUD — daringfireball.net/…, www.imore.com/… & appleinsider.com/…
   • It’ll Cost up to $549 to Fix Your iPhone X Screen Without AppleCare+ — www.macobserver.com/…
   • iFixit’s iPhone X teardown finds two battery cells and an “unprecedented” logic board — arstechnica.com/… & www.ifixit.com/…
   • ACLU raises privacy concerns over app developer access to facial expressions on iPhone X — 9to5mac.com/…
3. It’s official – Microsoft are calling it a day on Windows Phone — www.windowscentral.com/…
4. A bad month for Google
   • Problems with the Home Mini – a hardware problem with a switch forces Google to disable functionality to prevent in-intended spying on owners — www.androidpolice.com/… & uk.businessinsider.com/…
   • Problems with the Pixel 2
     • First, reviewers are not happy with Google’s choice of colour calibration on the screens — www.imore.com/…
     • Then it emerges that the screens on some of the larger model phones suffer burn-in after just a few weeks — daringfireball.net/…, www.macobserver.com/… & www.androidcentral.com/…
     • Google respond by extending the warranty — www.loopinsight.com/…
     • Finally, some Pixels seem to have been accidentally shipped without an OS! — www.androidpolice.com/…

Quick Stories

• Apple and GE bringing Predix apps to iPhone and iPad — www.imore.com/…
• Apple Buys Wireless Charging Designer PowerbyProxi — www.macobserver.com/…
• Apple CEO Tim Cook: Mac Mini Will Be ‘Important Part’ of Future Product Lineup — www.macrumors.com/…
• Apple Acknowledges Apple Watch Series 3 Issue Where ‘Edge Stripes’ Appear on Display — www.macrumors.com/…