Panel:

• Bart Busschots (host) - @bbusschots
• Lynda Gousha from the Silicon Valley MUG - @llg4cdg
• Dermot Daly from Tapadoo - @dermdaly

The show starts with some quick followups to stories discussed on previous shows before moving on for a quick look at some notable numbers and some hirings, firings & acquisitions that made the news in October. The four main stories are Bloomberg's 'The Big Hack' story, Adobe's announcement that 'real' Photoshop is coming to the iPad in 2019, Apple's "There's more in the making" event, and Apple's Q4 2018 earnings call. The show finishes with a quick look at a few other Apple-related stories that made the news in October.

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!

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Followups

• Selfie Gate explained — it was a combination of different tech and software bug, and the software bug is fixed in iOS 12.1
  • BeautyGate Explained: What iPhone XS is and isn’t doing to your selfies — www.imore.com/…
• The iPhone XR has been released, and is receiving very favourable reviews: iPhone XR Review Roundup — daringfireball.net/…
• iOS 12 has killed the GrayKey iPhone hacking devices — www.forbes.com/…
• 🇺🇸 Apple opens up it’s data and privacy portal to US customers (thanks to GDPR Europeans have had this functionality since May) — www.imore.com/…
• 🇺🇸 Apple’s Student ID in Wallet Feature Now Available at 3 Universities — www.macobserver.com/…
• iOS Business Chat Expands to 30 Companies Worldwide — www.macobserver.com/…

Notable Numbers

• During the recent ‘More in the Making’ event Tim Cook announced that there are now 100M active Mac users — venturebeat.com/…

Apple Hirings, Firings & Aquisitions

• BBC Radio 1 Hip-hop DJ Charlie Sloth Joining Apple Music — www.macobserver.com/…
• Apple Acquires Machine Learning Startup for Photos — www.macobserver.com/…
• Apple Acquires 300 Dialog Semiconductor Designers in $300M Deal — www.macobserver.com/…

Main Stories

1. Bloomberg’s The Big Hack story — The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies — www.bloomberg.com/…
   • Apple’s clear rebuttal: What Businessweek got wrong about Apple — www.apple.com/…
   • Amazon’s clear rebuttal: Setting the Record Straight on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Erroneous Article — aws.amazon.com/…
   • 🇺🇸 Statement from DHS Press Secretary on Recent Media Reports of Potential Supply Chain Compromise — www.dhs.gov/…
   • UK’s GCHQ, U.S. officials cast doubt on iCloud server spy chip report — appleinsider.com/…
   • Apple to Congress: Chinese spy-chip story is “simply wrong” — arstechnica.com
   • Named Source in ‘The Big Hack’ Has Doubts About the Story — daringfireball.net/…
   • Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What’s Going On With Bloomberg’s China Hack Story — www.buzzfeednews.com/…
   • Opinion: The five reasons I believe Apple, not Bloomberg, about the Chinese spy chip claim — 9to5mac.com/…
2. Adobe announce that ‘real’ Photoshop is coming to the iPad in 2019 — www.theverge.com/…
3. Apple’s 30th of October “there’s more in the making” event
   • Watch the event — www.apple.com/…
   • All 370 Apple Logos from the ‘There’s More in the Making’ Media Event — www.macobserver.com/…
   • Apple Intros New MacBook Air with Retina Display — www.macobserver.com/…
     • Apple’s new T2 security chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone — techcrunch.com/…
   • Apple Updates Mac mini with More Cores, More RAM, More Storage — www.macobserver.com/…
     • 2018 Mac mini has User Upgradable RAM — www.macobserver.com/…
     • Related: A History of Mac mini — www.macstadium.com/…
     • Related: 🎞 Inside Look at MacStadium’s Mac Mini Server Farm — www.macobserver.com/…
   • Today at Apple Update: 60 New Sessions and Labs — www.macobserver.com/…
   • Apple Announces New iPad Pro with Face ID and USB-C — www.macobserver.com/…
     • Apple Introduces New Apple Pencil with Gesture Controls — www.macobserver.com/…
     • Apple Pencil 2 Not Compatible With Older iPads and Original Apple Pencil Won’t Work With New Models — www.macrumors.com/…
     • Apple Intros USB-C to 3.5mm Headphone Jack, USB-C SD Card Reader Adapters — www.macobserver.com/…
     • iPad Pro 2018: Everything you need to Know! — www.imore.com/…
     • Apple Pencil (2018): Everything you need to know! — www.imore.com/…
   • What we didn’t get at Apple’s Special Event — www.imore.com/…
4. Apple’s 2018 Q4 2018 earnings call — www.apple.com/…
   • Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook on the company’s 2018 Q4 earnings — www.imore.com/…
   • www.macobserver.com/…
   • Apple Q4 2018 Results Show Strong End to 2018, Despite Flat or Declining Unit Sales — tidbits.com/…
   • While iPhone sales remain stagnant, Apple services hit $10 billion in revenue — arstechnica.com
   • Apple Watch Q4 2018 Sales Jump 50% — www.macobserver.com/…
   • Merrill Lynch Downgrades Apple Shares After Earnings Call — www.macobserver.com/…
   • The iPhone has reached its peak, and now it’s time to change how you think about Apple — www.cnbc.com/…
   • Related: Smartphone Makers Face Challenges with Global Shipments Down 6% — www.macobserver.com/…

Quick Stories

• Apple’s Everyone Can Create Curriculum Free on Apple Books — www.macobserver.com/…
• Genius Lyrics Have Arrived in Apple Music — www.macobserver.com/…