89: The Second-Best of Times

01/31/19 • 39 min

Apple copes with declining iPhone sales and a bad FaceTime bug, then ends up coming down hard on Facebook for its misuse of a tool designed to read user data. Also, there's an imaginary bear in the woods... or is there?

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Links and Show Notes Support Download with a Relay FM Membership Apple's dramatic Q1 2019 results - Six Colors This is Tim: Transcript of Apple's January 29 call with analysts - Six Colors Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling ... before they pick up - 9to5Mac Mark Gurman on Twitter: "Apple killed FaceTime conferencing server side it seems. Right move.... " Volkswagen electrifies the dune buggy - Engadget Volkswagen reportedly has $23,000 Tesla competitor in the works - Engadget Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them | TechCrunch Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps - The Verge Google will stop peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door | TechCrunch The Apple-Facebook feud is now a shooting war | Revue Three-year-old boy missing in woods for two days says friendly bear kept him safe | US news | The Guardian This woman ran 19 miles of a marathon carrying a lost puppy Jacqui Cheng (@ejacqui) | Twitter

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88: Creepy Robot Hotel

Robots roll out, smartphones get weird, Apple Pay expands, Netflix gets Oscar nominations and joins the MPAA, NBC Universal gets into streaming, and Tesla puts the squeeze on its customers.

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Links and Show Notes: Meet Scout - Amazon The Prime Challenges for Scout, Amazon’s New Delivery Robot | WIRED Starship robots will deliver pizza and coffee to George Mason students Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots - WSJ Meizu Zero debuts with no physical buttons, speaker or charging port - GSMArena.com news Xiaomi reveals fold-in-three smartphone - BBC News Have Phones Become Boring? Well, They’re About to Get Weird | WIRED Apple Pay is now accepted at Target and Taco Bell 'Roma' Makes History as First Best Picture Oscar Nom for Netflix | Hollywood Reporter NBCUniversal Preps Streaming Service, Reorganizes Executive Team | Hollywood Reporter NBCU CEO Steve Burke Talks Forthcoming Streaming Service, Future of Hulu, Impact on NBC News | Hollywood Reporter Hulu Price Increase for Live TV Bundle, Discounts Ad-Supported Offering | Hollywood Reporter Tesla drastically increases Supercharger prices around the world - Electrek Tesla to end customer referral program, Elon Musk says - The Verge Tesla gets green light to sell Model 3 in Europe | Ars Technica 'Miracle puppy' survives attempted euthanasia, finds forever home | abc11.com Natalie Jarvey (@natjarv) | Twitter Marco Arment (@marcoarment) | Twitter Accidental Tech Podcast

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90: Spotify Buys Podcasting

Jason and Stephen discuss Apple's retail changes and Facebook's 15th anniversary. Then Natalie Jarvey of The Hollywood Reporter visits to discuss Spotify spending a lot of money on podcasting companies, and Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia unveils the new emoji coming later in 2019.

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