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Episode 100 of In Touch With iOS Dave and Warren are joined by guest Kelly Guimont. We celebrate 100 episodes and play back some memorable moments. Plus HBOMax is here we discuss these services and Dave reviews a new podcast app GoodPods a social Podcast network.

The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com

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We discuss the 100th episode celebration and mention the opening sound byte from the very first Macstock where Dave was influenced by Chuck Joiner and others and then he got the podcaster itch. Link to Macstock 2015 discussion

News

Many Apple Stores are opening back up. More than half of Apple Stores worldwide have reopened

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You can now watch Quibi shows on a TV using AirPlay

Hackers release a new jailbreak that unlocks every iPhone Who jailbreaks their iPhones these days? Warren did, then didn’t, then did again, then didn’t

Topics

We begin our topics for the 100th episode and go back in time with a clip from Episode 32. Dave was lucky enough along with Mike Potter from MacStock to visit the Apple store Michigan Ave Chicago for his Apple user group and brought us into their board room for presentations.

Beta this week. Warren withdrawal time there is no beta right now iOS 13.5 is current as we wait on WWDC announcements. We debated last week about will iOS14 be delivered as well as the new iPhones and clarify.

We are seeing many online sellers including Woot offer really cheap older phones (of course the are already sold out). Well the iPhone SE is such a solid phone and has been out for about 1 month now. We talk about how this iPhone has done in the lower priced market.

We play another clip from one of the past 100 episodes. This is from episode 40 one of my first guests was Kelly Guimont.

HBO Max Launches on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV There is lots of confusion there are 3 articles we reference. We also talk about the App on iOS, iPad OS and AppleTV. They at the last minute included HBO Max as part of the subscription

Xfinity released the Peacock streaming service on the X1 platform we compare this and they will release this service with online streaming and iOS app in July.

Our last clip is from episode 35 it was Chuck Joiner’s first appearance on the show.

Apps

Dave

SpendStack

GoodPods Social Podcast Network App Link

About our Guest

Kelly Guimont writes for The Mac Observer and is the host of The Daily Observations Podcast. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @verso

About our Co-Host

Co-Host Warren Sklar @Wsklar is an IT Consultant and moderator of the Mac To The Future FaceBook Group with over 3000 members talking about all things Apple. Request to join this group to be among people who love Apple.