What Is the ICEBlock App and Why It Was Removed?

Apple has -- mostly -- brought back Slide Over to the iPad, while the company is looking more focused than ever on Apple Glasses, it may also be shaking up its management team. Plus speaking of teams, the Underdogs are back.

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• What's new in iPadOS 26.1 beta 2: Slide Over returns, visual tweaks
• AR screen won't come until the second generation Apple Glasses
• John Giannandrea wasn't Apple's AI savior, and the company may be looking for a replacement
• Apple's leadership page will look very different in the next five years
• One of these three Apple executives will probably be Tim Cook's replacement
• Apple's EU Digital Markets Act antitrust debacle may be settled soon
• ICEBlock app removed from App Store after DOJ demands, citing safety concerns
• Ex-execs slam Tim Cook for eroding Apple's moral authority after ICEBlock pull
• ICEBlock isn't the only ICE-tracking app that Apple and Google have removed
• Developers must comply with new Texas age requirement law, and Apple has detailed how
• Discord support was breached, and accounts vary on how bad it was
• The Underdogs return to attack Windows' Blue Screen of Death

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (13:30) - Apple Glass
• (30:41) - iPadOS and Slide Over
• (40:44) - Apple leadership
• (49:19) - EU DMA
• (50:47) - Controversy Corner
• (01:12:52) - So anyway....