The world of mobile apps is so big and such an important part to so much commerce these days that I think it has crossed that threshold where regulation or antitrust actions need to be implemented. Apple should not be requiring that all digital purchases use their system, which might have made sense 10 years ago but doesn't make sense now. And if Apple loosens the grip on those things, it will save them from much more severe forced changes from governments down the road.
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- Pre-show:
- ⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
- Colonial Pipeline
- Follow-up:
- Overpriced AirTag mounts
- Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
sudo fdesetup authrestart
- Or, optionally,
sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes 5
softwareupdate -ia
- AppleTV and spatial audio
- AppleTV supports Wi-Fi 6
- Apple’s bad hire
- Epic vs. Apple, and internal emails
#askatp
- Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
- Could one swap a SoC? (via Chandler Kent)
- How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule? (via John Larson)
- Post-show: Marco tried to use Ruby
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