Exploring Apple's Privacy Practices and Software Distribution Dynamics

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The chapter delves into the controversy surrounding Apple's privacy practices, discussing issues like child sexual abuse material scanning on iPhones. It also explores the evolution of software distribution, highlighting historical perspectives and the changing dynamics between developers and platform owners. The conversation touches on the challenges of modern software setups, DRM evolution, and the seesaw dynamic between big companies and consumer pushback in software marketplaces.

Pre-show: SD-card failures
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Follow-up:
- The “unpatchable” M-series exploit
  - Explanatory video
  - Hector Martin found the “chicken bit”
    - ARM Exception Levels
  - DMP
- Y’all don’t read the show notes, huh? 😏
  - LG DualUp Monitor
- An 🎵 accidental 🎵 rant about the state of podcasting today
  - DAI
- Would a M3-family chip really have no efficiency cores? (via Matthaus Woolard)
  - Max Tech’s take on “M4 Ultra” rumors
  - Reticle limits
    - NVIDIA GH100 GPU
- Apple laying off 700+ workers
  - MacRumors
- Apple 🤝🏻 Shutterstock
  - Reuters
- Apple’s in-box iPhone “Presto” flashing machine
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- Game Room (App Store link)
  - Battleship
- Gucci (App Store link)
  - Trailer
- Turok
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  - CarEdge
  - Deal School 3.0
- What even is ownership, these days? (via Anonymous)
  - Egghead Software
  - SimCity copy protection (the red image on the right-hand side)
  - Overton Window
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