Summary: Recorded 14th October 2018 This week the Bloomberg story rumbled on, but Donny and I decide to just summarise that and concentrate on things like the Apple 11% drop in Q3 Sales. Alleged info on the upcoming iPad Pro. Apple's TV streaming plans and a wireless charger that intrigues both of us but we just think is too good to be true. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! DONT FORGET THE JOE KISSELL OFFER... 30% any Take Control purchase before November 30th with this link 30% Off or use the code ESSENTIALAPPLE at checkout. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99US / £2.50UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: DONNY YANKELLOW @rtteachr on Twitter Find his stuff in iBooks, a load of sticker packs in the App Store and DesignBundles.net (http://designbundles.net/) as Skrbly (Sale extended till the 27th now...) APPLE Apple donates another $1m, this time to earthquake and tsunami relief in Indonesia – 9to5 Mac Apple to Donate to Hurricane Michael Relief Efforts – Mac Rumors Google also pitched in $1million – CNet Mac shipments fall 11% in Q3 as customers await updates to aging lineup, IDC says – 9to5 Mac iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPods-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, more – 9to5 Mac TSMC to exclusively manufacture Apple A13 chip for next year’s iPhone and iPad models – 9to5 Mac Apple's Cook Visits World's Hottest Startup During Beijing Trip – Bloomberg Apple's Upcoming Video-Streaming Service Could Possibly Be Free – Motley Fool Apple plans to give away original content for free to device owners as part of new digital TV strategy – CNBC Man Wearing Apple Maps Backpack Surveying San Francisco on Foot – Mac Rumors SECURITY Dr Andy Yen on his soapbox again... and rightly so I might say CPO Magazine Apple to Australia: “This is no time to weaken encryption” – Ars Technica Apple rebukes Australia’s “dangerously ambiguous” anti-encryption bill – TechCrunch Apple fires back at Australian encryption bill – Engadget Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It? – Krebs On Security 1Password for Mac disables auto-submit feature as macOS Mojave boosts security – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Internet of Terribly Troublesome Insecure Things... A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is as Creepy as You Feared – NY Times Pocket Plans to Turn Your Never-Ending News Reading List Into a Podcast – Fortune Just minutes after we finished recording @MacJim posted this in the Slack “Okay, I’ve just used the Pocket voice reader to listen
