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47: The Face-Off Scenario Aug 14, 2015

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Marco Arment has some thoughts on web ads: http://www.marco.org/2015/08/11/ad-blocking-ethics James Thompson has some thoughts on web ads: http://www.imore.com/in-a-world-the-network Google has some thoughts on its reorganization: https://investor.google.com/releases/2015/0810.html HTC has no thoughts on how to secure fingerprints: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33847307 The movie Face/Off has some great thoughts on how to bypass biometric security: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Graham Spencer has some thoughts on what kinds of iPhones Apple will announce next month: http://www.macstories.net/stories/visualizing-apples-historical-iphone-lineups-guessing-the-next-one/ Verizon is thoughtlessly dropping subsidies on phones: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/verizon-drop-phone-contracts-end-discounted-phones-32953478 Our thought about CurrentC being delayed yet again is that it's pretty funny: http://www.macworld.com/article/2970225/business/apple-pay-rival-currentc-could-be-delayed-again-as-retailers-jump-ship.html Our thanks this week go to Skillshare (http://skillshare.com). Skillshare lets you explore thousands of online classes in design, photography, business and more. Join a learning community of over 1 million creators. Go to skillshare.com and get three free months with the coupon code "REBOUND"! Our thanks also to Softlayer (http://softlayer.com), the cloud built to compete. You deserve cloud resources that meet your unique needs. Softlayer is one of the only cloud providers that provisions bare metal servers and virtual servers from a single, seamless platform. Go to http://softlayer.com/podcast and get your first $500 free.

46: I'm Gonna Mic the Wobble Aug 06, 2015

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LEX HAS A NEW IPHONE! Thanks to T-Mobile, who are not advertisers on this podcast (http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/issues-insights-blog/iphone-offer-music-freedom-amped.htm). Craig Hockenberry had his credit card compromised, but saw no interruption of his Apple Pay enjoyment: http://www.imore.com/apple-pay-rescue Dan weighed in on the possibility of Apple making its own MVNO back in May: http://www.macworld.com/article/2919139/could-apple-become-its-own-cellular-carrier.html Apple is denying it's happening: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/04/apple-denies-it-plans-to-sell-mobile-services-directly-to-consumers.html Finally someone has made a watch with an Apple Watch: https://www.nicogerard.com/watches Our thanks this week to first-time advertiser on this show, Warby Parker. Visit www.warbyparker.com/rebound to take a look at their high-quality frames. Have up to five frames sent to yourself for free to try them on and pick the pair that looks most awesome. By visiting www.warbyparker.com/rebound you get free 3-day shipping on your final frame choice. Do it today!

45: 20th Century Thinking Jul 30, 2015

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Lex is back! Remember Lex? You probably read this, but Jim Dalrymple went off on Apple Music: http://www.loopinsight.com/2015/07/22/apple-music-is-a-nightmare-and-im-done-with-it/ But then he got his music back. All he had to do is go to Cupertino: http://www.loopinsight.com/2015/07/24/i-got-my-music-back-at-least-most-of-it/ Jason Snell likes Apple Music in his library: http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/07/in-praise-of-apple-music-in-my-itunes-library/ T-Mobile added Apple Music to its Freedom Plan: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/28/t-mobile-adds-apple-music-to-its-data-free-music-freedom-plan/ John Legere really wants Lex to get a new phone... TODAY. (http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/issues-insights-blog/iphone-offer-music-freedom-amped.htm) Is Apple not shipping a 4-inch phone this fall or is it not not shipping one? (http://sixcolors.com/link/2015/07/a-new-4-inch-iphone-coming-later-or-never/) Dan uses Authy on his Watch: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/authy/id494168017?mt=8 And now, some terrible copy: http://www.apple.com/iphone/why-theres-iphone/ Lex just totally LET PHIL SCHILLER HAVE IT! (https://twitter.com/lexfri/status/626070467158388736) Google+ is going away. Sorry? (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/everything-in-its-right-place.html)

44: The Bones of Lex Friedman Jul 24, 2015

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Recurring special guest Guy English joins us as Lex is out striking important business deals (http://www.midroll.com/pr/). We recorded this before Apple's results were announced (http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/07/appleq3results/) but as Apple was having some uptime issues with its online services (https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/). People may really like their Apple Watches, if you believe surveys (https://techpinions.com/the-state-of-apple-watch-satisfaction/41126). Does the iPhone really make up 82 percent of podcast listening? http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/20/report-82-of-mobile-podcast-listening-happens-on-iphone-mostly-using-apples-podcasts-app/ Apple has hired a quality control executive from Chrysler: http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/20/apple-hires-former-fiat-chrysler-exec-for-its-rumored-electric-car-team/ A Google self-driving car has gotten into an accident but it's the human's fault: http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/17/autos/google-self-driving-car-injury-accident/index.html Dan will one day be the last man driving around with robot cars but it'll be like that episode of the Twilight Zone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last Which is not the same as the one with the stopwatch that stops time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Peace_and_Quiet Who buys iPods? These people: http://www.birchtree.me/blog/who-buys-ipods Apple Watches may not cause health problems but licking radium brushes certainly does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls Please gaze upon the Sinclair radio watch: http://www.ledwatches.net/articles/sinclair-fm-radio-watch/watch-photos1.htm

43: The Real Meaning of Prime Day Jul 17, 2015

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What did you do for PRIME DAY?! (It doesn't matter, it's over.) SEATTLE IS GOING TO FALL INTO THE SEAAAAAA!!! (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one) Apple has new iPods: http://www.apple.com/ipod/ More here on these new iPods: http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/07/new-ipod-touch-gets-iphone-6-power/ Could this mean a new 4-inch iPhone is coming? (http://www.macworld.com/article/2948815/apple-phone/is-the-new-ipod-touch-a-harbinger-of-a-4-inch-iphone-6c.html) There's a weak rumor that Apple will drop the iPad mini: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/15/rumor-apple-to-launch-end-of-life-ipad-mini-model-and-ipad-pro-in-2015-forego-ipad-air-3 If you installed the beta of El Capitan, Jason Snell's first look will help a lot: http://www.macworld.com/article/2944996/first-look-at-the-os-x-el-capitan-public-beta.html Dan has some thoughts on iCloud Drive: http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/07/recovering-deleted-icloud-drive-files/

42: Siri, Tell Alexa to Shut Up Jul 09, 2015

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Apple's going to design their own boxes for third-party accessories sold in Apple Stores: http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/06/apple-stores-white-boxes-accessories/ Where will you be on... PRIME DAY? http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=11448061011 Lex and Dan talk about their Echoes but I'm tired of linking to that. You can find it. Walt Mossberg has some tips and tricks for the Echo, which I hate: http://recode.net/2015/07/07/the-amazon-echo-everything-you-might-not-know/ Like Dan in this article, we think iTunes should be broken up: http://www.macworld.com/article/2938297/how-apple-should-revamp-itunes-for-the-better-this-time.html Showtime is now available on the Apple TV without a cable subscription: http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/07/showtime-apple-tv/ Trent Reznor emailed Dave Wiskus http://www.macworld.com/article/2944517/what-apple-music-connect-needs-to-succeed.html Our thanks to Casper (https://casper.com/rebound) for sponsoring this episode. Casper makes mattresses from responsive materials to ensure great sleep for nearly everyone. You spend about a third of your life sleeping, make sure it's on a good mattress. Go to casper.com/rebound to start your 100-day money-back trial. You'll get $50 off by using the code REBOUND.

41: Contempt is One of Our Core Competencies Jul 02, 2015

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APPLE MUSIC IS HERE OH IT'S SO GOOD WAIT EVERYTHING IS SCREWED UP Kirk McElhearn says that Apple Music will replace your ripped (or ill-gotten) music with DRM-ed files: http://www.mcelhearn.com/the-real-difference-between-itunes-match-and-icloud-music-library-drm/ iMore says that only happens on additional devices you log into: http://www.imore.com/apple-music-vs-itunes-match-whats-difference There's an iPhone 6S leak: http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/01/phone-6s-twice-as-fast-better-battery/ And the trailer for Steve Jobs: http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/01/first-in-depth-video-trailer-for-aaron-sorkins-steve-jobs-film-goes-live/

40: That's a Hippo, John Jun 25, 2015

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No Lex this week, which is sad because he had so many opinions about Taylor Swift. Here's a synopsis of what happened over the weekend if you were off the grid: http://recode.net/2015/06/21/apple-says-it-will-pay-taylor-swift-for-free-streams-after-all/ Dan has some thoughts of his own here: http://sixcolors.com/link/2015/06/apples-reversal-on-paying-artists-during-the-apple-music-trial-period/ Swift does not consider her stance on photographs of her in concert the same thing (http://mashable.com/2015/06/23/taylor-swift-photographer-accusation/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link). We also talk about Apple Music. Dan has concerns: http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/06/why-im-worried-about-apple-music/. Moltz doesn't like rumors of a camera in the next Apple Watch because it reminds him of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8nJKWJTsUg Those new Android Wear watch faces sure look like... watch faces of some kind (http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2015/06/android-wear-new-watch-faces-from.html). We finish by discussing third-party Apple Watch bands because it's an Apple Watch show (http://thirdparty.band).

39: El Capitan Crunch Jun 18, 2015

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Please go to http://podsurvey.com/therebound to take a 5-minute survey. When you're finished you can enter a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card! Phil Schiller finds Moltz funny (http://www.imore.com/gruber-and-schiller-our-full-transcript-talk-show-wwdc). Marco Arment thinks Schiller's appearance on The Talk Show (http://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2015/06/09/ep-123) shows he's one of us (http://www.marco.org/2015/06/11/live-with-phil). Lex and Dan think it's mostly marketing. Christopher Mims thinks Apple should drop the Mac (http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apple-should-kill-off-the-mac-1434321848). This is nonesense (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/06/15/christopher-mims-jackass). And, as predicted, he later claimed to have been misunderstood (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/16/mims-what-comes-after-the-mac/). Lex thinks the rumored iPad Pro (http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipad-pro/) will come with a keyboard and... more? Dan wrote about what we didn't see at WWDC (http://www.macworld.com/article/2934781/what-apple-didnt-announce-at-wwdc.html). And, by the way, Moltz is completely wrong about split screen not working on the MacBook Air. Fortunately.

38: A Milanese Issue Jun 11, 2015

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Please go to http://podsurvey.com/therebound to take a 5-minute survey. When you're finished you can enter a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card! We, of course, discuss the WWDC Keynote (http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/06/wwdc-2015-keynote-the-fine-print/). We were not fans of the Apple Music introduction (http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/06/facing-the-music/). Apple removed the lube from the Cleveland Indians ransom note and then, ugh, gave a bunch of free stuff to rich sports stars (http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/news/apple-ceo-caves-to-cleveland-indians-ransom-demands-except-the-lube-20150608). Apple finally had some female employees on the stage (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/08/women-presenters-apple-wwdc) after Tim Cook admitted the company needed to do better on diversity (http://mashable.com/2015/06/08/tim-cook-apple-diversity-women-future/). Apple's Music page has an amusing view of PCs compared to Macs (http://www.apple.com/music/). We discuss the iPad multitasking in iOS 9 (http://www.macworld.com/article/2932327/apple-shows-ios-9s-major-upgrades-from-multitasking-to-picture-in-picture.html).

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