We answer our askMTJC from Paul Wilkinson about eSim support and Aussie Apple retail pricing. Tim discusses his Apollo XI T-shirt and Wikipedia’s support drive. We follow up on Testflight public betas which inspire a new site, Google Plus is shutting down, Secrets & Lies, and Facebook Portal introduces new smart screens for the home. 3D Bananas are the new scale of processor performance. Another follow up on Saqib Shaikh as he appears on CBC’s Spark. Luna Display is available for sale. We discuss iOS 12 and Core Data External Binary Data Storage, State of Developer Ecosystem, Apple vs the Big Hack, Aussie Day Light Savings Apple Watch bug, iOS 12.0.1 bug fixes, and Apple’s overpriced repairs. Picks: The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found, CodeMobile Weekly Episode 2: A fireside chat with Jaime Lopez, Designing Websites for iPhone X, REPL Support for Swift Packages.
Episode 216 Show Links
- Paul Wilkinson on Twitter: “@mtjc_podcast eSIM is a carrier thing, not an Apple thing… #askmtjc”
- Paul Wilkinson on Twitter: “@timmitra Australian retail prices include our 10% sales tax… About $50 more… #askmtjc”
- “My Apollo Ex One T-Shirt arrived. #askMTJC. I learned Roman Numerals while watching Apollo missions…”
- Road to Apollo 11 50th Anniversary | Product categories Apparel
- PublicBetas
- Google+ shutting down after data leak affecting 500,000 users | Ars Technica
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- 360|iDev 2018 Conference Highlights | raywenderlich.com
- Facebook unveils smart displays, promises not to snoop on your video calls | Ars Technica
- James Thomson on Twitter: “This is the raw banana power of a Series 4. Limited to about 100 bananas at a time because of memory restrictions, but it’s pretty speedy.… https://t.co/TDooE5p3vA”
- ‘I designed the tool that I wanted.’ Engineer who is blind creates app to describe the world around him | CBC Radio
- Luna Display turns your iPad into a second Mac display, now available after Kickstarter campaign – 9to5Mac
- Michael Tsai – Blog – iOS 12 and Core Data External Binary Data Storage
- Swift in 2018 – The State of Developer Ecosystem by JetBrains
- Apple tells Congress it found no signs of hacking attack | Reuters
- The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies – Bloomberg
- What Businessweek got wrong about Apple – Apple
- Apple Watch daylight saving bug leaves Series 4 devices in a loop
- iOS 12.0.1 arrives with fixes for a couple of early user complaints | Ars Technica
- Apple investigated by CBC news for overpriced repair charges / Boing Boing
- Turtle graphics – Wikipedia
- CodeMobile Android and iOS Developer Conference – CodeMobile
- CodeMobile 2019 Tickets, Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 09:00 | Eventbrite
Episode 216 Picks
- The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
- CodeMobile Weekly Episode 2: A fireside chat with Jaime Lopez
- Designing Websites for iPhone X | WebKit
- Swift.org – REPL Support for Swift Packages
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