Jun 21st 2020
This Week in Tech 776
Phat Boyin' It All Day
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
WWDC Preview, Twitter Voice Chat, Prescription Video Game
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- WWDC Preview: no new hardware will be announced
- Apple re-closing some US Stores due to Covid-19
- WWDC Preview: Apple transitions to ARM
- WWDC Preview: here's the jacket and pins that the Swift Student Challenge winners won
- WWDC Preview: iOS 14 improvements - can they please fix Siri?
- Apple vs Hey - Apple kicks Hey app out of the App Store
- iOS App Store brings in $519 Billion in 2019
- Apple facing anti-trust investigations in the EU
- Talking about grilling
- Twitter starts offering 140 second Voice Tweets
- Using Facebook to train yourself
- Facebook lets its users turn off political ads
- Facebook wants to help 4 million people vote
- K-Pop stans and Tik Tok teens and grandmas troll Trump's Tulsa rally
- 71% of Americans refuse to use contact tracing apps
- iFixit wants to help users fix ventilators; ventilator manufacturer sues
- FCC approves the first prescription video game for ADHD
- Oscars delayed until April 2021
- Disney+ kills their 7 day free trial weeks before Hamilton release
- Only $75k to get your own Spot robot dog
- Flash dies completely on December 31st, 2020
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Links
- Apple confirms WWDC 2020 schedule, including Special Event Keynote on June 22 - 9to5Mac
- Apple WWDC20
- Multiple Leaks Suggest No New Hardware at WWDC
- First look at the fun WWDC20 jacket and pins Apple is sending to Swift Challenge winners
- Stratechery - Apple, ARM, and Intel
- How Apple is making the antitrust case against it stronger
- HEY's Jason Fried responds to Apple, says the dispute is not about the money
- Interview: Apple’s Schiller says position on Hey app is unchanged and no rules changes are imminent | TechCrunch
- Apple touts new study showing that the App Store facilitated $519B in commerce in 2019
- Not so nice, we investigated them twice: EU opens double whammy of inquiries into Apple's biz practices
- Apple to Close Some U.S. Stores Again as Covid-19 Spikes - Bloomberg
- Twitter introduces ‘voice tweets’ because sometimes 280 characters aren’t enough
- Twitter apologizes for lack of accessibility in voice notes