89: The Second-Best of Times

Apple copes with declining iPhone sales and a bad FaceTime bug, then ends up coming down hard on Facebook for its misuse of a tool designed to read user data. Also, there's an imaginary bear in the woods... or is there?

Apple copes with declining iPhone sales and a bad FaceTime bug, then ends up coming down hard on Facebook for its misuse of a tool designed to read user data. Also, there's an imaginary bear in the woods... or is there?

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Guest Starring:

Jacqui Cheng

Links and Show Notes Support Download with a Relay FM Membership Apple's dramatic Q1 2019 results - Six Colors This is Tim: Transcript of Apple's January 29 call with analysts - Six Colors Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling ... before they pick up - 9to5Mac Mark Gurman on Twitter: "Apple killed FaceTime conferencing server side it seems. Right move.… " Volkswagen electrifies the dune buggy - Engadget Volkswagen reportedly has $23,000 Tesla competitor in the works - Engadget Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them | TechCrunch Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps - The Verge Google will stop peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door | TechCrunch The Apple-Facebook feud is now a shooting war | Revue Three-year-old boy missing in woods for two days says friendly bear kept him safe | US news | The Guardian This woman ran 19 miles of a marathon carrying a lost puppy Jacqui Cheng (@ejacqui) | Twitter