SJ121: FaceTime! Facebook! Google! Apple! Apple's Q1! Aetna! Huawei! Industrial espionage, and more!

It was a real shenaniga-looza fest this week, cadets, with plenty of bad news adjacent to or directly involving Apple and most of the other big tech firms, Microsoft (somehow) excepted. Apple played hardball with both bugs and business partners, Facebook got caught, Google fessed up, and the FBI had to get real on an industrial spy. Speaking of spying, people were freaking out about a possible FaceTime bug, but ordering a copy of the Amazon Echo Show that does exactly the same thing ... and speaking of trouble, the US dropped charges on Huawei and wrapped up its case against Qualcomm, and we're just **starting to scratch the surface** of this crazy week!

On the less-bad front, Apple would have had a record-bushing quarter but for that one thing (thanks, CHINA ...), some Mac malware and Siri shortcut concerns are only remote dangers (for now), and a German court tossed half of Qualcomm's lawsuits against Apple. Mike and Charles congratulate themselves on correctly predicting former Governor Scott Walker's deal with Foxconn was going to be a trainwreck, and the admission by AT&T and Verizon that no, "5G" isn't actually happening this year (and will barely get off the ground in 2020).

There is some good news (aside from 90 percent of Apple's Q1 report, that is) -- such as American Airlines giving Apple Music subscribers completely free access to the service on their flights, and Verizon including Apple Music in their premium plans. But there's also the rather dodgy "portless" smartphones out of China, a third appearance of old iPhone SE on clearance, Ultraviolet shutting down, and making sure your loved ones have a path to your important digital photos and such. There's some new gear in the loading bay for Engineering Report -- and an insurance company that promises not to abuse your health data if you'll take their shiny gift of an Apple Watch you have to work out (but to be fair, it may very well save your life). Buckle up, cadets, we've overloaded the ship -- and it's gonna be kind of a rough landing!