Space Javelin
472 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 53 ratingsInsight and analysis of Apple-centric topics of the week from the previous MacNN team, published weekly. Space Javelin's team has well over a century of Mac and Apple experience divided between them.
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SJ187: WWDC guesses, AAPL@$1.5T, tech catfights, Tom Hanks, a perfectly priceless lawsuit, and more
June 15, 2020 12:52 - 53 minutes - 60.7 MBWe swear, the mentality of some people get us down sometimes, cadets, but silly WWDC season is upon us, and thus we must phaser our way through leaks and predictions, a new Sonos spat, beetle-brained analysts, nefarious story-stealers, and pundits and miner49ers alike all up in ARM(s) about next week. All this and some homework, cadets, so get your WWDC bingo card ready -- the future is coming right for us at warp speed! https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/08/apple-sued-for-2-priceless-t...
SJ186: Pride in spaaace, Samsung & Google & Bloomberg fails, Inc spills, sweet deals, and … bundles?
June 08, 2020 07:34 - 35 minutes - 41 MBWelcome to a weird episode -- even by our standards, cadets! Cap'n Mike had to deal with some lower-deck nonsense, leaving Cap'n Charles to handle the second half of the show alone! That said, they bring you (as usual) all the news you need to know from the world of tech ... with few tips on how to deal with planet Earth these days. Topics include some great t-shirts, tv shows, and movies to celebrate pride, tackle racism, and give us all hope -- along with a Norwegian repair saga, and an act...
SJ185: Apple stores, jailbreaks, bugs, Beats, HBOMax, Synology, Moshi, Cadet Corner, & Fraggle Rock!
June 01, 2020 08:09 - 51 minutes - 59.4 MBThis week is action packed with bug squashing, legal fails, summer colors, jailbreaks, stores re-opening (with a twist), another streaming service, some hot gear, some cool Apple TV+ news, and a cadet's question answered by special guest brain William Gallagher! Surf's up, cadets, but keep an eye out for SpaceX's Falcon 9 -- we don't want them colliding with the Space Tesla, now do we? And speaking of cadet requests, here's links to the stories covered this week! https://appleinsider.com/ar...
SJ184: COVID detectors, Apple Glass, 5G, the iPhone SE vs Android, HBO Go-ing, privacy wars, & more
May 25, 2020 08:05 - 52 minutes - 59.6 MBPer listener request, we're going to try to include links to some of the news we cover to provide for further reading -- since we've all got more time off-duty than we did before! Get comfy, cadets ... we cram more stories per (not quite) hour than an Evelyn Wood Speed-Reading Class! https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/05/18/apple-reopening-25-us-apple-stores-12-in-canada https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/05/18/covid-19-sensor-could-bring-daily-testing-to-iphones https://appleinsider.com...
SJ183: Rumors get serious, lawsuits get settled, bugs get fixed, Apple TV+ gets busy, and much more!
May 18, 2020 08:05 - 56 minutes - 64.4 MBThe ship hasn't been able to dock into port for nearly three months, cadets, and it's starting to show on both your command crew and the tech universe they cover! Adobe and Edison let really dumb bugs slip by, iOS apparently has so many bugs that hack collectors won't pay for them anymore, Apple settles some lawsuits and faces some threats, Apple TV+ gets busy (in the figurative sense of the term), Google's Chrome spots an incredibly obvious problem, and Sprint has ceased to be! It's expired,...
SJ182: Jinkies! Some stores re-opening, new gadgets, smarthubs held hostage, AR Lamborghinis, & more
May 11, 2020 07:18 - 57 minutes - 65.7 MBSome Apple Stores are re-opening on far-flung spaceports, cadets, but to quote David Bowie, there's gonna be some ch-ch-ch-ch-changes in the way they do business! New AirPods and an Apple TV may be waiting in the wings, your iPhone just got even more useful in an emergency, the Apple TV app has some new toys to play with, Microsoft repaves its Surface, Samsung needs your bank account, Wink tries to hold your smarthome hostage, and Warner Brothers unleashes Scooby-Doo (you see what we did ther...
SJ181: Apple's fiscal Q2, some stores re-opening, iPhone SE, a full-on rant, & an Apple Car 4 $ale!
May 04, 2020 07:38 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBSpecial guest Peter Cohen (now our Senior "helping Mike avoid the quarterly financials report" Correspondent) and Cap'n Charles take apart the fiscal Q2 numbers from Apple, which are pretty far from terrible; pore over the renamed "Exposure Notification" as part of the fight against COVID-19, and ponder the (too soon?) planned re-opening of some Apple Stores and how this will be different Peter also cranks it up to 11 for a screed on the sordid state of non-casual Mac gaming, the crew swoon ...
SJ180: Rumors abounding, shenanigans confounding, sales stats astounding, special guests resounding
April 27, 2020 13:25 - 59 minutes - 68.3 MBCo-cap'n Mike is away, cadets, so the show features not only regular guest co-host William Gallagher of AppleInsider.com, but also an interview with audio software maker Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba. The crew take a look at a big haul of new rumors (and scoff at some of them), check out how the iPad and iPhone are doing sales-wise, praise some companies and ding others, bemoan the continued skullduggery of Amazon and Facebook, and despair of Huawei ever admitting they steal intellectual prope...
SJ179: SE-lab 2020, iPad Pro Magic Keyboard, Peacock launches, Mac Pro wheels, Foxconn, TikTok, more
April 20, 2020 05:46 - 39 minutes - 44.7 MBThe concept of a 4-inch screen on an iPhone is dead, but the iPhone SE name lives on in a sweet iPhone 8-like package, cadets, so dry your tears and pony up $400 to get one, and while you're at it -- maybe you can stretch that extended-duty stimulus check to pick up that sweet new iPad Pro Magic Keyboard -- but if you can't, Capn's Mike and Charles still have you covered! There's also some HomeKit news, a new streaming service soft-launching, a new AMD card for your eGPU if you have one, and ...
SJ178: COVID-19th nervous breakdown, good and bad news, coping resources, shenanigans, & much more!
April 13, 2020 08:36 - 44 minutes - 50.7 MBThe space plague quarantine continues, cadets, but it's starting to make strange bedfellows! Google and Apple are working on projects together, more data comes pouring in from sickbay, Apple throws a little of its money around to help ease some suffering, HBO relents, teens love the iPhone (still), and we point you to yet more free and low-cost goodies to help pass the time in your quarters. LG is updating its old and new TVs, stupid lawsuits never take a day off, and watch out for scam texts...
SJ177: My darling quaran-time, happy birthday Apple (& iPad), iPhone SE, T-Merger, FB & Zoom, & more
April 06, 2020 07:42 - 43 minutes - 50.1 MBThis week, co-Capn's Mike and Charles celebrate the birthdays of Apple and iPad, and offer up a bucket of free and cheap resources to help you cope, cadets (including Sirius XM, Curiosity Stream, your library's resources, Acorn TV and more). As a reminder, April 1 was also Subscription Review Day on the ship, so be sure to see if you're still paying for something you're no longer using! The crew also dig into the latest info on the upcoming "low cost" (relatively) iPhone (now called the SE 20...
SJ176: Staying safe, staying busy, staying put, Apple news, Zoom goes boom, iPads bend, & much more
March 30, 2020 08:28 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBApple has launched an official website and app to deal with the space plague, cadets, so quarantine will continue for the foreseeable future, we're afraid. After a short interstellar hello from Cap'n Mike, Charles and special guest William Gallagher from the AppleInsider base talk about the rollback of Apple purchase limits, the new Safari in iOS 13.4, check the latest rumors about the Apple Watch Series 6 (which might come out this year, maybe?), and if ARM-based MacBooks are in our near -- ...
SJ175: New iPad Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini and PowerBeats 4; free stuff; Sonos, shenanigans, & more
March 23, 2020 07:21 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBIt's a brave new and ... kind of boring ... world we're exploring, cadets, but the mothership has sensed our ennui and sent a care package of new gear, new accessories, and new limitations ... but also a bucketful of free media to enjoy now that we have more shore leave than usual! Special guest Peter Cohen and Cap'n Charles pick through the goodies, uncover some baddies, dismiss some speculative rumors, crack some jokes, and take pride in the latest design accolades bestowed on (mostly) Appl...
SJ174: March is basically cancelled, upcoming OS leaks, Bill Gates steps back, shenanigans, & more
March 16, 2020 08:32 - 50 minutes - 57.5 MBWell, we guess its not a hoax after all, cadets, and as a result not only is all shore leave for March a non-starter but you're all confined to quarters for x number of weeks! Luckily, this is a great opportunity to catch up on some of our past briefings as well as the latest news and maybe even other podcasts, books, movies, TV shows, and even creative endeavors you've been putting off! Or just staring at 3-D cat pictures, whatever. Capn's Mike and Charles battle an overload in the communic...
SJ173: Cancel-palooza, iPhone "SE 2" now "delayed," Intel flaws, the Galaxy S20, Doctor Who, & more!
March 09, 2020 09:01 - 45 minutes - 52.3 MBThe coronavirus continues to spread like Bloomberg commercials, cadets, and remember -- only handshakes with holograms until further notice! This contagion is threatening some of our upcoming missions, like the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and other events we care about, but tightening Apple parts and hardware supply lines won't stop us from comparing Cupertino's and Mountain View's approach to plague-avoidance apps, letting you know you can get a good lunch or two out of Apple's U...
SJ172: COVID-19 ops crashing all the parties, Laurene Powell Jobs, Bob Iger, Warren Buffett, & more
March 02, 2020 06:41 - 57 minutes - 65.4 MBCOVID-19 continues to rain on various parades and is spreading across the Earth, cadets, so shore leave is right out -- just like Bob Iger! Cap'ns Mike and Charles grapple with the latest on this non-computer virus, update you on the latest news across the tech galaxy, and lambast MI5, Clearview AI, and this inept FCC for their do-nothing fines. Laurene Powell-Jobs plans to give her wealth away, the iPhone XR and 11 rule the global smartphone charts, India will soon get an Apple Store, Alaba...
SJ171: COVID-19 woes, new gear rumors, the Galaxy Flip flops, FCC forced to do job, Neil Old, & more
February 24, 2020 10:43 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBThe disease formerly known as Coronavirus continues to dominate the tech news, but there are far more than biological ills to deal with, cadets. Mike and Charles also delve into new product rumors and cancelled (or about to be cancelled) events, watchOS and Apple Services updates, First Alert speakers, Essential's forgetability, the folly of folding phones, and a bunch of bad calls from Google (via YouTube), MalwareBytes, and yes -- Apple! There's also some minutiae about the late HQ Trivia,...
SJ170: Mike's back, BlackBerry's out, GeForce is now, Apple makes moves, security stumbles, & more
February 10, 2020 09:54 - 1 hour - 70 MBThis week -- just before we take a short holiday for Valentine's and President's Days -- Charles thought he'd do something really different, cadets, and bring back co-Cap'n Mike for a surprise break from our (wonderful) guest host parade. Yes, he's out of sickbay, and he's got OPINIONS ON THINGS. The crew take a look at the anniversary of the Apple-NeXT fusion, note a bunch of developer-level changes that are kinda huge in their own way, pick up on some changes coming in the next betas as wel...
SJ169: AAPL's Q1, iPad turns 10, Doctor Who, Ring & Avast fail hard, Apple TV+, Coronavirus, & more
February 03, 2020 10:10 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBThe things Cap'n Mike will do to get out of discussing Apple's (or anyone's) quarterly financial results, cadets, continues to astound, cadets. This time, he claimed the shuttlecraft needed to be taken out for a "maintenance shakedown" and left Cap'n Charles with no alternative but to teleport in our esteemed fellow traveler, Apple technology writer and editor at large Peter Cohen, to fill in. In addition to glowing spreadsheets of pure money-making, Peter and Charles discuss the ups and down...
SJ168: Mac birthday, Foxconn-job, Flash deathwatch, AppleTV+ beats the odds, Sonos reverses, & more
January 27, 2020 07:33 - 59 minutes - 68.1 MBWhile we wish the Mac a happy 36th birthday, cadets, we also wish Foxconn would stop jerking Wisconsin taxpayers around, we wish Flash would just hurry up and die already, we wish EA had some class, we wish Sonos hadn't tried to pull a fast one on their customers, we wish the FBI wasn't guilty of wishful thinking, and we really *really* wish we'd never heard the phrase "compromising pictures of Jeff Bezos." That said, some wishes do come true -- Apple TV+ has buckets of viewers, Broadcom get...
SJ167: More CES picks, the encryption "debate," AccountEdge's huge fail, rack mount Mac Pros, & more
January 20, 2020 09:08 - 59 minutes - 67.7 MBWe finally got the holo-crew machine working for the first time this year, cadets, so in addition to special guest Malcolm Owen from the good ship AppleInsider, we've got virtual Mike (who's still away with some sort of space plague) and virtual Alan Perry (to enumerate even more CES wins and fails). We put the astro-screws to disgraced Attorney General William Barr and his fake war on encryption, as well as to AccountEdge for dropping the ball on ever updating their decrepit code and jerking...
SJ166: CES and desist -- some finds and fails, plus new lawsuits, recalls, Intel Firefox, Tivo, more
January 13, 2020 13:18 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBOur survey of Planet CES (stardate 2020) reveals some rich promising potential, cadets, but also a lot of wannabe fool's gold trying to get funding, as always. With co-Cap'n Mike sleeping it off, Charles brings back a decorated CES veteran --Commodore Alan Perry from the good ship CFAX -- to help decipher what's great, what will grate, and what should be grated like cheese immediately. There's also a battery case recall, a Firefox emergency patch, a Tivo glitch, and some fresh new lawsuits. W...
SJ165: New year, new news, new crap, new Maps, new deals, new toys, & eating AirPods ... that's new!
January 06, 2020 10:24 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBThe mothership finished last year on a great note, cadets, and climbed to an all-time high stock price on the back of some bold moves -- including actually shipping more than the predicted five new Mac Pros before the year's end -- one of which helped Jumanji take it to the next level! New deals have been cut, the iPhone and Watch both save lives and prevent crime, and Dell cries uncle on iOS compatibility. The war against Planet Correllium has escalated, sadly, but we have Imagination (back)...
SJ164: Mac Pro accessories, Facebook and newspaper fails, Apple TV+, year-end Apple deals, and more!
December 23, 2019 11:45 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBIt's our final new episode of the year, cadets -- barring momentous events and/or hilarious fails, of course -- and Cap'ns Mike and Charles cover both the hands-on with the new Mac Pro (and XDR display), as well as the first wave of accessories specifically for it -- along with speculation about Apple's long-simmering satellite program, a new threat targeting Keychain (but which almost certainly won't affect you), and a set of massive and embarrassing fails on the part of both Facebook (as us...
SJ163: Ellen DeGenerous, the 2019 Mac Pro ships, China reprieve, idiots pontificate, 5G hype & more
December 16, 2019 11:33 - 58 minutes - 66.9 MBThe penultimate episode of Space Javelin for 2019 is before you, cadets, and it finds co-Cap'ns Mike and Charles in a bit of a grouchy mood, owing entirely to the amount of stupid from analysts, lawmakers, and Mike's head cold -- all of which combine to harsh our normal holiday mellow. There's good news on the China front, along with awards noms for an Apple TV+ show, not to mention a surprise official return to CES in January for Apple -- but there's also idiot YouTubers whinging about the ...
SJ162: Jony Ive, Sundar Pichai, Disney World, 5G lies, rumors milled, Crimea & Punishment, & more
December 09, 2019 10:40 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBCharles and Mike are back from shore leave, cadets, and the Appleverse decided that was the perfect moment to pull some serious mischief and folderol in order to avoid the crew's righteous wrath! Mike starts with a recap of his vacation time, but Charles quickly gets on to the big stories, including Jony Ive's formal departure, Sundar Pichai learns the Alphabet, T-Mobile gets deceptive about their "5G," India gets serious about Apple, TV+ debuts some new shows, the best apps get their rewards...
SJ161: Surprise Thanksgiving leftovers from previous episodes!
December 02, 2019 10:07 - 47 minutes - 54.2 MBWhat can we say, cadets -- even after promising to take the week off, we couldn't resist the allure of Thanksgiving leftovers, so we rounded up a few recent bits that had to get cut for time, added some nutmeg and cinnamon, reheated it using the "pizza" setting in the microwave, and VOILA! A Frankenstein-foodie mix of recent news and commentary from Charles, Malcolm, and Mike that's somehow even better than when it was served fresh -- or at least that's what we'll tell you until it's gone! D...
SJ160: Tesla, Virnet X, factory “openings,” another Ring scandal, Russia, “5G,” AirPods Pro, & more
November 25, 2019 04:33 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBWhile the Co-Cap’ns are gone this week, cadets, the kindly crew of William and Malcolm (formerly of MacNN’s One More Thing podcast) root around for the kettle and discuss some of the news of the week — including recent developments in the decade-long Virnet X case, the smashing new (heh) Tesla Cyber-truck, and the US president’s surprising claims about the Texas Mac Pro factory. There’s also the unsurprising news that Amazon’s Ring doorbell has yet more security issues, the somewhat-surprisi...
SJ159: MacBook Pro supersized, Chromebooks get dissed, IBM hearts Apple, another Watch win, and more
November 18, 2019 10:15 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBThe crew welcome back Malcolm Owen from the good ship AppleInsider onboard to cover for Cap'n Mike, who has taken our new shuttlecraft -- nicknamed the SS Poor WiFi Experience -- to one of the most magical places on Earth for a rare family sabbatical. Naturally, Apple chooses this opportunity to unleash the long-rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro, announce an actual shipping month window for the new Mac Pro and XDR Display, and relay the news that the Enterprise Assimilation project is complete -- 1...
SJ158: AAPL juiced, Ring breached, updates galore, Disney+ and TV+ a hit, and Livin' Sou Vide Loca!
November 11, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBStraight from his appearance on CFAX 1070's "Tech Talk" show with Alan Perry*, cadets, Cap'n Charles shuttles back to the Space Javelin where he and Mike celebrate another listener milestone, and take apart the highs and lows of the tech universe for the week. A new Mac Pro has escaped into our dimension! The mothership hits a stock high yet again! Two completely different streaming TV services arrive! Apple Arcade hits 100 games! The iPad and Apple Watch are kings of their respective categor...
SJ157: Apple makes cash, AirPods go Pro, predictions go bad, TV+ goes live, and we go retroactive!
November 04, 2019 07:30 - 51 minutes - 59 MBThe 60-second Apple Earnings Summary returns, cadets, and because we didn't waste time on pundit pontifications this week's crew briefing is a little on the spare side -- but our erstwhile co-cap'ns still hit on all kinds of news, including the launch of Apple TV+ and the Airpods Pro, new features in the Apple Card, a tiny bit of Mac and iOS gaming news, upgrades for retro gear, a HomePod fix (with new features!), and some comings and goings in the streaming video arena. Oh, and Google burns ...
SJ156: iPhones in North America rule, Pixel 4 and Samsung drool, lawyers/crimes/money, and much more
October 28, 2019 15:54 - 57 minutes - 65.5 MBThe HammerCast is back on Soundcloud, cadets, after a weird black hole in that quadrant ate episodes 96 and 97 (but we'll see if we can't get the WAYBAC machine to time-travel back and retrieve them, and they're all safe on hammercast.fm in the meantime), yet co-Cap'ns Mike and Charles take time to chat about new Apple Arcade games, impressive butt-whoopings given out by the iPhone 11 versus its two main competitors, Adobe's stuttering progress on Photoshop for iPad, Apple Pay's newest milest...
Space Javelin HammerCast ep 98: All The Foot-Guns
October 25, 2019 21:22 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBFallout 76 gets a subscription. The Switch gets a cut-rate Overwatch port. Blizzard gets a letter from Congress. Fortnite gets a whole new chapter. Show notes: https://hammercast.fm/98/
SJ155: Google stuff, face (& finger) fail, Disney+, Apple TV+, rumors, travel tech, & Frankea-Fyrtur
October 21, 2019 07:37 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBCap'ns (plural) on the bridge, cadets, and they've come loaded with Google and Apple news and more! Disney and Apple streaming TV stuff, biometric boondoggles, boisterous bugs, Apple Arcade adventures, Ikea's furtive Fyrtur, media misfires, ridiculous rumors, casing clones, Apple Watches helping doctors help patients, more travel tech from last week's Alan Perry guest spot, and a hilarious-slash-frightening example of outdated tech holding the balance of power. All this and various vaporware,...
SJ154: Fold-gate 2, streamer-box-gate, beta-gate, AAPL win, teen market win, tech travel tips & more
October 14, 2019 05:28 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBOne week of Mike and we're back to substitute co-hosts, cadets, but we got another good one who has loads of great tips for your own intergalactic wanderings! Despite some lo-fi comm issues that give us some AM radio-type quality (that gets resolved eventually), the crew still bring you various court fails, Samsung's Galaxy Fold II: folding boogaloo, the lowdown on those non-Apple set-top streaming boxen, along with surveys, repair programs, beta dangers, yet another Andy Rubin scandal. All t...
SJ153: Mike returns, lawsuits abound, CheckM8, Bloomberg, rumors, Apple Arcade, Russia, & much more
October 07, 2019 10:48 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBIn honor of next week's Canadian Thanksgiving, cadets, the ship hosts its two regular turkeys (Mike and Charles) with all the news, gear, and lawsuits -- and sneaks in a couple of leftovers from the last two episodes that we gotta use up! The crew mark the anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs, go over the harvest of new Microsoft hardware, and report on their Apple Arcade explorations -- and that's just for first course! There's also heaping helpings of rumors, dumb lawsuits, Chrome and Bl...
SJ152: Peter Cohen returns, Apple updates stuff, Facebook & Nintendo fail, Amazon goes meh, & more
September 30, 2019 10:32 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBIt's another week without Co-Cap'n Mike, cadets, but we got very special guest Peter Cohen to fill in for him, and he just might be **even more ranty**! We've got OS upgrade sign for both newer and older iPhones and iPads, teardown deets on some of the new gear, a bunch of quiet app updates, some rumors, some special offers, and a few accolades and brickbats to throw out -- the former mostly at Apple, the latter mostly at Facebook, Nintendo, and Amazon. Shake your fist at the stars, cadets, a...
SJ151: The iPhones 11, upgraded OSes, Apple Arcade, AppleCare 4evah, Bob Iger, Slofies and more!
September 23, 2019 05:15 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBThe week we opted for some shore leave was a good one to skip, but now we're up to our astro-jockeys in hot new releases, cadets -- and Cap'n Mike didn't make the return shuttlecraft in time, meaning we brought back The Admiral to fill in! Charles and William check out the press on the new iPhones 11, get the lowdown on watchOS 6 and iOS 13, lampoon some silly lawsuits, mark the departures of Bob Iger and Steve Dowling from the mothership, and keep an eye on the evolving Apple Card, along wit...
Space Javelin HammerCast ep 95: Let It Die
September 21, 2019 11:50 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBGameStop shutters stores, Twitch confounds partners, Nintendo keeps winning, Bethesda keeps losing, and Kickstarter pisses creators off. Show notes: https://hammercast.fm/95/
Special Report: Apple event September 2019
September 11, 2019 10:08 - 30 minutes - 35.4 MBThe September Apple event introducing the new iPhone 11 family, a single new iPad model, the Series 5 Apple Watch, and announced dates and costs for Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade confirmed some rumors and a couple of our predictions, cadets, even as it denied certain prominent speculators a decent track record. Charles and Mike take a look at all the new shiny and dig up some under-reported or quietly-released additional info, and much more. Two episodes in three days means our Cap'ns are taking...
SJ150: Apple events, Google and Facebook get caught, Samsung sputters, 2020 rumors, & more on USB4
September 09, 2019 01:29 - 53 minutes - 61.9 MBIt’s New Goodies Eve, cadets, when we traditionally sit around the holographic fire, drink our Tang and tell tales of great speculation and foul shenanigans ahead of Tuesday’s missive from the Mothership! It should cover mainly iPhones and new Apple Watches in one form or another; there may be some rumors made true, and some rumors laid waste to, along with the distinct possibility of a few small surprises. It’s the most wonderful time of the space year! Co-Cap’ns Mike and Charles go over a f...
SJ149: Siri privacy, tracking options, industry espionage, trade wars, intrigue, & terrible punditry
September 02, 2019 13:31 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBSurprise Labor Day episode, cadets, despite the absence of co-Cap'n Mike and our usual tendency to take off holiday weekends. There was just a lot of miscellaneous news that wouldn't keep, so Cap'n Charles brought in another MacNN alumni to stand in as the crew tackles high intrigue and low journalism, from tales of trade secrets heisting to overly-aggressive airline restrictions on the MacBook family, another win for privacy advocates, new repair programs and news of repair option expansions...
Space Javelin HammerCast ep 94: The Portland Cone
August 30, 2019 22:27 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBTelltale returns from the dead, WoW Classic has queues for their queues, Disney remasters some classics, and Atomicrops… is a thing. Show notes: https://hammercast.fm/94/
SJ148: November events, Disney+ deets, Apple Card care, hardware hog heaven, & Samsung goes “green”
August 26, 2019 08:16 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBThe last couple of episodes have run a bit short due to a dearth of quality news, cadets, but this week we're making up for that with one that runs just a couple minutes long. We've got interesting new details on Disney+, speculative prices for Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade (along with a confirmed November launch for all three), new Apple hardware in the pipeline for the rest of the year, the care and feeding of your Apple Card, and plenty of super-dumb lawsuits, bad judicial decisions, new gear...
Space Javelin HammerCast ep 93: The Best Ganking Time
August 23, 2019 19:48 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBSega's HUMANKIND is coming for Civilization. Kerbal Space Program is getting a sequel. WoW Classic to get enormous login queues. Show notes: https://hammercast.fm/93/
SJ147: Assault on batteries, Pro- & con-fessionals, Huawei folds again, & "who's in *your* wallet?"
August 19, 2019 08:00 - 50 minutes - 57.5 MBWe're finally orbiting around a planet with less drama, cadets, but don't expect shore leave to last for terribly long. Cap'ns Mike and Charles have time to rant about the further abuse (by Apple *and* consumers) of the word "Pro" and various dumb patent and court actions this past week, not to mention the continuing freak-out and battery health and third-party batteries. That's not to say there wasn't notable news, though! For instance, the 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro may not be allowed on air...
SJ146: Pro and/or folding iPhones, Disney bundles, Apple bounties, Samsung Notes, and Ring’s a fink
August 12, 2019 04:34 - 54 minutes - 62.4 MBIt's been a bit of a slow news week this orbit, cadets, but there's still a lot of news and shenanigans to track down -- including rumors of an iPhone "Pro" and a future folding iPhone (and/or iPad), statistics and/or guesses about Apple Watch, iPad, and overall notebook sales; the great news that Apple is finally getting serious about a bug-bounty program (and Apple Music for Android), and the weird news that Filemaker is changing it's name back to Claris. And that's not all! Cap'ns Mike an...
Space Javelin HammerCast ep 92: Wooloo Wololo
August 10, 2019 21:04 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBWhat we know of Pokémon Sword & Shield expands, the main storyline of Final Fantasy XIV condenses, and in The Outer Worlds anyone can die. Show notes: https://hammercast.fm/92/
SJ145: A farrago of fail, Apple's fiscal fitness, Fitbit falters, FCC fights fraud, & a fun finale!
August 05, 2019 06:25 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBAlliteration is a weakness, cadets, but the sheer bulk of stupid, obnoxious, silly, or irritating fails this week managed to obscure some of the bigger stories of the week, and calls for some literary larks. This time, just to be different, Cap'ns Mike and Charles dispose of one of the week's major talking points -- Apple's fiscal Q3 results -- in a mere 90 seconds, with some follow-up commentary on the surprising difficulties befalling Cook & Company's main rivals. We move away from finance ...
Space Javelin HammerCast ep 91: Fire Emblem Hogwarts
August 03, 2019 22:52 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBJoe and Duane briefly on D&D dominance, Discord server folders, Warhammer video game licenses, and… cat vomit? Show notes: https://hammercast.fm/91/