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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SJ094: App Store@10, major Samsung/Google fails, the iPhone 8 shines, price hikes, "hey Syria," more
July 09, 2018 12:15 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBCo-captain Mike is out for the week, planes are taking off in the harbor next to Charles' studio, and Admiral William Gallagher has come on board to help comment on the tech week that was. The App Store turns 10 years old (what?!), the iPhone 8 dethrones the iPhone X for number one smartphone (so they say), some new Macs and iPads are on the way, and HTC is feeling the pain while Samsung gets mugged by Wall Street analysts over the S9 family's lackluster numbers, and that's just the beginning...
Space Javelin HammerCast Ep 43: Stroke of Genius
July 06, 2018 18:13 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MBSony gets called out for not playing nice with others, Star Citizen releases an update, and the guys nerd out about PC parts. WRUP Todd. Full episode notes: http://hammergaming.com/hammercast/43/
SJ093: Apple/Samsung over, Maps redux, "unlimited" plans, the Fire Cube, and our second anniversary
July 02, 2018 13:28 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBSunday was our second anniversary in the good ship Space Javelin, you guys, and while Mike and Charles didn't make a big deal about this in light of all the big news this week, our small but loyal crew of MacNN refugees are grateful for the ship and all our cadets. Still, duty calls -- so it's right into the thick of it with the miracle of the Apple/Samsung settlement, the latest moves against Qualcomm, the bombshell of a Maps refurbishment, the gray areas of US "unlimited" cell plans, the sh...
Space Javelin HammerCast Ep 42: An Autobot Rolling Out
June 29, 2018 12:21 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBJoin Duane, Todd, and Joe for discussions about PUBG dropping Its beef With Fortnite, Pokémon GO getting Social, news about Overwatch and more… Show notes: http://hammergaming.com/hammercast/42
SJ092: Intel & Apple's bad week, merger mania, MBP fixes, SCOTUS, AirPower, AirPlay 2 Airport, more
June 25, 2018 08:24 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBThere was a surprising amount of turbulence on the journey through the week's tech news this time, cadets, and we're sorry it happened to come just as you were trying to eat your Space Food Sticks and Dippin' Dots. Oops. From a surprise resignation from Intel to Apple attracting lawsuits like magnets attract science geeks, two of the biggest players in tech had a pretty bad week. It's merger season as well, with the lack of net neutrality in the US acting as an accelerant, so it's getting pre...
SJ091: Hammer(cast) time! plus lawsuits, state of the Mac, a new definition of “unlimited,” and more
June 18, 2018 07:39 - 1 hour - 70 MBSo hopefully everyone checked out the return of The HammerCast, a fun gaming show now part of the Space Javelin podcast family! Meanwhile, back on the good ship Space Javelin, Charles and Mike have to wade through yet another Samsung appeal, Qualcomm's slow expulsion from the iPhone while Intel waits in the wings, the continuing reign of the iPhone, a new Mac ad campaign, an iWork update, and the AT&T-Time Warner merger ... and that's just the first quarter of the show! After an entirely fai...
Space Javelin HammerCast Ep 41: E3 2018
June 16, 2018 01:56 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBJoin Mike (very briefly), Duane, Todd, and Joe for coverage of of the E3 2018 press conferences, new announcements, ship dates, and who we think "won" E3 2018. Show notes: http://hammergaming.com/hammercast/41
SJ090: a decade since Snow Leopard, nuisance lawsuits, hidden OS gems, ARM-wrestling, Memoji & more
June 11, 2018 04:01 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MBThis week's episode is a little bit all over the place, cadets, but we have an explanation: co-Captain Charles is also all over the place, due to a particularly ambitious bout of shore leave. While he wanders across no less than four southern US states, rock-steady Submariner Mike also weighs in on leftover news and bubbling-under discoveries from the new OS releases and WWDC, new features in the forthcoming macOS Mojave, baubles like Siri shortcuts and Memoji, and a slate of useless lawsuits...
SJ089: WWDC, AirPlay 2, Telegram. RIP Groove, VESA not accepted, reboot your router, and lots more
June 05, 2018 17:37 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBYour trusty co-captains are bathed in glory once again, cadets, as our predictions on the content of the WWDC keynote (for which we held this episode until Tuesday) proved spot-on. We weren't the only ones to call it, either, but unlike anyone else (coughBloombergcough), we explained our *reasons* for the calls we made. As we said last week, software was the theme -- with coming updates to the various OSes and a few new programs, with nary a word about hardware (though some may well show up b...
SJ088: Apple wins, WWDC picks, Alexa freaks, Consumer Reports, Ossis goes broke, FBI fibs, and more
May 29, 2018 06:55 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBNormally we don't record episodes on holiday weekends, cadets, but this time there was just too much news, but we waited till Tuesday to release it. Next week we'll evaluate whether to proceed as normal with a Monday episode or hold until after the WWDC keynote and get our next episode out Wednesday ... keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitter feeds to stay in the know. In the meantime, we celebrate Apple's big win over Samsung (... for now ...), update you on the latest Intel chip flaws and ...
SJ087: Net neutrality, Cannon Lake, lotsa lawsuits, music news, rumors, new gear, Nintendo, and more
May 21, 2018 11:21 - 1 hour - 85 MBIt's been a bit of Mr. Space Javelin's Wild Ride through this asteroid belt of tech news, cadets, with a crazy mix of good news, bad news, weird news, and a few orbits around the planet Mondo Bizarro for extra hijinx! In the US, the Senate voted quite unexpectedly to override the FCC, but the fight for right just moves to the House, so keep using your comm ports to beam your position on this crucial issue back to the homeworld. Intel sorta-kinda releases Cannon Lake, and it's Samsung vs Apple...
SJ086: the iMac at 20, the Mac mini, Google Duplex, rumors, Intel, security, iPhone rumors and more
May 14, 2018 09:21 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBA little catching up and a whole lot of new shenanigans, cadets -- that's what's in store for you this week! Mike and Charles reminisce about last Sunday's iMac anniversary, ponder the future of the Mac mini (and the Mac generally), have a 100 percent human-led discussion on Google Duplex, go over all the 2018 iPhone rumors, digest some Munster cheese, fret over security, get Steamed, belittle Microsoft, and generally break through the BS and ballyhoo. There's a lot more to come, cadets, so s...
SJ085: Analysts wrong again; Apple’s Q2; T-Mob/Sprint merger; MBP KBs; Spotify, Oculus Go, and more
May 07, 2018 11:55 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBThis may shock you, cadets, but this week we're not going to spend a lot of time going over Apple's record-breaking numbers for the company's fiscal Q2, because there's no time once we get done naming (and shaming!) the press and pundit buffoons who completely blew it (even more than usual!). Some inaccurate press created an iPhone X panic that turned out not only to be merely wrong, but literally couldn't have been more incorrect if it had tried. Co-captains Mike and Charles dissect the ana...
SJ084: AirPort departure, Intel delays, Grayshift karma, armchair punditry, Florida Man and more
April 30, 2018 11:41 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBTechnically it was kind of a slow news week, cadets, but that just gives the trusty crew of the Space Javelin more time to dig in deep and pick fights with the locals! Grayshift discovers that payback's a ... um, bear ... Apple officially kills off its AirPort lineup, Intel delays Cannon Lake (again), but the Supremes (the judges, not the singers) come through for patent holders. There's a few security alerts to hand out, and figures to go over, so remember to bring your astro-sliderules, cad...
SJ083: iPhone X wins and loses, iPhone SE 2, Linus Tech Tips, pundit punting, Castlevania, and more
April 23, 2018 09:52 - 1 hour - 85 MBThis week, the crew of the Space Javelin managed to land the ship straight into a volcano we call Hell & Sebastian, as we pointed out on our Facebook page that the gang at Linus Tech Tips were playing the victim card in their dispute about an iMac Pro that they damaged. Our view -- which has been echoed by our colleagues at MacRumors, AppleInsider, iMore, and Daring Fireball among others -- elicited much response, pro and con, and we take a look at it in this week's episode. Before all that,...
SJ082: CarPlay rules, HomePod drools, rumors flying, 32-bit dying, Nvidia hack and Foundation's back
April 16, 2018 11:05 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBEyes straight ahead, cadets, for the day of recording for the latest episode of Space Javelin coincides with both co-Captain Mike's birthday and a traditional day of bad luck and weird happenings! While there was plenty of good news on the horizon, the crew get a little ranty this week about GrayKey, the FBI, patent lawsuits, bad repair jobs, HomePod misinformation and pre-announcements! On the other hand, there's good news about CarPlay and Android Auto, an Apple triumph over a patent troll...
SJ081: Apple’s ARM race, Mac Pro freak outs, streaming wars, tech poaching, Facebook, lawsuits, more
April 09, 2018 08:41 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBLast week was quite a trip for us, cadets, complete with a secret mission: Mike and Charles once again boarded and took over the good ship AppleInsider podcast for their episode 157! Having looted and pillaged the place, the crew then returned to their own recap of the news of the week, and somehow made it different enough to (hopefully) please everybody. The big news of the week was of course Apple's update on the forthcoming Mac Pro, which is still coming but a bit less "forth" than many p...
SJ080: Space Gray FTW, new iPad, iOS 11.3, iCloud, HomePod, Dropbox, Foxconn, Facebook, rumors, more
April 02, 2018 05:25 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBNormally the crew take off for shore leave on holiday weekends like the rest of you, cadets, but dagnabbit Apple had other plans for us. Last week, the company held a big education-themed event with a new low-cost iPad (now with Apple Pencil support!) and updates of all of its OS versions, including some new features (and animoji!), along with official eGPU support for the latest MacBook Pros. Mike goes over the details of that, while Charles celebrates portrait nightstand mode for the Apple ...
SJ079: Apple's March events, WWDC, Facebook data, Peter Cohen, TV, Calendar 2, rumors, the S9, more
March 26, 2018 06:50 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBWe're running a wee bit long this week, cadets, but that's only because we're as jam-packed full of good stuff as the Millennium Falcon on a smuggling run! Special guest Peter Cohen returns to talk about keyboards, the new golden age of TV, and the first golden age of the Internet (insert modem screeching here) -- you know, before AOL ruined everything by making it accessible to everyone. Mike is back and eager to talk about Apple's two March events (happening shortly after we post this of co...
SJ078: Peter Cohen, Stephen Hawking, iPad & MBAir talk, Theranos, Amazon recall, Pwn to Own, more
March 19, 2018 14:00 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MBA very special episode this week, cadets, as Mike has had to go below decks for the first time in a very long time -- leaving Charles in charge (you've waited 78 episodes for that joke, haven't you) with only his special guest and fellow MacCentral.com alumni, Apple and tech news journalist Peter Cohen to help out with analyzing the week's top stories. Before that, though, we celebrate the life -- and dedicate this episode -- to Dr. Stephen Hawking, Master of the Universe. With the help of t...
SJ077: Samsung and Amazon creepiness, Right to Repair, Android P, Omnistuff, MoviePass, more
March 12, 2018 12:51 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBOh cadets, this may be one of the crew's finest episodes yet. First Mike and Charles take a moment to let you cult-cool-stuff lovers know about a new radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4, the straight into the news -- including the overall trend lines on Samsung S9 reviews (mixed, it would be fair to say), the S9 benchmarks, our shocking guess at the proper name of Android P (and a few comments on what's not making the cut), Alexa's creepy laugh, a Hal-9000 hard...
SJ076: Bomb Cyclones, Rogue Amoeba, the Galaxy S9, Spotify, good deals, new gear, and Bonus Notches
March 05, 2018 12:52 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBOf the four people you will hear on this week's transmission, cadets, every one of them is battling extreme weather. Both our co-captain Mike and special guest Paul from Rogue Amoeba are up against the bomb cyclone still drenching the Atlantic seaboard, cameo reviewer William Gallagher is dealing with the snow and ice of the Beast From the East, and Charles is currently overwhelmed with a sudden outbreak of gorgeous cherry blossoms up there in western Canada. Life is hard, cadets. On tap for...
SJ075: 200 shows, Mike's nickname, the Write stuff, Apple 911, Swype is wiped, Intel, Nokia, & more
February 26, 2018 09:53 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBHow can this be both episode 75 and episode 200? Well the former number is how many Space Javelin episodes we've put out, and the latter is the total number of podcasts we've done since our MacNN days (including our spin-off shows One More Thing and Off Topic). It's quite a milestone, and so we thought we'd bring in a special guest from the MacNN days (and current SJ crewman) William Gallagher to talk about three writing-related software reviews he's just done for AppleInsider. Also on tap f...
SJ074: Mike vs. Consumer Reports, Apple's "other" money mill, Samsung copies, Essential flops, more
February 19, 2018 12:34 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MBHaving recently schooled a New York Times columnist, Mike quickly shows off his scrappy side again, calling out Consumer Reports for their odd change of procedure for their HomePod "review" that's not a review at all, but it *is* another addition to the long history of dodgy Apple product testing the magazine has racked up over the years, and it turns out they're a *wee bit sensitive* about it. Schoolings will also be handed out to various Apple-covering pundits that got it wrong, Andy Rubin ...
SJ073: Exploding AirPods, Samsung mischief, Waymo wins, HomePod reviews, Mike vs. the NYT, more
February 12, 2018 07:37 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MBThere was quite a lot going on in the tech week that was, cadets, but your co-captains are up to the task, and even make time to call out people who should just take a seat and keep their pieholes closed. From Mission: Impossible-style exploding AirPods to a surprise self-driving settlement, from the iBoot non-event to Apple gaining on Spotify, from shenanigans in Samsung-land to iPhones for the cops, this episode is Mr. Toad's Wild Ride -- and the crew are just getting started! Also on tap: ...
SJ072: Apple's Q1, iPhone X flop debunked, mo money mo problems, latest betas, rumors, myths & more
February 05, 2018 06:54 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MBThe big story of the tech week that was this time was Apple's astonishingly great (again) fiscal Q1 financials, in which the company made enough in revenue to match more than half of the $160 billion they plan on repatriating into the US in the near future -- in just three months. It wasn't entirely rainbows and unicorns, cadets, but pretty close -- and Mike and Charles look briefly at the numbers and spend a bit more time noting that initial pundit and media reports overlooked an important f...
SJ071: The Smart Speaker Wars, Security Updates, Rumors, iMac Pro Benchmarks, Battery Biting & More
January 29, 2018 11:13 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBFinally the HomePod has arrived on the scene, showing up quite late to the party and missing the entire Christmas season like the perpetually-tardy hipster it is. Mike and Charles take a look at Apple's latest all-new product release, and weigh up the pros and cons of HomePod against both "home assistants that can maybe play AM radio-quality music" as well as the more serious home entertainment (with a dash of voice assistant integration) options. Along with that, there's an important securit...
SJ070: MBA@10, Intel's NUC, Apple's tax-n-spend, the “right” to repair, BMW’s Car(Play)jacking, more
January 22, 2018 08:29 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBMike and Charles go rogue and throw out the usual show outline to wander aimlessly through this week's tech minefield. Rather than get to the big headlines right away (because that's just what you'd *expect* they'd do), Mike rains on the MacBook Air's 10th anniversary parade, teaches forum users some manners, and reveals his experiments with an Intel Next Unit of Computing (or NUC). So now the guys have to talk faster to fit in all the juicy news and gossip, including but not limited to Apple...
SJ069: All the CES stuff that's wild, weird, and wonderful; Apple gets grief from everyone; more
January 15, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBOur geologic survey of Planet CES is done for another year, cadets, and this week Charles and Mike issue their reports on what was really big and surprisingly small, the cool stuff and the "huh?" moments, and go into some detail on the big themes this year, from Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C to HomeKit stuff and of course various security solutions. They also welcome back one of the most beloved "spurious use of Bluetooth" devices we covered from back in the MacNN days, the Numi luxury toilet -- no...
SJ068: The Last Jedi, Doctor Who, an Intel-gate update, the T2, Spotify, the iMac Pro and more
January 08, 2018 08:04 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBWe’re back, and we only hijacked one other podcast while we were away! Welcome to Space Javelin’s third season, though we’re never going to call it that again — just going with episode numbers from now on (Specials and Special Reports will remain unnumbered). This week, Mike and Charles offer the latest update on Intel-gate, beat the last of the dead horse formerly known as Battery-gate (and pass on some genuinely useful info on how and why this all happened), and explore the new T2 chip foun...
SJ Special Report: Apple degrades iPhone performance because of chemically depleted batteries?
December 22, 2017 08:03 - 18 minutes - 33.7 MBWe should have known that something would come up after saying last episode was our final one for the year ... wouldn't you know it, Apple gets itself into a scandal just ahead of the holiday weekend (plus a couple of other, way smaller things of note) so Mike and Chas reconvene one last time for ... eh, let's call it the Happy Holiday Special. It's a short episode at a little over 18 minutes wherein your co-pilots note the actual shipping of the iMac Pro, explain how the "Apple degrades old ...
S02E039: net neutrality dead, iMac Pro, Disney buys Fox, lots more, and a truly heart-warming story
December 18, 2017 11:43 - 57 minutes - 105 MBWell, that's a wrap on solar year 2017 from your Space Javelin crew -- we'll be back with Season 3 and maybe a warp core engine if Santa thinks we've been good, starting on or around January 8. In the meantime, among those receiving a lump of coal this Xmas will be FCC chair Ajit Pai and his lickspittle cronies at the FCC, the US Justice Department for studiously ignoring Amazon's ongoing monopoly abuse, and whoever at Apple keeps screwing up the software and delaying the hardware. Still, the...
S02E038: Google fights Amazon, Shazam, Prime Video, the iMac Pro, abusing hard drives, Target & more
December 11, 2017 20:16 - 51 minutes - 94.9 MBNext week is our last podcast for 2017 (and Season Two), but we'll be back after New Years. In the meantime, another fight has broken out in Techworld, and this one's likely to get ugly: Google is withholding direct YouTube services from most Amazon products, and each side blames the other, like relatives at a testy, political holiday dinner. Apple bought Shazam, Apple Pay Cash is here, and Charles and Mike take bets on whether the iMac Pro will actually arrive this week or not. Apple also ge...
S02E037: a tough week for Apple, Uber, the net, & others; Mike's new iPhone X, iOS Edge, Coco, more
December 04, 2017 15:03 - 58 minutes - 108 MBHas Neptune broken up with Venus and moved into the 7th house of the ram or something, because this past week was one that everyone -- from Charles to Apple to Uber -- would rather forget. After commemorating a lost friend, Charles and Mike run over the myriad problems Apple had with its two main operating systems, including one completely inexcusable root-level flaw, but also rake the FCC over the coals for its plan to destroy net neutrality. There's more news about Apple vs Qualcomm, and ta...
S02E036: Mike & Chas return, Tesla wows, HomePod delay, Pixel Buds, iPhone Xtreme, Apple Watch, more
November 20, 2017 08:36 - 53 minutes - 98 MBThis week, Charles is back from New York but it's Mike that's broadcasting from different quarters; however, this will not stop them going over the big tech news of the week as usual. There was actually not a lot usual about this week, what with Tesla springing a surprise alongside their semi-truck announcement, the disappointment of the HomePod missing its December debut, and the shockingly good benchmark scores from the iPhone X. Also discussed on the ship this week is the nice reviews for ...
S02E035: Guest hosts, we're in the Navy, Walmart, iPhone X, new deals, and App of the Week returns
November 13, 2017 11:11 - 55 minutes - 102 MBCharles is away in various bits of New York, and Mike is otherwise occupied, so this week sees the escape from the airlock of intrepid reporter Malcolm Owen and the ship's bosun William Gallagher as they take the helm. We salute the US Navy for taking us on board, discuss Walmart's alternative figures against Apple Pay, bring up some reports of screen issues with some iPhone X units (but never fear, Apple is on it), and William sings the praises of the forthcoming version of productivity app ...
S02E034: Pundits wrong, Apple prints money; more Pixel XL issues; iMac Pros; a special guest + more
November 06, 2017 03:45 - 1 hour - 112 MBTo the surprise of only the highly-paid "analysts" on Wall Street, Apple beat expectations again, had no problems selling lots and lots of iPhone 8s, and even the iPhone X appears to be more plentiful than last year's highly constrained iPhone 7. Mike and Charles go over the company's frankly stupendous fiscal Q4 numbers, but also remind users that all of Apple's platforms have now reached that mature "point-one" stage and it is time to upgrade if you can (for no other reason than to ensure y...
S02E033: iPhones X and 8, Worst Buy, Apple v. Samsung 4ever, media gaffes, Key mistakes, and more
October 30, 2017 02:13 - 1 hour - 114 MBMike and Charles are back in their command seats with a big bag of brickbats to deliver to all and sundry, from bad headline writers, to stock pundits, to phone sellers, and beyond. The tour of the tech news galaxy starts with the big story of the week -- the launch of the iPhone X and all the usual hysteria that accompanies that, along with news that the iPhone 8 is actually selling just fine (and a theory about why we were told otherwise last week), and a warning about buying your iPhone fr...
S02E032: KRACK attack, China & VPNs, Surface Book 2 claims, the Mac mini lives, rumor busting, more
October 23, 2017 06:18 - 49 minutes - 91.5 MBWith Charles in Wichita and Mike right where we left him, a very slightly shorter episode to cover all that's shady, suspicious, or make us snarky in the past week, cadets. Of course the first discussion is give you the latest on the very serious KRACK Wi-Fi hack and what you can do to protect yourself (take this one super-seriously, please), and Mike owes an apology to Senator Al Franken (though he took his sweet time about it). Other senators, however, are up to shenanigans, and the crew ca...
S02E031: OnePlus spyware, GeForce Now, FireWire history, RIP Win 10 Mobile, and more Amazing Stories
October 16, 2017 06:25 - 59 minutes - 108 MBWe're traversing both space AND time this week, cadets, starting in the present with the latest news on the Qualcomm saga (it's not going well), and the discovery of OnePlus phones spying on their users. We revisit the recent past to annotate our praise for the Pixel 2 with caveats about its value versus cost (based on some scathing reviews, but we stand by it overall), and segue nicely into a great deal from Sprint on the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus (basically the same deal they had a year ago), and...
S02E030: Yah-oops!, Google's new toys, Microsoft news, the FBI, MLB, FCP X, RIP AIM, irony, and more
October 08, 2017 23:10 - 57 minutes - 106 MBThis week, the crew of the Space Javelin have to start off with some scary news regarding security issues, and they put it right up front to stress how important it is. Yet *again,* it is time to change your Yahoo (and associated services, like Flickr) password, or better yet invoke your own personal "three breaches and you're out" rule, because security and Yahoo haven't been on speaking terms for at least the last three years. The new revelations are actually about the 2013 security breach,...
S02E029: Flipping FM switches, Discovery vs. Orville, Apple 4K vs. FireTV, eGPU news, Twitter, more
October 02, 2017 02:36 - 59 minutes - 108 MBStill yet more about the Apple TV 4K this week, in the context of comparing it to the FireTV 4K (and why it's not an obvious win for either device), but before all that Charles and Mike rant about the terrible reporting on the "hidden FM radio" inside iPhones, blasting both FCC Chair Ajit Pai (who should really do some reasearch) and the media for not questioning this nonsense. Senator Al Franken also gets lightly toasted for not retracting his "concerns" about Face ID after Apple's white pap...
S02E028: The iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3, Apple TV 4K, Acorn TV, Intel, HTC, Qualcomm, and more
September 25, 2017 02:10 - 1 hour - 110 MBThere's a lot of detail out now about the Apple TV 4K and of course the iPhone 8, so Mike and Charles wade into the thick of it and pull out all the good stuff for you, even ahead of this week's special guest! Apple recently got the honor of the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus being named the world's fastest smartphones (by a country mile, we might add), and that's before they've even tested the iPhone X. In addition, the new iPhones also got the best-ever marks given to smartphones from the revised DXO ...
S02E027: Pre-order madness, more iPhone 8 and X minutia, a buyer's guide, the A11, 4K and more
September 18, 2017 08:04 - 55 minutes - 102 MBThis week, Charles and Mike cover the pre-order and imminent arrival of all the shiny new baubles, dig into the fine print on the new iPhones (take note, pundits: all THREE models!), get into the metric system, lambast crybaby ad industry apologists (and Apple's subsequent smackdown), Senator Al Franken's inquiry about Face ID privacy/security, the power behind the new A11 Bionic chip, and how not to have a hissy fit about the iPhone X's notch (which isn't even expected to be an issue for any...
S02E026: Shiny things! New iPhones, Apple TV and Apple Watch, plus details and changes
September 13, 2017 13:52 - 39 minutes - 72.7 MBSPECIAL REPORT! Apple held its big event on Tuesday and we just couldn't wait until Monday for you to hear about it, so we rounded up all the big announcements, hidden details, surprise features, and a bunch of price changes and other stuff they didn't tell you about in the keynote in a tight 40 minutes. Everything you need to know, straight from the Steve Jobs Theatre, and yet Episode 27 will be waiting for you on Monday like usual anyway! Suit up, cadets, Mike and Chas are on double duty th...
S02E025: Destiny 2, Qualcomm, Equifax fail, Disney, Bond, Spotify, RIP Apple Music Festival & more
September 11, 2017 05:50 - 1 hour - 111 MBCaptain Mike is back, cadets, and just in time to help us cover a ton of news. We start off with some PSAs for how to help the hurricane victims as well as a reminder that -- contrary to internet myth -- the Zello walkie-talkie is not an actual walkie-talking; it needs internet connectivity. Mike anc Charles also get into the Apple vs. Qualcomm mess, the Equifax hack and the company's subsequent PR stumbles, Disney's takebacks of its movies, Apple bids on Bond, Spotify bullying, no more Appl...
S02E024: The Apple Event is on, Microsoft fails, Houston help, Intel chips, Golden Axe, more
September 04, 2017 03:48 - 1 hour - 84 MBIt's the return of anarchy from the UK on Space Javelin this week, cadets, as Malcolm and William climb up from the lower decks to join Charles for news and analysis of the week's tech events, plus stories about heat, bats, three-armed iPhone buyers, and much more. The biggest headline as of Friday was the press invites to Apple's iPhone and software announcements on Tuesday, September 12, with (likely) additional formal unveilings of a new Apple TV, probably a new LTE Apple Watch, and possib...
S02E023: The Samsung episode - the Note 8, iPhone 8, Crashplan B, AccuWeather, iPad v. MacBook, more
August 28, 2017 12:28 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBCaptain Mike turns his back for two minutes, and suddenly we're all Samsung, all the time! After weeks of Apple leading the news, this time it's about Samsung: the introduction of the Galaxy Note 8, including an in-depth look at its features; the odd processor and color choices (and where to get what); the cost of the new device vs. the rumored cost of the "iPhone 8"; and the comedy of errors that is Linus Tech Tips' coverage of the rollout. If that's not enough Samsung for you, special guest...
S02E022: iPhone alarms, free Apple TVs (not HDTVs), Ireland v. EU, Apple Watch 3?, and much more
August 21, 2017 10:50 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBMore than just recapping and analyzing the big tech stories of the week, we here on the good ship Space Javelin strive to bring you 60 minutes worth of depth, background, caveats, and color. We offer heads-up on good deals, warnings on bad headlines, and what we hope is genuinely useful information. This week alone, we debunk two alarmist stories about iPhone security, speculate on Android "O", follow-up on the growing Microsoft-Consumer Reports argument on reliability, and explore the value ...
S02E021: Consumer Reports, Ulysses subscription, Disney vs Netflix, DIY subs, more
August 14, 2017 10:43 - 57 minutes - 53 MBWe start off this time with Mike's crankiness about missing a three-game sportsball series between the Red Sox and the Yankees due to podcast recording, before heading head-first into a sizable tech news week. Microsoft had their world rocked by a withdrawal of a recommendation from Consumer Reports based on above-average number of issues reported by readers. Mike and Charles look into the numbers, the survey methods, and other data, finding that while the problem reports are higher than aver...