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The Dipping-Toes Edition Saturday, April 10, 2021

Apple’s Big Podcasting Move Is Creating Shows To Promote TV Plus, by Ashley Carman, The Verge

Although The Line represents a step toward Apple creating its own shows, it doesn’t dive the company head-first into the podcasting waters. Instead, the company’s dipping its toes in, relying on podcasts to promote its subscription programming rather than using podcasts as a moneymaker themselves.

An External SSD Gave My iMac A New Lease On Life, by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

The performance of a Thunderbolt 3 SSD is effectively as fast as if I’d paid Apple for an internal SSD. If anything goes south with this volume, I can simply replace it, instead of cutting open the iMac. Or, in a year or two, I could upgrade it to 2 TB or maybe even 8 TB—SSD prices continue to fall. For now, I’m happy about having earned myself a few more years of satisfaction with one of my favorite Macs, now that I’m no longer unintentionally throttling its true performance.

Beijing Welcomes In-store Today At Apple Sessions Hosted By Local Creators, by Michael Steeber, 9to5Mac

Today at Apple creative sessions are returning to Beijing with the in-store energy people love. Starting this month, customers can visit the new Forum at Apple Sanlitun and hear from local artists, photographers, musicians and developers.

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Apple Brings Its 24-hour Music Video Channel To The UK And Canada, by Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac

The channel plays an endless stream of music videos all day, every day, as well as incorporating live event content from time to time.

'Dropover' App Enables A New Drag And Drop Experience On Your Mac, by Filipe Espósito, 9to5Mac

Everything you drag to the Dropover stays there until you decide what to do with those files. This way, the user can easily select files from multiple folders, keep them in Dropover, and then move them together to another location.

Brydge MacBook Vertical Dock Review, For Pro And Air Models, by Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

So the Brydge MacBook Vertical Dock is a different type of dock. It doesn’t offer any extra ports; instead, it offers you an instant, neat, and desk-space saving way to instantly connect your MacBook to your monitor. Just slide the MacBook down into the dock, and you’re connected.

Notes

Et Tu, Procter & Gamble?, by John Gruber, Daring Fireball

Doing this is clearly against Apple’s rules. The questions are: Can Apple detect these techniques? And what is Apple going to do if they do identify apps in China using CAID in flagrant violation of the App Store rules, if those apps have the backing (implicit or explicit) of the Chinese government?

Apple's New Transparency Report Shows Decrease In Govt Device Requests And App Store Removals, by Chance Miller, 9to5Mac

Apple has published its latest Transparency Report covering government and private party requests for data from January 1 to June 30, 2020. This report reveals how many requests were made for user data around the world, and how many with which Apple could comply.

Apple Refuses Request To Testify For Senate App Store Hearing, by Makena Kelly, The Verge

Senate Judiciary Committee leaders are demanding that Apple provide a witness for an upcoming hearing on app stores and digital competition after the iPhone manufacturer has refused to participate, according to a new letter to the company released Friday.

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I forgot Apple has a music video channel.

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