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To say that there are some variables including handedness.
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I agree. I think when we said right pocket, that's just the one that we like, but if you use your phone with your left hand, of course change to the left hand.
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I didn't say right pocket, because mine's in my left pocket.
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Well, right pocket's the correct pocket, in my opinion.
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Whether the phone is in a case that covers the screen and must flop open for use, I can imagine that stuff would, if you did use one of those, would change it.
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I do think that having it so basically however you orient the phone to make sure that it is facing towards you when you take it out of the pocket makes a lot of sense.
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So, for example, Cliver wrote in to say that if they have a suit on and they will put their phone in their inside suit jacket pocket,
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you would then have the screen facing upwards rather than downwards.
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And I agree with this, when I wear a suit or a blazer and I put my phone in that pocket, the phone faces up
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because the way that you take it out of the pocket, it is then in the correct orientation.
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To sacrifice the screen of your phone to protect the back of the phone, you should be putting a case on your phone and then protecting the screen.
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And Patrick says, "Do you not worry about the little metal grommets on your jeans scratching the screen as you take it in and out of your pocket?"
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The boys over at ATP got some feedback because they've covered this a couple of times in the last couple of weeks.
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I felt real good about getting all of this feedback, which was mostly the feedback that we were receiving was mostly angry and feeling completely absolved.
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Like, because I just feel like I had nothing to say about this really.
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So what I said was that Malwarebytes, which is a company that makes anti-malware software and released a report about malware, which was, I feel, kind of exaggerated and inflammatory.
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It's also self-serving marketing that I think overstates the extent of the issues of malware on the Mac and makes a lot of things like conflates malware and adware together and that their expert went and was quoted in recode talking about how Macs not getting viruses isn't true.
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And I said that that was a scare tactic.
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You know, people don't like being criticized, so I'm not surprised that there was pushback from that.
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What bugs me is that I said a lot of stuff and I was just somewhat critical of them because the truth is it's not like Malwarebytes can say, no, no, no, it isn't in our best interest for people to buy our software and services.
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And you need to keep that in mind when somebody tells you something or when there's a news story that's really inflammatory.
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And because it's been, the writer has blown it up to be a bigger story than it is.
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And then you find out that their source is somebody who works at a company who benefits from people having a perception that they need anti-malware software.
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It means you should always consider the source and what they have to gain or lose by talking about the issue.
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But I will also say, I said a lot of stuff that I thought was pointed out by the Malwarebytes report that was good.
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Um, which is why I'm kind of annoyed that they're like, oh, you, you, how dare you criticize us?
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Like, I thought that the point that about Malwarebytes guy made about the fact that, um, people think the Mac is impervious.
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I think that there's a point there, which is people act like the Mac is impervious and do dumb stuff that gets them in trouble because it's not.
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And that if there is this perception among regular users that they can do whatever the heck on their Mac, and it's not going to work as Macs quote, Macs don't get viruses.
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That, um, that's a problem because you can do dumb stuff with your Mac.
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And again, this is another thing that somebody said to me, how dare you call people who, who get viruses dumb?
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I live my life going from dumb stuff to dumb stuff.
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I'm not saying that the people are dumb.
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I'm saying that you can make bad decisions, not even knowing what you're doing.
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And, um, and if you believe you can do that and suffer no consequences, that's, that's not great.
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And, and so I'm not trying to say there aren't issues here.
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In fact, I think one of the great things that came out of that report is the, the reality that, um, Mac Malware and adware, especially is on the rise.
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The Mac is a big enough target and it's a sitting duck.
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For some of these adware and malware companies, they there's just too great an opportunity.
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So there's been a huge rise in adware.
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Um, this is also, by the way, I think not a coincidence why Catalina has much tighter security settings and why Apple did that thing in November, where they basically clarified.
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They're saying their rules for being on the platform that includes a whole bunch of things that are not malware related.
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They're adware related, which gives them the latitude to basically kick software off, not just the Mac app store, off the platform using their other tools that they have at their disposal.
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And my understanding is that Apple has been more aggressive at that since November.
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There's a reason for that, which is there's been a rise in attacks in malware.
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And especially, I mean, malware, again, there's some very specific definitions of these things, but the adware stuff, the annoying stuff, the programs that don't really do anything and they make it hard to remove it.
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And they stick ads in weird places, all of that kind of stuff.
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Um, we did hear from a very interesting person who says that he works, uh, doing support for AppleCare.
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Um, and you know, the email was a little overheated, a little, you know, they've been, and they've been emailing, um, all of us.
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Uh, I wasn't the only one to receive an email from this person this week.
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I do think that there's some good information in there too.
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All right. So, uh, this person told us that they spend around eight hours a week removing adware and malware from Macs.
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Um, I assume that they're like some AppleCare center and computers are sent into them.
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I don't know. I mean, I read it that they were just spending time on the phone with people trying to walk them through getting it out.
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Oh, right. Okay. Yeah, that's very possible. That's very possible.
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Um, and they said that most people do not know what is wrong with their computers, but it has stopped working in the way that they want.
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And then they eventually come to the conclusion that it's malware or adware.
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And I've got a quote, I've got a couple of quotes.
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The single most prevalent type of infection involves a convincing looking browser pop-up that warns the user that they need to install or update their version of Adobe Flash Player.
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While most people in the upgrade audience wouldn't fall for this, it comes across as plausible for non-techie types.
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Right. Most of our audience knows that you shouldn't even have Flash Player on your system.
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And I think it gets deprecated like later this year, it's gonna cease entirely.
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But it is, a little pop-up ad comes up with a seemingly real dialogue box, except it, you know, a more savvy user might notice it's a browser window, but you know, a less savvy user might not and be like, oh, because, because Flash always did pop up warnings when you tried to load a Flash object saying, which is why they're mock, they're, you know, they're duplicating that they're trying to get, get you to believe that that's one of this is one of those.
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So I've got to Jason's no or Michael, you need antivirus antivirus software on the Mac. No. Does an average Mac user in 2020 need third party security software?
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Apple Care clearly thinks so as our internal training quietly recommends we instruct customers to install the free version of malware bytes.
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In my experience, it has earned its reputation as a reliable and effective adware removal tool.
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It can't remove malicious user profiles and system preferences, but it makes quick work of pretty much everything else.
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So, you know, I can't, I can't and won't argue with this because like I see this as all making sense.
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This is, this is one of the interesting things about the people who push back on this is that sometimes I think they're arguing against things we didn't say.
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Although I don't think I would say the average Mac user needs to install third party security software.
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Um, I, I think it is probably accurate to say that the average Mac user either needs to install third party security software or have a, you know, have.
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An education about what not to do, because I think, I think if you're running Catalina and you know what not to do.
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You're probably okay. Like this is not one of those things where you're just going to kind of catch it and you're like, oh no, I caught a virus. I'm glad my software was there to protect me.
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You kind of have to do something. You have to be talked into doing something bad.
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And so education would work too, but I understand that doesn't always work and that, uh, saying, all right, do whatever, but this software is in there.
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Um, you know, and I would say as annoying as Catalina is, and this person, um, said this as well.
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Um, as far as this person could tell Catalina's updates and the increased security in Catalina has seemed to make a big difference that, that people running Catalina are not the ones who are calling in and saying I've got malware.
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So this makes me question, you know, like.
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You were very vocal and I understand why about your dislike for the security dialogues in Catalina, right? They were too aggressive and you know, we all saw the meme of like a Mac OS XP or whatever, you know, like Vista Mac OS Vista that was going around.
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But I think maybe the reason has been answered now.
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Like why did they add all these Catalina security boxes and check marks and all this stuff everywhere? Well, maybe Apple knows that malware and adware was on the rise.
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If this is the case that their support staff are dealing with this all the time, they know this is affecting their users.
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I mean, you could assume, I think from this information, um, that they wanted to make some changes to the way the system works.
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But it's one of these situations where Apple won't tell you, right? Like when they, when they get on stage and they talk about a security updates, if one of the reasons is because they want to protect people against malware and adware, Apple's not going to say that.
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For two reasons, right? One, Apple doesn't, Apple benefits from the perception that Apple platforms are free of adware and malware, right?
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So they, they, they have a marketing benefit of their own, right? It's kind of bad form and security to, if you're a platform vendor, to do a little dance and say, basically come and get us. Ha ha ha.
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You don't do that. Like you don't do that.
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So Apple's also not going to go out there and say, look at how amazing we are with our security.
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They're going to keep it a little bit on the down low.
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So for both of those reasons, Apple is not going to really talk about it.
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But, um, I think you're right. As annoying as some of the, like, I don't love that.
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There are, there are several features in Catalina that I don't like, but I know why they're doing them.
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Even we can talk about the implementations and about how they've balanced all of it, but clearly this has been a priority for them is to lock down that security.
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And I don't, if there was no need, they wouldn't do it right there.
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Clearly there is a need to lock this down and they see the difference in attack vectors on iOS, where basically it has to be a bug where there's, you know, one of these things that like the state actors, like intelligence services and things are using that are bugs in the system versus on the Mac where you can just talk somebody into it.
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And that machine is compromised and they don't like that difference.
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They want Mac to be as tight as possible.
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If it could be as tightly secure as iOS, they would love it.
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You know, so in the end, I'm not saying that all the malware companies are lying to you.
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It doesn't mean that they aren't legitimately concerned about protecting people, but it does mean it's still marketing.
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And you may not be getting the whole picture, and just keep that in mind.
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If you're a savvy Mac user, and most of our listeners, I would like to thank are, you probably don't need any of this software.
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Because of what I said before, you've got kind of some behavior in you and some education in you about what the issues are about things like only from the Mac App Store and trusted sources.
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And if some app has an installer and they want you to type in your admin password, think about why that is happening.
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If they want you to disable Mac OS security settings, don't install that software unless you're absolutely sure what you're doing.
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And I think most of our listeners probably understand that.
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I do think that all of our listeners and us, we have friends and family and coworkers and other people that are near us who maybe look to us for knowledge about this stuff.
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And those not particularly savvy people, like I said, I think they would benefit potentially from some anti-malware software and there are some that are free, that are free tier stuff.
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I think they would also benefit from a little bit of an education from you about the ground rules of this.
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So they're less likely to make those bad choices. I think education can go a long way. It is not, it doesn't always work, but you could try that.
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And I think at this point I would say if they can go to Catalina, assuming that they are not using proprietary 32-bit software that has not been updated and they must have for their business, which is probably a lot less likely,
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just put them on Catalina because Catalina really does tighten the screws on this stuff and it sounds anecdotally like Catalina users are much less likely to get attacked by this stuff.
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But the final point I will make is yes, the Mac is a much bigger target than it ever has been.
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Misleading and malicious software on the Mac is on the rise.
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This is why, almost certainly, why Apple tightened all those screws in Catalina, why it redefined its malware rules in November so that it has, it can point to the rule book and say I'm going to kill this app.
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And that's not Mac App Store rejections, that's putting things in the system that basically prevent those apps from running because they've determined that their malware or otherwise like do not, don't have the approval of the platform owner.
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And that's why they have those rules listed so that they can point to them and say this is why we killed your app.
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Apple doesn't talk about this stuff, but it is working behind the scenes to do this.
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So it's not as if, you know, if there's a question like why isn't Apple doing something?
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And if, you know, there are a lot of people running old Macs on old versions of the OS that aren't as secure and they're more at risk for stuff like this.
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So it's not, you know, it's not true that the Mac is impervious to attack.
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And whether you think installing anti-malware software is the right thing to do or whether you think just you're educated enough that you can sniff out when somebody's trying to attack you and just not install that weird software.
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If you're not going to darker places in the internet, a lot of this stuff is never going to reach you because a lot of this stuff gets embedded in piracy and porn.
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So if you're not going there, if you mostly are downloading things on the Mac App Store or from, you know, big companies, it's a lot less likely that you're ever going to be affected by stuff like this.
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And if you do get something weird that is popping up on your system, you can generally then go download that software, that anti-malware software and scan and see what's going on.
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Well, a lot of people have great nostalgia for Amazing Stories.
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I think they're a little younger than I am because I remember when it came on and I was disappointed and I didn't like the original Amazing Stories.
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I much preferred the new Twilight Zone that aired a few years before.
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So I look at this and some of it looks good.
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And then the music starts playing and there's like an old airplane flying and I thought, "Oh no, it's Amazing Stories."
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It kind of seems like that's what happened and now he has basically had to leave or has been fired and that's that.
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Yeah, I think that is a sign that your showrunner is not doing their job if they can't keep the scripts coming while you're shooting the show.
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If the show stops, you have not done your job as showrunner because you're not the showstopper.
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The showrunner became the showstopper and now it's been paused.
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HBO has announced that a Friends reunion will happen on HBO Max.
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It is going to be a one-off, unscripted special that will kind of debut with like, "Oh, hey, we have Friends here."
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Apparently, it costs between $2.5 to $3 million per cast member.
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Yeah, I think for years after Friends went off the air, I thought to myself, and there were rumors about this at one point,
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like to get them back together in a scripted special like for Thanksgiving or something like that and all the Friends come together and there's a little story about it.
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Which is funny because in British TV that happens all the time, right?
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The reunion special, the Christmas special, the holiday special where like, you know, there are these shows that have been on for 20 years or 30 years,
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but really they still only have about 20 episodes because they did two six-episode seasons
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and then every three or four years they do another Christmas special and that's it.
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And I always thought that Friends would be a great example of that where it's like,
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why not just spend the money and they'll get a huge rating and it'll be great.
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So you wait long enough and apparently somebody, everybody was like, I wonder if they even floated, like could we do like a special Friends episode?
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And very clearly that was not going to happen.
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So these actors just get paid several million dollars to like sit in the central perk set or something and reminisce about the show.
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So yeah, I mean it's smart on WarnerMedia's part to, since they've got Friends,
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to launch the return of Friends to streaming with this special with the actors and presumably also the writers and producers with lots of like ancillary material,
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like a big DVD extra basically promoting the fact that it's on HBO Max.
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I mean obviously Jennifer Aniston's deal with Apple doesn't preclude her from doing this, but I am surprised though anyway.
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I don't know. It's, I mean it's literally just a reunion like conversation.
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It's like an interview. It's like agreeing to do an interview basically.
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It's not that, it's not a big deal. It's a one-off.
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Come in on a Wednesday, you know, spend a few hours with Schwimmer and then leave.
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Yeah, maybe there's like a thing with a few of them where they couldn't have done a scripted special for those types of reasons.
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It's possible. I think they, none of them want to revisit it.
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And I've definitely heard the writers say that they like where they left it off and that there are more questions than answers.
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If you say what, you know, what is Chandler doing now?
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Like do we really want to know what Chandler is doing now? I don't. I don't.
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As a big fan of the show, I want there to be it, but I also don't. You know what I mean?
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The example would be Will and Grace, which came back after many, many years and they've done a couple seasons of it.
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And I don't know how the fans of that show feel about, do they, I mean as an X-Files fan,
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I will tell you what I feel about the two seasons that they did of that, you know, decades after the show was on,
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which is that I think it was kind of embarrassing and bad and I didn't need to see it.
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So, but other people can be thrilled that their favorite, they get to see their favorite characters a little bit more.
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And I'm really enjoying Star Trek Picard, which is what's Captain Picard up to now, right?
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Like there's a whole show built around that. So I can see it going either way, but clearly the writers and producers and actors and I'll put it this way.
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I think they would have offered them a, why don't you come back and do one to eight episodes of Friends 2020 for HBO Max.
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And that was not, either not going to happen or would have cost so much money that it was not going to happen.
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That was definitely how it started, right? Like I, it would be wild if that was not how they started those conversations,
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but I expect at least half of the cast were like, no, we're good.
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Like we don't want to do this. We have a pretty good thing going on.
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You know, like we don't, Friends, going back to Friends might not be the best thing to do.
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So I'm kind of pleased that they are doing it the way that they're doing it.
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Apple ever issued a press release stating that they will not meet their quarterly guidance figures due to disruptions caused by coronavirus.
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While they are expecting a slower return to normal conditions than had been anticipated. Effectively, iPhone supply is constrained
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because their factories, some of them closed down for a while.
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Some of them are returning to operation, but with limited staff.
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There are lots of reports about the effects of coronavirus on Foxconn and they are varying,
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but you can kind of draw a line through all of them that just says it won't be as it was before Lunar New Year.
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And also Apple have closed their Chinese Apple stores.
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They've been closed and they don't know when they're opening them again.
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So this will obviously make an impact.
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You know, like, you know, if you are following the news even just a little bit, coronavirus is affecting all manufacturing.
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So Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was canceled.
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There are lots of conferences that are having big companies skip.
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So like, I think Sony skipped PAX this year.
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GDC, which is the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, is having a couple of things happening to it.
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One is a bunch of companies aren't going to be attending.
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And there are also kind of travel restrictions on people from certain countries, right?
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So like, if you were coming from China, well, you can't, right?
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Because one, most airlines, I don't think any airlines at the moment, are operating flights from, to and from China from certain countries.
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I think there are some, but it's very limited.
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Right? That's kind of the typical time that it gets announced.
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So I guess it's between now and then, what is going to occur?
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I mean, it might be like, as well, that Apple don't really have a lot of say because it might be that they announce it and everything's fine.
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But then come June, a lot of non-US participants might not be allowed to go.
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Right? Because of travel restrictions.
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And I guess really it's up to Apple right now to decide what are they going to do?
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Right? Like, are they talking about it?
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I'm sure they are. Like, would they skip it?
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Here's the question. Could they skip it, Jason?
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In fact, Apple already streams its sessions live to the world and archives them, and that part is all in place.
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And they could do that because they reach way more people with that than the people who are able to physically attend.
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What it would miss is the point of meeting in person, which is that you get, you know, developers get to talk to Apple engineers directly in a way that they don't any other time.
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And they get to talk to, developers get to talk to one another.
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And there's, you know, there's all this value in that and we have a great time and it's fun and people learn stuff and it's great.
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But the downside is, you know, there's a disease spreading.
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It's also very expensive. Not everybody can come.
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So there's, it's really kind of a disparity. They have that lottery, but you also have to, it's, you know, be able to afford to come and stay in San Jose, which is very expensive.
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So, you know, I, this has been a question for a long time now, which is like, does the 21st century need giant in-person events or are they a dinosaur?
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And, you know, a lot of trade shows have faded away, but some of these events still stay because there is, and I don't think it's a mass hallucination.
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I think there is some value in having face-to-face conversations.
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I could maybe make an argument that Apple, if I was, if I was inside Apple, I could maybe make the case that what we ought to do is different and we roll out stuff via videos and live streams.
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And we do kind of regional events where we talk to developers, but so you could re-engineer Apple's developer conference to be different.
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But it isn't right, like their whole identity, their software schedule, like everything is based on this big event in June.
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So I don't know. I really don't know the answer here, but I think what's really important is that we start to ask the question.
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And I'm sure they're doing this inside Apple, which is what is the alternative to a traditional WWDC if in 2020 there are still kind of some pretty serious travel restrictions as this virus is spreading?
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It would be a great shame, you know, to not have the event, but they can, they can if they want, I mean, all of the things like setting up the roadmap, like they can do all of that, right?
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And then they can, you know, they're a big company.
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They can create some kind of system, you know, like if they want to allow for during that week period of time, there's like an online system which could replace the speaking to developers.
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You know, like I'm sure there's something they could do there or they could just not do that.
00:41:22
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And that WWDC 2020 is we have a bunch of presentations that we're going to do for you that are all going to be online and that's, that's all it's going to be.
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Because I can imagine them not wanting to create a precedent of allowing for the type of labs to be done online.
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Because it's unsustainable for them, I would assume, because their engineers need to engineer and, you know.
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Yeah, my gut feeling is that they really, you know, want to keep going and figure that after a few months, this is all going to kind of be a moot point.
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But, and I do wonder if they have always had a what if plan in place and if they haven't, they really ought to get one.
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I feel like their fallback plan would probably be to cancel it, do a press event, and probably do some sort of thing where they are sending out engineers into various regions for, you know, a road tour kind of thing.
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But, you know, it's possible that we, you know, we live in a world now where there are these virus emergencies that happen and the world goes on lockdown and it's just enough to finally cause that change where people say, hey, maybe flying a lot of people all over is wasteful and expensive and we don't need to do it and we can just use the internet.
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Maybe this is the thing that pushes that over the edge.
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There is a Ming-Chi Kuo report that's breaking as we're recording this show that 2021 will see the first Mac with an ARM processor.
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If you will allow me to read this quote, which was republished by MacRumors from Ming-Chi Kuo.
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We expect that Apple's new products in the 12 to 18 months will adopt processors made by a 5nm process,
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including the new 5G iPhone and iPads equipped with Mini-LED coming in the second half of 2020.
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That's an interesting thing there. That's a little tipper.
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We're talking about that potential of our iPad.
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Maybe there is going to be a new screen technology to it, too.
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So this seems like a thing that would inevitably happen.
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It feels like something we've been asking about for a very long time.
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But it kind of feels like there is an increase, again, in talking about antitrust.
00:50:34
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Like Spotify, we're going to talk about music in a minute, but Spotify has already come after Apple, right,
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for kind of locking down and holding the platform for themselves.
00:50:44
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Do you think that this is kind of a, if Apple were to do this, a move against potential legislation coming their way in the future?
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- I think Apple sees which way the wind is blowing in terms of people, you know,
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regulators and politicians talking about regulating big tech and looking at some of Apple's practices and questioning them.
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And while some of the questioning that happens seems weird, like questionable to me, like that doesn't make sense,
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I think if you're Apple, you want to have a conversation about like what you are doing and try to, you know,
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you want to try and narrow the scrutiny.
00:51:30
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So this is an interesting example of Apple, you know, maybe already thinking about doing it, but this is a way to get it prioritized, right?
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This is a way to be like, "Well, we could do this, but why?"
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And then it's like, "Well, oh, here's why," is that everybody is really scrutinizing us.
00:51:44
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And if we do this, we can look all magnanimous and say, "No, no, no, of course, the App Store is a fair competition and you can, you know, we're going to do this."
00:51:53
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They may also anticipate that, you know, the EU or something is going to require stuff like this.
00:51:59
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You know, they're already dealing with this issue about if the EU is going to require the iPhone to have a USB-C port on it,
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which is a very complicated issue about like whether they say that the charger has to be USB-C or whether the phone end has to be USB-C and if an adapter is okay or not.
00:52:15
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Like there's all these issues, but like it's an example where a regulator could potentially force Apple to change its designs.
00:52:22
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And that's really unpleasant and scary if you're Apple.
00:52:25
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So I think they want to get out ahead here on some of this and say, "Look, no, no, no, we're not bad.
00:52:32
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We are providing an open platform for people who make alternatives to what we're doing."
00:52:38
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And I do think that it's a mixture with Apple of wanting control, but also just not thinking that it's worth spending the effort to open things.
00:52:48
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I do think that's a part of it is just why prioritize this?
00:52:53
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Not so much, "No, we must fight to keep control," as much as it's like, "Yeah, well, we built it so that we controlled it,
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and now we would have to put effort into making it less controlled by us, so we're not going to prioritize that and sort of shrug it off."
00:53:06
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And we live now in an environment where they need to not do that.
00:53:11
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-Apple is also considering allowing users to choose their own default music streaming service for the HomePod.
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This could potentially also be an option on iOS.
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So, for example, instead of needing to say to your HomePod, "Play something on Spotify," you would just say, "Play something," and it would start.
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This is exactly how the Amazon Echo works.
00:53:30
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It comes as default set to Amazon Music, but you can go into the Alexa app and change to, you know, Apple Music, Spotify, and the like.
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And then when you ask for music, it will just play it from the service that you have asked it to play it from,
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which I would say, as a user, is a much nicer experience.
00:53:50
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I use very few of the default Apple apps, you know, and I've kind of got used to it over time.
00:53:57
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And I would love when I press the button, a link in Safari, to send an email for it not to open the Mail app.
00:54:04
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I want it to open my chosen email app.
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When I see a message and I get, you know, it highlights a little date to add to a calendar,
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I would like it, when I tap that, to open Fantastic Cal and not Apple's calendar.