Vector

At launch, many people didn’t give Apple’s iPhone 8 atomic-level redesign the consideration it deserved. Three months later, Rene takes another look. Links: iPhone 8 review Sponsors: MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated. Subscribe via: ⁃Apple Podcasts ⁃Overcast ⁃Pocket Casts ⁃Castro ⁃RSS Follow on: ⁃Web ⁃Twitter ⁃Instagram ⁃Facebook  

Rene speaks with MarsEdit developer, Daniel Jalkut, and John Gruber of Daring Fireball about the history and release of MarsEdit 4, blogging tools, the Mac App Store, and more. Links: MarsEdit 4 first look on iMore Red Sweater Software Daring Fireball Daniel Jalkut on Twitter John Gruber on Twitter Sponsors: MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated. Subscribe via: ⁃Apple Podcasts ⁃Overcast ⁃Pocket Casts ⁃Castro ⁃RSS Follow on: ⁃Web ⁃Twitter ⁃Instagram ⁃Facebook  

Xeon W. Radeon Pro Vega. T5, Space gray. It's Apple's new iMac Pro and here are some first impressions. Links: iMac Pro first impressions: Beauty of a beast Should you upgrade to the new iMac Pro? Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram  

035: Ambient Computing, with Ben Bajarin   Previously, on Vector: There is no home assistant market. Industry analyst Ben Bajarin: Allow me to retort. So he did. And then he hung around to chat about differential privacy vs. making assistants more personal.    Links:   Ben Bajarin: Twitter Creative Strategies TechPinions Vector 018: Don’t believe the assistant hype, with Jan Dawson   Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook

Everyone starts somewhere. Even us. From first podcast to how Vector gets made, podcaster and editor extraordinaire Jim Metzendorf takes us behind the scenes.   Links:   Jim Metzendorf: Twitter Audio Podcast Guide Call Recorder for Skype Audio Hijack Heil PR 40 Sound Devices USB Pre2 Apogee One   Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook

Drafts is developed by Greg Pierce and used the hell out of by Merlin Mann. They sit down together to talk direction, workflows, and what's coming next. Links: Drafts Merlin Mann Greg Pierce (@agiletortoise) on Twitter Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) on Twitter Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook  

Pacific Rim. IT. Luke Cage. Star Trek: Discovery. Some of the greatest action sequences in modern TV and movies have been storyboarded by Rob McCallum… on an iPad Pro.   Links:   Rob McCallum: Twitter, IMDB, Web. Procreate   Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook

Michelle Hessel, James Thomson, and Russell Holy talk augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality, ARKit, ARKCore, and the future of the technology.   Links:   Michelle Hessel: Twitter, Web. James Thomson: Twitter, Web. Russell Holly: Twitter, Web. ARKit ARCore AR Studio   Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook

Modern media companies have been “pivoting to video” but not all of them have been successful. Christina Warren, formerly of Mashable and Gizmodo, discusses why. Also: Facebook Messenger for kids. Seriously.    Links:   Christina Warren: Twitter, Mashable, Gizmodo, Rocket Podcast Why the pivot to video has failed Publishers and the pursuit of the past Facebook Messenger for Kids How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met   Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook

iOS 11 allows your passcode to reset your iTunes Backup and even Apple ID passwords. Some call it a horror story. It’s really a balancing act.   Links:   iOS 11 horror story: The rise and fall of iOS security iOS security isn’t a ‘horror story’ — it’s a balancing act iOS 11 encrypted backup changes reduce security, boost data safety   Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook

Phone vs. DSLR. A few years ago that would have sounded ridiculous. Then came computational photography. Now, Analyst Carolina Milanesi shares how the pros feel about their camera phones. Links: Carolina Milanesi (@caro_milanesi) on Twitter DSLR Owners love Their Smartphone Camera as much as You do Portrait Mode: iPhone X vs. Pixel 2 XL vs. DSLR Wow, Pixel 2 XL can't actually shoot in Portrait Mode — it does it all in post Sponsors: MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated. Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook        

Melton and Drance hung around and English joined them, and since most of them hadn't seen Blade Runner 2049 yet, the conversation turned to Thor: Ragnarok. Happy weekend. Links: Thor: Ragnarok on Wikipedia Secrets of the Marvel Universe on Vanity Fair  Don Melton on Twitter Matt Drance on Twitter Guy English on Twitter   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook      

On December 02, 2017, iOS 11 started crashing. It involved the time system, local notifications, and springboard. Here's what happened and how to fix it. Links: iPhone crashing on Dec. 2? Here's the fix! How to download and install iOS 11.2 on your iPhone or iPad Person-to-Person Apple Pay is about to make iMessage even more valuable Sponsors: MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.  Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook    

Michael Gartenberg talks with Rene about Apple and the tech landscape in fall 2017. Links: Why 2018 is going to be a huge inflection point for the mobile world Michael Gartenberg on Twitter @gartenberg Subscribe via: ⁃Apple Podcasts ⁃Overcast ⁃Pocket Casts ⁃Castro ⁃RSS Follow on: ⁃Web ⁃Twitter ⁃Instagram ⁃Facebook  

Apple has apologized for and fixed the root vulnerability in macOS High Sierra. But why do bugs ship and how can Apple prevent this from happening again? With former Apple engineering manager and current Tumult Hype developer Jonathan Deutsch.    Links:   macOS High Sierra 'root' security bug Why Gets You Root About the security content of Security Update 2017-001 Repair file sharing after Security Update 2017-001 for macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 Jonathan Deutsch: Twitter Tumult Hype 3 Kendo   Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook

AirPods were billed as the future of wireless headphones. Announced in September of 2016, shipped in December of 2016, and scarcely available until well into 2017, this is how well AirPods have lived up to their hype — one year later.   Links:   AirPods: One Year Later Review AirPods: Everything you need to know   Sponsors:   MintSIM: Voice, data, and text for less. Get free first-class shipping with code VTFREESHIP. Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated.   Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook

A critical flaw has been discovered in macOS High Sierra that lets an attacker log in as 'root' by leaving the password field blank and trying multiple times in a row. Listen to this and “fix" it right now. Links: macOS High Sierra 'root' security bug: Stop and do this NOW Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook      

There was a day before iPhone was introduced. And a day after. Matt Drance was there for both — and he had to evangelize it. Links: Matt Drance on Twitter @drance Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook    

Some love it. Some hate its living breath. It's the new MacBook Pro and it's the most divisive MacBook Pro ever.  Links: Marco Arment: Fixing the MacBook Pro The Touch Bar Makes the Mac More Accessible to Me Making the Mac multitouch. A bit. Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS   Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook    

Lock screen complications would give iOS greater convenience and privacy. Ambient, persistent biometrics would give iPhone all but invisible security. Links: I'd love lock screen complications in iOS 12 Dreaming of persistent, ambient authentication for iPhone XI Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS Follow on: Web Twitter Instagram Facebook