Essential Apple Podcast 78: Chicken Casserole & Social Media with Gazmaz

Recorded 4th March 2018

This week the tech news has mostly been all about the Mobile World Congress, and it wasn’t very exciting to be fair – mostly seemed like a lot of people copying the “notch” they all made so much fun of…

So for a bit of a different feel this week we are joined by the irrepressible and effervescent GazMaz from the MyMac show to take a look at the apparent “disturbance in the force” caused by the “sudden” arrival of Vero, the appearance of Micro.blog, and a couple of other upstarts wanting to take on the might of Twitter, Instagram, Snap and Facebook.

Sorry some of the sound isn’t as good as usual – we had some technical difficulties and went to Discord – but I don’t think all our settings were as good as they could have been.

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On this week’s show:

SERVICES MENTIONED

• Vero
  • Vero: What to Know About the New App and its CEO – Time
• Counter.Social
• Mastodon
• micro.blog
• Twitter
• Hootsuite
• The My Mac Skype Phone Number – Skype +1 Area code 703-436-9501

APPLE

• Horace Dediu estimates 2/3rds of all Apple devices are still in use – Business Insider UK
  • And on the same story – Cult of Mac
• Apple, Tesla to Lead ‘Edge’ Computing, Says Guggenheim – Barron’s
  • Yes, I know, it was Larry Ellison, not Page…

Nemo’s Hardware Store (45:41)

• WIPLABS
  • MagCable 3 in 1
  • Belt cable – Amazon
  • Night Cable – Amazon

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