{"id":3671,"date":"2018-07-08T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T20:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2018-07-08T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T20:43:12","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-260-todds-cranky-cast-where-has-all-the-tech-news-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/08\/mobileviews-podcast-260-todds-cranky-cast-where-has-all-the-tech-news-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 260: Todd&#8217;s cranky-cast. Where has all the tech news gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src='https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/fnpbc-94c644?from=yiiadmin' data-link='https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/fnpbc-94c644?from=yiiadmin' height='100' width='100%' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' data-name='pb-iframe-player' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ranting about the recent Skype for MacOS update<\/li>\n<li>Looking through Techmeme&#8217;s &#8220;river&#8221; all I see are block chain, tech investment, and dealing with disinformation. Listening to other podcasts reveals more of the same. So, where does this leave a podcast that this that remains dedicated to actual tech, gadgets, and software? There doesn&#8217;t seem to be much to discuss in this space except during Google I\/O and Apple announcements.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/patentlyo.com\/patent\/2011\/01\/tracing-the-quote-everything-that-can-be-invented-has-been-invented.html\">Tracing the Quote: Everything that can be Invented has been Invented<\/a> &#8211; 1899.<\/li>\n<li>Todd: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/06\/acer-chromebook-tab-10-review-a-good-but-not-great-first-chrome-os-tablet\/\">Acer Chromebook Tab 10<\/a>. Example of something I don&#8217;t care about but might have years ago: Chrome OS based tablet.<\/li>\n<li>Jon: Twitter <a href=https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/twitter-is-suspending-more-than-one-million-accounts-pe-1827409235\"> suspending more than a million accounts per day <\/a> Mostly spammers and bots. Still haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gotten to most of my bot followers thought, that I paid $7 for as an experiment<\/li>\n<li>Jon&#8217;s Pinterest story.<\/li>\n<li>Jon: <a href=\u00e2\u20ac\u009dhttps:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/apple-ios-12-iphone-security\/amp\u00e2\u20ac\u009d>Wired\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s IOS 12 security roundup<\/a> &#8211; have we gotten to a place where cutting edge features = Android, privacy and security = Apple, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really the only difference (well, that and wearables &#8211; since Wear OS is fragmented, has no market leading watch anymore, not as big a force as the Apple Watch). Something to ponder &#8211; as the OS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get more similar, this seems to me to be the only differentiator anymore.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/security\/a21986403\/girl-scouts-pick-locks-hacking\/\">Why the Girl Scouts Are Learning to Pick Locks and Hack Computers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen?u=0&#038;gclid=COid8dLi6s0CFQrQfgodJ_8CsA&#038;gclsrc=ds#\/ps\/Ioaoswyblmdonyb42jg6stsl6om\">Google Music Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss: Ranting about the recent Skype for MacOS update Looking through Techmeme&#8217;s &#8220;river&#8221; all I see are block chain, tech investment, and dealing with disinformation. Listening to other podcasts reveals more of the same. So, where does this leave a podcast that this that remains dedicated to actual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-Xd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}