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Souza is an incredible photographer with a unique ability to capture the formal and informal images of the POTUS. But, along the way, he has also become a political voice of change.

My family has very little need for a printer any more. We have a workhorse Brother B&W laser printer for printing off documents but, because of the rip-off that is the cost of inkjet printers, we’ll likely never buy another one.

Many of us can’t afford to buy stock in Apple at the $400 mark but we might be able to get a few shares after the split when it goes down to $100+.

I was a beta tester for SoundSource 5 and it works as advertised. I really like the ability to send sound to different apps at different volumes and audio quality. NOTE: SoundSource 5 is NOT yet compatible with the macOS Big Sur beta but Rogue Amoeba promises an update prior to the public launch of Big Sur.

Many people, myself included, have predicted this is the (relatively near) future of movies. Disney is just paving the way.

I don’t know if this is such a great time to be starting a “three-year depression study.” 2020 might skew the results.

In honour of his semi-retirement, I wanted to post this from Macworld Expo in New York City in 1999. I was in the audience when it happened and while we recognized it as a stunt, it was still pretty impressive. You have to remember that, even though WiFi was available, it was generally only in a corporate environment at the time and was hellaciously expensive. Apple, Schiller, Jobs, and the iBook democratized that and brought it to the huddled masses – and we broke free.

This is a big deal to those of us who hate reflections but can’t afford the $6,000 Pro Display.

Apple on Tuesday announced that longtime senior executive Phil Schiller would become an Apple Fellow. Greg Joswiak (Joz) will take over Schiller’s role of senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Apple.

Many motorcyclists are big fans of McGregor’s other series, “Long Way Round” and “Long Way Down.” I’m less impressed if only because they had a support crew of many, many people to assist – the trips weren’t “solo travelers testing their mettle.” I still enjoyed them enough to want to watch this series if only to see how they managed it on electric motorcycles.

I have multiple backups of all my Mac and iOS data, including a couple of cloud backups. I’ll add this to my repertoire.

Well worth the watch if you’re a fan of the bad boy of the comic book industry.

As much as I’d like a Series 5, my Series 3 is a perfectly good smartwatch at a great price.

I don’t know if Apple has actually “demanded” these discounts as the headline posits but I imagine it’s going to be awfully hard for a company that announced 55 billion pounds in profit last year to get any significant discounts from landlords who are “struggling” just as much.

Of course Apple Canada would do a video like this.

The CEO of Square is going to be unhappy. Many small merchants at farmers markets around the world are going to be very happy.

I don’t know if it’s scary, sad, or lucky it was “just” three young hackers who did this and not a nation-state or other bad actor. Probably a combination of all three.

Contrary to this story, the app has been available for a week – I’ve been using it each day to report in. Does anyone else use this version or similar apps in their country?

This is definitely significant. Apple is loathe to speak about “future products” and they never confirmed a late September launch so they could have said nothing and gone about their business. But I think this is an admission from Apple that, if the usual September announcements didn’t happen, the rumour mills would run even wilder than usual.

I see this term all the time in press releases I’m sent for various iPhone and iPad cases and I’ve always discounted it as marketing fluff.

Amazing editing.

Dave and I started off the show talking about the beginning of live sports, especially hockey. We also talked about the antitrust hearing this week, Emmy nominations, movie theaters and a couple of suggestions to make Apple TV even better.

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Apple on Thursday reported quarterly revenue of $59.7 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter’s revenue, according to the company. […]

Cook is giving no ground on the company position. Tomorrow’s hearing won’t actually solve any of the issues in play but it will be interesting to see how the testimony is received by the House members from both sides of the aisle.

The House Subcommittee will question Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg about anti-competitive behavior. The execs will give virtual testimonies on Wednesday beginning at noon ET. They’ll also be questioned by committee members.

Not bad for the little streaming service that could.

After trying to put on a brave face, CES bowed to reality with a justifiable overabundance of caution and made this announcement well in advance so that everyone involved can bet prepared for a very different CES. Will it return to in-person in 2022? That will depend entirely on how successful the virtual 2021 show is perceived by CTA.

This is a big, brave move by these retailers to make the decision to forgo the biggest sales weekend of the year (Dave corrected me and pointed out they are only closed on Thanksgiving Day. Too much wishful thinking on my part) in favour of customer safety. It’s only July so they could still change their minds though. It will be interesting to see if retailers like Best Buy and Apple follow suit.

This will be an interesting report if only because this will be Apple’s first full quarter under the pandemic. They did well during the last quarter but don’t expect huge blockbuster numbers this time around. They will still have sold millions of products and earned billions of dollars though. I think they’ll be OK.

In honour of “30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act”, give a thought to the things, big and small, many of us take for granted and how people like this young woman persevere.