MacCraic

Intro – Justin, Dave and a man called (the) Don

News

• iPhone on Vodafone Ireland
• The Unofficial Apple Store – Dublin
• iPad Releases in US First
• Mac Gives Critic New Voice
• Where Force Quit Came From

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Guest - Don McAllister

Dave’s Slot - The Patent Wars & also Specific Patents that Apple are suing over

Dave’s Crap Accessory/Weapon of the Week - Stainless Steel iPhone

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Outro

Tag – That’s all the craic from this week’s Mac

This week our heroes finally reach their magic number and celebrate with a thong, sorry I mean song.   Are you brave enough to listen to episode 69?

News

• A Bunch of Muppets in Cupertino
• Tit Case for iPhone (shows you where someone’s mind was when reading the headline)..also video proof.
• PowerBook Snow Board ( “think different” Xtreme! )

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Dave’s Slot- Notes from Tim Cook’s Goldman Sachs talk (Updated with transcript) and Apple supplier audit reveals sub-minimum wage pay and records of underage labor

Dave’s App Pick: Vector Tanks- Battlezone for iPhone/iPod Touch for all the retro-arcade MacCraicers out there. Free on App Store till next Thursday.

Steve Jobs puts it all into perspective- Quick discussion/analysis of some Steve J quips from Apple AGM

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This week, our heroes go back to the script but then decide to throw caution to the wind & go for a no holds barred episode that will end up with an explicit tag or could possibly get us in trouble with the Asian community judging by this weeks title.

News

• iPad not to ship with iBooks App WTF?
• Apple Patent 3D Apple Store (Even Better Than the Real Thing ? more patent madness indeed)
• More Podcasts from Apple ( and we discovered something about this while recording the podcast)

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Feature –  Justin’s adventures with Aperture 3.. or lack thereof ( and a rare Mildly Miffed Mac Maniac Moment from your host)

Dave’s App Pick- iPhone Explorer Turns Your iPhone Into a Disk Drive (and it’s free)

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This week, our heroes decide to freestyle it again; bringing you our usual mix of news & humour (which couldn’t get any lower than the “Bodyform” musical interludes from last week)

Freestylin’ list :

• iTunes 9.0.3 is out, go get it!
• iTunes web integration improved again – now in-browser Apps previews (and as for last week musical interlude…)
• iPad has camera holes?
• Apple Patents Touch Sensitive Bezel for Hot Corners Action [Apple] & Apple experts cooking-up Funky Cool Sense Controller schema (patently mad!)
• Comic Books Will Look Incredible on the iPad [Ipad] – Panelfly

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• The premium Mac brand: Nine out of every ten $1000+ computers sold in  the US…
• Why the iPad will be a flop in Ireland (and this is a leading Irish technology blog (a bit blinkered methinks))- related in this little chat (Pan Euro iTunes licencing)

Dave’s app picks of the week:

• DARPA-based Siri virtual assistant hits the App Store, smartphone  sentience …
• Logitech Touch Mouse App Turns iPhones Into a Trackpad and Keyboard,  for Free

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Why the $130 price gap between non-3G & 3G version ? : This, I neglected to mention in the latest podcast as it went in the Bermuda Triangle called the “back of my mind” & also in my previous article. I’m trying to work out how a $10-$20 cost 3G chip can somehow lead to a approx 550%+ margin based on extra $130 on retail price. Are the Wi-Fi only iPads being cross-subsidised to a degree by the Wi-Fi+3G models in order to maintain overall projected gross profit margins for this product ?

Would like to know indeed.