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MacVoices #24299: Live! – The DOJ and Google, Buying Tracking Data, Hardware Subscriptions

MacVoices #24299: Live! – The DOJ and Google, Buying Tracking Data, Hardware Subscriptions

The Department of Justice’s proposal for Google to divest Chrome generates a debate on the pros, cons, and likelihood of that ever happening between Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet, Web Bixby, and Jim Rea. The panel contrasts the implications for America’s tech leadership and navigates the nuances of monopoly versus competition. Finally, Microsoft has a new small computer that looks suspiciously like one of our Apple favorites…but charges a subscription to make to work. Worth the money? What do you think? 

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MacVoices #24298: Live! – A Dot-com Monopoly and Coca-Cola’s AI Holiday Ads

MacVoices #24298: Live! – A Dot-com Monopoly and Coca-Cola’s AI Holiday Ads

David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet, Web Bixby, and Jim Rea debate a U.S. senator’s most recent tech assault, this time on the entity that controls the dot-com domains. Then, we get in the holiday spirit (or not) by discussing the furor over Coca-Cola’s AI-generated holiday ads, whether it is justified, and the factors driving the controversy.

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MacVoices Live #24297: Live! – Copying Tim Cook, Drake’s Accusations, and MacBook Pro Speaker Repairs

MacVoices Live #24297: Live! – Copying Tim Cook, Drake’s Accusations, and MacBook Pro Speaker Repairs

The MacVoices Live! panel of David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet, Web Bixby, and Jim Rea praise Tim Cook’s political acumen and discuss how other CEOs are trying to copy it. The discussion turns to Drake’s allegations of favoritism and why they seem unlikely, and then to an update on MacBook Pro speaker repairs and what you need to know. 

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MacVoices #24292: Live! – Bluesky Grows, TikTok and Trump, Apple TV+ News

MacVoices #24292: Live! – Bluesky Grows, TikTok and Trump, Apple TV+ News

Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Eric Bolden, Jeff Gamet, Marty Jencius, Jim Rea, and Web Bixby consider Bluesky’s growth in the reported exodus from X and what it says about how people are using social media at this point in time. The panel also discuss at the possibilities for TikTok under the incoming Trump administration, and look at what Sam Bankman-Fried and Godzilla have in common.

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MacVoices #24291: Live – M4s and Virtualization, Investigating Microsoft, MDM

MacVoices #24291: Live – M4s and Virtualization, Investigating Microsoft, MDM

The MacVoices Live! panel looks at who the reports of the M4 chip’s problems with virtualization affect and why. Microsoft is in the crosshairs of a new FTC look into Microsoft’s business practices, and Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Eric Bolden, Jeff Gamet, Marty Jencius, Jim Rea, and Web Bixby share some of their experiences with products that are the focus of the investigation. Then we transition into a discussion of Mobile Device Management by both Apple and Microsoft and what they mean if you are using a machine owned by your employer. 

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