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MacVoices #25120: Live! – Tim Cook’s Influence, Apple’s Sports App, Meta’s Redaction Fail

Apr 25, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

The panel of Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Marty Jencius, and Eric Bolden discuss Tim Cook’s strategic influence in securing tariff exemptions, highlighting his low-key leadership style focused on Apple’s interests. They explore updates to Apple’s Sports app, praising its clean interface and new sharing features. The conversation shifts to Meta’s redaction failure in a legal case, questioning whether it was incompetence or intentional, and emphasizing the importance of proper document security.

MacVoices #25117: Live! – Shutterstock Sells, ChatGPT Remembers, Online Service Security

Apr 22, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

The MacVoices Live! panel of Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, and Web Bixby explores the implications of Shutterstock licensing its content for AI avatar training, raising concerns about usage rights and fair compensation for contributors. They discuss ChatGPT’s new memory feature, privacy in AI-based healthcare, and how evolving tech impacts user consent. The episode also touches on image sharpening tools and a security risk, unusual pricing models, and the re-introduction of Microsoft’s data recall feature.

MacVoices #25116: Live! – Contact Identification Responsibility, An Apple Store Surge, The Meta Trial

Apr 21, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

A mix of national security, tech glitches, and policy debates drives this discussion with Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, and Web Bixby, starting with a case where iPhone contact merging was blamed for a classified information leak. The group questions the logic behind that defense and dives into how apps like Signal and iOS handle contact data. Additional topics include Apple Store sales surges tied to tariff fears, the UK’s encryption fight with Apple, and Zuckerberg’s testimony in Meta’s antitrust trial.

MacVoices #25113: Apple Intelligence Training, Mythic Quest’s Innovative Ending

Apr 16, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

The MacVoices Live! panel explores Apple’s new on-device approach to training Apple Intelligence, emphasizing privacy by keeping analysis on-device. They contrast this with data-hungry models from other companies and discuss whether Apple’s method can catch up in functionality while maintaining its core values. Reactions range from hopeful curiosity to cautious skepticism about its future impact. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius and Web Bixby also react to Mythic Quest’s cancellation, praising Apple’s rare decision to allow a reshot finale for proper closure.

MacVoices #25079: Live! – Pushback On UK Demands, Apple TV+ on Android

Feb 25, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

https://youtu.be/STNDVwj_kns There was some pushback on the demands the UK was making on Apple, but it ended up not being enough. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, Web Bixby, Jeff Gamet, and Jim Rea continue to follow this story as it develops....

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MacVoices #25076: CES – PhoneCam

Feb 20, 2025 | CES

In Eureka Park at CES in Las Vegas, PhoneCam was showing off their body cam-like device that can offer video and communications for safety and security. Applicable in a variety of situations, Wouter Konigs, Founder & CTO, explains the concept, how they utilize the phone for features like AI, GPS, connectivity, and more, and why they expect to have iPhone support soon.

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MacVoices #25054: Live! – Watch Band Lawsuit, Subaru Tracking, Goodbye MiniDisc

Feb 6, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Marty Jencius, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, Jim Rea, and Jeff Gamet discuss the “forever chemicals” (PFAS) lawsuit against Apple for their watch bands, and look at how, if you drive a Subaru, someone may know where you are going and where you have been. Some speculation on why some organizations may not be on Bluesky (yet) and the end of the MiniDisc and what industries it matters to finish off the conversation.

MacVoices #25046: CES – EPSEED

Feb 3, 2025 | CES

In the French Pavilion in Eureka Park at CES, EPSEED was showing their device that focuses on making remote work more secure. Kélian Bailet, Co-Founder and President, explained how they separate the work and personal systems to achieve corporate security, as well as why he is looking forward to it coming to the Mac platform.

MacVoices #25045: CES – Cyberette

Feb 3, 2025 | CES

https://youtu.be/fD7gPJV-_0s High profile examples of deep fakes have been in the news, especially in the last year or so during the U.S presidential election, but there are more disturbing aspects to the problem. At CES in Las Vegas in the Netherlands pavilion in...

MacVoices #25044: MacVoices Update – 2025-01

Feb 2, 2025 | Updates

https://youtu.be/wTuRFaUj7MA The MacVoices Update for January 2025 covers some questions about how MacVoices approaches and covers CES, as well as a blog post on the subject. Chuck also reminds you about what you need to do to assure you receive all the episodes if...

MacVoices #25042: Live! – A Deep Discussion About DeepSeek

Jan 31, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

MacVoices Live! digs deep into the many questions surrounding the sudden rise of DeepSeek, a large language model that allegedly was trained at a fraction of the cost of what the “big LLMs” have required. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Marty Jencius, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, Jim Rea, and Jeff Gamet have conflicting thoughts, opinions, and concerns over the what’s, hows’s, as well as whether it represents yet another threat to both the individual and U.S. security.

MacVoices #25030: CES Pepcom – Synology

Jan 27, 2025 | CES

Snology always seems to have something new coming for both the more and less technical users. At Pepcom and CES in Las Vegas, Christopher Michio Imanaka, Field & Alliance Marketing showed us the new C2 Cloud cameras that brings private, local video surveillance options to their line. Chris not only answers questions over the security of the video captured, but also introduces to a new Synology BeeStation with upgraded storage.

MacVoices #25006: Live! – Apple TV’s Free Weekend; An Interoperability Debate

Jan 13, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

https://youtu.be/CaWE4oS7HUU Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Jeff Gamet, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jim Rea, Marty Jencius, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, and Patrice Brend’amour debate the benefits of the Apple TV+ free weekend, and then continue with some disagreements on...

MacVoices #25005: Live! – Bootable Backups; Netflix As A Sports Streamer

Jan 10, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

https://youtu.be/wxx7Fr8yyQc The MacVoices Live! panel of Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Jeff Gamet, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jim Rea, Marty Jencius, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, and Patrice Brend’amour look at how the loss of bootable backups impacts user convenience as...

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