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This week on the show:

The future of third-party Twitter apps looks grim, but is it the end of the road? What makes an upgrade worthy of a price tag? Do class action lawsuits even matter? Should you use AirPods on planes? Does anyone like show descriptions written as hypothetical questions?

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Sarah Perez at TechCrunch:

Twitter is giving developers more time to adjust to its API platform overhaul, which has affected some apps‘ ability to continue operating in the same fashion. The company clarified this morning, along with news of the general availability of its Account Activity API, that it will be delaying the shutdown of some of its legacy APIs by three months’ time. That is, APIs originally slated for a June 19, 2018 shutdown – including Site Streams, User Streams, and legacy Direct Message Endpoints – will now be deprecated on Wednesday, August 16, 2018.

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The iPod mini marked a giant turning point in Apple’s music business. With its smaller size and colorful design, it turned the iPod from a tech product to a piece of fashion:

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This week on the kbase: all the iPod mini specs, ever.

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There’s a new Indiegogo page that looks right up my alley. Spigen is releasing iPhone X cases designed to remind people of the iMac G3.

I don’t even use a case on my iPhone X, but I’ve backed it. I can even forgive them for mispronouncing the name of the iPhone X in their video.

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I’ve been checking out some cool iMac documentation this afternoon, via Brendan Shanks on Twitter:

The Apple iMac computer is a new consumer-oriented desktop computer. This developer note is a technical description of the iMac, with the emphasis on the features that are new or different from those of other Macintosh desktop computers.

Don’t miss the related USB page Apple had up on its website at the time.

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Loren Grush, The Verge:

This afternoon, SpaceX landed the most powerful version yet of its Falcon 9 rocket, after launching the vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The so-named Block 5 upgrade took off from the company’s launchpad at Kennedy Space Center, sending a communications satellite into orbit for Bangladesh and then touched down on one of the company’s drone ships in the Atlantic. It was the 25th successful rocket landing for SpaceX, and the 14th on one of the company’s drone ships.

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Jason Snell:

Now it’s somehow time for the 25th anniversary of the app—or, more accurately, the 25th anniversary of the first commercial release of BBEdit, version 2.5.

I don’t use BBEdit often, but when I do, it’s the only program that can get the job done.

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This week on Connected, Federico is back to join Myke and I to talk about iOS 13, as well as news out of Microsoft Build and Google I/O.

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This week on Query:

Serenity remembers her Bondi Blue iMac before getting into the age-old debate of purchasing an iPad Pro or MacBook with Stephen. Then, message threading woes and more in the Speed Run.

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Jason Snell, writing at Macworld, about how the Mac community responded to the announcement of the iMac 20 years ago:

From the perspective of 2018, the iMac is history, and history is written by the victors. But in 1998, the iMac was controversial, especially among the sorts of dedicated Mac users who subscribed to Macworld. It ditched the floppy drive that had been on every single Mac to that date, as well as several ports—SCSI, serial, and ADB—that had been on basically every Mac since the Mac SE. Imagine Apple removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7, multiplied by four. Literally every Mac accessory ever made was no longer compatible without an adapter.

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This week on Liftoff:

InSight is headed to Mars, the SLS Segment has a name, and Jason and Stephen read Into the Black, by Rowland White.

I really enjoyed this book.

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