Welcome to issue #4 of Life as a Lemon
Two more days and my youngest and I are out of our quarantine due to an exposure in their classroom - everyone’s all good. It’s been a fun week of watching hockey, eating, and sleeping in our basement but we’ll both be glad to be back in our own rooms this weekend. 😊
On to the links!
Link Thought Things
Do I really dig Apple hardware and software? Yes. Do I also enjoy a billionaire getting grilled about potentially anti-competitive behaviour in the marketplace? Also yes.
Speaking of Apple: time to update your devices: iPadOS / iOS 14.6, macOS Big Sur 11.4, watchOS 7.5, and tvOS 14.6 all came out this week. The main feature is support for paid podcast subscriptions.
Final Apple item: Stephen Hackett compares a 20 year old Tangerine G3 iMac to the current Orange M1 iMac.
Mike Sowden’s Everything Is Amazing newsletter comes the story of one of the most outrageous travel articles in British publishing history - brilliantly weaving story + advertising into one awesome article.
Anyone have an extra $300USD to buy me this 3D rendered version of Settlers of Catan hand-sculpted by the game’s creator, Klaus Tueber.
Have you ever wondered about the money paid to a city that opens their doors - and police force - to a movie production? The answer is out there, Neo, and it’s looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
Want to hop on a call? No video is my preferred method. And now I have Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal to back me up.
Podcasting Thought Things
Nothing too interesting came across my desk this week - so I’ll promote a recent episode of my own podcast, 25c, where Nick and I review the new Apple TV 4K boxes that arrived last weekend.
Subscribe links for 25c:
• Apple Podcasts • Overcast • Spotify • Pocket Casts
Picture of the Week
This is the unboxed components of the new Apple TV 4K. No HDMI cable included, but you do get yet another iPhone charging cable to charge the new remote.
That’s it for this week!
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Until next week - thanks for reading!
Chris Enns