Rumors of a touchscreen Mac, FBI wants inside everyone’s iPhone on the AppleInsider Podcast

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Victor and William discuss the FBI’s position on Apple and encryption, Apple’s response, the latest in Apple TV+, plus the resurfacing of a rumor about a touchscreen Mac —this time prompted by Apple itself.

A MacBook Air showing a detail from the new patent describing a touchscreen Mac

AppleInsider editor Victor Marks and writer William Gallagher discuss:

  • Apple hints that it isn’t ruling out touchscreen MacBooks in a recent patent filing
  • President Trump tells Apple to ‘step up to the plate’ and unlock Pensacola shooter’s iPhones. Apple says, “No.”
  • FBI reportedly accessed a locked iPhone 11 Pro Max with GrayKey third party tool.
  • So the FBI has the tools it needs to break into iPhones, yet it’s still pressing Apple for backdoors.
  • A Cellebrite tool was used to extract data from Lev Parnas’ iPhone for the impeachment trial.
  • Apple TV+ exclusives ‘Beastie Boys Story,’ ‘Central Park,’ ‘Home,’ are to debut at SXSW in March
  • Spike Jonze’s ‘Beastie Boys Story’ is coming to Apple TV+ in April
  • Apple and M. Night Shyamalan sued, accused of plagiarizing ‘Servant’

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