Desks, cables, game discs, app stores, and first impressions of Apple Watch Family Setup.

• Thank you for all your donations to St. Jude! 💙
• Pre-show: Desk Reconstruction Day
  • Uplift Desk V2 C-frame with magnetic cable channel and mountable surge strip
• Follow-up:
  • John’s Headphone Update
    • Correct pad replacements EDT 1770D
  • Sony’s digital vs. plastic-disc profits
  • Apple now allows returning only Watch bands
• Google’s Carbon-Free Plans
• Unity’s IPO filing shows the threat of app stores
  • Actual filing
  • Wall Street Journal calls for Apple’s cut to be halved
• Apple blocks Facebook update that tells users about Apple’s 30% cut
• Apple Watch Family Setup
  • Schooltime
• #askatp
  • What’s the right way for someone who knows filesystems (🛎) to back up a Mac? (via Mike Lee Williams)
    • Carbon Copy Cloner
    • SuperDuper
  • What’s the best baby monitor experience? (via Migirdich Karnigyan)
    • Infant Optics DXR-8
      Note: Modern models do not use USB power input on the receiver, as was stated on the show
  • Is Marco watching Tesla competition? (via John Metcalf)
    • MKBHD’s Auto Focus on the Porsche Taycan
    • Rory Reid on the Polestar 2
• Post-show: How does USB-C even work?

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