Apple's Mac Pro, iOS 13.3, encryption backdoors on the AppleInsider Podcast

This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, Victor and William talk about password managers, the Feds threatening encryption backdoors, Apple Card iPhone installments, and unsurprisingly the Mac Pro.

AppleInsider editor Victor Marks and writer extraordinaire William Gallagher discuss:

• The Mac Pro is not cheap. Who is it really for?
• Developers, and what it means to be "Sherlocked"
• The history of Mac Pro pricing
• iOS 13.3 and accessibility bugs
• Mac Pro airflow
• Tim Cook speaks out on China, antitrust probes
• What is the Afterburner in the Mac Pro?
• Lindsay Graham, US Senator, wants backdoors in encryption.
• Apple Card introduces interest-free installment payments for iPhone
• Apple to speak at a privacy roundtable at CES
• Ellen DeGeneres gives out iPads to every student at a D.C. elementary school
• "The Morning Show" nominated for Golden Globes

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Show notes:

• A maxed-out Mac Pro will cost you $53,000 — without display
• Apple engineers reveal how they prevent Mac Pro overheating
• Cook talks China, antitrust probes, coding in education, more in interview
• Senators threaten Apple, Facebook with mandated encryption backdoors
• Apple Card Monthly Installments plan allows users to buy an iPhone straight from the Apple Card
• Apple returns to CES in 2020 with exec scheduled to speak at privacy roundtable
• Apple, Ellen DeGeneres outfit D.C. school with new Macs, every student gets an iPad
• 'The Morning Show' earns three Golden Globe nominations for Apple TV+

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