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PCM32: iPhone Tricks, iOS 9, and How to Keep Email Private
Because email contains the word “mail,” it seems natural to assume it offers the same kind of privacy laws that apply to items sent through the U.S. Postal Service. But as PC Mike Wendland tells one of our listeners this week, guaranteed privacy is not the case. In fact, what you send through so-called “free” email services like GMail, Hotmail, or Yahoo Mail are anything but free and actually can be used to try and sell you stuff based on the content of your electronic messages. Don’t worry, though, Mike has a great tip for how to protect yourself. It’s just one of the many things discussed on this episode of…
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PCM20: When Tech Turns! Why I Cancelled My Apple Watch, How Facebook Hurts
Tech has made our world better in so many ways, but – as Apple Watch and Facebook sometimes shows us – that doesn’t mean it occasionally can’t turn on us. Take PC Mike’s experience with Apple Watch. After waking in the middle of the night to order it not too long ago, he finally got sick of the delays and run around and simply cancelled his order. Mike talks about why he cancelled his order and how he feels about Apple now. Then, Mike talks to Douglas Kenrick, a professor at Arizona State University and author of several books, and ASU Researcher Jessica Bodford, about ways Facebook is bad for…
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Has Apple Finally Become Too Elitist?
Help me with this folks: I need a reason to buy the Apple Watch. Try as I might, I find no need, no real purpose, no compelling rationale to justify spending hundreds of dollars for a watch that really doesn’t do much more than look good. I’m trying very hard here to talk myself into pre-ordering it when Apple starts taking orders on April 10. But the Apple Watch, near as I can tell, is nothing more than a status symbol for those who think they are trendsetters. Let’s start with these reasons against buying one. It is ridiculously expensive. The cheapest model, called the Sport, sells for $349 for…
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PCM009 PC Mike Podcast: Forget Wall St., What Apple’s Success Means to YOU!
Ever since becoming the company to make the most money ever during a three-month period, everyone’s been talking Apple. But here’s the thing: A lot of the discussion has been centered on Wall Street as opposed to the view from Main Street – what Apple’s success as a business means to the consumers who actually buy Apple products and services. That’s exactly what we talk about during this episode of the PC Mike Techcast with our special guest, Paul Sweeting, lead analyst at Gigaom Research and founder of Concurrent Media Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting and editorial services firm specializing in digital media technology and policy issues. “Apple needs to make big, category-defining, or…
