This Month in the MacSparky Labs

Here’s a list of the events that took place in the Labs in March:

  • 2024-03-29 – The Lab Report for March 29, 2024 (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-27 – Sparky’s Safari Plugins (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-26 – Exploring SoundSource (Levels 2-3)
  • 2024-03-22 – The Lab Report for March 22, 2024 (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-21 – March 2024 Deep Dive – Calendars, Revisited (Level 3)
  • 2024-03-20 – Transcripts Feature in Apple Podcasts (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-19 – Watch to Drafts Dictation Workflow (Levels 2-3)
  • 2024-03-18 – Meetup Summary – March 2024 (Podcast, Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-16 – Labs Meetup – March 2024 (Levels 2-3)
  • 2024-03-15 – The Lab Report for March 15, 2024 (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-13 – Local vs. Cloud Transcription Experiment (Levels 2-3)
  • 2024-03-12 – Sparky’s New Travel Charger (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-08 – The Lab Report for March 8, 2024 (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-07 – Video from February 2024 Deep Dive – The Case for Time Tracking (Level 3)
  • 2024-03-06 – Exploring Paletro (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-05 – Simple Scan from Greg Pierce (Levels 2-3)
  • 2024-03-04 – Sparky’s Vision Pro Check-In (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-02 – Log In with Your Email and Password on Memberful (Levels 1-3)
  • 2024-03-01 – The Lab Report for March 1, 2024 (Levels 1-3)

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Mac Power Users 737: Scoring a Movie, with David Metzger

David Metzger is a composer, arranger, and orchestrator with a celebrated career that has earned him Academy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. He joins Stephen and me on this episode of Mac Power Users to talk about how the music for some of the most beloved films and shows of our time is made.

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DOJ v. Apple 

As a no-longer-practicing attorney and someone who generally digs Apple, I reviewed the DOJ complaint filed today and have a few takeaways.

  • A taxpayer-funded lawsuit against a trillion-dollar company is not going away anytime soon. It will take on a life of its own. Trust me on this one.
  • In my eyes, the monopoly case here is much more complicated than it was against Microsoft back in the day. The iPhone has a lot of viable competition.
  • To follow up on that point, Apple considers the benefits arising from its control over the iPhone a competitive advantage. Can the government force Apple to make the iPhone more (for lack of a better term) hackable and diminish its market advantage? I suspect many Apple customers don’t even want that.
  • Regardless of merits, this will be a distraction for Apple. The only question is: How big?