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?

The Problem with Vision Pro App Store

Lately, I’ve been challenged when using App Store for Vision Pro. Specifically, there’s no easy way to find the most recently released visionOS applications. While Apple does have a “new” category, a lot of apps in it were available on launch day. As somebody interested in finding new and interesting ways to use this fancy gizmo, I want to see the most recent applications being launched.

For now, I’m willing to sort through all the noise to find a little signal. Unfortunately, there isn’t a way to do it.

I know this is temporary, and that over time it’ll get easier to find the notable applications, and the firehose of new ones will not interest me. But for the time being, I wish Apple had a simple way to see everything that’s new from the last several days.