Macworld Podcast: Your thoughts on AirTag stalking, the MacBook Pro, and more<div id="link_wrapped_content">
<body><section class="wp-block-bigbite-multi-title"><div class="container"></div></section><p>This episode of the Macworld Podcast is all about your hot takes from the Macworld Twitter feed. You have thoughts on Apple news and articles we’ve written, and we’re going to share and respond to what you wrote. All of the comments mentioned in the show can be seen below.</p>
<h2 id="listen-to-episode-775">Listen to episode 775</h2>
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<h2 id="airtag-stalking-controversy">AirTag stalking controversy </h2>
<p>Reports have popped up about Apple’s AirTag being used to nefariously track people, with the latest being a <a rel="nofollow" href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10382823/Brooks-Nader-seen-leaving-6th-Police-Precinct-finding-Apple-AirTag-tracker-her.html&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" target="_blank">story about Brooks Nader[/url], a model who found an AirTag in her coat pocket, presumably placed there by an unknown person to track her whereabouts. In a Macworld discussion with PCWorld’s Gordon Ung, Gordon called the AirTag a “super creep stalker rob tool,” said that AirTag is “rapidly turning into a disaster,” and thought that it’s unfortunate that “the tribe is OK with that.” </p>
<p>On the show, we respond to Gordon’s comments and share our thoughts on AirTag and what Apple could do to address the problem. </p>
<h2 id="upcoming-apple-arcade-releases">Upcoming Apple Arcade releases </h2>
<p>@Dr_Scaphandre responded to our article about <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="
https://www.macworld.com/article/561351/apple-releases-january-2022-ios-macos-iphone-ipad-services.html" target="_blank">Apple’s potential January releases[/url].</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Spades: Card Game+…Yeah that was so worth blocking Xbox Cloud from the App Store
Move over Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Pokemon Legends Arceus, and God of War PC. Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subs because Apple Arcade coming to destroy you with Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://t.co/rE9KhGEoBI&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">pic.twitter.com/rE9KhGEoBI[/url]</p>— Spaceboi Scaphandre 🔞 God of War PC is tomorrow! (@Dr_Scaphandre) <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://twitter.com/Dr_Scaphandre/status/1478033747991830528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">January 3, 2022[/url]<script async src="
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<p>We recently posted about <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="
https://www.macworld.com/article/559916/how-to-universal-clipboard-iphone-mac.html" target="_blank">Universal Clipboard[/url] and how it’s a great feature, but users need to turn it on to take advantage of it. That set off @ArtMusicLife, who tweeted:</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No one finds this on their own because we’re exhausted by all of the 10 billion Tim Cook-era menus.</p>— W.L. Lewis (@ArtMusicLife) <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://twitter.com/ArtMusicLife/status/1476321960430821377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">December 29, 2021[/url]<script async src="
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<p>In his recent Different Think column for our sister site, Macworld Sweden, Samuel Nyberg wrote about <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="
https://www.macworld.co.uk/opinion/different-think-apple-embrace-delays-3812066/" target="_blank">Apple’s recent tendency to be late with some OS features[/url], such as Universal Control. Nyberg thinks it’s better if Apple embraced staggered feature releases. @paterfamilias tweeted: </p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m so old I remember when it was even better to not to announce products you couldn’t deliver … but that Apple was a few trillion less in market value</p>— PaterFamilias (@paterfamilias) <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://twitter.com/paterfamilias/status/1478423376985272322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">January 4, 2022[/url]<script async src="
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<p>In our final set of hot takes for this show, we go back to Samuel Nyberg and another Different Think column, this time about the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="
https://www.macworld.co.uk/opinion/different-think-scrap-macbook-pro-13in-3811958/" target="_blank">13-inch MacBook Pro and how it’s time to scrape the laptop[/url]. This set off a varied set of reactions on Twitter. </p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="de" dir="ltr">Best MacBook Pro: includes touchbar.</p>— Lucifer🌒 (@L95403) <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://twitter.com/L95403/status/1473342027941089280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">December 21, 2021[/url]<script async src="
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No sense product, indeed.</p>— Ugo (@UgoMECellamare) <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://twitter.com/UgoMECellamare/status/1473337882165366796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">December 21, 2021[/url]<script async src="
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">They're probably still around cause Apple still has a whole warehouse full of them somewhere. 😀</p>— 🇨🇦 Howie 💉💉 (trying to stay safe) (@can_twitr) <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://twitter.com/can_twitr/status/1473351947239501829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">December 21, 2021[/url]<script async src="
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's time to shut up and keep your nose out of things that don't your concern. 👋 <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://t.co/yBX4yB9Nzm&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">pic.twitter.com/yBX4yB9Nzm[/url]</p>— Rudolf Gottfried (@RudolfGottfried) <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://twitter.com/RudolfGottfried/status/1473355226891628546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&xcust=1-1-564196-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">December 21, 2021[/url]<script async src="
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Macworld Podcast: Your thoughts on AirTag stalking, the MacBook Pro, and more
