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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Benjamin and Chance talk about the long-awaited launch of the Apple TV app on Android, Apple partners with Alibaba for AI in China, and Apple adds a better-late-than-never feature for merging Apple Accounts. Also, Chance kicks off the show with a hands-on review of the brand new Powerbeats Pro, with heart rate monitoring.

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

So last week we talked about the hot tub controversy on Altstore. Hotub is the adult

0:04.9

entertainment app that made its way to Alt Store the third party at Marketplace in the European

0:09.2

Union. And a lot of our conversation was focused on Altstor describing it as the first

0:14.0

Apple approved porn app for the iPhone. And I think we got a little bit mixed up when we're

0:20.2

talking about the notarization process in the European Union.

0:24.6

We got some feedback on it from a few people, including Steve Trouton-Smith and Mayo. You have some clarity on what exactly that notarization process entails.

0:33.0

Yeah, because we basically said offhandly that notarization for i also internet marketplace apps does not include

0:39.7

a human review right just purely automated that is just wrong um the notarization process

0:46.2

apple says through a combination of automated checks and human review it helps ensure apps are free

0:52.0

of no malware viruses are the security threats functions and promise and don't expose users to egregious fraud.

0:56.9

So, and I think this has come up before, maybe with Delta and something where a Raleigh

1:01.8

Testup was upset. The Apple had like seen the app, but they weren't allowing it. And then,

1:05.8

oh, they conveniently allowed it after they changed the, um, app still rules to allow emulators globally, right?

1:12.5

So like it wasn't, it wasn't just like, oh, an automated process was then sitting there.

1:16.4

They was like hanging on a queue where at some point some human eventually says yes or no, right?

1:21.0

And they can essentially delay the rollout of these alternatives, these apps on these alternative stores,

1:25.0

because Apple still has the pressure to say yes with a human at some point

1:28.2

and obviously at the moment there aren't that many apps that go through this process so it doesn't

1:33.1

seem like you should take that long but at least on some cases it's taken like months for an app to get

1:38.2

the human approval to go through even though this is technically the the app store that has nothing

1:43.4

to do with Apple at all.

1:45.3

So with Hotub, somebody Apple did look at it.

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