CultCast #341 - The SAD state of the Mac

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This week:

• It’s been over a year since Apple has updated virtually any of their Macs.  Just what in the heck in going on?  
• Why all your online purchases will soon be taxed
• Instagram takes on YouTube with new IGTV app
• MoviePass is about to change for the worse.  AGAIN.
• America’s largest theater chain just put the final nails in the MoviePass coffin
• And things get weird in an all-new what we’re into!

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• It’s a sad day for US.  It’s the end of an era.  The end of tax-free shopping online.  
• In 1992 the supreme court that a state couldn’t force an online retailer to collect sales tax for them if the retailer didn’t have a physical presence in that state.  
• Today, they reversed that decision
• What does that mean?
• Well, it means that you state will undoubtedly begin forcing online retailers to charge you sales tax on all your online orders.  
• If you have a big purchase to make, I’d do it this summer.  

  On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/14/on-the-sad-state-of-macintosh-hardware/

• Rogue Amoeba developer Quentin Carnicelli posted this week on the company’s blog about his frustration with Apple’s continued neglect of the Mac.
• "At the time of the writing, with the exception of the $5,000 iMac Pro, no Macintosh has been updated at all in the past year.”

  Instagram takes on YouTube with new IGTV app https://www.cultofmac.com/556779/instagram-launches-