This week: the cool features in the new iOS 8.4, iOS 9, and El Capitan betas; Taylor Swift starts a royalty battle with Apple; the ridiculously low payouts artists get from music streaming; the new Macbook’s big missing feature; and the magic of Apple advertising.
 
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We also want to give Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com a huge thanks for the great music you hear on today's show.
 
This week’s links
 
This single from the Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjZuykKY1I
 
You heard him—Buster bought Chumbawumba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc
 
Taylor Swift explains her bad blood with Apple Music
http://www.cultofmac.com/326931/taylor-swift-explains-bad-blood-apple-music/
 

Kahney's Korner: Bring back my magnets Jony Ive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PascXxhc1q0

 

Apple’s new material will eliminate iPhone’s unsightly antenna lines - buster
http://www.cultofmac.com/326976/apples-new-material-will-eliminate-iphones-unsightly-antenna-lines/
 
Apple’s award-winning ‘Shot on iPhone’ ads are a ‘game-changer’
http://www.cultofmac.com/327156/apples-award-winning-shot-on-iphone-ads-are-a-game-changer/
 
Pharell made chump change on his streaming royalties for “Happy"
http://fusion.net/story/33442/pharrell-made-less-than-3000-from-43-million-pandora-streams-of-happy/