576: Resting Tim Face

Subtitle: The Chooser, the Riddler, the Penguin, the Finder
Blind ranking bad Apple products, hope for a cheaper MacBook, the perils of Siri automation, and apparently Tim Cook took a trip to Washington D.C. for some sort of meeting?

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