Episode 205: New Year Tier List

Follow Up Apple to Allow Alternative App Stores and More on iOS in Brazil by Aprilhttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/ios-alternative-app-stores-brazil/Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big techhttps://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/ macOS Tahoe users report persistent screen flickering issues https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/19/macos-tahoe-users-report-persistent-screen-flickering-issues/ News Apple's iOS 26.3 will introduce proximity pairing to third-party devices in the EUhttps://www.engadget.com/mobile/apples-ios-263-will-introduce-proximity-pairing-to-third-party-devices-in-the-eu-133037696.html?src=rss Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/apple-hit-with-115m-for-extremely-burdensome-app-store-privacy-policy/ World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/worlds-largest-shadow-library-brags-it-scraped-300tb-of-spotify-music-metadata/ Car CornerAndroid AutoMediaChristmas Telly was BADFallout Season 2https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/fallout/s02Taskmasterhttps://www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster-champion-of-champions?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19633109208&gclid=Cj0KCQiAx8PKBhD1ARIsAKsmGbddyPpDv9Z54NKV9tglmqLLPg5ao8NSvIoS8hpJd3vr0uucFhrGkqwaAnlbEALw_wcB Finding Father Christmashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Father_Christmas_(2025_film)GamesCall of Duty, Titanfall developer Vince Zampella has died at age 55https://www.theverge.com/news/849297/vince-zampella-dies-call-of-duty-titanfall-respawn-battlefield 2025 was the year Xbox diedhttps://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/2025-was-the-year-xbox-died-130000467.html?src=rss Main ShowTier listhttps://miro.com/app/board/uXjVGWL-zHM=/ App of the Week Firefly iiihttps://www.firefly-iii.org/ Thing of the Week Switch 2 Dockhttps://antank.net/collections/for-nintendo-switch/products/s3-maxContact@[email protected]@g5maniac.bsky.social@[email protected]