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Google Podcasts has just arrived on iOS and I sat down with the founder and head of product, Zack Reneau-Wedeen from Google, to find out all about it, and chat all about podcasts in general.

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Back in 2018, Apple didn't just do what they've usually done with new iPads — make them thinner, lighter, and faster. Well, yes, of course they did, but they also did something more. They made them modern, with smaller bezels, Face ID, and a new, magnetic, capacitive Apple Pencil.

Like with the iPhone X, it was a once-in-a-decade revolution. So, now, some 18 months later, we're back to evolution — a wider processor, a second, wider...

The MacBook Air, Apple's most popular Mac, is fully, finally back.

And I don't say that lightly. In October of 2018, Apple brought the Air out of hibernation and gave it a modern makeover. Mostly.It got the updated design, high density, Retina display, and USB-C interface that made the 12-inch MacBook, its once-and-former-successor, so compelling.

But, it also inherited the butterfly keyboard, which was meant to be thinner and more...

Apple has cried HAVOK and let slip the devices of March. That includes new MacBooks Air, new iPads Pro, a bumped up Mac mini, and new spring colors for Apple Watch bands and iPhone cases.

Pretty much everything that was made new back at the October 2018 event has been updated now, today.

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So… what exactly are the new Powerbeats 4 and what do they mean in the age of Powerbeats Pro?

Let's take a look!

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So, here's what seems to have happened: An internal build of iOS 14, which previous reports have pegged as "Azul", the Spanish or Portuguese word for "blue", got leaked.

Now, this has happened before. Sometimes they were accidentally left and found on the public web, sometimes someone didn't get what they want or were upset with someone in their reporting chain, so they had a little tantrum and leaked it, and sometimes someone just...

GDC, the game developer's conference, is canceled. Facebook's F8 conference is canceled. Geneva Auto Show, canceled. South-by-south west, canceled. Several U.S. states have declared emergencies. Italy is on lockdown. Santa Clara County, Silicon Valley, has effectively issued a short-term ban on events.

Now, Apple doesn't typically pre-announce anything. Not products. Not events. But, that Apple will hold a worldwide developers conf...

Rumor has it, Apple will be releasing not three new iPhones like last year, not even four new iPhones, but a whopping 5 new iPhones in 2020. Sure, it's nothing compared to the 879 new phones Samsung will likely release this year, but for Apple, it's a lot. Like… a lot a lot.

So, why?

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Apple has tentatively agreed to settle the iPhone BatteryGate class-action lawsuit in the U.S. to the tune of $500 million dollars. This follows a €25 million fine last month.

So, how did this all go so wrong for Apple… and why?

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Late last year, after a bunch of petulant pundit hot takes about how the iPhone 11 would be doomed, so very doomed because it didn't have 5G, I did my best to calmly, rationally explain why those first-generation modems were too hot and power hungry, the networks so few and far between, and the capacity nowhere nearly at mainstream iPhone scale yet.

And… the iPhone 11 somehow managed to not only survive without a lick of 5G, but th...

Speculation about Apple transitioning some or all of its Mac computer lineup from Intel to Arm is running hot and heavy again following an off-hand rumor by supply chain exfiltrator extraordinaire, Kuo Ming-Chi earlier this week.

I've already done a whole video on how Steve Jobs' famous keynote announcing the previous PowerPC to Intel transition could be replayed almost note by note for an Intel to ARM transition. Hit subscribe to ...

The Samsung Galaxy Flip is the original iPhone of foldables. That's what some people have been saying and… ah… I mean I get it. Well, first, no, it totally isn't. But I get it. I get the allure of of flipping phones. I've done umpteen videos about them. Hit subscribe and you can see all of them.

They're new. They're fun. They're different. At least so far, because there are only a few of them out right now. In a few years, I expect...

Seven years ago or so, when Apple first started working on the HomePod, they just wanted to make a great sounding speaker that you could drop anywhere in a room and that would sound great no matter where you dropped it or where you were standing to listen to it.

They were investing heavily into building up their audio engineering team and delving deeply into the concepts around computational audio. Hardware and software tightly int...

Earlier this month, 9to5Mac found code in the iOS 13.4 beta for a CarKey API, or application programming interface. CarKey seems to be a system that will allow your iPhone or Apple Watch to lock, unlock, even start your car… if your car has NFC and the manufacturer partners with Apple to make it all just work.

And… it sounds great. Terrific even. But it also still sounds so limited compared to the Apple Watch future I've been dream...

Why Apple is DOOMED. Finally. Again*.

*Earlier this week, Apple released and investor update on quarterly guidance for Q2, 2020. In other words, the revenue and other financial projections they'd given last quarter to set expectations for this quarter.

Apple is getting out ahead here, one of the first first major American companies to do so. They won't be the last.

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Samsung has just announced the new Galaxy S20 Ultra and it's got a few features I'd just love Apple to steal for the iPhone 12.

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A year ago, I made a video about how foldable devices were the future. Or at least a big part of it. After all, the history of human technology was the history of foldables. From books to wallets, we humans just love to fold everything, including our clothes and our food.

I even mocked up folding iPhone concepts in Photoshop that look a lot like what the Modern Moto Razr and just-announced Samsung Flip turned out to look like.

And,...

Back at WWDC 2016, Apple's CEO, Tim Cook brought Cheryl Thomas, Vice President of Software Engineering Operations, up on stage to introduce Swift Playgrounds for iPad. An educational development environment that made real programing using a real programming language — over half a million apps now built with it in the App Store and counting — accessible and approachable to beginners of all ages who interested in learning the fundame...

I've done a bunch of videos now saying why I think the Apple Watch is the most important device Apple has ever made, the most important consumer electronics device ever made, and basically the gadget of the last damn decade. Because it saves lives by design.

A lot of the credit for that goes to watchOS — the software that drives the watch hardware. It's what's given us those life saving features like heart rate notifications, fall ...