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All-New iMac Design â Finally?! Jun 10, 2020

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We just got hit by a rumor saying thereâll be a new iMac at WWDC 2020, Appleâs annual world wide developers conference, set to kick off online in just under 2 weeks.

Now, while #WWDC is always software focused, there have also been some pretty big hardware announcements there as well, including the Mac Pro in 2019 and the iMac Pro in 2017.

So, given all that, what is this next gen #iMac rumor and, more importantly, what does it all mean?

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iOS 14 â What the iPhone Needs Next Jun 09, 2020

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WWDC 2020, Appleâs annual World Wide Developers Conference, is less than two weeks away. And that means our first look at iOS 14, Appleâs next-generation operating system for the iPhone, is also less than two weeks away.

There have already been some reports about just what exactly we might see this year but I think, after the pain of iOS 13 last year, there are also a few things we need to see in #iOS14 year (and, yeah, iPadOS 14 for the iPad as well).

And, Iâm going to go through all of it.

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iPhone 12 â Touch ID?! Jun 08, 2020

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Back in 2017, Apple deleted Touch ID and replaced it with Face ID. They didnât keep both. They didnât add Face ID to Touch ID. They went to the brave new world of biometrics and burned the old one down behind them.

But, the ashes had barely even settled before we started getting rumors of Touch IDâs return. Itâs resurrection.

Not just in the new iPhone SE, which some people loved precisely because it had Touch ID, but in the flagship iPhones as well.

But, why would Apple kill it just to bring it back to life? And could they do it as soon as the #iPhone12?

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iPad Air 4 â Going 'Pro'? Jun 07, 2020

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Roll-of-the-dice accurate Mac Otakara dropped some rumor bombs this week about a new 4th generation iPad Air. When you combine them with previous rumors from supply chain exfiltrator extraordinaire, Kuo Ming-Chi, and the sometimes lucid LOvetodream Twitter account over the last couple of months, it provides a compelling vision for what might that next gen iPad Air might be. Thatâ¦ or a tantalizing fantasy.

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iPhone 12 â Deleting the Notch Jun 05, 2020

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Itâs been three generations and almost as many years, and not only hasnât the notch gone away, it hasnât gotten any narrower or shallower. Not one bit. And some people, well, they still hate its breathing guts. If youâre one of them, throw a like down below and be counted.

But, could the #iPhone12, the iPhone 13, any future iPhone really, do anything at all to lessen that pain?

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How To Protect Your iPhone Privacy and Security Jun 03, 2020

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Out of the box, your iPhone tries to strike a balance between security and safety, privacy and convenience.

If you have location on, especially for social apps and photos, they can be used to find you and others in case of emergency. But they can also be used to place you and others in situations of tyranny.

Videos can help document and prosecute abusers but can also be used to identify and target people standing up to abuse.

Online backup can save your data even if your iPhone is taken on damaged, but can also expose your data to extralegal seizure from servers.

Notifications and biometrics can help you get things done faster but can also let others get to your things faster.

If youâre at home, you probably want to to keep your iPhone set to maximum convenience. Also, if youâre a bad actor of any kind, leave it like that as well. Please and thank you.

But, if youâre putting yourself in harms way, if youâre on the front lines as press or health care or to protect the rights, civil liberties, and simple dignity of your family, community, and country, then you should absolutely lock your iPhone down. Hard.

In situations where you fear for your security, the best thing to do is get a second, burner phone and lock that down. An older iPhone or iPhone SE works great. If you have the time or money.

Either way, hereâs how to protect your data. In the extreme.

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Apple Watch 6 â Biggest Rumors! Jun 01, 2020

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Some of the rumors swirling around the next version of #watchOS7 this June or the next #AppleWatch6 this fall â or both! â concern mental health.

So, I asked one of the smartest people I know, who also happens to be a licensed psychotherapist, Georgia Dow, to come on the channel and discuss them with us.

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iPhone 12 â Mega Anamorphic Zoom?! May 30, 2020

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Rumors are making the rounds that the iPhone 12 or iPhone 13 â one of the upcoming iPhones â will finally increase the megapixel count on the camera system to a number greater than 12. With 64 being the flavor of the week.

Now, megapixels are all about quantity. They donât always help, and can even hurt, image quality.

There are also rumors of other improvements, even entirely new cameras.

Hereâs what they all are, how theyâd all work, and why Apple may just be considering them.

Thisâ¦ is #iPhone12 camera rumors explained!

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iPad mini 6 â Not Going Pro? May 28, 2020

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It may seem like the gap the original iPad mini filled so well has narrowed considerably over the years.

I mean, when the mini first launched, the iPhone had just gone 4-inches. But, in short order, Apple went to 4.7 and 5.5-inch Plus displays. Now, 6.5 inches is the Max and, rumor has it, the iPhone 12 might just Max out at 6.7-inches.

So, for iPad mini 6, Apple could do what the did with the 12.9-inch iPad Pro and Thanos-snap off half the bezels, keeping the same screen size but making the overall casing size smaller and more portable. That matches up with Kuoâs March rumors, but it also seems to hit up against the ever-growing iPhones even harder.

Sure, the iPad mini is different. The aspect ratio is different. Where modern iPhones are slightly wider than 2 by 1, the iPad is still 4 by 3. So, the pages of books and comics better fit the screen, side-by-side apps are useful in portrait, and the keyboard doesnât blot out the screen in landscape. But, still, the market for that might be shrinking even faster than the bezels.

Instead, Apple could do with the iPad mini 6 what they did with the 11-inch iPad Pro: Still Thanos-snap half the bezels, but do it by keeping the same casing size and increasing the screen size. That matches up with Kuoâs May rumors, even if it effectively makes the iPad mini not quite so mini any more.

Now, thereâs no word on whether or not the iPad mini will actually get the new iPad Pro design language. Apple can reduce the bezels either way, though obviously keeping Touch ID instead of moving to Face ID limits the amount of vertical bezel that can be removed. Unless Apple goes with a side button mounted or under-display Touch ID, but thereâs no indication of that yet either.

So, what options are there for iPad mini 6?

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Apple Glasses â No Apps?! May 26, 2020

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Over the last couple of videos Iâve talked about why Apple would make Glasses, basically a face-mounted computational display â and what could actually get people like you and me to buy a pair. One thing I havenât talked about yet, though, is the developer storyâ¦ apps.

When the original iPhone launched, it came with only the apps Apple had given it. Including the last-minute addition of YouTube.

Henri Lamirauxâs software team had just finished a forced march, a marathon of sprints, to get version 1 ready to ship, only to have to turn around and start another for version 2, this time to get the frameworks ready for the SDK event and the App Store ready to launch.

Umpteen millions of apps and billions of dollars later, it literally made apps as mainstream, as popular, as music and TV.

So, it should have come as no surprise that when the original Apple Watch launched, it had not only the apps Apple had given it, but kindaâ¦ sortaâ¦ an App Store as well.

Back then, on that first version, the App Store lived on the iPhone and so did the app logic. Only the interface and interaction layers wereâ¦ projectedâ¦ onto the Watch. All based on Appleâs pre-existing Extensibility frameworks.

Now, thanks to Kevin Lynch and the Watch team's own forced marches, Apple got app logic onto the Watch in version 2 and brought the store on-device in version 5.

Sure, itâs fair to say that, while there are some legit terrific Apple Watch apps, wrist-based apps in general just havenât proven as popular or as critical to the Watchâs success as they were the phoneâs. Subject for another video. Let me know in the comments if you want to see it.

But, that same process, the process of projectables, could prove even more critical and more valuable for Appleâs next small thing.

Thisâ¦ is the potential for Apple Glasses apps. (Please donât call them glapps.)

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