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How macOS Catalina changes EVERYTHING Jun 25, 2019

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macOS Catalina is bringing with it a feature set that edges on the audacious.

Catalyst aims to let the vast catalog of iPad apps move more easily to the Mac, while SwiftUI teases a future where developers can build them that way to begin with.

iTunes, venerable and beyond bloated, is being shattered into new Music, Podcast, and TV apps, with updated Books and even Finger functionality to round them out.

There's a new, more salient Photos app, Mail that's more zen, Notes that are easier to find, QuickTime for pros, all new, all powerful Reminders and a far more omniscient Find My app, plus Screen Time comes to Mac to help you balance it all.

Sidecar lets you use your iPad as an external display to mirror or extend your desktop. Or, grab an Apple Pencil and use it with tablet-enabled Mac apps in a way that just might make any of the smaller Wacoms weep.

Security and Privacy are getting an even more vigilant Gatekeeper, a read-only system volume, extensions and drivers ripped out of kernel space, and Sign in with Apple.

And Accessibility is showing all of that up not just with better VoiceOver, color filters, and new zooms, but with full-on, Bene Gesserit-level Voice Control.

Here's not just what it all does but how it all works!

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Mac Pro vs. Mac mini — On a Budget! Jun 22, 2019

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Apple's got a new Mac Pro and it's almost everything everyone who loves the Mac Pro wanted. It's got a bunch of PCIe slots for expansion, all wrapped up in a mini tower case that can grate cheese in more dimensions than ever.

If you want to, you can kick it up to 28 Xeon Cascade Lake cores and 1.5 Terabytes of memory. That is, if you work for ILM or Pixar or Skywalker Audio because just going out to buy those cores from Intel will cost you 7 and a half to 10K, and just getting that RAM from… anyone will cost you another 20K.

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Why Google is Killing the Pixel Slate Jun 21, 2019

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Google is killing off its Pixel line of homespun tablet hardware. Now, just to be 100% crystal clear, Google is still going to be making Pixel Phones and Pixel Laptops, Home Max and Chromecast Ultra, Nest Thermostats and Nest Cams.

But the Pixel Slate — That has to die. But, why?

Russell Holly from Android Central joins me to figure it all out!

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iPhone 12: Rumor Analysis Jun 20, 2019

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Yes, this is utterly, completely, totally, add any three words that all mean the same thing, ridiculous. iPhone 11 is still 3 months away and not only are we already getting iPhone 12 rumors, we've been getting them basically forever already.

So, let's break them down!

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OMG! Facebook's New Libra Cryptocurrency is...! Jun 19, 2019

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Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has just announced Libra, his attempt to revolutionize not just payments, but money itself, on a global scale, and Calibra, Facebook's wallet app for Libra.

But what is Libra more exactly and why, after the terrible, scandalous, privacy violating, trust rending, not good very bad year if not decade Facebook's had, why would anyone in their right mind, or Mark Zuckerberg, think for a smoking hot minute we'd trust them with our money?

Tantalizingly — or appallingly, you be the judge — Zuckerberg thinks he has an answer.

Hit subscribe and poke that bell gizmo so YouTube will have to actually tell you about new videos when they come out, and then let's break it all down.

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Can iPad Pro Replace Your Laptop Now? Jun 14, 2019

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When I first reviewed the iPad Pro last November, I focused on the seriously amped up hardware design. I figured the iOS 12 software story hadn't changed so there was no point revisiting it. Many of you all, of course, allowed yourselves to retort. And you were right. So, two weeks later, I redid my review, went over why I felt the iPad Pro was less a laptop replacement and more a laptop alternative, and then went through a few of the ways I was hoping Apple would improve the software in the future to take better advantage of all the new hardware.

Well, that future is now. Ish. iOS 13 and iPadOS — yes, the iPad still runs iOS 13 just with the beginnings of some iPadOS differentiation — offer some major enhancements to the iPads capabilities.

I'm not going to review it or re-re-review it now. All the new software is still all up in beta, so it wouldn't just be premature, it would be downright silly. Everything from performance to stability to implementations can and will change. This fall, once Apple ships all the new bits though, game on.

Instead, What I am going to do in this video is go down my list from that previous video, everything I said I needed to make the iPad Pro in specific but any modern iPad in general my main machine, and see, at least in theory, how far we've come.

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iOS 13 Siri Shortcuts: Automation Unleashed! Jun 13, 2019

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Siri and Apple's voice and assistive technologies in general are getting some major love in iOS 13, including a synthetic yet more natural sound, new intents so developers can add Siri support to Maps apps like Waze and audio apps like Overcast, Audible, and Spotify, and even full-on Voice Control so you can navigate your iPhone, iPad, or Mac with basically the Will and the Word.

And, of course, Shortcuts is becoming a built-in app and is adding support for a bunch of new functionality, not the least of which is the ability to accept conversation input. Yup, now if you tell Shortcuts to order you a pizza, it can ask you which of the last four pizza orders you want to repeat.

To dig deep into how it all works, I asked Matthew Cassinelli to join. He was actually on the Workflow team when Apple bought the app, had written the documentation and filled the gallery, but left just as Apple was transitioning it into Shortcuts. Why? So he could help evangelize the technology from the outside. And that's just exactly what he's doing here today.

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watchOS 6: This Changes EVERYTHING! Jun 13, 2019

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Apple has announced their plans for watchOS 6, and here's 5… no, let's make that an even 6, things you need to know about it!

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tvOS 13: Apple TV's Update for 2019 Jun 10, 2019

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One of the big questions following the announcement of the new TV app and it's availability on smart TVs and streaming boxes was — what place did that leave for Apple TV 4K, which could now come off as expensive at best and superfluous at worst.

And Apple, with Tim Cook doing the presentation, started to make that case at WWDC. It's about the experience, dammit. And that experience is driven by tvOS.

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Why iPadOS Changes EVERYTHING Jun 06, 2019

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Back in early 2015 I asked Apple and the world a question: "What if the iPad ran iPadOS?" At the time, iPad may not have been quote-unquote just a big iPod touch, but it wasn't much more than an iPod touch gone IMAX.

Then, slowly, every couple of years, it started getting exclusive features like Side-by-Side apps and Picture-in-Picture video. Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard. Multi-window Drag-and-Drop and workspaces. But, only every couple of years.

Because the iPad didn't have its own OS like the Mac, the Watch, or even the TV, Apple wasn't forced to show off new features every year at WWDC. So, some years, under the crunch of iPhone or just general features, they didn't.

Now, Apple has finally made one of my longer standing dreams into reality. iPadOS. And not just because it's neat or right or just for the iPad, which has long had its won experience, to have its own, named iOS variant the way most other major products do, but because of the demands that come with it having its own, named variant.

From now on, whether it's just a little like tvOS or a lot like iOS — which, ironically, was originally called iPhone OS — every year, Apple is going to have to have something to say about the iPad at WWDC.

And here's why that changes everything!

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