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The iPhone 5G Mar 03, 2020

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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 thrive. As in a best-selling. So, yeah, told you so, whatever.

But now, this year, the next-generation modems are slightly better, the networks are slightly bigger, and even though 5G is still a mess, rumor has it Apple will be going all-in come the fall.

But what does that really mean?

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The Mac ARM Feb 28, 2020

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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 see all of it. So, now I want to touch on what happens next: The transition itself.

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The iPhone Flip Feb 27, 2020

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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 there won't just be many but generations of many, so they won't be so new or so different anymore, but they'll still be fun, and they'll still be welcome by people who want a big screen that isn't so big in their pocket or bag.

But the concept itself is still super intriguing to me. The iPhone of flip phones. To get to that, to be that — the iPhone Flip — what exactly would it take?

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How Apple Can Save the HomePod in 2020 Feb 25, 2020

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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 integrated together. Apple's forte. So what could possibly go wrong?

Well, in the time it took Apple to bring the HomePod to market, the market had changed. Amazon had shipped the Echo with Alexa, Google had begun replicating them, and, it turns out, Apple had brought a premium speaker to a commodity assistant market.

There have been a couple of software updates since, but nothing that set fire to the HomePod like the early, heady days of the iPhone, iPad, Watch, probably even Apple TV.

So, what can Apple do now? How can the HomePod be fixed?

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iPhone 'CarKeys' Are Coming! Feb 23, 2020

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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 dreaming about for over half a decade.

Why? Let's get into it!

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Apple Issues Quarterly Guidance Update for Investors Feb 19, 2020

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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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Why iPhone 12 Needs Smart Zoom (vs. Galaxy S20) Feb 18, 2020

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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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Where is the iPhone Flip? Feb 17, 2020

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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, now, because those phones are coming out, people are wondering out loud — Where is Apple's iPhone Flip?

So, where is it?

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Swift Playgrounds for Mac (Feat. Sharon O'Mara) Feb 13, 2020

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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 fundamentals of code or becoming coders. To make those next million apps.

Since then, over 2.8 million people have downloaded, and over 5000 schools have deployed Swift Playground for iPad. And now, this week, for its second act, Apple is releasing Swift Playgrounds for the Mac.

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Apple Watch OS 7 — What Comes Next (Wishlist) Feb 12, 2020

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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 detection, and the ECG app.

And, while the current watchOS 6 bits are, of course, the best ones yet, there's still a lot more I'd live to see with watchOS 7.

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