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Leo Laporte
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Apple buys Dark Sky, iPhone 9 coming soon.
- Apple buys Dark Sky hyperlocal weather app
- No Apple March event - but iPhone 9 might still be coming soon
- Apple struggles with secrecy in a work-from-home world
- Apple's new coronavirus app and website
- Swift 5.2 and Xcode11.4 are out
- Yes, the new iPad Pro will break if you bend it
- Apple is still paying contract workers
- Apple Store employees working tech support
- Google Stadia, Nvidia GeForce, and Microsoft xCloud are not on iOS
- iOS bug makes VPNs less secure
- Apple offering 4k movies for as low as $5
- Apple developing Touch ID for Apple Watch
- Samsung ending LCD production
- Dropbox starts synching Mac desktop
- Rene Ritchie is on his own at youtube.com/reneritchie
Picks of the Week:
- Rene's Pick: Manfrotto mini tripod and Pokemon Go at home
- Andy's Pick: Downie 4
- Lory's Pick: FinalWipe by the makers of FinalStraw
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil
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This week's stories:
- Rene Ritchie reviews the new iPad Pro
- Alex Lindsay explains how the new iPad Pro uses LiDAR
- Will Apple's AR camera be a killer app or a gimmick?
- Does the iPad Pro keyboard make it a real computer?
- The MacBook Air is the perfect computer for everyone except Alex Lindsay
- Mac Mini is a good faith update
- How to use your iPhone as a webcam
- New Apple Watch bands
- Apple makes Mac Pro Afterburner card available as a standalone purchase
- Apple sign goes up for auction at $20,0000
Picks of the Week:
- Leo's Pick: Plague Inc fights Covid-19
- Andy's Pick: Vagner Veek at the Met! Bryn Terfel! Stephanie Blythe!
- Rene's Pick: NetNewsWire
- Lory's Pick: Mujjo Leather Wallet Case in Slate Green
- Alex's Pick: Audio Implements In-Ear
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil
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This Week's Stories:
- Movie studios releasing first-run movies direct-to-stream to fight coronavirus
- Streaming services, online concerts, and Sick Burn on the roof
- Lots of leaks and rumors, but will Apple release anything soon?
- WWDC 2020 will be online-only
- Apple is donating $Millions, hoping to help
- 7 Bay Area counties issue shelter-in-place orders
- Apple launches new Powerbeats 4 headphones - Lory has an early review
- Apple stores are closed. Here's hoping there are alternate ways to get your Apple products fixed.
- Is Tim Cook sick? Uncertainty crashes Apple stock
- Apple TV+ shows shutting down production
- Apple TV and other streaming services offering great deals on streaming entertainment
- Apple Card offers users to skip March payment
- iOS 13.4 did not come out today. What happened?
- How is Apple dealing with privacy, security, and secrecy with all its workers at home?
- Apple NOT working on an "Apple Prime" TV+Music+News bundle
- Sacre Bleu! Apple fined $1.2 billion in France
- Apple pays $454 million to patent troll VirnetX
- Patent troll tries to shut down coronavirus tests
- iPhone 9 + iPhone 12 rumor alert! bigger screens and faster processors
- Apple patents an iMac with a built-in projector
Picks of the Week:
- Leo's Pick: iBoy retro toy figure from Classicbot
- Andy's Pick 1: Joyce DiDonato streams "Werther" excerpts from her living room
- Andy's Pick 2: Free Korg and Moog apps this week
- Rene's Pick: EDITH
- Lory's Pick: Animal Crossing / Doom Eternal crossover memes
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil
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Stories of the Week:
- Coronavirus: Apple tells employees worldwide to work from home
- Coronavirus: Apple gives retail employees unlimited sick leave
- Coronavirus: iPhone 9 and 12 delayed
- Coronavirus: App Store rejects coronavirus apps
- Coronavirus: Irish Apple employee infected
- Coronavirus: Apple loses $100B in value in one day
- Coronavirus: Apple TV+ premieres canceled
- Coronavirus: Good news: you CAN use Clorox wipes on your iPhone.
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: iPad mouse support, new smart keyboards with trackpad
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: over-the-ear AirPod / EarPod headphones icon
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new iPhone 9 and iPad Pro with new triple-lens camera array and time-of-flight 3D sensor
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: improved Express Travel tap-to-pay. Plus: Andy Ihnatko explains how to steal free transit codes!
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new Apple TV remote with Find My Remote scream
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: AirTags Trackr competitor with user-replaceable batteries
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: HomeKit will recognize your face, Atmos soundbar
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: Apple Watch will have a tachometer, blood oxygen sensor
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: Siri voices customizable by developers
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: AliPay App, wallpaper app, kids mode, more
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: homescreen list view with Siri suggestions
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new Apple AR app codenamed "Gobi"
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new sleep tracking app, fitness app codenamed "Seymour," GymKit
- HUGE iOS 14 Leak: massive improvements to Apple Pencil
- Good Apple: iPad Air 3rd generation get free repairs for screen blanking issue
- Bad Apple: Apple lets developers put ads in notifications
- Ugly Apple: ex-Apple tech support worker steals billionaires' identities, cops nab 55 stolen iPhones valued at $80k, and more in the MacBreak Police Blotter
- Apple Pay available in Mexico
- New jailbreak lets you install Android on an iPhone 7
- iPhone can do whaaaat?
- HUGE iPhone 12 leak: bigger battery, 64MP camera, and 120Hz display
- Lory Gil and Apple celebrate International Women's Day
- Apple Music, Spotify, and others sued for music industry conspiracy
Picks of the Week
- Andy's Pick: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy turns 42
- Rene's Pick: Logitech Brio
- Lory's Pick: The Apple War. Max Von Sydow died on March 9th, 2020. Among his many legendary performances, Sydow starred in "The Apple War," a 1971 German film about Jean Volkswagner, a businessman who comes to Sweden to build Deutschneyland, a gigantic amusement park for German tourists. Roy Lindberg, played by Sydow, does not like the idea, and with the help of a little magic, his family starts scheming against it.
- Alex's Pick: Screen
- Leo's Pick: Subscribe to Hands-On Mac!
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil
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This Week's Stories
- Woz is NOT Patient Zero!
- Google has canceled I/O due to Coronavirus. Is Apple's WWDC next?
- Tim Cook addresses Coronavirus concerns in shareholder meeting
- Bad guys can't use iPhones
- How to steal malware from advanced nations
- Kuo: Apple is working on 6 mini-LED products
- Kuo: Apple is working on a 14.1" laptop
- How to set up a second screen for a Mac
- Apple tells Chinese game developers to get a license
- Plague, Inc. banned in China
- Apple must pay $25 per iPhone for battery kerfuffle
- Apple accused of using Chinese forced labor
- How to put your iPhone or iPad into DFU mode
- Your AirPods will die in 2 years
- Eero gets HomeKit support
Picks of the Week:
- Leo's Pick 1: Notion
- Leo's Pick 2: Retroactive
- Andy's Pick: Filson Medium Rugged Field Bag
- Rene's Pick: Tot
- Lory's Pick: Binging with Babish
- Alex's Pick: Ntwrk
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil
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This Week's Stories:
- JIF vs GIF: The peanut butter weighs in on the pronunciation debate of the ages
- Let's just get rid of animated GIFs and use animated PNGs instead!
- COVID-19: Apple moves production to Taiwan, stocks down, but iPad purchases up
- Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR Tech Deep Dive
- Warren Buffett finally switches from flip phone to iPhone
- Apple might maybe think about letting you use Chrome on your iPhone
- Safari requires 13-month HTTPS certificates
- Apple wants you to secure your router with HomeKit, but only 3 routers use it
- Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple-designed ARM Macs coming in 2021
- COVID-19: Apple asks shareholders to follow CDC coronavirus quarantine measures
- Steve Jobs would have been 65 yesterday
- Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy and paste, dies at 74
- Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83
- Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician dies at 101
- How often does your TV set off your HomePod, Echo, Cortana, and Home?
- Supreme Court: Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million
- Apple will soon let you text someone your car keys
- Bob Iger resigns from Disney
Picks of the Week:
- Andy's Pick 1: Agrippina - Metropolitan Opera in HD
- Andy's Pick 2: Spend Stack
- Rene's Pick: Sachtler Flowtech 75: the world's fastest tripod legs
- Lory's Pick: Nintendo Switch Animal Crossing: New Horizons Edition
- Alex's Pick: Leica BLK360 LIDAR Imaging Laser Scanner
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil
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This Week's Stories
- Get a facemask you can wear without losing FaceID
- Apple warns of revenue loss due to COVID-19 coronavirus
- iPhone 9 / iPhone SE2 still on track for late March announcement?
- Is Apple launching "AirPods Pro Lite" March 31st
- Will Apple make a foldable iPhone Samsung Galaxy Z Flip competitor?
- What's the market for an inexpensive iPhone?
- Related: what are convolution kernels?
- Where will the next China competitor be? India? Malaysia?
- BlueMail sues Apple for stealing their features, gets kicked out of the App Store
- Apple: no push notifications on App Store apps, unless they are for Apple products
- Is Sign in with Apple a success?
- Rene Ritchie: what to do if you lose Pokemon Go access due to a job change
- MalwareBytes: malware threats on Mac increased exponentially last year
- Jason Snell's sixcolors.com: Malwarebytes is full of crap
- California court: Apple stores must pay employees for the time spent checking their bags for stolen merchandise
- The real reason there is no iPad Instagram app
- Apple Music Replay's new 2020 Replay playlist is still in beta
- Sonic The Hedgehog movie redesign pays off: best video game movie opening weekend haul in history
Picks of the Week
- Andy's Pick: Lego Lunar Lander
- Rene's Pick: Cairo Throw
- Lory's Pick: Logitech StreamCam
- Alex's Pick: LumaFusion
- Alex's Pick 2: TheMcDubbys on Tik Tok
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, Lory Gil, and Alex Lindsay
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This Week's Stories:
- Taika Waititi blasts MacBook keyboard at the 2020 Oscars
- Samsung Galaxy S20 announcement - that's a lot of megapixels
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is a laptop in your pocket
- Are all premium phones going to cost $1000+ from now on?
- Is Mobile World Congress 2020 doomed? Coronavirus fears may shutter this year's show
- Foxconn closed for Coronavirus - iPhone production delays
- Apple adds universal purchase for iOS and macOS apps - buy an iPhone app, get a Mac app for free!
- macOS kernel extensions (KEXTs) out, security in
- Catalina is breaking Mac apps left and right
- Apple joins FIDO alliance
- France fines Apple 55 minutes of revenue for slowing down iPhones
- You can now find your iPhone with your Android phone
- CIA used Crypto AG to spy on the world
- Apple Watch sells more than all Swiss watches put together
- T-Mobile Sprint merger clears final hurdle
Picks of the Week:
- Leo's Pick: How to turn off Netflix Autoplay Previews
- Andy's Pick: Sony NW-A55 Walkman
- Rene's Pick: Swift Playgrounds for Mac
- Lory's Pick: Locke & Key on Netflix
- Alex's Pick: Kabaq Augmented Reality food
- Alex's Pick #2: 090 Media
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, Lory Gil, and Alex Lindsay
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This Week's Stories:
- Election tech nightmare in Iowa
- Apple's record quarter - almost 8 billion dollars a month
- 5G is still not going to work in 2020
- Apple grows in Europe and India
- 1.5 Billion Apple devices
- Don't try to trick Tim Cook
- Coronavirus hits Apple production until February 9th
- Blackberry phones are finally dead
- Russia's law against Apple
- Hamilton is coming to Disney+
- EU votes to kill Lightning plug
- Cal Tech gets 1.1 Billion from Apple and Broadcom for patent infringement
- Apple figures out how to make two-factor authentication better
- Apple TV's 'Foundation' is the largest ever production in Ireland
- LG TVs get Apple TV
Picks of the Week:
- Lory's Pick: SpellTower+
- Rene & Leo's Pick: Fantastical
- Andy's Pick: Amphetamine for MacOS
- Alex's Pick: Calvary
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil
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This Week's Stories:
- Apple Quarterly Report expectations
- Could Coronavirus slow iPhone production?
- Apple TV+ still needs a hit
- Apple in talks to buy MGM
- RottenTomatoes AppleTV+ ratings
- Apple surging in India with lower-priced phones
- iPhone SE 2 coming this spring?
- iPad turns 10
- Lack of multitasking is still holding the iPad back
- iOS 13.3.1 update
- Neil Young thinks MacBook Pro audio sucks
Picks of the Week:
- Rene's Pick: DoubleTake
- Andy's Pick: rsync
- Lory's Pick: Nomad Rugged Case for AirPods Pro
- Alex's Pick: Byte
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil
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