iPhones aren’t waterproof?! https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for FREE. First 200 also get 20% the annual Brilliant subscription! While you may think your iPhone — your any phone really! — is waterproof, it isn’t. It’s not even really water-resistant, not for all water, not all the time. It’s…. complicated. But in this video, I’m going to explain to you why that is, what you can do about it, and most importantly, what Apple could do about it with the iPhone 12 — or the iPhone aft...
Aug 25, 2020•12 min•Ep. 81
Microsoft Joins Epic Battle! https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for FREE. First 200 also get 20% the annual Brilliant subscription! Epic Games mega-snuck the biggest of all shadow bombs onto the App Store and Play Store — a way around giving Apple and Google a 30% cut of all the Vbucks. As a result, Fortnite, their uber-popular Battle Royaler, got shadow banned. Still on phones and download histories, but kicked out of the stores. Epic sued, saying no company — sorry, no *phone* c...
Aug 24, 2020•25 min•Ep. 80
Apple Silicon iMac Preview! Get CuriosityStream AND Nebula for less than $15/y (26% off!) https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie If you think Apple Silicon is just about giving us MacBooks that are more like iPads, well, then you, my friend, are 100%, completely, out-of-your-mind-palace wrong. It’s also about giving us iMacs that are more like iPads. Wait… what? Yeah. The rumors are talking new iPad Pro-inspired design, potential Mini-LED, ProMotion display, Apple system-on-a-chip, maybe Face I...
Aug 21, 2020•18 min•Ep. 79
iPhone 12 Event! It's Preview time! Get CuriosityStream AND Nebula for less than $15/y (26% off!) https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie The lights go dark. The music pauses. A spotlight hits the stage. Tim Cook strides out. “Good morning! Good morning!” The Apple Logo hits the screen. The iPhone 12 event… Is.. on. Any other year. Any other year. This is exactly what all of us would have been waiting all summer long for. But 2020… just *isn’t* any other year. 2020 is like, I don’t know… the Dev...
Aug 19, 2020•13 min•Ep. 78
Get a FREE month of CuriosityStream *and* Nebula (my streaming platform) by going to https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ and using the code "reneritchie" when you sign up! Epic Games, the company behind the massively popular Fortnite franchise, declared Battle Royale on Apple and Google this week, flagrantly defying both platforms’ locked-down in-app payment policies. In retaliation, Apple and Google kicked Fortnight off the App and Play stores. Which is… pretty much exactly what Epic was w...
Aug 17, 2020•27 min•Ep. 77
https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for FREE. The first 200 of you will also get 20% your annual Brilliant subscription! I’m beyond super excited about the potential for a new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro — running Apple Silicon, with mini LED, Face ID, USB4, 5G, WiFI6, and much, much more. Here’s why! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 14, 2020•16 min•Ep. 76
Microsoft has accused Apple of refusing to allow their upcoming Xbox Game Pass Ultimate service onto the iPhone and iPad App Stores. If you’re not familiar with it, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, formerly Project xCloud, promises to let you stream over 100 Xbox games to your phone or tablet for $15 a month. Essentially, to be the Netflix or Spotify — the TV+ or Apple Music — of games. All you can play with just one monthly price to pay. And Microsoft isn’t the only company pushing a service like this....
Aug 12, 2020•17 min•Ep. 75
iPhone 12 delayed! Right after Apple’s CFO, Luca Maestri, said new iPhones would come a few weeks later than usual this year, the socials, the comments, the commentarians, they all just… exploded. Scorching, incandescent hottest of hot takes… everywhere. And this time market movers didn’t even get to plant their usual rumors with their usual big media enablers to cover their positions. It came straight from Apple. Imagine the chagrin. Short. No. Stop. Cover. Cover. Cover. Ridiculous. Even though...
Aug 11, 2020•12 min•Ep. 74
watchOS 7 Public Beta! Go to https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for FREE. The first 200 of you will also get 20% your annual Brilliant subscription! The watchOS 7 public beta is just going live right now, so if you’re interested in test-driving the next-generation of software for Apple Watch, strap yourself in, because this is the video for you. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 10, 2020•14 min•Ep. 73
The first 1000 of you who go to https://skl.sh/reneritchie0820 will get 2 months of Skillshare Premium for free! The new 27-inch iMac (2020) is here — 10-core Comet Lake with Radeon Pro 5700XT and T2 — and I’ve spent the last 24-hours hammering on it. I’ll be back with a full review in a week or two, but if you’re trying to decide if you should order now, now, now, and you want answers, you want the truth, well… it’s literally my job to give you all you can handle. These are the decisions Apple ...
Aug 08, 2020•20 min•Ep. 72
The first 1000 of you who go to http://skl.sh/reneritchie2 will get 2 months of Skillshare Premium for free! macOS Big Sur has just gone into Public Beta. So, if you’re considering a test-drive before the general release later this fall, then wow but is this the video for you. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 06, 2020•20 min•Ep. 71
The first 1000 of you who go to http://skl.sh/reneritchie2 will get 2 months of Skillshare Premium for free! The new iMac (2020) is here and I’m going to react to it live-to-camera! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Aug 04, 2020•13 min•Ep. 70
The first 1000 of you who go to http://skl.sh/reneritchie2 will get 2 months of Skillshare Premium for free! Rumor has it the upcoming iPhone 12 will finally — markdown double asterisk finally — have 5G radios. Sub 6, maybe even Sub 9 on the mini and regular 12, and mmWave on the Pro and Max. That’s low-band and mid-band, or FR 1, and high-band, or FR 2. But, what does all of that jargon even mean? In general… and for the vast majority of people in the real world thinking of buying and using it?...
Aug 03, 2020•13 min•Ep. 69
Get a 15-day free trial for unlimited backup at Backblaze! http://backblaze.com/reneritchie If you need a new iPhone now, should you get the iPhone SE right now, or should you try and hold out for the rumored smaller iPhone 12 coming later this fall? And… how much later this year might that be exactly? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 31, 2020•12 min•Ep. 68
Go to https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for FREE. The first 200 of you will also get 20% your annual Brilliant subscription! Last week, I made a video about 4K YouTube finally coming to the Apple TV… and the iPhone and iPad as well. Kinda. Maybe… And… it prompted a ton of other questions about why YouTube is just so damn quirky on Apple products… and in general. Everything from how links open… or don’t, why picture-in-picture and hand-off work in Safari but not the app, why notif...
Jul 29, 2020•13 min•Ep. 67
Get a 15-day free trial for unlimited backup at Backblaze! http://backblaze.com/reneritchie The lawsuits are over. The drama has ended. It’s 2020 and Apple and Qualcomm have finally buried their legal hatchets — at least enough to work together on bringing 5G modems to the iPhone 12 this fall. Almost certainly. We think. Look… listen.. it’s complicated. And here’s why… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 28, 2020•13 min•Ep. 66
Get a 15-day free trial for unlimited backup at Backblaze! http://backblaze.com/reneritchie The first Apple Silicon Mac system will be coming this year. And… while it may or may not be a new 12-inch MacBook Air… I kinda all shades of want it to be a new 12-inch MacBook Air. Yeah, I said what I said. Here’s why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 27, 2020•11 min•Ep. 65
Go to https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for FREE. The first 200 of you will also get 20% your annual Brilliant subscription! With the next-generation iPad Air rumored to be getting the same design and even display as the iPad Pro… Just where exactly does that leave the next-generation iPad Pro? Let's figure that out! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 24, 2020•12 min•Ep. 64
Go to https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for FREE. The first 200 of you will also get 20% your annual Brilliant subscription! The feud is over. The codec war… has ended. It’s 2020 and me, you, we — all of us! — can finally watch 4K YouTube on the Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. Finally. Almost. Maybe. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 23, 2020•11 min•Ep. 63
Go to https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for FREE. The first 200 of you will also get 20% your annual Brilliant subscription! Some tech nerds in some comment sections just keep saying if Apple doesn’t bring a high refresh display to the iPhone 12, well, then they’re not bringing the iPhone 12 home. DED. Done. RIP. And the other 99 out of 100 people are saying… a high what now? So, what is 120Hz, what’s so good about it, what are the problems with it, will Apple actually ship it wi...
Jul 21, 2020•12 min•Ep. 62
Get a FREE month of CuriosityStream *and* Nebula (my streaming platform) by going to https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ and using the code "reneritchie" when you sign up! At the exact same time Tim Cook announced that the first Apple Silicon Mac would be shipping *this* year, he also announced that they still had some new Intel Macs in the pipeline — maybe iMacs, maybe MacBook Pro — that they were really excited about. And… just… why?! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Ca...
Jul 20, 2020•9 min•Ep. 61
Get a FREE month of CuriosityStream *and* Nebula (my streaming platform) by going to https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ and using the code "reneritchie" when you sign up! When Tim Cook announced the Mac was transitioning from Intel to Apple Silicon, he said it was for one reason and one reason only — so they could make much better products. And Apple Silicon was the only way they could do it. But, what does that even mean? What kinds of new and improved MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, ...
Jul 17, 2020•19 min•Ep. 60
Get a FREE month of CuriosityStream *and* Nebula (my streaming platform) by going to https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ and using the code "reneritchie" when you sign up! Apple isn’t moving the Mac from Intel to ARM. Not exactly. And it isn’t about speed. It isn’t even about battery life. Not really. No. Most people are getting Apple Silicon and the family of new SoC’s heading our way just wrong, wrong, wrong. Here’s why… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priva...
Jul 15, 2020•15 min•Ep. 59
Get a FREE month of CuriosityStream *and* Nebula (my streaming platform) by going to https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ and using the code "reneritchie" when you sign up! Siri Shortcuts. One of the biggest, nerdiest, and most awesome updates to iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS7 this year, and… they barely got any attention at the WWDC 2020 keynote. But… I can fix that! Joining me for this video is Matthew Cassinelli, who, long story short, was one of the original members of the Workflow team...
Jul 14, 2020•11 min•Ep. 58
Lower your monthly phone bill and get a $25 credit at https://rene.ting.com iPadOS14 has just gone into Public Beta. So, if you’re even thinking about giving it a test-drive before it goes into general release this fall, then this video for you. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 13, 2020•17 min•Ep. 57
Lower your monthly phone bill and get a $25 credit at https://rene.ting.com There are rumors going around — because there are always rumors going around — that Apple is going to kill the Lightning port on the iPhone. Not to replace it with USB-C, no, but just to watch all the wires die. Now, it probably won’t be with any of the #iPhone12 models released this year. But, maybe as soon as the next iPhone next year. And the entire industry is moving that way, not just Apple. So, why? See Privacy Pol...
Jul 10, 2020•10 min•Ep. 56
Lower your monthly phone bill and get a $25 credit at rene.ting.com The iOS14 public beta is live now so if you’re interested in test-driving Apple’s next-generation software for the #iPhone, strap yourself in. Also, I’ll be doing separate previews for iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and all the AirPods, HomePod, Home, and Car plays, so hit that subscribe button and bell right now, so you don’t miss any of them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art...
Jul 09, 2020•23 min•Ep. 55
New Store! New Merch! Free month of Nebula! http://standard.tv/reneritchie Should you get an iPhone 11 now or wait and get an iPhone 12 later this year? It’s a fair question, especially if the iPhone12 comes out later than normal this year. Want vs. need. Immediate vs. delayed gratification. A phone in the hand vs. a potentially better one in the future… at some point. So, let’s break it down. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priv...
Jul 07, 2020•10 min•Ep. 54
Almost two years ago, on the old channel I worked for, I did a video about how Apple could add multitouch to the Mac — the benefits, the costs, the challenges, all of it. Because, in the age of the iPad, for a lot of people, a screen without multitouch not just feels but effectively is… broken. And, while I think I got a lot of it right… I also think I got a few things wrong. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my...
Jul 06, 2020•11 min•Ep. 53
iOS14 borrows a page from Apple Watch complications to totally reboot widgets on the iPhone, the iPad, even the Mac. James Thomson, the developer behind PCalc, who once shoved an entire calculator into an iOS 8 widget, joins me to discuss how the new version, announced at WWDC 2020, works — and doesn’t. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 03, 2020•14 min•Ep. 52
