This is Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro. The higher-end version. There are actually two new 13-inch MacBook Pros and, while that might sound confusing, it’s really nothing new. We just tend to forget that Apple has had both lower and higher end models on the market for… basically ever. This year, those models include: 🚶♀️- A new, low-end two-port low-end that’s pretty much the old 13-inch but with the new Magic Keyboard and double the storage for the same price, and; 🏃♂️- A new, high-end fou...
May 12, 2020•21 min
Walt Mossberg isn’t just a titan of journalism, he’s every bit as iconic and transformative as many of the products he's reviewed. From 1991 to 2013, he was the personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Alongside Kara Swisher, Walt also hosted the All Things D conference, which brought some of the biggest names in tech to the stage, separately and together. In 2014, Walt and Kara went off on their own and launched Recode, which they sold to Vox Media in 2015. Walt retired in Jul...
May 11, 2020•47 min
This week, Apple announced a new 13-inch MacBook Pro. Last month, Apple announced a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard dock. Sure, there’s a new 16-inch MacBook Pro and an 11-inch iPad Pro, but since this is a comparison I’m sticking with what’s most comparable. Because, frankly, I wasn’t originally going to do this video. At all. I felt like it was too Apples to… Apple’s other Apples. But you kept asking, you kept saying you had money to spend on just one of Apple’s new 13-ish inch pro p...
May 09, 2020•15 min
Apple announced their second quarter, 2020 financial results last week and despite everything else going on right now, they still managed to rake in over $58 billion dollars. What’s more, wearables revenue, which includes Apple Watch, set a quarterly record. Now, much like the iPod back in the day and the iPad still to this day, the computer watch market pretty much is an Apple Watch market. With one giant, glaring, neon exception. You have to have an iPhone to use one. But will you always? SPON...
May 07, 2020•8 min
Apple has just announced that their 31st annual, world wide developers conference, WWDC, will kick off — virtually — on Monday, June 22, 2020. And yeah, that’s three weeks later than usual, but what’s usual this year anyway? If you’re not familiar with it, WWDC — affectionately known as Dub Dub, is the big summer show where, every year, Apple announces updates to all of their operating systems and the developer frameworks for same, which now includes iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and, of course, m...
May 06, 2020•11 min
Two months ago, Apple launched an updated MacBook Air. This week, Apple launched an updated 13-inch MacBook Pro. Hit subscribe to see my takes on both of them, but one of the questions I got quickest and hardest was this — which one should you get? Because, thanks to some quirks of Apple, the higher end MacBook Air now seems to have a really big overlap with the lower end MacBook Pro. But, like Transformers, these smaller MacBooks are hiding more differences than meet the eye. This… is the #MacB...
May 05, 2020•9 min
Apple has just launched a new 13-inch MacBook Pro. And, at first glance, it seems a little confusing. But, here’s what you have to understand right up front — There are really two new 13-inch MacBook Pros out now: 🚶♀️- A 2-port low-end that’s pretty much the old 13-inch but with the new Magic Keyboard, and; 🏃♂️- A 4-port high-end that has that Magic Keyboard, but also newer, higher, more modern specs. SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for free. The first 200 of y...
May 05, 2020•8 min
Ray Zahab… is extreme. Explorer-in-Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, he’s not content to simply run marathons or ultra-marathons. To bike trails or mountains. No, Ray wants to run and bike continents. Put foot and wheel to the world. The Sahara Desert. 70 kilometers a day for 111 days. 400 kilometers across Canada. The arctic. Namibia. Baffin Island. The Kamchatka peninsula in Russia. Death Valley. The Amazon. And the list goes on and on. What I love most about Ray, though, is...
May 04, 2020•34 min
I’ve done a bunch of videos recently about the iPhone SE. Subscribe and you won’t miss any of them. But there’s another new iPhone coming this year on the exact opposite end of the spectrum. Kinda. I’m talking about the iPhone 12 — or whatever Apple decides to call the 2020 flagships. And there are just a metric ton of rumors going around about it already, from the obvious to the absurd. So, let’s break it all down. SPONSOR: CuriosityStream Get a free month of both CuriosityStream and Nebula (my...
May 01, 2020•14 min
It feels like every year now, new rumors pop up about Apple switching the Mac from Intel processors to custom, Apple-made processors based on ARM. The same type of processors that currently run everything from the iPhone to iPad to Apple TV. Now, scuttlebutt has it that Apple’s had ARM based Macs in the labs for years, just like they Intel Macs in the lab before the big switch to PowerPC — wow, 15 years go already. They’ve just been holding them, like a silicon sword of Damocles, over Intel’s he...
Apr 30, 2020•17 min
Apple’s got a brand new iPhone SE and it starts at just $399. I’ve already compared it to the iPhone XR and iPhone 11, because I figured that’s what most potential customers would do. But, a bunch of you asked me to also put the iPhone SE head-to-head against the iPhone 8. Either because you’re considering the upgrade or you’re wondering if getting a discounted iPhone 8 from a carrier or big box store may be an even better deal than a new iPhone SE. And price isn’t always the same as value. So, ...
Apr 28, 2020•12 min
Justine Ezarik — iJustine — and I talk about getting started in this business, how she current works on the iPad, what we still want to see from the iPhone, and tangent — our mutual passion for Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and the incident that got to her to start training. SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for free. The first 200 of you who go to this link will get 20% your annual Brilliant subscription. SUBSCRIBE: YouTube SPECIAL THANKS: Patreon Patreon supporters help mak...
Apr 28, 2020•42 min
Apple just released the new iPhone SE. It’s based on the 4.7-inch iPhone 8 platform, home button, Touch ID, and all. And, while that’s fine for many people… for others… not so much. See, some really, really want a return of the original, iconic 4-inch iPhone SE design. The one that not only fit into every pocket, pack, and hand, but disappeared into it. Others, a 5.5-inch Plus-sized model that’ll give them the high-end specs, keep the low-end price, but just stretch things out a little closer to...
Apr 25, 2020•11 min
5 years ago today, I was standing with Jim Dalrymple of the Loop at the Palo Alto Apple Store when the Apple Watch first went on sale. There was a crowd of people at the door, lined up for hours and around the block. Most of them had seen the original announcement the September before, when Tim Cook had taken the stage at the historic Flint Center in Cupertino, for his first big One More Thing. And again, in March of 2015, at the Yerba Buena center in San Francisco. Many had even come to the try...
Apr 24, 2020•15 min
Apple has a brand new iPhone for 2020. A $399 U.S. brand new iPhone SE, which is the least expensive we’ve seen since… well, since the original iPhone SE back in 2016. Like the original, it features a classic design, including the Home button and Touch ID, leveled up with the latest, greatest chipset, and what Apple claims is their best single camera system ever. Its the retro-future of iPhones, but should it be YOUR next iPhone? SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for...
Apr 22, 2020•20 min
If you’re working from home, either because you always do or right now it’s something you have to do, there’s a huge variety of ways you can use your iPhone to help you get that work done better. And, to help me get this video done better, I asked some of the smartest, most productive people I know to share their pro tips. SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for free. The first 200 of you who go to this link will get 20% your annual Brilliant subscription. SUBSCRIBE: Y...
Apr 21, 2020•14 min
For early access to future episodes of this podcast, join https://www.patreon.com/reneritchie or sign up for https://watchnebula.com/reneritchie Brian Tong and I talk about leaving big media jobs and going indie, how to make a living as a YouTuber, the iPhone SE launch and how we got our videos done as fast as possible, the iPhone SE vs. iPhone 12 and… comic books! SUBSCRIBE: YouTube SPECIAL THANKS: Patreon Patreon supporters help make these videos possible. Get access to exclusive Discord, prev...
Apr 20, 2020•44 min
Apple’s got a brand new iPhone SE and it starts at just $399. That’s way less than any of the current flagships, including the iPhone 11 at $699, and even the previous generation iPhone XR at $599. But, as anyone who watches this channel knows, price isn’t the same as value. So, if you really do need to buy a new iPhone right now, now, now, which new iPhone will be the best value for YOU? SPONSOR: Skillshare The first 1000 of you who go to http://skl.sh/reneritchie will get 2 months of Skillshar...
Apr 17, 2020•13 min
The new iPhone SE is here. That’s right. Not iPhone 9. Just iPhone SE, the second generation. New and improved for 2020. It’s replacing the iPhone 8 in Apple’s lineup, though not completely the iPhone 8 Plus yet. And I’m not just going to tell you what it is. I’m going to tell you why it is and, most importantly, who it’s for. Even and especially if that’s not you or… even me. SPONSOR: Skillshare The first 1000 of you who go to http://skl.sh/reneritchie will get 2 months of Skillshare Premium fo...
Apr 15, 2020•8 min
New iPhones are cool. The iPhone 9 SE is cool, the upcoming iPhone 12: Cool. But sometimes it’s what comes with new iPhones that ends up being really cool. Like the iPhone 7 and AirPods. And… I think it’s about to happen again. With AirTags. SPONSOR: CuriosityStream Get a free month of both CuriosityStream and Nebula (my streaming platform) by going to https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie and using the code "reneritchie" when you sign up! SUBSCRIBE: YouTube SPECIAL THANKS: Patreon Patreon sup...
Apr 14, 2020•11 min
Ian Cutress of AnandTech joins me to talk MacBook Air thermals! The new MacBook Air, an update the the 2018 redesign, got pretty good reviews when it came out a month ago. People liked the new keyboard, the new chipsets, and the lower price. But, there were a few criticisms as well. Basically, the still low-res webcam, some concerns about thermal throttling on the faster CPUs, and the battery life. Since then, I’ve had time to pound on the Magic keys, compare the web cam to pretty much everythin...
Apr 12, 2020•17 min
Yesterday, I talked about an iPhone 12 diagram supposedly ripped from a leaked internal iOS 14 build. Well, there were also a couple other diagrams leaked as well, one of which shows a new iPhone Home screen. Or, at least that’s how many people ran with it. What it really showed was a Rorschach test for whatever it is you secretly wish the iPhone Home screen, or Springboard, would look like. So… SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to brilliant.org/reneritchie and sign up for free. The first 200 of you who go ...
Apr 10, 2020•9 min
Over the last week or so, a diagram has been making its way across the pillars of the social cross — twitter, Insta, blogs, YouTube. It’s purportedly from that internal December iOS 14 build, the one that everyone and their Animal Crossing pals now seemingly have access to. And it shows the new iPad Pro LiDAR Scanner — that’s LIght Detection and Ranging — but in fully Digivolved iPhone 12 Pro form. That’s lead to a ton of people telling all of us, over and over again, just exactly what it is. Bu...
Apr 09, 2020•9 min
Last Thursday, Zack Hall from 9to5Mac reported that the long-rumored and widely anticipated next-generation entry-level iPhone would be called the iPhone SE, would come in red, white, and black, with up to 256 GB of storage, and most importantly, the launch was imminent, as soon as last Friday. Jon Prosser of Front Page Tech, meanwhile, previously reported that the iPhone 9 would tentatively be announced on or around April 15 and ship on April 22. (His use of the iPhone 9 name there was just a p...
Apr 07, 2020•8 min
The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro were really well-reviewed when they first came out, especially the cameras, battery life, and the lower price on the base model 11. There were some criticisms though. Namely, the lack of faster charging options and accessories, USB-C, and just how buggy iOS 13 was at launch. But, times change. Hardware gets put through its paces. Software gets updated. New competition comes out. Expectations change. And so do circumstances, especially right now when many of us are...
Apr 05, 2020•22 min
Yeah, new channel. Let me explain: I’m fascinated by Apple. I’ve been covering the company since the launch of the original iPhone, and they’ve come to touch just so many aspects of our culture, our relationships, our lives. They’ve become the lens through which many of us experience the rest of consumer tech as well, from Google to Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter, and more. I also love the news. I have a Sorkin-esque romantic ideal about how facts righteously presented can inform and empow...
Mar 30, 2020•2 min
