Apple reported record second quarter earnings this week, including increases in all product categories. Dave and I talk more about AirTags and all the things that you may want to track with them, and we look at iOS 14.5 and a couple of the new features that impress us.
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Apple on Wednesday reported record second quarter revenue of $89.6 billion, which is up 54 percent year over year. […]
The Apple event is over so Dave and I take some time to discuss all of the products the company announced. We give our thoughts on the iPad Pro, iMac, Apple TV, Apple Card Family, and of course, the color purple. I also took a minute to talk about the Apple TV+ show “The Day Earth Changed,” a show everyone should watch.
Starting in May, listeners in more than 170 countries and regions can sign up for premium subscriptions that include a variety of benefits curated by creators, such as ad-free listening, access to additional content, and early or exclusive access to new series. Listeners will be able to enjoy premium subscriptions from independent voices and premier studios, including Tenderfoot TV, Pushkin Industries, Radiotopia from PRX, and QCODE, to leading media and entertainment brands, including NPR, the Los Angeles Times, The Athletic, Sony Music Entertainment, and many more.
I also like some of the new features coming in an iOS update.
With iOS 14.5, listeners can access a redesigned Apple Podcasts app featuring an enhanced Search tab that provides quick access to Top Charts and categories. Apple Podcasts also features beautiful new pages for every show and episode to make it easier to follow, listen, and share. The new Smart Play button helps listeners automatically start episodic shows from the latest episode and serialized shows from the beginning of each series. Listeners can also now save individual episodes, which are downloaded for offline playback, making it easy to bookmark podcasts to listen to later from Library.
Apple today announced Apple Card Family, an innovative new way for people to share their Apple Card, track purchases, manage spending, and build credit together with their Family Sharing group. Available in the US in May, Apple Card Family allows two people to co-own an Apple Card, and share and merge their credit lines while building credit together equally. Apple Card Family also enables parents to share Apple Card with their children, while offering optional spending limits and controls to help teach smart and safe financial habits. Apple Card Family is designed to help the Family Sharing group achieve a healthier financial life by making it easy to track spending, all on iPhone and with a single monthly bill.
Financial health and building credit is so important for everyone. I have a feeling there are a lot of people that will take advantage of this for themselves and their children.
Apple today introduced AirTag, a small and elegantly designed accessory that helps keep track of and find the items that matter most with Apple’s Find My app. Whether attached to a handbag, keys, backpack, or other items, AirTag taps into the vast, global Find My network1 and can help locate a lost item, all while keeping location data private and anonymous with end-to-end encryption. AirTag can be purchased in one and four packs for just $29 and $99, respectively, and will be available beginning Friday, April 30.
AirTag is probably the worst kept secret at Apple over the last year or so, but it’s still great to see it hit the market. It’s interesting to note that AirTag uses a replaceable battery instead of being rechargeable. Apple says the battery should last over a year with everyday use.
Each AirTag is equipped with the Apple-designed U1 chip using Ultra Wideband technology, enabling Precision Finding for iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 users. This advanced technology can more accurately determine the distance and direction to a lost AirTag when it is in range. As a user moves, Precision Finding fuses input from the camera, ARKit, accelerometer, and gyroscope, and then will guide them to AirTag using a combination of sound, haptics, and visual feedback.
I love Precision Finding. I’ve misplaced my iPhone before and using sound to find is helpful, but nowhere near as accurate and quick as what this will be.
AirTag is designed from the ground up to keep location data private and secure. No location data or location history is physically stored inside AirTag. Communication with the Find My network is end-to-end encrypted so that only the owner of a device has access to its location data, and no one, including Apple, knows the identity or location of any device that helped find it.
AirTag is also designed with a set of proactive features that discourage unwanted tracking, an industry first. Bluetooth signal identifiers transmitted by AirTag rotate frequently to prevent unwanted location tracking. iOS devices can also detect an AirTag that isn’t with its owner, and notify the user if an unknown AirTag is seen to be traveling with them from place to place over time. And even if users don’t have an iOS device, an AirTag separated from its owner for an extended period of time will play a sound when moved to draw attention to it.
Privacy and security. That’s Apple.
The 12.9-inch iPad Pro features a new Liquid Retina XDR display that brings extreme dynamic range to iPad Pro, offering a stunning visual experience with more true-to-life details to the most demanding HDR workflows.
The iPad Pro was already the fastest device of its kind, but now it has the most efficient and powerful computer chip available, the M1, powering it. On top of that, Apple added an XDR display giving pros a level of portable power we could have only dreamed about a few short years ago.
I love this one line in Apple’s documentation.
iPad Pro now includes support for Thunderbolt.
This is huge for users.
Support for Thunderbolt and USB 4 makes the USB-C port on iPad Pro the fastest, most versatile port ever on an iPad, with 4x more bandwidth for wired connections than the previous iPad Pro — up to 40Gbps. Thunderbolt supports 10Gbps Ethernet and opens up a massive ecosystem of high-performance accessories, like faster external storage and even higher resolution external displays, including the Pro Display XDR at full 6K resolution…
I also love Center Stage. The fact that you can move around and the camera will move with you, keeping you in the center of the frame is really cool. I can’t wait to try this out on the new iPad.
The TrueDepth camera system on iPad Pro features an all-new 12MP Ultra Wide front camera designed specifically for iPad, enabling Center Stage, a new experience for video calls. Center Stage uses the much larger field of view on the new front camera and the machine learning capabilities of M1 to recognize and keep users centered in the frame. As users move around, Center Stage automatically pans to keep them in the shot. When others join in, the camera detects them too, and smoothly zooms out to fit everyone into the view and make sure they are part of the conversation.
Pricing and availability:
The 11-inch iPad Pro starts at $799 (US) for the Wi-Fi model and $999 (US) for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model, and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro starts at $1,099 (US) for the Wi-Fi model and $1,299 (US) for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model
There is so much to love about this new iMac. Apple today introduced an all-new iMac featuring a much more compact and remarkably thin design, enabled by the M1 chip. The new iMac also includes a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, … Continued
There’s a lot to love about software I’ve been using for more than 20 years and now BBEdit, the power tool for text, is ready for Big Sur and M1-powered Macs!
Dave and I talk about the upcoming Apple event and what may be released. We also focus in a bit on Apple TV and the rumors surrounding that device. Apparently, Spotify has a new gadget called Car Thing, which looks really stupid.
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Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for a special event dubbed “Spring Loaded,” for April 20, 2021. As with all events in the past year, this one will be held online. You can watch the event on any Apple device from Apple’s web site or on your Apple TV. […]
This week Dave and I talk about how fake apps on the App Store scam users. Some people think Apple is ignoring the problem, but I’m willing to bet that there is a lot going on behind the scenes to fix it. We also discuss Tim Cook’s interview with Kara Swisher.
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At the 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, actor Jason Sudeikis won a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his leading role as the eponymous English soccer coach in Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso.”
Turns out, Ted Lasso is Apple’s premiere show. Who knew.
LG Electronics Inc. (LG) announced that it is closing its mobile business unit. The decision was approved by its board of directors earlier today.
LG’s strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector will enable the company to focus resources in growth areas such as electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence and business-to-business solutions, as well as platforms and services.
I really like LG as a company. I have several LG TVs and they make quality products, but the smartphone business is dominated by Apple and Samsung. It makes sense for LG to focus its efforts in places it can have a larger impact.
Apple today announced it is introducing two entirely new game categories and adding more than 30 incredible titles to Apple Arcade, its popular gaming subscription service for players of all ages. Apple Arcade offers breakthrough, unique benefits players love: no ads, no in-app purchases, support for Apple’s high user privacy standards, and one all-inclusive subscription offer with access for up to six family members. In addition to new exclusive Arcade Originals, including “NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition,” “Star Trek: Legends,” and “The Oregon Trail,” the service is introducing two new game categories, Timeless Classics and App Store Greats. Arcade Originals are playable across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Timeless Classics and App Store Greats are available on iPhone and iPad.
With the new categories Apple’s catalog now has 180 games for its users.
Dave bought a new car, so we talk about his first experience using CarPlay. Apple recently released new Siri voices that allows users to choose a wider variety of voices from around the world. There are more rumors about an a new Apple TV remote.
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Apple, the University of South Carolina, and Benedict College announced a partnership on Tuesday that will see eight Apple computer labs built statewide. Funding for the project comes from the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief, which awarded $6 million to the school.
Apple is clamping down on product security, a move the company hopes will stop leaks about its future products. A brother and sister stole millions of dollars of MacBooks from Stanford, and got caught, of course. A cool video takes us down memory lane with some old Apple products.
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Apple discontinued the original HomePod this week. It’s a product I absolutely love and use every day, but I understand the move. Also, Intel debuted some new ads with Justin Long, who Apple used in its “I’m a Mac” ad campaign. These new ads aren’t nearly as good.
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Apple today updated Apple Maps with COVID-19 vaccination locations from VaccineFinder, a free, online service developed by Boston Children’s Hospital that provides the latest vaccine availability for those eligible at providers and pharmacies throughout the US. Users can find nearby COVID-19 vaccination locations from the Search bar in Apple Maps by selecting COVID-19 Vaccines in the Find Nearby menu or by asking Siri, “Where can I get a COVID vaccination?”
The Apple Maps placecard for each vaccine site will include the operating hours, address, phone numbers, and a link to the provider’s website, where Maps users can learn more about available vaccines and book appointments. The initial rollout includes more than 20,000 locations, with Apple adding more sites in the coming weeks.
Apple is also allowing local businesses to update their placecards to display COVID information, like shopping hours. Incredibly helpful information all within Maps.
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Apparently the Space Gray HomePod is in short supply in the U.S. Dave and I talk about that before moving on to a Safari message that people sometimes get alerting of them of tabs using significant memory. Dave also explains how a piece of digital art sold for $69 million.
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After Dave takes a few minutes to talk about his stupid hockey team, we dive into the price differences of the Apple TV compared to its competitors, as well as the Apple remote. We also look at Google’s announced touting changes in its overall privacy policies.
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This week, Dave and I discuss whether Apple needs to include the option for lossless audio with Apple Music. We also talk about spy pixels in emails, somethings that been around for a long time, and what Apple can do about it. Dave gives us his thoughts on Apple’s movie, WolfWalkers.
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Dave and I discuss some of the changes rumored to be coming to the MacBook Pro and if they signify Apple is admitting it was wrong with some features. We also talk about a new Apple Music feature that allows you to share lyrics and snippets of songs with a friend. A surprising $922,000 pizza and Dave’s braided loop Apple Watch band.
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Scam and fake apps are upsetting developers, so Dave and I take a look at what Apple is doing and the pitfalls on both sides of this situation. We also talk about the new Waze-like features in Apple Maps and Dave tells an hilarious story about Phil Collins and George Harrison.
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Struggling to stay on top of client follow-ups and projects by relying on Apple Contacts, Calendar, spreadsheets, Siri reminders and your memory? Daylite to the rescue for all Apple lovers! Daylite is a native Mac CRM and project management app … Continued
If you use Apple products, privacy is probably a big issue for you. Apple does everything it can to protect us from companies like Facebook. While Facebook is fighting back the Harvard Business Review looked at how they aren’t being completely honest. Dave and I also talked about Apple and the Golden Globes, and Jeff Bezos decision to step down from Amazon.
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