Rene Ritchie

By Rene Ritchie

What's Rene Ritchie about?

Daily news analysis and insight into the cultural and personal impact of Apple and related technologies, with weekly bonus reviews and deep-dives into the products and stories that matter most.

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Rene Ritchie episodes:

01.12.2023
This tech changed my life/work
01.03.2023
The True Danger of Artificial Intelligence
12.29.2022
Apple Data Protection — The ugly truth
12.16.2022
Health tech hot takes with @DoctorMike
Are the Apple Watch, Pixel Watch, Samsung Watch, Garmin, Fitbit and all the other smart wearables functional or just a fad? Can they help connect you, protect you, and keep you from harm, or just overwhelm you with numbers and...
12.16.2022
Apple vs Intel vs Qualcomm — Who wins 2023!
Does Intel's future lie in foundry? Can AMD ever grow its market share? Will MediaTek compete at the higher end? Is custom back at Qualcomm? And will anyone catch up to Apple? Here's where silicon is heading in 2023! See Privacy...
12.16.2022
The End of Big Silicon — Apple, Intel, Qualcomm
Both desktop and mobile silicon are hitting the limits of physics. Power draw keeps increasing while enclosures only get smaller. Process shrinks are becoming more expensive and time-consuming. And foundries are facing geopolitical and competitive concerns. So what can Apple,...
12.16.2022
The Elon Phone
Is Elon Musk actually going to make a phone? That’s what approximately 42,069 headlines in my feed are saying right now. Not a Tesla phone, Space X Starlink phone, or Neuralink phone, though that’d be kinda hella cool. Not even...
12.16.2022
How (NOT) to save a company
Twitter vs. Apple. Elon vs. Steve Jobs. I mean, kinda, we’ll get to that in a minute. Point being, Twitter is what everyone is talking about right now. Especially on Twitter. More than FTX imploding — and exploding — at...
11.08.2022
Elon v Twitter — Endgame
I’ve been trying to make this video about Twitter and Elon Musk for days but every time I open the app, the story has taken on a new and hilarious twist, which I'll cover here, but finally, I thought —...
10.30.2022
Ruining the iPad
10.13.2022
USB-C regulation — the BIG problem
10.02.2022
iPhone 15 — The Big Leak Lie
09.25.2022
iPhone 14 — Buy now or wait for 15?
09.18.2022
iPhone 14 Pro — You're charging it wrong
09.13.2022
eSIM & iPhone 14 — The uglier truth
☕️ https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! You can tell it’s really iPhone 14 season because we nerds are angrier than Star Wars stans following Book of Boba. And the reason… this time? I mean, same song, new verse....
09.07.2022
Why can't your iPhone take the 5th?
Should our phones have the right to remain silent? To plead the 5th? There’s doctor-patient privilege, attorney-client privilege, clergy-penitent privilege, and spousal privilege. To the best of my understanding, and with all the appropriate caveats and limits of scope, in many jurisdictions,...
08.28.2022
Why Instagram is self-destructing
08.21.2022
Apple and ads — the ugly truth
08.14.2022
Fold & Flip 4 — But where are Apple and Google?
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie Apple hasn’t shipped an iPhone Fold… yet. There’s no flipping Google Pixel phone yet either. But Samsung has just hit deadly number 4 — Galaxies Flip and Fold the next, next,...
08.07.2022
Tech reviews are broken
You know what I’m talking about. A new phone or laptop or camera or whatever hits, and suddenly your feed is filled with… like… 3000 blog posts or podcasts or videos about it. It’s like the red wedding but for...
08.01.2022
Reacting to M2 MacBook Air Drama
07.26.2022
My new job and the future of this channel
I have a new job — at YouTube! — but what does that mean for this channel? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
07.19.2022
Why I'm changing my channel*
07.14.2022
Encryption — the big lie
07.08.2022
iOS 16 Lockdown Mode — Super Max Security for iPhone!
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie Turns out, WWDC 2022 wasn’t the last we’d hear about new iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura features — that’s right, Apple has one more thing It’s called Lockdown Mode, and...
07.05.2022
MacBook Pro — Buy Now or Wait for M2 Pro / Max?
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie M1 Pro/Max vs M2 Pro/Max Apple silicon. Same display and ports vs. maybe slightly better versions of the same? Same price, but now, as in around a month for shipping, vs...
07.01.2022
8GB vs 16GB vs 24GB for M2 Mac — The TRUTH about RAM!
06.29.2022
Why Apple's new CarPlay will win
06.27.2022
M2 MacBook Pro review — vs M2 Air and M1 Pro!
06.21.2022
M2 MacBook Pro vs M1 Pro/Max — Which is best for YOU?
06.17.2022
Passkeys — How Apple* DESTROYS Passwords
06.16.2022
Apple's M2 Roadmap — Not What You Think?
06.13.2022
Why is Stage Manager M1 iPad Only?
06.12.2022
They want to destroy YouTube as we know it...
Right now your YouTube Homepage looks like... it always does. Filled with recommendations based on the videos you chose to watch in the past, and that other people like you have engaged with and enjoyed. YouTube’s Discovery system works super hard...
06.12.2022
Apple M2 Chipset — Deeply Explained
06.07.2022
M2 MacBook Air & WWDC 2022 Reactions (Feat. iJustine)
It's WWDC 2020 and Rene, Adam, iJustine, Alex, and Aure are answering all your questions about M2, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, dev tools, API, frameworks, and more! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...
06.03.2022
WWDC and 'No New Hardware'
06.03.2022
iPhone 14 vs Samsung — Right... or right now?
05.29.2022
iPhone Design is... Compromised
05.26.2022
WWDC — The Secret to Apple's Biggest Event!
05.24.2022
Making iPad Apps... on the iPad!
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie For some people, a computer is a device that you can use to make apps... for that computer. And, for most of its existence, that’s counted the iPad out, almost completely....
05.20.2022
Surprise NEW iPhone Features!
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie Live Transcription, Door Detection, Apple Watch Mirroring, and much, much more — all coming later this year, which is like Apple code for an advanced preview so it doesn’t get lost...
05.18.2022
Apple HAD to Kill the iPod
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie I want to talk about the iPod. Why it became a cultural phenomenon, helped to save Apple and give birth to the iPhone… but also… why it absolutely had to die. And...
05.13.2022
Google vs Apple — Great Artists Steal
05.11.2022
Apple. Doomed. Finally.
05.08.2022
Apple's Lost Soul — 'After Steve' Review
05.03.2022
Why iPhone 14 PRO Needs USB-C
05.01.2022
iPhone 14 — WTF No A16?
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie For the last decade and a bit, nothing and no one has crushed it harder than Apple’s iPhone silicon team. New iPhone. New silicon. Each year. Every year. But this year… "Only...
04.27.2022
The LAST Apple Silicon Mac
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie There’s only one more Apple silicon Mac to go, the Mac Pro. By bifurcating the higher-end Mac desktop lineup, by introducing the Mac Studio as the all-in-none, sealed, computing appliance successor...
04.24.2022
Why the iPad is Broken

What's Rene Ritchie about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Rene Ritchie episodes:

This tech changed my life/work

The True Danger of Artificial Intelligence

Apple Data Protection — The ugly truth

Health tech hot takes with @DoctorMike

Apple vs Intel vs Qualcomm — Who wins 2023!

The End of Big Silicon — Apple, Intel, Qualcomm

The Elon Phone

How (NOT) to save a company

Elon v Twitter — Endgame

Ruining the iPad

USB-C regulation — the BIG problem

iPhone 15 — The Big Leak Lie

iPhone 14 — Buy now or wait for 15?

iPhone 14 Pro — You're charging it wrong

eSIM & iPhone 14 — The uglier truth

Why can't your iPhone take the 5th?

Why Instagram is self-destructing

Apple and ads — the ugly truth

Fold & Flip 4 — But where are Apple and Google?

Tech reviews are broken

Reacting to M2 MacBook Air Drama

My new job and the future of this channel

Why I'm changing my channel*

Encryption — the big lie

iOS 16 Lockdown Mode — Super Max Security for iPhone!

MacBook Pro — Buy Now or Wait for M2 Pro / Max?

8GB vs 16GB vs 24GB for M2 Mac — The TRUTH about RAM!

Why Apple's new CarPlay will win

M2 MacBook Pro review — vs M2 Air and M1 Pro!

M2 MacBook Pro vs M1 Pro/Max — Which is best for YOU?

Passkeys — How Apple* DESTROYS Passwords

Apple's M2 Roadmap — Not What You Think?

Why is Stage Manager M1 iPad Only?

They want to destroy YouTube as we know it...

Apple M2 Chipset — Deeply Explained

M2 MacBook Air & WWDC 2022 Reactions (Feat. iJustine)

WWDC and 'No New Hardware'

iPhone 14 vs Samsung — Right... or right now?

iPhone Design is... Compromised

WWDC — The Secret to Apple's Biggest Event!

Making iPad Apps... on the iPad!

Surprise NEW iPhone Features!

Apple HAD to Kill the iPod

Google vs Apple — Great Artists Steal

Apple. Doomed. Finally.

Apple's Lost Soul — 'After Steve' Review

Why iPhone 14 PRO Needs USB-C

iPhone 14 — WTF No A16?

The LAST Apple Silicon Mac

Why the iPad is Broken