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iPhone 12, with a lighter, squared off retro future chic design, OLED display, MagSafe charging, and 5G is worth its starting price of $829. Or… if the year-older iPhone 11, all rounded and curved, classic LCD, and… that’s pretty much it, is a better value at $599.

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We’re only at the very early stages for the Mac. We’re at the ultra-low power tip of the proverbial silicon iceberg. The M1 is the first in a series that’ll include more massively multicore versions of the current 11th generation architecture and even more impressive versions with next-generation, 12th generation and beyond architecture. Chips like M1X and M2, or whatever Apple ends up calling them.

And unlike Intel, Apple doesn’t provide roadmaps well in advance. They don’t provide them at all. Not beyond extrapolating the power draw on what’s effectively a Bezos graph.

And that leads to a ton of thirst… and a ton of thirst traps. To… trap it. To take advantage of it. To pull those views, subs, and follows.

That includes anonymous Twitter accounts that never provide any accurate, original reporting. Like at all. And the various blogs and videos that repeat their fanfic because it not only gives them an excuse to thirst-jack the trap in the first place but to post a follow-up correcting it whenever anyone with an ounce of sense or integrity points out just how wrong it is and how wrong it was from the start. AKA, the double thirst trap take back combo attack.

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Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, literally wants to inflict pain on Apple, on Tim Cook. To make them hurt. To lobby the government against them, to claim anti-trust, to do everything they can to paint Apple dirty. Why? Because with App Tracking Transparency, a new privacy feature coming in iOS 14.5, Apple wants to give us, the customers, the users, the ability to choose whether or not Facebook gets to track us outside their own apps, across other apps, even across the web. Apple considers this simple level of privacy and dignity a fundamental human right. And… Facebook… well, Facebook seems intent on seeing it as an existential threat.

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Most of the time. Almost all the time, iOS 14 will do away, way better job at managing apps and multitasking resources on your iPhone than… any puny human.. could ever even dream of doing. Even using on-device Intelligence — Machine Learning, algorithms — to predict which apps you’ll most want to open and when. And pre-loading them to make sure they’re primed and ready based on that bet.

When you switch out of an app, it’s supposed to save its current state and go to sleep, to hibernate. Then, when you switch back, it’s supposed to wake up, to resume from that exact same state. Right where you left off.

But sometimes an app goes bad, a process goes rogue, your iPhone gets hot, your battery drains before your eyes, and rather than taking the time and going through all the effort of tracking down exactly which app is causing the problem — installing diagnostics, running tests, monitoring for days or weeks — they’ll just… force quit everything. And sometimes salt the ground with a hard reset right after.

Volume up. Volume down. Press and hold the side button until you get logo. The… Konami code of troubleshooting.

Here's how it all works!

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Better textured glass finish, ProMotion for both high-refresh-rate *and* always-on display, even magi-er… MagSafe, full-on Astrophotography, better ultra-wide camera, and, yes, oh yes, Portrait Mode Video with dynamic bokeh. That’s what the iPhone 13 Pro — or more likely iPhone 12s Pro — will be getting this fall, at least according to Max Weinbach and Everything Apple Pro, and if all that sounds too good to be true… well, it just might be.

Let's break it all down!

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Eighth GPU core. Wide angle camera. LiDAR Scanner. 6GB of memory on every model. That’s how Apple updated the iPad Pro last year. 

I’ve been using it every day since it first came out alongside the Magic Keyboard and I’m going to tell you whether or not you should get it now… or wait for the next-generation A14X or M1 iPad Pro that’s rumored to be coming out something later this year.

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It's 2021 and that means a new season of Apple Events, maybe kicking off as soon as March. So... You know the drill. Logo. Speed ramp. Drone shot. Apple Park. Transition. Steady Cam. Rapid zoom. Tim Cook. Good Morning!

And then… what exactly? Apple TV, iPad Pro, iPhone SE Plus, AirTags, AirPods, M1X Macs?

Well…

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You’re out and about in this… zombie apocalypse, just trying to live your life, you go to unlock your iPhone, but because you’re wearing a mask, Face ID just drops you straight into Passcode, and you’re left frustrated, annoyed, trying to poke out those digits… like an animal. While the world burns.

And no, Apple can’t run to your house and weld Touch ID back on. And that doesn’t even work if you’re wearing gloves anyway. And maybe the next iPhone will address all this, maybe not, but you need some help with this iPhone and you need it now. Now. Now.

So… Apple has a plan. An Apple Watch plan. And iOS 14.5 plan. Is it a good plan? Let's deep dive...

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The 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro is currently the most powerful portable Apple Silicon, with not only performance but battery life that just clowns the same, low-power Intel version from the same year. But, also… stuck with the exact same design. 

It’s really more of a MacBook Air Pro, and I’ve been reviewing it since it first came out, so I’m here to tell you whether you should get it now, or wait for the MacBook Pro Pro versions that are coming up next. The possible 14-inch MacBook Pro with a new design, a more powerful M1X or M2 processor, and possibly a Mini LED display, MagSafe power adapter, and SD Card slot.

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I’m so beyond thrilled and excited to tell you that you can right now, today, go and watch my very first Nebula Original and see me talking with a bunch of my creator friends like MKBHD, iJustine, John Gruber, Brian Tong, Jacklyn Dallas, Georgia Dow, and more, about the impact Apple’s iPhone has had on this industry and our lives.

Including, for just a few minutes out of this exclusive techu-mentary, which single iPhone, if we all had to choose, was our very favorite.

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