Rene Ritchie

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Apple's widely rumored and leaked, hotly anticipated AirTags — what are they, where are they, when will we get them, but much, much more importantly, how will they work… I mean, exactly, crucially, critically, when it comes to protecting our security and privacy?

How will Apple make it so we can find our keys, wallets, bags…. all of our stuff, without anyone, any store, any stalker, trying to use them to find us?

Well, here’s the answer…

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Apple announced the HomePod mini back in October. I’ve been using it ever since, and right now I’ve got Mikah Sargent on the line so we can re-review all about it, three months later.

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The M1 Mac mini. The only desktop Apple Silicon, at least for now. Ultra low power. Entry level. But with performance that beats Intel and rivals AMD’s latest and greatest. Just… with… no new design. At least not yet. Starting at $699.

I’ve been reviewing it since it first came out, and I’m going to tell you whether or not you should get it now… or wait for the M1X or M2 Mac mini that’s rumored to be coming later the year or sometime next.

And I’ll be doing this for every Apple product coming this year, so hit that subscribe button and bell, so you’ll know how to best save… and spend your hard-earned cash in 2021. 

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Tech giant Xiaomi just click-baited the whole entire internet — again! — this time with their latest, greatest render-ware… ever — true wireless charging. Apple's AirPower taken to the ultimate extreme. No cables. No pads. No nothing. Just ubiquitous, ambient power, constantly beamed into all of our iPhones, iPads, M1 Macs, Watches, Glasses — everything!

But here’s the billion-dollar, take all my money now, question — is it real… or just real fake?

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$111.4 billion. Yeah. Apple, the company that every market manipulator and pocketed click baiter loves to cast as doomed, so very legion of doomed, perpetually, flailing, failing, and sure to go under… just any product now… regardless of how those products are actually performing — just posted their Holiday quarter results and even now — in the midst of peak 2020-21, the Cyberpunk on last-gen consoles of years, they crushed…

And you won’t believe how hard.

From iPhone 12 to iPad Air to M1 MacBook Air, M1 Mac mini, and M1 MacBook Pro, even Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePods, and increasingly, services, $AAPL was up, up, up double-digits and billions upon billions of dollars in Q1 2021.

Here's the breakdown!

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Apple doesn’t get gaming. That’s what every lazy pundit with a platform laments. But Apple *absolutely* gets gaming. To the tune of billions and billions of dollars in App Store revenue each quarter. They just get that… Candy Crush just crushes… and casual gaming currently offers the biggest return in the business. 

But what if that was about to change? What if Apple is finally, finally getting ready to just rock with hardcore gaming the way they did TV streaming back in ought 19? Well… 

Take one AAA-Apple TV with an A14X+ class chipset, add one Apple VR headset with M2+ full-on high-end gaming support, and stir — don't shake! — in iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and you have the math for a compelling move by Apple into the premium gaming market.

Here's how it could work!

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The iPhone 12. Mini. Pro. Max. All of them. All new retro-chic design, OLED across the line, Dolby Vision, LiDar, MagSafe, and, of course, 5G. Starting at $729. For the mini.

I’ve been reviewing them all since they first came out, and I’m here to tell you whether you should get one now… or wait for the iPhone 12s… or iPhone 13… or whatever Apple calls the next iPhone this fall.

And I’ll be doing this for every Apple product coming this year, so hit that subscribe button and bell, so you’ll know how to best save… and spend your hard-earned cash in 2021.

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Dan Riccio, Apple’s longtime head of hardware is out — but not really. He’s going on to run a new and so far secret project. And John Ternus, the rising star of the engineering division is all in, like at the executive team level.

It’s yet another huge shakeup at the very top of Apple’s leadership chain, something that once seemed eternal but really has been changing and growing almost every year for over a decade now. 

But what about this, what does this specific change really mean for the future of Apple hardware like the iPhone, iPad, and upcoming M-series Macs? Well…

Dan Riccio is leaving his spot on top of Hardware Engineering, and John Ternus is taking over. Apple won’t say what he’s moving on to. A lot of early hot tweets had the word CAR in them. But given Riccio moved on from Titan years ago and John Gianandrea has just taken over there, that makes the kind of sense that just really doesn’t.

But I think Dan Riccio still runs Apple’s virtual and augmented reality project, and given the recent reports of what Apple’s planning to do there, what with VR headsets and AR glasses both lined up for the next few years, it’s more than possible Apple decided they needed someone dedicated to them completely, at least until the come to market. 

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Apple's bringing the MagSafe connector, SD Card Reader, and media/function keys back to the MacBook Pro (2021). At least according to recent reports. That's the M1 or M1X MacBook Pro that's expected to also go Apple Silicon as soon as this summer.

But why would Apple go to all the trouble of reverting almost every major change they made to the MacBook Pro back in 2016? Including the butterfly keyboard they replaced with the new Magic keyboard just over a year ago?

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New, higher-end 13-inch MacBook Air. Maybe even a 15-inch MacBook Air. SD card slot coming back to the MacBook Pro but TouchBar… well, that’s just gotta go. And… 5G and Face ID for the Mac… but not just yet.

Yeah, Mark Gurman is continuing his mad Bloomberg rumor bombing rampage across just every upcoming product in Apple’s 2021 lineup, this time focusing on the next MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac.

Here’s what he said…

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