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With iPadOS — and, yes, an iPhone and even an iPod touch running iOS 13 — you can finally access external files, not just photos, not just videos, but honest-to-unix external documents, assets, and anything else, just by plugging in a USB drive, stick, even SD or Compact Flash card. You can even open photos and video directly in editing apps and access SMB shares right in the Files app.

With some caveats, limitations, and, of course, adapters. Hey, this is still iOS we're talking about here.

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The 12-inch MacBook is dead. So is the quote unquote "MacBook Escape". In place of the MacBook is now just the MacBook Air, newly updated with a True Tone display. In place of the Escape is Touch Bars, Touch ID, and T2 chips all the way down.

But does that make things simpler or even more complicated?

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A week ago, the Wall Street Journal published an article that alleged a high level of disfunction in Apple's design department, from Tim Cook's relationship with Jony Ive, to how Jony Ive ran — or didn't run — the design organization, and how all of that led to Jony's departure.

The following evening, Tim Cook emailed CNBC to call the story absurd, distorted, and not recognizable as the company it claimed to describe.

And, ever since, we've seen so many tea quotes, hot takes, sides taken, and…

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JONY IVE TRILOGY:

• Why Jony Ive is Leaving Apple - YouTube
• What Jony Ive Leaving Means For Apple (Feat. John Gruber) - YouTube
• Why Everyone is Wrong About Jony Ive and Design at Apple (Feat. May-Li Khoe) - YouTube

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• Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple, but His Departure Started Long Ago - WSJ
• Dylan Byers on Twitter: "Exclusive: In scathing email, Apple CEO Tim Cook tells me the @WSJ report about Jony Ive's departure — and his frustration with Cook's alleged lack of interest in design — is "absurd." Says reporting and conclusions "don't match with reality." Full story coming soon @NBCNews …… https://t.co/k8zq8jJl8X"
• Apple Sans Ive | TechCrunch

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Kuo Ming-Chi, supply chain exfiltrator extraordinaire, in a report issued earlier today. Text via MacRumors:

"There have been successful developments in the new scissor keyboard. The new keyboard could improve the typing experience by offering longer key travel and durability by adopting glass fiber to reinforce the keys' structure."

This, allegedly, for a 2019 MacBook Air update.

If you're not up on your keyboard nomenclature, then scissor switches are the fairly standard mechanisms Apple used to use across their laptop lineups. At least prior to 2015 when they introduced their own, invented-at-Apple butterfly switches to the newly redesigned 12-inch MacBook, and then in 2016 with the new MacBook Pro and 2018 with the new MacBook Air.

I will explain. No, no, there is too much. Phil Schiller will sum up.

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I've been meaning to do a video about Apple's Lightning port for a while now. The story is super interesting but other stuff kept coming up. Then, just this morning, I watched a video Tech Insider put up and… Yeah.

Now, I'm fully behind Apple moving to USB-C on the iPhone. I would have loved for it to have happened with the iPhone X, even recognizing that's super easy to say as someone not responsible for, you know, actually running the product.

But, I also think the video left out a lot of what really should have been put in.

So, let's do that now!

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• Everything Wrong With Lightning Cables | Untangled - YouTube
• Google engineer takes on subpar USB Type-C cables
• Google engineer fries Pixel testing USB Type-C cable
• This USB-C problem isn't going away anytime soon | Android Central
• It's 2019 and USB-C is still a mess

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There have been a lot of... questionable takes surrounding the news of Jony Ive leaving Apple, what caused it, how it happened, and what it means for Apple's design culture going forward.

Rather than perpetuate another one of my own, I decided to find someone super smart and super talented who was actually there. Who worked on prototyping and design at Apple going back to the days of Steve Jobs and the original iPhone, and who understands how and why the design culture works the way it does.

Then, set up an interview even if that person is away on her vacation in France, so she can share her experience and insight. Now, Skype did not cooperate at all, so apologies for the bad video but what she has to say is so terrific I simply have to share it with you no matter what. Thanks for your understanding.

Now, without any further ado, here's May-Li Khoe.

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• What Jony Ive Leaving Means For Apple (Feat. John Gruber) - YouTube
• Why Jony Ive is Leaving Apple - YouTube

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John Gruber of Daring Fireball and The Talk Show joins me to follow up on Jony Ive leaving Apple, starting LoveFrom with Marc Newson, being hired by Apple, Evans Hankey and Alan Dye reporting into Jeff Williams, Sabih Khan becoming SVP of Operations, the future of Tim Cook, Jony's involvement over the last few years, Jony's hardware vs. software chops, and what may happen in the near future with Apple design.

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• John Gruber (@gruber) | Twitter
• Daring Fireball
• Daring Fireball: Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple
• Jony Ive Leaves Apple, Ive's Legacy, The Post-Ive Apple – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• The Essence of Apple's Decision | Asymco

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Cupertino, California — Apple today announced that Sir Jony Ive, Apple's chief design officer, will depart the company as an employee later this year to form an independent design company which will count Apple among its primary clients. While he pursues personal projects, Ive in his new company will continue to work closely and on a range of projects with Apple.

Wow, I mean. On one hand, I'm devastated. As someone who started out in the business as a designer, Jony Ive and his relationship with Apple was just everything I looked up to and aspired to be.

On the other hand, though, as someone no longer in design, Jony Ive set free but still connected to Apple is something I really, deeply feel.

But, sorry, first. I wasn't going to do this video today. I was going to wait and think on it a bit, and do a deeper, more forward looking video tomorrow. But then, you guessed it, the Internet happened.

Hot takes began raining down like meteors in a Michael Bay movie. And, as expected a lot of them were just terrible. Like terrible set in comic sans terrible.

That's why I ultimately decided to split my video in two. To get something short out today and the focus on something deeper for tomorrow.

So, here goes part 1

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• Why Jony Ive is leaving Apple | iMore

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I've been wanting to do a video about what my dream iPhone would be for a while now. You know, if I got to be or work with Jony or Phil Schiller, or Joz for a cycle and do everything I've always wanted to do with and for the iPhone.

Now, I've done videos before about this and that hardware feature I'd like to see Apple grab from other manufacturers and bring over to the iPhone, and MKBHD just did a video on what his dream phone in general would be cobbled together from all the different manufacturers.

But, for this, I kinda want to do the opposite. Instead of looking out or going out, I want to turn in. I want to try to come up with what I think would be the ultimate expression of the iPhone by Apple.

And hey, if you like the idea and want to see me try and do the same with Samsung's Galaxy, Google's Pixel, Huawei's P-series, or any other phone, let me know in the comments.

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• The Dream Smartphone! (2019) - YouTube
• A Day On A 5G Phone: Fast, But Finicky - YouTube
• Apple Watch Series 3 Unboxing - White and Gray Ceramic - YouTube
• Has the iPhone Camera Failed? - YouTube
• Why 'Touch ID' will come back to iPhone - YouTube
• 9 Features Apple should STEAL for iPhone (2019) - YouTube
• Galaxy S10 vs. iPhone XS: 3 Things Apple Should STEAL from Samsung - YouTube
• Pixel 3 vs. iPhone XS: Three things Apple should steal from Google - YouTube
• Galaxy Note 9 vs. iPhone XS: Five Things Apple Should STEAL From Samsung - YouTube

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macOS Catalina is bringing with it a feature set that edges on the audacious.

Catalyst aims to let the vast catalog of iPad apps move more easily to the Mac, while SwiftUI teases a future where developers can build them that way to begin with.

iTunes, venerable and beyond bloated, is being shattered into new Music, Podcast, and TV apps, with updated Books and even Finger functionality to round them out.

There's a new, more salient Photos app, Mail that's more zen, Notes that are easier to find, QuickTime for pros, all new, all powerful Reminders and a far more omniscient Find My app, plus Screen Time comes to Mac to help you balance it all.

Sidecar lets you use your iPad as an external display to mirror or extend your desktop. Or, grab an Apple Pencil and use it with tablet-enabled Mac apps in a way that just might make any of the smaller Wacoms weep.

Security and Privacy are getting an even more vigilant Gatekeeper, a read-only system volume, extensions and drivers ripped out of kernel space, and Sign in with Apple.

And Accessibility is showing all of that up not just with better VoiceOver, color filters, and new zooms, but with full-on, Bene Gesserit-level Voice Control.

Here's not just what it all does but how it all works!

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