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Speculation about Apple transitioning some or all of its Mac computer lineup from Intel to Arm is running hot and heavy again following an off-hand rumor by supply chain exfiltrator extraordinaire, Kuo Ming-Chi earlier this week.

I've already done a whole video on how Steve Jobs' famous keynote announcing the previous PowerPC to Intel transition could be replayed almost note by note for an Intel to ARM transition. Hit subscribe to see all of it. So, now I want to touch on what happens next: The transition itself.

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The Samsung Galaxy Flip is the original iPhone of foldables. That's what some people have been saying and… ah… I mean I get it. Well, first, no, it totally isn't. But I get it. I get the allure of of flipping phones. I've done umpteen videos about them. Hit subscribe and you can see all of them.

They're new. They're fun. They're different. At least so far, because there are only a few of them out right now. In a few years, I expect there won't just be many but generations of many, so they won't be so new or so different anymore, but they'll still be fun, and they'll still be welcome by people who want a big screen that isn't so big in their pocket or bag.

But the concept itself is still super intriguing to me. The iPhone of flip phones. To get to that, to be that — the iPhone Flip — what exactly would it take?

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• Galaxy Z Flip Review: The Small Smartphone Is Back – And It's Bigger Than Ever - YouTube
• Motorola RAZR Review: 2004 Is Back (For Better Or Worse) - YouTube

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Seven years ago or so, when Apple first started working on the HomePod, they just wanted to make a great sounding speaker that you could drop anywhere in a room and that would sound great no matter where you dropped it or where you were standing to listen to it.

They were investing heavily into building up their audio engineering team and delving deeply into the concepts around computational audio. Hardware and software tightly integrated together. Apple's forte. So what could possibly go wrong?

Well, in the time it took Apple to bring the HomePod to market, the market had changed. Amazon had shipped the Echo with Alexa, Google had begun replicating them, and, it turns out, Apple had brought a premium speaker to a commodity assistant market.

There have been a couple of software updates since, but nothing that set fire to the HomePod like the early, heady days of the iPhone, iPad, Watch, probably even Apple TV.

So, what can Apple do now? How can the HomePod be fixed?

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Earlier this month, 9to5Mac found code in the iOS 13.4 beta for a CarKey API, or application programming interface. CarKey seems to be a system that will allow your iPhone or Apple Watch to lock, unlock, even start your car… if your car has NFC and the manufacturer partners with Apple to make it all just work.

And… it sounds great. Terrific even. But it also still sounds so limited compared to the Apple Watch future I've been dreaming about for over half a decade.

Why? Let's get into it!

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• New 'CarKey' feature in iOS 13.4 beta brings built-in support for unlocking, driving, and sharing NFC car keys
• Apple's Upcoming 'CarKey' Feature Will Let You Send Digital Keys Using Messages App - MacRumors

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Why Apple is DOOMED. Finally. Again*.

*Earlier this week, Apple released and investor update on quarterly guidance for Q2, 2020. In other words, the revenue and other financial projections they'd given last quarter to set expectations for this quarter.

Apple is getting out ahead here, one of the first first major American companies to do so. They won't be the last.

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Samsung has just announced the new Galaxy S20 Ultra and it's got a few features I'd just love Apple to steal for the iPhone 12.

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A year ago, I made a video about how foldable devices were the future. Or at least a big part of it. After all, the history of human technology was the history of foldables. From books to wallets, we humans just love to fold everything, including our clothes and our food.

I even mocked up folding iPhone concepts in Photoshop that look a lot like what the Modern Moto Razr and just-announced Samsung Flip turned out to look like.

And, now, because those phones are coming out, people are wondering out loud — Where is Apple's iPhone Flip?

So, where is it?

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Back at WWDC 2016, Apple's CEO, Tim Cook brought Cheryl Thomas, Vice President of Software Engineering Operations, up on stage to introduce Swift Playgrounds for iPad. An educational development environment that made real programing using a real programming language — over half a million apps now built with it in the App Store and counting — accessible and approachable to beginners of all ages who interested in learning the fundamentals of code or becoming coders. To make those next million apps.

Since then, over 2.8 million people have downloaded, and over 5000 schools have deployed Swift Playground for iPad. And now, this week, for its second act, Apple is releasing Swift Playgrounds for the Mac.

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I've done a bunch of videos now saying why I think the Apple Watch is the most important device Apple has ever made, the most important consumer electronics device ever made, and basically the gadget of the last damn decade. Because it saves lives by design.

A lot of the credit for that goes to watchOS — the software that drives the watch hardware. It's what's given us those life saving features like heart rate notifications, fall detection, and the ECG app.

And, while the current watchOS 6 bits are, of course, the best ones yet, there's still a lot more I'd live to see with watchOS 7.

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Samsung has just announced its new flagship phone for this spring — or phones, rather — the Galaxy S20, S20+, and the all new, all ultra premium, Galaxy S20 ultra.

And, to talk all about them, I've got one of the smartest people in the industry on the line, managing editor of Android Central on the line, Daniel Bader.

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• Galaxy S20 hands-on: Samsung's biggest camera bump in four years - YouTube
• Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra hands-on preview: Samsung's biggest camera bump in 4 years | Android Central

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