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The minute we saw iPhone X kick bezels and home buttons to the curb, iPad was put on notice. It had a year, maybe more or maybe less, before Apple's new "modern" design language came looking for it.

Now, based on all the rumors to date, modern has come, modern has found it, and a lot more has come with it.

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There's a whole new Apple Watch Series 4, and that means a whole new Apple Watch Nike+ Series 4.

So, is it worth running to?

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Google has just announced the brand new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL and here are 3 features I'd love Apple to steal from Google for the next iPhone!

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In 10 years of covering Apple, I've never seen anything like this.

Bloomberg Businessweek has dropped a bombshell: Chinese intelligence — agents of the People's Liberation Army — forced factories in China to add tiny spy chips to server boards being manufactured for industry-leading Super Micro, to be sold to industry giants like Apple and Amazon. Their boards and servers literally provide the hearts and minds for many of the world's data centers, large and small. And, the report says, they've been hacked at the hardware level.

I'm an optimist. I like to believe Bloomberg would fact-check the hell out of all of this before printing world one. That they would have it cold. But I also like to believe no public company would risk refuting it this strong if they weren't dead sure it was wrong.

The various accounts can't be reconciled. There are no multiple truths here. Someone got it wrong under circumstances where getting it wrong is catastrophic.

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Apple doesn't always host October events. But, when Apple wants to show off new designs and highlight new technology — when it wants to go into the holidays with an extra bang — it's with an October event.

So, assuming there is an October Event, and not just a PR drop or bevy of briefings, what could we see?

If past is prolog, new iPads Pro and bunch of new Macs.

Let's take a look!

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Spoiler Alert: Apple isn't applying a beauty filter to your iPhone XS selfies. I've covered this in both my initial review and my 3-weeks-later review, but that particularly bad bit of intel just keeps making the rounds, so I wanted to do proper video and a real explainer to lay it to rest once and for all.

BeautyGate or #SmoothSelfieGate began as most quote-unquote gates do: A combination of people with legitimate questions and concerns and those who are super eager to amplify anything they can in order to get attention, even and especially if it does nothing to answer those questions or address those concerns. Add internet and… wildfire.

But, if you dig into why people are concerned and you go beyond those who's sole intent is to sensationalize, you get to something truly fascinating:

The ongoing evolution for camera system to computational photography system.

Here's what's really, actually, truly, technically happening!

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I've been using an iPhone XS going on 3 weeks now. Ever since just after the Apple Event at the Steve Jobs Theater. In that time I used to as my main driver. For communication, photography, videography, travel, reading, listening, watching, writing… pretty much everything I do everyday.

For the first week, that was all on the 5.8-inch iPhone XS proper. For the last two weeks, I've been alternating between the XS and the 6.5-inch XS Max. It's a big phone. But, wow, is it a big phone.

So, now that I've had some more real-life, quality time with both phones, I'm resisting my review and taking a second look.

Here we go!

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I've now been wearing and using Apple Watch Series 4 for about 2 weeks, since just after the September 12 event at the Steve Jobs theater. I did my initial, deep dive review after a week of fairly frenzied testing. I'm revisiting it now after a second week of somewhat more typical usage — travel, transactions, tracking workouts and tasks, keeping up to speed with my life and staying connected.

Let's take a second look!

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People are complaining about the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max cellular and Wi-Fi radios. Some are getting fewer bars in less places. Others aren't getting on their 5GHz networks.

So, what's going on?

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Apple recently updated iTunes and some of the language contained in the new policy, revolving around a Trust Score generated by the data on your iPhone or iPad, sent a part of the internet into sensationalize-first, ask questions later mode. You know, like normal.

So, what exactly is going on here?

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