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So, there's been some confusion over the last few days about iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR specs.

Part of that is Apple's fault because, unlike screen density and storage capacity, they don't list RAM and battery capacity. And part of it is the fault of broken-internet, which, like broken telephone, passes along information often without context or clarity, resulting in it getting warped and distorted in a way that's significantly less than helpful.

Let's clear that up.

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iPhone XS isn't an all-new iPhone. It's a new iPhone X. So, what does that mean?

I don't think Apple intends iPhone X owners to rush out and upgrade to iPhone XS, industry insiders, tech enthusiasts, and those on yearly programs, will of course do just that. Rather, I think Apple intends these new models to appeal to those who didn't yet make the leap to an all-new iPhone. Those who always avoid rev. A boards, or who stuck with Android or with the Home button, or who were simply waiting on a bigger screen.

And, I think for them, iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max are exactly the new phones they've been waiting for.

(Unless they want to wait for iPhone XR...?)

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Apple Watch is the most important product Apple has ever made and Series 4 is the most important Apple Watch to date.

Is Apple Watch Series 4 perfect? No, of course not. It's still missing core features like always-on time, sleep tracking, and a way for me to make a damn Super-Man Photo face with enough complications to actually be useful. It also starts at $399 — or $499 if you want it with cellular networking — which is still a good chunk of change for what for most people remains a tertiary computing device at best.

But, is Apple Watch Series good enough that you should seriously consider upgrading or getting in on this whole wrist computer thing for the first time? That's the question that matters, and the one I've spent the last week with a 44mm space gray model figuring out.

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Starting today, Apple is swapping out the old, hardware based iPhone screen calibration system for an all-new software system.

"Beginning September 17, 3D Touch Calibration Fixtures will no longer be required to complete display repairs for iPhone 6S and later. We have optimized the calibration process using software. This means we can now calibrate a repaired iPhone by simply connecting the device to [redacted] running our calibration and diagnostics, without the need to run it through a separate fixture. This change will create a more flexible workspace in many repair rooms. Most importantly it will save time for you and our customers."

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Apple has just announced the iPhone XR, which offers much of the same user experience of the iPhone X, but with some notable departures. The phone is larger than the iPhone X, with a 6.1-inch LCD display. It retains the TrueDepth camera that first launched on the 2017 iPhone X, and says goodbye to the Home button.

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Apple Watch Series 4 is here and I went hands-on with the new aluminum, stainless steel — including gold finish! — Nike+ and Hermès!

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Hands-on first impressions of the brand new iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max!

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Apple's iPhone Xs Event is tomorrow, September 12, 2018. But what are we absolutely, definitively going to see? And what are we... not?

What are the new iPhones going to be called? What are the last minute features they'll be including... and missing? Any new features coming to Apple Watch? Will AirPower finally be released? And will new iPad Pros and MacBooks be announced as well, or will we be waiting until October? All that and more and the clock ticks down to the big event!

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Security, like privacy, is always at war with convenience. You want to be able to get to all of your stuff, all the time, as quickly and easily as possible, but you don't want anyone else to get to any of it, at all ever.

If you have a real or philosophical need to lock your tech down stronger, better, smarter, longer…. If you think your phone is the closest thing to a digital brain, extra-cranial storage, and cybernetics that currently exist and should be afforded the same rights against self-incrimination that biological memory enjoys, or if you have medical, legal, clergical, or journalistic information on it that can simply never fall into any unauthorized hands, then I've got some tips for you.

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With Apple Watch Series 4, that big, black ring around the bezel will finally be filled and the display will go edge-to-edge, iPhone X style.

But that simply scratches the surface of Apple's next-generation watch. There'll be a new System-in-Package (SIP) too, sure. Maybe some new radio tech. Potentially better sensors. But will Apple Watch go round? Will it go Android the way iPod went Windows? And what about the band situation?

Watch is Apple's most important device — and here's where it may just be going next!

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