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🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week: Apple is prepping iPhone SE 2, but trouble in China could mean massive delays across the entire tech industry. Plus: masOS leaks hint at BIG CPU upgrades on the way; and a famous celebrity calls out Mac’s troubled keyboards.

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This week's stories

iPhone SE 2 could cost $399 just like the first-gen iPhone SE

Apple is ramping up production on the new iPhone SE 2, a report published by Fast Companyover the weekend claims.

Apple manufacturer reopens factory — but fewer than 10% of employees turn up

Key iPhone manufacturer Foxconn continues to feel the effects of the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China. The company recently reopened its factory in the eastern central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, but fewer than 10% of its workforce returned to work, according to Reuters.

Big macOS leak hints at future switch to AMD chips

Could Apple be preparing to make a surprise switch to AMD processors in a future Mac? References to a number of new AMD APUs have been spotted in the latest macOS 10.15.4 beta, which rolled out to developers on Wednesday.

Apple brings Swift Playgrounds to the Mac

Apple’s educational coding app, Swift Playgrounds, has finally made its way to the Mac.

Jojo Rabbit screenwriter vents about ‘horrendous’ MacBook keyboard

Actors love to have some political message to impart to viewers at award shows. At last night’s Oscars, Taika Waititi, winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit, voiced his own passionate plea — for Apple to change its MacBook keyboards.

Transcript

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0:00.0	All you do to print, unlike most computers where you hit a control key and a print key sequence,
0:08.0	you just hit one button. It says print and it prints.
0:12.0	And you can actually bile made it so you can watch on the
0:15.5	screen the whole document gradually being printed and follow your progress it's it's
0:20.8	pretty nifty. Hello and welcome to the co-caste best 30 plus minute alcohol conversation.
0:30.0	You're going to hear all week long.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Airfon Eliza. Join me today. I once saw him
0:35.1	dancing at a Stevie Wonder show and he's got moves I've never seen and hope to never
0:40.8	see again. The founder of Colta Mac, Leander Caney is here.
0:44.7	What?
0:46.1	A Stevie Wanda show, no?
0:47.4	Yeah.
0:48.4	You know what? I knew you weren't gonna remember that.
0:49.8	Now I'm gonna have to tell the whole story.
0:51.6	It's gonna take like 15 minutes before I do that.
0:54.1	Also with us, some column, a lying dog-faced pony soldier.
0:58.7	But you know what?
0:59.4	I think he's a heck of a nice guy.
1:01.1	The managing editor of Koltaimac Lewis Wallace is here.
1:03.7	Yeah what?
1:06.7	What is a pony soldier?
1:08.8	You don't know anybody tell me?
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