#445 - New Hardware! New Software! Let's Talk WWDC 2020
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🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This week: we talk our WWDC 2020 hardware and software predictions, and there’s A LOT to say. Plus: a new leak details a next generation iPhone with dual displays; the new 5600M MacBook Pro GPU is a absolute MONSTER; and Apple’s back-to-school promo is back for the summer, but with an interesting twist...
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This week's stories
Set your reminder for Monday’s keynote via WWDC’s YouTube livestream link
- Apple has posted the YouTube live stream link that will allow viewers to tune into its WWDC 2020 keynote next week.
- The June 22 event will kick off at 10am PT/1pm ET, streaming directly from Apple Park. This is the second time Apple has streamed a Special Event on YouTube, following last year’s iPhone unveiling.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEZhD3J89ZE&feature=emb_title
Redesigned iMacs to iOS 14: Everything we expect to see at WWDC 2020
- Apple execs won’t get to feed off the usual live audience’s energy during next Monday’s WWDC 2020 keynote, but doesn’t mean there’s nothing to get excited about.
Apple’s first foldable phone could feature 2 displays joined by hinges
- Apple’s “foldable” iPhone will use dual displays to get around the foldable screen problem that plagues other folding phones like Samsung’s beleaguered Galaxy Fold, claims Apple leaker Jon Prosser.
16-inch MacBook Pro gets more powerful AMD 5600M graphics option
- Apple has updated its 16-inch MacBook Pro buying options by offering the new Radeon Pro 5600M mobile GPU. This joins the existing Radeon Pro 5300M and 5500M GPU options for the MacBook Pro.
Apple offers college students free AirPods along with deals on Mac and iPad
- Summer is just starting but Apple is already thinking back-to-school. College students and teachers can save up to $200 on a MacBook or iMac. Or up to $100 on iPads. And get a pair of AirPods gets thrown in for free.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Companies come and go at the crest of the wave. I mean, you know, IBM had their day way back when they, you know, they were at the crest. |
| 0:07.0 | In December 1985, in business for just 90 days, jobs and his 11 employees hold their first retreat. |
| 0:14.0 | Company retreats like this are the continuation of a tradition Steve established at Apple early on. |
| 0:19.0 | Watching him in action at these brainstorming sessions is an opportunity to observe him at his |
| 0:23.9 | lucid best as a company builder and motivator. |
| 0:28.5 | His opening remarks reveal his faith in high technology and his idealism, an unusual combination that is part of his uniqueness. |
| 0:36.1 | In effect he is planting the seeds of a new corporate culture. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello and welcome to the localist feed best 30 plus mail conversation |
| 0:46.9 | and you're gonna hear all week long I'm your host Airfront Alaj. |
| 0:50.3 | Join me today little known fact he played Austin's stunt double in all three Austin Powers |
| 0:55.2 | movies. The founder of Kolmach, yeah baby, the undercaney is here. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, he's been slapping the base all along during these long lockdown months, but he really misses slapping around the cultimac writers managing editor Louis Wallace is here. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:14.0 | That's not the same is it. |
| 1:15.8 | It's not anywhere near the same. |
| 1:17.4 | Nothing's the same these days, isn't? |
| 1:19.4 | Nothing is the same. |
| 1:20.4 | Nothing. |
| 1:21.4 | That's an understatement. That's an understatement. Yeah. Well, we have so much to talk about this week. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm looking at these show notes and these show notes are longer than the lockdown itself. |
| 1:36.4 | We could start doing a show at the beginning of the lockdown and just continue talking all |
| 1:40.8 | the way through without sleeping or eating. |
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