You're listening to the Apple Insider Podcast.

Hello and welcome to episode 7 of our show where we discuss the latest news about Apple,

iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and more.

We're recording on Thursday, March 12, 2015.

Today we'll be discussing Apple's full spring forward event

and a recap, research kit for iOS,

Apple's newly redesigned Macbook, more Applewatch news and pricing availability, and more.

We have with us this week Apple Insider Contributing Editor Daniel Dilger, who was at the event thanks for being

here Dan yeah it's great to join another podcast and contributing editor

Victor Marx is here again thanks for being here Victor always happy to be here and

that was quite a chore trying to get together today.

Skype was, I don't know what's wrong with Skype. It was just,

Victor it wouldn't even open for you, it was crashing for me, so, but we made it.

There were Skype problems before Microsoft bought them, but that was, wasn't necessarily

their solution.

Seems to be exacerbated, hasn't it?

Yeah, it's crazy.

So anyway, spring forward event.

We did a short little episode, Daniel, kind of your thoughts immediately after the event,

but definitely want to go through it in depth and just kind of talk about it as we go.

So right from the beginning, spring forward event, Tim Cook's out on stage, as usual, they kind of show an Apple store opening recap video which is always nice.

This one was the newest store in China and Tim Cook wrote right into Apple TV which we didn't know if they were

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