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A little over a week ago, the day that I took off for a week, Mac Rumors ran a report saying that Apple had reclosed all 20-a-bit stores in France due to COVID-19 concerns.

The piece indicates that most of Apple stores in the hexagon have been closed for a while,

though some stores had reopened. Now those stores, including Apple Chanselise, Apple Opera, Apple Marche, Saint-Germont, and Apple Lille have closed again. They put up the Fermee sign on the 3rd of April.

Apple's pages for the various stores list them as closed for at least the next week. I went to an apple store on my time off

by the way. The keyboard on my 2018 15 inch MacBook Pro has needed fixing since the

before times though I never had time to be without it.

Gabe at my local Apple store could not have been nicer nor could he have been more helpful.

For me being there was weird. He said he was glad to be back. While I got to go to an Apple store, my Macbook Pro got to go to Texas and dropped it off on

Tuesday it was back at my front door on Friday didn't send a postcard didn't get me a

lousy t-shirt that said my computer went to Texas and all I got

with this lousy t-shirt it did get a blemish-free keyboard though and so far every typo has been a legit made by me typo not a

result of the butterfly effect.

That was your keyboard doing?

Apple went a bit flippity flopity over the weekend. When I started stacking news again on Friday,

near the top of the list was news that Apple planned to give an upcoming

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