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Mac OS Ken: 05.05.2020

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7997 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

- Apple Releases New 13-Inch MacBook Pros with Scissor Switch Keyboards - New Higher End MacBook Pro Can Support Pro Display XDR - Apple Store Vienna Reopening with Limited Hours Today - Most Australian Apple Stores Reopening This Thursday - Apple and Google Give Devs Resources and Requirements for Contact Tracing API - Apple Sets $8 Billion Bond Sale - "Morning Show" Showrunner Kerry Ehrin Extends Overall with Apple TV+ - Get 10% off of your first purchase of a website or domain with coupon code macosken at Squarespace.com/macosken - Do you have a Few Minutes for "In a Few Minutes?" It's in Apple Podcasts and Overcast now! - Power what we do next for as little as $1 a month. Join the Mac OS Ken Test Kitchen at Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0

This is Mac OSKenn.

0:07.0

It's not the butterfly. This is Mac OS Ken.

0:12.0

Snuffing out the Butterfly, 20 plus Apple stores are set to reopen and Dietz on the Apple

0:18.7

Google Exposure Notification API. It's Tuesday the 5th of May 2020. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from

0:28.7

Maco-S-Ken brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Square Space.

0:35.0

Your place online.

0:37.4

Get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain

0:40.6

with coupon code Maco West Ken at square space dot com slash Maco West Ken.

0:49.2

This show is also supported by people like you patrons through Patreon.

0:55.0

Find out more in that your support at Patreon.com slash MacoS can.

1:08.0

The world is free of Apple's butterflies, except for those that still have them of course.

1:11.0

Apple on Monday released a couple of 13 inch

1:13.6

MacBook Prose. One wants to say Apple released a couple of updated 13

1:19.0

inch Macbook Prose, though it doesn't sound like that would be completely true.

1:23.0

What's true is butterflies are done

1:27.0

or really Apple is done with them.

1:30.0

Summing up why that's a big deal, the next web explains.

1:34.0

The keyboard changes echo what we've seen on other Macbooks.

1:37.0

The old butterfly mechanism was prone to problems and wasn't all that comfortable to type on with just 0.7 millimeters of travel.

1:45.0

The new keyboard bumps that up to 1 millimeter and uses trusted scissors switches that won't spas on you so badly if you happen to get gunk stuck under a key.

1:55.3

It also features a physical escape key and the arrow keys use an inverted T layout.

2:02.0

As for what else is new?

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