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Mon. 05/04 - Usable Keyboards Return to the 13-inch MacBook Pro

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Usable keyboards return to the 13-inch MacBook Pro. What is going on at Amazon? Jio Platforms gets another huge investment. Another potential blockbuster acquisition in the Israeli transport-tech space. And can the Apple watch help with Covid-19? Sort of. Let me explain. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Kiwico.com/ride Links: Apple announces new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard (The Verge) Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers (Vice) Bye, Amazon (Tim Bray) Silver Lake to invest $747M in India's Jio Platforms (TechCrunch) Exclusive: Uber will soon require drivers and riders to wear face coverings in the US (CNN Business) Intel set to buy Israeli co Moovit for $1b (Globes) European Heart Journal: Apple Watch ECG detects signs of coronary ischemia missed by hospital ECG (9to5Mac) Apple Watch blood oxygen detection feature found in iOS 14 code snippet (9to5Mac) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Fake Star Wars Holiday 2020.

0:07.6

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, usable keyboards return to the 13 inch

0:12.4

Macbook Pro. What the heck is going on at Amazon?

0:15.6

Geo platforms gets another huge investment. There's another potential

0:19.8

blockbuster acquisition in the Israeli transport tech space and can Apple watch

0:24.7

help with COVID-19? Sort of. Let me explain. Here's what you miss today in the world

0:30.0

of tech. Apple has updated its 13 inch MacBook Pro line with the Magic Keyboard.

0:40.0

So you can now safely buy a 13 inch Macbook Pro again

0:44.4

and actually be able to use it.

0:46.7

They also refresh the internals with 10th gen

0:50.3

CPUs, double the SSD storage and faster ram all available today starting at

0:55.4

$1,299 though it is gonna cost you more to get all of the actual updates I

1:01.5

just mentioned it's's complicated. I'm going to pick the

1:05.8

verge to quote from here, quote, Apple has moved relatively quickly to cycle out the

1:10.9

Butterfly keyboard from its lineup.

1:13.0

The 16 inch MacBook Pro was announced in November 2019, followed by a refreshed Macbook

1:18.1

Air with Magic Keyboard this past March.

1:20.8

In the span of six months, Apple has completely swapped out its entire laptop lineup with models that use better

1:26.0

Scissor Switch keyboards. Compare that to the five years it's spent trying to make the Butterfly Keyboard mechanism work since the 2015 Macbook now discontinued.

1:36.0

As with the last Macbook Pro, Apple is sticking with Thunderbolt 3 slash USBC connectors,

1:41.1

two or four of them in total, plus a headphone jack.

1:44.6

The touch bar also remains, for better or worse, alongside a touch ID fingerprint sensor

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