Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, September 10th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, some more juicy new Apple Rumors for Wednesday, the end of the Jack Ma era is

nigh upon us. There were some naughty apps in the Mac App Store and why following people whose politics you disagree with might not lead to peace in our time.

This is what you miss today in the world of tech. iPhone day is only two days away and analyst Ming Chie Quo has a scoop on what to expect at Wednesday's big event.

The biggest surprise is that USBC might be coming to the new iPad Pro models,

but there's also a lot more. In Quo's latest research note, he hints that the iPad Pro may ditch Apple's proprietary lightning

connector in favor of USBC with a rumored 18 watt USBC charger coming in the box.

This is a controversial prediction as tons of peripherals.

I'm looking at you, Apple pencil, rely on lightning to connect to the iPad.

One way to read Quo's report is that lightning will stick around on the iPad and just the

charger brick will have USBC on it instead of the old USBA. That means we'd have to buy new USBC to lightning cables rather than the older

USBA to lightning cables. But if USBC does come to the iPad as a port on the device itself that would be huge.

Maybe it's time to set aside budget for all new accessories,

but I think you should probably also take this prediction with a bit of a grain of salt, we'll find out on

Wednesday. Next up, according to Quo, the rumored Macbook Air successor will have a touch

ID for authentication but will not have a full touch bar. Fans of physical keys rejoice.

Many Apple Watchers believe that Wednesday's event will be focused on the iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad,

leaving any Mac announcements for later this fall, but that

Macbook Air replacement is still the subject of a lot of speculation.

Then there's a series of rumors about the Apple Watch Series 4. First Quo says that all new models will have a ceramic

rear shell. Currently ceramic is a high-end option, while the cheapest Apple Watch models

have an aluminum body, and the mid-range

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