Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future.

I'm April Glazer.

And I'm Will Oremas.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to If Then.

We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tansit Partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America.

We are recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 26th.

On today's show, we'll discuss the latest news from Apple, which held a launch event this week,

not for a new iPhone, but for a big new push into TV, gaming, and the news.

There's even an Apple credit card now.

We'll talk about what it all means.

Then April will give us a quick update on the Democratic effort to restore net neutrality and the hurdles that lie ahead.

After that, we'll have a chat with Vina DuBall, a law professor at UC Hastings here in the Bay Area.

We'll talk to her about how hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers went on strike yesterday across California ahead of both companies planning major multi-billion dollar IPOs.

We'll also discuss a California lawsuit that impacts freelance and contract workers, forcing many of them to be reclassified as employees and a bunch of other stuff on the topic.

It's a really complex thing. I'm excited to have Vina with us. And as always, we'll end with Don't Close My Tabs, some of the best stuff we saw online this week. That's all coming up on If Then. Okay, so, Will, you sat through the entire Apple event yesterday, right? I did. Or you, like, watched it online, I assume.

You didn't go to Cupertino.

I did not.

There was a parade of announcements and a parade of celebrities at the end.

We had Spielberg.

We had Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell.

We had... Oprah.

Oprah shouting Apple at the end, which was a nice touch, really. Yeah, it was long and there were no devices announced. And that's kind of what's interesting about it. Oh, yeah. So that's super rare. Like these events usually are pretty hardware-centric because Apple is pretty much primarily a hardware company, right?

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