Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, February 13th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, an Apple event focused on services, a former Apple Vice President charged with

insider trading, the larger gaming industry having issues, and why your GPS

device might have issues itself on April 6th of this year.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Late yesterday, John Pasquowitzky at Buzzfeed reported that sources were telling him,

Apple is planning to hold a special event on March 25th at the Steve Jobs Theater on its Apple campus. But don't expect any

major hardware announcements then. That's actually not unusual. Apple has a

tendency to do sort of many events in late March last year. The event was

around using iPads and education. So there were new events that time, but this year

it seems the focus will not be on any hardware or

new devices, but on services.

Quoting from Buzzfeed, sources describe the event as subscription services focused but declined to say

anything about Apple's standalone video streaming service which is also

rumored to debut in 2019. Earlier this year the information reported that

Apple had told studios and networks to be prepared for an April launch."

Okay, so Apple mini event coming up. They do tend to time hardware upgrades around these things. So maybe we will get

refreshes to the IMAX or those rumored updates of iPad minis. Or maybe the

second generation AirPods though, AirPods are becoming so important

to Apple that I couldn't see them announcing that without an actual on-stage demo.

So if no hardware and services will be the main course then will we finally learn

something about Apple's video streaming service? Well much more likely according

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