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Rene Ritchie
by Rene Ritchie
Daily news analysis and insight into the cultural and personal impact of Apple and related technologies, with weekly bonus reviews and deep-dives into the products and stories that matter most.
Episodes
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This tech changed my life/work
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! I've recently gotten a new full-time job, which means needing both work and personal gear, accounts, and apps — and I've started traveling again. A lot. This is...
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The True Danger of Artificial Intelligence
🎗 https://givewell.org/rene Get your $100 donation matched with Givewell! A.I. Artificial intelligence. Machine Learning. Generative Adversarial Networks. Neural Engines. Dall-E. Midjourney. ChatGPT... It’s the rise of the machines. Judgment day. Humanity deleted, as we become nothing more than…
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Apple Data Protection — The ugly truth
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! Up until now, Apple kept an encryption key for things like your personal photos and messages stored on their iCloud servers. That meant, if you ever forgot your...
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Health tech hot takes with @DoctorMike
Are the Apple Watch, Pixel Watch, Samsung Watch, Garmin, Fitbit and all the other smart wearables functional or just a fad? Can they help connect you, protect you, and keep you from harm, or just overwhelm you with numbers and cause some alarm? Doctor Mike, noted YouTube creator, family…
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Apple vs Intel vs Qualcomm — Who wins 2023!
Does Intel's future lie in foundry? Can AMD ever grow its market share? Will MediaTek compete at the higher end? Is custom back at Qualcomm? And will anyone catch up to Apple? Here's where silicon is heading in 2023! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...
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The End of Big Silicon — Apple, Intel, Qualcomm
Both desktop and mobile silicon are hitting the limits of physics. Power draw keeps increasing while enclosures only get smaller. Process shrinks are becoming more expensive and time-consuming. And foundries are facing geopolitical and competitive concerns. So what can Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, and...
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The Elon Phone
Is Elon Musk actually going to make a phone? That’s what approximately 42,069 headlines in my feed are saying right now. Not a Tesla phone, Space X Starlink phone, or Neuralink phone, though that’d be kinda hella cool. Not even a Boring phone, despite a lot of people saying phones have gotten at...
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How (NOT) to save a company
Twitter vs. Apple. Elon vs. Steve Jobs. I mean, kinda, we’ll get to that in a minute. Point being, Twitter is what everyone is talking about right now. Especially on Twitter. More than FTX imploding — and exploding — at least at time of recording. More than Mark Zuckerberg laying off 11,000…
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Elon v Twitter — Endgame
I’ve been trying to make this video about Twitter and Elon Musk for days but every time I open the app, the story has taken on a new and hilarious twist, which I'll cover here, but finally, I thought — forget it, let’s just go! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California…
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Ruining the iPad
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! A friend of the family asked me to look at their iPad recently because something wasn’t working right and I noticed they had like 30 instances of the Mail all...
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USB-C regulation — the BIG problem
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! All phones will have to use UBC-C plugs for charging beginning in 2024, the European Union has decided. And by that, they mean iPhones. Because every other…
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iPhone 15 — The Big Leak Lie
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! I used to leak. Well, not leak. A lot of people get that wrong. Leakers aren’t the people reporting the leaks to you. Those are… reporters. Leakers are the ones...
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iPhone 14 — Buy now or wait for 15?
🔥 Go to https://bit.ly/37su9oh and use code reneritchie to get a free 100 pack of blades when you purchase your Henson Razor — Make sure you add both the 100 blade pack and the razor for the discount to apply! My always advice is: Wait as long as you possible can to upgrade, then buy the best...
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iPhone 14 Pro — You're charging it wrong
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! Whether it's the brand new iPhone 14 Pro or the just-shipped Galaxy Fold 4 or the upcoming Pixel 7 Pro, you don’t have to micromanage your phone's charging. You...
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eSIM & iPhone 14 — The uglier truth
☕️ https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! You can tell it’s really iPhone 14 season because we nerds are angrier than Star Wars stans following Book of Boba. And the reason… this time? I mean, same song, new verse. Apple’s deleted another port, this time...
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Why can't your iPhone take the 5th?
Should our phones have the right to remain silent? To plead the 5th? There’s doctor-patient privilege, attorney-client privilege, clergy-penitent privilege, and spousal privilege. To the best of my understanding, and with all the appropriate caveats and limits of scope, in many jurisdictions, our...
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Why Instagram is self-destructing
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! Timelines vs algorithms. Chronology vs. discovery. FIGHT! Everyone is super hopping mad that the people they care about, the friends, the family, the creators,...
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Apple and ads — the ugly truth
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! Apple, the company that’s been building literal bill-boards to privacy and preaching about not using their customers as products Apple, the company that’s been...
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Fold & Flip 4 — But where are Apple and Google?
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie Apple hasn’t shipped an iPhone Fold… yet. There’s no flipping Google Pixel phone yet either. But Samsung has just hit deadly number 4 — Galaxies Flip and Fold the next, next, next generation. So, why? What does...
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Tech reviews are broken
You know what I’m talking about. A new phone or laptop or camera or whatever hits, and suddenly your feed is filled with… like… 3000 blog posts or podcasts or videos about it. It’s like the red wedding but for every other bit of content coming out that day. And there are some very specific…
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Reacting to M2 MacBook Air Drama
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! I didn't have a chance to review the new M2 MacBook Air, because new job, but several of my YouTube friends did, and I have a bunch of opinions to share about...
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My new job and the future of this channel
I have a new job — at YouTube! — but what does that mean for this channel? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Why I'm changing my channel*
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! A new product drops — take Apple's M2 as the latest example — and people rush to post about how, according to some benchmark or test, it’s bad, broken, burning,...
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Encryption — the big lie
🔥 Save 20% — and your time! — https://textexpander.com/reneritchie Encrypt everything. Local drives. Backup drives. Online accounts. All of it. End-to-end. That’s what we’ve all been told… over and over again. But what if… that's all just been a lie? See Privacy Policy at…
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iOS 16 Lockdown Mode — Super Max Security for iPhone!
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie Turns out, WWDC 2022 wasn’t the last we’d hear about new iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura features — that’s right, Apple has one more thing It’s called Lockdown Mode, and just like the name suggests, it lets…
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MacBook Pro — Buy Now or Wait for M2 Pro / Max?
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie M1 Pro/Max vs M2 Pro/Max Apple silicon. Same display and ports vs. maybe slightly better versions of the same? Same price, but now, as in around a month for shipping, vs probably 9 months for the next…
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8GB vs 16GB vs 24GB for M2 Mac — The TRUTH about RAM!
🔥 https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ NO ADS + Bonus Videos! Get CuriosityStream + Nebula bundle for less than $15 a YEAR! Should you get 8GB, 16GB, or the brand new option, 24GB of RAM, for the M2 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or presumptive M2 Mac mini? See Privacy Policy at...
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Why Apple's new CarPlay will win
🔥 https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ NO ADS + Bonus Videos! Get CuriosityStream + Nebula bundle for less than $15 a YEAR! Apple’s just now previewed CarPlay Mark II. The whole expansive interior experience, basically from dash to dial. But, how will that all even work? Will car makers even...
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M2 MacBook Pro review — vs M2 Air and M1 Pro!
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! The M2 MacBook Pro has Apple’s most bleeding-edge system-on-a-chip... all wrapped up inside a 13-inch unibody aluminum chassis that, swear to Jobs, has barely...
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M2 MacBook Pro vs M1 Pro/Max — Which is best for YOU?
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! Apple just announced M2, their next-generation system-on-a-chip for Mac. But only M2. Not M2 Pro or M2 Max. Not yet. Which means — if you’re in the market for a...
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Passkeys — How Apple* DESTROYS Passwords
🔥 Go to https://bit.ly/37su9oh and use code reneritchie to get a free 100 pack of blades when you purchase your Henson Razor — Make sure you add both the 100 blade pack and the razor for the discount to apply! Apple announced their passkey implementation at WWDC 2022 — iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS...
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Apple's M2 Roadmap — Not What You Think?
🔥 Go to https://bit.ly/37su9oh and use code reneritchie to get a free 100 pack of blades when you purchase your Henson Razor — Make sure you add both the 100 blade pack and the razor for the discount to apply! M2 is here and if past is at all prologue, that means M2 Pro, M2 Max, M2 Ultra… and...
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Why is Stage Manager M1 iPad Only?
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! Flashback to WWDC 2021, and tech twitter and tech YouTube were livid — borderline apoplectic — that iPadOS 15 didn’t deliver any new features that took…
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They want to destroy YouTube as we know it...
Right now your YouTube Homepage looks like... it always does. Filled with recommendations based on the videos you chose to watch in the past, and that other people like you have engaged with and enjoyed. YouTube’s Discovery system works super hard to figure out the videos you personally,...
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Apple M2 Chipset — Deeply Explained
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! 4 Avalanche high-performance cores. 4 Blizzard high-efficiency cores. Up to 10 G14 Graphics Cores. 16 5th generation Neural Engine Cores. But, we’re…
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M2 MacBook Air & WWDC 2022 Reactions (Feat. iJustine)
It's WWDC 2020 and Rene, Adam, iJustine, Alex, and Aure are answering all your questions about M2, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, dev tools, API, frameworks, and more! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...
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WWDC and 'No New Hardware'
🔥 https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ NO ADS + Bonus Videos! Get CuriosityStream + Nebula bundle for less than $15 a YEAR! Forget the early days of new iPhones, 2017 and everything from iMac to MacBook Pro to iMac Pro to... HomePod... that really highlighted for me how “it’s a software…
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iPhone 14 vs Samsung — Right... or right now?
🔥 https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ NO ADS + Bonus Videos! Get CuriosityStream + Nebula bundle for less than $12 a YEAR! I’ve been asking for an always-on iPhone display… it’s gotta be… 5 years now. Basically, ever since Apple took it OLED with the iPhone X back in 2017. I mean, Nokia...
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iPhone Design is... Compromised
🔥 Get my NEW Nebula Class and ALL Classes for 20% off at http://nebulaclasses.com/reneritchie The iPhone Design is… compromised. I know it. You know. Apple sure as hell knows it. iPhone 11, iPhone 12, iPhone 13, iPhone 14... mini, Pro, Max. It doesn't matter. From the mmWave RF window on the…
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WWDC — The Secret to Apple's Biggest Event!
🔥 Get my NEW Nebula Class and ALL Classes for 20% off at http://nebulaclasses.com/reneritchie A multi-trillion ton of stuff has to happen before Tim Cook, Craig Federighi and everyone from Apple takes the stage for WWDC, their annual World Wide Developer Conference. From… Everything getting...
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Making iPad Apps... on the iPad!
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie For some people, a computer is a device that you can use to make apps... for that computer. And, for most of its existence, that’s counted the iPad out, almost completely. At least until last year… That's when…
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Surprise NEW iPhone Features!
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie Live Transcription, Door Detection, Apple Watch Mirroring, and much, much more — all coming later this year, which is like Apple code for an advanced preview so it doesn’t get lost in all the usual Dub Dub Hub Bub...
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Apple HAD to Kill the iPod
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie I want to talk about the iPod. Why it became a cultural phenomenon, helped to save Apple and give birth to the iPhone… but also… why it absolutely had to die. And I want to focus on three very specific decisions...
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Google vs Apple — Great Artists Steal
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! The Google I/O keynote had just finished and my timeline and messages are filled up with snark and snarls over all the features Android is copying from iOS…
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Apple. Doomed. Finally.
🚀 Visit https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie to start learning STEM for FREE! First 200 get 20% off their annual premium subscription! Depending on who you listen to, Apple is either in the fight of their lives to preserve the company culture, the culture that created everything from the iMac…
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Apple's Lost Soul — 'After Steve' Review
🔥 https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ NO ADS + Bonus Videos! Get CuriosityStream + Nebula bundle for less than $12 a YEAR! There’s this new book out with the YouTube click-bait-worthy title of 'After Steve, How Apple Became a Trillion Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul'. Basically, casting…
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Why iPhone 14 PRO Needs USB-C
🔥 https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ NO ADS + Bonus Videos! Get CuriosityStream + Nebula bundle for less than $15 a YEAR! The iPhone 14 needs USB-C. It’s not even a maybe. You know it. I know it. Apple knows it. So, why aren’t they doing it? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...
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iPhone 14 — WTF No A16?
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie For the last decade and a bit, nothing and no one has crushed it harder than Apple’s iPhone silicon team. New iPhone. New silicon. Each year. Every year. But this year… "Only two Pro models would upgrade to the…
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The LAST Apple Silicon Mac
☕️ Sign up to Morning Brew for FREE today! https://morningbrewdaily.com/reneritchie There’s only one more Apple silicon Mac to go, the Mac Pro. By bifurcating the higher-end Mac desktop lineup, by introducing the Mac Studio as the all-in-none, sealed, computing appliance successor to the 2013 J90...
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Why the iPad is Broken
🔥 https://curiositystream.com/reneritchie/ NO ADS + Bonus Videos! Get CuriosityStream + Nebula bundle for less than $15 a YEAR! The iPad is broken. You know it. I know it. Apple’s known it basically forever. But no one’s been able to fix it. Maybe. We’ll get to that! See Privacy Policy at...
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Daily news analysis and insight into the cultural and personal impact of Apple and related technologies, with weekly bonus reviews and deep-dives into the products and stories that matter most.
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