Since this week marked the 10 year anniversary of the iPad, it brought up a lot of praise and a lot of criticism from a lot of people, and the multi-window multitasking interactions were chief among them. So, what can be done about them? SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to brilliant.org/vector and get 20% off their annual Premium subscription! MORE: Merch: https://standard.tv/vector Gear: https://kit.com/reneritchie Podcast: http://applepodcasts.com/vector Twitter: https://twitter.com/reneritchie...

The iPhone 11 is going to be so boring. So iterative. A real yawner. A let down. You don’t need it. Totally. Completely. Must skip. Facepalm emoji dash thumbnail. That was not an uncommon narrative last year when iPhone 11 rumors started making the rounds. Hell, even once it was announced. Now, just four months later, Apple has released its first quarter, 2020 financial results and, well… OK Doomers. SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to brilliant.org/vector and get 20% off their annual Premium...

Back in September, Apple invited FiLMiC up on the big iPhone 11 event stage to show off something pretty damn incredible: multi-cam video capture. It wasn’t quite ready to ship back then. But it is now. I got to spend an hour or so talking to Filmic and watching their demos, and a couple days shooting with DoubleTake on my own. And here are my first impressions! SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to brilliant.org/vector and get 20% off their annual Premium subscription! LINKS: ‎DoubleTake by...

10-years ago, on January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs announced a third category of device in the middle, something that’s between a laptop and a smartphone. Something that had to be better as browsing, email, photos, video, music, gaming, and eBooks. Something that had to be… the iPad. And this is its history and secret origin. SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to brilliant.org/vector and get 20% off their annual Premium subscription! LINKS: The Secret History of iPhone - YouTube MORE: Merch:...

It’s 2020 and I still can’t watch 4K YouTube on almost any of my Apple stuff. I can watch 4K almost everything else, from iTunes to Netflix to Disney+ to Vimeo, just not YouTube. And I can watch 4K YouTube on almost everything else, from Roku to Amazon to ChromeCast, just not my Apple stuff. So, why, and more importantly, when’s it all just going to be fixed? SPONSOR: CuriosityStream Watch thousands of documentaries for free for 31 days AND get a free Nebula account by signing up at...

Reuters detonated a huge controversy in the Apple and security spaces yesterday with this headline — Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources. So, let's dive into it. SPONSOR: CuriosityStream Watch thousands of documentaries for free for 31 days AND get a free Nebula account by signing up at curiositystream.com/vector and using the promo code ‘vector’! LINKS: Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources - Reuters ...

Is Apple evil? Yes. Of course. 100%. But in a far more dangerous way than the cliched, cartoonish, contorted new Evil List article in Slate suggests. SPONSOR: CuriosityStream Watch thousands of documentaries for free for 31 days AND get a free Nebula account by signing up at curiositystream.com/vector and using the promo code ‘vector’! LINKS: Apple's Biggest Danger... - YouTube Indie iPhone Repair — Apple Just Changed EVERYTHING! - YouTube MORE: Merch: https://standard.tv/vector...

Late last year, I upgraded the main camera I use for filming these videos to the Canon C200. A cinema camera, which means one built specifically for shooting video. Not a still camera that also shoots video. There were a bunch of reasons for this, which I can get into in another video if you’re interested, but the biggest for me was the ability to run XLR mics straight into the camera instead of having to use intermediary interfaces and recorders, and the ability to get a picture that looks...

This time last year we had new, incredibly powerful iPad Pro hardware, but what we didn’t have was the iOS software to truly unlock all of its potential. iOS 12 had been, in large part, a performance and stability release, and I loved that. Loved it so much I’m going to repeat the need to repeat it every year basically ad nauseam Infinitum until it happens. But, we were missing things. Especially things that would let the iPad be the iPad. I’d been asking for an iPadOS for like 5 years....

Recently, there have been a few more spoilers around Apple’s next less expensive iPhone. What’s previously been referred to as the iPhone SE 2 or, more recently, the iPhone 9. And… even though I’ve already done a whole video explaining what I think it’ll be and why, there still seems to be some confusion out there around both of those things. So, I’m going to try again… but different. Instead of rehashing the rumors, I’m going to go through what I think the actual announcements will be....

This time last year, we were coming off one of the biggest performance and stability releases in Apple’s history with iOS 12. It was so stable and performant, the betas felt better than some previous shipping versions. But, hardware like the iPhone XS and especially the iPad Pro made it clear Apple needed to amp up the functionally and fill in many of the still-missing features. Enter iOS 13 and its offshoot, iPadOS 13, which brought a ton of exactly that functionality and those feature...

Law enforcement agencies across the globe make requests for data from Apple and other tech companies all the time. So “all the time”, there are processes in place to handle them. They are… routine. But, every once in awhile, specific cases still show up in the papers. They’re the most sensational, horrible, heart-breaking, flag-waving cases, and the papers lap them up, few questions asked, and the people who then read the stories get all riled up. Which is, I think, is the entire point of...

Last year, I asked for three main things when it came to iPhone 11 photography: An ultra-wide camera, a Night Mode, and Portrait Video. And, yeah, to fix the weird skin tones and textures in Smart HDR. We didn’t get Portrait Video but 3 out of 4 wasn’t just not bad, it was enough to convince all the doomsayers, boreds now, and must-skippers out there that the iPhone 11 and its cameras were far closer to must have. You know, something anyone watching this channel had known long before they...

We’re not even a week into 2020 and Samsung has not only announced a couple of new phones already, but an event to announce even more new phones. And… its worth taking a look at, both from a Samsung and an Apple point of view. SPONSOR: CuriosityStream Watch thousands of documentaries for free for 31 days AND get a free Nebula account by signing up at curiositystream.com/vector and using the promo code ‘vector’! MORE: Merch: https://standard.tv/vector Gear: https://kit.com/reneritchie...

CES — formerly known as the consumer electronics show — is kicking off this week in Las Vegas. On display and behind closed doors will be everything every manufacturer and store thinks we’re going to want to buy come the big holiday shopping season at the end of the year. iMore, Windows Central, Android Central, Cord Cutters, MrMobile — all my colleagues are there covering it right now, so keep it locked to all their links-in-the-description for the best, worst, and just plain weirdest of...

2019 is over. Everything that would ship did ship. And now it’s time to let the past die. Kill it if you have to. It's the only way for all of us to get what comes next. Wait, no, that sounds so nihilistic. And I’m, like, so totally optimistic about what this year could bring. So, let’s go over it all. SPONSOR: Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this show! Get 2 months of unlimited access to thousands of SkillShare classes for free! LINKS: iPad Pro (2020) Rumor Analysis - YouTube Why...

When Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone in 2007, the first big leap forward, it was made possible by the confluence of several rapidly emerging technologies — capacitive multitouch, ubiquitous mobile data networks, and miniaturized computing. All of these technologies existed prior to the iPhone but they’d never been brought together before in anything as polished or approachable as the iPhone. SPONSOR: Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this show! Get 2 months of unlimited access...

Back in October of 2018, Apple introduced a totally new, totally redesigned iPad Pro. It deleted a lot of the bezels, making the 12.9-inch model smaller and letting the 10.5-inch model expand to 11-inches. They lost the headphone jack, which sucked, but also swapped out Lightning for USB-C, which was terrific. And they topped it all off with the monstrous A12X processor, which pretty much made any machine with an Intel Core M just break down and cry. But, that was then, this is now. Apple...

Both Apple and Disney announced new streaming video services this year and they couldn’t have been more different. Apple promised a few old favorites, like Peanuts and Oprah, but mostly all-new originals with huge names like Jennifer Aniston and Jason Mamoa attached, budgets the would take us into the future and, through alternate timelines, the moon again, and with some astronomical, aspirations attached, because there was absolutely no catalog content to fall back on. Disney was all about...

Over the last 18-months we’ve gotten new iPads Pro, new iPhones Pro, and new Apple Watches with always-on displays. By any metric, this is Apple’s best lineup of product ever. But, as slam dunk as some of these products are — they’re still not all the products. Even now, at the end of the decade, there are still some pretty big gaps across the iPhone, iPad, iPod — yeah, I said it — HomePod, Apple Watch, and Apple TV lineups. So, since I covered the missing Macs in one of last week’s videos,...

The Apple Watch is different. There’s no Air version or Pro version. No mini and no Max. Not really. You don’t spec one based on storage size or memory size, number of cameras or cores. There are simply two display sizes, small and large, and a variety of different materials, from aluminum to ceramic, steel to titanium. And, if an Apple Watch Series 5 is just too much for you, there’s an Apple Watch Series 3 to get you started. So, you choose your size, you choose your material, and then...

I’ve been using the 16-inch MacBook Pro since Apple announced them roughly one month ago this week. In that time, I’ve also significantly updated how I make these videos. Not only have I re-arranged that wall behind me so I have more room to store all the gear I’ve gone back to, but I’ve upgraded the lighting as well, so it’s more balanced and flexible. I switched from the Panasonic GH-5 to the Canon C200 a while ago and I’ve recently started shooting in c-long, which provides slightly more...

I’ve been using the Apple Watch Series 5 since just after Apple introduced it back in September of this year. In that time, I’ve used it awake and asleep, at home and while traveling, for movie tickets and boarding passes, to track physical activity and hydration, to control my home and stay in touch with the people I love, and to demonstrate its safety features probably more often than I should. And, I’ve come to a few conclusions in that time. SPONSOR: Thanks to Skillshare for...

Apple’s really been bringing the fire over the last couple of years. A lot of products that had fallen off the radar, or simply fallen off, have been brought back. Some with swagger. Some, with a vengeance. We got a new big iPhone with Max, and updated MacBook Air, Mac mini, iPad Air, iPad mini — basically, all the airs and minis — and, most recently, a new MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, and Pro Display. Yeah, all the Pros too. But, big and badass as some of these products are — they’re not all the...

The decade in Apple, including new products from the iPad to Apple Watch, AirPods to HomePod, iPad Pro to iPhone Pro, 2013 Mac Pro to 2019 Mac Pro, controversies surrounding antennas, bends, slowdowns, butterfly switches, China, achievements in accessibility, educations, environment, and privacy, the rise of services from iCloud to Apple Music, Arcade, and TV+, from Steve Jobs to Jon Ive to Tim Cook, always with Phil Schiller and Eddy Cue, and the continued evolution of iOS, macOS, watchOS,...