Tag: joanna stern

  • Apple’s Anxiety-Inducing MacBook Pro Keyboard Situation Update

    Remember how Apple released a MacBook Air last year that might have had a more reliable update to their butterfly keyboard mechanism? Joanna Stern wrote about how it wasn’t fixed for the Wall Street Journal and put the nail in that coffin. Here’s one I missed, Casey Johnston also had an update on our long…

  • Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm

    That’s the headline to Joanna Stern’s latest column about Apple’s keyboard ongoing nightmare. It’s a hilarious column to read, Stern had her colleagues make some custom tech to remove or add letters from the article to match her brand new MacBook Air’s broken keyboard, and the video has a great conclusion. Don’t worry, there are…

  • The Deal With The iPhone XR

    That iPhone XR came out and it has almost the exact trade-offs we discussed before. The XR is like the XS and XS Max in many ways, except the XR is missing the 2nd telephoto camera system of the X and previous Plus-sized devices which can be useful for composing shots or getting superior “portrait mode” photos…

  • The HomePod Situation

    Apple’s competitor to other standalone high-end speakers came out on Friday. It’s the HomePod. Apple boasts about its higher quality sound that adapt to the room you are in, reviewers agree. Nilay Patel wrote this in his review: All of this means the HomePod sounds noticeably richer and fuller than almost every other speaker we’ve…

  • Apple Releases Clips App

    It’s the Ken Burns effect but for millennials. Joanna Stern has a guide to Clips on the WSJ: Hang-gliding over the Swiss Alps, or just cleaning your dryer’s lint tray? Either way, the titans of tech want you to record a snippet of it. Then they want you to slap on some emojis and text. Then they…