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Speaker 1: Apple gives the iPad its most drastic makeover yet.

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Speaker 2: What's going on. I'm rich Demiro.

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Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, sitting here in New York City,

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Speaker 1: just getting out of Apple's event in Brooklyn where the

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Speaker 1: company got right down to business, showing off a new Macmini,

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Speaker 1: new MacBook Air, and the new iPad pros.

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Speaker 2: We all knew we're coming. Now.

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Speaker 1: These devices aren't as sexy as the iPhone. Yes, their

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Speaker 1: designs are beautiful, but these are more utility devices. They're

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Speaker 1: not the things that make the giant headlines. But when

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Speaker 1: you go into an Apple store, you need one of

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Speaker 1: these things, or you want one of these things.

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Speaker 2: That's when you become interested. Now I've never.

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Speaker 1: Owned an iPad Pro or a Macmini, but now I

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Speaker 1: kind of want both. And no, I'm not ready to

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Speaker 1: give up my MacBook Pro just yet, but the divide

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Speaker 1: between the MacBook Air and the Pro is slowly closing.

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Speaker 1: Now let's start with the iPad Pro. This got the

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Speaker 1: iPhone ten treatment. Gone is the home button and face

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Speaker 1: ID is now the way to unlock. Apple stretched a

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Speaker 1: screen all the way to the edges, and the design

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Speaker 1: is now reminiscent of the iPhone four or five if

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Speaker 1: you can believe it, think squared off edges instead of

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Speaker 1: smooth and round. That's not a bad thing. These new

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Speaker 1: iPad pros are beautiful, and they keep getting closer to

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Speaker 1: the ideal of that paper thin display that becomes whatever

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Speaker 1: you want it to be, a movie screen, a book,

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Speaker 1: a photo viewer, whatever in hand.

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Speaker 2: They are just perfect.

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Speaker 1: The twelve point nine inch model is still enormous, but

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Speaker 1: it's thin and light. The eleven inch model is about

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Speaker 1: the same size as the old ten point five inch model,

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Speaker 1: maybe the size of a piece of paper, but you

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Speaker 1: do get more screen on the new model. Now the

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Speaker 1: other change, the lightning poor is gone. This is pretty crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's now replaced with USBC, which Apple says will help

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Speaker 1: you connect more accessories. It's also kind of nice since

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Speaker 1: the world is turning towards USBC and now it seems

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Speaker 1: like Apple is as well.

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Speaker 2: So the question is.

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Speaker 1: Will they drop lightning on the next iPhone At this

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Speaker 1: point it seems like all signs are pointing in that direction.

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Speaker 1: One cool side effect of this you can now use

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Speaker 1: the iPad pro to charge your iPhone. Yeah, the iPad

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Speaker 1: pro is kind of like a giant mofy.

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Speaker 2: If you have a lightning to USBC cable, which I do.

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Speaker 1: You can just plug your phone into the iPad Pro

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Speaker 1: and yes, it will charge. I tried this out in

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Speaker 1: the hands on demo area and it worked now. To

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Speaker 1: be fair, I also did this last night with two

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Speaker 1: Android phones when my brother needed a charge for his phone. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: Apple also has a habit of dropping certain ports, and

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Speaker 1: the headphone jack is gone from the iPad Pro. Kind

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Speaker 1: of sad considering it's a nice thing to have in

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Speaker 1: a pinch. Plus, you're paying a really high premium.

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Speaker 2: For these iPads, but it is gone.

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Speaker 1: You can now get up to a terabyte of storage

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Speaker 1: on the iPad Pro. They start at eight hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: for the eleven inch model with sixty four gigs of storage.

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Speaker 1: The twelve point nine inch model starts at nine hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety nine dollars for sixty four gigs, and again

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Speaker 1: Apple is playing the pricing games with its storage. The

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Speaker 1: fifty six gigs, which I think is a much better

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Speaker 1: fit for an iPad Pro, something that you are paying

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Speaker 1: so you definitely want.

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Speaker 2: That extra storage.

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Speaker 1: Now, if you max it out, you can go all

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Speaker 1: the way with cellular and one terabyte of storage. You

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Speaker 1: are now looking at nineteen hundred dollars. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: that does not include the two accessories you're gonna want

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Speaker 1: if you're spending this much on a tablet. Those two

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Speaker 1: accessories are the Apple pencil and the keyboard case. The

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Speaker 1: Apple pencil picks up some new tricks. It is now magnetic,

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Speaker 1: so it sticks right on the side of the iPad,

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Speaker 1: and when it's sticking there, it's also wirelessly charging. That's

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Speaker 1: handy because it seems like every time I go to

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Speaker 1: use the Apple pencil it is dead.

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Speaker 2: And I must not have been the only one.

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Speaker 1: Because charging that thing was such a chore. The Apple

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Speaker 1: pencil is now also tap sensitive, so you can tap

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Speaker 1: switch between the pencil and the eraser tool when you're

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Speaker 1: You can also tap the iPad screen when it's sleeping

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Speaker 1: with the Apple pencil and it will spring to life

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Speaker 1: and fire up notes instantly. Now where have I seen that?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Microsoft Surface and the Galaxy Note nine both

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Speaker 1: do this. But again, it's not a bad thing. I'm

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Speaker 1: just giving you some perspective on what other gadgets are

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Speaker 1: able to do. The Apple Pencil also gets a price bump.

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Speaker 1: It is now one hundred and thirty dollars instead of

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. The keyboard case, meanwhile, starts at one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty dollars. I'm not even gonna do the

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Speaker 1: math for you to add it all up. This is

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Speaker 1: an expensive proposition.

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Speaker 2: But I'll be clear here.

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Speaker 1: If I wasn't producing so much content on my MacBook Pro,

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Speaker 1: like editing video and audio, and I was just doing

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Speaker 1: emails and spreadsheets and things like that and surfing the

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Speaker 1: web and watching movies, I would much rather have an

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Speaker 1: iPad pro that works as both an entertainment screen and

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Speaker 1: a productivity device.

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Speaker 2: When you need it. Now, let's move on to the

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Speaker 2: MacBook Air. This got a nice upgrade.

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Speaker 1: It finally has that retina display folks have been wanting

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Speaker 1: for a long time. According to the mac Rumors Buying Guide,

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Speaker 1: which is the handy website. By the way, The last

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Speaker 1: time this device was updated was in June twe twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: or over five hundred days ago, and that wasn't even

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Speaker 1: a big update. The MacBook Air now has a thirteen

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Speaker 1: inch screen. It's a great size, with two Thunderbolt three

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Speaker 1: do other things as well. But this one does have

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Speaker 1: a headphone jack, so a little bit of a head

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Speaker 1: scratcher there. Apple doesn't hate the headphone jack completely. The

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Speaker 1: power button also doubles as a fingerprint sensor, so there's

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Speaker 1: touch ID to unlock your computer and also make purchases

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Speaker 1: online with Apple Pay. Apple says they also improve the keyboard,

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Speaker 1: but I'll be honest, I typed on it for a

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Speaker 1: little bit and I did not feel like it's very

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Speaker 1: improved over my MacBook Pro, which I find really tough

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Speaker 1: to type accurately on, especially when I'm typing fast. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I feel like the keys on the MacBook Air had

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Speaker 1: far they pressed down. Kind of seems worse to me,

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Speaker 1: new design. The MacBook Air starts at twelve hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: but still comes with the paltry one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: You might not need all that storage, but my advice

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Speaker 1: last a good four years. You want the best possible

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Speaker 2: From the get go. One neat thing about the MacBook Air.

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Speaker 1: The body is made from one hundred percent recycled aluminum,

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Speaker 1: so that's a pretty neat feat by Apple.

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Speaker 2: Way to go.

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Speaker 1: Finally, the Mac Mini. Not much to say about this

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Speaker 1: one except it's not dead. You can outfit it with

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Speaker 1: quad and six core processors, up to sixty four gigs

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Speaker 1: you get four thunderbolt, three slash USB C ports, an

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Speaker 1: HDMI port, two USB A ports. Those are like just

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Speaker 1: your standard USB and a three point five millimeters audio out. Yes,

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Speaker 1: let me think, is there anything missing? I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I was really excited to get one of these things

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Speaker 1: Synology NASS and dump all my photos and other documents

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Speaker 1: on here until I heard about the new price tag.

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Speaker 1: It now starts at eight hundred dollars. I think the

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Speaker 1: old one used to be closer to four hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars. I still kind of want one, though,

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Speaker 1: but it might be overkill compared to Asynology ness if

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Speaker 1: I'm using it in that capacity. And that's about it.

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Speaker 1: No mention of AirPods, no mention of airpower, no new

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Speaker 1: iPad Mini. But guess what, friends, there's always twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: But let's go back to the iPad Pro for a second.

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Speaker 1: It's a really, really nice design, but very expensive for

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Speaker 1: the low end iPad as well. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: I get this question all the time, the iPad yes

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Speaker 1: is still the best tablet out there, hands down, mainly

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Speaker 1: due to the design, the accessories, the speed, the performance.

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Speaker 2: And the apps.

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Speaker 1: You just won't find a better selection of apps on

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Speaker 1: any other tablet. So there you have it. Updates from

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Speaker 1: Apple's big event in Brooklyn. Just want to tell you

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Speaker 1: one funny story before I go. So the event was

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Speaker 1: Note nine. Now irony aside, Apple ended the event with

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Speaker 1: a performance from Lana del Rey, who sang live on stage,

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Speaker 1: but she told the audience she wasn't allowed to swear,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of funny. I'm sure Apple didn't want

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Speaker 1: notoriously clean cut image. But the funny part, both her

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Speaker 1: she's saying have swear words in them, so she couldn't

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Speaker 1: mention the title of either. Kind of tough to promote

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Speaker 1: your new stuff when you can't say the name of it.

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Speaker 2: Well, there you have it.

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Speaker 1: If you have questions about the new devices, feel free

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Speaker 1: to drop me a line. You can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media at rich On tech or my website richontech

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Speaker 1: and watch my hands on with a new iPad pro,

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Speaker 1: or watch my KTLA TV segment on all.

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Speaker 2: The new gadgets. Thanks so much for listening. I'm rich Chamiro.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you real soon