Weekly Tech Rant: Episode 8

Time Flies for Apple as we take a look the latest tech in our first Apple Event special!

Welcome to Episode 8 of The Weekly Tech Rant and this week we press pause on the reguarl programming to bring you a breakdown on the latest and greatest from our friends in Cupertino!

We are now available on Apple and Spotify Podcasts and of course our hosting platform Anchor:

This week we covered:

• News
  • Apple virtual events – the gold standard now in product launches
• So when is the iPhone event?
  • All the things that could appear?
    • iPhone 12
    • Air Tags
    • Apple AirPods Studio Headphones
    • iOS 14.2 Dev beta – where did 14.1 go?
• Gadgets
  • Apple Watch Series 6
    • Blood O2 levels
    • Altimeter
    • Solo Loop – um isn’t this just an elastic band?
  • Apple Watch SE but the Series 3 remains on sale?
  • Apple Family Setup – could this be the best way to track your kids?!
  • Apple Fitness + – is Apple now challenging Pelaton etc?
  • Apple ONE – what is it with Apple’s storage plans!!
  • New iPads
    • 8th Gen iPad – Great value but nothing groundbreaking!
    • New iPad Air – or the baby Pro?
      • Works with most 11” Pro accessories
    • So does the latest Air supersede the last-gen Pro?
    • A14 chip – did we get a peek at the iPhone CPU

But it wouldn’t be the Tech Rant without some mention of TikTok and Epic! So here are the latest items we covered!

• Epic Lawsuit is one big publicity stunt say Apple
• Could TikTok/WeChat be banned as of this Sunday 20th Sept!

Enjoy and as always please let us know what you think in the comments.