Here's A First Look At YouTube's Cable TV Service

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There are already a dozen different ways you can watch TV without cable – and now, Google is offering cord cutters yet another option, called YouTube TV, that offers a mix of live TV, cloud DVR storage, *and* on-demand content to set itself apart from established competition like Netflix and Amazon. The new service, which costs $35 a month, will be offered on the web, Android, iPhone, iPad, Google Chromecast, and Chromecast-enabled TVs.

US households pay $103.10 per month on average for cable, so it’s no wonder that services streaming shows, movies, and sports over the Internet are increasingly popular. Most streaming sites charge between $9 and $25 a month to access content on-demand, on multiple devices, wherever there’s a strong Internet connection. Another plus? Not having to deal with frustrating customer service representatives trying to force you not to cancel your subscription.

YouTube TV is a way for Google to compete with the likes Hulu and Netflix by offering its massive user base premium content, rather than just (mostly amateur) user-uploaded content. The homepage of the YouTube TV app features popular YouTube web series from independent creators like Lizzie Bennet, alongside shows from ABC and Showtime.

So, is YouTube TV worth it? I had a few days to play with the Android version of the new app, and think it’s a compelling option for those who are really into TV, especially live TV. But the on-demand content is fairly limited, so YouTube TV is pricey if you already subscribe a standalone sports package or a TV-focused service, like Hulu Plus.

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Here’s what you get for $35 per month.

YouTube TV is essentially three things: a live TV streaming service, a cloud-based DVR with unlimited storage, and a link to YouTube content related to those TV shows.

A subscription to YouTube TV gets you live streams from Disney (including Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC), NBCUniversal (including MSNBC, Bravo, E!, and Telemundo), CBS (including The CW and CBS Sports Network), Fox (including Fox News and Nat Geo), AMC Networks (including AMC and BBC America) and The Weather Channel.

It's a bit more limited than what Sling Blue, plus some extras, and Playstation Vue offer though, depending on the package, those are a bit more expensive than YouTube TV. You’ll notice that Viacom channels like Comedy Central and Turner Broadcasting programming from CNN and TBS are missing.

According to Google, YouTube TV subscribers will soon be able to purchase premium add-ons like Showtime ($11/month), Fox Soccer Plus ($15/month), Shudder, and Sundance Now in addition to the base tier.

The full list of YouTube TV&039;s channels:

Disney: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPNews, SEC Network, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, Freeform

NBCUniversal: NBC, Telemundo, Bravo, Chiller, CNBC, E&033;, Golf Channel, MSNBC, Universo, NBCSN, Oxygen, Sprout, SyFy, Universal HD, USA, Comcast Regional Sports Networks, NECN (New England Cable News)

CBS: CBS, The CW, CBS Sports NetworkFox: FOX, FS1 (Fox Sports 1), FS2 (Fox Sports 2), BTN (Big Ten Network), FX, FXX, FXM, Nat Geo, Nat Geo Wild, Fox News, Fox Business, Fox Regional Sports NetworksAMC Networks: AMC, BBC America, BBC World News, WE tv, IFC, Sundance TV

The Weather Channel: Local Now

You’ll also have access to YouTube Red, which is premium ad-free content made by YouTube stars and would cost you $10 per month without a YouTube TV subscription.

It’s basically an Internet-friendly, mobile-friendly live TV guide.

The experience is great on mobile (it’s available on Android, iPhone, and iPad, as well as web and Chromecast). The “Live” tab in the app feels the most like a traditional TV experience. You can scroll through different channels and preview what’s streaming live on each. To start watching a show, you tap in and are taken to a different page with the stream on top and lots of extra content around it, like what’s coming up next and shortcuts to jump to most recently watched channels.

Underneath the stream, there’s a section of recommended content, which is how I went down a Real Housewives rabbit hole for nearly two hours. I recommend tilting your phone to view in landscape, so all of that extra distraction goes away and the show goes full screen.

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YouTube TV feels a lot like TiVo on your phone.

The playback works like TiVo (lol, remember TiVo??). What you’re watching is live, but you can pause, rewind, and move forward. Unfortunately, like live TV, you have to sit through ads. All of them. (Unless you’ve DVR’d the content and can fast forward.)

Also like TiVo, you can save upcoming live content to your DVR. Throughout the app, you&039;ll see a big (+) plus button that indicates you can “add” that show or movie to your library. Any show in your library will be recorded the next time it airs on TV, no matter which network it’s on.

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Both new episodes and reruns will be recorded in Google’s cloud, and you weirdly can’t set the app to record just new episodes, but that doesn’t matter, since YouTube TV’s DVR has unlimited storage space.

There are YouTube videos embedded throughout the app.

The YouTube TV app takes plenty of opportunities to suggest you watch YouTube videos. Scripted shows like Scandal and reality TV series like Real Housewives have their own landing pages with “Related on YouTube” sections that are auto-populated with YouTube content about the show. For Keeping Up With the Kardashians, there were highlights from past episodes uploaded by E&033;’s official YouTube account. The Bachelor, on the other hand, featured an interview from Nick and Vanessa, the series’ newest couple, on Jimmy Kimmel Live and a video titled “Top 10 Worst Bachelors On The Bachelor” by a user named MsMojo (hard agree).

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What you can and can’t watch on-demand is a bit confusing.

The availability of a show&039;s episodes depends completely on the network. Let’s say you missed last night’s episode of Scandal on ABC and failed to add the show to your “library” beforehand. You can stream the last five episodes, as you would on ABC Go (with a TV provider account) or Hulu Plus.

On Fox’s Empire, you can stream the entire season so far, but only season three is available on YouTube TV, while Hulu has seasons one through three. The same goes for NBC’s The Voice. All 13 episodes that have aired this season are available.

For MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show only one episode, the latest, can be streamed. That’s also true of All In With Chris Hayes.

You can DVR games for teams, but you can’t follow individual athletes.

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If you love hockey or basketball, you’ll be able to record upcoming games from your favorite teams. But if you’re a tennis fan, you can’t add “Roger Federer” to your library. You could only watch the US Open if it’s playing on one of the networks signed on to YouTube TV.

Ultimately, a streaming service is only as good as its content, and if YouTube TV doesn’t offer a show you watch, it’s not worth it.

On day one, the YouTube TV service will be pretty limited. For now, the service is only open to viewers in LA, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Google says that more markets will follow in the coming months.

If you’re into network shows with a strong live following like The Bachelor, ones that are more timely like NBC Nightly News, or live sports, then YouTube TV isn’t a hard sell. Its closest competitor is Sling TV, starting at $20 per month, though most customers get Sling Blue ($25), plus a variety of extras for news and lifestyle channels at an additional $5 per month per package. Sling has noteworthy channels that YouTube TV doesn’t, like CNN and Comedy Central and recently launched a 50-hour cloud DVR service for $5 per month.

If you’re addicted to HBO’s Game of Thrones or Amazon’s Transparent, then YouTube TV probably isn’t your best choice. HBO, like most premium networks, offers a standalone Internet-only subscription service called HBO Now for $15 per month, specifically targeting cord cutters. Amazon Prime Video costs $9 per month, which is similarly priced to other on-demand services like Hulu Plus and Netflix. If you are already an Amazon Prime member, you get limited access to the Prime Video library. For most cord cutters, it might be better to mix-and-match services with content you’ll actually watch than to pay $35 a month for YouTube TV.

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Internet Music Has Been Graced By A New Meme: Soundcloud Vs Bandcamp

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If you listen to music in the internet, you&#039;ve probably heard of Soundcloud and Bandcamp, two sites that let you stream music. They&039;re different from music streaming services like Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music because they cater to artists trying to build up their audiences rather than established players, though famous artists do use them on occasion.

Soundcloud is a site where any musician can post their music and where people can listen for free, comment on it, and repost it on their own feeds. Chance the Rapper famously used it to make his latest album available for free after it was an Apple Music exclusive for two weeks, and Kanye west posted tracks from his most recent album there. It&039;s common for DJs to use the platform to post their remixes.

The Soundcloud homepage

Bandcamp is similar — artists can post their music and people can listen for free — but the site has a feature that allows people to buy albums under a “pay-what-you-want” price tag or donate to artists they listen to. The site&039;s community focuses on independent artists. It&039;s more common to see entire albums on Bandcamp than on Soundcloud, which favors singles.

The Bandcamp homepage

The stereotypes of the two sites&039; communities are that Soundcloud fans are much more into hip hop and more mainstream music, and Bandcamp users are more likely to listen to twee indie music. The Fader describes the types of music popular on each platform: “emo-rap from Soundcloud, and the lo-fi releases of artists like Frankie Cosmos on Bandcamp.” Now, the powers of the internet have mined Soundcloud and Bandcamp&039;s musical differences and turned them in meme gold.

The band Robots With Rayguns joined in.

h/t to the Fader

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Parents Will Get Refunds For Amazon Purchases Their Kids Made

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In a major victory for parents, Amazon agreed to refund as much as $70 million to users whose children made unauthorized in-app game purchases between November 2011 and May 2016, the Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday.

According to the FTC, “Amazon offers many children’s apps in its appstore for download to mobile devices such as the Kindle Fire….Amazon’s setup allowed children playing these kids’ games to spend unlimited amounts of money to pay for virtual items within the apps such as &#039;coins,&039; &039;stars,&039; and &039;acorns&039; without parental involvement.”

The refunds may not mark the end of the issue, however. The FTC agreed to drop its appeal requesting an injunction that would have banned Amazon from continuing this practice future. Currently, any in-app purchase over $20 requires a parental control password or PIN, according to Amazon&039;s site.

Amazon declined to comment for this story.

Parents who realized their kids had accrued a hefty Amazon bill faced an uphill battle to get a refund. Amazon&039;s in-app charges are final and non-refundable.

One consumer&039;s six-year-old, who couldn&039;t read, simply “click[ed] a lot of buttons at random” on her Kindle and racked up several unauthorized charges, according to the 2014 complaint. Another consumer&039;s daughter amassed a $358.42 bill in unauthorized charges.

“This case demonstrates what should be a bedrock principle for all companies — you must get customers’ consent before you charge them,” Thomas Pahl, acting director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement. “Consumers affected by Amazon’s practices can now be compensated for charges they didn’t expect or authorize.”

The agency&039;s action against Amazon follows two similar cases against Apple and Google which allowed children to make in-app purchases without their parents consent. Apple and Google were both ordered to offer millions in refunds to consumers for the charges.

Amazon will be leading the refund operations, and details on the program will be announced shortly, the FTC said.

If You Bought An Apple Charger On Amazon, It’s Probably Fake And Might Catch Fire

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A Top Operations Executive Is Leaving Instacart

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A little over a year after he was hired to oversee Instcart&#039;s contractor workforce and customer service team, senior vice president of operations Mike Swartz is leaving the company, BuzzFeed News has confirmed.

Prior to joining Instacart, Swartz had a decade-long career in operations at Amazon; he has also served as an advisor to Flipkart and Warby Parker.

The news comes on the heels of a $400 million funding round for Instacart, which is now valued at $3.4 billion.

But in other ways, it&039;s been a tough year for Instacart, marked by an increasingly tense relationship with its workforce. “Shoppers” who work in-store are Instacart employees, but shoppers who buy and deliver customers&039; groceries are contract workers.

Instacart first cut delivery worker wages last March. Then, in September, the company announced it was replacing tips with a service fee that would be collected by the company and distributed to workers. After workers revolted, Instacart agreed to keep tips on the platform — but it made the service fee, which doesn&039;t go directly to workers, the default option.

Instacart failed to explain the difference between the fee and tips to customers; as a result, the delivery workers saw their earnings slide. In October, Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta told BuzzFeed News that shoppers would have to earn less for the company to continue to grow.

In December, a group of workers filed a class action lawsuit against the company That lawsuit was settled last month for $4.6 million. In the settlement, Instacart promised to better differentiate between tips and the service fee in the future, though how it plans to do that is unclear. Meanwhile, Instacart shoppers tell BuzzFeed News that the rates they earn per delivery have continued to fall.

In a statement about Swartz, Instacart said, “He&039;s been a great asset to our team in the last year, and we wish him the best in his future endeavors.” Swartz did not immediately return a request for comment from BuzzFeed News.

At the time of his hiring, Swartz told Recode, “When you think about changing traffic patterns, product availability, the weather, customer preferences, you realize how complex the demand modeling can be.”

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Here's How The White House Is Legitimizing The Pro-Trump Media

The pro-Trump ‘Upside Down’ media is working hard to go mainstream, and it&#039;s doing so with help of a powerful ally: the White House.

On a Monday jammed with political news, one of the biggest stories on Twitter — especially in conservative circles — was a report that former Obama national security advisor Susan Rice requested to unmask the identities of Trump associates. The story — a sourced piece of reporting attributed to a well-placed government official — didn’t come from the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. It was written by New Right blogger, motivational author, and self-described semi-troll, Mike Cernovich, who claimed that The New York Times and other mainstream media outlets sat on the story “to protect the reputation of former President Barack Obama” (an allegation the Times called “100 percent false”).

Cernovich’s report, published late Sunday, was later confirmed Monday by Bloomberg. Penned by Eli Lake , the Bloomberg piece offered no credit to Cernovich, but it didn’t matter. The pro-Trump internet exploded with praise for the blogger, who previously propagated the Comet Pizza Pizzagate rumors and championed accusations that Hillary Clinton had Parkinson’s Disease. Among his peers, Cernovich’s scoop was viewed as perhaps the highest profile win yet for an insurgent new media group that’s built its own ecosystem to tell Donald Trump’s story.

And yet it’s still unclear who’s telling that story. While the salaciousness of Cernovich’s scoop is debated in the mainstream press, the piece itself is helping to advance the Trump White House’s — narrative of Obama administration surveillance. So much so that some in the mainstream were quick to speculate that Cernovich — who’s known more for incendiary commentary than big scoops and doesn’t particularly hew to standard journalistic rules of reporting — was tipped off by the White House.

For the right’s new media ecosystem “a new era of access journalism may just be beginning,” I wrote earlier this year. But just 70 or so days into the Trump presidency, it appears that relationship is actually a bit more nuanced. In the blogging era, the political press largely took its editorial lead from the front page of Drudge. But in 2017 it’s found a new assignment editor: President Donald Trump, who offers the appeal of not just page views but a gravitational pull of sorts — a kind of power few publications can possibly provide. As such, Cernovich’s scoop hints at the contours of a symbiotic relationship that — though long present in political media — is sophisticated, self-perpetuating and possibly aimed at discrediting its mainstream counterpart.

If the White House were to attempt to elevate and mainstream an insurgent media member, it might look a lot like Cernovich’s rise over the past week: Find an intelligent, charismatic, and articulate personality with a niche, pro-Trump following who can handle the spotlight (see Cernovich’s news-making appearance and ‘owning’ of Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes a little over a week ago). Talk him up a little from inside the White House (senior advisor to the President Kelllyanne Conway tweeted Cernovich’s full transcript of the 60 Minutes interview with the caption “A must-see ratings bonanza”). Provide that person with some information designed to give the President a big win in the day’s news cycle, top Drudge and advance his narrative. Hail the insurgent personality as a journalistic powerhouse (Donald Trump Jr.’s tweet today suggesting that Cernovich win the Pulitzer Prize for his intrepid reporting).

It’s entirely possible that the tip that lead to Cernovich’s story may not have come from inside the White House. And it could be that those tweets from Conway and Donald Trump Jr. were merely coincidental. There is, however, precedent for this behavior from the President and his sphere. Throughout his campaign, Trump used his Twitter account to tacitly endorse individuals and ideas. It’s a practice he’s continued during his administration. Two weeks ago, as the House healthcare bill was imploding in real-time, the President retweeted two successive tweets from online radio host and Twitter pundit, Bill Mitchell, who remains one of Trump’s most devout supporters. The retweets seemed a small nod of reward for Mitchell’s unrelenting positivity. Across Twitter pro-Trumpers and mainstream journalists alike heralded them as an endorsement for Mitchell, whose Twitter following spiked as a result.

In a sense, this elevation of the pro-Trump media is all going as planned for individuals like Mitchell. In January, Mitchell told me that the presence of a group eager to follow Trump’s assignments and spread his message would create a new paradigm. “The CNNs, MSNBCs, and the Reuters of the world who felt in control for so long? They might not get an answer to a question for a long time, and that will cause big media to come to him on his terms,” Mitchell said.

70 days later, that dynamic appears to be playing out on Twitter; It’s keeping Trump’s narratives in the news cycle, while adding a veneer of credibility among his base. The message to the sympathetic arm of the press corps is clear: stick to the message, advance the story, and rewards will follow.

It’s just the beginning of a whole new era of access journalism. And it’s one that’s intensely loyal to Trump. As Cernovich put it to me back in January: “I’m biased, but honest. I’m not in the business of smearing Trump, so don’t come to me for that — I won’t be the guy to provide Trump criticism.”

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New Bill Would Outlaw Warrantless Phone Searches At The Border

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Four privacy-minded lawmakers have introduced legislation requiring law enforcement officials to obtain a warrant before searching phones belonging to US citizens, and prohibiting them from barring entry to Americans who decline to share their passwords at the border.

“Americans’ Constitutional rights shouldn’t disappear at the border,” Senator Ron Wyden said in statement to BuzzFeed News. “By requiring a warrant to search Americans’ devices and prohibiting unreasonable delay, this bill makes sure that border agents are focused on criminals and terrorists instead of wasting their time thumbing through innocent Americans’ personal photos and other data.”

Some law enforcement agencies have asserted broad authority to conduct searches of devices at the border, the lawmakers contend, in a way that circumvents the Fourth Amendment&#039;s protections. The lawmakers argue that searching devices — even after obtaining permission to do so — is an invasion of privacy that should be tightly controlled.

The bill would require law enforcement to establish probable cause before searching or seizing a phone belonging to an American. “Manual searches,” in which a border agent flips through a person&039;s stored pictures would be covered under the proposed law as well. But the bill does allow for broad emergency exceptions.

“The government should not have the right to access your personal electronic devices without probable cause,” Rep. Polis told BuzzFeed news in a statement. “Whether you are at home, walking down the street, or at the border, we must make it perfectly clear that our Fourth Amendment protections extend regardless of location. This bill is overdue, and I am glad we can come together in a bicameral, bipartisan manner to ensure that Customs and Border Patrol agents don’t continue to violate essential privacy safeguards.”

The lawmakers say that the bill extends the privacy principles clarified in the Supreme Court decision Riley v. California. In that case, the High Court ruled that warrantless searches of electronic devices during an arrest are unconstitutional.

In a letter to Homeland Security in February, Sen. Wyden asked the agency&039;s chief, Secretary John Kelly, to reveal how many times Customs and Border Protection personnel had asked for or demanded US citizens disclose their phone, computer, email, and social media passwords in the past several years. Sen. Wyden also asked Secretary Kelly to explain what legal authority allows the CBP to demand those passwords and how such demands are consistent with the Constitution and federal law.

The Senator asked Secretary Kelly to respond by March 20. But according to Sen Wyden&039;s office, Homeland Security has not written back.

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Apple Will Ship A Pro iMac Later This Year

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Apple’s expected update to its iMac line will arrive later this year with some previously unexpected additions: pro models.

“We have big plans for the iMac,” Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of worldwide marketing, said during a recent reporter roundtable at the company’s Machine Shop hardware prototyping lab. “We’re going to begin making configurations of iMac specifically with the pro customer in mind.”

Just what those configurations will entail, Apple won’t yet say. Nor will it comment on the possibility of an iMac Pro moniker for the more powerful machines in the lineup.

Company executives are, however, quite happy to confirm a feature the pro iMac will not have: touchscreen. “No,” Schiller said when asked if Apple would consider building such a thing. “Touch doesn’t even register on the list of things pro users are interested in talking about. They&#039;re interested in things like performance and storage and expandability.”

For Apple, adding pro level iMacs to its desktop lineup is more of an inevitability than anything else. After notebooks, the iMac is the second-most popular Mac among pro users, according to the company. This is for good reason, Craig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of software engineering, noted. Though envisioned as a computer for consumers, the iMac has grown increasingly more powerful with each refresh.

“The iMac has seen an incredible evolution over the past decade,” Federighi said. “The original iMac you wouldn’t have thought of as remotely touching pro uses. But today’s 5K iMac in its top configurations? It’s incredibly powerful. Tasks that previously would have required the Mac Pros of old are now being well addressed by today’s iMac.”

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Apple Says It Is “Completely Rethinking” The Mac Pro

The Mac Pro, Apple’s marquee desktop machine, hasn’t been refreshed since 2013. But lest you think it was forgotten, the diminutive black obelisk is top of mind at Apple these days — specifically how to reimagine it in a way that will appeal to professionals frustrated by its seemingly stalled evolution. To that end, there is officially a new Mac Pro in the pipeline, but it&#039;s going to be a while before it arrives.

“We are completely rethinking the Mac Pro,” Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of worldwide marketing said during a recent roundtable with a handful of reporters at the company’s Machine Shop hardware prototyping lab. And it won&039;t just be the computer. “Since the Mac Pro is a modular system, we are also doing a pro display. There’s a team working hard on it right now.”

Apple executives Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi

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That&039;s good news for anyone worried that Apple’s lost interest in its highest end desktop, but there’s a caveat per Schiller: “You won’t see any of these products this year.” The team working on them has been told to take its time and to design a system that can deliver a wide range of performance — one that can easily and efficiently be upgraded with the latest technologies for the pro audience for which it&039;s intended.

That upgradability is crucial, because it’s lacking in the current Mac Pro — a feature Apple unwittingly sacrificed when it bet on a striking, and strikingly clever, design. Sadly for Apple, the “can’t innovate any more, my ass” quip with which Schiller unveiled the Mac Pro to the world in 2013 was applicable in a more literal sense four years later when the company found that the machine’s design restricted its ability to upgrade it.

“We designed ourselves into a bit of a corner,” Craig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering said of the current Mac Pro’s unique arrangement of pro computer innards around a triangular heat sink inside a cylindrical chassis. “We wanted to do something bold and different. What we didn’t appreciate completely at the time was how we had so tailored that design to a specific vision that in the future we would find ourselves a bit boxed in — into a circular shape.”

John Ternus, Apple’s VP of hardware engineering offered a similarly fun-while-it-lasted assessment of the Mac Pro. “It served its purpose well,” he said. “It just doesn&039;t have the flexibility we now know we need to have.”

Though not unprecedented, these are rare admissions for Apple, which has historically taken a “people don&039;t know what they want until you show it to them” approach to product design. So too was the mechanism in which that admission was delivered: An afternoon roundtable in one of Apple’s inner sanctums. The Machine Shop is simultaneously ripe with Mac history and the possibility of Mac history yet-to-be-made. It&039;s all glass cases of old Macs and QuickTake camera prototypes in the outside hallway, computer driven precision cutting machines inside — many with their contents hidden by drapes of black fabric. It’s exactly the kind of place meant to give critics pause if they had been questioning Apple’s commitment to the Mac Pro.

The Machine Shop at Apple&039;s Product Realization Lab.

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“We made something bold that we thought would be great … and what we discovered is that it was great for some and not others — enough so, that we realized we had to take another path … and look for the next answer,” Schiller said.

For now, the next answer — a reimagined Mac Pro — is a ways off. But in the meantime, Apple’s giving the current Mac Pro line a spec bump that will freshen it a little and give pros a bit more value for their dollar — a $2,999 rig with 6-core Intel Xeon processor, dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs and 16GB of memory; And a $3,999 rig with an 8-core processor and dual D700 GPUs.

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