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the good the bad and what we didn't get at this latest Apple event and all the new features from iOS 12.1 let's get right to the core of this week's Apple news and rumors Apple announced three new products at its latest launch event in Brooklyn New York and there were really no surprises here because we pretty much expected all of it based on the rumors iPad pros MacBook Air and Mac Mini well I guess in this case it would be five products because there's two iPad pros and we also got an Apple pencil but then you'd have to count the keyboard so let's just call it three for now now what was kind of surprising or at least disappointing on my end was that there was no mention of that air power mat now something must have gone terribly wrong with this product because it's very unlike Apple to wait over a year to take a product to market that they had already announced now let's talk about the products that we did end up with starting with those new iPad pros now we have an 11 inch display and a 12 point 9 inch display but that 12 point 9 inch display will have a much smaller footprint than the previous 12 point 9 inch iPad pro that's because it now has an edge to edge display which we kind of already knew about as well it doesn't have a home button and it does have face ID but it doesn't have a notch which is great the other important thing to point out about the display it's that it's LCD and not OLED like some of the rumors were speculating and it has those rounded edges the frame of the iPad itself has also changed aside from being slimmer it's kind of flat so it's reminiscent of the iPhone 5s which is good for some people some people don't like it I'm ok with it I guess now this is gonna be a very very powerful iPad it's running an a 12 X Bionic chip so that means you can run a full version of Photoshop like was noted in the keynote now the other thing that could be perceived as good or bad is that Apple has eliminated the lightning port and now changed it for a USBC connector so this is good because it gives the iPad more flexibility to connect to other devices transmitted video to other displays and even connect other Apple products the downside is you will have to switch up your cables now the smart connector is located right above the USBC port which is different than the iPads previously but also had been noted in some of the rumors but probably the worst news for a lot of people is the fact that it doesn't have a headphone jack that means they're forcing you to buy one of these and spend nine dollars on a dongle because it's not included in the box apple also announced a new Apple pencil for these iPads which now has controls on the sides and it now snaps magnetically to the top of the iPad and charges wirelessly which is kind of brilliant because at least you don't have to do this but the downside is it's $30 more expensive than the original Apple pencil which was already priced at $99 that and it's only compatible with the new iPads which aren't cheap the cheapest model of the iPad is the 11 inch with 64 gigs of storage which runs at 799 dollars but you can spend up to $1,900 for the largest model with one terabyte of storage that's not even counting the Apple pencil and the keyboard and the other product they announced much like what the rumors had predicted was a MacBook Air and it had been over four years since Apple had updated this laptop and ten years since launch so it was a desperate need of a refresh now a lot of it lines up with what we had heard of before so a 13 inch Retina screen with slimmer bezels it has touch ID on the keyboard but all the design changes are kind of in line with what we had been seeing from the other macbook so it's great but it's not necessarily new now they did get rid of a lot of the ports but it now has two Thunderbolt three ports on one side and luckily a headphone jack on the other side and another cool thing is that it's a GPU compatible which means you can have an even more powerful computer now what makes me kind of sad is that the Apple on these devices and the new it doesn't light up the other sad thing is that it no longer starts below $1,000 the new price port for this one at least the cheapest model is 1199 dollars and you can spend up to $2,600 if you want all the bells and whistles the other notable product that doesn't get enough airtime is the new Mac Mini in this case a refresh Mac Mini which we were also expecting and all of the upgrades were in line with the rumor is so better processor more storage space and plenty of ports it also has a t2 security tip which brings data encryption to the Mac Mini which is also a plus now this one also got a price hike in it now costs seven hundred and ninety nine dollars next up in 2019 thanks to Tim Cook teasing it is the Mac Pro Update which is also in desperate need of a refresh now this week Apple also released its latest software updates for TV OS Mac OS watch OS and iOS now let's talk about iOS for its mobile devices in this case 12.1 which springs your general bug fixes and some new emojis redheads kangaroos mangoes among others you can go check them out now but the most important thing here is that it finally allows group FaceTime it's a feature we've been waiting for since the iOS 12 update but it got delayed this means you can video chat with 32 of your closest friends if you have that many friends honestly I don't know why you would want a video chat with 32 people but the options there now if you've just purchased an iPhone 10 are 10s or 10 Macs you now have live control of the blur in portrait mode which is kind of cool and it also comes with the dual SIM support that Apple had promised for these newer devices now the watch was 5.1 update didn't go so well that's because maybe 12 hours after it was released Apple had to take it back that's because users complained on Twitter and reddit that the update was actually rendering their series 4 completely useless so it was breaking their device now if you already updated to watch iOS 5.1 and your device is still running then you're probably good but if this happened to you you might want to consider contacting Apple care at least that's what Apple said just now the biggest update to watch OS 5.1 had to do with fault detection once the Apple watch detects a fall it will not only be able to alert emergency services but now it will actually play a recorded message telling them that you've fallen and giving them your exact coordinates which is pretty important that does it for this show but we will soon be publishing the full review of all these Apple products so come back to cnet.com for that and also I haven't said this in a while but if you like the show please like this video and subscribe so you don't miss another episode of the apple core