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Ray Sidney-Smith

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00

Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community, welcome to anything but idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:07

And I am Augusto Pinaud

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:08

And we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 19. And we're recording this on August 20 2020. Each week, we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current research tools, services, products and more in the world of personal productivity. And so with that, let's get into our headlines. First up Augusto, I see that Apple is extending Apple care plus, tell us a little bit about that.

Augusto Pinaud 0:33

I know Apple this week or early this week announced that they're changing their Apple care plus policies to the United States and Canada, up to one year to purchase Apple care after buying the device used to you used to have 60 days to buy the apple care. Now they extend that to whole one year before you need to buy, extend, extend care or the apple care plus. So that's a great news for anybody buying a new Apple device.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:01

Fantastic. Next up, Microsoft announced their Microsoft Surface duo product, both its price and release date. And we talked about that last week as our featured story. Well, this week, they told The Verge that they were going to be giving three years of Android updates, which in essence is the same as Google and Samsung is doing with their Android devices, which is three years of updates as well. And this is really fantastic. I think this is good parody across the ecosystem, so that Android users know that they're going to buy high end products and continue to get updates. That is not just feature updates. I think that's a good thing. But it's really about the security updates as well, that I'm really always quite concerned about. One thing is that the article noticed noted that the article title noted that it was Microsoft Surface phone, I would just keep correcting everyone that Microsoft is calling the surface duo, a part of its do a product line, it is not calling it a phone. So I just took a little bit of umbrage With you know, the articles, flagrant use of phone the title

Augusto Pinaud 2:05

yeah i think i think Microsoft had a challenging time with phones and I think are wise not to call it a phone let's let's see if they if we break the curse on now we have some

Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:15

to do with news the folks at dualist have launched a couple of new pretty important features on the platform. You want to tackle that gousto in terms of the first part,

Augusto Pinaud 2:27

yeah, one of them is boards and now you have our they have the better access to the board something simila...