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AppleInsider podcast talks 2016 iPhone & MacBook rumors, Apple Watch gripes, open source Swift, more

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A flurry of hardware rumors was at the core of this week's AppleInsider podcast, which discussed Apple's potential axing of iPhone's 3.5mm headphone jack, an oft-speculated return to the 4-inch smartphone format and hearsay about a 15-inch MacBook Air.

This week Neil Hughes, Mikey Campbell and Victor Marks return from a tryptophan-induced slumber to gab about:

  • "iPhone 7" might ditch headphone jack for Lightning or Bluetooth
  • 15-inch MacBook Air and/or redesigned MacBook Pro and/or MacBook models
  • Unhappy Apple Watch owners sound off on device shortcomings
  • Teardown of iPad Pro's A9X SoC reveals 12-cluster GPU
  • 4-inch "iPhone 6c"
  • Amazon Prime Instant Video app for tvOS
  • Apple takes Swift open source
  • Reader poll: best note taking app for iOS

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Special thanks for Borja Rojano for production help with this episode.