Mac Potpourri

About the Author

MacPrices writer Joe Leo joined the team in May 2018 and has been writing news, features, reviews, commentaries, and editorials in his “Mac Potpourri” column, all of which primarily revolve around Apple and its products, the items that are price tracked daily on this website. He is not entirely a stranger to MacPrices having written for its sister site PowerBook Central (since merged with MacPrices) writing “The Press Box” column from 2006 to 2009 which was the beginning of his career as a professional freelance journalist.

A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Leo was a former educator and spent close to two decades teaching technology and journalism in the elementary school setting for the Diocese of Oakland. Prior to joining MacPrices, he had a stint as a correspondent for Bay Area News Group writing local stories covering the S.F. East Bay cities of Alameda and Oakland for the weekly newspapers the Alameda Journal and The Montclarion, respectively (see article archives on the East Bay Times website) from 2008 to 2012 and, more recently, as a writer for the website Low End Mac from 2018 to 2019.

Today, in addition to MacPrices, Leo also rites for the publication iPhone Life magazine (and its website) which can be found on most major newsstands in print or can be accessed digitally through a direct subscription from Mango Life Media.

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Contact Info:

To contact Joe Leo, email him at: j.leo@macprices.net


Latest Articles in this Column:

Apple Retail Chief Announces Staggered Reopening Of Stores Previously Closed As Coronavirus Lockdowns Lift Globally

NEWS: 05.20.20 - In the midst of a global pandemic, after its retail outlets were shuttered temporarily in mid-March as a mitigation measure enacted by Apple during the peak of the spread of COVID-19 (also known as the novel coronavirus), the Cupertino, California-based company has started to slowly phase in ...
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How iPad Usage In TeleHealth Has Been A Game Changer In Care Of COVID-19 Patients

FEATURE: 05.05.20 - The use of tablet computers in modern medicine is a useful technological tool that aids doctors and nurses with remote interaction between themselves and their patients but one specific device, Apple's iPad, is showing how telehealth is changing the game in how those infected with COVID-19 are ...
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Upgrade Conundrum Over An iPhone SE (Second Generation) Now Versus an ‘iPhone 12 mini’ Later

COMMENTARY: 04.30.20 - The latest Apple smartphone to hit the streets (so to speak) is finally here after a period of delay and the new iPhone SE (second generation), a sequel of sorts to the original, will be the upgrade path that this writer plans on taking in order to ...
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Slew Of Upcoming Apple Products Currently In Development With Release Slated For Sometime In 2020

NEWS: 04.20.20- Apple has released three new products to-date in 2020 and according to various reports across the web, a number of other hardware, devices, and accessories in the works by the Cupertino, California-based company are still in store scheduled for release between now and the end of the year ...
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Apple, Google Create Alliance To Fight Coronavirus Via Bluetooth-based Contact Tracing Technology WithIn iOS And Android Platforms

NEWS: 04.13.20- In a joint statement issued last Friday, rival tech companies Apple and Google announced a partnership in the spirit of collaboration to enable the use of Bluetooth-based contact tracing technology, with user privacy and security central to the design, in order to help governments and health agencies reduce ...
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Low Cost Apple Smartphone iPhone SE (2020) Due Out ‘Very Soon’ With Plus Model To Follow

NEWS: 04.06.20- Exclusive details have emerged in regard to Apple's new low cost entry level smartphone, from color and storage options to a leak within the company on the product's planned release date, including information on what the device will be called. The news comes from the website, 9to5Mac, which ...
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Retro Reading: PowerBook Central Coverage of iPad Product Launch At Flagship Apple Store In San Francisco

FEATURE: 04.03.20- Welcome to another edition of "Retro Reading," a series here in my column, "Mac Potpourri," where we dig deep into the archives for content written on today's date several years ago from my days writing for PowerBook Central — a website established in 1997 and retired in 2015, ...
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Siri, Apple’s AI-Powered Virtual Assistant, Now Equipped To Provide Tool For Self Diagnosis Of Coronavirus

FEATURE: 04.01.20- Apple's virtual assistant powered by AI (artificial intelligence), Siri, can answer almost any question you throw at it, from asking for today's weather forecast to where the nearest Starbucks is located, but, a very important and crucial query you may not have thought to ask, a topic it ...
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Apple Sources Confirm Spring Media Event Canceled Due To Social Distancing Measures Issued To CURB COVID-19

NEWES: 03.31.20- A previously planned Apple media event scheduled to take place sometime this Spring that was rumored and widely expected to be held today, March 31, were confirmed by anonymous sources within the company who explained that, aside from manufacturing delays of new products that were to be announced, ...
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Closures Of Apple Retail Stores Worldwide Extended Indefinitely To Protect Employees And Customers From Coronavirus

NEWS: 03.27.20- Apple retail stores in the United States and countries outside of greater China that had been closed temporarily from March 14 through today, March 27, as a precautionary measure enacted by the Cupertino, California-based company in order to protect its employees and customers worldwide amid the global pandemic ...
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What If An iPhone And iOS App To Track COVID-19 Could Mitigate The Virus’s Spread?

FEATURE: 03.23.20- With COVID-19 (a.k.a., the novel coronavirus) since having been declared a global pandemic and cases on the rise, spreading like a wildfire in countries including the United States, what if we could slow down the spread of infection rates with just a simple tracking app in iOS and ...
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Will Apple’s Newer Budget Friendly iPhone SE Successor Be Called An iPhone SE 2 Or An iPhone 9?

COMMENTARY: 03.20.20- Spring has finally sprung and the newer budget friendly model of the iPhone also should be springing out any day now if previously published rumors are to be believed, however, conflicting reports have yet to agree on what Apple will be calling this new smartphone: whether it will ...
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Apple Temporarily Shutters All U.S. Retail Stores In Company Response To Coronavirus Pandemic

NEWS: 03.18.20- In response to the global pandemic surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19), amid many preventative measures enacted in cities and states across the U.S. designed to curb the further spread of the virus nationally, Apple temporarily has closed and ceased day to day business in all of its retail stores ...
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Rumor Of New 14-inch MacBook Pro From Apple Evokes Memories Of 20-Year Old Predecessor ‘Pismo’ PowerBook

COMMENTARY: 03.16.20- News of a rumored upcoming piece of Apple hardware in the company's product pipeline, a new 14-inch MacBook Pro model with a 14.1" mini-LED display, has called to mind personal memories of owning its previous incarnation, the 2000 version of the PowerBook line featuring G3 processors (this writer's ...
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Best & Safest Methods For Cleaning vs. Disinfecting An iPhone Amidst Fears Of Coronavirus Outbreak

FEATURE: 03.11.20- With current events contributing to widespread fears of an outbreak attributed to possibly catching the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, rampant on everyone's minds domestically and across the globe (one country's medical chief even going so far as to issue a warning to its citizens that over ...
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‘Mac Potpourri’ Column Reaches Milestone With 100 Stories Published-To-Date

FEATURE: 03.09.20- A major milestone has been reached in the "Mac Potpourri" column here on MacPrices and over the course of its existence on the worldwide web (just under two years total) with 100 articles written-to-date — not counting this, number 101 — and in commemoration, we take a look ...
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Do Slew Of New Product SKUs Within Target Suggest Forthcoming Announcements During Apple March Event?

NEWS: 03.02.20- A handful of new Target product SKUs (stock keeping units) recently found in the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based big box retailer's internal inventory system has raised some eyebrows among employees who noticed, in turn, fanning the winds of the Apple rumor mill circuit once word got out about the discovery, ...
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Orcam MyEye 2 Is Inspiration Apple Needs To Make Its AR Smart Glasses Accessible For Visually Impaired

EDITORIAL: 02.28.20- It's no secret that Apple is planning to further expand into the wearables segment, working quietly behind the scenes to create its own smart glasses — as rumors have suggested in a report from Macworld magazine — which will feature, among other things, augmented reality (AR), however, such ...
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A Look Back At The Top 5 Most Read Stories Of 2019 In The ‘Mac Potpourri’ Column

FEATURE: 02.21.20 The best of the best are now history and we're not talking about Super Bowl LIV from earlier this month but rather, coverage from the past year (its second and first full one at that) of the "Mac Potpourri" column where today we share and take a look ...
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Pair Of Apple Innovations Featured On Wired Magazine’s List Of 10 Products Defining Past Decade

FEATURE: 01.27.20- Apple spewed out a great number of innovations under the watch of its former CEO, Steve Jobs, most of it created during the first ten years of the 21st century alone such as the iPod and the iPhone but two products to follow which came towards the end ...
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Archived Content:

• The “Mac Potpourri” Archives | 2018-2019

• “The Press Box” Archives from PowerBook Central | 2006-2009

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