Matthew Panzarino

Advisor, TechCrunch

Matthew Panzarino served as Editor in Chief of TechCrunch for a decade. Previously, he was News Editor and Managing Editor at The Next Web, founded photography businesses and a news blog covering the Apple ecosystem. He has made a name for himself in the tech media world as a writer and editor covering Apple, Disney, robotics and fashion in addition to a broad range of startups in the fields of robotics, computer vision, AI, VR, AR and more. Disclosures: Holds shares in ETFs, ETH and various NFTs. Contact Matthew at matthew@techcrunch.com PGP Key: https://keybase.io/panzer

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Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max goes to Disneyland

Since 2014, I’ve been reviewing Apple’s latest iPhones at Disneyland. The rationale was, and is, simple: Instead of lab tests, do my best to get a feeling for what these devices will be like to use for people and families in a real-world scenario. Disneyland offers the ability to test…

6:00 am PDT • September 19, 2023
Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max goes to Disneyland

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10 years at TechCrunch

It’s been 10 years since I stepped off a ledge and landed at TechCrunch. I don’t get self-referential a lot here on the pages of TC, but I figured that a tin anniversary is a nice time to look at what we’ve done over the past decade as we approach…

8:06 am PDT • August 28, 2023
10 years at TechCrunch

Startups are so full of shit right now.  The pipes are jammed and there are so many companies that are full to bursting with the desire to un-pack them.  We’ve…

I’ve never seen so many crap startups

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Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point

How do you critique functional art? Do you base your assessment on its capability or the resolution at which it solves a problem? Is it more important that it succeeds as art? Or is it the overall statement of purpose that matters, balance between form and function be damned? Not…

5:41 pm PDT • August 16, 2023
Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point

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First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

After a roughly 30-minute demo that ran through the major features that are yet ready to test, I came away convinced that Apple has delivered nothing less than a genuine leapfrog in capability and execution of XR — or mixed reality — with its new Apple Vision Pro.  To be…

6:08 pm PDT • June 5, 2023
First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

If the past few years, and even the past week, has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable. To meet the changing startup…

Disrupt 2023 — we’re shipping a big new release

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Walt Disney Imagineering snags chief creative officer Bruce Vaughn back from Airbnb

Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), the workshop that makes all of the cool things you experience at the Disney Parks, is bringing back a veteran to co-lead the division. Bruce Vaughn was previously at WDI for 22 years, leaving for VR experience company Dreamscape before landing at Airbnb. Vaughn will take…

12:15 pm PST • March 7, 2023
Walt Disney Imagineering snags chief creative officer Bruce Vaughn back from Airbnb

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Apple execs on M2 chips, winning gamers and when to buy a Mac

Apple’s M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when they arrived in late 2020. Apple had been designing its own silicon since the A4 appeared in the iPhone 4 just over a decade earlier. The appearance of Apple’s in-house efforts in the Mac was really just a question of when,…

4:41 pm PST • February 6, 2023
Apple execs on M2 chips, winning gamers and when to buy a Mac

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Review of Apple’s iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro: They’re leaning into it

Apple’s iPhone 14 lineup delivers on a bunch of different vectors this year with very few peccadillos or complaints. Apple is really leaning into its silicon lead to deliver big gains year over year in cameras, and it’s leaning on its design teams to give users new ways to interact…

6:02 am PDT • September 14, 2022
Review of Apple’s iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro: They’re leaning into it

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Apple resizes the iPad’s workflow with Stage Manager

Though the iPad was a huge hit from the beginning based on its user-friendly interface and single-application focus, it had begun feeling a bit stale for those who hunger for more depth. Long one of the world’s lightest and most powerful medium-format computers, the lag between what kind of work…

12:24 pm PDT • June 13, 2022
Apple resizes the iPad’s workflow with Stage Manager

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Apple execs on developing Mac Studio and Studio Display for the other pros

The seeds of the Mac Studio were planted 5 years ago next month when, in a rare candid admission of misstep, Apple said it was pushing the reset button on the Mac Pro. Having painted itself into a “thermal corner,” Apple realized that it had to burn down the architecture…

8:19 am PDT • March 17, 2022
Apple execs on developing Mac Studio and Studio Display for the other pros

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Apple’s 2022 iPad Air elbows M1 into the lineup

I must confess, the iPad Air was a bit confusing to me at first. With each passing addition to Apple’s iPad lineup, they fill out more of their pricing umbrella, leaving less room for competitors. But they also make the lineup more complex. For a consumer looking to buy the right…

6:05 am PDT • March 16, 2022
Apple’s 2022 iPad Air elbows M1 into the lineup

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The iPhone SE is the platonic ideal of a smartphone

I wish I was an iPhone SE person. Since its re-launch in 2020, the entry model iPhone has transformed from a nod to relic-era sizing into a prime example of a “just what it needs to be and nothing more” smartphone.  Even as Apple has retained the smaller 4.7” screen…

6:25 am PDT • March 14, 2022
The iPhone SE is the platonic ideal of a smartphone

Decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, are all the rage at the moment. We’re seeing explosive growth in this sector as people experiment with building companies on top of tokens and…

Utopia Labs is building an operating system for DAOs

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How Apple built the iPhone 13’s Cinematic Mode

The Cinematic Mode on the iPhone 13 Pro models had a marquee spot in Apple’s presentation about the devices last week. The reviews so far this week have people acknowledging the cleverness but questioning its usefulness. I’ve been testing out the feature for the past week and this weekend took…

6:00 am PDT • September 23, 2021
How Apple built the iPhone 13’s Cinematic Mode

Every few years all of the iPad mini lovers hold their breath as they wait to see whether this very specific device will keep on trucking or hit the chopping…

Apple’s 2021 iPad mini isn’t just living, it’s thriving

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The iPhone 13 Pro goes to Disneyland

This year’s iPhone review goes back to Disneyland for the first time in a couple of years for, uh, obvious reasons. I’m happy to report that the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 performed extremely well, and the limited testing I was able to do on the iPhone mini and…

8:46 am PDT • September 21, 2021
The iPhone 13 Pro goes to Disneyland

In a message posted on an internal employee message board today, Apple said that it was monitoring the legal challenges to what it refers to as the “uniquely restrictive abortion…

In internal memo, Apple says it is monitoring legal challenges to Texas abortion law

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Interview: Apple’s head of Privacy details child abuse detection and Messages safety features

Last week, Apple announced a series of new features targeted at child safety on its devices. Though not live yet, the features will arrive later this year for users. Though the goals of these features are universally accepted to be good ones — the protection of minors and the limit…

8:00 am PDT • August 10, 2021
Interview: Apple’s head of Privacy details child abuse detection and Messages safety features

Hyper is a $60M early-stage fund co-founded by Josh Buckley, Product Hunt’s current CEO along with writer, founder and designer Dustin Curtis. Two ex-Sequoia operators are part of the team…

Hyper is a new fund that offers $300k checks and promise of a media slingshot for founders 

Hardware is hard. You can browse the archives of this site and come up with dozens of bold attempts to make new consumer electronics gadgets work — some of them…

MSCHF drops tiny action figures of your favorite failed startup hardware

Backbone One, the killer iPhone game pad I profiled here late last year, has just scored the mother of all tie-ups for a gaming accessory. It’s getting bundled with Xbox…

Hit iPhone controller Backbone One scores Xbox Game Pass partnership at xCloud’s iOS launch today

Today, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is officially launching its media property, called Future. I’m on vacation today but couldn’t resist covering this fascinating new project.  The publication will initially focus…

Andreessen Horowitz goes into publishing with Future

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Apple’s iPadOS 15 breaks the app barrier

The announcement of new iPad software at this year’s WWDC conference had an abnormally large expectation hung on it. The iPad lineup, especially the larger iPad Pro, has kept up an impressively frantic pace of hardware innovation over the past few years. In that same time frame, the software of…

8:50 am PDT • June 12, 2021
Apple’s iPadOS 15 breaks the app barrier

This one email explains Apple

12:00 am PDT • June 4, 2021

An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple’s App Store-based suit brought by Epic Games. I love this email…

This one email explains Apple

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Review: Apple’s 2021 iPad Pro is great, again, but…

If you’ve lived in a few places in your life then you probably have experienced the feeling of moving into a nice new apartment or house — a blank canvas of rooms and spaces filled with possibility. Most times, unless you’ve got that money money, you then fill it up…

7:06 am PDT • May 19, 2021
Review: Apple’s 2021 iPad Pro is great, again, but…

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Interview: Apple executives on the 2021 iPad Pro, stunting with the M1 and creating headroom

When the third minute of Apple’s first product event of 2021 ticked over and they had already made 3 announcements we knew it was going to be a packed one. In a tight single hour this week, Apple launched a ton of new product including AirTags, new Apple Card family…

7:17 am PDT • April 25, 2021
Interview: Apple executives on the 2021 iPad Pro, stunting with the M1 and creating headroom

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Disney Imagineering’s Project Kiwi is a free-walking robot that will make you believe in Groot

The black curtain pulls aside and a character straight out of the movies waves hello. This is not an uncommon occurrence when I’m around Imagineers, but this time is special. The character isn’t a costume, it’s a robot. And, unlike the m​any animatronic figures you’ve seen in the parks, it’s…

6:57 am PDT • April 23, 2021
Disney Imagineering’s Project Kiwi is a free-walking robot that will make you believe in Groot

With the spring comes color from Apple. The new iMacs are offered in seven different shades including a nice deep purple. As a refresh to the lineup, Apple has also…

Purple iPhone purple iPhone purple iPhone purple iPhone purple iPhone

I’ve been playing around with Apple’s new AirTag location devices for a few hours now and they seem to work pretty much as advertised. The setup flow is simple and…

First findings with Apple’s new AirTag location devices