1: iPhone Plus
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2013
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Speculation on what a bigger iPhone's screen might be and why.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, it's something you put about like a A5X and the Apple TV thing. |
| 0:05.0 | How are many? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm an idiot for that. |
| 0:07.0 | It's going into the retina iPad mini, of course. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, with the A5X, I was thinking about that. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a die shrink. |
| 0:13.0 | It's going into the retina iPad mini, of course. |
| 0:15.0 | No, it wasn't announcing the A5, he thought the A5X was going to the shrunken Apple TV. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, well, he said that and he said he believes it will be a die shrink, |
| 0:23.0 | which makes sense, because the full size one would be too much heat for that probably. |
| 0:27.0 | Of course, if you're going to have a die shrunk A5X, |
| 0:30.0 | that's going to be a really inexpensive way to retinaify the mini |
| 0:35.0 | while still maintaining good separation for people to buy the high priced one |
| 0:39.0 | with the faster chip and keep those margins a little bit healthier on the mini. |
| 0:44.0 | The reason I totally believe it for the Apple TV is because you said it yourself. |
| 0:47.0 | They're going to put the ones there with two of the GPU cores burned out. |
| 0:51.0 | Right. |
| 0:52.0 | Because you've got four GPU cores in there and it's like, |
| 0:54.0 | all right, we're going to have a lot of parts where one of those four GPU cores is no good |
| 0:58.0 | right to the Apple TV, because it does not need more. |
| 1:00.0 | Maybe they'll intentionally burn out, too. |
| 1:02.0 | Even if one fails, they will intentionally... |
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