Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal, and I'm here with this week's segment of 16 minutes, our new show, where we cover recent headlines, the A6 and Z way, why they're in the news, why they matter from our vantage point in tech. This week we cover two topics, the trend of wearables, given recent news well beyond Jesse Apple Watch, and we also quickly cover recent Apple

event announcements and what they mean for mobile TV and so on. But first, if you're liking

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So the first segment of 16 minutes is on the news coming out of Apple's

event this week. Let me invite our A6 and Z expert, Benedict Evans, to talk to us about what

your quick take on all this is. Well, Apple has a big event this time of year, every year for over

a decade, on what new iPhone is, plus some other things. And so we have new iPhones and we have also some information

about some of the services that they're launching kind of into the realm of diminishing returns

as we look at new iPhones. It's kind of more interesting to think about where they're going

with some of their services. We've had smartphones now or multi-type smartphones as we understand

them now for something over a decade.

And there's lots of great phones on the market now and they keep getting better, but it becomes kind of increasingly boring. The new one is pretty much the same as the old one. All the obvious

easy innovation has kind of happened. And there's still a few things that get done. But mostly

we were kind of where PCs were 10, 15 years ago. The big place where you really can still see innovation is camera,

and so Apple spent most of the time talking about cameras.

And so we're still seeing kind of dramatic improvement sort of every year or two.

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