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Accidental Tech Podcast

162: iPhone Sorry Erin

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2016

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Are we talking about that amazing thing we were just talking about in the pre show?

0:03.8

Are we talking about that anymore now or are we done?

0:06.3

Wait, what the thing we're just talking about in the pre show?

0:08.8

The iPad Pro 9.7 whatever whatever. Stop stop. No, the thing that's happening next week. Are we talking about that?

0:15.6

What's happening next week? Oh my god, Mark. What are we gonna have anything to say about that until it happens?

0:20.8

Yeah, I guess not. I'll just be that jerk that's teasing and then and then it'll just be like

0:25.8

Oh, it's fine. But tell us what it goes.

0:30.0

Something Mark was turned into a John Rarrix father.

0:32.5

I was fine. Other is fine. I still oh, oh the

0:38.2

Hey, you know what we need in our lives? We need some follow-up. We don't have that much this week, so it'll last about three hours.

0:43.4

Why don't you tell us about an anonymous former Apple employee, John?

0:47.2

Who doesn't love an anonymous former Apple employees?

0:50.6

Last week we discussed some more why don't we have cellular on the Mac?

0:57.2

And have lots of different theories. There's one this is one data point. This is a three-year-old data point

1:03.6

from again an anonymous Apple employee. And here she says a significant number of iPad owners

1:09.1

do not have an iPhone and insignificant number of MacBook owners do not have an iPhone.

1:14.9

As of three years ago anyway. So the idea there is why don't you have cell you have cell you own?

1:19.5

The iPad but you don't have it in Mac. Why? It's like well because lots of iPad owners don't have phones but all the Mac users do.

1:26.9

That's an interesting data point may have contributed to their decision, but as we talked about last show

1:32.1

just because you have a phone doesn't mean you want to waste its battery tethering and deal with all this

1:35.8

tethering stuff when it's built in it's much nicer. But anyway that's an interesting number.

1:39.9

I probably would not have guessed that that like the Mac well I don't I guess so.

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