163: ‘Low Grade Scam’ With Joanna Stern
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 31 July 2016
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My favorite story of the last few weeks was from your colleagues at the Wall Street Journal |
| 0:05.4 | Shalini |
| 0:06.3 | Ramashandran and I think I got it now dice K walk a bioshi |
| 0:12.1 | Say |
| 0:13.5 | I don't know. I don't know how to pronounce. I just call him die. That's somebody |
| 0:18.0 | That's a nickname here. Yeah, I mean that's a thing. So they had a story that ran yesterday |
| 0:21.8 | I'm sure you saw it that out apples quote hard charging negotiations with TV networks |
| 0:27.8 | scrambled any sort of |
| 0:30.5 | Attempt that apple had to get like what apple more or less wanted was to charge people 30 bucks a month |
| 0:35.3 | Like I guess they would just you know just like that apple music that have Apple TV you pay them $30 a month |
| 0:40.2 | And you get a package of a bunch of channels and you could watch them whenever you want |
| 0:45.2 | And there's a couple things in this story that really amused me |
| 0:48.2 | I quoted both of them on during fireball for the one was that they apple wouldn't show the team the the CEO of Comcast |
| 0:55.1 | The user interface and he said how about you just get it on the back of a napkin and |
| 1:01.2 | Apple officials replied that the software would be quote better than anything you've ever had |
| 1:07.8 | Which a wouldn't take much and B sounds a little it worries me. It's a little I it's typical apple, but it sounds like Donald Trump |
| 1:16.2 | The back of the napkin. No, the it's gonna be it's gonna be better than anything you've ever had |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, believe me it's going today. You have to preface that with believe me believe me |
| 1:27.0 | And then the other tidbit that was great was that |
| 1:30.0 | And he met with mr. Brett the C the time Warner CEO or time Warner CEO Jeff |
| 1:37.0 | Buks and and some other guy named Brett. I don't know he is but |
| 1:40.8 | Big big meeting with time Warner Eddie Q shows up quote 10 minutes late |
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