189: ‘Long Press on the French Fries’ With Rene Ritchie

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

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3.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2017

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s Q2 2017 financial results, the iPhone’s decline in China over the past two years, Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Windows 10 S, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick getting called to Tim Cook’s office regarding Uber’s surreptitious “fingerprinting” of iPhones, judging Apple Watch’s success, Hulu’s entry into the cord-cutting “live TV” subscription market (and Apple’s conspicuous absence from that same market), and more.

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0:00.0	So how are you?
0:02.0	It's been a while.
0:03.0	Very well.
0:04.0	I have a lot to cover because my last episode was the least a jackson episode.
0:07.8	So it wasn't really news related.
0:09.8	So there's a lot on the agenda.
0:13.7	Trying to think where you want more to start.
0:15.5	I guess we could start with quarterly results.
0:17.3	I don't know.
0:20.3	I don't, I mean, well, I just wrote a big piece.
0:23.3	But about iPhone sales in China.
0:26.6	But I don't know.
0:27.6	I don't think it's a major.
0:28.6	I don't think the quarterly results this time were all that bad or good.
0:35.7	I think long story short, my take on them is that it was a pretty good quarter everywhere
0:39.1	except China.
0:40.3	And it was sales, iPhone sales continuing to slide in China turned a pretty good quarter
0:45.1	into an A, okay, quarter where it was flat.
0:48.8	Yeah, flat, I think is a great word to describe it.
0:51.6	And there were two things that Tim Cook said that really stood out to me.
0:54.2	One was when they're talking about new customer acquisition that the rate of switchers from
0:59.1	Android to iPhone was up everywhere when you discounted China, which is a different
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