201: ‘Much More Smarter’ With Matthew Panzarino
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 18 September 2017
⏱️ 182 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So we spent like pretty much the whole beginning of the week together. |
| 0:04.6 | And it started, we had a wonderful dinner on Monday night with our friend, |
| 0:08.8 | mutual friend, Michael Lopp. |
| 0:10.2 | Where you two wanted to talk entirely about Destiny 2, but all I wanted to talk about |
| 0:17.4 | is how is Apple going to pronounce the X in the name iPhone X because the name it leaked. |
| 0:22.0 | Right. |
| 0:22.5 | The name it leaked and we had one and only one reason why they might call it iPhone 10, |
| 0:29.4 | which is that we're 10 years away from the original iPhone. |
| 0:32.6 | And we came up with a list of like 15 good reasons. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, why they would pronounce it iPhone X. |
| 0:39.8 | And we just left the dinner like, well, that's a settled deal. |
| 0:42.4 | It'll be iPhone X. |
| 0:44.4 | And then I stayed, I stayed in the city, could not get a hotel. |
| 0:49.4 | It's bizarre that I could not get a hotel near Cupertino. |
| 0:53.0 | So I just stayed in the city and you swung by kindly and picked me up the morning of the event. |
| 0:58.2 | And we drove down and I said, and as we're driving from San Francisco to Cupertino, |
| 1:02.2 | I said, you know what? |
| 1:03.0 | I'm going to write that up. |
| 1:05.2 | And right there in the front seat of Matthew's car, I wrote the article I had lined X-man explaining |
| 1:14.2 | exactly in predicting, you know, only an hour before the event, hour two hours before the event. |
| 1:18.6 | Exactly why I thought they were going to call it iPhone X. |
| 1:24.2 | Well, you know, I was there to be the voice of reason and I just didn't speak up. |
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