204: ‘Flaunting That Notch’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 104 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, so what's the situation? So as we record and we're gonna do I'm gonna do my best to get this show out tonight |
| 0:05.9 | Okay, this is Thursday the |
| 0:08.6 | 26th so that people can listen while they're staying up late for pre-orders |
| 0:14.6 | But let me let me double check with you because I feel like you've got a better sense of these things |
| 0:19.6 | I am correct that tonight at |
| 0:21.7 | Three in the morning on the east coast is when I've I've owned 10 goes on sale. Yeah, absolutely |
| 0:26.7 | Every time |
| 0:30.8 | Because they say Friday and you think oh Friday at midnight. Okay, there you go, but it's but they really mean is |
| 0:39.1 | Friday at 12.01 you know like technically Friday, but literally 12 a.m. Pacific coast time |
| 0:47.1 | So I haven't been in this boat. I don't even remember the last time I was in this boat |
| 0:52.5 | I don't know why I don't remember when I ordered my iPhone 7's last year |
| 0:59.1 | I don't think I stayed up till three in the morning to do it though |
| 1:02.3 | I don't know why and then in years prior I was at the |
| 1:07.5 | XOXO conference in Portland |
| 1:10.5 | Which is on the west coast and up you know like socializing with friends and we'd all like as a group |
| 1:17.3 | It was all bunch of nerds and we'd all like have our timer set and at 11.55 |
| 1:23.7 | everybody would put their drinks down and fire up the |
| 1:27.7 | The Apple store on their phones and get ready to order everybody was ordering phones together |
| 1:32.5 | So now I've got to stay up till three in the morning |
| 1:35.1 | To do this is that is that the same situation in Canada? Yeah, I was I'll tell you said stay up and not wake up as well |
| 1:42.2 | Just no question for me because he internet is full of all you know all our friends putting up the pictures of their |
| 1:47.3 | Ninety-ten alarms they've set for every minute before midnight or three a.m |
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