218: ‘Spending Tim Cook’s Money’ With Serenity Caldwell
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2018
⏱️ 116 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I thought that that was the weirdest, strangest Apple event I've ever been to. |
| 0:04.9 | I couldn't shut up about it while we were there as you probably recall. |
| 0:07.7 | It was like every other word out of my mouth was this whole thing is so weird. |
| 0:11.3 | I loved it. I loved it so much. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, I'm not complaining. Like I said then, it's like I do think it was weird. |
| 0:18.8 | I questioned whether it was worth our time. |
| 0:22.0 | But I think that that's what makes it interesting because it wasn't like, |
| 0:25.5 | oh, it's another iPad introduction event where the same things happen. |
| 0:29.6 | It was actually kind of, you know, what makes it weird and different and unique |
| 0:35.4 | is what makes it interesting to talk about. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah. Well, I think what you said was really interesting at the event where we were talking |
| 0:42.4 | and you said, well, you know, they could have just done this in a press release. |
| 0:45.8 | Like Apple Pencil support is cool, but it doesn't necessarily warrant an entire event. |
| 0:50.8 | The more I thought about it, the more I was like, yeah, but the iPad isn't really the |
| 0:55.2 | story of this event. |
| 0:56.8 | Right. |
| 0:57.8 | Right. |
| 0:58.8 | There's a reason why we didn't hear about hardware until about 30 minutes into the one |
| 1:01.8 | hour keynote presentation. |
| 1:04.1 | And that's because the story was like, the story was the people. |
| 1:07.3 | The story was how they were using the products. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah. And what made what made it all make sense to me in hindsight, like I figured it |
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