229: ‘iPhone 🍸’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 111 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Renee, it has been, it has been both a long week and a long day. Yeah. |
| 0:08.6 | Here we are recording at the end of the week, at the end of August. And it was a very quiet week |
| 0:15.6 | as the end of August usually is in the Apple News Universe until it wasn't. Yes. And 95th Mac scored |
| 0:23.3 | two blockbusters. They found, they published two product marketing images from Apple, one showing |
| 0:31.8 | the new high end iPhones, which they say also revealed will be called the iPhone 10s spelled |
| 0:42.0 | with a capital X like the iPhone 10 and an S which may or may not be uppercase or lower case. |
| 0:47.8 | And may or may not in Apple's usage have a space between the X and the S with a gold, |
| 0:55.4 | almost certainly stainless steel out of rim. And they also showed a new Apple Watch, which is |
| 1:02.1 | extraordinary in several ways. And to me is a much bigger leak because it shows new hardware, |
| 1:08.3 | definite new form vector, the much rumored larger display or at least larger as a percentage |
| 1:16.4 | of the watch face display and a truly intriguing new watch face, which takes advantage of that |
| 1:23.2 | bigger display when we will get to that eventually. But at the meta level, I want to start with this |
| 1:31.4 | find because I don't want to call it a leak for reasons we'll get into. It's truly extraordinary, |
| 1:38.4 | if not unprecedented. Yeah. I mean, famously Steve Stroughton Smith found firmware. |
| 1:46.0 | Last year, right? There was HomePod firmware put on a public directory instead of a private one. |
| 1:50.5 | And then the GM build for iOS 11 had imagery and nomenclature in there. |
| 2:00.2 | Yeah. So last year's leak. And again, part of what makes this extraordinary is that |
| 2:05.5 | the Apple world is filled with rumors and the iPhone in particular just because the iPhone is the |
| 2:11.9 | most popular product. And there because it's popular, it has the biggest ramp up in the supply chain. |
| 2:23.4 | So the supply chain is obviously a large source of Apple rumors and information. A lot of it, |
| 2:30.2 | annually turns out to be accurate. A lot of it. I think she quotes just exfiltrates everything |
| 2:35.2 | he can out of it. Right. And a lot of this stuff that turns out to be inaccurate is inaccurate for |
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