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The Talk Show With John Gruber

231: ‘It’s a Deep Notch’ With Dan Frommer

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 4 and the notion of third-party watch faces, Google’s Pixel 3 phones and Pixel Slate two-in-one tablet/notebook, and Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack” story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Did I tell you that I figured out what the heck that was?

0:02.8

I don't think so now.

0:06.0

So the backstory on this is that Dan and I were in Steve Jobs theater together, sort of

0:10.3

towards the back, maybe like five or six rows from the back and during the event, especially

0:14.7

the first half, there was a lot of noise from seemingly like, I couldn't quite make it

0:20.8

out but I thought it was like Asian language, sort of like speakerphone noise.

0:26.4

And for a second I thought someone was on the phone and I thought so too.

0:30.0

I completely thought it was somebody who was on the phone like with, you know, like

0:36.5

like Chinese media and they were on the phone with somebody at their office back in China

0:42.0

like to let them listen to the keynote live and I'm like, dude, they're streaming it.

0:45.9

Like you don't have to, you don't have to let them listen in on speakerphone, you know,

0:51.2

and why are they talking?

0:53.8

And it was a bit distracting and it was also kind of baffling because I would like turn

0:58.2

around to see who it was to maybe shoot them a dirty look and it was like, it seemed

1:03.7

to be like, be moving around the theater.

1:05.4

Like at first I thought it was over my shoulder to the left and it seemed to be coming from

1:08.4

all my shoulder to the right.

1:10.0

Anyway, long story short, what it is, what it was is that Apple provides non, I don't know

1:17.1

how many languages they support but if English is not your first language, they, they

1:21.0

give media like a little earpiece and they can get a live translation from somebody, you

1:26.2

know, that Apple hires to translate it on the fly.

1:30.4

And which is cool, but what happened was they had them turned up way too loud and I guess

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