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The Talk Show With John Gruber

264: ‘Apple Is Not a 4-Star Company’ With Joanna Stern

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Very special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s event earlier this month, the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, iOS 13, and how we go about writing (and shooting) our product reviews.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, it's the end of a busy week, Joanna.

0:02.8

I have no idea what you're talking about.

0:06.0

You didn't even do Apple Watch, did you?

0:07.6

Or did I?

0:08.6

No.

0:09.6

I was going to say, because if you did, I missed it.

0:10.6

And not the most incompetent podcast of all time.

0:14.0

No, I don't.

0:15.8

I physically could not do it physically.

0:18.3

You would not be possible.

0:19.3

Well, that's what I did.

0:20.9

And I'm not going to say I phoned it in, but I was, it was like a grand relief to me

0:26.3

that to me, my take of the Apple Watch series five was very, very simple.

0:31.4

And now that we have some technical information, like developers have hooked it up to Xcode

0:36.0

and found out the CPU and GPU are the same, et cetera, that it really is, it's the last

0:41.7

years Apple Watch with the always on screen, which to me is a huge, huge deal and the compass,

0:48.6

which is not as huge a deal.

0:51.1

Because you're usually lost in downtown Philadelphia.

0:55.8

Well, I wrote in my review that I don't think I've ever needed a compass in my life.

0:59.4

Like I've never been like a Boy Scout type.

1:03.2

So, you know, but I realized that for walking direction, so I did go back and add a sentence

1:09.2

in the next day in my review that it should be a huge boon for walking directions.

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