Hello and welcome to Connected episode 274. This is our 2019 year interview episode, and it is made possible by our sponsors, Squarespace, Pingdom, Hover, and Storyworth.

My name is Stephen Hackett, and I am joined by Mr. Federico Vatici.

Hello, happy end of the year. Is that a thing that people say?

Yeah, it's the end of the year. It's almost over.

Finally, the year of Stephen is ending.

The year of Stephen two is just around the corner.

Oh, no.

And we're also joined by our friend Mike Hurley.

Oh, hello.

Hey, buddy.

The year in review.

So if you are not familiar with this episode, what we're going to do is we're going to go through

the major Apple headlines for the year.

And we kind of see what stories ended up being important, what stories seem like a big deal,

but weren't funny things that happened.

And we will just work our way through 2019 together.

We do this round Robin style, and so we don't mess that up. Mike has very

helpfully put in initials next to the month names in the Google Doc. I had to do it because you

would probably do like round robin but the round it's a round robin per quarter so it like

adjusts the order and then there's like we go like a round robin per every half year which is

different to that one you really want nested round robins so like every level down is another

round robin it's round round robin robin exactly we're going to start in january do we have to

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