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The Talk Show With John Gruber

299: ‘Sounds Like a Good Red Sauce Place’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, the new iPad-Pro-style iPad Air, the remarkable state of the Mac, and David Letterman’s battery-shopping trip to CVS.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is this the show this is the show?

0:02.0

That could be could whatever I think this show

0:06.6

Why not it's it's just it's the silly it's silly apple season and like again it feels like we've had

0:13.6

Years worth of news right and it's like I know there's more there's more common including clearly the two most interesting

0:20.0

iPhones which again I wrote a lot a lot about the I know it's bad like my my iPhone reviews tend to be long and

0:28.0

I knew I had a lot to say about the event

0:32.4

Before I even wrote about the reviews and my thoughts on the event and just the stuff that they announced

0:38.2

So it's like you and I mean you get like these review units you have an embargo and you're not allowed to write about them

0:42.8

until the embargo passes and my thoughts on the event were taking me so long that I'd already gotten the review units and

0:49.6

So I had to be careful that my you know because I you know, it's I don't think it apples gonna take me to court

0:57.0

You know if like information I could only know that could only glean from having started using them worked its way into

1:06.7

You know the pre embargo piece, but you know you want to play by the rules, you know, it's right being honest

1:12.8

Yeah, you could be you could maybe be informed by some of the things like you can have a confirm a suspicion

1:17.6

But you can't go beyond that like I didn't get the iPhones in advance

1:20.4

But I got the iPad air in advance and was like yeah suffice to say I had some opinions about the a14 that were

1:26.4

informed by the fact that I had one right even though I didn't have a phone I had a device with it

1:31.6

But yeah, you want to play fair with all of that but I really wanted to get some stuff off my chest that you I felt like I could write

1:38.1

I could write about the pricing I had a lot of thoughts to say about the pricing and

1:43.2

the

1:44.2

Charger being in the box which is sort of related to pricing because let's face it

1:49.2

You know everybody's making the same point that apple says hey, this is great for the environment and a lot of people are saying no

1:54.5

This is about

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