From the From Relay FM, this is Upgrade,

Episode 324, and today is a surprise draft episode

episode.

We're going to get to that a little later on in the show.

This episode of Upgrade is brought to you by Square Space, KiwiCo and Same Box.

My name is Mike Hurley and I'm joined by my partner in crime Mr.

Jason Snow. Hi Jason Snow.

Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. Red alert and to crime, Mike, to crime.

So yeah, a few minutes very few minutes before the show recording began.

Apple sent us both a little invitation to an Apple event next Tuesday the 10th. Yep. So this was I I thought that it would be on the 10th

Which it was I thought we would get an invite maybe on Wednesday.

We did not get an invite on Wednesday. We got it today instead, which makes sense in hindsight.

A friend of the show, Kyle's the Gray, me and him were having a conversation about this earlier, and he was right and I was wrong.

But this makes perfect sense because obviously the election's going on this week in America, right?

So you maybe want to get your invitation out before that,

and that's what they've ended up doing.

So.

Get out of the way of it, and don't wait until the week before Thanksgiving because there's been a lot of speculation about whether Apple wants to push.

The reason you want to announce things not too late is because it gives you a little of holiday buying season for

whatever those new products are if you really do intend them to come out before the

last day of December which apparently Apple does and that's that's great so they're gonna they're

gonna clearer out the decks this has been a an Apple product release season like no other in that we are going to get three distinct online

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