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The Talk Show With John Gruber

325: ‘The Negative Version of Icing on the Cake’, With Nilay Patel

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

Special guest: Nilay Patel. Special topics: the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, kids today and the file system, the Lightning / USB-C debate, and, of course, our speculation about next week’s “Unleashed” Apple event.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Nila, we always talk once a year on my show.

0:04.3

This is my favorite traditions.

0:05.7

It's a post-eye interview, Cougar Hing.

0:08.0

It's a little late, but you know, the Apple schedule on the phone

0:13.0

skips around September, October, whatever, you know.

0:16.5

There's also just a lot to talk about besides the fence.

0:20.2

There's an endless amount of Apple stuff going on.

0:22.5

There really is. I'm curious though, in its kind of interesting, I always like the...

0:27.6

I shouldn't say that I like the cool-off period.

0:30.6

It's that I hate the, okay, you have six days to review this phone

0:36.5

and try not to miss anything and try to let it settle in.

0:40.6

It's interesting to me to keep talking about it.

0:43.4

This to me is why podcasts are awesome.

0:46.4

After the iPhone 13s are not necessarily old news, but you know,

0:52.3

they're not the hot freshness.

0:53.9

I'm curious what you think overall.

0:57.8

I think they're great phones.

0:59.6

And you know, there's that debate about the names and what they should

1:03.4

call them, the 12-S.

1:04.4

Right.

1:05.1

And my big takeaway is that in many ways, for one particular reason,

1:11.2

which I'll say, this is the phone the 12 should have been.

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