35: Sea-Level Executives
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2013
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
- Ebook-publishing woes and trying to coordinate a specific release date.
- Apple hiring the CEO of Burberry to head their retail division, and the Louis Vuitton logo.
- The challenges of retail leadership.
- Touch ID impressions after a weekend of heavy use, and whether you should keep your phone secure for other people's benefit.
- How Touch ID could be used in Macs, and whether ARM MacBooks would be worth the transition costs.
- Speculation on next week's product announcements.
- Where a potential 12" Retina MacBook Pro could fit in the lineup.
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| 0:00.0 | You can use that market armant plus 30 minutes skip button at this point if you |
| 0:08.0 | By the way great idea, huh? It'd be great to have a plus 30 minutes skip button |
| 0:11.5 | You get to John's to accuse the second bullet point |
| 0:16.1 | Singleton Boston that's all I have to say. Oh, you are such a baby |
| 0:20.5 | I would the chance to be going to that one are much higher. Oh, there's still mediocre at best. Let's be honest |
| 0:26.4 | No, I would say they're over 50 percent |
| 0:29.3 | Wow |
| 0:30.6 | If they did it like next door to your house |
| 0:33.2 | Would it be like you know 60 percent chance if you're going? I mean it gets it really depends on the timing of |
| 0:38.9 | Voice 10 releases because this year even if it was in Boston |
| 0:41.6 | Like I did while you guys were there doing your thing in Singleton. I was doing review stuff |
| 0:46.5 | So that review stuff would not have gotten done if I was there since you brought it up house it going |
| 0:52.6 | Yes |
| 0:53.3 | So they made the announcement of the October 22nd whatever I've had whatever |
| 0:58.5 | Apple special event with no mention of a price or a date |
| 1:03.8 | Uh, this point I am resigned to the fact that I'm not going to know a price or a date |
| 1:08.1 | Until the public knows and when will the public know? |
| 1:11.0 | Maybe they'll know in the 22nd maybe the release maverick some of the 22nd so I just have to plan for that so the current plan is |
| 1:17.6 | Uh, act as if Apple is going to announce on stage on the 22nd. Oh, and by the way maverick is available for download now |
| 1:24.0 | That's such an such a price and that means I have to have uh, you know |
| 1:28.2 | An ebook ready to purchase on the 22nd |
| 1:31.1 | Which means I have to submit the ebook probably tomorrow |
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