#434 - The return of iPhone SE!
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🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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This week: iPhone SE.... 2! Let's talk about it... Plus: Apple is “scrambling” to prevent iPhone 12 delays; and we wrap up with an all new What We’re Into, Quarantine Edition! We’ll tell you about the shows, game videos, and stuff we’re doing with our extra "free" time.
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This week's stories
WSJ: Apple ‘scrambling’ to prevent iPhone delays amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Over the last several weeks, various reports have detailed how Apple is adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the supply chain and product development. Now, a report from The Wall Street Journal adds more detail to the ongoing situation.
Foxconn confident it can deliver iPhone 12 this fall
- Foxconn’s previous guidance suggested that it would be back up and running at its normal levels by late March. Last week, the manufacturer said that it had hired enough workers at its major Chinese plants to meet seasonal demand for iPhone manufacturing.
Apple supposedly pencils in April 15 launch for iPhone 9
- Apple has supposedly penciled in an April 15 launch date for its low-cost iPhone 9.
What we're Into (quarantine edition!)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How did the Apple come about? |
| 0:02.0 | Well, pretty much it was just experiment in the days back |
| 0:04.7 | when no company thought it was going to be a large market |
| 0:06.5 | with a lot of dollars to gain. |
| 0:07.9 | It was a lot of hobbyists talking about the upcoming home |
| 0:10.0 | computer revolution. |
| 0:11.3 | And to them, the home computer was like to a ham radio operator who's got a |
| 0:14.3 | soldering iron and all that. The home computer by definition had wires going to |
| 0:17.8 | your oven and translated your recipes into it and that's what they did. That's what a |
| 0:22.0 | lot of us did but we went down |
| 0:23.0 | and started socializing and we started a club and every two weeks was the most |
| 0:26.3 | important day of our lives to tell what we were doing, what we could offer other |
| 0:29.3 | people. If we needed help we'd raise our hand and ask for help on a certain problem. |
| 0:33.2 | If others had something to offer, they'd offer it. |
| 0:36.2 | It was just give to help others. |
| 0:37.3 | And I started creating computers just to show off. |
| 0:39.6 | Here's a nifty, neat computer. |
| 0:41.4 | I feel that this is really neat. |
| 0:43.0 | And eventually a friend of mine came by and suggested we start a company |
| 0:47.0 | and we, after we figured out we'd probably lose our money, |
| 0:49.0 | at least we knew we'd have a company for once in our lives and that made it worth it. Hello and welcome to go cast the best 30 plus minute alpha conversation. |
| 0:59.0 | You're going to hear all week. |
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