#460 - Apple's own leaks confirms iPhone 12 Mini!
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🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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This week: whoopsie! Apple accidentally leaks the new iPhone 12 mini—we talk prices and storage options. Plus: Apple’s beefs up AppleCare+ and slashes the cost; and we wrap up with an EPIC update to the Fortnite Vs. Apple app store antitrust case.
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This week's stories
CONFIRMED! 'iPhone 12 mini' Name Reappears in Leaked Apple iPhone 12 Case Stickers
- Earlier this week a proven leaker (L0vetodream) claimed that the iPhone 12 lineup would be named "iPhone 12 mini," "iPhone 12," "iPhone 12 Pro," and "iPhone 12 Pro Max," and today the same nomenclature has appeared again in a photo depicting alleged stickers from unreleased Silicone iPhone cases originating from Apple's international distribution center in Ireland.
iPhone 12 will come in a 64GB storage option after all Don’t bid farewell to the 64GB storage option for the iPhone just yet! According to Apple leaker Jon Prosser, the 5.4-inch
- iPhone 12 mini and 6.1-inch iPhone 12 will come in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB options.
- Apple today updated its AppleCare+ protection plan for Apple devices to cover two incidents of accidental damage protection every 12 months. Prior to now, AppleCare+ covered two incidents of accidental damage every 24 months.
Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies were dishonest, says US judge
- A US judge hearing arguments in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple has criticized the game developer’s decision to breach its contract with the iPhone maker by pushing a version of Fortnite with a custom payment system onto the App Store. The decision resulted in Apple removing Fortnite from the App Store.
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| 0:00.0 | What's back to think? |
| 0:02.0 | It's funny, the group of people that do not use quality in their marketing are the Japanese. |
| 0:09.0 | You never see them using quality in their marketing. |
| 0:12.0 | It's only the American companies that do. |
| 0:14.2 | And yet, if you ask people on the street, |
| 0:16.3 | which products have the best reputation for quality? |
| 0:18.6 | They will tell you the Japanese products. |
| 0:20.4 | Now, why is that? |
| 0:21.2 | How could that be? |
| 0:22.3 | The answer is because customers don't |
| 0:25.9 | form their opinions on quality from marketing |
| 0:28.9 | They don't form their opinions on quality from who won the the Deming Award or who won the Baldridge Award. |
| 0:35.5 | They form their opinions on quality from their own experience with the products or the services. |
| 0:40.6 | And so one can spend enormous amounts of money on quality. |
| 0:43.6 | One can win every quality of where there is, and yet if your products don't live up to it, |
| 0:48.2 | customers will not keep that opinion for long in their minds. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:57.8 | the best 30 plus minute apple conversation |
| 1:00.0 | you're going to hear all week long. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm your host, Air Fun Eliza. |
| 1:03.8 | Join me today, and when it comes to heading to the pub, |
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