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Accidental Tech Podcast

551: Tickle Rock You

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 158 minutes

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0:00.0

It is one of the biggest shows of the year the show where we talk about iPhones that we don't know that much about yet

0:05.8

But we kind of know everything about but it's it's like a weird time of the of the season

0:10.2

It's really going to save a lot of time for next week show because we'll just have everything this week and then next week

0:15.0

We'll say you know what we said last week. Yeah, that happened or at least like much of that or most of that or you know

0:20.6

We didn't so the inevitability of

0:24.0

iPhone season and prediction season is that due to the massive scale of the iPhone

0:30.0

The supply chain leaks like crazy and there is basically nothing they can reasonably do to keep

0:36.4

Most of the physical details of the new iPhones from leaking at a time and so going into the iPhone event typically we know

0:45.3

With reasonable certainty most of the physical things that will be announced

0:50.7

Physical changes like you know, there's gonna be a different size phone or

0:54.4

You know different what kind of materials they're using oftentimes even what colors they are going to be launching because that kind of stuff tends to leak

1:01.0

But then a lot of times will it will be surprised by something and oftentimes first of all we're always surprised by

1:07.2

Names because they're always way worse than we think they're gonna be we're always surprised by

1:12.1

By like software features and some of the you know some of the software

1:16.9

Features of things like the camera that's usually surprising in some way

1:19.6

Well, I think I think the canonical example of everything you're describing is the thing that we forgot to mention last week

1:24.7

Which we'll talk about again later, but the dynamic island like I think that because we knew that there was some sort of cut out

1:29.7

Kind of situation, but nobody was a hundred percent sure what the physical stuff would look like

1:34.1

We had a pretty good notion, but the whole software story

1:37.7

I don't think anyone had a freaking clue what that was gonna be and certainly nobody knew what the got awful named dynamic

1:43.5

Island was going to be it's not bad. I was gonna say I was gonna say to be honest

1:47.4

It's actually growing on me, but at the time. I remember hating it. No, hasn't grown on me

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