83: Entering the iTouch Phase of My Life
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2014
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-Show: Inexpensive tablets
- Follow-up:
- More on Retina displays for the Mac
- iPhones 6 and 6 Plus
- Optical image stabilization
- Matt Panzarino's awesome iPhones review
- Barefeats benchmark
- Marco teaches Casey about photography
- Android Wear versus Galaxy Gear
- Apple's and Google's rates on payments
- Whether we're blind to Android doing things first
- Apple Watch's potential pricing
- Solid gold cases
- Veblen goods
- Gruber's analysis
- Buying experience
- Cases, fashion, and personalization
- Closeup of Apple Watch Sport
- Stickers commercial
- Offline features
- Send text messages in languages with pictographic/Logogram alphabets
- Battery indicator
- Post-show:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We apparently just missed an Amazon announcement. |
| 0:02.3 | Let's see. |
| 0:03.3 | Amazon just released another tablet. |
| 0:05.3 | Thought it was another Kindle. |
| 0:07.0 | No, I gotta look it up. |
| 0:08.9 | Yeah, whatever. |
| 0:09.8 | Do we actually give it? |
| 0:10.6 | No, it doesn't. |
| 0:11.4 | I mean, how, you know, if you look at the impact |
| 0:14.7 | that the Kindle fire in general, the tablet line, |
| 0:17.7 | I mean, not the stupid phone, |
| 0:19.0 | if you look at the impacts that the Kindle fire tablets |
| 0:21.2 | have had on the tablet market as a whole, |
| 0:23.9 | I think almost everybody would be able to look at it |
| 0:26.2 | and say that's not nearly as big of a deal |
| 0:28.6 | as we thought it was when it was released. |
| 0:30.4 | I think we all said, you know, |
| 0:32.7 | oh, this is gonna, you know, this tablet's so cheap, |
| 0:35.6 | but they're gonna get a huge market share. |
| 0:37.3 | It's gonna be a big deal. |
| 0:39.0 | And, you know, from what we can tell, |
| 0:40.6 | it seems like it sells okay, |
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