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The Talk Show With John Gruber

90: ‘Jamming More RAM in for Free’ With John Moltz

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2014

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Topics include Apple's quarterly results, how much Apple's cable and peripheral prices contribute to the popular conception that their products are "expensive", presbyopia and large-screen phones, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

No, seriously, do you wear Polaroid sunglasses?

0:03.8

I have sunglasses.

0:04.8

I don't think they're Polaroid, because I buy the cheapest ones possible, because I sit

0:10.2

on them and I lose them, and so I gave up buying nice ones.

0:13.8

Polarization, I'm not an optician, I'm not an optics guy.

0:17.7

But the basic idea though, it sounds kind of crazy.

0:20.3

Do you know how they work?

0:21.8

They're like blinds, like horizontal blinds on the lenses.

0:26.2

I don't even think that you can see them with the naked eye.

0:30.2

But the idea is that it makes your glasses blind, and then without reducing visibility,

0:34.7

it reduces glare.

0:37.0

So, for example, people who work on the water, like fishermen, love Polaroid sunglasses,

0:45.9

because it cuts down on the glare from the water in front of them.

0:50.6

But you know if you have Polaroid sunglasses or not, because if you look at your iPhone,

0:55.4

or any kind of like LCD, it looks crazy.

0:58.6

It's like all-ringed.

0:59.6

Yes, so then I do have Polaroid.

1:02.0

You do have Polaroid, is that?

1:03.5

I must, because my phone looks freaky.

1:06.0

And at first, the first time I noticed that I thought that it was something wrong with

1:09.9

the phone, and then I realized I had bought new sunglasses.

1:16.5

That's exactly how this came to my mind.

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