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The Talk Show With John Gruber

95: ‘Twenty-One Thousand Words’ With Rene Ritchie

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2014

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Special guest: Rene Ritchie. Topics: What else? The iPhones 6, iOS 8, and last week’s special event at the Flint Center in Cupertino.

Transcript

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0:00.0

René Richie.

0:01.0

John Gruber.

0:02.0

From my more.

0:03.0

How long was your iOS 8 review?

0:05.0

21,000 words.

0:07.0

What?

0:08.0

Holy shit.

0:10.0

Yeah, 200 pictures.

0:12.0

I need to be put down.

0:14.0

21,000 words.

0:16.0

And I mean this sincerely.

0:18.0

Not just because you're the guest on the show.

0:23.0

But for years, I've been thinking, man, wouldn't it be great if somebody wrote iOS reviews

0:29.9

each year the way John Siracusa does Mac OS X reviews?

0:34.7

And I realized that you do.

0:36.4

Like they're all there.

0:37.4

They're there all the way back to iOS 2.

0:40.6

And there are, you know, it was just called like iPhone OS 2 or something like that.

0:46.8

And they are book length.

0:48.8

21,000 words.

0:49.8

Seriously, that's more closer to a book than an article.

0:52.9

I just, I always feel this need to explain things.

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