96: ‘The Edition Edition’ With Ben ‘Bengate’ Thompson
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2014
⏱️ 170 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think you were on about two months ago. I don't know. I'm trying to mix it up with guests, but I really really wanted you back |
| 0:06.6 | now to talk about the watch |
| 0:10.0 | Well needless to say I have a full range of opinions about it. Right |
| 0:14.1 | And Renee and I last week just more or less skipped it because we already filled up two hours with just the iPhone and |
| 0:20.9 | Etc. I |
| 0:23.1 | Forget if I said this to Renee or if I put it in my review, but I |
| 0:27.7 | Really do I understand I think I put it in my review, but I understand why Apple did it that way in terms of the event |
| 0:34.9 | You know phone Apple pay and the introduction of the watch all at once, but it really |
| 0:42.3 | To me gave short what's the word shrift? What's the word short short shrift to to the iPhone 6 |
| 0:51.0 | To me and I understand why they did it |
| 0:53.9 | But boy and as a writer someone trying to get a handle on all of this |
| 0:58.6 | It it was just impossible, you know, and you get you know 30 minutes 40 minutes after the event to talk to Apple reps and there was just no way |
| 1:07.8 | It always seems to go by fast and I always come up with questions good questions as soon as I'm out of you know |
| 1:14.0 | And the event is over, but this time it was just impossible |
| 1:17.6 | It was like I did I really felt like there was no way to ask all the quiet because I wanted to I wanted an hour to talk about both |
| 1:23.7 | Things, you know the phone and the watch |
| 1:28.0 | You think look at all the kind of bad news |
| 1:31.8 | That the phone has gotten this week and obviously it's an annual tradition that there's some sort of |
| 1:37.5 | Some sort of gate, you know every year |
| 1:39.9 | Apple spotlight had a great post on this thing that basically everyone comes down to people not understanding physics |
| 1:45.9 | Right if you think about it the phone never got the positive cycle in some ways |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, because it was just the the week where everyone's talking about the phone was drowned out by everyone talking about the watch and |
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