Episode 037 – Apple Watch, Take Two

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss the recent Apple Event, including the MacBook and Apple Watch Links Ben Thompson: Mobile First – Stratechery Ben Thompson: “Geeks are not just unqualified to explain the new MacBook, they’re anti-qualified” – Twitter Ben Thompson: How Apple Will Make the Wearable Market – Stratechery Matthew Panzarino: The Apple Watch is Time, Saved – TechCrunch “Really” Windows Phone commercial – YouTube David Platt: Apple iPhone Debut to Flop, Product to Crash in Flames – Suckbusters Hosts Ben Thompson, @monkbent, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.1	Ben, how are you?
0:03.0	I'm good.
0:03.5	How are you?
0:04.3	Yeah, pretty good.
0:05.4	Thanks.
0:05.7	Pretty good.
0:07.9	So I forgot that there's, so there's daylight savings time this past weekend, which is actually kind of a pain.
0:14.4	Well, because there's no daylight savings time here.
0:17.7	So, yeah, so it's a total mess.
0:19.6	Like, every time there's a time change, I end up,
0:22.3	like, missing meetings or calls or anything like that because I get all messed up. So I was
0:27.8	actually very surprised when you ping me is that, are you ready to start the podcast? I'm like,
0:30.5	oh, yeah. Yeah, I love it. Like, I am not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination.
0:38.6	So an hour's loss of daylight at the beginning of the day makes no difference to me.
0:43.9	But an extra hour at the end of the day means I get to dive into the pool and it's still daylight.
0:48.3	And I love that.
0:49.2	Yeah, I mean, well, I just make it year round, I suppose.
0:54.6	I'm sure there's some reason, but I'd be up for that.
0:58.3	Yeah, well, I mean, I don't think we need to have a podcast about time.
1:03.4	But it may be time to have a podcast again about the watch.
1:06.8	Oh, man.
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