Episode 042 — Monopolizing Your Ears
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Ben Thompson / James Allworth
4.6 • 832 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2015
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, James. Ben, how are you? |
| 0:03.2 | I'm good. Not too bad. Weather's getting nicer. It's still, it's still in that kind of |
| 0:09.0 | in between stage where you're not quite sure if in the morning, like so the morning, |
| 0:13.9 | I wake my daughter up to help her and she's like, oh, should I try to bring a jacket or not. |
| 0:17.7 | And I have to say every single time in the morning, I have to fish out my phone and look at it at the temperature. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm like, I would buy a watch just for the temperature function. |
| 0:27.0 | I know they all have that. |
| 0:27.9 | But to me, that actually is a super killer use case. |
| 0:30.8 | Just be able to look down and see what the temperature is. |
| 0:33.3 | Temperature is now or temperature is going to be? |
| 0:37.2 | One of the watch faces shows the temperature is going to be. |
| 0:39.5 | But, but yeah. |
| 0:42.4 | I went and played with it in an Apple store. |
| 0:44.6 | I had in the back of my mind your point about the killer app is actually contained within use as opposed to a demo. |
| 0:54.3 | I was like, hmm, this is demo. I was like, this is interesting. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm like, I'm not super compelled, |
| 0:59.3 | but then, like, sitting around and playing on the watch |
| 1:02.0 | actually defeats the point of it, |
| 1:03.7 | and you're not really going to know until you use it. |
| 1:05.8 | So I remain interested to find out. |
| 1:08.8 | Did you, you've pre-ordered one. |
| 1:10.2 | What, how, when's it expected to arrive? |
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