You're listening to the Apple Insider Podcast.

Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast.

This is episode 101.

I'm Victor Marks, your host, and joining me is Daniel Aaron Dulger. Hey Dan how are you?

Hi, um, thanks for doing the podcast.

And I just, definitely, definitely. I note that you're using the air pods to record today

so for our listeners who are wondering what's going on with sound quality or things like

that this is because this is the sound of the air pods microphone.

I have all my stuff and boxes and so that's what I'm using right now for a microphone.

Very good.

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discounts if you're looking for them from our good friends at B&H and I'll have

that link in the show notes. So Dan I need you to unpack something for me. I always come to you when I have these questions

because I think about these things, but it's not always easy to make it clear. So we ran two stories this week. We ran one story whose headline

said that Apple saw twice as many mobile device activations this holiday season

as Samsung. And we also ran a story entitled Love is Blind that NPD says that

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