Episode 288: History is Not Made for Horses
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🗓️ 6 September 2016
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Find My Mac. Please.
With Apple's big iPhone event coming tomorrow, Dan and Merlin discuss what makes this particular day such a black box in Apple's history. This is likely to be the last day for some time when we will know SO very little about where Apple is heading.
Also, there's some discussion of which kinds of technology we're most resistant to and maybe why that is.
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- Apple’s evolving PR boilerplate – 512 Pixels
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:01.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Good afternoon, Dan. |
| 0:03.0 | How are you? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:05.0 | How are you? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm doing pretty good. |
| 0:08.0 | Tuesday is the new Monday. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, this week it is. |
| 0:11.0 | I don't like that either. |
| 0:12.0 | I get so thrown off. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, first of all, our Saturday really felt like Sunday. |
| 0:18.6 | And then our Sunday kind of felt like Sunday, but then our Monday also felt like Sunday. |
| 0:24.7 | Too many Sundays. |
| 0:25.7 | Too many Sundays. |
| 0:26.7 | Yeah, it was fun. |
| 0:27.7 | It's been a crazy weekend. |
| 0:28.7 | Well, I know. |
| 0:29.7 | And I know you're also gearing up for our live coverage from the floor of the event tomorrow |
| 0:33.6 | at an Apple. |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah, I'm reporting live from the floor, wherever that's happening right now. |
| 0:39.9 | It's a warm. |
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