You're listening to the Apple Insider Podcast.

Hello and welcome to episode six of our show where we discuss the latest news about Apple, iPhone,

iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and more.

Recording on Thursday, March 5th, 2015.

Today we'll be talking about Apple and Taiwan, Daniel's trip to China,

the Samsung Galaxy 6-plus, I mean S6, Samsung Pay,

Android Pay, and all the mobile payment news and finally the Apple Watch and the

upcoming event next week.

We have this this week, Apple Insider

Contributing Editor,

back from the Far East.

Daniel Dilger, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

Yep, and Contributing editor Victor Marx is also here.

Hey Victor.

Always good to be here.

And I'm Stephen Robles.

So Daniel just got back this week from a trip to Taiwan. He was over there, wrote a long piece and

we'll let you just kind of take it Dan. Two lines of interest, I did like, you know, you were talking about the Apple retail store

situation in Taiwan or lack of them and you had a great piece so I encourage everyone

to go on Apple Insider go ahead and and read it. It's a feature article there. But you said Taiwan, despite a national

population nearly as large as Texas, Taiwan does not have any Apple retail stores where Texas has 18 18 I thought that was pretty funny so

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