Hello, welcome to the Appensider podcast. I'm William Gallagher. My sponsor this week is Insta

360 and I'm joined by Wesley Hilliard, which is a particular relief this time because I've been

a way, living it off in Paris and missing out on

practically all the Apple news. Wes, uh, bonjour, mon ami. I hear this week I should be switching

to Android, but not until after I've heard this week's Apple Insider Plus. Is that about right?

Yeah. So I think this week we're going to talk about Apple's competition and its place.

This is giving me a tickle in the back of my head.

I think we've talked about similar before, but this is going to be kind of surrounding the Google Pixel event, which we'll get into in the show.

I just want to discuss, again, Apple's competition, where they lie, what they do. Are they doing a good

job competing with Apple? And does Apple even care about them? Do they exist in the Apple world? So we'll

dive into that a little bit. What we personally think of Apple's competition and maybe what it would

take for us to ever consider switching to a

different product. Actually, I tell you what, just in case we've ever touched on the same

topics before, this time we're doing it in French, okay?

Ah, nobody will check. It's an amazing translation you get on this podcast.

Appetidea Plus, I should say, it's the ad-free, extended version of this podcast and you get it

by subscribing, either via Patreon or Apple podcast, Apple podcast, Apple podcast, even, and it would be a treat

to have you either way. Probably go via Patreon, because I can pronounce that better. But now,

you just mentioned the Google event. That's the thing I was hearing the whisper about. I can tell you, weirdly, in France, I was noticing an awful lot of iPhones.

Almost every phone was an iPhone, but there were hardly any Apple watches, and there are a surprising number of AirPods maxes being worn everywhere.

It's the entirety of French, right?

Oh, okay.

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