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🗓️ 25 September 2025
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Benjamin and Chance reflect on how Apple describes the unibody in iPhone history. Then, Benjamin shares his experiences with his first week of having the iPhone Air, meanwhile online durability and battery tests show impressive results across the new iPhone lineup. Nevertheless, Apple is forced to comment on 17 Pro ‘ScratchGate’, and the first iOS 26.1 beta adds some new swipe gestures in the Music app.
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| 0:00.0 | So when we were talking about the iPhone 17 Pro design last week, Mayo, I said that it was not Apple's first unibody iPhone, but the first since the iPhone 6. You doubted my claim. We pulled up the press release of the iPhone 6. Apple described it as an aluminum unibody design. And as I kind of expected you to do, in between last week and this week, you did some more research and realized something Apple said during the iPhone 17 Pro keynote. |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah, because when you said that, I was confused. I was like, I'm sure they said it was their first unibody. |
| 0:36.6 | And sure enough, I looked it up. |
| 0:38.3 | And in the design video where you have Molly Anderson narrate the introduction for the |
| 0:43.1 | iPhone 17 Pro design, she calls it our first aluminium union body for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. |
| 0:50.5 | That is false advertising. |
| 0:52.8 | But indeed, as well as the iPhone 6 press release, if you go to the iPhone 6 event back in 2014, |
| 1:00.0 | you have Johnny Ive narrate a design video where he says the new iPhone 6 models feature |
| 1:04.8 | a precision unit body enclosure. |
| 1:08.8 | So I don't know whether the Apple marketing team have changed their definition |
| 1:12.7 | on Aluminant Unibody is, or if they just disagree on our technicality, or they just don't care. |
| 1:19.7 | But I did think it was odd that when you – like, my memory was pinging at me. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm sure they said it was their first union body. |
| 1:28.6 | And here we go. |
| 1:29.8 | They technically, depending on which person you talk about in terms of which year |
| 1:34.2 | isn't either their first union body or not their first unit body. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm sure there might be some technical discrepancy. |
| 1:40.3 | I think that's probably it. |
| 1:41.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.1 | Changes their claim. |
| 1:43.3 | But it is very true that back in the iPhone 6 days, |
| 1:45.7 | they introduced it as a unibody design. |
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