Special Report: Apple’s New (Old) Gizmos
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🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We have a special bonus If Then! On Wednesday afternoon Apple held its big annual event full of new and expensive gadgets. We wanted to help you make sense of what happened, and what it means. Host Will Oremus is joined by journalist and Slate contributor Christina Bonnington, who covers emerging technology and consumer technology. They talk through new phones, new watches, and all the things Apple is taking away from their original products.
Stories discussed on the show:
Slate: Why Apple’s Not Giving Us Another Small iPhone Anytime Soon
Slate: Everything We Know About The Three New iPhones
Slate: Apple’s Devices Are Pulling Us Into Our Own Personal Clouds
Podcast production by Max Jacobs
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is Will Oremus, here with a special bonus episode of If Then. This week was Apple's big annual event, where they announced the new mobile devices that will soon be parting us fools from our money. If you buy any of the ones they announced today, it's definitely going to be a lot of money. It's a big day in the tech news world, and we wanted to help you make sense of what happened and what it means. |
| 0:21.7 | Here to help me do that is one of the best gadget writers in the business, Christina Bonington. |
| 0:26.0 | Christina has written for Wired, The Daily Dot, and Refinery 29. |
| 0:29.4 | We're now lucky to have her as a regular contributor at Slate. |
| 0:32.1 | She covers emerging technology and consumer technology. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey, Christina. |
| 0:36.4 | Hey. |
| 0:37.4 | All right, I'm glad to have you here to help me make sense of this. |
| 0:40.8 | Apple today announced three new iPhones. |
| 0:44.0 | There's the 10S, the 10S max, and the 10R. |
| 0:48.8 | And then there's a new Apple watch with a bigger screen |
| 0:51.6 | and some cool heart monitoring technologies. |
| 0:55.1 | What was one takeaway for you from today's event? |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.1 | So for me, I wasn't super excited about the new iPhone today. |
| 1:03.6 | I was actually a bit more excited about the prospect of the new Apple Watch Series 4. |
| 1:09.4 | It builds on last year's Series 3 with a new heart rate sensing |
| 1:14.8 | technology that allows you to measure your ECG, take an electrocardiogram. And I found that pretty |
| 1:21.9 | exciting because it's the first FDA approved over-the-counter device to do so. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, I agree. |
| 1:29.0 | That's the thing that stood out to me, too. |
| 1:30.5 | I mean, you know, the phones at this point are the phones. |
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