Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. This is your host, Steven Robles and I'm excited

today to have a very special guest, Nicholas Delayon, who I have known for some time now

and actually get to interview him here for the show. So, Nicholas, thanks for coming

on the show, man.

Yes, Steven, my pleasure. We have known each other for quite a while. I believe we were

man, maybe six or seven years old. We were young kids when we, uh, I think so. We moved

upstate New York and I think we were in kindergarten or first grade together. One of those went to

the same school for a minute, but it's been a long time and it's funny. I mean, we haven't

talked in a long time and you've been involved in technology in various places and I've been

involved here on Apple Insider and other places. So it's just funny now our past gets

across again. So it's, yeah, it's open to talk to you. So tell me like, what is your current

gig right now? I know you're at consumer reports. So what do you do there? Yes, my titles

technically, I'm a senior reporter at consumer reports. I've been here for about three years,

three years in change. I've kind of been all over the sort of tech blogging world. My

first gig was at Gizmodo basically as an intern. This is like 2006-ish 2007. And there's

a tech crunch for a couple years. Uh, I worked at news corp, uh, the daily, I don't know

if anyone in the audience remembers that iPad news app. Yeah. I was there for about two

years. Uh, and then I did a startup called Circa, kind of like mobile news thing. Then it

was at vice for a few years. Now I'm at consumer reports. Uh, my main beats are laptops,

uh, wireless routers and tablets. Uh, I say, I, I almost like whisper tablets because there's

not a ton of tablet news generally. It's pretty much the iPad, uh, the Amazon tablets and, and

maybe the Samsung ones, but it's, it's a smaller category. Right. Well, that, that's so interesting.

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