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Tech Brew Ride Home

Thu. 03/26 – No New iPhone Until 2021?

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Apple is weighing its options, and delaying the release of the 5G iPhone until 2021 is being discussed. Airbnb is offering free housing for medical workers. An interesting raise Thursday that wants to be the flip side of Shopify in the ecommerce space. And a preview of Huawei’s upcoming Google-less flagship phone. Sponsors: Metalab.co Sanebox.com/techmeme Links: Apple weighs delaying 5G iPhone launch by months, sources say (Nikkei Asian Review) Apple Testing AR/VR Headset With HTC Vive-Like Controller, Crosswalk Bowling Game, and More (MacRumors) What Qualcomm's new chips mean for upcoming true wireless earbuds (CNET) Airbnb Hosts to Help Provide Housing to 100,000 COVID-19 Responders (Airbnb Newsroom) TripActions, Zeus Living Laying Off Employees Due To COVID-19 Slowdown (Crunchbase News) What it feels like to be laid off on Zoom during this crisis (Protocol) Lime’s Valuation May Fall 80% in Emergency Fundraising (The Information) StubHub furloughs employees, other ticket sites face challenges in wake of pandemic (ESPN) Stripe leads $20M Series A into Fast, which is building a universal checkout service for e-commerce (TechCrunch) LIVING A GOOGLE-FREE LIFE WITH A HUAWEI PHONE (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, March 26, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

0:08.0

Today, Apple is weighing its options and considering delaying the release of the 5G iPhone until 2021.

0:15.6

AirB&B is offering free housing for medical workers, an interesting raise Thursday that

0:21.0

wants to be the flip side of Shopify in e-commerce and a

0:24.9

preview of Huawei's upcoming Google-less flagship phone. Here's what you miss today

0:29.4

in the world of Tech.

0:39.7

Sources are telling the Nikk Asian review that Apple is considering delaying the launch of the iPhone 12 by at least months over fears that low sales and supply chain constraints

0:46.8

could harm the launch if they stuck to their original timeline.

0:51.1

Quote the Cupertino California-based tech giant has held internal original timeline

0:53.5

time time.

0:54.1

has held internal discussions on the possibility of delaying the launch by months.

0:57.8

Three people familiar with the matter said,

0:59.6

while supply chain sources say practical hurdles could push back the release

1:03.8

originally scheduled for September. Quote supply chain constraint aside

1:08.4

Apple is concerned that the current situation would significantly lower

1:12.4

consumer appetite to upgrade their phones,

1:14.9

which could lead to a tame reception of the first 5G iPhone, set a source with direct knowledge

1:19.6

of the discussion.

1:21.0

They need the first 5G iPhone to be a hit, end quote.

1:24.7

Apple is already a year behind its two biggest rivals,

1:27.3

Samsung and Huawei in introducing a 5G capable handset.

1:31.8

At the start of the year, the company set an aggressive target for the release of

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