Hello, welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. I'm William Gallagher. Our sponsors this week as Zop Doc. I'm on password. More about them later.

And I'm joined by Wes Hilliard, as ever, who, well, not as ever, because this is new. This one. He's entirely confused me by giving me a chart of the best things

Apple's done during the year. There was like a grading of charts and things. And I understand A to F,

but he's preceded it with S. So, well, it's first of, you know, hello, but S, what am I missing here?

Is this an American thing?

Funny enough, no. I think this comes from Japan primarily, but maybe Americans have adopted it over time because it definitely showed up initially. I've seen it personally in like video games. If anyone's played rhythm games, you can score, you know, alphabetically, how will you do? And then you can get an S, which is like your S tier super supreme, depending on

who you're talking to, or you can even get a double S or a triple S, depending on the video game

you're playing. I call back to Devil May Cry. That's a favorite of mine.

Anyone who's played that knows what I'm talking about.

But yeah, it's just meant to be a tier above A.

This is the, it's more difficult than ever to get into.

And leave it to Japan to have an even higher grade, of course.

I once went to an offcom talk.

Offcom's Office of Communications and. No, Offsted, I don't think of, the education. The UK government's education thing, Offsted. And it was an explanation of their systems of how they were grading something. And I'm saying, looking at this screen, and I promise you they were rating something.

It wasn't scores, but a particular thing they were rating it.

It was something like one, two, seven, four, nine, three in that order.

And I spent the whole day trying to find somebody to explain to me.

So when I saw that with the answer, I thought, I just basically you're messing with my head.

You're all against me.

That's the chronological order of the Devil May Cry series if you play them.

I'm joking.

It is something like that. I believed you.

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