Hey, it's your friend David Pierce here.

This week, we're bringing you another episode from season two of version history.

Like I mentioned last week, if you want to get these episodes as soon as they arrive, follow the version history podcast feed wherever you get podcasts. You can find it ad-free if you're a Verge subscriber. This is a really fun episode, though, and we wanted to make sure you heard it too. Let's do it. It's early 2010, and in a few months, we're probably going to get a new iPhone.

We get a new iPhone. We get a new iPhone in the spring of every year. But there's something different about the one this year, which is that maybe you've already seen it. From the Verge and Vox Media, this is version history, a show about the best and worst and strangest and most important products in tech history. I'm David Pierce, and on this episode, we are talking about the

iPhone 4, the iPhone that lived before it lived.

All right. It's time for the iPhone 4.

Maybe the best iPhone, maybe the most interesting iPhone. We have a lot to talk about.

Neilie Patel is here.

Hello. It's the best iPhone.

Stop getting ahead of me, Patel, all right?

Walt Mossberg is here.

Hi, Walt.

Hi, David.

This reminds me the old days, except back then I was getting paid to do this.

I like it better this way, personally.

Yeah, I'm sure you do.

This is new media, Walt.

Everyone's doing it for brand deals, don't. I'm just a poor pensioner, and here I am.

You're just here to say wild things that make for good TikToks.

That's your job on this show.

So the reason I ask you both to be here, I would say, is going to become very obvious, very quickly here.

Not only is the story of the iPhone sort of intersecting with a lot of work that you were both doing at a time,

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