Wed. 10/14 – iPhone 12 Pricing and Availability Surprises

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Picking up some odds and ends from yesterday’s iPhone event, including some eyebrow raising clarifications on price and availability. Zoom is indeed trying to be a platform by bringing apps to your calls. You know DeFi is hot when everyone is suddenly rebranding themselves as DeFi. And is Dropbox leading the way to a virtual work future? Sponsors: BlueNile.com, code RIDE for $50 off your purchase of over $750. ForHims.com/tech Links: The iPhone 12’s mysterious groove is a 5G mmWave antenna window — and it’s exclusive to the US (The Verge) iPhone 12 actually costs $829, advertised $799 price includes ‘carrier special offers’ (9to5Mac) Snapchat among first to leverage iPhone 12 Pro’s LiDAR Scanner for AR (TechCrunch) Zoom launches its events platform and marketplace, brings apps to your calls (TechCrunch) ‘DeFi’ Replaces ‘Blockchain’ as the Must-Have Crypto Moniker (Bloomberg) Dropbox is the latest San Francisco tech company to make remote work permanent (CNBC) Dropbox goes Virtual First (Dropbox Blog) WordPress can now turn blog posts into tweetstorms automatically (TechCrunch) 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 Wednesday, October 14th, 2020.
0:07.5	I'm Brian McCullough today picking up some odds and ends from yesterday's iPhone
0:12.0	event, including some eyebrow raising clarifications on price and availability.
0:16.0	Zoom is indeed trying to be a platform by bringing apps to your calls.
0:20.0	You know Defe is hot when everyone is suddenly rebranding themselves as Defi and is Dropbox leading the way to a virtual work future.
0:27.8	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.3	I definitely need to pick up a bunch of bits and pieces from the iPhone event yesterday.
0:36.8	I know, for example, I tried to explain that the pre-order and delivery dates were a bit weird, but let me underline and clarify those because I might have gotten a little wrong in the whole rush yesterday.
0:49.0	iPhone 12 pro pre-orders start this Friday, October 16th, shipping on October 23rd. But 12 Pro Max
0:58.6	pre-orders aren't until November 6th and they don't ship till November 6th,
1:04.0	same thing with the cheaper, smaller pair.
1:07.0	Pre-orders for the iPhone 12 begin Friday, October 16,
1:11.6	with availability again, Friday, October 23rd.
1:14.4	iPhone 12 mini will be available for Pooter, Friday, November 6, and in stores Friday, November 13.
1:21.6	Also, this is an interesting bit of clarification that also
1:24.5	trickled out. Support for high-frequency MM-wave 5G bands in all of the new
1:30.4	iPhone 12 lineup is actually limited to models sold in the US.
1:34.9	Models sold outside the US are limited to sub 6 gigahertz bands, quoting Sean Hollister
1:40.9	in The Verge.
1:42.1	Honestly, I'm not sure it's a huge loss.
1:45.0	M. M. Wave 5G does offer far higher speeds
1:48.4	than the nationwide flavor of low-band 5G
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