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All right, let's talk about the the
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iPhone 17, the the base model, which I
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thought was probably which I was kind of
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the most impressed. Oh, actually, I know
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not not the most impressed, but I was
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impressed by this one, too. This one had
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a lot of surprising things. So, starting
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with um the display, which um is 6.3 in.
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It's got thinner bezels and it's like
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the prior iPhone
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16 Pro,
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but it is now uh 120 megahertz, right?
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Which people had complained about
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forever. The basic iPhone only had a 60
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Hz screen. Um, and now it's like it's
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bumped way up. Um, and the screen the
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screen now gets promotion. It's always
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on. It goes up to 3,000 nits. Uh, it
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looks, you know, kind of amazing. Pretty
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pretty big bump. I thought in specs from
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the previous generation, it's also has a
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48 megapixel ultrawide camera just like
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the 16 Pro.
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Um, and uh the same center stage front
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camera like just like the rest of the
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lineup. Also, Ceramic Shield 2 uh and it
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has now five extra hours of battery life
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from the previous model. So, they've
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also bumped up the the battery life. Uh,
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and 50% faster wired charging, which um
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I guess is pretty good, you know, like
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you can go to um from 0 to 50% in what
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was it? 20 minutes,
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something insane like that. Yeah.
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Yeah. Pretty pretty pretty quick. Um so,
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if you need to top it up real quick, you
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know, plug it into a wire. Don't don't
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use the wireless charging. Um and the
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same price, $799 for 250 starting at 256
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GB. I think if you look at the whole
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overall package, this is aing crazy good
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deal.
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They made the least headlines, but
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honestly, this is going to be the
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sleeper hit of the lineup. This is an
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insane value.
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I think so. True enough. Yeah, I know.
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No, almost no drawbacks and totally
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blows away if you compare it to the, you
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know, the the new Samsung's um or other
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Android phones, you know. I mean, it's
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got way better specs.
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Um and of course, you've got all the,
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you know, the Apple advantages, the
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Apple ecosystem, the Apple software. Um
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yeah, it looks like a really fabulous
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handset. And this this is another one
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that that threw me through a loop. Like,
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you know, maybe I should go just for a
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regular iPhone this year and not get a
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Pro model for the first time ever. Um,
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or the Air. I'm actually really tempted
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by this one as well. So, now it's a
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three-way race. I have absolutely no no
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idea what to get at all.
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Just buy them all. See which one you
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like.
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Pretend you're pretend you're uh, you
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know, trying out shoes from Zapos or
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something
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and send back two two of them. Keep one.
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Uh although I did that I did do that in
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the past once actually and I ended up
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with two phones so I ended up keeping
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both them and then one of them I never
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used.
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You got to beware of the twoe window.
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Right. True enough. True enough. Yeah.
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It uh it looks like a really really good
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uh this is going to be the sleep ahead I
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think. And do you know what the numbers
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are that they uh that in terms of sales
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like how many
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Apple stopped breaking out those numbers
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years ago. Sadly, we don't really know,
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but um it's the regular like 17 the
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entry level iPhone that they continue
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selling for years afterwards at lower
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prices. They they discontinue the Pros
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after a year. That they'll probably do
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that with the Air as well. But like the
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iPhone 16 entry level model is still for
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sale today at a lower price. And the 17
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is going to be that same way too. So
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this is the one that you know people
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walk into an AT&T store and say, "Give
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me an iPhone." This is the one they'll
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probably be given. And honestly, they'll
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get a really great iPhone cuz like the
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biggest downside before was the lack of
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promotion and always on. And now you
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have that, too. You know, 30,000 nits
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outdoors. That's a big change that all
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of the phones get this year. That's
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huge. You know, you'll be able to
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you'll be able to see your phone like
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perfectly clear on the brightest summer
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day for about a minute before it dims it
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again because it gets too hot. But
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but it's also got it's also got
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anti-reflective coating now, right? Like
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across the board. So that was also I
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think getting a lot of praise. The
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anti-protective clothing is actually
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really pretty good.
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Yeah, they they they kind of brushed
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past that. I think it was only like
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Cayenne Dance who mentioned it like once
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in the whole
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in the whole event. But I'm I'm excited
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to see how that works out because that's
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a that'll that'll be a huge improvement
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because the def the phone won't have to
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get as bright for you to see it legibly
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if it's not so reflective. So, right,
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that could be a big thing. And if you
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don't like the look of the giant
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plateau, well, the iPhone 17 doesn't
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have it. It's just the two cameras on
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that edge. So,
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yeah, there you go.
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And what are you really losing? You're
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losing the zoom and you're you have a
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slightly inferior chip A19 rather than
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A19 Pro.
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Yeah. Which is basically an A19 Pro
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except it's binn a little bit like
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really not a very big difference this
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year between the two chips.
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Yeah. So very uh yeah, it's Apple did
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this a lot with with a lot of their
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lineups of just making the entry level
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thing almost as good as the most
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expensive thing. It's kind of shocking.
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It is, isn't it? Yeah. All of the all
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the recent entry- level products I've
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been really impressed by. iPad, uh Apple
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Watch SE is amaz pretty pretty amazing
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value. Yeah, they offer great great
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value, I think, at the low end. I mean,
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really really good. They're not they're
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not really on this one especially, it's
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not there's no massive
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uh drawback, is there that that would
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really put you off?
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Uh in terms of colors, we have black,
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white, green, blue, and purple. They're
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a little more muted than the previous
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year, but we'll we'll see how that goes.
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Yeah, I was a little uh I was surprised
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there wasn't something as as cool as
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ultramarine last year.
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Yeah, the the colors I think are a
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little bit of a step down. There's no
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pink, but you know, there is purple,
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which is a pretty good color.
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The green is like mint green or sage
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green or something.
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Do you know anyone who has got a green
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phone, Kermit the Frog?
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I, you know, I I wouldn't be opposed to
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a green phone. Um,
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and the image they have on the on the
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website, it's got it looks that looks
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like marijuana
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where
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if you look on on Apple's website for
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the iPhone 17, they have a big they have
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a big picture.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is kind of like
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floral in the middle, isn't it?
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It's more than floral. It's marijuana.
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That's totally a cannabis leaf
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reflected. This is This is the stoner
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crowd they're going for, for sure.
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Oh, I see it. I see it. just flashed
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across my screen.
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Yeah.
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Oh my god. Okay.
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It's a good looking phone though, isn't
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it? I love that camera way that the the
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the two cameras, one on top of each
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other.
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Yeah. It's got the It's got the camera
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control, which you know, maybe with
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another year I can figure out how to
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use.
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I actually heard that when you're
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setting up a brand new phone now, it's
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already like this even in iOS 18. When
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you're setting up a brand new phone, um
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there's a new setup screen that asks you
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about the camera control and asks you
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how you want to use it. And the default
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option is to just use it as a button
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that without any of the swipy or clicky
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or half pressy fancy gestures.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the worst
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thing about it. I mean, as a button, it
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works great, but um Yeah. If you half
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press it and you and you get into that
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horrible hell of of all the settings.
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It's a nightmare because then I I can
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never figure out how to get out of it
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without quitting without quitting the
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app.
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Yeah. So, apparently Apple's like
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walking it back in software. We'll see
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if they I mean their hardware is like
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years designed in advance, so we'll see
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if like maybe like the iPhone 18 or 19
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actually change how the physical button
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works, but they're already sort of
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toning it down.
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Yeah. And and someone pointed out that
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they they didn't mention camera control
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once, I don't think, during the whole
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keynote, did they? Or and they weren't
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even using it when they showed people
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taking pictures with their new phones.
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They was using the they were using the
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on-creen button, not the uh not the
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hardware button.
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Wow.
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Yeah, these look awesome. I think these
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look really good. It's what a great
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lineup of products of phones this year.
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And I saw some uh on Twitter completely,
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you know, unverified of course, but um
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people were saying that um pre-orders
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were three time or or interest or I I
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can't remember what the it could be
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pre-orders because they haven't gone
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live yet, but the interest something in
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China was like three times they were for
8:04
last year's iPhone 16 lineup.
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I think I saw that same tweet.
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Tweet. Yeah. Well, like I I I've heard
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that like the market in China is very
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heavy on like having something that
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looks new, having a new design, all I
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mean, barring the regular iPhone 17,
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like the the pros and the errors both
8:21
are like easily identifiable as, oh, you
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have the new iPhone. And I can I can bet
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that that could be a big reason why.
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Honestly, after years of like having
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pretty similar looking phones, it sounds
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like the next few years are going to
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like be a few years of dramatically new
8:35
things in a row. you know, there's this
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year. Next year they'll have the folding
8:38
phone. The year after that, supposedly
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the Pro phones are going to have like
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this edge actually edgetoedge glass
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that'll like wrap around a little bit.
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So,
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yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah, that that's a
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good point. Like you said, the the new
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design is is definitely driving a lot of
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