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Cultcast #144 - One More Thing
Mar 11, 2025
Decision time: Which iPhone 6 is right for you? We’ll walk you though the features of both new iPhones to help you make that very decision in time for the Sept. 12th pre-order. Plus, will Apple Pay be replacing our wallets? We’ll tell you our thoughts and musings. And of course, the Apple Watch—we’ll review its features and reveal our initial impressions. And finally… he did it… Tim Cook brought back the One. More. Thing. Some of us are thrilled. Some of us aren’t. Hit play for all that and more. Titter your way through each week’s best Apple stories! Stream or download new and past episodes of The CultCast now on your Mac or iDevice by subscribing on iTunes, or hit play below and let the chuckles begin. Our thanks to Lynda.com for sponsoring this episode! Learn virtually any application at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials at Lynda.com.
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we've really gone through enough to call it a day you've seen iPhone 6 and iPhone 6
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Plus they're absolutely incredible and a whole new category of service with Apple
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pay but we're not quite finished yet we have one more
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[Applause]
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thing hello and welcome to the cast the best 30 plus minute Apple conversation you're
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going to hear all week long I'm your host aan Elijah joined today by a man who was actually front row Center at the
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Apple events screaming for Bono like a little girl I'm of course talking about
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Leander KY welcome back Leander thank you I'm sure or yesterday was an insane
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day for you yeah yeah it was a busy day uh Buster he's not just a pretty face he also has lots of expert Apple opinions
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is going to share with us today Buster H is joining us hey
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dude so sultry so Sury this is going to be a great show the one we've been
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waiting for arguably for the last two years as we stall waiting for three years as we stalled waiting for this
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event um we're going to be telling you our impressions of the new iPhone 6es
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we're going to be talking about Apple pay and if we think it'll take over the world and it's great because you know
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Leander was actually at the Apple event he's going to give us his Hands-On impressions of these devices and not
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just my uh cutout template iPhone 6 Hands-On Impressions we'll talk about that the print out you made yeah the
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ones I printed on my printer and then just held lovingly we're also going to be talking about the Apple watch but
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more than anything else we all have a big decision to make right which iPhone is right for you that's that's the topic
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that we're all wrestling with are you going to get a 4.7 are you going to get a 5.5 we will hopefully be helping you
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make that decision as we're making that decision ourselves right now so before we hop into everything I want to thank
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software for supporting this episode okay Leander let's just start right from
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the top okay we uh in the morning it just looked like a zoo outside of Flint
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Center and describe the describe the feeling in the room because Apple has
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hyped this event up they had a countdown on their page that everyone was taken to
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it was redirected so everyone was kind of like counting down waiting for this thing to begin what was it like in that room what was the feeling it was cool
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yeah it was great there was um you know outside they had a Corral for like for the journalists and and there was a they had a two-hour check-in so I got there
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about 8:00 a.m. holy smokes and um you know took a couple of pictures took a couple pictures of the big white box it
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was like PE there was they had all these um t-shirted Apple staffers you know like every 10 feet so cheering for you
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uh yeah they were doing a little bit of cheering and and um you know there was definitely upbeat uh you know I took some pictures got some coffee and then
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there was a huge light there was a big crowd over to the side and um I'm like who are all those people and they oh
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those are all the Apple employees and they were the ones who are really buzzing cuz like journalists you know they're all sort of jaded and and and
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they're like this is going to suck yeah they're hung over you know and they just want to eat a donut and but there was
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speaking from personal experience I think uh there was like the funny thing was there was a bunch of like there was
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some really really really well-dressed people like you know uh and they were like oh wow these must be all the fashion journalists and all the
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lifestyle journalists there was a lot of those there was like probably I don't know you know a couple hundred journalists and as it came towards the
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time they're all crowding into this big space and I um I unfortunately went to the to the uh I went to the back had to
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go to the bathroom so by the time I got back there was this huge block of people
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um and I had been right at the very front talking to my friend and so I had to like like a salmon I had to go through this stream and like fight my
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way through and they were really kind of you know there was some really aggressive people in there like no you know hey dude what you what's going on I
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I have to get to my colleagues up the front excuse me I'm sure everyone said that it was trying to cut yeah right but
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uh it actually turned out to be the wrong move because the people at the front got put at the back they started filling up the rows from the back uhhuh
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and so um you know I should I would have been better off at the back cuz then I would have got you know near the front I was going to say that would describe why
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the picture I saw from you in the audience was like pry it was like roads
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were in front of you and I lost track I know the nose bed seats did it feel like a historic event because that was kind
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of how it was touted yeah yeah there was definitely a feeling in history because you know that there's a great legacy there at the um at the at the Flint
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Center because this is where jobs induced the first Macintosh and then the uh the iMac and um you know they were
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definitely referencing that and and and and that was you know went Tim straight off the bat when he when when he was
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talking well not you know after he introduced the iPhones when he was talking about the Apple watch he was like you know this is the venue we've uh
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of uh this is the the Vue where we've seen some historic introductions and you know Apple has introduced um you know
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four big um in you know and it's really about the interfaces you know like the
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the UI that they use with the products and this is why they become historical and you know he was referencing the um
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the original Mac and then the iPod and then iOS with multitouch and then this is the next step the next chapter in
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apples history is this you know the the the new interface of the eyewatch and which is the interface for wearables so you knew something big was coming yeah
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there was a lot of bars and the Apple the Apple employees when they were coming in it was just like the Apple Store opening they were all high-fiving each other and whooping and screaming
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and lots of white guys high-fiving I love it yeah well there a lot of women there you know and it was um uh it uh uh
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there were people were were standing up and sort of taking their picture of selfies with um the Apple backdrop so
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there was definitely a buzz but it was pretty quick I mean there was a lot of time before the uh before the thing started oh the stream was so bad I mean
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yeah it was it was so bad at one point they basically just switched over to the Chinese um audio stream or I guess video
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stream because there was Chinese dubbed over Phil Schiller and I remember tweeting um I
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didn't realize that Phil Schiller's Chinese was so impeccable I got more retweets than I ever have in my entire
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life I guess everyone was watching the Chinese stream so unfortunately it's like if you didn't if you weren't
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actually in the room you missed a large portion of what was happening there because it kept showing this TV truck
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schedule yeah that actually I think started becoming like a minor trending topic on Twitter because did it really TV truck schedule
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lunch break 1:5 it was funny cuz he was right into it too you know it's like hey you know
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normally we do a bunch of updates and uh we give you some numbers and and a rundown he's like you know we've got so
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much to show you today that we're just going to skip all that and he said don't worry everything's great everything's great let's move on y'all um I noticed
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that too that was one of the parts that I actually caught was no small talk just like boom and I was right from the start
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I was thinking they have a lot to announce here because they iPhone 6 is right off the bat it's it's going to be
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yeah that's what you're starting with yeah exactly um well the rumors were all true we got two new iPhones as you all
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know three models of Apple eyewatch we got Apple pay we even got you to I mean literally every rumor that we've been
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talking about for weeks and weeks and weeks I was just I was just checking them off one by one I do want to mention um we did something a little fun we
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asked everyone um on Twitter and on our Facebook page facebook.com/ Thee cultcast the cultcast thank you uh to to
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send in their their impressions of the events and what they liked about the products and we're going to edit those in at the end at the end of the show and
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we also have we'll have some surprise uh guest opinions so stay tuned to the end of the show for those thank you for
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everyone who contributed those let's start with the iPhones that's where Apple started Leander right from the
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get-go like we said boom here are new iPhones um right off the top we should say they're available for pre-order on
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the 12th and in stores on the 18th yes do you guys know I bust it wasn't it the
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19th it was the 19 19th it's on the 19th yeah okay thank you for correcting me um
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Leander when when they were announced in the room it looked like everyone just went absolutely
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ape today we are launching the biggest advancement in the
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history of iPhone there was guys showing their
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nipples to Tim Cook I mean it was like insane how what was it like did was the energy actually like that when he
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announced these things yeah definitely yeah yeah yeah people were really um you know just to see even though like all
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the parts leaks and everyone sort of knew it was coming I mean but you know it's still nice to sort of see it there and see see that the um you know see it
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officially and and they look they really do look amazing you know like I think the hardware is so good now and you know
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for 600 bucks like a a mini computer that is that powerful and can do those
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many things it's a piece of technological magic mhm and when I got
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to pick them up you know they they they're super light I mean they it's funny they do make the iPhone 5 the 5S
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look look like a you know just feel like a piece of trash yeah and fat and heavy
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uhhuh because they're much lighter even the big 5.5 in I can't remember exactly you know like the feel I I don't know if
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it is lighter but it feels lighter cuz it feels like a big piece of uh metal and glass you know it's substantial but
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it's really really light and it's really really thin but it's rigid so and I watched your videos that you posted on C
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Mac you took some YouTube videos and stuff and you said they were very comfortable hold would you describe like the differences in the feel when you're
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holding them for the 4.7 and the 5.5 well the 4.7 you know obviously is a is um is is a little because it's a bit
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smaller it's it feels it you know you can it's comfortable to hold and the rounded edges and the rounded um glass
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on the front makes it very you know you're not catching I think with a big if if they'd made it sharp like the
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iPhone 5 it you know it might have it might have dug into your into your flesh
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a bit because of the size of it maybe not but you know you're right because it's so huge like you just it's kind of
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like pressing against your skin yeah right the Rand Corners definitely help and especially with the big the 5.5 one
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you know it definitely helps make it really comfortable in your hand and of course you know the problem is is the one-handed use you know how do you
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stretch your thumb up and there on the 5.5 there's you know even like a a long um you know uh kind of my long withered
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thumb you know couldn't really get all the way up there even halfway up the screen so um they've done they have this
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new um feature now where you can just double press you don't double tap you don't press the home button all the way
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down you just you just tap lightly on it like a double click yeah and it shrinks the interface it shrinks the screen
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halfway down and then you know then it's really easy it's actually perfect it's almost you know like it was oh wow it's
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right there the you know as far as my thumb can move so you're talking about the reachability feature yeah yeah um
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and so you found that to be intuitive because as Leander mentioned you double double touch the home screen and it brings the or the home button it brings
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the screen screen down so you can you know reach the top buttons and icons and stuff I've heard mix reviews so far some
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people said it was a really big copout and they didn't like it at all and some people said it was an effective way to
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use like a giant iPhone with one hand so what was your impression I think it it'll take a little bit of getting used
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to you know the first time I did it I I double clicked it so I went to the home screen and then uh you know so it didn't
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it didn't work and then um but then when I when I when I you know I had to conciously think about it a couple times tap tap and it worked fine you know and
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it worked every time the the only problem I had was that it you have to double tap and it and it shrinks down the icons then you tap on the um the uh
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you know the the um the app you want to use and it goes back to full screen so then you have to double tap it again and
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then it shrinks the the um the interface for the app you're in halfway down and
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then if you tpe and then if you press the um you know say the uh a text box to put in a URL or type a message it goes
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back up again so it's not persistent that was the problem I had that was a similar thing that I heard echoed by other people is like it's fine if you
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just want to do one tap but if you need to actually keep typing then as soon as you type the first key the screen pops
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back up and you have to keep double touching the the home screen button I hope it's just an oversight and it's something they'll fix you know fairly
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quickly because you know there was a I was doing a lot of double tapping on that bottom to try to get something done you know just writing a simple message
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let's run through some of the features real fast of these two phones so the 4.7 in uh actually both these phones have a
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lot of these features the 4.7 and the 5.5 New Generation retina HD display 326
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PPI screen for the 4.7 Leander did you notice a marked improvement over your current phone and this new phone um you
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know to be honest I'm as blind as a bat and I can't tell a re screen and a regular screen um unless I look really
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carefully I know there were people would like really I know there's a big debate about this before the uh before the launch and I know a lot of people are
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really Discerning but you know I I just saw a really big really beautiful really
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detailed sharp screen you know I didn't do that kind of pixel to Steve Joby and pixel to pixel um a comparison but yeah
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what I saw looked really nice it's supposed to have a wider viewing angle too so you should be able to see it from
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you know a greater angle away from like just like dead center 38% more pixels than the 5S that's for the 4.7 6.9 mm
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thin to the iPhone 5S is 7.6 it's thin it's really thin when you turn it sideways can you still see it Lander
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it's like a credit card it's kind of crazy thin you think like how you know not that thin is it it's really pretty
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it's it is thin I mean you you know how the 5S feels when you have it out of a case and you just have it in your hand it seems that's how I roll dude it seems
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crazy thin yeah well it's even like nude it's crazy I haven't had a m out of a
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case for a long time so I was surprised how thin it was but yeah it's even thinner than the uh the 5S by the way Buster I know I keep going to Leander
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with these questions since he was there but you you feel free to pipe in interrupt me at any time he's just like not even going to say anything now he's
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just shaking his head now he's like no uh Apple A8 64-bit chip same as the
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other iPhone which is supposed to be 50% more efficient than the A7 and up to 25%
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faster new M8 motion co-processor which adds a barometer so hopefully we'll be able to tell when it's about to rain um
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camera improvements you know the camera seems to be pretty similar this will obviously oh no I don't think so no the
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camera looks like a really big step up for the 4.7 I mean it looks like they added some extra features but as far as the
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megapixels they're the same the pixel pitch which is the the pixels are the same they've also you know added uh
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improved like backgrounding or something like that which does what I have no idea
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noise reduction supposedly they rebuilt the sensor but yeah I'm with you it sounds like it's the exact same camera
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almost well the the dude there at the demo station showed me a couple of pictures you know he said that he showed me a couple of pictures they' been taken
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said there was a really good low light and it was really good order focus and it was a lot sharper in low light situations and I don't know based on the
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pictures he showed me which obviously by professional it still did look pretty good yeah uh 240 frames per second 720p
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or 720 uh slow-mo video so that's HD slow-mo does the 5S has have HD slow-mo
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video Yeah does it really is it 720 it's 120 right yeah okay continuous autofocus
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this will be cool for people that have uh lots of kids running around and need to uh constantly focus on different
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faces Leander looking at you does that me be wandering autofocus though it
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could be yeah so whenever someone jumps into the screen to uh make a face it'll focus on them instead or if someone's
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mooning you it'll focus in just sharp on their butt cheeks you're doing like a scene and someone drives by with their butt cheeks
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in the window and it's like just automatically focuses on those people probably won't be as excited about this
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as I am 80211 AC Wi-Fi standard finally finally we get this I've been waiting
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forever which means the connection between uh an 80211 AC router and these
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iPhones will be much faster your Wi-Fi Transmissions uh should happen much quicker and I think it even increases
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like the effective broadcast range so you'll be able to be farther away from your router and still have faster transmission speeds that's huge we
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talked about this last show and and on previous shows 16 GB 64 GB and 128 gbt
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of storage 16 seems seems a little bit odd guys yes Buster yeah I do think that
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was oddd I feel like that's cheap you know cuz I think most people are going to want that I think it just forces most
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people to pay for the 64 gig you know yeah I think that that's probably exactly what it is and I was kind of
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theorizing if you get a 16 gigabyte iPhone if you're buying the base one you probably don't even know what a what a gigabyte is anyway yeah what's a gigaby
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I only need 16 so that's going to be fine for me but you're right Buster it's probably a ploy
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to get people to spend the extra $100 although I feel better about spending the extra $100 now because instead of
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getting 32 G GB you're getting 64 so I mean that would have cost you $200
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it the iPhone Air so I could gloat to Alex e Heath but uh it's the iPhone 6 plus it has a 1920 x 1080 retina HD
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resolution 401 PPI screen 185% more pixels than the 5S and the cool part is
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that they added like an uh a second pain to some apps so and I think developers
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can probably build this in so it actually gets a whole extra pain of information Leander did you see any apps
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that featured that I played with the uh the messaging app and it's just like on the iPad you know it it brings up that
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window on the left contacts yeah did you find it eminently useful because I'm not sure I would really get much use out of
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that yeah you know I can say it I can say it being useful if you you know get if you can remember this there to use it
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well it's cool that you can finally use the home screen in um in landscape mode as well because I always try to do that
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on my iPhone and I always forget that that doesn't actually work MH right so the big question here is which phone is
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right for you Leander you and I have been coveting yeah an iPhone the of a Samsung uh flet for for many months now
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for many moons now we have the option and now I'm kind of not so sure what I
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want which one do you want Oh really which one do you want Buster oh I'm going for the fablet all the way are you
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really what's what's your logic there um it would replace my iPad Mini mostly uh
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also the camera's a little bit better and uh yeah why not just have a TV in your pocket so we mentioned Optical IM
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image stabilization is part of the iPhone 6 Plus which is obviously a big deal for low light pictures cuz it
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should mean that they're much sharper so no no hard decision for Buster he's all about the big one yeah go big or go home
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leener I kind of feel like we don't have a choice I feel like no matter what happens you and I and a lot of people
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are just going to end up with the bigger one just because we need to have the thing that has the most features even if
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they're features that will never actually use you're right and and un like bust you know like I want that I want that big screen and I and I feel
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like and and this better battery life too the battery life is a lot better that's actually a great Point yeah in some applications up to like 20 30 40%
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better than the uh the regular iPhone 6 although we'll see how that actually plays out in real time you know when
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we're actually using it every day yeah but like you say I mean I'm definitely going to get the bigger one the biggest one but I I have a I'm just wondering
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whether I'll get buers you know remorse um a few weeks down the line wish that you had something that would fit in your
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pocket yeah that's exactly how I feel like I'm holding this paper temp temp by
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the way I don't know if we mentioned this RS Technica released these great paper templates search the web for them
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if you want to download we have them on our site we have a link to oh do you excellent on cc.com and you can print
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them out and then they're life-size replications of you know how big the iPhone will be so I've been holding this
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stupid paper template in my hand for the last 24 hours trying to figure out what I'm going to do and it's I mean the
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iPhone 6 plus when you hold it in your hand at least from the paper um template it's it's hard to reach the corners and
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I I find it a bit awkward to hold and actually use at the same time Leander did you find that it was awkward to hold
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in any way no not really no and and neither to use you know except for that problem with stretching a thumb up to
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the top icons you know which um what's it called I can't remember the name of the feature but theing reachability reachability right which that solves and
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I think in a lot of cases you often use your phone you know with both hands anyway obviously use it with one hand too but no it was easier to hold and it
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was easier to do a lot of things with with one hand it felt to me um as I was holding the template that if if I were
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to try to attempt to do things with just one hand it made it feel like unsafe in my hand like I might drop it is that a
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sensation you experience when you're TR to one-and it no I think it's the sensation you get with the smaller phones you know we're actually sort of a
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little fider so you're going for the 5.5 then yeah definitely yeah the decision
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made I feel like I honestly don't feel like I have a choice I feel like I I I'm drawn to the 5.5 like a bug to one of
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those uh like bug lamps I'm going to get zapped when I get too close that's honestly how I feel the 4.7 looks
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awesome and I think I was holding the 4.4 uh 4.7 template up to my iPhone 5
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yeah you know the very similar in size it is it's plenty big and it's and it's and it's a really really nice phone um
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it's plenty big in fact you know the screen is uh the screen itself is almost as big as the entire 5S well one of the
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things I heard about the uh the bigger phone to Leander is that it's down the the actual size of the screen is
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downscaled a little bit so some people were complaining that resulted in choppy animations when you were going from
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portrait to landscape mode or when you were you know uh viewing animations when when apps launched and that type of
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thing did you notice anything there no what are they talking about there's probably some guy there
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with like a Jeweler's uh eyepiece on he's like looking at it as it's opening and closing right he's filming in 240
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frames per second and clicking through every single one see if there a slightest bit of you know slightest bit
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of choppiness whatsoever I there's nothing wrong with it it was fast and responsive I mean you know um but like I
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said I'm as blind as a bat so maybe I'm not the best person to um to be judging this but no I didn't you know I didn't I
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I didn't see anything like that so you know you know one thing with a five with a 5.5 though you might think about is because at the moment I use a a um book
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book um wallet case yeah which hopefully uh you know I can with with apple P I
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could almost get rid of that but I still have my um driver's license driver license yeah but I'm wondering whether
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you know whe if I have an accessory like that with a 5.5 is we like carrying around well the fullsize book but that
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you can put your computer in yeah it's going to be and that's a great Point too and I've heard some people mention that
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with this thing in a case it's going to be ginormous yeah it's barely I was talking
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to Adam Christensen from the Matt cast and he said somebody said somebody out there said it was like carrying a skateboard in their pocket cuz it's so
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huge and then you put this thing inside of a case and it's like you wouldn't be able to sit down or this thing is going
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to be like wedged between your thigh and your wiener it's not going to feel good it's going to cut off the circulation
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for critical part critical components of the body so that's the one thing I'm worried about cuz Buster and I our jeans
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are pretty skinny Buster you're still into this whole skinny jean thing right dude too much yeah he could barely carry
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like a credit card in his wallet let alone a 5.5 in iPhone and that's honestly I know that sounds silly but
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that is one of the things I'm actually concerned about is am I going to have to start carrying around like a fanny pack
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yeah you are orol yeah and I and I I say that hoping that that's the case
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where do you put in now which which pocket do you use I put it in my right pocket and I feel like the iPhone 5 as it is is already kind of long you know
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like when you sit down you can feel it in there and this I mean the 5.5 is going to be way bigger but let's face it
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none of that matters all that matters is the 5.5 has all the tech that's the
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newest and best so I'm probably going to go with that one too so are we all 55s
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yeah there you go it's okay what Alex Alex told me he's going to go four .7 so
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well you've seen Alex's hands yeah even with the 4.7 that's going to
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be a two-hander for him um so I don't really feel like he has much Choice there uh hopefully that helped you guys
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I know there's a lot of there's a big decision I know that sounds stupid because it's not really that big of a deal in the scheme of life but you know
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a lot of us are going to be pre-ordering without seeing this thing and so you kind of got to make your decision now
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because if you don't pre-order it it's not going to be available until you know July 2016 you're going to be waiting you
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know forever to get your hands on it so you kind of need to make your decision now and lock in your pre-order um
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pre-orders happen Thursday night Friday morning um if you want to stay up late Thursday I would probably just do it
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that way and and get your order in so that you're not backed up for two months cuz is there any does anyone not think
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this is going to be an absolutely huge hit and then Apple's going to sell a million of these things yeah I think they'll sell as many as they can make
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yeah absolutely more yeah yeah I mean there's yeah especially especially with
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these these big screens being so in demand for so long I think they're going to be in short supply as well so uh let
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us know which one you decide to get head on over to our Facebook page facebook.com/ theeast I would be
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interested to hear uh what you guys think let's talk about Apple pay a truly
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Mobile Wallet has long been described as imminent but it remains elusive most
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have been a disappointment or have not yet worked well enough for mainstream adoption why is this it's because as it
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turns out most people that have worked on this have started by focusing on
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creating a business model that was centered around their
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self-interest instead of focusing on the user experience we love this kind of
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problem this is exactly what Apple does best and so we've
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created an entirely new pain process and we call it Apple
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pay this is a uh this was a rumor that we heard about about a week before and they actually announced it this is
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Apple's attempt to bring uh mobile payments to ubiquitous use here in the
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US as it is kind of like in Japan and stuff it looked really cool the demo
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they showed if it works as easily as it as it looked in the demo looked really amazing okay your total is
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2378 that's it Leander what are your impressions of Apple pay is this going to take over
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your wallet yeah well you know I'd love to ditch my cards so I hope so but um
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you know I went uh I had to run a couple erings this morning and I had to pay my you know like I had about three
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interactions I had to put some money in a parking meter then I had to get some coffee at a little coffee shop and then I had to go um into parking garage and
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all those places I was like you know would I be able to do this with an Apple pay card I doubt it so you know I think
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it's going to be great when you go to the Apple Store or to Disneyland and a bunch of other places or to both in the same day yeah right so it's going to be
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great you know when you go to those places but then everywhere else um you know would you be able to use it it's
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only going to be really useful when it becomes ubiquitous like it is in in Japan and in Europe yeah that's really
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true it looked incredible and I The Verge had some Hands-On video of it and I think Nei Patel was the one using and
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he was having the phone hovering above this little you know NFC pad and it took about 10 seconds for the transaction to
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go through and all you had to do is you know scan his thumb print on the touch ID pad and it worked and it was just as
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easy to switch credit cards and stuff so the whole process looks really seamless but yeah are you going to be able to use
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it with um you know parking meters not a chance not anytime soon are you going to be able to use it at the stores that you
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frequent that aren't Staples uh what was it like CVS and McDonald's like a lot of these
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places they announced I don't really shop at yeah and a lot of people do
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though so yeah I mean man if you love McDonald's your your um drivethru weight
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is probably going to get cut down well you know the important thing I think was they signed up all the um the payment
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Partners you know MasterCard Visa discover was tweeting today that they they've been in talks and they're gonna probably oh really that's actually the
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one I was curious about the most because that's the card I use the most yeah right so you know it looks like the
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whole you know the the big chunk of the financial industry I think Tim Cook said 85% of credit card transa the the
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companies that deal with 85% of credit card transactions already signed up so did you get a chance to play around with this at the at the event Lander no I
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didn't know I was playing with the other things you didn't you didn't go over and uh ring something up you know uh running
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through more money through Apple's coffers you know wasn't the most exciting
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thing I mean I I I you know there was so much to do I was kind of you know it was kind of stressful I was trying to make video which turned out terrible and you
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I thought they were delightful yeah I ended up talking to some people there some so you know I spent most of my time yaking rather than uh checking out the
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stuff guess I was supposed to be working but I ended up just talking to different no no I was talking to some people I can't say who I was talking to but I was
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some apple people and oh you know that actually that was really hugely productive I'm hoping that you know some
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stuff is going to come out of that but does it rhyme with Ronnie
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chive no it doesn't rme a run CH that's too bad what happened um did you hear me
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hello no can you guys hear me no something happened there it broke up okay but you can hear me now oh weird
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yeah okay um yeah I would love to see this become ubiquitous it looked really elegant of course you know where can you
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use it is going to be the big thing and if anyone could negotiate big deals to get this you know payment platform
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spread across the whole us at least a start Apple could and I think kind of some of the cool news is at least for
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people that own stock is um I was reading today that Apple has actually negotiated a cut of all these
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transactions oh wow so they're going to be making money off every single payment
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that can end up that could end up being like a Cornerstone of their business is just making money off Financial
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transactions that were all out there making this could be bigger than like the iPhone or the Mac or something um
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that's Apple pay we had talked about it before we actually hadn't really heard that much about it they kept it pretty well under wraps but I'm very excited
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about it and this will actually probably get me to start using pass book um an
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app that I probably have opened twice since it's been announced do you guys actually ever use it for anything no I
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don't either yeah well maybe you will now that your credit cards will be stored in there um obviously we need to
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talk about the I want to keep calling it The eyewatch in fact even Tim Cook in a
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recent interview called it the eyat watch right now it's called the Apple watch that's an interesting debate why
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they called it they called Apple pay Apple pay you know they they're St to use the and it's and it's not Apple it's
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the it's a you know it's a um Apple an icon it looks kind of weird too in their
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site navigation because there's like the iPhone the iPod and then it just says watch yeah yeah it's kind of It kind
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it's kind of funky we'll talk about that new naming Convention as well before we move on though I want to thank smile
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we've all been waiting for Apple has officially unveiled the Apple
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watch we love to make great products that really enrich people's lives we
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love to integrate Hardware software and services seamlessly we love to make
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technology more personal and allow our users to do things that they could never
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have imagined we've been working incredibly hard for a long time on an entirely new
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product and we believe this product will redefine what people expect from its
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category I am so excited and I am so
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proud to share it with you this morning it is the next chapter in apple story
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and here it is available in three editions the regular watch the sport edition and the addition Edition yeah so
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weird yeah so let's talk about before we talk about the actual features of the
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phone our Impressions there's a lot of hype behind this product obviously you kind CH you and I kind of chatted about
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this yesterday yeah they released it they were showing it they were talking about the features what were you
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thinking I thought it looked too close to like all the concepts I had seen I was expecting something I guess
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radically different but it was just you know a very like refined and perfected
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Smartwatch based on you know a lot of the ideas out there and they had have a lot of like cool new things and so I
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think there's a lot of potential there but I don't think like apple like you know hit it out of the park per se on
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the Smartwatch Leander what do you think yeah yeah I'm with um Buster I was like
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oh really it looks like the Galaxy Gear watch it doesn't you know do you think
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it looks like that it I don't think it resembles that very much you know they similar though it's a watch you know and
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I wasn't expecting it to be a watch you know right I know I thought they were going to have a range of like crazy
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things you know like these clas that that almost like you know automatically wrapped themselves around your wrist and then closed up on their own cuz some of
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the concepts were crazy I mean the the markups you know that people have put out there so it filled my head with all these like mad you know um Minority
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Report type you know really futuristic technology and it looks like a watch okay I I do think it's the best take on
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it though you know like it's really smartly done but it's just a little
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disappointing that it's in watch form factor yeah I'm kind of with you guys I
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I'm I wouldn't say I'm disappointed but I was a little underwhelmed when they started showing it off and I think kind
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of echoing what both of you said I was not expecting there to be such a small emphasis on the fitness aspect I thought
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they were going to come out and say Hey look it's a watch great now that we have that all out of the way here are all the
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great Fitness things that it does and we're going to talk about that for the next you know 30 minutes but instead
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they spent a lot of time on how the watch looked like the clock functionality animated gifts animated
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gifts or animated emojis that's what they're called there was just yeah there was some weird features that's all there
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some interesting features the digital Crown I wasn't expecting that you know and the uh feeling your friend's
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heartbeat that's kind of weird so that was the thing about it that kind of threw me off so like I said I was
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expecting Apple to come out and tell us why we all needed an an apple Smartwatch
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okay and they did that and left the I left the keynote thinking I'm not really sure why I would want this like the
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heartbeat stuff kind of cool I guess not really sure if I would want to use that drawing pictures on the screen and
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sending them to my friends not really sure I would use that I I did like the crown navigation I think that seemed
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pretty intuitive you know by navigating with that little kind of like winding wheel on the side um it looked it looked
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pretty good but as far as the fitness aspects are concerned that was the part
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I was most excited about I wanted to know how this was going to revolutionize the Fitness World how people were going
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to use this to get a lot healthier and they did share some of that information yeah but aside from that those Fitness
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um features I didn't really see anything that made a compelling case to want to own one yeah they weren't revolutionary
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features in any way yes no but they' they've stuck the interface that you're used to seeing in the fitness track is
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onto the phone itself right so at the moment now if you have a Jawbone or or a Nike uh wristband you have to go to your
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watch or uh to an iPad to to look at you know how you've done and now they've put
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that information right onto the onto the the watch onto the watch face yeah my problem with that is like
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well I was expecting more sensors wise more data but also um you know you can
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get a lot of that info like a like a Garmin Running watch you can get all your GPS and running data and all of
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that just like Bare Bones for about the same price right so I didn't think they really like did anything really new as
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far Fitness goes there yet except they're just making it available to the masses which itself is probably a huge
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feat that's underrated and the other thing too is some of like the features that aren't
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Fitness related like and I've said this before about the Galaxy Gear I'm just trying to be fair here like reading your
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emails um getting your text messages all that stuff that you would do on a phone
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why would I want to have that experience on a screen that's like one square in
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why would want to do that but I I think that uh not you you don't and but that's
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the thing about the eyewatch is it will be a million things to a million different people is some people will
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completely turn off the email some won't have you know iMessage notifications
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they'll only use it as a fitness band or as you know some other tools that we haven't even thought up yet I think
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that's like the potential of the eyewatch is that it's multifaced and you can just right not use it for that that
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was I think their problem the keynote the keynote I think was a little bit mod you know they were they they were using the same um basic structure that Steve
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Jobs used when he introduced the iPhone and remember when he said it was the iPhone it's uh it's a you know the best
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iPod revolutionary internet device he sort of chose three features and said yeah you know it's not three devices
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it's all it's one and I you know and they were trying to do the same thing here I think it has mirrior uses because
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it's an entire platform um and um it can you know do a lot it can communicate but
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also uh you know it can be use for communication Health and Fitness a remote control I mean there's a lot of
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potential there so I think they were a little bit you know they're not really sure what they've got I think because even Tim Cook said he's
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like there's so much more that we couldn't show you cuz we didn't have time I think you're right it was just a little bit muddled there was not really
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any one Focus yeah um I thought the fitness stuff was fairly focused for that I was like okay that makes sense
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you're going to be able to use it to go running and stuff and keep track of like how how long you stand during the day but the other features I'm like what is
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all this stuff like besides sending my heartbeat to Buster
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that was exciting what's thater right well and
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all the inputs as well I mean you've got the crown and there's a button underneath and then you can press on the screen or you can swipe on the screen or
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you can use Siri you know it's like uh okay you know I mean it is it's kind of a little bit confusing you know the
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beauty of the iPod was that there was a wheel that you turned and then you you know it was dead easy um this I you know
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it's kind of it's almost you know I hate to say it but a little bit unapp like cuz it's a bit confusing it is kind of
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conf confusing and there's a whole new it is a a V1 product it's definitely a
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V1 product right I mean this feels like just the beginning there's a lot they're going to have to to do to make this something that people might really like
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lust after but there's a whole new like interaction language that Johnny I was talking about which kind of did make
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sense to me I think that like I said that Crown portion of it was um you know
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kind of a good way to interact with a screen that's really tiny and you you you can't really have your fingertips in
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there you know zooming in and out of stuff which they said um what you going to say Buster no just I like that yeah
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uh coming early 2015 they didn't say um all the different prices the base model
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which I think is the is the eyewatch or I'm sorry the Apple watch rather sport
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the Bas model do you guys know I think that's the base model yeah that's the base model and that one has like saire
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glass and then the no no no that one doesn't have sapphire glass that one has the ion glass display which makes it
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lightweight and then it has like that synthetic strap and then there's the Apple watch just the Apple watch which
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comes with Apple watch is the base model and then the sport and the addition are uh upgrades see I heard that the sport
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was the base model and the regular watch was the upgrade because it has the sapphire screen oh really yeah I think
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it's I think the sport one is the base model that's start starting at 350 but it's confusing because when you go to
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Apple's website it lists them in the order of Apple watch sport model Edition
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so like you would think if that wasn't the base model they would switch those obviously a lot of questions here did
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you get to play with the working eyew watch Leander or Apple watch well no and this is like you know hands on gate uh
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there was a bit of a controversy yesterday because they um had these staffers they had they had three tables
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with I think about eight staffers on each table so I know 20 odd watches and there was a huge crowd so um they had
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the um Apple stuff as they were wearing the watch and they would show you the functions on it but then they said you know do you want to wear one they strap
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it on your wrist and it would go through a a sort of two-minute preann demo that
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showed it buzzing so it was like a programmatic demo you couldn't actually interact with it right and so that blew
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up on Twitter yesterday people were accusing Apple of like you know pulling the wall over journalist's eyes and like you know trying to pull a fast they're
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obviously not done with it yet they did the same thing with the iPhone it wasn't you couldn't even touch it you know it
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just case I know that one was in a case exactly yeah it kind of sound sounds
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like we've all made our judgment but correct me if I'm wrong here I'm kind of withholding my judgment to the very end when I actually use it are you guys kind
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of in that same place or have you guys already decided like maybe this is not the the much hyped eyewatch we were all
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waiting for um I I'll have to like play with it in the store but I'm definitely like not like oh I got to get one on
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launch day you know yeah although we all kind of do have to get one on launch day but like if we didn't need to get
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one so that we could talk about it would you spend your hard eared money I mean the base model is 350 who knows how much
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they're going to cost from there there's a few things wrong with it I think for
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me you know we talked about having to carry your iPhone to go on a jog this is a great yeah exactly that's
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that's a bummer and I'm sure Apple's going to fix it in you know the second or third generation but that's also a
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thing I'm like well why jump on board on version one when the second and third
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versions are going to be like the more exciting products you know so what Buster's talking about so there's infrared sensors in the back of the
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watch as you probably saw that can detect your pulse and measure the act the the intensity of your activity
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there's accelerometers that track your movement but uh in the in the keynote they said that the iPhone and its GPS
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and Wi-Fi were needed to track your movement on distance activities so runs and biking so I'm thinking to myself I
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wear very very small running shorts I mean they're almost they're
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almost not legal and when I'm running where am I going to carry a 5.5 in iPhone that needs to be
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present in order for my eyewatch to deliver on the physical activity tracking that has been much touted you
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know what I mean how was it it I hope that I'm wrong and that it's not going to be necessary and maybe you could sync
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when you get back or something but you know if it doesn't have a GPS unit in it it's not going to be able to tell as far
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as I'm aware where you're actually going and it's not going to be able to paint a path for you so you might need to have your giant
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iPhone with you that's a that's a pretty big bummer right I think so yeah yeah yeah definitely defin of course people
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are complaining it doesn't work with Android either right you have to have an iPhone for it to be oh brother face
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palm like saying your Galaxy Gear doesn't work with your iPhone it's like I know but it's related it's related
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it's not a standalone device that's true it's it's they said that you absolutely have to have an iPhone um to to have the
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full functionality of the uh of the Apple watch um although it can be used for telling time and uh and and for
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mobile payments as far as I'm aware your iPhone is not there right because I
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guess it stores that stuff in the secure onclave I wonder how you verify the payment there though if you don't need
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the iPhone around to do it because you verify with Touch ID on the iPhone well because when you put it on
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you you put a code in and then it knows when it's attached to your your arm because it can detect you know your pulse so
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does it like have like a biomarkers for you so it identifies like no it's just as soon as you take it off it knows it's
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been taken off and it resets it doesn't like identify your own no not you
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personally stuff no that's bummer uh some of the other notables about um the
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Apple watch uh it has an activity app that will you know track your movement and encourage you to burn more calories
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by standing and and in and increasing your brisk activity which could be walking or anything faster than walking
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and I thought also uh J blonck was was in the marketing video and he was talking about how people need to stand
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more and the and the Apple watch will help you do that um as somebody who's recently started us using a standing
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desk I think that's that's right on if you can just stand more during the day you burn way more calories even though
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you're not really being much more active um dedicated workout app tracks uh your
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your walks and runs and your bike rides and stuff but you're going to have to have your iPhone with you it seems which
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is kind of weird not to mention um Lander I think you may have wrote WR
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written the piece about how the watch is not waterproof it's actually only water resistant is that right I think that's a
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little bit unclear I didn't write that piece no but there was based on something that David POG I think asked right Buster yeah that's right and I
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think it's still a bit unclear like they said they had a waterproof speaker and
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that it was water resistant I mean so you could use it in the rain but if you're a triathlete and you need to take it in the lake to measure your Fitness
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activity see that would be a problem yeah the rumor was that it would be like uh able to go
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like 3 30t deep but if you know you can't even splash it with water you know how's it going to stand my sweat yeah
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Buster sweat especially comes down like a like a spring rain um no indication on battery life
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from Apple officially although we're hearing it needs to be charged every night just like your iPhone hopefully
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that actually ends up not being like twice a day like that's going to be a big problem you know because I mean you
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know they've got it's a highdefinition screen and it's got a bunch of sensors it does so many different things um it's
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almost impossible to get a batter in that in the size of a watch to get a battery that would last you know for a long time yeah and this is a problem
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with all smart watches that I've heard I mean they're all struggling with battery life um well people said the same thing
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about the iPhone too remember that in the early days cuz you know cell phones used to last a week without a charge and then people got used to charging their
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phones overnight I think it'll better by the third version you know I think you'll probably have 3 to four day
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battery life well I have to say the inductive charging like that little mag safe um inductive charger they have
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seems really cool so you're not always plugging in your your I'm kind of bummed out about that I think it's like an
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extra hassle because if you have your eyewatch which is required with your iPhone you have to have a lightning
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cable to charge your iPhone but then you're going to have to act extra cable with that mag safe thing for your
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eyewatch to charge it every day as well wait a second yeah exactly that's a good point so
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unless yeah well I just think they should just make it as like an attachment for a lightning cable so you
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can charge your eyewatch from a lightning cable too well can I bring up another point about having to charge it every night so one of the things I love
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about fitness trackers that I've used is you strap them on your wrist you know
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come night night time and they measure your sleep and this is going to be a
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replacement for for those kinds of devices and yet I didn't hear anything about if it can track your sleep and if
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it could I mean would it have the battery life to be able to do such a thing because you you need to be
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charging it at night when you take off your eyewatch to charge it you put on your Jawbone UP to go to sleep so now
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you got to have two that's their official Sol different wearable for each activity so I mean now you have to have
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two Fitness devices yeah that's another good point if it's not waterproof Leander I mean do you want to always be
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taking your your Fitness device on and off I mean feels like it should work in the shower I know I will never you know
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there will be days where I go without uh an Apple Watch because if I have to charge it every night I won't remember
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to put it back on you know right right right exactly and you know what if you go out overnight you forget the charger
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you go stay out somewhere you know it's dead in the morning yeah it definitely looks like an interesting first version product we
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should also mention very notable this is the first product that has been created
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without any input from Steve Jobs that's what Tim cook said in a recent interview so this is I mean this is a big deal on
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so many different for so many different reasons I mean besides the fact that apple apple hyped this thing up to an
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extraordinary level with that countdown and then and then you know this being the first product post Steve Jobs that
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he had no input on whatsoever the mood felt like really celebratory from the keynote was it that way from there
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Leander yeah definitely and all the designers and all the Apple stuffers are like really pumped about it like they
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they they seem very very confident they really think they've got something special here it sure seemed like it
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and and Tim as well during the thing you know he was he explicitly said that it was like a new chapter in Apple's
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history and compared it to the mac and the iPod and the iPhone he did the Rocky dance when he came out in stage did you
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guys see that later that was one of my favorite Parts he was on fire raising his fist he was doing the fist bump did
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you did you see Cole Bear's uh reaction to it no I didn't oh he did the same
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thing only like as soon as like Tim Cook like raises his fist he like you know starts pumping his and he takes off his
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watch and smashes it on his desk I'm sure there were so many
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journalists in pure ecstasy during that during that announc especially oh my gosh how can we not mention the one more
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thing I I just about sh shat myself when I heard him say that he was just too
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happy to say it I thought Oh I thought it was very apropo I mean that that I'm
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so happy that he brought that back I know we've talked about that on shows in the past and um it seemed like something
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that di with Steve Jobs and I'm so happy that it's living on now it's a piece of Steve Jobs that they could have at these
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presentations isn't it I it's like it's so Steve Jobs to do that especially on a product that's been so hyped for so long
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that we knew virtually nothing about and yet everyone was expecting to be announced for him to say that I I lost
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it it was an emotional moment for me it was emal moment for me I may or may not had to change my boxer briefs shortly
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thereafter I just thought it was very cool as someone who's watched a lot of Keynotes in the past and was always
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waiting hinging on that moment right where you thought it was over and then Steve Jobs is like there's one more thing Leander did you lose your did you
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lose your mind at that moment did you start crying no I didn't lose my mind did you start crying like those girls that like were see the for the first
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time it's a I I you know I I have mixed feelings about him bringing it back you know I feel like it it's um it was kind
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of tribute and I think you know like a one-off is pretty good I think it's you know the Keynotes aren't the same and I think they you know I I I think they
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should change the format all together really to be honest I think this should turn him over to Johnny IV but um you know what I said that before and you you
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totally disagreed with me no I don't believe yes I was like I think Johnny IV should be the head of these Keynotes
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he's a great you know um person to have as figurehead oh so I'm pretty sure leanda wrote a whole editorial about how
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they did yeah to Johnny ey I don't believe that don't search Google for that people do not Google that it's not
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true yeah well I'm with you I think that they should have him as the figurehead at these presentations because
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especially after witnessing that exchange between hey look I love Tim Cook you y'all know I love Tim Cook but
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that exchange between him and Bono was one of the most awkward things I have ever seen in my entire life was it as
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painful live cuz it just look so it was double painful yeah it was like do you
58:25
got a B but that could send this to my iTunes phone oh God and it just kept going on
58:33
and on and on and I was like for God's sakes press the free iTunes button
58:38
already just press it let me have the album and let's move on like this never happened yeah yeah it was excruciating
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it was really it was really really bad it felt like it was very unrehearsed and
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as a huge YouTube fan I've heard Bono say on multiple occasions he hates rehearsal so like he likes just to go
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into the performance and just do it and I'm kind of wondering if that's what happened here if Tim Cook was like let's
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let's rehearse this and Bon's like no we're just going to show up and do it probably and Tim Cook doesn't seem one
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to add ad lib superbly well yeah I mean probably Bono's one of
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the only few people that would probably have that leverage to be able to say that you know yeah exactly he's like I'm
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GNA do what I want and uh Tim cookie you're going to listen um any other thoughts actually
59:25
let me ask you this one more thing before we wrap it up here guys um this
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event we touted it as being somewhat historic going into it uh as I mentioned
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multiple times there was that countdown and then you know Apple at one point towards when we were getting close to
59:42
the presentation we was actually forwarding all traffic from apple.com to this live stream so everyone could watch
59:48
it so hyped more than anything I've ever seen from Apple did it live up did it live up to the hype the event Leander
59:57
um not as clearly as you know like Steve Jobs introducing the the first iPhone in 2007 I think actually you know the You2
1:00:04
thing kind of detracted from it because if you know it's like well what's the main event here um uh you know it it was
1:00:11
like I think they should have gone out on the high note of the of the watch and then not you know the the you know try
1:00:16
to say it was like the um you know the free YouTu album MH um you know some I
1:00:22
think were the only other one I've really felt that there was a clear of history that I've been to was the iPhone one mhm and in the past you know you
1:00:29
kind of look back and and it was sort of only in in the rearview mirror of history that you can sort of go okay
1:00:34
well that one was kind of more significant than I realized at the time I I've s through plenty where Steve got
1:00:40
really excited about you know being able to send ioto cards and you know fairly
1:00:45
small and not very exciting features you know of of the software and stuff um so
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you know I think it you know I think it might stand the test of time I mean I I I think this watch is going to be a big deal Buster did you walk away
1:01:01
satiated I I mean I think satisfied it the probably the biggest Apple keynote
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they've had in you know quite a few years you know actionpack they went and you know the iPhone 6es are huge the
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eyewatch will probably be a giant product in a few years so yeah I think it'll be a pretty memorable keynote yeah
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it was for me too I actually had a headache after it was all over I should have went and got a smoke um
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I came away from it very happy I I'm thrilled with the new iPhones they were everything I was hoping for and I'm so
1:01:32
excited to get a new iPhone the Apple watch as we've talked about a little
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less enthusiastic about although I'm kind of with you Buster I think it's going to grow into a cool product this is a very you know version one type
1:01:46
device and it may be kind of wacky and zany in certain ways I know do you think people are going to buy the gold ones cuz they're going to be expensive I mean
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I think so really I I don't see those don't appeal to me whatsoever I'm like who buys one of those go ask go ask your
1:01:59
mom and she'll be like yeah or or any woman that's what I did like my girlfriend and my mom both of them were
1:02:05
like yeah the gold one's awesome you know the other thing about those though is who wears watches anymore that's
1:02:12
going to be the biggest battle I think for apple is to tell you why you need a watch that also does Fitness when a lot
1:02:18
of people just don't wear watches anymore that's what I thought but it's comp enough people will start wearing them w't they yeah I think I think
1:02:25
you'll be surprised I don't know I had a uh I had a buddy who's not into Tech at all came over to my house after you know
1:02:31
last night and was just like I need an Apple Watch or you know stupid yeah exactly doesn't follow it at all but you
1:02:38
know had seen the pictures throughout the day and just like yeah it looks badass I don't even know what it does I
1:02:44
don't even know what it does I it doesn't even tell time I don't even
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know well I I know we'll all be buying one so um when they go on sale sometime
1:02:54
sometime in 20 5 you guys want to take bets I'm guessing March 31st you think so I'm going guess Fe q1
1:03:03
2015 and I'm like you know that probably means they as much time as possible early early 2015 I'm sorry they did say
1:03:09
that early 2015 so I just assumed July June 15th then right sometime before this event next
1:03:17
year where they de debut the uh iatch or the Apple watch 2.0 hey there's another quick question do you guys think they'll
1:03:23
upgrade this every year since this is kind of like a piece of jewelry that's kind of why I don't want to buy one it's
1:03:28
cuz I do think they will so you think every year we'll get a new eyat new yeah
1:03:35
but you might not see the next one until like next February you know or uh 2016 I
1:03:40
guess that would be yeah for those for those gold ones too I wouldn't be surprised if those cost at least
1:03:46
$1,000 yeah maybe more pricey Leander what do you think gold ey watch how much
1:03:53
yeah it's going to be a th000 for sure it's going to be $1,000 or even more you know but you know a lot of people who spend a lot of money on a watch they
1:03:59
want to keep it you know as an heirloom and hand it down to their kids and Jason calakas had an interesting idea that the
1:04:04
guts would be user upgradable so that you could keep the your investment in the enclosure mhm course it's complete
1:04:10
rubbish but it's a nice idea it's like the whole thing is like encapsulated yeah not to mention the internals are
1:04:15
like like like dipped in plastic Johnny H said it's like all one piece it's like
1:04:21
it's just going to go right to the landfill I would like to thank the person I don't know who it was off the top my head who sent me the photo of
1:04:27
Christopher Walkin holding the eyewatch oh yeah that was a great picture thank you
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for that all righty guys well hopefully we helped you you know make your decision on which iPhone you're going to
1:04:41
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1:04:53
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Twitter they I'm sure Leander how many stories are going to be coming out a day about all this stuff like a thousand at
1:05:10
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1:05:40
he thanks all right guys all man okay keep it real for the rest of the day
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hi this is leis from the UK after watching the keynote yesterday I have a message for Apple uh with the iPhone 6
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Plus and the Apple watch sport Shut Up And Take My Money hi I'm Nick and I'm
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from glasgo and Scotland and I have no idea which version of the iPhone 6 I'm going to go for help maybe I'm not ready
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hold on hey wait a second hold on guys I'm here with Mr Matt cast Adam
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Christensen himself I had to beg him and he made time to uh talk with us today let me ask you this are you satiated
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with Apple's new iPhones and which one are you getting satiated engorged might be
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more this is from Eddie otherwise known as Ed MF Perez on Twitter and I really
1:06:52
like the new iPhone and the bigger iPhone but the IAT or Apple watch currently looks like a very generation
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one product so I'll probably hold off on that for now this is Hot Chocolate from Starbucks just one small point it's
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amazing how everyone just forgot about reversible lightning cable this is VL from Seattle I'm not that excited about
1:07:11
the iPhone 6 it's just a bigger screen and uh the ugly lines in the back make it look terrible very excited about the
1:07:17
Apple watch I'm just concerned about how much it's going to cost and ready to get rid of my wallet with Apple pay so super
1:07:22
stoked hi this is Richard from the UK I'm really liking the look of the new Apple pay system uh I just hope
1:07:28
obviously they bring it over here very soon I think it looks neat Works quickly and um should revolutionize how we pay
1:07:35
this is Owen Maguire in Memphis Tennessee I printed off the sample sheets for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6
1:07:41
Plus and the 6 Plus feels way too big I think the 4.7 in screen will be perfect
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you guys I'm really excited I'm here with the Instagram Prince himself the insta Prince Cory Staker AKA with hearts
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with over what like 850 million followers on Instagram Cory yeah times
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two two to the second power what did you think about the uh the new releases uh I
1:08:06
was like what is this Chinese translation going on at first but no uh
1:08:12
product Wise It's amazing dude I'm so pumped I'm going to get drum roll I think I know do you really uh so I'm
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going to get the iPhone uh 6 Plus yes I saw you tweeting during the keynote you
1:08:26
were pretty excited it seemed about the Apple watch Being able to control uh your iPhone camera with that yeah I'm so
1:08:33
pumped for that thing it's going to be way better than we think I mean even launching with like third party app
1:08:40
integration is just it's so cool I I don't know I like blown away this is
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Elliot from for Hood Texas and I think the Emoji looks like Steve Balmer and I
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am super excited about getting a 5.5 in screen hi this is Joel jop I'm from
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someplace I don't want to tell you where and I was really excited to hear about the eyewatch now that I have airon as
1:09:03
the background on my iPhone and Buster as the background on my iPad now I can have an animated Leander head on my
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wrist wherever I go guys I'm thrilled to be here with lwis helsen Tigger of unbox
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therapy on YouTube thank you it's great to have you here because you get to on your YouTube channel which is hugely
1:09:23
popular you get to review all sorts of Android gadgets Android phones the Android watches that have been coming
1:09:29
out how do you feel about Apple's two new iPhone 6s how does the uh the new Apple watch compared to the Android
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offerings out there uh one of the things I'm most excited for is on the larger model having the optical image
1:09:41
stabilization on the camera that's probably the most killer feature and then on the watch front I like the
1:09:47
Android Wear approach in the sense that any hardware manufacturer can come along and do their own sort of design Twist on
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it now on the app side Apple obviously has a long history of taking interfaces
1:09:59
to the next level so time will tell at first glance it looks promising but it's
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it's hard to really gather too much from those really flashy Fancy videos they showed so you guys heard it here first
1:10:11
Lou thinks all these devices are going to be next level is that what I said is that is
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that the concise version of what I said
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