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Mar 11, 2025
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hey what's up guys Steven goals of Mac
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here and the September Apple events is
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just closed up so in this video we're
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gonna take a quick walk through
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everything that's announced announced
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and the hell me of that I have got calls
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of Mac head honcho at the under cainy
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Lee under thanks for joining me
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University so quite a jam-packed event
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thoughts and a lot of surprises actually
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yeah a lot there's a lot more
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interesting they thought was gonna be
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and it all opened up with that James
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Corden carpool karaoke
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yeah pretty funny has a great entrance
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it was really good interest as I said
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soon to years yeah there was that and
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then we went straight into Mario yeah
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yeah Mario mean something else let's
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assume out there that was pretty good
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with it to kick it out because you know
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everyone's waiting for the main event
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right the products for a peanut where
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we're supposed to know everything
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there's a lots of players and also I
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didn't know that there were that many i
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rolling moments and then also they went
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on to all the education stuff said the
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Kinect ads and the I work which I
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thought was really interesting and being
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able to collaborate at the same time I
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mean that'd be useful for us for quite a
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few things
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did you interested in like stuff that
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was a part while I was like okay let's
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get on with this I think it's good
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especially for the education and work
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because the missing out on markets like
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with live slack with what we use yeah
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and then like things like this various
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posts where there'll be two or three
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writers working on it so be able to go
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in and change things on the fly and
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adapt the same paragraph as opposed to
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having duplicates on top of each other I
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thought that was a nice nice feature
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yeah I can't wait to work on and then
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straight after I work it was the Apple
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watch - what did you think of this yeah
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I thought it's amazing looking you know
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I know everyone's gonna be hating it
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because it
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exactly the same as the old one but you
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know it's end of the Python - I think
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you know you shouldn't judge
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an iPod by its cover like it's it's been
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you know made new on the inside where
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already counts and it looks like you
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know a lot of the improvements the speed
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especially the performance the
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waterproofing doesn't really get good
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good things to improve you know what key
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areas they need to improve yeah I mean
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the waterproofing is one that I've
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wanted to see for a while and just
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because I'm not that if you've not
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noticed I'm not really a fit person and
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but one of the exercises is do you like
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doing is swimming so to have that in
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there already is is a great feature for
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me that's that's my main yeah I was
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blown away by the description of all the
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effort that went into William Crane the
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Sudanese women up workouts yeah man you
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know like 700 swimmers and you know they
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must have taken a whole team of people
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you know looking for a long time to get
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that done and it's like for me that was
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like a sign of you know like look at the
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kind of incredible resources up for
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conferring - so anything that sets it's
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mine - yeah absolutely
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even even that speaker is a bit crazy
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how it pushes the water out yeah yeah
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yeah nicely done I was impressed by that
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yeah I watched looks great the ceramic -
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I mean that's a huge surprise as well
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Ben would they say sometimes hardened
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stainless steel and they must have a
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whole new manufacturing processes to
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make that
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ceramic that's really cool yeah I kind
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of see that as the replacement for the
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addition because they didn't really
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announce an addition watch this year no
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but then but the ceramic I think it
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comes in at $1,300 so that's quite a big
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upgrade for that so I kind of see that
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as the new addition
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so the a pokemon go then obviously the
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up the nike and ham how'd you say a
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Hermes hams well he said Emmys I mean
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the Nike+ a bit surprised by obviously
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they've done a lot of their own products
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like the the Nike FuelBand and then
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we've not really had much from Nike and
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detective division for a while yeah well
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we predicted it gram valve every weekend
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you know I think it sound like you know
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I have the way Amazon puts the Kindle
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app on every device and they sell
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candles too but you know they can put
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the software on every single tablet and
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phone out there it only helps them yeah
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absolutely and then the thing that
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startled me the Nike Nike Plus edition
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or whatever you'd like to call it is the
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fact they were saying they're gonna show
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you the the kit that's essential for you
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or perfect for you which I kind of felt
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was a bit bit of an Amazon move with the
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echo just kind of forcing Nike products
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through your Apple watch yeah yeah well
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the new the new Nike one
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Graham wrote this really scathing calm
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about it he hates it you know he thinks
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I've ruined what was really a good
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running out and pushed pushed all this
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stuff into it that he does want to see
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they're all the social networking stuff
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and completely ruined it so we'll you
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know what he said he's gonna Snickers
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cross they'll be such a backlash and
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that people don't have a fix it but yeah
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he's not a big fan of that what was what
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a great running out he likes the the
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addition of the GPS and watch and now
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he's a runner and so he was saying yes
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I'm really really sexual
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you know addition visit many can really
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do accurate pacing and distance and time
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displayed some people are the kind of
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things that
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the nike software he was hating on now
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with the Apple watches while they
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announced that their upgrade in the
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first edition to the new the dual-core
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okay doesn't mean burned and super
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alright so basically their upgrade and
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the existing Apple watch to be as fast
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as the new edition which is a nice touch
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as well they're not just keeping the
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same old one and dropping the price and
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then they moved on to the iPhone 7 which
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I was really surprised by and I wasn't
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expecting to be as excited about it as I
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was and as soon as I came on I made a
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little bit of a noise when I saw it just
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out of pure excitement but yeah it looks
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beautiful doesn't like gloss black jet
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black finish the big things with the new
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iPhone were obviously the the new
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cameras I think the biggest standout
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point for me was the color range that
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they've got in there now yeah they're
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honest on the screen the river screen
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yeah and just the the range of colors
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that the camera can now capture cuz for
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me when I do all my videos I film
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everything in s log so then I can bring
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back the colors so it's kind of bringing
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that functionality to the iPhone which
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makes it a lot more attractive to any
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professional shooters okay yeah some of
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that was lost on occasions that's good
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to hear yeah I mean looks like they're
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definitely gone after that you know well
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they said they were gonna have to do so
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else but it's like definitely
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encroaching on that territory and I
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think the great thing as well as that
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you've got the optical image
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stabilization in the iPhone 7 not just
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the 7 plus yeah
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yeah yeah I was the only reason I went
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to the the six-plus when that first come
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out and but after Ivan the iPhone se for
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six or seven months I'm probably going
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to lean towards just the seven well
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other kind of was but the way they were
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describing it it looked more like it's
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the software doing a lot of the work
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rather than like a true depth of field
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so there's a lot of apps out there that
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can already do a similar type of effect
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and so I don't know I'll probably be
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trying out both to do a review and I'll
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probably decide there and then but in
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the moments I'm kind of leaning towards
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the the if they don't really bother me
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too much I don't really use the Apple
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earpods all that often I've got some
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Bluetooth headphones that I use every
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now and then I was just kind of they
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didn't did they talk about this speaker
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grille at all whether that's real or
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it's just for show oh no they did it's
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the stereo speakers now isn't it yeah
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but yeah it's got speakers at both ends
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and they but they didn't explain how
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that was working either
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it's also be built into the microphone
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right on the episode the earpiece the
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headphone jack doesn't bother me too
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much how about yourself no III was
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convinced by what he said you know the
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three reasons you know wanted to make
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make room for for you know other
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components you know this one single
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purpose Jack Hurley you know there's a
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waste waste of space
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but you know the vision thing is well
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like how they they're trying to move
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towards a wireless future and if you see
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the patent filings you know that they're
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looking at wireless charging as well and
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you know wise I mean like they're a beta
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B resistance are they I mean
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plugging stuff in there's huge pain so
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that you know getting away with them I
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think it's a first step towards getting
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rid of all the wise profession of the
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Lightning port - and like I said yeah
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you know I mean I'm not using that much
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and if it's got an adapter in the box
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that's fine to use like you know the
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headphones I've already got lying around
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and those are Edwards look really cool I
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think they looked amazing
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yeah I think you'd lose a dongle after a
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week or two wouldn't you yeah yeah the
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good I just
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it's just splashing a hundred and sixty
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dollars on them asks why should I
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struggle to bring myself to do in both
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I'll probably forget but I mean it's
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just the Samsungs got a version of them
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as well so it's as much as they could
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have yeah they said the same thing about
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the iMac you know doomed turned out to
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be the best
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let me time Apple does away with some
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you know legacy technology there's all
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this like wailing and moaning and then
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about three minutes later you know it's
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forgotten yeah it's like the the DVD
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drive on the iMac or yeah yeah and then
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also there's the new force touch home
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button which mmm it's I don't see any
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kind of advantage over the old-fashioned
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ones over than it being one less moving
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parts
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right
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unless egrets point one let's put place
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to put water in order to get in Nick I
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mean they do kind of break down a little
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bit dummy I mean they used to break down
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I haven't heard about it recently but I
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know the earlier phone and I was a bit
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disappointed it's not the ip68 like the
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Samsung Galaxy s7 we're on now or s6 s7
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yeah I mean because I I tested that out
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for the channel and I was I had it in
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the bath and the shower just trying to
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out trying to break it almost and it it
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was just absolutely fine under any
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circumstances they said when it burst of
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the flames right when you were charging
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oh yeah of course went puffin when that
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happened but they've not really said how
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waters there is it's just that it's no
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but they're always really cautious they
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were really close about love with it
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with the Apple watch when it came out I
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remember you know they said it was like
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I'm gonna wear mine in the shower since
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day one
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yeah no bumps at all I mean hasn't so I
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think you know like the iPhone 6 pretty
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yeah there's tons of videos of the 6s
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being a submerge for you know twenty
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thirty minutes and a swimming pool and
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things like that
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yeah well the puss is really I think you
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know all the internals are really
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impressive you know the CPU gains and
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the GPU gains and the new the new chip
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what's really really impressive
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I mean it's astonishing and who does
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want to anything to get faster I mean
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you know it's it's super important under
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you know that the extra memory as well I
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mean that's gonna get chewed up with 4k
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video real quick you know no matter how
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much no matter what size you get you
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think you know you used to 56,000 years
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now right make it a jump for like 60 for
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us and like that but you know you're
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filling out the show I was a bit
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disappointed to see the the jet black
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iPhone 7
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coming in 128 gig 122 50
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6oh it's only a beautiful tattoo larger
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thing configuration I want the jet black
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color but I don't normally buy iPhones
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of that much storage and always do the
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16 gig out that's always cool enough to
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me I've got six gig available and I was
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available
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yeah you're pretty good you must be
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pretty good at clearing it off right
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every time you take a picture you know
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yeah I kind of backed them up every
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month or so yeah yeah well you know like
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I always thought no matter how big you
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know how much storage you get you always
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fill it up anyway it's just the cost of
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it as well because because there's
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always that many different iPhones every
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six months or so I can never grudged pay
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in the top end so which one is which one
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you want to get that you want to get the
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jet black one I want to get the jet
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black seven for my budget or probably
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stretch to just the standard 32 gig
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black yeah and if the paint just as I've
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got every device in space gray we've
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gone and changed it yeah yeah yeah
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well then you know the jet black is
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gonna be the premium one that's gonna be
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harder to water I think that would be
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nah but they'll be impacted right
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that'll be the dip that you know I'm
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gonna be gone for that one so hopefully
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they made enough for everybody to get
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one but I don't know but they'll be a
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match you know like a big you know that
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one will be sold out and hard to get for
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a while yeah and then I'm guessing we'll
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probably see the iPad pro version two in
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jet black and right so what was your
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favorite thing from the whole event
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overall and what's your what's your
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final thought I was impressed with how
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yeah Tim Cook is got a lot more you know
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confident that these events and he looks
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like it's actually having fun these days
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remember like you know where a few years
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ago he was pretty nervous
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like he look like he would rather be
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anywhere else but here this one was like
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they don't I don't think they said a
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foot wrong right there was you know in
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previous events it was like you know
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I've definitely never that
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well-choreographed you know like when
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Jimmy Iovine came out to introduce Apple
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music or there have been long rambling
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sections and almost all the keynotes
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right I think up until now like a lot of
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keynotes would be they'd had seen the
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problems you know they're not trouble
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with like sections that were like long
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and boring or they were given too much
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background information this one I
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thought was like you know flats move in
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on point there wasn't literally that
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many turns
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I mean now you might I thought there I
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work stuff was a little bit you know for
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me was was the weakness probably you
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liked it a lot of the education stuff
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let the putter focus on education you
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know it was like and there was a whole
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bunch of surprises I mean enough for a
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keynote with it where people thought
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they knew everything where they've been
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rooms for months and hardly lakes and
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people actually got hold of working
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iPhones like a whole bunch of it was
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like a surprise like oh oh there was a
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you know was it was am I expecting a
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bully aversion is why won't we
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rights and this was your blue bush yeah
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you know in the ceramic Apple watch and
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then all the details of all the
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internals and what the camera actually
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did that you know wasn't really well
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hashed a little bit so yeah there was a
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whole bunch of surprises and I thought I
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found it like pretty engrossing all the
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way through it was something that there
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but I think it's definitely showing
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today
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yeah definitely I mean it's the most
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excited I've been about an iPhone for
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quite a while at least since the iPhone
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4 or something like that right yeah it
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must've sigh my phone yeah four years
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all right well let's wrap it up there
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Thanks down under for your time all
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