196: ‘Actually, You Can Buy a Better Coke’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber · Daring Fireball / John Gruber
July 21, 20172h 6m
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (feeds.soundcloud.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the rumors and speculation regarding this year’s upcoming new iPhones.
Sponsored by:
- Hullo Pillow: Sleep better with a new buckwheat pillow. It’ll be your favorite pillow, guaranteed.
- Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code thetalkshow for $50 toward your mattress.
- Audible.com: With Audible, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Get a free 30-day trial.
Links:
- Mexican Coke.
- Daring Fireball: “Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones”.
- Rene Ritchie: “iPhones of Future Past: Understanding iPhone 8”.
- Essential, Andy Rubin’s new company, with an upcoming edge-to-edge Android phone.
- Neil Cybart’s Above Avalon newsletter.
- Yours truly predicting an “edge-to-edge display” in a 2017 iPhone back in May 2016.
- “How Apple vs. Samsung Became a Smartphone Beauty Contest” — Wall Street Journal “news” article by Timothy W. Martin and Tripp Mickle positing that Samsung is a company that values design and Apple is not.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.