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Episode 124 — The Watch, The Phone, The Beatles

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Apple’s the cellular Apple Watch, the iPhone X and 8 markets, and whether the opening was over-the-top. Presented by MailChimp Links Episode 018: Agree to Disagree — Exponent Ben Thompson: The Lessons and Questions of the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Cellular Apple Watch — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Apple Watch: Asking Why and Saying No — Stratechery Ben Thompson: What I Got Wrong About Apple Watch — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Beyond the iPhone — Stratechery Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You Fitter — New York Times Ben … Continue reading Episode 124 — The Watch, The Phone, The Beatles

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

0:03.4

I mean, feeling a little bulky and slow moving, donning this suit of armor in preparation for us talking about the Apple Watch.

0:11.8

Oh, yes. Constricting in movement.

0:14.3

I think there was a problem to this. I didn't get a chance to watch the keynote live, but there was a little sign of things to come

0:23.7

on Twitter where I looked down at my phone knowing the keynote was going on. And I saw this tweet

0:28.9

from you, something along the lines of, you know, in the long run, I'm going to be right about

0:32.9

the Apple Watch. And I was like, oh, my God, what are they announcing? What's going on? It gave me this,

0:38.9

this nervous energy to watch the keynote and find out what was happening. But I think we've

0:43.5

come a long way since a glory, righteous glory days of that argument way back in episode

0:50.0

18 or whenever it was. We've come around to my position, exactly.

0:55.5

Which I think actually is not totally true.

0:59.3

But it's my duty to say that.

1:03.2

So first, before we get to it, our things to Melchimp for sponsoring Exponent, as they do every week.

1:09.7

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1:13.0

share some big news, or tell a story.

1:15.0

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1:18.9

Are things to Melchimp for sponsoring this episode of Exponent?

1:21.1

Yep.

1:21.5

Thanks, guys.

1:22.6

So I do want to talk about the iPhone.

1:24.3

I wrote about it this week. I think this launch is one of the most

1:27.9

interesting launch is, particularly from all perspectives. It's interesting from a product perspective,

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