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🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance reminisce on the 15th year anniversary of the App Store, discuss all the changes in iOS 17 beta 3, and analyze Meta’s successful launch of Twitter alternative Threads. There are also details about the planned retail rollout for Apple Vision Pro and Apple TV+ ramps up its theatrical distribution strategy for original movies.
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Chance Miller
Benjamin Mayo
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0:00.0 | So Mayo I want you to take a step down memory lane and think about 15 years ago. |
0:07.0 | So that would have been 2008. |
0:09.0 | Were you alive? |
0:10.0 | I was alive, I was, but I was a ripe what 11 years old I think so yeah I'd have been 14 I think 14 I think |
0:20.1 | or 15 okay okay yeah so 2008 was the launch of the App Store. July 10th, 2008, so 15 years ago |
0:29.0 | Monday. So I wanted to know, Maya, what were the first apps you downloaded from the App Store and well I guess I guess I'll start by asking you did you actually have an iPhone at the time did you have it not only when you're. No not in 2008. I was not there on day one. Same, same. I was not there for a long time actually. |
0:50.3 | Oh really. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think I got my first iPhone to five or five S one somewhere in that range. |
0:56.0 | So when was your first App Store download then? |
0:59.0 | Well, before we had the iPhone, we had the iPod touch. |
1:02.0 | Yep. |
1:03.2 | So that is the entrance point. |
1:05.4 | But that iPod touch wasn't even mine at the time. |
1:08.9 | So the first App Store downloads are actually on my mum's account, but because she, it was like her iPod touch, but like she |
1:15.8 | shared it around, it was like the family kind of thing situation. |
1:18.9 | So, and I, we didn't even get like the first iPod touch. |
1:21.7 | So when the App Store launched 2008, we bought nothing because we didn't even get like the first iPod touch. So when the App Store launched 2008, |
1:23.2 | we bought nothing because we didn't have an iPod Prodigy at the time. |
1:27.1 | I believe that our introduction to the whole world |
1:30.5 | was the fourth, no, the second generation iPod touch which we got |
1:34.7 | as a hand-me-down from somebody else like a year or so after the second generation came |
1:39.2 | out so you never had like an iPod nano or a shuffle or anything? |
1:43.0 | We, okay, we did have iPod shuffles. |
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