Special guest John Moltz joins the show to discuss the various iPhone 15 “-gates”, rumors of Jony Ive working with OpenAI on an “AI device”, and more.
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Links:
- OverheatGate:
- David Phelan at Forbes: Apple comments on iPhone 15 overheating.
- Ming-Chi Kuo’s one-paragraph Medium post that seemingly but wrongly suggests that Apple will have to throttle the CPU.
- MacRumors.
- “iPhonedo” on YouTube, showing Instagram heating up both an iPhone 15 Pro and year-old 14 Pro, simply sitting idle on a profile screen.
- FineWovenGate:
- Chance Miller: “Apple Weaved Itself Into a Fine Mess With the Awful iPhone 15 FineWoven Case”.
- “Apple Pens Memo to Retail Teams on How to Manage FineWoven Complaints: ‘A Luxurious Microtwill’”.
- Verge story on the high-pressure world of iPhone casemakers.
- Google’s very-textured fabric cases for the Pixel 4.
- USB-C Gate:
- Crappy USB-C cables vs. CarPlay.
- LoveFrom and OpenAI rumored to be in talks on AI device:
- The Information: “Designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman Discuss AI Hardware Project”.
- The Financial Times: “OpenAI and Jony Ive in Talks to Raise $1bn From SoftBank for AI Device Venture”.
- Humane pin is unveiled, with no comment on what it does, at Paris Fashion Week.
- Mr. Do:
- Emulated on the web via the Internet Archive.
- Play-through on YouTube.
- Uber shamelessly breaking App Store rules in 2015, including geofencing Cupertino to offer different functionality to App Store reviewers.
- Evans Hankey’s wonderfully-weathered original iPhone, as pictured in Designed by Apple in California. Proof that you shouldn’t use a case.
- Quora AI thinks you can melt an egg.
- “Linda Yaccarino’s Excruciatingly Uncomfortable Interview With Julia Boorstin at the Code Conference”.
- The iPhone 4 “antennagate” press conference, minus the Q&A, alas.
- Jason Snell on the Q&A, where Jobs was joined by Tim Cook and Phil Schiller.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.