The Talk Show

‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz

Saturday, 30 September 2023

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.