196: ‘Actually, You Can Buy a Better Coke’ With Rene Ritchie

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the rumors and speculation regarding this year’s upcoming new iPhones.

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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.