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00:10:46   in disagreement over what aspects of the company you want to say opposite each [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/646">TS</a>]

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00:10:54   turn a profit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/654">TS</a>]

00:10:58   agro hopefully a growing profit each quarter they are opposite as Apple's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/658">TS</a>]

00:11:03   goal clearly is to turn a profit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/663">TS</a>]

00:11:07   a large profit each quarter and in the long run you know have that profit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/667">TS</a>]

00:11:11   continued it stretch whereas amazon has never really endeavored to do that right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/671">TS</a>]

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00:11:36   they went public [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/696">TS</a>]

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00:12:30   loss for the quarter and previously it's been very small profits if any certainly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/750">TS</a>]

00:12:36   compared to Apple I mean we're talking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/756">TS</a>]

00:12:38   a single-digit millions tens of millions while Apple's making you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/758">TS</a>]

00:12:42   double-digit billions in some quarters in profit and so Amazon actually lost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/762">TS</a>]

00:12:47   money last quarter and so so we're trying to figure out how are they ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/767">TS</a>]

00:12:55   going to be able to make a profit but again you know many not not even that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/775">TS</a>]

00:12:59   long ago several years ago they were making some you know pretty good profits [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/779">TS</a>]

00:13:03   off of much less revenue that they're at now the revenue of course keeps growing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/783">TS</a>]

00:13:06   over time and you know to go back to her spine he thinks that it's going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/786">TS</a>]

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00:13:19   there could be there could be a competitor that that comes around in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/799">TS</a>]

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00:13:28   and they're they're so focused on building out that they're they're not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/808">TS</a>]

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00:13:48   paying a recurring fee a yearly fee for products and like when you just think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/828">TS</a>]

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00:13:57   razor thin margin you know of course that doesn't seem like the best business [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/837">TS</a>]

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00:14:05   Prime which is sort of interesting because that has you know that while not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/845">TS</a>]

00:14:10   infinite margins you can assume that that has very good margins I don't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/850">TS</a>]

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00:14:25   make my crime pays 800 bucks I don't think it's eighty 80 in nato that sounds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/865">TS</a>]

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00:14:39   $100 worth of shipping out of it well and so this is another thing when when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/879">TS</a>]

00:14:45   you're at the scale that Amazon is at you know shipping costs are relative so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/885">TS</a>]

00:14:51   Amazon is building infrastructure out to build these warehouses all over and now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/891">TS</a>]

00:14:54   now that they had their shit nude the new taxes in place for Internet taxing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/894">TS</a>]

00:14:58   they can actually build warehouses in somewhere like California where they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/898">TS</a>]

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00:15:05   have any physical space in California [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/905">TS</a>]

00:15:07   otherwise they would have made you collect sales tax there and so now that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/907">TS</a>]

00:15:10   that they you know they've come to an agreement that they are going to collect [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/910">TS</a>]

00:15:13   sales tax over the internet now amazonas starting to build warehouses all over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/913">TS</a>]

00:15:16   the place they did they didn't have before and so when they when they do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/916">TS</a>]

00:15:20   things like build a brand new warehouse right outside of San Francisco they can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/920">TS</a>]

00:15:25   you know the cost of delivering to San Francisco of course goes way down and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/925">TS</a>]

00:15:30   this is sort of the game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/930">TS</a>]

00:15:31   Amazon explain I do think that you're right that that there are a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/931">TS</a>]

00:15:35   people and certainly your power you know a power user of Amazon Prime and I am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/935">TS</a>]

00:15:39   too and there are a lot of people who are probably the margins aren't as good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/939">TS</a>]

00:15:44   for Amazon Amazon Prime but I do I would imagine that there's a lot of people who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/944">TS</a>]

00:15:47   buy you know a couple things here and there making you know quite a bit of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/947">TS</a>]

00:15:51   substantial came from that I'll do stupid things I'll do things can I know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/951">TS</a>]

00:15:57   its Amazon and so I know I don't feel bad for them I don't feel like i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/957">TS</a>]

00:16:00   taking advantage of them but it was like a mom-and-pop business I would never do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/960">TS</a>]

00:16:04   like it if it was just like a small business that happened to offer the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/964">TS</a>]

00:16:09   shipping offers that Amazon does I wouldn't do it like last week or two ago [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/969">TS</a>]

00:16:17   I bought a little tiny screwdriver just I just needed a real blast size [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/977">TS</a>]

00:16:26   screwdriver and I so I bought one on Amazon for like three dollars and had it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/986">TS</a>]

00:16:33   sent to me on Prime shipping for free I mean I mean like it's like super low [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/993">TS</a>]

00:16:39   cost I mean yeah I would never do that if it was like a small business would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/999">TS</a>]

00:16:44   wait and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1004">TS</a>]

00:16:46   and waited till I needed you know three or four things back together and nets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1006">TS</a>]

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00:16:55   would in any way allow you to order a $3 thing and let you get you do not pay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1015">TS</a>]

00:17:00   shipping for it but at the same time at the same time because of the scale [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1020">TS</a>]

00:17:05   Amazon operates at they probably have you know say a thousand trucks going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1025">TS</a>]

00:17:09   going around to your area you know any any given week or something and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1029">TS</a>]

00:17:16   just happen to have extra space on it so because you're using the Prime thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1036">TS</a>]

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00:22:16   Dave Bezos has said Amazon up from investor perspective that that profits [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1336">TS</a>]

00:22:23   are sort of like a will of the west and that's always investors believe in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1343">TS</a>]

00:22:28   Amazon or Amazon investors certainly do and the revenue growth is certainly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1348">TS</a>]

00:22:35   there right it's it's you know maybe one quarter over another there been dips but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1355">TS</a>]

00:22:39   a pretty steady pace since the company was founded in 1994 revenues have grown [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1359">TS</a>]

00:22:45   at a remarkable rate Lake you know it used to behave Amazon might someday be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1365">TS</a>]

00:22:52   major retailer on the scale of like wal-mart and target and no physical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1372">TS</a>]

00:22:58   world retailers like that and you know in the nineties some people thought that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1378">TS</a>]

00:23:02   was not some people truly thought hey come on to buy stuff on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1382">TS</a>]

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00:23:12   so that's sort of investor faith from a long time ago has panned out the revenue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1392">TS</a>]

00:23:17   growth is there but I think Bezos I think they want to put words in your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1397">TS</a>]

00:23:22   mouth but I think this is the point you're sort of making his basis is sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1402">TS</a>]

00:23:25   of set up the expectation that profits never have to come now they only have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1405">TS</a>]

00:23:31   two potentially come in the foreseeable future right and I do so this is why I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1411">TS</a>]

00:23:40   think basis is sort of what do you think he's business genius certainly but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1420">TS</a>]

00:23:46   think he's sort of underappreciated and I think that's what we're seeing with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1426">TS</a>]

00:23:49   the washington post up like what would you do this and maybe he doesn't have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1429">TS</a>]

00:23:53   plan for us to put again I don't know but you know when people are sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1433">TS</a>]

00:23:56   saying like like crazy guy who just doesn't care about profits by as well I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1436">TS</a>]

00:24:02   think that I mean when you look at his history right he worked on Wall Street [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1442">TS</a>]

00:24:06   he understands how this works maybe better than most other CEOs do because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1446">TS</a>]

00:24:11   they don't have that experience wherever he didn't start he didn't start until he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1451">TS</a>]

00:24:13   was thirty hedge fund announced twenty right to hedge funds so he totally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1453">TS</a>]

00:24:18   understands are you can assume that he totally understands wall street and so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1458">TS</a>]

00:24:22   think what we've been seeing the past two years which is really interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1462">TS</a>]

00:24:25   when compared to Apple AAPL has just done profits so much so so good of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1465">TS</a>]

00:24:32   business they the profits you know that what the one the couple quarters of it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1472">TS</a>]

00:24:36   thirteen billion dollars and the only thing to that's comparable to that or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1476">TS</a>]

00:24:40   the oil companies right i mean this is that's amazing and it's not even though [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1480">TS</a>]

00:24:43   companies often don't do that well it's like there's there's three best quarters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1483">TS</a>]

00:24:47   stack up against Apple's best quarters now and so does profits are huge and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1487">TS</a>]

00:24:54   while they were showing those giant profits and the profit growth more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1494">TS</a>]

00:24:58   importantly and the revenue growth while she was loving Apple pushed the stock up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1498">TS</a>]

00:25:02   to 700 past seven hundred dollars a share right now that the growth is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1502">TS</a>]

00:25:08   slowing even if the profits are still pretty good you know I forget what it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1508">TS</a>]

00:25:11   was last quarter eight billion or something like that I mean it's still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1511">TS</a>]

00:25:13   insane for almost any company [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1513">TS</a>]

00:25:15   the growth is no longer there and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1515">TS</a>]

00:25:19   the problem and and sort of one of the points and I made it in my post which i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1519">TS</a>]

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00:25:28   about it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1528">TS</a>]

00:25:29   Apple's problem with wall street is that they're looking for future potential and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1529">TS</a>]

00:25:33   the fact that the iPhone was such an incredibly good business and still is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1533">TS</a>]

00:25:38   for Apple that it's gonna be almost impossible I think for them to find a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1538">TS</a>]

00:25:42   business that's similar to that maybe I'm wrong I hope I am I hope that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1542">TS</a>]

00:25:46   know they come out with with some kind of crazy new device that no one is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1546">TS</a>]

00:25:50   thinking about but I think even with like you know the rumored television [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1550">TS</a>]

00:25:54   stuff and in the watch I think that they'll be hard-pressed to get the sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1554">TS</a>]

00:25:59   of profits that they do offer the iPhone because of the way the unique market [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1559">TS</a>]

00:26:04   that iPhones in the smartphone market especially the subsidized and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1564">TS</a>]

00:26:08   unsubsidized markets where they're getting paid so much money up front for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1568">TS</a>]

00:26:12   these devices and so that's going to naturally if you can't get another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1572">TS</a>]

00:26:18   iPhone like product the the growth is naturally going to come down and so you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1578">TS</a>]

00:26:23   know when people talk about has Apple you can maybe make an argument that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1583">TS</a>]

00:26:27   have in terms of revenue and profit growth just because the iPhone was such [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1587">TS</a>]

00:26:32   a good business [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1592">TS</a>]

00:26:33   Amazon is the opposite right where those is playing this way and and and just go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1593">TS</a>]

00:26:39   back to Apple for a second so so Tim Cook you know that the operator he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1599">TS</a>]

00:26:43   understands how to make the the machine as well oiled as possible and as soon as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1603">TS</a>]

00:26:47   he took over 44 steve Jobs was found that both on an interim basis and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1607">TS</a>]

00:26:51   in a permanent basis [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1611">TS</a>]

00:26:52   you know people don't give him credit but the stock went crazy you know after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1612">TS</a>]

00:26:57   after Jobs passed away and and cook is is the CEO and the man in charge that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1617">TS</a>]

00:27:01   what it do the run up to $700 Sharon Apple sort of hit its peak and then you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1621">TS</a>]

00:27:06   know everyone talks now like oh my god he's lost so much value but he created a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1626">TS</a>]

00:27:09   lot of that was under him that that value was created and so pesos though is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1629">TS</a>]

00:27:16   playing at the the the opposite way we're rather than focus on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1636">TS</a>]

00:27:20   the profit you know of course you want revenue growth especially in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1640">TS</a>]

00:27:25   business Amazon is in but rather than than focus on the profit in showing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1645">TS</a>]

00:27:29   investors what you know showing him your hand basically he's focused on trying to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1649">TS</a>]

00:27:35   trying to ground that revenue that that profit into the into the ground and make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1655">TS</a>]

00:27:39   it almost you know break even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1659">TS</a>]

00:27:42   yeah I totally agree and I and it's you know Matt Iglesias who rides on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1662">TS</a>]

00:27:48   economics its slate has has commented on Amazon several times as well as his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1668">TS</a>]

00:27:52   phrasing that he called them that effectively that they run like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1672">TS</a>]

00:27:57   charitable charitable foundation for the benefit of consumers rate at which which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1677">TS</a>]

00:28:03   is funny I mean that's a really funny way to think about it and and I used to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1683">TS</a>]

00:28:06   totally agree with that but you also remember that Amazon Amazons business [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1686">TS</a>]

00:28:11   and in anything was eugene way he used to work at at Amazon pointed this out in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1691">TS</a>]

00:28:16   a really good way a few months ago remember that Amazon because of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1696">TS</a>]

00:28:21   business there and they have cash constantly flowing in and yet they don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1701">TS</a>]

00:28:26   have to actually pay for things necessarily right away so they have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1706">TS</a>]

00:28:30   day of the sort of interesting buffer that other companies do not have and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1710">TS</a>]

00:28:35   that's why when you talk about free cash flow in like how Amazon could possibly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1715">TS</a>]

00:28:38   keep operating in and bring in money when they're losing money it's because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1718">TS</a>]

00:28:42   their business is is unlike sort of any other where they actually do constantly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1722">TS</a>]

00:28:48   have a flow of cash coming in and if that dried up they would be yeah yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1728">TS</a>]

00:28:53   there would be there would be a problem but that's not a drying up certainly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1733">TS</a>]

00:28:56   things like you like Amazon Prime are probably hoping that were people just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1736">TS</a>]

00:28:59   keep buying stuff and so they have this cash that they can use for things where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1739">TS</a>]

00:29:02   they don't need to focus solely on making a profit there's the classic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1742">TS</a>]

00:29:09   eighties Saturday Night Live a commercial for the first union change [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1749">TS</a>]

00:29:17   bank I do remember this is Kevin Nealon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1757">TS</a>]

00:29:21   in the gist of it was it a bank where all they do is make change [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1761">TS</a>]

00:29:25   and they're like hey you can come in with a dollar bill and if you want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1765">TS</a>]

00:29:29   twenty nichols will give you 20 nichols' you want ten dimes you can get ten times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1769">TS</a>]

00:29:34   you want half nichols have times we can make that happen and it was funny and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1774">TS</a>]

00:29:39   then you know the punch line was people say how do you turn a profit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1779">TS</a>]

00:29:46   how do you make money right right and that it's funny and that i think is sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1786">TS</a>]

00:29:54   of been the the knee jerk and it has been mined the knock against Amazon you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1794">TS</a>]

00:29:59   know that you know if you're breaking even there is no profit but it did you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1799">TS</a>]

00:30:04   could actually turn a profit as a change bank if you can hold the money before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1804">TS</a>]

00:30:09   giving them their change right now and that's why you know I think Amazon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1809">TS</a>]

00:30:13   wasn't that the PCR citing from the guy who worked at the date they hold some of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1813">TS</a>]

00:30:17   that money for up to 90 days right that they only have to pay like the book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1817">TS</a>]

00:30:21   distributors I give you buy a book they pay at the end of the quarter and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1821">TS</a>]

00:30:25   time they've helped them money and they can earn interest on it do it do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1825">TS</a>]

00:30:28   know do you actually can make money as a change bank if you have money for 90 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1828">TS</a>]

00:30:33   days right it's it's an interesting way to think about it is like maybe maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1833">TS</a>]

00:30:37   more simplified way that like you know someone just on a day-to-day can think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1837">TS</a>]

00:30:41   about it like imagine that your you pay a you have to pay a down payment on your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1841">TS</a>]

00:30:48   on your renter you have to pay basically a holding fee or whatever to to get an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1848">TS</a>]

00:30:54   apartment right and see you give that to your landlord in your landlord then has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1854">TS</a>]

00:30:58   that money he could put it in a in his checking account and he's earning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1858">TS</a>]

00:31:02   interest on that money so it's like your money is being used to make him more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1862">TS</a>]

00:31:07   money because eventually he's going to give that money to back that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1867">TS</a>]

00:31:10   treasure apartment or whatever but he is earning money off of the money that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1870">TS</a>]

00:31:15   you've given in so there's so there's the interest component of it which I do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1875">TS</a>]

00:31:19   actually don't know how much Amazon doesn't that I assume that there that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1879">TS</a>]

00:31:23   they have you know somebody invested in making interest off of that but yes and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1883">TS</a>]

00:31:26   then there's also the free cash flow component where they're just they can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1886">TS</a>]

00:31:29   hold onto this money and use it for whatever they want to use it for until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1889">TS</a>]

00:31:33   they have to to to pay it ninety days later but at that point they already [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1893">TS</a>]

00:31:37   have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1897">TS</a>]

00:31:38   their money that has come in for the same purpose so it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1898">TS</a>]

00:31:46   I know that this is this is this is fairly complex in this took me a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1906">TS</a>]

00:31:49   while to understand how exactly this could possibly work is it almost seems [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1909">TS</a>]

00:31:53   like it's such an interesting idea that it seems like a scam right where it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1913">TS</a>]

00:31:57   like they don't actually they're they're not selling something and getting money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1917">TS</a>]

00:32:03   and then distributing it the rather there's they're selling something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1923">TS</a>]

00:32:06   they're getting the money and then they're distributing what they already [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1926">TS</a>]

00:32:11   took the last money for right it's like it's a pretty complex idea but this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1931">TS</a>]

00:32:17   this is sort of the genius of basis that he realized that you could do this and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1937">TS</a>]

00:32:21   certainly that's not at all of Amazon's business they have many different you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1941">TS</a>]

00:32:24   know AWS and stuff where they were they can't do this kind of stuff but in in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1944">TS</a>]

00:32:28   the retail side of things there are there are some interesting ways that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1948">TS</a>]

00:32:33   they can that they can make money out of seemingly having no profit right yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1953">TS</a>]

00:32:40   it's totally interesting I isn't the story with AWS that day wasn't like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1960">TS</a>]

00:32:46   they've really I mean who knows how many you know you have to take their public [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1966">TS</a>]

00:32:49   statements with a grain of salt I guess because maybe there won't be a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1969">TS</a>]

00:32:53   cagey about what they say publicly but publicly they've said more or less that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1973">TS</a>]

00:32:57   they've built up a lot of infrastructure so that they could handle their peak [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1977">TS</a>]

00:33:03   traffic which affect you know for Amazon right retailer is like holidays you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1983">TS</a>]

00:33:07   like giving night and the day after Thanksgiving and stuff like that so they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1987">TS</a>]

00:33:11   want to be able to handle that they don't want the site to crash [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1991">TS</a>]

00:33:14   on Monday the day after Thanksgiving when everybody's trying to order and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1994">TS</a>]

00:33:19   they've filled out an infrastructure to handle that level of traffic smoothly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/1999">TS</a>]

00:33:23   but then you know three hundred and fifty five days a year they don't need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2003">TS</a>]

00:33:28   it right it's sitting there unused and said it will why don't we sell it to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2008">TS</a>]

00:33:33   people other people take advantages yeah I think you're right in that that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2013">TS</a>]

00:33:38   the initial impetus behind how they do it I don't actually know that their full [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2018">TS</a>]

00:33:41   story but I think that that I believe that that's right but but now I imagine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2021">TS</a>]

00:33:46   that they realize that this is actually pretty big business and so we should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2026">TS</a>]

00:33:49   just have these sort of we should just run this is as a separate business aside [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2029">TS</a>]

00:33:53   from having having the same excess inventory of storage for win her sick of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2033">TS</a>]

00:34:00   a city for women it's not a holiday season and I think that they do not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2040">TS</a>]

00:34:04   recognize how big of a business this this actually is anything about yeah you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2044">TS</a>]

00:34:08   know you always talk to me with startups I mean the number of them that are built [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2048">TS</a>]

00:34:13   on top of Amazon's cloud infrastructure is amazing I mean I don't know what the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2053">TS</a>]

00:34:18   you know the actual percentages but I it's it's way over 50% for me at least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2058">TS</a>]

00:34:24   in startups in San Francisco that it that are built on top of Amazon in some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2064">TS</a>]

00:34:27   way at least and that that's pretty incredible when you think about that and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2067">TS</a>]

00:34:33   when you if if they can keep doing that you know there there's already there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2073">TS</a>]

00:34:37   big businesses that are built on top of Amazon I don't know if Instagram is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2077">TS</a>]

00:34:40   still using Amazon for for their picture hosting they were and I don't know if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2080">TS</a>]

00:34:46   they've moved over to Facebook's infrastructure sense but it's no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2086">TS</a>]

00:34:49   guarantee that they have and they may still be using Amazon to host all their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2089">TS</a>]

00:34:53   images member when when they first announced iCloud and people sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2093">TS</a>]

00:34:58   poked around and and it ended up it was like a retard hodge podge on the back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2098">TS</a>]

00:35:04   end where it had built some of it and it was in Apple datacenters but they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2104">TS</a>]

00:35:07   also using Windows cloud I know they're using Microsoft for some of it yeah I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2107">TS</a>]

00:35:18   think I think they may have been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2118">TS</a>]

00:35:20   I think Apple is using them in there you know nobody's more security but that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2120">TS</a>]

00:35:29   pretty tellin ya and it's in that that brings up something that's that's sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2129">TS</a>]

00:35:33   of some people have have sort of said in response to 20 this Apple and Amazon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2133">TS</a>]

00:35:38   argument it's like so obviously we had the the dead center is down all hits [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2138">TS</a>]

00:35:42   high right it was supposedly hacked or whatever but they also they've had it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2142">TS</a>]

00:35:46   was down again yesterday briefly and of course had a lot of issues with with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2146">TS</a>]

00:35:51   various things I message and in all kinds of services iCloud just being down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2151">TS</a>]

00:35:55   so why doesn't Apple take a page from Amazon's book and just spend a sliver of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2155">TS</a>]

00:36:02   their hundred and fifty billion dollars or whatever it is in cash and just go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2162">TS</a>]

00:36:06   crazy on on building out the the infrastructure and so I think the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2166">TS</a>]

00:36:10   argument there is that like you have to assume that they're doing they're doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2170">TS</a>]

00:36:14   that right I mean I don't know what are your thoughts on that Lake people get so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2174">TS</a>]

00:36:18   frustrated about this and assume that that Apple is like so obsessive about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2178">TS</a>]

00:36:23   holding onto their cash that they don't want to spend it even when there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2183">TS</a>]

00:36:26   very obvious thing that they should spend it on I have to assume that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2186">TS</a>]

00:36:29   they're not doing that that we don't know the whole picture like maybe they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2189">TS</a>]

00:36:33   just don't maybe they can't build it fast enough maybe they're spending as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2193">TS</a>]

00:36:35   many billions as they can to do it but they just can't do it at quite a pace [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2195">TS</a>]

00:36:39   that they want and need to you yeah that's a good question but with data [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2199">TS</a>]

00:36:46   centers they can't keep them secret because they're a man I don't think that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2206">TS</a>]

00:36:51   they can I mean I guess it would depend where you build it but you know like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2211">TS</a>]

00:36:53   big one in north carolina I mean it's not a secret I mean everybody knows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2213">TS</a>]

00:36:57   where it is and because they're so big like to build a data center that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2217">TS</a>]

00:37:02   significant to Apple's needs that you know just what just happened to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2222">TS</a>]

00:37:09   some sort of significant impact on the services they provide is a huge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2229">TS</a>]

00:37:14   undertaking and therefore it requires you know deals you know the whole reason [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2234">TS</a>]

00:37:19   I went to North Carolina's the deals from the government [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2239">TS</a>]

00:37:22   right tax breaks tax breaks and whatever zoning permits I guess and stuff like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2242">TS</a>]

00:37:28   that that it's not secret because all that stuff you know when you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2248">TS</a>]

00:37:33   negotiating with the government is all you know has to be out in the open right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2253">TS</a>]

00:37:37   so you know to my knowledge there's not a lot of brick-and-mortar building out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2257">TS</a>]

00:37:44   of of data centers on that Apple's undergoing so I what else could a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2264">TS</a>]

00:37:51   senator Mian well so you know i mean certainly they have to be spending money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2271">TS</a>]

00:37:55   on infrastructure for components right i mean you know there's always talk that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2275">TS</a>]

00:38:01   they've debt while they work with third parties overseas and they built a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2281">TS</a>]

00:38:05   factories for them in sort of built built the infrastructure needed to do a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2285">TS</a>]

00:38:10   lot of what they're doing which is customized and so they're certainly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2290">TS</a>]

00:38:13   spending money on that but it is crazy if they're not spending as much as they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2293">TS</a>]

00:38:19   possibly can on the on the database the data warehouses because everyone knows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2299">TS</a>]

00:38:26   that this is such a problem for them and we see it on it on an almost daily basis [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2306">TS</a>]

00:38:29   now and so you know what are they holding onto that money for a net that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2309">TS</a>]

00:38:33   that sort of goes back to again the argument between Amazon and Apple and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2313">TS</a>]

00:38:38   answer the wall street component of it of course Apple started going under fire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2318">TS</a>]

00:38:42   when they when they passed a hundred billion dollars in cash that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2322">TS</a>]

00:38:47   overseas as we know but you know there there were activist shareholders who are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2327">TS</a>]

00:38:51   rising up and saying you need to distribute this money and they are of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2331">TS</a>]

00:38:54   course now but Amazon doesn't have that problem again because they just aren't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2334">TS</a>]

00:38:59   you know posting these these giants amount of profit and holding on all this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2339">TS</a>]

00:39:03   case I think they do have plenty of several billions I don't know what the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2343">TS</a>]

00:39:06   number is that they actually hold in cash but it's nowhere near what Apple is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2346">TS</a>]

00:39:09   holding and so why exactly is Apple holding onto this you know they say it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2349">TS</a>]

00:39:13   for for future considerations are you know for defensive purposes but they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2353">TS</a>]

00:39:18   really not doing anything for it so was it you know you start to wonder at least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2358">TS</a>]

00:39:22   I'm starting to wonder was it a miscalculation to actually build up this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2362">TS</a>]

00:39:26   amount of cash [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2366">TS</a>]

00:39:27   started asking these hordes of money yes I also feel like they you know I'm not I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2367">TS</a>]

00:39:34   i dont know I don't work for the SEC so I might be off base here but the money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2374">TS</a>]

00:39:38   that they have quote unquote in the bank [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2378">TS</a>]

00:39:41   the profits from past 10 years that they're sitting on if they'd spent a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2381">TS</a>]

00:39:46   huge chunk of it in the next like two quarters to build out like another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2386">TS</a>]

00:39:51   massive data center [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2391">TS</a>]

00:39:53   you know Texas you know alaska [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2393">TS</a>]

00:39:57   doesn't matter where they'd still have to account for that in those quarters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2397">TS</a>]

00:40:01   right so that's not just because they have the money in the bank doesn't mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2401">TS</a>]

00:40:05   that they don't it wouldn't have an impact on their quarterly earnings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2405">TS</a>]

00:40:09   right-o it would and it would just look bad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2409">TS</a>]

00:40:13   investor wise if if their profit for like two orders from now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2413">TS</a>]

00:40:21   was way lower than it would have been if they hadn't made this massive up-front [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2421">TS</a>]

00:40:25   capital expenditure they can explain it in people who are paying attention could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2425">TS</a>]

00:40:31   listen to them and say look this is you know we were doing this for this reason [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2431">TS</a>]

00:40:34   and it you know it's in our best interest going forward but we all know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2434">TS</a>]

00:40:39   that people don't really listen to the actually explanations they just CEO [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2439">TS</a>]

00:40:43   Apple made you know turned lower than they were expected to you know there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2443">TS</a>]

00:40:47   must be going under and again that just goes back to my thought on why basis is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2447">TS</a>]

00:40:53   a genius with this you know I won't call it manipulation but it's it's the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2453">TS</a>]

00:40:58   that he's he's playing it right where he doesn't have to worry about spending a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2458">TS</a>]

00:41:03   billion dollars one quarter on a datacenter because that bill like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2463">TS</a>]

00:41:08   investors aren't used to seeing that billion anyway and they think they'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2468">TS</a>]

00:41:11   see that billion down the road somewhere as a result they think you'll see two XE [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2471">TS</a>]

00:41:15   billion down the road as a result of him sending this billion right now right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2475">TS</a>]

00:41:19   maybe oversimplifying but I see it's the way he's set them up from an investor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2479">TS</a>]

00:41:25   perspective that really does contrast with Apple rebels and never really ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2485">TS</a>]

00:41:30   even in the old days when they were relatively a small company [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2490">TS</a>]

00:41:34   has never been held in high regard by Wall Street right now the stock I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2494">TS</a>]

00:41:41   has long been was old days long undervalued because they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2501">TS</a>]

00:41:47   misunderstood company and the company was never really set up to make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2507">TS</a>]

00:41:52   investors happier you know it was always about the product it was always the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2512">TS</a>]

00:41:57   company has always been set up to make great products great experiences and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2517">TS</a>]

00:42:02   everything else is secondary whereas I think pesos is experience it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2522">TS</a>]

00:42:07   what's coming with what's becoming clear to me is that he set the company up in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2527">TS</a>]

00:42:12   way that it's always been set up to make investors happy or satisfied you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2532">TS</a>]

00:42:18   that it's not a coincidence not like the way matt Yglesias put it it's almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2538">TS</a>]

00:42:25   like investors are delusional you know to support its crazy that they support [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2545">TS</a>]

00:42:31   Amazon's lack of profitability quarter after quarter whereas I think the truth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2551">TS</a>]

00:42:35   is that that was by design [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2555">TS</a>]

00:42:40   yeah and again I go back to the earlier point where you know basis is obviously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2560">TS</a>]

00:42:46   aware of this because he's put it in the shareholder letters it's like we at some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2566">TS</a>]

00:42:50   point we realize we recognize that we need to turn a profit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2570">TS</a>]

00:42:54   eventually and we're gonna do that down the road you know we may have to check [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2574">TS</a>]

00:42:57   in from time to time to make sure that we can do that and maybe that means just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2577">TS</a>]

00:43:01   not spending billions of dollars on infrastructure costs in a one-quarter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2581">TS</a>]

00:43:04   something like that then all of a sudden a show like you know like a five hundred [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2584">TS</a>]

00:43:08   million dollar two billion dollar profit of a sudden and then then the very next [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2588">TS</a>]

00:43:12   quarter they go right back to building out again and so maybe they do do that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2592">TS</a>]

00:43:14   sometime in the next couple of years or something like that I don't know if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2594">TS</a>]

00:43:19   they're not showing any signs that they're going to do that but yeah I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2599">TS</a>]

00:43:23   think I think you're right that that basis is just playing this sort of thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2603">TS</a>]

00:43:28   this perfectly that everything is in the future and everything is going to going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2608">TS</a>]

00:43:35   to be going to be rosy at some point but what really is the point is to go back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2615">TS</a>]

00:43:39   to the to the to the idea of what Apple is doing with their money what is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2619">TS</a>]

00:43:42   point of caring all these profits if you know when you get beyond a certain point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2622">TS</a>]

00:43:46   I mean Apple couldn't buy enough companies nor were they want to because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2626">TS</a>]

00:43:50   it would be a disaster if they spent a hundred billion dollars buying companies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2630">TS</a>]

00:43:52   they're not gonna do that there there are you know probably investing in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2632">TS</a>]

00:43:57   infrastructure as much as they feel comfortable with so they clearly have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2637">TS</a>]

00:44:01   more money than they need for that and so what is the point at the end of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2641">TS</a>]

00:44:05   day of having all these massive profits beyond it kinda having a major headache [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2645">TS</a>]

00:44:09   I mean it's good if if the economy turns that's what that's one argument right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2649">TS</a>]

00:44:13   like you know if the if the economy goes bad again Apple doesn't necessarily have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2653">TS</a>]

00:44:18   to change anything they're doing because they have so much money and they could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2658">TS</a>]

00:44:22   sort of dip into that but Amazon seem to whether you know the last downturn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2662">TS</a>]

00:44:28   perfectly fine I don't know you know what their numbers exactly word then but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2668">TS</a>]

00:44:32   certainly you know they are not going well and I think that's that's the other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2672">TS</a>]

00:44:38   that's another thing that to me through at least threw me off that Amazon is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2678">TS</a>]

00:44:42   that my first impression of Amazon was was formed in the go-go dot com nineties [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2682">TS</a>]

00:44:48   right and I i mean I was an early Amazon user but I memorable an Amazon with just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2688">TS</a>]

00:44:53   a bookstore and they were you know had crazy customer service and it and it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2693">TS</a>]

00:44:58   free shipping for everybody and crazy low prices on the books and they had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2698">TS</a>]

00:45:03   just amazing customer service like if you wanted to send a book back you just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2703">TS</a>]

00:45:07   pay for the shipping to send it back just like a lot of form on the website [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2707">TS</a>]

00:45:11   and they'd be like your print this out and UPS guy I'll pick the book up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2711">TS</a>]

00:45:15   tomorrow you know or whatever it is you bought one day started selling more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2715">TS</a>]

00:45:18   stuff right and but the bottom line is that they ran did that run up in the mid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2718">TS</a>]

00:45:25   to end of the nineties they were they were running a real they were losing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2725">TS</a>]

00:45:30   money quarter after quarter after quarter right in a typical dot com [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2730">TS</a>]

00:45:35   mindset lots and lots of dot coms had that same I did lose money to build [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2735">TS</a>]

00:45:40   market sharon's blah blah blah something well blah blah blah something to happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2740">TS</a>]

00:45:44   for Amazon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2744">TS</a>]

00:45:46   they did kind of turn it around and so yeah they don't make big profits and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2746">TS</a>]

00:45:52   quarter and sometimes they lose a little sometimes they they make a little but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2752">TS</a>]

00:45:56   it's not at all that it's not at all like it was in the nineties when they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2756">TS</a>]

00:46:03   were burning money they're not be right money right and even you know I brought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2763">TS</a>]

00:46:09   this up briefly in the peaceful lake it's funny that they you know Amazon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2769">TS</a>]

00:46:12   invested in things like pets.com which of course you know is one of the great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2772">TS</a>]

00:46:15   dot com flame outs and even more recently they invest in LivingSocial [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2775">TS</a>]

00:46:20   which is they've had to write down their investment and so they're still sticking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2780">TS</a>]

00:46:25   some risks and you know making sort of crazy bets but in the nineties pets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2785">TS</a>]

00:46:28   upcoming was total disaster while they were losing money and they still don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2788">TS</a>]

00:46:32   go under now we have LivingSocial thing is a total disaster but they're able to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2792">TS</a>]

00:46:38   easily withstand something like that it doesn't even really make it did you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2798">TS</a>]

00:46:42   they did lose whatever that was a few quarters good that they wrote it down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2802">TS</a>]

00:46:45   you know they posted some some losses but you know investors still don't mind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2805">TS</a>]

00:46:50   it's like they they trust Amazon because the amazon has lived through kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2810">TS</a>]

00:46:55   some seemingly impossible things to live through like you were saying in the in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2815">TS</a>]

00:46:59   the sort of the dot-com bubble and you said like basis has been upfront about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2819">TS</a>]

00:47:04   it forever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2824">TS</a>]

00:47:05   you know he has been you know I Amazon investors are getting exactly what they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2825">TS</a>]

00:47:10   were promised yeah you know but maybe someday there gonna need to turn a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2830">TS</a>]

00:47:14   profit I mean you have to assume that they will it it becomes like it just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2834">TS</a>]

00:47:19   becomes a very weird thing and I would have thought I think I like two years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2839">TS</a>]

00:47:22   ago I think at some point they will have to show profit right like winter I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2842">TS</a>]

00:47:29   get it this is madness when are they ever going to actually show a profit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2849">TS</a>]

00:47:33   again are meaningful profit again and you know investors just the stock has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2853">TS</a>]

00:47:38   passed $300 whatever and and they show no signs of slowing down so I don't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2858">TS</a>]

00:47:43   actually win win that is that they have to do that and basil seems like he's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2863">TS</a>]

00:47:47   step ahead and that he does know when they'll have to do that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2867">TS</a>]

00:47:50   and I don't know when that is and maybe it's her but I think that it will be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2870">TS</a>]

00:47:55   sometime relatively soon I have to believe that I think so let me take a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2875">TS</a>]

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00:49:13   you sit there is a catch the catches they don't have the iPhone right now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2953">TS</a>]

00:49:17   that's obviously going to effect a significant number of people listen to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2957">TS</a>]

00:49:21   the show but there's also a lot of people like John Siracusa out there who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2961">TS</a>]

00:49:26   don't have an iPhone don't want to spend the money on $120 a month iPhone plan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2966">TS</a>]

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00:49:59   mobile services exact same way mobile service is notorious for all sorts of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/2999">TS</a>]

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00:50:32   they're working on so boris did you in His peace following up on on Amazon I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3032">TS</a>]

00:50:41   think he focused a lot on the idea of flipping the switch which would be sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3041">TS</a>]

00:50:46   of switching from breaking into suddenly making big profits I think if there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3046">TS</a>]

00:50:51   anything I liked his piece of that he made a lot of great pieces Island it up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3051">TS</a>]

00:50:54   but I think maybe flipping the switch is the wrong notion I think it's maybe a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3054">TS</a>]

00:50:59   little bit more like turning this pick it up a little bit you know and yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3059">TS</a>]

00:51:04   order or the opposite turning the spigot down on the expenditures that they have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3064">TS</a>]

00:51:09   right right it's it's not flipping a switch and suddenly piles of profit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3069">TS</a>]

00:51:15   start piling in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3075">TS</a>]

00:51:16   I think it's turning dials little downturn this little downturn this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3076">TS</a>]

00:51:20   little up you know maybe raised prices just a little maybe decrease [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3080">TS</a>]

00:51:27   expenditures on you know capital in ventures expenditures a little bit and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3087">TS</a>]

00:51:32   all of a sudden you know the little better profits turn into a little bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3092">TS</a>]

00:51:37   more profits suddenly turned into more profits turned into more profits quarter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3097">TS</a>]

00:51:40   after quarter and it's you know or you know like water boiling on the stove you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3100">TS</a>]

00:51:48   know it doesn't just go from cold to hot but eventually it is very hot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3108">TS</a>]

00:51:51   yeah I think I guess there was one of my main problems with horses post was just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3111">TS</a>]

00:51:59   that it seems like to me that he was trying to squeeze Amazon into a easy to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3119">TS</a>]

00:52:06   understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3126">TS</a>]

00:52:07   and Apple business model right where at some point Amazon will have to flip a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3127">TS</a>]

00:52:14   switch meaning turn up the cost I assume of the goods they sell it to make it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3134">TS</a>]

00:52:22   better margins and then to to make better profits what I think he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3142">TS</a>]

00:52:26   discounting is the fact that they can instead just not spend as much money on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3146">TS</a>]

00:52:30   dated warehouses or things of that nature and the fact that Amazon is in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3150">TS</a>]

00:52:36   there in an increasing number of businesses remember we talked about AWS [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3156">TS</a>]

00:52:40   there now getting into this sort of the web threat FreshDirect stuff right where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3160">TS</a>]

00:52:47   they're doing sort of grocery deliveries and I don't know I don't know what the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3167">TS</a>]

00:52:50   margins are on that they're probably not very great but still that's a that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3170">TS</a>]

00:52:53   another new business that they're getting into and we haven't even talked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3173">TS</a>]

00:52:55   about things like where they could potentially you know they could get into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3175">TS</a>]

00:53:00   the advertising business more certainly they have a lot of interesting user data [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3180">TS</a>]

00:53:04   and they have all those credit cards on file they could get more into the in-app [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3184">TS</a>]

00:53:08   purchase stuff certainly they already have their own app store they're just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3188">TS</a>]

00:53:12   doing a lot of stuff that i think is is is totally discounted in the notion that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3192">TS</a>]

00:53:17   Amazon is still just the one company that sort of you go to buy anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3197">TS</a>]

00:53:21   online there's so many different things now so I don't think that it's just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3201">TS</a>]

00:53:24   matter of flipping a switch I think you're right it's turning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3204">TS</a>]

00:53:27   just tweaking nozzles for all of these different businesses that they have that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3207">TS</a>]

00:53:30   that is the way that if they do eventually decide that they want to show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3210">TS</a>]

00:53:34   profits again at least for a little bit that's how they're going to do it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3214">TS</a>]

00:53:39   yeah I totally agree with that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3219">TS</a>]

00:53:42   backtrack a little bit and like you said you were talking about like the almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3222">TS</a>]

00:53:48   the perfect storm that the iPhone was for Apple may be one of the reasons [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3228">TS</a>]

00:53:55   they've amassed so much cash is that they deserve [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3235">TS</a>]

00:53:59   it's almost a surprise to them that the iPhone turned into such a success [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3239">TS</a>]

00:54:05   yeah and that three years later that all of that technology software and hardware [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3245">TS</a>]

00:54:11   that the iPhone was gave them the perfect opportunity to do the iPad and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3251">TS</a>]

00:54:18   start suddenly after all these years taking massive chunk of the PC industry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3258">TS</a>]

00:54:27   has faced as the years have gone by that this is what has happened is that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3267">TS</a>]

00:54:32   iPad and tablets in general have have overrun just completely almost overrun [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3272">TS</a>]

00:54:39   the sub thousand dollar portable computer market [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3279">TS</a>]

00:54:44   yes i think thats I think that you're the first point is definitely right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3284">TS</a>]

00:54:49   where I would imagine that they were surprised at how good the business could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3289">TS</a>]

00:54:54   be because you know they were they were entering a new space jobs you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3294">TS</a>]

00:54:59   famously said what was what percentage did he want to get like five percent or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3299">TS</a>]

00:55:04   whatever it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3304">TS</a>]

00:55:05   of the of the smartphone million and one percent of the phone market one percent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3305">TS</a>]

00:55:09   of the overall vote phone market or so and by the way while Nokia and some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3309">TS</a>]

00:55:14   other ones had hit great businesses at that point they were nowhere near the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3314">TS</a>]

00:55:17   business that the iPhone is from you know that the carrier at least in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3317">TS</a>]

00:55:22   you s carrier market where where these things are subsidizing the money gets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3322">TS</a>]

00:55:26   paid up front to Apple and so it's almost like they were it really was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3326">TS</a>]

00:55:31   perfect storm because right as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3331">TS</a>]

00:55:33   Tim Cook was taking over Tim Cook had its streamlined the art of making you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3333">TS</a>]

00:55:39   know beautiful products that people want for a relatively inexpensive you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3339">TS</a>]

00:55:46   manufacturing write the thing is we we talked about you know I am making [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3346">TS</a>]

00:55:51   premium products and so most of the time when you make a premium product you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3351">TS</a>]

00:55:55   the the problem at a very high level I know this isn't the way that it always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3355">TS</a>]

00:55:59   is but the thing is it it it costs more because it costs more to make great but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3359">TS</a>]

00:56:04   Apple cats so streamlined it getting at getting good at making things like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3364">TS</a>]

00:56:08   iPhone where it's like they could make this this this thing is so much higher [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3368">TS</a>]

00:56:12   quality than everything else they could almost make it the same cost of their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3372">TS</a>]

00:56:15   rivals making these these decidedly less quality phones and so that along with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3375">TS</a>]

00:56:21   the fact that the smartphone market you know Apple timed it perfectly that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3381">TS</a>]

00:56:25   took off and with the with the sort of the carrier subsidy model already in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3385">TS</a>]

00:56:29   place and I think the carrier sort of underestimated sort of how big something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3389">TS</a>]

00:56:35   like the iPhone and Android phones would would become it really was the perfect [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3395">TS</a>]

00:56:40   storm in making this like the absolute perfect product that I don't think that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3400">TS</a>]

00:56:44   anyone can really match again at least anytime soon in terms of just how much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3404">TS</a>]

00:56:50   profit making off of that and think about what Apple's margins used to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3410">TS</a>]

00:56:55   and then remembered like a few quarters ago when they got up to it was like 42 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3415">TS</a>]

00:56:59   percent or something like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3419">TS</a>]

00:57:01   loser like software margins for a hardware company which is crazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3421">TS</a>]

00:57:05   significantly higher than Microsoft's in Google's which is crazy because of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3425">TS</a>]

00:57:10   Microsoft and Google are primarily overwhelmingly software companies right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3430">TS</a>]

00:57:15   right yeah I'm so I you know I think you're right there with me where I am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3435">TS</a>]

00:57:20   really have no almost zero down i mean you know nothing certain but I have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3440">TS</a>]

00:57:25   zeroed out that innovation is far from over a couples should be good for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3445">TS</a>]

00:57:30   decades to come in terms of coming up with new products [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3450">TS</a>]

00:57:34   in new categories I don't know that they'll ever come up with a new product [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3454">TS</a>]

00:57:39   in a new category that of the massive profitability as as the iPhone and iPad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3459">TS</a>]

00:57:45   because you know I just think about the size of the market it almost everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3465">TS</a>]

00:57:52   on the planet is gonna have a mobile phone and certainly you know there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3472">TS</a>]

00:57:57   huge huge chunk of of the world that can't even dream of buying a $700 phone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3477">TS</a>]

00:58:06   but it doesn't matter to Apple in all for just talking about profitability and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3486">TS</a>]

00:58:11   revenue you know I'm not saying those people no matter but their money doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3491">TS</a>]

00:58:15   matter because if they don't have the money it's irrelevant but in terms of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3495">TS</a>]

00:58:19   the people who could in theory by a $700 so it's it's almost everybody who has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3499">TS</a>]

00:58:29   money is going to at least consider yourself it's a massive market it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3509">TS</a>]

00:58:35   very expensive product I think in the grand scheme of things you know $700 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3515">TS</a>]

00:58:40   foner 67 $800 tablet these are expensive things in the grand scheme of things I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3520">TS</a>]

00:58:46   mean compare and contrast with the iPod which really didn't take off until it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3526">TS</a>]

00:58:51   hit like the 199 markers so I mean even then it's expensive for a music player [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3531">TS</a>]

00:58:57   and at the end the flip side of what you're saying which is exactly right is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3537">TS</a>]

00:59:03   that the iPhone didn't take off in a meaningful way either until it got down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3543">TS</a>]

00:59:07   $299 because it was subsidized and there's no other there's just no other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3547">TS</a>]

00:59:13   business that's like that right there's not gonna be some some weird entity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3553">TS</a>]

00:59:17   that's not Apple that's going to pay Apple to lower the price of their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3557">TS</a>]

00:59:21   products and in terms of Apple not maybe not knowing quite what they were getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3561">TS</a>]

00:59:25   into at the outset I think the thing that they knew that they had was they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3565">TS</a>]

00:59:30   had an amazing device right i mean as everybody knows you know the one product [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3570">TS</a>]

00:59:35   that Apple introduced that wasn't banned on day one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3575">TS</a>]

00:59:38   as you know for whatever I mean there were some people who thought they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3578">TS</a>]

00:59:41   going to be a failure but nobody denied that the thing wasn't incredibly cool [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3581">TS</a>]

00:59:47   right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3587">TS</a>]

00:59:48   they knew that they had a great product is amazing holy shit you have a computer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3588">TS</a>]

00:59:53   in your hand and it's all touching it was so smooth and everybody knew that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3593">TS</a>]

00:59:57   was great so they were focused on that he knew it they had a great then but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3597">TS</a>]

01:00:01   just think about the way that with the original iPhone in 2007 they actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3601">TS</a>]

01:00:05   tried to circumvent the traditional carrier subsidy thing where you you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3605">TS</a>]

01:00:11   bought your to buy your iPhone on june 28 thru whatever it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3611">TS</a>]

01:00:18   2007 you paid they are paid 599 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3618">TS</a>]

01:00:23   $4.99 we bought unsubsidized iPhone and what we've gotten turned forget our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3623">TS</a>]

01:00:34   monthly fee from AT&T was a little bit lower as we didn't have any kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3634">TS</a>]

01:00:38   contracting we still had contract with AT&T but we weren't buying subsidized [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3638">TS</a>]

01:00:44   devices and I can't help but think it was because they wanted they somehow but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3644">TS</a>]

01:00:48   they don't want to get into that because then it would it would tie them to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3648">TS</a>]

01:00:55   carriers too much yup that's exactly right and then they that what I think it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3655">TS</a>]

01:01:01   was the real genius was the fact that they stayed exclusive to AT&T for so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3661">TS</a>]

01:01:06   long and they forced the other carriers to sort of been to there will be no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3666">TS</a>]

01:01:11   Verizon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3671">TS</a>]

01:01:12   especially because otherwise it just they would have had to make so many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3672">TS</a>]

01:01:17   sacrifices we would have Verizon and on the back of the phone we would have had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3677">TS</a>]

01:01:20   like little stickers who had all these apps installed like we see any Android [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3680">TS</a>]

01:01:24   because you know you remember that Google tried to do the same thing with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3684">TS</a>]

01:01:28   the I think it was the Nexus One the original one where they tried to sell it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3688">TS</a>]

01:01:32   online at full price without can you could pick your carrier and it just did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3692">TS</a>]

01:01:39   not work same ideas didn't work for the same reason because no one's gonna pay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3699">TS</a>]

01:01:42   that much for a phone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3702">TS</a>]

01:01:43   the problem was exacerbated by the fact that unlike Apple Google doesn't have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3703">TS</a>]

01:01:48   retail stores so like Apple's you know secrets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3708">TS</a>]

01:01:51   access really could you could also say why they could they could pressure the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3711">TS</a>]

01:01:54   carriers as much as they have those stores which moved the iPhone so they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3714">TS</a>]

01:01:58   don't need it really AT&T and Verizon they do that at a certain scale of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3718">TS</a>]

01:02:02   course because you know more people you know by them based on what carrier they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3722">TS</a>]

01:02:07   want but they have their backup plan which is just that will try to push them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3727">TS</a>]

01:02:10   in the stores and you hear that even now they're trying to ramp up the amount [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3730">TS</a>]

01:02:14   that are sold through the stores versus through the other day other carrier [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3734">TS</a>]

01:02:17   partners yeah I and it it just I think the African how many iPhones sold in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3737">TS</a>]

01:02:25   first year but is only like a million or something like that yeah yeah if even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3745">TS</a>]

01:02:30   that of something small small I mean it's you know they saw like five million [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3750">TS</a>]

01:02:34   in the opening weekend when they come out with a new one like this there was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3754">TS</a>]

01:02:39   whole year like so late in the grand scheme of things that first iPhone was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3759">TS</a>]

01:02:43   not a hit product in in the mass market it was among people like us probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3763">TS</a>]

01:02:48   listeners of the show probably you know huge number of people who listen to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3768">TS</a>]

01:02:51   show probably bottomed original iPhone right but it wasn't a mass market it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3771">TS</a>]

01:02:56   because it was $699 $599 phone even though when you buy a subsidized for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3776">TS</a>]

01:03:03   $1.99 or $99 you are paying the price you pay more right to actually do pay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3783">TS</a>]

01:03:11   more right but it it the psychology the truth is the psychology works yep it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3791">TS</a>]

01:03:16   does people it feels like only buying a hundred $999 iPhone because you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3796">TS</a>]

01:03:23   already prepared for that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3803">TS</a>]

01:03:24   monthly bill that has the subsidy charged built-in baked into it that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3804">TS</a>]

01:03:31   exactly right and so you know it's over now with all this talk of this this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3811">TS</a>]

01:03:34   cheaper iPhone which I don't know anything firsthand about but I do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3814">TS</a>]

01:03:37   secondhand I do think I do think that we're finally in the in the in the point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3817">TS</a>]

01:03:42   at the point where this is legitimate and there will be some sort of you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3822">TS</a>]

01:03:46   cheaper version of the iPhone because of everything we just talked about but also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3826">TS</a>]

01:03:52   the fact that Apple wants to expand the market they need to have a bigger bigger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3832">TS</a>]

01:03:56   share of the Chinese and Indian and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3836">TS</a>]

01:03:59   and some other different countries where they don't have the subsidy model and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3839">TS</a>]

01:04:03   that's the only way to do it and you know we'll see what the what the price [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3843">TS</a>]

01:04:07   point ends up being of that thing with his what are the things floating around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3847">TS</a>]

01:04:09   now that would be like $300 or something like that unsubsidized [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3849">TS</a>]

01:04:14   might be too much money I don't know and I don't cheap might be the wrong way to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3854">TS</a>]

01:04:19   look at it but i i think i think pricing wise what it's going to turn out being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3859">TS</a>]

01:04:23   is the thing that we've all been talking about since the fall of 2007 when the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3863">TS</a>]

01:04:28   first iPod Touch coming came out which is if the iPod Touch only costs three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3868">TS</a>]

01:04:34   hundred and fifty dollars or $300 or whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3874">TS</a>]

01:04:37   how much would it cost for them to put a cell chip in there i mean of course it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3877">TS</a>]

01:04:42   would make it thicker let's just assume that putting an extra extra antenna and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3882">TS</a>]

01:04:46   chips etcetera and to make it do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3886">TS</a>]

01:04:49   LTE invoice and you know but it can't be that big you know i mean that has always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3889">TS</a>]

01:04:55   been better than the iPhone but why could they make an iPod touch if its 350 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3895">TS</a>]

01:05:00   bucks why can't they make a cell phone costs and I think that's what this you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3900">TS</a>]

01:05:04   know lower-cost iPhone is an iPod touch that can make phone calls yet so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3904">TS</a>]

01:05:09   wonder what they'll do that in the you s market where you know the the carrier [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3909">TS</a>]

01:05:13   syst dominate certainly they got the carriers to agree to do the ala carte [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3913">TS</a>]

01:05:19   iPad stuff originally right like where you could just you can pay one month and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3919">TS</a>]

01:05:24   not pay the next month and was really easy to flip on and off right there was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3924">TS</a>]

01:05:26   no contract I don't know how that will go over with this with this new device [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3926">TS</a>]

01:05:32   like will will just not be available in the USA Thompson saying it has to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3932">TS</a>]

01:05:36   right but there's no way that they would do it and only launched overseas know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3936">TS</a>]

01:05:39   let's come back to that I have some thoughts on that but let me just do the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3939">TS</a>]

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01:06:23   after they'd spend some time putting the data in a certain way or whatever no you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3983">TS</a>]

01:06:27   just put addresses in hit a button and you get a map with the addresses of all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3987">TS</a>]

01:06:33   sorts of other things you can do to they have an easy way that you can make a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3993">TS</a>]

01:06:36   locator app for your website like if you have a website with locations in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/3996">TS</a>]

01:06:42   restaurant or something like that they have an easy way to do that thing where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4002">TS</a>]

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01:06:52   simple video that explains the whole product way better than I could do here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4012">TS</a>]

01:06:56   if you have any kind of location data wanna make maps of any kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4016">TS</a>]

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01:07:14   thought on low-cost iPhone my thought is why now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4034">TS</a>]

01:07:17   like they have had a low cut they did the the coverage of it has to me for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4037">TS</a>]

01:07:23   years been misguided because they've had a lower cost iPhone four years and years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4043">TS</a>]

01:07:29   ever since they started the strategy of selling the previous year's phone for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4049">TS</a>]

01:07:35   another year at a lower price and then they run to three levels where they had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4055">TS</a>]

01:07:39   22 year old phone which is now free with a contract and then a year old phone for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4059">TS</a>]

01:07:44   99 bucks and it gets lost in the tech press because the tech press doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4064">TS</a>]

01:07:49   care about anything other than new products right it's new it's not new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4069">TS</a>]

01:07:52   that's so it doesn't count and somehow that spread to the business version to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4072">TS</a>]

01:07:59   you know like the business journalists also somehow discount the fact [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4079">TS</a>]

01:08:04   that Apple has a pretty darn good free with contract phone right now the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4084">TS</a>]

01:08:10   iPhone 4 but again the key is with contract at how much are they selling it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4090">TS</a>]

01:08:16   for I don't know how much are they selling it for on subspace you know I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4096">TS</a>]

01:08:20   honestly don't know because they don't they don't sell them any less I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4100">TS</a>]

01:08:23   though I think it's still so so basically they're taking you know a $200 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4103">TS</a>]

01:08:28   thing down to $99 and get a free right so I think what I think not sure about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4108">TS</a>]

01:08:33   this but I think that they're selling it for about 450 or whatever you know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4113">TS</a>]

01:08:36   basically full price of the iPhone 5 minus $200 for that thing so I think it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4116">TS</a>]

01:08:42   still four hundred and fifty and I do think that that's still a non-starter in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4122">TS</a>]

01:08:47   some of the other countries around the world and so I don't know what the price [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4127">TS</a>]

01:08:53   point they need to get to is I don't know if it's if it's $300 that's that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4133">TS</a>]

01:08:58   what they're aiming for it maybe two hundred dollars in subsidized that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4138">TS</a>]

01:09:02   need to get to to actually make it a viable thing and I don't know what kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4142">TS</a>]

01:09:05   of what kind of corners they'd have to cut to do that but like you're talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4145">TS</a>]

01:09:08   about how much is the cheapest iPod Touch right now it's got it's like it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4148">TS</a>]

01:09:13   a 250 is it is it in between [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4153">TS</a>]

01:09:17   let's take a look 229 229 that's and that's the 16 gig one that doesn't even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4157">TS</a>]

01:09:25   have a camera doesn't have a rear-facing camera yes so ok so they'd like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4165">TS</a>]

01:09:31   basically shaved 2001 with the camera are $2.99 ok so and does it have more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4171">TS</a>]

01:09:39   surgeries at the same 32 and 64 akka so conceivably they could do a 16 gig sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4179">TS</a>]

01:09:48   of iPod touch with cellular radio right for I don't know I don't know how much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4188">TS</a>]

01:09:53   it would cost 250 yeah maybe I don't know it seems like 299 is definitely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4193">TS</a>]

01:10:00   reachable for sure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4200">TS</a>]

01:10:03   I would I can't help but think that the plastic back that all reports about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4203">TS</a>]

01:10:08   device you know claim and which makes sense of its a point to make it cheaper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4208">TS</a>]

01:10:13   you know has got to be cheaper than a little or no I don't know if the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4213">TS</a>]

01:10:16   aluminum is that significant factor in the $300 costs but right now no I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4216">TS</a>]

01:10:22   couple sense here a couple sense there and you know you might have a $250 and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4222">TS</a>]

01:10:29   so i think thats good guess I think that's like it probably will be 299 try [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4229">TS</a>]

01:10:35   that at least at first maybe they have to lower to 250 can still do that within [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4235">TS</a>]

01:10:38   their their margins have a $250 1 to get you in the door but everybody's gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4238">TS</a>]

01:10:45   buy the 299 1 because there's some more stories right yeah but by a mean and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4245">TS</a>]

01:10:54   know I don't know I don't remember what the margin on the iPod touches but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4254">TS</a>]

01:10:57   clearly not what the iPhone is and that's that's gonna be a huge problem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4257">TS</a>]

01:11:02   for wall street again you know where the margin later talked about a few quarters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4262">TS</a>]

01:11:07   ago was that forty-something percent and now all of a sudden it's gonna go below [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4267">TS</a>]

01:11:10   you know maybe goes below 30 percent because maybe if they if they do this in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4270">TS</a>]

01:11:16   a successful way at any kind of meaningful volume this is just going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4276">TS</a>]

01:11:19   drive down the margin and that's what that's unfortunately one of the things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4279">TS</a>]

01:11:23   that Wall Street will focus on and you know say like well you know the the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4283">TS</a>]

01:11:29   of of riding high for Apple is is over now they're now they're going into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4289">TS</a>]

01:11:34   margin volume business yeah I have some serious questions about how they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4294">TS</a>]

01:11:40   going to bring this one to market to because I don't know I I'm sure they'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4300">TS</a>]

01:11:44   say I'm almost like you I can't believe they wouldn't sell in the USA but in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4304">TS</a>]

01:11:48   USA I don't know how they sell it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4308">TS</a>]

01:11:51   unsubsidized I think right so I think they would I think I think this is all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4311">TS</a>]

01:11:56   coming together there's a lot of pieces out there right and we're in we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4316">TS</a>]

01:12:00   starting to see them starting to make sense why is Apple pushing for Apple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4320">TS</a>]

01:12:06   stores to sell more iPhones within the store why do they can hear certainly you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4326">TS</a>]

01:12:11   know they're in more control the experience you could argue and it's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4331">TS</a>]

01:12:15   a better overall experience for the customer and you know they like having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4335">TS</a>]

01:12:19   that relationship and not having to worry about using the carrier certainly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4339">TS</a>]

01:12:22   that's all true but if it's also that they're they're only going to sell this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4342">TS</a>]

01:12:25   through the Apple stores and they want to get people in the mindset that if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4345">TS</a>]

01:12:30   want to buy an iPhone you go to an Apple store you don't go to Verizon anymore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4350">TS</a>]

01:12:34   AT&T because and now by the way we have this lower-cost new iPhone that comes in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4354">TS</a>]

01:12:41   a variety of colors and it's only available exclusively at the Apple Store [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4361">TS</a>]

01:12:46   so come on and get it and so maybe there maybe they're trying to lead into that a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4366">TS</a>]

01:12:50   little bit with this maybe that's interesting I hadn't thought of that but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4370">TS</a>]

01:12:54   that's definitely makes some sense with the again this I guess we know because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4374">TS</a>]

01:13:00   people who work at Apple stores have even said so that it's come down from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4380">TS</a>]

01:13:05   Cupertino that you know that that's the retail Apple stores are supposed to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4385">TS</a>]

01:13:10   trying to sell more phones right then they had been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4390">TS</a>]

01:13:14   here's the other factors I've been thinking and I gotta write this up for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4394">TS</a>]

01:13:17   daring fireball but long story short why this year to switch to a new phone at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4397">TS</a>]

01:13:25   the low price point as opposed to previous years you know when they've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4405">TS</a>]

01:13:29   sold these years old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4409">TS</a>]

01:13:30   phoned and and there's a couple of technical reasons why they might wanna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4410">TS</a>]

01:13:34   do that now which are to me the two big ones I see are the screen to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4414">TS</a>]

01:13:41   everybody on 605 every 15 mins [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4421">TS</a>]

01:13:44   yeah four-inch screen 16 29 aspect ratio and to get everybody on do lightning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4424">TS</a>]

01:13:52   adapter yes that's a big thing that no one really talks about but that's still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4432">TS</a>]

01:13:58   a problem for them right that there's so many devices out there that are not on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4438">TS</a>]

01:14:01   this lightning adapter and it would be if they followed the old-time this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4441">TS</a>]

01:14:06   just a theory of mine is that they're going to announce this they're gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4446">TS</a>]

01:14:12   stop selling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4452">TS</a>]

01:14:14   while obviously the for the old strategy would have been that the four would go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4454">TS</a>]

01:14:19   out the door for a sore ass would be a free so I think that they're gonna get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4459">TS</a>]

01:14:25   rid of the four and the 40 S and it makes sense because it doesn't have the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4465">TS</a>]

01:14:30   foreign screens right that eases developer pain a bit and kind of pushes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4470">TS</a>]

01:14:36   everything forward especially if I don't know who your thoughts on this but if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4476">TS</a>]

01:14:40   you know if they do want to do a different size again slightly larger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4480">TS</a>]

01:14:45   than four-inch screen they have to get rid of the three and a half inch screen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4485">TS</a>]

01:14:50   when they do that right I would think so I don't know I mean only way I could see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4490">TS</a>]

01:14:54   it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4494">TS</a>]

01:14:55   well yeah i just i just think that they want to get rid of that I think it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4495">TS</a>]

01:15:00   more about the aspect ratio than the size is in theory and the rumors are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4500">TS</a>]

01:15:04   that this low cost you know if that leaks or truth that cases are true it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4504">TS</a>]

01:15:09   the same size as the iPhone right 55 in theory I could still see them coming out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4509">TS</a>]

01:15:16   with Ace physically smaller phone that maybe would have a three and a half inch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4516">TS</a>]

01:15:22   screen but it would be sixty-nine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4522">TS</a>]

01:15:24   it would be an interesting year yeah you know and then shrink the chin and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4524">TS</a>]

01:15:29   forehead or something like that you know make it so that the device is almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4529">TS</a>]

01:15:33   just the size of the screen I can see them doing that a lot maybe three and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4533">TS</a>]

01:15:39   half is too small if it keeps the aspect ratio of 3.7 or something that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4539">TS</a>]

01:15:45   interesting about that you know I just expected but I wouldn't be shocked you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4545">TS</a>]

01:15:50   know and I think if they come out with a bigger one to address the people who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4550">TS</a>]

01:15:53   really do want a bigger screen again the aspect ratio I think problem certainly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4553">TS</a>]

01:15:58   stay the same 16 I really do think they want to get everybody on that and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4558">TS</a>]

01:16:02   think getting rid of the thirty port adapter just makes sense I just feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4562">TS</a>]

01:16:06   like at this point it looks just looks antiquated and so the idea of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4566">TS</a>]

01:16:10   selling iphone4s for another year just seems outdated yeah I think that that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4570">TS</a>]

01:16:17   that's all pretty pretty good good reasoning for why they would do it right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4577">TS</a>]

01:16:22   now I also wonder how much because the flying I have my old for us right here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4582">TS</a>]

01:16:27   in front of me because I'm using it for testing I was seven [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4587">TS</a>]

01:16:32   it's a premium product right it's got this steel band around the side its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4592">TS</a>]

01:16:39   class front guard class back and it just feels premium and I you know I can't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4599">TS</a>]

01:16:45   help but think I don't know how big a cost of the device the premium materials [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4605">TS</a>]

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01:16:57   obviously when the four s came out it was a cutting-edge mobile processor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4617">TS</a>]

01:17:01   cutting-edge mobile GPU and now it's you know two-year-old technology it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4621">TS</a>]

01:17:06   certainly a lot cheaper but the glass-and-steel still cost the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4626">TS</a>]

01:17:10   whereas if you really want to get a lower unsubsidized price I feel like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4630">TS</a>]

01:17:16   switching to a new material makes a lot more sense and how much do you think I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4636">TS</a>]

01:17:22   know it's sort of silly but it it you know it it may be silly to discount how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4642">TS</a>]

01:17:26   much sort of customization we we see that you know what the new Moto X right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4646">TS</a>]

01:17:30   where they're they're highly customized just from our perspective right and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4650">TS</a>]

01:17:35   that's the rumor course with this this low-cost iPhone that they would have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4655">TS</a>]

01:17:38   maybe some different colors and certainly that's been the case of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4658">TS</a>]

01:17:42   iPods for a long time the iPod nanos at least and so how much do you think that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4662">TS</a>]

01:17:48   that plays into it you think that that's important for them I guess I think it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4668">TS</a>]

01:17:52   does it is starting to get old I mean I'm just gonna buy a black one but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4672">TS</a>]

01:17:57   feel like it's starting to get old that you can only get in there and I'm just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4677">TS</a>]

01:18:01   I'm staring here right now ever since we're talking about it a few minutes ago [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4681">TS</a>]

01:18:04   at the iPod Touch page and to me it looks more happily to have a array of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4684">TS</a>]

01:18:09   colors of a device and certainly with the new I was seven color palette that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4689">TS</a>]

01:18:16   it sort of is sort of the way they're going so here's a question I wonder I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4696">TS</a>]

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01:18:22   and it seems like the rumors are way more about the lower-cost iPhone quote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4702">TS</a>]

01:18:26   unquote iPhone 5 see than the presumed iPhone 5 s new phone but if they come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4706">TS</a>]

01:18:36   out with the lower cost one and it comes in five colors can they still do the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4716">TS</a>]

01:18:42   high end one just in black and white [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4722">TS</a>]

01:18:44   I mean presumably they want people to buy them in a preferred with they bought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4724">TS</a>]

01:18:48   the more expensive but I think I know can't think about what they did with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4728">TS</a>]

01:18:54   regular iPod and then the iPod nanos rights of the nanos run colors the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4734">TS</a>]

01:18:59   iPod's remained in black and white right there are you 21 or whatever but yeah so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4739">TS</a>]

01:19:07   I don't know I have no idea but I would I would guess that maybe they do that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4747">TS</a>]

01:19:10   and then in the selling point on the higher end is you know like like you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4750">TS</a>]

01:19:15   saying this is this is the premium product the city's top of the line the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4755">TS</a>]

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01:19:23   won't talk about and it may be it has you know that the fingerprint reader has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4763">TS</a>]

01:19:28   it been rumored and that's like that sort of the marquee differentiator of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4768">TS</a>]

01:19:34   like what's new about this device and have a better camera for saturday right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4774">TS</a>]

01:19:38   and so maybe they do just rely on that if you want this go with this if you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4778">TS</a>]

01:19:44   interested in sort of personalization and fun and colors and maybe they think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4784">TS</a>]

01:19:48   that's more the teen market or you know some of their market that they're going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4788">TS</a>]

01:19:53   after maybe they think that they can differentiate those enough for it where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4793">TS</a>]

01:19:57   it makes sense to do that I wonder too I would love to know I don't know how who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4797">TS</a>]

01:20:01   who could do such a survey but I would love to know what percentage of iPhone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4801">TS</a>]

01:20:07   users use a case with their device yeah that would be interesting to know i you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4807">TS</a>]

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01:20:18   where in you know in San Francisco it's sort of considered I i've had discussion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4818">TS</a>]

01:20:23   of many people search considered a full body is the case right and and in you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4823">TS</a>]

01:20:27   even remember the event all those years ago and attended Gatorade [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4827">TS</a>]

01:20:32   you ask them jerry is anyone using the bumper and they all you know jobs and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4832">TS</a>]

01:20:36   and cooking everyone pulled out their right hands they put out their populist [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4836">TS</a>]

01:20:41   iPhones and so I feel like it's sort of a faux pas in like in the tax year to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4841">TS</a>]

01:20:46   use a case I certainly don't use a case except when I'm using the Mophie to to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4846">TS</a>]

01:20:50   recharge it but I would bet that it's much much higher percentage use a case [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4850">TS</a>]

01:20:56   in the day today you know regular regular world out there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4856">TS</a>]

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01:21:08   two things I was caught a whole bunch of pictures of people using tablets as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4868">TS</a>]

01:21:14   cameras nice to say to have went to most of them overwhelmingly none surprise [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4874">TS</a>]

01:21:18   where iPad but I saw a few obviously 16 2910 which meant that they were you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4878">TS</a>]

01:21:25   Android tablets of some sort but I was also I just was looking I Drive had this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4885">TS</a>]

01:21:31   on my mind thinking about this plastic iPhone I was looking at people's iPhones [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4891">TS</a>]

01:21:34   and disney world which i think is a pretty good cross-section of the whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4894">TS</a>]

01:21:40   country [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4900">TS</a>]

01:21:41   Disney World in July boy i i would guess I seventy-five eighty percent of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4901">TS</a>]

01:21:46   people had him in the case really really sad that can and do you think that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4906">TS</a>]

01:21:56   goes back to the idea of personalization or protecting it could be both of course [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4916">TS</a>]

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01:22:06   don't think it's surprise especially the cases that women had we're very colorful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4926">TS</a>]

01:22:13   patterned you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4933">TS</a>]

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01:22:22   the wall of of of cases like at the Apple store and i stood you know you see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4942">TS</a>]

01:22:27   all of them in real life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4947">TS</a>]

01:22:28   somebody's brain every one of those I wonder though with the plastic if it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4948">TS</a>]

01:22:32   plastic iPhone will people see the need to buy a case for ya yeah potentially [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4952">TS</a>]

01:22:38   not though I don't know why would I think this is one of the things will be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4958">TS</a>]

01:22:43   surprised about where people do anyway yeah because it's it's not like we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4963">TS</a>]

01:22:46   haven't had plastic I funds before we had 23 dry 3ds and I seem to recall that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4966">TS</a>]

01:22:51   in the real world most people put him in cases yeah they just like when I first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4971">TS</a>]

01:22:56   got an iPhone ridiculously I used to I insisted on getting one of those over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4976">TS</a>]

01:23:04   screens on the planting protector thing it's like any like I can't imagine doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4984">TS</a>]

01:23:09   that right now but it was just in my head that I need to do that each time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4989">TS</a>]

01:23:13   like I was protecting it and so I just did that until until they start to talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4993">TS</a>]

01:23:17   about whatever the allele phobic we are exactly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/4997">TS</a>]

01:23:22   coding yeah yeah you know and I'm over the years I've always had good luck with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5002">TS</a>]

01:23:28   my phones not carry him in a case I've never had one shattered and neither of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5008">TS</a>]

01:23:32   which everyone thinks is so strange this one I guess is nine months old one tiny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5012">TS</a>]

01:23:38   scratch on the glass and it's only visible against like a white background [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5018">TS</a>]

01:23:43   and only when I heard it at a certain angle it's a tiny little hairline [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5023">TS</a>]

01:23:49   scratch a mean it's almost I would I would venture to say it the screen at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5029">TS</a>]

01:23:55   least is would be qualified as near mint and that's no I'm not particularly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5035">TS</a>]

01:24:00   careful with it but i dont I think a big part of it is the personalization I do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5040">TS</a>]

01:24:05   think I think people are cautious cuz I think people see that their iPhone is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5045">TS</a>]

01:24:09   you know a valuable thing that you carry around in your pocket [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5049">TS</a>]

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01:24:17   a huge part of it yeah I mean and and the fact that Apple carries so many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5057">TS</a>]

01:24:22   cases in their stores like you were saying says that they recognize that too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5062">TS</a>]

01:24:28   totaling so it's wrapped up I will say this though just one more thing on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5068">TS</a>]

01:24:33   future and what's coming up you know next year or two from Apple just tossing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5073">TS</a>]

01:24:38   it out there like I know that the watch the iWatch is certainly one that a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5078">TS</a>]

01:24:41   of people are you know seemed almost expect in a business week and others [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5081">TS</a>]

01:24:46   have literally reported that there are people working on it right I just don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5086">TS</a>]

01:24:51   see like finding it back in with your thing about this you know another iPhone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5091">TS</a>]

01:24:54   size hit I just don't see how anything that you wear on your rest no matter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5094">TS</a>]

01:24:59   what it does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5099">TS</a>]

01:25:00   could possibly grow into an iPhone sized business cuz I don't see how it could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5100">TS</a>]

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01:25:09   if it costs as much as an iPhone which is six seven eight hundred dollars some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5109">TS</a>]

01:25:14   people would buy it but nowhere near as many people would buy it is who bought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5114">TS</a>]

01:25:18   an iPhone so it wouldn't be couldn't even at the same prices the iPhone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5118">TS</a>]

01:25:21   wouldn't make nearly the amount of money the outcome does it matter how cold it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5121">TS</a>]

01:25:26   and if it's a hundred and fifty bucks then there's no waiting to there's no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5126">TS</a>]

01:25:30   way for you know even if everybody who bought an iPhone but one which would be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5130">TS</a>]

01:25:35   huge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5135">TS</a>]

01:25:36   it wouldn't make it nearly as much money as it doesn't cost us want to watch can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5136">TS</a>]

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01:25:48   watches are considered for many people a premium product you know you can buy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5148">TS</a>]

01:25:53   watch that's that's tens of thousands of dollars and many people buy watches that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5153">TS</a>]

01:25:58   are least several hundred dollars if not a thousand dollars but that's a premium [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5158">TS</a>]

01:26:03   product and could Apple potentially tap that market I don't know I think that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5163">TS</a>]

01:26:08   this watch I think it's it's almost like an away a misnomer to call the watch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5168">TS</a>]

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01:26:16   doing all different kinds of things beyond telling time it will make it may [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5176">TS</a>]

01:26:20   look like a watch but it's really going to be a screen that's on your wrist a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5180">TS</a>]

01:26:24   screen and a monitor for different health things or whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5184">TS</a>]

01:26:26   that that resides on your wrist the computer on your wrist it's fun to watch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5186">TS</a>]

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01:26:35   that the nice watches of the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5195">TS</a>]

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01:26:55   heard on that you never know for sure but I it's a ways out still like we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5215">TS</a>]

01:26:59   doing next year not this year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5219">TS</a>]

01:27:01   yeah I think there's a to go into rumor rumor central here but the let the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5221">TS</a>]

01:27:08   latest things like I've heard that some sort of television product not the not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5228">TS</a>]

01:27:15   some not necessarily a television screen but something and could be coming as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5235">TS</a>]

01:27:20   soon as as soon as this November and I think there's there's some surprises [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5240">TS</a>]

01:27:26   there about about what it could actually be and I don't know this for sure yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5246">TS</a>]

01:27:29   but there's been whispers about and I have something to write anything about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5249">TS</a>]

01:27:33   it but it's just there's with Chris out there that that the interaction with it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5253">TS</a>]

01:27:38   could be like the interesting thing people talk about voice but I think that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5258">TS</a>]

01:27:41   that's that might be out the window and there might be something some new way to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5261">TS</a>]

01:27:44   interact with whatever this thing is just think price and that's a way that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5264">TS</a>]

01:27:48   both in a way both of those mythical products are are like the iPhone maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5268">TS</a>]

01:27:53   and to your point about though watch not really being a watch and not really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5273">TS</a>]

01:27:58   competing with Seiko and Rolex or something like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5278">TS</a>]

01:28:03   it wouldn't be any more of a watch than the iPhone is just a phone radio exactly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5283">TS</a>]

01:28:08   really about putting a tiny laptop in your pocket pocket it was a computer not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5288">TS</a>]

01:28:14   a phone just happen to also make phone calls I think the right to be the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5294">TS</a>]

01:28:18   way and that's that's that's the mistake one of the main mistakes people make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5298">TS</a>]

01:28:21   about happened i think is that like they think like oh they're gonna go after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5301">TS</a>]

01:28:24   going to go after the phone category they're gonna go after the television [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5304">TS</a>]

01:28:27   category they're gonna go after the watch category both the way that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5307">TS</a>]

01:28:30   think about it is they're not going after any specific like category being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5310">TS</a>]

01:28:35   pigeonholed into going after something because if they do that that's going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5315">TS</a>]

01:28:39   be a failure of a product it's just something they're trying to like certain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5319">TS</a>]

01:28:42   extend what people already know and make it slightly better the only way that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5322">TS</a>]

01:28:45   Apple succeeds at all these things that make it so much better that people have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5325">TS</a>]

01:28:48   to buy this this new thing that isn't that isn't just to watch it's not just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5328">TS</a>]

01:28:52   the phone and it's not just a television yeah and I think your point on the TV [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5332">TS</a>]

01:28:56   and the interaction model that's really the key to the iPhone's success was dead [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5336">TS</a>]

01:29:01   everybody's idea prior to the iPhone 4 how to make a more computer II [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5341">TS</a>]

01:29:06   smartphone was bad more and more buttons and lots of buttons and keyboards and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5346">TS</a>]

01:29:12   wheels and it's the interaction model that was really the breakthrough with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BtuzXUdtY/5352">TS</a>]

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