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00:00:00 ◼   ► yeah we can get right into it a long and when did you know you had your the dev [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► kit for Apple TV [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► yes and what's the story I mean I guess it doesn't matter I'm curious I did not [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► get the dev kit I guess I should have signed up for it I just assumed that I [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► would get a review review in it but they didn't a.m. I didn't get one till [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► yesterday so we're recording here on Friday October 30 I got mine from Apple [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► yesterday on 29th and I i dont think I touched one yet no I haven't since the [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► event last month are you going to post it on a lot of press outlets just signed [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► up and gone [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► yeah well I did is that what happened but I think a lot of them did get review [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► units too and I just you know it seems haphazard doesn't seem like there is any [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► rhyme or reason to it a cool guy who didn't like TechCrunch tengo until [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► yesterday either yeah I don't think any girl line now he didn't did really well [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► she had access to one and all that [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► yeah it's such a weird thing I get mad get so inside baseball but I guess [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► that's what the point of pride casters yeah he is that it was the least [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► secretive device give once it was unveiled you know so there's that it was [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► unveiled on stage in September I think they did a pretty good job keeping it [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► under wraps everybody knew that a new Apple TV was coming but nobody nobody [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► knew what the remote was exactly like her stuff but nothing I mean I'd end up [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► people who'd seen them but not right but then they started taking the developer [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► requests like the next day and some people started getting on like a week [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► later and I guess you're under an NDA you know based on your EDC account and [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► they weren't supposed to write about it but it certainly wasn't a well-kept [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► secret [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► there's an additional indicated [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► new and he got it could you not to do not let it never works the best the best [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► example of that would be the iFixit guys who signed up for the defecate agreed to [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► an NDA and then as soon as it came they take to get a pardon published there [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► they're taking part I was pretty frustrated actually because of various [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► things happen to do right and it so we don't want to piss him off and they [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► cannot do it like I think it's great that they did this I think it's good to [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► I think it was a mistake to sell into a book should be like double triple [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► depressive was going to be a white where do you think they did it well I think [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► they wanted everybody to get it you know [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► responsible and encourage people to work and probably have to listen you know [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► like maybe in a way that like Steve Jobs had to take a $1 salary and there were [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► some kind of legal [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► have to pay a CEO or something like that I swear that it was something and maybe [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► over something like that to where they have to sell it for some amount of money [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► is tight account for it in some way anyway so welcome to the talk show [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► America's favorite accounting accounts [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► sure but this week with Salesforce now so anyway though they had these out [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► there lots of journalists and writers block them even though they weren't [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► going to develop apps on them and I guess they mostly stuck to the NDA but [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► it wasn't like it was tough to get but then the reviews all there was clearly [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► like some some number of people just like without every other Apple devices [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► iPhones and iPads that they were they got pre-release access to them probably [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► about a week before and then the embargo was was clearly he was six six six [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► o'clock eastern on Wednesday cuz all of a sudden you do it right and I was [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► actually out it having dinner with our friend whiskas and Brady Haran you know [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► the guy from hello internet he was over here in the States we were how was I got [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► was sudden we were talking about the fact that there are no reviews of the [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► Apple TV and then we're at dinner and then all of a sudden it was like all of [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► a sudden they were like 15 reviews of that booty be but it was weird likes to [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► take you know I'm or wasn't on that list [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► TechCrunch wasn't on the list very strange and his teammates who was which [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► makes sense yeah a lot of media stuff together and christine is she said been [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► kicking ass yeah I just actually just before I we've sort of record actually [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► just linked to her review is the only one I've read completely in and just [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► like to accept that she nailed it I was like every single thing there is about [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► ya gettin get interviews and surface yeah [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► yeah interview Jony ive journey I and going to bank on it should have been [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► into it right when she did and she got to choose she's the one who got access [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► to when Tim Cook did the meet and greet with the teenagers at WWC yes she went [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► in that and I think that was a good impromptu I think it might have been but [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► I think it was you know it was clear you know right place right time you know [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► yeah exactly that's good yeah I know you've only had it a day ahead mind [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► longer guess I can talk about it as well and I am actually mad because if they [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► don't do another day of Kitimat he said this is my case my question I want [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► before we go on to is what was your experience like have you been able to [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► upgrade from the the betas of the OS to the gym [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► yeah it is but it didn't require using the diagnostic port or did it does not [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► support I mean that USB port right but they even tell you in the instructions [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► they're like USB seaport and then they're like this is his for diagnostics [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► yeah well you know count against you just go to the website you download the [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► package like the OS package and then you connect to itunes to it shows up in [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► iTunes and then you just click Restore [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► great so it's it's exactly like doing with it yet so you connected to your Mac [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► with USB like the phone and then you can just do it from the idea and its USB CD [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► which is one of the poorest out of being a potential [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► yes I guess if your computer was a MacBook the new the new MacBook one port [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► thing you would have to have a USB see the USBC cable yeah that's what I did [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► really yeah I mean when i buy the MacBook I like to do little things I've [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► known for years BC of one that turns your PC into so when did the App Store [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► go live yesterday ok I can tell you what time but I think about noon because what [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► we had to do with us so we had a GSM ended a few days then to get the App [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► Store and it was kind of confusing we needed to be download EOS get back onto [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► the device for the absolute of mistaken identification numbers identical [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► wonder what they once which or I don't know exactly did a great now minus is if [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► they just got out of the box so it's exactly the same as mind sending it yeah [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► alright so [TS]