iPhone X is about to arrive, so we talk about the early hands-on and why Apple's PR change with "Youtubers you never heard of" was a great move, instead of doing the same thing with the "traditional" tech review scene, and in general how reviews are being mostly consumed today. We also touch about Touch ID's tech, Apple's supply channel in regards to Samsung and Qualcomm. Also, we had a live quarterly earning information for Apple's amazing Q4 2016 results. 

 

Follow up

• Samsung makes £4b more from iPhone X than S8
• Jeff Williams "We bet the company on TSMC
• Apple vs Qualcomm
  • Apple to drop Qualcomm altogether on future iPhone and iPads. Well obviously!
  • Qualcomm sues Apple claiming they share code with Intel
• Some more Watch Series 3 thoughts, and how does the test is going.
• Greg's Preorder went smooth sailing - with a little prep work
  • 2-3 weeks within 10 minutes
  • 5-6 now - pretty much ‘out of stock”
  • CPW still have ‘plenty’ of stock
• iPhones X supply
  • It was (almost) always constraint
  • iPhone X supply seems better than initially thought (we were right)

Topics

• iPhone X
  • Reviews of the iPhone X are in
    • Pretty universal praise
  • Weird that some only got devices 24hours before
    • Thrown toys out the pram about YouTubers
    • Gruber acting like a spoilt child
    • TechCrunch had the device for a week
    • Mashable as well (and Buzzed)
      • iPhone X was supposed to launch on 2018
      • The design was locked in November!
      • Steve Jobs - we started working on the iPad first
    • Buzzfeed had the iPhone X for a week as well

• Bye Bye Touch ID?
  • TrueDepth camera gives Apple 2.5 year lead over Android competitors
  • Android makers are scrambling for an answer
  • All 2018 iPhones will have Face ID?
  • iPad Pro to adopt Face ID as well?
  • When will Face ID come to the Mac?
  • The Verge claim it doesn’t work very well
    • Everyone else says it’s fine
    • Twins can fool it but come on…
    • This idiot thinks the Bloomberg article was Apple secret telling the press FaceID doesn’t work
  • Face ID getting timed