386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz

Special guest John Moltz joins the show to discuss the various iPhone 15 “-gates”, rumors of Jony Ive working with OpenAI on an “AI device”, and more.

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Links:

• OverheatGate:
• David Phelan at Forbes: Apple comments on iPhone 15 overheating (forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2023/09/30/apple-…).

• Ming-Chi Kuo’s one-paragraph Medium post that seemingly but wrongly suggests that Apple will have to throttle the CPU (medium.com/@mingchikuo/the-iphone-15-pro-serie…).

• MacRumors (macrumors.com/2023/09/30/apple-iphone-15-pro-o…).

• “iPhonedo” on YouTube, showing Instagram heating up both an iPhone 15 Pro and year-old 14 Pro, simply sitting idle on a profile screen (youtube.com/watch?v=P6X2ZIkYFsQ).

• FineWovenGate:
• Chance Miller: “Apple Weaved Itself Into a Fine Mess With the Awful iPhone 15 FineWoven Case” (9to5mac.com/2023/09/25/apple-finewoven-cases-h…).

• “Apple Pens Memo to Retail Teams on How to Manage FineWoven Complaints: ‘A Luxurious Microtwill’” (9to5mac.com/2023/09/25/iphone-15-finewoven-com…).

• Verge story on the high-pressure world of iPhone casemakers (theverge.com/23892671/iphone-15-pro-action-but…).

• Google’s very-textured fabric cases for the Pixel 4 (9to5google.com/2023/09/26/apple-iphone-15-fine…).

• USB-C Gate:
• Crappy USB-C cables vs. CarPlay (macrumors.com/2023/09/29/iphone-15-carplay-iss…).

• LoveFrom and OpenAI rumored to be in talks on AI device:
• The Information: “Designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman Discuss AI Hardware Project (theinformation.com/articles/designer-jony-ive-…)”.

• The Financial Times: “OpenAI and Jony Ive in Talks to Raise $1bn From SoftBank for AI Device Venture (ft.com/content/4c64ffc1-f57b-4e22-a4a5-f9f90a7…)”.

• Humane pin is unveiled, with no comment on what it does, at Paris Fashion Week (reuters.com/lifestyle/coperni-adorns-futuristi…).

• Mr. Do:
• Emulated on the web via the Internet Archive.

• Play-through on YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=5_BBQWed8Vk).

• Uber shamelessly breaking App Store rules in 2015, including geofencing Cupertino to offer different functionality to App Store reviewers (nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalan…).

• Evans Hankey’s wonderfully-weathered original iPhone (twitter.com/rsgnl/status/1583484639783849984), as pictured in Designed by Apple in California. Proof that you shouldn’t use a case.

• Quora AI thinks you can melt an egg (arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09…).

• “Linda Yaccarino’s Excruciatingly Uncomfortable Interview With Julia Boorstin at the Code Conference (daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/29/yaccarino…)”.

• The iPhone 4 “antennagate” press conference (youtube.com/watch?v=b9eXYOA8TCk), minus the Q&A, alas.

• Jason Snell on the Q&A, where Jobs was joined by Tim Cook and Phil Schiller (sixcolors.com/post/2016/03/apples-town-hall-a-…).

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.