Leo Gebbie

Has the Apple iPhone Air killed off the Sim card? The iPhone Air will only have an eSim - will other phone makers also shift away from the familiar - but fiddly - plastic cards?

Nice piece here on the iPhone Air, the rise of eSim, and what it means for the telecoms industry featuring some comments from my expert analyst colleagues

*stares in laid off colleagues*

I love that Spotify FINALLY moves to offer lossless - years after the competition - and is STILL like “we don’t know when tho? just be chill it’s coming soon ok”

the verge and various other sites have referred to DOGE as "fake" or "not real" a lot because musk didn't follow the legal rules for creating a US government department, and the effect this apparently had on google's magic answer machine is truly incredible

single moms in your area?

Donkey Kong holds a barrel in the darkness

Apple has maintained pricing across its portfolio of new products excluding the Pro which sees a $100 bump

iPhone 17, AirPods Pro 3, all Watches - no price increase

This feels like a very good thing and quite surprising

It’s bright orange and I love it

Been a green phone stan for a long time but this is so sick

Big silicon connectivity statement from Apple to already move onto a new C1X modem just 6 months after C1 with iPhone Air *and* also launch a new N1 chip for Apple-designed Bluetooth+WiFi+Thread #AppleEvent

FYI, it’s not a camera bump, it’s a ‘plateau’

Bentos for the Watch Ultra 3, Series 11 and SE 3

5G (redcap) across the board along with new hypertension detection on the S11 and U3. U3 also gets satellite which fits with the product positioning

SE3 at $249 feels like the deal here though. Very good spec lineup at that price point

At the Steve Jobs Theatre for today’s Apple Event

Should be fun!

sure, at first glance trump's drawing of a female nude might appear to be depicting someone very, perhaps problematically, young. but if you purposefully ignore every scrap of context surrounding the circumstances of the drawing it's essentially meaningless

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

So Armani was an answer in today's NYTimes Crossword, and now he's dead.

I know correlation does not equal causation, but in the interest of science, I've got some answer suggestions for them.

However I still have serious misgivings over Strava's ability to build a good app for ANY smartwatch as they all suck

Adding segments etc. will appeal to some users but I'm not expecting advanced workout features

Which, incidentally, I still use Workoutdoors for, easily the best sports app on AW

This is interesting

Strava is planning to put together a better app for Watch in response to a huge rise in people uploading activities recorded on AW

All signs are AW hasn't been selling that well so maybe suggests more existing users getting into running etc.

press.strava.com/articles/str...

turns out I will always RT Tim Robinson in a hot dog costume

"right now it's kind of paranoid about space"

See you at both of them!

Nice to see Tom has absolutely no idea of how protests work and what they're trying to achieve

Easily the most harrowing thing I've read in a long time and you can only hope that somewhere, somehow, it inspires some change

Google planning the Pixel 10 launch event

Pixel Watch 4 looks like it has a great set of updates for outdoor athletes like runners and cyclists

Better activity tracking, satellite communication to help out if something goes wrong when you're off grid, and an AI powered health coach - I've been sceptical about this, but it has potential

yeah this has started to get pretty stilted now

Tbf to Fallon he is riffing with some bits to make this funny. After showing a clip of Osterloh a decade ago: "You haven't aged at all, you're like the Paul Rudd of Google."

Some genuine laughs in the #madebygoogle event so far

Jimmy Fallon describes it "like a Taylor Swift album launch party for nerds"

When he asks Rick Osterloh what he does (SVP for Devices and Services), replies "that sounds like a job you made up"

Not all tech events have to be painfully anodyne

From a totally personal perspective this is the story I'm most interested in today

Such a great move for consumers to make devices more repairable, and a real surprise to see this coming from one of the bigger tech companies

Would LOVE to see more of this on more devices and from more companies

This is awesome, nice work! Did you manage to wangle a full-on photography pass or something to get you access to certain areas? Very cool