Episode 143
Ghosts & Gadgets: What Steve Jobs Would Say About Foldable Phones
Tech gossip alert! So, there's a buzz floating around about Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, and let me tell ya, it's got everyone talking! Haystack dives into this juicy rumor and shares a wild story about tech bros channeling the ghost of Steve Jobs in Cupertino. Yep, you heard that right! Picture a spooky seance where the boys are all like, 'How do we keep up with Samsung?' and Steve's ghost replies with some classic advice about stealing ideas and marketing like a champ. It's an absolute hoot! Haystack reflects on how Apple has a knack for taking existing tech and making it mainstream, even if it means being fashionably late to the party. This episode is packed with laughs, tech insights, and a sprinkle of ghostly humor that'll have you giggling while you ponder your next smartphone upgrade!
Transcript
Good morning.
Speaker A:It's haystack and the latest big tech rumor swirling around has to do with a new iPhone coming that will be foldable.
Speaker A:Apple going to get into the folded phone business now.
Speaker A:Foldable phones are nothing new.
Speaker A:And Apple introducing products years after others is nothing new.
Speaker A:The iPad is revolutionary.
Speaker A:I mean genuinely revolutionary.
Speaker A:And Bill Gates had tried to introduce a tablet computer a full decade before.
Speaker A:The iPhone was not the first smartphone I had.
Speaker A:A Microsoft Windows was it CE I think it was called, I don't remember.
Speaker A:But the iPhone was far away.
Speaker A:Not the first smartphone, it was just the first one that was mass adopted.
Speaker A:No one is better at taking innovation and making it accessible than Apple is.
Speaker A:Although some people might word that just a little bit differently.
Speaker A:Here's a story about how this happened.
Speaker B:On a cold winter midnight, in a room in Cupertino, some tech bros held a seance they called the ghost of Steve.
Speaker B:Then they took turns asking what they could do to keep up with the things they do at Samsung.
Speaker B:A voice began to speak.
Speaker B:He said kids, I made this plan out of stealing others ideas and selling them like they're mine with marketing and lines.
Speaker B:So don't you start losing to actual inventors.
Speaker B:To reward you for this seance, I'll give you some advice.
Speaker B:The bros got out their iPads and he said, take down one note lads.
Speaker B:Then he made a ghostly noise and out went all the lights.
Speaker B:Then his eyes began to flicker like a glitchy AR demo.
Speaker B:Said if you're gonna steal the future boy, you gotta learn to steal it right.
Speaker B:You got to know when to clone em, know when to fold em, know who to outsource to to make the profits run.
Speaker B:You never launch a feature till it's many years behind em.
Speaker B:Big profits you'll be counting when the Steve 7.
