Kmele loves Apple products…maybe a little too much. But what a perfect guest to talk all things related to this monster company and how it’s shaped American culture and the globe as a whole.
-The Newton saved Apple
-What Kmele does with Apple products in the shower
-The underdog with taste
-Why Matt Welch hates Macs
-On getting access to Apple
-Project Titan and the $10 billion heartbreak
-Apple as a medical device company
-Still a Steve Jobs disciple of focus
-Apple made China and China made Apple
-Where there is no will, there’s a way
-New locations for Apple manufacturing
-On the fantasy of bringing it back to the US
-Apple Intelligence, deepfakes, and doing AI the “right” way
-All it takes is a Congressperson having sex with a sheep
-Anthropic, cheating, and the possible jobs apocalypse
-The long runway
Read Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue (Bookshop | Amazon)
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