Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the rumors and speculation regarding this year’s upcoming new iPhones.
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Links:
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Coke">Mexican Coke</a>.</li>
<li>Daring Fireball: “<a href="https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/speculation_on_new_iphone_pricing">Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones</a>”.</li>
<li>Rene Ritchie: “<a href="https://www.imore.com/iphones-future-past">iPhones of Future Past: Understanding iPhone 8</a>”.</li>
<li><a href="https://essential.com/">Essential</a>, Andy Rubin’s new company, with an upcoming edge-to-edge Android phone.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.aboveavalon.com/">Neil Cybart’s Above Avalon newsletter</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/11/2017-iphone-edge-to-edge-display/">Yours truly predicting an “edge-to-edge display” in a 2017 iPhone back in May 2016</a>.</li>
<li>“<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-apple-vs-samsung-became-a-smartphone-beauty-contest-1500210001">How Apple vs. Samsung Became a Smartphone Beauty Contest</a>” — Wall Street Journal “news” article by Timothy W. Martin and Tripp Mickle positing that Samsung is a company that values design and Apple is not.</li>
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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