Episode 172 — Game of Phones
Episode
46 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Productivity
AI-Generated Summary
What It Covers
Ben Thompson and James Allworth analyze Apple's WWDC 2019 keynote as the company's first post-iPhone event, marking cultural shift toward multi-platform focus.
Notable Moment
Thompson describes spending hours searching multiple stores for a USB mini cable to record the podcast, ultimately failing at Fry's Electronics despite their massive inventory.
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