Is Apple Going to Take a Cut on Eye Phones?

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yeimeanand that's long been sort of the line about apple is that now that it's saturated the market with eye phones, they can find ways to. You see them making more cheaper eye phones than they used to with the s e. And other than that, like the services that they just keep expanding instead to kind of eat everyone else's lunch and just copy all these other services. Yeimeanand: Apple has proved relatively untouchable from a reputational apoint but if trends hold, iu could squeeze years and years out of this as it is right now.

Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the impact of the iPhone after 15 years, including its effects on how we work, how we use technology, and what it’s meant for Apple.

Brian Merchant is a tech journalist, author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, and co-editor of Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn. Follow Brian on Twitter at @bcmerchant.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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In 2011, Cory Moll tried to unionize Apple stores. In June 2022, a store in Maryland became the first to vote to form a union.
Apple’s claims about privacy are, at least to some degree, a clever marketing campaign.
Paris previously wrote about some of Apple’s environmental messaging.
The previous episode with Brian on the iPhone is episode 78 (Sep 16, 2021), and I also spoke to Jenny Chan about the conditions at Foxconn factories where iPhones are manufactured on episode 27 (Sep 17, 2020).

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