hey everyone welcome back to today in tech I'm Juliet Beauchamp I am here with
Macworld's Michael Simon and we're talking about the iPhone 9 whatever
happened to it stick around alright Mike thank you so much for calling in that
has been the greeting I've been starting off all of my videos with because
everyone's calling in now you can't be in the same room with anybody so a few
weeks back back in the glory days of being in a studio we actually and along
with Ken talked about you know the iPhone 9 cheap vs. expensive phones and
we were like yes the iPhone 90 or the iPhone se 2 is coming and even a miss
potential supply chain issues of a since now a lot has changed in both the world
supply chains pretty much yeah you know so I was thinking after the first few
thoughts across my head like you know how do I keep myself and my family safe
how do I do my job effectively from home I assure you the third thought I had was
what is going on with the iPhone 9 so originally was the rumor was that I was
gonna land on March 31st that was yesterday
were filming us on April 1st and that was supposed to be a the Apple's usual
thing at event at their campus you know the iPad krob probably would have come
out with it which which landed earlier or late March and also the iPhone mom is
gonna be with it and now that seems to be in some limbo obviously because we
haven't seen it all rumors point to the fact that it is still being made it is
still being produced and it will likely land around the middle of April April
15th April 17 some things somewhere in that time frame what the latest rumors
are right so some Apple devices that were expected to be launched already
like you said or announced already have already been announced and are those
already being sold yeah the iPad pro is being sold the
keyboard the new keyboard the new it's called the magic keyboard that
winter that's not on sale yet - until May there's a new MacBook Air which is
also on sale and the new Mac Mini wasn't really new it just got a storage refresh
they paint the low-end storage by I think from from 128 to 512 or something
like that and that's also on sale so yeah Apple is making things and they are
selling things and they are available to purchase online because you can't go to
a store anywhere really except some parts of China and the iPhone 9 again
would have lended with all that stuff but for whatever reason whether Apple
wants to create some space to give it so a little more attention or to kind of
spread these things out because people don't have the disposable income that
they once had whatever reason it looks like it's gonna be probably in a couple
of weeks so when I was seeing that these first Apple devices were launched it
doesn't seem like there is any sort of big announcement around it did I
completely miss something or did Apple just sort of say yep here they are yeah
I mean yeah that's that's kind of how it is now they you know some companies have
been doing these virtual live streams where they get reporters together and
they have embargoes and Apple if he asked me wisely just said you know what
we're just going to update our website on a random day and it's Apple they
still get the attention they still get the headlines people still pay attention
you know they don't have to jump through all these hoops and so yeah the iPad
landed on just a you know one morning I woke up and there was a new idea there
was a new MacBook and it's the same you could have - what the iPhone you know
it'll be on whatever day they choose at about usually it's 8 a.m. Eastern time
sometimes 8:30 and it just refresh apple.com and there it is so yeah that
was the deal with these previous devices released by Apple and you know a few
weeks ago ish but what's interesting that I've been seeing with the iPhone 9
release date is that you know yes it should hopefully come like you said mid
March but also that the reason oh my gosh man April we're in is a mark mark
finally ended you're right it's supposed to launch mid-april but the rumors that
I've seen around it and the reason why we know that it is
in fact coming because it was it seemed you know from my point of view at least
that it was a little bit of a question especially since Apple released all of
these devices previously is that the new cases have been distributed to suppliers
which is interesting I mean case makers often have deals with these companies
like Samsung for example will tell I don't know spec or spiking this is
these are the dimensions of our new phone it's coming out in February so
here's the cases Apple doesn't do that so case maker is they basically guess
make the products make the retail box in the packaging and whatever else slap
some kind of a name on it in this case it's I think it was iPhone 4 point 8
inches was the rumor that I saw or was was the case that I saw because they if
they say iPhone 9 and it's called the iPhone se people don't get it in
vice-versa so they put like a generic name on it it's a sticker that they can
cover up with a new sticker when the actual name comes out and they think
they often do this and my my guess is the reason why so this was from Best Buy
and it was an ultimate armor gear UAG which is a popular case maker and it was
leaked a few days ago that yeah this was a four point eight inch iPhone case that
was embargoed to I think it was April 5th and yeah my guess is that that's
that's as much of a guess as I thought making like they're assuming it was
supposed to come out March 31st it didn't so they wanted to have everything
ready in stores and ready to go when Apple released the phone you know they
can surmise what its gonna look like what what the dimensions are gonna be
how how rugged or whatever the case needs to be to make it and if it's wrong
they would pull those back hence the April 5th embargo date say hey
Best Buy send those back to us because we need to
make new ones that April 15 was an Apple talking to ultimate armor gear and
saying on an urban I'm sorry urban armor gear and saying hey this phone's gonna
release in on April 5th have these cases ready now this is
the manufacturer the cage saying okay this is our best guess of what this
phone's gonna be don't put it on shelves until this date in case we need to you
know pull it back and start over right so those those rumors are you know you
can surmise a little bit from it button but not much as far as Apple's control
goes right so the mid April not mid-march is it is it still a bit of a
question mark okay I mean everything is right now you know Apple has no stores
to sell anything an Apple has you know limited production lines to sell things
and ends you know this this this type of product was always kind of weird for
Apple because it's in the middle of the two iPhones I mean listen right now the
iPhone 12 isn't out and that's not coming out till September because a
production line would be we don't know what this world's gonna look like when
we come out of this there's a lot of things to to that people are going to
have to figure out financially economically socially everything that
doesn't work that doesn't matter with what phone you're gonna buy so Apple has
to consider all of that and then they'll make a decision as to when the good
thing about the iPhone 9 right now is that it's a budget phone by Apple
standards and you know since a lot of people are out of work it might be and
more of a popular product and that it would have been in a booming normal
economy right and in a similar vein I'm wondering about how you know store
closures factories being closed worldwide it did that affect the
production of the iPhone 9 at all or were they already kind of ready to go I
mean my guess is yeah it probably slowed it down a little bit but you know Apple
didn't start making if they are indeed getting them ready for a mid April sale
date you know these have been in production since January I mean you know
it takes a while to these things they had to ramp up you know millions of them
tens of millions of them even all around the world so you know I'm I'm quite
certain that somewhere there is a giant warehouse filled with iPhone nines ready
to go but you had no doubt it did constrain
some of the supply of these these products for sure and on top of that I
would also imagine that there's going to be a whole other issue which is how are
we going to actually get these iPhones out I mean shipping services are of
course a central business for the most part I took a trip to the UPS Store just
about a week ago out of pure necessity I assure you but I
would imagine that could also be a challenge
of course yeah and you know we should we should tip our hats to shipping services
right now because that's really the only thing that how we're able to communicate
with each other is UPS FedEx and USPS obviously and yet those things you know
those services are working but we also see that you know things are
significantly delayed on Amazon I mean things that would normally ship in by
you know today is today's a Wednesday so you would normally get it by Friday
they're not shipping till like the end of April you know everything everywhere
is being constrained so they can prioritize Hospital gear you know
essential home items things like that so you know yeah you might buy an iPhone on
Wednesday where you would get on Saturday you might be waiting a week or
so you know and people are just gonna have to understand that's just the way
things are right now well thanks so much Mike really appreciate you calling in
for this update about the iPhone 9 it will hopefully still be released and
hopefully soon once it comes out what sort of features are we expecting just
to recap yeah it's looking like it's gonna be a refreshed iPhone 8 so four
point eight inch screen there are some rumors that there's going to be a small
one in a big one that the plus side which which would be a 5.5 inch screen
but we'll just stick to the smaller one for now so four point eight inch screen
a new Apple Apple's latest processor more storage a better camera touch ID on
the front not not face ID and you know not the newest stuff but a lot better
than the iPhone eight and most likely 350 bucks so it's it's it's gonna be a
an attractive phone for someone who you know just lost their job needs a new
phone and doesn't want to spend 600 or thousand dollars on
got it thanks so much 349 or 399 do you think I think 349 but we'll see we'll
see as is custom with all Apple products we will just have to see all right
thanks so much Mike for calling in really appreciate it and thank you all
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