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We have a special bonus episode of If Then. On Wednesday afternoon, Apple held its big annual event full of new and expensive gadgets. To make sense of its announcements and distill what matters, host Will Oremus is joined by tech journalist and Slate contributor Christina Bonnington, who covers emerging technology and consumer technology. They talk about the Apple Watch’s surprising FDA approval, the iPhone’s ratcheting price scale, and how the entire iPhone lineup has completed a transformation that has been years in the making.
Stories discussed on the show:
- Slate: The Most Exciting Thing Apple Announced on Wednesday Wasn’t a New iPhone
- Slate: Why Apple’s Not Giving Us Another Small iPhone Anytime Soon
- Slate: How Apple Normalized the $1,000 iPhone
- Slate: Everything We Know About the Three New iPhones
- Slate: Apple’s Devices Are Increasingly Trapping Us in Our Own Personal Clouds
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
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If Then is presented by Slate and Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. To read more, follow us on Twitter and sign up for our weekly newsletter.
