John Siracusa

This is a disappointing technical thing, but it's not because Apple is being mean to you or being cheap.

I just think they didn't have a way to do this because this was never designed to be a Mac chip.

And people think that manifests like, oh, it was never designed to be a Mac chip.

It's performance will be bad.

It's not the performance.

It's stuff like this.

Like how many ports can you support?

How many external displays?

Because those are not important things for a phone that has one hole in the bottom of it and generally doesn't spend a lot of time hooked up to external displays.

So it is what it is.

Headphone port, it does have that.

Doesn't support high impedance headphones like the MacBook Air does.

Again, no MagSafe.

Yeah, I want to see what the inside of this thing looks like.

I mean, the speakers are weird too.

The speakers are side firing and they're towards the front.

Yeah, I wonder if the side-firing speakers, because if you're going to save money on the speakers, maybe use fewer speakers, lower quality speakers, but having them be side-firing and towards you to sort of bounce off the surface, I feel like the placement is very intentional to essentially make the speakers sound better.

If we're going to use these speakers and we're going to put them in this laptop, actually shooting them out of the sides from the front

is the best way to do it.

Because if we had put them, like, facing up and bouncing off the screen or whatever, they wouldn't sound as good.