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Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @exponentfm. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.

Taipei, Taiwan
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    Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 20 Sep 2013

    The audience cheered for "large-screen iPod" and "phone." They yawned for "Internet Communicator." Remember that.

    7:48 PM - 20 Sep 2013
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      2. Casey Liss‏Verified account @caseyliss 21 Sep 2013
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent I noticed the same thing a couple weeks back! In retrospect it’s truly stunning.

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      3. Will Hains  🗼‏ @willhains 21 Sep 2013
        Replying to @caseyliss

        @caseyliss @monkbent I put that down to the awkward vagueness of the phrase. Who knew what that meant?

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      4. Chris Harris‏ @_ChrisHarris 21 Sep 2013
        Replying to @willhains

        @willhains @caseyliss @monkbent It's unusually bad wording for Steve. Everyone in our office was like 'what's that?'

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      5. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 21 Sep 2013
        Replying to @_ChrisHarris

        @_ChrisHarris @willhains @caseyliss how would you have described it in 2007?

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      6. Chris Harris‏ @_ChrisHarris 21 Sep 2013
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent @willhains @caseyliss I wish he'd put it second of three. Wording? 'Internet Tablet' was what people were wanting from Apple.

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      7. Will Hains  🗼‏ @willhains 21 Sep 2013
        Replying to @_ChrisHarris

        @_ChrisHarris @monkbent @caseyliss YES! I agree. The ordering of the three took the punch out of it. “Phone” should have been last!

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      8. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 21 Sep 2013
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        @willhains @_ChrisHarris @caseyliss it was in the exact correct order

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      9. Will Hains  🗼‏ @willhains 21 Sep 2013
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent @_ChrisHarris @caseyliss Interesting — I expected you to agree with that. Why?

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      2. Mani‏ @manicakes 20 Sep 2013
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent much of the yawning had to do with how slow and expensive data was. I recall 50MB of EDGE for $150.

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      3. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 20 Sep 2013
        Replying to @manicakes

        @manicakes LTE was proposed in 2004. Apple knew it was coming.

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      1. Jay Torres‏ @jaytorres 20 Sep 2013
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent I noticed this too. http://www.absolutjay.com/2012/07/are-you-getting-it/ …

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      1. Norton Chia‏ @nchia 20 Sep 2013
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        @monkbent To be fair, the Internet didn't exist before the iPhone.

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      1. Mani‏ @manicakes 20 Sep 2013
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        @monkbent something Apple never gets credit for. Twisting arms of carriers to offer decent data packages.

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      1. gelatinous food product‏ @nougatmachine 20 Sep 2013
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        @monkbent to be fair, the phrasing is kind of vague (those words could describe a blackberry). People cheered at "runs OS X."

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      1. Benjamin Esham‏ @bdesham 20 Sep 2013
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        @monkbent To be fair, what the hell is an “internet communicator” anyway? ;-)

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      1. Tim Mussche‏ @tmussche 21 Sep 2013
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        @monkbent Apple knew that part was most important so the mentioned it last. Seemed strange at the time. Not so anymore.

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      1. Scott‏ @LuminaArts 21 Sep 2013
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        @monkbent @Freerunnering They also yawned for slow iOS 7 download speeds. There's practically nothing I can't emulate iOS 7 with jailbreak.

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      1. Tony Trout‏ @tony_trout 21 Sep 2013
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        @monkbent "Internet Communicator" is an inelegant phrase, too vague for immediate response.

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      1. Rahul Horé‏ @TheAllBox 21 Sep 2013
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        @monkbent The exact opposite for me. I yawned for “large-screen iPod” and “phone” and cheered for “Internet Communicator.”

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      1. Steven Op de beeck‏ @steven_odb 21 Sep 2013
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        @monkbent they probably had no idea what Jobs meant with an internet communicator. Bad marketing term if you ask me.

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