What's the historical relationship between Newton patents and iPhone patents?
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Newton patents from Samsung disputes became iPhone patents; Newton technology and ARM chip sale for $800M kept Apple solvent; iPhone wouldn't exist without Newton IP foundation.
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58:31but it was the Newton that saved Apple because the patent disputes with Samsung, those patents were already for the Newton that became the iPhone. So the iPhone wouldn't exist without the Newton patents. And then the ARM technology, the actual chips in there, they sold those stock for 800 million bucks and that's what kept Apple afloat. So I'll put a link to that documentary in the chat.
58:53it's it's fascinating to watch and and know about this story behind everything yeah and it looks like the sensor john walls posted uh that the iphone 18 pro and pro max feature a 48 megapixel main camera sensor measuring one over 1.28 inches which is 71.5 millimeters squared there we go uh all right i think that is it for today's show thanks to all
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1:00:02talalik traversal that would have been 16 000 miles that's 25 000 kilometers and 123 million bananas for scale this was episode 2370 if you got a little time after the show you can always jump into after hours so we'll see you there bye happy trails vladimir will be looking in good show everyone like he has nothing better to do he's probably in his garden garden i know i've heard he likes gardening he enjoys watching the
1:00:41cows outside yeah you ever seen that photo have you ever seen that photo of steven seagal standing next to putin and he's like he's he's in his garden and he's like eating a carrot it's the weirdest photo what's up back yeah i gotta go look that up i think it's a i think it's a video putin just hands him the carrot and he's like
1:01:07and your YouTube feed will be full of Steven Seagal movies from here on out yeah actually I better use a brave incognito like the first three Steven Seagal movies are fantastic come on above the law under siege oh man come on man those are great movies all right we'll see you guys Thank you.
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