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The iPhone Duo's Seven Comes With a Conversation
· New York time
The Verge gave the iPhone Duo a 7 out of 10, then used a Vergecast discussion to explore why the score had not always been settled and might not remain the right assessment. The episode's central provocation is that the Duo should have been an iPad. That is a product-review argument about the fit between a substantial new idea and the device carrying it, not an announcement that Apple is changing the product. A single number compresses judgments that the reviewers themselves consider open to reconsideration. The score has therefore acquired the one accessory no smartphone launch can bundle: an extended explanation. Seven is a tidy number until it needs a podcast to explain its feelings about being a tablet.
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