Posted Jul 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM UTCDExternal Link‘I like having a phone nobody else has.’Pete Holmes has a lot of good tech takes in this Wired interview. He also, against all odds, made me want the iPhone Air:Everybody has the same fucking ugly spider eyeball phone. Everybody’s just getting the Max, the 2,800-hour battery life. Get all that shit out of here. The iPhone Air is the first iPhone I’ve seen in a very long time that looks like Steve Jobs had a say… And the flex is that it has a short battery life. You see my phone and you go, “Pete must not be on his phone much.”Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.David PierceLoading commentsGetting the conversation ready...The Verge DailyA free daily digest of the news that matters most.Email (required)
‘I like having a phone nobody else has.’
Pete Holmes has a lot of good tech takes in this Wired interview. He also, against all odds, made me want the iPhone Air: > Everybody has the same fucking ugly spider eyeball phone. Everybody’s just getting the Max, the 2,800-hour battery life. Get all that shit out of here. The iPhone Air is the first iPhone I’ve seen in a very long time that looks like Steve Jobs had a say… And the flex is that it has a short battery life. You see my phone and you go, “Pete must not be on his phone much.” [Link: Pete Holmes Is Not Reading Your Email | https://www.wired.com/story/pete-holmes-user-behavior/ | WIRED]
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