Apple finally showed the folding iPhone, and it arrived with a $1,999 starting price and a lot of great and interesting features. Tom and Jeff bring Joe Moyer back to walk the whole event: the iPhone Duo, the 18 Pro and Pro Max, new AirPods, and Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. One of us pre-ordered before recording. One of us is quietly doing the math on owning two phones at once.

In this episode:

• John Ternus hosts his first event as CEO
• iPhone Duo: 5.4-inch outer screen, 7.6-inch inside, Touch ID, Apple Pencil support
• What the Duo leaves out: telephoto, Face ID, action button, ProRAW
• Duo pricing from $1,999 to $3,199, orders Oct 16, delivery Oct 23
• iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max: variable aperture, 8x telephoto, vapor chamber, A20
• New AirPods keep the same price and add noise cancellation to the base model
• Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4: new sensors, readiness, health age, 50-hour battery
• Audio Intelligence on the Watch, and where the privacy line sits now
• Live immersive MLB games on Vision Pro
• The OS 27 updates are here

More from Joe Moyer:
Website: https://www.24letters.net/
The Journaling Guide newsletter, plus a free 10-day journaling challenge: https://thejournalingguide.com/
Threads: @thejournalingguide

Links from the show:
iPhone Duo: https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
iPhone 18 Pro: https://www.apple.com/iphone-18-pro/
Apple Watch Series 12: https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-series-12/
Apple Watch Ultra 4: https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-ultra-4/
Audio Intelligence privacy paper: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Audio_Intelligence_Privacy_Overview_Sep_2026.pdf
Halide: https://halide.cam/
Gentler Streak: https://gentlerstories.com/
Athlytic: https://athlyticapp.com/
Kalri$$ian "The Falcon" (NSFW)
Celsius 7 "Manners" (NSFW)

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Apple just locked in a date for the big iPhone event, and new Mac mini and Mac Studio models landed early with a price jump that'll make your eyes water. Tom and Jeff run the actual numbers on both new Macs, weigh in on the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and the long-rumored foldable, and swap notes on cameras, Face ID quirks, and an update on Tom's new notebook habit.

In this episode:

• Apple's iPhone event is officially set for September 9
• New Mac mini and Mac Studio pricing and specs, and why they cost so much more now
• What a fully maxed-out Mac mini and Mac Studio actually run you
• iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and the foldable iPhone, and what it might cost
• Camera lens talk and Halide's new "film types"
• Face ID vs. Touch ID, and Jeff's post-stroke Face ID quirks
• Tom's notebook and habit-tracker update, plus a Lochby Field Folio gift for his son

Links from the show:

Mac mini: https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

Mac Studio: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/

Halide: https://halide.cam/

Lochby Field Folio A5: https://www.lochby.com/products/field-folio-a5

Lochby Pocket Journal: https://www.lochby.com/products/pocket-journal

Field Notes: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/

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Intro Music: Psychokinetics - The Chosen

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What do you actually do with a stack of pocket notebooks once you own more than you'll ever fill? Tom's been figuring that out for six months, and it turned into an actual system: a custom monthly and weekly planner, daily notes, and a pocket journal that's his new daily carry wallet. Jeff's carried notebooks for decades and joins in with his own habits, plus a magnetic pocket e-reader that's small enough to attach to the back of your iPhone.

In this episode:

• Tom's Field Notes habit, $120 a year and three quarterly drops in: the 1943 set, Explore America, and the penny-themed one that didn't quite land
• Trading phone pickups for a slower kind of capture, and why that's the actual point
• The weekly planner Tom sketched himself, plus the accidental discovery that a scanned Field Notes fits a 13" iPad to scale
• Lochby Pocket Journal: the wax-canvas cover doing double duty as Tom's new wallet
• Jeff's leather notebook cover, reserved for exactly one thing: his bitters recipes
• The eventual plan for filled notebooks: scan everything into Craft so it's searchable
• The Xteink X3, Jeff's tiny magnetic e-reader that snaps onto the back of an iPhone

Links from the show:

• Field Notes
• Field Notes "1943" Edition
• Field Notes Explore America
• Lochby Pocket Journal
• GoodNotes
• Carsonial's weekly planner layout video
• Cal Newport, "Forget Your Phone. You Need a Single-Purpose Notebook"
• Xteink X3

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• Drop us a line at feedback@basicafshow.com
• You’ll find Jeff at @reyespoint on Threads and reyespoint.bsky.social on Bluesky
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• Tom has a new YouTube channel
• Show artwork by the great Randall Martin Design

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Intro Music: Psychokinetics - The Chosen

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