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Here's a video transcript from VOA news. http://www.voanews.com/content/apple-introduces-two-bigger-more-powerful-iphone-models/2444114.html

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"I think there's a lot of people that got big-screen envy and switched away from Apple towards Android phones with those 5-inch screens, which are really amazing for reading books and looking at your calendar and web-reading. If Apple can get into that category I think there's a lot of people waiting to switch back," said Ackerman.

He says blogs in stead of books in "which are really amazing for reading books", right?

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  • I hear books, but I can see why you might think he says blogs. (I'm not sure how to describe it in precise terms, so I'm just posting a comment.)
    – user230
    Nov 6, 2014 at 6:05
  • It feels to me like he switched words mid-stream. Like he was going to say blogs but then remembered that Apple sells iBooks and that he'd better say books instead so it came out as a mix of the two.
    – Jim
    Nov 6, 2014 at 7:11

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Tech blogger Dan Ackerman was born in Buffalo, New York and spent substantial time in the Bronx and New York City. Whatever that means for his dialect and idiolect.

He says books, but with a "weird" pronunciation. Kind of like boooks or even like bugs.

It's interesting that he is a former radio Disc Jockey. I don't think he speaks with clear enunciation. Some kind of combination of New York talk-a-mile-a-minute with Disc Jockey "cram ten minutes worth of info into the thirty seconds between songs." You can hear a lot more of his way of talking in this other video blog.

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  • Oops, clearly I didn't get that (I'm from California).
    – user3169
    Nov 7, 2014 at 23:55

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