I'm Getting iPhone Duo [Friday Wrap-Up]

Hey everybody, and welcome to the Friday wrap up on Streamline Solopreneur. I'm your

host, Joe Casabona, and here's what's on my mind for September 11th, 2026.

Well, it was iPhone week and iPhone Duo was announced by Apple. I've wanted a foldable

phone since I tried the Samsung Galaxy fold back in 2019. I even bought the Motorola

Razor last year to try it kind of as a secondary phone test, the form factor, see

what Android has been up to. And the form factor was okay, but I knew I wasn't trying

the best phone,

uh,

in the foldable market at least because I wasn't willing to spend 1800 bucks on a

secondary phone. And so the truth is, my first real foldable experience will be with

iPhone Duo.

apple finally announced

the foldable on Wednesday of this week. We've known if, if you follow Apple News

and Apple rumors like I do,

you, you know, this has been rumored for a long time.

I'm kind of a sucker, so I like upgrading my phone every year. And, and the reason

is I always want the best camera and the best battery. And so if I could

kind of finance the phone

and pay a, a set monthly payment

for the ability to upgrade it every year with zero a PR, no additional cost to me

that was worth it.

But all of that seems to be changing with the iPhone duo. There's a bunch of things.

Apple got rid of the iPhone upgrade program and now has the Apple upgrade program,

but the phone is also

starts at $1,999. The one I'm getting is $2,100.

so it's more expensive, right? And so I'll likely pay for it over two years to keep

my monthly payments the same, which means I may not be upgrading next year. I could

buy the phone outright if I really wanna buy

the next one next year. And maybe since I know that I can start saving a little extra

every month or in, in the weeks moving up to it, and, and I'll be able to sell the

original iPhone duo. But

I suspect for a bunch of reasons, I'm, I'm gonna keep this phone for two years.

I'm already not going to get the best camera this year, right? Because it's not as

good as the iPhone 18 Pro. It is, I think, comparable to the 17, which is what I

currently have. But there's no telephoto lens, there's also no action button and

no fast charging. So

I am,

uh, doing a lot of trade-offs from the pro that I currently have to get the duo.

But I think the bigger screen that fits in my pocket will be worth it. The nano technology

on the screen that causes little to no glare is exciting. The fact that it works

with an Apple pencil is awesome. And so I am willing to sacrifice some of those things,

especially 'cause like I realized in the last couple of years, I don't really take

that many pictures.

I will

take pictures sometimes, and if they're going to be the same quality as what I currently

have, I'm fine with that. I'm not posting anything on social media. So these pictures

are largely for me to be viewed on the phone anyway. And so

I am very excited. I can't wait to pre-order this phone on October 16th.

I always appreciate Mkb HD's videos and his hands-on with iPhone duo is really good.

So I will link that

in the description.

now if you, are you an Apple nerd? Do you have something on your mind?

Have thoughts about the iPhone duo

uh, let me know over@streamlinedfeedback.com. You can write in or leave a voice note.

I might even play that voice note on the show. Alright, let's move over to recommended

reading.

And,

this is an episode of Ditching Hourly by Jonathan Stark.

Nick

Rich Meyer. I think I'm saying that right, the damn rules.

after last week's

newsletter and episode,

reader Garrett wrote in and recommended this episode of Ditching Hourly by Jonathan Stark.

And I loved it.

Nick kind of walks through doing things that don't scale and focusing on impact,

and that stuff really resonated with me. So I would recommend the episode.

This is in recommended reading because I ordered Nick's book, the Damn Rules, which

should be delivered today. So, really excited to read that.

something that really sold me on the book was that it's like in, it's, it's it

embossed and engraved. It's, it's like kind of letter pressed. They spend a lot of

time on the cover

kind of to show right, do things that are slow, that you can't do fast, that don't

scale. And I, I really enjoyed that part.

So that is the recommended reading slash listening for this week.

Okay, something fun.

everything you can see the official teaser. This is the,

surprise documentary that was announced at the Telluride Festival earlier this week.

And,

I don't know how much fun this is versus chilling.

but I'm, I'm really excited for this movie. If you don't know about Elizabeth Holmes

and the story of Theranos, I recommend you check it out. It's wild. It it, I I listened

to the audio version of John Car Ru's book, bad Blood, which is a deep dive into

Elizabeth Holmes and the company

Theranos.

I, I did this in 2019, and apparently 2019 was very influential on, on today's newsletter

and episode. But,

it, it, it reads like a work of fiction

because the stories are so outlandish and the things that she got away with and the

people that she fooled,

just wild.

and, and so really interesting. I also listened to the subsequent podcast and followed

Elizabeth Holmes trial very closely.

spoiler alert, she was found guilty and is sentenced to, I think 35 years in jail.

this documentary is about the days before she goes to jail. She's apparently very

charismatic and can win over even strong detractors,

but she's also committed incredible fraud and put people in physical danger

in pursuit of being the next Steve Jobs. And so, I'll be very curious to see what

we learn. I read an an,

I think it was an Axios article about the movie.

and, and it, it's really a look into

what makes her tick and does she really believe the things that she says.

So that is the

something fun. I guess. It's fun 'cause it's a movie.

so,

uh,

I am,

I'm excited to see it.

All right, something to help with your systems.

Uh,

calling this audio splitter, separating audio by Clap

almost on a whim on Monday, I decided to do a 30 days of podcast notes over on my

other podcast, the streamlined podcaster for September, which is International Podcast

Month. Now, I still help people with podcasts and, and around their content systems,

but,

I maintain this podcast largely to keep using rss.com.

who for whom? I am an evangelist and I want to test all of the features. And I thought

this would be a fun project. But the

thing about this is because I decided on September 7th to do this,

I had to backdate seven days, right? Because I wanted one episode per day for the

month of September.

So I had to batch, and I definitely need to batch for sure. I'm not recording these

episodes one off each day.

And so I, I decided I would only do this if I could make it as easy as humanly possible.

And so here's what is happening all in a Claude skill.

I record a bunch of episodes in a single recording. This is like five to 10 episodes

in a single recording clapping between each one.

I upload the audio to Claude, the file name includes the episode numbers that are

included in this range, and then Claude separates and numbers the episodes based

on the claps in the waveform. That was incredibly surprising to me. Then it will

transcribe each episode and create the title, something like Topic. And then in bracket

day, whatever of 30 days of podcast notes,

it'll create a simple description with my required links and a disclosure that AI

wrote it. That's going to be at the bottom of every description that AI fully wrote

this description.

then it uploads it all to rss.com using my,

rss.com Claude skill, which has a, a script, an API script

that Claude wrote.

and it'll schedule it on the day that corresponds with the episode number. So if

it is episode 11 like it is today, as I record this,

it will schedule it on September 11th and 12 will be scheduled on September 12th,

so on and so forth.

I will review everything before publish, but it's very, very light touch for me.

I record these episodes and then everything else happens in the background. I'm very

clear

with the audience that these are messy voice notes that are not edited. I leave the

mess up in, I make it really clear. And so I, I wouldn't do something like that for

this show, which is edited and a little more polished.

But this process has been working out really well. I've recorded and scheduled 15,

probably in about an hour total, where all, almost all of that was talking, right?

each episode is between two and seven minutes long. And then I run the Claude skill

and if, you know, if there's like little idiosyncrasies I need to fix, but

it's just, it's been a really great experience. And so I am excited to see,

because I started this on September 7th, I will go till October 7th, which means

that

the October episodes will kind of be a retrospective on this project and how it went.

So that is the something to help your systems really impressed by this computer task

that Claude is very good at.

Alright, so,

that's it for this episode. I do wanna close out, you know, I wanna recognize that

this episode's coming out on September 11th, but before I get to that,

if you need help with your systems, if you are doing everything yourself and you

want to take things off of your plate,

but you don't want to hire a team or rely too much on AI to do the actual craft for

you,

I can help you out. Let's schedule a free 25 minute coaching call over at streamlined

fm slash clarity. That's

streamlined FM slash clarity. There will be a link in the show notes. So,

uh,

today is nine 11. I wanna close out on,

uh,

I saying my, one of my favorite speeches is, is maybe not right, but,

one of the most poignant to me. It's from the Flight 93,

uh,

Memorial, and it's from George W. Bush. It was for the 10 year anniversary

of nine 11. I grew up in New York.

I was in high school. I knew I had friends who lost parents.

Uh,

and so,

commemorating this and remembering to,

honor those we lost on that day is very important to me.

and so I wanna close out with this.

but thanks so much for listening, and until next time, I hope you find some space

in your weekend.

He added the whirl little note,

nor long remember what we say here,

but it can never forget what they did here.

So it is with Flight 93,

for as long as this memorial stands, we will remember

what the men and women aboard the plane did here.

We'll pay tribute to

the courage they showed,

the sacrifice they made,

and the lives they spared.

The United States will never forget.