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[SPEAKER_00]: a factual data creation facility production.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In a world where some podcasts make millions of dollars, I bring you the OF&T podcast, which isn't one of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now here's your host, Jim Schafer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to episode 341, which I'm calling Juggling Streaming Services.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I beloved New York Yankee Spaceball team managed to make the playoffs this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The problem was, how do I watch the playoff series?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it wasn't easy, I can tell you that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I described what I've went through to be able to watch these games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: For now, in the entertainment section.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Other than that, I, like many others, are preparing to pre-order the Apple Duo Foldable phone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Will I be successful?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guess we'll find out on October 16th.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's get things going here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In last week's episode podcast section, I quoted the owner of a podcast hosting company and listening app, saying that since the introduction of video podcasting, he hasn't seen his numbers increasing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Though, the quote was correct, I had gotten the name of the service wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's real name is true fans, not only fans, was that an example of a Freudian slip?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Perhaps, but I'm not nor will I ever be a customer of the latter service.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Besides being too old for such content, I'm also too stingy to pay for something like what only fans offers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's nothing like the real thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Am I right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yay!
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's do some Google Slash Android news first.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nine to five Google reports that updates first Google Chrome operating system will be coming to an end in 2034.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?
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[SPEAKER_03]: With some Chromebook models being able to switch over to Google Book OS.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I guess the big G is confident that Google Books will be widely adopted by then.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What about the educational market?
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[SPEAKER_03]: The reason why Google Chromebooks absolutely dominate that market is because of the low price of Chromebooks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Previously, you could buy a Chromebook for a little over $200.
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[SPEAKER_03]: With the educational and book discounting, I'm sure school districts paid far less for that were unit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Unless some made for education model Googlebooks are introduced at a low price point, I don't see school districts opting to pay the almost $900 entry price for a Google book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: With the information currently on hand, it appears to me that Google has given what's referred to as an IN, to both Microsoft and Apple.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And according to an article from Apple Insider, this IN may be already being taken advantage of.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Beaumont Independent School District, located in the Great State of Texas, who are longtime users of Chromebooks, have just cited to least 14,585 Apple devices
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[SPEAKER_03]: The price for this lease came in at $11.19 million, lease.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How would that be cost-effective?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Asking for a friend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The lease includes limited upkeep and repair.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The school district spent nearly $470,000 on repair for their aging fleets of Chromebooks last year alone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow!
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[SPEAKER_03]: While Apple's educational discount is not as generous as Google's, Apple offers little
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[SPEAKER_03]: After evaluating both MS Windows and Apple devices, it was found that the Apple devices are much easier and cheaper to maintain locally.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The devices to be least are 4,085 iPads and 9,500 MacBook Neo's.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Android Police reports that Samsung is moving away from Microsoft from regards to its Galaxy phones.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In the past, Galaxy phones sink with MS's OneDrive cloud service by default, and MS Office
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even Samsung's own apps defaulted to syncing with OneDrive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The author of the article noticed that when you go into Samsung Galaxy Gallery setting now, there's a message informing users that OneDrive's seeking support ends on 30 September 2026.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I guess we can say that OneDrive's seeking has officially ended, being that it's past that date now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The author claims that this is a sign that Samsung is moving closer to Google.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While this makes sense, as Google's apps and services are baked into Android.
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[SPEAKER_03]: but it's can't be good news for Microsoft.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's how I've touched on in past episodes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: After canceling Windows Phone, the company strategy shifted to integrating into Android and how's that working out for them?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Lately, not well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Especially with the imminent release of Google Books.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When I was still gainfully employed by CBP, Samsung phones were issued to management at standard.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just before I retired, those Galaxy phones were replaced by iPhones.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The plan was that eventually every CBP employee would be issued an iPhone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: U.S. government runs on Windows and Microsoft software.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now imagine if Microsoft would have kept supporting Windows Phone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm telling you dropping Windows Phone may turn out to be the undoing of Microsoft.
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[SPEAKER_03]: at least as it is today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And good news for everyone, especially people who like to text message and video chat, 9-5 Google reports that Google messages is close to going live with the RCS Universal Profile 4.0.
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[SPEAKER_03]: RCS is a messaging standard that brings the features of eye message and other chat apps to plain old text messaging.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While the article declares that this is a win for Android users, I count this as a win for all consumers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This development also brings my prediction of a universal mobile operating system one step closer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What about the emergence of AI?
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[SPEAKER_03]: AI will be the end-game of my prediction.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Be Korea herald, an English language newspaper that I read daily while living in that country.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you have a subscription?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why, yes, I did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why do you ask?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So even though you're always complaining about having to pay subscriptions, you've been doing so for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's true, and I've been doing a lot of other things for a long time, too, but regardless of this particular item, this is my only subscription at the time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Besides wanting to get the Korean take on events, I took delivery of the paper at my workplace desk, brought to me by a cute Korean girl every morning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you try chatting her up?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I would have if she spoke any English, which she did not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anyhow, the career herald, quoting an unnamed Samsung official, says that the company will be launching its first Gemini AI powered Android XR Glasses model this November.
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[SPEAKER_03]: These are the non-augmented reality screenless spectacles, not the Terminator Data Screen to Quit Models.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Basically we're getting a copy of Meta's Ray Bang Glasses which currently lead the market.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Samsung's version will be lighter than Metas, which is always welcomed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The article brings up privacy concerns because of the cameras these glasses will have.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you interested in AI glasses or are you waiting for the full-blown science fiction inspired AR screen versions?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's time for some Apple news and rumors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Our old buddy, Bloomberg's Mark German has predicted that Apple will release their take on AI smart glasses by the end of 2027.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's not too far into the future.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure if Mr. German is referring to audio-only smart glasses or the fully augmented reality spectacles which have become the holy grail of the tech industry, at least in this post-Smartphone era we're living in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: These full augmented reality glasses are something I was eager in the past to have, but recently I've reconsidered.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do I really need a pair of smart glasses complete with fighter jet-like heads-up displays?
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[SPEAKER_03]: A better question would be.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Could you afford such a pair of glasses?
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[SPEAKER_03]: In answer to that, I'm sure I'd find a way to purchase such a device if I really want it them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But what I really want is an audio AI that's aware of my surroundings and would help me to navigate them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm, that sounds like those rumored AirPods Pro equipped with cameras.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Be fair, pods, or more than rumours at this point, they're coming.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I now see where Apple intends to go with AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A pair of AirPods would cameras that are aware of your surroundings would be far less expensive than a pair of augmented reality glasses with the added cost of my complicated prescription lenses.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Surprisingly, German also believes that Apple is working on a totally revamped version of the Vision Pro VR goggles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: German tempers this by saying there's an open debate going on within Apple about this and the project is apparently on life support.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Where am I opinion it belongs?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now here's some discouraging news for people like myself, well, actually like my wife, who has hopes of ordering and receiving an iPhone duo in a timely manner.
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[SPEAKER_03]: According to an article from Apple Insider, our favorite giant fruit company Paris to be struggling with the manufacturing of the company's first affordable phone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Still?
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you recall during the months leading up to the September reveal of the duo, there were persistent rumors about Apple having problems obtaining sufficient yields of usable iPhone duo's.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The hinge was the problem most cited back then.
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[SPEAKER_03]: These manufacturing difficulty rumors were quickly discounted by statements from obscure supply chain representatives located in China.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, these manufacturing difficulty rumors have again surfaced.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This time, blimming both the hinge and the displays of being the main culprits.
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[SPEAKER_03]: According to the article, FoxCon, which assembles iPhones for Apple, are only obtaining a 60% yield.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This, according to Unnamed Supply Sources, speaking to Ginian News.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, who Ginian News is, ma, I have no idea.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, there are things called internet search engines, which can help you with this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Great idea.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me quickly use one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Jimmy and news is described as a state-owned financial and business news media outlet.
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[SPEAKER_03]: China.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Established by the Shanghai United Media Group in 2014, it was launched with collaboration from Xiaomi, who besides being a competitor to Apple, is known for copying most Apple hardware designs, product names, and operating system software verbatim.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That fact should be taken into consideration while deciding whether this report is accurate or not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If any of these rumors are even partially true, then I fear many consumers will have a longer wait time than they expected before receiving their new iPhone Duo.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My rule is, never buy the first generation of any product.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But in the old Thart Household, that advice is usually ignored by its other members.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mark German says that Apple plans to introduce some smart home products on October 13th.
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[SPEAKER_03]: According to him, we'll be seeing the smart home hub a new home pod mini and the long-awaited updated Apple TV streaming box.
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[SPEAKER_03]: These long, rumored products have supposedly been ready for a year or more, but were held up because of the unavailability of Siri AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't made clear if Apple is going to hold an event for the launch of these products or not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I assume that the giant food company won't at least hold some sort of introductory type video.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The render's I've seen for the Smart Home Hub look like an iPad mini attached to a full-sized HomePod Pro by a robotic-looking arm.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm pretty sure that the designers at Cupertino have come up with something better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The latest rumors that the Home Hub will resemble an old IMAG4 featuring a square six-inch display with different models that can be placed upon counter-tops or mounted on walls.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you interested in getting one of these smart home hubs?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nah, I have a home security system from another company that also acts as a smart home home that I'm pretty happy with.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I also have multiple Amazon Echoes throughout the house.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While Siri was my first digital assistant, I preferred Microsoft Cortana on my Windows phone, and of course Alexa from my home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But you know what they say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You never forget your first.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Siri has been so bad over the years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'd say many if not most have forgotten about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even though serious supercharged with AI these days, I've gotten so used to doing without it that I still forget to use it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What wasn't included in this list of products was the rumored Apple Security camera and an updated full-sized home hub.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Attack the host is using.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The one thing that's holding me back is I'm afraid that once I purchase it, Apple will have some sort of sale for the holidays next month.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll make my final decision next week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've already configured an M6 Mac Mini on the Apple Store app, and Apple has estimated that my current Mac Mini is worth a $470 upon trade in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's not bad as I paid around $800 for it back in 2023.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I equipped it with 16 gigs of RAM and a 1-terabyte hard drive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The new M61 will bring me about $1,000 and that's with 24 gigs of RAM in the same one terabyte drive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you've been paying attention, my current Mac Mini has, well, how should I put it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Quarks that I've suffered with over the three years that I've had it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I still believe these quirks were mainly caused by software, both Apple and third party.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If I do decide to purchase this new M6 Mac Mini, well I'll just be keeping my LG 27-inch 4K monitor that I'm using now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why am I getting the feeling that there's a 32-inch display in your future?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know me so well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course I do, but I'm not getting suckered into breaking down the fourth wall today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm grateful for that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, this M6 Mac Mini should be the last desktop computer I buy for a long while.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The new M6 will also give me a good degree of future proofing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not that I'm straining my current M2 Mac Mini.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A couple of weeks ago, while listening to the podcasting 2.0 podcast, the podfather,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Adam Curry had a very interesting prediction concerning AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He posits that in the near future AI models will come baked into the computer chips themselves.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He basis this on both AMD and Nvidia's recent purchases of AI companies.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you haven't heard or just don't care, AMD purchased not just one but three AI companies, which were silo AI, Alice AI and Unteather AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And video made a splash by purchasing hugging face, so many people in the know, claim and video made this purchase in order to head off lawsuits.
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[SPEAKER_03]: OK. Sure it was.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you can't spook those so-called frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they're Nvidia's best customers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mr. Curry also predicts that the AI business will shift from those large language models to local AI models that most consumers in some businesses will run locally.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes sense for consumers because of the money they'll save, and for businesses besides the cost savings, they'll be able to control their debt locally without some AI company having access to, and most likely scraping it for their own use.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He also went on to predict that AI chatbots will not be the money-tree these large AI companies
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most future users of AI will use it to accomplish mundane tasks that will make life easier for them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Baton, coding.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Imagine having a computer with no applications.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You could just tell or type in what you want and the AI would just accomplish the task or create the sort of application you need on the spot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're already heading that way with the nothing phone and others attempting to do this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Exciting times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't see myself ever using a chatbot as I'm perfectly able to entertain myself without any external input and as you've said, you can always talk to yourself because you're a great listener.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that old gag.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My biggest problem will be getting used to using AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mr. Curry also has high praise for Meta's muse, claiming that it's what consumers actually want and it's the future of AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Heck, even I'm tempted to try muse now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What about you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you
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[SPEAKER_03]: After Disney broke the no price increase cycle last week, I've restarted the weekly count.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So far, it's been one week since a streaming service has announced a price increase.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see how long this cycle goes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Despite subscribing to live streaming service Fubo, which builds itself as the number one sport centric streaming service, we found ourselves unable to watch this weekend's New York Yankees playoff games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's because Fubo doesn't carry the TBS network.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought I had things covered because of my subscription to HBO Max.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, dear, that's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I found out that my base level subscription doesn't include the TBS network, which is part of HBO.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Instead, I would have to upgrade my subscription.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I pay but $3 per month for my basic subscription, and I would like to have kept it that way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't you just do the old upgrade for a month thing, and then cancel after the playoffs?
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[SPEAKER_03]: While the reason I pay so little for HBO is because I took advantage of a one-time offer, upgrading my subscription would negate that offer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While we would love to watch our beloved MLB team's March to the World Series,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, it could happen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are not keen on having to pay even more to do so, and yet you call yourselves true fans.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are true fans, but this scattered coverage the MLB and other professional sport leagues have unleashed is just too expensive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: TBS is a cable network not a true over the air network.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Why they have so rightsful for certain games is unknown to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I can tell you why.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, money talks and, you know, to rest of that saying, I would gladly pay an extra ad on price for the MLB app in order to avoid the blackout of games both regular season and playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But that's the world we live in these days.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And here I thought that cutting the cord would reduce consumer's costs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought I had figured out how my lovely wife and I could watch Yankee raise play off series for the lowest price.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had found out that sling TV sells day, week, and monthly passes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yankees raised series as a 5 game series played over a 7-day period, with whoever wins three games advancing to the next round.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Friday, I checked in, yes, Slink carries TBS, and I could, in fact, participate weekly paths for just 13 bucks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: However, being that it was a Friday and the Yankees playoff series can go on until next Saturday, I held off on the weekly past purchase.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Saturday morning, I fired up this sling website, but the option to purchase any length of past had disappeared.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?!
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess sling figured out that many baseball fans would be doing what you were attempting to do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Indeed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Instead, I would have to subscribe to a plan that would have cost me 45 dollars.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've had sling before, and though less expensive than the other livestream services, you get what you pay for.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most channels carried by sling are available on free-ed supported apps.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, I went back to HBO and upgraded my description plan to pre-meam for $24.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll most likely be keeping this description and the next story will tell you why.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This solution made my wife very happy and if she's happy, well, I'm happy too!
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I shouldn't have to jump through hoops in order to watch my favorite baseball team play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nine of five mag has an article pointing out that the long-awaited merger between Paramount plus and Warner Brothers studios will finally be completed this coming week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you recall, Netflix had a deal going for Warner Brothers but Paramount came in with a larger offer, and then politics entered the fray with over 20 state attorney generals from Democratic Party controlled states following a lawsuit to stop the acquisition.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What these states were worried about was a loss of another Democratic Party news mouthpiece, CNN, to the non-Lift Wing Radical Paramount.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Paramount called the Cabal's bluff in threatened to pull Paramount out of California and move it to a so-called red state, which forced a compromise, which lit the deal go through.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Paramount had previously bought the CBS television network, which came along with the CBS news organization, which always showed the Democratic Party line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: or so they say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This new company will now be known as Skydance and HBO will be rolled into the Paramount Plus streaming app.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was a long time to scribe to HBO competitor Showtime which also has become part of Paramount Plus.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I might most quickly, so when HBO does become part of Paramount Plus, I'll be covered.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but here Bank account will surely be taking a hit, though.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know, but it should be cheaper than in separate subscriptions anyway.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, we'll be the fate of CNN.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I would hope it survives and returns to just reporting the news based on facts, not opinion and agenda-driven news.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what it does now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: CNN used to be a very respected news organization.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While I was in the military, CNN was on 24-7 in affsilities.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I noticed a change in its reporting starting in the late 1980s, which evolved into what CNN has become these days, which is just another mouthpiece for the radical agenda click of today's Democratic political party that most people don't bother watching.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I hope CNN can once again return to its once-high stature.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have an idea.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's take a break and perhaps you'll hear an advertisement or two.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or perhaps you won't.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Podcast news or something similar to it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's take a trip back towards the beginning of 2026.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That was when a company called Inception Point AI started releasing episodes for thousands of podcasts the company created using artificial intelligence.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I don't see anything wrong with that at all, but you wouldn't, would you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: At the time, many within podcasts being incorporated considered this an AI podcast apocalypse.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All of these AI-generated podcasts were part of the quiet fleas network that was created by inception point just for this purpose.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I managed to listen to a sampling of these podcasts and found that the ones that were informational like new sprees, for example, were that bad.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sheels had attempted to have personality were not up to snuff as he, cool kids say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Pass forward to this past Monday where an article from pod news.net points out that the CEO of inception point one, Janine Wright, claimed in an interview on the lead balloon podcast that this was mostly a publicity stunt in order for her company to get noticed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In her defense, it looks like it worked.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It sure did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Inception point has since rebranded as liquid studios who describe themselves as existing to transform existing content.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember this whole Bung Doggle forcing the various podcasts listening indexes to weed out these AI-generated podcasts and branding them as AI-slop.
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[SPEAKER_03]: which most were.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But this even got me into experimenting with AI-generated podcast episodes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have since abandoned that idea, so what's become of the quiet-pleased podcast network?
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[SPEAKER_03]: The network still exists, but it only has about 300 active shows versus the thousands it once had.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I figured the shields that are still active on the network actually have enough listeners to turn a profit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In my opinion, eventually AI-generated audio podcasts will become normalized.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Compared to the current method of making a podcast, it is both simpler, faster, and far more cheaper to do it with AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All you need is an AI-text to speech generator and place the host to podcast.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No expensive audio equipment or heavy editing is required.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When I was experimenting with AI-generated podcasts, I was able to knock out an AI-generated episode and list an hour.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That includes publication.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't use AI to generate a script, though.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Those were my own words being spoken by the AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If I had used AI for scripting, I could have generated an episode within 20 minutes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you haven't already, check out, or FNT overflow 4 and 5.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even since creating those episodes, AI has advanced quite a bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm telling you, eventually you won't be able to tell if it's live or memoryx.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Another thing the cool kids like to say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No!
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[SPEAKER_03]: But Memorix is, or was, I'm not sure which, a company that produces magnetic recording cassette tapes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, the live or Memorix saying comes from an advert they ran for their product.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I tell you, you've learned something new each day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The music is playing on this fall evening here in one of the many valleys of Eastern Tennessee.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I enjoyed making it for you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you like what you heard, you can make a donation using the link in the show notes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you would like to contact the OFNT podcast, you can do so by sending an email to OFNT podcast at gmail.com.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And remember, don't listen to what they say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Watch what they do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Though it's always a pleasure talking with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Get off my lawn.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They skeptical.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, I'm out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be seeing you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Go!
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that folks is the end of the show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or is it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, you guys have already checked out long ago, just messing with ya.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a factual data creation facility production.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In a world where some podcasts make millions of dollars, I bring you the OF&T podcast, which isn't one of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now here's your host, Jim Schafer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to episode 341, which I'm calling Juggling Streaming Services.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I beloved New York Yankee Spaceball team managed to make the playoffs this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The problem was, how do I watch the playoff series?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it wasn't easy, I can tell you that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I described what I've went through to be able to watch these games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: For now, in the entertainment section.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Other than that, I, like many others, are preparing to pre-order the Apple Duo Foldable phone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Will I be successful?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guess we'll find out on October 16th.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's get things going here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In last week's episode podcast section, I quoted the owner of a podcast hosting company and listening app, saying that since the introduction of video podcasting, he hasn't seen his numbers increasing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Though, the quote was correct, I had gotten the name of the service wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's real name is true fans, not only fans, was that an example of a Freudian slip?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Perhaps, but I'm not nor will I ever be a customer of the latter service.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Besides being too old for such content, I'm also too stingy to pay for something like what only fans offers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's nothing like the real thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Am I right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yay!
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's do some Google Slash Android news first.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nine to five Google reports that updates first Google Chrome operating system will be coming to an end in 2034.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?
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[SPEAKER_03]: With some Chromebook models being able to switch over to Google Book OS.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I guess the big G is confident that Google Books will be widely adopted by then.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What about the educational market?
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[SPEAKER_03]: The reason why Google Chromebooks absolutely dominate that market is because of the low price of Chromebooks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Previously, you could buy a Chromebook for a little over $200.
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[SPEAKER_03]: With the educational and book discounting, I'm sure school districts paid far less for that were unit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Unless some made for education model Googlebooks are introduced at a low price point, I don't see school districts opting to pay the almost $900 entry price for a Google book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: With the information currently on hand, it appears to me that Google has given what's referred to as an IN, to both Microsoft and Apple.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And according to an article from Apple Insider, this IN may be already being taken advantage of.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Beaumont Independent School District, located in the Great State of Texas, who are longtime users of Chromebooks, have just cited to least 14,585 Apple devices
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[SPEAKER_03]: The price for this lease came in at $11.19 million, lease.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How would that be cost-effective?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Asking for a friend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The lease includes limited upkeep and repair.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The school district spent nearly $470,000 on repair for their aging fleets of Chromebooks last year alone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow!
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[SPEAKER_03]: While Apple's educational discount is not as generous as Google's, Apple offers little
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[SPEAKER_03]: After evaluating both MS Windows and Apple devices, it was found that the Apple devices are much easier and cheaper to maintain locally.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The devices to be least are 4,085 iPads and 9,500 MacBook Neo's.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Android Police reports that Samsung is moving away from Microsoft from regards to its Galaxy phones.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In the past, Galaxy phones sink with MS's OneDrive cloud service by default, and MS Office
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even Samsung's own apps defaulted to syncing with OneDrive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The author of the article noticed that when you go into Samsung Galaxy Gallery setting now, there's a message informing users that OneDrive's seeking support ends on 30 September 2026.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I guess we can say that OneDrive's seeking has officially ended, being that it's past that date now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The author claims that this is a sign that Samsung is moving closer to Google.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While this makes sense, as Google's apps and services are baked into Android.
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[SPEAKER_03]: but it's can't be good news for Microsoft.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's how I've touched on in past episodes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: After canceling Windows Phone, the company strategy shifted to integrating into Android and how's that working out for them?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Lately, not well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Especially with the imminent release of Google Books.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When I was still gainfully employed by CBP, Samsung phones were issued to management at standard.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just before I retired, those Galaxy phones were replaced by iPhones.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The plan was that eventually every CBP employee would be issued an iPhone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: U.S. government runs on Windows and Microsoft software.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now imagine if Microsoft would have kept supporting Windows Phone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm telling you dropping Windows Phone may turn out to be the undoing of Microsoft.
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[SPEAKER_03]: at least as it is today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And good news for everyone, especially people who like to text message and video chat, 9-5 Google reports that Google messages is close to going live with the RCS Universal Profile 4.0.
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[SPEAKER_03]: RCS is a messaging standard that brings the features of eye message and other chat apps to plain old text messaging.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While the article declares that this is a win for Android users, I count this as a win for all consumers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This development also brings my prediction of a universal mobile operating system one step closer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What about the emergence of AI?
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[SPEAKER_03]: AI will be the end-game of my prediction.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Be Korea herald, an English language newspaper that I read daily while living in that country.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you have a subscription?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why, yes, I did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why do you ask?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So even though you're always complaining about having to pay subscriptions, you've been doing so for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's true, and I've been doing a lot of other things for a long time, too, but regardless of this particular item, this is my only subscription at the time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Besides wanting to get the Korean take on events, I took delivery of the paper at my workplace desk, brought to me by a cute Korean girl every morning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you try chatting her up?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I would have if she spoke any English, which she did not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anyhow, the career herald, quoting an unnamed Samsung official, says that the company will be launching its first Gemini AI powered Android XR Glasses model this November.
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[SPEAKER_03]: These are the non-augmented reality screenless spectacles, not the Terminator Data Screen to Quit Models.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Basically we're getting a copy of Meta's Ray Bang Glasses which currently lead the market.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Samsung's version will be lighter than Metas, which is always welcomed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The article brings up privacy concerns because of the cameras these glasses will have.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you interested in AI glasses or are you waiting for the full-blown science fiction inspired AR screen versions?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's time for some Apple news and rumors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Our old buddy, Bloomberg's Mark German has predicted that Apple will release their take on AI smart glasses by the end of 2027.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's not too far into the future.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure if Mr. German is referring to audio-only smart glasses or the fully augmented reality spectacles which have become the holy grail of the tech industry, at least in this post-Smartphone era we're living in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: These full augmented reality glasses are something I was eager in the past to have, but recently I've reconsidered.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do I really need a pair of smart glasses complete with fighter jet-like heads-up displays?
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[SPEAKER_03]: A better question would be.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Could you afford such a pair of glasses?
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[SPEAKER_03]: In answer to that, I'm sure I'd find a way to purchase such a device if I really want it them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But what I really want is an audio AI that's aware of my surroundings and would help me to navigate them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm, that sounds like those rumored AirPods Pro equipped with cameras.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Be fair, pods, or more than rumours at this point, they're coming.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I now see where Apple intends to go with AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A pair of AirPods would cameras that are aware of your surroundings would be far less expensive than a pair of augmented reality glasses with the added cost of my complicated prescription lenses.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Surprisingly, German also believes that Apple is working on a totally revamped version of the Vision Pro VR goggles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: German tempers this by saying there's an open debate going on within Apple about this and the project is apparently on life support.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Where am I opinion it belongs?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now here's some discouraging news for people like myself, well, actually like my wife, who has hopes of ordering and receiving an iPhone duo in a timely manner.
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[SPEAKER_03]: According to an article from Apple Insider, our favorite giant fruit company Paris to be struggling with the manufacturing of the company's first affordable phone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Still?
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you recall during the months leading up to the September reveal of the duo, there were persistent rumors about Apple having problems obtaining sufficient yields of usable iPhone duo's.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The hinge was the problem most cited back then.
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[SPEAKER_03]: These manufacturing difficulty rumors were quickly discounted by statements from obscure supply chain representatives located in China.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, these manufacturing difficulty rumors have again surfaced.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This time, blimming both the hinge and the displays of being the main culprits.
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[SPEAKER_03]: According to the article, FoxCon, which assembles iPhones for Apple, are only obtaining a 60% yield.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This, according to Unnamed Supply Sources, speaking to Ginian News.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, who Ginian News is, ma, I have no idea.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, there are things called internet search engines, which can help you with this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Great idea.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me quickly use one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Jimmy and news is described as a state-owned financial and business news media outlet.
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[SPEAKER_03]: China.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Established by the Shanghai United Media Group in 2014, it was launched with collaboration from Xiaomi, who besides being a competitor to Apple, is known for copying most Apple hardware designs, product names, and operating system software verbatim.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That fact should be taken into consideration while deciding whether this report is accurate or not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If any of these rumors are even partially true, then I fear many consumers will have a longer wait time than they expected before receiving their new iPhone Duo.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My rule is, never buy the first generation of any product.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But in the old Thart Household, that advice is usually ignored by its other members.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mark German says that Apple plans to introduce some smart home products on October 13th.
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[SPEAKER_03]: According to him, we'll be seeing the smart home hub a new home pod mini and the long-awaited updated Apple TV streaming box.
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[SPEAKER_03]: These long, rumored products have supposedly been ready for a year or more, but were held up because of the unavailability of Siri AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't made clear if Apple is going to hold an event for the launch of these products or not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I assume that the giant food company won't at least hold some sort of introductory type video.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The render's I've seen for the Smart Home Hub look like an iPad mini attached to a full-sized HomePod Pro by a robotic-looking arm.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm pretty sure that the designers at Cupertino have come up with something better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The latest rumors that the Home Hub will resemble an old IMAG4 featuring a square six-inch display with different models that can be placed upon counter-tops or mounted on walls.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you interested in getting one of these smart home hubs?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nah, I have a home security system from another company that also acts as a smart home home that I'm pretty happy with.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I also have multiple Amazon Echoes throughout the house.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While Siri was my first digital assistant, I preferred Microsoft Cortana on my Windows phone, and of course Alexa from my home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But you know what they say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You never forget your first.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Siri has been so bad over the years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'd say many if not most have forgotten about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even though serious supercharged with AI these days, I've gotten so used to doing without it that I still forget to use it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What wasn't included in this list of products was the rumored Apple Security camera and an updated full-sized home hub.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Attack the host is using.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The one thing that's holding me back is I'm afraid that once I purchase it, Apple will have some sort of sale for the holidays next month.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll make my final decision next week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've already configured an M6 Mac Mini on the Apple Store app, and Apple has estimated that my current Mac Mini is worth a $470 upon trade in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's not bad as I paid around $800 for it back in 2023.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I equipped it with 16 gigs of RAM and a 1-terabyte hard drive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The new M61 will bring me about $1,000 and that's with 24 gigs of RAM in the same one terabyte drive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you've been paying attention, my current Mac Mini has, well, how should I put it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Quarks that I've suffered with over the three years that I've had it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I still believe these quirks were mainly caused by software, both Apple and third party.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If I do decide to purchase this new M6 Mac Mini, well I'll just be keeping my LG 27-inch 4K monitor that I'm using now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why am I getting the feeling that there's a 32-inch display in your future?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know me so well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course I do, but I'm not getting suckered into breaking down the fourth wall today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm grateful for that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, this M6 Mac Mini should be the last desktop computer I buy for a long while.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The new M6 will also give me a good degree of future proofing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not that I'm straining my current M2 Mac Mini.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A couple of weeks ago, while listening to the podcasting 2.0 podcast, the podfather,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Adam Curry had a very interesting prediction concerning AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He posits that in the near future AI models will come baked into the computer chips themselves.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He basis this on both AMD and Nvidia's recent purchases of AI companies.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you haven't heard or just don't care, AMD purchased not just one but three AI companies, which were silo AI, Alice AI and Unteather AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And video made a splash by purchasing hugging face, so many people in the know, claim and video made this purchase in order to head off lawsuits.
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[SPEAKER_03]: OK. Sure it was.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you can't spook those so-called frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they're Nvidia's best customers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mr. Curry also predicts that the AI business will shift from those large language models to local AI models that most consumers in some businesses will run locally.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes sense for consumers because of the money they'll save, and for businesses besides the cost savings, they'll be able to control their debt locally without some AI company having access to, and most likely scraping it for their own use.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He also went on to predict that AI chatbots will not be the money-tree these large AI companies
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most future users of AI will use it to accomplish mundane tasks that will make life easier for them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Baton, coding.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Imagine having a computer with no applications.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You could just tell or type in what you want and the AI would just accomplish the task or create the sort of application you need on the spot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're already heading that way with the nothing phone and others attempting to do this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Exciting times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't see myself ever using a chatbot as I'm perfectly able to entertain myself without any external input and as you've said, you can always talk to yourself because you're a great listener.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that old gag.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My biggest problem will be getting used to using AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mr. Curry also has high praise for Meta's muse, claiming that it's what consumers actually want and it's the future of AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Heck, even I'm tempted to try muse now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What about you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you
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[SPEAKER_03]: After Disney broke the no price increase cycle last week, I've restarted the weekly count.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So far, it's been one week since a streaming service has announced a price increase.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see how long this cycle goes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Despite subscribing to live streaming service Fubo, which builds itself as the number one sport centric streaming service, we found ourselves unable to watch this weekend's New York Yankees playoff games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's because Fubo doesn't carry the TBS network.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought I had things covered because of my subscription to HBO Max.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, dear, that's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I found out that my base level subscription doesn't include the TBS network, which is part of HBO.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Instead, I would have to upgrade my subscription.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I pay but $3 per month for my basic subscription, and I would like to have kept it that way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't you just do the old upgrade for a month thing, and then cancel after the playoffs?
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[SPEAKER_03]: While the reason I pay so little for HBO is because I took advantage of a one-time offer, upgrading my subscription would negate that offer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While we would love to watch our beloved MLB team's March to the World Series,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, it could happen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are not keen on having to pay even more to do so, and yet you call yourselves true fans.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are true fans, but this scattered coverage the MLB and other professional sport leagues have unleashed is just too expensive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: TBS is a cable network not a true over the air network.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Why they have so rightsful for certain games is unknown to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I can tell you why.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, money talks and, you know, to rest of that saying, I would gladly pay an extra ad on price for the MLB app in order to avoid the blackout of games both regular season and playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But that's the world we live in these days.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And here I thought that cutting the cord would reduce consumer's costs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought I had figured out how my lovely wife and I could watch Yankee raise play off series for the lowest price.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had found out that sling TV sells day, week, and monthly passes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yankees raised series as a 5 game series played over a 7-day period, with whoever wins three games advancing to the next round.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Friday, I checked in, yes, Slink carries TBS, and I could, in fact, participate weekly paths for just 13 bucks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: However, being that it was a Friday and the Yankees playoff series can go on until next Saturday, I held off on the weekly past purchase.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Saturday morning, I fired up this sling website, but the option to purchase any length of past had disappeared.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?!
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess sling figured out that many baseball fans would be doing what you were attempting to do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Indeed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Instead, I would have to subscribe to a plan that would have cost me 45 dollars.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've had sling before, and though less expensive than the other livestream services, you get what you pay for.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most channels carried by sling are available on free-ed supported apps.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, I went back to HBO and upgraded my description plan to pre-meam for $24.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll most likely be keeping this description and the next story will tell you why.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This solution made my wife very happy and if she's happy, well, I'm happy too!
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I shouldn't have to jump through hoops in order to watch my favorite baseball team play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nine of five mag has an article pointing out that the long-awaited merger between Paramount plus and Warner Brothers studios will finally be completed this coming week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you recall, Netflix had a deal going for Warner Brothers but Paramount came in with a larger offer, and then politics entered the fray with over 20 state attorney generals from Democratic Party controlled states following a lawsuit to stop the acquisition.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What these states were worried about was a loss of another Democratic Party news mouthpiece, CNN, to the non-Lift Wing Radical Paramount.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Paramount called the Cabal's bluff in threatened to pull Paramount out of California and move it to a so-called red state, which forced a compromise, which lit the deal go through.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Paramount had previously bought the CBS television network, which came along with the CBS news organization, which always showed the Democratic Party line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: or so they say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This new company will now be known as Skydance and HBO will be rolled into the Paramount Plus streaming app.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was a long time to scribe to HBO competitor Showtime which also has become part of Paramount Plus.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I might most quickly, so when HBO does become part of Paramount Plus, I'll be covered.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but here Bank account will surely be taking a hit, though.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know, but it should be cheaper than in separate subscriptions anyway.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, we'll be the fate of CNN.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I would hope it survives and returns to just reporting the news based on facts, not opinion and agenda-driven news.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what it does now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: CNN used to be a very respected news organization.
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[SPEAKER_03]: While I was in the military, CNN was on 24-7 in affsilities.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I noticed a change in its reporting starting in the late 1980s, which evolved into what CNN has become these days, which is just another mouthpiece for the radical agenda click of today's Democratic political party that most people don't bother watching.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I hope CNN can once again return to its once-high stature.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have an idea.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's take a break and perhaps you'll hear an advertisement or two.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or perhaps you won't.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Podcast news or something similar to it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's take a trip back towards the beginning of 2026.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That was when a company called Inception Point AI started releasing episodes for thousands of podcasts the company created using artificial intelligence.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I don't see anything wrong with that at all, but you wouldn't, would you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: At the time, many within podcasts being incorporated considered this an AI podcast apocalypse.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All of these AI-generated podcasts were part of the quiet fleas network that was created by inception point just for this purpose.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I managed to listen to a sampling of these podcasts and found that the ones that were informational like new sprees, for example, were that bad.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sheels had attempted to have personality were not up to snuff as he, cool kids say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Pass forward to this past Monday where an article from pod news.net points out that the CEO of inception point one, Janine Wright, claimed in an interview on the lead balloon podcast that this was mostly a publicity stunt in order for her company to get noticed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In her defense, it looks like it worked.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It sure did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Inception point has since rebranded as liquid studios who describe themselves as existing to transform existing content.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember this whole Bung Doggle forcing the various podcasts listening indexes to weed out these AI-generated podcasts and branding them as AI-slop.
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[SPEAKER_03]: which most were.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But this even got me into experimenting with AI-generated podcast episodes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have since abandoned that idea, so what's become of the quiet-pleased podcast network?
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[SPEAKER_03]: The network still exists, but it only has about 300 active shows versus the thousands it once had.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I figured the shields that are still active on the network actually have enough listeners to turn a profit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In my opinion, eventually AI-generated audio podcasts will become normalized.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Compared to the current method of making a podcast, it is both simpler, faster, and far more cheaper to do it with AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All you need is an AI-text to speech generator and place the host to podcast.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No expensive audio equipment or heavy editing is required.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When I was experimenting with AI-generated podcasts, I was able to knock out an AI-generated episode and list an hour.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That includes publication.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't use AI to generate a script, though.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Those were my own words being spoken by the AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If I had used AI for scripting, I could have generated an episode within 20 minutes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you haven't already, check out, or FNT overflow 4 and 5.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even since creating those episodes, AI has advanced quite a bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm telling you, eventually you won't be able to tell if it's live or memoryx.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Another thing the cool kids like to say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No!
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[SPEAKER_03]: But Memorix is, or was, I'm not sure which, a company that produces magnetic recording cassette tapes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, the live or Memorix saying comes from an advert they ran for their product.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I tell you, you've learned something new each day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The music is playing on this fall evening here in one of the many valleys of Eastern Tennessee.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I enjoyed making it for you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you like what you heard, you can make a donation using the link in the show notes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you would like to contact the OFNT podcast, you can do so by sending an email to OFNT podcast at gmail.com.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And remember, don't listen to what they say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Watch what they do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Though it's always a pleasure talking with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Get off my lawn.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They skeptical.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, I'm out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be seeing you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Go!
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that folks is the end of the show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or is it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, you guys have already checked out long ago, just messing with ya.
