Tailosive Tech April Q&A

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize already. Yes, we're
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doing an apology stream because my goal was to find
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time to stream once per month, and I missed the
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entire month of March. But hey, we won't miss April
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because we're starting super super early. Schedule has been filling
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up a lot lately, all kinds of exciting things going
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on that have no correlation to this channel. But I
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found a little hole in my schedule just now, so
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I was like, you know what, we're gonna make time.
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So now we have the time. It didn't really do
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it formal video covering the announcement of dub dub because hey,
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it's always on the first Monday of June, so it's
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not like a huge realization that there's one on What
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is it this or is it the second Monday? I forget?
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Is it June eighth? I think it's the eighth. That
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can't be the first Monday. That's not possible. Yeah, it's
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the second Monday. I guess they don't want to have
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it on June first because that's a little too close.
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But yeah, I think Apple has a lot of catching
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up to do. Spoiler alert for my M five Max
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MacBook Pro review. I'm not a big fan of Tahoe.
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Gotta be honest, I've seen other people complaining as well.
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Oh yes, Josh, hello tech god stuff. I am alive.
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I am not artificial intelligence yet, but I would totally
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embrace it. Just for the record, I just am so
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I'm so limited on my time, but I still want
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the channel to be like active, so I haven't seen
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a good one yet. There's been people who have recommended
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to me, like AI video editors, and I've tried a few.
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I'm not impressed yet. Honestly, there's certain aspects of AI
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that have gotten really good, like that's genuinely impressive. Like
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I would say most of them have actually gotten very
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good at a photo you know, image generation spoiler. I
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have used some in my video thumbnails. You can probably
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tell just by looking at them, but I don't see
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the comments bring it up immediately, which is why I'm
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not exactly sure if everybody notices. But Hi Scott, yes,
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we're back. There should be. My goal is to have
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one of these live streams a month, but I've already
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failed my own goal. There was no live stream last month,
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but that's why I'm starting early for April for those
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who haven't joined one, or maybe you all have, But
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just for the record, these live streams, the reason I'm
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calling them just Q and A now instead of trying
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to pick a topic for the title, is because the
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whole beauty of a live stream is you guys get
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to decide what we talk about, rather than me try
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to guess what you're interested in, make a video on
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that and post it and then get feedback. The live
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streams are always fun to me. They're a little bit
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more time consuming, so that's why I can't do them
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as frequently, but I do enjoy them because I get
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a real time feedback on what you guys want to
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talk about or what you're most interested in. So fire away,
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it's you guys get to dictate what happens. Scott says
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he hasn't updated to Tahoe because I've refused to give
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up launch Pad. I didn't even think about that. Yeah,
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launch Pad's gone. So I have a fascinating like cross
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comparison now because in case I missed it, I'm live
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streaming off my iMac Pro, which is stuck on Sonoma.
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Not mad about that, though I love Sonoma. It's very
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reliable it's consistent. The UI is very clean, so I'm
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actually quite happy that on my iMac Pro they're not
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trying to change it. I don't get push notifications telling
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me to update to Tahoe. Different story though, on my
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M one Max MacBook Pro, which yes, is still my
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personal laptop. It's the te Losieve machine when I'm on
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the go. Got to admit, I don't use it as
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much on the go anymore because of work now. But man,
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that thing is desperately trying to get me to update
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to Tahoe. And the funny thing is, I have Tahoe
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on my work laptop, which is the M five Max,
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and boy has it been a buggy mess for one
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Like the spotlight key didn't work at all for like
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the first week. I don't really notice that much of
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a performance upgrade. To be honest, there were some other bugs.
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I'm trying to remember what they were. Yeah, I don't know.
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Just the UI everything being liquid glass, I don't know,
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doesn't excite me. All that match Well, I will give
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it credit. I'm glad they finally, after freaking like forty
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years or whatever, moved the volume indicator to the top corner.
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They should have done that ages ago. It's still crazy
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to me that when you change the volume, you know,
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on a Mac that's not running Tahoe, they still put
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the big square overlay on top of everything. It's like, really,
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that's where you want to put volume. I still think
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they should just emulate how it works on iOS and
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tvOS and iPad os. Just a little indicator on the
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side would be fine. Instead, it's a little better now.
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It's like a little slider, but it's got dots, which
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I guess some people might prefer. But anyway, Zorralink, welcome back. Hey, Hey,
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thank you everybody for tuning in. I'll try to keep
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up with the messages here, but the chat is too
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close to my I have a very jank ring light
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at this point. The M one is still somehow aging
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so well. It honestly is like I haven't done a
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back to back export test yet, but I have exported
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quite a few videos on the M five Max. I
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gotta admit I don't notice that much of a difference.
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And I got basically the widest DELPA between Apple Silicon models,
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right like I got the very first, you know, sixteen
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inch Apple Silicon Mac. I could get M one Max
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I got on launch day. I've been using it ever
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since pretty much daily, and the batteries degraded. You know,
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it's probably eighty two percent battery health now and all that.
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And yet I use that old MacBook and compared to
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the M five Max which just came out, you know,
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skipped all these middle generations, M two, M three, M
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four all the way to M five max, and I
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got the non bind best of the best chip that
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I could. And yet videos export about the same speed.
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It doesn't really feel that noticeable. I do love the
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nano texture display, but that is not unique to the
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M five max chip. Also, a huge bug that I
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thought maybe was an M one max problem, turns out
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it's not. It's still just a final cut bug that
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is still present on a brand new five thousand dollars machine,
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which is occasionally when you're dragging iPhone footage into final
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cut early on in the project process, it will start
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like not cutting. Even when you have the razor tool
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selected and you're cutting up the clip, it'll just suddenly
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not let you cut up the clip, and you can't
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fix it unless you close the program and open it
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up again. See. I've had that for years and I thought, oh,
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maybe this is an m one max thing. It's getting old,
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it's showing signs of you know, slow downs. It's just
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wearing down. I have to reboot applications more often. Maybe
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it's a bug with Sonoma or what am I own?
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I think I'm on Sonoma on my old MacBook Pro.
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So I thought maybe on Tahoe that would be fixed,
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or with newer silicon that would be fixed. And nope,
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still a problem. So it's kind of cool that, you know. Obviously,
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for security reasons and IP reasons, I had to get
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a new work machine that I thankfully didn't have to
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pay for. But I still get to experience what the
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new MacBook Pro is like. And it's a longer term review.
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It's not like the MacBook Neo where I just use
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it for a couple of weeks and then send it back.
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This time, I actually get a long term experience and
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I'm discovering. Yeah, I would not have bought this if
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it were my own money. I asked, you know, if
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I could just turn my personal computer into a work computer.
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I suggested that to my company, and they weren't interested
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in doing that. So it's not like there was another option. Really,
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But I don't mind the removal of launch pad as
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much as I thought. But the bugs and Tahoe are inexcusable.
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I'm using it on my m one macpicare Ooh yikes. Okay,
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so I'm not alone. That's good to know, tech God said.
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The spotlight bug is so frustrating. Yeah, you designated Apple,
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You created a whole new button just for Spotlight search,
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and then it straight up just didn't work. Okay, great,
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Also another bug. Tell me if you guys experienced something
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like this, because I'm not sure if this was a
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Tahoe bug or potentially a bug with the security protocol.
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Did I get three percent cash back? No? Because I
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didn't pay for it. Basically, I had to tell the
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IT people at my job which computer I wanted, and
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then they and then they got it. So no, I
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guess you could say I got three percent cash back
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on zero dollars. Three percent of zero is still zero. Anyway,
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I was more impressed with the macbug of in the
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MacBook Pro. To be honest, I'm not that impressed with
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the Pro, but it could have been you know, their
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security IT software on my computer because it is technically
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not mine. It's like a work machine. And I woke
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up the other day and I heard this really loud,
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buzzing noise. It was just like and I was like,
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what is that noise? What the heck? And I go
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over to my laptop bag and sure enough, it's the
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M five Max MacBook Pro with both fans just screaming
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full blast and it's completely shut. I haven't used it again.
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I had just woken up. I don't even think I
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used the MacBook Pro the day before, so randomly, just
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in the middle of the night, I guess, the fans
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just started cranking and I'm like, what is it doing.
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I didn't have it export. I didn't even tell it
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to update or anything. I opened the laptop and it's
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freaking like Slack. Slack is like we need to update.
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We need to restart to update Slack, which felt like
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malware to me. I was like, that doesn't seem right,
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like why would why would Slack, a third party application,
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need to restart. I hadn't downloaded anything weird other than
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of course the IT software, which is again part of
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me wondered if it was a bug with the IT software,
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because I was like, I haven't heard of anybody having
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this problem where they just wake up in the middle
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of the night to their MacBook fans just screaming at
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full blast. Like, I've never heard it that loud, even
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when editing pro res four K video, multiple streams, MULTIICAM footage.
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I've I've put it through its paces, We've done a
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lot of video editing on that thing already, but I've
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never heard the fans kick on. And yet randomly in
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the middle of the night, the fans just started blasting.
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Has anybody had that bug, not even on a new MacBook,
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just on any MacBook ever. I don't recall my personal
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MacBook ever doing that. So yeah, I'm afraid I just
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have to agree with you guys. Like the M one
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line of chips has aged so gracefully, so insanely well
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that even after all these years, it's been almost five
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years since they came out, I still can't really recommend upgrading.
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I mean, there's there's a handful of handy features here
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and there, like the nanotexture display is kind of cool,
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and the center stage cameras kind of nice. I don't
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have that on the M one, but I do have
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it on the M five. But really, like for the
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amount of money you could save by going with an
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older generation. I'm not even saying you have to go
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back to an M one like, but just going back
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to like an M two or an M three, you
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could probably save thousands of dollars, depending on which trim
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you're interested in. I think I went on eBay not
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that long ago and looked up an eight terabyte M
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one Max MacBook and it was like two grand or something.
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I was like, Wow, okay, I spent like six grand
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on mine, and now you could get that same MacBook
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for two So if you really just want a ton
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of storage, I don't think there's really a lot of
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downsides to going with an M one two, even in
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twenty twenty six, which might be a hot take. Holy crap.
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Bart Janson's been a member fifty three months. Thank you
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for your support. Very generous of you, Chairman. I do
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I think, as far as I can tell, for the
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rest of my life, I will probably do some form
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of YouTube. I can't promise how often I will do it.
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I'm not going to commit to doing daily uploads, but
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you know, whenever there's something interesting going on or Apple
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announces something kind of exciting, I think I'll think I'll
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be posting about it in some way, shape or form.
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So I still enjoy YouTube and I wish I had
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more time for it, but it's just kind of a
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busy season of life right now where I don't have
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as much. But also looking around on the news, I'm
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also the kind of YouTuber that's not afraid to admit
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there's not that much going on right now, you know,
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Like I try to be available and more active on
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the channel when there's announcements being made, like MacBook Neo
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or the new iPhone seventeen E came out. You know,
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I'll talk about things as they get announced. But now
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that I have a full time job with a different company,
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that is kind of the priority, and when Apple stuff
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kind of falls into the dry season, I'm okay, just
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not posting as much. You know, Like before, when YouTube
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was all I had going on, it was a little
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bit more of a struggle and kind of a stress
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point of like, okay, we got to find some kind
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of Apple related topics to talk about during the dry seasons.
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Now I'm like, you know what, that's okay. I'll I'll
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just take a little break for a week here and
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there instead of trying to upload something every day, when
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the truth is there's just not always something to talk about. Yeah,
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politics and finance YouTuber is very busy. If I was
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a political YouTuber, I'd have no shortage of content, oh
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my god. But I'd have other problems. Anytime we talk
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about politics with you know, offline online, I just get
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to pray. That's why I always preferred talking about tech stuff,
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because I was like, we just get to debate which
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tech is the best and which tech is the best deal.
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That's more fun to me than talking about how the
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world's gonna end. You know, I'm gonna need a lot
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more than what the NIA offers. Yeah, I agree, the
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Neo is not for me, but still just from a
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value perspective, it's genuinely impressive how much you get for
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such a low price, especially factoring in inflation. It is
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by far the cheapest Mac pretty much to ever exist.
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When you think about what the older Mac like. The
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cheapest MacBook I can remember before in my whole life
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was the nine hundred dollars eleven inch MacBook Air. My
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sister had one of those things, and it sucked, but
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it was the cheap one, and I remember at the
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time being like Wow, it's under one thousand dollars. You
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can get a MacBook. But it was tiny, tiny, tiny
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fun fact for you. The eleven inch MacBook Air was
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I think one of the very few MacBooks of all
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time that had a sixteen by nine aspect ratio? Is
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that still correct? Correct me if I'm wrong, chat, But
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let me look this up. Eleven inch definitely the smallest
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display I think ever on a Apple laptop. But yeah,
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it was weird. It was like wide, Yeah, look at
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this thing. People don't think about that, but it was like,
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look at the aspect ratio for that MacBook. Aluminum bezels too,
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not glass bezels. It was like wider than usual. Like
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the thirteen inch MacBook Air was not sixteen by nine,
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but the eleven inch one was. It was kind of weird.
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It had something to do with the keyboard layout and
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making it so small. But that was nine hundred dollars
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like ten or fifteen years ago, so when you factor
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in for inflation, that eleven inch MacBook Air would be
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more like thirteen hundred dollars or fourteen hundred dollars in
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today's money. So the MacBook Neo adjusting for inflation, was
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literally like less than half the price of that crappy
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MacBook which had awful specs. You definitely couldn't do much
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power intensive stuff on it. It was the Intel days,
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you know, battery life was pretty crappy. So the fact
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that the eighteen prochip that they put in the Neo
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is faster than the last sixteen inch Intel MacBook Pro
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is pretty nutty, Like it's not in my opinion. In
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my opinion, it was not even like that slow of
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a chip. I know there were a lot of reviewers
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out there saying like, oh, the MacBook Neo, you know,
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it's good for the basics if you're just doing web
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browsing and text editing, and I'm like, no, you could
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actually do some pretty intensive video editing. A point I
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forgot to mention in my review for the MacBook Neo
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is that, speaking as a social media manager for a
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startup company that you know, raise millions of dollars, it
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should also be mentioned that a lot of video editing
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now is not really a game of can you throw
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eight K video at sixty fps? Like I would argue
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that's particularly niche even in the professional market, because more
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and more content creation these days is optimized for mobile,
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it's optimized for vertical, it's optimized for TikTok, Instagram reels,
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YouTube shorts. That's an increasing amount of video production as
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time goes on, because that's an increasing amount of what
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people are watching. There's a very very niche amount of
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people that are actively looking for sixty fps HDR eight
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K video content. That's just not what the majority of
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advertising is anymore, or social media management is anymore. So
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acting like the MacBook Neo is not a great option
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for video editing simply because you can't edit you know,
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eight K pro res super high bit rate stuff on it,
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I'm like, well, the truth is the majority of video
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editing these days is probably going to lean more towards ten,
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eightyp thirty fps in the vertical format because that's what
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social media is optimized for. So it's not really a
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game of resolutions, color correction, and frame rates anymore. And
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I think the Neo can cover even what a lot
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of professionals do with video editing. That's that's my hot take. Sure, Like,
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if you do wedding videos, you probably want something higher quality,
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higher production value, And maybe you're doing some marketing content
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that's more advanced in which case, the budget is likely
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much higher and you can afford that. But no, it's
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like I would not even say the Neo is bad
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at that particular field. It's like a niche of that field.
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Let me see if I can pronounce this correctly. But
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share your uh Galani, thank you for the super chat,
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appreciate it. Well. We ever get mac os on iPhone
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in a way we kind of did with the Neo,
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right because an iPhone is powered by a nineteen chip now,
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and they put macOS on an eighteen chip. But that's
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not really what you're asking. I understand. I think it's possible.
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I'm not saying it's a guarantee, but I do think
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as time goes on, Apple will probably start running out
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of features to add on to the iPhone, and they're
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going to be like, Okay, what else can we add
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to it? It could be this year. I don't know.
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It hasn't been rumored, but I do think we could
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get to a point where Apple's trying to think of
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features to justify the pro line because the base model
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iPhones are going to get better and better and better.
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Sounds like they're delaying them now. That's what's happening. This year. So,
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in case you missed it, we're not getting a base
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iPhone eighteen this year. All that's coming out in September
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is likely to be eighteen Pro eighteen proax folding iPhone,
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which I think they'll call the Ultra, but I could
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be wrong. iPhone Ultra and ma an iPhone Air too,
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but even that's been debated, like there's a chance they
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just might not do another iPhone Air. Usually they give
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it two years to see how well it does, and
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the sales data has been kind of conflicting. At first,
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the iPhone Air was flopping pretty hard, but now after
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some time has passed, they've said it's performing a little better.
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Thank you for fifty five months of support. Appreciate that, Michael.
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I'll answer your question in a second. So the regular
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iPhone eighteen isn't coming out until spring of next year,
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and it's supposedly coming out alongside the eighteen E. But
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as those get cheaper and better and better, then they'll
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have to come up with reasons for you to get
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a pro and the camera will probably run into some
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barriers of like, okay, how much better can we really
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make a camera? So they might reach a point where
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they just go okay, let's full on, put a thunderbolt
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port on the iPhone and let you boot it into
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mac os when plugged into an external monitor, it can
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basically do it. Now we have the evidence based on
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the MacBook Neo, so I'm convinced. There's even some people
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that have, like not what's the term jerry rigged or
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jailbroken mac os onto in an iPhone. You can look
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it up. A few people have made it work, but
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it's it's not really a battle of can Apple do it.
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They're probably internally having the debate of should we do that?
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Like will that impact mac sales personally? I don't think
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it would because the kind of person who would use
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that feature means they're only using it at a desk
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and desktop only. Max are a little bit more niche,
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and in order for it to work properly, you could
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easily force people to say, well, in order for it
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to work, you need to connect a keyboard and mouse,
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which makes it increasingly niche compared to just a MacBook
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that you can just open up and use. And you know,
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you buy an iMac and it comes with all that
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stuff automatically. So I think it's a particularly like niche
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part of the market that would be interested in their
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iPhone powering their Mac desktop setup. And also Apple could
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easily have some philosophical thing that's against a device running
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multiple operating systems. They're like, no, it can only run iOS.
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That's all it's good for if you want to Mac BYOMAC.
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But I don't know. It's it's up in the air,
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but it's I think we can all agree now without
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any disagreement. Some people might disagree, but I think it's
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very very obvious that it's not a question of can they.
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They absolutely have the hardware to run Mac os, but
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will they? Yeah, that's up to Apple, And I think
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there's a chance, But I don't feel super confident, Like
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I don't think it's inevitable. I'll put it that way,
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like there's there's also a chance. Like I've said for years,
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iPads should run macOS as an option built in the
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settings if you really want to access a fully fledged
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desktop operating system, assuming you have the keyboard and mouse,
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even assuming you had a higher end of silicon. They
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put really powerful chips in the iPads, and yet they've
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still never let it run mac OS. So there's an
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example of even though it can, they don't let it. Yeah,
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I'd rather have mac Os on iPad than Stage Manager
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on iPhone. Yeah, I agree with that. With the macroik
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program to get a touch screen. I wonder how much
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macOS twenty seven will change this year. It's a good question,
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and we probably won't even know in June. We'll probably
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have to wait till the touchscreen Max get unveiled later
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in the year. Oh sorry, Michael Lizito, thank you for
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your support. When do you think the new iPads will
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come out? There's been a lot of site refresh activity
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this spring, which makes me think it could honestly be
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at any time. There's been rumors for a while now
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that they're just going to throw in a new chip
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to some iPad. Well didn't they do that a few
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weeks ago? Yeah, the new iPad Air got the M
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four me yep I believe, so they could easily do
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that with the iPad eleventh gen. They could just throw
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in a slightly newer a series of chip. But I
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have for the iPad Pro is going to be done
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for a while. They put the M five chip in
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it pretty early as is, and most of the sales
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data is saying that not that many people bought it
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just because the M four chip looked, you know, the
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M four chip iPads looked identical, and the performance has
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never really been a complaint on the iPads. So we
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might just get a new cheaper iPad at dub Dub,
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or they could do a site refreshed before then. I
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don't have a real strong guess, but iPad Mini would
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be cool. I think iPad minis have actually leaned more
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towards refreshing alongside iPhones. So if they did put an
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O lead display on an iPad Mini, they'd probably do
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it around the iPhone eighteen season in September, which is
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going to come up real fast. It's already April, so
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we're only five months away. You're gonna blame. We'll be there.
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Marjel Rainboles says the neo puts the air in a
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tricky position on what the market appeals to. In my opinion,
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I agree. I think at least it's thinner, so it's
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not as confusing as the iPad Air, which is not
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the thinnest one. Now, the iPad Pro is the thinnest
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and the iPad Air is the heavier, thicker model that
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costs more. It's very weird to the iPad lineup. But yeah,
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I think the MacBook Air now has just become like
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the slightly, well not slightly, the more expensive one with
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better features but not quite a pro model. It is
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kind of awkward, though I agree. It used to be like, oh,
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the cheapest one which had good specs and good performance
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and good features, but obviously a thousand bucks isn't cheap.
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But yeah, it's the Neo is just too good. So
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it's so like unlike Apple, honestly, for them to make
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such a compelling product that's that much substancetally cheaper. Usually
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when Apple does like a dedicated cheap product, it's so
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close to the price of the next model up that
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most people are like, yeah, I mean, I guess it's
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technically the cheapest, but just been one hundred bucks more
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and you'll get a way better deal. I don't feel
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that way about the Neo in the Air though. There's
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such a big price gap between them now that it's like, no,
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don't get an Air that it's not adding that much
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for a lot more money, which is again, it feels
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like John Turnis has an impact or something. I don't know,
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it feels like it's not that big a difference. If
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the eyefolders really good, do you think we'll keep it?
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Probably not. I've reviewed a few folding phones. Let me
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be clear, I still want to check out an eyefold
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or an iPhone Ultra, whatever they end up calling it,
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just because of the software. That's usually something Apple gets
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better than everybody else. You know, they were not the
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first to make a smart watch, they were not the
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first to make wireless headphones. But they usually get the
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implementation in the software so good that it convinces a
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bunch of people who wouldn't ordinarily buy, in this case
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a folding phone, to buy a folding phone. So I'm
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very curious about it. I'd love to know more about it.
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I want to know how they market it, how they
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brand it, what features they bring over from the iPad,
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if at all, or do they just beef up iOS
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to be way more capable, or do you put ipedos
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on a folding phone. I'm very curious about the implementation
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of the software and everything. But every time I review
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a folding phone, I'm reminded, like I don't like having
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to make the decision every time I take my phone
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out of my pocket. Is this a unfolded use case
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or is this a folded up use case? What's the
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what's the task that I'm doing right now? And what
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does it justify? You know? I try to remind people,
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you know, the reason the reason vertical format video has
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done so well where people are watching content, you know,
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in portrait mode instead of landscape, is because we already
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have to ways to use our phone. You can use
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it this way or you can use it this way.
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But people are so lazy they don't even want to
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rotate their phone, so they prefer the convenience of the
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video being in the vertical format so that they don't
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have to do this, which I would argue is a
506
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lot easier than doing this and unfolding it. I know
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a lot of people with folding phones that straight up
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just never unfold them because they don't like the extra
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step where it's like you already are taking it out
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of your pocket. You don't want to have to take
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it out. And then secondhand, a lot of people are
512
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using their phone one handed, so the folded phone obviously
513
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is going to require more of a two handed operation.
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So I imagine if I bought one, I would probably
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end up just using it folded up most of the time,
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and also the folding the folding phones in general tend
517
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to have worse cameras, and right now particularly, i use
518
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my phone for work as a camera a lot, and
519
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I'm talking all the lenses. When I'm doing interior shots,
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I'm doing ultra wide. When I'm doing exterior shots of
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the truck, I'm doing telephoto shots. I actually really like
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portrait mode. Cropped in portrait mode doesn't look as good
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to me from one X. I prefer it from at
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least two X, but oftentimes I'll use it at five
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X because that's what my sixteen Promax can handle. On
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the seventeen Promax, it was nice to use it four
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X as well, So I'm definitely, at least at this
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stage in my life with how I'm using my phone,
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I prioritize camera performance in battery life above all else,
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and from what I've heard of the folding phone, it
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doesn't sound like that's going to be the top priority.
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I'm pretty sure the folding iPhone is going to have
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decent battery life, but I don't think it will outshine
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the eighteen Pro Max, and it will also be a
535
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dual camera system, and that's kind of a turnoff for me.
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I would be more open to a folding phone if
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there were just no compromises. Like the folding iPhone had
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the best battery life of the entire lineup, it had
539
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the best cameras, but usually to get it into such
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a thin, slim chassis, that's probably going to impact the
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thermal so I wouldn't be surprised. You know. The rumors
542
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are saying the folding iPhone is going to be like
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a titanium chassis with more glass, so built more like
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an iPhone Air. Whereas I've actually been using car play
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a little bit more often lately, and car play overheats
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my iPhone quite a bit. I didn't realize that because
547
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in my personal vehicles they don't support car play, so
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my phone just kind of sits charging or sitting idle.
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But at some of the work vehicles that I'm driving around,
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they have car play in them, and I'm overheating my
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phone all the time, and I'm like, Okay, maybe I
552
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need that paper chamber. Maybe I want a phone and
553
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at least a longer battery life. My iPhone was straight
554
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up overheating while using car play. And stuff, so I
555
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had to stop using it. Should I wait for an
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M five Max studio if I'm looking for a new one,
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you could, but honestly I would I would encourage waiting,
558
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But honestly, I think the M three Ultra or the
559
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M four Max Max studios are still perfectly adequate, and
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I don't think that M five Max studios are going
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to be that much noticeably faster, at least in my experience.
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It depends on what you're doing, obviously, but for my
563
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line of work, I'm not noticing a huge difference in
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performance between my M one Max and my M five Max.
565
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There's five years between those two chips, and at least
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for video editing stuff, they perform very similarly. My problem
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with folding phones is that they tend to be more
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expensive than an iPhone plus an iPad and doesn't do
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either as well. Yeah, and I don't even use an iPad.
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My wife has one that I occasionally use, but just
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for like basic you know, media consumption. I'm not doing
572
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anything intensive on it. It's the uh I'm looking at
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it right, it's the iPad Pro from twenty seventeen, and
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because it had one hundred and twenty hurts. It actually
575
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:03.039
is great because you'd never notice anything lag or choppy,
576
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because it's like, oh wow, this screen is still buttery smooth,
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just like my iPhone, even though it has a whole
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button in lightning and all that crap. Would you be
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more interested in a flip iPhone rather than a fulld iPhone. No,
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I've reviewed a flip too. I think those are even
581
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worse because now you have to make that extra step
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when you pull it out of your pocket. To the point,
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when I reviewed the flip phone, I ended up just
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not folding it up. I would just leave it unfolded
585
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in my pocket because I wanted fewer steps to reaching
586
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in my pocket grabbing my phone and doing stuff with it.
587
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I didn't like reaching in my pocket, pulling it out,
588
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and then unfolding it and then unlocking it. It just
589
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felt like there was more delay to getting stuff done.
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And I use my phone for a lot of stuff
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these days. So No, I find the flip iPhone even
592
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harder to justify than the fold. The fold at least
593
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I could see you arguing, Okay, now I don't need
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a mini iPad. Now I can have a mini iPad
595
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with me if I'm going to be using my phone
596
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for a longer period and I have both hands available,
597
00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:00.519
then I can do stuff With the larger screen argument,
598
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I can get behind honestly, as far as which folding
599
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phone application makes the most sense to me, I think
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I did a video on this a while back. The
601
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trifold actually might be the best argument, because the trifold
602
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actually gets you a genuine tablet size display. That's the
603
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funny thing about folding phones is people are like, oh,
604
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:23.960
it's like having a tablet that's with you. But I'm like,
605
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nobody buys the eight inch tablet. I mean, I love
606
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the iPad Mini, but it's not the best seller. Most
607
00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:36.119
people are buying the ten to eleven inch iPads. That's
608
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like a genuine tablet experience, and the trifold is kind
609
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of the first. I think Samsung already discontinued it. I mean,
610
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it's super expensive obviously, so it makes it kind of
611
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difficult to justify because yes, of course it will be
612
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cheaper to buy iPad plus nice iPhone. But I don't
613
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think that in itself is the whole reason that a
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product is necessarily bad. I think there is some value
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in combining two different products into one, you know, like
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you could argue it's cheaper to buy a dedicated point
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and shoot camera and an iPod than it is to
618
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buy one iPhone. But you don't want to have to
619
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carry around a bunch of different devices, you know, separately.
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But back in the day, you know, you had a
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digital camera, you had an iPod, and you had a
622
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flip phone, you know, three separate devices, and you could
623
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:30.440
probably get them all pretty cheap, and an iPhone, you know,
624
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:32.719
it was probably more expensive than all of them put together,
625
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but it was more convenient because you could charge one
626
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device and you didn't have to switch between a bunch
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of devices. It was nice to have music and camera
628
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all on one device. So I tend to push against
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the narrative that, you know, it's bad to buy a
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two in one product, because there is some value in
631
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combining products into one thing. But yeah, it has to
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be good at all those things than the iPhone over
633
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time especially got really good camera performance, best music player performance,
634
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and a great phone. So you have to be good
635
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at all the things obviously to be justified. Samuel Francis says,
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what's the biggest or first things you change if you
637
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were CEO of Apple? Macowes on Mac mcneio trying no
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camera bump, etc. Oh that's a fun question. Thank you
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Sam for asking that one. It's been a while. I
640
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think we've talked about it before. Yeah, I think that
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I would approach the iPad pretty aggressively. I think that's
642
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what needs the most attention. The Mac line I have
643
00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:38.519
very little notes for the macline is amazing. I'd probably
644
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do an iMac Pro. I would basically just take the
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studio Display XDR. I saw someone asking about that. I've
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been so busy and moving crap around that I haven't
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really had time to review the studio Display XDR. I
648
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haven't even seen one yet. I would love to review one,
649
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but I've just been gone a lot, so there's not
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much of an opportunity to just sit down at a
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desk and look at a monitor. But I would just
652
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love to put in M five max chip into a
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studio Display XDR and then boom, call that the iMac Pro.
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You don't need a chin, you don't need thicker bezels,
655
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but just having the speakers integrated and the center stage
656
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camera and the high dynamic range, the high refresh rate,
657
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oh my god, that would be sick or you know,
658
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even cooler would be take that old chassis from the
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Pro display era, update that with Mini led with promotion,
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and I understand the whole reason, or one of the
661
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main reasons they couldn't do six K at one hundred
662
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and twenty hertz was because of some of the limitations
663
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of the Thunderbolt connector. But if you had an iMac,
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the whole computer is in the monitor. You don't need
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to be bothered with the throughput of what Thunderbolt can do.
666
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That's actually part of the reason. Fun fact that the
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five K displays from Apples started in the iMac. They
668
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began in the iMac was because they could directly connect
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the display to the motherboard. They didn't have to worry
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about the limitations of Thunderbolt or whatever or video display
671
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ports way back when. So it was crazy at the time,
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like holy crap, they did five K back at the
673
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time where it was replacing like a ten eightyp iMac
674
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or a fourteen forty p Imax. So it was a
675
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huge jump in resolution, and it started on the iMac.
676
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So I would love it if there was a pro
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display sized you know, thirty two inch super thin bezels.
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But I guess then you might not have a webcamra
679
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speakers built in, but I don't know. I would task
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the Apple engineers to come up with some ultimate all
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in one. It would not sell very well. I understand
682
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the desktops aren't as popular most people are buying laptops now,
683
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but just as a like me personally, I would like
684
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to see that. I think it would sell better than
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Vision Pro. Let's be honest, and they released that for
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thirty five hundred dollars. This this dream iMac would probably
687
00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:06.960
be five grand, but hey, that's what the iMac Pro
688
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:10.639
I'm using right now costs great deal, you know it.
689
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:15.119
It's not a cheap Mac by any means, but great value. Yeah,
690
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:17.719
the pricing of that iMac Pro would be around six grand. Well,
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the Pro display without a computer in it with six grand,
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So I think you could design a cheaper basic stand.
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It doesn't have to be height adjustable and rotate and everything.
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But let's see, I'm sounds dreadful on iPod, a phone
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00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:39.039
and Internet communicator. I did see that macOS got a
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00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:41.239
charge the limited Yeah, which is funny because I was
697
00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:44.199
asking for that for years and everyone kept saying no
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00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:47.599
drew but optimized battery charging knows what it's doing. You
699
00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:49.519
don't have to worry about it. Just leave it plugged
700
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in all the time. And now they're letting you cap
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00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:55.599
it at eighty percent manually. I'm like, oh, interesting, So
702
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maybe there is a difference between optimized battery charging and
703
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leaving the battery. I'm convinced that stupid optimized battery charging
704
00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:07.920
fried my MacBook because the battery health is particularly low,
705
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:12.199
which is not unexpected for the age, but it is
706
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:15.280
unexpected for the cycles because so much of my MacBook
707
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.760
Pro's life it was plugged into a wall, and it
708
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shouldn't have been pulling any power from the battery. It
709
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.760
should have been getting all of its energy from the charger.
710
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:26.679
So it's a very low cycle count, and yet the
711
00:39:26.679 --> 00:39:30.159
battery health is still deteriorated quite a bit compared to
712
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:34.000
something like an iPhone, which let's do a check in.
713
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:36.119
I haven't done one in a while. I'm still on
714
00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:41.920
the sixteen Promax. Battery health is ninety two percent after
715
00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:45.559
three hundred and ninety nine cycles. That's pretty normal for
716
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:48.519
those who don't know what's typical of a phone. I
717
00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:51.800
would say is like, you should be around eighty percent
718
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:54.840
health by eight hundred cycles. So I'm at almost four
719
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:57.920
hundred cycles and I'm at ninety two percent. That's actually
720
00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:01.039
slightly above average. That's pretty good. And I pretty much
721
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:03.639
abuse the crap out of this thing, you know. I
722
00:40:03.679 --> 00:40:07.119
fast charge it. I put it on my mag Safe
723
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:09.840
night stand at night, and it's hot, you know, and
724
00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:12.679
it's in a black case. And again when I use CarPlay,
725
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:15.800
the phone gets really hot and everything. I don't baby
726
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:17.920
this phone at all. I let it die. I charge
727
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:21.559
it up to full and leave it there and it's
728
00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:24.440
doing fine. But the fact that my MacBook Pro was
729
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:27.960
at like eighty two percent battery health but like three
730
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:31.719
hundred cycles, like that's unusual. And I think it's because
731
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:34.039
most of the time the battery was just like stuck
732
00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:36.440
at one hundred percent and they didn't let it cap.
733
00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:39.079
So I don't want to update it to Tahoe because
734
00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:43.280
Tahoe has been a buggy mess for me. But at
735
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:45.719
the same time, I'm grateful that they did out a
736
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:50.800
charge liver make photo video importing from iPhone to Mac
737
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:53.880
less annoying. Yes, oh my god, thank you, Martin. This
738
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:57.920
is Martin for saying that that is so true. Still
739
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:02.159
to this day, I think it is awkwardly and bizarrely
740
00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:07.079
hard to move files, video files, and photo files from
741
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.960
your iPhone to your Mac. The stupid photos app is useless.
742
00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:14.159
I always delete that almost immediately. I'm like, I can
743
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.800
never get photos out of that and put them anywhere
744
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:19.480
else that has to like re export them. The photos
745
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:22.719
app takes up so much space. Yeah, you're right, Mac
746
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:26.119
os could use a lot of updates there, like it should.
747
00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:30.840
It's frankly, bizarrely enough, it's actually easier to move photo
748
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.800
and video files from an Android phone onto a Mac.
749
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:39.039
I don't know about Windows. I have so little experience
750
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:42.119
with Windows. Everyone I know with a Windows machine that
751
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:45.079
wants to get their photos and videos onto it, basically
752
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:49.199
we'll just use Google Drive, you know, We'll just upload
753
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:51.519
it to the cloud and download it because the process
754
00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:53.760
of plugging a phone in with a cable is just
755
00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:57.360
a mess. But there's like, funny enough, the easiest way
756
00:41:57.400 --> 00:41:59.559
to do it on Mac is with an Android phone.
757
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:02.079
You can get Android File Transfer and then it just
758
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:05.239
treats your phone like an external SSD. You just plug
759
00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:07.119
it in and then you drag the files over. It's
760
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:09.280
so much easier, and yet when you do it with
761
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:12.599
an iPhone, everything flips out. It's like, what do you
762
00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:15.000
want to back up your whole phone? It's like, no,
763
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:18.960
I just want to move some videos into Finder, and
764
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.119
you're like, no, you go through image capture, but the
765
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:26.760
image capture has the laziest, weakest, horrible UI. It should
766
00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:29.320
just treat my phone like an external SSD. That's all
767
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:32.199
I'm asking, at least the option to do that. Like,
768
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:34.639
if you delete the Photos app, it should default to that.
769
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:37.920
But I don't know who's actually using the Mac Photos
770
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:41.000
app genuinely, like who is importing their files that way?
771
00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:45.840
I think Apple's ideal scenario that I don't fall into
772
00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:50.840
is that you just pay for iCloud storage and every
773
00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.639
time you take a picture of video, it just automatically
774
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:55.880
gets backed up to the cloud and then it shows
775
00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:57.599
up in the Photos app and then you can drag
776
00:42:57.639 --> 00:42:59.480
it from the Photos app into whatever app you want.
777
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:02.199
It's like, oky, Apple, we don't all have access to
778
00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:05.360
dig a bit internet everywhere we go, and not all
779
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:07.119
of us want to pay forty bucks a month for
780
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:11.519
infinite iCloud storage. It's not infinite. Actually, if it was infinite,
781
00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:13.159
I'd be more willing to pay for it. But That's
782
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:18.079
why out of principle, I canceled all my iCloud storage
783
00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:20.360
was because I was like, Okay, I'm paying for this
784
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:24.039
and it will hold two terabytes, four terabytes or eight
785
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:26.880
terabytes or whatever, but then eventually I will fill it up,
786
00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:28.800
and then I'm gonna have to go through and start
787
00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:32.880
deleting stuff. If it was infinite and I knew, okay,
788
00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:35.400
I pay this fee and then all my photos and
789
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:37.840
videos are backed up forever and it doesn't matter how
790
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:41.119
many I take. That would be a different story, but
791
00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:43.559
that's not how it works. Even the twelve terabytes, you
792
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:46.079
will eventually fill up, especially if you're doing high res
793
00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:48.960
video photos all the time and they don't all back
794
00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:51.800
up instantly because we don't always have access to crazy
795
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:56.599
fast internet. You know, Capping the charging percent can't affect
796
00:43:56.599 --> 00:43:58.360
the battery board reading stuff, so it's just better to
797
00:43:58.440 --> 00:43:59.880
let the device charge to one hundred percent a few
798
00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:02.199
in between. That's what Apple did as well as with
799
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:05.719
charge limit. I'm sure you're right, but I still think
800
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:09.960
they let it go to one hundred percent way too much. Bingo.
801
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:11.880
Apple wants you to uproot your family, move to a
802
00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:14.119
place with gigabit internet speeds and pay forty bucks a
803
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:16.679
month to get more iCloud storage. But that's the crazy thing.
804
00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:19.480
Even if I did that, I would still fill it up,
805
00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:23.000
and then I would have a huge mess of things
806
00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:24.960
to like, Okay, now I got to clear it out.
807
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:28.039
Even if you got the best of the best iCloud storage,
808
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:30.920
you can't. Storage is just a matter of time. That's
809
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:33.559
why I was such a big fan of Google Photos
810
00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:36.440
back when they had unlimited photo and video storage, because
811
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:39.840
I was like, I'm using this because it means I
812
00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:42.320
can technically take as many photos and videos as I
813
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:44.599
want and I'll never have to go through and filter
814
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:47.920
out stuff. That's a whole different argument. If I have
815
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.679
to eventually go through and delete things, then it's like, well,
816
00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:54.639
I'll just do that now and not fill up twelve
817
00:44:54.719 --> 00:44:56.920
terabytes worth of stuff because it was a mess and
818
00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:59.039
we only were paying for two terabytes because that was
819
00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:01.519
the most you could do at the Let me look,
820
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:07.320
I forget what the prices are iCloud plus, Why does
821
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:09.079
it only go up to two terabytes? I knew there
822
00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:18.760
was more than that. There's more twelve terabytes. How much
823
00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:21.280
is twelve terabytes? Isn't that like? Yeah, here it is
824
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:27.880
sixty dollars a month. I forgot I thought forty sounded outrageous.
825
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:30.360
Sixty bucks a month, then you don't get anything else
826
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:34.159
other than iCloud storage. That's not including Apple Music, Apple TV.
827
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:37.639
I feel like if you're the kind of person to
828
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:41.000
get twelve terabytes, you should get a little something. I'm
829
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:43.320
not saying you have to throw everything in, but throw them.
830
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:46.840
Throw them Apple music or something, or Apple TV. At
831
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:51.119
least if you're paying sixty bucks a month, and I
832
00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:55.880
would fill it easily, twelve terabytes, that's like three years,
833
00:45:56.239 --> 00:45:59.039
three years go by photo video taking, you'd fill that up.
834
00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:04.440
I have other ways of backing up. Yeah, I'm promoting
835
00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:10.079
iCloud minus. You guys are funny. I missed these streams.
836
00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:13.920
I wish I could do them more. Marinjel Rambles, thank
837
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:16.400
you for eight months of support. Apple should allow third
838
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:18.920
parties to use airdrop at this point after what Google did.
839
00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:20.719
By the way, have you got my recent messages on
840
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:25.079
Discord and Twitter? Probably not. I haven't checked in a while. Sorry,
841
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:30.880
I will check, but I had I think I had
842
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:35.119
our meetings scheduled. I'm just gonna do it right now
843
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:43.039
before I forget. Oh, my god, Twitter is bugging out.
844
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:47.760
The last message I got was three days ago or something.
845
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:53.159
Excuse me, I call it a free Fitness Plus. Well
846
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:57.320
that's pretty worthless. I feel I'm convinced you can get
847
00:46:57.360 --> 00:47:01.599
Fitness Plus for free at any time. Anyone paying for
848
00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:05.599
Fitness Plus is being scammed. You know what's funny is
849
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:08.679
I've I've watched so much content on Apple TV. We
850
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:12.039
watched we had another free trial a few weeks ago,
851
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:15.239
and we watched a bunch of movies. They're all fine.
852
00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:21.360
Everything I watch on Apple TV is pretty mid except Severance.
853
00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:24.960
Severance was awesome. What was something else? I really liked?
854
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:26.800
Trying was pretty good. I wouldn't say it was like
855
00:47:26.840 --> 00:47:29.760
the best show ever, but I enjoyed Trying. But all
856
00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:34.039
the movies we watched on there, watch The Gorge, We
857
00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:37.800
watched The Gorge. We watched F one. I thought F
858
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.480
one was really overrated. It was it was fine, it
859
00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:44.159
was not a great movie. But oh the other one,
860
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:49.280
the Afterlife one, what was that called? The one with
861
00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:56.559
Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen. Forever Forever is a long time,
862
00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:58.960
I don't know. Watched a bunch of movies that were
863
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.760
all okay and I've still yet to pay a penny
864
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:07.039
for Apple TV. Anytime I'm interested in something on Apple TV,
865
00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:11.679
I can literally just google Apple TV promo and within
866
00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:14.920
ten seconds I can find a thirty day free trial.
867
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:20.679
And I've still again haven't spent a single cent on
868
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:25.679
this service. Yeah, SEVENS isn't for everybody. I know people
869
00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:27.480
who didn't like it, but I really liked it. I mean,
870
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:29.280
there was definitely a lot of B plots and C
871
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.599
plots that didn't need to be there, but the A
872
00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:35.639
plots were really interesting to me. Do I think SSD
873
00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:38.039
prices will come down anytime or is now the best
874
00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:40.800
time to buy an external SSD drive if I need one?
875
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:43.800
If they keep going up, It's really hard to predict.
876
00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:47.119
With the AI bubble we're in right now, it has
877
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:49.280
to be a bubble, there's no way in my opinion.
878
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.679
I mean, I will confess AI has been more impactful
879
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:56.440
and more disruptive than I realized, but I still just
880
00:48:56.519 --> 00:48:59.559
do not think that all these AI companies will survive.
881
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:04.039
I think there will be a handful of winners, but
882
00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:06.280
I don't think there's going to be ten to twenty
883
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:09.000
different AI companies that all succeed. I think there will
884
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:11.159
be like two to three big ones in the future
885
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:16.920
and they'll all probably stabilize. And right now there's just
886
00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:20.920
a lot of investment going into AI companies, so they're
887
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:23.760
all buying up equipment really quickly, and that's creating this
888
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:30.440
artificial scarcity mindset or unnatural high demand for things. But
889
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:33.840
it's very difficult to predict if that'll last another five years,
890
00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:36.360
or another ten years, or another six months. You know,
891
00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:40.960
your guess is as good as mine. Personally, Yes, I
892
00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:44.039
do think they will come down at some point. I
893
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:46.079
don't think they will keep going up over the next
894
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:49.639
two years. But I've been wrong many times, so don't
895
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:54.039
take my word as sacred. Let's see, blip is the
896
00:49:54.039 --> 00:49:56.400
best I use it for my Macro iPhone to Windows laptop.
897
00:49:56.440 --> 00:49:58.559
Blip is a good alternative to air drop. How does
898
00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:02.920
it work? Does it use the clouds? I need to
899
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:08.280
look into that they're working on the sequel caps lock.
900
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:11.880
That's good. Do you think sort of shutting down is
901
00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:16.599
the first indication that the AI bubble is popping. It's
902
00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:20.599
kind of like what's another example five G, but to
903
00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:24.719
a bigger extent, it's like AI isn't gonna go away.
904
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:27.679
I don't think it's a fad, but I do think
905
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:31.440
we are overestimating a lot of its capabilities. And there's
906
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:37.480
certain things. There's certain things that it will stick around
907
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:40.119
for and continue to be very effective for, and there's
908
00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:42.360
other things that we think it will be useful for
909
00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:44.960
that it's actually not going to be that useful. For
910
00:50:46.920 --> 00:50:50.320
video I think is actually one of them. I do
911
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:55.360
think there's a certain demographic for it, like maybe a
912
00:50:55.440 --> 00:50:58.920
quick b roll shot is good for a good use
913
00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:04.840
for AI, but not replacing entire movies or entire TV shows,
914
00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:10.079
which I've seen a lot of people speculate on. Oh
915
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:12.119
blip is sick. You signed into one account on all
916
00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:14.480
your devices and it works over the internet directly device
917
00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:16.639
to device, no need to be on the same network.
918
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:19.440
So is it going up to a cloud and then
919
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:24.280
coming back down or is it transferring via Bluetooth? Is
920
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:28.880
it bypassing the cloud anyway? Take your time to answer that.
921
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:32.400
While I speculate on AI pointlessly, as I have for
922
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:36.079
many years, but I think we've actually noticed quite a
923
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:39.400
bit of pushback. Sora is a good example that when
924
00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:45.119
AI becomes the entire, the whole video, even for short
925
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:48.239
form which you would think is like the low hanging fruit,
926
00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:50.679
Like that's something that AI could jump on and replace
927
00:51:50.760 --> 00:51:54.639
really easily. There's actually quite a bit of consumer pushback.
928
00:51:55.440 --> 00:52:01.159
Like we talked about this quite a bit because in
929
00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:03.280
case you didn't know, I run the social media for
930
00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:06.599
a startup company, and we kind of had some debates
931
00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:11.199
over what AI can generate as far as visuals, like
932
00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:14.239
you can plug in some simple prompts and get some
933
00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:19.519
pretty convincing looking imagery of any particular product or service
934
00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:25.320
you're interested in, but very quickly noticed for other companies
935
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:28.679
who have attempted this, there's a lot of pushback. People
936
00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:31.280
don't like it, Like it puts a bad taste in
937
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:37.199
a lot of people's mouth where they're like, I don't
938
00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:40.519
like the coke ads, you know, the winter ads that
939
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:43.639
are AI generated. People are like, ah, this is AI slop,
940
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:47.159
or you're replacing jobs, or it's not as real anymore.
941
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:50.360
And maybe it's just bad AI that puts a bad
942
00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:52.400
taste in people's mouth. And if you can make AI
943
00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:56.000
that's convincing to the point that people don't realize it's AI,
944
00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:00.039
maybe that will take off and do better. But I
945
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.119
don't know. I think people are getting a finer eye
946
00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:04.679
for it as time goes on. If you've seen the
947
00:53:04.679 --> 00:53:07.280
occasional question on YouTube where it asks whether a video
948
00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:10.400
you watched was AI sloped to you, No, I've never
949
00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:12.719
been asked that, but I have seen videos that I
950
00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:15.679
can tell our AI that other people in the room
951
00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:24.719
can't tell. Or that's another example. I'm not one hundred
952
00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:27.960
percent convinced, But do you guys watch Daily Dose of Internet?
953
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:32.840
You probably do. He's much bigger YouTuber than I am,
954
00:53:33.320 --> 00:53:35.920
but there's been several times where I'm watching Daily Dose
955
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:38.239
of Internet and I'm like, I'm pretty sure that's an
956
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:41.280
AI generated video. And I know he doesn't intend to
957
00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:44.880
include those, but I think sometimes he gets tricked into
958
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:48.960
including them because they can generate something that's really convincing
959
00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:53.400
or real looking, and if everybody falls for it, then
960
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:55.880
it kind of might as well be a real video.
961
00:53:55.960 --> 00:53:58.199
But there's been several times where I'm watching Daily Dose
962
00:53:58.239 --> 00:54:00.840
where I'm like, that was AI generated and I don't
963
00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:04.559
think he realizes it. But again, it's a it's a
964
00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:07.800
fine eye, and bad AI slop as we call it,
965
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:13.519
can put a real foul taste in people's mouths, and
966
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:17.599
I do think there are applications where you can trick
967
00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:21.840
most people into thinking that the video is real. Just
968
00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:26.480
go on Facebook. It's like nine AI now and a
969
00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:29.239
bunch of people think it's real. It's actually quite sad
970
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:32.360
if you just scroll on Facebook for any amount of time,
971
00:54:33.159 --> 00:54:36.840
find the AI slop and go to the comments, and
972
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:38.599
I don't even know if the comments are real. Maybe
973
00:54:38.599 --> 00:54:41.639
it's a bunch of AI bots watching AI generated crap.
974
00:54:41.719 --> 00:54:47.360
You know it's real eyes realize real AI. Yeah, I
975
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:51.400
don't know. I've seen a lot of people convinced. It's
976
00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:53.559
fair to say most AI is overrated. They're pushing too
977
00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:56.719
far into it. There's certain applications where I don't think
978
00:54:56.760 --> 00:55:00.280
people push back on it, you know, like cus stomer
979
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:02.320
service is a good example. Like if you go on
980
00:55:02.440 --> 00:55:09.119
to a I don't know any site like Verizon, and
981
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:12.199
you explain and you go on the chat bot, you
982
00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:14.880
know pretty early on that you're not talking to a
983
00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:17.440
human and you just say like I want to cancel
984
00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:19.719
my service or I want to transfer my phone number
985
00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:24.199
to a new line. And they are increasingly now using
986
00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:27.119
large language models to manage a lot of those customer
987
00:55:27.199 --> 00:55:32.280
service bots because they understand context better, they can get
988
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:35.679
a lot more things done than a you know, pre
989
00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:39.559
programmed bot, which obviously you can only teach so much
990
00:55:39.599 --> 00:55:42.400
and it only has five different responses. But they are
991
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:45.000
incorporating more and more of those large language models into
992
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:49.000
the customer service bots, and you get almost no pushback
993
00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:52.159
on that. Customers are like, oh, great, the chat bot
994
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:55.599
actually understood what I needed and it did something. Okay cool.
995
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:01.039
You could argue it's the same problem as using AI
996
00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:05.679
generated video content. It's like you replace someone's job. Now
997
00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:08.239
you don't have to hire as many customer service agents.
998
00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:10.960
You know, the large language model is taking away jobs
999
00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:14.079
and you're using more AI. But it's like for that
1000
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:17.400
use case, people are more accepting of it because they're like, well,
1001
00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:20.800
it meant I got what I needed quicker and I
1002
00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:22.800
didn't have to wait on the phone for thirty minutes.
1003
00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:26.599
This was a smarter customer service bot. So that's a
1004
00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:31.320
good demographic or use case where I would say large
1005
00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:34.519
language models have replaced a bunch of jobs in this field,
1006
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:38.599
and the public is generally accepting of it. They're like, okay, cool,
1007
00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:42.440
like AI did its job. But then you do something
1008
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:47.239
like a movie trailer or a Coca Cola commercial and
1009
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:49.679
people are like, no, I don't want to see this crap.
1010
00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:55.239
You know, it's it's the way that it's pushed that's interesting.
1011
00:56:55.440 --> 00:56:58.400
I saw actually a really good example of this. So again,
1012
00:56:59.360 --> 00:57:02.760
it's a new t that we're learning about. And I
1013
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:08.079
think we're in this transitionary process where we're discovering use
1014
00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:11.400
cases where AI is quite useful and effective and will
1015
00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:14.440
probably continue to get better, and then we're also discovering
1016
00:57:14.480 --> 00:57:17.840
use cases and examples where it's quite annoying and it's like, okay,
1017
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:19.840
please don't do this, like we don't want to see this.
1018
00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:26.880
Like AI generating entire episodes of a TV show not
1019
00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:29.000
a great use of the tool in my opinion. It's
1020
00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:33.159
it's noticeable the dialogue gets chunky, the visuals get weird,
1021
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.360
or even just doing an entire car commercial or something,
1022
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:40.079
you know, you start to pick up on little details
1023
00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:42.719
and you're like, yeah, I mean it's good and it's
1024
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:45.559
cool that you didn't have to film anything. And you know,
1025
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:49.880
filming an entire car commercial would probably cost twenty thirty
1026
00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:51.880
thousand dollars and now you can crank it out with
1027
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:56.519
like a three hundred dollars AI token receipt. So people
1028
00:57:56.519 --> 00:57:58.960
are like, Eh, that's a little weird and it's generic
1029
00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:01.199
and it's not that creative than I'd rather people get
1030
00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:05.000
paid to do something more interesting and creative. But there
1031
00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:07.440
was a demo I saw. I don't know how real
1032
00:58:07.480 --> 00:58:12.480
it was yet, but of using AI within video editing
1033
00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:16.599
software to remove certain things just for the sake of
1034
00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:20.840
visual effects. This is actually something I always thought Christopher
1035
00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:23.480
Nolan films were really good at. Was that. You know,
1036
00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:28.079
if you want to have a puppet or something in
1037
00:58:28.119 --> 00:58:31.760
the movie, but there's a puppeteer that's wearing a green
1038
00:58:31.880 --> 00:58:36.280
suit and a stick and he's controlling the puppet. Obviously
1039
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:39.639
you want the real object to be real because when
1040
00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:46.599
you animate cgi alien or critter or character, it looks fake.
1041
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:49.960
You know, it looks CG. So they make the puppet
1042
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:52.840
real so that you can tell the actors really looking
1043
00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:56.360
at it. It's being truly lit by the same lights
1044
00:58:56.360 --> 00:58:58.480
that are in that room as it's being filmed. But
1045
00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:04.920
they were using AI image tools to erase so get
1046
00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:06.719
rid of the guy in the green suit, get rid
1047
00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:09.239
of the pole that's controlling the puppet. And it was
1048
00:59:09.480 --> 00:59:12.199
obviously very good at it. See that's an example. We're
1049
00:59:12.239 --> 00:59:15.239
similar to basically the cleanup feature we have in the
1050
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:19.400
photos app on our phones, Like, yeah, obviously you can
1051
00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:22.920
very easily find like, oh, there was a bug in
1052
00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:25.480
this part of the picture. I want to erase the bug.
1053
00:59:25.559 --> 00:59:27.639
So you just circle it and the cleanup feature gets
1054
00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:31.280
rid of it and it's almost unnoticeable. So it's still
1055
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:34.239
like a real photo, but you touched it up a
1056
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:36.599
little bit. And technically you could have done that with
1057
00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:40.480
Photoshop twenty years ago, but it took a little more work,
1058
00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:43.599
and it took a little more time. AI simplified that,
1059
00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:46.280
dumbed it down so that even on a smartphone you
1060
00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:48.920
can take a picture and do something that maybe would
1061
00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:52.159
have taken an hour to do on Photoshop. Now you
1062
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:53.920
can do in a few seconds. So it's kind of
1063
00:59:53.960 --> 00:59:56.880
like an accelerator tool. And I saw them pitching that
1064
00:59:57.039 --> 01:00:02.599
on some ad recently. For video, it's like before you
1065
01:00:02.760 --> 01:00:06.000
probably would have needed to be like a Hollywood budget
1066
01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:10.079
professional video editor, especially if you were doing like a
1067
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:14.280
video feed where the camera's moving around the puppet or
1068
01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:18.519
around some suspended object and it's got fishing line on it,
1069
01:00:18.639 --> 01:00:20.360
or it's got poles on it, or it's got a
1070
01:00:20.400 --> 01:00:23.079
guy in a green suit. That's manipulating it. You would
1071
01:00:23.079 --> 01:00:26.079
have needed a whole visual effects team to remove the
1072
01:00:26.119 --> 01:00:29.840
puppeteers and the fishing wire and the poles, and it
1073
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:32.519
would have taken weeks to get rid of those guys.
1074
01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:38.159
But now with AI image generation tools, you can erase
1075
01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:42.559
all those guys and replace them with what the true
1076
01:00:42.599 --> 01:00:47.039
background is, using large video bottles or the same kind
1077
01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:50.840
of technology that goes into AI video generation. But the
1078
01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:54.400
AI is not creating things now, it's just removing and
1079
01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:57.159
editing things. And I'm like, okay, I could get behind that.
1080
01:00:57.559 --> 01:00:59.920
So now we might reach a point where little old
1081
01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:04.599
me could use my MacBook Pro to do some Hollywood
1082
01:01:04.599 --> 01:01:08.320
sequence like that where I delete a puppeteer or delete
1083
01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:11.880
a pole, or delete some fishing line on my laptop
1084
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:14.760
and one guy could do it maybe in a few minutes,
1085
01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:17.679
whereas it used to take a team of twenty people
1086
01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:20.079
in a few weeks to do. You know. So there's
1087
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:22.719
an application again where I'm like, okay, so it's not
1088
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:27.039
going anywhere. It's a very useful technology. We're just learning
1089
01:01:27.079 --> 01:01:30.039
how to use the tool. You know. It's like we're
1090
01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:36.719
cavemen discovering fire can we're discovering what can we use
1091
01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:40.239
this fire for certain things? It's not that great at
1092
01:01:40.480 --> 01:01:44.239
you know, like do you want to put fire under
1093
01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:46.599
your bed so that your bed stays warm? It's like
1094
01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:49.800
that might not work out so well. But you can
1095
01:01:49.840 --> 01:01:53.519
put your bed near the fire to stay warm. And
1096
01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:56.599
you know, can you cook with fire? Yeah? You can.
1097
01:01:56.719 --> 01:02:00.360
You can warm up some stuff, but not everything. You know,
1098
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:02.639
you might not want to put strawberries in the fire
1099
01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:04.920
if you pick some fruit that day, or you might
1100
01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:09.400
stick some blueberries in there and then it's too hot
1101
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:12.199
or it's ruins it, or you know, it's not too
1102
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.760
much fire, but not no fire. You know, we're finding
1103
01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:20.519
the edge cases, we're finding the tools, and we're still
1104
01:02:20.519 --> 01:02:22.920
discovering what the best way to use them. And I think, Sora,
1105
01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:27.280
to your original question, is a good discovery of Okay,
1106
01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:29.639
this is what AI is not good for. It's not
1107
01:02:29.679 --> 01:02:32.880
good for replacing the entire creator, but I do think
1108
01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:36.400
it can be helpful to the creator. I also think
1109
01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:39.079
AI will get much much better at editing videos over time.
1110
01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:43.199
I'm honestly quite impressed how badly all the AI video
1111
01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:47.760
editors I've used are so far already makes better hit
1112
01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:50.239
country songs than what airs on my local radio station.
1113
01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:55.039
That's true. Humans are not particularly good at a lot
1114
01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:58.000
of things that AI is pretty good at. There's also
1115
01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:02.480
other non creative example, you know, like analyzing X rays
1116
01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:07.119
and discovering cancer in people. That's AI is very good
1117
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:09.519
at that. I don't think anybody would be opposed to
1118
01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:12.159
with Like, if AI can detect cancer in people so
1119
01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:16.039
that the cancer doesn't spread or get much worse, that's
1120
01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:18.760
that's a lot of fun. Yeah, we should do it.
1121
01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:22.599
Fun is the word. We should pursue that if AI
1122
01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:26.000
can help people stay healthier or help diagnose people earlier
1123
01:03:26.039 --> 01:03:31.800
than yes, like push that. Keep doing that. Let's see
1124
01:03:32.559 --> 01:03:34.920
strawberry tart. The oven is nice though. Oh yeah, so
1125
01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:39.920
write demographic right application for the heat. Thanks for being
1126
01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:42.320
so honest in your commentaries about a refurbished iPad air
1127
01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:44.960
because of your recommendations. Oh cool. I hope it works
1128
01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:47.519
well for you, Brian. Thanks for asking. Do I think
1129
01:03:47.599 --> 01:03:51.599
the next MacBook EO will have neo? Do I think
1130
01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:54.480
the next MacBook neo will have twelve gigs or sixteen
1131
01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:56.960
gigs a RAM or will Apple purposefully separate the different
1132
01:03:57.000 --> 01:04:01.480
tiers of MacBook I could see them. I'm doing twelve
1133
01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:03.760
sixteen is a bit of a jump because remember that
1134
01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:08.679
they're basically putting an iPhone CPU in a MacBook. So
1135
01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:11.039
I think if they made the jump to the A
1136
01:04:11.239 --> 01:04:14.320
nineteen pro, it would have to have twelve gigs, right,
1137
01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:17.639
I thought all the A nineteens had twelve, that all
1138
01:04:17.639 --> 01:04:20.639
the A nineteen pro chips had twelve gigs, and I
1139
01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:23.199
could easily see them making that an up charge. So
1140
01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:25.960
maybe the base model MacBook Neo is still eight gigs,
1141
01:04:25.960 --> 01:04:27.760
but if you spend one hundred bucks more you get
1142
01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:33.239
twelve gigs. But honestly, I tend to think unified memory
1143
01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:38.480
is over over exaggerated, like people think they need more
1144
01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:40.079
than they do. I did quite a lot with the
1145
01:04:40.119 --> 01:04:43.440
MacBook Neo. I was pretty impressed. Honestly. What turned me
1146
01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:46.559
off from using the Neo as my personal computer more
1147
01:04:46.599 --> 01:04:49.320
than the memory was actually the size. That was more
1148
01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:52.800
of the deal breaker. I know it's small, and for
1149
01:04:52.960 --> 01:04:58.119
the demographic serves, that's fine. It's perfectly adequate, especially if
1150
01:04:58.159 --> 01:05:01.000
you're cross shopping it with an iPad. Oh my god,
1151
01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:04.800
iPad for that same price as going to be eleven inches,
1152
01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:08.440
not thirteen. So it's still pretty decent size for the money.
1153
01:05:08.519 --> 01:05:12.360
But I have a little bit more money, I can
1154
01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:16.719
afford a larger screen. I'm very much, especially when editing
1155
01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:21.440
on the go, prefer having a sixteen inch display. I
1156
01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:23.760
would buy a bigger MacBook if they sold it. If
1157
01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:26.480
they had an eighteen inch model, I would buy that, Genuinely,
1158
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:32.639
I would spend more money. So I was more turned
1159
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:36.000
off by the screen size actually prevented me from doing
1160
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:39.519
more multitasking features. It wasn't so much the memory. It
1161
01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:41.800
was just like, I can't fit that much stuff on
1162
01:05:41.840 --> 01:05:46.360
the screen all at the same time. But yeah, let's
1163
01:05:46.360 --> 01:05:51.800
see Parker eats trees. Wow, poor trees, sir. If you've
1164
01:05:51.800 --> 01:05:53.400
talked about it the stream already, but what are your
1165
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:55.079
thoughts on the iPhone fold based on the leaks we
1166
01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:57.679
have so far, I'm interested, I'm excited. I definitely want
1167
01:05:57.679 --> 01:05:59.559
to check one out. I want to review one, but
1168
01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:02.519
I'm ninety percent certain I don't want to keep it.
1169
01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:05.599
I don't have an iPad now, so I don't really
1170
01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:08.559
feel like I need a little iPad in my pocket.
1171
01:06:08.760 --> 01:06:12.960
And also for my line of work, camera is very important,
1172
01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:15.960
battery life is very important. Also, vapor chamber is very important,
1173
01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:18.280
and I think there's a chance that the folding iPhone
1174
01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:21.480
will be so thin, especially being all glass and titanium,
1175
01:06:21.559 --> 01:06:24.199
that it will overheat more and probably have a weaker
1176
01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:28.920
battery life. I'm not totally against upgrading this year. Again,
1177
01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:32.239
I'm not sold on it. I'm not saying I definitely
1178
01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:34.800
will upgrade, but if I do upgrade, it's going to
1179
01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:38.239
be an eighteen Promax hands down. I don't think there's
1180
01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:42.159
any debate there. Debating just because my wife's phone is
1181
01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:45.320
filling up with storage a lot. She's got a one
1182
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:49.199
twenty eight gig fifteen Pro, so debating if I should
1183
01:06:49.239 --> 01:06:52.159
just hand this one off to her and have me
1184
01:06:52.280 --> 01:06:55.400
get a newer one. Also, my phone's been overheating more
1185
01:06:55.440 --> 01:07:01.199
because I've been using car Play more so it's making
1186
01:07:01.239 --> 01:07:03.639
me want a vapor chamber and more battery life and
1187
01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:06.360
that kind of thing. And again I'm not totally sold.
1188
01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:09.039
I might just there's also a chance I would just
1189
01:07:09.079 --> 01:07:14.239
get like a refurbished seventeen pro. Apple could pay well
1190
01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:16.119
the additional eight gigs of RAM, but that would be
1191
01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:19.960
like the time BMW tried paywalling heated seats. I honestly
1192
01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:22.599
thought that wasn't a terrible idea. I know everyone hated it,
1193
01:07:22.639 --> 01:07:25.039
but I was like, well, I don't need heated seats
1194
01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:26.880
in the summer, so if I only had to pay
1195
01:07:26.880 --> 01:07:30.400
for them in the winter, and you can stretch out
1196
01:07:30.440 --> 01:07:33.320
the margins across things when you software lock, you know,
1197
01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:35.519
there's a reason they do that. What do you think
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01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:37.599
Apple will do with the iPhone twenty next year? It
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01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:41.440
sounds like they're gonna redesign the chassis again, do some
1200
01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:44.760
crazy thin bezels or something. But I'm actually not as
1201
01:07:44.800 --> 01:07:48.159
excited about that one. Thinner bezels don't excite me as
1202
01:07:48.239 --> 01:07:50.880
much as the folding phone, even though I don't plan
1203
01:07:50.960 --> 01:07:55.039
on keeping the folding phone. I just it's so different,
1204
01:07:55.159 --> 01:07:58.920
it's so unlike Apple. You know, what do you think
1205
01:07:58.960 --> 01:08:02.000
of the price potentially being two thousand plus dollars? That's fine,
1206
01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:05.039
It's not that far off from what they're charging now.
1207
01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:07.360
I mean the Promax, which is like the best selling
1208
01:08:07.400 --> 01:08:10.480
iPhone is twelve hundred dollars, and that's for the base model.
1209
01:08:10.519 --> 01:08:13.039
If you speck it up, it becomes fourteen fifteen hundred
1210
01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:18.760
really quick. So an iPhone with a crazy creaseless display
1211
01:08:19.079 --> 01:08:24.439
and you know, folding technology that's all titanium and glass
1212
01:08:24.479 --> 01:08:26.960
and everything with state of the art software. There's never
1213
01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:30.039
been a folding phone with I message. I think they
1214
01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:32.520
could charge twenty four hundred or twenty five hundred for it,
1215
01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:34.920
and probably it would be the best selling foldable. That's
1216
01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:37.680
my guess. I think more people will buy a folding
1217
01:08:37.720 --> 01:08:42.439
iPhone than anything because Android does have more market share
1218
01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:46.520
than iPhone. That's true, but it's mostly on the lower end.
1219
01:08:47.079 --> 01:08:49.359
If you look at the smartphone market share on more
1220
01:08:49.359 --> 01:08:54.439
expensive phones, it's Apple dominates more expensive iPhones, sorry, more
1221
01:08:54.479 --> 01:08:58.560
expensive phones, Like if you just look at phones sold
1222
01:08:58.600 --> 01:09:01.680
over one thousand dollars, it's it's like, I forget what
1223
01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:04.159
the more recent data is, but it's like seventy percent
1224
01:09:04.199 --> 01:09:09.239
Apple or eighty percent Apple. It's really high. So Android
1225
01:09:09.239 --> 01:09:14.079
dominates smartphones globally because the average selling price of the
1226
01:09:14.119 --> 01:09:18.079
Android phones is like five hundred bucks. But folding phones
1227
01:09:18.079 --> 01:09:21.439
inherently are more expensive. So Apple's very good at convincing
1228
01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:27.319
people basically to spend a lot more money on their phone.
1229
01:09:27.319 --> 01:09:32.199
So the brand power is very strong, the software loyalty
1230
01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:35.840
is very strong, ecosystem loyalty is very strong. So I
1231
01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:43.640
actually think even at twenty five hundred dollars, the folding
1232
01:09:43.640 --> 01:09:47.760
iPhone will probably outsell everybody. What if there was negative
1233
01:09:47.800 --> 01:09:51.560
bezel didn't show me or somebody do that? Like the
1234
01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:53.520
bezels that the screen that just goes all the way
1235
01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:58.239
around the edge. Again, it's a should you do it?
1236
01:09:58.319 --> 01:10:00.199
Not a can you do it? We know the technology
1237
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:03.159
exists to do that, but the debate is is it worth?
1238
01:10:03.920 --> 01:10:06.039
Is it actually better to have a screen that goes
1239
01:10:06.079 --> 01:10:09.520
that far? I don't think so. I'm not that interested
1240
01:10:09.560 --> 01:10:12.239
in the twentieth anniversary. I mean, it'll look a little different,
1241
01:10:12.359 --> 01:10:13.840
but I don't think it would change the way you
1242
01:10:13.960 --> 01:10:15.920
use your phone. It's still going to be a rectangle.
1243
01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:19.239
The folding phone might actually change the way people use
1244
01:10:19.279 --> 01:10:22.199
their phones, or change the way they use their iPads.
1245
01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:25.960
I bought the Galaxy Trifle at a discount for twenty
1246
01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:28.880
six hundred. I thought that was too much for five
1247
01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:31.119
twelve gigs, but they are saying folding phone might start
1248
01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:34.920
at twenty four hundred two fifty six gigs. Yeah, it's
1249
01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:38.239
not cheap, but you know it's different. It's not a
1250
01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:45.079
little rectangle anymore now, it's two rectangles glued together. Starting
1251
01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:46.600
to set up a smart home and wondering if I
1252
01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:48.560
should get the rumored HomePod with a screen. I don't
1253
01:10:48.600 --> 01:10:51.640
have any HomePod at this time. We don't know much
1254
01:10:51.640 --> 01:10:54.279
about it, like what it'll do, what os it will run,
1255
01:10:54.720 --> 01:10:56.439
how much it'll cost. So I have a lot of
1256
01:10:56.520 --> 01:11:00.000
questions before I could say it's recommendable. But I could
1257
01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:02.760
see a situation where that would be a pretty practical product.
1258
01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:05.079
I know a lot of people who bought I didn't
1259
01:11:05.079 --> 01:11:06.560
buy one, but I know a lot of people who
1260
01:11:06.560 --> 01:11:10.039
buy those Nest Google Nest hubs, and there's a lot
1261
01:11:10.079 --> 01:11:12.399
of use cases for them. You know, when someone rings
1262
01:11:12.439 --> 01:11:14.479
the doorbell, it shows up the camera feed, or you
1263
01:11:14.479 --> 01:11:16.520
can talk to it and play YouTube videos on it,
1264
01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:19.960
and you can take video calls on it and it
1265
01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:21.880
kind of follows you around the room. I think there
1266
01:11:21.960 --> 01:11:24.680
is a market for something like that, and I could
1267
01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:27.479
I understand why Apple's trying to make a home pod
1268
01:11:27.560 --> 01:11:32.479
with a screen, but I could easily see them overpricing
1269
01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:36.800
it or underspecing it, or making it not as useful.
1270
01:11:39.479 --> 01:11:42.680
But boy, especially like taking care of the elderly. You know,
1271
01:11:42.720 --> 01:11:45.199
if you've got a grandparent or someone that you're taking
1272
01:11:45.239 --> 01:11:47.880
care of at a care home facility, and you don't
1273
01:11:47.880 --> 01:11:50.359
want them to have to learn how to iPad works.
1274
01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:54.439
I mean, I have older relatives that never learned their
1275
01:11:54.439 --> 01:11:56.560
way around an iPad, and even that's a little bit
1276
01:11:56.600 --> 01:11:58.760
too much for them to understand. But if you could
1277
01:11:58.760 --> 01:12:02.920
just plant a little very loud speaker that they could
1278
01:12:02.960 --> 01:12:05.199
hear because they're hard of hearing, and it has a
1279
01:12:05.239 --> 01:12:08.039
screen on it, and you could just call that device
1280
01:12:08.760 --> 01:12:12.039
and the person could answer the call very easily. They
1281
01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:14.239
just press one button, or maybe there's a setting where
1282
01:12:14.239 --> 01:12:18.680
it just automatically answers the call immediately, and you could
1283
01:12:18.680 --> 01:12:22.399
have people in their nineties just be like, oh, there
1284
01:12:22.439 --> 01:12:24.039
they are, and you could talk to them and ask
1285
01:12:24.079 --> 01:12:27.039
them if they're okay, ask them if they've taken their
1286
01:12:27.079 --> 01:12:30.479
meds today, or ask them to take their meds on camera.
1287
01:12:30.600 --> 01:12:32.840
That kind of thing. That's that'd be so useful, And
1288
01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:35.239
I'm sure there's devices that probably already do that, but
1289
01:12:35.760 --> 01:12:38.319
just building that into the Apple ecosystem so that you
1290
01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:41.199
could do it through FaceTime instead of some third party
1291
01:12:41.239 --> 01:12:43.600
app that's going to want another email and password and
1292
01:12:43.640 --> 01:12:47.479
maybe a membership to do all that. Yeah, the safe
1293
01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:49.479
prediction I have to the iPhone twenty is that they'll
1294
01:12:49.520 --> 01:12:55.359
likely have the biggest camera bump ever yeah, maybe the
1295
01:12:55.399 --> 01:12:57.760
iPhone twenty they'll finally just make the camera bump the
1296
01:12:57.800 --> 01:13:00.720
whole back, or at least flush with the back. That
1297
01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:02.640
would be cool. I actually wouldn't thinking about it. I
1298
01:13:02.640 --> 01:13:05.680
wouldn't mind a wedge design. I know the mag Safe
1299
01:13:05.760 --> 01:13:07.319
kind of has to stay there. I don't want them
1300
01:13:07.359 --> 01:13:08.920
to get rid of mag Safe. But if they made
1301
01:13:08.920 --> 01:13:11.600
it really thick on the top and then kind of
1302
01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:14.760
tapered off so that it sits flat but kind of
1303
01:13:14.800 --> 01:13:17.039
at an angle so that face idea even works better,
1304
01:13:18.359 --> 01:13:20.319
and then crazy thin bezels on the front. If I
1305
01:13:20.399 --> 01:13:23.439
was doing a crazy twentieth anniversary iPhone, that's probably what
1306
01:13:23.479 --> 01:13:26.680
I would do, smoothing out the edges, make a little
1307
01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:31.479
wedge phone. But they'll probably not do that. They'll just
1308
01:13:31.560 --> 01:13:34.000
keep growing up their big old bump on the back.
1309
01:13:37.319 --> 01:13:39.720
Rumors are that Apple glasses are going to be coming
1310
01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:41.840
out this year for the non display model. Will you
1311
01:13:41.920 --> 01:13:44.359
review one? I'd love to check one out, but I
1312
01:13:44.359 --> 01:13:46.279
haven't heard rumors that those are coming out this year.
1313
01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:49.439
I thought that was next year, but yeah, they need
1314
01:13:49.479 --> 01:13:52.600
to catch up. Meta's got some pretty impressive stuff. Again.
1315
01:13:52.640 --> 01:13:54.359
I've been busy, so I haven't had a chance to
1316
01:13:54.359 --> 01:13:58.560
review the meta glasses, but they look fine. I love
1317
01:13:58.640 --> 01:14:00.720
the idea that you could just take a video or
1318
01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:03.640
pictures just from the glasses and kind of talk to
1319
01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:07.760
them for basic dictation needs and that kind of thing. Like, yeah,
1320
01:14:07.760 --> 01:14:10.520
Apple could probably cook something up like that pretty easily.
1321
01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:13.079
I'd like to see them do that. I think that
1322
01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:15.880
would have a much bigger demographic than Vision Pro, which
1323
01:14:15.920 --> 01:14:18.600
was kind of like a dev kit that they sold
1324
01:14:18.640 --> 01:14:23.079
to individuals. Vision Pro was cool, but it's Yeah, it's
1325
01:14:23.199 --> 01:14:26.439
very hard to justify for that price point. And I
1326
01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:29.000
could tell when I reviewed it that I was definitely
1327
01:14:29.079 --> 01:14:32.479
not going to use it regularly. I was just in
1328
01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:34.720
the two weeks I had it already trying to go
1329
01:14:34.800 --> 01:14:36.560
out of my way to use it, and I was like,
1330
01:14:37.000 --> 01:14:39.199
this thing's gonna collect ust. I can tell if I
1331
01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:40.960
keep this, it's just going to be sitting around and
1332
01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:44.279
I'm never going to put it on. I actually that
1333
01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:46.319
was my hot take in case you forgot it. When
1334
01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:48.279
I reviewed the Vision Pro, my hot take was the
1335
01:14:48.319 --> 01:14:52.039
price is not the problem. I actually think you could
1336
01:14:52.119 --> 01:14:56.119
justify a headset for thirty five hundred dollars if it
1337
01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:58.720
was more comfortable, it had longer battery life, and it
1338
01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:02.000
could do more things. It's actually a feature issue in
1339
01:15:02.039 --> 01:15:08.039
my head, not a price issue. But that was what
1340
01:15:08.159 --> 01:15:10.960
everybody else was saying. Everybody else in the tech community
1341
01:15:11.039 --> 01:15:12.880
was like, it's too expensive. It needs to be like
1342
01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:17.199
a thousand dollars. Like if this was your one screen,
1343
01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:20.159
if there was a headset that was comfortable to wear,
1344
01:15:20.319 --> 01:15:23.279
and it was your Mac display, and it could improve
1345
01:15:23.359 --> 01:15:26.640
your iPhone display and you could wear it while driving
1346
01:15:26.960 --> 01:15:30.319
for better map navigations. It's like a HUD with augmented
1347
01:15:30.359 --> 01:15:32.880
reality stuff. I mean, I don't think it would be
1348
01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:35.399
like screens that you're looking at anymore. It would have
1349
01:15:35.439 --> 01:15:38.399
to be like transparent glasses and stuff like that. But
1350
01:15:38.560 --> 01:15:42.199
if the technology was that good, I actually do think
1351
01:15:42.239 --> 01:15:46.800
you could. You could probably justify thirty five hundred dollars.
1352
01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:49.479
If that's your TV, that's your monitor, that's your phone,
1353
01:15:49.600 --> 01:15:53.159
that's your everything, thirty five hundred bucks to kind of
1354
01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:57.119
do all that stuff would be cool. I wish the
1355
01:15:57.159 --> 01:15:59.119
camera bump was like iPhone four, like the whole thing
1356
01:15:59.159 --> 01:16:01.800
is the same. Thickness, better life would be amazing. I
1357
01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:04.199
do think people who ask for that don't realize how
1358
01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:06.319
thick the phone would be. The iPhone four was not
1359
01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:10.000
that thick. If you were to extend out the back
1360
01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:13.000
of this phone to be flush with the camera rings,
1361
01:16:13.600 --> 01:16:16.439
it would be very chunky, especially if you put a
1362
01:16:16.520 --> 01:16:18.560
case on, which most people do. Do you think the
1363
01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:20.960
vision Pro could still have the potential to be mainstream
1364
01:16:20.960 --> 01:16:24.560
if Apple just played their cards right, it would have
1365
01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:27.000
to change a lot. I don't know if you would
1366
01:16:27.000 --> 01:16:29.560
even call it vision Pro at that point. I think
1367
01:16:29.680 --> 01:16:33.039
what I'm getting at is more of like a glasses
1368
01:16:33.159 --> 01:16:37.960
type product where you look through physical glass and it's
1369
01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:43.319
not just a display with cameras on the outside. But
1370
01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:45.000
I do think there is a way to make it
1371
01:16:45.039 --> 01:16:49.279
go mainstream if it was comfortable enough, lightweight enough, and
1372
01:16:49.359 --> 01:16:53.520
capable enough. But in its current format where you're just
1373
01:16:53.560 --> 01:16:56.319
looking at screens that are stitching together reality through a
1374
01:16:56.319 --> 01:16:59.600
bunch of cameras, no, no, not in that format, I
1375
01:16:59.640 --> 01:17:01.600
don't think that would ever go mainstream. That's going to
1376
01:17:01.640 --> 01:17:05.800
continue to be pretty niche and just good for little
1377
01:17:05.880 --> 01:17:10.119
gaming things. But I yeah, very quickly ran out of
1378
01:17:10.159 --> 01:17:11.720
things to do with it. When I had it, I
1379
01:17:11.760 --> 01:17:13.479
was like, Okay, this is it. This is all I
1380
01:17:13.479 --> 01:17:16.399
can do is like watch TV by myself. I pretty
1381
01:17:16.439 --> 01:17:19.359
much never do that. I'm almost exclusively watching TV with
1382
01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:22.319
someone else, in which case it's very awkward and isolating.
1383
01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:24.920
It'd be cool if we could both wear a headset
1384
01:17:24.960 --> 01:17:30.239
and have a shared experience, but seven thousand dollars could
1385
01:17:30.239 --> 01:17:35.640
buy a nice TV setup, you know. Anyway, man, this
1386
01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:38.000
is fun, guys. I missed catching up with you guys
1387
01:17:38.079 --> 01:17:40.920
like this, but unfortunately I have to get going. I'm
1388
01:17:40.920 --> 01:17:45.800
a little over the hour, but I will definitely try
1389
01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:48.199
to keep the channel as active as I can, especially
1390
01:17:48.319 --> 01:17:53.359
when there's news coming out. Hopefully we're just a week
1391
01:17:53.479 --> 01:17:55.840
or two away from the new M five Mac minis
1392
01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:59.600
dropping or the M five Ultra dropping in the Max Studio.
1393
01:17:59.720 --> 01:18:02.520
That be fun, but again it's just a spec bump,
1394
01:18:02.560 --> 01:18:05.279
so I don't plan on reviewing those. But I'll keep
1395
01:18:05.279 --> 01:18:08.079
on reviewing the M five Max I got on my
1396
01:18:08.119 --> 01:18:12.600
work computer and keep you guys posted as we hear more.
1397
01:18:13.119 --> 01:18:16.039
Thanks everyone, hope you have an excellent risk of your day.
1398
01:18:16.039 --> 01:18:19.279
Thank you for the support. VR seems like a dead
1399
01:18:19.359 --> 01:18:22.119
end to me. Yeah, I agree, Mike, it's a very
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01:18:22.199 --> 01:18:26.760
niche but yeah, thank you all for watching, and I'll
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01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:29.560
see you guys again soon. Bye bye, see you