Apple's Software Crisis Is Worsening

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Wow, Wow, it's been a minute. Hey everybody, welcome back
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to Taylor's of Tech Live on YouTube. It's been very
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full last few weeks, just between other YouTube channels o
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their jobs. Just like, I apologize that it's been so
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long since we've done one of these, but I still
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very much enjoyed doing them. And I made a slight
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mistake leading up to the stream. But maybe maybe it
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was a mistakes a harsh word. Maybe it was a
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happy accident, you know, Like I basically was supposed to
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send out a post that hey, we're going to be
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doing a stream here. Normally I make that available just
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to Taylor's of Tech Pro members. I accidentally made it
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available to all channel members, which there's much more Taylor's
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of Tech plus members than there are Pro members. But
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that's okay because I haven't streamed for a while, so hey,
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it gives a chance for all the community members who
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support the channel directly to ask things in advance in
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case they can't make it to the live stream, but
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would still like me to answer. But I'll still answer
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the non members as well. Michael C. It's been a
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rough few weeks for at least in terms of enthusiast sentiment. Yes, definitely.
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I would say for the software side of things, hardware,
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it's pretty pretty decent. I mean, I was not anticipating
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to get price cuts at all this year, especially with
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tariffs and all that kind of stuff going on, and
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yet we got a one hundred dollars price cut on
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the MacBook Air. That's pretty great. It's not that exciting
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of a product. It's basically the same thing we've had
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for years, but it's got a newer chip, it's got
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a better webcam, and the price went down. So I
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wasn't expecting that to happen, probably at this point the
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coolest thing Apple's done this year. And for macpacare not
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that interested in the changes with the iPad. It's just
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kind of like keeping up with the times. Even a
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newsroom post feels like overhyping it. Hey David, Hey, Scott Macintosh,
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I RhI, sugar baby, oh la, how are you? Nicholas
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Linekom says hello, Jure the intelligent, I say, the true
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intelligence I would not describe. There's a lot of words
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I would use to describe me. Intelligence is not one
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of them. But uh, speaking of intelligence, that's what we're
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kicking off today's live stream. Wit. Okay, I don't know
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what this is doing, but I don't want you watching
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all my crap, so for now turning that off. Is
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ipedows still in a crisis. No, ipedos has just been abandoned,
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you know, like that's a bad example, like a cat
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in a cardboard box on the side of the Freewhere.
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That was the more tame example. I had a much
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darker joke. I was like, no, Drew, don't say that.
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It's too early in the livestream to be this dark.
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Audios ted lowber, I'm I'm monitoring my audio levels right now.
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I'm in the yellow, so if I get any louder,
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I think I'm gonna be peeking. Halami says, I haven't
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been to a stream in a long time. Well me neither, Hali,
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thanks for joining. Greetings from Australia. Testy devils love pinching
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iPhones into their burrows, but reject iPhone sixteen e's that's awesome.
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That's actually the last video I posted to Telos of
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life was a Tasmanian devil. Loved my time in Australia.
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It was fantastic. Hope I hope to get back there soon.
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I wanted to talk a bit about comments made by
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Josh sorry, John Gruber, because he's very close with Apple.
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He's interviewed many Apple executives in the past, including Greg Joswiak,
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John Turnas, Craig Fiderigi. You know, he's just very, very
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close with Apple executives. I'm doing well, sisual iSER. Thanks
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for asking if I had a studio change, right. Yes, well,
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we'll get to all that. I know we've got a
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lot to catch up on, but let's just start with
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what's in the thumbnail and what's in the title. Otherwise
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people are going like, oh, you didn't talk about what
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was in the title. I know, I can't put fifty titles.
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I can't put fifty topics in the title, guys. But
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Josh Gruber dropped this interview recently he works for during Fireball.
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Let me pull that up here, and yeah, it basically
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talks about this more personal serie, the series that understands
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context a lot more. Not only is it been delayed substantially,
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but there's a decent chance essentially that it needs to
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be completely redesigned and start from scratch. And the reason
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that he's saying there's something rotten going on at Apple.
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That was his words in the headline is that basically
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at dub dub last year, a lot of the AI
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features they were showcasing were not demos. They were not
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something that was in the works. It was literally straight
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up conceptual, and it's a lot closer to what we
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saw with air Power back in twenty seventeen. Airpower as
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an example, just in case any of you don't know,
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basically showcasing a product and you have no idea if
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you can deliver on any of the product's features. In
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the case of Airpower, it was basically its sole feature.
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Airpower was not just meant to be a basic CHI charger.
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The entire reason they unveiled their power was to showcase
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a design that allowed you to put three separate devices
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and have them all charging simultaneously, one of which was
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the Apple Watch, which did not support CHI charging. So
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they showcased a product and basically it's sole purpose, it's
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only feature. They had no clue how they were going
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to make it happen. They didn't have demos of it working.
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They had a few conceptual mockups of just a white
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mat on a table, but they literally had no clue
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how the technology would work. It's not just a matter
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of like, can we mass produce this technology? No, it
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was straight up like we couldn't build one of these
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things that worked without overheating or catching on fire, which
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happened later. But similarly in regards to US software, Josh
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Gruber writes about it here. Fiasco here is not that
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Apple is late on AI. It's also not that they
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had to announce an embarrassing delay on promised features. Those
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are problems, not fiascos, and problems happen. They're inevitable. Leaders
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prove their metal and create their legacies not by how
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they deal with successes, but how they deal with how
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they acknowledge, understand, and adopt and solve problems. The fiasco,
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Here's the important part, is that Apple pitched a story
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that wasn't true, one that some people within the company
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surely understood wasn't true, and they set a course based
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on that. They used a word I won't say because
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it's too early in the livestream and I want to
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get to monetized. Apple showed regarding the upcoming personalized seri
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at dub dub was not a demo, it was a concept. Basically,
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they had no clue how to make or how to
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generate the software feature that they were demoing. And you
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can stretch the truth and maintain credibility, but you can't
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maintain credibility with BS. BS is an acronym for those
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who don't know, that stands for belowney sandwhich is but
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that's the words Josh Gruber was using, and it essentially
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means that because Apple was scrambling so much, and because
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they were scrambling so hard to get a leg up
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on AI, they were clearly late to the game. And
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in my opinion, I think the whole market of AI
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stuff is overhyped.
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Yeah, it's a different acronym.
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Not AI. Yeah, a lot of people would say it's
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a keen to lying saying that here's features that were
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going to be rolling out the fall or next spring,
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and it turns out we have no idea how to
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build these features and we're not anywhere close to finishing them. Personally,
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I still think the fallback should be find an encrypted way,
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which I believe there is a way to do make
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a private, secure way for a lot of these contextual
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serie based features to work on the cloud. I think
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the biggest problem they probably keep running into Apple's a
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trillion dollar company.
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They've got almost.
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More money than anybody. I'm sure they could hire the
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best of the best software engineers and the best of
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the best AI experts they could poach from Open AI
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will triple your salary if you come work for us,
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and they could do all these amazing things. Probably, But
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I think the big difference from what I see, like
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that's I guess. The difficult thing about this story and
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about Apple struggling to make Apple Intelligence work properly that
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I don't understand is none of the features they showcased
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with the more contextually aware SERI, none of them feel
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that groundbreaking. None of them sounded very complicated. I was like, Okay,
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it's just helpful. I guess that it'll know like emails
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from the background or text messages that people sent before,
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and it could pull up that information. But I think
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there is a way to make this cloud based and
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make it safe. I think that it's a misconception everybody
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has that. Well, no, if you do any kind of
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AI in the cloud, all of the data is compromised.
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I'm like, I mean, it's literally AI that's analyzing the stuff,
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not people, right, That's the whole point of making it
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a large language model is that an individual doesn't have
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to look at everything going on. Maybe you could have
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some of it be opt in. Maybe it's like if
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you want the later version of Apple Intelligence and you
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have to agree to share some of your data with
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the developers. But I just think Apple is leaning too
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hard into this security and privacy thing. I mean, we've
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seen them get caught in the past. Anyway. I am
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under the belief that all of Apple's privacy arguments are
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mostly about marketing because they were caught sharing pre recorded
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serie interactions with third parties and that wasn't something they
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came forward with and apologized for. They got caught red
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handed and then apologized. So I'm sure there's all kinds
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of stuff they do that maybe isn't the best for privacy,
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but they do it without getting caught or without people knowing. Yeah,
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the photo editing stuff is much better at Samsung and Google.
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But I think the big difference from what I see
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of why why does Apple Intelligence suck so much compared
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to what Samsung can do, what Google can do, and
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what open ai can do, and even what groc can do,
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which I'm not I'm not a big fan of Twitter
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right now, but even Grok is pretty good at image
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generators and text responses and that kind of thing. What's
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funny is, like a lot of the time people are like, oh, Drew,
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why do you talk about Groc like Elon? I'm really
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not a big Elon, especially right now. But what's funny
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is Groc will throw Elon under the bus constantly. Groc
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will like spell out, oh yeah, Elon is like spreading
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misinformation online. So it's funny that he like promotes Grok
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all the time because Groc will like consistently say bad
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things about him. So I kind of like Grok for that.
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It's kind of ironic in a way. But the big
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difference is Apple's trying to do all of this AI
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stuff locally. They're all trying to do it on device,
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and pretty much no one else is. I'm pretty sure Samsung.
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There's a few AI features that Google does locally, but
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most of it's cloud based, and I feel like Apple
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could be so much further ahead if they just bit
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the bullet and said, Okay, we're gonna make it cloud based.
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But then they would maybe have to acknowledge that a
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lot of these AI features should work on iPhone fifteen
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fourteen thirteen. It's not something that can easily be justified with, oh,
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well you have to buy the latest iPhone, you have
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to buy the latest iPad for it to work. I
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feel like that was the mistake. I understood what the
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marketing was trying to do. The marketing team was probably
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in the sales team. Whoever involved in this was probably
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trying to turn AI into how do we push sales?
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AI is the latest trend. AI is what everybody's excited by.
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I think unjustified, unjustifiably. I don't think it's as big
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a deal as people make it out to be. Everyone
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keeps acting like it's going to change everything, and it
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changes a couple little things, but it doesn't replace the
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entire job market like people make it out to. You
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won an updated studio, oh Anna Maria says, I wrote
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a pre stream course. I haven't even got to the
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pre stream questions yet. I just wanted to start out
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with a little bit of a tirade. But just right,
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but could you delve into what's happening with the studio?
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Why did you take down the box? Okay, I'll get
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into that, but just to conclude, the opening topic of
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the live stream. We'll talk about all kinds of stuff
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in the stream. I think the marketing and sales mistake
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to try to turn the AI hype into a sales
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push like it's a software thing right at the end
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of the day. I know there's a lot of hardware
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going on at the back end, but for the vast
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majority of customers, AI is another tool, part of many tools,
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but it's a software tool. And I think that's what Rabbit,
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r One and Humane Aipin learned the hard way. AI
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is a feature, not a product. Okay, and Apple, even
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though they were kind of roping it roping it in
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with the iPhone stuff, they tried to make it a product.
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They tried to make it maybe not a product, but
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they tried to make AI a selling point, not as
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a feature, but more as a you need to buy
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a product with AI capabilities, when in reality, this is
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a software feature. This should have been available to pretty
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much every iPhone that was running the latest iOS.
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Cloud based thing, and I think that's what all the
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other companies have discovered, and Apple is frantically trying to
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turn it into a locally run product. Hardware feature like, no,
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for Apple Intelligence to run, we need eight gigs of RAM,
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and we need all these neural cores, and we can't
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run it on a fifteen or a fifteen plus.
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And I think that was the mistake.
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way they want. That's why they can't get it to
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do the things that they promised the public it could do,
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and that's why they're running into this huge, huge crisis
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of Well, turns out they put a conceptual software demo
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in a keynote, which they haven't really done in a
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long time. There's been delays, There's definitely been software delays
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over the years, but this one was particularly bad because
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it's that now people are saying it's not even going
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to be ready in iOS nineteen maybe iOS twenty, because
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it essentially has to be redesigned from the ground up.
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I hate how image playgrounds keep sticking around the top
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of the settings app on MAT. I know to turn
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it off because I kept getting notifications on my Mac. Seriously,
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it's the most like Unapple like thing I've I've been
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using my Mac for so long, and this feels like
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the first time ever that I've just seen like my
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Mac trying to advertise features to me like image playgrounds,
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image playgrounds like come on, image playground sucks. Yeah, it's terrible,
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especially compared to what other image generators out there are
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capable of.
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It's it's a joke.
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all locally. They may be working on making it cloud
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based soon. Apple's building a few massive data centers in
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the Midwest and off other parts of the US. They might,
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but to be fair, data centers I think are very
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different from AI training clusters. It's like, it's not just
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about buying up storage, it's also about buying up GPUs,
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and yeah, GPUs and even the proper term more of
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NPUs or neural processing unit, two empty soup cans and
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twenty feet of string works better than iowa Well said. Yes, anyway,
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that's the conclusion of my opening statement. There were a
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lot of questions, but that was a that was a
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common one, So I think I'll knock a few questions
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out just by starting the.
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Stream with that.
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People were asking about my background, so he got twenty
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eight forty four. I said, what's up with the background?
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Time travel?
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All right?
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And then Michael Azito says, what why are you using
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your TV for your background? Now? I think there was
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maybe more than one person asking about it, but yeah,
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just to address that, yes, the background is a TV.
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It is not a green screen. There were a lot
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of people who thought it was a green screen. And
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I thank you for thinking I'm that smart with king
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or lighting.
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I am not.
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I am much more quick, cheap, run of the mill,
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like do whatever works the fastest. But the footage you
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see on my more recent videos is straight out of
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the iPhone camera with no edits.
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There's no color correction, there's no keying going on.
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You know. I recorded it for the EV channel earlier today.
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You see it right here. This is just in my
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photo library before any edits have been applied, and that's
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essentially what it looks like straight off the iPhone camera
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and the Zoom mic is plugged directly into it, so
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there's actually very little editing required. But yeah, a friend,
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not a friend, a family member had moved and had
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a surplus of TVs. They didn't want this TV anymore,
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and my wife wanted one for her birthday, which was
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a few weeks ago now. But she was just like, hey,
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we can we can take it off your hands? And
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I was like, where are we going to put it?
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And they were like, well, it's it's a pretty massive TV.
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So surprise, there's a new TV in the Taylor's of
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Tech ecosystem. It's a Samsung eight Series seventy five inch.
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It's not particularly amazing, but it cost us nothing because
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it was just a literal family hand me down, which
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is nice for a birthday present. And it's massive. It's
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a smart TV and it has airplay and stuff. But
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green screen king is not that hard. I mean, I've
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been able to use the effect before and I'm not
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that great at editing, but especially when you have little
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things like hair that are like slightly frayed, it's very different.
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issues with it when when there's more motion blur, it
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doesn't mask it out perfectly and it kind of feathers
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around hair and like fluffy things, whereas you won't get
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any of that because you're literally just pointing a camera
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at to TV. But yeah, that this new TV that's
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in the office kind of motivated me a bit because
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I was getting kind of tired of the same old background.
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But I knew that, especially anytime I changed my background
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with my audience, people tend to get very upset. There
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there were times where I would take all the iPhone
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boxes down and people would flip out and say like,
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oh no, why did you take the boxes down? I
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don't want to see the boxes anymore, or I want
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to keep seeing the boxes. So I understand because this
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channel is over. Yeah, we're over ten years old now.
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Actually we've surpassed eleven years of Taylus of Tech.
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I believe the channel.
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Was created in January of twenty fourteen, so this channel's
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probably older than some of its viewers, which is kind
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of nutty to think about. So because of that age,
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I understand that there's a lot of nostalgia here on
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Taylus of Tech. And because of that, a lot of
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people don't want change. A lot of people want me
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to just keep doing the same thing with the same
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background over and over again. Do more pixel rants Drew,
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or just buy the latest Apple products and talk about
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how great they are, just like, do the same thing.
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People want consistency. YouTube wants consistency, but I struggle with that.
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And what's a good way to paint this picture? As
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an example, it's to quote Walter White from Breaking Bad,
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I did it for me. I took down a lot
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of the box from the wall, pretty actually all of them. Yeah,
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there's no more boxes in here on the walls, at
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least because at this stage in my life, with my
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new job at Tello Trucks, and with all of the
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time I'm spending trying to keep this channel as active
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as possible and trying to keep the ev channel as
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active as possible, I've really, it probably sounds hard to believe,
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but I've actually never worked this much in my life.
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I hesitant to use the word hard because doing YouTube
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videos and doing online content, I would I would hardly
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call hard work.
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I would I would barely want to call that.
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It's like it's a hard job, because I've worked manual
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labor jobs, and there's certainly more hard work in the
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world than doing online videos. But just the amount of
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time that it's taken from me to be working in
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marketing startup company. Startups are constantly changing, and there's new
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people and new challenges that are constantly arising, And because
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I've been working so many hours and so much, I
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found it difficult to shut my working brain off. So
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it's affected my sleep, it's affected my dreams. And I
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discovered that, you know, having boxes, the iPhone boxes on
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the wall, which they've been on the wall for years,
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not this house, but also the house before it, in
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the office space before that, when you wake up in
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the morning and that's what you see, and you know,
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when you're struggling to sleep and your eyes open and
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you're in kind of the same work environment that you've
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been in all day. I've learned that it's challenging to
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shift between Okay, you're off, you're offline, or you're online.
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And because I've been in work brain modes so often,
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I've discovered that it's easier for me to sleep or
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not think about work when there's not work related things
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all around me. So there's not iPhone boxes or iPad
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boxes or Mac boxes hanging off the walls, and it
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just like you know, as I wake up in the morning,
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that's the first thing I see, or eyes are drifting
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around the room, that kind of thing. So I wanted
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a bit of change, and I also wanted a bit
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of normalcy in my life and not feel like everywhere
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I look, I'm in an Apple store kind of thing.
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But the TV was kind of a decent compromise because
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I knew, Okay, if I want to have the iPhone
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boxes at the background, I can do that. In fact,
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a lot of people missed my old office space from
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years ago, so I realized, hey, I can just take
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that background, make that the TV, and then we can
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have all kinds of nostalgic backgrounds including Yes, some people
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were asking about the attic days, like, can that mean
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one day our background is the attic? Yeah? Actually I
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haven't done that yet, but it's entirely possible.
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I know you had a cott in that room. I
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never had a cot in this room.
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But no, the other bedroom is for guests, and we
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have a lot of friends and family that stay with us,
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so I'm trying to make the room feel more homey
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and not so much Apple Store work environment constantly. So
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there was a couple There was a couple of reasons
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for it. But yeah, I don't live in a big house,
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so I don't have like a time just convert this
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bedroom into this in this birdsroom, and I don't have
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that kind of time, and friends and family are coming
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before work ultimately, so what have you? May WHYET be
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the background for no reason that would be awesome. Yeah,
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good idea. So, yes, the TV's the background now, and
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I still haven't really finished settling a bunch of things in.
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But anyway, iPad Pro twenty eighteen or traded in for
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new iPad eleventh eighteen batteries horrible and would run me
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one hundred and fifty dollars total. I thought it wasn't
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called the eleventh gen. They put that a sixteen chip
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in that or yeah, I would just iPad pros a
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better iPad. You get promotion, you get type faster, Type C,
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you get face ID. You're not going to get any
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of that stuff on the iPad eleventh gen whatever that's called. Hey,
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it's Mike in the chat. Elpha says, wait, have you
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been using that TV to showcase the old studio? I have? Yeah, exactly.
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You deserve to be happy, and as long as you're
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keeping your channels alive, we're here for the right. I'm
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I'm trying. I'm trying my best to keep everything balanced.
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Does the tessel flag not bother you as much as
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the Apple boxes, No, because it's more of like it
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covers up the closet, so it's kind of acting as
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like a curtain more than anything. But yeah, I don't
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love it either. I'm probably gonna take that down later,
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but we just need to find it. I think we
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have an extra curtain I might use, but it's a
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budget for of what mister Who's the Boss uses.
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Yeah, it's not an original idea.
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I know lots of channels use TVs as the background,
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but this one didn't cost us anything, and now we
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have a TV in here, so might as well use it, right.
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I feel like the new Syrian AI stuff will be
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ready for deck Spring. Well that's not what Apple's saying.
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Apple's own statements are claiming otherwise. But let's catch up
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on some of the community questions before I forget j
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Money two eleven says, what do you think the best
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deal is in terms of Apple products?
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It's kind of an interesting question, new or used?
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I guess would be my follow up because I haven't
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seen him in the chat. Hey, Jerem welcome. I'll answer both.
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Like more recently, I feel like the M four MacBook
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Air is a pretty decent bargain. It's like a brand
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new computer for a thousand bucks and it got the
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M four chip. Like that's pretty hard to beat. Now,
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you can still on best Buy or Amazon probably find
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M two airs for like seven hundred bucks or less
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if you go M one Air, which I would argue
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for some might even be better because the M one
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Air has, in my opinion, better speakers. I don't know,
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I never liked the speaker redesign on the M two
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MacBook Air. Mac Minnie is a really good deal, that's true.
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Even the new M four Mac Minnie, which is much smaller,
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which I saw for the first time at an Apple
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store recently. It was a little bigger than I expected,
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but it was cool. Yeah, it's a great deal, but
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you kind of it's kind of assuming you have everything else.
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I was thinking of, kind of like all in one purchases.
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You know, you just buy the MacBook Air and boom,
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you got battery, keyboard, truck pad, display. Mac Minnie is
477
00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:41.920
kind of great deal if you already have all that
478
00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:48.160
other stuff ready to go, keyboard, mouse, TV, speakers, all that. Yeah,
479
00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:53.519
the Macs lately have just been incredibly good bargains. I
480
00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.599
really like the iPhone fifteen still to this day. I'd
481
00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:02.039
recommend a ton of people to that. It's much more
482
00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:07.799
than just delaying one single feature. It's the Apple Intelligence
483
00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:10.920
is a letdown, and it's the biggest thing they were
484
00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:14.319
banking all of their hardware sales on and most of
485
00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:17.759
the features are crap, and most most of the development
486
00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:20.319
on it is slowing down the development.
487
00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:21.000
Of the rest of the company.
488
00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:25.200
So I would say it's a pretty big software crisis.
489
00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:28.759
But Apple's not going bankrupt. No, They're not going to
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00:27:28.839 --> 00:27:30.680
die because of it. But I would say it's kind
491
00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:33.880
of an issue. It's kind of a big issue. I
492
00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:35.720
can't remember if you touched on this yet regarding the
493
00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:38.079
sixteen E, but it's pretty much the ideal dumb phone
494
00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:40.000
in the modern era. It doesn't surround the user with
495
00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:45.599
a bunch of fancy features they won't use, sure, but
496
00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:47.960
I think it's way too overkill. If you want to
497
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:51.559
go dumb phone route, I would say iPhone SE two
498
00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:55.319
and SE three are more in line with that. But
499
00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:58.160
for six hundred dollars, I would hardly call it the
500
00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:02.359
dumb phone. That's a lot of money for a dumb phone.
501
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.720
If you just need a basic phone that works, there
502
00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:06.680
are much much.
503
00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:07.880
Cheaper options to work with.
504
00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:10.119
And then, really the only question you should be asking
505
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.519
if someone's on a budget and they're looking for a
506
00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:15.720
basic no frill phone, is do they need Type C
507
00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.720
or not. If you need Type C, buy an iPhone fifteen.
508
00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:21.160
You can find them for much much cheaper than a
509
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:23.880
sixteen E, and it'll have a brighter display, it'll have
510
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:27.400
a better camera, and it'll have MagSafe, which the sixteen
511
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.759
E will not. Sounded like this morning, the sixteen E
512
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.880
had Bluetooth connectivity issues as well. But yeah, it's just
513
00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:37.920
I would agree with a lot of what people are
514
00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:40.720
saying about the sixteen E if it was cheaper. There's
515
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:43.160
so many people that are like, what, it's fine, it
516
00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:46.839
has one camera, it's simple, it's just easy. And I'm like, yeah,
517
00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:50.079
but it's six hundred bucks. If we're going for simple,
518
00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:53.039
everyday consumer, we shouldn't be charging six hundred bucks. That's
519
00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:56.839
that's very dangerously close to like just premium flagship level
520
00:28:56.839 --> 00:28:59.599
pricing anyway, especially if you speck up the storage, you're
521
00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:02.960
practice halfway there, and I think Apple's trying to do that.
522
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:06.319
I witnessed a co worker of mine, we went to
523
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:10.599
the Apple store together, and I witnessed him walk up
524
00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:13.440
the pricing ladder and I was like, wow, this is
525
00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:16.720
literally how Apple designs the iPhone sixteen line or any
526
00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:20.480
product lineup really is. They started out with like he
527
00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:23.519
walked in there not wanting to spend too much, and
528
00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:27.039
he just wanted a basic new iPhone and I told
529
00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:29.000
him fifteen is pretty good, and he's like, yeah, but
530
00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:30.920
I wanted to last. I want the latest chip and
531
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:31.200
all that.
532
00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:32.920
I was like, okay, if you want.
533
00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:35.240
The latest chip, the iPhone sixteen costs a bit more,
534
00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:38.400
but it'll it'll get plenty years of software support. Then
535
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:41.039
he looks at the sixteen and he looks at the
536
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:43.640
sixteen Pro and he's like, wow, the bezel's on the
537
00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:45.359
Pro are much thinner. And I was like, yeah, but
538
00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:47.359
it cost it a little more, and he's like yeah, okay.
539
00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:50.240
And then he looks at the back and he said
540
00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:52.559
he didn't care about the camera, and I was showing him,
541
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:54.799
you know, like, eh, it's fine. You can get by
542
00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:56.319
with the sixteen. It's more colorful.
543
00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:56.720
Whatever.
544
00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:59.279
Two hundred bucks, save your money, you can put that
545
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:01.680
towards story. And he was like, well, how much storage
546
00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:03.799
does this get and how much storage is that. By
547
00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.400
the end, he walked out with a sixteen Pro Max.
548
00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:11.799
When he walked in with the intent of buying a sixteen.
549
00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:15.960
So I think there's probably thousands or millions of other
550
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:19.440
people just like him that walk in with the intent on, Okay,
551
00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:20.559
i'll just get a sixteen E.
552
00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:21.759
I'll get something simple.
553
00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:24.200
Oh, this one's only a couple hundred bucks more. Oh,
554
00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:26.920
this one's only a couple hundred bucks more. Like, before
555
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.799
you know it, you're spending five hundred dollars more than
556
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:33.119
you intended. But you never you never look at that
557
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.119
original jump. You just look at each phone, one up
558
00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:39.759
at a time. So he looked at the sixteen. Okay,
559
00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:42.119
eight hundred bucks, I guess that's okay. Oh, but I
560
00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:44.279
want two fifty six gigs. Okay, let me go up
561
00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:46.119
the price. Oh, at that price, I'm really close to
562
00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:48.039
the Pro. Oh. If I'm at the Pro, I'm really
563
00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:51.039
close to getting a Pro Max. At that point, this
564
00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:53.480
one's bigger, this one has better battery. So I'm like
565
00:30:53.839 --> 00:31:01.519
witnessing the decoy effect firsthand. And yeah, I think that
566
00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:03.519
six hundred is just way too much for that phone.
567
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:05.640
I mean a bunch of people will probably get it
568
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:10.039
through a carrier deal or will trade in their old phone.
569
00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:14.160
But that's the thing I don't think that makes it justified. Yes,
570
00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:16.359
a lot of people will do that, but that doesn't
571
00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:18.200
make it a good deal. It just means a lot
572
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.039
of people are making irresponsible spending decisions because those carriers
573
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:25.119
that do those trade in deals typically will lock the
574
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:28.240
phone to that carrier. And it's because that carrier is
575
00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:32.000
charging them so much for cell phone service that they
576
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:34.680
can afford that loss. You know, these big carriers make
577
00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:37.519
lots of money, so whenever they offer you those trade
578
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.799
in deals or those on contract, oh, stick with us,
579
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:44.240
keep paying us monthly, and we'll give you a free iPhone.
580
00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.480
It's like they're getting their money back. And it's probably
581
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:49.799
because you're paying two to three times what you could
582
00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:52.000
be paying if you switch to an mb and O.
583
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:57.559
The classic Apple pricing ladder even more effective when you
584
00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:01.599
pay monthly. Oh yeah, absolutely, it's very effective. And that's
585
00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:04.720
why I think they're a three trillion dollar company. They're
586
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:08.240
very profitable. But yeah, I just think a lot of
587
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:11.160
people get roped into those carrier deals because the switching
588
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:12.359
carriers is complicated.
589
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.680
But you really don't need to be spending you.
590
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:18.319
Know, some of these people I talked to are spending
591
00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:20.960
sixty seventy one hundred bucks a month on cell phone service,
592
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:23.000
and they really don't need to be.
593
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:26.440
They just they get on.
594
00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:28.440
A family plan and then oh, I'm not in charge
595
00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:30.759
of the plan, someone else is on the plane. Before
596
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:33.240
you know it, they've got hundreds and hundreds of dollars
597
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:36.680
being spent every month just to use a few gigs
598
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.759
of five G a month, when they could probably get
599
00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:42.400
by with much much less had they switched to you
600
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:44.839
a Cellular Visible or Mint Mobile, any one of those
601
00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:46.960
mv and o's. I'm not acting like one is better
602
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:48.640
than all the rest, but there's plenty of mv and
603
00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:52.400
o's that offer way cheaper cell phone service simply because
604
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:53.359
they don't do that.
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00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:54.839
Contract and upgrade.
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00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:59.759
Shenanigan in too Visible, which is basically veris in the
607
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.119
even the unlimited hotspot which I can use for streaming.
608
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.319
It's insane for thirty five bucks. Yeah, if you're a
609
00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.039
heavy data user, I highly recommend Visible. If you're not
610
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:09.440
a heavy data user, I think Mint is still cheaper.
611
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:15.119
It just doesn't give you unlimited data at the cheaper tiers.
612
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:18.079
But I know so many people in my life, literally
613
00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:21.839
like a dozen or two that use the base cheapest
614
00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:24.640
Mint Mobile plan, and they've been on that plan for
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00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:28.480
years and they've been totally fine. I got a fifteen
616
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:31.759
Pro with five twelve gig and iily pay seventy dollars
617
00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:33.559
a month. Seventy bucks. Wow.
618
00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:34.799
I hope that includes the phone.
619
00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:38.400
But anyhow, best deal in terms of Apple products was
620
00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:45.000
the original question. As far as iPhones go, I feel
621
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:47.200
like all the iPhones lately have been pretty expensive. I
622
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:50.000
like the minis. The minis felt like a really good deal,
623
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.960
like you were getting the flagship camera, you were getting
624
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:55.920
the flagship displays. It's a shame we never got a
625
00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:58.039
mini iPhone with Type C that would have been great.
626
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:01.480
I liked the fifteen and I loved the thirteen Mini
627
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:03.799
because the improved the battery life quite a bit. Twelve
628
00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:06.480
Minutie was pretty cool, but the battery was kind of
629
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:07.200
sucky on it.
630
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:09.559
Thirteen Mini kind of fixed that.
631
00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:12.440
Another good iPhone deal I could think of in the
632
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:17.320
past was the original se that's still to this day
633
00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:21.400
the only four K iPhone camera that doesn't have a bump.
634
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:24.760
It was a flat camera bump, but it was four K,
635
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:26.559
and the s E two was a good deal.
636
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:28.360
SE three was kind of a wasted time.
637
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:30.519
All it did was AD five g and it was
638
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:33.639
more expensive for that, which was annoying. S E two
639
00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:35.280
was cool, though I still know a bunch of people
640
00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.320
that used the s E two. It was three ninety nine,
641
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:42.440
great chip, and it worked. It was no frills. Four
642
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:44.840
hundred dollars is much more reasonable if we're going to
643
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:48.039
talk about a budget friendly iPhone that doesn't have any
644
00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:51.960
fancy features. If the sixteen he was called the sixteen
645
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.679
r Tech YouTubers would have loved it. The SE line
646
00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:56.800
would have had an opportunity to go on and everyone
647
00:34:56.840 --> 00:34:59.320
would have been happy, says Matt. I don't think it
648
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:01.960
was the name. It was a price. I don't think
649
00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:06.880
the sc line would have kept going anyway. But yeah,
650
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:10.480
Kyle Cross's I still have the original original se Goal. Yeah,
651
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:12.760
a lot of people bought that one from at least
652
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:14.960
anecdotally in my life.
653
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:16.880
I knew a bunch of people that loved that phone.
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00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:17.159
It was.
655
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:20.199
It replaced the five S, It got the newer chip.
656
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.119
And it had a great camera and it was really small,
657
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:26.400
so it was fantastic. But my work phone is a
658
00:35:26.440 --> 00:35:29.280
twelve Mini, way easier to use than my personal fifteen
659
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.719
Pro MacX. Yeah, that's funny, my brother in law, I
660
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:34.320
think also has a twelve Mini for his work phone.
661
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:35.880
They're great.
662
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:40.039
If we're talking best deals in Apple history, I think
663
00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:45.440
many iPhones and the iPhone fifteen I still think. You know,
664
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:47.519
it was a bit pricey when it first came out
665
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:49.559
because it was the same price as the fourteen, but
666
00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:53.400
it just had a fantastic it was people forget. It
667
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:56.039
was the first time that the regular iPhone matched the
668
00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:59.280
Pro iPhones, like in brightness level. That hadn't happened in
669
00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:03.039
a long time. For a long time, the Pro iPhones
670
00:36:03.079 --> 00:36:06.519
and you know, the Oled iPhones would always have better
671
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:11.199
peak brightness and better contrast. But when the iPhone fifteen launched,
672
00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:13.559
it was like, no, we're matching the brightness of the
673
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.840
fifteen Pro and the fourteen Pro the outgoing model. So
674
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:21.119
I still kind of regret returning that one. I ended
675
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:25.280
up sticking with my fifteen Pro, but I really would
676
00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:28.079
have been perfectly happy with the regular fifteen. That was
677
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:30.760
a great phone, and I probably should have kept it.
678
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:33.679
Buddy Mine loves his thirteen Many, but it's concerned about
679
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:36.239
what to do about is deteriorating battery capacity. Last time
680
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.480
he got a battery replacement, it was submerged and Apple
681
00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:41.719
didn't want to replace it. Oh really, that's interesting. I
682
00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:44.719
bet there's other places that would replace it, though you
683
00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:49.400
don't have to go just through Apple, but I would
684
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.639
definitely try going through them if you can. But it's
685
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:55.760
not like it's not something I would attempt, but it's
686
00:36:55.760 --> 00:36:58.960
also not heart surgery, like I bet there's other places
687
00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:02.320
that can do it. Thoughts on prices of seventeen series
688
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:06.440
going up because of Trump's tariffs, you know, they they
689
00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:09.159
were probably going up anyway at some point. I'm kind
690
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:12.599
of amazed that Apple has kept the one thousand dollars
691
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.119
for the starting price of the Pro for so long,
692
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:22.480
so they've statistically over time, all iPhone prices have tend
693
00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:26.960
to increase, and we've had the you know, base, non
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00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:30.599
pro flagship iPhones. It's so hard to refer to the
695
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:35.360
model you're especially with the E now rooting everything, like
696
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:40.159
the base model iPhone seventeen. That lineup has been eight
697
00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:43.639
hundred dollars since that iPhone twelve, which came out in
698
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:46.480
twenty twenty, so that's five years now that the price
699
00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:50.639
has basically been eight hundred dollars flat, and then you
700
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:53.199
spend more to upgrade the storage and all that so
701
00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:56.639
I'm sure the tariffs might accelerate it a little bit,
702
00:37:56.840 --> 00:37:58.519
or Apple might decide to eat the cost.
703
00:37:58.559 --> 00:37:58.920
I don't know.
704
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:02.559
I don't believe the M four MacBook Air is cheaper
705
00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:06.719
to build by any means than the outgoing MacBook Ares.
706
00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:09.320
I think it is likely Apple just deciding to take
707
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.920
a little bit of a hit on the profit margin
708
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:15.480
so that they secure a bit more market share. Big
709
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:18.719
tech companies do that all the time, so I think
710
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:22.199
there's a decent chance iPhone seventeen prices would go up.
711
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.039
But that's also been rumored before the tariffs every year,
712
00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:27.679
so I wouldn't be shocked if the prices went up
713
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:30.199
this year. But I also just think buying a brand
714
00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:32.480
new iPhone at launch is just not ever going to
715
00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:35.239
be a great deal. You can always wait a little
716
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.320
bit and find a much better deal or buy last
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00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:43.000
year's model, And as years goes on, the differences year
718
00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:45.840
over year get smaller and smaller, which just means waiting
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00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:48.800
or buying last year's model just becomes more and more
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00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:51.800
of a compelling option. So thank you for the super
721
00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:53.559
chat pen by the way, says good luck and I
722
00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:55.360
wish you every success in teleo trucks.
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00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:56.119
Thank you so much.
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00:38:56.159 --> 00:39:00.639
It's been a roller coaster and it's been a lot,
725
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:03.719
but it's been a lot of fun too, So thank
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00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:06.199
you for the super chat. Very kind of you. Apple
727
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:08.039
never went back, but it went back to the notch
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00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:11.880
on sixteen E. Well it was it was replacing the
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00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:16.239
fourteen which still had a notch. So branding wise, I
730
00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:19.400
guess it's a stamp backwards, But in regards to manufacturing,
731
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I don't really see it as a step backwards. Let's see,
732
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:26.400
we'll recommend. But I recall he got burnt on a
733
00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:28.960
third battery replacement with his twelve Mini a while back. Well,
734
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I don't know what the budget is, but you can
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00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:35.840
buy a refurbished thirteen Mini for like three hundred bucks. Now,
736
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:39.199
I think they've got really affordable, so like you could
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00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:41.280
spend one hundred bucks on a battery replacement or three
738
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hundred bucks on a whole new one that won't be
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00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:47.119
submerged and will let you replace the battery over time.
740
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But also I think Maxafe battery packs are great. I
741
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:56.119
use those all the time for my iPhone, even in
742
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.280
the sixteen Pro Max. I drain the battery on this
743
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:01.519
thing constantly because of how much I use it now.
744
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:05.360
I'm managing so much social media and I'm recording videos
745
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:08.599
on it all the time. And I have never took
746
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:13.519
more photos or videos in my life than the last
747
00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:16.920
trip to LA I took for Tello trucks and all
748
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:20.400
the behind the scenes pictures and videos, and oh my god,
749
00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:24.800
I have never used my phone that. My photo library
750
00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:29.599
is just filled with Tello truck everywhere. It's a great camera.
751
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:33.320
May I add it's the sixteen promacts. I had a
752
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lot of issues with in my review and I complained
753
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:39.440
about it, but boy, is that a fantastic camera. It
754
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:42.679
takes some amazing shots. A lot of a lot of
755
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:45.559
the social media pictures of the Tellow truck I posted
756
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were shot on iPhone and videos and they look great.
757
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:51.719
A lot of people could not tell that they were
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00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:55.280
shot on a phone. Did Tim Cook stab your arm
759
00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:58.000
for not shilling the sixteen? Yes he did. He knows
760
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where I live.
761
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:01.039
He shanked me.
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00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:05.920
Good boarders, you know you can picture that Tim Cook.
763
00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:07.599
He's just, you know, one of.
764
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:09.000
Those prison break kind of guys.
765
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:10.840
What did you think of La Oh?
766
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:13.119
I've always hated Los Angeles.
767
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:15.480
It's a fine place.
768
00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.559
It's just a lot of traffic, and I had to
769
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:21.000
drive a lot every day. Basically, I was like the
770
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.760
only guy at the company that actually drove down there.
771
00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:26.880
I think one other person drove their car down there,
772
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but they were busy too, so most of the tele
773
00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:34.679
truck company like flew down there and they were either
774
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:37.599
using Uber or they needed rides constantly. So I was
775
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:41.119
becoming like the Telosive shuttling service. So I've driven through
776
00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:46.960
so much LA traffic over those weeks, and oh my god,
777
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:49.920
I was so done with it. By the end of it,
778
00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:54.320
I was like, I cannot take LA traffic anymore. It's
779
00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:57.079
a beautiful area though. There's a lot of fancy neighborhoods
780
00:41:57.119 --> 00:41:59.480
that were really fun to drive through, and a lot
781
00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:04.679
of pretty and there's a lot of scenic vistas. But yeah,
782
00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:06.320
I don't think I could live there, just that the
783
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:11.480
transportation is so bad everywhere, like the public transport, the
784
00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:13.719
cars in the parking and it's just, oh my god,
785
00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:18.000
I cannot I cannot do it. Matt says, how do
786
00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:20.679
you become a moderator? Well, I think we're good on moderators,
787
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:22.079
but if you really want to know, you have to
788
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.199
make a support What is that called Telos of Tech
789
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:29.480
max up your membership, but I'll maud you, but don't
790
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:31.480
do it. It's not worth the money. We have plenty
791
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:35.519
of moderators. But Carls's iPhone fourteen versus fifteen? Which would
792
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:37.440
you get if the price difference between the two phones
793
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:41.840
is one hundred dollars? Always fifteen? The fourteen sucks. Yet
794
00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:44.880
you should never consider a fourteen because it is near
795
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:46.360
identical to the thirteen.
796
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:47.800
That should be your debate.
797
00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:50.280
I did a whole video on that.
798
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:51.920
So the difference between the phones is.
799
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:53.920
Not one hundred dollars, It's probably more like one hundred
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00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:56.599
and fifty dollars. And then the question really just comes
801
00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.280
down to do you want lightning or Type C. Some
802
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:01.320
people want to keep using lightning because they have a
803
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:03.800
bunch of lightning accessories and they want to hold off
804
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:05.800
the inevitable. They're like, Oh, I don't want to switch
805
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:08.880
to Type C. I've got too much lightning in my life.
806
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:11.440
You do you? I think it's better to rip the
807
00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:15.760
band aid off like this. Oh, that would be so painful. No,
808
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:19.280
and he gave me your blood for nuts. Randy has
809
00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:22.480
my blood. This is confirmed. He also has my charge
810
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.400
brick dang you because I didn't confirm my address when
811
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:29.400
he was at the post office. I want my freaking
812
00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:38.000
charge brick. Randy, Hi Randy, good to see you. Happy birthday. Anyway,
813
00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:41.760
what was I saying? Oh, yeah, the fifteen is a
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00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:44.239
great phone. It may be a little bit more expensive,
815
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:45.960
but if you want to rip the band aid off
816
00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:49.039
and switch to Type C, the superior connector, the connector
817
00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:51.199
we're probably gonna have for the rest of our lives.
818
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:53.960
I don't think we're getting portless iPhones in the next
819
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:57.079
few decades. I think now that we have federal law
820
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:03.119
written behind, I.
821
00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:04.440
Think it's going to be around for a while.
822
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:06.400
I think we're going to have it on our tablets,
823
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:09.719
our laptops, our keyboards and mice, and our phones. I
824
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:11.760
think Type C is going to be around for a while.
825
00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:13.599
So if you want to just get with the times
826
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and be the most compatible with the most amount of
827
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:18.760
cables and make it easy to charge everything, just get
828
00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:21.400
a fifteen. It's a little bit more expensive, but it'll
829
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:23.599
be a tad more future proof. You'll have a great camera.
830
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.639
But if you're really like no, I want lightning. I
831
00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:29.840
like lightning, get a thirteen. But there is no situation
832
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:32.760
in which the fourteen is worth. It has almost the
833
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:37.679
exact same chip as the thirteen, same display, same cameras,
834
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:41.440
same design. Fourteen sucks. I hate the fourteen. It was
835
00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:43.159
always a bad foot. I hated it the day it
836
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:44.800
came out, and I still hate it to this day.
837
00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:48.199
The colors are worse. The thirteen has way better colors,
838
00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:50.800
even better. Yet you can get a thirteen Mini you
839
00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:53.679
can't get a fourteen Mini, and the thirteen.
840
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:54.440
Mini is even cheaper.
841
00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:56.119
Like I said earlier, I think I saw some on
842
00:44:56.159 --> 00:44:58.840
Amazon refurbished, which has a ninety day return window by
843
00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:00.440
the way, so you have two and a half months
844
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:03.599
to change your mind. You can find thirteen minies for
845
00:45:03.639 --> 00:45:05.480
around three hundred bucks.
846
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:06.880
They're great.
847
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:11.639
That thirteen Minui is a fantastic deal in the used market.
848
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:14.480
Is the five twelve gig of ram M three Ultramac
849
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:17.960
Studio sufficient to open Microsoft paints? No? I don't think so.
850
00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:21.480
You're gonna have to wait for the M four Ultra
851
00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:25.440
for that one. Sorry one extra GPU corps Yeah, no,
852
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:28.480
I'm sorry. If you're if you're on a budget and
853
00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:30.760
you're looking to spend as little money as possible, you
854
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:33.000
are not going to notice or care about the one
855
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:36.280
GPU cores or the slightly more ram on the iPhone fourteen.
856
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:39.679
I'm sorry, it's just not worth it. Even Red is
857
00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:42.800
better with the thirteen. Oh dude, the product Red thirteen
858
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:46.000
was like peak. It was like the best product Red
859
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:49.679
they ever did. Thirteen Mini was great. If that If
860
00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.440
the thirteen Mini had Type C, I would probably own one.
861
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:55.320
It would probably be in my pocket. The only reason
862
00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:57.519
I don't own a thirteen Mini right now is because
863
00:45:57.599 --> 00:45:59.559
I love Type C and I kind of need Type
864
00:45:59.559 --> 00:45:59.960
C now.
865
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:02.400
I use my phone for all these.
866
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:06.079
Camera accessories and microphone accessories now, and there's Type C
867
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:08.079
and everything else I'm doing in my life.
868
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:12.199
So it's just Type C was a must for me.
869
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:13.159
It was not optional.
870
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:16.920
You don't understand I need the A eighteen pro to
871
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:23.800
doom scroll. Instagram is Instagram where people doom scroll. I
872
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:26.320
thought Twitter was more doom scroll. I thought Instagram was
873
00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:31.599
more the vibes product Red thirteen and SE three Oh yeah,
874
00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:36.639
ah S two S three kind of overrated. But I
875
00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:38.840
have a twelve mini product red leather case on mind.
876
00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:41.480
Love it. Yeah. I love the many iPhones. I hope
877
00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:43.880
they bring them back someday we've seen Apple bring things
878
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:48.159
back before. Anyway, before I get too carried away, let's
879
00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:54.559
check more on the community questions. Oh yeah, YJCHOI asked
880
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:57.119
about the daring fireball column. What are my reactions? I
881
00:46:57.159 --> 00:46:59.559
was tempted to use Apple Intelligence to summarize it because
882
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:02.639
it was so luck good idea. Yeah, So the whole
883
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:05.440
beginning of this live stream answers why J choice question.
884
00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:09.920
Kevin the software tester says, do I think nineteen iOS
885
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:12.760
nineteen should have a redesign? Know, I'm kind of over
886
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:15.239
this whole, like, well, let's redesign. It's like every time
887
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:17.639
we do this, it just goes horribly. Every time Apple
888
00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:20.440
gives you more customization, we just screw it up. So
889
00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:24.519
the only thing they really could do is go back
890
00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:27.280
to the way it was with Schumorphic and iOS six.
891
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.000
And I just think that it's gonna take a lot
892
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.280
of time. It's gonna tick off some people, and some
893
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:35.079
people will like it, but no, I think right now
894
00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:37.519
Apple needs to go all in on stability and just
895
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:40.639
making the features they've announced work. And I don't think
896
00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:44.440
there should be any resources or time wasted on redesigns. Personally,
897
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:49.079
I think that's just a wasted time. I am fine
898
00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:51.760
with the way it looks, and no matter what design
899
00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.679
language you changed to, it's gonna tick some people off.
900
00:47:54.920 --> 00:47:57.760
Which is why what I've been suggesting for years is
901
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:01.039
theme packs. It should be much easier for you to
902
00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:03.360
download a retro theme pack and make it look like
903
00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:06.960
the original iPhone apps and wallpaper and give it to
904
00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:09.760
the community. Hand the keys to all those theme packs
905
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:15.360
to the third party developers. Let the community design, you know,
906
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:17.599
theme packs that they could even charge for. You could
907
00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:20.320
have the Linus Tech Tips Theme pack or them KVHD
908
00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:23.280
theme pack, and that redesigns the look of control center
909
00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:26.920
and messages or notifications. It makes it look older, like
910
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.639
the old fighted friends. You know, leather texture. If you
911
00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:31.920
want it to feel more real, you can choose that,
912
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:35.199
but default out the box. The way it is I
913
00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:37.239
think is fine. I think out the box, it doesn't
914
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:40.280
need to change for everyone. So oh they move there,
915
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:43.400
I don't recognize where anything is anymore. We've literally got
916
00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:46.920
over a billion people using these phones now. Any tiny
917
00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:49.719
change you make where you move things around or you
918
00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:52.280
change the way something looks, is going to confuse people.
919
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:54.400
Maybe you could get away with that back in the
920
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:59.599
iOS seven days. But Apple's not doomed. They're just a big, bloated,
921
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:03.679
trillion dollar company that can't adjust very quickly anyway, So
922
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:07.800
that answers that question. I'm going to answer these that's
923
00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:10.679
just looking for smaller ones. But should Apple stop trying
924
00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:13.639
to make cheaper iPhones aside from future sees? No, of course,
925
00:49:13.639 --> 00:49:16.280
then they shouldn't stop. I mean it sounds like they are.
926
00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:23.119
They have stopped, But Jacob asked, should they stop trying? No,
927
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:25.519
I still think it'd be a great idea for them
928
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:29.280
to make a mini iPhone or bring back the se verbage.
929
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:31.280
You know, we've seen them get rid of that. They
930
00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:37.400
got rid of the didn't they get rid of the They
931
00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:38.280
got rid of the air the mini iPad or mac
932
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:40.079
at some point, and then they brought it back later.
933
00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:41.880
So I still think there's a hope.
934
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:46.239
We've seen Apple revitalized product lines before, so I would
935
00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:49.039
I would still be in favor of them trying their
936
00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:52.000
best to make cheaper iPhones. They're not doing a great
937
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:55.920
job right now, but yeah, they should. That's a good idea.
938
00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:58.320
What do you think people primarily in Europe wanting to
939
00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:00.559
boycott Apple? Perhaps not a tech question, but I like
940
00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:03.519
to hear you views on it. I don't know who's
941
00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:06.800
boycotting or why. There's too many things in the world
942
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:11.280
that I'm not aware of going on. But I've always
943
00:50:11.280 --> 00:50:14.239
said from the beginning, vote with your wallet. If you
944
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:16.280
don't want to support something, you don't have to buy it.
945
00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:20.599
But I take no issue with people boycotting companies and brands.
946
00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:22.760
For the record, if you want to protest them, if
947
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.559
you want to stand outside the Apple store or whatever
948
00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:27.960
with a sign, you.
949
00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:28.440
Do, you man.
950
00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:32.519
But where I take issue is when they start shaming
951
00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:33.880
people who.
952
00:50:33.719 --> 00:50:35.960
Want to buy products from those companies.
953
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:40.480
First off, that never really goes well. That never really
954
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:43.039
helps prove your point. You're not going to convince someone
955
00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:47.000
of your ideology by stopping them or shaming them for
956
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:50.400
buying something that they want to use. You know, maybe
957
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:57.559
Grandma or you know Aunt, that's the name Aunt Petunia,
958
00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:02.599
maybe Grahama, and Petunia doesn't feel like migrating their entire
959
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:05.360
IYE message history over to Android, so they might have
960
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:08.280
to keep buying iPhones even if they don't necessarily agree
961
00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:10.639
with everything going on with a company. I'm not one
962
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:12.960
of those people that believe if you buy a product.
963
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:16.519
That means you support everything that company has ever supported
964
00:51:16.559 --> 00:51:21.320
or donated money to. You know, like, no, that's impossible.
965
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:25.559
That's a very very slippery slope. Because companies are just
966
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:30.760
giant associations of people. There are tens of thousands of
967
00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:33.320
people at Apple. That means there's going to be many
968
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:36.599
people that work there or that have financial gain from
969
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:40.320
me buying their products, that probably support or like things
970
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:43.159
that I don't like or don't want to support. But
971
00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:46.360
this is a business. I'm a customer, Okay. We don't
972
00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:50.039
have to agree ideologically on everything. If you want to protest,
973
00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:51.840
absolutely go for it.
974
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:52.360
You know.
975
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:55.159
I feel that way probably towards gas vehicles. I don't
976
00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:57.079
want to buy new gas vehicles because I don't like
977
00:51:57.119 --> 00:51:59.239
the oil industry and I don't like paying for gasoline,
978
00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:00.800
and I don't want to support that. I want to
979
00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:03.559
be all on the EV train. So that's why I
980
00:52:03.639 --> 00:52:06.599
drive an EV. And if you don't want to buy
981
00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:08.880
an EV because you don't want to support whoever's making them,
982
00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:11.440
that's your call. Buy what you want to buy and
983
00:52:11.559 --> 00:52:14.800
don't support who you don't want to support. But don't
984
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:17.320
turn that around and start shaming people. I'm not going
985
00:52:17.400 --> 00:52:19.360
to go down the road and say stop buying gas
986
00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.440
cars or you pay for gas. You're supporting the oil industry.
987
00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:25.599
You know how much corruption and we're terrible things are
988
00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:28.480
going on in the oil community. It's like, no, that's
989
00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:30.840
not going to convince anybody, and that's just being rude,
990
00:52:31.039 --> 00:52:36.440
and yeah, so you do you, but I would say,
991
00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:40.639
don't step on other people's purchasing decisions, you know. Anyway,
992
00:52:41.280 --> 00:52:46.679
I hope that answered your question. Anna Maria. What would
993
00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:49.440
be your wish for a future vision pro. I think
994
00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:53.079
I've done a few videos on that, but basically it
995
00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:56.280
needs to become a lot more of a passive experience,
996
00:52:56.320 --> 00:52:58.960
so just lighter. Of course, lower price would be nice,
997
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:01.960
better battery life, and I would particularly enjoy it, I
998
00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:04.039
think a lot more if I didn't have the external
999
00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:08.119
battery pack. That external battery pack really prevented me from
1000
00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:10.800
wanting to use it all that much. If it got
1001
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:13.719
more passive, like an Apple Watcher AirPods, then I could
1002
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:16.880
see it becoming more practical or useful, But in its
1003
00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:19.719
current state, the price was not the issue. I actually
1004
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:23.840
don't think they should focus too much on lowering the price, because.
1005
00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:24.360
That's one barrier.
1006
00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:28.559
But even when I had mine, even if it was
1007
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:30.760
a thousand bucks, I wouldn't have kept it because it
1008
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:33.559
was about the functionality and the use cases for it.
1009
00:53:33.559 --> 00:53:36.559
There were very few opportunities in the day where it
1010
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:39.639
actually made sense to put it on. So it needs
1011
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:42.679
to focus on functionality first. And I think once they
1012
00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:45.760
get the functionality down and it becomes a practical thing
1013
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:48.760
that I want to use all the time, that's when you.
1014
00:53:48.719 --> 00:53:49.800
Can stop.
1015
00:53:51.079 --> 00:53:53.480
Charging so much for it, or that's when you can
1016
00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:55.719
start taking things out into how do we make this
1017
00:53:55.719 --> 00:53:58.360
more affordable. But I don't think price is actually the
1018
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:01.400
main issue of Vision PRO. I feel like that gets
1019
00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:03.559
too much attention. Too many people are like, needs to
1020
00:54:03.599 --> 00:54:07.320
be cheaper. I'm like, no, needs to be useful first,
1021
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:11.360
then we can talk about cheaper. But people in Sweden
1022
00:54:11.400 --> 00:54:13.280
are pissed about the US politics, and lots are planning
1023
00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:17.760
to boycott Soda Tesla and talking about throwing away their iPhone. Okay,
1024
00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:20.719
first of all, throwing away your iPhone doesn't really have
1025
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:24.239
much of an effect on present day Apple. But yeah,
1026
00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:27.639
if you want to protest US based companies, go for it.
1027
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:30.920
I don't blame you. I wish I could join you,
1028
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:31.960
but I'm kind of stuck here.
1029
00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:36.159
It's not the easiest thing to just leave. But what
1030
00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:36.679
do you think is.
1031
00:54:36.679 --> 00:54:38.760
Happening to Apple? Is Tim Cook being scared to start
1032
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:43.440
being consumer friendly? I don't think it's about being consumer friendly.
1033
00:54:43.599 --> 00:54:49.079
I think they're being They're letting market trends and they're
1034
00:54:49.159 --> 00:54:52.119
letting investors dictate too much of what goes on at
1035
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:56.719
the company. I think their obsession with Apple Intelligence is
1036
00:54:56.760 --> 00:55:00.960
stemming from investor pressure. Everyone saw how how quickly open
1037
00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:04.880
Ai jumped in valuation, and all the other tech companies
1038
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:06.800
were like, Okay, we need to play catch up. Because
1039
00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:09.920
even though I don't think AI is really the next
1040
00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:13.440
big thing, a lot of investors seem to think it is.
1041
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:15.760
They seem to think, oh AI is going to take over.
1042
00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:17.440
Whoever has the best AI is going to make the
1043
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:19.719
most money, so we all need to bet on AI.
1044
00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:22.320
And if you're not doing AI, then we're pulling our
1045
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:25.159
money away. So I think I think it's Apple panicking
1046
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:30.519
from an investor trend, which I don't like because it
1047
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:34.559
doesn't feel like and I hate to use this example,
1048
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:37.000
but it doesn't feel like a Steve Jobs move. Steve
1049
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:39.039
Jobs is all about the product and trying to make
1050
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:42.039
products that we're exciting and helpful and enrich people's lives.
1051
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:48.039
And it feels to me more like Apple is catering
1052
00:55:48.039 --> 00:55:50.880
to what the latest trends are. It's just like everybody
1053
00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:52.679
else is doing this, so we have to do it too.
1054
00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:56.159
They're being a follower not a leader, instead of like
1055
00:55:57.239 --> 00:55:59.880
just trying to make things that are exciting or in
1056
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:02.320
people's live or make a difference. You know, Steve Jobs
1057
00:56:02.360 --> 00:56:05.679
was not even that passionate about pursuing more profitable streams.
1058
00:56:06.039 --> 00:56:10.159
Apple financially has done much much better post Steve Jobs,
1059
00:56:10.199 --> 00:56:13.320
probably because Tim Cook is a supply chain mastermind and
1060
00:56:13.480 --> 00:56:19.239
is very good at managing capital expenses. Honestly, both are important.
1061
00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:21.239
By the way, Tim Cook is not a bad CEO.
1062
00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:25.639
He probably just has a little bit too much interest
1063
00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:31.679
in helping out shareholders instead of customers. But hey, if
1064
00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:34.159
you're a publicly traded company and you've got a lot
1065
00:56:34.159 --> 00:56:38.320
of people's retirement accounts baked into Apple stock, maybe the
1066
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:41.119
ethically right thing to do is to prioritize your shareholders.
1067
00:56:41.159 --> 00:56:42.440
Who am I to tell him what to do. He
1068
00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:45.480
knows way more about this than I do, But I
1069
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:47.679
still just feel like Steve Jobs is much more of
1070
00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:54.480
a product guy, and publicly traded companies always get much
1071
00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:57.639
more carried away with preserving profits and how do we
1072
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:00.679
maximize shareholder value? And I think that's just the ship
1073
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:05.400
a little too much, and that it's not again, like
1074
00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:07.480
I said, it's not even necessarily a bad thing to
1075
00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:10.360
do to want to bring shareholder value. Typically, in order
1076
00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:14.360
to bring shareholder value, you have to make products that
1077
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:17.400
sell well, and you have to make stuff that people buy.
1078
00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:19.679
So if you just keep making.
1079
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:22.559
Horrible decisions, obviously that doesn't make shareholder value either, but
1080
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:25.800
it definitely makes it harder to get excited by what
1081
00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:29.800
they're doing. And as a YouTuber and as a fan
1082
00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:32.480
of technology and as a content creator, I want to
1083
00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:36.280
talk more about what I think changes our lives more
1084
00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:46.119
or enriches you know, day to day experiences. And you know, AI,
1085
00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:48.840
I just don't think really does that. It's really just
1086
00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:52.679
another software feature. But because investors are convinced it's going
1087
00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:55.559
to change the world, that has dictated so much of
1088
00:57:55.559 --> 00:57:59.960
Apple's day to day decisions. But I remember you want
1089
00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:02.039
saying you like the design of iOS seven better. Why
1090
00:58:02.039 --> 00:58:04.039
are you now saying skew morphism is better. Oh, I
1091
00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:07.760
never said that. I just said, where else can you change?
1092
00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:08.119
The look?
1093
00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:10.960
Everyone's talking about iOS nineteen is they're gonna look different,
1094
00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:13.880
And it's like, what else can it do? It can
1095
00:58:13.920 --> 00:58:15.719
look the way it does, or it can go back
1096
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:18.679
to skewmorphic. I don't think it should change. I would
1097
00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:22.679
leave it the way it is personally. But could Apple
1098
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:25.239
just buy back all their stock? Aren't they profitable enough
1099
00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:27.199
that they can sustain themselves without having.
1100
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:28.000
To police shareholders?
1101
00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:32.119
They could, but I don't think that would make it
1102
00:58:32.159 --> 00:58:37.599
perform better. I think it's Yeah, I don't know. That's
1103
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:38.800
a huge financial question.
1104
00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:39.639
I could.
1105
00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:43.119
It's been forever talking about that, probably, But personally, I
1106
00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:44.960
think it's wrong to boycott products since they have nothing
1107
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:46.800
to do with current events and politics. That can change,
1108
00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:50.360
of course, Yeah, And I respect your decision, and I
1109
00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:53.679
respect the people to boycott's decisions. That's the beauty of
1110
00:58:53.719 --> 00:58:57.559
the free market. If someone or some organization is doing
1111
00:58:57.599 --> 00:58:59.480
something that you don't like, you have the right to
1112
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:01.519
boy caught it, and you have the right to spend
1113
00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:07.000
your money elsewhere. In fact, I've been pushing you know
1114
00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:11.960
my wife. Okay, so side note, we have two vehicles
1115
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:15.119
We've most of the time been able to get by
1116
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:21.880
with our Model three, but occasionally my wife needs it
1117
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:24.360
for work and then I if I need a car
1118
00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:27.199
for something, we use our old Sonata from two thousand
1119
00:59:27.199 --> 00:59:29.679
and seven. It's a gas car, and our gas car
1120
00:59:29.719 --> 00:59:32.079
broke down a few weeks ago, so I haven't been able.
1121
00:59:31.840 --> 00:59:33.880
To use it at all. It's at a friend's house.
1122
00:59:33.880 --> 00:59:35.920
He's trying to fix it, but basically it's in the
1123
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:37.559
shop and it's got a lot of miles on it,
1124
00:59:37.639 --> 00:59:41.320
so even his fix is possibly not going to fix
1125
00:59:41.360 --> 00:59:44.960
it permanently. So we've been talking about getting a second
1126
00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:48.400
car because my wife's got a new job and it's
1127
00:59:48.760 --> 00:59:51.039
requiring her to drive more and more as time goes on.
1128
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:54.519
She got a promotion recently, so she's just it's consuming
1129
00:59:54.519 --> 00:59:59.400
a lot of her time, and she wants a bigger
1130
00:59:59.440 --> 01:00:02.360
car because her job. I won't tell you exactly what
1131
01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:05.320
it is, but it involves her moving stuff around a lot,
1132
01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:06.360
and she wants.
1133
01:00:06.119 --> 01:00:06.679
A bigger car.
1134
01:00:06.760 --> 01:00:11.960
She wants something bigger than a Model three. I'm happy
1135
01:00:11.960 --> 01:00:14.679
with the Model three, but she wants something bigger. And
1136
01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:17.920
I was really trying to push towards getting a Rivian
1137
01:00:18.559 --> 01:00:21.199
because I like Rivian's brand, and I was kind of
1138
01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:23.880
done with Tesla and I don't really like a lot
1139
01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:27.599
of stuff that Tesla's doing, but and she doesn't really
1140
01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:29.360
like the new Model Y that came out and stuff.
1141
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:31.519
But I was all in favor of, like, let's let's
1142
01:00:31.599 --> 01:00:34.639
put our money towards Rivian. And she was like, why
1143
01:00:34.679 --> 01:00:37.320
would we buy a Rivian over a used Model Y.
1144
01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:42.079
And I was like, because I want Rivian to have
1145
01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:46.239
our money. That was about it. It wasn't like there
1146
01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:50.280
wasn't a logical or practical reason to buy a Rivian
1147
01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:54.800
over a used Model Why. But I found myself still
1148
01:00:54.840 --> 01:00:57.920
wanting one because I was like, I want to support them.
1149
01:00:57.960 --> 01:00:59.760
I like what they're doing. I want to endorse them,
1150
01:00:59.800 --> 01:01:03.079
you know, everywhere we go. I'd like to have that
1151
01:01:03.239 --> 01:01:06.760
brand shown around so that when we show up to
1152
01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:10.000
a place, because this keeps happening to me. Yeah, voting
1153
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:13.039
with your dollar is fantastic, And some people can afford
1154
01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:17.159
to spend more money on alternatives that maybe not be
1155
01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:19.519
as practical, but because it's a brand they want to
1156
01:01:19.559 --> 01:01:23.440
associate with and they want a brand that's reflecting their values,
1157
01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:25.400
that they're able to do that. And some people are
1158
01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:28.079
in more tight financial situations and they don't have the
1159
01:01:28.159 --> 01:01:30.039
choice of doing that, which is why I would say,
1160
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:34.199
don't ever shame someone for supporting a company that you
1161
01:01:34.199 --> 01:01:39.360
would want a boycott, even if I agree with you,
1162
01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:41.599
even if I would join you in that boycott, it's
1163
01:01:41.760 --> 01:01:43.639
never Shaming someone is.
1164
01:01:43.639 --> 01:01:45.159
Not a good conversion technique.
1165
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:48.519
Like even if we want to use that angle of like, well,
1166
01:01:48.519 --> 01:01:51.079
we got to tell them that they shouldn't support that company,
1167
01:01:51.079 --> 01:01:52.920
It's like, okay, but if you start if you start
1168
01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:57.320
out by vandalizing their stuff or shaming them or yelling
1169
01:01:57.360 --> 01:01:59.360
at them and telling them they're stupid for buying it,
1170
01:01:59.679 --> 01:02:02.760
that's that anytime you're coming at someone with the offensive,
1171
01:02:03.039 --> 01:02:05.159
they're never going to be more likely to hear you out.
1172
01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:08.280
It's never gonna work. It's just not how human beings are.
1173
01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:12.800
So I understand completely wanting to vote with your wallet,
1174
01:02:12.880 --> 01:02:16.719
and some people can afford to do that, or some
1175
01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:19.760
people can compromise their you know, like because of how
1176
01:02:19.800 --> 01:02:22.559
much I use my phone for between recording videos and
1177
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:26.039
all the social media channels I'm monitoring and taking photos
1178
01:02:26.079 --> 01:02:28.159
and all that kind of thing, I don't really feel
1179
01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:30.400
like I have the choice to switch to Android anymore,
1180
01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:36.519
I would be much You know, there were probably videos
1181
01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:38.559
you guys remember about a year or two ago that
1182
01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:40.079
I would make where I was like, you know, the
1183
01:02:40.119 --> 01:02:42.920
new pixels look pretty good. I'm thinking of switching to Android,
1184
01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:46.000
or you know, if they added me to Team Pixel,
1185
01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:48.719
I would switch to Android. Now I don't think I would.
1186
01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:51.920
It's just I'm signed into way too many accounts, and
1187
01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:57.119
I'm so baked in to the iPhone ecosystem now between
1188
01:02:57.119 --> 01:02:59.639
there's different people in group chats, and there's different people
1189
01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:03.360
at work that are all using iOS features or using FaceTime,
1190
01:03:03.400 --> 01:03:05.960
and and I would just break so much of my
1191
01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:09.280
work connections and so much of the features that I
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01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:11.760
used on a day to day basis at work. If
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01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:14.159
I switched away from an iPhone. Now I don't really
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01:03:14.239 --> 01:03:16.760
have a choice. I'm stuck with an iPhone, and until
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01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:20.360
you know, I leave the Tellow job or I go
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01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:22.639
somewhere else, I'm going to be using an iPhone, probably
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01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:28.079
this one, because I'm logged into brand owned social media accounts.
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01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:31.159
Now with two factor authentication, it's actually a big deal
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01:03:31.239 --> 01:03:36.360
for me to sign in and manage on the all
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01:03:36.400 --> 01:03:38.960
this stuff on a different phone, So that alone is
1201
01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:42.000
actually scaring me off from I don't think I'm upgrading
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01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:44.159
to an iPhone seventeen this year simply because I'm going
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01:03:44.239 --> 01:03:46.239
to have to ask for a bunch of people to
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01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:49.960
approve my log in on all these different things. Like
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01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:52.599
it's going to be a mess the next time I
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01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:56.280
try to switch my phone around. So i might review
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01:03:56.840 --> 01:03:59.719
phones in the future, but I'm probably not going to
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01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:04.280
move I sim over just because I'm open to reviewing
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01:04:04.280 --> 01:04:06.320
pixels in the future. But I'm just saying that there's
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01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:09.440
a very low probability of me switching over for an
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01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:11.920
extended period of time. I'll probably just buy them and
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01:04:11.960 --> 01:04:14.480
then have two phones and I'll review the pixel and
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01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:18.719
but all my social media management stuff I'm doing on here,
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01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:21.159
and it's a pain in the butt to add someone
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01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:23.119
to it or add a new device to it, because
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01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:26.599
I know because my employee, that my fellow employees have
1217
01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:29.199
done that, and it's like, you want to do what, Oh,
1218
01:04:29.239 --> 01:04:30.519
you're going to log in on everything?
1219
01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:32.039
Oh boy, we need to hit a prove and to
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01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:32.760
go to sign in here.
1221
01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:36.079
We go to sign it here. So I'm on iPhone now,
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01:04:37.159 --> 01:04:40.199
and for whatever reason, a lot of people are probably
1223
01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:44.360
stuck with their Tesla's. But I don't think selling your
1224
01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:47.880
existing Tesla or throwing it away or destroying it really
1225
01:04:48.079 --> 01:04:54.320
hurts Elon by any means doesn't make a difference. So again, protests,
1226
01:04:55.159 --> 01:04:58.000
I support your right to vote with your wallet, but
1227
01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:01.719
don't shame others. Never go well, doesn't help it. In fact,
1228
01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:05.239
it weakens your argument. I would say, if you're protesting
1229
01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:09.360
any company or organization, if you start shaming others or
1230
01:05:09.440 --> 01:05:14.039
vandalizing other people's stuff, your argument comes across as more childish,
1231
01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:16.920
which is why you shouldn't do it. It's just not
1232
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:20.000
a good it's not a good tactic. I feel sucked
1233
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:23.320
into Apple like this, especially feeling stuck with iCloud storage,
1234
01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:26.599
just reluctantly, reluctantly upgraded to two terabytes because I don't
1235
01:05:26.599 --> 01:05:29.199
know how to get my photo storage down I know
1236
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:31.159
that's part of the reason I had to downgrade my
1237
01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:34.239
iCloud was because I realized, like, they literally are holding
1238
01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:37.039
my memories ransom. I have all these photos and videos
1239
01:05:37.079 --> 01:05:40.000
up up on the cloud, and it's not unlimited, so
1240
01:05:40.599 --> 01:05:42.320
it's just gonna keep filling up, and I'm gonna have
1241
01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:44.039
to keep paying more and more to store all of
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01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:46.639
this stuff and I have a lot of friends and
1243
01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:48.440
family that are doing that same thing. Like now I
1244
01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:50.239
gotta pay for four terabytes, Now I gotta pay for
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01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:51.559
eight terabytes.
1246
01:05:51.559 --> 01:05:52.480
Just every month.
1247
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:55.679
Yeah, if you can afford to get rid of your
1248
01:05:55.679 --> 01:05:59.039
Tesla because you don't want to have that brand association
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01:05:59.159 --> 01:06:02.039
everywhere you go, good for you. I fully support your
1250
01:06:02.039 --> 01:06:04.599
decision to do that. But don't go turning around and
1251
01:06:05.639 --> 01:06:07.760
ask everybody with a Tesla to do the same thing.
1252
01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:12.039
Not everybody has the fun. Selling a car is always
1253
01:06:12.079 --> 01:06:15.480
a depreciation, and to be honest, as much as I
1254
01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:19.559
love Rivian, there's not a lot of affordable, great alternatives
1255
01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:20.400
to Tesla right now.
1256
01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:21.360
There's some that are coming.
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01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:23.039
I think the Rivian R two is going to be
1258
01:06:23.880 --> 01:06:30.920
probably the best model Y competitor ever, but that's not
1259
01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:33.039
coming out until next year, and it's probably going to
1260
01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:39.239
be expensive when it first comes out. Sorry, let me
1261
01:06:39.320 --> 01:06:43.519
just answer that real quick. You're never going to watch
1262
01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:46.039
back thousands of photos, be honest. No, I'm not. I know,
1263
01:06:46.199 --> 01:06:53.599
but other people you can't convince them. Sorry, I'm getting ticks.
1264
01:06:55.559 --> 01:06:59.800
Let me see well.
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01:06:59.639 --> 01:07:01.639
And so can man.
1266
01:07:01.639 --> 01:07:05.840
There's so many other topics I'm gonna name you, so
1267
01:07:06.719 --> 01:07:13.760
any tips for deleting photos, videos are storing elsewhere and
1268
01:07:13.880 --> 01:07:17.760
any immediate tips, I guess storing local. Also something my
1269
01:07:17.840 --> 01:07:19.199
sister does which I think.
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01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:20.239
Is cool is she just.
1271
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:24.559
Accumulates. She uses a company. I forget who it is,
1272
01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:33.679
like Shutterfly or something. Let me respond, this is my wife,
1273
01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:39.079
so she takes priority over you. Guys. I'm afraid my
1274
01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:43.440
sister will compile the best photos of a year and
1275
01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:47.639
then print them on a printed book, and she's she
1276
01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:50.400
takes really great pictures. So she sends those books around
1277
01:07:50.400 --> 01:07:52.840
a family and stuff. But just like family photos with
1278
01:07:52.920 --> 01:07:59.360
friends and all that, well, that's weird. Chromeb crashed off.
1279
01:07:59.519 --> 01:08:04.840
How often does that happen? Back and see my old
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01:08:04.880 --> 01:08:06.960
photos from years ago from time to time. Yeah, So
1281
01:08:07.119 --> 01:08:11.360
just printing things out so that you can store them
1282
01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:16.079
physically and just saying, okay, there's all the best of
1283
01:08:16.119 --> 01:08:18.279
the best memories from that year. And you can usually
1284
01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:21.560
fit forty to fifty photos in a pretty simple, pretty
1285
01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:23.600
lightweight book, and then you can put it on the
1286
01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:26.520
shelf and look at it. Whether the solar flare takes
1287
01:08:26.560 --> 01:08:28.279
out our cloud storage or not. But at least you
1288
01:08:28.319 --> 01:08:30.600
pay for it once and then you have it for life.
1289
01:08:31.159 --> 01:08:33.760
You don't have to worry about if the photos are
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01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:36.520
stored locally on your device, if the device gets old,
1291
01:08:36.560 --> 01:08:38.600
now you lost the pictures off the drive and that
1292
01:08:38.680 --> 01:08:43.560
kind of thing. But I've always loved that that it
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01:08:43.600 --> 01:08:46.199
has the year, like best memories of this year, and
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01:08:46.520 --> 01:08:48.920
you can go back, and it feels a lot more
1295
01:08:48.960 --> 01:08:51.159
intentional when you look back at old photos when it's
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01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:56.119
just in a physical book. I just buy external storage.
1297
01:08:56.119 --> 01:08:58.079
Even an external hard drive is a decent option if
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01:08:58.079 --> 01:08:59.560
you just want a place to store photos and not
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01:08:59.600 --> 01:09:02.479
retrieve it that often. Yeah, that always works too, But
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01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:04.159
I would say for a similar amount of money, you
1301
01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:07.600
could probably print a nice little book that you can
1302
01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:09.079
look at at any time. Then you don't have to
1303
01:09:09.119 --> 01:09:12.199
worry about the hard drive going bad or finding a
1304
01:09:12.199 --> 01:09:17.520
device to plug the hard drive into. Nothing's flawless, you know,
1305
01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:20.319
like you can. You can lose a picture book and
1306
01:09:20.359 --> 01:09:23.479
a fire. That's that's happened to my family members too.
1307
01:09:24.039 --> 01:09:26.359
But that's why it helps to make copies. You have
1308
01:09:27.000 --> 01:09:29.159
a digital copy, and then you have a booklet copy
1309
01:09:29.239 --> 01:09:31.920
that you give to friends and family, so that if
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01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:34.960
one house got lost or burnt or something, then someone
1311
01:09:35.039 --> 01:09:39.600
else has a copy of it that kind of thing. Nah,
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01:09:39.600 --> 01:09:42.840
I don't want a cyber truck, it's too big. But
1313
01:09:43.439 --> 01:09:45.800
we don't use I message in my country, so therefore
1314
01:09:45.880 --> 01:09:52.960
nobody uses That's that's exactly right anyway. There's another community
1315
01:09:53.039 --> 01:09:56.680
question that's kind of a big one down here from marnjel.
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01:09:58.159 --> 01:10:00.359
How often do you plan on making those docum entity
1317
01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:02.640
style videos? Also, why are you suddenly back in your
1318
01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:04.920
old office? I know it's probably a green screen, Yeah
1319
01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:07.119
it's a TV, but still why the change of background
1320
01:10:07.159 --> 01:10:09.359
to something retro instead of a completely new background.
1321
01:10:10.039 --> 01:10:13.000
It's nostalgia, mar Jale. People love nostalgia, right.
1322
01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:15.640
One tech related question, with the M four MacBook Air
1323
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:18.000
starting at a thousand bucks, would you say this is
1324
01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:19.840
the first MacBook Air in years that you can recommend
1325
01:10:19.880 --> 01:10:23.079
buying new or would you still recommend a refurbished, discounted
1326
01:10:23.840 --> 01:10:25.960
and one M two M three error. Also, don't answer
1327
01:10:26.039 --> 01:10:28.640
my question by just recommending a used fourteen inch Pro.
1328
01:10:28.800 --> 01:10:31.800
I wasn't even thinking of that, but that's a good idea.
1329
01:10:31.920 --> 01:10:34.000
That's too predictable, and I know some people IRL who
1330
01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:36.800
actually care about the thinner, lighter form factor. I wasn't
1331
01:10:36.800 --> 01:10:38.760
gonna say that, but now that you mentioned it, I
1332
01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:44.039
kind of want to. No, uh, I don't.
1333
01:10:45.239 --> 01:10:47.760
I don't think for most people it's.
1334
01:10:49.720 --> 01:10:53.000
I know some people out there just insist on buying new,
1335
01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:55.840
But I would say, like, yeah, for a thousand bucks,
1336
01:10:55.880 --> 01:10:56.319
it's not.
1337
01:10:56.239 --> 01:10:56.920
A bad deal.
1338
01:10:57.760 --> 01:11:01.680
It's it's it's defin not one of those situations where
1339
01:11:01.680 --> 01:11:04.600
I'm like, under no circumstances, should you buy this thing
1340
01:11:04.680 --> 01:11:08.399
brand new? I said that about the iPhone fourteen. I
1341
01:11:08.439 --> 01:11:11.159
said that about the M three MacBook Air. I believe,
1342
01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:13.159
I think I said that about the M two MacBook Air.
1343
01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:18.399
But I'm like, people should at least be aware.
1344
01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:21.520
Hey, you can buy an M two MacBook Air for
1345
01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:23.399
seven hundred bucks, but if you want a little bit
1346
01:11:23.439 --> 01:11:26.680
more future proofing, then you would rather buy brand new
1347
01:11:26.720 --> 01:11:28.960
and be the first owner and everything. Yeah. M four
1348
01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:31.359
Air is still a pretty decent deal. Just depends on
1349
01:11:31.399 --> 01:11:34.319
the financial situation. If you want a thin and light
1350
01:11:34.359 --> 01:11:37.199
notebook and you've got a thousand bucks to spend, yeah,
1351
01:11:37.479 --> 01:11:39.880
M four Air is a good deal. So yes, I
1352
01:11:39.920 --> 01:11:44.159
would say pretty fair recommendation, which is rare for me.
1353
01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:46.479
Most of the new stuff Apple releases, I'm like, yeah,
1354
01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:48.920
don't buy a new, just wait a little bit, or
1355
01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:52.560
buy last year's model, just because all the models these
1356
01:11:52.840 --> 01:11:58.079
days are so similar. But first question, which I think
1357
01:11:58.199 --> 01:12:02.600
ties into Nicholas's question, where do you see the future
1358
01:12:02.600 --> 01:12:03.119
of your channel?
1359
01:12:03.119 --> 01:12:03.520
Heading drew.
1360
01:12:03.560 --> 01:12:05.399
The videos you were making right before the most recent
1361
01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:08.840
set of Apple launches were absolutely stellar, especially analytical video
1362
01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:11.359
about the future of technology and being less mainstream based.
1363
01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:14.960
Analytical documentary style videos were well produced that even if
1364
01:12:14.960 --> 01:12:16.520
we got one or two of them in a month,
1365
01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:18.359
I would love to see you continue to meet them
1366
01:12:18.840 --> 01:12:21.520
to make them if you are open to more experimentation.
1367
01:12:21.600 --> 01:12:23.359
I know your job at Tello is been picking up
1368
01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:25.680
as well. So this way these types of videos, you
1369
01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:27.479
wouldn't have to keep up with Apple news and launches.
1370
01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:29.760
I believe this would allow you to be have more
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01:12:29.800 --> 01:12:31.279
flexible video release schedule.
1372
01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:31.880
Your thoughts.
1373
01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:37.199
Okay, this ties into what mar Joe was asking earlier
1374
01:12:37.199 --> 01:12:40.159
when it came to the documentary style. So yeah, I
1375
01:12:40.159 --> 01:12:42.199
had a lot of fun making those, and I got
1376
01:12:42.279 --> 01:12:45.680
a lot of great feedback, a lot of positive responses.
1377
01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:48.840
But they take time.
1378
01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:54.880
They're fairly time demanding, and I think the short answer
1379
01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:59.720
is I chickened out because the video leading up to
1380
01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:04.000
who kind of the other realms of tech I wanted
1381
01:13:04.000 --> 01:13:07.199
to cover did not perform all that great, and I
1382
01:13:07.239 --> 01:13:10.079
hate saying that because I hate to act like performance
1383
01:13:10.199 --> 01:13:12.439
is the only thing that matters with the channel.
1384
01:13:12.199 --> 01:13:12.720
Because it's not.
1385
01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:18.920
But like the there was supposed to be kind of
1386
01:13:18.960 --> 01:13:22.680
like a three video arc as we like explored more
1387
01:13:22.720 --> 01:13:26.119
avenues of tech on this channel. But I knew that
1388
01:13:27.319 --> 01:13:29.000
a lot of people were going to be confused because
1389
01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:32.119
not everybody was watching them. But the first video did
1390
01:13:32.239 --> 01:13:35.319
incredibly well. It was arguably one of my best performing
1391
01:13:35.439 --> 01:13:39.560
videos in years, just called Apple has become IBM, and
1392
01:13:39.640 --> 01:13:41.640
that was supposed to be kind of the spark that
1393
01:13:42.119 --> 01:13:45.880
helps people understand why I wanted to pivot a little
1394
01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:49.119
bit or broaden the scope of tech coverage, and that
1395
01:13:49.199 --> 01:13:52.119
video did great. And then the follow up to that
1396
01:13:52.159 --> 01:13:54.319
one was called why do We Care about Tech, which
1397
01:13:54.399 --> 01:13:57.119
was supposed to be more of a philosophical discussion about
1398
01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:00.000
why any of this matters or why talk about tench
1399
01:14:00.159 --> 01:14:01.920
in the first place, and why it might make sense
1400
01:14:01.960 --> 01:14:05.560
to not cover Apple so much, And that didn't perform
1401
01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:08.640
all that well. So I knew that Okay, first video
1402
01:14:08.800 --> 01:14:13.600
was about Apple, ironically, but it was about how Apple
1403
01:14:13.640 --> 01:14:17.000
has become boring and stale. But even the videos complaining
1404
01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:19.760
about Apple becoming boring and stale are still about Apple,
1405
01:14:20.239 --> 01:14:22.319
so they get a ton of traction, They get a
1406
01:14:22.359 --> 01:14:26.000
lot of attention. The follow up videos that are not
1407
01:14:26.119 --> 01:14:30.159
as much about Apple, they're not performing as well less
1408
01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:33.560
people if fewer people are watching them. And then the
1409
01:14:33.600 --> 01:14:36.119
third arc, which was what is the next big thing
1410
01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:42.000
or the next big thing or something like that, performed
1411
01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:44.279
even worse than the video about why we care about tech?
1412
01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:47.840
So I was like, Okay, with this trajectory, I'm slowly
1413
01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:53.720
losing everybody. So the analytics did kind of impact my
1414
01:14:53.800 --> 01:14:56.199
decision on Okay, should I keep going with this, because
1415
01:14:56.560 --> 01:14:58.680
it essentially became a question of.
1416
01:15:00.319 --> 01:15:02.039
How much is this pivot really.
1417
01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:06.039
Going to cost me? Because my time is already very limited.
1418
01:15:06.119 --> 01:15:08.159
Like I said that, there's been so much going on
1419
01:15:08.239 --> 01:15:10.560
with my other job and with the ev channel that
1420
01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:14.119
it reached a point where I literally had to start
1421
01:15:14.159 --> 01:15:16.840
making the decision of like, will the tech channel keep
1422
01:15:16.920 --> 01:15:20.680
going at all? And I'm still kind of struggling and
1423
01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:24.239
still kind of trying to manage and figure out what's
1424
01:15:24.279 --> 01:15:26.840
the best way to keep this channel going. And unfortunately,
1425
01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:33.720
those analytical documentary style videos are fairly time consuming, and
1426
01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:36.640
I don't have a lot of spare time, So even
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01:15:36.680 --> 01:15:39.279
if there was only one or two videos a week,
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01:15:40.600 --> 01:15:43.039
it's kind of it's kind of betting the farm a
1429
01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:47.479
bit if I stop doing the normal Apple coverage, because
1430
01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:50.520
those are tested, tried and true, and I know YouTube
1431
01:15:50.560 --> 01:15:54.079
wants consistency and the audiences keep coming back when you
1432
01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:56.800
make content that's the same as what you've posted before.
1433
01:15:57.279 --> 01:16:01.119
There's a lot of nostalgia in the alsive tech audience
1434
01:16:01.159 --> 01:16:03.239
of just like, keep doing that thing you do all
1435
01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:06.399
the time, you know. So I was trying to find
1436
01:16:06.439 --> 01:16:09.399
the best way to please both parties, you know, in
1437
01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:13.439
an ideal world, if I had infinite time. The more
1438
01:16:13.479 --> 01:16:15.199
I started thinking about it, the more I was like,
1439
01:16:15.279 --> 01:16:18.359
maybe it should be another channel, Maybe I should spin
1440
01:16:18.439 --> 01:16:21.239
it off, And because I wanted to talk more about
1441
01:16:21.279 --> 01:16:24.439
aviation and stuff, maybe it shouldn't be on the chech channel.
1442
01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:27.439
But because I'm limited by time, that's not really an option.
1443
01:16:27.600 --> 01:16:29.239
I know, I know I'm not going to do that.
1444
01:16:29.279 --> 01:16:32.319
I've made enough tails of channels. But it was a
1445
01:16:32.439 --> 01:16:38.119
very I knew performance wise, if I wanted the videos
1446
01:16:38.520 --> 01:16:42.319
to perform well, they would probably perform much better if
1447
01:16:42.319 --> 01:16:45.439
I started a news channel, but I know that's kind
1448
01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:47.359
of a meme at this point where like Telos has
1449
01:16:47.399 --> 01:16:48.560
started way too many channels.
1450
01:16:48.600 --> 01:16:50.720
So I was like, yeah, I can't do that.
1451
01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:52.399
I don't have the time for it, and then the
1452
01:16:52.439 --> 01:16:54.600
content's not going to be monetized. I'll have to work
1453
01:16:54.640 --> 01:16:56.920
all my way back up to monetization, which makes it
1454
01:16:56.960 --> 01:16:59.520
even more It's it's not a money thing, but it
1455
01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:02.960
also is. It's like time consuming, is time spent not
1456
01:17:03.119 --> 01:17:09.079
working on other projects that are monetized. So it's a
1457
01:17:09.079 --> 01:17:14.000
difficult balance. But the answer is I'm still I'm still experimenting.
1458
01:17:14.199 --> 01:17:20.199
I'm still toying around with the best way to handle
1459
01:17:20.239 --> 01:17:23.880
these kind of dry seasons. You know. Talking about Apple
1460
01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:26.399
becoming IBM and talking about why we care about tech
1461
01:17:26.520 --> 01:17:31.000
was kind of good to keep the channel active and
1462
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:34.119
keep the videos relevant when there wasn't much Apple news
1463
01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:36.960
going on. But I think when there is Apple news
1464
01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:39.560
going on, most of my audience is still most interested
1465
01:17:39.560 --> 01:17:42.600
in talking about that, even if it is pretty boring stuff.
1466
01:17:43.119 --> 01:17:46.199
I think a lot of us can agree that it's
1467
01:17:46.239 --> 01:17:49.199
not the most exciting thing. But I want to talk
1468
01:17:49.319 --> 01:17:53.279
about other startups and other avenues of tech that I
1469
01:17:53.319 --> 01:17:57.279
think are going to be exciting and interesting. But I
1470
01:17:57.319 --> 01:18:00.119
think timing is kind of everything. I think you have
1471
01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:02.800
to be somewhat strategic about it, and I don't think
1472
01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:06.680
it would be great for the audiences or my channel
1473
01:18:06.760 --> 01:18:10.000
to drop those videos at the exact same time as
1474
01:18:10.039 --> 01:18:15.680
big Apple announcements are happening. So I'm trying to be
1475
01:18:15.760 --> 01:18:20.119
strategic about the pivot. I still have many video ideas
1476
01:18:20.159 --> 01:18:23.479
on my list of non Apple related stuff I want
1477
01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:27.319
to make, but I get the impression I'm probably going
1478
01:18:27.399 --> 01:18:30.920
to lose a lot of people, and I'm trying to
1479
01:18:31.439 --> 01:18:35.760
I'm trying to gauge how many people are worth losing
1480
01:18:35.880 --> 01:18:39.039
for the sake of Drew finds this interesting, you know,
1481
01:18:39.279 --> 01:18:41.720
because I have to be very careful with my time
1482
01:18:41.800 --> 01:18:46.560
these days, because time is not unlimited. So that's why
1483
01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:49.439
I've I know people have been asking about the podcast.
1484
01:18:49.439 --> 01:18:51.520
That's why we haven't been able to bring it back.
1485
01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:55.359
For the record, I have fully endorsed and given permission
1486
01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:58.199
to Mike and Randy to continue it without me if
1487
01:18:58.199 --> 01:19:01.279
they would like. I always thought it was kind of,
1488
01:19:01.319 --> 01:19:04.359
you know, their time to shine because people watch me
1489
01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:07.399
talk on YouTube all the time. But the podcast is
1490
01:19:07.439 --> 01:19:09.920
when we get to get to hear Mike and Randy's
1491
01:19:09.960 --> 01:19:13.119
perspective on things, and that's why I've been promoting and
1492
01:19:13.199 --> 01:19:17.159
reposting the Randy Nexus so much, a great channel that
1493
01:19:18.039 --> 01:19:20.800
Randy started up a few months ago and has been
1494
01:19:20.840 --> 01:19:24.000
growing and is very close to a thousand subscribers. I
1495
01:19:24.039 --> 01:19:26.640
hope we can get him there soon because I believe
1496
01:19:26.680 --> 01:19:29.560
that's all he needs to become monetized and then he'll.
1497
01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:31.359
Be in the big leagues. So I'm hopeful.
1498
01:19:32.399 --> 01:19:34.880
I'm hopeful that that kind of helps fill the void
1499
01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:37.720
if you're like, if you're wondering what Randy's thinking, he's
1500
01:19:37.760 --> 01:19:40.920
got a channel for it. But yeah, I'm I apologize
1501
01:19:40.920 --> 01:19:43.319
that I haven't had time to do everything I want
1502
01:19:43.319 --> 01:19:46.560
to do, but that includes the podcast. But yeah, it's
1503
01:19:46.640 --> 01:19:49.600
just right now, like, no matter what I do, I'm
1504
01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:53.359
letting someone down, So I have to kind of choose
1505
01:19:53.359 --> 01:19:56.880
who I'm letting down unfortunately, which is which sucks. But
1506
01:19:57.640 --> 01:19:59.760
did you write a script for making those documentaries?
1507
01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:00.279
Yeah?
1508
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:02.920
Those were scripted, so they take a bit longer to
1509
01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:05.680
plan and think like how I want to phrase this
1510
01:20:05.800 --> 01:20:10.079
or how I want to show this. And there's certainly
1511
01:20:10.199 --> 01:20:12.159
other avenues of tech that I want to Highlight, but
1512
01:20:12.319 --> 01:20:14.960
I'm trying to be a bit strategic on how I
1513
01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:18.119
go about them because I don't want to lose everybody.
1514
01:20:19.039 --> 01:20:23.239
And are tele Truck's going to be sold in Puerto Rico.
1515
01:20:23.520 --> 01:20:26.399
I've been to Puerto Rico, but most pretty much all
1516
01:20:26.439 --> 01:20:29.239
their cars are imported, right, so yeah, I mean they're
1517
01:20:29.239 --> 01:20:32.800
in the US first, so if you buy it and
1518
01:20:32.880 --> 01:20:35.119
import it there, it's in Puerto Rico. I don't think
1519
01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:38.319
we're going to have a dealership presence there right away,
1520
01:20:38.319 --> 01:20:41.920
but I hope we can visit there sometime. But the
1521
01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:44.840
friends that we visited in Puerto Rico are no longer there.
1522
01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:48.039
They haven't been there, so probably not anytime soon. There's
1523
01:20:48.079 --> 01:20:49.840
a lot of new places I want to visit that
1524
01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:50.960
I've never been to before.
1525
01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:52.000
But thanks for asking.
1526
01:20:54.279 --> 01:20:59.159
So yeah, the documentary videos kind of got pushed to
1527
01:20:59.199 --> 01:21:02.960
the side based because I knew that most of my
1528
01:21:03.039 --> 01:21:08.680
audience was not watching them, and I want to start
1529
01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:12.760
exploring other avenues of tech when Apple is really dry,
1530
01:21:12.840 --> 01:21:16.199
not in the middle of I don't want to do
1531
01:21:16.239 --> 01:21:18.520
it right in the middle of Apple announcements because I
1532
01:21:18.520 --> 01:21:20.439
feel like that's just going to confuse audiences.
1533
01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:22.279
It's going to distort the comment section.
1534
01:21:22.720 --> 01:21:25.159
I know the comments are going to be filled with Drew,
1535
01:21:25.199 --> 01:21:28.119
do you recommend the M four MacBook air? And I'm
1536
01:21:28.239 --> 01:21:30.760
going to be trying to talk about something completely different, So.
1537
01:21:32.439 --> 01:21:35.560
Timing is important. What do you think.
1538
01:21:35.479 --> 01:21:39.199
About mkbhd's position on Tella. I don't think i've heard
1539
01:21:39.439 --> 01:21:42.600
Marquez talk about till I think he replied to a
1540
01:21:42.600 --> 01:21:47.000
tweet from Kyle Connor that was talking about Tello, and
1541
01:21:48.600 --> 01:21:51.039
I thought it was a pretty I don't know if
1542
01:21:51.039 --> 01:21:52.640
that's the tweet you're referring to, but I thought it
1543
01:21:52.640 --> 01:21:55.000
was a pretty fair point. He said, if you say
1544
01:21:55.079 --> 01:21:59.680
yes to start up companies videos, then you're going to
1545
01:21:59.720 --> 01:22:05.000
get way more inquiries from every tiny startup. So he said,
1546
01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:08.279
the the more you go down the ladder of like
1547
01:22:08.520 --> 01:22:14.000
is this is this startup legit? Oh he spoke in
1548
01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:15.960
a live event about it. Wow, somehow I missed that
1549
01:22:16.039 --> 01:22:19.640
I got was that at south By Southwest? Was that
1550
01:22:19.760 --> 01:22:20.920
on the WAVEFORIM podcast?
1551
01:22:22.560 --> 01:22:26.079
I don't know. I didn't watch the I haven't finished
1552
01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:28.840
that episode yet. I did start that. I did start it,
1553
01:22:28.920 --> 01:22:30.239
but I haven't even been.
1554
01:22:30.119 --> 01:22:32.560
Able to keep up with a lot of my favorite
1555
01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:37.359
YouTube stuff these days. But I remember him saying to
1556
01:22:37.560 --> 01:22:40.640
Kyle Connor, at least on Twitter, that if you if
1557
01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:43.680
you start covering smaller and smaller startups, then you're gonna
1558
01:22:43.680 --> 01:22:46.399
get more and more startups asking to cover you. The
1559
01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:49.199
funny thing was, we didn't reach out to Marquez, we
1560
01:22:49.239 --> 01:22:51.640
didn't reach out to Kyle Connor, but we reached out
1561
01:22:51.640 --> 01:22:54.199
to a couple of people that had already shown interest
1562
01:22:54.239 --> 01:22:56.399
in Tello, and we asked them, hey, do you want
1563
01:22:56.399 --> 01:22:58.960
to see the truck early? You know we're gonna we're
1564
01:22:58.960 --> 01:23:02.680
gonna unveil it soon. And the people who were big
1565
01:23:02.720 --> 01:23:04.840
fans who have been following us for a while, We're like,
1566
01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:06.079
of course, yeah, I want to see it.
1567
01:23:06.119 --> 01:23:07.159
So he said, sure, come out.
1568
01:23:07.640 --> 01:23:10.680
We did a couple of videos with jerrymig everything in
1569
01:23:10.720 --> 01:23:13.880
the fast lane, you know, and we had some media
1570
01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:17.960
people from Motor Trend to come out and electrac and
1571
01:23:18.119 --> 01:23:22.399
Batteries included podcast Dominic, who I've been a big fan of.
1572
01:23:22.439 --> 01:23:26.159
So it was really cool to meet Dominic. And yes,
1573
01:23:26.199 --> 01:23:28.479
it was very cool to meet Zach from Jerrywig Everything.
1574
01:23:30.600 --> 01:23:33.479
So that that was fun and exciting. But what happened
1575
01:23:33.600 --> 01:23:38.600
was people who weren't ask to come out, thought specifically
1576
01:23:38.680 --> 01:23:40.880
Kyle He sent a tweet that is like, is Tello
1577
01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:45.960
paying people to talk about them? Are they artificially boosting videos?
1578
01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:48.920
And I was like, no, we're not. So I reached
1579
01:23:48.920 --> 01:23:51.600
out really quickly just because I thought he was kind
1580
01:23:51.600 --> 01:23:54.720
of misleading a lot of people, because I was looking
1581
01:23:54.800 --> 01:23:57.039
in the replies and everyone was like, Yeah, they're definitely
1582
01:23:57.079 --> 01:23:58.920
paying people to cover them, and I was like, no,
1583
01:23:59.000 --> 01:24:02.239
we're not. Zach literally flew out on his own dime.
1584
01:24:02.279 --> 01:24:05.239
We didn't pay him a penny. He flew out to
1585
01:24:05.640 --> 01:24:10.039
Los Angeles just for us, and Uber to the airport
1586
01:24:10.039 --> 01:24:12.199
and back and everything just for us, and we didn't
1587
01:24:12.239 --> 01:24:14.159
pay for any of his stuff. We probably should have,
1588
01:24:14.279 --> 01:24:16.399
but we didn't. He was happy to do it on
1589
01:24:16.439 --> 01:24:18.760
his own dime. Same thing with the fast Lane and
1590
01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:21.840
same thing with Dominic flew out from Florida and we
1591
01:24:21.880 --> 01:24:25.159
didn't pay them either. They just came out to see
1592
01:24:25.159 --> 01:24:26.800
the truck because they were excited by it and they
1593
01:24:26.840 --> 01:24:29.960
wanted they wanted us to get exposures. So we had
1594
01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:33.000
people that were really passionate to see us, and because
1595
01:24:33.039 --> 01:24:36.000
of that passion from a select few, that made the
1596
01:24:36.000 --> 01:24:40.640
people who weren't invited thinking, oh, they must be paying everybody.
1597
01:24:40.239 --> 01:24:44.279
For this exposure. Let's clear this up really quick.
1598
01:24:44.840 --> 01:24:48.439
So Kyle corrected himself in a follow up tweet and
1599
01:24:48.439 --> 01:24:51.079
it was just like, Hey, I want this to happen.
1600
01:24:51.119 --> 01:24:55.039
This concept is really really cool, but you know, I'm
1601
01:24:55.079 --> 01:24:57.319
not sure if we should cover startups because so many
1602
01:24:57.319 --> 01:24:59.680
have failed. And I was like, yeah, that's very If
1603
01:24:59.680 --> 01:25:01.920
you don't want to cover us, that's that's totally fine.
1604
01:25:01.960 --> 01:25:05.159
But Marquez chimed in on that one and said, well,
1605
01:25:05.159 --> 01:25:07.399
you know, the more startups you cover, the more questions
1606
01:25:07.439 --> 01:25:09.720
you're going to get, or more offers from tinier and
1607
01:25:09.760 --> 01:25:12.479
tinier startups that are less and less viable are going
1608
01:25:12.560 --> 01:25:15.720
to come forward, which is totally fair. I would not
1609
01:25:15.720 --> 01:25:18.279
blame anyone for not wanting to talk about Tello because
1610
01:25:18.279 --> 01:25:19.760
it's a startup and it may not make it.
1611
01:25:20.119 --> 01:25:20.640
That's fine.
1612
01:25:21.039 --> 01:25:22.199
If you don't want to cover it, you don't want
1613
01:25:22.199 --> 01:25:24.359
to cover it. But we had a lot of people
1614
01:25:24.359 --> 01:25:28.600
that really wanted to cover us, so we prioritize them
1615
01:25:28.680 --> 01:25:32.000
obviously because they were excited. But now that we've unveiled
1616
01:25:32.039 --> 01:25:36.439
the driving, you know, esthetically accurate prototype, it's we're calling
1617
01:25:36.439 --> 01:25:40.800
it the first pre production vehicle. Now we've got all
1618
01:25:40.920 --> 01:25:43.880
these people jumping like, hey, hey, why did I get
1619
01:25:43.880 --> 01:25:46.199
an invite? Why did I get an invite? I'm like, whoa,
1620
01:25:47.039 --> 01:25:49.199
I thought we didn't exist a few moments ago. Now
1621
01:25:49.199 --> 01:25:52.720
all of a sudden, you're like, oh wait, you made one. Okay,
1622
01:25:53.199 --> 01:25:55.159
never mind, I want to be invited. Why didn't you
1623
01:25:55.159 --> 01:25:59.239
invite me? So that was kind of like a fun problem.
1624
01:25:59.319 --> 01:26:02.239
So now we've had I can't believe how many people
1625
01:26:02.239 --> 01:26:05.159
have reached out big names. There's all these all these
1626
01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:08.640
YouTubers and all these influencers that I'm big, a big
1627
01:26:08.680 --> 01:26:12.600
fan of that didn't think we were real and didn't
1628
01:26:12.640 --> 01:26:15.279
want to talk about us until we unveiled the pre
1629
01:26:15.319 --> 01:26:17.640
production vehicle, and now they all want to talk about it.
1630
01:26:17.800 --> 01:26:19.520
Now They're like when can I see it? How soon
1631
01:26:19.560 --> 01:26:22.399
can I get it? I'm like, join the club. Everybody
1632
01:26:22.399 --> 01:26:25.800
wants to see it. Man. One thing I learned about
1633
01:26:25.800 --> 01:26:28.640
pivoting topics for YouTube is the more gradual, the better.
1634
01:26:28.880 --> 01:26:30.640
Yes, that's that's very true.
1635
01:26:30.680 --> 01:26:33.319
Marnjell. How was it like to meet Zach from Jerry
1636
01:26:33.359 --> 01:26:35.760
rig Everything. Oh, it was awesome. He's a super nice guy.
1637
01:26:36.760 --> 01:26:38.880
He got to meet my wife as well. My wife
1638
01:26:38.920 --> 01:26:41.199
was there and she was asking him a bunch of questions.
1639
01:26:42.319 --> 01:26:45.600
We both got our pictures with him, and he's just
1640
01:26:45.840 --> 01:26:48.560
really down to earth, just like very friendly, very kind,
1641
01:26:48.600 --> 01:26:57.520
and he's just very articulate, very articulate, and very supportive
1642
01:26:57.560 --> 01:26:59.800
and very pleasant to be around.
1643
01:27:00.119 --> 01:27:00.840
Real nice guy.
1644
01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:04.039
So I was very thankful that he was willing to
1645
01:27:04.039 --> 01:27:07.000
come out and very thankful that he's willing to highlight
1646
01:27:07.039 --> 01:27:10.399
startups because, like Marquez said, you know a lot of
1647
01:27:10.399 --> 01:27:13.520
big companies or big YouTubers or don't want to talk
1648
01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:16.880
about startups because it can attract a different kind of audience.
1649
01:27:16.960 --> 01:27:21.399
And sometimes they just don't want to talk about a
1650
01:27:21.399 --> 01:27:24.439
product unless it exists and it's in production and it's delivered,
1651
01:27:24.479 --> 01:27:27.800
and that's when you'll talk about it. But I was
1652
01:27:27.920 --> 01:27:30.560
very grateful that a big YouTuber like Jerry rig Everything
1653
01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:32.079
was willing to highlight startups.
1654
01:27:32.119 --> 01:27:33.880
And I asked him specifically.
1655
01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:36.000
I was like, what, you know, a lot of channels
1656
01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:38.960
your size don't want to talk about startups until they're
1657
01:27:39.039 --> 01:27:41.680
like in production and delivering. Why why are you willing
1658
01:27:41.760 --> 01:27:44.960
to talk about startups? And he told me, well, it's
1659
01:27:44.960 --> 01:27:47.920
the startups that do the most interesting stuff. He was
1660
01:27:47.960 --> 01:27:50.800
the one who said that the bigger, the company kind
1661
01:27:50.800 --> 01:27:53.920
of the more slow and boring they become, which we're
1662
01:27:53.960 --> 01:27:56.399
definitely seeing with Apple at this point.
1663
01:27:56.520 --> 01:28:00.560
So yeah, I think.
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01:28:01.880 --> 01:28:05.119
That's true, and that's why I like, I definitely.
1665
01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:06.279
Don't talk about every startup.
1666
01:28:06.520 --> 01:28:08.680
There's a bunch of startups that I think are trying
1667
01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:12.079
to do something that's unnecessary or not a good idea.
1668
01:28:12.119 --> 01:28:13.640
There's a lot of startups that I think are just
1669
01:28:13.680 --> 01:28:16.439
adding to the overall noise. But I do think there's
1670
01:28:16.479 --> 01:28:19.640
some startups that are doing genuinely exciting or game changing
1671
01:28:19.680 --> 01:28:22.279
things that deserve to be highlighted, and at least on
1672
01:28:22.359 --> 01:28:25.039
the EV channel that has done really well. I'm trying
1673
01:28:25.079 --> 01:28:27.640
to find a way to do that here on the
1674
01:28:27.640 --> 01:28:32.000
Tech channel as well. But it's just so drastically different
1675
01:28:32.000 --> 01:28:36.520
from talking about Apple products that I'm worried it's gonna
1676
01:28:36.880 --> 01:28:39.439
get lost in the noise, like people won't care or
1677
01:28:39.439 --> 01:28:44.239
people won't watch the videos because it'll be too different
1678
01:28:44.520 --> 01:28:48.119
from the Apple stuff, which is why, like Marngell said,
1679
01:28:48.720 --> 01:28:52.720
it probably will help to do a more gradual transition
1680
01:28:52.840 --> 01:28:56.159
instead of just doing it all at once. But what
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01:28:56.239 --> 01:28:58.720
if Apple all these years has secretly been changing everything
1682
01:28:58.760 --> 01:29:01.079
and it's about to drop their biggest change for all
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01:29:01.079 --> 01:29:05.000
of their Apple products. Yeah, that's probably not gonna happen,
1684
01:29:05.079 --> 01:29:08.399
but that would be cool. Yeah. The bigger the company is,
1685
01:29:08.600 --> 01:29:10.520
the more bloated it gets, you know, and the more
1686
01:29:10.600 --> 01:29:12.960
the slower it moves and the slower it can innovate.
1687
01:29:13.000 --> 01:29:19.000
And yeah, AnyWho, hope that answers your question. But yes,
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01:29:19.079 --> 01:29:22.279
there's a there's a startup company that I hinted at
1689
01:29:22.319 --> 01:29:24.520
at the very end of the Next Big Thing video
1690
01:29:24.880 --> 01:29:26.680
that I would like to talk more about. But I'm
1691
01:29:26.680 --> 01:29:28.680
trying to be strategic in the way I pivot, and
1692
01:29:28.680 --> 01:29:32.199
whenever there's Apple news going on, I'm pretty convinced that
1693
01:29:33.159 --> 01:29:35.800
if I start talking about startups when there's new Apple
1694
01:29:35.840 --> 01:29:39.640
products coming out, it's it's gonna be distorted. It's gonna
1695
01:29:39.680 --> 01:29:42.880
get clashed through the noise. So I need to wait
1696
01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:47.439
till there's more dry seasons before I start talking about them.
1697
01:29:47.479 --> 01:29:52.680
But I think we might be somewhat through the Spring launch,
1698
01:29:53.279 --> 01:29:56.199
you know, I don't think I don't think it's AI,
1699
01:29:56.800 --> 01:29:58.680
and I talked about that at length and my Next
1700
01:29:58.720 --> 01:30:01.239
Big Thing video. I don't think AI is the next
1701
01:30:01.239 --> 01:30:06.720
big Thing. I think that's overhyped. It's it's about as
1702
01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:10.439
popular as five G maybe a little more popular because
1703
01:30:10.439 --> 01:30:13.760
of open AI. But I haven't seen anything from AI
1704
01:30:13.840 --> 01:30:17.319
that I think will genuinely impact our daily lives all
1705
01:30:17.359 --> 01:30:19.840
that much. I think it's just another software feature that
1706
01:30:19.880 --> 01:30:21.479
helps with productivity management.
1707
01:30:22.239 --> 01:30:23.199
That's really all it is.
1708
01:30:23.479 --> 01:30:26.079
I don't think it will radically reshape the way we live,
1709
01:30:26.119 --> 01:30:29.560
the way we work, the way we interact with each other.
1710
01:30:29.640 --> 01:30:32.359
But one other thing I learned is that you have
1711
01:30:32.439 --> 01:30:35.000
to do sort of click title bait for doing the pivot.
1712
01:30:35.079 --> 01:30:36.319
At least that was the case for me.
1713
01:30:39.119 --> 01:30:48.680
That's fair. Yeah, that's my wife just answering her. She
1714
01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:51.239
needs help with work stuff. So I'm gonna have to
1715
01:30:51.239 --> 01:30:55.119
take off here pretty soon. But chat GPT has impacted
1716
01:30:55.159 --> 01:30:57.880
my everyday life. Yeah, but you're watching Telos of Tech.
1717
01:30:59.439 --> 01:31:01.840
You're a tech person. You're a nerdy person like me.
1718
01:31:02.640 --> 01:31:06.760
I'm talking like everyday people. Would you switch to Android
1719
01:31:06.800 --> 01:31:11.520
based on recent events? No? I wouldn't what what recent
1720
01:31:11.560 --> 01:31:16.039
events would make me want to switch? I'm missing something.
1721
01:31:18.159 --> 01:31:20.640
I believe chat GPT is helpful. I just don't think
1722
01:31:20.680 --> 01:31:24.520
it changes our daily lives all that much. It's about
1723
01:31:24.640 --> 01:31:31.239
It's about as impactful as the Dynamic Island to me. Sorry, Yeah,
1724
01:31:31.439 --> 01:31:34.359
USBC impacted my daily life. Now I grab a Type
1725
01:31:34.359 --> 01:31:39.159
C cable, but I think it's particularly helpful for software developers.
1726
01:31:41.800 --> 01:31:45.359
It's good at summarizing things, but I I'm thinking of
1727
01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:49.520
bigger changes. Thank you for thirty nine months of support term,
1728
01:31:49.600 --> 01:31:53.039
but no, I'm not anywhere close to switching to Android.
1729
01:31:55.039 --> 01:31:56.880
I wonder what Drew thinks about the state of the
1730
01:31:56.880 --> 01:31:59.039
market of all electric motorcycles and where does he see
1731
01:31:59.039 --> 01:32:01.039
their level of popularity in the future, since they won't
1732
01:32:01.039 --> 01:32:04.079
have manual shifting gears anymore. That's funny you mentioned that
1733
01:32:04.119 --> 01:32:08.439
because my boss worked on electric motorcycles, he my boss
1734
01:32:08.479 --> 01:32:11.399
broke the land speed record for electric motorcycles.
1735
01:32:11.399 --> 01:32:14.239
But they quickly discovered that the market.
1736
01:32:13.960 --> 01:32:17.359
For electric motorcycles is quite small. There's not a lot
1737
01:32:17.359 --> 01:32:19.560
of them. I think there were five thousands sold in
1738
01:32:19.600 --> 01:32:23.840
a year. It's not very big. But my mom, who's
1739
01:32:23.880 --> 01:32:26.159
the latest texavvy person in my family, used Chatty b
1740
01:32:26.239 --> 01:32:27.079
Tea more than I do.
1741
01:32:27.520 --> 01:32:32.479
For what What does it do? Tell me?
1742
01:32:34.239 --> 01:32:37.239
The PRIVACYSU in the UK was a pretty big recent event,
1743
01:32:37.319 --> 01:32:39.960
I guess, but it doesn't just I don't. I don't.
1744
01:32:40.039 --> 01:32:42.600
I didn't follow that. I'm sorry, I didn't really understand it.
1745
01:32:44.600 --> 01:32:48.399
I use it for photography, brainstorming, time management, therapy, random convos.
1746
01:32:48.439 --> 01:32:51.399
You're using chatty bt for therapy. Interesting.
1747
01:32:52.399 --> 01:32:55.960
Yeah, okay, maybe it's a bigger deal than I expected,
1748
01:32:56.039 --> 01:33:01.119
but at least it's I don't think changing changing the
1749
01:33:01.119 --> 01:33:03.920
way the future looks. It's just more people typing on screens.
1750
01:33:07.000 --> 01:33:10.079
Four hundred million users per month, that's a lot. I
1751
01:33:10.119 --> 01:33:14.439
believe people use it. I just think it's it's a
1752
01:33:14.439 --> 01:33:18.840
helpful tool. I don't see it as like, as disruptive
1753
01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:22.199
as something like the smartphone, or you know, as different
1754
01:33:22.239 --> 01:33:24.359
as something like the electric vehicle.
1755
01:33:25.760 --> 01:33:27.159
Unbiased conversations.
1756
01:33:28.000 --> 01:33:32.760
Mm hmm, well, I have several I have several family
1757
01:33:32.840 --> 01:33:37.119
members that work in AI, and they keep they keep
1758
01:33:37.159 --> 01:33:39.840
reassuring me how little it actually knows what it's saying.
1759
01:33:39.960 --> 01:33:44.840
It's just repeating what it's been fed. Basically for the
1760
01:33:44.880 --> 01:33:47.800
first time, I'm seriously considering getting an electric motorcycle. Now
1761
01:33:47.800 --> 01:33:50.159
that they have gears, you can concentrate on shifting while
1762
01:33:50.159 --> 01:33:52.640
you drive it all time. Why do you think Apple
1763
01:33:52.640 --> 01:33:54.880
didn't let Gemini or other large language models to be
1764
01:33:54.920 --> 01:33:57.720
integrated as promised. I think it's just a time thing.
1765
01:33:58.159 --> 01:34:03.880
I mean, they let chatch EPTE be integrated, right, I
1766
01:34:03.920 --> 01:34:06.800
don't know. Maybe I'm showing my age. I'm becoming a boomer.
1767
01:34:06.840 --> 01:34:09.239
I'm missing out on the next big thing. It's not
1768
01:34:09.319 --> 01:34:11.760
professional therapy, but good for talking to like a wall.
1769
01:34:11.800 --> 01:34:16.359
But it's very smart. I don't know. I don't know
1770
01:34:16.399 --> 01:34:21.479
if that's equivalent to therapy. But have ever tried using
1771
01:34:21.479 --> 01:34:24.000
the new AI tools and YouTube studio? Not saying you should,
1772
01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:25.840
but I just found out it exists. Yeah, I've looked that,
1773
01:34:26.399 --> 01:34:29.800
haven't found it very useful. But I know people have
1774
01:34:29.840 --> 01:34:32.319
been using chattypt to plan out trips and keeping track
1775
01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:34.840
of flights while keeping up with their day to day itinerary.
1776
01:34:34.920 --> 01:34:37.079
Most of the family has been taking after me on
1777
01:34:37.159 --> 01:34:43.159
this aspect. Okay, again, productivity tool, but I just can't
1778
01:34:43.560 --> 01:34:44.720
it's not specific enough.
1779
01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:45.640
Every time I ask what.
1780
01:34:45.640 --> 01:34:49.039
It's doing, people just like provide these broad statements manage
1781
01:34:49.039 --> 01:34:55.279
my trip. It's like, okay, somehow I've taken multiple flights
1782
01:34:55.279 --> 01:34:58.920
and done various trips to LA and San Diego without
1783
01:34:58.920 --> 01:35:02.119
the use of chatchipt. I just I plug it in
1784
01:35:02.239 --> 01:35:07.439
maps and I go. You know, maybe it's helpful for
1785
01:35:07.520 --> 01:35:09.319
people to have it all read out to them, I guess,
1786
01:35:09.359 --> 01:35:12.920
But and I'm sure Google can do it as well
1787
01:35:12.920 --> 01:35:18.000
with Gemini. But what's the best way to contact you privately?
1788
01:35:18.079 --> 01:35:21.239
Probably Twitter? But I'm sorry, it's if I don't get
1789
01:35:21.239 --> 01:35:22.840
back to everybody, I apologize.
1790
01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:24.079
It's just this is.
1791
01:35:24.720 --> 01:35:28.600
Not my full time gig anymore, so I've got a
1792
01:35:28.600 --> 01:35:31.600
lot of people asking for my time. But if you
1793
01:35:31.640 --> 01:35:33.960
ever wanted to google something but don't know how to
1794
01:35:34.000 --> 01:35:38.000
ask it, no, maybe that's my problem. I don't google
1795
01:35:38.039 --> 01:35:42.079
things all that much either. I'm not constantly asking questions,
1796
01:35:44.800 --> 01:35:49.359
Mike says, no guilt through Thanks Mike. Scriptwriting is by
1797
01:35:49.359 --> 01:35:51.880
far the most time consuming part of making videos. Yeah,
1798
01:35:52.119 --> 01:35:55.239
planning it out Apple videos. I can add lib pretty easily,
1799
01:35:55.319 --> 01:35:58.319
but a little behind. But to talk about your coming earlier,
1800
01:35:58.359 --> 01:36:00.439
I think the reason why you are working so hard
1801
01:36:00.520 --> 01:36:02.319
right now is because there's nothing to talk about, So
1802
01:36:02.359 --> 01:36:05.840
it's hard to find stuff to talk about. There's plenty
1803
01:36:05.840 --> 01:36:10.239
of stuff to talk about on EV. This channel is
1804
01:36:10.279 --> 01:36:12.520
what I'm kind of trying to figure out what can
1805
01:36:12.560 --> 01:36:15.199
I do with. I've already got tomorrow's EV video finished
1806
01:36:15.199 --> 01:36:18.039
and ready to go, but and there's a lot of
1807
01:36:18.039 --> 01:36:22.000
stuff going on at my Tello truck's job, but a
1808
01:36:22.039 --> 01:36:24.159
lot of it I can't talk about yet, which makes
1809
01:36:24.159 --> 01:36:26.920
it frustrating be in the YouTube world. It's like, what
1810
01:36:27.000 --> 01:36:29.159
can we talk about? What's the most interesting news going
1811
01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:31.720
on today? At Tello, you like can't talk about all
1812
01:36:31.720 --> 01:36:35.479
the most interesting stuff going on. But I hope Apple
1813
01:36:35.520 --> 01:36:37.840
can add a lightweight but highly capable, a large language
1814
01:36:37.880 --> 01:36:40.760
model that's all on device. Well, they've been trying for
1815
01:36:40.800 --> 01:36:42.880
the past year. It doesn't seem to be working too well.
1816
01:36:42.920 --> 01:36:44.960
But do you think there will be a new Apple
1817
01:36:45.000 --> 01:36:47.960
D before K eventually? But it's probably just going to
1818
01:36:48.039 --> 01:36:50.039
have a new chip. Let me make sure I answered
1819
01:36:50.079 --> 01:36:52.520
all these community questions real quick? What else is there
1820
01:36:52.560 --> 01:36:56.000
on here? Should Tim pull a Steve and scream at
1821
01:36:56.039 --> 01:36:58.159
Craig a few times to fix the software issues?
1822
01:36:58.279 --> 01:37:02.399
Yes, pull a Steve, but.
1823
01:37:02.399 --> 01:37:04.600
Yes they should keep making them. If you could compare
1824
01:37:04.640 --> 01:37:06.560
yourself to an iPhone, which one would you be? If
1825
01:37:06.560 --> 01:37:08.520
not an iPhone, maybe some other Apple tech product. I
1826
01:37:08.600 --> 01:37:10.479
know this is silly, but I just randomly thought of it.
1827
01:37:12.039 --> 01:37:16.880
If I could compare myself to an iPhone, I'm tempted
1828
01:37:16.920 --> 01:37:23.439
to just say my phone. I guess I'm somewhat tallish,
1829
01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:25.800
not really. I met so many taller people than me.
1830
01:37:26.600 --> 01:37:31.960
I guess I'm somewhat techie, so maybe I'm a Maybe
1831
01:37:31.960 --> 01:37:36.319
I'm a I don't know. Maybe I'm a fifteen pro
1832
01:37:36.399 --> 01:37:40.479
because I'm like average height. I'm five foot eleven, and
1833
01:37:44.079 --> 01:37:48.439
I know some things about EV's and computers and phones,
1834
01:37:49.000 --> 01:37:50.800
but I'm not like the best of the best, so
1835
01:37:50.840 --> 01:37:55.319
i don't have camera control. I don't know. It's a
1836
01:37:55.359 --> 01:37:58.680
tough question. Is there an issue with the name Tello?
1837
01:37:58.720 --> 01:38:00.960
I know there's a phone service with that name. Well,
1838
01:38:01.000 --> 01:38:03.000
tell O Trucks is the official name, and it's one
1839
01:38:03.119 --> 01:38:05.880
L not two l's. But haven't had any issues yet.
1840
01:38:06.159 --> 01:38:09.800
I think we're good. If we get any cease and
1841
01:38:09.840 --> 01:38:13.000
desists letters, then we'll probably have to change the name.
1842
01:38:13.039 --> 01:38:17.600
But I'm pretty sure they do research before they trademark
1843
01:38:17.640 --> 01:38:19.399
that kind of stuff to make sure they can do it.
1844
01:38:21.640 --> 01:38:23.840
Looking at the tech videos that come out these days
1845
01:38:23.840 --> 01:38:25.880
honestly makes me glad that my channel is not based
1846
01:38:25.880 --> 01:38:29.560
on that niche. Yeah, I'm glad most of my income
1847
01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:31.479
is not based on that niche because I'm making a
1848
01:38:31.520 --> 01:38:33.560
lot more right now from doing EV stuff than i
1849
01:38:33.600 --> 01:38:36.479
am Apple stuff, and there's a lot more stuff going
1850
01:38:36.479 --> 01:38:40.239
on in the EV world. Rivian's just about getting serious,
1851
01:38:40.920 --> 01:38:44.279
but Lucid has some really compelling technology to offer. Tesla's
1852
01:38:44.720 --> 01:38:47.479
kind of crazy because of all the political involvement, but
1853
01:38:47.479 --> 01:38:49.319
there's still a lot going on at the company.
1854
01:38:49.560 --> 01:38:50.319
There's this whole.
1855
01:38:50.119 --> 01:38:53.399
Debate around robotaxis, and then you've got younger startups like
1856
01:38:53.439 --> 01:38:56.079
Apterra that are trying to get to production, and then
1857
01:38:56.119 --> 01:38:58.560
you've got even smaller startups like Tello that are trying
1858
01:38:58.600 --> 01:39:01.399
to rethink vehicle footprints. There's so many brands, there's so
1859
01:39:01.439 --> 01:39:04.359
many genres. You got Legacy Auto didn't even mention what
1860
01:39:04.439 --> 01:39:07.319
four GM and Toyota are trying to do. There's so
1861
01:39:07.399 --> 01:39:09.479
much to talk about in the EV space and very
1862
01:39:09.600 --> 01:39:12.720
little really to highlight in the tech space. But when
1863
01:39:12.720 --> 01:39:14.640
do you think we'll see a new tech video? Probably
1864
01:39:14.680 --> 01:39:17.439
next week because this is pretty much my last. That's
1865
01:39:17.439 --> 01:39:19.479
why I kind of wanted to stream today's because this
1866
01:39:19.560 --> 01:39:22.479
is kind of a closure. After today, I'm going to
1867
01:39:22.520 --> 01:39:25.560
be booked up helping my wife at her work and
1868
01:39:25.600 --> 01:39:29.079
doing Tellow stuff and EV stuff. But I remember you
1869
01:39:29.119 --> 01:39:31.159
compared you and your channel to the iPhone ten and
1870
01:39:31.199 --> 01:39:34.960
your best smartphone ever video. Yeah, iPhone ten was definitely
1871
01:39:34.960 --> 01:39:36.399
a pivotabal moment.
1872
01:39:36.119 --> 01:39:36.720
For the Channel.
1873
01:39:36.760 --> 01:39:38.760
I feel like that's when kind of our growth and
1874
01:39:38.840 --> 01:39:43.359
stuff peaked. But actually we performed really great in the
1875
01:39:43.439 --> 01:39:45.640
years prior. It was kind of a lot of momentum
1876
01:39:45.680 --> 01:39:48.840
from that. It was all about the iPhone ten, and
1877
01:39:48.880 --> 01:39:52.119
then it was all about the ten revisions like the
1878
01:39:52.159 --> 01:39:54.439
ten S Max and the ten Are, and then it
1879
01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:55.239
was all about the.
1880
01:39:57.119 --> 01:39:58.439
Apple Watch Series.
1881
01:39:58.159 --> 01:40:01.279
Four and the war on bezel really carried the channel
1882
01:40:01.319 --> 01:40:05.880
through that like twenty sixteen to twenty twenty timeframe. There
1883
01:40:05.960 --> 01:40:10.239
was just so much advancements in screen technology and camera technology.
1884
01:40:10.279 --> 01:40:12.760
There was so much change to highlight that's just not
1885
01:40:12.840 --> 01:40:15.560
really there anymore. So it's really just turned into an
1886
01:40:15.600 --> 01:40:20.359
industry of bean counting of like, oh this is slightly faster,
1887
01:40:20.520 --> 01:40:24.319
this is slightly different. But came out with a pretty
1888
01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:26.680
nice all electric motorcycle last year. I don't think that
1889
01:40:26.760 --> 01:40:29.720
was rivian. But thank you for the super chat, pye Rie,
1890
01:40:32.039 --> 01:40:35.520
thanks for answering, he said, good. I'm glad you're here.
1891
01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:42.000
I think we're caught up. We read that talked about
1892
01:40:42.039 --> 01:40:46.000
Vision Pro best deal. Yeah, okay, so I don't know
1893
01:40:46.039 --> 01:40:49.600
when I'll be live again, but I had a little
1894
01:40:49.640 --> 01:40:53.640
bit of a time before this, uh, before this uh,
1895
01:40:54.760 --> 01:40:57.720
volunteered that you know thing I'm going to after this,
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So I appreciate you all for tuning in, and I
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appreciate the super chats, and for you guys sticking with
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me even as the channel kind of morphs and goes
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into different directions. I appreciate you watching, and I'll see
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you guys later. Take care, al