September 26, 2025 • 58 mins
Want a front-row seat to the stories shaking up the tech world? On the latest JMOR Tech Talk Show, I’m bringing you the must-hear headlines and expert insights you need—hosted by John C. Morley: Serial Entrepreneur, Engineer, Video Producer, Marketing Specialist, Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host, Podcast Coach, graduate student, and passionate lifelong learner. From global crises to gadget breakthroughs, this episode delivers tech news with depth, clarity, and relentless curiosity. Listen within 24 hours, and visit BelieveMeAchieve.com for exclusive extras!
Subtitle: “Controversy. Innovation. Digital Drama—Your Weekly Tech Wake-Up Call!”
Hashtags: #TechTalks #AIInnovation #CyberSecurity #FutureTech #TechNews #NewiPhone #SmartHomes #AITrends #PodcastLife #TechUpdates #Innovation #TechBuzz #DigitalFuture
This Week’s Hot Topics:
1️⃣ Optus Emergency Outage: Tragedy Strikes 🚨 Australia’s Optus faces a leadership crisis after a 13-hour emergency call outage results in four tragic deaths. Customers’ warnings ignored, the event triggers a full government probe—and exposes major weaknesses in telecom safety.
2️⃣ China’s Social Platforms Hit by Regulators 🚦 Kuaishou and Weibo are under fire: China’s internet watchdog demands stricter content controls as viral gossip slips through trending lists. Are tough new rules now the norm for digital platforms?
3️⃣ Trump’s $100K H-1B Fee Roils Tech 💸 A new $100K annual visa fee blindsides Indian tech workers—heightening diplomatic tension and risking family separations. Tech giants urge workers to stay put amid threats to global talent mobility.
4️⃣ Apple Watch: AI Spots High Blood Pressure ⌚🤖 Apple’s groundbreaking Watch uses artificial intelligence to detect high blood pressure before symptoms appear. With FDA approval and worldwide rollout, it’s a major leap for personal health tech—but not a substitute for medical care.
5️⃣ Trump-Xi Call Revives TikTok’s US Sale 🇺🇸🇨🇳 High-level talks between Trump and Xi push TikTok’s US sale closer but questions over algorithm control and national security still loom as both sides hunt for a win.
6️⃣ Huge Lines for iPhone 17 Launch in China 📱🎉 Beijing buzzes as crowds scramble for Apple’s redesigned iPhone 17—better battery and sleeker style predicted to boost sales despite fierce Xiaomi and Huawei competition.
7️⃣ Lyft Pays $19.4M for NJ Driver Misclassification 🚗💰 Lyft settles with New Jersey after misclassifying over 100,000 drivers as contractors. This $19.4M payout spotlights national scrutiny surrounding gig worker rights and new labor precedents.
8️⃣ Meta Unveils $799 Smart Glasses 🕶️🧠 Meta’s game-changing smart glasses offer notifications, calls, and a “personal superintelligence” display, controlled by a wristband. High cost and child safety risks test consumer adoption—is this the future of wearables?
9️⃣ China Approves TikTok Deal 🟢🕺 Trump declares China has greenlit TikTok’s continued US presence! ByteDance moves toward American control, but tough security and ownership questions remain unresolved.
1️⃣0️⃣ Capital One Settles With Creators Over Affiliate Earnings 🏆💻 Social creators force Capital One to settle millions in lost affiliate commissions due to their Shopping browser extension—highlighting the tension between big tech and influencer fair pay.
1️⃣1️⃣ Amazon Broke Law on Prime Signups 🛒⚖️ A federal judge rules Amazon violated consumer protection during Prime signups, collecting payment info before full disclosure and making cancellations hard. The FTC heads to trial, putting Amazon on defense.
1️⃣2️⃣ Heathrow & Brussels Paralyzed by Cyber-Attack ✈️💥 A cyber-attack on airport check-in systems brings chaos to Heathrow and Brussels, as flights delay and lines grow. Experts warn about rising ransomware risks—and how fragile our travel ecosystem has become.
1️⃣3️⃣ White House Unveils TikTok Deal 🏛️📲 The White House’s breakthrough TikTok plan hands algorithm and board control to US firms—Oracle leads data privacy as China remains silent. Will the deal resolve security standoffs or spark new controversy?
1️⃣4️⃣ Hospital IT Outage Halts 1,600 Appointments 🏥⚠️ Major IT failure across Northern Ireland’s Southern Trust hospitals postpones 1,600 health appointments. No cyber-attack reported, but disruptions add urgency to reliable tech in healthcare.
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And you know, it's all about controversy, right,
innovation, digital, and drama, but really it's about
the code red outages that have been happening
all over.
Yes, that's what's going on, guys.
Code red outages, crackdowns, and next-gen tech
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a lot more.
So without any further ado, let's go ahead
and get into this week's hot topics.
Are you ready?
I know I am.
Well, Optus emergency outage was a big strategy,
and it strikes Australia.
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Optus faces a leadership crisis after a 13
-hour emergency call outage resulting in four tragic
deaths.
Ouch, guys.
Customers' warnings were ignored, and the event triggers
a full government probe and exposes some major
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weaknesses in telecom safety.
We don't realize how much we need technology
and how much we need communication until it's
not there.
Number two, guys, China's social platforms are hit
by regulators.
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Kaiyashu and Weibu are under fire right now.
China's internet watchdog demands stricter content controls as
viral gossip slips through trending lists.
Are the tough new rules now that the
norm for digital platforms becoming too difficult, or
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are they just kind of sidescaping some things?
Well, I think a lot of people are
trying to not, you know, follow these rules,
but you know, if they don't, the European
Union is obviously going to come after them
with some big, big problems.
And it's important that you understand all these
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things, guys, really, really important.
And number three, Trump's $100,000 H-1B
fee roils the tech as a new $100
,000 annual visa fee blindsides the Indian tech
workers.
And it's heightening diplomatic tension and risking family
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separations is what they're claiming.
The tech giants are urging workers to stay
put amid the threats to global talent mobility.
And I think, you know, when we hit
people in their pocketbooks, this is when they
start to realize that, hey, we better do
something like now.
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And if we don't, well, then that's a
very, very big, big problem.
Number four, guys, Apple watch.
Yes, AI spots a high AI blood pressure
now with their new watch that has FDA
approval.
Apple's groundbreaking watch uses AI, artificial intelligence, to
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detect high blood pressure before symptoms appear.
With FDA approval now on the way and
worldwide rollout, this is going to be big,
guys.
It's a major leap for personal health tech,
but not a substitute for medical care.
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Now, guys, what I want to share with
you is Tim Cook said something a while
back that he wanted Apple to become that
portal for your personal health and wellbeing.
Well, this is where they're going, right?
Number five, and the Trump XI call revives
the TikToks US sale.
The USCN high level talks are now on
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between Trump and XI and pushing TikToks US
sale closer.
But questions are still looming over the algorithm
and who has control and national security is
still over our heads as both sides are
hunting for a win.
It just seems like it's a lot of,
I don't know, mumbo jumbo, and I don't
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really believe what's going on until I see
a sale.
I just think diplomatic relations, including our president
and the administrative offices, are placating this.
Why, I don't know.
But I think we've really got to get
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smart and focus in on what we need
and stop playing these games.
That's the truth, guys.
We've got to stop playing these games because
if we keep playing these games, we're going
to put America's safety and wellbeing at risk.
Number six, guys, huge lines for the iPhone
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17 launch in China, Beijing as buzzes around
with crowds scramble for Apple's redesigned iPhone with
the 17 better battery and a sleeker style
predicted to boost sales despite fierce IOMI and
Huawei competition.
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I have the iPhone 17 Pro Max right
here, guys.
We'll go into it a little bit.
That's not what today's show is about.
We'll probably do that on another show, but
I want to show you that I have
my phone here.
I did have to go get another case.
So Defender makes one case for this phone
and then they make a pro case.
If you don't get the pro case, well,
if you guys can see, you actually don't
have that little mag safe in the center.
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And so one thing that was, let's say,
a ray of sunshine is that this particular
device with this new case actually fit in
my old holster.
So that was pretty cool.
I didn't expect that to happen.
So that was really a cool thing.
And the way that Defender does it now,
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the OtterBox, Defender, they basically, they give you
a QR code.
You scan that, put your information in, and
then they send out basically the belt clip
if you need it, because they save lots
of money by not including those in the
box, apparently.
All right.
So number seven, guys, Lyft.
You remember Lyft?
Lyft pays $19.4 million for New Jersey
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driver misclassifications.
So Lyft does settle with the New Jersey
area after the misclassification.
Over 100,000 contractors.
Let me say that again, 100,000 contractors
misclassified.
This $19.4 million payout spotlights national scrutiny
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surrounding gig worker rights and the new labor
precedents that are upon us.
It's funny how nobody wanted to do anything
for the longest period of time, and then
whoop, all of a sudden they're deciding to
do something.
What's the deal with that, guys?
What the heck, right?
So I don't know, guys.
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I think it was just a push of
what was going to win more.
When something goes to court, well, that's when
people seem to pay attention.
It's like when we hit them where their
pocketbooks are, their wallets are, that's when people
pay attention, whether we were talking about META,
whether we were talking about TikTok or whoever.
But this thing with TikTok right now is
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very strange with what's going on.
We'll have to see what's going to happen.
I have some more news later in the
show, so stay tuned on that.
Number eight, META unveils the $799 smart glasses
that they have.
Now META's game-changing, they claim, smart glasses
offer notifications, calls, and a personal superintelligence display
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controlled by, well, a wristband.
High-cost and child safety risks tests in
consumer adoption now.
Is this the future of wearables?
I don't know, guys.
But the thing I got to tell you
about the Ray-Ban METAs that I paid
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some interesting change for, I was deeply disappointed.
Let me tell you why.
So I went to the Ray-Ban store,
which I've owned Ray-Ban glasses for many
years, but I decided to go get the
Ray-Ban METAs, the ones which I spent
the extra money so that the glasses actually
change from clear inside to dark outside.
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And I was talking to the lady there
in the store, and she flat out lied
to me.
When I said to her, does this work
on TikTok, oh, it works on all platforms,
she lied to me.
The only way it works on TikTok is
if you basically record a video and upload
it.
But it doesn't directly work on TikTok.
So I was a little unhappy with that.
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And based on the lies that I'm seeing,
I don't know, guys, if I wanna get
the new META Ray-Ban glasses.
Why?
I don't know, guys.
So this is what they call Gen, basically
Gen 2 of the glasses.
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And these glasses are supposedly better.
The Ray-Ban META headliners right now, the
Gen 2s, are you ready?
The Gen 2s are listing at basically, they've
gone up there, guys, a little bit.
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So the Ray-Ban METAs now were at
one price, then they changed.
So it says the Ray-Ban METAs, the
head, the Ray-Ban METAs, the Skyliner Gen
2s are $379.
So the thing is this, these new, that
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was the generation two, right?
That was the generation.
So it says you can shop the glasses
and get them, but you actually have to
pre-order them.
They're not out yet.
So they do appear to be obviously different,
but those are not the full Ray-Ban
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display glasses.
If you want the Ray-Ban display glasses,
are you ready for this?
This is gonna set you back a little
bit.
You're gonna pay, you ready?
$799.
And everybody's saying, you know, be one of
the first to experience the next revolution in
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wearable tech.
600 by 600 pixel high-res full-color
display, built-in right lens, 6-mic array,
12-megapixel camera with 3x zoom, up to
6 hours of continuous mixed-use battery life.
They said 8 originally, but it's 6 of
mixed use and per charge, and it's around
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30 total hours of battery life with a
fully charged case.
So you have to go back and forth
a few times.
So a private display integrated into the right
lens of the glasses appears when you need
it and hides when you don't.
This is kind of more like the Star
Trek.
Are these really worth $800?
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I don't know.
I'm still a little bit disappointed with the
glasses I spent quite a bit of money
on that I use once in a while,
but they're just not as good as they
said.
So I don't really know.
I'm going to wait a little while before
I get these glasses because I'm not convinced
that they're probably going to be the end.
I think there might be something else.
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And guys, number nine, China supposedly approves the
TikTok deal.
Trump declares that China has green-lighted TikTok's
continued US presence.
ByteDance moves toward American control, but some tough
security and ownership questions are remaining unresolved.
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So what's happening?
I don't think anybody really knows, like, you
know, when will TikTok sell to US?
Trump signs the order declaring TikTok sale is
ready and valuing it, right?
ByteDance would hold less than 20% of
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TikTok US to comply with the requirements set
out in the 2020-24 law, but they're
still going to have some control on it.
I don't know if I like that, guys.
I really don't know if I like that.
So we're going to have to see what's
going on.
President Donald Trump just yesterday, which was September
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25th, he actually signed an executive order approving
a proposal that would keep TikTok alive in
the United States in a transaction that Vice
President J.D. Vance said values the business
at $14 billion.
The deal satisfies the requirement of a national
security law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell
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TikTok's US operations or face an executive ban
in the country, according to the executive order.
Under the terms, which China must still approve,
a new joint venture company will oversee TikTok's
US business with ByteDance retaining less than 20
% stake.
Why are they getting to keep any of
it?
Enterprise tech giant Oracle, Silverlake, and the Abu
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Dhabi-based MGX Investment Fund will be main
investors in TikTok's US business, controlling a roughly
45% stake in the entity, while ByteDance
investors and new holders will hold 35%.
And CNBC's David Farber is definitely keeping us
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a loop on this.
So no representatives from ByteDance were present at
the signing.
Of course, you would suspect that they wouldn't
be there.
And the company has acknowledged that the transaction
is taking place.
No purchase price was mentioned, and there's no
indication that the Chinese government has made changes
to laws that would be necessary for a
deal to take place.
President Trump said the Chinese President Xi Jinping
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gave the deal the go-ahead.
Vance said the Chinese government put up some
resistance before the agreement.
Under the planned agreement, Oracle will oversee the
app security operations and continue providing cloud computing
services for the new TikTok US firm.
Farber reported, citing sources familiar with the deal,
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that Trump said Oracle, Larry Ellison, is involved
in the ownership group, and that his company
is playing a very big part.
It's owned by Americans, and very sophisticated Americans.
And Trump said at the signing, quote, this
is going to be American operate all the
way, end quote.
ByteDance investors like General Atlantic, Susquehanna, and Sequoia
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are expected to contribute equity in the new
TikTok entity, sources have told different people.
And ByteDance was reportedly valued at $330 billion
last month.
Analysts have previously estimated TikTok's operations could be
worth between $30 billion and $35 billion.
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The deal does not involve the federal government
taking an equity stake or a so-called
golden share in TikTok's US operations.
CNBC is definitely tracking this.
And Trump said over the last weekend, the
conservative media man, Rupert Murdoch, and his son,
Lachlan Murdoch, could be involved in the TikTok
deal as well, as Ellison and Dell Technology
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CEO, Michael Dell.
Of course, Dell wants to get his hand
in everything.
The president last week signed executive order that
extended ByteDance's deadline time to divest TikTok's US
operations or be subject to a national security
law originally signed by former President Joe Biden.
The order prevents the Department of Justice from
enforcing the national security law until December 16th.
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Okay.
So now we've got more time, but I
got to be honest with you.
I don't really believe that that means anything
because Trump just keeps changing things, right?
And he keeps changing things.
How do we even know that it's even
going to stand?
I don't believe it.
Number 10, guys.
Capital One, yes.
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Not what's in your wallet this time.
It's what's coming out of theirs.
Settles with creators over affiliate earnings.
Social creators force Capital One to settle millions
in lost affiliate commissions due to their shopping
browser extension, highlighting the tension between big tech
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and influencer fair pay.
Now, they've been saying that this whole thing
is around for a while, but what I
didn't realize is that they weren't playing fair
100% of the time.
So that extension might be going away.
Not sure yet, but we'll have to see.
Is the Capital One browser extension going away?
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And I think right now it's not going
away.
It's currently available for browsers like Chrome, Firefox,
Edge, and Safari.
That's why they're paying this money, right?
All about fair pay.
Number 11, Amazon broke the law on prime
signups.
Yes, they did.
A federal judge recently ruled that Amazon violated
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consumer protection during prime signups, collecting payment info
before full disclosure and making cancellations very hard.
We've seen this before with other companies where
you get roped into some monkey trench and
you can't get out.
You can't even cancel.
There were some sites on the internet.
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You can't even cancel until you schedule an
appointment.
What kind of nonsense is that?
I mean, the commission is now starting to
really get to the bottom of, but it's
a scam.
I mean, the fact that you sign up
so quickly and you can't unsign up, I
mean, that's just nonsense.
So the FTC is now heading to trial
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with them and putting Amazon on defense again.
Number 12, guys, Heathrow and Brussels become paralyzed
recently by a cyber attack.
A cyber attack on the airport check-in
systems brought chaos to Heathrow and Brussels as
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flights delayed and lines grew very long.
Experts warned about the rising ransomware risks and
how fragile our travel ecosystem has become.
Now, I want to say something very interesting.
This is a really interesting question.
Why?
This is my question.
Why is Staples now selling Clear and luggage?
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Like, why?
So Staples has partnered with Clear, a TSA
pre-check enrollment provider, to offer enrollment and
renewal services at hundreds of its retail locations.
The Clear you are referring to is not
luggage, but rather the name of the company,
Clear.
So I want to make sure you're understanding
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that.
Luggage is just another piece they're doing that
Staples is doing that, Staples Travel Hub now.
So the partnership allows Clear to expand its
in-person enrollment footprint beyond airports, making it
more convenient for people to enroll or renew
their TSA pre-check membership.
Convenience for customers, for Staples hosting Clear services,
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adds a new travel-related offering to its
stores, complementing other services and attracting more customers.
Increasing access to the TSA pre-check.
The move is part of Clear's effort to
increase national access to TSA pre-check enrollment,
especially for those who don't visit an airport
frequently.
This partnership brings TSA pre-check enrollment and
renewal to more than 190 Staples stores across
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the United States with plans for continued expansion.
So the question you might be asking is,
why are so many Staples stores closing?
Staples isn't entirely closing, but it is shutting
down individual stores as part of an ongoing
strategy to adapt to changing retail landscapes.
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This includes closing underperforming stores, especially since the
company was acquired by a private equity firm
that has a limited long-term interest in
retail.
Factors contributing to these closures are increasing competition
from online retailers like Amazon, outdated pricing models,
high operational costs, and shifting consumer demand away
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from traditional office supplies.
So who did buy Staples?
Again, it's a private equity firm called Sycamore
Partners.
They actually bought Staples, it was kind of
under the radar, in 2017 for $6.9
billion.
After the acquisition, Sycamore restructured the company into
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three separate entities.
The B2B delivery unit, the US retail location,
and Staples Canada.
So who is Sycamore Partners?
Again, the deal was consecrated in September of
2017.
Sycamore acquired Staples for $6.9 billion with
a $1.6 billion funded by equity and
the rest by debt.
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The acquisition was a rare bet by a
private equity firm in the United States retail
sector at the time, which was facing challenges
from online shopping.
Sycamore saw potential in Staples' delivery business.
So this is interesting that they're getting involved
with this.
Number 13, guys, the White House unveils the
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TikTok deal now.
So the White House's breakthrough on the TikTok
plan hands the algorithm and board control to
US firms.
Oracle is leading the data privacy as China
remains silent and has no room to stand
or say anything.
Will the deal resolve the security standoffs or
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spark new controversy?
That's a question we're going to have to
wait and see what happens.
And number 14, guys, hospital IT outage halts
1,600 appointments.
Major IT failure across Northern Ireland's Southern Trust
(27:17):
Hospitals and postponed $1,600.
They have health appointments and no cyber attack
was reported.
But the disruptions added urgency to reliable tech
in healthcare.
Guys, that's like insane.
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All right, really, really insane.
So I want to share a little bit
about the iPhone, OK?
So the iPhone 17 Pro Max is very
interesting what had happened.
And I think the interesting thing is that
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when we can think about having the iPhone,
everything's going through, I was not happy in
a couple of things.
So this isn't a four-hour review, but
I want to give you some of my
feedback.
So the iPhone 17 Pro Max has a
lower telephoto than the 16 Pro Max.
(28:25):
Yeah, first of all, they were saying that
it has a better telephoto camera than the
16 Pro Max.
Features a 48-megapixel telephoto lens compared to
the 12-megapixel telephoto on the 16.
It allows for higher quality zoom.
But the question comes, is the 17 Pro's
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camera less than the 16?
So they're saying it's not a downgrade, but
it's how the phone has been designed to
give you greater pictures.
All right, I mean, I don't know if
I buy that.
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So a couple of things I wanted to
talk about.
So when I got the iPhone, all right,
what I want to share with you is
that this iPhone, well, let's just say I've
done many upgrades, probably over nine or 10
iPhone upgrades.
And I had upgraded my previous iPhone 16
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Pro Max, of course, backed it up, but
I upgraded it to the 18.2 and
then I went to the 26.0 and
wanted to be ready for the iPhone 17
Pro Max.
So when I got the phone, did the
normal stuff like I normally would do.
And so when I went to do the
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transfer, the upgrading, basically hold it to the
other and you could basically show the code
from the one screen to the other phone
so it knows that that's the phone.
And then what happens, which is interesting, this
is what's interesting.
After I did what I had to do,
I've got to tell you that it's interesting
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because the phone did not go ahead and
continue to transfer my files.
After it upgraded to the 26.0, it's
like it completely forgot about taking my settings
over.
Now, many people be like, oh, this is
cool, right?
But no, it didn't remember.
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Now I had to go back and start
the upgrade process all over again.
That might have confused somebody.
I knew right away because my main home
screen was not changed.
So that was a big, big difference.
And so I had to go do that.
The upgrade of transferring about 500 and some
gigabytes took less than 12 minutes, maybe 11,
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11 and a half minutes.
And so now this is all done.
Now it gets better.
Microsoft has decided that they weren't going to
just make the transfer of the two-factor
authentications as easy as it was in the
past.
Had to do some extra steps so I
could get my 65 two-factor authentication keys
onto a new phone because I was not
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going to do that by hand.
And so what else can I tell you?
So the phone, I've had the phone obviously
since, what was it last?
When did the phone came out?
I remember now.
The phone actually came out on, the phone
came out on the, it actually came out,
what was it?
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The 20, was it the, yeah, it was
actually the 19th I got it.
So I've had the phone now a full
week.
And I have to say the battery life
has been okay.
I've taken some pictures.
The video has been good.
Haven't had any issues there.
It has a new intelligence feature where you
can use the camera.
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And so when you pull the camera up
and you try to like do something with
the camera, you can literally have the camera,
okay, have you use an intelligence sense to
let you know what that is, which I
think is pretty cool.
But here's something I think that's really, really
cool.
So you all know about how you can
set different modes, right?
How you can have different, we call them
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focuses.
Like for example, you can have a focus
for do not disturb.
You can have a focus for, personally, you're
a focus for reducing interruptions.
You can have a focus for school.
So for me, I actually have a focus
for school and it turns on automatically.
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Now, this was a bug that did not
work properly in everything prior to, at least
I tried 26.
They might've fixed it in 19 too, but
it seemed to work in 26.
So that's when I noticed it was working.
So whenever I go to Montgomery State University,
it automatically, I have it set to change
my screen, background screen, you know, so I
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know right away that it's me, the lock
screen.
And it has a little icon, which in
my case, the icon that I chose was
a, basically it looks like a, it looks
like a, it's like a, almost like a
government school.
It has like a triangle and four pillars
and then something below it.
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And so what I want to tell you
is it actually works now, not just once,
not just twice, it kicks it immediately.
So that's one good thing that I like
about the 26.0 OS.
And I believe it was fixed in the
OS.
I don't think it was fixed in the
phone.
I think it was fixed in the, in
the, in the iOS.
So what are some other challenges?
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So the other thing is that Apple no
longer lets you keep the phone unlocked for
downloading appers.
You have to put your password in.
Not crazy about that.
So real quickly, what is new in 26
.0?
A bullet list.
So there's a few things, all right.
If we had to just kind of just
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go through them quickly.
Liquid glass is my favorite.
The new design provides this fluid, transparent look.
And it's transparent across the lock screen, the
home screen, the apps.
And it makes the interface more immersive and
kind of a little more fun to play
with.
So you have the dynamic lock screen, the
lock screen now dynamically resizes and repositions itself
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to avoid obscuring the subject in your wallpaper
photo.
A new 3D effect makes wallpaper photos appear
to pop out when you move your iPhone.
Customizable app icons.
User can now choose from various updated styles
for their app icons, including light, dark, color
tinted, or a new clear glass-like appearance.
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You have a refreshed control center.
The control center has been redesigned with the
new liquid glass.
And it's pretty cool.
I have to tell you that it's pretty
cool.
They added something else, which is called the
Apple Intelligence AI features.
They added some things about that to make
this a little more, let's say, with the
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new changes and things that are happening in
AI.
So one thing is Apple Intelligence.
So Vision Intelligence, the feature allows you to
search, ask questions, or take action on anything
visible on your phone.
You have Genmoji and image playground.
You can create custom emojis from text descriptions
or existing emoji combinations.
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Live translation.
This offers real-time translation for conversations in
phone and FaceTime calls, as well as text
and messages.
Smart reminders.
The reminder app can now suggest tasks and
automatically categorize list items based on texts or
emails and other apps.
You have a neat call screening app that's
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kind of built in.
Screening coming calls from unknown numbers to get
information about who is calling and why before
you decide to answer.
Hold assist.
I love this.
The feature will wait on hold for you
during a phone call and notify you when
a live agent joins the line.
That's cool.
Unified phone app layout.
The phone app now provides a single screen
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to access your contacts, your recent, and your
voicemail.
So when I go into my one view
right now, which I can very easily do,
I can see what I've got, my keypad.
So they made this, how can I say?
They made it a little smarter now.
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So you can just go into what you
need.
So basically, you go to the top of
the screen and you have to pick down
calls missed.
You can go to voicemail over the screen.
So instead of you having to choose the
option at the bottom, now you go to
the top right.
I'm not really crazy about that feature, to
be honest.
Message enhancements.
New features include the ability to create polls
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and add custom backgrounds to conversations and filter
messages from unknown senders.
I really like that option.
Adaptive power and energy saving mode for periods
of heavy usage that make subtle adjustments to
preserve battery power life without completely limiting the
background experience.
And I think that's an important thing for
everybody to understand.
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The AirPods update uses AirPods or AirPods Pro
with the H2 chip to capture high quality
audio for video calls.
Or as a remote to start recording in,
let's say, the camera app.
Preview app, a new built-in app for
scanning documents, filling out PDFs and annotating text.
If you remember, we couldn't open PDFs on
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the iPhone.
Now we can without having to buy a
PDF app.
Apple Music includes new features like lyric translation,
pronunciation, expandability, accessibility.
New options are available for users who rely
on braille and features to help reduce motion
sickness.
That's pretty cool.
How about using your camera, okay, pointing and
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getting AI to answer?
So this is kind of cool.
You can use your camera to get AI
answers by using a visual search app like
Google Lens, a feature within Google's main app.
And this technology is a form of visual
question answering.
VQA, they call it, which combines computer vision
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and natural vision.
So I think they've made some great changes
with the app.
So what is bad in iOS 26?
So it has a couple of drawbacks.
So the major drawback, some people don't like
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liquid glass.
One of the things I have to tell
you that I'm really unhappy with.
So after I had updated my phone, I
had like 10,000 emails, okay?
And so let's say that I wanted to
just go in and select all.
Well, there is no select all option anymore.
Like hello, Apple, they like got rid of
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that.
It's in certain things, but it's not when
you go into your general mail and you
try to select.
So what I had to do is hold,
touch the one, and then just keeps thumb,
thumb, thumb, thumb, thumb, thumbing down.
And then what I noticed is the back
of my phone got really hot, almost hot,
it would almost burn my hand, not quite,
but pretty hot.
And so they forgot that option.
So I hope, Apple, that you will go
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ahead and add the select all button because
that was just really, really, really bad.
Many users report initial issues like faster battery
drain.
I haven't had those issues.
As long as you're up to date, you're
fine with those things.
Lagging and freezing, I haven't had anything like
that.
But I have to tell you, some people
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had issues with blurriness.
I didn't have that issue at all.
You have the feature, which you probably have
known before.
If I type something and I shake it,
it'll actually undo what I just did.
So that's a pretty cool thing, guys.
But if we had to say, what are
the game changers for this?
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And I have to tell you, iOS 26
best features, I like the liquid glass.
I like the extensive lock.
I like the, you know, you can hold
on the phone and it notifies you.
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I like that.
So that's definitely pretty cool.
Liquid glass is not just an experience.
It actually makes using the phone more fun.
In some ways, it can actually help you
to navigate things easier.
So also you have the summary feature in
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iOS 26.
And what is the summary feature?
So you can have a notification summary feature
using Apple's intelligence to provide concise summaries of
mobile notifications with expanded functionality in iOS 26.
Instead of having multiple messages on the same,
it can consolidate them down and then put
a number on it to make things easier.
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So I do think it's better in a
lot of ways, but I want to tell
you that I think it needs some help.
They did add some ability to how to
access the camera a little bit different.
They did some other stuff that they made
some access options available in CarPlay.
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So that was nice.
I'm not a CarPlay user, so that really
didn't matter to me.
The visual intelligence is kind of neat.
So you can add an event from a
flyer on your iPhone screen to your calendar
with a single tap, like an invite for
a neighborhood event.
Details like event title, name, et cetera.
You can interact with text.
You can summarize the translator, read text out
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loud.
Shortcuts are better now.
But again, I think the unknown color feature
is neat.
I think the hold assist is neat.
The screening is definitely neat.
But if I had to say the big
game changer for me, the feature that I
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like the most on the iPhone 26, so
I have to say I like the ability
that you can hold.
And I also like the ability that if
I'm on the phone with somebody and I
need to record the call, I can just
touch the option and record.
And then I can translate that if I
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needed to.
So those are pretty cool features.
So right now I am on the 26
.0. I'm waiting, guys, for this to be
at the next version because I think there's
definitely some issues that they need to fix.
And I know this is definitely a problem.
And I know Apple was very, how can
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I say, zealous about trying to get this
stuff out.
I never go for the beta updates, guys.
I just don't trust them.
It's nice that there are not a lot
of updates right now because I think Apple
would probably going crazy if there were.
So the software update that I have right
now is 26.0. And you might be
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asking, and this is a great question, when
is the next iOS coming out?
Well, the next iOS that we're probably going
to see is it going to be for
a little while, okay?
(43:51):
I think iOS 27 is not officially announced
yet, but rumors suggest it'll be released in
the second half of 2026.
So how about 26.1?
So they're saying that 26.1 will be
released in late October.
They have some betas out, but I don't
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dare want to try that.
And there are going to be several more
beta versions before the final release, which is
expected to follow x.1, et cetera.
So I think they rushed this because they
wanted to get everything ready for the new
iPhone.
I think that was the whole reason that
they absolutely did this.
And I got to say the upgrade process,
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if I had to give it a score
on a scale of one to 10, I'd
probably give it a negative five.
That's how annoying it was.
Oh, not only that guys, when I went
to finish that whole process, right?
And because I use a Mac encrypted network,
I had to go in and enable that
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device to be able to get out to
the internet.
That was no big deal.
But in addition to that, I then chose
the option activate the phone.
It did not activate the phone.
I had to call into Verizon.
Now they were closed at nine o'clock
at night.
So I had to go through the plethora
of prompts, and there were quite a few,
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to go through and actually activate my phone.
It asked me to put my mobile phone
number in.
And then after that, it sent a code.
I had to validate the code.
And then the phone was active pretty much.
But I think that's terrible.
Now I talked to Verizon.
They said that they don't do that all
the time, but yet I know two or
three clients that had the same issue.
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So I don't know.
And the people at the stores of Verizon,
they don't really know, but Verizon had this
issue.
I don't know if any other carriers had
this issue, but the phone used to just
activate.
And then you had to power the phone
off, turn it back on, and then it
worked.
So I just found it to be, I
got to be honest guys, I found it
to be a hassle, like a very, very
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big...
I think when we look at technology and
we figure out what's happening, I think we
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have to understand that we can't just push
features out there.
If I want a thousand features, and let's
say we can only get 500 working properly,
then we only should release 500 features, right?
Or we should release what works properly.
I think a lot of people push to
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release things because they feel that if they're
released, they can sell more.
But you know what happens?
People get more upset because the technology not
only doesn't work the way it's supposed to,
it works worse than what it was supposed
to.
The fact that I cannot go into my
thing and I can get something, I think
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that's crazy.
It's nuts how all this is happening.
And I think a lot of times people
just get into a stuck state of where
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we need to be.
But when we push things out a certain
way, I think, and then something doesn't work.
Like the fact that a select all button
doesn't work.
And when I get into my email right
now, if I select an email, if I
go to my email account and I click
on something, and I just click select, there
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is no select all button.
And when you touch the one that you
want, and then you keep scroll, scroll, scroll,
it actually makes the phone hotter because that's
a pretty big, let's say task that you're
doing by having the phone scroll.
You're actually having the phone having to do
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quite a bit of math calculations because it
has to redisplay and gather data.
So it has to erase the data and
redisplay the data.
And let's face it, that does warm things
up a little bit.
I know ladies and gentlemen, that this phone
from what I can see and using the
phone, it seems to be very viable.
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It seems to be something that is gonna
be much better.
So far, the core quality has been better.
Wi-Fi usage.
So the Wi-Fi on it has been
pretty good.
I can't say anything bad about the Wi
-Fi usage.
I mean, I have Wi-Fi seven at
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home.
So that's a pretty fast speed.
So the warranty they give you, basically, the
limited warranty is basically about one year from
when you got the phone.
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I think the other thing I wanna say
is that when these carriers say you're getting
a free phone, you're really not getting a
free phone, okay?
When any of these carriers, and I don't
care if it's Verizon, whoever it is, or
T-Mobile, whatever.
When they say you are getting a free
phone, you are not.
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It's just a credit on the account.
So yeah, it means you're receiving a monthly
credit on your account that offsets the phone's
price over time.
Typically, you're required to sign up for a
multi-year contract in one of the higher
pricing planes.
Like on the Verizon, it's the unlimited.
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And full cost of the phone is divide
up and credit back each billing cycle.
If you stay compliant with the plan's terms,
if you cancel early, you often are responsible
for the remaining balance.
So the free phone is really just a
payment offset, not an outright giveaway.
So I think that's an interesting thing to
understand.
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And the other thing I wanted to explain
with this phone, which I think is something
that a lot of people miss, is that
when you get this phone, so Verizon does
not give you a free phone every year.
They used to, they don't anymore.
You get it every two years.
So if I wanna get a phone every
year, I have to pay off the rest
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of my phone.
So I paid off 50%.
I have to pay off the other 50
% before I can actually go through and
get the phone.
So I know that sounds crazy, but let's
say a phone costs $35.
So 35 times 12 comes out to be
four something, right?
So you do 420 times two, and you're
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basically at an $840 phone.
So what they're requiring you to pay, it's
almost what you paid for, maybe a little
bit less.
But I had to pay like 200 some
dollars, and then I had to pay the
taxes, and then I had to pay an
activation thing of $4.
Like, I think that was nonsense.
Like, it was really crazy.
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So again, this is the place to get
the truth.
When I have a lot of celebrities that
talk to me like, hey, John, I love
your show.
I said, why?
Well, you don't sell anything.
I said, no, I don't.
I give you the truth.
I have something I'm gonna be doing probably
next week, explaining to you about one of
my laptops where it was a Lenovo laptop.
(51:58):
And I gotta tell you, the Lenovo P1
G7, terrible laptop.
1900 latencies are over in one minute.
Crashed my audio, professional audio system.
Okay, crashed my camera.
Okay, and when I reached out to them,
I said, well, you know, we don't support
everything.
I'm sorry, but streaming and video is, I
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mean, that's like, hello.
I mean, that's like pretty standard.
I was very taken back by the way
Lenovo didn't even wanna help me.
So I went back to my distributor and
we're still working on, because I have a
P1 6 right now, getting the new P1
6 G3, which will not be out until
probably another two to three weeks.
I know they said they can be pre
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-ordered soon, but they're still not out yet.
So again, a lot of companies are under
push.
Another thing I noticed when I was talking
to my distributors is we were looking at
different models.
And I said, you know, Lenovo and a
lot of other ones, they're not giving you
a lot of choices.
This is your 100% right.
And I said, why?
He said, well, it's because of the tariff
thing.
They only wanna give you models that are
gonna basically be the ones people buy.
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But I think that's a real like cop
-out, right?
Give people less choices, really?
Like, I think what we need to do
is produce this technology in the United States
of America and knock out all these stupid
tariffs.
So the question everyone's been asking me is,
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you know, it's a great question is, when
will the tariffs hit the laptops?
Well, they're not hitting the laptops directly at
this point.
As smartphones and laptops have been temporal examples
from the most recent tariff hikes.
However, the situation is complex and it could
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change.
The Trump administration is reportedly considering new tariffs
on foreign electronics based on the number of
chips they contain, which could impact laptops in
the future.
Additionally, pre-existing tariffs on components likely to
increase prices, a trend that some manufacturers have
already started.
I think what we're gonna see costs changing
is when we get into things like artificial
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intelligence.
I see artificial intelligence technology as it gets
more robust to be licensed.
Now you might say AI is free and
yes, but if you're gonna use it at
a global scale or a big large cloud
infrastructure scale, right?
Then you're probably gonna be paying some money.
The government doesn't care that you run a
(54:27):
small little AI thing, but they do care
if you have like a few million people
coming to a website, they care about that.
They wanna get money on that.
And so I think everyone right now is
trying to find technology that's gonna work for
them today and it's gonna grow.
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An interesting market that I'm starting to follow
is the banking industry.
The banking industry has been changing a lot.
People have been saying, is there gonna only
be one bank?
I don't think there's gonna be one bank,
but I do think there's gonna be less
banks than we have now.
We have lots of banks.
If I had to guess right now, I
know this is probably a hard guess, how
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many different bank types, names in the world?
I would say there's a lot.
So there's 11 types of banks.
There's eight common types of main local banks,
but because you have things like central banks,
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retail banks, commercial banks, investment banks, credit unions.
But my question is, how many banks names
are there in, let's just say the US.
How many are there?
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You ready guys?
There are 4,462 banks.
Now, this is according to the FDIC.
Now, how many with the same, how many
with just the name once, not repeating?
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That number should be generally lower.
That one, so the number of unique banks,
it's lower due to many banks sharing similar
repeated names, right?
The FDIC listing suggests it's like between 300
and 4,000 unique names as of 2025.
The accounts for mergers and banks operating under
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the same brand in both locations.
I mean, I think it's crazy that we
have so many different banks.
Like this just like, this blows me out
of the water.
You know, I said to you guys before,
if you're going to use technology, we want
to use it for the greater good of
all concerned.
I don't care whether you are somebody that's
just using this in your home or using
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it for some other purchase.
I think it's important.
I think it's really important to understand, you
know, what's happening, right?
And if we can understand this then, and
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only then guys, can we make a true
choice, right?
A true choice of doing what's the greater
good for all concerned.
The greater good for all concerned.
You know, that might sound like something that's
(57:38):
crazy, but I want to tell you something.
It's not crazy.
This is something that day in and day
out we are thinking about.
And I think if we understand that it's
about the greater, again, it's about the greater
good of all concerned.
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Again, the greater good.
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unleashed, series four, show 39, guys.
Yes, yes, yes.
This is the weekly tech wake-up call
for all of you out there.
Tech talks, all innovation, cybersecurity, future tech, tech
news, and new iPhone, smart homes, AI trends,
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podcast life, tech updates, and you know, guys,
a lot more.
So without any further ado, let's go ahead
and get into this week's hot topics.
Are you ready?
I know I am.
Well, Optus emergency outage was a big strategy,
and it strikes Australia.
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Optus faces a leadership crisis after a 13
-hour emergency call outage resulting in four tragic
deaths.
Ouch, guys.
Customers' warnings were ignored, and the event triggers
a full government probe and exposes some major
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weaknesses in telecom safety.
We don't realize how much we need technology
and how much we need communication until it's
not there.
Number two, guys, China's social platforms are hit
by regulators.
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Kaiyashu and Weibu are under fire right now.
China's internet watchdog demands stricter content controls as
viral gossip slips through trending lists.
Are the tough new rules now that the
norm for digital platforms becoming too difficult, or
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are they just kind of sidescaping some things?
Well, I think a lot of people are
trying to not, you know, follow these rules,
but you know, if they don't, the European
Union is obviously going to come after them
with some big, big problems.
And it's important that you understand all these
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things, guys, really, really important.
And number three, Trump's $100,000 H-1B
fee roils the tech as a new $100
,000 annual visa fee blindsides the Indian tech
workers.
And it's heightening diplomatic tension and risking family
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separations is what they're claiming.
The tech giants are urging workers to stay
put amid the threats to global talent mobility.
And I think, you know, when we hit
people in their pocketbooks, this is when they
start to realize that, hey, we better do
something like now.
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And if we don't, well, then that's a
very, very big, big problem.
Number four, guys, Apple watch.
Yes, AI spots a high AI blood pressure
now with their new watch that has FDA
approval.
Apple's groundbreaking watch uses AI, artificial intelligence, to
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detect high blood pressure before symptoms appear.
With FDA approval now on the way and
worldwide rollout, this is going to be big,
guys.
It's a major leap for personal health tech,
but not a substitute for medical care.
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Now, guys, what I want to share with
you is Tim Cook said something a while
back that he wanted Apple to become that
portal for your personal health and wellbeing.
Well, this is where they're going, right?
Number five, and the Trump XI call revives
the TikToks US sale.
The USCN high level talks are now on
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between Trump and XI and pushing TikToks US
sale closer.
But questions are still looming over the algorithm
and who has control and national security is
still over our heads as both sides are
hunting for a win.
It just seems like it's a lot of,
I don't know, mumbo jumbo, and I don't
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really believe what's going on until I see
a sale.
I just think diplomatic relations, including our president
and the administrative offices, are placating this.
Why, I don't know.
But I think we've really got to get
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smart and focus in on what we need
and stop playing these games.
That's the truth, guys.
We've got to stop playing these games because
if we keep playing these games, we're going
to put America's safety and wellbeing at risk.
Number six, guys, huge lines for the iPhone
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17 launch in China, Beijing as buzzes around
with crowds scramble for Apple's redesigned iPhone with
the 17 better battery and a sleeker style
predicted to boost sales despite fierce IOMI and
Huawei competition.
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I have the iPhone 17 Pro Max right
here, guys.
We'll go into it a little bit.
That's not what today's show is about.
We'll probably do that on another show, but
I want to show you that I have
my phone here.
I did have to go get another case.
So Defender makes one case for this phone
and then they make a pro case.
If you don't get the pro case, well,
if you guys can see, you actually don't
have that little mag safe in the center.
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And so one thing that was, let's say,
a ray of sunshine is that this particular
device with this new case actually fit in
my old holster.
So that was pretty cool.
I didn't expect that to happen.
So that was really a cool thing.
And the way that Defender does it now,
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the OtterBox, Defender, they basically, they give you
a QR code.
You scan that, put your information in, and
then they send out basically the belt clip
if you need it, because they save lots
of money by not including those in the
box, apparently.
All right.
So number seven, guys, Lyft.
You remember Lyft?
Lyft pays $19.4 million for New Jersey
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driver misclassifications.
So Lyft does settle with the New Jersey
area after the misclassification.
Over 100,000 contractors.
Let me say that again, 100,000 contractors
misclassified.
This $19.4 million payout spotlights national scrutiny
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surrounding gig worker rights and the new labor
precedents that are upon us.
It's funny how nobody wanted to do anything
for the longest period of time, and then
whoop, all of a sudden they're deciding to
do something.
What's the deal with that, guys?
What the heck, right?
So I don't know, guys.
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I think it was just a push of
what was going to win more.
When something goes to court, well, that's when
people seem to pay attention.
It's like when we hit them where their
pocketbooks are, their wallets are, that's when people
pay attention, whether we were talking about META,
whether we were talking about TikTok or whoever.
But this thing with TikTok right now is
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very strange with what's going on.
We'll have to see what's going to happen.
I have some more news later in the
show, so stay tuned on that.
Number eight, META unveils the $799 smart glasses
that they have.
Now META's game-changing, they claim, smart glasses
offer notifications, calls, and a personal superintelligence display
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controlled by, well, a wristband.
High-cost and child safety risks tests in
consumer adoption now.
Is this the future of wearables?
I don't know, guys.
But the thing I got to tell you
about the Ray-Ban METAs that I paid
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some interesting change for, I was deeply disappointed.
Let me tell you why.
So I went to the Ray-Ban store,
which I've owned Ray-Ban glasses for many
years, but I decided to go get the
Ray-Ban METAs, the ones which I spent
the extra money so that the glasses actually
change from clear inside to dark outside.
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And I was talking to the lady there
in the store, and she flat out lied
to me.
When I said to her, does this work
on TikTok, oh, it works on all platforms,
she lied to me.
The only way it works on TikTok is
if you basically record a video and upload
it.
But it doesn't directly work on TikTok.
So I was a little unhappy with that.
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And based on the lies that I'm seeing,
I don't know, guys, if I wanna get
the new META Ray-Ban glasses.
Why?
I don't know, guys.
So this is what they call Gen, basically
Gen 2 of the glasses.
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And these glasses are supposedly better.
The Ray-Ban META headliners right now, the
Gen 2s, are you ready?
The Gen 2s are listing at basically, they've
gone up there, guys, a little bit.
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So the Ray-Ban METAs now were at
one price, then they changed.
So it says the Ray-Ban METAs, the
head, the Ray-Ban METAs, the Skyliner Gen
2s are $379.
So the thing is this, these new, that
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was the generation two, right?
That was the generation.
So it says you can shop the glasses
and get them, but you actually have to
pre-order them.
They're not out yet.
So they do appear to be obviously different,
but those are not the full Ray-Ban
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display glasses.
If you want the Ray-Ban display glasses,
are you ready for this?
This is gonna set you back a little
bit.
You're gonna pay, you ready?
$799.
And everybody's saying, you know, be one of
the first to experience the next revolution in
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wearable tech.
600 by 600 pixel high-res full-color
display, built-in right lens, 6-mic array,
12-megapixel camera with 3x zoom, up to
6 hours of continuous mixed-use battery life.
They said 8 originally, but it's 6 of
mixed use and per charge, and it's around
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30 total hours of battery life with a
fully charged case.
So you have to go back and forth
a few times.
So a private display integrated into the right
lens of the glasses appears when you need
it and hides when you don't.
This is kind of more like the Star
Trek.
Are these really worth $800?
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I don't know.
I'm still a little bit disappointed with the
glasses I spent quite a bit of money
on that I use once in a while,
but they're just not as good as they
said.
So I don't really know.
I'm going to wait a little while before
I get these glasses because I'm not convinced
that they're probably going to be the end.
I think there might be something else.
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And guys, number nine, China supposedly approves the
TikTok deal.
Trump declares that China has green-lighted TikTok's
continued US presence.
ByteDance moves toward American control, but some tough
security and ownership questions are remaining unresolved.
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So what's happening?
I don't think anybody really knows, like, you
know, when will TikTok sell to US?
Trump signs the order declaring TikTok sale is
ready and valuing it, right?
ByteDance would hold less than 20% of
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TikTok US to comply with the requirements set
out in the 2020-24 law, but they're
still going to have some control on it.
I don't know if I like that, guys.
I really don't know if I like that.
So we're going to have to see what's
going on.
President Donald Trump just yesterday, which was September
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25th, he actually signed an executive order approving
a proposal that would keep TikTok alive in
the United States in a transaction that Vice
President J.D. Vance said values the business
at $14 billion.
The deal satisfies the requirement of a national
security law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell
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TikTok's US operations or face an executive ban
in the country, according to the executive order.
Under the terms, which China must still approve,
a new joint venture company will oversee TikTok's
US business with ByteDance retaining less than 20
% stake.
Why are they getting to keep any of
it?
Enterprise tech giant Oracle, Silverlake, and the Abu
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Dhabi-based MGX Investment Fund will be main
investors in TikTok's US business, controlling a roughly
45% stake in the entity, while ByteDance
investors and new holders will hold 35%.
And CNBC's David Farber is definitely keeping us
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a loop on this.
So no representatives from ByteDance were present at
the signing.
Of course, you would suspect that they wouldn't
be there.
And the company has acknowledged that the transaction
is taking place.
No purchase price was mentioned, and there's no
indication that the Chinese government has made changes
to laws that would be necessary for a
deal to take place.
President Trump said the Chinese President Xi Jinping
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gave the deal the go-ahead.
Vance said the Chinese government put up some
resistance before the agreement.
Under the planned agreement, Oracle will oversee the
app security operations and continue providing cloud computing
services for the new TikTok US firm.
Farber reported, citing sources familiar with the deal,
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that Trump said Oracle, Larry Ellison, is involved
in the ownership group, and that his company
is playing a very big part.
It's owned by Americans, and very sophisticated Americans.
And Trump said at the signing, quote, this
is going to be American operate all the
way, end quote.
ByteDance investors like General Atlantic, Susquehanna, and Sequoia
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are expected to contribute equity in the new
TikTok entity, sources have told different people.
And ByteDance was reportedly valued at $330 billion
last month.
Analysts have previously estimated TikTok's operations could be
worth between $30 billion and $35 billion.
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The deal does not involve the federal government
taking an equity stake or a so-called
golden share in TikTok's US operations.
CNBC is definitely tracking this.
And Trump said over the last weekend, the
conservative media man, Rupert Murdoch, and his son,
Lachlan Murdoch, could be involved in the TikTok
deal as well, as Ellison and Dell Technology
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CEO, Michael Dell.
Of course, Dell wants to get his hand
in everything.
The president last week signed executive order that
extended ByteDance's deadline time to divest TikTok's US
operations or be subject to a national security
law originally signed by former President Joe Biden.
The order prevents the Department of Justice from
enforcing the national security law until December 16th.
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Okay.
So now we've got more time, but I
got to be honest with you.
I don't really believe that that means anything
because Trump just keeps changing things, right?
And he keeps changing things.
How do we even know that it's even
going to stand?
I don't believe it.
Number 10, guys.
Capital One, yes.
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Not what's in your wallet this time.
It's what's coming out of theirs.
Settles with creators over affiliate earnings.
Social creators force Capital One to settle millions
in lost affiliate commissions due to their shopping
browser extension, highlighting the tension between big tech
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and influencer fair pay.
Now, they've been saying that this whole thing
is around for a while, but what I
didn't realize is that they weren't playing fair
100% of the time.
So that extension might be going away.
Not sure yet, but we'll have to see.
Is the Capital One browser extension going away?
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And I think right now it's not going
away.
It's currently available for browsers like Chrome, Firefox,
Edge, and Safari.
That's why they're paying this money, right?
All about fair pay.
Number 11, Amazon broke the law on prime
signups.
Yes, they did.
A federal judge recently ruled that Amazon violated
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consumer protection during prime signups, collecting payment info
before full disclosure and making cancellations very hard.
We've seen this before with other companies where
you get roped into some monkey trench and
you can't get out.
You can't even cancel.
There were some sites on the internet.
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You can't even cancel until you schedule an
appointment.
What kind of nonsense is that?
I mean, the commission is now starting to
really get to the bottom of, but it's
a scam.
I mean, the fact that you sign up
so quickly and you can't unsign up, I
mean, that's just nonsense.
So the FTC is now heading to trial
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with them and putting Amazon on defense again.
Number 12, guys, Heathrow and Brussels become paralyzed
recently by a cyber attack.
A cyber attack on the airport check-in
systems brought chaos to Heathrow and Brussels as
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flights delayed and lines grew very long.
Experts warned about the rising ransomware risks and
how fragile our travel ecosystem has become.
Now, I want to say something very interesting.
This is a really interesting question.
Why?
This is my question.
Why is Staples now selling Clear and luggage?
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Like, why?
So Staples has partnered with Clear, a TSA
pre-check enrollment provider, to offer enrollment and
renewal services at hundreds of its retail locations.
The Clear you are referring to is not
luggage, but rather the name of the company,
Clear.
So I want to make sure you're understanding
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that.
Luggage is just another piece they're doing that
Staples is doing that, Staples Travel Hub now.
So the partnership allows Clear to expand its
in-person enrollment footprint beyond airports, making it
more convenient for people to enroll or renew
their TSA pre-check membership.
Convenience for customers, for Staples hosting Clear services,
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adds a new travel-related offering to its
stores, complementing other services and attracting more customers.
Increasing access to the TSA pre-check.
The move is part of Clear's effort to
increase national access to TSA pre-check enrollment,
especially for those who don't visit an airport
frequently.
This partnership brings TSA pre-check enrollment and
renewal to more than 190 Staples stores across
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the United States with plans for continued expansion.
So the question you might be asking is,
why are so many Staples stores closing?
Staples isn't entirely closing, but it is shutting
down individual stores as part of an ongoing
strategy to adapt to changing retail landscapes.
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This includes closing underperforming stores, especially since the
company was acquired by a private equity firm
that has a limited long-term interest in
retail.
Factors contributing to these closures are increasing competition
from online retailers like Amazon, outdated pricing models,
high operational costs, and shifting consumer demand away
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from traditional office supplies.
So who did buy Staples?
Again, it's a private equity firm called Sycamore
Partners.
They actually bought Staples, it was kind of
under the radar, in 2017 for $6.9
billion.
After the acquisition, Sycamore restructured the company into
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three separate entities.
The B2B delivery unit, the US retail location,
and Staples Canada.
So who is Sycamore Partners?
Again, the deal was consecrated in September of
2017.
Sycamore acquired Staples for $6.9 billion with
a $1.6 billion funded by equity and
the rest by debt.
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The acquisition was a rare bet by a
private equity firm in the United States retail
sector at the time, which was facing challenges
from online shopping.
Sycamore saw potential in Staples' delivery business.
So this is interesting that they're getting involved
with this.
Number 13, guys, the White House unveils the
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TikTok deal now.
So the White House's breakthrough on the TikTok
plan hands the algorithm and board control to
US firms.
Oracle is leading the data privacy as China
remains silent and has no room to stand
or say anything.
Will the deal resolve the security standoffs or
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spark new controversy?
That's a question we're going to have to
wait and see what happens.
And number 14, guys, hospital IT outage halts
1,600 appointments.
Major IT failure across Northern Ireland's Southern Trust
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Hospitals and postponed $1,600.
They have health appointments and no cyber attack
was reported.
But the disruptions added urgency to reliable tech
in healthcare.
Guys, that's like insane.
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All right, really, really insane.
So I want to share a little bit
about the iPhone, OK?
So the iPhone 17 Pro Max is very
interesting what had happened.
And I think the interesting thing is that
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when we can think about having the iPhone,
everything's going through, I was not happy in
a couple of things.
So this isn't a four-hour review, but
I want to give you some of my
feedback.
So the iPhone 17 Pro Max has a
lower telephoto than the 16 Pro Max.
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Yeah, first of all, they were saying that
it has a better telephoto camera than the
16 Pro Max.
Features a 48-megapixel telephoto lens compared to
the 12-megapixel telephoto on the 16.
It allows for higher quality zoom.
But the question comes, is the 17 Pro's
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camera less than the 16?
So they're saying it's not a downgrade, but
it's how the phone has been designed to
give you greater pictures.
All right, I mean, I don't know if
I buy that.
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So a couple of things I wanted to
talk about.
So when I got the iPhone, all right,
what I want to share with you is
that this iPhone, well, let's just say I've
done many upgrades, probably over nine or 10
iPhone upgrades.
And I had upgraded my previous iPhone 16
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Pro Max, of course, backed it up, but
I upgraded it to the 18.2 and
then I went to the 26.0 and
wanted to be ready for the iPhone 17
Pro Max.
So when I got the phone, did the
normal stuff like I normally would do.
And so when I went to do the
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transfer, the upgrading, basically hold it to the
other and you could basically show the code
from the one screen to the other phone
so it knows that that's the phone.
And then what happens, which is interesting, this
is what's interesting.
After I did what I had to do,
I've got to tell you that it's interesting
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because the phone did not go ahead and
continue to transfer my files.
After it upgraded to the 26.0, it's
like it completely forgot about taking my settings
over.
Now, many people be like, oh, this is
cool, right?
But no, it didn't remember.
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Now I had to go back and start
the upgrade process all over again.
That might have confused somebody.
I knew right away because my main home
screen was not changed.
So that was a big, big difference.
And so I had to go do that.
The upgrade of transferring about 500 and some
gigabytes took less than 12 minutes, maybe 11,
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11 and a half minutes.
And so now this is all done.
Now it gets better.
Microsoft has decided that they weren't going to
just make the transfer of the two-factor
authentications as easy as it was in the
past.
Had to do some extra steps so I
could get my 65 two-factor authentication keys
onto a new phone because I was not
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going to do that by hand.
And so what else can I tell you?
So the phone, I've had the phone obviously
since, what was it last?
When did the phone came out?
I remember now.
The phone actually came out on, the phone
came out on the, it actually came out,
what was it?
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The 20, was it the, yeah, it was
actually the 19th I got it.
So I've had the phone now a full
week.
And I have to say the battery life
has been okay.
I've taken some pictures.
The video has been good.
Haven't had any issues there.
It has a new intelligence feature where you
can use the camera.
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And so when you pull the camera up
and you try to like do something with
the camera, you can literally have the camera,
okay, have you use an intelligence sense to
let you know what that is, which I
think is pretty cool.
But here's something I think that's really, really
cool.
So you all know about how you can
set different modes, right?
How you can have different, we call them
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focuses.
Like for example, you can have a focus
for do not disturb.
You can have a focus for, personally, you're
a focus for reducing interruptions.
You can have a focus for school.
So for me, I actually have a focus
for school and it turns on automatically.
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Now, this was a bug that did not
work properly in everything prior to, at least
I tried 26.
They might've fixed it in 19 too, but
it seemed to work in 26.
So that's when I noticed it was working.
So whenever I go to Montgomery State University,
it automatically, I have it set to change
my screen, background screen, you know, so I
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know right away that it's me, the lock
screen.
And it has a little icon, which in
my case, the icon that I chose was
a, basically it looks like a, it looks
like a, it's like a, almost like a
government school.
It has like a triangle and four pillars
and then something below it.
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And so what I want to tell you
is it actually works now, not just once,
not just twice, it kicks it immediately.
So that's one good thing that I like
about the 26.0 OS.
And I believe it was fixed in the
OS.
I don't think it was fixed in the
phone.
I think it was fixed in the, in
the, in the iOS.
So what are some other challenges?
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So the other thing is that Apple no
longer lets you keep the phone unlocked for
downloading appers.
You have to put your password in.
Not crazy about that.
So real quickly, what is new in 26
.0?
A bullet list.
So there's a few things, all right.
If we had to just kind of just
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go through them quickly.
Liquid glass is my favorite.
The new design provides this fluid, transparent look.
And it's transparent across the lock screen, the
home screen, the apps.
And it makes the interface more immersive and
kind of a little more fun to play
with.
So you have the dynamic lock screen, the
lock screen now dynamically resizes and repositions itself
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to avoid obscuring the subject in your wallpaper
photo.
A new 3D effect makes wallpaper photos appear
to pop out when you move your iPhone.
Customizable app icons.
User can now choose from various updated styles
for their app icons, including light, dark, color
tinted, or a new clear glass-like appearance.
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You have a refreshed control center.
The control center has been redesigned with the
new liquid glass.
And it's pretty cool.
I have to tell you that it's pretty
cool.
They added something else, which is called the
Apple Intelligence AI features.
They added some things about that to make
this a little more, let's say, with the
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new changes and things that are happening in
AI.
So one thing is Apple Intelligence.
So Vision Intelligence, the feature allows you to
search, ask questions, or take action on anything
visible on your phone.
You have Genmoji and image playground.
You can create custom emojis from text descriptions
or existing emoji combinations.
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Live translation.
This offers real-time translation for conversations in
phone and FaceTime calls, as well as text
and messages.
Smart reminders.
The reminder app can now suggest tasks and
automatically categorize list items based on texts or
emails and other apps.
You have a neat call screening app that's
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kind of built in.
Screening coming calls from unknown numbers to get
information about who is calling and why before
you decide to answer.
Hold assist.
I love this.
The feature will wait on hold for you
during a phone call and notify you when
a live agent joins the line.
That's cool.
Unified phone app layout.
The phone app now provides a single screen
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to access your contacts, your recent, and your
voicemail.
So when I go into my one view
right now, which I can very easily do,
I can see what I've got, my keypad.
So they made this, how can I say?
They made it a little smarter now.
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So you can just go into what you
need.
So basically, you go to the top of
the screen and you have to pick down
calls missed.
You can go to voicemail over the screen.
So instead of you having to choose the
option at the bottom, now you go to
the top right.
I'm not really crazy about that feature, to
be honest.
Message enhancements.
New features include the ability to create polls
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and add custom backgrounds to conversations and filter
messages from unknown senders.
I really like that option.
Adaptive power and energy saving mode for periods
of heavy usage that make subtle adjustments to
preserve battery power life without completely limiting the
background experience.
And I think that's an important thing for
everybody to understand.
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The AirPods update uses AirPods or AirPods Pro
with the H2 chip to capture high quality
audio for video calls.
Or as a remote to start recording in,
let's say, the camera app.
Preview app, a new built-in app for
scanning documents, filling out PDFs and annotating text.
If you remember, we couldn't open PDFs on
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the iPhone.
Now we can without having to buy a
PDF app.
Apple Music includes new features like lyric translation,
pronunciation, expandability, accessibility.
New options are available for users who rely
on braille and features to help reduce motion
sickness.
That's pretty cool.
How about using your camera, okay, pointing and
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getting AI to answer?
So this is kind of cool.
You can use your camera to get AI
answers by using a visual search app like
Google Lens, a feature within Google's main app.
And this technology is a form of visual
question answering.
VQA, they call it, which combines computer vision
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and natural vision.
So I think they've made some great changes
with the app.
So what is bad in iOS 26?
So it has a couple of drawbacks.
So the major drawback, some people don't like
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liquid glass.
One of the things I have to tell
you that I'm really unhappy with.
So after I had updated my phone, I
had like 10,000 emails, okay?
And so let's say that I wanted to
just go in and select all.
Well, there is no select all option anymore.
Like hello, Apple, they like got rid of
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that.
It's in certain things, but it's not when
you go into your general mail and you
try to select.
So what I had to do is hold,
touch the one, and then just keeps thumb,
thumb, thumb, thumb, thumb, thumbing down.
And then what I noticed is the back
of my phone got really hot, almost hot,
it would almost burn my hand, not quite,
but pretty hot.
And so they forgot that option.
So I hope, Apple, that you will go
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ahead and add the select all button because
that was just really, really, really bad.
Many users report initial issues like faster battery
drain.
I haven't had those issues.
As long as you're up to date, you're
fine with those things.
Lagging and freezing, I haven't had anything like
that.
But I have to tell you, some people
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had issues with blurriness.
I didn't have that issue at all.
You have the feature, which you probably have
known before.
If I type something and I shake it,
it'll actually undo what I just did.
So that's a pretty cool thing, guys.
But if we had to say, what are
the game changers for this?
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And I have to tell you, iOS 26
best features, I like the liquid glass.
I like the extensive lock.
I like the, you know, you can hold
on the phone and it notifies you.
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I like that.
So that's definitely pretty cool.
Liquid glass is not just an experience.
It actually makes using the phone more fun.
In some ways, it can actually help you
to navigate things easier.
So also you have the summary feature in
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iOS 26.
And what is the summary feature?
So you can have a notification summary feature
using Apple's intelligence to provide concise summaries of
mobile notifications with expanded functionality in iOS 26.
Instead of having multiple messages on the same,
it can consolidate them down and then put
a number on it to make things easier.
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So I do think it's better in a
lot of ways, but I want to tell
you that I think it needs some help.
They did add some ability to how to
access the camera a little bit different.
They did some other stuff that they made
some access options available in CarPlay.
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So that was nice.
I'm not a CarPlay user, so that really
didn't matter to me.
The visual intelligence is kind of neat.
So you can add an event from a
flyer on your iPhone screen to your calendar
with a single tap, like an invite for
a neighborhood event.
Details like event title, name, et cetera.
You can interact with text.
You can summarize the translator, read text out
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loud.
Shortcuts are better now.
But again, I think the unknown color feature
is neat.
I think the hold assist is neat.
The screening is definitely neat.
But if I had to say the big
game changer for me, the feature that I
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like the most on the iPhone 26, so
I have to say I like the ability
that you can hold.
And I also like the ability that if
I'm on the phone with somebody and I
need to record the call, I can just
touch the option and record.
And then I can translate that if I
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needed to.
So those are pretty cool features.
So right now I am on the 26
.0. I'm waiting, guys, for this to be
at the next version because I think there's
definitely some issues that they need to fix.
And I know this is definitely a problem.
And I know Apple was very, how can
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I say, zealous about trying to get this
stuff out.
I never go for the beta updates, guys.
I just don't trust them.
It's nice that there are not a lot
of updates right now because I think Apple
would probably going crazy if there were.
So the software update that I have right
now is 26.0. And you might be
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asking, and this is a great question, when
is the next iOS coming out?
Well, the next iOS that we're probably going
to see is it going to be for
a little while, okay?
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I think iOS 27 is not officially announced
yet, but rumors suggest it'll be released in
the second half of 2026.
So how about 26.1?
So they're saying that 26.1 will be
released in late October.
They have some betas out, but I don't
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dare want to try that.
And there are going to be several more
beta versions before the final release, which is
expected to follow x.1, et cetera.
So I think they rushed this because they
wanted to get everything ready for the new
iPhone.
I think that was the whole reason that
they absolutely did this.
And I got to say the upgrade process,
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if I had to give it a score
on a scale of one to 10, I'd
probably give it a negative five.
That's how annoying it was.
Oh, not only that guys, when I went
to finish that whole process, right?
And because I use a Mac encrypted network,
I had to go in and enable that
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device to be able to get out to
the internet.
That was no big deal.
But in addition to that, I then chose
the option activate the phone.
It did not activate the phone.
I had to call into Verizon.
Now they were closed at nine o'clock
at night.
So I had to go through the plethora
of prompts, and there were quite a few,
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to go through and actually activate my phone.
It asked me to put my mobile phone
number in.
And then after that, it sent a code.
I had to validate the code.
And then the phone was active pretty much.
But I think that's terrible.
Now I talked to Verizon.
They said that they don't do that all
the time, but yet I know two or
three clients that had the same issue.
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So I don't know.
And the people at the stores of Verizon,
they don't really know, but Verizon had this
issue.
I don't know if any other carriers had
this issue, but the phone used to just
activate.
And then you had to power the phone
off, turn it back on, and then it
worked.
So I just found it to be, I
got to be honest guys, I found it
to be a hassle, like a very, very
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big...
I think when we look at technology and
we figure out what's happening, I think we
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have to understand that we can't just push
features out there.
If I want a thousand features, and let's
say we can only get 500 working properly,
then we only should release 500 features, right?
Or we should release what works properly.
I think a lot of people push to
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release things because they feel that if they're
released, they can sell more.
But you know what happens?
People get more upset because the technology not
only doesn't work the way it's supposed to,
it works worse than what it was supposed
to.
The fact that I cannot go into my
thing and I can get something, I think
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that's crazy.
It's nuts how all this is happening.
And I think a lot of times people
just get into a stuck state of where
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we need to be.
But when we push things out a certain
way, I think, and then something doesn't work.
Like the fact that a select all button
doesn't work.
And when I get into my email right
now, if I select an email, if I
go to my email account and I click
on something, and I just click select, there
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is no select all button.
And when you touch the one that you
want, and then you keep scroll, scroll, scroll,
it actually makes the phone hotter because that's
a pretty big, let's say task that you're
doing by having the phone scroll.
You're actually having the phone having to do
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quite a bit of math calculations because it
has to redisplay and gather data.
So it has to erase the data and
redisplay the data.
And let's face it, that does warm things
up a little bit.
I know ladies and gentlemen, that this phone
from what I can see and using the
phone, it seems to be very viable.
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It seems to be something that is gonna
be much better.
So far, the core quality has been better.
Wi-Fi usage.
So the Wi-Fi on it has been
pretty good.
I can't say anything bad about the Wi
-Fi usage.
I mean, I have Wi-Fi seven at
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home.
So that's a pretty fast speed.
So the warranty they give you, basically, the
limited warranty is basically about one year from
when you got the phone.
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I think the other thing I wanna say
is that when these carriers say you're getting
a free phone, you're really not getting a
free phone, okay?
When any of these carriers, and I don't
care if it's Verizon, whoever it is, or
T-Mobile, whatever.
When they say you are getting a free
phone, you are not.
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It's just a credit on the account.
So yeah, it means you're receiving a monthly
credit on your account that offsets the phone's
price over time.
Typically, you're required to sign up for a
multi-year contract in one of the higher
pricing planes.
Like on the Verizon, it's the unlimited.
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And full cost of the phone is divide
up and credit back each billing cycle.
If you stay compliant with the plan's terms,
if you cancel early, you often are responsible
for the remaining balance.
So the free phone is really just a
payment offset, not an outright giveaway.
So I think that's an interesting thing to
understand.
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And the other thing I wanted to explain
with this phone, which I think is something
that a lot of people miss, is that
when you get this phone, so Verizon does
not give you a free phone every year.
They used to, they don't anymore.
You get it every two years.
So if I wanna get a phone every
year, I have to pay off the rest
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of my phone.
So I paid off 50%.
I have to pay off the other 50
% before I can actually go through and
get the phone.
So I know that sounds crazy, but let's
say a phone costs $35.
So 35 times 12 comes out to be
four something, right?
So you do 420 times two, and you're
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basically at an $840 phone.
So what they're requiring you to pay, it's
almost what you paid for, maybe a little
bit less.
But I had to pay like 200 some
dollars, and then I had to pay the
taxes, and then I had to pay an
activation thing of $4.
Like, I think that was nonsense.
Like, it was really crazy.
And you know, guys, you can catch every
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So again, this is the place to get
the truth.
When I have a lot of celebrities that
talk to me like, hey, John, I love
your show.
I said, why?
Well, you don't sell anything.
I said, no, I don't.
I give you the truth.
I have something I'm gonna be doing probably
next week, explaining to you about one of
my laptops where it was a Lenovo laptop.
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And I gotta tell you, the Lenovo P1
G7, terrible laptop.
1900 latencies are over in one minute.
Crashed my audio, professional audio system.
Okay, crashed my camera.
Okay, and when I reached out to them,
I said, well, you know, we don't support
everything.
I'm sorry, but streaming and video is, I
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mean, that's like, hello.
I mean, that's like pretty standard.
I was very taken back by the way
Lenovo didn't even wanna help me.
So I went back to my distributor and
we're still working on, because I have a
P1 6 right now, getting the new P1
6 G3, which will not be out until
probably another two to three weeks.
I know they said they can be pre
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-ordered soon, but they're still not out yet.
So again, a lot of companies are under
push.
Another thing I noticed when I was talking
to my distributors is we were looking at
different models.
And I said, you know, Lenovo and a
lot of other ones, they're not giving you
a lot of choices.
This is your 100% right.
And I said, why?
He said, well, it's because of the tariff
thing.
They only wanna give you models that are
gonna basically be the ones people buy.
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But I think that's a real like cop
-out, right?
Give people less choices, really?
Like, I think what we need to do
is produce this technology in the United States
of America and knock out all these stupid
tariffs.
So the question everyone's been asking me is,
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you know, it's a great question is, when
will the tariffs hit the laptops?
Well, they're not hitting the laptops directly at
this point.
As smartphones and laptops have been temporal examples
from the most recent tariff hikes.
However, the situation is complex and it could
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change.
The Trump administration is reportedly considering new tariffs
on foreign electronics based on the number of
chips they contain, which could impact laptops in
the future.
Additionally, pre-existing tariffs on components likely to
increase prices, a trend that some manufacturers have
already started.
I think what we're gonna see costs changing
is when we get into things like artificial
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intelligence.
I see artificial intelligence technology as it gets
more robust to be licensed.
Now you might say AI is free and
yes, but if you're gonna use it at
a global scale or a big large cloud
infrastructure scale, right?
Then you're probably gonna be paying some money.
The government doesn't care that you run a
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small little AI thing, but they do care
if you have like a few million people
coming to a website, they care about that.
They wanna get money on that.
And so I think everyone right now is
trying to find technology that's gonna work for
them today and it's gonna grow.
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An interesting market that I'm starting to follow
is the banking industry.
The banking industry has been changing a lot.
People have been saying, is there gonna only
be one bank?
I don't think there's gonna be one bank,
but I do think there's gonna be less
banks than we have now.
We have lots of banks.
If I had to guess right now, I
know this is probably a hard guess, how
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many different bank types, names in the world?
I would say there's a lot.
So there's 11 types of banks.
There's eight common types of main local banks,
but because you have things like central banks,
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retail banks, commercial banks, investment banks, credit unions.
But my question is, how many banks names
are there in, let's just say the US.
How many are there?
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You ready guys?
There are 4,462 banks.
Now, this is according to the FDIC.
Now, how many with the same, how many
with just the name once, not repeating?
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That number should be generally lower.
That one, so the number of unique banks,
it's lower due to many banks sharing similar
repeated names, right?
The FDIC listing suggests it's like between 300
and 4,000 unique names as of 2025.
The accounts for mergers and banks operating under
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the same brand in both locations.
I mean, I think it's crazy that we
have so many different banks.
Like this just like, this blows me out
of the water.
You know, I said to you guys before,
if you're going to use technology, we want
to use it for the greater good of
all concerned.
I don't care whether you are somebody that's
just using this in your home or using
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it for some other purchase.
I think it's important.
I think it's really important to understand, you
know, what's happening, right?
And if we can understand this then, and
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only then guys, can we make a true
choice, right?
A true choice of doing what's the greater
good for all concerned.
The greater good for all concerned.
You know, that might sound like something that's
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crazy, but I want to tell you something.
It's not crazy.
This is something that day in and day
out we are thinking about.
And I think if we understand that it's
about the greater, again, it's about the greater
good of all concerned.
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Again, the greater good.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm John C.
Morley, serial entrepreneur.
Please be sure to check out believemeachieve.com
for more of my amazing inspiring creations.
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