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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to Tendo's a tech
live on YouTube. Hope you're having a fantastic day, hopefully
a little bit more interesting than me refreshing the Apple
newsroom page every morning super duper early because that's when
Tim Cook has to start his day, which means we
all have to follow him and still got nothing. There's
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still a lot of back and forth going on between
when are the M four Max dropping and case you
weren't a wear? It really could happen any day now.
It might happen tomorrow, could happen next week. I'd be
surprised if it didn't happen though, within the next ten
to twelve days, because there's been a lot of reports
about it. They've leaked already, people got their hands on them.
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But in case you weren't to wear, Yes, four, M
four Pro, and M four Max all rumored to launch
with a new MacBook Pro lineup. Sorry for the bitrate
tanking so bad. It was doing so great, it was
going so well right until I go live. Let me
close a few background things. See if that helps. Um, yeah,
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we'll close that. We'll close. I guess we could close that.
Sorry for the pixelation. This stream brought to you by
Google Pixel iPad. Many seven of you have been dropping
on other channels. Any thoughts true, I summed it up
pretty much in the iPad mini video I did, which
is exactly what we expected, just a spec bump. I
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think Apple would say the biggest feature is Apple Intelligence,
and yet it didn't. It didn't ship with that yet,
So yeah, it's kind of hard to get excited pumped
by it. I didn't see a need to. I didn't
see a need to go out and buy one because
I could go out and buy one and unbox it
and show it on my channel and my opinions would
be exactly the same. This is a new problem Apple
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has to figure out. When I have Universal Control turned
on on the iMac and then I put the iMac
to sleep, then the mouse is just gone on my
Mac like it doesn't matter. There it is. It didn't
matter if I use the track pad or the magic
mouse anyway. Can at least see your face now? Yeah,
it should recover. It just takes a few seconds. I
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don't know what causes it. You'll have like so much
consistency and the live stream will be totally steady, and
then all of a sudden, it just falls apart. It's
very random. Anyway, new iPads is just a spec bump.
Why is everybody disappointed? Nobody expected anything huge, at least
if you were expecting things huge, it's your own dang vault. Okay,
Because I literally told people leading up to the launch
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of the IPEd many seven, I was like, look, this
is what's rumored. It's probably just a spec bump. It's
not going to it's gonna add Apple pencil pro support
in a new chip. It's not gonna add o lad,
It's not gonna add pro motion. And yet everyone keeps
getting hyped and excited about when's the new iPad Mini coming?
And then it was exactly what we all thought it
was gonna be, and then people were somehow disappointed. I
was like, well, there were no leaks, there were no rumors,
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There was no analysts coming out saying that this is
going to be an old or a Mini LED or
one hundred and twenty eiritz iPad Mini. No one was
making those claims. And yet somehow that was everybody's expectation
going into it. So I don't know where that came from,
but we should probably kick off today's live stream with
the title and thumbnail. For those who are new, I'm
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sorry I have to remind everybody. For those who are loyal,
just be patient. But for the new people, we don't
do the entire live stream just about what's in the
title in thumbnail. That would get old fast. I don't
think that would be a very interesting live stream. Now,
the point of the live stream is to have a
real time response from you guys, the fans, or the viewers,
or the audience, whatever you want to call yourselves. Is
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to have real time responses. So I answer questions from
the channel members and I'll pick up I'll pick or
start off the live stream with a simple story that
we can kind of dive into so that I can
get your guys's reaction to it. But then of course
you guys can ask questions, you can steer the direction
of the stream so that it's not all just like
normal where I'm trying to guess what you're the most
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interested in. Instead, you can just tell me what you're
the most interested in, so that I know what you
guys want me to talk about. So that's the beauty
of live stream, and that's why it's a lot of fun.
But today's one was kind of an interesting report. It
came from a Japanese blog, mac Takara, who's not got
like a flawless track record by any means. But oh,
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I see the problem. I have the wrong window captured. Yeah,
those are the channel member questions, so you'll have to
take my word for it. It's in the thumbnail of
the live stream. But yeah, essentially there's not really much
to show. But mac Takara had these dummy models made
up for the iPhone SC four, which, of course I
was kind of like, this is the dumbest dummy model
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you could possibly have, because the iPhone SC four is
literally just an iPhone fourteen with one camera on the
back instead of two. That's pretty much the only difference
at this point. It looks like it's gonna have a
ringer switch, it's gonna have a volume button, it'll have
a power button just like an iPhone fourteen, be the
same shape, size display as an iPhone fourteen. It'll have
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a notch just like an iPhone fourteen. Oh and with USBC.
But again it's a dummy model. So they made these
dummy model mockups, but included in those mockups that I
assume are for case manufacturers, or I assume are from
people within the industry. They also had a plus variant
of the iPhone SE. Now again, anyone can really make
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a dummy model. Any dummy can make a dummy model, right,
So I don't look at that leak or it's not
really even a leak at this point. It's more of
just a rumor that some news articles were pushing, and
I was like, I don't know if I want to
do a whole designated video on that, but it might
make for a good topic to get your guys's opinion
on during a live stream. So that's why I'm kicking
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off today's livestream with that topic. So I don't believe
this is an accurate rumor. I don't think this is
going to happen, but it does bag the question should
the iPhone s have a plus variant? I mean NH
is like short answer. Note that is a pretty short answer.
Even yes would be a longer answer than no. I
will play Devil's advocate just for a minute, even though yes,
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I agree with you, Like if you want a bigger phone,
just buy a fourteen plus or buy a fifteen plus,
or you know there's all kinds of different plus models
out there, but to be Devil's advocate, look at it
this way. The iPhone se is supposed to replace the
iPhone fourteen in the lineup, right, they've kept around the
fifteen plus. Again, after all these years, we still have
a sixteen plus. We've got the sixteen promax. So it's
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like every other segment in the iPhone lineup has a
larger size model. And while we may not fall for
this as much as the average consumer, Apple probably is
well aware that there's advantages to having a product price
step ladder, as in, it's easy to upsell people on
nicer and nicer hardware when you are able to digest
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small price increments at a time. So if the iPhone
se regular, you know, the cheapest iPhone, which in my
opinion will be the best one. I will genuinely recommend
that to lots of people in my personal life. I'm like, hey,
let's get you on a newer iPhone with USBC and
then you're done. You don't have to think about it,
you don't have to worry about it for probably another
six seven years. That iPhone will probably last a while
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because it'll have eight gigs of memory, it will have
the best port USBC, and it'll have a forty eight
megapixel camera, which is great and fantastic. The only big
headache is they got to get used to face ID
instead of touch ID and all that. But Apple looks
at it as okay, well, let's offer an S plus
for one hundred bucks. More So, the entry level SE
would be four ninety nine, the plus would be five
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ninety nine. Hypothetically for a six point seven inch ish,
you know, in the six and a half inch size,
for a six hundred dollars iPhone that would still have
an A eighteen chip, that would still just have one
camera on the back. It would still be o led,
but it'd still be sixty hurtz and it'd be face
ID again. It would be like an iPhone fourteen plus
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that just ever so happens to have one camera USBC
and Apple Intelligence support for six hundred bucks. If they
could hit that price point. Big phones do sell well,
and it's not necessarily just because of the screen size.
It's also because of the battery life. That's important to
a lot of people out there. Like I've said for
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a while, now, you know the everyday consumer cares more
so about, you know, the cost of the phone. They
care about, I think the longevity of the phone, and
they don't get all nitpicky about specs and displays and
all that. I think what matters to the average consumer
is like the price in the battery life. And hypothetically speaking,
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while this is not a very likely rumor, I'm not
saying there's much other evidence other than this one Macatakara
blog talking about the SE Plus. Even though I'm with
a lot of you guys saying no, no, no, no,
we don't need a Plus. We've got too many pluses.
Let's have a Mini, Let's have an se Mini. I
wholeheartedly agree. I want the Mini to come back at
every price range. You know. I want a pro Mini.
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I want to iPhone sixteen Mini or seventeen Mini. You know.
I want the minis to come back. Don't get me wrong,
but unfortunately, we have a lot of evidence from Apple
that the mini iPhones don't sell all that well, or
even if they do, they don't have great margins. So
Devil's Advocate. Even though a lot of you guys bring
up good points about the se I think there's actually
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a decent chance that If Apple did release an SE plus,
which is basically just an iPhone fourteen plus with one
camera on the back, that's forty eight megapixels in USBC
with an A eighteen ship for five ninety nine, or
maybe it's a little more, maybe it's six point forty nine.
That's still substantially cheaper than an iPhone sixteen, which starts
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at you know, eight hundred bucks. That's almost two hundred
dollars less for a bigger screen, probably a better battery life,
but the same chip, probably the same USBC port. I
don't see them going much lower than USB two point zero.
So we don't know exactly what the price is on
the SE. We pretty much know everything else about it.
We know that the you know, the obvious SE, the
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six point one inch oh LED will have a boxy
aluminum design, Apple designed modem on the inside that could
also help with battery life. So you get an Apple
designed modem into a plus sized iPhone. Plus sized iPhone
means bigger battery, even though it may be more expensive
than we'd like. Maybe the SE turns into a six
hundred dollars phone, which isn't really what we think of
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when we think SE. It might end up being one
of the more popular models. Like Apple's probably just experimenting
and trying things, And there's a good chance that the
reason that an iPhone sixteen plus or fifteen plus like
years prior hasn't sold all that great, I think it
could be because it's not that it's a phone, it's
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just that it's so close in price to the pros.
And Apple loves this dichotomy we're having, like with David saying,
you know, with an SE plus, we're only fifty dollars
away from a brand new fifteen or fourteen plus. Yeah,
but all of what those phones offer are nerdy, techie
things that I don't think the everyday consumer would care
that much about. Does the everyday consumer really need an
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ultra wide lens or a fourteen plus? Do they really
want to spend more money on an iPhone with a
lightning port. Also, by the way, David, I think the
fourteen will be gone when the SE comes out. It's
going to kill off iPhone fourteen the same way that
the SE two killed off the iPhone eight and the
iPhone se one killed off the iPhone five s. They
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kill them a little bit prematurely into the upgrade cycle,
but they always kill off the model that they share
the most parts with, and they always kill off like
the oldest model. Right now in the lineup, the iPhone
fourteen is pretty much the oldest model. So while we
don't need, I agree we don't need an SE Plus.
I could see the argum meant that if Apple was
trying to make a lower cost big phone, the S
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Plus is not that close to the price of the Pros,
and I think it's that price similarity with the Pro
variance that prevents a lot of people from buying the
fifteen Plus or the sixteen plus now, at least statistically,
whenever they do research or pulling or sampling of most
popular iPhone models of the new lineups, the fifteen plus
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and the sixteen plus are always low on the list.
Most people are either buying the regular fifteen or sixteen
or they're buying the pros. In fact, year over year,
the Pros keep selling the best. So if Apple's trying
to find a good mid range sweet spot, I actually
think S Plus among the masses, maybe not among the
tech community, because we care more about ultra wide lenses,
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and we care more about action buttons or little advantages
the iPhone fifteen might have. But again, an S plus
well cheaper than a fifteen, would be bigger than a fifteen.
Maybe it won't have dynamic island, but again, is the
everyday consumer care? But they don't know what a dynamic
island is. That's just a UI thing. So if the
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regular iPhones are too expensive, again, the SE plus would
have a better chip than the iPhone fifteen, the iPhone
fifteen would not get Apple Intelligence features. Does the average
consumer care? Eh? Probably not, but Apple's marketing it like
they should care, like crazy. They're marketing Apple Intelligence way
harder than they are Dynamic Island or ultra wide lenses.
So if every size is gonna have every iPhone model
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is going to have two sizes, why should the SE
be any different just because it's cheaper. I don't know.
They kept the fourteen plus around this long fifteen plus
is still on the site, So if they're rebranding the
iPhone fourteen and tweaking the design a little bit to
be EU approved, then well, this is unlikely to happen.
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I would argue that s C plus might actually be
a pretty decent sweet spot for a lot of customers
out there. AI is very much overhyped. Yes, absolutely, I
think Apple would want their lineup of iPhones to all
have Apple Intelligence, except maybe keeping the fifteen there. Yeah,
it will be awkward, but yeah, it seems pretty obvious,
especially because of the launch of the iPad Mini seven,
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that Apple is trying to push sales or generate more
sales by just getting everybody on board Apple Intelligence as
soon as possible. That's very, very true. Okay, let me
move up here. I think SE Plus would have the
exact inverse problem as the many people only paying five
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hundred dollars or below just on a phone, just like
people paying seven hundred plus dollars won't settle for a Mini,
I suppose. But you're it goes both ways. I mean
Mini and Plus is all relative, right, You're saying you're
saying they won't settle with the Mini because it's too
small or because it has bad battery line. Well, the
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Plus addresses both of those complaints. The Plus model would
have longer battery life and it would be even bigger
than the entry level SE. So sometimes it's that what
is it called the decoy effect that Apple gets a
lot of sales on, so they might be willing to
try something different next year. And if the entry level
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se is too cheap and people are concerned about battery life,
then the S plus feels like, Okay, it's cheaper than
a fifteen, but better than a fifteen in several ways.
Like it's got Apple Intelligence features, it's got more ram,
it's newer, which matters to some people. It's got an
Apple designed modem and the fifteen does not, So there's
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it would be a toss up at a lower price,
and I think that would win over a lot of people.
So that's my devil's advocate for S plus. Even though
I'm not really into it, I don't necessarily want it,
I could see it actually selling pretty well because it
wouldn't have that problem of being too close to the
price of the pros, and the everyday consumer at least
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appears to care a little bit more about battery life
and screen size. Maybe they bring back Product red, please,
just on anything, bring that back. Apple hasn't released Product
Red much at all. I would rather an air or
thin variants. You want to make it thinner? You know
that just means worse battery life, right, Okay, it's your call.
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It's up to you. But I am to get a
sixteen Pro so bad. I'm done with the notch on
my fourteen. I also want Apple Intelligence at one hundred
and twenty here it's display. Why not a fifteen pro
top Maverick That would be my recommendation. I've been very,
very disappointed with the iPhone sixteen lineup, but nothing has
really met my expectations, and my expectations were pretty low,
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and you can find a fifteen Pro for much cheaper.
I'm also intrigued about the in house five Motivate speed
versus the current iPhone. I don't think the Apple in
house design modem will be faster. I think it'll just
be more efficient. That's my guess as to why they're
launching it on entry level cheap iPhone. Why you know,
if Apple had developed this state of the art, super fast,
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super capable five G modem, why not ship that on
the iPhone sixteen Pro or seventeen Pro. Why not have
that be a top of the line premium feature, Because
you know, if they attract too much attention to it,
people are going to be like, why the heck did
you put your best modem on the cheapest iPhone and
not on your most expensive iPhone, right, So my guess
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is that the Apple designed modem is going to be
all about better battery life, running at lower temperatures, and
being better at efficiency, not necessarily better five G performance.
That's my guess. It does help them save on cost,
but again, why not do that on your high end iPhones?
If it was faster and cheaper, they would have done
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it sooner, or they would have saved it for a
higher end iPhone. But let's see, what about the sixteen lineup?
Are you disappointed by Camera control is just kind of
a big joke. They bragged about it being built up
for Apple Intelligence, and Apple Intelligence is not that good.
I hate to break it to you, but the people
who have it are not that impressed by it, and
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most people don't even have it yet. Have it yet
because it's still in beta. Even when it's out of beta,
there's going to be a wait list to join it.
But there's really the only difference is going to be
some animations on the first wave of Apple Intelligence. It's
the exact same series before. There's no changes to her
other than the animation for it, and the proofread functionality
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is gimmicky. You're not going to use it all that much,
or it's not going to be that helpful. So camera
control is just a big UI nightmare. I never use it.
It's not helpful. When I did use it, it was
slow and not as versatile or as easy as just
using my on board display. Also, I was like ten
minutes into recording a video in the park on my
phone and the phone just straight up froze. A sixteen proax.
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You know, there's a twelve hundred dollars phone that I've
had for a couple of weeks, and ten minutes into
a recording, not an intense recording, just a regular four
K at sixty video, not four K at one to twenty,
not some slow mo thing, just a regular four K
at twenty video. Nine seconds into the recording, it just freezes,
and I lost everything that happened after that moment. I
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had to I couldn't hit stop recording. I had to
shut the phone all the way off and then unlock
it again and then launch the camera to get back
into recording. So the phone still overheats. They didn't fix
the they didn't fix the thermal issues. It's the exact
same speed of the USBC port as before the forty
eight megapixel ultra wide lens is not substantially sharper than before.
I thought it would improve the image quality, but it didn't.
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It really didn't, so I say, just get a fifteen
pro save yourself some money. Is Siri getting better with
Apple Intelligence. They're claiming it eventually will, but not next week.
You know, on October twenty fifth is when they're supposed
to be launching Apple Intelligence for the public, so you
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won't have to be on a beta build to get it.
But on that first build that they're releasing it that
Siri is not improved. The Siri improvements are supposed to
be coming several months down the road. And again, when
they're pushing the software team this hard and they're marketing
it this hard, there's no way that it can be
as good as they're claiming. That's all I'm saying. The
conditions are not good because the company's doing it purely
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to please investors. They're not doing it because they're actually
that excited or interested in it. It feels like they
double down on it because they've been doing AI features
for years. It was only recently that they actually started
using the term AI and started being like, no, we're
an AI company too, so I've just everything about it
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has been a letdown for me. I'm interested in getting
the Pixel nine, yes, but I want to get it
on Amazon renewed so that I can keep it for
a longer period. I don't want to just review it
for two weeks. I'd like to review it for several months. No,
I don't think Apple is dying. I just think they've matured.
I just think that they've reached a point where they
can't substantially improve on their hardware. The spatial thing is interesting,
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but it's just kind of a long term game. I
think spatial computing will long term be a lot more
interesting than AI. I think AI is a very overblown, overhyped.
It's a tool. It's not going away, but it's just
another tool, like five G is a tool. Like five
G was overhyped, overexaggerated the capabilities of it. The marketing
behind it was like, oh, yeah, five G is going
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to result in everybody having five gigabits per second in
their pocket, and that's just not what happened. It resulted
in phones running hotter, draining battery lies faster, and it
was about twice as fast as four G, not ten
times as fast, like all the carriers were acting like
it was going to be John says, your thoughts on
the idea of Apple stopped doing yearly releases instead release
when they are ready. There's pros and cons to it.
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We've talked about it in the past. The problem is
obviously the pro is, oh, when you do refresh it,
it'll feel like a bigger deal. Yeah, I get that.
But the con of that is it means that you
get people spending big money, like thousands of dollars eighteen
months into a products release cycle. So let's say Apple
doesn't release an iPhone every year, instead they go to
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every other year. Well, that means that a year and
a half after the phone came out, people are still
buying dated hardware. Now that there's better chips, better modems,
better displays that have become available that they are now
missing out on because well, it wouldn't be as substantial
as an upgrade. So maybe it reaches a point in
the next decade where the refreshes are so minor and
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the supply chain and the technology development for the displays
and the chips are not getting that better within a year.
Maybe that's the point where Apple would consider it, but
so far I haven't seen that to be the case,
even if it's not as stantial upgrade. You know, again,
don't think of it as most people are not upgrading
every year, you know. Most people buy an iPhone and
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own it for three, four, sometimes five six years, and
then they upgrade to the newest possible one, and then
they hold on to that one for another five six years.
So if you're upgrading twice a decade, you don't care
if the iPhone seventeen is incredibly similar to the iPhone sixteen.
You just want to make sure that when you do upgrade,
you get the best of the best hardware available at
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that time. Like I said, it could reach a point
where the modems or the chips, or the displays or
the cameras have gotten so ironed out and so capable
that you just don't even need You just don't even
need to upgrade them every year or every six to
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twelve months. But so far, I don't think that's happened yet.
So if it does, I think we'll know why. But yeah,
that's true. You can use Gemini or CHATTBT on any iPhone.
You don't need an iPhone sixteen or an iPhone fifteen
pro even to have access to the better AI. I mean,
there's a lot of headlines going around right now that
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Apple does internally that they're behind companies like open AI
by like two years. The people who are testing Apple Intelligence,
at least the people who run the beta on their
main devices and mess around with the new features, they
tell me that it's nowhere near as good as CHATGBT,
which you don't need the latest iPhone for. So even
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if you're a big fan of AI, I don't think
it's worth upgrading to the iPhone sixteen just for Apple
Intelligence because Apple Intelligence is nowhere near close to the
best of the best AI. Apple acknowledged the freezing sixteen
series bug in the latest eighteen Dot one RC bug fixes. Well,
it still happened. I still lost a moment, I still
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lost footage. So that's all I'm saying is it's a disappointment.
When is Apple Intelligence going to be fully released. I
don't think they'll ever be done with it. There's always
going to be some features in beta that need ironing
out or need improvement. Chech on the whole is matured,
especially when it comes to phones. There's a lot of
interesting developments in technology with evs. By the way, that's
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why I'm more passionate and more excited about that industry
is because there's a lot of change going on with
battery pack technology and with electric vehicle powertrain technology and
manufacturing technology that's making evs cheaper and cheaper. There's a
lot of rapid change in that field, which is why
it's far more interesting to talk about to me than phones.
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But I get it. More people are buying phones all
the time than they are cars. So that's why I
still have this channel to talk about what is going
on in the smartphone industry, even if it's small, even
if it doesn't feel major. I'm just saying there's certain
lots there's certain areas of tech in the world that
have changed pretty radically where there's a lot of innovation
going on. But it's not what Apple's doing. It's not
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with smartphones, it's not with tablets, it's not with desktop monitors.
All that kind of stuff is kind of matured and peaked,
and the developments on it have somewhat plateaued because there's
really just not much more they can do with it.
Cameras can only get so good, displays can only get
so good, and then over time all those really really
good hardware devices get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, and
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then it's like, okay, now what now, why do I upgrade?
What's the point? Maverick says, The reason I think Apple
is dying is because of how bad iOS eighteen is.
And you said camera control buttoning the sixteen pros buggy
to the point where you had to restart the phone.
It wasn't even camera control in that situation. The phone
just froze. I wasn't using camera control. So it's just yeah,
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iOS eighteen is buggy, But there's been many years of
buggy iOS. I've been hearing people say I've been hearing
people say that for over a decade now. This latest
version feels way buggier than ever before. And every year
people think it's the worst year, and it's like, I
think it's just always kind of been like this. It's
just you remember it when it's happened in the moment,
but you don't remember it when it happened five years ago.
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Adam Life Events celeb just did their first ever super
chat for no reason. Thank you for that, by the way,
very kind of you. Apple needs to get the camera
bump under control. Well. Also been saying that for a
decade now and it has only gotten bigger, So I
don't think they're going the other direction anytime soon. If
you like intelligence and the AirPods in the watch are
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where it is the possibility of being the most useful,
and yes, two places where it definitely will not run natively,
it would have to carry it off the iPhone, in
which case, why can't it do it already? Well, because
then they can't justify you upgrading the sixteen Pro is
crazy with the camera bump, and a case doesn't even
make it better a little bit, but not a lot.
That's why I started switching to I mean, I'm biased
(27:44):
because they did sponsor my channel, but I did switch
to Taurus phone cases because they have little three sixty
degree kickstands on the back, and that lets me keep
my phone propped up. It never sits flat on a
table anymore because it's always on its kickstand. So that
actually helps with face ID working, so I don't have
to move my head around in some weird way to
get my phone to unlock with my face. And it's
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also very helpful when you're washing dishes or you're cooking
or you're working on something, but you want to prop
up the phone somewhere. So ever, since I tried one
of their cases, I tried it first on my fifteen Pro.
I was like, oh, this kickstand is kind of helpful
when I'm doing FaceTime calls or something and I don't
have to hold the phone the whole time, and I
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can just prop it up a lot easier now, and
it's built into the case and it still does the
wireless charging and everything. But then I switched to the
sixteen Pro Macs because of course that came out, and
I realized when I didn't have the case on that phone, Wow,
it's actually really hard to go back to not having
a phone with a kickstand, Like I have just gotten
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so used to the kickstand that, yeah, I'm going to
keep using kits, So that's a mandatory thing for me. Boom, yeah, kickstand.
There's your reactions. I can't go back now to having
a phone that doesn't do that because it's just way
too convenient and that eliminates the camera wobble. It makes
it far easier to use because face D works on
a table if you're eating something or you're cooking or
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washing dishes. You know, there's a lot of situations where
we're using our phones and our hands are tied up
doing other things. If you use that a lot. I'm
anxious to see how the kickstan holds up. My case
has the kickstan around the camera and it works flawlessly.
Good good. Yeah, by my wife is still rocking my
old my first Taurus case which has the kickstan. And yes,
I have no contract with them. They did pay me.
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They did cover the price of the sixteen pro that
was the deal. I didn't pocket any money. All all
I got was enough money to cover the cost of
the sixteen pro Max. So I'm basically saying that so
that you guys know, if something goes wrong with the
Taurus cases, I'm allowed to talk about it. It wouldn't
breach contract. So if I have a problem with the case,
I will document it and I will share it and say, hey,
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I've had this case for this long and now I'm
having problems with this. But so far haven't had any
issues with the fifteen pro case or the sixteen pro case.
But let's see. I remember when iOS seven came out,
and that was buggy. Think it happened when a new
OS version comes out and they iron everything out and
the dot one, et cetera. Yeah, usually, if they iron
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it out and everything's running smoothly, no one says anything,
of course, but what it's buggy you hear about it?
Of course? Why not use a mag Safe pop socket
kickstand then still have the iPhone naked, probably cause I
don't I don't know enough about the mag Safe Pop
socket kickstand, but I'm guessing that eliminates wireless charging. Let
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me look it up real quick because I don't know.
Let's see mag Safe Pop socket kickstand. Yeah, all the
ones I see would cover up the back of my
phone so that I couldn't wirelessly charge it, which is
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a no go to me because I love wireless charging
my phone. I guess I see one that doesn't. But
it's made by Torris ironically, so Torres makes a kickstand.
But I also think it's good to have a case
if you're gonna be taking the phone out in about
You know, my phone is more of a tool now
than ever before. When I was younger, I was like, Oh,
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I like the way like the phone feels. I want
to feel that raw naked titanium on the side. But
now I'm like, Drew, that's not why you have a phone.
You don't have a phone so you can satisfy some
you know, like oh, I want to feel a little
curvature of the edges. I'm like, no, this is a tool,
and there's a good chance that someone else in my
life is Like most of the phones in my life,
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they end up in a friend or family member's hands.
So I decided, you know what, this is an expensive phone.
I should take good care of it. So I have
a screen protector also from Torres on my phone, which
I used to never do. But I'm like, you know what,
this is a tool. I'm not buying this because it's
pretty and I like the way it feels. I'm buying
this because I use it for work a lot so
and because I'm filming with it more than I've ever
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filmed with it before, and there's often times where other
people are holding my phone and filming me, filming more
outside than ever before. With my new job at Tello
and everything, I wanted it to be protected. So I
thought a case was a good idea. But also if
I have a case, it still needs to support wireless
charging and it needs to have a kickstand. Those are
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two very important features to me. I would not buy
a I would not buy a case that doesn't have
a kickstand anchor has a good one. Nice you can
buy that one. I don't care. Whatever makes sense for you,
whatever's cheaper. But yeah, most of the mags Safe pop
socket things I saw eliminated the wireless charging, so that's
a no go. Wireless charging is less efficient. Are you
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all about efficiency? I am, but I think you're a
grasping at straws there with the amount of power our
phones used. It's incredibly low. It's incredibly small. We're talking
wat hours, which is fractions of pennies on the electric bill.
So I care about time efficiency just as much, if
not more so, than about energy efficiency. So I like,
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when I'm at the end of the day, or when
I'm done streaming or something, or I'm done using my phone,
I literally just snap it with one hand onto my
wireless charging stand and it locks in. Mag's safe wireless
charging is much more efficient than a Chia charging, at
least because at least it's lined up properly. But Dylan
White says, good morning, Drew, I stole money from Apple. Congratulations.
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I'm so happy for you. But anyway, let me jump
into the comments here before I forget. So we had
some questions from channel members. Thank you by the way
for your support who commented first five hours ago. Okay,
I think YJCHOI asked this on the last stream as well,
so I should address it. Remember that one interview where
John Turnas and Johnny Serugi asked, are you worried about
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how app the public's perception was that Apple is behind
in the AI space? And Turnus laughed and said, We're
not worried. Looking back in retrospect, do you think Apple
was truly playing forty chess with the slow rollout of
Apple Intelligence and intentionally making the iPhone fifteen while knowing
it would not support AI. Or do you think they
were caught by surprise and scrambled the rebrand new features
they would have called machine learning as Apple Intelligence. If
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I had Apple Intelligence on this thirteen promax, I could
have summarized this more concisely for you, but I can't. Well,
you could, you just would have had to use a
third party AI. But no, I don't think Apple was
playing four D underwater chess. I think that Apple was
caught off guard with the insane valuations of other companies
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that were leaders in AI, and they were seeing that
that was bringing a lot of shareholder value. So Apple
probably scrambled at the last second to work out some
kind of partnership deal with open Ai so that they
could be looked at as one of the AI leaders.
And that's why I think they've marketed so hard despite
the fact that the actual AI features are not that good,
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they're not that noticeable, and they're barely out, they barely exist.
But Apple's been talking about it since June, so you know,
it's been months and months and months of talk in
all these promises of like, yes, this will this will
be a thing, and this will be a thing, and
this will be so great when it happens, because it's
for the shareholders. That's someone brought it up in the
live stream at some point. It was a very good point,
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and I'm sorry I forgot who it was, but talking
about Apple intelligence is not for the consumers. It's for
the investors. It's supposed to make investors feel like Apple
is catching up or has caught up with other big
tech companies. Adam life Event says, what would I would
like to ask you is I'm getting the iPhone for
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it Christmas. Is there any tips you can give me
with that phone? I assume you mean the iPhone fourteen,
the regular iPhone four I'd be very impressed. Oh there
you go, he corrected himself. In UK phones cost a
lot for Christmas. I'm having the fourteen. What can I
ford coming up with the S two? Let me know
anything about the iPhone fourteen. My best advice about the
iPhone fourteen is you shouldn't buy it because it's way
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too similar with the iPhone thirteen. I would either say
go up a little bit more and get a fifteen.
That way, at least you have USBC, so it's a
bit more future proofed and you get a better chip.
You get a new chip on the inside. But the
iPhone thirteen and fourteen have the exact same silicon on
the inside, pretty much the exact same display, exact same camera,
exact same port, exact same design. So there's very very
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very little advantages other than like, I don't know, car
crash detection, but that's such an edge case because most
car crashes you are able to call the police yourself.
You're looking for an edge case where you're in a
very serious car accident where you don't die, but you
also are incapacitated, and in that situation, the car, the
phone will automatically call the police. It's an edge case
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upon an edge case upon an edge case. I don't
think you should buy a phone specifically for that one feature.
I would say get an iPhone thirteen or speck up
a little bit higher to a fifteen, because that will
be a much more noticeable improvement. There's some design tweaks
as well. You get the dynamic island, you get a
more rounded chassis, which is a bit more comfortable in
the hand, You get USBC, get a great camera. But yeah,
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that would be my advice. iPhone fourteen sucked, and I
would never recommend the fourteen to anybody. AI is so overvalued.
It's crazy that all the investors are drooling over it.
I guess they are drooling over what it could do,
not what it can do. AI is kind of like
the perfect investor bait. Though that's the same thing as
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other startup companies that use AI technologies. They know that
AI is very good at looking pretty capable. It'll make
big leaps, and then everybody looks at those big leaps
and goes, Wow, if this rate of progress continues, it'll
be unstoppable. It'll do all these amazing things. But it
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never maintains that growth. But the investor doesn't think about that.
They just think, oh, I'm about to because an investor,
of course, wants to invest in a stock or invest
in a company right before it's skyrockets, and AI has
this impression, especially generative AI, which is what most people
are talking about these days, it has this effect of
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always looking like it's just about to take off. It'll
show a little bit of progress and people go, oh
my god. If it continues at this rate, it'll be
unstoppable and it'll do everything and anything you can think
of within just a couple of years. So whenever you
talk about AI, generative AI features, especially which is what
Apple's doing with intelligence, it's perfect for baiting the investor
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into thinking, oh, I'm about to invest right before the
big takeoff, right before the stock goes vertical. So that's
why I think so many companies talk about it. That's
why there's been so many startup companies with horrible ideas
like humane like Rabbit are one and now with this
friend concept, this little necklace that uses AI and somehow
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these companies get off the ground that probably ten years
ago they couldn't get any investors for. But now in
the AI phase, there's all these investors that are like, Oh,
I gotta invest in AI. That's the next big thing.
I gotta invest in that. So it's completely overblown, completely overvalued. Yes,
but the technology as a whole is very good at
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appearing like it's about to take off. That's why Tesla
has fallen for it all these years they've been Elon
has literally been saying that they're about to achieve full
self driving for a decade. It's been a decade now.
There's people that have tracked every single time he's made
a claim like that, like in a year we're gonna
have FSD or and next year, in the next two
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years we'll have FSD. Those claims started all the way
back in twenty fourteen. They have him quoted and on camera,
on video or on audio quoted saying that we're within
two years of having complete autonomous driving and then we'll
have robotaxis. It's been ten years of that. It's the
same thing, the same concept with Open AI, same concept
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with Gemini. AI is very good at looking like it's
about to take off, which is exactly what investors look for.
So it's kind of like a Yin Yang. It's like
a match made in hell. It's not a good match
because it never actually delivers on all of its amazing
promises and claims. I'm starting my own YouTube channel called
Adam Life Events because I do my own podcast. Is
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there any tips you have that you could give me, please?
I'd recommend just starting and just accepting that when you
start making content, it's not going to be good. It's
always going to start kind of rough because you're inexperienced
at it, and that's okay. Just accept that the beginning
it won't be good. But the more you do it,
the more you practice, and the more you look for
ways to improve it. How do I make my thumbnails better?
How do I make my content more interesting? How do
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I make my viewers feel like their time is valuable?
The more you dwell on that, the better you'll get.
In a few years down the road, you might be
better than where you started, and then maybe that'll be
enough to get you off the ground. But there's no guarantees.
That's my one advice is to I'm giving a lot
of one one advice bigger picture, talk about things you're
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interested in, because a lot of the time you'll, especially
when you're starting out, you'll probably make a bunch of
content that doesn't do very well, that doesn't perform well,
that doesn't get a lot of views, or the views
it does get is negative. So if you enjoy what
you're talking about, you'll be able to grind through that
several year long process of making content without much feedback
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or without many people watching it. So if you're excited
about it, if you're interested in it, it'll probably show
on camera and you'll be able to tolerate it a
lot longer. So that increases your stamina compared to talking
about things you're not interested in. But hopefully I answered YJ.
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Choy's question when he said we're not worried. When John
Turner said that in the interview, my predict is that
was him referencing that they were going to partner with
an existing AI company, because the question is, like Apple,
you're falling behind open AI, how are you going to
catch up? And I think John Turnis was thinking, we're
working with open AI, so any improvements that they make,
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we're going to have integrated into iOS whenever Siri can't
answer the question, it's just going to fall back on
an encrypted, private, secure version of chat GPT now because
it's offloaded to Chat GPT. I feel like this should
be on all iPhones that should not require eight gigs
of RAM, because it's just pulling it from some secure,
private cloud neural network. But again, that wouldn't help them
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sell more phones, so that's probably why they won't do it.
But no, I don't think Apple was playing forty chess.
I think they were scrambling behind the scenes to try
to catch up, and they're still scrambling behind the scenes.
They're probably embarrassed that they've marketed so many AI features
and technically none of them are out yet. Are we
due next year for a MacBook Pro refresh? Dude, it's
happening like maybe it could be next week we're getting
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M four MacBook pros. They'll just have a new chip,
though they won't have any new designs. Are you talking
about it? You're saying four years from the last one,
more dynamic Island than face ID. There hasn't been really
much talk about that, no talk about design changes other
than maybe next year or the year after we'll get
an O lead panel. But no, there's been no talk
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about dynamic island on the Mac. I don't think it
would mesh well. I reconnection successful. Sorry, we had t
mobile just shut off there for a second and then
it came right back at full speed. Random. No, the
M four MacBook will most likely not have an event.
I felt that way as soon as soon as the
iPad Mini seven dropped as a sight refreshed, I was like, yeah, no,
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I think that there's no redesign, so there's no reason.
Let's see. Yeah, a Mac has a lot of screen space,
which is why I don't think it makes sense to
have a dynamic island, because dynamic island is four like
consolidating a small space that wants to deliver lots of information.
You can just deliver all that information on a Mac.
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But I just got here, So what are we thinking of?
SE plus probably won't happen. There were some rumors from
mac Takara saying that there might be a plus sized
variant of the SE. I speculated at the beginning of
the live stream that you know, if there was a
plus sized non pro iPhone to do well, it would
probably be the SE because it's not too close in
price to the pros and that's the main reason that
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I think not a lot of people are upgrading to
the fifteen plus or sixteen plus because it's just too
close to the pros. But an se plus is much cheaper,
but it would still have the good battery life, still
have an A eighteen chip might honestly sell a little
too well, but maybe that's why they won't do it.
Macminnie is getting his first redesign, and yeah forever, that's
what I'm most excited about. I don't know what what
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do you want change? What kind of facelift do you
want on the MacBook Pro. I feel like it's kind
of perfect in its current form. I mean, I would
want a fourth USB Sport, but that's not really a facelift.
Non Apple related question. Can and should I use solar
panels to be energy independent from the power grid? Your
thought that's highly highly dependent on so many variables that
(45:15):
you're not giving me enough of. I need to know
what the electricity costs in your area are, what the
solar costs in your area are. I need to know
what battery costs are. Also, the metering rate of the
area you're in and on top of all of that,
how long you plan on living there? How old is
the roof? There's a ton of variables that go into that,
(45:35):
and I don't have enough information to give you a
genuine recommendation. It could be or it could not be.
There's definitely people I've seen by Solar that actually can't
justify it. The break even point is so long that
they would have been better off just being attached to
the grid. Let's see, why is the iosaighteen photos app
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so bad? Not sure if you answered that, I'm pretty
sure it's another indication of Apple running out of things.
It's the same problem we see on the iPad, the
iPhone in the Mac. They've run out of things to change,
so they just go to some of their software teams
and go, hey, you got to make it better somehow,
when in reality there might not necessarily be ways to
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make it that much better. It might be good enough
as is, or just need some light tweaking here and there.
But Apple probably went to the photos team and said,
our users are not utilizing the photo features that we
want them to, so how can we redesign the photos
app to make them take advantage of all those memories
or location features or auto edited videos of your vacation things.
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They were like, how do we redesign the photos app
so that people are using the features we want them
to use more. In reality, they probably should have just
left it the same. It wasn't broken, there was nothing
wrong with it, but they decided that, oh, we got
to change everything that it so that we have something
to talk about. It feels like when the marketing team
gets too much power, too much control. Were people complaining
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about the photos app and iOS seventeen, Not really, but
the marketing team was probably complaining that, hey, we're not
getting We're not gonna have enough stuff to talk about
it dubbed up there's supposed to be a twenty minute
segment where we talk about iOS eighteen, and we can't
fill the twenty minutes. So how do we change iOS
eighteen in some substantial way so that it feels like
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it's a bigger update. That's probably what was the motivation
behind it, and of course that resulted them redesigning it
and changing it in a way that they didn't really
need to. I don't think it's the worst update in
the world, Like you can customize it to kind of
turn it back into how it used to be. But yeah,
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auto generated photos are pretty much used. I agree. Nicholas
asked another question here, Nicholas lynth to come the longtime
supporter of the channel. Thanks by the way, he said,
asking a little bit of a hypothetical Drew, I know
you mentioned previously smartphones are here for the long haul,
and I definitely believe that with having the context of
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our world today, which product category in particular do you
see one day taking over smartphones? If something was to
happen to our grid, how exactly do you see Americans reacting? Wow?
That almost relates to the earlier question. If it was
out for a long period, there's very different question. Do
you think society would be able to adjust to life
how it was before the internet. These are more hypothetical
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questions just to get your views on how the world
has been influenced by technology. Curious on what your opinions
are for what could be abrupt changes also seen. Have
you been posting about the lack of product red I
phones on your Twitter which has led you to reiterate
the sentiment posting about the line what has what do
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you mean reiterate this a product? Dark red Titanium iPhone
pro would be awesome. Yes, I think we agree. There
product red iPhones. I tweeted about it because the product
read Twitter account was bragging that every red iPhone portion
of the profits go to support some charity, and I
was just retweeting it saying, by the way, Apple hasn't
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released a red iPhone in forever. It's been over two
years now, So I thought that was a little funny
and kind of ironic that they were bragging about, Hey,
red iPhones help with this, And then I'm like, where
are the red iPhones? Then? If that's the case, I
still want red iPhones. But yeah, I don't know what
happened to them. But Okay, to answer the question, first
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question you asked was about what product or technology would
replace the smartphone, which again I don't think is really
going to be done in our lifetime. I think smartphones
are just too dang practical. They're too addictive, and they're
too versatile. They do so many things. Even the people
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who hate smartphones have smartphones. Now that's a good indication
of how impactful they've become. So again, I don't think
it's going to be anything that we know about. Maybe
there's tech that I haven't formulated yet. Best guess, I
don't think again, I don't think spatial computing like augmented reality,
glasses or headsets are going to replace the phone. I
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think they could assist the phone. They could make the
phone experience more interesting. They might turn the phone more
into a camera. But you're not going to replace selfies.
You're not going to replace video calls with glasses, and
you're not going to replace the affordability of a rectangle
with a battery in it. The battery life of a
smartphone is very, very hard to beat with glasses because
it's something you have to wear on your face. It's
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extremely power dependent. The battery life is substantially worse on
all these glasses and things. And as you get better
chip efficiency, you're also going to have great battery life
improvements on the phone and the glasses. I just I
think inherently are going to be a more complex product.
So I don't think. I don't think the smartphone is
going to go away anytime soon. But if I were
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to guess on some technology in the future eventually replacing
a smartphone, does that mean in twenty sixty people still
have smartphones. Yeah, they might look a little different than today,
But yeah, I do think there's just an incredibly insane
amount of practicality that comes from a computer that can
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fit in your pocket, that you can use to communicate
with anybody, and you can watch endless content on, play
music on, respond to emails on, text people on, and
also capture incredibly high resolution memories on. Yeah. I mean,
people had televisions back in the nineteen sixties, and we
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still have televisions today. You know, We've had a lot
of new technology come around since the sixties, but there
are still televisions. Yes, TV's are a much more different design.
They're much bigger, they're much thinner borders, they're much lighter
than those old TVs from the sixties. We've got color,
we've got higher resolution, they got better, but we still
have TVs. And likewise, the iPhone was extremely disruptive in
(51:58):
game changing, but it didn't off the Mac. There are
still macs, There are still personal computers. There are still desktops,
even though laptops have gotten so much better. You know,
I think that people have this misconception in their minds
that in order for a tech to be a big deal,
it has to replace something it has to kill off
the existence of another really popular technology, and I don't
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believe that. I think that you can have a very disruptive,
very impactful technology that doesn't necessarily kill off anything else.
iPhone didn't kill off the Mac. It did kill off
the iPod. That's fair. iPod didn't really have a need
to exist when smartphones became so affordable and so mainstream.
But an iPhone didn't replace the job of a MacBook
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or an iMac or a Mac Mini or a Max Studio,
you know, whatever you want to call the desktop Max.
There's too many There's too many things that each one
does differently, and each one does good at I think
spatial computing might be carving out a whole different way
to use technology. It could be extremely impactful that spatial
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hardware that Apple develops could fundamentally rethink the entire way
we use and interact with technology. But it could still
do all of that without replacing the smartphone. That's all
I'm saying. But if I were to guess, that's what
Nicholas is asking, So I feel bad just saying they'll
never be replaced, because we should probably never say never.
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My best guess would be some kind of neuralink technology.
When we get to the point where we really understand
the human brain incredibly well, and we know how to
plug into it and we know how to tap into it.
If we could get to the point where computers could
be surgically implanted into our brains very efficiently, very quickly,
and it let us communicate with each other virtually, so
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we could send text messages just in our brains and
we didn't even have to look things up anymore. You
don't have to ask Google a question instead, you just
know it. Like the infinite coledge of the Internet just
becomes another library in your mind, just like how you
remember hopefully you remember what you had for lunch today,
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or what you remember how to speak the language that
you speak. Reconnection successful. There we go. I don't know
why it's doing that. That's a new thing. That's a
new thing. T mobile just randomly likes to disconnect. Now
that's annoying. But yeah, if we reach a point in
the future where a computer basically just lets like you
(54:30):
don't have to have a Google Translate app or an
Apple Translate app anymore. You just plug into this infinite
server and now you know how to speak any language
just like you just know it and it fundamentally changes
your education. That could be pretty disruptive. Maybe that would
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get to a point where smartphones are kind of unnecessary
because you can just do everything on your own. But
I don't think that's going to happen in the near term.
I think we're way far away from anything that requires
surgery to become mainstream. Smartphones are just so marketable. They're
so easy to distribute. You can just build them and
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then you ship them, and then people take them out
of the box and set them up. It's very simple
relative to something that you would have to surgically implant
through someone's skull and everything. But no, I don't think
it'll be an AI product. I don't think it'll be
a tablet. I don't think it'll be a watch. I
don't think it'll be a ring. I don't think it'll
be glasses. I think that there will be for a
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long long time computers in the shape of rectangles that
go in our pockets. That's just way too practical. Anything
with surgical tech has to be yeah, extremely regulated, very
very hard to iron out the kinks and iron out
the testing, the sampling of it and getting to the
point where you can market it and have lots of
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people just line up and get it done within a day. Yeah,
we're decades away from that. Possibly might never see that
in my lifetime. And I'm okay with that, because I'm
not sure it'd be something i'd be on board with doing.
I did a video a long time ago. I'm trying
to remember what it was called, but I did a
video on this channel about neuralink. It was like the
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dangers of the danger, the scary reality of neuralink that
all I remember is the thumbnail, which was you are outdated,
And I said, it's not that scary to imagine, in
my opinion, a situation where that goes wrong, because that's
where everyone's mind goes when I tell them about, oh,
we should you know, maybe one day we'll implant neuro
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chips into our brain so that we can have this
infinite knowledge and infinite capability. I was like, if something
goes wrong with that, like it fries someone's brain and
it kills them, or it you know, causes problems, it
would get shut down so fast. It's the easiest thing
in the world to just like, Okay, anybody who has
that chip disconnect the power, or go to a surgery
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place and how them remove it. Or of course anybody
who doesn't have it installed in their brain, they will
never get it installed. And of course even if it
was proven to be safe and reliable and consistent, there
would still be a crap ton of people that would
never do it just out of principle, like something goes
wrong with that technology. I'm not that worried. I'm not
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that scared. What you should be scared of is if
it goes perfectly. That's more intimidating to me. If it
works and there's no problems, that's actually terrifying because it
means that as the technology progresses and gets better and improves,
it's going to reach a point where you kind of
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have to have it. Because if it fundamentally changed education
to the point where you didn't have to go to
school for four years to learn how to do mechanical
engineering or to know how to play an intricate instrument.
Now you could just install this one chip and suddenly
you know how to do all these things. You're way
ahead of people that choose not to install the chip.
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Not even saying it'd be mandated, it wouldn't even be
required by the government that you get this chip. But
the people who are willing to install that chip are
going to be at a severe significant advantage against everybody
who doesn't, and then you basically have no choice in
order to have a competitive edge in the workforce or
to be able to contribute anything, really, you're gonna have
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to have those chips. And then we won't be thinking
for ourselves anymore. We can just have the computer do
all the thinking for us, so it going well and
not having any major issues. That's more terrifying to me.
But yeah, and then you'll get ads in your brain
or it'll just influence your opinion, be like, oh, I
guess I want Jack in the Box today because Jack
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in the Box paid money to put that desire and
everyone's neurally it would be it would be creepy, it
would be scary, for sure. Brain implant technology would be
very interesting. Hopefully this would come in our lifetime, but
I doubtity. Yeah, there's already implant stuff for people who
have neurological issues, but to get to the point where
it's just being implanted for convenience reasons, I don't I
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don't think so, probably not in my lifetime. Maybe at
the very very end of my life, I'll start seeing
that and go, yep, not for me. I'm out no
more of this. Do you think chips like that could
be banned? Oh easily. I wouldn't be shocked if many
places banned them. But the places that don't ban them
are probably going to start developing superhumans with infinite intelligence,
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you know. But you asked more than that question. You
also asked kind of an interesting one. Nicholas said, if
something was to happen to our grid, how exactly do
you see Americans reacting? There would be panic and riots
in the streets if it was out for a long
period of time, meaning find out it's going to be
at least six months. Yeah, people would straight up die.
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I don't think people are realizing. I mean, it'd be
one thing. If you said the internet, that would be
a bit more. Okay, we could survive without the internet.
It would just kind of force people to connect with
their local communities a bit more, and it would break
a lot of supply chain stuff. But with no power,
our whole food and water system starts falling apart. We
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need electricity for pumping all kinds of stuff like that.
And for keeping food cold and for keeping it from
going bad. You know, a guy like me who relies
on electricity to drive my car, I'd be screwed. But
guess what, even the people who require gasoline to operate
their vehicles, you need electricity to pump gasoline out of
the ground and into your car. So yeah, it would
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cause all kinds of problems if it was just out
for a week. But thankfully the grid is kind of
designed with all this redundancy in mind, all these power stations,
to the point that you wouldn't really it'd be very
hard to just knock out all power for months. There's
like EMP stuff that could happen, but that would be
short term electronic knockout. That wouldn't be like months and
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months of power outages. The TikTok kids will lose it
after five days. Oh well, social media like their attention span.
I'm not even worried about that. That would be. That
would be the least of my concerns. The bigger problem
would be food. Our whole food supply chain, our whole
water supply chain, so much of that is dependent on electricity,
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And as soon as you knock out a grid, most
people do not grow, you know, their own food. I
would say like ninety five plus percent of the population
gets their food from grocery stores or from restaurants or
you know, places that are power and electricity dependent for
moving around. And if you don't have you know, electricity
to pump fuel, that means no semi trucks. If you
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don't have semi trucks moving around cargo, then that means
the grocery stores can't get restocked. And also all the
food and supplies that the grocery stores have is going
to go bad much faster because they can't keep it cold,
they can't keep it refrigerated. Called thunderstorms. Yeah, I mean
there's some more control the MP stuff. That would be scary,
(01:02:02):
but it wouldn't be a six month outage thing. Yeah.
Power is different than just internet. Without internet, we in
theory could manage, but without power for a long time, yeah,
we're screwed. Yeah, power would probably result in many people
just starving to death. Within a month. You would run
out of food. It'd be very quick because most people
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that are eating, especially in big cities, they rely so
much on imported goods that you suddenly wouldn't be able
to rely on anymore in the communication problems. But yeah,
a lot of people have battery storage and off grid stuff.
I guess they might be okay, but a lot of
the grid isn't prepared for that. Wouldn't be prepared for that.
So I don't know what scenario you're imagining. But thankfully,
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there's not just one power station in all of America
that provides all of the power. There's thousands of power
plants and different things that are providing power to the grid.
It's not a very easy thing to just shut off.
There's not one switch. There's not one place in the
tree that could just get bombed or get There's not
one switch that you could flip that would shut off
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the power to the whole country. You lose power from
one power plant, you can pull it from another power plant.
You know. That happens all the time. AnyWho. That's kind
of a fun thing to imagine. But I'm not one
of those doomsday prepper kind of people. I'm like, h
if the whole world was coming to an end, I
wouldn't try. I don't want bunkers in my yard, and
I'm not stocking up on beans. Because the idea that
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everyone's just going to turn into nomads. Now, it'd be
mad Max. You would lose one government and then another,
probably tyrannical one would rise, and then you would be
a slave to that one, and then there'd be another system.
Humans just do that naturally. Humans like are attracted to power.
I don't see a situation where just like everybody's independently
taking care of themselves. No, there would be another group,
(01:03:49):
another gang that gets together and says we're in charge. Here,
we're the new leaders. I'm the new king of the land,
and you have to pay me taxes and I'll provide
you protection. And then the whole thing just starts over again.
I just I'm not that kind of guy. A solar flare.
A solar flare could fry all electronic devices globally one day.
We simply don't have the ability to make our tech
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resistant enough. That's true, it's possible. It hasn't happened yet.
But it wouldn't end all electricity. It would just break
a lot of things. Thankfully we can work with that.
More people should be more energy independent from the power grid. Yeah,
but it's all just a debate of how off grid
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do you want to be? I mean, you could easily say, Okay,
all my electricity is taken care of. But okay, where's
your water supply? Okay, now you got to switch to
well water. Okay, where's your food supply? Okay, you have beans,
but you can't have infinite food supply. You can only
buy it for so long. Okay. If you have a
really really big bunker with a lot of food and
a lot of amo and a lot of resources, now
you're a target. Now in the end of the world situation.
(01:04:52):
You have a lot of resources. People are gonna want
that from you, so you put a bigger target on
your back. So there's all kinds of risk. Nothing is guaranteed.
You know, live life like there's no tomorrow. Just enjoy yourselves,
be responsible. I guess I'm not saying like, spend all
your money. It's good to have savings, it's good to
prepare for retirement and that kind of thing. But yeah,
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I'm not one of those doomsday prepper people. I'm like, well,
if there's all out nuclear war, then I'm just giving up.
At that point. I work in a warehouse. We already
have a lot of bad communication. Oh yeah, it could
get worse. But people, I just like to remind people
of this. People have theorized about the end of the
world since the beginning of time. As long as humans
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have existed, there has been a fear that the whole
world will end, and we keep theorizing it. Talk to
older folks, talk to people in their sixties and seventies,
and ask them, was there ever a time when you
were younger when people thought the world was going to Heck? Yeah,
especially during the Great Wars, and then after that, you know,
when other countries, foreign entity started getting nuclear power. Everyone
(01:06:00):
was that. They were watching videos and schools about how
to take cover in case of a nuclear attack. They
were prepared. They were theorizing world's gonna end, We're going
to be in a nuclear war, nuclear fallout. For decades,
people buying bunkers, people were preparing for the worst. We
keep theorizing how it's gonna end. Oh, this is going
to happen, There's going to be tensions here in the
world's going to All those years have gone by, still
(01:06:22):
hasn't really happened yet. Though it's not a new idea,
it's not a new theory that oh, what if this
all falls apart. It's like, yeah, it could, but so
far it hasn't. Yeah y two K twenty twelve. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's always been theorized that, Yeah, the Mayan calendar thing
is super old. We literally need power for our society
(01:06:44):
to function. Without Internet, yeat, it would be chaos for
a while, but after a while we could manage. The
Internet's relatively new. That's why I say we could manage it.
You know that the only reason humanity's population has been
able to grow as big as it is is because
of having a reliable, consistent you know, we have hospitals
that can help people in emergencies, and that technology and
that power has helped us develop medicines and how to
(01:07:07):
take care of people who get sick. And you know,
the Internet wasn't really a thing up until thirty years ago,
if even very very basic internet in the nineties there
was not much. But there was still billions of peoples
on Earth in nineteen seventy nineteen eighty. So that's why
I say, yeah, we can live without the Internet. It's
(01:07:29):
a little inconvenient. We've got to rely more on snail
mail and that kind of thing, but it's doable. But
no society without electricity, without power, No, we've never been
able to support a population on the planet with eight
billion people without electricity. The only reason we're able to
do that is because we have technology that's able to
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move food and preserve food long enough to get it
to transport to where people are needed. You know, think
of people who are living in those big apartment buildings
in New York City or Chicago. Do you think they're
getting all their food from local farmers. No. If they
had no way to transport all of that food that
all these people are living in that one place, it
(01:08:12):
would starve to death so quickly. My old high school
literally had a bomb shelter. It was later destroyed by
a tornado fourteen years ago. That's not good. Didn't know
you weren't a conspiracy theorist. I see how the world
has its problems politically. I feel like the Internet has
influenced things negatively. COVID has shown me to prepare for unexpected.
(01:08:33):
It's always good to prepare. But I just don't think
you should live your life in fear. Don't live your
life expecting the world to end, because again, people have
theorized the world that's going to end for as long
as humanity has been capable of writing things, even on
cave paintings. We theorized the end of the world, and
there's been a lot of bad things that have happened,
(01:08:54):
but so far it hasn't. In fact, we have a
lot better technology now than it can protect us in
ways that were never possible before. You know, I've talked
to some older folks in my time that were like,
there was a lot more hostility. There was a lot
more physical fights back in the day because there weren't
cameras everywhere. Now, anywhere you go in public, people start fighting,
(01:09:18):
people start pushing each other. You immediately got eight people
in the surrounding area with a four K camera in
their pocket that just whip it out in one second. Boom,
They catch everything you're doing at sixty frames a second
in glorious four K. That wasn't a that wasn't a
thing a few decades ago. Could be a big fight,
(01:09:38):
there could be a bar fighteror you know, people harassing
you and there it would never be caught on camera.
There would be no evidence that had happened. It would
be your word against the aggressors. You know, there's all
kinds of things that you know, we can call the
police or call emergency services faster and easier than ever before.
It's on our watches now, we've got technology in our
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newer phones that will automatically call the police if it
detects a car crash, or watches that will automatically call
the police if it detects a fall. There's all kinds
of more safety systems and more checks and balances we
have as a society than we've ever had. So while
it may appear, thanks to social media giving everybody a megaphone,
(01:10:21):
it may appear like we're dumber and stupider than ever before,
but the truth is we're just better at documenting our
stupidity than ever before. There's all kinds of stupid things
that probably old presidents and old people said long before
we had a way to tweet it out, but you
just never heard fifty probably you never heard ninety percent
(01:10:41):
of what people said. Nowadays, any passing, fleeting thought you
had on a random Tuesday is immortalized on the Internet forever.
So the documentation of our stupidity is better than ever before.
That doesn't make us necessarily stupider than we've ever been.
If the bombs drop some bunker won't save you anything,
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that you could build would get destroyed immediately, so no
point digging. And I also just I don't want to
live in that life. What I have dreams and hopes about.
You know, me and me and my wife are you know,
generally pretty happy. We enjoy our lives. We enjoy our jobs,
and we have fun, and we like traveling places, and
we like trying new foods, and we like visiting friends
and family. And if all of that dissolved a way
(01:11:26):
because of some nuclear war and now we're just living
in a windowless tank underground, eating beans out of a can.
You want me to do that for fifty years? No, No,
I'll go out with the bomb, That's okay. I'd rather
just get taken out by the shockwave and just enjoy
(01:11:47):
the life I had in the in the before that
took place. So that's what I never understood personally about
everybody talking about like everybody talking about like, oh yeah,
I'm gonna stalk up a bunker and I'll survive in
the in the apocalypse, And I'm like, I don't. I
(01:12:08):
don't want to live in that world. That doesn't sound
fun to me. Just live in some tiny little bunker
and you can't go anywhere and you can't eat anything
other than what you've stocked up. That's okay, that's okay.
I'll just let the blast take care of me. That's
it's just humanity's done at that point. That's okay. You know, humanity.
(01:12:29):
There's there's good things in humanity, but we're kind of cringe. Sorry,
sometimes I make myself laugh. I don't know. Sometimes I
just imagine, uh, an earth that's just nature and just animals,
just plants and trees and oceans, and there's no people anywhere. Hey,
(01:12:53):
a world without humanity means a world without dollar generals
and the gas station and McDonald's in gas stations, an
oil drilling where we have just oil and fumes spewing
out everywhere is kind of grit. Just imagine a green
(01:13:16):
planet with oceans. And I'm not saying we should all,
you know, be dead. You know, we exist in Anybody
who's alive, I say, has a right to be alive.
Good for you, you know, Let's do the best to
take care of each other and take care of the planet,
and treaty torother with grace and kindliness, and let's be
(01:13:36):
polite with each other. I'm saying, let's make the best
of the situation. But like a situation where we're just
all gone, it's not terrible if it's out of our control.
You know, if it's possible for us to coexist, that'd
be cool. But and a billion year's the only thing
(01:13:57):
left will be crabs. That sounds like a pretty cool planet.
This is just crammed because humans are mean to each other, right,
So like, the more humans there are, the more pain
we can inflict. But if there were no humans, there
would be no pain. In a way, I guess there
would be no life, human life at least, maybe there'd
be plant life. But I don't know. We're getting existential here.
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Elizabeth just dropped a good quote in the chat. I
know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein. Good quote, Very interesting, very interesting. Dylan White's
I agree, let the bombs take me out, But that's
because I'm depressed. I'm not depressed. I just think the
idea of surviving a nuclear attack sounds more depressing than
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just dying in the attack. Dying in the attack would
be two seconds of very uncomfortable feelings. You'd be a
little bit. You'd be in pain for about five seconds
and then it'd be over. But I could tolerate like
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the worst imaginable pain for five seconds. But having to
just live in complete isolation for decades that doesn't sound fun.
That sounds pretty hard. So humans try to survive, and
there are evolutionary things that make us behave the way
we do. We'll probably never get that out of us.
That's true, there will probably be humans that survive. I'm
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just saying I wouldn't be the one trying very hard.
The whole civilized world ended from nuclear warfare, I would
just be like, all right, I'm out. World didn't go
too well, but I had fun while it lasted. I
met a lot of people. I made a lot of friends.
I enjoyed lots of good meals. I had fun. Thanks,
(01:15:46):
I'm out. Earth healed a bit with COVID. Oh good.
Did the new iPad Mini or Apple Intelligence start this
existential apocalyptic conversation? No? Nicholas lynthecom asked to pretty interesting
question that kind of got the chat. Talking about a
world where there's no electricity, what would happen? And I
(01:16:06):
basically just said, yeah, most people would die. In the
world would pretty much end if we lost all electricity.
There'd be a few survivors. It's kind of like that
one TV show, What was that called I Forget? There
was a TV show way back that there was a
scenario where all electricity on Earth stopped. Working farmers would
(01:16:28):
probably do better people who have access to food and
know how to grow their own food. Humans aren't great
beings with that evolutionary comment. Oh well, I don't think
we're good or evil. We're just kind of there be
well versed in the weapons of your time. Yeah, if
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you want to fight other human beings for resources, I
don't want to do that. That doesn't sound fun. So
you're telling me I spend all this money on a
bunker on weapons, So that a hypothetical future where all
my dreams are gone. I can't travel, I can't go
to fun restaurants. I can't visit my friends and family anymore.
I am just stuck where I am, and I have
to shoot at other human beings to protect my beans.
(01:17:15):
That doesn't sound fun. I don't want to shoot at
other people, even if they're mean people. It just I
don't It doesn't sound like an enjoyable life. Big Tugs
video and every reason why space is horrifying for zooming out,
you know, bigger problems for a perspective adjustment. Yeah, space
is horrifying. I don't need to watch a video on
that to know that. Yeah, that's quite terrifying. There was
(01:17:36):
another comment that someone asked over on telosiv ev, but
it was a tech question, so I guess I'll answer
it here. I'm not sure if they're listening, but someone
asked if I still have my AirPods for I do not.
I'm on AirPods Pro first generation. I'm waiting for these
things to die before I replace them. Fight people to survive?
Hell no, not worthy. Yeah, I'm with Dylan. I'm like, nah,
(01:17:59):
if there will to come at me and try to
kill me for my food, they probably deserve it. Personal
feel like an excided humans became more separated. I think
he probably meant nature. He probably meant like, you know,
the atmosphere got cleaner. There were less people, you know,
(01:18:19):
being mean to each other. Now online we were being
mean to each other, but that's easier to control. That's
just what we do now. Survive with other people competing
with you for space and resources. Yeah, it's a little
bit more pleasant this way because we're a little bit
more polite about it. But yeah, if all the politeness
went away and it just turned into I kill you,
I get your thing, then no, thanks. I don't need
(01:18:42):
to live in that world. That's fine, but yeah, it's
kind of fun. I know these live streams go off
the rails occasionally, but that was interesting. That was a
fun topic. Thanks for asking. And no, I don't have
my AirPods for I'm waiting for them to either go
on sale or I might consider some over because I'm
kind of getting sick of these earbuds going bad after
(01:19:04):
so many years. I just want to buy one pair
of headphones and have it last a while. That would
be refreshing. But I appreciate the questions. It's fun chatting
with you all, and I look forward to talking to
you all very soon. Hopefully we get some new Max
in the morning. Then we'll be back to our regularly
scheduled Apple Sheet programming. So thanks all, have a good one.
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Bye bye.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to Tendo's a tech
live on YouTube. Hope you're having a fantastic day, hopefully
a little bit more interesting than me refreshing the Apple
newsroom page every morning super duper early because that's when
Tim Cook has to start his day, which means we
all have to follow him and still got nothing. There's
(00:24):
still a lot of back and forth going on between
when are the M four Max dropping and case you
weren't a wear? It really could happen any day now.
It might happen tomorrow, could happen next week. I'd be
surprised if it didn't happen though, within the next ten
to twelve days, because there's been a lot of reports
about it. They've leaked already, people got their hands on them.
(00:45):
But in case you weren't to wear, Yes, four, M
four Pro, and M four Max all rumored to launch
with a new MacBook Pro lineup. Sorry for the bitrate
tanking so bad. It was doing so great, it was
going so well right until I go live. Let me
close a few background things. See if that helps. Um, yeah,
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we'll close that. We'll close. I guess we could close that.
Sorry for the pixelation. This stream brought to you by
Google Pixel iPad. Many seven of you have been dropping
on other channels. Any thoughts true, I summed it up
pretty much in the iPad mini video I did, which
is exactly what we expected, just a spec bump. I
(01:28):
think Apple would say the biggest feature is Apple Intelligence,
and yet it didn't. It didn't ship with that yet,
So yeah, it's kind of hard to get excited pumped
by it. I didn't see a need to. I didn't
see a need to go out and buy one because
I could go out and buy one and unbox it
and show it on my channel and my opinions would
be exactly the same. This is a new problem Apple
(01:53):
has to figure out. When I have Universal Control turned
on on the iMac and then I put the iMac
to sleep, then the mouse is just gone on my
Mac like it doesn't matter. There it is. It didn't
matter if I use the track pad or the magic
mouse anyway. Can at least see your face now? Yeah,
it should recover. It just takes a few seconds. I
(02:15):
don't know what causes it. You'll have like so much
consistency and the live stream will be totally steady, and
then all of a sudden, it just falls apart. It's
very random. Anyway, new iPads is just a spec bump.
Why is everybody disappointed? Nobody expected anything huge, at least
if you were expecting things huge, it's your own dang vault. Okay,
Because I literally told people leading up to the launch
(02:37):
of the IPEd many seven, I was like, look, this
is what's rumored. It's probably just a spec bump. It's
not going to it's gonna add Apple pencil pro support
in a new chip. It's not gonna add o lad,
It's not gonna add pro motion. And yet everyone keeps
getting hyped and excited about when's the new iPad Mini coming?
And then it was exactly what we all thought it
was gonna be, and then people were somehow disappointed. I
was like, well, there were no leaks, there were no rumors,
(03:00):
There was no analysts coming out saying that this is
going to be an old or a Mini LED or
one hundred and twenty eiritz iPad Mini. No one was
making those claims. And yet somehow that was everybody's expectation
going into it. So I don't know where that came from,
but we should probably kick off today's live stream with
the title and thumbnail. For those who are new, I'm
(03:21):
sorry I have to remind everybody. For those who are loyal,
just be patient. But for the new people, we don't
do the entire live stream just about what's in the
title in thumbnail. That would get old fast. I don't
think that would be a very interesting live stream. Now,
the point of the live stream is to have a
real time response from you guys, the fans, or the viewers,
or the audience, whatever you want to call yourselves. Is
(03:44):
to have real time responses. So I answer questions from
the channel members and I'll pick up I'll pick or
start off the live stream with a simple story that
we can kind of dive into so that I can
get your guys's reaction to it. But then of course
you guys can ask questions, you can steer the direction
of the stream so that it's not all just like
normal where I'm trying to guess what you're the most
(04:06):
interested in. Instead, you can just tell me what you're
the most interested in, so that I know what you
guys want me to talk about. So that's the beauty
of live stream, and that's why it's a lot of fun.
But today's one was kind of an interesting report. It
came from a Japanese blog, mac Takara, who's not got
like a flawless track record by any means. But oh,
(04:27):
I see the problem. I have the wrong window captured. Yeah,
those are the channel member questions, so you'll have to
take my word for it. It's in the thumbnail of
the live stream. But yeah, essentially there's not really much
to show. But mac Takara had these dummy models made
up for the iPhone SC four, which, of course I
was kind of like, this is the dumbest dummy model
(04:51):
you could possibly have, because the iPhone SC four is
literally just an iPhone fourteen with one camera on the
back instead of two. That's pretty much the only difference
at this point. It looks like it's gonna have a
ringer switch, it's gonna have a volume button, it'll have
a power button just like an iPhone fourteen, be the
same shape, size display as an iPhone fourteen. It'll have
(05:11):
a notch just like an iPhone fourteen. Oh and with USBC.
But again it's a dummy model. So they made these
dummy model mockups, but included in those mockups that I
assume are for case manufacturers, or I assume are from
people within the industry. They also had a plus variant
of the iPhone SE. Now again, anyone can really make
(05:33):
a dummy model. Any dummy can make a dummy model, right,
So I don't look at that leak or it's not
really even a leak at this point. It's more of
just a rumor that some news articles were pushing, and
I was like, I don't know if I want to
do a whole designated video on that, but it might
make for a good topic to get your guys's opinion
on during a live stream. So that's why I'm kicking
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off today's livestream with that topic. So I don't believe
this is an accurate rumor. I don't think this is
going to happen, but it does bag the question should
the iPhone s have a plus variant? I mean NH
is like short answer. Note that is a pretty short answer.
Even yes would be a longer answer than no. I
will play Devil's advocate just for a minute, even though yes,
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I agree with you, Like if you want a bigger phone,
just buy a fourteen plus or buy a fifteen plus,
or you know there's all kinds of different plus models
out there, but to be Devil's advocate, look at it
this way. The iPhone se is supposed to replace the
iPhone fourteen in the lineup, right, they've kept around the
fifteen plus. Again, after all these years, we still have
a sixteen plus. We've got the sixteen promax. So it's
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like every other segment in the iPhone lineup has a
larger size model. And while we may not fall for
this as much as the average consumer, Apple probably is
well aware that there's advantages to having a product price
step ladder, as in, it's easy to upsell people on
nicer and nicer hardware when you are able to digest
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small price increments at a time. So if the iPhone
se regular, you know, the cheapest iPhone, which in my
opinion will be the best one. I will genuinely recommend
that to lots of people in my personal life. I'm like, hey,
let's get you on a newer iPhone with USBC and
then you're done. You don't have to think about it,
you don't have to worry about it for probably another
six seven years. That iPhone will probably last a while
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because it'll have eight gigs of memory, it will have
the best port USBC, and it'll have a forty eight
megapixel camera, which is great and fantastic. The only big
headache is they got to get used to face ID
instead of touch ID and all that. But Apple looks
at it as okay, well, let's offer an S plus
for one hundred bucks. More So, the entry level SE
would be four ninety nine, the plus would be five
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ninety nine. Hypothetically for a six point seven inch ish,
you know, in the six and a half inch size,
for a six hundred dollars iPhone that would still have
an A eighteen chip, that would still just have one
camera on the back. It would still be o led,
but it'd still be sixty hurtz and it'd be face
ID again. It would be like an iPhone fourteen plus
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that just ever so happens to have one camera USBC
and Apple Intelligence support for six hundred bucks. If they
could hit that price point. Big phones do sell well,
and it's not necessarily just because of the screen size.
It's also because of the battery life. That's important to
a lot of people out there. Like I've said for
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a while, now, you know the everyday consumer cares more
so about, you know, the cost of the phone. They
care about, I think the longevity of the phone, and
they don't get all nitpicky about specs and displays and
all that. I think what matters to the average consumer
is like the price in the battery life. And hypothetically speaking,
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while this is not a very likely rumor, I'm not
saying there's much other evidence other than this one Macatakara
blog talking about the SE Plus. Even though I'm with
a lot of you guys saying no, no, no, no,
we don't need a Plus. We've got too many pluses.
Let's have a Mini, Let's have an se Mini. I
wholeheartedly agree. I want the Mini to come back at
every price range. You know. I want a pro Mini.
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I want to iPhone sixteen Mini or seventeen Mini. You know.
I want the minis to come back. Don't get me wrong,
but unfortunately, we have a lot of evidence from Apple
that the mini iPhones don't sell all that well, or
even if they do, they don't have great margins. So
Devil's Advocate. Even though a lot of you guys bring
up good points about the se I think there's actually
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a decent chance that If Apple did release an SE plus,
which is basically just an iPhone fourteen plus with one
camera on the back, that's forty eight megapixels in USBC
with an A eighteen ship for five ninety nine, or
maybe it's a little more, maybe it's six point forty nine.
That's still substantially cheaper than an iPhone sixteen, which starts
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at you know, eight hundred bucks. That's almost two hundred
dollars less for a bigger screen, probably a better battery life,
but the same chip, probably the same USBC port. I
don't see them going much lower than USB two point zero.
So we don't know exactly what the price is on
the SE. We pretty much know everything else about it.
We know that the you know, the obvious SE, the
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six point one inch oh LED will have a boxy
aluminum design, Apple designed modem on the inside that could
also help with battery life. So you get an Apple
designed modem into a plus sized iPhone. Plus sized iPhone
means bigger battery, even though it may be more expensive
than we'd like. Maybe the SE turns into a six
hundred dollars phone, which isn't really what we think of
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when we think SE. It might end up being one
of the more popular models. Like Apple's probably just experimenting
and trying things, And there's a good chance that the
reason that an iPhone sixteen plus or fifteen plus like
years prior hasn't sold all that great, I think it
could be because it's not that it's a phone, it's
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just that it's so close in price to the pros.
And Apple loves this dichotomy we're having, like with David saying,
you know, with an SE plus, we're only fifty dollars
away from a brand new fifteen or fourteen plus. Yeah,
but all of what those phones offer are nerdy, techie
things that I don't think the everyday consumer would care
that much about. Does the everyday consumer really need an
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ultra wide lens or a fourteen plus? Do they really
want to spend more money on an iPhone with a
lightning port. Also, by the way, David, I think the
fourteen will be gone when the SE comes out. It's
going to kill off iPhone fourteen the same way that
the SE two killed off the iPhone eight and the
iPhone se one killed off the iPhone five s. They
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kill them a little bit prematurely into the upgrade cycle,
but they always kill off the model that they share
the most parts with, and they always kill off like
the oldest model. Right now in the lineup, the iPhone
fourteen is pretty much the oldest model. So while we
don't need, I agree we don't need an SE Plus.
I could see the argum meant that if Apple was
trying to make a lower cost big phone, the S
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Plus is not that close to the price of the Pros,
and I think it's that price similarity with the Pro
variance that prevents a lot of people from buying the
fifteen Plus or the sixteen plus now, at least statistically,
whenever they do research or pulling or sampling of most
popular iPhone models of the new lineups, the fifteen plus
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and the sixteen plus are always low on the list.
Most people are either buying the regular fifteen or sixteen
or they're buying the pros. In fact, year over year,
the Pros keep selling the best. So if Apple's trying
to find a good mid range sweet spot, I actually
think S Plus among the masses, maybe not among the
tech community, because we care more about ultra wide lenses,
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and we care more about action buttons or little advantages
the iPhone fifteen might have. But again, an S plus
well cheaper than a fifteen, would be bigger than a fifteen.
Maybe it won't have dynamic island, but again, is the
everyday consumer care? But they don't know what a dynamic
island is. That's just a UI thing. So if the
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regular iPhones are too expensive, again, the SE plus would
have a better chip than the iPhone fifteen, the iPhone
fifteen would not get Apple Intelligence features. Does the average
consumer care? Eh? Probably not, but Apple's marketing it like
they should care, like crazy. They're marketing Apple Intelligence way
harder than they are Dynamic Island or ultra wide lenses.
So if every size is gonna have every iPhone model
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is going to have two sizes, why should the SE
be any different just because it's cheaper. I don't know.
They kept the fourteen plus around this long fifteen plus
is still on the site, So if they're rebranding the
iPhone fourteen and tweaking the design a little bit to
be EU approved, then well, this is unlikely to happen.
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I would argue that s C plus might actually be
a pretty decent sweet spot for a lot of customers
out there. AI is very much overhyped. Yes, absolutely, I
think Apple would want their lineup of iPhones to all
have Apple Intelligence, except maybe keeping the fifteen there. Yeah,
it will be awkward, but yeah, it seems pretty obvious,
especially because of the launch of the iPad Mini seven,
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that Apple is trying to push sales or generate more
sales by just getting everybody on board Apple Intelligence as
soon as possible. That's very, very true. Okay, let me
move up here. I think SE Plus would have the
exact inverse problem as the many people only paying five
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hundred dollars or below just on a phone, just like
people paying seven hundred plus dollars won't settle for a Mini,
I suppose. But you're it goes both ways. I mean
Mini and Plus is all relative, right, You're saying you're
saying they won't settle with the Mini because it's too
small or because it has bad battery line. Well, the
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Plus addresses both of those complaints. The Plus model would
have longer battery life and it would be even bigger
than the entry level SE. So sometimes it's that what
is it called the decoy effect that Apple gets a
lot of sales on, so they might be willing to
try something different next year. And if the entry level
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se is too cheap and people are concerned about battery life,
then the S plus feels like, Okay, it's cheaper than
a fifteen, but better than a fifteen in several ways.
Like it's got Apple Intelligence features, it's got more ram,
it's newer, which matters to some people. It's got an
Apple designed modem and the fifteen does not, So there's
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it would be a toss up at a lower price,
and I think that would win over a lot of people.
So that's my devil's advocate for S plus. Even though
I'm not really into it, I don't necessarily want it,
I could see it actually selling pretty well because it
wouldn't have that problem of being too close to the
price of the pros, and the everyday consumer at least
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appears to care a little bit more about battery life
and screen size. Maybe they bring back Product red, please,
just on anything, bring that back. Apple hasn't released Product
Red much at all. I would rather an air or
thin variants. You want to make it thinner? You know
that just means worse battery life, right, Okay, it's your call.
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It's up to you. But I am to get a
sixteen Pro so bad. I'm done with the notch on
my fourteen. I also want Apple Intelligence at one hundred
and twenty here it's display. Why not a fifteen pro
top Maverick That would be my recommendation. I've been very,
very disappointed with the iPhone sixteen lineup, but nothing has
really met my expectations, and my expectations were pretty low,
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and you can find a fifteen Pro for much cheaper.
I'm also intrigued about the in house five Motivate speed
versus the current iPhone. I don't think the Apple in
house design modem will be faster. I think it'll just
be more efficient. That's my guess as to why they're
launching it on entry level cheap iPhone. Why you know,
if Apple had developed this state of the art, super fast,
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super capable five G modem, why not ship that on
the iPhone sixteen Pro or seventeen Pro. Why not have
that be a top of the line premium feature, Because
you know, if they attract too much attention to it,
people are going to be like, why the heck did
you put your best modem on the cheapest iPhone and
not on your most expensive iPhone, right, So my guess
(17:38):
is that the Apple designed modem is going to be
all about better battery life, running at lower temperatures, and
being better at efficiency, not necessarily better five G performance.
That's my guess. It does help them save on cost,
but again, why not do that on your high end iPhones?
If it was faster and cheaper, they would have done
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it sooner, or they would have saved it for a
higher end iPhone. But let's see, what about the sixteen lineup?
Are you disappointed by Camera control is just kind of
a big joke. They bragged about it being built up
for Apple Intelligence, and Apple Intelligence is not that good.
I hate to break it to you, but the people
who have it are not that impressed by it, and
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most people don't even have it yet. Have it yet
because it's still in beta. Even when it's out of beta,
there's going to be a wait list to join it.
But there's really the only difference is going to be
some animations on the first wave of Apple Intelligence. It's
the exact same series before. There's no changes to her
other than the animation for it, and the proofread functionality
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is gimmicky. You're not going to use it all that much,
or it's not going to be that helpful. So camera
control is just a big UI nightmare. I never use it.
It's not helpful. When I did use it, it was
slow and not as versatile or as easy as just
using my on board display. Also, I was like ten
minutes into recording a video in the park on my
phone and the phone just straight up froze. A sixteen proax.
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You know, there's a twelve hundred dollars phone that I've
had for a couple of weeks, and ten minutes into
a recording, not an intense recording, just a regular four
K at sixty video, not four K at one to twenty,
not some slow mo thing, just a regular four K
at twenty video. Nine seconds into the recording, it just freezes,
and I lost everything that happened after that moment. I
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had to I couldn't hit stop recording. I had to
shut the phone all the way off and then unlock
it again and then launch the camera to get back
into recording. So the phone still overheats. They didn't fix
the they didn't fix the thermal issues. It's the exact
same speed of the USBC port as before the forty
eight megapixel ultra wide lens is not substantially sharper than before.
I thought it would improve the image quality, but it didn't.
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It really didn't, so I say, just get a fifteen
pro save yourself some money. Is Siri getting better with
Apple Intelligence. They're claiming it eventually will, but not next week.
You know, on October twenty fifth is when they're supposed
to be launching Apple Intelligence for the public, so you
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won't have to be on a beta build to get it.
But on that first build that they're releasing it that
Siri is not improved. The Siri improvements are supposed to
be coming several months down the road. And again, when
they're pushing the software team this hard and they're marketing
it this hard, there's no way that it can be
as good as they're claiming. That's all I'm saying. The
conditions are not good because the company's doing it purely
(20:35):
to please investors. They're not doing it because they're actually
that excited or interested in it. It feels like they
double down on it because they've been doing AI features
for years. It was only recently that they actually started
using the term AI and started being like, no, we're
an AI company too, so I've just everything about it
(20:55):
has been a letdown for me. I'm interested in getting
the Pixel nine, yes, but I want to get it
on Amazon renewed so that I can keep it for
a longer period. I don't want to just review it
for two weeks. I'd like to review it for several months. No,
I don't think Apple is dying. I just think they've matured.
I just think that they've reached a point where they
can't substantially improve on their hardware. The spatial thing is interesting,
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but it's just kind of a long term game. I
think spatial computing will long term be a lot more
interesting than AI. I think AI is a very overblown, overhyped.
It's a tool. It's not going away, but it's just
another tool, like five G is a tool. Like five
G was overhyped, overexaggerated the capabilities of it. The marketing
behind it was like, oh, yeah, five G is going
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to result in everybody having five gigabits per second in
their pocket, and that's just not what happened. It resulted
in phones running hotter, draining battery lies faster, and it
was about twice as fast as four G, not ten
times as fast, like all the carriers were acting like
it was going to be John says, your thoughts on
the idea of Apple stopped doing yearly releases instead release
when they are ready. There's pros and cons to it.
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We've talked about it in the past. The problem is
obviously the pro is, oh, when you do refresh it,
it'll feel like a bigger deal. Yeah, I get that.
But the con of that is it means that you
get people spending big money, like thousands of dollars eighteen
months into a products release cycle. So let's say Apple
doesn't release an iPhone every year, instead they go to
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every other year. Well, that means that a year and
a half after the phone came out, people are still
buying dated hardware. Now that there's better chips, better modems,
better displays that have become available that they are now
missing out on because well, it wouldn't be as substantial
as an upgrade. So maybe it reaches a point in
the next decade where the refreshes are so minor and
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the supply chain and the technology development for the displays
and the chips are not getting that better within a year.
Maybe that's the point where Apple would consider it, but
so far I haven't seen that to be the case,
even if it's not as stantial upgrade. You know, again,
don't think of it as most people are not upgrading
every year, you know. Most people buy an iPhone and
(23:07):
own it for three, four, sometimes five six years, and
then they upgrade to the newest possible one, and then
they hold on to that one for another five six years.
So if you're upgrading twice a decade, you don't care
if the iPhone seventeen is incredibly similar to the iPhone sixteen.
You just want to make sure that when you do upgrade,
you get the best of the best hardware available at
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that time. Like I said, it could reach a point
where the modems or the chips, or the displays or
the cameras have gotten so ironed out and so capable
that you just don't even need You just don't even
need to upgrade them every year or every six to
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twelve months. But so far, I don't think that's happened yet.
So if it does, I think we'll know why. But yeah,
that's true. You can use Gemini or CHATTBT on any iPhone.
You don't need an iPhone sixteen or an iPhone fifteen
pro even to have access to the better AI. I mean,
there's a lot of headlines going around right now that
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Apple does internally that they're behind companies like open AI
by like two years. The people who are testing Apple Intelligence,
at least the people who run the beta on their
main devices and mess around with the new features, they
tell me that it's nowhere near as good as CHATGBT,
which you don't need the latest iPhone for. So even
(24:32):
if you're a big fan of AI, I don't think
it's worth upgrading to the iPhone sixteen just for Apple
Intelligence because Apple Intelligence is nowhere near close to the
best of the best AI. Apple acknowledged the freezing sixteen
series bug in the latest eighteen Dot one RC bug fixes. Well,
it still happened. I still lost a moment, I still
(24:53):
lost footage. So that's all I'm saying is it's a disappointment.
When is Apple Intelligence going to be fully released. I
don't think they'll ever be done with it. There's always
going to be some features in beta that need ironing
out or need improvement. Chech on the whole is matured,
especially when it comes to phones. There's a lot of
interesting developments in technology with evs. By the way, that's
(25:18):
why I'm more passionate and more excited about that industry
is because there's a lot of change going on with
battery pack technology and with electric vehicle powertrain technology and
manufacturing technology that's making evs cheaper and cheaper. There's a
lot of rapid change in that field, which is why
it's far more interesting to talk about to me than phones.
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But I get it. More people are buying phones all
the time than they are cars. So that's why I
still have this channel to talk about what is going
on in the smartphone industry, even if it's small, even
if it doesn't feel major. I'm just saying there's certain
lots there's certain areas of tech in the world that
have changed pretty radically where there's a lot of innovation
going on. But it's not what Apple's doing. It's not
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with smartphones, it's not with tablets, it's not with desktop monitors.
All that kind of stuff is kind of matured and peaked,
and the developments on it have somewhat plateaued because there's
really just not much more they can do with it.
Cameras can only get so good, displays can only get
so good, and then over time all those really really
good hardware devices get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, and
(26:21):
then it's like, okay, now what now, why do I upgrade?
What's the point? Maverick says, The reason I think Apple
is dying is because of how bad iOS eighteen is.
And you said camera control buttoning the sixteen pros buggy
to the point where you had to restart the phone.
It wasn't even camera control in that situation. The phone
just froze. I wasn't using camera control. So it's just yeah,
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iOS eighteen is buggy, But there's been many years of
buggy iOS. I've been hearing people say I've been hearing
people say that for over a decade now. This latest
version feels way buggier than ever before. And every year
people think it's the worst year, and it's like, I
think it's just always kind of been like this. It's
just you remember it when it's happened in the moment,
but you don't remember it when it happened five years ago.
(27:03):
Adam Life Events celeb just did their first ever super
chat for no reason. Thank you for that, by the way,
very kind of you. Apple needs to get the camera
bump under control. Well. Also been saying that for a
decade now and it has only gotten bigger, So I
don't think they're going the other direction anytime soon. If
you like intelligence and the AirPods in the watch are
(27:24):
where it is the possibility of being the most useful,
and yes, two places where it definitely will not run natively,
it would have to carry it off the iPhone, in
which case, why can't it do it already? Well, because
then they can't justify you upgrading the sixteen Pro is
crazy with the camera bump, and a case doesn't even
make it better a little bit, but not a lot.
That's why I started switching to I mean, I'm biased
(27:44):
because they did sponsor my channel, but I did switch
to Taurus phone cases because they have little three sixty
degree kickstands on the back, and that lets me keep
my phone propped up. It never sits flat on a
table anymore because it's always on its kickstand. So that
actually helps with face ID working, so I don't have
to move my head around in some weird way to
get my phone to unlock with my face. And it's
(28:07):
also very helpful when you're washing dishes or you're cooking
or you're working on something, but you want to prop
up the phone somewhere. So ever, since I tried one
of their cases, I tried it first on my fifteen Pro.
I was like, oh, this kickstand is kind of helpful
when I'm doing FaceTime calls or something and I don't
have to hold the phone the whole time, and I
(28:27):
can just prop it up a lot easier now, and
it's built into the case and it still does the
wireless charging and everything. But then I switched to the
sixteen Pro Macs because of course that came out, and
I realized when I didn't have the case on that phone, Wow,
it's actually really hard to go back to not having
a phone with a kickstand, Like I have just gotten
(28:48):
so used to the kickstand that, yeah, I'm going to
keep using kits, So that's a mandatory thing for me. Boom, yeah, kickstand.
There's your reactions. I can't go back now to having
a phone that doesn't do that because it's just way
too convenient and that eliminates the camera wobble. It makes
it far easier to use because face D works on
a table if you're eating something or you're cooking or
(29:09):
washing dishes. You know, there's a lot of situations where
we're using our phones and our hands are tied up
doing other things. If you use that a lot. I'm
anxious to see how the kickstan holds up. My case
has the kickstan around the camera and it works flawlessly.
Good good. Yeah, by my wife is still rocking my
old my first Taurus case which has the kickstan. And yes,
I have no contract with them. They did pay me.
(29:31):
They did cover the price of the sixteen pro that
was the deal. I didn't pocket any money. All all
I got was enough money to cover the cost of
the sixteen pro Max. So I'm basically saying that so
that you guys know, if something goes wrong with the
Taurus cases, I'm allowed to talk about it. It wouldn't
breach contract. So if I have a problem with the case,
I will document it and I will share it and say, hey,
(29:54):
I've had this case for this long and now I'm
having problems with this. But so far haven't had any
issues with the fifteen pro case or the sixteen pro case.
But let's see. I remember when iOS seven came out,
and that was buggy. Think it happened when a new
OS version comes out and they iron everything out and
the dot one, et cetera. Yeah, usually, if they iron
(30:14):
it out and everything's running smoothly, no one says anything,
of course, but what it's buggy you hear about it?
Of course? Why not use a mag Safe pop socket
kickstand then still have the iPhone naked, probably cause I
don't I don't know enough about the mag Safe Pop
socket kickstand, but I'm guessing that eliminates wireless charging. Let
(30:37):
me look it up real quick because I don't know.
Let's see mag Safe Pop socket kickstand. Yeah, all the
ones I see would cover up the back of my
phone so that I couldn't wirelessly charge it, which is
(30:58):
a no go to me because I love wireless charging
my phone. I guess I see one that doesn't. But
it's made by Torris ironically, so Torres makes a kickstand.
But I also think it's good to have a case
if you're gonna be taking the phone out in about
You know, my phone is more of a tool now
than ever before. When I was younger, I was like, Oh,
(31:20):
I like the way like the phone feels. I want
to feel that raw naked titanium on the side. But
now I'm like, Drew, that's not why you have a phone.
You don't have a phone so you can satisfy some
you know, like oh, I want to feel a little
curvature of the edges. I'm like, no, this is a tool,
and there's a good chance that someone else in my
life is Like most of the phones in my life,
(31:42):
they end up in a friend or family member's hands.
So I decided, you know what, this is an expensive phone.
I should take good care of it. So I have
a screen protector also from Torres on my phone, which
I used to never do. But I'm like, you know what,
this is a tool. I'm not buying this because it's
pretty and I like the way it feels. I'm buying
this because I use it for work a lot so
and because I'm filming with it more than I've ever
(32:04):
filmed with it before, and there's often times where other
people are holding my phone and filming me, filming more
outside than ever before. With my new job at Tello
and everything, I wanted it to be protected. So I
thought a case was a good idea. But also if
I have a case, it still needs to support wireless
charging and it needs to have a kickstand. Those are
(32:27):
two very important features to me. I would not buy
a I would not buy a case that doesn't have
a kickstand anchor has a good one. Nice you can
buy that one. I don't care. Whatever makes sense for you,
whatever's cheaper. But yeah, most of the mags Safe pop
socket things I saw eliminated the wireless charging, so that's
a no go. Wireless charging is less efficient. Are you
(32:48):
all about efficiency? I am, but I think you're a
grasping at straws there with the amount of power our
phones used. It's incredibly low. It's incredibly small. We're talking
wat hours, which is fractions of pennies on the electric bill.
So I care about time efficiency just as much, if
not more so, than about energy efficiency. So I like,
(33:13):
when I'm at the end of the day, or when
I'm done streaming or something, or I'm done using my phone,
I literally just snap it with one hand onto my
wireless charging stand and it locks in. Mag's safe wireless
charging is much more efficient than a Chia charging, at
least because at least it's lined up properly. But Dylan
White says, good morning, Drew, I stole money from Apple. Congratulations.
(33:36):
I'm so happy for you. But anyway, let me jump
into the comments here before I forget. So we had
some questions from channel members. Thank you by the way
for your support who commented first five hours ago. Okay,
I think YJCHOI asked this on the last stream as well,
so I should address it. Remember that one interview where
John Turnas and Johnny Serugi asked, are you worried about
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how app the public's perception was that Apple is behind
in the AI space? And Turnus laughed and said, We're
not worried. Looking back in retrospect, do you think Apple
was truly playing forty chess with the slow rollout of
Apple Intelligence and intentionally making the iPhone fifteen while knowing
it would not support AI. Or do you think they
were caught by surprise and scrambled the rebrand new features
they would have called machine learning as Apple Intelligence. If
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I had Apple Intelligence on this thirteen promax, I could
have summarized this more concisely for you, but I can't. Well,
you could, you just would have had to use a
third party AI. But no, I don't think Apple was
playing four D underwater chess. I think that Apple was
caught off guard with the insane valuations of other companies
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that were leaders in AI, and they were seeing that
that was bringing a lot of shareholder value. So Apple
probably scrambled at the last second to work out some
kind of partnership deal with open Ai so that they
could be looked at as one of the AI leaders.
And that's why I think they've marketed so hard despite
the fact that the actual AI features are not that good,
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they're not that noticeable, and they're barely out, they barely exist.
But Apple's been talking about it since June, so you know,
it's been months and months and months of talk in
all these promises of like, yes, this will this will
be a thing, and this will be a thing, and
this will be so great when it happens, because it's
for the shareholders. That's someone brought it up in the
live stream at some point. It was a very good point,
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and I'm sorry I forgot who it was, but talking
about Apple intelligence is not for the consumers. It's for
the investors. It's supposed to make investors feel like Apple
is catching up or has caught up with other big
tech companies. Adam life Event says, what would I would
like to ask you is I'm getting the iPhone for
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it Christmas. Is there any tips you can give me
with that phone? I assume you mean the iPhone fourteen,
the regular iPhone four I'd be very impressed. Oh there
you go, he corrected himself. In UK phones cost a
lot for Christmas. I'm having the fourteen. What can I
ford coming up with the S two? Let me know
anything about the iPhone fourteen. My best advice about the
iPhone fourteen is you shouldn't buy it because it's way
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too similar with the iPhone thirteen. I would either say
go up a little bit more and get a fifteen.
That way, at least you have USBC, so it's a
bit more future proofed and you get a better chip.
You get a new chip on the inside. But the
iPhone thirteen and fourteen have the exact same silicon on
the inside, pretty much the exact same display, exact same camera,
exact same port, exact same design. So there's very very
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very little advantages other than like, I don't know, car
crash detection, but that's such an edge case because most
car crashes you are able to call the police yourself.
You're looking for an edge case where you're in a
very serious car accident where you don't die, but you
also are incapacitated, and in that situation, the car, the
phone will automatically call the police. It's an edge case
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upon an edge case upon an edge case. I don't
think you should buy a phone specifically for that one feature.
I would say get an iPhone thirteen or speck up
a little bit higher to a fifteen, because that will
be a much more noticeable improvement. There's some design tweaks
as well. You get the dynamic island, you get a
more rounded chassis, which is a bit more comfortable in
the hand, You get USBC, get a great camera. But yeah,
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that would be my advice. iPhone fourteen sucked, and I
would never recommend the fourteen to anybody. AI is so overvalued.
It's crazy that all the investors are drooling over it.
I guess they are drooling over what it could do,
not what it can do. AI is kind of like
the perfect investor bait. Though that's the same thing as
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other startup companies that use AI technologies. They know that
AI is very good at looking pretty capable. It'll make
big leaps, and then everybody looks at those big leaps
and goes, Wow, if this rate of progress continues, it'll
be unstoppable. It'll do all these amazing things. But it
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never maintains that growth. But the investor doesn't think about that.
They just think, oh, I'm about to because an investor,
of course, wants to invest in a stock or invest
in a company right before it's skyrockets, and AI has
this impression, especially generative AI, which is what most people
are talking about these days, it has this effect of
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always looking like it's just about to take off. It'll
show a little bit of progress and people go, oh
my god. If it continues at this rate, it'll be
unstoppable and it'll do everything and anything you can think
of within just a couple of years. So whenever you
talk about AI, generative AI features, especially which is what
Apple's doing with intelligence, it's perfect for baiting the investor
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into thinking, oh, I'm about to invest right before the
big takeoff, right before the stock goes vertical. So that's
why I think so many companies talk about it. That's
why there's been so many startup companies with horrible ideas
like humane like Rabbit are one and now with this
friend concept, this little necklace that uses AI and somehow
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these companies get off the ground that probably ten years
ago they couldn't get any investors for. But now in
the AI phase, there's all these investors that are like, Oh,
I gotta invest in AI. That's the next big thing.
I gotta invest in that. So it's completely overblown, completely overvalued. Yes,
but the technology as a whole is very good at
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appearing like it's about to take off. That's why Tesla
has fallen for it all these years they've been Elon
has literally been saying that they're about to achieve full
self driving for a decade. It's been a decade now.
There's people that have tracked every single time he's made
a claim like that, like in a year we're gonna
have FSD or and next year, in the next two
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years we'll have FSD. Those claims started all the way
back in twenty fourteen. They have him quoted and on camera,
on video or on audio quoted saying that we're within
two years of having complete autonomous driving and then we'll
have robotaxis. It's been ten years of that. It's the
same thing, the same concept with Open AI, same concept
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with Gemini. AI is very good at looking like it's
about to take off, which is exactly what investors look for.
So it's kind of like a Yin Yang. It's like
a match made in hell. It's not a good match
because it never actually delivers on all of its amazing
promises and claims. I'm starting my own YouTube channel called
Adam Life Events because I do my own podcast. Is
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there any tips you have that you could give me, please?
I'd recommend just starting and just accepting that when you
start making content, it's not going to be good. It's
always going to start kind of rough because you're inexperienced
at it, and that's okay. Just accept that the beginning
it won't be good. But the more you do it,
the more you practice, and the more you look for
ways to improve it. How do I make my thumbnails better?
How do I make my content more interesting? How do
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I make my viewers feel like their time is valuable?
The more you dwell on that, the better you'll get.
In a few years down the road, you might be
better than where you started, and then maybe that'll be
enough to get you off the ground. But there's no guarantees.
That's my one advice is to I'm giving a lot
of one one advice bigger picture, talk about things you're
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interested in, because a lot of the time you'll, especially
when you're starting out, you'll probably make a bunch of
content that doesn't do very well, that doesn't perform well,
that doesn't get a lot of views, or the views
it does get is negative. So if you enjoy what
you're talking about, you'll be able to grind through that
several year long process of making content without much feedback
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or without many people watching it. So if you're excited
about it, if you're interested in it, it'll probably show
on camera and you'll be able to tolerate it a
lot longer. So that increases your stamina compared to talking
about things you're not interested in. But hopefully I answered YJ.
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Choy's question when he said we're not worried. When John
Turner said that in the interview, my predict is that
was him referencing that they were going to partner with
an existing AI company, because the question is, like Apple,
you're falling behind open AI, how are you going to
catch up? And I think John Turnis was thinking, we're
working with open AI, so any improvements that they make,
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we're going to have integrated into iOS whenever Siri can't
answer the question, it's just going to fall back on
an encrypted, private, secure version of chat GPT now because
it's offloaded to Chat GPT. I feel like this should
be on all iPhones that should not require eight gigs
of RAM, because it's just pulling it from some secure,
private cloud neural network. But again, that wouldn't help them
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sell more phones, so that's probably why they won't do it.
But no, I don't think Apple was playing forty chess.
I think they were scrambling behind the scenes to try
to catch up, and they're still scrambling behind the scenes.
They're probably embarrassed that they've marketed so many AI features
and technically none of them are out yet. Are we
due next year for a MacBook Pro refresh? Dude, it's
happening like maybe it could be next week we're getting
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M four MacBook pros. They'll just have a new chip,
though they won't have any new designs. Are you talking
about it? You're saying four years from the last one,
more dynamic Island than face ID. There hasn't been really
much talk about that, no talk about design changes other
than maybe next year or the year after we'll get
an O lead panel. But no, there's been no talk
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about dynamic island on the Mac. I don't think it
would mesh well. I reconnection successful. Sorry, we had t
mobile just shut off there for a second and then
it came right back at full speed. Random. No, the
M four MacBook will most likely not have an event.
I felt that way as soon as soon as the
iPad Mini seven dropped as a sight refreshed, I was like, yeah, no,
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I think that there's no redesign, so there's no reason.
Let's see. Yeah, a Mac has a lot of screen space,
which is why I don't think it makes sense to
have a dynamic island, because dynamic island is four like
consolidating a small space that wants to deliver lots of information.
You can just deliver all that information on a Mac.
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But I just got here, So what are we thinking of?
SE plus probably won't happen. There were some rumors from
mac Takara saying that there might be a plus sized
variant of the SE. I speculated at the beginning of
the live stream that you know, if there was a
plus sized non pro iPhone to do well, it would
probably be the SE because it's not too close in
price to the pros and that's the main reason that
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I think not a lot of people are upgrading to
the fifteen plus or sixteen plus because it's just too
close to the pros. But an se plus is much cheaper,
but it would still have the good battery life, still
have an A eighteen chip might honestly sell a little
too well, but maybe that's why they won't do it.
Macminnie is getting his first redesign, and yeah forever, that's
what I'm most excited about. I don't know what what
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do you want change? What kind of facelift do you
want on the MacBook Pro. I feel like it's kind
of perfect in its current form. I mean, I would
want a fourth USB Sport, but that's not really a facelift.
Non Apple related question. Can and should I use solar
panels to be energy independent from the power grid? Your
thought that's highly highly dependent on so many variables that
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you're not giving me enough of. I need to know
what the electricity costs in your area are, what the
solar costs in your area are. I need to know
what battery costs are. Also, the metering rate of the
area you're in and on top of all of that,
how long you plan on living there? How old is
the roof? There's a ton of variables that go into that,
(45:35):
and I don't have enough information to give you a
genuine recommendation. It could be or it could not be.
There's definitely people I've seen by Solar that actually can't
justify it. The break even point is so long that
they would have been better off just being attached to
the grid. Let's see, why is the iosaighteen photos app
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so bad? Not sure if you answered that, I'm pretty
sure it's another indication of Apple running out of things.
It's the same problem we see on the iPad, the
iPhone in the Mac. They've run out of things to change,
so they just go to some of their software teams
and go, hey, you got to make it better somehow,
when in reality there might not necessarily be ways to
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make it that much better. It might be good enough
as is, or just need some light tweaking here and there.
But Apple probably went to the photos team and said,
our users are not utilizing the photo features that we
want them to, so how can we redesign the photos
app to make them take advantage of all those memories
or location features or auto edited videos of your vacation things.
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They were like, how do we redesign the photos app
so that people are using the features we want them
to use more. In reality, they probably should have just
left it the same. It wasn't broken, there was nothing
wrong with it, but they decided that, oh, we got
to change everything that it so that we have something
to talk about. It feels like when the marketing team
gets too much power, too much control. Were people complaining
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about the photos app and iOS seventeen, Not really, but
the marketing team was probably complaining that, hey, we're not
getting We're not gonna have enough stuff to talk about
it dubbed up there's supposed to be a twenty minute
segment where we talk about iOS eighteen, and we can't
fill the twenty minutes. So how do we change iOS
eighteen in some substantial way so that it feels like
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it's a bigger update. That's probably what was the motivation
behind it, and of course that resulted them redesigning it
and changing it in a way that they didn't really
need to. I don't think it's the worst update in
the world, Like you can customize it to kind of
turn it back into how it used to be. But yeah,
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auto generated photos are pretty much used. I agree. Nicholas
asked another question here, Nicholas lynth to come the longtime
supporter of the channel. Thanks by the way, he said,
asking a little bit of a hypothetical Drew, I know
you mentioned previously smartphones are here for the long haul,
and I definitely believe that with having the context of
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our world today, which product category in particular do you
see one day taking over smartphones? If something was to
happen to our grid, how exactly do you see Americans reacting? Wow?
That almost relates to the earlier question. If it was
out for a long period, there's very different question. Do
you think society would be able to adjust to life
how it was before the internet. These are more hypothetical
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questions just to get your views on how the world
has been influenced by technology. Curious on what your opinions
are for what could be abrupt changes also seen. Have
you been posting about the lack of product red I
phones on your Twitter which has led you to reiterate
the sentiment posting about the line what has what do
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you mean reiterate this a product? Dark red Titanium iPhone
pro would be awesome. Yes, I think we agree. There
product red iPhones. I tweeted about it because the product
read Twitter account was bragging that every red iPhone portion
of the profits go to support some charity, and I
was just retweeting it saying, by the way, Apple hasn't
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released a red iPhone in forever. It's been over two
years now, So I thought that was a little funny
and kind of ironic that they were bragging about, Hey,
red iPhones help with this, And then I'm like, where
are the red iPhones? Then? If that's the case, I
still want red iPhones. But yeah, I don't know what
happened to them. But Okay, to answer the question, first
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question you asked was about what product or technology would
replace the smartphone, which again I don't think is really
going to be done in our lifetime. I think smartphones
are just too dang practical. They're too addictive, and they're
too versatile. They do so many things. Even the people
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who hate smartphones have smartphones. Now that's a good indication
of how impactful they've become. So again, I don't think
it's going to be anything that we know about. Maybe
there's tech that I haven't formulated yet. Best guess, I
don't think again, I don't think spatial computing like augmented reality,
glasses or headsets are going to replace the phone. I
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think they could assist the phone. They could make the
phone experience more interesting. They might turn the phone more
into a camera. But you're not going to replace selfies.
You're not going to replace video calls with glasses, and
you're not going to replace the affordability of a rectangle
with a battery in it. The battery life of a
smartphone is very, very hard to beat with glasses because
it's something you have to wear on your face. It's
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extremely power dependent. The battery life is substantially worse on
all these glasses and things. And as you get better
chip efficiency, you're also going to have great battery life
improvements on the phone and the glasses. I just I
think inherently are going to be a more complex product.
So I don't think. I don't think the smartphone is
going to go away anytime soon. But if I were
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to guess on some technology in the future eventually replacing
a smartphone, does that mean in twenty sixty people still
have smartphones. Yeah, they might look a little different than today,
But yeah, I do think there's just an incredibly insane
amount of practicality that comes from a computer that can
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fit in your pocket, that you can use to communicate
with anybody, and you can watch endless content on, play
music on, respond to emails on, text people on, and
also capture incredibly high resolution memories on. Yeah. I mean,
people had televisions back in the nineteen sixties, and we
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still have televisions today. You know, We've had a lot
of new technology come around since the sixties, but there
are still televisions. Yes, TV's are a much more different design.
They're much bigger, they're much thinner borders, they're much lighter
than those old TVs from the sixties. We've got color,
we've got higher resolution, they got better, but we still
have TVs. And likewise, the iPhone was extremely disruptive in
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game changing, but it didn't off the Mac. There are
still macs, There are still personal computers. There are still desktops,
even though laptops have gotten so much better. You know,
I think that people have this misconception in their minds
that in order for a tech to be a big deal,
it has to replace something it has to kill off
the existence of another really popular technology, and I don't
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believe that. I think that you can have a very disruptive,
very impactful technology that doesn't necessarily kill off anything else.
iPhone didn't kill off the Mac. It did kill off
the iPod. That's fair. iPod didn't really have a need
to exist when smartphones became so affordable and so mainstream.
But an iPhone didn't replace the job of a MacBook
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or an iMac or a Mac Mini or a Max Studio,
you know, whatever you want to call the desktop Max.
There's too many There's too many things that each one
does differently, and each one does good at I think
spatial computing might be carving out a whole different way
to use technology. It could be extremely impactful that spatial
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hardware that Apple develops could fundamentally rethink the entire way
we use and interact with technology. But it could still
do all of that without replacing the smartphone. That's all
I'm saying. But if I were to guess, that's what
Nicholas is asking, So I feel bad just saying they'll
never be replaced, because we should probably never say never.
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My best guess would be some kind of neuralink technology.
When we get to the point where we really understand
the human brain incredibly well, and we know how to
plug into it and we know how to tap into it.
If we could get to the point where computers could
be surgically implanted into our brains very efficiently, very quickly,
and it let us communicate with each other virtually, so
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we could send text messages just in our brains and
we didn't even have to look things up anymore. You
don't have to ask Google a question instead, you just
know it. Like the infinite coledge of the Internet just
becomes another library in your mind, just like how you
remember hopefully you remember what you had for lunch today,
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or what you remember how to speak the language that
you speak. Reconnection successful. There we go. I don't know
why it's doing that. That's a new thing. That's a
new thing. T mobile just randomly likes to disconnect. Now
that's annoying. But yeah, if we reach a point in
the future where a computer basically just lets like you
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don't have to have a Google Translate app or an
Apple Translate app anymore. You just plug into this infinite
server and now you know how to speak any language
just like you just know it and it fundamentally changes
your education. That could be pretty disruptive. Maybe that would
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get to a point where smartphones are kind of unnecessary
because you can just do everything on your own. But
I don't think that's going to happen in the near term.
I think we're way far away from anything that requires
surgery to become mainstream. Smartphones are just so marketable. They're
so easy to distribute. You can just build them and
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then you ship them, and then people take them out
of the box and set them up. It's very simple
relative to something that you would have to surgically implant
through someone's skull and everything. But no, I don't think
it'll be an AI product. I don't think it'll be
a tablet. I don't think it'll be a watch. I
don't think it'll be a ring. I don't think it'll
be glasses. I think that there will be for a
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long long time computers in the shape of rectangles that
go in our pockets. That's just way too practical. Anything
with surgical tech has to be yeah, extremely regulated, very
very hard to iron out the kinks and iron out
the testing, the sampling of it and getting to the
point where you can market it and have lots of
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people just line up and get it done within a day. Yeah,
we're decades away from that. Possibly might never see that
in my lifetime. And I'm okay with that, because I'm
not sure it'd be something i'd be on board with doing.
I did a video a long time ago. I'm trying
to remember what it was called, but I did a
video on this channel about neuralink. It was like the
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dangers of the danger, the scary reality of neuralink that
all I remember is the thumbnail, which was you are outdated,
And I said, it's not that scary to imagine, in
my opinion, a situation where that goes wrong, because that's
where everyone's mind goes when I tell them about, oh,
we should you know, maybe one day we'll implant neuro
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chips into our brain so that we can have this
infinite knowledge and infinite capability. I was like, if something
goes wrong with that, like it fries someone's brain and
it kills them, or it you know, causes problems, it
would get shut down so fast. It's the easiest thing
in the world to just like, Okay, anybody who has
that chip disconnect the power, or go to a surgery
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place and how them remove it. Or of course anybody
who doesn't have it installed in their brain, they will
never get it installed. And of course even if it
was proven to be safe and reliable and consistent, there
would still be a crap ton of people that would
never do it just out of principle, like something goes
wrong with that technology. I'm not that worried. I'm not
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that scared. What you should be scared of is if
it goes perfectly. That's more intimidating to me. If it
works and there's no problems, that's actually terrifying because it
means that as the technology progresses and gets better and improves,
it's going to reach a point where you kind of
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have to have it. Because if it fundamentally changed education
to the point where you didn't have to go to
school for four years to learn how to do mechanical
engineering or to know how to play an intricate instrument.
Now you could just install this one chip and suddenly
you know how to do all these things. You're way
ahead of people that choose not to install the chip.
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Not even saying it'd be mandated, it wouldn't even be
required by the government that you get this chip. But
the people who are willing to install that chip are
going to be at a severe significant advantage against everybody
who doesn't, and then you basically have no choice in
order to have a competitive edge in the workforce or
to be able to contribute anything, really, you're gonna have
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to have those chips. And then we won't be thinking
for ourselves anymore. We can just have the computer do
all the thinking for us, so it going well and
not having any major issues. That's more terrifying to me.
But yeah, and then you'll get ads in your brain
or it'll just influence your opinion, be like, oh, I
guess I want Jack in the Box today because Jack
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in the Box paid money to put that desire and
everyone's neurally it would be it would be creepy, it
would be scary, for sure. Brain implant technology would be
very interesting. Hopefully this would come in our lifetime, but
I doubtity. Yeah, there's already implant stuff for people who
have neurological issues, but to get to the point where
it's just being implanted for convenience reasons, I don't I
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don't think so, probably not in my lifetime. Maybe at
the very very end of my life, I'll start seeing
that and go, yep, not for me. I'm out no
more of this. Do you think chips like that could
be banned? Oh easily. I wouldn't be shocked if many
places banned them. But the places that don't ban them
are probably going to start developing superhumans with infinite intelligence,
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you know. But you asked more than that question. You
also asked kind of an interesting one. Nicholas said, if
something was to happen to our grid, how exactly do
you see Americans reacting? There would be panic and riots
in the streets if it was out for a long
period of time, meaning find out it's going to be
at least six months. Yeah, people would straight up die.
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I don't think people are realizing. I mean, it'd be
one thing. If you said the internet, that would be
a bit more. Okay, we could survive without the internet.
It would just kind of force people to connect with
their local communities a bit more, and it would break
a lot of supply chain stuff. But with no power,
our whole food and water system starts falling apart. We
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need electricity for pumping all kinds of stuff like that.
And for keeping food cold and for keeping it from
going bad. You know, a guy like me who relies
on electricity to drive my car, I'd be screwed. But
guess what, even the people who require gasoline to operate
their vehicles, you need electricity to pump gasoline out of
the ground and into your car. So yeah, it would
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cause all kinds of problems if it was just out
for a week. But thankfully the grid is kind of
designed with all this redundancy in mind, all these power stations,
to the point that you wouldn't really it'd be very
hard to just knock out all power for months. There's
like EMP stuff that could happen, but that would be
short term electronic knockout. That wouldn't be like months and
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months of power outages. The TikTok kids will lose it
after five days. Oh well, social media like their attention span.
I'm not even worried about that. That would be. That
would be the least of my concerns. The bigger problem
would be food. Our whole food supply chain, our whole
water supply chain, so much of that is dependent on electricity,
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And as soon as you knock out a grid, most
people do not grow, you know, their own food. I
would say like ninety five plus percent of the population
gets their food from grocery stores or from restaurants or
you know, places that are power and electricity dependent for
moving around. And if you don't have you know, electricity
to pump fuel, that means no semi trucks. If you
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don't have semi trucks moving around cargo, then that means
the grocery stores can't get restocked. And also all the
food and supplies that the grocery stores have is going
to go bad much faster because they can't keep it cold,
they can't keep it refrigerated. Called thunderstorms. Yeah, I mean
there's some more control the MP stuff. That would be scary,
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but it wouldn't be a six month outage thing. Yeah.
Power is different than just internet. Without internet, we in
theory could manage, but without power for a long time, yeah,
we're screwed. Yeah, power would probably result in many people
just starving to death. Within a month. You would run
out of food. It'd be very quick because most people
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that are eating, especially in big cities, they rely so
much on imported goods that you suddenly wouldn't be able
to rely on anymore in the communication problems. But yeah,
a lot of people have battery storage and off grid stuff.
I guess they might be okay, but a lot of
the grid isn't prepared for that. Wouldn't be prepared for that.
So I don't know what scenario you're imagining. But thankfully,
(01:02:45):
there's not just one power station in all of America
that provides all of the power. There's thousands of power
plants and different things that are providing power to the grid.
It's not a very easy thing to just shut off.
There's not one switch. There's not one place in the
tree that could just get bombed or get There's not
one switch that you could flip that would shut off
(01:03:06):
the power to the whole country. You lose power from
one power plant, you can pull it from another power plant.
You know. That happens all the time. AnyWho. That's kind
of a fun thing to imagine. But I'm not one
of those doomsday prepper kind of people. I'm like, h
if the whole world was coming to an end, I
wouldn't try. I don't want bunkers in my yard, and
I'm not stocking up on beans. Because the idea that
(01:03:27):
everyone's just going to turn into nomads. Now, it'd be
mad Max. You would lose one government and then another,
probably tyrannical one would rise, and then you would be
a slave to that one, and then there'd be another system.
Humans just do that naturally. Humans like are attracted to power.
I don't see a situation where just like everybody's independently
taking care of themselves. No, there would be another group,
(01:03:49):
another gang that gets together and says we're in charge. Here,
we're the new leaders. I'm the new king of the land,
and you have to pay me taxes and I'll provide
you protection. And then the whole thing just starts over again.
I just I'm not that kind of guy. A solar flare.
A solar flare could fry all electronic devices globally one day.
We simply don't have the ability to make our tech
(01:04:09):
resistant enough. That's true, it's possible. It hasn't happened yet.
But it wouldn't end all electricity. It would just break
a lot of things. Thankfully we can work with that.
More people should be more energy independent from the power grid. Yeah,
but it's all just a debate of how off grid
(01:04:30):
do you want to be? I mean, you could easily say, Okay,
all my electricity is taken care of. But okay, where's
your water supply? Okay, now you got to switch to
well water. Okay, where's your food supply? Okay, you have beans,
but you can't have infinite food supply. You can only
buy it for so long. Okay. If you have a
really really big bunker with a lot of food and
a lot of amo and a lot of resources, now
you're a target. Now in the end of the world situation.
(01:04:52):
You have a lot of resources. People are gonna want
that from you, so you put a bigger target on
your back. So there's all kinds of risk. Nothing is guaranteed.
You know, live life like there's no tomorrow. Just enjoy yourselves,
be responsible. I guess I'm not saying like, spend all
your money. It's good to have savings, it's good to
prepare for retirement and that kind of thing. But yeah,
(01:05:14):
I'm not one of those doomsday prepper people. I'm like, well,
if there's all out nuclear war, then I'm just giving up.
At that point. I work in a warehouse. We already
have a lot of bad communication. Oh yeah, it could
get worse. But people, I just like to remind people
of this. People have theorized about the end of the
world since the beginning of time. As long as humans
(01:05:37):
have existed, there has been a fear that the whole
world will end, and we keep theorizing it. Talk to
older folks, talk to people in their sixties and seventies,
and ask them, was there ever a time when you
were younger when people thought the world was going to Heck? Yeah,
especially during the Great Wars, and then after that, you know,
when other countries, foreign entity started getting nuclear power. Everyone
(01:06:00):
was that. They were watching videos and schools about how
to take cover in case of a nuclear attack. They
were prepared. They were theorizing world's gonna end, We're going
to be in a nuclear war, nuclear fallout. For decades,
people buying bunkers, people were preparing for the worst. We
keep theorizing how it's gonna end. Oh, this is going
to happen, There's going to be tensions here in the
world's going to All those years have gone by, still
(01:06:22):
hasn't really happened yet. Though it's not a new idea,
it's not a new theory that oh, what if this
all falls apart. It's like, yeah, it could, but so
far it hasn't. Yeah y two K twenty twelve. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's always been theorized that, Yeah, the Mayan calendar thing
is super old. We literally need power for our society
(01:06:44):
to function. Without Internet, yeat, it would be chaos for
a while, but after a while we could manage. The
Internet's relatively new. That's why I say we could manage it.
You know that the only reason humanity's population has been
able to grow as big as it is is because
of having a reliable, consistent you know, we have hospitals
that can help people in emergencies, and that technology and
that power has helped us develop medicines and how to
(01:07:07):
take care of people who get sick. And you know,
the Internet wasn't really a thing up until thirty years ago,
if even very very basic internet in the nineties there
was not much. But there was still billions of peoples
on Earth in nineteen seventy nineteen eighty. So that's why
I say, yeah, we can live without the Internet. It's
(01:07:29):
a little inconvenient. We've got to rely more on snail
mail and that kind of thing, but it's doable. But
no society without electricity, without power, No, we've never been
able to support a population on the planet with eight
billion people without electricity. The only reason we're able to
do that is because we have technology that's able to
(01:07:50):
move food and preserve food long enough to get it
to transport to where people are needed. You know, think
of people who are living in those big apartment buildings
in New York City or Chicago. Do you think they're
getting all their food from local farmers. No. If they
had no way to transport all of that food that
all these people are living in that one place, it
(01:08:12):
would starve to death so quickly. My old high school
literally had a bomb shelter. It was later destroyed by
a tornado fourteen years ago. That's not good. Didn't know
you weren't a conspiracy theorist. I see how the world
has its problems politically. I feel like the Internet has
influenced things negatively. COVID has shown me to prepare for unexpected.
(01:08:33):
It's always good to prepare. But I just don't think
you should live your life in fear. Don't live your
life expecting the world to end, because again, people have
theorized the world that's going to end for as long
as humanity has been capable of writing things, even on
cave paintings. We theorized the end of the world, and
there's been a lot of bad things that have happened,
(01:08:54):
but so far it hasn't. In fact, we have a
lot better technology now than it can protect us in
ways that were never possible before. You know, I've talked
to some older folks in my time that were like,
there was a lot more hostility. There was a lot
more physical fights back in the day because there weren't
cameras everywhere. Now, anywhere you go in public, people start fighting,
(01:09:18):
people start pushing each other. You immediately got eight people
in the surrounding area with a four K camera in
their pocket that just whip it out in one second. Boom,
They catch everything you're doing at sixty frames a second
in glorious four K. That wasn't a that wasn't a
thing a few decades ago. Could be a big fight,
(01:09:38):
there could be a bar fighteror you know, people harassing
you and there it would never be caught on camera.
There would be no evidence that had happened. It would
be your word against the aggressors. You know, there's all
kinds of things that you know, we can call the
police or call emergency services faster and easier than ever before.
It's on our watches now, we've got technology in our
(01:10:00):
newer phones that will automatically call the police if it
detects a car crash, or watches that will automatically call
the police if it detects a fall. There's all kinds
of more safety systems and more checks and balances we
have as a society than we've ever had. So while
it may appear, thanks to social media giving everybody a megaphone,
(01:10:21):
it may appear like we're dumber and stupider than ever before,
but the truth is we're just better at documenting our
stupidity than ever before. There's all kinds of stupid things
that probably old presidents and old people said long before
we had a way to tweet it out, but you
just never heard fifty probably you never heard ninety percent
(01:10:41):
of what people said. Nowadays, any passing, fleeting thought you
had on a random Tuesday is immortalized on the Internet forever.
So the documentation of our stupidity is better than ever before.
That doesn't make us necessarily stupider than we've ever been.
If the bombs drop some bunker won't save you anything,
(01:11:03):
that you could build would get destroyed immediately, so no
point digging. And I also just I don't want to
live in that life. What I have dreams and hopes about.
You know, me and me and my wife are you know,
generally pretty happy. We enjoy our lives. We enjoy our jobs,
and we have fun, and we like traveling places, and
we like trying new foods, and we like visiting friends
and family. And if all of that dissolved a way
(01:11:26):
because of some nuclear war and now we're just living
in a windowless tank underground, eating beans out of a can.
You want me to do that for fifty years? No, No,
I'll go out with the bomb, That's okay. I'd rather
just get taken out by the shockwave and just enjoy
(01:11:47):
the life I had in the in the before that
took place. So that's what I never understood personally about
everybody talking about like everybody talking about like, oh yeah,
I'm gonna stalk up a bunker and I'll survive in
the in the apocalypse, And I'm like, I don't. I
(01:12:08):
don't want to live in that world. That doesn't sound
fun to me. Just live in some tiny little bunker
and you can't go anywhere and you can't eat anything
other than what you've stocked up. That's okay, that's okay.
I'll just let the blast take care of me. That's
it's just humanity's done at that point. That's okay. You know, humanity.
(01:12:29):
There's there's good things in humanity, but we're kind of cringe. Sorry,
sometimes I make myself laugh. I don't know. Sometimes I
just imagine, uh, an earth that's just nature and just animals,
just plants and trees and oceans, and there's no people anywhere. Hey,
(01:12:53):
a world without humanity means a world without dollar generals
and the gas station and McDonald's in gas stations, an
oil drilling where we have just oil and fumes spewing
out everywhere is kind of grit. Just imagine a green
(01:13:16):
planet with oceans. And I'm not saying we should all,
you know, be dead. You know, we exist in Anybody
who's alive, I say, has a right to be alive.
Good for you, you know, Let's do the best to
take care of each other and take care of the planet,
and treaty torother with grace and kindliness, and let's be
(01:13:36):
polite with each other. I'm saying, let's make the best
of the situation. But like a situation where we're just
all gone, it's not terrible if it's out of our control.
You know, if it's possible for us to coexist, that'd
be cool. But and a billion year's the only thing
(01:13:57):
left will be crabs. That sounds like a pretty cool planet.
This is just crammed because humans are mean to each other, right,
So like, the more humans there are, the more pain
we can inflict. But if there were no humans, there
would be no pain. In a way, I guess there
would be no life, human life at least, maybe there'd
be plant life. But I don't know. We're getting existential here.
(01:14:21):
Elizabeth just dropped a good quote in the chat. I
know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein. Good quote, Very interesting, very interesting. Dylan White's
I agree, let the bombs take me out, But that's
because I'm depressed. I'm not depressed. I just think the
idea of surviving a nuclear attack sounds more depressing than
(01:14:44):
just dying in the attack. Dying in the attack would
be two seconds of very uncomfortable feelings. You'd be a
little bit. You'd be in pain for about five seconds
and then it'd be over. But I could tolerate like
(01:15:04):
the worst imaginable pain for five seconds. But having to
just live in complete isolation for decades that doesn't sound fun.
That sounds pretty hard. So humans try to survive, and
there are evolutionary things that make us behave the way
we do. We'll probably never get that out of us.
That's true, there will probably be humans that survive. I'm
(01:15:25):
just saying I wouldn't be the one trying very hard.
The whole civilized world ended from nuclear warfare, I would
just be like, all right, I'm out. World didn't go
too well, but I had fun while it lasted. I
met a lot of people. I made a lot of friends.
I enjoyed lots of good meals. I had fun. Thanks,
(01:15:46):
I'm out. Earth healed a bit with COVID. Oh good.
Did the new iPad Mini or Apple Intelligence start this
existential apocalyptic conversation? No? Nicholas lynthecom asked to pretty interesting
question that kind of got the chat. Talking about a
world where there's no electricity, what would happen? And I
(01:16:06):
basically just said, yeah, most people would die. In the
world would pretty much end if we lost all electricity.
There'd be a few survivors. It's kind of like that
one TV show, What was that called I Forget? There
was a TV show way back that there was a
scenario where all electricity on Earth stopped. Working farmers would
(01:16:28):
probably do better people who have access to food and
know how to grow their own food. Humans aren't great
beings with that evolutionary comment. Oh well, I don't think
we're good or evil. We're just kind of there be
well versed in the weapons of your time. Yeah, if
(01:16:49):
you want to fight other human beings for resources, I
don't want to do that. That doesn't sound fun. So
you're telling me I spend all this money on a
bunker on weapons, So that a hypothetical future where all
my dreams are gone. I can't travel, I can't go
to fun restaurants. I can't visit my friends and family anymore.
I am just stuck where I am, and I have
to shoot at other human beings to protect my beans.
(01:17:15):
That doesn't sound fun. I don't want to shoot at
other people, even if they're mean people. It just I
don't It doesn't sound like an enjoyable life. Big Tugs
video and every reason why space is horrifying for zooming out,
you know, bigger problems for a perspective adjustment. Yeah, space
is horrifying. I don't need to watch a video on
that to know that. Yeah, that's quite terrifying. There was
(01:17:36):
another comment that someone asked over on telosiv ev, but
it was a tech question, so I guess I'll answer
it here. I'm not sure if they're listening, but someone
asked if I still have my AirPods for I do not.
I'm on AirPods Pro first generation. I'm waiting for these
things to die before I replace them. Fight people to survive?
Hell no, not worthy. Yeah, I'm with Dylan. I'm like, nah,
(01:17:59):
if there will to come at me and try to
kill me for my food, they probably deserve it. Personal
feel like an excided humans became more separated. I think
he probably meant nature. He probably meant like, you know,
the atmosphere got cleaner. There were less people, you know,
(01:18:19):
being mean to each other. Now online we were being
mean to each other, but that's easier to control. That's
just what we do now. Survive with other people competing
with you for space and resources. Yeah, it's a little
bit more pleasant this way because we're a little bit
more polite about it. But yeah, if all the politeness
went away and it just turned into I kill you,
I get your thing, then no, thanks. I don't need
(01:18:42):
to live in that world. That's fine, but yeah, it's
kind of fun. I know these live streams go off
the rails occasionally, but that was interesting. That was a
fun topic. Thanks for asking. And no, I don't have
my AirPods for I'm waiting for them to either go
on sale or I might consider some over because I'm
kind of getting sick of these earbuds going bad after
(01:19:04):
so many years. I just want to buy one pair
of headphones and have it last a while. That would
be refreshing. But I appreciate the questions. It's fun chatting
with you all, and I look forward to talking to
you all very soon. Hopefully we get some new Max
in the morning. Then we'll be back to our regularly
scheduled Apple Sheet programming. So thanks all, have a good one.
(01:19:25):
Bye bye.
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