Tailosive Tech April Q&A

Streamed: April 6th, 2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize already. Yes, we're
doing an apology stream because my goal was to find
time to stream once per month, and I missed the
entire month of March. But hey, we won't miss April
because we're starting super super early. Schedule has been filling

(00:24):
up a lot lately, all kinds of exciting things going
on that have no correlation to this channel. But I
found a little hole in my schedule just now, so
I was like, you know what, we're gonna make time.
So now we have the time. It didn't really do
it formal video covering the announcement of dub dub because hey,
it's always on the first Monday of June, so it's

(00:46):
not like a huge realization that there's one on What
is it this or is it the second Monday? I forget?
Is it June eighth? I think it's the eighth. That
can't be the first Monday. That's not possible. Yeah, it's
the second Monday. I guess they don't want to have
it on June first because that's a little too close.
But yeah, I think Apple has a lot of catching

(01:08):
up to do. Spoiler alert for my M five Max
MacBook Pro review. I'm not a big fan of Tahoe.
Gotta be honest, I've seen other people complaining as well.
Oh yes, Josh, hello tech god stuff. I am alive.
I am not artificial intelligence yet, but I would totally
embrace it. Just for the record, I just am so

(01:32):
I'm so limited on my time, but I still want
the channel to be like active, so I haven't seen
a good one yet. There's been people who have recommended
to me, like AI video editors, and I've tried a few.
I'm not impressed yet. Honestly, there's certain aspects of AI
that have gotten really good, like that's genuinely impressive. Like

(01:57):
I would say most of them have actually gotten very
good at a photo you know, image generation spoiler. I
have used some in my video thumbnails. You can probably
tell just by looking at them, but I don't see
the comments bring it up immediately, which is why I'm
not exactly sure if everybody notices. But Hi Scott, yes,
we're back. There should be. My goal is to have

(02:19):
one of these live streams a month, but I've already
failed my own goal. There was no live stream last month,
but that's why I'm starting early for April for those
who haven't joined one, or maybe you all have, But
just for the record, these live streams, the reason I'm
calling them just Q and A now instead of trying
to pick a topic for the title, is because the

(02:41):
whole beauty of a live stream is you guys get
to decide what we talk about, rather than me try
to guess what you're interested in, make a video on
that and post it and then get feedback. The live
streams are always fun to me. They're a little bit
more time consuming, so that's why I can't do them
as frequently, but I do enjoy them because I get
a real time feedback on what you guys want to

(03:01):
talk about or what you're most interested in. So fire away,
it's you guys get to dictate what happens. Scott says
he hasn't updated to Tahoe because I've refused to give
up launch Pad. I didn't even think about that. Yeah,
launch Pad's gone. So I have a fascinating like cross
comparison now because in case I missed it, I'm live
streaming off my iMac Pro, which is stuck on Sonoma.

(03:25):
Not mad about that, though I love Sonoma. It's very
reliable it's consistent. The UI is very clean, so I'm
actually quite happy that on my iMac Pro they're not
trying to change it. I don't get push notifications telling
me to update to Tahoe. Different story though, on my
M one Max MacBook Pro, which yes, is still my
personal laptop. It's the te Losieve machine when I'm on

(03:47):
the go. Got to admit, I don't use it as
much on the go anymore because of work now. But man,
that thing is desperately trying to get me to update
to Tahoe. And the funny thing is, I have Tahoe
on my work laptop, which is the M five Max,
and boy has it been a buggy mess for one
Like the spotlight key didn't work at all for like

(04:09):
the first week. I don't really notice that much of
a performance upgrade. To be honest, there were some other bugs.
I'm trying to remember what they were. Yeah, I don't know.
Just the UI everything being liquid glass, I don't know,
doesn't excite me. All that match Well, I will give
it credit. I'm glad they finally, after freaking like forty

(04:34):
years or whatever, moved the volume indicator to the top corner.
They should have done that ages ago. It's still crazy
to me that when you change the volume, you know,
on a Mac that's not running Tahoe, they still put
the big square overlay on top of everything. It's like, really,
that's where you want to put volume. I still think
they should just emulate how it works on iOS and

(04:55):
tvOS and iPad os. Just a little indicator on the
side would be fine. Instead, it's a little better now.
It's like a little slider, but it's got dots, which
I guess some people might prefer. But anyway, Zorralink, welcome back. Hey, Hey,
thank you everybody for tuning in. I'll try to keep
up with the messages here, but the chat is too
close to my I have a very jank ring light

(05:17):
at this point. The M one is still somehow aging
so well. It honestly is like I haven't done a
back to back export test yet, but I have exported
quite a few videos on the M five Max. I
gotta admit I don't notice that much of a difference.
And I got basically the widest DELPA between Apple Silicon models,

(05:39):
right like I got the very first, you know, sixteen
inch Apple Silicon Mac. I could get M one Max
I got on launch day. I've been using it ever
since pretty much daily, and the batteries degraded. You know,
it's probably eighty two percent battery health now and all that.
And yet I use that old MacBook and compared to

(06:02):
the M five Max which just came out, you know,
skipped all these middle generations, M two, M three, M
four all the way to M five max, and I
got the non bind best of the best chip that
I could. And yet videos export about the same speed.
It doesn't really feel that noticeable. I do love the

(06:22):
nano texture display, but that is not unique to the
M five max chip. Also, a huge bug that I
thought maybe was an M one max problem, turns out
it's not. It's still just a final cut bug that
is still present on a brand new five thousand dollars machine,
which is occasionally when you're dragging iPhone footage into final
cut early on in the project process, it will start

(06:45):
like not cutting. Even when you have the razor tool
selected and you're cutting up the clip, it'll just suddenly
not let you cut up the clip, and you can't
fix it unless you close the program and open it
up again. See. I've had that for years and I thought, oh,
maybe this is an m one max thing. It's getting old,
it's showing signs of you know, slow downs. It's just

(07:05):
wearing down. I have to reboot applications more often. Maybe
it's a bug with Sonoma or what am I own?
I think I'm on Sonoma on my old MacBook Pro.
So I thought maybe on Tahoe that would be fixed,
or with newer silicon that would be fixed. And nope,
still a problem. So it's kind of cool that, you know. Obviously,

(07:25):
for security reasons and IP reasons, I had to get
a new work machine that I thankfully didn't have to
pay for. But I still get to experience what the
new MacBook Pro is like. And it's a longer term review.
It's not like the MacBook Neo where I just use
it for a couple of weeks and then send it back.
This time, I actually get a long term experience and
I'm discovering. Yeah, I would not have bought this if

(07:48):
it were my own money. I asked, you know, if
I could just turn my personal computer into a work computer.
I suggested that to my company, and they weren't interested
in doing that. So it's not like there was another option. Really,
But I don't mind the removal of launch pad as
much as I thought. But the bugs and Tahoe are inexcusable.
I'm using it on my m one macpicare Ooh yikes. Okay,

(08:09):
so I'm not alone. That's good to know, tech God said.
The spotlight bug is so frustrating. Yeah, you designated Apple,
You created a whole new button just for Spotlight search,
and then it straight up just didn't work. Okay, great,
Also another bug. Tell me if you guys experienced something
like this, because I'm not sure if this was a
Tahoe bug or potentially a bug with the security protocol.

(08:35):
Did I get three percent cash back? No? Because I
didn't pay for it. Basically, I had to tell the
IT people at my job which computer I wanted, and
then they and then they got it. So no, I
guess you could say I got three percent cash back
on zero dollars. Three percent of zero is still zero. Anyway,

(08:58):
I was more impressed with the macbug of in the
MacBook Pro. To be honest, I'm not that impressed with
the Pro, but it could have been you know, their
security IT software on my computer because it is technically
not mine. It's like a work machine. And I woke
up the other day and I heard this really loud,

(09:19):
buzzing noise. It was just like and I was like,
what is that noise? What the heck? And I go
over to my laptop bag and sure enough, it's the
M five Max MacBook Pro with both fans just screaming
full blast and it's completely shut. I haven't used it again.

(09:39):
I had just woken up. I don't even think I
used the MacBook Pro the day before, so randomly, just
in the middle of the night, I guess, the fans
just started cranking and I'm like, what is it doing.
I didn't have it export. I didn't even tell it
to update or anything. I opened the laptop and it's
freaking like Slack. Slack is like we need to update.

(10:01):
We need to restart to update Slack, which felt like
malware to me. I was like, that doesn't seem right,
like why would why would Slack, a third party application,
need to restart. I hadn't downloaded anything weird other than
of course the IT software, which is again part of
me wondered if it was a bug with the IT software,
because I was like, I haven't heard of anybody having

(10:21):
this problem where they just wake up in the middle
of the night to their MacBook fans just screaming at
full blast. Like, I've never heard it that loud, even
when editing pro res four K video, multiple streams, MULTIICAM footage.
I've I've put it through its paces, We've done a
lot of video editing on that thing already, but I've
never heard the fans kick on. And yet randomly in
the middle of the night, the fans just started blasting.

(10:43):
Has anybody had that bug, not even on a new MacBook,
just on any MacBook ever. I don't recall my personal
MacBook ever doing that. So yeah, I'm afraid I just
have to agree with you guys. Like the M one
line of chips has aged so gracefully, so insanely well
that even after all these years, it's been almost five

(11:05):
years since they came out, I still can't really recommend upgrading.
I mean, there's there's a handful of handy features here
and there, like the nanotexture display is kind of cool,
and the center stage cameras kind of nice. I don't
have that on the M one, but I do have
it on the M five. But really, like for the

(11:25):
amount of money you could save by going with an
older generation. I'm not even saying you have to go
back to an M one like, but just going back
to like an M two or an M three, you
could probably save thousands of dollars, depending on which trim
you're interested in. I think I went on eBay not
that long ago and looked up an eight terabyte M
one Max MacBook and it was like two grand or something.

(11:48):
I was like, Wow, okay, I spent like six grand
on mine, and now you could get that same MacBook
for two So if you really just want a ton
of storage, I don't think there's really a lot of
downsides to going with an M one two, even in
twenty twenty six, which might be a hot take. Holy crap.
Bart Janson's been a member fifty three months. Thank you

(12:10):
for your support. Very generous of you, Chairman. I do
I think, as far as I can tell, for the
rest of my life, I will probably do some form
of YouTube. I can't promise how often I will do it.
I'm not going to commit to doing daily uploads, but
you know, whenever there's something interesting going on or Apple

(12:31):
announces something kind of exciting, I think I'll think I'll
be posting about it in some way, shape or form.
So I still enjoy YouTube and I wish I had
more time for it, but it's just kind of a
busy season of life right now where I don't have
as much. But also looking around on the news, I'm
also the kind of YouTuber that's not afraid to admit

(12:52):
there's not that much going on right now, you know,
Like I try to be available and more active on
the channel when there's announcements being made, like MacBook Neo
or the new iPhone seventeen E came out. You know,
I'll talk about things as they get announced. But now
that I have a full time job with a different company,

(13:12):
that is kind of the priority, and when Apple stuff
kind of falls into the dry season, I'm okay, just
not posting as much. You know, Like before, when YouTube
was all I had going on, it was a little
bit more of a struggle and kind of a stress
point of like, okay, we got to find some kind
of Apple related topics to talk about during the dry seasons.

(13:33):
Now I'm like, you know what, that's okay. I'll I'll
just take a little break for a week here and
there instead of trying to upload something every day, when
the truth is there's just not always something to talk about. Yeah,
politics and finance YouTuber is very busy. If I was
a political YouTuber, I'd have no shortage of content, oh

(13:53):
my god. But I'd have other problems. Anytime we talk
about politics with you know, offline online, I just get
to pray. That's why I always preferred talking about tech stuff,
because I was like, we just get to debate which
tech is the best and which tech is the best deal.
That's more fun to me than talking about how the
world's gonna end. You know, I'm gonna need a lot

(14:15):
more than what the NIA offers. Yeah, I agree, the
Neo is not for me, but still just from a
value perspective, it's genuinely impressive how much you get for
such a low price, especially factoring in inflation. It is
by far the cheapest Mac pretty much to ever exist.

(14:36):
When you think about what the older Mac like. The
cheapest MacBook I can remember before in my whole life
was the nine hundred dollars eleven inch MacBook Air. My
sister had one of those things, and it sucked, but
it was the cheap one, and I remember at the
time being like Wow, it's under one thousand dollars. You
can get a MacBook. But it was tiny, tiny, tiny

(14:59):
fun fact for you. The eleven inch MacBook Air was
I think one of the very few MacBooks of all
time that had a sixteen by nine aspect ratio? Is
that still correct? Correct me if I'm wrong, chat, But
let me look this up. Eleven inch definitely the smallest
display I think ever on a Apple laptop. But yeah,

(15:22):
it was weird. It was like wide, Yeah, look at
this thing. People don't think about that, but it was like,
look at the aspect ratio for that MacBook. Aluminum bezels too,
not glass bezels. It was like wider than usual. Like
the thirteen inch MacBook Air was not sixteen by nine,
but the eleven inch one was. It was kind of weird.

(15:42):
It had something to do with the keyboard layout and
making it so small. But that was nine hundred dollars
like ten or fifteen years ago, so when you factor
in for inflation, that eleven inch MacBook Air would be
more like thirteen hundred dollars or fourteen hundred dollars in
today's money. So the MacBook Neo adjusting for inflation, was

(16:06):
literally like less than half the price of that crappy
MacBook which had awful specs. You definitely couldn't do much
power intensive stuff on it. It was the Intel days,
you know, battery life was pretty crappy. So the fact
that the eighteen prochip that they put in the Neo
is faster than the last sixteen inch Intel MacBook Pro

(16:31):
is pretty nutty, Like it's not in my opinion. In
my opinion, it was not even like that slow of
a chip. I know there were a lot of reviewers
out there saying like, oh, the MacBook Neo, you know,
it's good for the basics if you're just doing web
browsing and text editing, and I'm like, no, you could
actually do some pretty intensive video editing. A point I
forgot to mention in my review for the MacBook Neo

(16:54):
is that, speaking as a social media manager for a
startup company that you know, raise millions of dollars, it
should also be mentioned that a lot of video editing
now is not really a game of can you throw
eight K video at sixty fps? Like I would argue
that's particularly niche even in the professional market, because more

(17:17):
and more content creation these days is optimized for mobile,
it's optimized for vertical, it's optimized for TikTok, Instagram reels,
YouTube shorts. That's an increasing amount of video production as
time goes on, because that's an increasing amount of what
people are watching. There's a very very niche amount of
people that are actively looking for sixty fps HDR eight

(17:40):
K video content. That's just not what the majority of
advertising is anymore, or social media management is anymore. So
acting like the MacBook Neo is not a great option
for video editing simply because you can't edit you know,
eight K pro res super high bit rate stuff on it,
I'm like, well, the truth is the majority of video

(18:02):
editing these days is probably going to lean more towards ten,
eightyp thirty fps in the vertical format because that's what
social media is optimized for. So it's not really a
game of resolutions, color correction, and frame rates anymore. And
I think the Neo can cover even what a lot
of professionals do with video editing. That's that's my hot take. Sure, Like,

(18:26):
if you do wedding videos, you probably want something higher quality,
higher production value, And maybe you're doing some marketing content
that's more advanced in which case, the budget is likely
much higher and you can afford that. But no, it's
like I would not even say the Neo is bad
at that particular field. It's like a niche of that field.

(18:49):
Let me see if I can pronounce this correctly. But
share your uh Galani, thank you for the super chat,
appreciate it. Well. We ever get mac os on iPhone
in a way we kind of did with the Neo,
right because an iPhone is powered by a nineteen chip now,
and they put macOS on an eighteen chip. But that's

(19:10):
not really what you're asking. I understand. I think it's possible.
I'm not saying it's a guarantee, but I do think
as time goes on, Apple will probably start running out
of features to add on to the iPhone, and they're
going to be like, Okay, what else can we add
to it? It could be this year. I don't know.
It hasn't been rumored, but I do think we could

(19:32):
get to a point where Apple's trying to think of
features to justify the pro line because the base model
iPhones are going to get better and better and better.
Sounds like they're delaying them now. That's what's happening. This year. So,
in case you missed it, we're not getting a base
iPhone eighteen this year. All that's coming out in September
is likely to be eighteen Pro eighteen proax folding iPhone,

(19:55):
which I think they'll call the Ultra, but I could
be wrong. iPhone Ultra and ma an iPhone Air too,
but even that's been debated, like there's a chance they
just might not do another iPhone Air. Usually they give
it two years to see how well it does, and
the sales data has been kind of conflicting. At first,
the iPhone Air was flopping pretty hard, but now after

(20:15):
some time has passed, they've said it's performing a little better.
Thank you for fifty five months of support. Appreciate that, Michael.
I'll answer your question in a second. So the regular
iPhone eighteen isn't coming out until spring of next year,
and it's supposedly coming out alongside the eighteen E. But

(20:37):
as those get cheaper and better and better, then they'll
have to come up with reasons for you to get
a pro and the camera will probably run into some
barriers of like, okay, how much better can we really
make a camera? So they might reach a point where
they just go okay, let's full on, put a thunderbolt
port on the iPhone and let you boot it into

(20:57):
mac os when plugged into an external monitor, it can
basically do it. Now we have the evidence based on
the MacBook Neo, so I'm convinced. There's even some people
that have, like not what's the term jerry rigged or
jailbroken mac os onto in an iPhone. You can look
it up. A few people have made it work, but

(21:19):
it's it's not really a battle of can Apple do it.
They're probably internally having the debate of should we do that?
Like will that impact mac sales personally? I don't think
it would because the kind of person who would use
that feature means they're only using it at a desk
and desktop only. Max are a little bit more niche,

(21:42):
and in order for it to work properly, you could
easily force people to say, well, in order for it
to work, you need to connect a keyboard and mouse,
which makes it increasingly niche compared to just a MacBook
that you can just open up and use. And you know,
you buy an iMac and it comes with all that
stuff automatically. So I think it's a particularly like niche

(22:02):
part of the market that would be interested in their
iPhone powering their Mac desktop setup. And also Apple could
easily have some philosophical thing that's against a device running
multiple operating systems. They're like, no, it can only run iOS.
That's all it's good for if you want to Mac BYOMAC.
But I don't know. It's it's up in the air,

(22:24):
but it's I think we can all agree now without
any disagreement. Some people might disagree, but I think it's
very very obvious that it's not a question of can they.
They absolutely have the hardware to run Mac os, but

(22:44):
will they? Yeah, that's up to Apple, And I think
there's a chance, But I don't feel super confident, Like
I don't think it's inevitable. I'll put it that way,
like there's there's also a chance. Like I've said for years,
iPads should run macOS as an option built in the
settings if you really want to access a fully fledged
desktop operating system, assuming you have the keyboard and mouse,

(23:05):
even assuming you had a higher end of silicon. They
put really powerful chips in the iPads, and yet they've
still never let it run mac OS. So there's an
example of even though it can, they don't let it. Yeah,
I'd rather have mac Os on iPad than Stage Manager
on iPhone. Yeah, I agree with that. With the macroik
program to get a touch screen. I wonder how much

(23:26):
macOS twenty seven will change this year. It's a good question,
and we probably won't even know in June. We'll probably
have to wait till the touchscreen Max get unveiled later
in the year. Oh sorry, Michael Lizito, thank you for
your support. When do you think the new iPads will
come out? There's been a lot of site refresh activity
this spring, which makes me think it could honestly be

(23:47):
at any time. There's been rumors for a while now
that they're just going to throw in a new chip
to some iPad. Well didn't they do that a few
weeks ago? Yeah, the new iPad Air got the M
four me yep I believe, so they could easily do
that with the iPad eleventh gen. They could just throw
in a slightly newer a series of chip. But I

(24:09):
have for the iPad Pro is going to be done
for a while. They put the M five chip in
it pretty early as is, and most of the sales
data is saying that not that many people bought it
just because the M four chip looked, you know, the
M four chip iPads looked identical, and the performance has

(24:30):
never really been a complaint on the iPads. So we
might just get a new cheaper iPad at dub Dub,
or they could do a site refreshed before then. I
don't have a real strong guess, but iPad Mini would
be cool. I think iPad minis have actually leaned more
towards refreshing alongside iPhones. So if they did put an
O lead display on an iPad Mini, they'd probably do

(24:52):
it around the iPhone eighteen season in September, which is
going to come up real fast. It's already April, so
we're only five months away. You're gonna blame. We'll be there.
Marjel Rainboles says the neo puts the air in a
tricky position on what the market appeals to. In my opinion,
I agree. I think at least it's thinner, so it's
not as confusing as the iPad Air, which is not

(25:15):
the thinnest one. Now, the iPad Pro is the thinnest
and the iPad Air is the heavier, thicker model that
costs more. It's very weird to the iPad lineup. But yeah,
I think the MacBook Air now has just become like
the slightly, well not slightly, the more expensive one with
better features but not quite a pro model. It is

(25:36):
kind of awkward, though I agree. It used to be like, oh,
the cheapest one which had good specs and good performance
and good features, but obviously a thousand bucks isn't cheap.
But yeah, it's the Neo is just too good. So
it's so like unlike Apple, honestly, for them to make

(25:57):
such a compelling product that's that much substancetally cheaper. Usually
when Apple does like a dedicated cheap product, it's so
close to the price of the next model up that
most people are like, yeah, I mean, I guess it's
technically the cheapest, but just been one hundred bucks more
and you'll get a way better deal. I don't feel
that way about the Neo in the Air though. There's
such a big price gap between them now that it's like, no,

(26:20):
don't get an Air that it's not adding that much
for a lot more money, which is again, it feels
like John Turnis has an impact or something. I don't know,
it feels like it's not that big a difference. If
the eyefolders really good, do you think we'll keep it?
Probably not. I've reviewed a few folding phones. Let me
be clear, I still want to check out an eyefold

(26:42):
or an iPhone Ultra, whatever they end up calling it,
just because of the software. That's usually something Apple gets
better than everybody else. You know, they were not the
first to make a smart watch, they were not the
first to make wireless headphones. But they usually get the
implementation in the software so good that it convinces a
bunch of people who wouldn't ordinarily buy, in this case

(27:02):
a folding phone, to buy a folding phone. So I'm
very curious about it. I'd love to know more about it.
I want to know how they market it, how they
brand it, what features they bring over from the iPad,
if at all, or do they just beef up iOS
to be way more capable, or do you put ipedos
on a folding phone. I'm very curious about the implementation
of the software and everything. But every time I review

(27:24):
a folding phone, I'm reminded, like I don't like having
to make the decision every time I take my phone
out of my pocket. Is this a unfolded use case
or is this a folded up use case? What's the
what's the task that I'm doing right now? And what
does it justify? You know? I try to remind people,
you know, the reason the reason vertical format video has

(27:51):
done so well where people are watching content, you know,
in portrait mode instead of landscape, is because we already
have to ways to use our phone. You can use
it this way or you can use it this way.
But people are so lazy they don't even want to
rotate their phone, so they prefer the convenience of the
video being in the vertical format so that they don't

(28:13):
have to do this, which I would argue is a
lot easier than doing this and unfolding it. I know
a lot of people with folding phones that straight up
just never unfold them because they don't like the extra
step where it's like you already are taking it out
of your pocket. You don't want to have to take
it out. And then secondhand, a lot of people are
using their phone one handed, so the folded phone obviously

(28:35):
is going to require more of a two handed operation.
So I imagine if I bought one, I would probably
end up just using it folded up most of the time,
and also the folding the folding phones in general tend
to have worse cameras, and right now particularly, i use

(28:57):
my phone for work as a camera a lot, and
I'm talking all the lenses. When I'm doing interior shots,
I'm doing ultra wide. When I'm doing exterior shots of
the truck, I'm doing telephoto shots. I actually really like
portrait mode. Cropped in portrait mode doesn't look as good
to me from one X. I prefer it from at
least two X, but oftentimes I'll use it at five

(29:20):
X because that's what my sixteen Promax can handle. On
the seventeen Promax, it was nice to use it four
X as well, So I'm definitely, at least at this
stage in my life with how I'm using my phone,
I prioritize camera performance in battery life above all else,
and from what I've heard of the folding phone, it
doesn't sound like that's going to be the top priority.

(29:43):
I'm pretty sure the folding iPhone is going to have
decent battery life, but I don't think it will outshine
the eighteen Pro Max, and it will also be a
dual camera system, and that's kind of a turnoff for me.
I would be more open to a folding phone if
there were just no compromises. Like the folding iPhone had
the best battery life of the entire lineup, it had
the best cameras, but usually to get it into such

(30:05):
a thin, slim chassis, that's probably going to impact the
thermal so I wouldn't be surprised. You know. The rumors
are saying the folding iPhone is going to be like
a titanium chassis with more glass, so built more like
an iPhone Air. Whereas I've actually been using car play
a little bit more often lately, and car play overheats
my iPhone quite a bit. I didn't realize that because

(30:27):
in my personal vehicles they don't support car play, so
my phone just kind of sits charging or sitting idle.
But at some of the work vehicles that I'm driving around,
they have car play in them, and I'm overheating my
phone all the time, and I'm like, Okay, maybe I
need that paper chamber. Maybe I want a phone and

(30:48):
at least a longer battery life. My iPhone was straight
up overheating while using car play. And stuff, so I
had to stop using it. Should I wait for an
M five Max studio if I'm looking for a new one,
you could, but honestly I would I would encourage waiting,
But honestly, I think the M three Ultra or the
M four Max Max studios are still perfectly adequate, and

(31:10):
I don't think that M five Max studios are going
to be that much noticeably faster, at least in my experience.
It depends on what you're doing, obviously, but for my
line of work, I'm not noticing a huge difference in
performance between my M one Max and my M five Max.
There's five years between those two chips, and at least
for video editing stuff, they perform very similarly. My problem

(31:34):
with folding phones is that they tend to be more
expensive than an iPhone plus an iPad and doesn't do
either as well. Yeah, and I don't even use an iPad.
My wife has one that I occasionally use, but just
for like basic you know, media consumption. I'm not doing
anything intensive on it. It's the uh I'm looking at
it right, it's the iPad Pro from twenty seventeen, and

(31:56):
because it had one hundred and twenty hurts. It actually
is great because you'd never notice anything lag or choppy,
because it's like, oh wow, this screen is still buttery smooth,
just like my iPhone, even though it has a whole
button in lightning and all that crap. Would you be
more interested in a flip iPhone rather than a fulld iPhone. No,
I've reviewed a flip too. I think those are even
worse because now you have to make that extra step

(32:19):
when you pull it out of your pocket. To the point,
when I reviewed the flip phone, I ended up just
not folding it up. I would just leave it unfolded
in my pocket because I wanted fewer steps to reaching
in my pocket grabbing my phone and doing stuff with it.
I didn't like reaching in my pocket, pulling it out,
and then unfolding it and then unlocking it. It just
felt like there was more delay to getting stuff done.

(32:39):
And I use my phone for a lot of stuff
these days. So No, I find the flip iPhone even
harder to justify than the fold. The fold at least
I could see you arguing, Okay, now I don't need
a mini iPad. Now I can have a mini iPad
with me if I'm going to be using my phone
for a longer period and I have both hands available,
then I can do stuff With the larger screen argument,

(33:00):
I can get behind honestly, as far as which folding
phone application makes the most sense to me, I think
I did a video on this a while back. The
trifold actually might be the best argument, because the trifold
actually gets you a genuine tablet size display. That's the
funny thing about folding phones is people are like, oh,

(33:22):
it's like having a tablet that's with you. But I'm like,
nobody buys the eight inch tablet. I mean, I love
the iPad Mini, but it's not the best seller. Most
people are buying the ten to eleven inch iPads. That's
like a genuine tablet experience, and the trifold is kind
of the first. I think Samsung already discontinued it. I mean,

(33:43):
it's super expensive obviously, so it makes it kind of
difficult to justify because yes, of course it will be
cheaper to buy iPad plus nice iPhone. But I don't
think that in itself is the whole reason that a
product is necessarily bad. I think there is some value
in combining two different products into one, you know, like

(34:04):
you could argue it's cheaper to buy a dedicated point
and shoot camera and an iPod than it is to
buy one iPhone. But you don't want to have to
carry around a bunch of different devices, you know, separately.
But back in the day, you know, you had a
digital camera, you had an iPod, and you had a
flip phone, you know, three separate devices, and you could

(34:25):
probably get them all pretty cheap, and an iPhone, you know,
it was probably more expensive than all of them put together,
but it was more convenient because you could charge one
device and you didn't have to switch between a bunch
of devices. It was nice to have music and camera
all on one device. So I tend to push against
the narrative that, you know, it's bad to buy a

(34:47):
two in one product, because there is some value in
combining products into one thing. But yeah, it has to
be good at all those things than the iPhone over
time especially got really good camera performance, best music player performance,
and a great phone. So you have to be good
at all the things obviously to be justified. Samuel Francis says,

(35:10):
what's the biggest or first things you change if you
were CEO of Apple? Macowes on Mac mcneio trying no
camera bump, etc. Oh that's a fun question. Thank you
Sam for asking that one. It's been a while. I
think we've talked about it before. Yeah, I think that
I would approach the iPad pretty aggressively. I think that's

(35:31):
what needs the most attention. The Mac line I have
very little notes for the macline is amazing. I'd probably
do an iMac Pro. I would basically just take the
studio Display XDR. I saw someone asking about that. I've
been so busy and moving crap around that I haven't
really had time to review the studio Display XDR. I

(35:52):
haven't even seen one yet. I would love to review one,
but I've just been gone a lot, so there's not
much of an opportunity to just sit down at a
desk and look at a monitor. But I would just
love to put in M five max chip into a
studio Display XDR and then boom, call that the iMac Pro.
You don't need a chin, you don't need thicker bezels,

(36:15):
but just having the speakers integrated and the center stage
camera and the high dynamic range, the high refresh rate,
oh my god, that would be sick or you know,
even cooler would be take that old chassis from the
Pro display era, update that with Mini led with promotion,
and I understand the whole reason, or one of the

(36:36):
main reasons they couldn't do six K at one hundred
and twenty hertz was because of some of the limitations
of the Thunderbolt connector. But if you had an iMac,
the whole computer is in the monitor. You don't need
to be bothered with the throughput of what Thunderbolt can do.
That's actually part of the reason. Fun fact that the

(36:58):
five K displays from Apples started in the iMac. They
began in the iMac was because they could directly connect
the display to the motherboard. They didn't have to worry
about the limitations of Thunderbolt or whatever or video display
ports way back when. So it was crazy at the time,
like holy crap, they did five K back at the

(37:19):
time where it was replacing like a ten eightyp iMac
or a fourteen forty p Imax. So it was a
huge jump in resolution, and it started on the iMac.
So I would love it if there was a pro
display sized you know, thirty two inch super thin bezels.
But I guess then you might not have a webcamra

(37:40):
speakers built in, but I don't know. I would task
the Apple engineers to come up with some ultimate all
in one. It would not sell very well. I understand
the desktops aren't as popular most people are buying laptops now,
but just as a like me personally, I would like
to see that. I think it would sell better than
Vision Pro. Let's be honest, and they released that for

(38:00):
thirty five hundred dollars. This this dream iMac would probably
be five grand, but hey, that's what the iMac Pro
I'm using right now costs great deal, you know it.
It's not a cheap Mac by any means, but great value. Yeah,
the pricing of that iMac Pro would be around six grand. Well,
the Pro display without a computer in it with six grand,

(38:21):
So I think you could design a cheaper basic stand.
It doesn't have to be height adjustable and rotate and everything.
But let's see, I'm sounds dreadful on iPod, a phone
and Internet communicator. I did see that macOS got a
charge the limited Yeah, which is funny because I was
asking for that for years and everyone kept saying no

(38:44):
drew but optimized battery charging knows what it's doing. You
don't have to worry about it. Just leave it plugged
in all the time. And now they're letting you cap
it at eighty percent manually. I'm like, oh, interesting, So
maybe there is a difference between optimized battery charging and
leaving the battery. I'm convinced that stupid optimized battery charging
fried my MacBook because the battery health is particularly low,

(39:08):
which is not unexpected for the age, but it is
unexpected for the cycles because so much of my MacBook
Pro's life it was plugged into a wall, and it
shouldn't have been pulling any power from the battery. It
should have been getting all of its energy from the charger.
So it's a very low cycle count, and yet the
battery health is still deteriorated quite a bit compared to

(39:30):
something like an iPhone, which let's do a check in.
I haven't done one in a while. I'm still on
the sixteen Promax. Battery health is ninety two percent after
three hundred and ninety nine cycles. That's pretty normal for
those who don't know what's typical of a phone. I
would say is like, you should be around eighty percent

(39:51):
health by eight hundred cycles. So I'm at almost four
hundred cycles and I'm at ninety two percent. That's actually
slightly above average. That's pretty good. And I pretty much
abuse the crap out of this thing, you know. I
fast charge it. I put it on my mag Safe
night stand at night, and it's hot, you know, and
it's in a black case. And again when I use CarPlay,

(40:12):
the phone gets really hot and everything. I don't baby
this phone at all. I let it die. I charge
it up to full and leave it there and it's
doing fine. But the fact that my MacBook Pro was
at like eighty two percent battery health but like three
hundred cycles, like that's unusual. And I think it's because
most of the time the battery was just like stuck

(40:34):
at one hundred percent and they didn't let it cap.
So I don't want to update it to Tahoe because
Tahoe has been a buggy mess for me. But at
the same time, I'm grateful that they did out a
charge liver make photo video importing from iPhone to Mac
less annoying. Yes, oh my god, thank you, Martin. This
is Martin for saying that that is so true. Still

(40:57):
to this day, I think it is awkwardly and bizarrely
hard to move files, video files, and photo files from
your iPhone to your Mac. The stupid photos app is useless.
I always delete that almost immediately. I'm like, I can
never get photos out of that and put them anywhere
else that has to like re export them. The photos

(41:19):
app takes up so much space. Yeah, you're right, Mac
os could use a lot of updates there, like it should.
It's frankly, bizarrely enough, it's actually easier to move photo
and video files from an Android phone onto a Mac.
I don't know about Windows. I have so little experience
with Windows. Everyone I know with a Windows machine that

(41:42):
wants to get their photos and videos onto it, basically
we'll just use Google Drive, you know, We'll just upload
it to the cloud and download it because the process
of plugging a phone in with a cable is just
a mess. But there's like, funny enough, the easiest way
to do it on Mac is with an Android phone.
You can get Android File Transfer and then it just
treats your phone like an external SSD. You just plug

(42:05):
it in and then you drag the files over. It's
so much easier, and yet when you do it with
an iPhone, everything flips out. It's like, what do you
want to back up your whole phone? It's like, no,
I just want to move some videos into Finder, and
you're like, no, you go through image capture, but the
image capture has the laziest, weakest, horrible UI. It should

(42:26):
just treat my phone like an external SSD. That's all
I'm asking, at least the option to do that. Like,
if you delete the Photos app, it should default to that.
But I don't know who's actually using the Mac Photos
app genuinely, like who is importing their files that way?
I think Apple's ideal scenario that I don't fall into
is that you just pay for iCloud storage and every

(42:50):
time you take a picture of video, it just automatically
gets backed up to the cloud and then it shows
up in the Photos app and then you can drag
it from the Photos app into whatever app you want.
It's like, oky, Apple, we don't all have access to
dig a bit internet everywhere we go, and not all
of us want to pay forty bucks a month for
infinite iCloud storage. It's not infinite. Actually, if it was infinite,

(43:11):
I'd be more willing to pay for it. But That's
why out of principle, I canceled all my iCloud storage
was because I was like, Okay, I'm paying for this
and it will hold two terabytes, four terabytes or eight
terabytes or whatever, but then eventually I will fill it up,
and then I'm gonna have to go through and start
deleting stuff. If it was infinite and I knew, okay,

(43:32):
I pay this fee and then all my photos and
videos are backed up forever and it doesn't matter how
many I take. That would be a different story, but
that's not how it works. Even the twelve terabytes, you
will eventually fill up, especially if you're doing high res
video photos all the time and they don't all back
up instantly because we don't always have access to crazy
fast internet. You know, Capping the charging percent can't affect

(43:56):
the battery board reading stuff, so it's just better to
let the device charge to one hundred percent a few
in between. That's what Apple did as well as with
charge limit. I'm sure you're right, but I still think
they let it go to one hundred percent way too much. Bingo.
Apple wants you to uproot your family, move to a
place with gigabit internet speeds and pay forty bucks a
month to get more iCloud storage. But that's the crazy thing.

(44:16):
Even if I did that, I would still fill it up,
and then I would have a huge mess of things
to like, Okay, now I got to clear it out.
Even if you got the best of the best iCloud storage,
you can't. Storage is just a matter of time. That's
why I was such a big fan of Google Photos
back when they had unlimited photo and video storage, because
I was like, I'm using this because it means I

(44:39):
can technically take as many photos and videos as I
want and I'll never have to go through and filter
out stuff. That's a whole different argument. If I have
to eventually go through and delete things, then it's like, well,
I'll just do that now and not fill up twelve
terabytes worth of stuff because it was a mess and
we only were paying for two terabytes because that was
the most you could do at the Let me look,

(45:01):
I forget what the prices are iCloud plus, Why does
it only go up to two terabytes? I knew there
was more than that. There's more twelve terabytes. How much
is twelve terabytes? Isn't that like? Yeah, here it is

(45:21):
sixty dollars a month. I forgot I thought forty sounded outrageous.
Sixty bucks a month, then you don't get anything else
other than iCloud storage. That's not including Apple Music, Apple TV.
I feel like if you're the kind of person to
get twelve terabytes, you should get a little something. I'm
not saying you have to throw everything in, but throw them.

(45:43):
Throw them Apple music or something, or Apple TV. At
least if you're paying sixty bucks a month, and I
would fill it easily, twelve terabytes, that's like three years,
three years go by photo video taking, you'd fill that up.
I have other ways of backing up. Yeah, I'm promoting

(46:04):
iCloud minus. You guys are funny. I missed these streams.
I wish I could do them more. Marinjel Rambles, thank
you for eight months of support. Apple should allow third
parties to use airdrop at this point after what Google did.
By the way, have you got my recent messages on
Discord and Twitter? Probably not. I haven't checked in a while. Sorry,

(46:26):
I will check, but I had I think I had
our meetings scheduled. I'm just gonna do it right now
before I forget. Oh, my god, Twitter is bugging out.
The last message I got was three days ago or something.

(46:49):
Excuse me, I call it a free Fitness Plus. Well
that's pretty worthless. I feel I'm convinced you can get
Fitness Plus for free at any time. Anyone paying for
Fitness Plus is being scammed. You know what's funny is
I've I've watched so much content on Apple TV. We
watched we had another free trial a few weeks ago,

(47:12):
and we watched a bunch of movies. They're all fine.
Everything I watch on Apple TV is pretty mid except Severance.
Severance was awesome. What was something else? I really liked?
Trying was pretty good. I wouldn't say it was like
the best show ever, but I enjoyed Trying. But all
the movies we watched on there, watch The Gorge, We

(47:34):
watched The Gorge. We watched F one. I thought F
one was really overrated. It was it was fine, it
was not a great movie. But oh the other one,
the Afterlife one, what was that called? The one with
Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen. Forever Forever is a long time,

(47:57):
I don't know. Watched a bunch of movies that were
all okay and I've still yet to pay a penny
for Apple TV. Anytime I'm interested in something on Apple TV,
I can literally just google Apple TV promo and within
ten seconds I can find a thirty day free trial.
And I've still again haven't spent a single cent on

(48:20):
this service. Yeah, SEVENS isn't for everybody. I know people
who didn't like it, but I really liked it. I mean,
there was definitely a lot of B plots and C
plots that didn't need to be there, but the A
plots were really interesting to me. Do I think SSD
prices will come down anytime or is now the best
time to buy an external SSD drive if I need one?

(48:40):
If they keep going up, It's really hard to predict.
With the AI bubble we're in right now, it has
to be a bubble, there's no way in my opinion.
I mean, I will confess AI has been more impactful
and more disruptive than I realized, but I still just
do not think that all these AI companies will survive.
I think there will be a handful of winners, but

(49:04):
I don't think there's going to be ten to twenty
different AI companies that all succeed. I think there will
be like two to three big ones in the future
and they'll all probably stabilize. And right now there's just
a lot of investment going into AI companies, so they're
all buying up equipment really quickly, and that's creating this
artificial scarcity mindset or unnatural high demand for things. But

(49:30):
it's very difficult to predict if that'll last another five years,
or another ten years, or another six months. You know,
your guess is as good as mine. Personally, Yes, I
do think they will come down at some point. I
don't think they will keep going up over the next
two years. But I've been wrong many times, so don't
take my word as sacred. Let's see, blip is the

(49:54):
best I use it for my Macro iPhone to Windows laptop.
Blip is a good alternative to air drop. How does
it work? Does it use the clouds? I need to
look into that they're working on the sequel caps lock.
That's good. Do you think sort of shutting down is
the first indication that the AI bubble is popping. It's

(50:16):
kind of like what's another example five G, but to
a bigger extent, it's like AI isn't gonna go away.
I don't think it's a fad, but I do think
we are overestimating a lot of its capabilities. And there's
certain things. There's certain things that it will stick around

(50:37):
for and continue to be very effective for, and there's
other things that we think it will be useful for
that it's actually not going to be that useful. For
video I think is actually one of them. I do
think there's a certain demographic for it, like maybe a
quick b roll shot is good for a good use

(50:58):
for AI, but not replacing entire movies or entire TV shows,
which I've seen a lot of people speculate on. Oh
blip is sick. You signed into one account on all
your devices and it works over the internet directly device
to device, no need to be on the same network.
So is it going up to a cloud and then

(51:19):
coming back down or is it transferring via Bluetooth? Is
it bypassing the cloud anyway? Take your time to answer that.
While I speculate on AI pointlessly, as I have for
many years, but I think we've actually noticed quite a
bit of pushback. Sora is a good example that when
AI becomes the entire, the whole video, even for short

(51:45):
form which you would think is like the low hanging fruit,
Like that's something that AI could jump on and replace
really easily. There's actually quite a bit of consumer pushback.
Like we talked about this quite a bit because in
case you didn't know, I run the social media for
a startup company, and we kind of had some debates

(52:06):
over what AI can generate as far as visuals, like
you can plug in some simple prompts and get some
pretty convincing looking imagery of any particular product or service
you're interested in, but very quickly noticed for other companies
who have attempted this, there's a lot of pushback. People

(52:28):
don't like it, Like it puts a bad taste in
a lot of people's mouth where they're like, I don't
like the coke ads, you know, the winter ads that
are AI generated. People are like, ah, this is AI slop,
or you're replacing jobs, or it's not as real anymore.
And maybe it's just bad AI that puts a bad

(52:50):
taste in people's mouth. And if you can make AI
that's convincing to the point that people don't realize it's AI,
maybe that will take off and do better. But I
don't know. I think people are getting a finer eye
for it as time goes on. If you've seen the
occasional question on YouTube where it asks whether a video
you watched was AI sloped to you, No, I've never

(53:10):
been asked that, but I have seen videos that I
can tell our AI that other people in the room
can't tell. Or that's another example. I'm not one hundred
percent convinced, But do you guys watch Daily Dose of Internet?
You probably do. He's much bigger YouTuber than I am,

(53:33):
but there's been several times where I'm watching Daily Dose
of Internet and I'm like, I'm pretty sure that's an
AI generated video. And I know he doesn't intend to
include those, but I think sometimes he gets tricked into
including them because they can generate something that's really convincing
or real looking, and if everybody falls for it, then

(53:53):
it kind of might as well be a real video.
But there's been several times where I'm watching Daily Dose
where I'm like, that was AI generated and I don't
think he realizes it. But again, it's a it's a
fine eye, and bad AI slop as we call it,
can put a real foul taste in people's mouths, and

(54:14):
I do think there are applications where you can trick
most people into thinking that the video is real. Just
go on Facebook. It's like nine AI now and a
bunch of people think it's real. It's actually quite sad
if you just scroll on Facebook for any amount of time,
find the AI slop and go to the comments, and

(54:36):
I don't even know if the comments are real. Maybe
it's a bunch of AI bots watching AI generated crap.
You know it's real eyes realize real AI. Yeah, I
don't know. I've seen a lot of people convinced. It's
fair to say most AI is overrated. They're pushing too
far into it. There's certain applications where I don't think
people push back on it, you know, like cus stomer

(55:00):
service is a good example. Like if you go on
to a I don't know any site like Verizon, and
you explain and you go on the chat bot, you
know pretty early on that you're not talking to a
human and you just say like I want to cancel
my service or I want to transfer my phone number
to a new line. And they are increasingly now using

(55:24):
large language models to manage a lot of those customer
service bots because they understand context better, they can get
a lot more things done than a you know, pre
programmed bot, which obviously you can only teach so much
and it only has five different responses. But they are
incorporating more and more of those large language models into

(55:45):
the customer service bots, and you get almost no pushback
on that. Customers are like, oh, great, the chat bot
actually understood what I needed and it did something. Okay cool.
You could argue it's the same problem as using AI
generated video content. It's like you replace someone's job. Now

(56:05):
you don't have to hire as many customer service agents.
You know, the large language model is taking away jobs
and you're using more AI. But it's like for that
use case, people are more accepting of it because they're like, well,
it meant I got what I needed quicker and I
didn't have to wait on the phone for thirty minutes.
This was a smarter customer service bot. So that's a

(56:26):
good demographic or use case where I would say large
language models have replaced a bunch of jobs in this field,
and the public is generally accepting of it. They're like, okay, cool,
like AI did its job. But then you do something
like a movie trailer or a Coca Cola commercial and

(56:47):
people are like, no, I don't want to see this crap.
You know, it's it's the way that it's pushed that's interesting.
I saw actually a really good example of this. So again,
it's a new t that we're learning about. And I
think we're in this transitionary process where we're discovering use

(57:08):
cases where AI is quite useful and effective and will
probably continue to get better, and then we're also discovering
use cases and examples where it's quite annoying and it's like, okay,
please don't do this, like we don't want to see this.
Like AI generating entire episodes of a TV show not
a great use of the tool in my opinion. It's

(57:29):
it's noticeable the dialogue gets chunky, the visuals get weird,
or even just doing an entire car commercial or something,
you know, you start to pick up on little details
and you're like, yeah, I mean it's good and it's
cool that you didn't have to film anything. And you know,
filming an entire car commercial would probably cost twenty thirty

(57:49):
thousand dollars and now you can crank it out with
like a three hundred dollars AI token receipt. So people
are like, Eh, that's a little weird and it's generic
and it's not that creative than I'd rather people get
paid to do something more interesting and creative. But there
was a demo I saw. I don't know how real
it was yet, but of using AI within video editing

(58:12):
software to remove certain things just for the sake of
visual effects. This is actually something I always thought Christopher
Nolan films were really good at. Was that. You know,
if you want to have a puppet or something in
the movie, but there's a puppeteer that's wearing a green
suit and a stick and he's controlling the puppet. Obviously

(58:36):
you want the real object to be real because when
you animate cgi alien or critter or character, it looks fake.
You know, it looks CG. So they make the puppet
real so that you can tell the actors really looking
at it. It's being truly lit by the same lights
that are in that room as it's being filmed. But

(58:58):
they were using AI image tools to erase so get
rid of the guy in the green suit, get rid
of the pole that's controlling the puppet. And it was
obviously very good at it. See that's an example. We're
similar to basically the cleanup feature we have in the
photos app on our phones, Like, yeah, obviously you can

(59:20):
very easily find like, oh, there was a bug in
this part of the picture. I want to erase the bug.
So you just circle it and the cleanup feature gets
rid of it and it's almost unnoticeable. So it's still
like a real photo, but you touched it up a
little bit. And technically you could have done that with
Photoshop twenty years ago, but it took a little more work,

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and it took a little more time. AI simplified that,
dumbed it down so that even on a smartphone you
can take a picture and do something that maybe would
have taken an hour to do on Photoshop. Now you
can do in a few seconds. So it's kind of
like an accelerator tool. And I saw them pitching that
on some ad recently. For video, it's like before you

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probably would have needed to be like a Hollywood budget
professional video editor, especially if you were doing like a
video feed where the camera's moving around the puppet or
around some suspended object and it's got fishing line on it,
or it's got poles on it, or it's got a
guy in a green suit. That's manipulating it. You would

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have needed a whole visual effects team to remove the
puppeteers and the fishing wire and the poles, and it
would have taken weeks to get rid of those guys.
But now with AI image generation tools, you can erase
all those guys and replace them with what the true
background is, using large video bottles or the same kind

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of technology that goes into AI video generation. But the
AI is not creating things now, it's just removing and
editing things. And I'm like, okay, I could get behind that.
So now we might reach a point where little old
me could use my MacBook Pro to do some Hollywood
sequence like that where I delete a puppeteer or delete

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a pole, or delete some fishing line on my laptop
and one guy could do it maybe in a few minutes,
whereas it used to take a team of twenty people
in a few weeks to do. You know. So there's
an application again where I'm like, okay, so it's not
going anywhere. It's a very useful technology. We're just learning
how to use the tool. You know. It's like we're

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cavemen discovering fire can we're discovering what can we use
this fire for certain things? It's not that great at
you know, like do you want to put fire under
your bed so that your bed stays warm? It's like
that might not work out so well. But you can
put your bed near the fire to stay warm. And

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you know, can you cook with fire? Yeah? You can.
You can warm up some stuff, but not everything. You know,
you might not want to put strawberries in the fire
if you pick some fruit that day, or you might
stick some blueberries in there and then it's too hot
or it's ruins it, or you know, it's not too
much fire, but not no fire. You know, we're finding

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the edge cases, we're finding the tools, and we're still
discovering what the best way to use them. And I think, Sora,
to your original question, is a good discovery of Okay,
this is what AI is not good for. It's not
good for replacing the entire creator, but I do think
it can be helpful to the creator. I also think

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AI will get much much better at editing videos over time.
I'm honestly quite impressed how badly all the AI video
editors I've used are so far already makes better hit
country songs than what airs on my local radio station.
That's true. Humans are not particularly good at a lot
of things that AI is pretty good at. There's also

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other non creative example, you know, like analyzing X rays
and discovering cancer in people. That's AI is very good
at that. I don't think anybody would be opposed to
with Like, if AI can detect cancer in people so
that the cancer doesn't spread or get much worse, that's
that's a lot of fun. Yeah, we should do it.

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Fun is the word. We should pursue that if AI
can help people stay healthier or help diagnose people earlier
than yes, like push that. Keep doing that. Let's see
strawberry tart. The oven is nice though. Oh yeah, so
write demographic right application for the heat. Thanks for being

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so honest in your commentaries about a refurbished iPad air
because of your recommendations. Oh cool. I hope it works
well for you, Brian. Thanks for asking. Do I think
the next MacBook EO will have neo? Do I think
the next MacBook neo will have twelve gigs or sixteen
gigs a RAM or will Apple purposefully separate the different
tiers of MacBook I could see them. I'm doing twelve

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sixteen is a bit of a jump because remember that
they're basically putting an iPhone CPU in a MacBook. So
I think if they made the jump to the A
nineteen pro, it would have to have twelve gigs, right,
I thought all the A nineteens had twelve, that all
the A nineteen pro chips had twelve gigs, and I
could easily see them making that an up charge. So

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maybe the base model MacBook Neo is still eight gigs,
but if you spend one hundred bucks more you get
twelve gigs. But honestly, I tend to think unified memory
is over over exaggerated, like people think they need more
than they do. I did quite a lot with the
MacBook Neo. I was pretty impressed. Honestly. What turned me

(01:04:43):
off from using the Neo as my personal computer more
than the memory was actually the size. That was more
of the deal breaker. I know it's small, and for
the demographic serves, that's fine. It's perfectly adequate, especially if
you're cross shopping it with an iPad. Oh my god,
iPad for that same price as going to be eleven inches,

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not thirteen. So it's still pretty decent size for the money.
But I have a little bit more money, I can
afford a larger screen. I'm very much, especially when editing
on the go, prefer having a sixteen inch display. I
would buy a bigger MacBook if they sold it. If
they had an eighteen inch model, I would buy that, Genuinely,

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I would spend more money. So I was more turned
off by the screen size actually prevented me from doing
more multitasking features. It wasn't so much the memory. It
was just like, I can't fit that much stuff on
the screen all at the same time. But yeah, let's
see Parker eats trees. Wow, poor trees, sir. If you've

(01:05:51):
talked about it the stream already, but what are your
thoughts on the iPhone fold based on the leaks we
have so far, I'm interested, I'm excited. I definitely want
to check one out. I want to review one, but
I'm ninety percent certain I don't want to keep it.
I don't have an iPad now, so I don't really
feel like I need a little iPad in my pocket.
And also for my line of work, camera is very important,

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battery life is very important. Also, vapor chamber is very important,
and I think there's a chance that the folding iPhone
will be so thin, especially being all glass and titanium,
that it will overheat more and probably have a weaker
battery life. I'm not totally against upgrading this year. Again,
I'm not sold on it. I'm not saying I definitely
will upgrade, but if I do upgrade, it's going to

(01:06:34):
be an eighteen Promax hands down. I don't think there's
any debate there. Debating just because my wife's phone is
filling up with storage a lot. She's got a one
twenty eight gig fifteen Pro, so debating if I should
just hand this one off to her and have me
get a newer one. Also, my phone's been overheating more

(01:06:55):
because I've been using car Play more so it's making
me want a vapor chamber and more battery life and
that kind of thing. And again I'm not totally sold.
I might just there's also a chance I would just
get like a refurbished seventeen pro. Apple could pay well
the additional eight gigs of RAM, but that would be

(01:07:16):
like the time BMW tried paywalling heated seats. I honestly
thought that wasn't a terrible idea. I know everyone hated it,
but I was like, well, I don't need heated seats
in the summer, so if I only had to pay
for them in the winter, and you can stretch out
the margins across things when you software lock, you know,
there's a reason they do that. What do you think
Apple will do with the iPhone twenty next year? It

(01:07:37):
sounds like they're gonna redesign the chassis again, do some
crazy thin bezels or something. But I'm actually not as
excited about that one. Thinner bezels don't excite me as
much as the folding phone, even though I don't plan
on keeping the folding phone. I just it's so different,
it's so unlike Apple. You know, what do you think

(01:07:58):
of the price potentially being two thousand plus dollars? That's fine,
It's not that far off from what they're charging now.
I mean the Promax, which is like the best selling
iPhone is twelve hundred dollars, and that's for the base model.
If you speck it up, it becomes fourteen fifteen hundred
really quick. So an iPhone with a crazy creaseless display

(01:08:19):
and you know, folding technology that's all titanium and glass
and everything with state of the art software. There's never
been a folding phone with I message. I think they
could charge twenty four hundred or twenty five hundred for it,
and probably it would be the best selling foldable. That's
my guess. I think more people will buy a folding
iPhone than anything because Android does have more market share

(01:08:42):
than iPhone. That's true, but it's mostly on the lower end.
If you look at the smartphone market share on more
expensive phones, it's Apple dominates more expensive iPhones, sorry, more
expensive phones, Like if you just look at phones sold
over one thousand dollars, it's it's like, I forget what
the more recent data is, but it's like seventy percent

(01:09:04):
Apple or eighty percent Apple. It's really high. So Android
dominates smartphones globally because the average selling price of the
Android phones is like five hundred bucks. But folding phones
inherently are more expensive. So Apple's very good at convincing
people basically to spend a lot more money on their phone.

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So the brand power is very strong, the software loyalty
is very strong, ecosystem loyalty is very strong. So I
actually think even at twenty five hundred dollars, the folding
iPhone will probably outsell everybody. What if there was negative

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bezel didn't show me or somebody do that? Like the
bezels that the screen that just goes all the way
around the edge. Again, it's a should you do it?
Not a can you do it? We know the technology
exists to do that, but the debate is is it worth?
Is it actually better to have a screen that goes
that far? I don't think so. I'm not that interested

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in the twentieth anniversary. I mean, it'll look a little different,
but I don't think it would change the way you
use your phone. It's still going to be a rectangle.
The folding phone might actually change the way people use
their phones, or change the way they use their iPads.
I bought the Galaxy Trifle at a discount for twenty
six hundred. I thought that was too much for five
twelve gigs, but they are saying folding phone might start

(01:10:31):
at twenty four hundred two fifty six gigs. Yeah, it's
not cheap, but you know it's different. It's not a
little rectangle anymore now, it's two rectangles glued together. Starting
to set up a smart home and wondering if I
should get the rumored HomePod with a screen. I don't
have any HomePod at this time. We don't know much

(01:10:51):
about it, like what it'll do, what os it will run,
how much it'll cost. So I have a lot of
questions before I could say it's recommendable. But I could
see a situation where that would be a pretty practical product.
I know a lot of people who bought I didn't
buy one, but I know a lot of people who
buy those Nest Google Nest hubs, and there's a lot
of use cases for them. You know, when someone rings

(01:11:12):
the doorbell, it shows up the camera feed, or you
can talk to it and play YouTube videos on it,
and you can take video calls on it and it
kind of follows you around the room. I think there
is a market for something like that, and I could
I understand why Apple's trying to make a home pod
with a screen, but I could easily see them overpricing

(01:11:32):
it or underspecing it, or making it not as useful.
But boy, especially like taking care of the elderly. You know,
if you've got a grandparent or someone that you're taking
care of at a care home facility, and you don't
want them to have to learn how to iPad works.
I mean, I have older relatives that never learned their

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way around an iPad, and even that's a little bit
too much for them to understand. But if you could
just plant a little very loud speaker that they could
hear because they're hard of hearing, and it has a
screen on it, and you could just call that device
and the person could answer the call very easily. They
just press one button, or maybe there's a setting where
it just automatically answers the call immediately, and you could

(01:12:18):
have people in their nineties just be like, oh, there
they are, and you could talk to them and ask
them if they're okay, ask them if they've taken their
meds today, or ask them to take their meds on camera.
That kind of thing. That's that'd be so useful, And
I'm sure there's devices that probably already do that, but
just building that into the Apple ecosystem so that you
could do it through FaceTime instead of some third party

(01:12:41):
app that's going to want another email and password and
maybe a membership to do all that. Yeah, the safe
prediction I have to the iPhone twenty is that they'll
likely have the biggest camera bump ever yeah, maybe the
iPhone twenty they'll finally just make the camera bump the
whole back, or at least flush with the back. That
would be cool. I actually wouldn't thinking about it. I

(01:13:02):
wouldn't mind a wedge design. I know the mag Safe
kind of has to stay there. I don't want them
to get rid of mag Safe. But if they made
it really thick on the top and then kind of
tapered off so that it sits flat but kind of
at an angle so that face idea even works better,
and then crazy thin bezels on the front. If I
was doing a crazy twentieth anniversary iPhone, that's probably what

(01:13:23):
I would do, smoothing out the edges, make a little
wedge phone. But they'll probably not do that. They'll just
keep growing up their big old bump on the back.
Rumors are that Apple glasses are going to be coming
out this year for the non display model. Will you
review one? I'd love to check one out, but I

(01:13:44):
haven't heard rumors that those are coming out this year.
I thought that was next year, but yeah, they need
to catch up. Meta's got some pretty impressive stuff. Again.
I've been busy, so I haven't had a chance to
review the meta glasses, but they look fine. I love
the idea that you could just take a video or
pictures just from the glasses and kind of talk to
them for basic dictation needs and that kind of thing. Like, yeah,

(01:14:07):
Apple could probably cook something up like that pretty easily.
I'd like to see them do that. I think that
would have a much bigger demographic than Vision Pro, which
was kind of like a dev kit that they sold
to individuals. Vision Pro was cool, but it's Yeah, it's
very hard to justify for that price point. And I
could tell when I reviewed it that I was definitely

(01:14:29):
not going to use it regularly. I was just in
the two weeks I had it already trying to go
out of my way to use it, and I was like,
this thing's gonna collect ust. I can tell if I
keep this, it's just going to be sitting around and
I'm never going to put it on. I actually that
was my hot take in case you forgot it. When
I reviewed the Vision Pro, my hot take was the
price is not the problem. I actually think you could

(01:14:52):
justify a headset for thirty five hundred dollars if it
was more comfortable, it had longer battery life, and it
could do more things. It's actually a feature issue in
my head, not a price issue. But that was what
everybody else was saying. Everybody else in the tech community
was like, it's too expensive. It needs to be like

(01:15:12):
a thousand dollars. Like if this was your one screen,
if there was a headset that was comfortable to wear,
and it was your Mac display, and it could improve
your iPhone display and you could wear it while driving
for better map navigations. It's like a HUD with augmented
reality stuff. I mean, I don't think it would be

(01:15:33):
like screens that you're looking at anymore. It would have
to be like transparent glasses and stuff like that. But
if the technology was that good, I actually do think
you could. You could probably justify thirty five hundred dollars.
If that's your TV, that's your monitor, that's your phone,
that's your everything, thirty five hundred bucks to kind of

(01:15:54):
do all that stuff would be cool. I wish the
camera bump was like iPhone four, like the whole thing
is the same. Thickness, better life would be amazing. I
do think people who ask for that don't realize how
thick the phone would be. The iPhone four was not
that thick. If you were to extend out the back
of this phone to be flush with the camera rings,
it would be very chunky, especially if you put a

(01:16:16):
case on, which most people do. Do you think the
vision Pro could still have the potential to be mainstream
if Apple just played their cards right, it would have
to change a lot. I don't know if you would
even call it vision Pro at that point. I think
what I'm getting at is more of like a glasses
type product where you look through physical glass and it's

(01:16:38):
not just a display with cameras on the outside. But
I do think there is a way to make it
go mainstream if it was comfortable enough, lightweight enough, and
capable enough. But in its current format where you're just
looking at screens that are stitching together reality through a
bunch of cameras, no, no, not in that format, I

(01:16:59):
don't think that would ever go mainstream. That's going to
continue to be pretty niche and just good for little
gaming things. But I yeah, very quickly ran out of
things to do with it. When I had it, I
was like, Okay, this is it. This is all I
can do is like watch TV by myself. I pretty
much never do that. I'm almost exclusively watching TV with
someone else, in which case it's very awkward and isolating.

(01:17:23):
It'd be cool if we could both wear a headset
and have a shared experience, but seven thousand dollars could
buy a nice TV setup, you know. Anyway, man, this
is fun, guys. I missed catching up with you guys
like this, but unfortunately I have to get going. I'm
a little over the hour, but I will definitely try

(01:17:45):
to keep the channel as active as I can, especially
when there's news coming out. Hopefully we're just a week
or two away from the new M five Mac minis
dropping or the M five Ultra dropping in the Max Studio.
That be fun, but again it's just a spec bump,
so I don't plan on reviewing those. But I'll keep
on reviewing the M five Max I got on my

(01:18:08):
work computer and keep you guys posted as we hear more.
Thanks everyone, hope you have an excellent risk of your day.
Thank you for the support. VR seems like a dead
end to me. Yeah, I agree, Mike, it's a very
niche but yeah, thank you all for watching, and I'll
see you guys again soon. Bye bye, see you