Which Bank Will Pickup Card?

Tailosive Tech Streamed: September 24th, 2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to Taylor's and Tech
Live on YouTube. It's nice to see you in a
more normal setting. Last time I was live, we were
up super early pre ordering iPhones. So that was fun,
wasn't it. No, yeah, that's I apologize in advance for

(00:24):
the bitrate. You'd think that now that I'm inside the house,
it would go easier, but no, actually not so. All
you got to do is give it a moment and
then it should correct itself. Of course it never does
this when I'm doing the member streams. But yeah, we're
talking about the Apple card today because we do actually

(00:44):
have some Taylors of tech Pro submitted questions, and that was,
in my opinion, the most unique one that I was like,
you know what, Yeah, we should dive into that. Hello,
Alex Haseil, whoever it is. I hope they make a
black version. That's all that matters, right, as long as
we get black titanium. Hey, we got a black titanium
Apple Watch. Apple card is the next step, right, that's

(01:06):
the next thing. Okay, let me share my screen here
so y'all can see some of the questions along what
it's like frozen, Why is it frozen? I swear macOS
Sequoia broke so many things now it's not. The screen
capture isn't working. Since when? Why I had the scene

(01:33):
all queued up and ready to go. All right, I'm
just gonna have to read them. Sorry, I guess I
don't have time. By the way, not great impressions with
macOS Sequoia. This is actually the first day I've installed
it on my MacBook Pro because I thought, oh, it's
a public release, it's out of beta. Now it's safe.
Now I can use it and test its features. I'm

(01:53):
not putting a developer or public beta on my main
editing rig anymore. First off, right out, the bat iPhone
mirroring does not work at all. It refuses to connect
to the phone. Period. There's nothing I can do. It's
just straight up does not work. And then all my

(02:14):
OBS settings are no longer like, all my scenes are
broken because there's some new safety protocol with macOS Sequoia
where you have to manually approve permission for an application
to capture the screen, even though I've already I've been
using OBS for years. Of course, I want OBS to

(02:35):
show my screen. That's the whole reason I have obs
is to share content. It's too broadcast. That's the entire
purpose of the app. And even when I went into
settings and manually hit okay, now when I share my screen,
it's not updating, it's frozen. It's just a it's a
still image. So I don't really have time to do

(02:55):
the troubleshooting live. But all I'm saying is it's ridiculous
to me that my iMac Pro from twenty seventeen, I
put the Sequoia beta on that, a seven year old
Mac with beta software and iPhone mirroring, worked perfectly. You know,
there's some fundamental design things I have issues with, but

(03:16):
overall it functioned. It worked, it connected to my phone,
and everything was fine. But then suddenly I want to
do it on my much more recent three year old
MacBook Pro with m one Max chip, with better Wi
Fi connectivity, better Bluetooth, everything's better silicon wise, and it's
on the public release instead of a beta. This is

(03:37):
the public release meant for wide spread adoption of Macosakoya,
and no matter what I do, it will not connect
to the phone. It's ridiculous, And the Hamas Yamas is
saying the betas are stable. That's funny, Daniel says, My
issue with iPhone mirroring is how close the phone has
to be to the Mac using Bluetooth. The whole idea
should be in my house, I can have it in

(03:58):
another room and use my Mac in the office. I
to me, that wasn't the idea at all. The whole
reason I wanted to use iPhone mirroring was so that
in this exact situation where I'm using continuity camera. So
to answer Connor Dunnaway's question, yes, I'm using the sixteen
Promax as my webcam right now. So obviously my phone

(04:19):
is kind of tied up as a webcam, so I
can't access it. There are apps on there that don't
really have great website alternatives. There are photos and files
on my phone that I would love to be able
to pull off mid stream or in the middle of
a video call or something, and I can't because iPhone
mirring doesn't work when you're using cottonuty camera. So that's

(04:42):
another problem. That's not a bug, that's just the way
it's designed, which is very unfortunate. But to me, it's like,
I'm not the kind of person that would leave my
phone in another room and then come in here and
want to use my phone. It's like my phone is
just almost always attached to me, to me be kind
of like controlling my Apple Watch from my iPad. It's like,

(05:04):
why would I do that? You know, I guess the
hardware exists for that to happen, but I don't need it.
But Arnov says AMX might work if Apple lets them
bring in membership rewards points. I'm sure there's a large
overlap of iPhone and MX customers already, so they might
want to capitalize on that. There is some truth to that,
But let me actually read the pro members comments. I'm

(05:25):
sorry I can't share my screen with you because Sekoya
is broken. But this is a comment from Skuyler kelsch
five six five six as a taylist of tech Pro member.
And they asked, I heard rumors that Chase might take
over the Apple card, and they really want to do
away with Apples no fees, not even hidden one's policy.

(05:45):
Given that no other bank really seems interested in the
Apple card, do you think that Chase has the negotiation
power to do that and maybe change other odd aspects
of the card, like requiring all billing cycles to match
the calendar month. Yeah, I think think there's two different banks.
Just to address Skylar's question that are most recently being considered.

(06:06):
MX was talked about like a year ago or almost
a year ago, and the rumors and talks about that
seem to have fallen through. But I do agree. I
think that Apple if they can't keep Goldman Sacks, which
already has been announced. That's not a rumor, that's not
a leak or anything. Goldman Sacks just straight up said like,
we're not interested in carrying this anymore, and once their

(06:28):
contract expires, it's got to get passed passed on to
someone else. But the most recent reports are claiming it's
either going to be JP Morgan or Chase, and as
more and more time goes on, Apple probably has less
and less time to weigh out their options. So yeah,
it doesn't surprise me that Chase takes issues with the

(06:48):
no fees thing, because that is a big perk of
the Apple card. But simultaneously, that's part of the reason
it's probably not very profitable is because it doesn't have
any hidden fees and the UI makes it a bunch
clear whenever you're you know, about to get charged an
interest fee, and it makes it very very easy to

(07:09):
know when you should pay it off. And because it's
so simple and intuitive and easy to understand, I think
that makes it difficult to be profitable for the banks,
which is one of the reasons I love the Apple Card.
I still use it pretty regularly. It's not my only
credit card anymore, but yeah, I do. I do really
love it because I know the banks aren't really making

(07:30):
much money off me. I'm just causting them billions of dollars.
I found a way to legally rob banks. It's called
using the Apple Card. But yeah, I think that Apple's
made a lot of decisions in more recent history that
have kind of surprised me of like, oh, they would
never do that, and then they turn around and do it.
Kind of this whole Apple Intelligence season we're in where

(07:50):
they're over marketing it. They're showing it on the demo
units and the Apple stores, and it's on the front
page of the website like Hello Intelligence. They're really really
pushing all of the Apple Intelligence marketing, and yet it's
not available at all on the public build. You have
to install beta software in order to get it to work.
And half of the Apple Intelligence features that they're promising
are not even available in beta form. So there's many

(08:13):
features that are currently being discussed that they're saying isn't
even going to be ready until next year. A lot
of Apple Intelligence features might not be ready until like
February or March, which is almost essentially like halfway through
the iPhone's life cycle, which I find ridiculous. But my

(08:35):
theory is that if the Apple Card is not profitable
enough in its current form, whichever bank they go through
it could be chased, could be JP Morgan, But both
of those banks I don't think are going to be
opposed to making a Tier three or Tier four credit
card because Apple would rather be associated with luxury or
a premium card, then they would a cheap credit card

(08:58):
that just has hidden fees. That's that's my current theory.
That would be my guess is that Apple would rather
move towards not some hidden fees or not some little
little details that are missing and stuff, but or little changes.
But if they did update the Apple Card with a
new bank, I think Apple would want it to be

(09:19):
as simple and easy to market and convey to customers
as possible, and probably the best way to do that
is to just say there's a one time annual fee,
but there's a bunch of perks that come along with that.
For example, like you get Apple Care Plus on Apple
purchases included, or you know, you get a certain amount

(09:41):
of cash back with Apple Pay versus more cash back
with Apple products, that kind of thing. So I think
they would want to keep it as consistent as possible,
and maybe they would tick off a bunch of people
with the annual membership, but they would try to make
that membership worth it by saying, like it includes a
certain amount of Eye Cloud, have an Apple card already,
then you get Apple TV Plus for free, or you

(10:04):
get Apple Music for free. I think they would rather
move towards a annual, one time a year membership option.
Then they would move into like tiny little fees that
kind of stack up on the sides of things. That
would be my guess. Again, at this point, it's like
the flip of a coin. It could go Chase, it
could go chase JP Morgan. But if they were to

(10:26):
restructure the financials of the credit card, I would guess
they would go in that direction. They would make it
more of a membership base that includes a bunch of
Apple perks, but maybe the cash back isn't as great
or something like that. I don't think they would move
into tiny little micro transactions. Ar Knob says, what other
credit cards do you use? Are you mainly into points
based ones or cash back ones? I don't spend enough.

(10:49):
I've done the math. I've looked at the points based ones,
and if I had really high overhead, like I was
spending a lot of money every month, I could maybe
make the points rewards cards work. But the truth is,
we just don't have a lot of expenses, at least
with this line of work. You know, I maximize you know,
referral programs and that kind of thing, so like I

(11:11):
don't and I care about things being affordable, so like
I don't spend a lot on my phone bill, or
my electric bill, or my gas bill. You know, even
my car ch are just for free at this moment,
So there's very little expenses, which usually from what I
can tell, when it comes down to like rewards programs
being point based, you need to spend a lot of

(11:33):
money in order to rack up a lot of points,
and we just we straight up just don't spend all
that much money. So I'm more into the cash back.
I suppose. The other credit card I use a lot
is the Costco City Card because we shop at Costco
a lot. That's where we get most of our groceries.
We like buying things in bulk. Also, I know it's

(11:53):
unhealthy and all, but I like the food court at Costco.
It's great when you're just busy and you got a
lot of stuff to do, and you're already grabbing a
bunch of groceries and you can just grab a hot
dog for like a buck fifty. It's honestly like, I'm
sure they're losing money on that, but it's like you
can cover a you can cover a quick lunch when
you're with your friends and family for very affordable at Costco.

(12:15):
And my wife likes sampling the different stuff throughout the
store and stuff. We're big fans of Costco. So we
decided to get the Costco credit card and we've we
get three percent cash back on restaurants, which is kind
of where I was usually most of the time I
would use my physical Apple card. It would be at
restaurants that didn't have tap to pay support, so I

(12:37):
was having to pay whenever we went out to eat
somewhere one percent. I would only get one percent cash
back with the Apple Card because a lot of restaurants
we would go to, of course, didn't have tap to pay.
It was like, here's the bill where they just hand
you a little plastic tab with a receipt on it
and you have to put down a physical card. There's

(12:58):
not a place to tap. Then situations it was like, yeah,
we're getting a lot of one percent cash back on restaurants,
whereas we shop at Costco a lot and the Costco
card gives us three percent back. Also gives us some
I think it's three percent back on travel. So again,
we don't spend a lot of money, but when we
do buy flights or something, we'll put it on that
card because we get three percent back on Yeah, the

(13:20):
Costco mangoes are good. I agree. The truros were okay,
but if you've tried the cookie, it's very unhealthy, but
it's delicious. It's massive. Are JP Morgan to chase the
same company joint companies? Oh my god, you could be right,
and I'm completely forgetting. What's your views on the MQBHD

(13:41):
wallpaper app controversy? Oh geez, I have so many thoughts
on it that I'm I'm debating just doing a video
on it, But for the most part, I think people
are overreacting. That doesn't mean Marquez was completely in the right,
but I do think there's a lot of people that
are kind of unfairly dogging on him. But yeah, I

(14:06):
think some criticism was valid, but a lot of it
was not. I think a lot of people were making
up stuff and turning it into a bigger deal than
it really was. But anyway, there was one website that
I needed for my math homework that worked fine on
a safari before Macosakoya and now doesn't work. Oh cool,

(14:27):
So it's not just me. Gihn cookies are just okay.
Mexicans run by his turros all the way. The old
turros were better, but they started working in a different
kind of bread into the turro that it's just not
as good as it used to be. The last turro
I tried from Costco was not very impressive, but AnyWho,

(14:48):
Costco's cool, very affordable. You can get a lot of discounts.
There another YouTuber that is not a tech YouTuber by
any means, but another YouTuber we watch a lot, at
least in This household is called the Deal and he
does a lot of videos showcasing what all of the
best value stuff at Costco is. So just another great

(15:08):
YouTuber to watch if you're looking to save some money.
Let's see anyway, I think we address kind of the
Apple card thing again. For those who are new, You're
welcome to keep asking credit card questions in the chat.
I can't guarantee I'll read every single message, Paul says,
we're Costco guys, but with a live stream like the

(15:35):
point is to not just talk about one subject. It's
to talk about whatever you guys bring up. And because
the Taylor's of tech Pro members are helping support the
channel directly, I give them priority with the questions. So
I'm gonna continue to check on those. Let me see
if it's working again. Nope, it is still not working.
That's annoying. So I got to read another one here.
But the first question came from Marngell and kind of

(15:58):
relates to what some of you were asking earlier. Marn
Jale says, assuming if the studio quality mics on the
sixteen pro are not as good as you thought, does
that mean you'll go back to the fifteen pro or
even consider the Pixel nine. So, because this is a
little of a sneak peek into the review, which is

(16:18):
not ready yet, I actually need some time to kill
heist svisualizer. Welcome back, Hey Nicholas, thanks for tuning in.
My wife loves the chicken bake as well. Sorry so
many topics, but it's a little bit of a sneak
peek on the review. But essentially, the quick answer to
mar Jall's question is there are reasons to hold on

(16:41):
to the sixteen even if I'm not happy with the
studio mics, because my lifestyle has changed so much in
the past six months. You know, there are things that
are really important to me now in a phone that
didn't matter to me just six months ago, between me
face timing. My wife a lot more frequently because she

(17:04):
goes to work now. She used to just be a
you know, stay at home wife, and then kind of
a job fell in her lap that she wasn't even
really looking for. She was trying to volunteer for this
nonprofit and then she went down to volunteer and do
the training, and they said, actually, what we'd really like
is for you to take this job. We need we

(17:24):
need someone who can come on at least part time.
I think it's it's closer to full time than part time,
but it is technically right under full time. But yeah,
she enjoys. She enjoys working there. It's very different from
working at a company. But anyway, I'm calling her a
lot more frequently, So the applicability and usefulness of FaceTime
is important. And also I'm running the social media now

(17:47):
for a startup company in the Bay Area called Tellout Trucks,
And because I'm using so much more social media accounts
and apps than before, having that bigger screen is somewhat useful. Oh,
Steve Storenka says, just saw a Tello truck post on
x for the first time. Looks interesting. Well, thanks for
checking it out. We're also on threads if you don't

(18:08):
want to be on ex or Twitter. That was the
more recent addition. But yeah, I'm trying to be as
active as I can across all the different social media
platforms for them, because the goal is to get the
word out about them. That's kind of my job. Hey,
shadow Force joined Welcome back. Shadow Force is one of
our absolute mad lads who joined Taylor's of dech Max.

(18:29):
Don't know what don't know why he did it, but
I'm very grateful, Alex says, true. Does Tello Trucks have
internships available? I think they did for the summer, but
there they left. Now there are a lot of summer interns,
really great people, really awesome team but once the summer
internship program ended, I'm not sure they're looking to do
more internships right now. But I'm not in charge of

(18:51):
that side of the business, so I would check their
LinkedIn if they are hiring, you'd probably find out about
it through there. Why is Apple Card being transitioned, asked
Claire Maayer. It mainly has to do with the fact
that it loses money, at least according to Goldman Sachs,
they've lost well over a billion dollars on the Apple Cart,
So I feel like it has something to do with

(19:13):
the fact that people are only using it for the
cash back. It's very direct, it's not a points system
which you can game easier and kind of influence customer spending.
And also probably hardly anybody misses a payment on the
Apple cart. Everybody just it makes it painfully easy to
know when to make your payments and how to not

(19:34):
miss any payments, and it tells you exactly what the
interest fee will be. It's the far more honest and
transparent credit card than any other credit card I've ever
seen personally, and that's cool for the consumer, but it
sounds terrible for the bank. But I'm okay with that
because banks have lots of money they can afford to lose.
Right But to answer the question about Marngell, about the

(19:55):
sixteen Pro mics and also Malchiel Auscher, I hope I'm
pronouncing that correctly, I'm probably not. But he said please
increase your mic a bit. So you guys know, I
was pretty pumped and pretty excited about the iPhone sixteen
Pro mics right well, because I'm using my iPhone sixteen
as a webcam, that means I can also use the

(20:18):
onboard microphone via cottonudy camera. So guess what. I've never
done this before, but I'm about to switch over in
the middle of this live stream right as we're speaking,
I'm about to switch over from my MacBook Pro onboard microphone.
That's how you're hearing me right now. And once I
click this magic mouse, we are going to switch over

(20:41):
to the mic of the iPhone sixteen Pro even though
it is wirelessly streaming into the Mac. But still here
we go, how are we doing? We have switched over.
I think the waveforms are a little higher. So someone
was asking someone who was asking for the volume to

(21:02):
be a little louder. Well, now it's a little louder,
and I'm not sure if they give me many settings.
Let me go up to a control center here. Mic
mode is currently on voice isolation. I could switch it
off of voice isolation and just make it standard, but
I think voice isolation is probably better because I have
a fan running. Uh, Let's two shadows is oh bad?

(21:24):
Malchahil says much better. MacBook sounds better. Chase is most
likely going to replace Goldman Sachson as the bank going forward.
People say, dear God, well there's your studio grade microphones
from the iPhone sixteen pro. It sounds worse but louder echoe, Okay,

(21:45):
better than the MacBook. But can we get a comparison
with the fifteen Pro. I actually don't have the fifteen
Pro with me right now. It's more echoe, but the
sound quality isn't bad. Hmm, that's interesting. That's with voice isolation.
If I turned off voice isolation, well, that's that's fascinating.

(22:06):
Some people are saying it's way better audio louder, but
a bit more muffled. Haru gave me the the circle
the okay sign, start a poll, which before I change
any settings, I'll play around with turning off voice isolation.
I assume. I assume voice of isolation is gonna help,
not make it worse. Which Mike is better? I need?

(22:28):
I need a poll MacBook, I'll say before, just so
people understand it's not the current mic before and then iPhone. Yeah,
let's do a poll. Please vote, Get out there and vote.

(22:49):
People fucked and it's a you can vote in my
YouTube pull what happens to my credit card debt? The
credit card isn't going away, it's just the bank that's
carrying the debt and handling the back end of the
Apple card. I haven't turned off voice isolation, just to
be clear, voice isolation is still on. People are saying

(23:10):
MacBook before at least initial impressions, shoutout for it, says understandable,
but prefer the other mic. That's fair, okay. Rick asked
if I can switch back to the MacBook really quick?
I can? I can't, so if I go into settings
here and I go to audio. I'm gonna switch back

(23:32):
to the MacBook microphone right now. So at this time
we have switched back. I can already tell the way
form is lower. It's probably just because there's more distance
between me and the MacBook because I'm using my big
screen monitor. But this is the MacBook Pro microphone. Just
so everybody's aware, this is how the onboard studio grade

(23:52):
microphone sound on the MacBook Pro. If I switch back
to the iPhone mic now, this is what the Idea
phone mike sounds like iPhone sixteen pro studio grade microphone,
which they said was a hardware upgrade, not just a
software change. I wonder how much this has to do
with onboard speakers on our devices a headphones. People say

(24:15):
the MacBook is way better. I think I agree with you,
much better with voice isolation off sounds more nashvial MacBook
for sure. I'm watching on my TV. It's interesting that
the chat is saying more MacBook. But on the pole
it's pretty neck and neck. People said, like on the iPhone,
it's like forty two percent versus MacBook fifty eight percent.

(24:39):
You are exploding when you start iPhone iPhone sucks. iPhone
is louder but more tinny. All right, all right, fair enough,
typical Apple MacBook is more natural but less loud. iPhone
is more loud but makes the voice more squeaky. Mac
is best try without. Okay, now we're gonna try something else.

(25:00):
I'm going to turn the mic mode to standard on
the iPhone. Currently it's on voice isolation, so I'm going
to click the mouse and it'll be on standard. You
probably can just hear the fan on my desk. Now,
I'm guessing this isn't better. iPhone sounds like you're in
a tunnel. My ears can somehow adapt and like both interesting. Well,

(25:24):
in this situation, for continuity camera, at least, it's probably
better to use the MacBook mics because using the iPhone
mics is going to drain the battery faster. Well, the
cash back rewards on the Apple card change when another
bank takes over the card. The future cash back, Yes,
your existing cash won't change. I don't think they can
do anything about that. So if you've racked up a
bunch of rewards or cash back, you still have those

(25:47):
even if they change banks around. Awful fannoids, lots of
background hits same but now fan Yeah, okay, that's enough
microphone testing I think for the day. So well, if anything,
let me switch back to the mic the MacBook mic
here boom, now I'm back to the MacBook Pro microphone.

(26:08):
If anything, I feel like this should teach people how impressive.
Oh wait, now the voice the mic mode affects the
MacBook Pro as well. Let me put it back to
voice isolation. There, now we get rid of the fan.
Isn't it impressive how well the MacBook Pro mics are, Like,
how well they're able to tune out the fan noise

(26:30):
and isolate in on my voice. It's I think the
MacBook Pro has much much better microphones. Mac Mike's need
voice isolation. Yeah, I think the Chat's a little behind
me obviously, But this is back to the way we started,
and I'm impressed once again with how good this is

(26:50):
a twenty twenty one MacBook Pro. By the way, this
MacBook Pro is about to turn three years old, and
the microphones are still fantastic. They do a great job
canceling background noise, and they can grab onto your voice
and just make you sound clean. Neil Pitts as mac
Mike sound as the clearest, but iPhone is still good. Okay,

(27:10):
fair enough. Yeah. I did a video on Telos of
EV that was shot entirely on the iPhone sixteen, which
includes the audio, and I use the audio mix options
and switched to studio mode, and boy was it terrible.
It was. It was borderline unusable. I regretted recording the
whole thing without my Zoom mic. I should have had

(27:31):
it as a backup, but I wanted to test it,
and I was stupid, and I was pushed for time,
so I said, I got to record an EV video.
I just got my new iPhone sixteen. Let me go
record one purely using the onboard mics, and I'll switch
it to studio mode, which is supposed to be the
mic mode option in the iPhone sixteen pros that make

(27:53):
it sound like you have a mic attached to you.
And oh, it was so terrible. If anyone's curious, I
don't recommend it. You know, you can take my word
for it. But if you go on te los A viv.
It's not the most recent video, but it's the video
I posted last week about the Tesla's semi truck. The
video about the Tesla Semi truck is entirely shot on
iPhone using the onboard mic, using the studio filter that

(28:17):
Apple claimed his studio grade, and huh oh it was borderline,
borderline unusable. I debated not posting it at all because
the mic quality was so bad. But what was interesting
was when I did my you know, iPhone sixteen launch
day video, and at the very end I recorded the

(28:38):
outro on iPhone sixteen. That was before I had the
option in settings to change the audio profile. I just
used the onboard mic for that, and a lot of
people said it was pretty good. Not everybody. A lot
of people said no, it was noticeable, but many people
said no, I couldn't tell you fooled me. So it's
kind of a mixed bag. But I'll go more. I'll

(29:02):
go more into it in the review and talk about
like the pros and cons. It's not just the bad
audio quality, but also it actually takes much longer to
get footage off of the iPhone. When you change the
audio settings to be like studio, cinematic or inframe and
you do one of those three options or four options,
it has to like basically re re export the whole

(29:26):
video on the phone before it can air drop it
to the computer, which slows down the entire content production cycle.
So this is not actually faster, which is a shame
because that was kind of the whole appeal to me
getting it. So needless to say, yes, the iPhone microphones
are disappointment, but there's other things about the iPhone sixteen

(29:49):
that I'm trying to figure out and trying to put
through its paces. This is actually a good test right now,
because I want to know. I'm hesitant to go back
to the fifteen pro because I use my phone for
so many different things. I think for the vast majority
of people, you don't need an iPhone sixteen. They're very,
very similar to the iPhone fifteen series, and you can

(30:09):
find the iPhone fifteen series for far cheaper now. I
think I've seen some iPhone fifteen's on Amazon renewed, which
you can try for ninety days and return and still
get all your money back. You can find them on
Amazon renewed for like six fifty six seventy, like sub
seven hundred dollars. You can get an iPhone fifteen, and
that's going to be so absurdly similar to the experience

(30:30):
of the iPhone sixteen. I don't think you're going to
utilize Apple intelligence features. I think they're very gimmicky. The
iPhone fifteen has a fantastic camera, still, a great display,
gets plenty bright, it has USBC le don't you just
use a DG I might like most YouTubers, I'm about
to get there. I will. But the zoom mic back

(30:51):
here that I plug into my iPhone sounds fantastic and
I'm very happy with it now. The iPhone sixteen does
get very hot. But a differentiator feature between the two
that's really important to me is will my iPhone sixteen
overheat under some kind of use case. So that's a
test I'm doing right now as we speak. I'm using
it as a webcam, which obviously makes it very hot.

(31:13):
But I'm not just using it as a webcam. I
am also mag Safe charging it. So you can't see
it right now because it's you know, on the phone here.
I guess I can pull it like this. Oh my god,
it's so hot to the touch. But my mag Safe
puck is right here. It's very hot, and it is
charging the iPhone inductively, so I just snap it right there.

(31:37):
So that is actually not giving the phone enough power.
So I'm looking at the battery percentage and control center
and it is slowly going down, but I'm not I
know that I could plug it in via USBC and
it would hold its charge or actually go up. Yeah,
Premium renewed lets you return it up to a year,
but a cost more. So that's why I usually just
recommend renewed, not renewed premium. But I'm trying to see

(32:02):
if I can overheat the phone to get it to
the point of unusable, because unfortunately, that did happen on
my iPhone fifteen Pro. There was a point where I
was using it as a webcam for my live stream,
and then I switched over to start recording a tech
video on it. It was the recap event for the
iPhone sixteen series, and about ten minutes in or seventeen

(32:23):
minutes in, my fifteen Pro overheated and I lost footage.
It didn't alert me that it overheated and stopped recording,
so I was just talking to no one for a good,
you know, ten minutes there at the end, and I
lost a bunch of I lost a bunch of footage.
So I want to make sure that if there are
legitimate improvements with the heat sync and the thermal architecture

(32:44):
on the iPhone sixteen series or is it no change?
Can I still overheat it under certain circumstances. So I'm
intentionally doing as much as I can to like abuse
the phone, put it through its paces, try to figure
out exactly what's wrong with it. Hello, Tyler Forte, good afternoon,
Thank you for joining iPhone. Isn't a bad mic, but

(33:06):
MacBook is better? Okay? Fair enough? You think the mic
will get better with an update? I doubt it. I
don't think that's on their priority list. I think all
of the iOS team is all hands on deck with
Apple Intelligence and trying to get that to work. Sandra
ask says, what did you think about him kbhd's panels
that bad reception? I think it is. I think most
people are overreacting. I don't think it was really that.

(33:30):
To be fair, I did not download the app. I'm
sure that the criticism of the app was valid. I
don't like ads either, but to be fair, I knew
it wasn't directed at me. I might have to do
a whole video on it, just because I think the
community's reaction is so great, and I don't know I
am biased. Because Marquez I've been watching since I basically

(33:54):
knew what YouTube was. He was one of the first
channels I ever subscribed to. He's a huge inspiration to me.
I've always his videos, and even though I disagree with
him on some of his opinions occasionally, I still have
massive respect for him as a creator, and I think
he's kind of shown the way and been a great
bridge for traditional media and big tech companies to start

(34:15):
talking to content creators. So I just think Marquez has
done so much for the YouTube community as a whole
that I have a very difficult time getting mad at him,
even if he's done something wrong. And I'm sure there
were some issues with the wallpaper app, but I just
think if you're not if you're not the kind of

(34:35):
person that wants to download an app for picking out wallpapers,
what don't download it? You know, Like it's that simple,
in my opinion. But he wanted to offer it because
a lot of people were asking him where they got
their wallpaper from. I didn't have that, so I didn't
feel inclined to launch my own wallpaper app. But he
had a lot of demand. He was trying to supply

(34:57):
that demand with something. Sure probably didn't think it through
all the way, didn't pay attention to all the little details.
But still people were making up stories about it, and
people were pushing false narratives, and I think people just
went way out of control on it. And I'm like, sure,
is it the best product ever? No? Is it a
really solid, amazing app? Probably not. I didn't. I saw

(35:19):
the tweets, I saw the videos where he said, Hey,
I'm launching a wallpaper app, and I was like, okay,
I don't have any interest in that. I assumed the
app had some kind of monetization system, whether through ads
or through paying, and I was like, yeah, I don't.
I don't care about my wallpaper really, Like my wallpaper's
blurred on my iPhone pretty much all the time. The
only time it's not blurred is on my lock screen,

(35:41):
but I used I prefer having it on a shuffle
through my memories. So my wallpaper on my phone is
constantly changing based on vacation photos and travel photos and
that kind of thing. So I wasn't interested in it.
So I just said, Okay, congrats Marquez on your app.
Not for me, So I didn't download it. But I

(36:01):
think a bunch of people who had no interest in
having a wallpaper app, downloaded it and then complained about
the existence of a wallpaper app. I was like or
people were claiming that he just acquired an existing wallpaper
app and threw his skin on it, which was not
true at all. But there were thousands of people that
were pushing that narrative and convinced that just because the

(36:23):
Twitter handle was three years old, that means the company
or the wallpaper app was three years old, and that
was definitely not true. But I might I might condense
my thoughts into a video and talk about it more later.
Cott Nuty camera or Sony A seven four for live stream?
What made you think I had a Sony A seven

(36:44):
to four. I'm not. I'm not that smart, not a
great camera guy. I'm a shot on iPhone kind of guy.
This is this is cont Neuty camera. Of course, CPU
or GPU, which is responsible for overheating. I would guess
the CPU. I don't think, at least in my line
of work where I'm recording videos or using it as
a webcam, I don't think the GPU is doing that

(37:05):
much in those situations. My sixteen Pro has way better
battery life than fixes the thermal issues I have with
my fifteen Pro. Also, the fifteen Pro got zero camera hardware,
creates sixteen Pro keeps charging on the charging pad of
my car, fifteen Pro with overheat and stop charging. Okay,
I guess that's good news. I'm not entirely sure if

(37:25):
the fact that the phone is larger physically. You know,
the sixteen Promacs I'm using right now is the largest
iPhone ever made, both in height and width and everything.
It's huge. It's massive. It feels like I got a
little iPad with me now, this is the iPad pro Mini.
I'm not entirely sure. Please correct me if I'm wrong
in the chat. But do the bigger phones handle heat

(37:48):
dissipation better that There's some kind of logic to that
to me, Like the chip obviously in the small phone
and the big phone is the same three nanimeter chips.
Just because you have a Promax doesn't mean you get
a physically larger chip. But I would assume the bigger
phone does insinuate that you have a larger thermal structure

(38:11):
that can dissipate heat over a slightly larger amount of space.
Maybe it doesn't make a massive difference, but if it
makes some difference. That's a variable that people who use
their phone for work all the time like me might
care about. But yeah, the battery life is great. Of course,
sixteen Pro Macs has the best battery life of hitting iPhone.
I can tell. I've been using it and I'm like,
holy crap. Yeah, this battery lasts way, way, way longer

(38:35):
than my fifteen Pro. But it's kind of like a
video I did last week or the week before. I
don't think people should upgrade their iPhone just for battery life.
I try to remind people that you can buy chargers
for your desk or chargers for the couch or whatever,
but also you could buy very affordably for like forty dollars.
That's the one that I reviewed on my channel from

(38:57):
a company called Taurus. Also got some Yeah, here's the
box for it. At least Taurus has these things, not
you know, they did send this to me, so full disclosure.
I am in communication with them as a company, but

(39:18):
I want it to be because they make good stuff.
But AnyWho, they make something called the Mini mag Power Bank.
I don't have a link for it, but for only
like forty bucks on Amazon, you can buy one of
these power banks for like with five thousand million hours,
so it basically doubles the life of your iPhone and

(39:40):
there's no cable necessary. It charges via USBC just like
your phone, and you can just slap it on the
back of your phone. It's magnetic and because it's a
battery bank, you don't have to worry about compatibility like
with a battery case. It only works with that phone.
It's stuck with the fifteen Pro. If you buy an
iPhone sixteen Pro, now it's not gonna fit. You need
to buy a whole new one. Whereas this, because it's

(40:01):
mag safe and it's just a battery, this can work
on an iPhone twelve Mini, or it could work on
an iPhone sixteen Promax and everything in between. As long
as it has mag safe. You can slap this on
the back and double or this one, the box I'm
actually holding up has ten thousand million hours. It's a
little more expensive. It's like fifty bucks instead of forty bucks.
The cost isn't that much more. But the main reason

(40:23):
I think you should consider a five thousand million power
over five thousand instead of ten thousand is the size.
The five thousand million power one is really thin and light.
It's about the same thickness as an Apple mag Safe wallet.
It's pretty thin, it's probably thinner actually, and it adds
very little thickness to the phone and doubles the battery

(40:45):
life for forty bucks. And you can take it with
you on your next phone, or if you downgrade, you
can take it to that phone. It's not stuck with
that one phone like your case. So I typically encourage
people not to upgrade their phone just to get better
battery life, because I'm like, eh, there's ways around that.
If your phone is batteriesn't getting you through the day,

(41:05):
there's much much cheaper solutions that are helpful and accessible.
So again I want to remind people. I get sponsorship
offers and brand collaboration offers all the time. My inbox
is constantly full. It's quite frustrating. Actually, I had to
change my email address because somehow my email got put
on some list and now there's all these companies reaching out.

(41:26):
There's probably ten different accessory companies a day reaching out
trying to get me to review something, and of course
I say no to most of them. The only reason
I said yes to Taurus was because it was a
product and accessory I genuinely intended on using. I was like,
I'm going to buy one of these things regardless, so
I might as well see what's out there. And they
were not the only company. There were other companies that

(41:48):
reached out with other similar accessories and stuff. But I
picked Taurus because they had the most affordable option. So
I knew, Okay, even if I wasn't partnering with the brand,
which one would I actually buy? And how do I
do that? I look on Amazon, I look at the reviews,
and I look at the prices, and Taurus had the
lowest price with the highest reviews. So that's why I
went with them, and that's why I chose to work

(42:08):
with them. So I try to be as transparent and
as honest about the collaborations and the brand deals as
I possibly can. This time. You know, they have not
sent me any money. There's been no reimbursement, there's no
affiliate program. It's not like if you buy those battery packs,
I get a commission off of them. Nope, nothing like
that has happened. So I'm just trying to keep y'all

(42:31):
in the loop because I care about being transparent with y'all.
I don't want you to feel like I'm hiding anything.
Let's see, Nicholas Lintha comes as bigger phones do seem
to handle heat better as they have more room for
the processing power to dissipate the heat as there is
more physical room. Okay, Skylar's his notifications? Did me dirty
and I missed my question? She answered live, Oh, we

(42:52):
can come back to it. It's okay, Skyler Skylar kelsh
sorry if I mispronounced it. I don't think Apple will
go to end fee route. That would mean that existing
customers will have to start paying for a previously free service.
That's class action lawsuit material. I don't think it's necessarily
class action. I think it could be. I mean, you
could probably read through the Apple Card terms and conditions,

(43:14):
and there's likely something in there that says, you know,
we reserve the right to change the terms and change
the offerings. And I'm sure there's a bunch of terms
and conditions with the Apple Card that covers Apple in
the event that they changed their mind on some kind
of reward or perk. I just would be shocked if
Apple could keep the Apple Card perks exactly the way

(43:35):
they are and transfer them to a different bank. I
just don't think that'll happen, because there's losing too much
money in its current form. They might do something where
it's like, all new Apple card users have to pay
a fee, but if you already have the Apple Card,
maybe the fee is waived or substantially reduced, or maybe

(43:56):
if you keep the free version of the credit. Here
you go. I thought it through. I figured it out, Skyler.
Don't worry. This is a terrible evil thing I've come
up with. But I'm very good at giving Apple horrible ideas.
So here we go. Here's what you do, right, here's
what you do. When Apple decides, you know, we can't
be on Goldman sacks anymore. The contract has expired. We're

(44:19):
gonna move over to Chase Slash, JP Morgan. We're gonna
move over to the different banks, and they have to
have a different financial structure. They say, Okay, the Apple
Card is still free if you already had one. If
you want a new if you don't have the Apple
Card yet and you apply, now, there's like one hundred
dollars a year fee or something, or I don't know.

(44:39):
That's just a clean number. I thought of ninety nine bucks, right,
so ninety nine bucks a year and that includes I
don't know, two hundred gigs of iCloud or Apple TV
Plus or something. And the cash back rewards remain, but
now there is a fee to go along with it.
If you choose the free if you you don't want

(45:00):
to pay the membership, that's fine. You can keep the
Apple Card for free if you already had it, But
the cash back goes way down now. It turns into
the free version of the Apple Card is like one
percent cash back everywhere. The APR goes way up because

(45:20):
all those things are subject to change, right, So they
can make the free version of the credit card still function,
but they'll just make the terms of it, in the
rewards of it much much, much worse than they already are,
so much so that it's like, yeah, we're not forcing
you to cancel, but you should probably cancel or at
least consider upgrading. And I bet there's a way in

(45:43):
the terms and conditions they could cover themselves so that
they can't get sued. They'll use a carrot stick approach
to move people over. Yeah, they'll be like, you'll want
the membership, The membership is amazing, and maybe they'll give
existing Apple Card users a discount on the membership versus
new customers. But I just I don't feel like they
can keep it in its current form. But if you

(46:07):
don't want to talk about it live, says Nicholas. Well, no,
there's other questions. Wow, look at that the poll. I'm
going to end it right there. One hundred and fifty
eight people voted and we're at exactly fifty to fifty.
I'm always very good at splitting my audience on different
subject Skylas says, that's disgusting, and that's exactly why it'll work.

(46:28):
Is that what you want to happen or is that
what you think will happen. Well, no, obviously it's not
what I want to happen. But that what does what
I want have to do with anything? Obviously I like
the Apple Card in its current form. What if you're
asking me just what I want to happen? Just give
Apple Card existing users all kinds of perks. Give me
free iCloud, give me free Apple TV Plus for life

(46:50):
or something. I don't know. If we're just talking about
what I want, I can think of all. Yeah, ten
percent cash back, one hundred percent cash back, why not?
That's just what I want. But we're not here to
talk about what I want. I can come up with
wish lists all day. I'm here to speculate what will
actually happen, because coming up with things you want a
credit card to do is very easy. Coming up with

(47:12):
perks that sound relatively interesting but are still profitable for
the bank, that's the trick, that's the key. No changes
with the hupp Watch Series ten looks like we're stuck
with the same design for the next ten years. I agree,
the Apple Watch has peaked. I genuinely can't think of
a single person I would recommend the series ten. There's

(47:36):
not a single use case. Even the series eight. I
was like, basically, no one should buy the series eight,
except maybe if you're a woman and you want to detract,
like you know, ovulation cycles. But even that's an edge case.
But with the series ten, I got nothing. Literally, I'm
just like, no, no one, really. I can't think of

(47:58):
a single application where it's like, well, well, maybe if
you're doing this, the series ten is cool. Nope, I
got nothing. I looked at it by the way at
the Apple Store. Before we left the store, I walked
over to the Apple Watch section. I looked at the
Jet Black. I took some b roll so whenever I
need to reference it, I can pull up my footage
of it. But I took some b roll of the
jet Black Series ten. I looked at the Titanium Series tens,

(48:23):
and I can't tell at all that it's lighter. It
feels exactly the same as before, because the Apple Watch
was not heavy in the first place. The Jet Black
looks very fragile, looks like it'll scratch easily. Oh, the
bezels were noticeably thicker. I remember my Series seven very vividly.

(48:45):
And then I put on the Series ten when I
was there at the Apple Store, and I looked at it,
and I was like, these bezels are bigger. Maybe they're
not technically as big because the glass is bleeding into
the aluminum more than before, but they look bigger. They
perceive themselves is bigger than before, which in my opinion,
is a downgrade. So I couldn't tell at all that
it was thinner or lighter, but I could tell that

(49:08):
it had a bigger border around the edges. So I
even tried to play the music out of the speakers.
It was like on demo mode, and I launched the
Apple Music app and tried to play music and it
didn't work. It was buggy. Series ten wouldn't even the
demo in the store. Maybe they don't want to hear
how annoying that little speaker is, so they decided to
deactivate it for the demo models. So I couldn't even

(49:29):
test the speaker on the Series ten at the store.
So yeah, if I'm not currently an Apple Watch, where
I like being, you know, disconnected to a certain extent.
I mean, I do use my phone a lot, but
I just it's actually not so much about being disconnected
as much as it's I want to travel easier. You know,
my wife still wears the Series three, and trying to

(49:50):
find a place when we're traveling for her to charge
her watch just gets annoying so fast. I don't want
to have to pack another cable, another charger. I just
like having USBC and knowing that covers everything and can
charge my Mac. I can charge my phone and charge
my AirPods just with one cable. So I I just
the Apple Watch was not doing enough for me anymore.

(50:12):
I also realized as I got older that I wasn't
doing anything with the health data the health data was pointless.
It was just for entertainment. Person, it was for entertainment purposes.
It was not for educational purposes. I didn't need a
watch to tell me I didn't sleep well last night.
I can tell you that fifty percent cash back, but

(50:35):
three hundred percent interest I would do that just means
never miss a payment, which I never have. Did I
address the savings account portion of my question? Let me
check curious if the saving account goes with the card,
because I seriously doubt Chase could match the interest rates
for getting Now. Well, the truth is they're probably not
going to keep the interest rates as high as they
are anyway, because the Feds just started cutting the rates,

(51:00):
So there's likely going to be a steady decline on
the savings account interest rates regardless. But yeah, the savings account,
because that is handled through Apple, that will likely stick
with the cards. So whoever picks up the Apple card
next will probably also pick up the savings accounts. Did
they ever update the mag Safe duo. No, they just
discontinued it and they never brought it back, although my

(51:21):
wife still does use it. It's sitting right over there,
the mag Safe Duo. When returning an iPhone. Do you
have to return it with the box in charge? I
want to keep the breaded USBC cable they came with
the sixteen, but I don't want to keep the phone. Yeah, Mica,
come on, don't be unethical. Don't try to steal a
USBC cable by you know, claiming to Apple that you

(51:44):
lost it. I would just return it with the cable.
I don't know what will happen if you try to
return it without the cable, but don't do it. Okay,
just buy a cable if you want a cable, don't
don't do some return thing where you try to trick
Apple and lie to them. Legally, you're probably fine, but
I think morally and ethically, it's just come on, if

(52:08):
you want a cable, just buy a cable, don't try
to steal one. If you lost it, that's a different thing.
But I don't understand why they made the Bezels bigger.
One step forward, two steps back. I think they've realized
they couldn't make the Bezels any thinner on the series seven,
so they just said, well, let's brag about the fact
that it's thinner than before, so they can say it's
the thinnest Apple Watch ever. But in the process of

(52:31):
making it thinner, they made the bezels thicker. Yeah. Anyway,
let me check out some of the other comments here.
Nicholas Linthicum commented from Taylors of tech Pro. Can't share
it here, just making sure. Yep, Maco Sequoia still broke
my screen sharing Skuyler. Sorry, I just read that one,

(52:56):
Nicholas says, I Previously you have mentioned you're not too
excited about AI. What would it take for a company
convince you the promise of AI is real. If you
start to see the potential of AI, then what specific
use cases do you see it benefiting in your future?
I actually am working on a video about that, which
I know you did mention. You're okay if I want
to do it as a designated video, but I'll give
you a little sneak peak because I know that not

(53:17):
everybody who watches the live stream watches the video, and
vice versa. But I have a wish list going kind
of going here where I'm basically just writing down things
that AI could do that would genuinely like improve my life.
So I basically am making an Apple Intelligence wish list.
But yes, it's true. It's true. I still have yet

(53:39):
to be very impressed by anything AI related. Yeah, my
gut's not even a fast transfer cable. It's a USB
two point zero. Thankfully, just buy a cable if you
need a cable, don't don't try to steal one. But
the biggest one that's on the top of my list
is video editing. Basically, I want a way to show

(54:03):
the intelligence what I'm doing on my Mac and have
it pick up on the consistencies, and I can give
it lots of training data. You know, I can say
watch this and just pay attention to this application, you know,
don't look at the whole computer. But if it could
watch me edit a video like ten times or twenty
times or thirty times, and it could start picking up

(54:25):
on the tactics or the techniques or the style that
I use, and I could tell Apple Intelligence or whatever
it is to edit a video like all my other
tech videos. It knows how to cut out the mistakes,
cut out the dead air, zoom in on certain parts,
and throw in cutaway shots. If it could start editing

(54:46):
videos for me, that would be that would be a
game changer. I'd be very impressed, and I would be
willing to upgrade my Mac because there's a lot of
room for improvement there in regards to cutting down in
the time it takes to get a video out. You know.

(55:07):
That's why I said right now, there's really not much
motivation for me to upgrade my MacBook Pro because all
that would really happen if I upgraded my Mac to
a M three Max or a M four Max when
that comes out next month or whatever. Buying a brand
new MacBook Pro today, all it could really do is
reduce the amount of time it takes to export a video.

(55:28):
I can already edit my videos with great response time
from Apple Silicon, and there's no lag in the timeline
and everything just runs and works. But the point is,
when I'm finished with my videos, and most of the
time I do two to three a day, it only
takes like five to ten minutes usually less, to export

(55:53):
the video, Which means even if the M four Max
chip came out and I could export my videos instantly,
then the maximum amount of time I could save by
buying a brand new computer, which is going to cost
thousands of dollars, is about ten to twenty minutes a day.
So I say ten to twenty minutes of time by
spending thousands of dollars. Not very easy to justify. That's

(56:18):
not a lot of time. However, if Apple Intelligence got
to the point where I hardly had to do any editing,
and I could just throw my footage onto the computer
and it knows how to cut it up and it
knows how to stitch everything together, now that's potentially saving
me hours per day, even if it doesn't edit the

(56:40):
entire thing but just edits the bulk of it. It
just edits like, it knows where to put the outro
and the credits. It notices that, oh yeah, every time
Drew edits a video, whenever he moves his hand like this,
he adds in the TELOSU Tech Plus members and their names,
and he adds this transition. So next time when I'm
editing and Drew does this, I'm just going to add

(57:01):
that file automatically, add that outro at the end, add
this music at the beginning, cut out all the dead air,
find the mistakes, cut out the mistakes, and then maybe
I just do a little creative touch ups with the
b roll and then I'm done. That could cut down
on the amount of time it takes to get work
done substantially. That's probably the big one. Even if the

(57:24):
AI could only cut the dead air from your videos,
your editing workflow would easily be cut in half. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
Skyler knows what I'm talking about. There's other things I
have on my list, Like I still feel like for
the most part, whether it's Google, whether it's Alexa, whether
it's Bixby, who else is out there? I keep forgetting Kurtana,

(57:45):
I'm remembering all the old ones. Chat GBT is probably
the closest, But I feel like digital assistants still don't
feel natural. Siri does not feel natural when I talk
to her. It still feels like I'm talking to a
robot or the Google Assistant or Gemini, whatever you want
to call it, Galaxy AI. None of them feel like

(58:05):
I'm talking to a human being. And if we really
have large language models and generative AI features, I wanted
to feel like when I trigger my digital assistant, it's
basically like a human being on the phone. I think
that would impress me because I've seen way too many
examples in my lifetime. I'm getting too old for this

(58:27):
of that unnatural back and forth talking with the computer thing.
Where it doesn't understand context and you have to correct it.
The closest I've seen to a natural language conversation is
with CHATDPT, the latest version Open Ai demo at their
event was getting there. It was getting close. It was
still unnatural a little bit, and it was still missing

(58:49):
a lot of the context, but it was in the
right direction. It was headed on the direction towards okay.
That is impressive because you could interrupt it and you
could talk to it like a human being instead of
trying to carefully articulate everything you're saying so that the
computer doesn't get confused, which is currently what happens with

(59:10):
all our smart speakers, and it still happens with Siri,
and from the demos I've seen from Apple, with Apple Intelligence,
it still doesn't feel that natural to me. It still
feels like it's missing the point that back and forth.
I wanted to be like indiscernible from talking to a
human being, like you had a personal assistant, like a

(59:31):
receptionist or something that would just understand when you were
talking to it, and it could detect when you weren't
talking to it. It could decipher like oh no, I
was triggered accidentally, I need to he's talking to someone
else right now. I should stop listening at this point,
Like sirih still doesn't do that. She'll still just just
from me saying that right now, that automatically has probably

(59:55):
triggered a bunch of your guys's digital assistance. And to me,
if it's an AI and it's a supposed to be
impressive and make me feel like, oh, this is the future,
it should be able to detect when I was intentionally
triggered versus not intentionally triggered. There's other ideas I had
little quality of life things like when I hold up

(01:00:17):
my phone in the car and I'm trying to take
a picture of something outside, can the AI figure out
that I'm not trying to take a picture of the
bug guts on the windshield. You know, we have all
these super smart intelligence features because it's supposed to be
a really smart phone with really smart capabilities. Yeah, but
it still thinks I'm trying to take a picture of

(01:00:37):
the glass window on a plane when I put my
phone against it and it focuses on the wrong thing,
please address that. Or if a video is started in
the portrait orientation and then someone moved to landscape. Could
the AI realize that the phone has rotated and rotate
the footage in real time? If the flashlight accidentally gets

(01:01:00):
turned on and the phone is in the pocket, turn
off the flashlight or a little bit better auto reply
with messages, like if someone asks a question and the
data in my phone has the answer of like, you know,
so and so texted me I'm available at this time,

(01:01:21):
and then someone else texts me, hey, is SO is
so available that time? I want the predictive text to
be like, yes, they just told me that they are
available at this time. Does that work? Just a little
bit more complicated intricate autofill instead of just two or
three words at a time, like full sentences or something.

(01:01:43):
I paid for my Tesla in cash. I don't finance
appreciating assets. It's kind of a backward depreciating etht. No,
this is the MacBook Pro microphone. But no. The only
thing we try to avoid debt if at all possible,
so I don't have any debt anymore. Actually got rid
of all our debt. But the only thing I'm willing
to take out a loan for is a house, because

(01:02:05):
it appreciates over time at least usually there's a few exceptions,
but for the most part, when you buy a house,
it goes up in value, so I'm willing to finance
it because I know it's going to be worth more
down the road. A car is almost never going to
be worth more down the road, so that's why I
would highly discourage financing against anything that goes down in value.
Same thing with phones. I discourage financing phones. If you

(01:02:27):
can't afford to buy it outright, you probably shouldn't be
buying it in the first place. Is it possible to
edit ten DP video off of an external hard drive
and not an SSD? I would doubt it. I could
be wrong, but the hard drives reading right speed is
so slow, I kind of doubt it. What IPAT should
I buy is the M two error with the education

(01:02:48):
deal with it. I would just encourage you to go
with the M one error the or a refurbished iPad pro.
You'll probably get the same kind of stuff, but better.
I've heard somewhere about an app that you can use
to record college lectures and it'll transcribe and summarize it
for you. Well, there's probably like five different apps that'll

(01:03:09):
do that, because so many are so many are AI
powered now. I mean the voice memo app has text
files in it. You could just record it, and I
think Zoom does that. But do you think they'll make
the text under apps disappear without having to make the
apps bigger? Probably not at this point. If like they
could have done that, they probably would, but instead they

(01:03:31):
decided no, let's make a version of the home screen
where the apps are bigger. But because they're so big,
there's no room for the text. So that's what I
have it on right now. You get used to it
after a while. It's not like the larger apps actually
eat into your usable space, Like you have the same
number of apps on the home screen. So yeah, notes
can summarize that. Yeah, similar to chat, GBT writing papers

(01:03:55):
for you. I can see that being super useful but
also being abused. Well, it's like any technology. You know,
there's math tests when you're a kid that you're not
supposed to use a calculator on, but people use a
calculator and it's no different. Interesting users to have AI
to help in the editing process for your videos. Thanks
for sharing. I guess it's from my perspective, I just

(01:04:18):
nothing I've seen AI showcase would be very helpful in
my life. So when you when you ask me something
like what would make AI interesting or exciting to you,
I'm like, Okay, what could AI do that would be
very extremely helpful to me? What do I spend a
lot of time doing that? I wish I could spend
less time doing. That's one of them AI, I mean

(01:04:38):
video editing. I don't think you could save much time
just by like summarizing emails. I feel like most people
these days are keeping emails pretty concise anyway. I never
need to generate a cowboy frog emoji. That's never come up.
I never need to use image playgrounds, it's never going

(01:05:00):
to come up. I never have it proofread my texts
or emails. I know how to keep an email short
and concise. I don't need an AI to tell me
how to make it more concise, and it would probably
get little details wrong. Here's Robin Brooks says, here's what
I want, Cyrus. When is the jagathon at my kid's

(01:05:20):
school and it's smart enough to dig through my email
and find the PDF newsletter with the day and time
and instantly respond. I think it should be capable of
doing that once it's fully built out, but again I'm
it's not out yet, but I think that's the whole
concept Apple's going for with personal context. But I question, like,
how hard would it be to just open mail, search

(01:05:42):
for that newsletter and read it versus taking the time
to like launch cyrus and articulate it like that and
have it think and then load it. I don't know.
Even if it does that, I still feel like it's
going to be saving a very small amount of time.
That's not something that I do constantly. That Apple Intelligence

(01:06:04):
would be like, oh wow, you saved me so much time?
This is this the first I've heard of the idea? Yeah, no,
meeting summarization is a pretty common one because everyone agrees
there's too many meetings. But I hope that answered Nicholas's question.
Aiden Thompson McGuire, another Taylor's a tech pro member, thank

(01:06:26):
you for supporting, says what inspired you to start your
YouTube channel and how did you come up with the
content you create? So I think I owe a lot
to Marquez. He kind of, in my opinion, pioneered the
whole concept of a modern tech video. But what inspired me?
I watched a lot of them, I guess I was

(01:06:47):
a fan growing up that I liked the idea that
an individual without a big media company, you didn't have
to be hired as some journalist, but just on your own,
on your own time, with your own freedom, and you
could say what you wanted. That was the original YouTube
tagline broadcast yourself. And I really love that idea of

(01:07:08):
giving the broadcast and giving the platform and giving the
microphone to the individual. It wasn't up to a big company.
It wasn't some big brand. It wasn't Bloomberg or the
Wall Street Journal or New York Times. It was just like, no,
you don't need those big buildings, and you don't need
big organizations and managers and try to work your way

(01:07:28):
up the ranks to become a journalist. No, Instead, it's
just you. It's just you and a camera and a mic,
and that's all it takes. And now your opinion is
just as valid, sometimes even more valuable than those big
media companies. And I watched a lot of tech videos
growing up. I was always interested in what the what

(01:07:49):
the next iPhone is going to be like, or what
the next Mac is going to be because I used
my iPhone in Mac for content creation a lot. You know, Obviously,
I started off doing a lot more action movies and
comedy scenes because I wanted to be like a Hollywood
film director. So in the process of researching new computers
and new phones and how the cameras performed on them,

(01:08:11):
and I, you know, wanted to use an iPhone regardless
of what my career was going to be. I wanted
to have a smartphone so that I could have everything
I needed in one place and you know, look things
up and check emails and texts and video call people
and you know, all the great advantages of a phone.
I wanted to do all those things. So that's why
it was interesting to me watching other content creators talk
about the next phone. And I watched Marquez, I watched

(01:08:33):
Soldier Knows Best. I watched some channels that aren't with
us anymore, Techno Waffle he retired. I used to watch
a lot of everything Apple Pro. But he just recently
posted again. But he posts very rarely, it's not very often.
But yeah, I used to watch him a lot on
Box Therapy, even you know, I had my disagreement with

(01:08:55):
John Morrison. Yeah, I watched John Morrison a lot, so
it was a really pleasure it was a real treat,
in real pleasure to actually get to meet him in
person a few years back. So yeah, I was just
a big fan. So similar to you guys watching, I
was like, well, if these guys can do it, I
want to try. I want to give it a good
honest like, let's see if I can post interesting content

(01:09:16):
and maybe people will want to watch it. But it
also just felt refreshing to be able to voice my
opinions on camera instead of just make YouTube comments. Because
I was in the comment section, I was writing stuff
down all the time, but it was like you felt
like you'd watch a bunch of content creators, but no
one was really saying what you were thinking. So I
was like, well, I want to put it out there

(01:09:38):
to see if anybody else feels the way I do.
And yeah, it's still very much fun. It's changed a
lot over the years. There's a lot more people doing
it now, so it's a very saturated market on YouTube,
but still the friends I've made along the way and
the conversations I have with people is still very fun
and enjoyable. So I like the idea of being my

(01:10:00):
own boss and being able to set my own hours
and watching other content creators have that flexibility and freedom.
I was like, I want that, so I tried to
make it happen. Sure, it's not hard to find that
one email, but with a big family, it's tedious to
maintain a calendar. So that's one feature I would welcome. Yeah,
that's fair. I think that's a valid request, and I

(01:10:22):
think you will probably get something like that. It sounds
like the personal context feature is what you're describing. I
did watch the Jimmy fallon Tim Cook video. It's cool
to see Tim Cook outside of his comfort zone, for sure,
But other than that Jimmy fallon, I'm sorry, he's just

(01:10:42):
not very funny to me. I think that's not a
hot take anymore. Right, I think most people kind of
agree that Tim Cook needs to work on his acting skills.
He was not a great actor. You could tell which
parts of the keynote were scripted. But still it was
funny to watch Tim Cook act poorly, you know, as
a professional Tim Cook impersonator. Maybe that should be my

(01:11:05):
new bio. The about section of my channel will just
be professional Tim Cook impersonator. I've never been invited to
an Apple Apple event. No, and even if I was,
I wouldn't go. They seen the Bella Ramsay Apple intelligence ads.
I love Bella, but the ads almost seem like they're
encouraging people to be lazy. No, I haven't seen them.

(01:11:28):
But technology is the pursuit of laziness. Just to be clear,
the only reason we came up with math, multiplication and
division is so that we didn't have to count things
by hand and by tally back in the old days,
you know, the only reason we come up with engineering ways,
like you know, the classic example was like the cotton gin,
was because they didn't want to have to do all

(01:11:50):
of that by hand anymore. You know. Like there's all
kinds of technology is meant to just reduce steps, make
things more efficient. Lazy is just a negative way of
saying efficient in my opinion, Like I want an Aptera
solar car so that I don't have to plug my
car in, or so that I don't have to pay
for electricity, because the less money I have to pay

(01:12:13):
for electricity or gas, the less I have to work. See,
and it's all all efficiency. All technology stems down to laziness.
Why can't you just do it yourself? Well because I
don't feel like doing it. That's why you know, we'd
rather have a phone with our wallet in our camera

(01:12:33):
and our music because we don't want to have to
carry around and charge a camera and a wallet and
an iPod and a cell phone. We don't want to
have to carry around all those things. That sounds like
a lot of work. I'm lazy, So combine all those
things into one product. You know, all tech, all math,
all engineering, it's all laziness. It's all a pursuit. I

(01:12:54):
know I'm oversimplifying things, but yeah, I think I've used
this angle before, but Burkhardt hasn't joined in a while. Yeah,
several people have asked about the MKBHD wallpaper app. To
spare the people who have been here the whole time,
I'm not going to repeat my thoughts on it. I
think people are overblowing it. I'm not saying it's a

(01:13:14):
perfect app and it's flawless. I just think people are
turning it into a bigger thing than it really is.
But because so many of you are asking, I will,
most likely maybe tomorrow, I'll do a video about it
and summarize my thoughts so that people don't have to
scroll to the middle of a live stream to get
my question. Answered, let's see last question kind of a

(01:13:37):
big one from Nicholas. He said, the question may be
a little bit more complex if you want to push it.
I understand. I was curious on their thoughts on the
death of the Internet slash Internet shutdown. On the other hand,
of coming around on AI, do you ever see AI
becoming too powerful and forcing certain countries to shut down
the Internet? When it comes to countries being able to
shut down the Internet, what regulations do you think they

(01:13:58):
should have in places It seems like a handful of
countries abroad that a lot of recent numbers of Internet
shut down, such as Malaysia was the one I reading about.
Would like to know your thoughts on this topic. I
don't so. First of all, I think AI is ninety
percent marketing, ten percent technology. What annoys me about Apple

(01:14:19):
Intelligence is that most of the talking about it has
to do with whether or not it's available, who will
get it. There's very little talk about what the features
actually will help with. Because that's what I think is
the elephant in the room that no one wants to address,
is that none of the Apple Intelligence features are really
going to save us all that much time. I think

(01:14:41):
Robin Brooks example, is probably the most helpful thing we're
going to get out of Apple Intelligence. Similar to how
hardly anyone used three D touch, I think hardly anyone
is going to use proofread. Most people just prefer having
more control over the text. I don't think they're going
to remember to highlight the whole paragraph and ask Siri
to rewrite the whole image playgrounds, I think is a joke.

(01:15:02):
Jen Moji is gonna be as commonly used as slow fees.
It's just no one. Most people are using the same
twenty emojis. I don't know. There's already like ninety percent
of the emojis on our keyboard never get used, and
now Apple wants to come up with a million emojis
that you'll probably never need. When are you gonna need
cowboy Frog? That's all really jen Moji is good for,

(01:15:24):
and I don't think it's gonna get used. Most people
are just using you know, smirk emoji, laughing emoji, sad emoji,
happy emoji, and then thumbs up clapping, you know, all
the basics. Is like ninety nine percent of emoji usage.
No one's digging into those weird like hospital emoji or

(01:15:45):
bridge emoji, Like, hardly anyone's using that, and gen moji
just creates even more pointlessness emojis. And yeah, some people
say I use grammarly a lot. Okay, well you already
have it, then, Like, how is Apple's going to be
much better than what is already available in the first place.
I don't know. I just don't think. I know some

(01:16:07):
people use grammarly, but I have a predetermined I have
a bias audience because we have more techy people that
are watching tech videos anyway, you know, it's far less
likely I think that outside of the tech community there's
as many people using those proofread features. I mean, I
still know tons of people with smartphones that never even
enter jiggle mode, that never change their lock screen wallpaper,

(01:16:28):
that never move around the home screen app. So the
fact that they can barely utilize the basic features in
their phone. These are friends and family members. By the way,
I'm not holding anything against them. I'm just saying people
don't explore their phone's features very thoroughly, and that's why
I'm like, no, I don't see proofreed being utilized all

(01:16:48):
that much. The personal context maybe will be useful occasionally,
but Apple, these are like small in my opinion, basic
features that we would have gotten on any other year,
But the only difference is the marketing budget on these
basic features are cranked up to eleven. They're just acting

(01:17:11):
like it's the biggest thing in the world that changes everything,
and it really doesn't. They're very like much in my opinion,
basic small tweaks to the os that no one will
remember in a few years. I spend far too much
time making my formal writing perfect, even for those who
have grammarly that costs money. Apple's version will be free.
Well it's free if you bought the latest iPhone, but yeah,

(01:17:34):
if you bought the iPhone fifteen plus you won't get it, right,
So the vast majority of iPhones in the world will
not support Apple Intelligence. The fifteen pro is the only
iPhone from last year that supports it. Still not out yet,
by the way, and as far as I can tell,
with a lot of intelligence features, it's not going to
be it's going to be buggy, and it's going to

(01:17:54):
have problems and then you're going to need to tweak
it anyway, So it to me, it's pretty gimmicky and
it's kind of a techie feature, or it's not a
feature that everybody's going to be using constantly. But that's
just my opinion. I could be wrong. So that answers
the first part of Nicholas's question. No, I don't believe
AI is going to become too powerful and forced countries
to shut down the Internet. I don't have that viewpoint

(01:18:16):
on AI. I think it's just the current latest marketing trend.
Like the last one was five G. That was how
that was the hype word. That was the word that
got a lot of people pumped, or that Apple was
trying to act like was a big deal. Five G
just got real. This year it's AI, and in a
couple of years it'll be something else, and then AI

(01:18:36):
will just kind of fizzle off into the background and
it'll still be there. It's not going to disappear, but
it's just not going to be the headlining feature everybody
was hoping it would be. I agree with Joseph. He says,
I just feel like they make AI sound way more
smart than it is. I agree. The problem is with
AI development, it's usually, from my experience, more of an

(01:18:59):
S curve than it is an exponential growth trajectory. So
it starts off not that great and then it makes
a big leap of progress and people go, oh my god,
look at how much better it is. It's going to
keep getting better forever. But then it doesn't. It levels off,
and then it dies off, and you reach a point
where it can't get much better than it already is,

(01:19:20):
and you just have to leave it in its unfinished state. Yeah,
it's a tool. AI is marketing. Machine learning has been
around for decades, gradually improving and as viable use cases,
but the industry is struggling to find valuable consumer problems
to solve. Yes, thank you, Robin. I agree with that.
We're trying to figure out how to make it relatable
and how to make it useful in day to day life,

(01:19:42):
because obviously AI is just the latest hype term, the
hype word. But even Apple, I think what they proved
a dub dub this year is that even Apple can't
really figure out that many ways to make it extremely applicable.
All of that hype about generative AI, and what did
we really get slightly better? SERI that understands you a
little bit better, but that's about it. It still doesn't

(01:20:05):
feel like you're talking to a human. It still feels
like a robot. And the coolest thing about Apple Intelligence
that Apple knows and the tech community knows that the
coolest thing is the animation. There's nothing to do with
what it actually does. Has everything to do with Eoh,
the pretty rainbow lights goes around the screen. That's cool. Yes,

(01:20:25):
it is cool. The iOS animation team, you did a
fantastic job with all the Apple Intelligence stuff because it
does look gorgeous, and they embraced it with the glow
time event and the Apple Store is glowing and they
put the little light bars everywhere. It is very much
a pretty esthetic. But the feature itself, in my opinion,

(01:20:47):
not that game changing. Good point. I do most of
my writing on iPad and MacBook. Which of those devices
are compatible with Apple Intelligence. Well, if they have an
M one chip, they'll do it. But again it's not
something you can't already do. We still don't even have
the smarter Seia yet. No, we're not even close. Were
the early Apple Intelligence features are supposed to be launching
next month, but not all of them. They're going to

(01:21:09):
roll it out in phases, so there's still going to
be like half the features they talked about in Apple
Intelligence are not going to be ready next month. A
lot of them are probably not even going to be
ready until March or April. I know, it's cool Burkhart
got to be at that store. That's amazing. But then
addressing Nicholas's question about shutting down the Internet, yeah, it's
obviously a bad thing. I think that the Internet is

(01:21:31):
at this point a human right. It's information, it's context,
it's communication, it's so many things that, sadly, in this
day and age, is just kind of like required. Like
I think that it'd be very, very difficult for a
human being to live without Internet now, at least in

(01:21:51):
some capacity. So shutting it off for an entire countries,
in my opinion, just very very controlling, communistic, very like
a dictatorship, should be avoided at all costs. But the
good news is starlink should make that near impossible. There's still,
of course, some rules and laws that could stand in

(01:22:12):
its way, but even if a country bans Internet, they'd
have a hard time banning starlink because you can pretty
much connect to it as long as you have the dish,
which you could smuggle in from outside the country or import,
you know, and as long as that dish has line
of site with the sky. There's nothing really that could

(01:22:33):
stop SpaceX from having it active in that region other
than governments trying to say like, we're mad at starlink.
We didn't give them permission here, We're gonna find them,
or we're gonna, I don't know, prosecute them legally or something.
But thankfully, with lower th orbit satellite constellations, it should
be pretty hard to cut someone off from the Internet completely.

(01:22:57):
So I'm grateful for services like that. Be the judge
if you want to answer something this on stream or
a direct video. No, I don't have a ton of
opinions on it. I personally, I don't think AI is like,
we haven't truly seen the potential fully unlocked. I'm like, no,
we've seen most of what it can do. I think

(01:23:18):
in another couple of years everyone's going to realize that
and figure out that AI does not have an exponential
growth curve. It's an S curve, which means we're seeing
some big growth in large language models and generative AI
right now. But then it's already happening and to a
certain capacity. Everybody's already noticing that chat GBT is getting
dumber and you can't get it as smart or capable

(01:23:43):
as people think it can get. It doesn't replace as
many jobs as we expect, and it just kind of
dies off and just becomes another one of those features
like five G where you don't even think about it
and it's just like, oh, yeah, that kind of makes
my phone run hot. But yeah, I occasionally use it
for such and such. But I don't see AI as
this big, like, oh, it's going to be this monster

(01:24:04):
of a technology. The change is the world. No. I
just I look at it the same way you'd look
at three D touch, the same way you'd look at
the touch bar. It's just another feature. It's being way
over promised, way overhyped. Oh one is very cool. It
has reasoning. Now, yeah, but we're techy people. We care

(01:24:26):
about little techy details like that. But I guarantee you
there's still the vast majority of the public doesn't utilize
it and they don't care that much about it. The
tech community gets easily impressed, I would say, by like change,
because we're looking for change everywhere, so we're like, oh, okay, reasoning,
you know it. It can think, but they'll still make

(01:24:47):
mistakes and it's still, in my opinion, just a little
bit better digital assistance. That's really what it is. Digital
assistance had next to no improvements over the course of
you know, ten years. Basically they got a little bit better,
but now we can understand a bit more context and
can pull a bit more data and feel a little
bit more natural. But I don't think it's much more

(01:25:09):
than that. I don't think it's going to change the world.
I don't think it's as influential as like the Internet
or something. Aiden. I don't know why you super chatted again,
but thank you. I hope you heard me answer your
question earlier. Very generous and unnecessary. But Dylan says three
D touch was way more useful than this AI crab.

(01:25:31):
Jacob says, three weeks tell Meredith and I get married. Hey, congratulations, Jacob,
that's very exciting. Hope you have a good wedding. Congrats.
That's always fun to hear. I love weddings. I wish
I could come to your wedding, but I'm guessing it's
not nearby. Let's see. J Money says, as someone who
has an M two iPad Pro and an M three
MacBook Pro, I want Apple Intelligence to come out already.

(01:25:53):
But as someone with an iPhone fifteen. I'm glad that
everyone else has to suffer with me. Oh boy, yeah,
that's fair. You'll get your intelligence. But I feel like
you on the Mac is good enough. Actua Duan says,
I noticed that you used the soft box with a
single Bold without diffuser. I was thinking of buying a

(01:26:15):
four to five Bold soft box with difuser. Will it
be a good idea? Why don't you use a diffuser.
I'm limited on space because I live in a very
small home, so I'm sure there's way better lighting equipment
I could get. But the truth is, back when I
had fancier lighting equipment and I had a bigger set
in a big office space, I did not notice a

(01:26:38):
measurable increase in video performance. So if I was entering
a competition to see who could have the best video
set up with the best quality and the best lighting,
sure what I'm doing would not win that competition. But
my goal on making YouTube videos is to make them
as efficiently as possible so that we can just focus

(01:26:59):
on what my opinion is and get to the point
of what I'm trying to say in my videos. But
I think, at least with my line of work, when
people are watching YouTube content. They're far more interested in
what you have to say than the methodology used to
capture your video. I think I could record all my
videos with a fifty thousand dollars red camera and they

(01:27:21):
would perform about the same as they do now with
my shot on iPhone thing, because people aren't watching me
because of my state of the art lighting systems or cameras.
They're watching me because I assume I really don't know
why you watch me. It's kind of perplexing sometimes, but
I think you guys watch my videos because of what
I have to say, and you think it's either funny

(01:27:43):
or interesting or compelling in some regard, or you're interested
in my opinion on certain things. That's why I think
you watch me. I don't think you watch me because
I have the best of the best microphone or lighting setup.
So with this line of work, at least if you're
a smaller YouTuber like me, you got to be careful
with your spending because it's very easy. There's basically an
infinite amount of money you could spend on your YouTube channel.

(01:28:06):
You can hire people, you can get bigger office spaces,
you can get better lights, better cameras, but you do
all that, and if the channel doesn't perform a certain way,
if it doesn't get a certain number of views, now
you can't afford all these things you're paying for. So
if you get stuck in that position, then you have
to compromise on your own integrity and start making stories up,

(01:28:29):
or start taking brand deals that you don't want to
take but you feel like you have to to pay
your bills, or you know, all kinds of things that
put you in difficult positions where it's like, yeah, I
probably shouldn't do this video, but I'm going to because
I need the money. That's not what I'm interested in.
I want to make sure that no matter what happens
on YouTube, I can say anything I want to say,
and I can not post if I don't feel like posting,

(01:28:54):
or not have to click bait so that I can
talk about whatever I want to talk about. And if
I want to be honest I think a product is
boring and uninteresting, I can say that. But if a
channel is boxed in financially where they feel like, no,
we got to reach a certain quota, I have to
make this amount of money otherwise we can't pay our bills.
Those types of situations are where you get desperate, and

(01:29:16):
when you're desperate, then you kind of have to start clickbaiting,
start acting like things are a bigger deal than they
really are. And I just wanted to avoid that. That's
why we have no debt, keep our overhead low, and
I am budget conscious, which I also think is beneficial
to the viewers because there's a lot of people watching
tech videos that are on a budget. So the more
you can lean into that and be like, hey, I'm
on a budget too, I'm right there with you. I'm

(01:29:37):
trying to find the best deal, best bang for my buck,
people will relate to that more than a big, you know,
giant YouTuber that can afford everything and just be like,
oh yeah, just buy it. You know I can buy
it because I make videos out it, so you should
buy it too. I don't have that opinion that is something.
Would you ever be interested in high grade filming that

(01:29:59):
MBHD does along those lines, I've tried it, I've done it.
I used to have much fancier camera equipment. I spent
eight hundred dollars on lenses, and I spent thousands of
dollars on the cameras. I never well, I did film
on a red at one point it was my friend's read.
But I tried recording videos on the red Kimoto at
six K and everything, and yeah, you know what, the

(01:30:21):
videos performed exactly the same as the videos I shot
on my phone. Still to this day. After spending all
that money on a studio in lights and camera equipment
and all the best equipment I could afford at the time,
I did all of that, and none of the videos
I shot in that big studio space with all that
fancy equipment, none of them performed as well as a

(01:30:44):
video that I shot right here in this tiny room
with one little light and one little phone camera. You
know that was enough. That video did better than any
other video I've ever made. So that may that be
a lesson to you that it's really not all about
the gear. I do not record in pro res or

(01:31:05):
log I just use the default camera because YouTube compression
steam rolls in any way I tried. I tried recording
and log in ProRes and audience can't tell the difference.
I have a hard time telling the difference. If I'm
being honest, I think if you pay attention to those
kinds of bitrate differences, you're probably the kind of person
that would rather shoot with a designated camera, But that's

(01:31:27):
just me. Can you see the camera capture button becoming
more useful with software updates? Uh? Yeah, probably, but I
still think it's a stupid button. I wouldn't I wouldn't
have done it. I think people are much better off
just using the display. I don't think the zooming is
very useful, and the half press is confusing. It's hard
to press as well. Some people have said, well, I

(01:31:48):
don't use it when I'm in the camera app, but
it's nice to have a camera button. I'm like, that's
what my action button was. And the action button was
much easier to press because it actually sticks out of
the chassis, whereas the camera cap button is recessed, so
you have to kind of push harder to get it
to activate. So I watch you for your ticks on things.

(01:32:10):
I watch marquezer Justine for crazy video quality. And your
quality is more than good enough. Oh thanks to Anthony.
That means a lot. Appreciate it. Who cares about the card?
I mean people ask I talk about things people ask about.
How do you feel about the iPhone sixteen audio for
your videos? I was pretty disappointed if I'm being honest,
I'll go more into it in the review. But yeah,
the mics were not as great as I thought they

(01:32:31):
were going to be. My zoom Age six mic behind
me is not going anywhere. I'm going to keep using that.
But I'm impressed that my phone hasn't overheated, because it's
already hot in here. You can probably tell I'm sweating.
We've been live for an hour and a half and
it's been mag safe charging this entire time. So my

(01:32:51):
phone is hot at the moment. It is very, very hot,
but it is still functioning. It is still capturing imagery
pretty well. So the camera capture button lets my action
button be a flashlight button and I get to change both. Well.
In that case, I'd rather the camera button just be
another remappable button. I don't think it needs to be
a camera one. Burkhardt says, I watched the videos for

(01:33:12):
the Vibe. Burton says, I love the skits. Yeah, see,
it's like none of these things have to do with
camera quality. I haven't decided if I'm returning with sixteen
for Max. I'm not. I haven't made a decision on
that yet. Still weird to me that people were mad
at MKBHD for honestly reviewing the Humane AI pins. I

(01:33:35):
don't understand who is mad at him about that, but yeah,
I found sixteen audio wasn't horrible, but it wasn't that
good either. Yeah. I got a lot of comments that
were saying that. They were like, it's it's okay, but
don't don't get rid of your dedicated mike. Obviously, it's
not a button. It's a camera control button. No, it's

(01:33:56):
definitely a button. It's cool that all the leaks were
wrong about it. Everyone thought it was going to be
a solid state button and it was not. It physically moves. No,
they should not put a fingerprint reader on camera control.
The camera control is a horrible position for your finger.
That's one of my issues with it. Your finger does
not naturally rest there, So if you wanted to unlock
your phone with a fingerprint reader, that would be the

(01:34:18):
worst possible place to put it. It would be so uncomfortable.
If you're gonna put touch idea in the iPhone, I'm
not against that, but just do an ultrasonic fingerprint reader
like everybody else. That's what the Pixel nine does. That's
like the same price is probably actually Yeah, it's cheaper
than the iPhone. The Pixel nine like spec for spec
is less money than the iPhones are. And they can
put in an ultrasonic fingerprint reader which you tap very

(01:34:41):
very quickly on the screen and it unlocks. Yeah, the
ev video was much worse audio. I agree, we're not
doing that. Ever, Again, what's better than one action button?
Two action buttons? Hypothetically, would you consider a white Tenium
fifteen per max for a really good price? Sure, I'm not. Yeah,
for the record, I'm not decided on whether or not

(01:35:02):
I'm keeping it or not. I might keep it, I
might not. I'm not sure. Future of the Apple Watch
after series ten disappointment more of the same. I don't
think it's going to change very much. I think the
product is kind of matured. It's kind of peaked, and
you're just going to get slight chip upgrades and maybe

(01:35:23):
a couple new health sensors here and there, but not much.
AI isn't as great as people make it out to be.
A local Taco Bell started implementing it and they're drive
through and it got horrible service. Yeah, I read about that.
It didn't work. Again, a lot of AI stuff is
really good at getting like ninety percent of the way there.

(01:35:43):
That's what I've noticed with anything regarding large language models
and machine learning is it's like, oh wow, it can
cover ninety percent of what a person running a drive
through does, but it's that last ten percent that it
never quite gets right. And because it can't do that
final ten percent, it doesn't replace the employee, so you

(01:36:05):
still have to have a person running the drive through.
It's a useful tool, but it's not as disruptive as
people say it is. So many people asking about the
MKBHD panels that I really got to do a video.
It seems like everybody's asking about it. And I also
need some time. I got to keep testing the iPhone sixteen.

(01:36:25):
I'm not ready to review it yet, so talking about
the Marquez thing will probably give us some time to kill.
I can record some videos with the phone. I like
that Apple Watch now has standalone audio. No pressure to
buy AirPod, Oh no, there's pressure. You do not want
to use the Apple Watch as a speaker. Trust me,

(01:36:47):
it's horrible. They wouldn't even let me do it at
the Apple store. That's how bad it was. I tried
to play music on the Apple Watch there and they
wouldn't let me like, no, that's annoying. You see spatial computing,
spatial computing taking off in the future. Emphasis on in
the future, yes, not right now. I don't think Apple

(01:37:08):
Vision Pro, you know, was ever even intended to be
a smashing success. It was just meant to be a
proof of concept. Apple's not stupid. They're aware that thirty
five hundred dollars is a lot of money, and restricting
it to the US is going to prevent it from
going wide. But the point was to see, can we
mass produce an object of this complex and let's get

(01:37:30):
some data audit, Let's figure out what people like and
don't like, and then we can use that data to
improve the follow up generations. It's kind of like a
mass produced dev kit in a way. Connor defis I
think is pronounced. I've been using Apple Intelligence and it

(01:37:52):
just doesn't do anything. The text tools are all hidden,
clean up as man notifications are fine. But that's about it.
That's kind of my recurring theme on Apple Intelligence when
people ask me about it, is these are all C
tier iOS features. You know, if you had to rank
all of the iOS features, everything regarding Apple Intelligence is
not that big of a feature. Like if we were

(01:38:13):
looking at all of the changes in iOS eighteen, all
of the Apple Intelligence stuff, if it wasn't over marketed
and hyped up like it's oh, it's machine learning, they
would just be features that everyone would go, oh, yeah, okay,
I guess you could do that, now, what big deal.
It's like having the transcripts and voice memos, like, oh yeah,
when you do a voice memo, now you can open

(01:38:34):
it up and read the text. Okay, yeah, that's kind
of cool. I don't think I'll use that hardly at all,
but it's neat that it can do that. That's how
people would have felt about all these features, but the
marketing team is just treating them like it's the second
coming of Steve Josh, you know, like it's this huge,
monumental Hello Intelligence. It's just way way too much marketing,

(01:38:59):
in my opinion for a feature that's not that big
a deal. I felt very similarly about five G. It
almost forbatim. It's the exact same situation. Five G is
not that big of a deal. It's a little bit
faster than before, but the marketing would have you believe
it's like thirty x times faster. You know, it's like
ten times or thirty times faster internet cellular speeds than before.

(01:39:21):
In reality, it's like twice as fast. Sometimes maybe in
other instances it's like four times as fast. But did
that really change the way you use your phone all
that much? Now it's just a quality of life, like,
oh cool. There's big marketing fads that come and go,
and right now the AI one is in. In another
few years, it'll probably be something else. The funny thing

(01:39:45):
about Apple Intelligence is that Apple said they were only
taking the useful features of AI for it. That could
have been worse, right. I think Vision Pro will be
shelved for about ten years and then something will come
out more affordable, like the Newton and iPad. Yeah, it's
definitely Oh wow, I'm getting choppy. Is my phone overheating? Wow?

(01:40:09):
That is not great. Let me switch cameras real quick.
It's getting choppy. Okay, we're back to webcam MacBook Pro.
Webcam still not bad. Sometimes if I switch off and
switch back on, No, it's still choppy. Okay, we have

(01:40:32):
a problem. It's five times as fast if you stand
under the tower and hold your phone at the right angle.
All right, that's annoying. I don't like the choppy Okay,
let's investigate this switching to MacBook. Do you envision quantum
mechanics being used commonly in the future. I have a

(01:40:52):
hard time defining quantum mechanics, so I don't feel comfortable
answering that with any certainty. Wow, it is very hot
to the touch, but the phone is still the phone
is working, but the frame rate has taken a hit,
that's for sure. Oh my goodness, that's right. Yeah, we're

(01:41:21):
at like thirty FPS on the sixteen Promac. It's trying,
but it is very hot. Apple Intelligence is for the shareholders. Yes,
that's a good way of explaining it. Am I using
the eighty percent battery limit? I think I am? Let
me remember, let me double check here charging. Oh for

(01:41:42):
some reason, I don't know why I did this, but
I said it to ninety percent because I can now
that was just a feature in I was eighteen, so
I figured, yeah, I might as well try it. But yeah,
that's five days. Actually not as crazy high screen time
as I thought I would have. That's good. I agree.

(01:42:04):
I agree with Connor and Alex. That's a great way
of putting it. Apple Intelligence is for shareholders because there's
so many tech companies that are hyping up that they're
the leader in AI. So if Apple didn't do anything,
the shareholders would feel like Apple's falling behind. So it's
just one of those boxes they got to check. Well,
who knows, maybe the fifteen proud have overheated before this.

(01:42:26):
I'm not sure where five G really shines as in
heavy populated areas like stadium events and not having to
deal with congestion. I just think that's such an edge
case to me. Like it's the same thing with like
Robin Brooks was saying earlier, like Apple Intelligence is useful
if you're like asking Siri where that one PDF file was?

(01:42:50):
Do you do that all the time? Eh? Probably not?
But on the occasional time you do it, is it
nice to have? Sure? So in the same way, Hey,
I'm I'm saying Apple Intelligence is a fad in the
same way that five G is a fad. I'm not
saying that it'll go away. I'm just saying that it's
being overmarketed and over hyped right now. It'll always be there,

(01:43:13):
but it won't be as impactful as people are making
it out to be. Like five G. They acted like
was gonna change everything? In reality is just your phone's
faster and hotter. Now the phone's always thought. No, I'm
not going to continue to use the iPhone sixteen pro
mic because I'm not that impressed with it. Although there
are situations where I have to use my onboard mic,

(01:43:34):
like if I'm out and about, not for like a
role filming tech and EV videos, but like for filming
out on the bout if I'm reviewing a car or something.
There's situations where BRO use PDF files. His example of
all things I didn't Robin Brooks did. She was like,
where's that PDF from the school email I got last week? Well,

(01:43:57):
she said, yeah, find the PDF newsletter with the day
and time and instantly respond yeah. That was her example.
Five G. Where I live is near a gigabit speeds,
but now I recently got fiber, so there's that, and
again on a phone, what are you gonna what are
you gonna do with that? I'm still not over how
they discussed five G over the new design of iPhone twelve. Yeah,

(01:44:22):
that was that was a cringe event. Dylan says, I
was gonna use eighty five percent and then realized I
never really used that much battery. I can charge at
work to eighty percent and get to work the next
day with twenty percent while playing sleep bids using always
on display. That's fair. Yeah, it probably will change as

(01:44:42):
the phone battery degrades. Five G obviously has better latency
because it's tower based, not satellite based. Towers are much
closer than satellites. But apparently that might change, uh when
they start having more laser SAT communicy where you don't
have to go to server stations on the ground. You

(01:45:03):
can just go up to the satellite and then through
the satellites get to the station, and technically you might
be able to move data faster through the vacuum of
space than you could through trans continental wire fiber optics
underground under the ocean. I have not reviewed the meta
ray bands, but I've heard good things about them. Maybe
I should review them if enough people ask me to.

(01:45:24):
Does it make more sense to get an action camera
for content creation? Upgrade that more frequently, and get a
base iPhone which can be held longer because sixteen plus
in India costs as much as sixteen from macks in
US Shoo. I don't know the exact pricing, but I
would argue even the base model iPhones have great cameras.
I was really, really genuinely impressed with the iPhone fifteen camera.

(01:45:48):
I personally, I don't think there's a lot of use
cases where you'd need the sixteen over the fifteen. Like
part of the reason I was considering keeping this is
that overheating on my fifteen pro. But this is just
overheated too, So in my opinion, the difference is year

(01:46:08):
over year are very, very very small. Apple's trying to
distract you from that. With really nice color options and
Apple Intelligence. They're trying to make it sound like that's
such a big feature that you have to get a
sixteen and you can't consider a fifteen. Regular fifteen is
still an amazing foe, and I would highly recommend it

(01:46:29):
to a ton of people out there. If you can
afford a refurbished or renewed one. If the iPhone fifteen
is too expensive, then yeah, consider a thirteen Mini or
you know, go used. You save so much money that
way and get pretty much the exact same experience. Summarizing
emails is fine, but it doesn't present that by default
I have to hit a button and wait for summary.

(01:46:50):
Might as well have read the email at that point. Yeah, exactly.
My eyes are pretty good at summarizing emails. I can
figure out the important parts and skim it and scan it.
It would probably take long, hunger for me to go
over everything. But I think you under eight five G
being able to deliver near gigabit speeds for people who
want to use it as a home Internet connection. And
the added I use five G as a home Internet

(01:47:11):
connection and it is not gigabit. By the way, I'm
just letting you know that the vast majority of five
G is not the ultra wideband wavelength that enables gigabit Internet.
Most five G is the mid band that allows for
OK internet. I get you on a good day, like
two hundred megabits down, fifty megabits up. I'm live streaming

(01:47:34):
right now over five G home Internet, and again, it's nice,
but it's not the gigabit it was promised to be.
Action cameras overheat very quickly, as in twenty minute Stationary.
They rely on air cooling of the twenty mile per
hour action win. That's interesting. I didn't know that interest

(01:47:54):
in the iPhone sixteen is low in Norway. Why buy
it when the AI won't support nor region. It's cheaper
to get an old bottom. Absolutely, I don't blame me,
even in the places that are getting Apple Intelligence, I
think the iPhone sixteen is hard to justify. I've had
so many I've met with so many friends and family
members that are like, do you have the iPhone sixteen.
I'm like, yeah, I just picked it up last week.
And they're like, what does it have that the older

(01:48:16):
phones don't? And I'm like, well, and I show them
the camera the control button and they're like, is that
it is that what it does? I'm like, yeah, he's
swiped back and forth to zoom in and stuff, and
you can also change it to different focal lengths. And
then they're like, what's a focal length? And I'm like, okay.

(01:48:39):
The tech community is so ingrained in their own echo chamber.
It's like, I don't know. Sometimes I feel like I
am more aware of what the average consumer uses their
phone for than a lot of the tech community. I'm like,
the average consumer is never going to touch this thing.

(01:49:00):
Just for the fact that the button doesn't protrude very much,
they're probably never going to touch it anyway. What Apple's
going to release at their October event all the M
four Max and probably two iPads, iPad Mini seven and
a iPad eleventh gen, just the cheaper iPad, and there's
really not much rumored to change with them other than
new chips. So the most exciting thing about the October

(01:49:23):
event is going to be the redesigned M four Macmini,
and that's not even that exciting. I mean, it's a
little box with an M four chip. But so the
first time the Mac Minie's going to change in size,
which is refreshing. But year over year comparisons are not useful.
Comparab least three generations ago. Please no, I think you
kind of have to compare year over year because the
year over year options are still available at lower pricing.

(01:49:45):
My point is, yes, there's more differences between an iPhone
thirteen and a sixteen, but if you're on an iPhone thirteen,
I would still recommend you buy an iPhone fifteen before
a sixteen because the fifteen is still a great phone.
There's very a little wrong with it in its current form.
People make a big deal out of oh but the
action button, and I'm like, you can launch the camera

(01:50:07):
just by swiping to the side. It's not the end
of the world. You don't need a dedicated button. It's
nice to have on occasion. But regardless of how how
old your iPhone is, I still think you have to
consider last year's model and how affordable it is. I'm
not trying to say fifteen versus sixteen, like obviously, if

(01:50:27):
you already have a fifteen, definitely don't consider the sixteen.
I'm talking to the people who have iPhone elevens and
iPhone twelves, Like my wife with the iPhone ten, does
she need to get an iPhone sixteen or could she
live with a fifteen? I think she could easily live
with a fifteen. True. Now known as your average consumer,

(01:50:48):
you should trademark that be crazy. If they made the
Mac Mini the size of an Apple TV, it sounds
like there might be somewhat close to that, which would
be cool. Well, she says Apple and two eligent summary
of notifications is still janky. For example, someone on Twitter
posted a summary they received saying that I just deem died.
Oh my god. Yeah. And that's the problem with a

(01:51:08):
lot of AI stuff is it's not an exact science.
You can't tweak it exactly to your liking. It's just
this kind of vague void of things, and you push
into it and you try to feed it data, but
it can still make mistakes, and then you can fix
one problem and create new ones along the way. So
that's why it's taking so long for Apple to roll
all these features out. Sixteen does have faster charging for

(01:51:30):
what it's worth. I don't think you'd pay an extra
two hundred bucks just to get to fifty percent, like
five minutes faster. It's not that different. The tech community
screams for more Mac like features, but average consumers think
it's great the way it is. Myself included, I can't
use my Mac as a digital sheet music. Well, if
you're just going to go the average consumer route, the
iPad pros shouldn't exist. If you're just talking about, well,

(01:51:53):
the average consumer doesn't need all those Mac features. I'm like, yeah,
the average consumers buying the freaking four hundred dollars iPad.
I'm saying the pros could be doing a lot more,
But what do I know. The sales for the pro
are doing great, but no, the microphones are not very
good at all in the sixteen Pro. I'll give you
a sneak peek that the studio great. Mics are not

(01:52:15):
very good on this at all. I think it's offensive
to call them studio quality. On the MacBook Pro, it's fair.
The MacBook Pro studio mics are very very good studio
MIC's on this. No, it's a joke. It's very gimmicky. Anyway,
I gotta get going here, but I appreciate you all
for the super chats and the questions. Thank you all
for tuning in. We'll get to the future ones. I'm sorry.

(01:52:40):
I wish I could stream all day, but it's getting
hot in here and I got people waiting on me,
so I'm gonna sign off, but thank you all for watching.
Hope you have an excellent rest of your day. Stay
cool out there. Bye bye,