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Our Glowtime Apple event predictions! (CultCast #663)
Mar 11, 2025
This week - it's all about next week's Apple Glowtime event and our announcement predictions. Get ready to crack open that wallet! Chapters: 0:00 Preshow 5:07 Intro 9:58 CultCloth 12:07 iPhone 16 Pro Colors 22:40 AirPods 4 30:04 Mac mini 37:33 Hugo Last Honorary Segment 38:43 iPad Magic Keyboard 41:36 Event Predictions
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oh thank God I think it's working oh wait but I don't have a link to
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check jeez did we even go for the show notes yeah we did it just I thought
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everything ready to go I thought we were forgetting something I
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mean there we go well everyone we got Betty RZ here we got Steve we got Ivan
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Torres we got level remix they're ready to go Lis they don't want to watch you
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sipping music oh hold on a sec I got to turn the speaker off can you guys hear that back that Echo effect
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happening a little bit yeah something that's okay it's done I fixed it we got
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Brad pepper here we got ulyses it's gonna be a good show because we got all
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sorts of stuff to I'm just blowing up we got all sorts of stuff to talk about for
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next week's big events for a split second I thought it was this week and I panicked I was like oh
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no I missed it but it's going to be it might be a big money spending week next
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week I mean just looking through all the rumors it looks like there's all sorts of stuff that's coming down the pipe
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what are you thinking about buying it aside from the iPhone well it depends on what they release but I'm also thinking about the
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new airpods 100% the new airpods if they do airpods 4 which it seems like they're
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going to we'll talk about that here in a sec that's definitely happening um and
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then also the uh Apple watch Ultra if they update that I'm on V1 that could be that
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could be in the mix but what's wrong with the one there's nothing wrong with the one except that it's not the three
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that's the problem leis it's not the three The Cult of Mac buyback program is that what you're gonna do top dollar top
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dollar oh yeah maybe I will do that I just might leis I just might do that
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trying to remind everyone that it actually even exists I completely forgot about it so
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I'm glad that you brought it up but we'll see what apple offers me what we could do for you sometimes you just scroll too far on
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the homepage and you're like oh whoa I didn't forgot the page let's see right
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now you can get $200 that Apple watch Ultra 200 bucks wow I'm not sure sure that's for
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the watch Ultra too that seems like a fairly large discrepancy yeah that's a pretty big increase Steve's asking any
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chance of the airpod max I have I definitely have opinions on that but we'll probably wait to do the actual
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show and mix that into the mix all right should we go ahead and get this thing rolling
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uh and then we'll sorry are you mumbling about something Louis I I can't hear it
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seems like we're missing something something short and sweet oh I see where
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you're going with this something that brings the hordes in right something that lets them know it's
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time to abandon that snoozefest talk show and heading over to the real podcast that's what you're talking
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about but just general level of trash talking about all the other Apple podcast what
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if they're trying to they're they're they're trying to get a good nap after being up all night because they're
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insomniacs and the talk show is the perfect solution for that they come here boom awake again
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entertained so maybe for those of you trying to take a snoozer you might want to stick with the 9 to5 ma
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cast what do they call theirs I don't even know I should know this uh 95 ma happy hour the happy hour that's right
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yeah I bet everyone's I bet everyone's real happy listening to that show yeah they probably do and they're probably
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all doing way better than us all right let's see here you know what kills me podcast Network you know what kills me
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Lis is knowing that Alexy Heath is probably doing better than us too and I just that's the that's the one I really
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just can't stomach you know it hurts it hurts it hurts bad let me send out this
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tweet the Tweet has been tweeted leis no that's definitely not true about Alex we
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know that's not true and let's go ahead and queue up Mrs you know who and we'll
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get this thing rolling oh Miss [Music] D Mrs D oh my dear I also can't wait for
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the those new airpods I like to wear them every night and nothing else when I'm with
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Elan hopefully hopefully it's the airpods back so at least something's covered oh my Mrs D please no more we can't stomach
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anymore and we have a whole show to do and I can't do it when I'm nauseous so uh if you don't mind we'll get this
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music rolling we'll get this show going and we'll get the people informed on what's coming next week to the glow time
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hey Lewis it's glow time ready almost almost glow here we go in three
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two hello and welcome to the Cassy best 30 plus minut app conversation you're going to
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hear all week long I'm your host a Elijah join me today in preparation for next week's Apple event he's adding
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extra dogs to the cold Mac office and cleaning the auto turrets to ensure no writers accidentally leave the GRS keep
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them cranking out those stories am I right he's the most feared manag to Eder in Tech o l walls is
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here oh my trying to tweet and talk at the same time nearly
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impossible but you got it done that's the kind of guy you are also with us he's distilling his own concentrated
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caffeine and preparing an IV bag so he can stay awake and typing for the 5 days following next week's Apple event that's
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dedication doctors have warned him his heart could explode but he's not concerned rider for cat Griffin Jones Is
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Here here you know actually now that you mention it one of the great things about living in the best time zone in the
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world Eastern time zone is that I can have a very casual morning C day you I wake up whenever I feel like it have a
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nice long lunch sit down and oh it's about 12:30 about time to start my day
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there are some reasons to live on the east coast that might be the only one but that's a great one I mean yeah it's
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hot and sweltering and there's mosquitoes everywhere and you get T tornadoes and hurricanes and every other
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kind no no hurricanes or tornadoes here nothing there oh come on you got tornadoes occasion there's like a a
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tornado a year maybe somewhere in this once a month Max Lewis vandelia and what was it 71 I can't remember 77 oh my God
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it just about tore the whole town down and and then there's then there's the Duro what's that I don't know it's some
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weird wind that they came up with I I'd never heard it until uh maybe like five years ago I was back there and my mom
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was oh yeah to ra show win it's sounds like a Cincinnati or Pike
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County problem to me not where I am you know what I wonder is like in those areas with tornadoes like how many animals have people lost that have just
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been swept up in into the Vortex never to return I mean do they ever find like
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if a cow gets sucked up into a tornado do they ever find it they probably do at some point it's lips are probably
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missing they go straight to heaven where all cows go there such nice
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creatur features just for the record it's apparently it's pronounced deratio and it's a widespread longlived
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Windstorm that associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms can produce destruction
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similar to the strength of tornadoes but the damage typically is directed in One Direction along a relatively straight
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swath so there you go you learned something it sounds like something the news made up to make people watch it during the lack of actual weather events
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that people would care abouta Vortex yeah yeah basically strong wind yeah AKA
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hey uh the chat's complaining that your audio is too low Griffin you want to bump it up just a just a teeny tiny bit
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it sounds okay to me I mean it might sound a little bit low but it doesn't sound like it's that low a little more okay I mean as a
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general rule I ask the guys to keep their volumes lower than mine so I can be heard at all times and sometimes
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Griffin forgets his place understand trying to Edge me out
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all right yeah let us know if uh let us know if we need to make any other adjustments we got a big show big big
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big show this week what are we talking about if only I had it memorized I don't
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oh my we have probably our best mockup yet of that new iPhone 16 desert
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titanium color I'm not so sure about this guys not so sure about this new
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color I was excited about it coming out of those Sunny Dixon mockups or those um
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uh those uh fake phones that he had shown on X with this with this new
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mockup I'm not so sure we got some huge updates coming to airpods 4 um some
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updates coming to Mac Mini uh we got a potential new iPad magic keyboard coming
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down the pipe does anyone care I doubt it but we're going to talk about it anyway and then we're going to wrap up with our glow time predictions there's
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all sorts of products I think are going to get announced next week I mean we might still get we probably will still
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get um an October event maybe for the MacBook Pros and you don't really know
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what the hardware mix is going to be at these different events I think a lot of them are going to be announced probably
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now they're preparing for the holiday season obviously they're going to get way ahead of it and we're going to be in
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for like just an absolute delug of stuff I'm trying to figure out like how much money do I actually want to spend here
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uh before we jump jump in let me convince you to spend some money on a product I
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think you're really going to love and if you got the new iPhone coming in if you're going to get a new Apple watch
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maybe you have a camera maybe you have glasses may I encourage you to to uh head head over to cloth. see what we
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have to offer the absolute best way to keep your gadgets sparkling clean you
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will be shocked at how will they work how do I know because I'm not just the founder of cult cloth I'm also an
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enthusiastic user I have CT cloth laying all over all over the place and I use
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them on everything and I'm constantly finding new uses for them but of course the best use case is to keep your Gadget
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sparkling clean which is what I primarily use them for and I don't know about you guys I have noticed my Apple watch Ultra I don't know if like the
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oleophobic coding has worn off but it's constantly covered in Grime now it's
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always covered in fingerprints and I don't feel like that has ever happened to me on any other Apple device it's all
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the uh extreme Outdoor Sports and Adventures you've been engaging in right yeah it's true and I do pick my nose a
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lot too and then I just interact with my with my watch and phone but um so much sweat and lava grit and dirt and mud
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yeah well my watch did get rained on once so that probably completely washed away the the coating you know they don't
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guarantee against that but I have noticed every time I look at my watch it's just covered in Schmutz and so I'm
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constantly wiping it down the casing looks great the titanium casing looks you know brand new but the but the
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screen itself anyway all about to say nothing works better than coat cloth nothing's thicker nothing's denser the
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the process we put the fibers through break them down and drastically enhance the surface area which is what gives them their magic secret sauce I just
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feel them latching on some people have lost some of their fingertips now we explicitly disclaim that's not something
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that we can prevent against and we have no liability against that so be careful if you rub your fingertips against it c
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cloth. c cloth. let's Jump Right In and talk
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about these mockups leis oh my oh wait wait a
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second oh my except maybe not in that excit of of
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a way I thought maybe you'd be saying oh no yeah as a as a a bronze efficient a
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so we went from beautiful Buster heiney bronze to this and for those of you
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listening it it it it looks more of like a creamy gold color which is definitely
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not exactly what I was hoping for but I'm I'm I'm I'm stealing your your story her this yeah so uh this is came out
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this week a new render shows the iPhone 16 Pro in a gold titanium finish rather than the bronze that was rumored
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previously breaking aon's heart yeah this is not this is not what I was
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looking for it oh wait a second hold on see now okay now hold on a second I'm
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showing a picture from this from this this x thread I don't know where this picture came from it's maybe just a
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mockup and this actually looks absolutely beautiful that that is like the perfect color right
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there I'll post a link to this uh and by by me uh I'll have Griffin do it
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in the show notes so you can see what we're talking about but like that color right there actually does look beautiful in bronze well where did that one come
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from I have no idea man everybody's just pulling these renders and mockups out of their uh Mac the
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derrier uh so yeah I mean that looks pretty good let's see the one that uh
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we're writing about and I suppose that I'm supposed to be talking about was shared by Majin Buu and uh it it looks
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pretty normal right if you I don't know if you show that on the screen I got it up right now supposedly comes from a
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person who accurately revealed the iPhone 15 PR's natural titanium color oh no okay for its launch in 2024 uh it
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looks very similar the one that uh 95 Mac has on their website also from an unnamed Source supposedly you know who
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knows these things yeah you know this follows on
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the the Pooh Brown dummy unit that uh Sunny Dixon showed off I would have
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preferred that to be honest with you really the Pooh Brown okay then then this gold yes this this gold that is in
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this mockup looks like every other gold they've ever released it's like a rose gold I I don't see how this is different
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from any other gold that they've released before although I will say it's hard to photograph dark colors because
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you have to light them and when you light them they look brighter than they actually are and so I'm wondering if you scroll down in this Twitter uh thread
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um this one this guy is holding I I don't know where this came from I don't know if this is real or not but if
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that's it that is the most beautiful iPhone that I've ever seen well uh let's see here what else do
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we have we have uh understanding of the Year from our story it is currently
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difficult to ascertain which shade of bronze gold Apple will finally go with for the iPhone 16 Pro uh I think part of
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the problem here is you know you're not going to know what looks like until you actually see it in the store or you know open the box
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at your house because like all of these iPhone Pro Models they look one way in
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the product uh demos they look one way in your you know dark fluorescent light
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office you look a whole different way in the beautiful California sunshine I mean this could be one of those colors that
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looks awesome in some situations boring as can be and others I mean frankly
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that's exactly what I expect from Apple at this point because that's all they've done for the past several years just dude so I'm sorry and
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we have most people listen to this show so I hate to talk about things that we're looking at but I'm showing this picture of what looks to be a screenshot
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from a video and the person is holding a bronze-colored iPhone and this doesn't
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look like it's a mockup it doesn't look like it's you know made in Photoshop it looks
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like somebody's reviewing this in a video and this color is is the most beautiful Buster heiney bronze I could
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have possibly imagined for this phone and I'm like is this the real thing like is this what the mockups that are going
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around for people creating cases is this what it looks like this looks like the one that Sonny Dixon showed I it was way
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darker brown well it was darker brown but this sunny Dixon didn't take a very good photograph like this one is well
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lit he I mean the guy showing it is clearly standing in front of some kind of light and more actual I yeah like
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it's it's more of what it will actually look like dude I think it looks absolutely beautiful this makes me
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wonder uh you know like most of the phones the the sort of camera module
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isn't that much of a different color from the regular I guess the black one is kind of that way but the blue one was
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kind of that way too yeah I don't know hard to say possible to tell what's going to look like until we actually see
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it I I would say not just on the screen next week during the live stream but also in you know when you see it your
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hand uh last thing I think we need to show or we you know we well not the last thing we need to say that uh shows the
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capture button which we all you know practically 100% know it's coming uh
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going to let you take uh pictures more easily I I'm very excited to find out how that works
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um here's another little tidbit German has apparently seen this gold thing and
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here's what he says German Mark Gman that is Bloomberg reporter Mark once in
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a while cited on this podcast um he says I think the new iPhone 16 Pro gold is
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going to be the standout color this year and potentially Drive interest it looks impressive and not terrible like the
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early renders I've never had a gold iPhone before but considering German's going gold that's how you know it's high
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quality I'm I can only hope that uh it actually is going to be Browner than maybe these images are showing I I was I
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was fully on board for an unapologetically Brown iPhone me too you know may maybe maybe you soften it a
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little bit and go a little towards the bronze instead but I don't know I I can hope I I'm sad that it's just GNA be
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gold again you know what I was thinking I was expecting more like reddish Flex
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like a a slight you know Colorado dirt
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color in in it in that palette and you know like those these things typically have like these little like VAR Shades
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it's almost like they're glittery in a way in a real boring way I mean glitter would be awesome actual glitter would be
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awesome oh dude I would absolutely you know I'm a huge fan of glitter I would
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wear it more often if that were appropriate but it's not if they want to go full glitter I I would I would 100%
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be on board with that right well that it's almost like that's what they do with these phones I mean they almost
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glimmer they almost Shimmer in the sunlight they kind of do yeah but it's
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it's just so freaking understated yeah you're right it's more of a shimmer
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isn't it that's like the step underneath glitter you can't commit to glitter so
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you go with a shimmer you know I guess glitter's not pro that's true it's the
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the Shimmer is more understated right it's probably like the same color paint
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that TC covers himself with when he goes to those late night Raves that we know he likes to do with the glow sticks you
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know oh boy that I didn't need to imagine all right look let's move on
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because most of our audience is Audio Only and they're like what the heck are you guys talking about so I guess
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hopefully our sentiment was interesting in some way or or another all I'll say is I really desperately hope that this
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bronze one in this slack or slack channel in this x channel is the one we get like this is the one I have always
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wanted that's it man I may just quit the show after this once this phone comes
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out we've done our job it's time to move on and and probably never
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upgrade and just just look at the back of my phone all day long this might be the one I go nude for Lis this might be
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the one oh there you go I'll tell you what man nothing like nothing like
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a way way more manageable that PR Max is way more manageable still unmanageable
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but way closer to manageable I uh I'm getting the Apple Care for this next one
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you know so that a little Spritz of water doesn't completely tank my phone I
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I hate that I have to do that but I mean this has been such an inconvenience to deal with the water damage in my 15 Pro
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Max which I professionally fixed so you know but not everyone's like me with tools and I'm like lwis Rossman you know
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I'm like over here one of those giant magnification goggles on no
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soldering uh but I just don't want to mess with it anymore like I want to be able to just do whatever I want with my phone and not have to mess with it and
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if I can get a discount on the Apple Care Plus I did the math and it would cost me like $650 a month and I'm like
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dude it's totally worth 650 a month to to have that peace of mind that if
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anything goes wrong it's going to be TC's problem and not mine I mean shoot an iPhone case cost you know well they
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can cost that much yeah but yeah but the case doesn't protect it from water that's the only thing no I I know that's
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what I'm saying it's like you could easily spend 70 bucks on a Case oh I see dude I guess if you got like some super
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premium case like the cases I'm buying are not so fancy leis well I like a nice leather case sometimes it cost you
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either go a $100 leather case or just completely dude well there's something weird about
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putting a cheap case on an expensive phone oh I totally agree that's an
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Abomination I mean like Johnny Ivan team no longer with Johnny but they put all
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this sweat and effort into creating like this beautiful monolith of design and
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then you cover it in a piece of 25% Shanghai alley plastic it makes
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absolutely no no sense whatsoever it's an
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Abomination Shanghai Alle back alley plastic yeah all right let's move on
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let's talk about something else that's I think incredibly exciting I mean as long as we're talking about things that are perfect here this is it my friends the I
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the airpods 4 these are the airpods I think I've always wanted and I think if
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if like me your ear canals are like the perfect size for airpods there has never been anything that has fit in my ear
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better than airpods it's like they were custom designed for me I I know unfortunately that's not the way it is for everybody I can sleep with them in I
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get zero ear fatigue but they don't feel like they're going to fall out it's like they were custom designed for my ear
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holes and I don't like the tips you all know that so I never wanted to buy the
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airpods pro for that reason but it seems like we're going to get the best feature
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of the airpods pro in the airpods 4 with no tips and that is the active voice
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cancellation so it seems like airpods 4 are going to get replaced next week uh
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let me see here I'm scouring through this story to see oh here we go uh airpods 4 will replace two models it's
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going to come in two variants according to information that leaked out in the spring a mid-range model will offer
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active noise cancellation and come with a charging case that supports the the find my app I hopefully um we'll also
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have a speaker built in so that you can find them right so the F my app huge like how many times
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have you lost your airpods it happens to me it's it's happened to me more times than I can count and you were trying to like play the tone on your airpod right
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to find them but that that doesn't work so like the speaker in the case the USBC and the fine my like those are three
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killer features in my opinion uh airpods 4 rumors indicate that both models will
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get the sleer design but um neither one will have removable silicon tips which is exactly what I was hoping for I don't
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want any tips uh and the story goes on to say that will limit the effectiveness of ANC I
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don't care thec doesn't need to be perfectly her hermetically sealed in my opinion it just needs to work pretty
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well like if you need something that's perfect get the airpods pro or get the airpods max but
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having a pair of regular airpods that allows me to have situational awareness but I can turn on the active noise
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cancellation when I feel like I need to concentrate or whatever and it doesn't need transparency because you can just
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turn off noise cancellation I I just think that's like the perfect pair of aods especially when you pair it with those new features in the case so now
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you're thinking okay you you've sold me as you often do I'm ready to plurk down the money you know what I'd love to know is
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how many people have have been convinced to buy something as we talk about it here on the show it's like we're into
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something right like we really like it and haven't you just heard someone talk about something and as they talk about it
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you're like I got to own this thing thing and you start searching on the web to see if you can find it you know what I mean I would really love to know that
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um let's see here so the more premium airpods oh this is not the prices for
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the air Pirates 4 never mind this is just the cost of the airpods 3 which is 179 airpods 2 129 so I think we're
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extrapolating and saying that the premium and then the less premium versions of airpods 4 might follow those
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same pricing structures but who knows I know many of you are wondering about
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airpods Max coming I don't know man um I I don't know if we're actually
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going to see this I've seen rumors both ways and if we do get it it could just be a a spec bump to USBC which would
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definitely be useful but I don't know if they're going to change much outside of that there are other missing features
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that the airpods max don't have like the airpods pro now have the conversational awareness feature mhm they have have um
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actually maybe maybe the airpods Macs already have spatial audio but I know that the airpods okay but I do know that
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there are a few features exclusive to the airpods Pro 2 that the airpods max doesn't have and it's kind of an outlier
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in that way that's very bizarre um that they haven't continued
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to update those with features Betty Ria is saying from the chat have you seen the sale Amazon has on airpods Max it's
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a deep discount yeah well I that certainly indicates that it's on its way out so it seems like maybe they are
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going to be replaced next week it's certainly time to replace them they've been around forever uh and there's been
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deep discounts on all sorts of other stuff the the iPad series 9 dude that thing 200 bucks I think still on Amazon
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like they're clearly trying to clear those out Best Buy the same they're it's on sale for 200 all over the place I saw
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the the um the iPad uh series 10 I think I saw on sale
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for $229 one point which is a crazy price so we might also see iPad 11 come
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out sometime soon I mean who knows but I'm definitely excited about the uh
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airpods 4 I'm ready to I can't believe I've had mine for three years I think it's been three years since I bought
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them can't believe they still work they work great I mean aside from the fact that every once in a while I'll put them
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on it goes and one of them is like completely dead and then I plug it in and it charges up to full like no issues
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have you guys ever had that happen yeah it's so weird yeah and you think like oh man this thing's shot and then I don't
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know is there like a piece of ear wax in there that's keeping it from but I always look at it and it seems like it
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doesn't really have very much on it but then of course I swab it down with a cult cloth sure and the next time I put
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it in it's charged to 120% leis battery life is increased actually seems
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inaccurate well I mean look I'm it's just a guesstimate Louis it's not we're not talking about specifics
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here yeah are you guys troubled by this two versions of airpods 4 I mean what
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are they going to call it airpods air airpods 4 mini what that is an open
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question I've been wondering about like I don't know they because in in their normal lining convention they
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don't have anything that goes between regular and pro that is an error but there's already error in the name and
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Apple has come up with some pretty stupid product names before but I don't think they would ever do airpods airpods
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air airpods for air you know Steve Jobs wanted to call
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the iMac the macman yeah so I think anything's
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possible yeah I don't know what they would call it because you're right they have to I can't think of any Apple
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naming convention that exists that would be appropriate to designate the level of features aside
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from Pro or air it's gonna be airpods and airpods SE that's what I was just gonna say
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that's airpods 4 and airpods they don't even call them airpods 4 that's what's
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so I find that very frustrating with so many of these product Apple product names you're right this is going to be
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airpod parentheses fourth generation and then they call it airpods everywhere and then airpods SE and then the airpods pro
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and then the airpods max of course this time it will be ultra Ultra back since since they're they're adding uh USBC I
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think that's appropriate now it's the airpods ultra all right what else we got here uh you want to talk about the Mac
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Mini here Griffin sad sad news for the Mac Mini by the way I don't
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know okay never mind I was like why does it say M4 Mac Mac Mini but when you read
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it it actually does make sense I thought that was just a error on your part and I
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was like uh oh I hope L Wallace doesn't see this I know I actually think this is good news about the Mac Mini so what
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yeah so okay so reports suggest the Mac Mini could finally get a new design this year uh the revamp will make the overall
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machine much smaller about the same size as an Apple TV um this is a rumor we've we've previously talked about it's going
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to be like the first design of the Mac Mini since like 2011 like the the current design of the
30:46
Mac Mini is so old it's wondering whether Obama is going to win re-election oh
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oh wow so you went there the smaller the smaller Dimensions made many worry that
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might reduce the number of USB and IO ports on the coming Mac Mini thankfully that's not going to happen Mark Gman
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claims the new Mac Mini will support five USBC ports like the Mac Studio it
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will have three ports on the back and two on the front for easy access it'll also still retain an ethernet port HDMI
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connector and headphone jack which is uh what we were worried about them losing
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when uh they were going to shrink this design because we're you know open question is like how are they going to
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fit all the ports on the back of that thing well they're going to move two of them into the front to make more room um
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I I guess the only sadness is that they they'll go all in on USBC and they'll
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ditch the usba ports but I I don't think that's a major loss I feel like it's about time that you can reasonably
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switch to go all in on USBC like the iMac is already entirely on USBC it has no usba a ports either I I feel like the
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world is prepared in that way uh I just the usba port is so useful even now I
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know it's not the hip port to use and everything's moving to USBC in fact I'm almost fully moved over to USBC but
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there are still things like for example I have the newest uh Logitech Master
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Mouse and the dongles usba it's like I don't even think they make them in USBC
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well that's that's logitech's problem not Apple's problem wants to drag their feet on updating their RF connector then
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that's their problem there's very little usba things that I plug into my Mac like
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I guess the only thing that I regularly plug in is a cable but you know I could H honestly just replace it with a
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lightning to USBC cable instead of a lightning usba cable that I use I just hate to go back to the world of dongles
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it's not a world I care to revisit you know uh especially if you use a mouse with your with your Mac that requires a
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dongle which you probably shouldn't be but people do it I mean the Logitech the Logitech M Master Mouse is a really
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terrific Mouse I have to say so it's worth the dongle but other than that okay sorry I threw you off keep going oh
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you're good um this likely only apply to Mac Mini models configured with an M4 Pro the regular M4 variant will likely
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ship with few USBC ports probably just the three on the back and it'll forgo the two on the front uh which is a shame
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because like having two ports on the front is a would be a nice convenience I wouldn't know because my Mac Mini doesn't have any ports on the front so
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anytime I want to plug I have to but I have it pretty accessible on my desk um
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apparently Apple suppliers will start shipping the m4 model in September but the M4 Pro configuration won't start
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shipping until October this indicates the M4 Mac menu refresh is unlikely to go official before late October the M4
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powered MacBook Pros should debut around the same time but you know who cares about those dang dude so so all great updates
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aside from the usba which I hate to see go but um this machine is going to be an
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absolute animal I mean the M4 I think in single core tests um or maybe it was in
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multi-core tests maybe maybe it was multicore it vastly outperformed the M1
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Max so it had to be mul multi-core score because of course it would outperform single core in uh for the M1 Max because
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it's a much newer chip so when I saw that I was like holy moly like we finally got to a point with this M4
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where it actually just having the base level chip may actually be better well is is actually better than the M1 Max
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chip in many respects probably not all respects and I think for that same reason the a18 chip and the A8 Pro are
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going to be like big upgrades as well like it seems to be the enhanced 3 nanometer process that makes the M4 so
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great that's like really making the the 3 nanometer process like or die shrink
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worth the the giant investment and so I I the rumors say that the a18 Chip is going to be using the same enhanced
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process and I feel like that's gonna make the M4 the like the first one that you really should upgrade to if you can
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afford it if you still have like an early M1 machine um another thing thing that I'm excited about this magc mini is
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just like it's going to get a new design there haven't been really any rumors about what it's going to look like maybe it'll just be another boring aluminum
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box but just taller and narrower but you know there was that rumor a few years ago that like it was going to have like
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a glass top on it like sort of like the uh the old Power PC and Intel Mac Mini
35:25
you know I guess the one other design that Mac Mini has ever had maybe maybe it'll come in a different finish who
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knows it's it's a world of possibilities maybe because it'll be so much taller and narrower maybe it'll be a cube
35:38
again Apple hasn't made a cube in a while it supposed to be taller I mean it's gonna still gonna
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have an integrated power supply and all those uh you know extra you know this reports on it so I imagine it has to get
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a little taller I I thought rumors not that long ago said it was going to be about the size of an Apple TV
35:59
yeah it would have to get taller for it to be Apple TV sized the only thing I wish is that they don't make it too light like the one thing I hate about my
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Apple TV is it's so light when you plug like an HDMI cable into it it like shifts the whole unit and you can't like
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set it down and have it just be straight it just constantly gets moved over because like the like the pressure of
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the cable the HDMI cable is so great that it is able to actually shift the
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whole position of the Apple TV which I freaking hate when that happens like when I when I plurk down my computer or
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my Apple TV somewhere like I want it to stay exactly where I put it I don't want it to get shifted all around like I know
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that they want to save weights and shipping costs and all that stuff but like at a certain point you're affecting the user experience it has to have a
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certain level of weight or at least allow you to buy a uh an apple bag of of
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weighted sand that you pour into the bottom of the unit so it stays in the same place we got to have something
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happen here because it really drives me bonkers that the Apple TV keeps moving all around the ironic thing is that the
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Apple TV is probably the largest among the all of the set toop boxes like a a Roku is basically like a tiny like you
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know what thumb siiz like piece of plastic and the Apple TV is actually more more Hefty than that you know the
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Apple TV is the standout there and at least with the case of the Mac Mini like it's made out of aluminum whereas the Apple TV is plastic so I and you know
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the Mac Mini has like a full size power supply and everything like I'm I'm not worried about that getting too
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lightweight it's it's actually a surprising L heavy computer yeah it's very dense in there isn't it okay before we move on want to say huge boom wow
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look at that the $9.99 from Hugo last in the chat oh my go he's single-handedly keeping this show alive and by this show
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I mean he's keeping LK up to his neck in illegal substances that the DEA should
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definitely check in on and and do some investigations he's got a comment how can I bet on this games my money is on
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Efron can we get the moderator in here get the moderator in here get this guy out of here I don't know if you did that
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on purpose Hugo but this is your first and only warning my friend Efron you
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call me Efron again I'm coming to where you live I think that might be Europe so I might need to rethink how I'm going
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to Punit or punish you on this but I'll have to figure something out but thank you for that $49.99 H go um Leander key
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is going to be very excited when he sees that come through all right let's um that's actually a good idea for what I
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for a question I can add to the listener submiss poll which of us do you think is going to I do like that actually that's
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great I'll think about that all right well we're gonna be doing um our predictions here in a minute but I was
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selected to talk about the story which I have not even read so I'm going to try and do this as not robotically as
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possible more affordable iPad magic keyboard is in development me move this over iPad users can look forward to a
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less expensive version of Apple's keyboard leou the magic keyboard making the magic happen according to
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information leaking out of apple the goal is apparently a variant more appealing to buyers of entry-level
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tablets the clamshell keyboard converts a tablet into a notebook computer unfortunately the accessory also
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includes a feature that limits its appeal that Gall darn high price tag oo
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I bought one of those before that was painful Apple sets its sites on lowend version on a lowend version that may be
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designed for an entry level IP ad or the new iPad Airs according to Bloomberg's
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Mark Gman I know you love to hear that loose supposedly the features like the metal Palm rest from the 2024 version of
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the Mac or the magic keyboard will be left out to reduce cost probably going to be all plastic everywhere uh
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Bloomberg also reporting the product should be released by the middle of next year if all goes to plan and under TC it
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always does so look for this keyboard out sometime next year I wouldn't mind a lower end keyboard I do like the
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keyboard and it is super useful to have it on the iPad um of course for me I
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don't use one often enough to justify the cost so maybe it is smart for Apple to release something that's cheaper that
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will entice people who maybe don't need it but would like to have it so I actually think think that's pretty
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interesting okay I know a lot of people who have iPads who you know I say hey oh you know if you get this accessory you
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know you can just turn your iPad basically into a laptop and then like what and it costs how much $350 that's
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insane and yeah yeah conversation goes every time even though it is a great accessory and even though like the the
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total cost of iPad plus keyboard is still like cheaper than a you know well speced out MacBook Air or MacBook Pro
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but nonetheless it's I think that's how apple looks at it it's like well it's cheaper than a Mac but yeah but it it
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it's still as a standord accessory I don't think people look at it that way I think that people who have iPads with
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keyboard keyboards probably also have a Mac and they just want to have the option of having a keyboard with their
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Mac I could be totally off based on that that's the position I'm in so maybe that's not how most people work but I
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would never have an iPad only for productivity I feel like if you need the keyboard for an iPad or if you want the
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keyboard for an iPad to do productivity that means you have a need for for productivity which means you probably have a Mac I don't know if that logic
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see it as $350 is way too much money for a keyboard and trackpad yeah exactly like it's it's not going to be utilized
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enough for me to actually own one of these only the most hardcore maybe iPad only people end up buying them would be my guest but in any case all right those
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are all the Apple stories we have this week any other things that we're missing that we want to talk about for next week
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I mean we already talked about this for months now so I'm not sure how much we need to regurgitate we're also going to get updates on all the um all the os's
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so that would be cool I don't think we need to dive back into that yet again because we've already done that like a hundred times we've done it to death and
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we'll probably talk about again once they actually come out so I'm fine just moving into our predictions what do you say Jens yeah sure let's do it should
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should serve as a good overview anyway yeah that's actually true okay we're moving into our predictions it's glow
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time our predictions put together a bar by our very own D Griffin Jones and oh I
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don't want to look at these maybe I should make them bigger and what we'll do is what we do what we have been doing
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we'll go through these place our bets in the chat so that they are immortalized for all to see and no one can copy
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another person for having really great analysis Le and um then we will do a
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followup once we've had the event to see who wins the predictions okay so uh for
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the third and possibly not last time this year it's time to place our predictions so far in 2024 Lewis has won
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both the iPad events DC 24 keynote so these are the
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rules we've agreed on this list predictions for each one we will write yes or no whether we think it'll happen
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uh these will be revealed live on the show one point will be awarded for each correct guess three points will be
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awarded for a correct Wild Card guess there's just one question like that at the very end uh any disputes in judgment
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must be rolled on by Leander canny a responsibility he has not been informed of and definitely will not do yeah
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listeners can submit their own votes by going to DG Griffin jones.com survey
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or if you just go to the homepage driffin jones.com you can find the link right there degri jones.com survey you
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can answer all the same questions we do but I recommend you wait until you listen to all of this segment because we'll probably you know explain our
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reasonings for our votes and all that and the listeners have that extra advantage that we don't have um uh and
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if you any any listeners who win will be honored in the next episode um so there
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are 20 Questions let's Jump Right In starting with the iPhone section basic
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iPhone 16 gets a new a18 chip in previous years it sort of had like a
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hand me- down chip from the from the last year what do we think hold on let me scroll [Music]
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down so that would be the same one as the
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iPhone 16 Pro not necessarily the same one but
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it's getting a new one wait a second own new not just an old
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chip from last
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year right I oh I see what you're saying it's
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G to be like a a18 and name only so like instead of calling it the
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a18 pro it's just going to be the a18 uh that's a possibility
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okay um all right I'm ready to go in the
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chat ready oh wait what we got to do I I forgot I forgot all the where am I at
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you got to go into the chat and on 321 you gotta say yes or no Skype chat or the no the the the YouTube chat oh you
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have it open what's going on over there L okay
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sorry it's right we we were vamping for like five minutes waiting for you to bring it up and get ready I'm uh okay doing a little
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research now what's weird is I have two chat windows I have one there that's so weird why do I have two
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oh see how it goes that's fine I'm I'm gonna just use the top one um so this is
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gonna be a yes or no answer right yes they're all yes or no okay great you guys
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ready yeah one two three go I voted yes
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okay I voted no I also voted no if anything it wouldn't it be the a 17
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chip well that's what he's saying is it's G to be like an a18 in name only
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right so the iPhone 16 Pro will get the a18 pro and they're going to call the
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chip in the a the regular a or the regular iPhone 16 the a18 Team without
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the pro but it's going basically going to be the this is so I don't know if it's going to be bading or if it'll
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actually be as bespoke I'm leaning towards it actually being a brand new chip and but just a slightly lesser
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version of the A8 Pro that the iPhone gets I I think they're going to stick with their current convention I I could
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totally see them changing it up so that it can better handle AI but I think the
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current chips can handle AI so yeah
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I know you think they would Square the naming convention because right now it's what
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it's one version behind yeah who knows well I guess we'll find
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out find out three four days yeah I mean again they might just badge engineer the A7 Pro and just call it A8 but I I think
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might be a new thing yeah anyways basic iPhone 16 gets hand me- down Pro feature
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from the pro phones this year okay from the Pro phones this year
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so they're going to pick up an iPhone 15 Pro feature my phone just fell the
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ground okay
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ready ready oh no no sorry yes or no what was the question again hand me-
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down feature iPhone 16 gets a hand-me-down pro feature uh you should probably put the question number in here too so we're on question two okay
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sure you guys ready y 1 2 three go I voted yes okay Three Amigos on that
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one I I think it's probably I mean the action button it's probably going to be
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it yeah I didn't call it out as being the action button and I was kind of hoping that one of you would forget that that's a pro phone feature
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but come on now forget trickster we got Loki over here forget about the action
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button for sure but I used it the other day from what I've heard everybody has forgotten about the action button it all
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the time all the time every single day all right well maybe it's just Lander yeah well that's surprising okay
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question number three all iPhones get a new physical camera button all iPhones
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get it okay I'm ready let me know all right 3
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two one I voted yes
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okay deserve it huh yeah I do I sure do
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leis I could be wrong about that one be wise they got to do something to make you spend the extra duckets on the pro
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that's probably you know now I feel bad about my choice well that was my I think I think rumors were actually saying that
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it will come to all iPhones but I can't be bothered to remember such things would be like them to reserve it anyways
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um okay question number four iPhone 16 Pro comes in black white gray and
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gold is gray okay space gray natural titanium I'm calling gray okay oh
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right okay ready you're you're saying natural titanium see I was going to say
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no because I think it's going to be black white natural titanium and gold
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all all titanium okay well yeah but you're saying that that counted as yes if it's if it's black titanium white
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titanium natural titanium and as I'm like rumored today then you would vote Yes and you would be correct
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got you're downgrading the the natural titanium to gray it is gray yeah because
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it's gray such a rude word that's what it is when you redu
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it's worth about $300 more when it's natural titanium they have to do nothing to it okay are you guys ready three okay
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two one I actually voted no mostly foolishly
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in my heart but it's actually part of a strategy that we'll get to later in this show to to
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lose okay what let's see how that one works out for him
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Cotton sorry what were your votes yeah we we voted yes
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okay question what uh five Apple starts listing iPhone memory
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specs okay so to explain if you're a little confused like apple like it's
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it's broadly available like everybody knows how much how many gigabytes of RAM each model of iPhone has but Apple
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doesn't publish them on their text speex Page or anywhere on their website and they certainly don't mention it in the
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keynote um some people think they might start too okay I think I'm ready
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okay ready one two
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3 yep we're both no soes level remix what' you say Griffin I also voted
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now okay well one point for each of us people are saying they'll do it because of Apple intelligence but no think
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that's in their St they did actually start doing that on the iPads but I'm still confident they're not going to do
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it on the iPhones okay question six fine woven cases
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discontinued oh okay I believe I know the correct answer
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for this one yeah Le okay you ready one two
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three I voted yes you guys voted
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yes I think you just lost a point I think you just lost a point no way are they getting rid of final 11 really no
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way have you ever heard anybody say anything good about it yeah I have I
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have heard people say good things about them and I'm like really I I I find that shocking but I I think that Apple needs
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something that is going to be premium and if it's not going to be leather and it's not going to be final woven what is
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it going to be I don't well pleather is not premium
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that's why they went to find woven because it has like this premium um um
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uh aura about it no it doesn't well I mean it says fine in the name but that's
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it certainly more than ple trash certainly more than pleather no but I bet you they come up with some kind of
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like Eco leather you know like leather made from corn or or of agave I mean there's all these compies that do this
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already I know but no one's willing to pay a premium anytime you have pleather
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people are like dude it's pleather I'm not paying you a premium for pleather I think that's one of the reasons why they didn't go with plea in the first place
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it's got It's stigma man they've made some good advances in that area and apple spin it into like oh look at this
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amazing new green material that we dreamed up and and you know fine woven by the way is made of you know
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plastic yeah I think that polyester I think that's another reason why they won't move away from it is because
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they're too invested I think they absolutely will move away with it because they know it's not popular I think the only question is will they do
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it this year or next year did they have enough time to come up with a new product you know in in in in just in
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less than one year because it probably took them three months to kind of gauge the sentiment right and I mean a lot of
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people were complaining about it but they're probably like three months did I say three minutes three minutes no I said three minutes right okay I mean
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there were the whiners who came out of the gate and were like this is not good but I think Apple they're not as
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reactive as that like they're like okay some people don't like it but what does the broader Market uh think about it
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let's wait to see how many sell over the next quarter and then we'll make a decision and then if that people don't
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like it they have to come up with a contingency plan or maybe they came up with a contingency plan right away I don't know I think they were probably caught off guard by how much hate there
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was for for fine woven uh and so I'm going to guess they had to scramble to try to figure out what else they could
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do did I vote I think I did all right let's move on Apple watch
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section Apple Watch series 10 is larger and thinner this is question seven
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okay
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oh I have Mi feelings about this but uh okay ready one two
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three I voted yes I voted no Lewis is a yes I think I think it will be larger
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like the screen will be larger but I don't think it will be thinner that's that's my concern you
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might be right I think it has to get thinner it's it's been so many years it hasn't gotten thinner at all and I think
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that's like the one dimension I would like the Apple watch to gr to grow or Shrink in yeah make it it it it's it's
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kind of bulky um question eight applewatch series 10 breaks
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compatibility with smaller watch bands
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all right this is the 10 we no there were the rumors that like
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the small size is going to be as big as the big size no comment and you know they might they might change the watch
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strap going give you let you have access to the Deep insights that are going through my mind scrolling back through
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time the conversations that we've had about this very topic I'm not giving that away for free
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not trying to give it away I'm just trying to mess with it okay I'm
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ready ready okay one two three I voted no yeah we all voted no oh
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I don't think they can do it I think they have to maintain
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compatibility uh it's a promise it's a promise to us all nine Apple watch Ultra
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3 comes in new dark finish
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[Music] Earth you put it on
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11 what what number are we on this is nine okay my 11 was nine or my 11 was
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eight whoops oh my God you're 11 can I can I fix
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it I can't change it it's too late okay so we're on nine now right this is nine yes um oh the new
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dark color for the Ultra okay I'm
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ready me too one two three go I voted yes we all did maybe
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foolishly because it's been rumored before and they haven't done it yet but like honestly what else are they going
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to do with the ultra three right the only be the only change both of you voted yes as well
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yeah we all did yeah okay sounds like we're all going to lose a point on Monday I don't know lot of
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parody in this one mhm question 10 this is the tricky one
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blood oxygen features are re-enabled I guess I should clarify in
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the United States because they were never gone in other countries and they've never been introduced a lot of other countries but blood oygen enabled
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just to kind of get some clarity on this question what if stuff keep falling off my desk just
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fall from your ceiling that's a phenomenon called gravity leis I live in an earthquake zone um let's see uh so if
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they reintroduce it in series 10 but it
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stays disabled in older versions what is that is that H how does
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that I guess I don't see that as being very likely as happening because if the patent dispute is resolved then they'll
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just enable it on everything and I and the um the hardware even in the models where it's disabled like the ones that
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have been sold in 2024 still have the hardware inside there waiting for them to reenable it but my guess is that um
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yeah let's say even if even if the new ones ship with blood oxygen features and
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I don't know the series 9 that you bought last week doesn't have it I guess I would still count it as yes because that is a blood oxygen feature that's
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re-enabled on the new models even it's not on all models I'm ready question is this 10 10 this is 10
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okay one two three I voted yes I voted no I voted yes
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they got to get this figured out I I can't believe they had it's a patent issue man they've got nowhere to go unless they pay up with the royalties
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and enable them to use blood oxygen on all their watches I don't think it's going to happen until they I don't think
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they can let it affect a brand new product and apple is more than capable of ending this just to give them a bunch
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of money which which they have not done this entire time so why would theyes
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have ever been this high like they're introducing a new product with with the feature disabled out of the gate I don't think they can get away they just won't
1:00:05
talk about it they just won't mention it and no one will even remember or know we'll see that is also very likely this
1:00:12
is not a confident yes this is maybe like a 55 45 for me I've swung you over this is why I said nothing during your
1:00:19
debate TC doesn't pay up man that's level remix from the chat have you guys learned nothing TC doesn't pay he he
1:00:25
treats us like a hostage negotiation you don't pay for hostages you give in once they all start
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coming after you yeah exactly you don't negotiate for hostages question even when they send
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you an ear okay Apple watch se3 is plastic colorful and less
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expensive and this is 11
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yes now you got a lot of stuff crammed in here mhm
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I'm ready I would say yeah okay ready one
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two three I voted yes okay we both voted no
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I think what threw you off and why you're going to lose a point here is the less expensive part I don't think it's going to be less expensive I can believe
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the plastic that's I think going to happen I can believe that it will be colorful because they do that with se but less expensive did you miss the
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commentary about TC not paying up well I don't think it'll be that much less expensive the current price is $249 my
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guess is 229 yeah but you forgot about inflation I think I think at the at the
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best it's going to stay the same price well that's what that's what the plastic is for bring it bring it back down
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anyways yeah for for TC not for you I mean how much cheaper is plastic
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than aluminum anyway I mean yeah I don't know every beer can is made of aluminum
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I don't I don't I mean maybe it is cheaper but still okay moving on I mean the the way
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they make their Aluminum Products where they start with like a solid block and then they slowly Mill it out and like laser etch it and all that it's an
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expensive way to make aluminum the materials cost isn't probably that much different but that's the process may be
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able to just stamp these Yeah question 12 and are now in the other products
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category okay any new iPad is announced any new iPad is
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announced 12 yes God it's a tough one
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[Music] mhm do a bit of Recon here real fast
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ah okay 12 I'm ready ready
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go I voted no no I went with yes what's going to be ad mini is
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ancient iPad is on the verge they're liquidating the nines they're doing discounts now on the
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10 I think they're going to axe the nine 10 will become the new lowest and
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I've had 11 I could be wrong we sometimes I think that'll happen but I think that'll happen in October yeah it
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could or or even March I I I don't know but leis what did you vote I voted no
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same thing I think he's probably going to come soon I might I might have lost him that one question 13 any new Mech is
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announced ready all right one two
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three I voted no I also voted no as did Lewis Wallace but October's four that's
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right they're going to group all the Maxs together okay question 14 new airpods replace
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airpods 2 and airpods 3
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well I mean look we all know the answer to this one it's freebie
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ready yeah one two three I mean we put over this in class
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right yeah we're all yeses I presume okay new a pods Max with USBC connector
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this is question oh my goodness this is this this is the tough one making you pick you put me on the spot what is this
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15 yep oh man ah I'm
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agonizing I'm in I'm in deep Agony I'm starting to PP perspire
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okay one 2 3 I Ved yes we all did that that is a
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that is a complete H Mary question I think it makes sense to
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do it I just don't know if they will yeah it's typically a bad idea to vote in the way of airpods Max since
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that they haven't updated in like what four and a half years yeah yeah it's like voting for an Apple TV play plus
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Sizzle reel we'll get there question 16 new Apple TV with an A8
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ship oh man now now we're really getting out into speculation territory I believe this was a listener
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submission from the cult Club oh wow good question okay you
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ready one two 3 I voted no we're all NOS nose across
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the board yep same with Love remix he's with us he says no I wish y same here
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TV this is the final round of the miscellaneous category new Apple
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intelligence features announced this is question 17
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16 no we just did 16 oh right sorry 17 I mistake
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I don't have these numbered on my on my website I know not the way you should yeah you should that's should that's an update I'd like to introduce you to the
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ordered list okay I'm ready ready one two
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3 I voted yes oh both no I voted no
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really no the come on they already announced a ton ofr have been revealed y I think they're going to introduce a new
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um a a new plugin for for like similar to the chat gbt one like apple
1:07:28
Executives have explicitly name dropped that they want to add Google Gemini and it's weird for them to be that specific
1:07:34
in like a public interview setting when they haven't actually announced anything so I think they're going to like have a you know oh and now and now Apple
1:07:41
intelligence will work with the Google Gemini as well is that a new feature yeah it' be a new it's just a
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new partner which you refus to call a partner last time I was just going to say the same thing
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leis hypocrite okay well look you should have announced
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that you dispute that fact which you never did I still don't think it's going to happen so it's all moot okay okay
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question 18 yeah Vision immersive video Sizzle
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reel Vision Pro the sizzle okay I think I think we all know the answer to
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this at least I do
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ready one two three I'm really disturbed about my
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answer on this one no no I'm AO too you said no I voted yes Sizzle for what man
1:08:42
they got such limited time in these things I what are they trying to sell they're trying to remind you that Pro
1:08:49
exists by showing you the fancy things trying to remember you remind you it exists all right that's the one reason
1:08:54
that I think that I might might be wrong about that one I said no but it's possible that just because they made
1:09:00
such a big and uh at this point Bad Bet On The Vision Pro they might you know if
1:09:07
they got something really cool that they could show off but I mean I don't know
1:09:13
man well once again we'll find out soon we're gonna find out question 19 more
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products are 100% carbon neutral when I say more I mean like currently the only products that they sell is % carbon
1:09:26
neutral like one configuration of Apple watch with like I think like two different sport bands that you can buy
1:09:31
but surprised you know that more more than those two okay or their direct fair question fair question I believe I I've
1:09:38
peered through space and time I believe I've arrived at the right conclusion we'll see if you chaps have done the
1:09:44
same are you ready Y in three two
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one I put down yes even L are yeses I'm a big fat juicy no way be that new
1:09:57
pleather case but it's not about a case it's about well I guess a kid be about the
1:10:04
case huh clearly that's a product yeah that's true I was thinking like the actual
1:10:10
um like iPhones or Macs or but okay it might just be like one
1:10:15
additional configuration of Apple watch but yeah we'll find out last question the keynote runs over
1:10:24
1 hour 29 minutes this is question
1:10:30
20 so specific so specific keep missing
1:10:37
these very intimidated by the timing
1:10:43
questions and I intentionally tried to pick the most infuriating [Laughter]
1:10:48
number you son of a
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okay I'm ready what 29 you said 1 hour and 29 minutes
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m one two three I voted
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yes we both think that apples got their editing together yeah I think it's too
1:11:15
long anything over an hour and a half I just think it's too long and we're we're headed into a keynote where we already
1:11:21
know most stuff all the software stuff it's going to be a quick review and then
1:11:26
hey here are the new iPhones maybe there'll be some surprises bada bing bada boom Bob's your uncle let's party I
1:11:33
think that if they're introducing new airpods then they'll they'll have a lot to talk about like I looked through past events
1:11:40
for the September event and like sometimes they're shorter but you know those are usually events where they don't have as much to talk
1:11:46
about yeah and well you might be right I just don't think that they'll spend a lot of time on each product because they
1:11:53
try to keep it as concise as possible because they know that people have short attention spans and don't remember stuff so they're going to want to really focus
1:12:00
on like the Marquee features and then everything else will be on some slide
1:12:05
and I don't think they're going to be releasing a ton of products at this they're going to split this between this
1:12:12
in the October event for product launches so I think it's going to be under an hour and a half for sure but I
1:12:18
have gotten one or two wrong in the past so keep that in mind uh Wild Card question all right the new Pro iPhone
1:12:27
color is called fill in the blank
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oh
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well usually the hardest to guess usually the marketing names don't leak but uh that's why it's worth three
1:12:45
points instead of one okay we
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ready yeah 1 two three
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my guess is golden titanium oh okay a
1:13:02
Gold Titanium you guys went with Gold Titanium okay interesting I mean the
1:13:09
rumors have been desert titanium so I don't know if that's just like an internal color but that sounds like an
1:13:16
actual color to me mom's mom's desert Adventure tan how
1:13:22
about that now you be thinking Griffin you voted against gold but that's part of my
1:13:29
strategy because now I'm colored both ways if it turns out it's bronze then you know I you know I've already voted
1:13:36
against gold in this question for but if it actually turns out it is gold then I'll only lose one point instead of
1:13:41
three so my guess and I also think they'll go with gold in titanium if it's
1:13:47
a gold color because like Gold Titanium like those are just two names of elements you it's not gold it's made of
1:13:53
titanium so I be like golden you know sort of like you know uh you know a cheese flavored
1:14:00
product you interesting line of reasoning there it just sounds they're not gonna I
1:14:08
don't know golden that doesn't fit with everything they've ever
1:14:14
done how about gloen titanium and it's like oh no they they
1:14:19
put it in the actual invitation and we didn't even guess it those are Titan I mean
1:14:28
not we'll see it does sound like a you know reasonable name for it but I don't
1:14:34
think that the the like leaked names are very rarely ever accurate like we you know we're all convinced that like apple
1:14:41
is going to call their heads out like the reality Pro or something like that that's true they planted that's
1:14:48
true and remember that the the purple one they called it deep purple I mean
1:14:54
that was pretty out there huh so our listeners can go to
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deger jones.com survey and fill out these same questions and we'll we'll you have until the the
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1:15:14
answers how are we feeling I don't have a great feeling about this one for some reason I think I walk it in guys I
1:15:20
wobblers I don't want to start the celebration yet but it's all but locked
1:15:27
it's all but locked thanks to the to the new format where we put him in the chat
1:15:33
before we discuss now airone that didn't work out for you last time you were convinced like Lewis won that event it's
1:15:40
all part of my plan Griffin get Lewis a false sense of confidence then boom I
1:15:47
come in for the next one and I pull the rug out from underneath him
1:15:52
sandbagger so look I think that's it should I go ahead
1:15:57
and start the music and after this I'm drained after that that was that is
1:16:03
actually a like a torturous sort of it was mentally and emotionally taxing I think I might do nothing for the rest of
1:16:08
the day I'm going to just sit here in my chair and stare up at the ceiling I'm heading for the fainting
1:16:14
couch all right everyone well the Apple event is next Monday yeah 10 a.m. so all secrets will
1:16:22
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1:16:28
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we probably yeah we should definitely we should definitely I'm going to be I'm committing to that right now we're definitely going to do that we'll be in the live chat Lewis too right Lewis he's
1:16:54
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hands and all the butts it's unbelievable it's unbelievable how I can multitask you're like an octopus we'll
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see you [Music] guys next time if only that was an option l i
1:17:24
could get some extra tentacles installed control them with my neural link that's an option I would consider
1:17:31
you can always go squid you never go full squid just don't get the
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ink the ink explosion pack installed in your hind end I've heard her stories about
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