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This week:
- iPhone 17 Pro Max renders give early glimpse of next Apple flagship
- First folding iPhone could arrive by 2026
- Apple Magic Mouse could get a modern makeover
- Our picks for best and worst stuff of 2024!
Chapters:
0:00 Preshow
6:40 Intro
11:22 Squarespace
13:42 iPhone 17 Pro
24:50 Folding iPhone
26:36 Apple Intelligence news summaries
34:06 CultCloth
36:24 Best and Worst of 2024
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0:01
oh jeez geez let's hopefully let's hope we are
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live because it keeps asking me to pick the right stream but then it also says that
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we're live just don't cross them that would be
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bad might create a hole in the space time continue them I see a you're almost
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ready almost live screen and we're live what's on that mug Louis is that like a creepy Halloween
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hand or something this is your favorite one dude you got to get like a Christmas mug or something what are you doing wait where am I G to put a
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Christmas mug what what do you mean where you gonna put it on your desk full of coffee something
0:45
festive maybe a grinch mug oh man I've been hum buug I've been seeing Grinch stuff everywhere this year I don't know
0:51
Grinch is great I mean everyone loves the Grinch but I feel like particularly this year Grinch stuff absolutely
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everywhere everywhere I go I I've been seeing Grinch mugs Grinch uh coffee cups Grinch water bottles I mean just Grinch
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all over the place that implies or not even to imply I mean that indicates you've left your
1:11
house gone to a market of some sort I do leave my house at least once every
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couple weeks leis unlike you who haven't been out since the pandemic you're like in your own episode of
1:22
[Laughter] Silo how many stories you have in that house you you have a basement that you
1:28
go sleep in yeah we went down there for the tornado warning I genuinely wonder which one out
1:33
of the three of us has left the house the least in 2024 I'm GNA guess it's you dude cuz you got nowhere to
1:40
go I mean I I guess it depends on whether you consider like leaving the bounds of the walls or like leaving the
1:46
property say leaving my dogs out like multiple times a day okay that doesn't count you you got to actually be leaving
1:51
your property taking the trash out doesn't count no well I I mean I'm only one person I only need to take the trash
1:57
out like once every two or three weeks yeah and and even if you want to go somewhere like is that even a
2:02
possibility for you like is there anywhere for you to go I mean the thing is when I do need to leave and drive uh
2:09
I need to drive very far so I actually have a lot of miles put on my car this year because like the few times that I
2:17
do need to leave I need to drive like 40 minute round trip to the store or like wow hour there and back to like the
2:23
nearest other human that I know jeez you you that's only further affirmation that
2:29
I was correct you know ever go anywhere I'm surprised you don't have like a big Ted kazinski
2:34
beard he's been working on growing one I like any facial hair he hasn't shaved in
2:40
like two years he's working on it I go I leave the house facial hair
2:46
yet I leave the house two three times a week just to play darts alone and then there's the inevitable grocery store
2:52
trips I refuse to pay someone to do my grocery shopping oh dude I I I really don't get this whole
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I'm going to pay someone to go do regular everyday human stuff for me and bring it to me like the Uber Eats and
3:08
the um door dashes and the task rabbits and stuff I'm like how hard is it to go get your own takeout not to mention if
3:16
you use Uber Eats or task rabbit I think they raise the prices of those menu
3:21
items and then they also charge you a delivery fee so it's like super expensive to do it now what I do like is
3:28
if is like the store is owned like you know just pick up the groceries in the parking lot that's fantastic I tried
3:35
doing grocery delivery one time it was really expensive I didn't like it and you have like you know tip somebody was like you know you should always tip
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somebody but it is an extra like 20% cost on the top of it but doing like the parking lot pickup like somebody just
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brings the stuff to your car that's fantastic I do that we still got some
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trying to you know which steak am I going to give him oh I'll just give him this crapy
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which which head of lettuce how about this one that has a bunch of bugs and you know I I don't like that I don't
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either I'm like a freaking Jeweler inspecting a diamond when I look at my steak man I got a freaking monocle on
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and I'm I'm looking at that thing up in the lights I got like a magnifying glass on it like I'm going to get the vinest
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one you've got that thing's going to have it's practically going to be wagu Vey yeah like just you know like the fat
4:24
veins going down it I believe I believe it's called marbling
4:30
well you think you want to use the word vain you don't ideally you don't see a lot of veins in your when you got your
4:35
model colog and you're expecting it up close leis there's things that you see that the normal light doesn't but that's neither here nor there I think we should
4:41
probably get this thing going we got into it Tom oh fright clever guy real clever guy
4:48
in the chat can we get the mod in here he says two cult cast off Topics in one week yeah that's right okay we get it
4:54
we're off topic yeah did you release one yeah I released one after I fixed your missing audio got it released oh yeah it
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went last night yeah the other Tuesday
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it was a great one too I actually listened to it because um I was trying to figure out how to fix your audio and uh it was our it was our
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accidental cooking podcast TM trademark 2024 ACP that's
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that's a completely completely open eony I think yeah I think so hey look great arti great good artist borrow great
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artist steal right we can repurpose that for our accidental cooking podcast and uh dud was a great episode one of the
5:34
best we've ever done to be honest with you this year we have a pretty good internet program here don't we all right look everyone's fleeing all
5:42
the listeners are going away it's because there's no tweet they you know oh once again Lewis makes a great Point
5:48
let me get this PE this tweet going out and we'll get this thing rolling oh man I could hear the
5:55
reverberation on my guitar holes behind me I just cracked one of them
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all right got the Tweet tweeted Lewis the Tweet has been tweeted I think we should go
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ahead and uh get this party started what do you
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say because I gotta be walking these sweet buns out the door in like 45 minutes here we go oh Mrs
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D Mrs D oh my dear I do love a good party I had a special sensual party with
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El KY last night I don't want to what those party favors were Mr T no one wants to hear
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any more about that if you don't mind we got a whole lot of show to do and not a lot of time to do it so I'll get the music going in three
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two hello and welcome to the coast best 30 plus out conversation you're can
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he all week long I'm your host L join me today every year he dresses like Santa with a big gift bag and he heads to the
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riter cage hands out gifts like new socks clean wipes MREs and other Goods
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the Riders typically go without for the remainder of the year he's a man Lou WS
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is here so great to be back so great I agree also with us when he goes to the
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mall children often confuse him for one of Santa's elves probably doesn't help that he
7:17
wears shoes with pointy curled tips and bells on the end that's a weird fetish he's a rer from col back the GID Joon is
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here good evening I will actually say in regards to to the manner I dress I have
7:31
never felt less like a tourist in another country than when I was briefly
7:36
in the airport in Frankfurt Germany I blended right in as an American which is unusual in Europe oh man the Germans say
7:44
no more that's like their standard outfit that you got on right there it's like black Shir black pants what else do
7:50
you need that's true gray gray is best color I was thinking about lean deer the
7:57
other day and I was like oh man it would have been so great to continue doing some kind of show with him leanda and air frons or herons I couldn't decide
8:05
which one was was best but it was like the nicknames are so good I think the podcast just writes itself and we could do the whole thing in German accents
8:11
talk about German things that would actually be a lot of fun I'll pitch that to him if only his eyes weren't so
8:17
squinny and Blinky he could make something like that happen but all right everyone what he was on uh uh Graham and
8:24
Charlie's podcast this he he was doing that this morning that's why the newsletters live you're kidding no that
8:30
he said that's just Rich only audio of course that's his thing but it's great
8:35
we just take we just need to get like a gif of his face you know slowly blinking and we just put that in there where the
8:41
thing is and then he could do audio and nobody will know the difference I guess you'd have to make the mouth move up and down a little bit when he talked somehow
8:47
we get some animation done look we we pitched that to him as an option we told him you could just call you call in
8:54
every once in a while you don't have to you don't have to be here for the whole show you don't have to show your face
8:59
we'll literally just call your phone on Skype I could call his number directly and pipe it into my mixer I mean there's so many options that we have oh we'll
9:07
revisit that in the new year can you guys still hear me by the way oh jeez
9:13
are you there come on now what I think we're
9:19
still your TV is doing something in the background there you see that yeah lit up I see what happened yes thank God I
9:26
think someone from inside my house is playing with their iPad likely one of my kids and what they did is they
9:33
accidentally selected my TV behind me as an AirPlay source which is how I know
9:39
they're freaking playing with the iPads cuz all of a sudden all my screen started Shing turning off and on and I
9:45
was like what the heck is going on and now my TV behind me is on let's hope
9:50
that doesn't wait wonder what's gonna start streaming don't yeah it's probably G to be like blues cluthes or something
9:59
denied instant instant copyright don't worry someone's going to be disciplined when I go inside the house okay we got
10:05
all sorts of show to cover for you all here oh my goodness we got our first Glimpse at the iPhone 17 is it the pro I
10:13
think and dude yeah the pro Max it looks absolutely terrific in my opinion so
10:20
we'll show that off and of course if you're listening we'll describe it and we'll include uh some images I'm going to guess in the actual podcast images in
10:28
the chapter artwork yes artw work fantastic uh also I'll talk about the first folding iPhone and when it might
10:33
arrive uh lisis is going to fill us in on this um interesting God there's no way to make this sound interesting but I
10:39
promise you it is when we were talking about it I almost cut it but then Lou told me what it was and I was like oh that actually does sound interesting Apple facing pressure to drop the AI
10:46
news summaries after a false headline and then we're going to launch into all the best and worst picks of 20124 the
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picks and the anti-pick I'm not even sure that that Lewis has any real picks
10:59
I think they're all just anti-pick he's slowly morphing into elcy there's no pics there's nothing he
11:05
wants it's just all stuff that he hates he's enjoyed nothing in the last 365
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days I know he said he doesn't have any picks of things that he likes I'm like you have nothing not a single thing that you've enjoy this entire
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year all right well before we dive in I do want to say thank you to Squarespace
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first but I think it might be Griffin is it sure who it is the iPhone 17 Pro Max
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renders give early glimpse of the next apple Flagship so over the last few years really since the iPhone 11 Pro uh
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they've all the iPhones have had sort of like the same design on the back of the phone with like the two-tier triple
14:41
camera bump it kind of resembles like a stove top in my opinion it's not terribly attractive uh but this year the
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top-of-the-line iPhone models reportedly will feature camera lenses lined up horizontally across the top of the
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phone's rear and rather than having like three discret like round camera bumps
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they all be grouped together under like a single piece of black class uh it looks it looks very nice in
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my opinion dude it looks great it it it's like such a beautiful design I really hope that this is it I'm so ready
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for a new design and now that you've said a stove top I can't unsee it that's it from here on forth it will always be
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what I think of you know what this design reminds me of the the pixel it looks kind of like if not exactly like a
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pixel doesn't it it does look that's what everybody's saying this information comes from a supposedly leaked picture
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of part of the iPhone 17 Pro Max chassis and the YouTube channel while saom took
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this and other leaks to create the iPhone 17 Pro Max renders showing what the device could look like if they prove
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accurate 2025 will bring the most significant revamp to the iPhone design in
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years uh as previously reported Apple might ditch the Pro Models titanium edges for aluminum which would be both
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stronger and lighter weight uh and shown in the renders is that this aluminum around the edge will sort of
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wrap around to the top part of the back panel with the the glass being sort of
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inset in the middle and this is a d this is so beautiful it w a weird a weird
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thing that I just thought of when I was looking at this is that Apple has been making uh big strides towards like
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repairability again so that you know you can either remove the front panel or the the back panel panel separately like
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they're both separately screwed into the frame in the middle I'm not sure how
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repairable this design would be because if you open up the rear panel like
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because the glass is inset you would have less access to the parts on the inside I don't know if you'll be able to
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fully remove the battery through that like smaller opening or not so that
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could be interesting hopefully hopefully they have a solution there yeah it's called it's called Apple Care true
16:59
in the last few days though I think this this design parts of this design have been counteracted by other rumors uh
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shrimp Apple Pro says this won't be the case Okay other people have been saying I think like maybe I want to say mingch
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quo off the top of my head said that parts of this design are true except for
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the fact that the lenses won't be in a continuous line along the top they'll still be in like clustered in the upper
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right corner oh you know how much is true how much is not the the lenses
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probably will be like you know all in one piece rather than the three separate maybe maybe not who knows it's exciting
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we don't we genuinely don't know what's going to happen and that's always most exciting because we like being surprised yeah well give it a few months we'll
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know exactly what we're going to be getting but um that's true sometimes I wonder if we're just settling for too
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little you it's like oh we're getting a linear alignment of
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the the lenses instead of like some actual new and novel feature
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but the aesthetic is a big thing for me so like I I I think for me like if they made no changes to the phone at all but
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they made the phone look better that actually is a big upgrade in my mind I don't know if I would buy it just for that but it does make a difference a
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going all the way with this design having them along the top of the phone is that you then wouldn't be able to
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hold the phone horizontally and record 3D spatial video for The Vision Pro a feature that I'm sure everybody uses all
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the time and is very important to people like you who don't have a Vision Pro why
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why wouldn't you be able to do that if if the lenses if it actually might even oh horizontally yeah yeah please explain
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this to me I I saw you and Leander talking about this that's started spinning because when you hold the phone
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horizontally like I'm demonstrating on the video now like the 1X lens and the ultra wide lens are side by side when
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you hold the phone horizontally and that's how you get the stereoscopic view are across the top of the phone then you
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would have to hold the phone vertically to get that and the Vision Pro doesn't like have prefers having horizontal
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video rather than vertical video vertical V video should be banned it shouldn't even be allowed in America
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says The Tick Tock freak who you call Freak it has its
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place it has its place if you're watching stuff on a vertical screen like a phone but yeah I guess Vision Pro is a
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horizontal device it should bring back hor all the best watching experiences are horizontal man I just these people
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that watch movies even trailers for movies that they want to see on their phones or laptops are out of their minds
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it ruins it completely diminishes and minimizes the experience everything that it's like
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watching a movie at the movie theater versus watching it on your iPad it just reduces it to like this flat 2D
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experience with terrible sound I have side side tangent that is an even
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smaller nitpick but you know it really grinds my gears oh please please do tell when there's like a streaming TV show
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like a TV show specifically designed for the streaming Market that's recorded in
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like a slightly different aspect ratio than 16 by9 Like For All Mankind I think
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is shot in 2 to one instead of 16 by9 so when you watch it there's like this tiniest little like black bar on the top
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and bottom it's like okay dude you know that people are going to be watching this on their television nobody has a 16
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by8 television everybody has a 16 by9 the tiny sliver of black bar on the top
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is just going to piss me off it's not going to make me feel any more immersed it's not going to look any more
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cinematic than it would if it was just if you're going to go if you're going to go Ultra widecreen do like 2.2
20:54
to one don't do like 16 by8 that's just oh hey go now you got to
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edit that part out take a note he's swearing now I edit I edit the show I can I can his gears really ground I I
21:07
mean look I got a sensor button here somewhere you got to let me know and I'll I'll put it into
21:12
effect I you knowed up into a legitimate lather I I can't find it I took it off
21:19
when Aly left yeah what what is the point look man are you trying to get the
21:24
show banned on YouTube there's more than just the editing function oh my gosh I I'm surprised that of all the things
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we've ever discussed that's the one that got Griffin to lose it very
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passionate yeah did so did did you show people the uh not really a mock like a
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just kind of a diagram that shrimp Apple proo posted saying uh how it's actually
21:49
GNA look I should go to his should I go should I go to his Pro is actually used
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pretty accurate I dropped a link in the uh in the show notes you know he was
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going on and on about all the reasons why yeah no no in the show notes all the reasons why why it ain't going to look
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like the the I think he he might have even said pistle Pro uh Google pistle
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phone um that's anyway so I mean the the
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sort of mockup he made is way it's basically like the same triangular
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design or orientation of the lenses with the sort of a similar like top part
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that's I guess metallic and the rest is glass so it's it's like you know similar
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to the one but not like also looks like the the current layout and and and
22:43
Griffin you know honestly like as many times as I've thought about this you holding that up and showing it like the way it looks I've never looked at the
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way that those things oh yeah of course of course that's why it's a triangle like
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that all right glad glad to know it I actually learned something I'm excited today yeah he's
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saying that there's actually no claim that the cameras are going to be lined vertically like that there was more the commentary that people are building off
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of was more around the shape of the glass underneath the camera um the
23:14
camera lenses oh my gosh we're way too in the weeds I'm not even sure that people who like apple like hearing us go
23:20
this deep we should just quickly move on forget this conversation ever happened but it's it does I think it's funny you
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guys like that uh mockup so much so many people were like oh it's terrible it looks just like a Google pixel on and on
23:34
a lot of a lot of that but really I think it's Beau they if they had a big line across
23:39
the top rather than the weird double camera bump then it wouldn't wobble when you set it down on a table yeah you know
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what that that was one of the first things I thought is like that would be great you could set your phone down it it'd still be a nice solid ramp but it
23:52
it wouldn't be a wobbly ramp I just appreciate the uniformity too it's
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the the fact that camera cameras are all on one side of the phone is unbalanced
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in my opinion I feel like I should shave my head and be wearing v-neck it creates an unharmonious experience I think it
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was because I think one one of the reasons I read somewhere it might have been shrimp Apple bro was like oh it's it's just because there's not enough
24:17
room for those cameras in the center because on the other side in the center is where the you know the face ID
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sensors and everything are so the other C I'm sorry we got to move on I got to be walking these s but muscular buns out
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the door it's 30 minutes I know sorry my apologies everyone we we started late today and I got a hard stop um so we got
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to move on um I'll tell you a little bit about the uh first folding iPhone um and
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when it might arrive according to the Wall Street Journal do I have this pulled up oh yeah I do thank goodness
24:50
okay you want your folding iPhone I actually saw a folding not a folding iPhone a folding phone in the wild the other day and I was like wow it's like
24:56
the first time I've actually seen anyone who had has a folding phone and I wasn't sure how I felt about it but I'm sure
25:01
when iPhone makes one I'll change my tune in any case the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Apple exe
25:07
Executives want to launch the first folding iPhone in 2026 although that date could slip to
25:14
2027 it supposedly will be a book style foldable similar to the Samsung Galaxy Z
25:20
fold series and pack a display bigger than the 6.9 in iPhone 16 Pro Max I mean
25:26
I certainly would hope so isn't that kind of the whole point of the foldable uh Apple first considered
25:32
making a foldable iPhone with an outward full- in display but it seems to have finally settled on a book style design
25:38
like other foldables on the market and then Apple reportedly ran into problems with the hinge and the cover for the
25:44
screen delaying the device's development what's say you chat excited about a
25:50
folding iPhone I think I'd be more excited about a folding iPad but you know what if it's going to have a huge
25:55
screen I'm all for it if you could pack more screen into the same size device or
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to a slightly thicker device I think that uh is something that appeals to me well there is another rumor that they
26:06
are working on a folding iPad but that'll come out a little later in possibly like 2027 or 2028 and it would
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be like an 11inch iPad size device that unfolds to be like a 20-inch
26:18
iPad that would be that' be massive I hope they also have plans on making a foldable MacBook
26:24
Pro anyway bad joke no one anyway so let's move on quickly um before we dive into
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our best of 2024 which is upcoming here shortly uh leis do you want to tell us
26:38
about this Apple news summaries story that I
26:43
didn't even hear about so yeah but apparently it was big enough that it
26:48
made some news this week yeah so Apple faces our headlin is Apple faces pressured to drop AI news summaries
26:54
after false headline which is pretty close post to Accurate anyway uh International journalism organization
27:01
reporters Without Borders calling for Apple to remove its new artificial intelligence powered news notifications
27:07
these are the summaries of them following a complaint from the BBC over a bugus news summary Apple
27:13
intelligence's notification summary featured generated a misleading BBC news headline last week about a high-profile
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murder case in United States falsely stating that the accused Shooter had shot
27:24
himself so uh you know you you you've seen these things if you running oh man it's yeah you all they summarize your
27:32
you know notific all oh wonderful complaining and showing
27:39
ridiculous absolutely ridiculous summaries right uh you know you get a summary from your uh
27:47
your your your camera like your nest camera or something says like large group of people gathered outside your
27:52
house you know people are making jokes about they're so so ridiculous but this wasn't very funny this was a a wildly
27:58
inaccurate summary of news stuff it said it it it summarized like three things from BBC news said Luigi mangion shoots
28:07
himself completely made up completely wrong you know s Simi uh Syrian mother
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hopes Assad pays the price semicolon South South Korea police raid oh shut up
28:22
would you my God always there when you don't want her
28:27
never there Lo is on the break he's about to lose it it's as bad as shooting TV in the
28:34
wrong aspect ratio he's about to disappear into that blurred background we're gonna just see him rage tipping stuff over throwing things yeah so I
28:42
don't know if you can see it but you know it basically says BBC news and it has those three stories in there and the top one is just completely wrong wow
28:49
that's wild and and so BBC asked Apple you know they they complained to Apple
28:55
about it uh and I guess this came out this week uh letter for a statement a
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basically a campaign from uh reporters Without Borders which is uh they're
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called rsf because you know reporter San Frontier uh but they so their guy
29:12
Vincent Bertier can't pronounce it head of rsf's technology and journalism Des
29:17
said AIS are probability machines and facts can't be decided by a role of the dice rsf calls on Apple to act
29:24
responsibly by removing this feature the automated production of false information attributed to a media Outlet
29:30
is a blow to the Outlet's credibility and a danger to the Public's right to Reliable information on current
29:35
affairs I gotta say I agree with him I mean this is I do too Apple needs to yeah figure out how I mean you know oh
29:42
it's in beta you know yeah well that's not cool still shiing to millions of people
29:50
like the inherent problem to this technology is that AI text generation
29:55
like always brings stuff back to the middle like it is it is it produces mid
30:01
average output and news like truly breaking news is always going to be unusual and novel like having a text
30:08
generation machine that always wants to produce the most predictable thing possible just runs counter to the idea
30:14
of like a news notification on your iPhone it's always going to mess something up like I think a few weeks
30:20
ago when there was like that uh that that like televised fight between what do you call what's his name like Logan
30:26
Paul and Mike Tyson notifications for that event summarized it as what was it Mike Tyson beats Logan
30:33
Paul and that's like the exact opposite of what actually happened because expected Mike Tyson to win but he didn't
30:41
and but that didn't stop the AI from just saying he did like yeah and I mean
30:46
it's it's funny when it like mischaracterizes uh you know some text
30:52
thread you know with Bunch your friends or something and you read it isn't that funny that's not what they actually said
30:57
but I mean it's supposed to be useful right it's not supposed to be like a a nonsense generator that gives you a
31:02
chuckle when it's it's supposed to save you time and my God think if you actually acted on these summaries that
31:08
were incorrect you know like the It summarizes your your text thread like oh
31:14
yeah let's meet at 5:00 pm so you show up at 5:00 p.m. like oh no actually if you actually read it as opposed to just
31:19
looking at the summary you'd know that we were getting together at noon I mean it's if it's completely if it's not if
31:27
it's slightly unreliable it's completely useless it's it's uh you know I I don't
31:34
know I I don't know what I I I I suppose you can go in and turn off these things these notif these AI summaries of
31:40
notifications and and maybe that's just what everybody have to do can you turn it off like on an at an app specific LEL
31:46
I don't I don't know about that you can into the if you go to settings apps and tap on a specific app or like settings
31:52
notifications whatever you can customize AI summaries but like the defaults matter nobody's going to actually do
31:58
that I certainly haven't done it and I've spent more time fiddling with apple intelligence than I think anybody should
32:05
that's probably true including you and it seems like apple should hand over
32:11
the default state to the app developer and say you you decide what the default State should be for this because
32:16
especially for news I mean you have this headline with the BBC's logo next to it and it's like
32:23
this is not a headline that they wrote it was completely manufactured um um
32:29
and I mean that seems like a pretty big problem if you're creating a headline
32:35
that they never cre now it could go the other way I mean there could be a news organization that writes a headline and
32:42
then Apple intelligence accidentally makes the headline true you know what I mean the reverse situation that's going
32:48
on in media today so that's also a possibility it's like oh you go to read it and it's like Manion gets that
32:54
headline he's like oh I guess I just have to shoot myself now yeah so that is interesting I you know I
33:01
actually have grown to like the summaries for messages and maybe even for Twitter and it never even crossed my
33:06
mind that maybe the summarized nature of the text is inaccurate but the thing
33:13
with AI is its ability to hallucinate which I think still happens all the time I don't believe that's a problem that
33:19
they they've dialed out and by hallucinate I mean there are occasions where AI just literally makes stuff something up that is not based in
33:25
reality at all and you would never know and there's disclaimers all over the place from people who provide you AI
33:33
that say you know uh generated by AI check for accuracy but no one ever does that they just see what they see and
33:39
they believe what is presented to them and um so I guess the old adage is true
33:46
Lewis don't believe everything that you read yeah because Apple intelligence is
33:52
gone full Siri oh God I said it again here we go again all right I think that's all the
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stories we have for this week I mean we could dive into more there's a bunch of snoozers in there but we are like yeah let's let's save some time for our best
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all right so we move into our picks and anti-pick for 20
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24 sounds good do you want to kick it off surely you know what I'll kick it
36:33
off with an anti-pick I was thinking about this since we talked about it 20 minutes
36:40
ago and I was like do I have any anti-pick something that I would like to pick and I was like actually there are several that jump out to me and one is
36:47
right here in front of me you know what it is can anyone guess take a guess Griffin what do you think might be my
36:53
anti-pick for the year it's something right in front of you you're at your desk I'm guessing it's the Windows PC
36:59
that you use on a regular basis that the cult Commander how dare you if the cult Commander had hands I'd have it come
37:04
slap you you know what it is actually I kind of like Windows 11 no
37:10
it is this right here what am I pointing to oh the completely pointless control
37:17
totally useless camera button on my new it's not a button it's not a button it I
37:24
mean it does depress or it makes the sensation of depression that is also true touche I have found
37:31
the button to be almost completely useless I should probably remap it it doesn't live up to the hype it's not
37:37
practical it's not useful it's a worst way of controlling an absolutely
37:44
brilliant um camera control UI and ux that's on your iPhone underneath your
37:50
thumb at all times which makes it way easier to control the phone I would venture to say it's a
37:57
gimmick and doesn't actually improve the iPhone in any way actually I take that back it does it forced camera case
38:03
makers to put an indentation uh at least on my case in
38:08
the area of the phone where the button lives which actually makes it easier to hold so there is that that's a win
38:14
outside of that it does absolutely nothing that I find and maybe I'm not taking enough photos and videos but I do
38:21
find it useful like when you click it that it launches the camera I think that's nice but rolling your finger
38:28
across this button to like activate any kind of controls is so janky and just
38:35
doesn't work reliably and is not smooth that it makes me not want to use it ever
38:41
um occasionally I will use the button to take a photo just when I'm you know holding the camera vertically to take a
38:46
picture of people so I use it that way but other than that not really a great feature in my
38:53
mind I maybe there are people out there Am I Wrong chat let me know but so far the best thing for me is that I is
39:01
able to take the camera icon off of my home screen and get a space back but I'm with you I don't use the swiping gesture
39:07
I find that kind of annoying and it's just too it's just too small of a surface to swipe on EX I use it to open
39:13
the camera constantly like every it's it's now the fastest way to do it that's true sometimes the swipe to the left on
39:19
the lock screen is fiddly sometimes like tapping and holding on the camera button on the lower right corner is a little
39:25
fiddly but just clicking it to open the camera is fantastic but it doesn't need to do anything other than that really
39:30
yeah so it's it's essentially a a second you know action button which in fact my
39:38
tip is that if you go into settings camera camera control you can turn off the swipe entirely and you know you will
39:44
no longer swipe accidentally which is what I do I haven't gotten it to accidentally
39:49
swipe but it also could be because you know of my case and that's that's the
39:55
other thing like I kind of wonder if you had a case that had a better design for
40:01
the actual camera button if if maybe your ability to control it would be easier but I don't know man there's just
40:06
something about that button where it seems to not always recognize your touches and then there's like that
40:12
little tiny menu bar that like lives right above the button that you're supposed to like swipe down on on like scroll through it's like first of all
40:19
you can barely see it you have to have like 15 20 Vision to actually be able to see what your options are and you have
40:24
to have like the hands of a surgeon to actually select the thing that you that you want and if your fingers are of
40:32
any masculine size forget about that unless you have like little rat Paws or little tiny Alexy Heath hands maybe he
40:39
he probably loves the button but outside of that I don't know man I just I mean
40:44
okay so Dipsy do from the chat I go caseless and it still sucks yeah I feel like there is a lag between when it
40:50
recognizes that you're trying to do something and when that something actually happens so it just misses your
40:56
uh intention obv a lot of times which the screen doesn't really ever do so it just seems like a worse way of
41:02
controlling the camera than the brilliant software methods that Apple has already provided to us over the
41:08
years so I don't know man that's my pick my anti-pick I should say quick re real
41:13
time followup the setting is in settings accessibility camera control and then you can disable the swipe okay I know
41:19
what I'm doing after the show Lewis yep what do you have a pick or an
41:25
anti-pick I don't know we we're running out of time huh so uh I'm going to go quick and easy with a pick and
41:33
uh you know here's what they are airpods pro to you know why I'm using this as a
41:39
pick for this year because they made them even better they made them even better with the hearing stuff and you
41:45
know I don't use them as hearing aids but I've read plenty of uh kind of
41:50
actually moving things people talking about using these as hearing aids and I can't wait to try using them as uh
41:58
like hearing protection when I go to a concert or if I ever have a a band that rehearses ever again I haven't done any
42:06
you know anything I haven't been in a situation to use these hearing health things but I've read convincing reports
42:14
that using the airpods Pro 2 as hearing aids is awesome and and they did that
42:19
strictly with a uh a software update this year it's not a new product but they may they basically made it a brand
42:25
new product this year so and and honestly I was talking about the other day we we you know fiddling with the
42:32
website and you know putting like a a a buying box on there and we're looking at it and like you know one of the things
42:38
you do in these buying box you put in pros and cons you know okay Pro this Pro this Pro this and and the con was like
42:44
fiddly easy to stick in the wrong ear and I I said who who the hell wrote this I said this sounds completely this has
42:51
your finger prints all over it Leander and he's like yeah guilty is charge
42:57
jiani yeah I said I said first off fidley okay I mean I that's a giveaway
43:03
that it's you that wrote this but do you actually stick them in the wrong ear hole I mean how how short is your
43:10
attention span you you pluck it out of the case and it's your left hand and it just naturally goes to your left ear I
43:16
mean but I I quickly surmise what he does is he leaves him sit around outside of the case which who does that either
43:23
right that's uh that's completely an elcy thing to do and and we were talking about said you know honestly I can't
43:28
think of a single thing that's bad about the only the only thing that ever happens with these that is is kind of
43:34
weird is once in a while when I'm connected to my Apple TV I'll get like a
43:39
weird robotic uh you know some kind of like Bluetooth weirdness with with the
43:46
audio but that that doesn't happen very often when it it when it does it's completely surprising because they're so
43:51
bulletproof otherwise so anyway that's it's still my I it me I mean I love the iPhone but if you think about it you
43:58
know 10 years ago you had a you know you want noise cancelling earbuds or
44:04
earphones you got to get big bulky things they cost a lot of money these things were on sale for like 169 bucks
44:11
over Black Friday so cheap it's it's maybe the best maybe the best Apple
44:17
product I don't know so there I was tempted to almost bottomless I was tempted you didn't oh you you know
44:23
that's the other thing like some people don't like the the silicone ear tips I don't that's me that's the one caveat
44:30
that I and that's not a negative on the on the product cuz I think that they you know they ship with multiple sizes and
44:35
they feel good to me but you know some people don't like them so yeah well yeah
44:40
I can talk about airpods 4 which I might and by the way next episode I think we're doing nothing but picks and
44:47
anti-pick for the whole year there's going to be nothing to talk about next week so we're gonna be doing that which is good because I feel like we keep
44:52
running out of time like there's a bunch of stuff I actually want to talk about and we keep running out of time to talk about it so hopefully next episode we
44:59
I'll be able to get it all out somehow I doubt it Griffin take it away you should also announce that next week we're going
45:04
to be recording on Friday not Thursday on account of Christmas yes that's true
45:10
thank you for calling that out so if you're wondering where we are uh wellow
45:15
we'll be there looks like he forgot so I'm I'm glad I I couldn't remember what day it was Christmas on a Wednesday
45:22
right so we're doing it on a Friday instead of a Thursday okay yeah Griffin
45:28
I'm not out of eggnog by that point I have this this is this is not a technology pick but it is the biggest
45:36
change to my to my hair routine ever since I first got my blood dryer a few
45:43
years ago this is this and this is a product that everybody can use not just a product is is it a fork that goes into
45:49
a socket that's pretty good that's pretty
45:54
good I'll take that remark um uh this is a product that almost everybody I guess Lewis probably wouldn't find any utility
46:00
in it but you know like 12 hairs left so he probably doesn't struggle washing that's not true they just migrated South
46:06
that's fair that's fair this is a product I don't know what it's called Uh but the word on the side of it says hea
46:14
he T so I guess search for that or maybe check in the show notes to see if I found it uh this is a weird sort of like
46:22
s oh my goodness it hand uhhuh it it slides your your
46:28
fingers slide through like a handle on top and on the bottom it's kind of like a 3D rubber toothy comb and you might be
46:37
wondering what on Earth is this for it's it's like a scalp stimulator yeah it it helps you it helps
46:44
you scrub your head so I realized like I don't always shampoo my hair on six out
46:51
of seven days of the week I only do a rinse but you you do have to do a pretty thorough rinse like you have to get in
46:56
there rub your scalp and it turns out that fingers aren't actually very good at that like even compared to like a thick
47:03
toothed comb or like a brush thing fingers are thick and spindly and weird
47:09
little sausage things even if you have pretty thin hands this thing is designed to like get in there and scrub the
47:16
incredible amount of dandruff oil this is unreal I can't I can't believe where this show is going today yeah I did not
47:22
expect that genuinely it's a genuinely I wasn't expecting a a beauty product from Griffin and it's it's peculiarly flesh
47:29
colored yeah it it almost looks like some kind of AI generated thing look at that it's got little finger rides on the
47:34
top it looks like you 3D too far off from the from from the the the my own shade of skin on my flush face but uh
47:41
it's it's genuinely great like you pick this thing up you just like rub in there and you feel like it's taking like a layer off of the surface of your head
47:48
great it gets it gets all the stuff out of there especially if you have thick oily Italian hair like I do I mean I
47:54
feel like I could delve deeper into this top I probably shouldn't ask any questions about what I'm seeing here I mean you said you only wash your hair
48:01
once a week don't you put like prod what do you wash it with other things egg whites I mean no no I just just use
48:09
water okay so so that's not so okay that's my point is if you're not using shampoo you're not washing it you're
48:15
just rinsing it off so yeah but you know you're you're still getting a lot of with with the help of this device you're
48:20
still getting it's still clean it still feels soft like on the seventh day but on the day before I I shampoo it do you
48:26
put any product in your hair no no okay that's how you get away with that cuz I'm like I don't know if I could stand
48:32
having product in my hair for seven days straight I feel like at some point I have to wash it out this might need to be product I
48:40
guess I should also clarify I didn't buy this myself this was given to me which is why it's bright pink I probably would
48:46
have gone with like purple I'm trying toag did you was this a gift it was was
48:51
this did this arrive wrapped up uh no it was just sort of uh given to
48:56
me secondhand I was like hey you should try this out second hand oh my god well
49:02
at least you saw it coming I'm trying to imagine unwrapping something like that I mean I think I would stand there and go
49:09
uh uh did it did it have like a instruction sheet or anything I mean
49:14
well leis you probably just like wash your head with like sandpaper you know the the bar just goes straight up
49:22
there watch my single hair every single day thank you you know what's funny you p that out my dad had a thing very much
49:29
like that like in the 70s it was but it was hard plastic kind of but it was the same thing like a a scalp that looks
49:36
like silicone or something isn't it yeah the bottom half is silicone the the upper half is like hard plastic but that's just you know for your hand I had
49:42
to say I'm intrigued I mean it looks like it feels really good like when you rub that on your scalp it's like a scalp
49:48
massage I can almost feel it to be honest just looking at just looking at the thing it's almost like that ASMR
49:54
tingling on the the top of my head how much is that thing Griffin I I don't know how much it cost
50:01
I haven't it's like a SC what would you call like a scalp washer scalp rubber it
50:06
says h h t but that's probably the brand I mean that looks like some off Amazon brand you know maybe it's like s he scal
50:15
massager okay there it is right there they got a bunch of oh my God they got a bunch of variety is it $9.99 there a
50:22
bunch of them are 799 I don't see a nice one none of them look quite as nice as the one you got man
50:27
H it's about the size of the pal it's it's nice gets in there oh there we go
50:33
there it is the the scalp massager with soft silicone bristles for hair growth dandruff removal and scalp relaxation
50:40
hey SCP my scalp is stressed hair growth it's a oh my God they sell two
50:46
packs so you can have one in each hand can you imagine in six months going to have like one of those frows from the
50:52
shaft movie going to be absolutely out of control it's going look like Billy Joel from like 1978 okay look uh that
51:01
was definitely at a left field I did not expect that Dipsy DOA from the chat says he's got one 799 from Ross there you go
51:09
that's the play right there I bet you Ross is filled with these things or Marshalls or TJ Maxx yet everywhere you
51:16
look you're gonna see one now okay look do we have time for this I
51:22
had one more pick that I was going to shoehorn in I'll do it real quick I have
51:29
here the airpods 4C version and my pick is not the
51:35
airpods it's the case this case is one of the best products that Apple has ever
51:41
made it's I think by all measures just perfect there's nothing about it I don't
51:47
love this year USBC they added fine my they added a
51:54
speaker which I use all the time when I can't find my airpods the speaker is
52:00
loud so you can actually hear it uh and then you can attach this case to a MAG
52:08
safe charger or genius Apple watch
52:13
charger clicks right onto the back and now you can charge your airpods with
52:19
your Apple watch charger absolutely genius and has like lots of little nice
52:25
like verbal or not verbal but audio cues like what's going on like I I'll I'll attach the charger one more
52:31
time ah charging I feel like I'm missing something oh yeah it has like the little
52:39
iridescent lights you probably can't see oh let me do it again that's like etched
52:44
into the actual airpods which is completely reminiscent of MacBook Pros I
52:50
guess the the um the power books that had like the aluminium um shaved down to
52:57
be so thin that you could see the LED like lighting up behind it but you couldn't actually touch the LED it was
53:03
behind the metal like a really cool homage to Apple products of your and it
53:11
adds like a really cool like effervescent glowing quality to it and then again that speaker man like the
53:17
fact that you could ping it and it will make a really loud sounds you could actually find your airpods is just so
53:24
immensely useful I mean this case is the reason to upgrade now I like the airpods
53:30
I'm not going to imply that I don't but they've got some issues and I've talked about those issues before and I should
53:35
probably talk about them again in the next episode because I've been using these now for I don't know two months
53:42
and some of the issues have turned out to be non-issues and there are new issues that I didn't mention were issues
53:48
but are definitely an issue and we should talk about that in the next issue of cultcast but for now
53:56
that's it that's all the codcast we have for you guys this week let's see here
54:01
are we recording our next episode it's going to be after Christmas oh my goodness I
54:07
can't believe it so this is like going to be our I guess our pre- Christmas episode so Merry Christmas to everyone
54:13
happy holidays hope you all have uh some great time away from your job and work
54:18
and hopefully some good time with your family I want to thank you all for hanging out with us yet again and uh
54:24
we'll be back for one more episode the last episode of the year next week but until then this has been the coast the
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week well we'll see you guys now this makes no
55:02
sense next time but you know what you got to just go into it when you make a
55:08
mistake you just got you got to own it you got to lean into it and then you got to monetizing yeah just like apple
55:14
intelligence greatest thing since 5G if you liked our 5G you're going to
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love our Apple intelligence now powered by 5G that's going to be their next upgrade
55:27
oh man that Apple intelligence might end up as one of my picks next week was just
55:33
and I bet you can guess which pick it would be all right everyone hope you all have a great
55:40
weekend I'm hurdling towards the end stream Button as we speak there's nothing that can be do that can be done
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to stop me catch you next time bye yall
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