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Here comes iPhone 16 and M4 Macs! (CultCast #662)
Mar 11, 2025
This week, it’s official — iPhone 16 is coming! Here’s what to expect. Also, M4 Macs are incoming and might ship with double the RAM, why Apple Intelligence isn’t far behind OpenAI, and the best Apple features you probably aren’t using! Chapters: 0:00 Preshow 7:45 Intro 14:12 CultCloth 16:26 It’s Glowtime 34:58 M4 Macs 37:58 Hugo Last Honorary Segment 39:19 Apple Intelligence White Paper 49:05 Photos Clean-Up 52:55 iPhone 17 Pro Max 55:51 16 GB Memory 59:10 Continuity Features
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St my timer again that was it that is so confusing it showed that the button was
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active but then I pressed it and it changed the text to something else I think we're actually live now let's
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see cow what a disaster how we how have we made it this
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far how far if we made it we should just stopless here comes iPhone 16 and M4 Max
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I feel like I've read that headline like 57 times in the past like year how dare you are you are you accusing us of doing
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derivative it's just such a whirlwind of rumors
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lately all right I think we're live let us know if the audio sounds
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okay guys we had did a little audio tinkering and I think we nailed it I
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think this might be the best one we've ever done you're in for a real a real treat we got Jeff here who says this
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might be a prediction over under 49.5 minutes everyone has to walk those sweet buns out of here you know what you were
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close got B what did you say we're in for a real tweet oh I see what you did
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there is that is that what you said L you should be working for Apple's marketing department because that's one
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of those things that you read you know under the iPhone promotion you're in for a real tweet it's glow time although
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glow it's glow time not their best work not their best work okay so here's here's my question to you
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what do you think it is a pun on it's showtime or it's go time aren't we supposed to talk about that during the
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show okay okay isn't that part of what we're supposed to talk about uh we got ninja bricks here we got ulses Martinez
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with a very enthusiastic hey we got level remix here we got ninja
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he's joining from math class that's what I like to here no need to do the math you're you you're only paying for the
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class might as well just hang out here instead we got G we got Dipsy dooo that's right it is Showtime I think let
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us know how the how the levels sound although you haven't been able to do that cuz I'm the only one
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talking no what no one wants to participate I can't talk and type at the
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same time talking on a podcast that's ludicrous are you doing the of us the newsletter Lewis is that what's going on
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over there uh I'm trying to retweet the Tweet
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okay all right yeah that's going to be critical because this one is the one this is the one that's going to make all
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the difference once people see that we've got the scoop on iPhone 16 that
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only we will be talking about what's coming in the next two weeks they're going to want to hear this and we got
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Robert Graham here from the great Republic he calls it a state the great Republic of
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Texas probably to be its own individual country in the next five years possibility in which case I might be
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coming wow s spots heran Elijah
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secessionist all right uh love joking around here we probably should get
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going um that's crazy talk let's I know Fritter and waste I gotta actually go do
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some other stuff after this I know you're all shocked to hear that but do I actually have the Holy Moly hold on a
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second I got to open up my notes cuz um oh dear I had to restart start my computer man it's it's it's a prevention
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tactic because I keep having issues with my camera connecting to my computer it's
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driving me insane you might actually see me completely lose it here on the show and March out and and maybe never return
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that's a that's a distinct possibility so hopefully people tune in for that you know what else I think we need to do
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this is total tangent my my sincere apologies to all of you who who watch
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tent my sincere apologies for this tangent I think we might need to turn monetization on for the show I turned it
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off because I feel like it's just annoying and we don't get nearly enough live listeners to actually make it worth it but I keep hearing that if you turn
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it off YouTube won't notify people that you're live because there's no reason for them to promote it oh so I think we
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may need to try turning it on and see if people actually get notified that the show is live uh I don't think most
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people are notified unless they're like die hard fans what what would it hurt
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well then the people listening have to or or watching live are going to see ads which is annoying so ninj even though we we don't
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get quite a lot of viewers you know 3:30 on Thursday every week like PE people do
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watch these throughout the week like o over the lifetime of these videos they get you know a decent enough dozens of
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views the last one got like 140 which was a record for us so they drop ads in
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the live stream they will interrupt the live stream with a live ad which is why and what it picks up after that without
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having missed anything or do you just like no I think you miss a pearl of wisdom that drops straight from your
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mouth and and it's during an ad sorry you get it too too bad
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bro better luck next time yeah they do in fact it will tell me it's like getting ready insert in ad in three it's
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like I think it tries to prepare you oh so you say and you could actually stop
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the ad if you want but you got to be quick you have to like sweep in there hit the button like the abort ad button
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wow what you throw to me now back to you g then it just cuts
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off in fact that would be a funny bit like if every time it was about to cut that to to the ad I just I just cut to
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Griffin uh yeah and then it puts ads in the show which I have YouTube premium so like I never get exposed to this stuff
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because I just pay for it because I watch so much YouTube I'm like dude I can't I cannot handle the ads I I don't
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know how you all do it like the ads are so annoying there's so many and they're not relevant to anything in
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my life it's it's so I I just started paying I fored it over man I F that's the key that's the key to the fork you
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got to annoy people to death until so they're so annoyed by your behavior they they're like I will literally pay you
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anything just to not bug me anymore maybe that's a tactic that we should try
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leis you should try uh learning that sound that Jim Cary did in Dumb and Dumber remember that sound you're really
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good at like vocal sounds you know you know the sound I'm talking about he's like you want to hear the most annoying sound of the world and he
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goes we need to get you to master that sound and then like for one minute a
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show you just do it and you don't stop until somebody Forks it over and then when they Fork it we move on I don't
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like where this this monetization thing is pushing Society gotta get the money Louis we got
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to get the money gotta get that money coming in this all right um I think we're ready to go live so if you don't
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mind let's go ahead and queue up oh Mrs
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d d excited today oh my dear I also make
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sounds oh really Mrs D oh yes but they're mostly sounds of pleasure with Al [Laughter]
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KY would you like to hear one my dear oh no Mrs please no definitely never I was
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going to say not but I also just mean never never bring that up again we have a whole show to do here and if you don't
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mind no one wants to hear us talk about this topic any longer so I'll go ahead and queue Up the Music we'll get things
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rolling and hopefully we can get all this stuff done in the time that we have allotted probably not in three
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two and welcome to kassy best 30 plus Apple conversation you're going to hear
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all week long I'm your host a join me today he recently suggested that they played loud heavy metal music in the
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culta rider room and attempt to keep them awake and productive during their 16-hour shifts but then several of them
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went mentally insane and that was a big ordeal and productivity dropped and so
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that practice was retired it's good idea though the managing edor of CT ma is with us L walls is here it's all about
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motivation that's that's his Creed also with us he's always been a fan of the tech of yester year and I've heard that
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he's decided his next car will be a uh a buggy pulled by a horse found that buggy
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in an Old Barn not far from his compound in Ral oh Ohio rer for c m Griffin Jones
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Is Here care F I actually have to ask you have you purchased a car
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recently well you know the answer to that I certainly did that was a leading question because our audience doesn't
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know the answer to that God didn't we talk about this in a recent off topic I think that we did this was before you
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made your purchase I don't think we've actually revealed what happened I could tell a whole story about this I won't do
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it now um no I'm not going to do it I really don't know if people like these tangents or not so I should be careful
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because sometimes I go into them thinking that people actually will like them and then like half our audience disappears yes I did buy a new car
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Griffin as you well know I bought a Subaru the first Subaru I have
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personally ever owned now my parents owned Subarus when I was young so I had had them in the family previously but
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I'm not sure if I made a great choice or a terrible mistake I'll be honest with you I hear that people either love their
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Subarus or they're a horrible nightmare with non-stop weird repairs and I'm already having one little issue with it
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that I called out to this shop so I had a shop inspect this car and I'm like it's making a weird sound when you start
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it when it's cold it's like a it's like a weird um it's almost like a grinding noise or
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like a slapping noise and it only does it when you start it when the car is cold or when it's been sitting there for
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a long time and I called it out to the shop and they did a bunch of tests on it of course and they're like oh yeah it's
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fine so I'm like okay so I bought the car and now it's still doing it and I'm like okay I didn't just imagine that like it's definitely making a noise and
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when I took it to get inspected I even told them what I thought the problem was cuz like you can investigate it on
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YouTube right so I'm like I think there's a problem with this little uh hydraulic holder that holds the the
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timing chain in place h and I think I was right dude so now I'm like what do I do about this cuz it if it is what I
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thought it was the only way to fix it now I've heard that you don't need to get it fixed because it's annoying but it's not harming the engine but
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depending on who you ask I I don't know what to believe and if you do fix it they have to pull the
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whole fraking engine out which there's no way that's cheap so like if if you
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take a car to the shop and you tell them it has a problem before you buy a car and they tell you no it's fine and then
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it turns out he does have that problem what is the proper course of action there you know like do they owe you fre
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bur shop down I'm gonna Burn it Down by the way that was just a joke I'm
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not gonna burn down anything but like Lou might though Louis might he he's
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desperate to burn a building down it's been months since he has so like I is that a is that a situation where the
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shop has to fix it for free I don't know I've never encountered this kind of problem before I don't know what to do
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they give you a guarantee on their no no they just analysis or whatever what they call no but I paid them like over $200
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for like the the inspection right so it wasn't cheap so you paid and and now you
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think that they blew it I think that they messed up I think they were wrong and they didn't do their due diligence even though I called it out the more
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I've used this shop dude like this actually might be the last drop I've used this shop before and I have I I
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have encountered little things that they've done that made me think is it me that's wrong or they totally incompetent
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but they're very highly reviewed on on online so I'm like okay
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incompetent people but I think a lot of people just don't pay attention and in this area anyway I said I wasn't going
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to go on a tangent and here I am doing the exact freaking far off on yeah doing the exact thing that I promised I
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wouldn't do okay I'll stop myself there maybe we'll save that for a future off topic if anyone cares all right we've
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got the invitations the Apple iPhone event has been logged in the book it's coming up
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I'm not going to say anything yet about it because LS is going to tell us all about it we've got incoming MacBook
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Pros right around the corner I think the big question is is this the one to buy
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and I'll tell you what I mean I'm I'm I'm really on the fence I'm straggling the fence it's not it's not a comfortable position to be in like those
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fence posts up in that area not good uh let's see here Griffin's going to try
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and convince us that apple is definitely not behind in the AI in the battle of the AIS between Apple and and open AI I
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guess can he convince us doubt it but we'll see uh Apple photos cleanup
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feature I I don't even know what this means Lo what is this apple photos app cleans up feature works
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great it's a cleanup the feature is called cleanup I think the store needs a clean up we'll see it was a rush job had
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a podcast to get to Classic timac rust job we we know those only a little too
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well um I'll tell you about a we're talking about iPhone 17 here already I love this um the exclusive feature
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coming to iPhone 17 next year um we got all sorts of stuff here Griffin's going
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to talk to us about the six mind-blowing continuity features that every Apple user should know and if you don't know
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them then I would argue you're not a true Apple fan and you should not listen to this program anymore oh do that take it too
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far people know about then they should listen to the end of this podcast and then they will know about them yeah okay
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that's that's that's another take that I like try to be inclusive and positive here Joy I you know that I try to be
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exclusive as often uh let's see before we carry on
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speaking of open Joy you know what gives you great joy leis having a clean phone a clean
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anything really I wasn't sure where that one was going oh wait a second wait a second what's going on here oh no
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is this the wrong oh there we go that's what happened hold on a sec I've got two
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browser windows open and I cut to one of them and there was nothing there and I'm
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like why is that happening okay what brings me great joy Lewis and I know this is the same for you a nice clean
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deeply appreciate Co cloth. let's dive where are we going first I think we're
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going to talk about this imitation right leis here it comes leis it's glow time
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oh boy let's talk about glow time I'm not sure actually what they're trying to
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do it's not their best work it's not their best work not a f you know what it is some 14-year-old kid in Italy came up
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with the real one and they they had to say oh we can't use that now let's remind me what he
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said what was it it was uh set capture yeah Ready Set capture sure you know
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that's good for a 15-year-old but he's 14 14 that's good for a
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14-year-old but is that Marquee headline material it's not it beats it's glow
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time I'm not sure do you think it's glow time is upon pun on it's showtime or it's go time go time I yeah I think it
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might be I think it might be go time or or maybe it's a mixture of both it's like we haven't even explained what's
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going on I me probably everybody knows but Apple sent out invitations to the iPhone 16 event it's going to happen
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September 9th Leander took a shot at German for getting the date wrong in the newsletter
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oh no I said that's kind of a cheap shot no it's like don't dude don't it's like every once in a while he misses
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something and you're you're GNA try and dunk on him it's like but every other time he's like 100% right like no no
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don't do it it made me chuckle anyway uh so this year's invite says it's glow time there's a colorful Apple logo
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animated if you look at uh let's see if I can bring this up is it in here posted the thing on on uh X I don't know I
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think it's in there uh I think tweet is in there sorry there's music that goes with that hopefully that didn't just get
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spoted geez oh man okay so that is definitely a let's see here let's put
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this again sorry for those of you listening I'm going to describe it if you haven't seen it it's like um it's
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like lens flare that's exactly what it looks like it's like the it's like the Apple logo coming into focus and as they
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go through the focus range there's all these um uh like visual um artifacts
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light artifacts lens shaped artifacts that are kind of Shifting around and then it comes into Focus interesting
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that that's what you saw in it everybody else Des thought that it looks kind of like the uh the Siri Siri orb with the oh I can see that
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although I don't think that's it about that they're changing the Siri design to something that's not that anymore yeah
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so fact I don't know why it would be that yeah it looks exactly like the lens flare that you see in like a JJ Abrams
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movie dude this this okay what is going on with this widget I'm trying to refresh the
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animation look it does it doesn't even work what is this garbage get some
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Engineers over there Elon what's happening hire a couple of people hire a couple more people to work on this
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video there we go pretty good I think that's a pretty good animation and I you
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know I before we talk too much trash about it's glow time it does suit the
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animation uh let's see lens flare lens flare that's what I was trying to think of my goodness that's what you said did
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I say lens flare six times okay good I'm only losing my mind and not my
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eyesight show went seriously off off track as iron's like mesmerized by the
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glowing Apple orb okay I'm gonna be quiet go ahead so uh yeah other people don't think of
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JJ Abrams they think of Siri and the way Siri glows and the redesigned interface I haven't actually seen it yet I'm still
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too scared to put the beta on my phone uh anyway um what do we expect from this
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thing uh iPhone 16 pro and pro Max supposedly going to get bigger screens
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going to be a camera capture button that's supposedly definitely on the Pro
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Models might be on the Les models we're not sure about that yet seems like
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nobody really knows for sure uh the regular Normie iPhone 16 and 16 plus are
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going to add the action button which is on the Pro Models right now maybe Apple
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will move it to a better place who knows I don't know I like it where it is but that's just me you know I bet you on a
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regular Pro it's more convenient than on a pro Max on the pro Max it's like you have to shift the whole thing in your
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hand to get up to where that thing you have like a you know8 inch thumb Magic
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Johnson fingers or something I'm going I'm going pro man I I I think I decided it's the lower price and it just it it
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just it's such a great hand experience you know and you're right and I feel like I have pretty large hands actually
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I'm not Alex e Heath over here with the teeny tiny girl hands I've got large Man Hands and and I can barely reach it and
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you have to do all these like contortions to like get your yeah you know like you you you got to like reach
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up in weird directions like while you're trying to hold on to your phone and as much as I love the bigger screen on the Macs and I'll probably end up back on it
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just for that reason um and I do love the extra screen I mean that makes a huge difference especially because I
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watch I mentioned this before YouTube videos a lot in picture and picture mode and it shrinks the the the the video way
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down and the max it's actually quite large still you can see everything so for that reason I want to keep the max
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but dude that's really about the only only real reason that that big screen I
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mean it comes in handy when you're driving and you're using the maps app I would say that's the other big use case
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for it but other than that should be using carplay anyway man yeah my Carphone 17 you'll have with the iPhone
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17 you'll have even more reason to buy the bigger phone and we'll get to that later in the show yeah actually you know
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what you know what hold on I was just thinking so I bought this new car and a
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lot of cars have like these special integrated radio where it's like you can't really swap them out very easy cuz
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they kind of control things within the car that you need access to but in this Subaru I bought it really doesn't do any
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of that I'm wondering if I should just spend the dough and put in like a carplay radio I mean that would be such
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a huge upgrade I wonder how much it costs for like a nice one if you want a
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nice one with wireless carplay they're around like 300 $500 I think oh dude that's not bad does that include
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installation no I mean for the level of convenience that you get
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your car doesn't support carplay no it's 2018 I think they started supporting it
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in 2019 like new model year yeah I swapped out uh I swapped out the the
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crappy old uh radio in my truck it was uh you know couple hundred
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bucks then I had to pay another couple hundred bucks to get installed cuz I was not about to I had it installed and a
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like a backup camera but uh the old that's super useful though like the
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backup camera is like the one car feature it's it's impossible to live without once you don't have it you know
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um the backup camera in my Prius is completely useless even though it has one and it's pretty good resolution they
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didn't put it in the middle of the trunk so it's slightly off center so you don't actually know and it doesn't even have
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like The Guiding lines on the screen either so you don't actually know like I mean looks like looks like it's
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far enough oops I hit it Toyota did something wrong a rare Miss
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you know this is I I got to just say this this is a tangent I admit it right off the bat tangent but uh it bring
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talking about this reminds me that last weekend Leander and I went to this thing called Electrify Expo have you ever
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heard of this they have this thing around the country it's an event and it's uh it's mostly cars electric
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electric vehicles and trucks and uh you go there and you can drive test drive a Tesla or a rivan
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Prius Prime you know we got to drive all those cars and you should have heard Leander when he was driving the rivion
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and I was in the back seat and they at this one place and they're like okay and they actually have a guy like with a a a
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racing flag there you know like twirling and say okay go they call it like the launch zone or something right and and
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it's just a straightaway and the idea is you know just hammer it as hard as you can and uh the woman says okay now just
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uh when you after you do it make sure you start slowing down by that you know like those sign way up there Leander
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Leander floors it he starts starts like screaming and he he he let off like I
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don't know halfway to to where he was supposed to start slowing down he's like oh my God oh my God I don't know if you
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ever did that with one of those things it is pretty shocking how fast those those electric cars I could just hear
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and see Leander doing that cuz that's exactly what he would do he would just get in absolutely no experience and then
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just gun it and and probably end up through a brick wall so dude they got this Electrify Expo in
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Seattle uh coming up oh dude I'm going to be gone when it happens I'm I'm
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actually leaving on the 14th and 15th when it is that's a bummer this looks pretty cool man dude I have been trying
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to come up with like like a convention idea for like 10 years it's just once
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you get a good one and you get people in there to like come to the convention you are just set for life man like if you if
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you could build an audience with some kind of convention I can't come up with anything and then I see Electrify Expo I'm like this has got
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to be new and it's such an obvious idea it's like why did I think of this it's a it you know I got to say we got some
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free tickets thanks to our friends at Anor who were also there they're one of the big uh oh really sponsors of this
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event right and they're oddly you know they're using like these anchor power stations to to instead of you know the
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old gas gas powered uh generators that that you typically see at these kinds of
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events they're they're using these things just if they by the time they if they actually run out they just swap in
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a new one and uh they were showing off their like solar uh solar stuff and home
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batteries and things like that uh so it it was all kinds of vehicles rad power bikes was there remember that's called
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rad power bikes yeah they are they are local yeah of Seattle I've reviewed a bunch of their bikes and people you know
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were riding test riding bikes and electric motorcycles electric scooters electric uh that's pretty cool
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skateboards the lines for the cars were pretty long but they had all kinds there you know Porsches and BMWs and
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Fords dang the uh great idea it was it was pretty wild man there were L like
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man there are a lot of people here testing test driving cars it seems like something like you could just do On Any
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Given Saturday right but the thing is you don't get a chance to just floor it like that and to see everything all in
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one place and to walk around and try different stuff talk to people I mean it's a giant combine for your email
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address and stuff you know leander's like how many how many spam emails have you gotten from uh Tesla and rivian so
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far today the day after the event yeah okay but uh I'm most the thing I'm most
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interested in is like the electric bikes and electric scooters and the electric motorcycles and stuff like that's the stuff that I think I would actually be
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interested in writing um the car cool and what what brings it or you know what
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made me think of this is the carplay interface or whatever looking at the one on like the rivan and
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the Tesla is like oh my God it just make it's so giant it's like a giant iPad Pro sitting there on your dashboard and they
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had this one thing I think it was the rivian where it had an overhead view of your car it was it was like it was like
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you're being followed by a drone I I'm like it was actually really uncanny
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watching that and watching the way that it it it puts this High defition uh view
28:22
of what you're doing uh it's pretty pretty freaking wild man makes me uh every time I get my truck I just feel
28:28
like I'm getting in a tractor yeah well your truck was made in
28:33
1954 right doesn't it have one of those cranks on the front for you to like get it going gotta go out there and
28:40
crank gotta get the car started all right look we're way in the weeds and
28:46
we've only got like 30 minutes left so it was me this time I'm sorry about that yes it was your fault for once it was
28:52
you want to know what else you want to know anything else about that I mean Apple intelligence are going to demo that they give us a release date on all
28:57
the different software show off probably Apple Watch series 10 maybe Apple watch
29:03
se3 uh some talk that there might be airpods 2o airpods 4 dude I hope so I
29:09
I'm ready to replace my airpods like I love my airpods 3 but it's got the lightning case and I'm so done with
29:15
lightning man I don't want to do well that's not true I just bought um I just bought two new iPad series nines iPad
29:23
9es cuz they're selling them on Amazon for $200 right now $200
29:29
and they're like the perfect iPad for kids so I did buy a couple more of those those are lightning so now I have three
29:35
of those but for my own personal devices I am
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done with that's that's a great thing to buy for your kids because that means that
29:48
your kids can't steal your USBC cables to charge them when they lose light cables yeah I do like that delineation
29:55
there it's like oh let me buy your no it's not happening because I get the nice cables too like the ones with the
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um the cables I've gotten used to and that I love are the ones that have like little displays on them that show you
30:06
how much juice is being pulled from like the plug or from or or uh into your
30:12
iPhone or iPad or something it's so useful to see like how many watts are being pulled in like once you get used
30:18
to those cables like I can just tell you by looking at my phone how fast it's going to charge by seeing how many watts
30:23
it's pulling in it's just extremely useful it's just always useful to know like how much watts a device is pulling
30:29
so I I've been trying to replace all my USBC cables with those um the only other thing I think we should add is that we
30:37
might be getting the beautiful Buster heiney bronze uh all right phone you know that's going to be one of those
30:43
things you got to see in person they got to get it just right there's a fine line between beautiful Buster hiney bronze
30:50
and uh I have a stomach condition you know dooo Brown I not not me I'm getting
30:56
Brown no matter what going brown the amount of brown in the room that I am in
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I don't I don't think it's going to be brown I hope it's not brown it it needs to not be brown it needs to be bronze or
31:07
Golden Bronze like there's a big there there's well there's a small distinction between the two in the right light like
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the pictures that I saw all excellent and the the picture I saw that Sunny Dixon posted who is the first one who
31:20
who came up with these um uh well was the one that I think broke the the actual colors it looked kind of brown
31:28
but he was taking a photo like straight down from the top of it and so I think
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the the lighting may not have been perfect and and they were they were mockups so it's like who knows how CL yeah they're dummy units like who knows
31:38
how close they actually are but man not very they may be I I mean I don't know
31:44
they he he he's been pretty accurate in the past I'm going to guess they're close but they're probably not exact the
31:49
dummy units probably aren't even made out of glass and titanium they're probably made out plas yeah cuz why would they it's going to reflect light
31:55
differently yeah exactly and the ones that I saw looked very flat so I I I don't know but that's that's extremely
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exciting so I'm I'm and plus my iPhone 15 Pro Max as you all know is uh not fully functional well that's true it is
32:07
fully functional it just you can't sneeze around it you can't go into a rainstorm uh you know anything that's in
32:13
to get dust exive sweating yeah definitely no sweating I even feel um a little apprehensive to use it with with
32:20
hand sweat going on um so I am ready to
32:25
replace it with something that's a little bit more durable and this time I I'm making the plunge I'm getting the Apple um Apple Care Plus plus I'm going
32:33
to do it man I mean I I did the math and like one of our one of our uh listeners
32:42
offered to connect me with a discount so you get it 25% off and I did the math
32:47
and I was like it's like six bucks a month and even if I keep the phone a year when you go to sell it I mean if
32:53
you give someone Apple Care Plus with the phone that is such a huge value to them they're like cuz they know that
32:59
there's nothing wrong with the phone if anything goes wrong they can go back to Apple like it it just greatly increases the the price of the phone I think you
33:05
basically make your money back when you sell it so I don't know plus the Apple
33:11
Care Plus then you can go nude I I thought about it man look at the the gorgeous I actually thought about way
33:18
the phone is supposed to work I actually thought about it the only other thing I wanted to mention is God we're going way long on this I'm sorry I think this is
33:23
an important call out though is they're they're making a move into the capacitive buttons I think and for a
33:29
while I was like why would they do this people don't really like passive buttons but now I think it's because this is
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just a guess I think it's because the buttons are the most are the weakest
33:42
point of water egress on the phone I think they know that I think that's what happened to my phone and even though
33:48
that guy was like this is this is literally never happened ever you're the first person that's ever had this happen
33:54
which is complete BS we all know that on the planet he might as well said that I mean he he he was trying to communicate
34:00
that the seals literally never fail I'm like well then how did water get in and he's
34:05
like I got them but I think it's the buttons man I think they're moving in
34:11
and out I think that that it's hard to seal those up when they move in and out like that and I think that's how the water got in I think that's why Apple
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wants to make the move to the capactive buttons because they can completely seal those off and they're trying to remove
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any point of eass that they can and make the phone more waterproof but I I mean I
34:28
I don't know my my Apple watch Ultra has a button and it apparently can be used for scuba diving and people seem to not
34:35
ever have any problems with it and so I really don't know but capacitive one the capture button
34:41
sounds cool though like it also gives it extra extra magic right you can do different things with it yeah that's
34:47
true like you can do like gestures and stuff and I wonder if if this is a test for them to see how durable it is before they move it to the other buttons right
34:53
like they're being strategic about it anyway we've been talking about this for like 25 years years um let's see here should we move
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on I just want to mention MacBook Pros with the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips are
35:08
reportedly being mass-produced this month my friends they're on the way the beautiful M4 Pro M4 Max MacBook Pros
35:17
should probably be here by August so I could go through this whole story this is a macro story um but I think what I
35:24
would just say is this it's probably going to be a spec bump it's going to just be them putting M4
35:30
into the MacBook Pro so I think that means a couple things number one it's
35:36
going to mean a drop in price on the M3s so the 40 core uh CPU 16 core GPU
35:43
MacBook Pro is going to drop in price I think that's going to be a great time to get that machine which in many respects
35:48
is even faster than the um M1 Ultra Apple Studio which is totally insane so
35:55
that might be the move in my opinion because and and I'm on the fence on
36:01
about this too because I think next year they're going to add OLED to the MacBook Pro so really this is probably not the
36:09
one to get unless you really need a new machine and I hate to say that because I'm trying to convince myself that I
36:14
need it even though my M1 Max MacBook Pro is still working perfectly for all
36:20
my needs um so it might be the move to either get the
36:25
M3 Max with the 40 core CPU 16 core GPU or just wait until next year when we
36:31
probably get an OLED screen which will be a big upgrade so that's my thinking on that but in either case we're getting
36:38
new mapup Pros before the end of the year which is pretty exciting because it it it's a very fast turnaround from um
36:44
from the last Model any any thoughts concerns worries concerns or worries I
36:49
don't remember at least we haven't reported on rumors of them going OLED next year but if that's true I guess I
36:54
would certainly wait but I'm coming from the other perspective and that I think the M4 is going to be a giant leap in
37:01
performance and I think that like even if you can pay 20% less for an M3 model
37:07
after the new ones are out I think the M4 models are going to be more than 20% faster so you know you'll be paying less
37:14
but you also you also won't be getting the best I know how much you like having the best I do I really love having the
37:20
best it's really you deserve it well that's really what it's about leis don't we deserve the best that's what it's
37:27
about it's not about need it's not about need I mean if if all if we're talking
37:32
about need I could probably get away with a 13-inch uh MacBook Air from
37:37
2018 I mean Griffin does the editing I haven't touched a YouTube video in like a year what do I need a fast machine I I
37:44
don't I don't but you never know by with an iPad oh please don't don't don't even
37:49
start that with me don't even don't even start that with me no serious person computes on an
37:55
iPad no serious productor person uh all right I'm completely lost but I do know
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this I want to give he go last a big thank you with the massive Super Chat he
38:08
says is there no message in a Super Chat is it really a Super Chat wait a second let me rephrase that because I think I
38:14
read that wrong if there is no message in a Super Chat is it really a super chat I still I think I think it I think
38:20
it still is as long as those duckets are coming in and he's coming in with the $449.99 going straight to Leander Katy's
38:26
pocket I'm still not happy about that we're gonna have to get that fixed leis get that pipeline adjusted but Hugo last
38:31
who is going to be coming on the show oh yes we've been chatting Hugo and I I
38:37
didn't say it would happen quickly but it is going to happen we are going to get Hugo last on which proves one thing
38:42
for sure you can buy yourself onto the show so throw us enough money we'll let you do whatever you want I'll let you
38:48
replace Lewis Griffin if the price is right I even let please I'll pay you Le
38:54
leis might pay me that allow that but here's the thing thing I will still refer to you as Lewis or as Griffin like
39:01
we'll just pretend like you're just them and then we'll just slot you in and give Le the day off or something he would
39:06
love that poor Lewis would love that on a Thursday when he's supposed to be writing the newsletter he's got a break and come do this look at poor Lewis that
39:14
be great he needs a break uh all right thank you to Hugo for the very generous
39:19
uh Super Chat where are we going next I'm completely lost let's talk about Apple intelligence
39:26
all right let's do it if you you're going to try and convince us that they're ahead of open AI aren't you well
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I'm not I'm not going to claim that they're ahead because they're not but uh they're not as far behind as you might
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think a white paper on Apple intelligence reveals two important facts about Apple's homegrown llm it's the
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safest in design and highly competitive with both llama and GPT 4 this seems to
39:49
debunk a myth about Apple's AI efforts that the company's privacy first philosophy sorry privacy first
39:54
philosophy would hold its features back powering all Apple intelligence features
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is of course the Apple Foundation model uh abbreviated here as AFM and there are two versions of it there's one that runs
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locally on your device called AFM on device and one that runs in their Cloud servers called AFM
40:13
server this uh white paper was authored by over 150 Apple employees and outlines
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in like really incredible detail like all of the training uh performance and all of their
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tests and evaluations that they've done on the foundation model so um you know I
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I wrote a personal blog post about this on my on my website with that goes into more details on like just interesting nuggets that I've found from reading it
40:39
but uh here on the culto Mac article I pretty much jumped straight into the uh evaluations and like the tests they've
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run and like the results from those so in the human evaluation test
40:51
1,393 prompts are fed into the Apple Foundation model and other competing models like a a bunch of them and it's
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uh tested separately against like open source llms and like all the commercial
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llms and uh against the latest and greatest llama 3 and GPT 4 both in their
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like respective domains Apple comes out slightly behind but stacked up with the
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rest it's a pretty tight race Apple intelligence beats out mistol and GPT 3.5 over 50% of the time and this is
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having humans evaluate like the answers to different prompts it's it's a really
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tight race much more than you would think um additional benchmarks show even greater results text generation and
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composition which are you know wiely considered to be like the bread and butter of GPT
41:41
4 is only a slight lead over Apple's own 9.7 versus 9.6 out of 10 that is an
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incredibly slim margin I bet if I bet if you a if I bet if I told you Aon a year
41:55
ago that Apple's AI would only score 0.1 lower than than gp4 you would call me
42:03
insane I might still call you inside I'm not even sure I believe these results they're so close but also Apple has been throwing
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absolutely everything that they have into Ai and it would not be shocking to
42:16
learn that they bought their way back up to where they need to be yeah so here's
42:21
where they really shine though when it comes to generating content that isn't discriminatory hateful exclusionary ful
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sexual illegal or violent the Apple Foundation model is the safest by a huge margin this one isn't even close apple
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on device produced sorry AFM on device produced harmful content nearly half as
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frequently as the next best and roughly a third as frequently as llama 3 AFM
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server scored 4.5 times better than GPT 4 which I don't know yeah you know to do
42:55
this like they they they said that they you know unlike all these other companies that are just like vacuuming
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up everything on the internet that they possibly can apple actually like filtered through the training data and they say that like you know we we really
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strive for quality over quantity and we're really happy with the results that gives us like they have all of these
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filters that they use to filter out all the data so it doesn't even get their training stuff before it before it's
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modeled on it um speculation before WWDC is that Apple
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would be like years behind and might not even have its own llm at all like people
43:29
were thinking like all these Apple intelligence features would be powered purely by chat GPT and stuff like that
43:36
and that's you know not only is that not true but uh it's really in the opposite
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direction Apple's doing a pretty great job at this so far and what are your thought the first
43:47
thing that just comes to my mind is I mean the test is going to be well a
43:53
couple things one does Siri work can you get Siri working you're doing all this
43:59
stuff like can you at least fix Siri so that it understands what I'm saying dictation right are you leveraging this
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technology to actually make Dictation work I think that's going to be my proof
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as in the pudding moment but also if it doesn't work there are also text prompts
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that you could feed this thing and to see how it works in real world
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situations and we're not far from that right I mean we're going to know that pretty soon in in fact if if if the
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event is happening on September 9th is that what it is we'll have the phones
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let's see here September 9th they're saying that will probably be released September 20th okay of course I'll be oh no that's
44:41
the day after I get back yes yes which means I'll have to roll my
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janky phone to um to Disneyland that's where I'm going oh yes I'm going to
44:53
Disneyland uh in mid-september so the proof is going to be does it
44:59
understand me and when I'm typing text prompts like what are the actual responses I mean I see all these results
45:05
and it's not that I distrust the data but it's like you know I I just maybe do slightly distrust
45:13
that it's actually this good to address point one speech to text is a different part that isn't affected by Apple
45:18
intelligence speech to text you know turns whatever you say into the text that is then input to the llm that's a
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step that happens before you even get to the and is that not going to be involved in the machine learning at
45:31
all that's a major bummer because I was hoping that would be one of the things that is fixed because that's like the phone's biggest problem in my opinion
45:37
although you can supersede that in iOS 18 because now you can text to
45:42
Siri wait what do you me what do you mean text to Siri you don't have to you don't have to give Siri a command with
45:48
your voice anymore you can double tap on the home bar at the bottom of the screen and you can just type your Siri command I know but but but won't that be great I
45:55
just feel like that kind of that the the whole point is the
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convenience of speaking and and not having to type it right so like if you have to type it that that that that's a nice option but that doesn't really fix
46:08
the problem in my opinion now the other point that I would want to make is that
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uh I I didn't put this in the show notes because I didn't know if we would how deep we would get into this but other test that they did are they they tested
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it they tested the the foundation model's use of tools how well it can
46:27
interpret what you said as a command and then given a list of tools that it can use how well it you know uses them to
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properly execute and follow the instructions you gave it and that's another area where Apple intelligence was like Leaps and Bounds ahead of all
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of the other models like even the on device version of Apple intelligence is beating out some of these server-based
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you know llms in tool use which is pretty promising because that is going to be another essential component into
46:53
making sure Siri can actually do what you say when you ask it to do these things what is this whole human evaluation of
47:00
output harmfulness what is that it's like a measure
47:05
of of is the is the prompt generating text that
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is going to like scare you or threaten you or make fun of some immutable part of
47:20
like your personality or the way you look or something I mean what does that even mean illegal or viol when it comes to
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generating content that isn't discriminatory hateful exclusionary harmful sexual illegal or just straight
47:34
up violence Siri can you turn off the light uh no and I will kill you if you ask me
47:42
again oh Le Apple scored well there I'm slightly worried about Apple's in-house
47:47
uh sensors defining what is harmful much the way Twitter's in-house sensors used
47:53
to do that's going to be a big problem across the entire Tech landscape right is like how do you even tune that
48:02
because everyone's definition of that is is something different right what is harmful yeah exactly what is I me
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exclusionary you can read into the um you can read into the the white paper that they published for more details on
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but they have a whole taxonomy of how they're consistently uh uh rating those things all right it seem legit seem like
48:27
all right then the proof will be in the pudding as they say that's it I think I
48:32
said that earlier too so you are you serious iard then we'll know you just complet remarks in one one podcast two
48:40
puddings one podcast pudding cast you just sure locked that for me so you'll
48:45
be hearing from my high power legal Team all right look we got like 22
48:50
minutes before I have to be walking these sweet buns right out the door whether we're done with the show or not I'm going to just get up and leave so
48:57
so we got a lot of these stories left do you want to do the Apple photos
49:03
app cleanup feature works great unless it doesn't story real quick Lewis and then yeah we got yeah sure I mean it's
49:09
mostly a visual thing right can you show people the amazing job that the cleanup thing did on the the guy's
49:15
face we're looking at a picture of a guy smiling and his mustache and his flavor saver have been Blended together into
49:21
one piece of facial hair his lips have have been completely gone yeah so uh this cleanup feature it's in the photos
49:28
app and uh I guess they added this in iOS 18.1 beta3 which came out yesterday
49:34
I guess and uh it's one of those AI powered things where it you know like
49:39
you can if somebody's in the back of your picture you can zap them out of there you know it lets you clean up your photographs if there's some some part of
49:47
it that you don't like right and this guy do whatever you ask it to do if you
49:52
draw a circle over a mouth it'll erase the mouth this guy this guy says his name is Charlie Chapman which
49:59
dangerously close to Charlie Chaplan he he says I've always been a little self-conscious about my smile this is on
50:05
on X he wrote now with the new cleanup feature powered by Apple intelligence I can finally show the world the way my
50:10
smile feels on the inside if you watch that animation of watching that thing work he like circles
50:16
his his mouth his teeth and and and then just covers up his whole face it's like a Tribble is coming out of his mouth
50:22
it's horribly disgusting Tribble it looks like Davey Crockett's
50:28
hat uh he he so he also I I contact him on Twitter he he he verified it as true
50:35
he even sent me like another another thing of of doing crazy things you know he says he compared it basically like
50:42
all all the other AI photo eraser tools are out there I mean there's tons of things that have this hand capability uh
50:48
he says you can make it do all sorts of crazy things um a lot of people were commenting on on this cleanup feature in
50:56
the photos app there you know I can't verify this one there's one of this guy
51:01
he uh he took a picture of himself holding a phone and like got went to
51:07
erase it and it made him look like Quasimoto behind it or something like that it was really kind of horrifying
51:12
but there's a ton of people saying hey it works great I love it you know one of the best apple intelligence features oh
51:18
dear my goodness that is horrifying that is straight up scary what it did to his
51:24
face again I'm not 100% sure that that's that that is the Apple uh I mean I've
51:30
been testing it on my phone and I believe it that that have you seen these kinds of hallucinations horrible things
51:36
but then there's like somebody who makes the Eiffel Eiffel they zap the Eiffel Tower out of a an image you know it it
51:41
seems like some of the results are really fantastic and I mean I I think the Apple's genius with this apple
51:48
intelligence is doing features like that and the the custom emojis and things like that and it gets back to what you're saying where they it works well
51:54
with these tools right it there they're more about making the iPhone better than they are about competing with chat GPT
52:01
so I mean I I I have high hopes for these things I in spite of that guy's outrageous facial hair oh my God
52:09
every time I look at it it gives me the Shivers I mean I think it looks pretty manly if you ask me oh my God just your
52:15
whole face covered with hair this is what Peak masculinity looks like that is Peak Mas that's like Magnum PI I would
52:21
be embarrassed of his mustache after seeing that uh all right cool that was actually more entertaining than I thought it was going to be
52:28
it's all about the pictures man yeah that definitely helps with our massive audio listenership uh hopefully we did
52:34
that one Justice uh let's see what else do we got now why did we move the entry
52:41
level M4 Max story to the bottom instead of including it with the other M4 Max stories that we had up at the top these
52:47
these are two stories about Ram the most okay thrilling segment of the podcast I think there might be something Ram there
52:53
might be something wrong with your RAM all right um I'll do a quick uh mention of the iPhone
53:00
7 iPhone 17 Pro Max exclusive feature coming up now I know you haven't even
53:05
gotten your hands on the iPhone 16 but the the 16 is old hat by this point do any of you even care anymore old news
53:12
talking about iPhone one surprise 17 here and this one's an exciting one do have you ever felt like your phone is
53:18
too hot to handle perhaps too cold to hold well there's nothing that is going
53:23
to happen with the second one that I mentioned but perhaps the first can be solved with an allnew Vapor chamber
53:30
Lewis coming exclusively to the iPhone 17 Pro Max
53:35
this is technology that was included on the Xbox series X they were quite proud
53:41
of it a way to keep the I think the CPU or the GPU cooled more efficiently and
53:47
it looks like that same technology is coming to the iPhone 17 Pro Max I'm showing the wrong story aren't I oh
53:54
that's okay it's now fixed and so your phone may not overheat as
54:02
often as uh it does when you're in hot weather I'm sure you've all experienced this like you're using your phone and then you get the overheating warning
54:08
which has happened to me a bunch of times especially when you're using video you're like taking a video and it's hot
54:13
and then all of a sudden your phone overheats um what I've done in the past is just submerge my phone in a few
54:19
inches of water to cool it off good thinking you know being as the phone is IP 68 rated and good down to8 18 ft of
54:27
water but be careful because a little splash in the wrong direction might might do your phone in and that 18t
54:33
rating is the worst case scenario I mean you should never even try it you should never even attempt it but I mean you
54:39
should feel good that's possible but you should never use your phone immersed in water ever so it looks like now with
54:46
this new feature coming to iPhone 17 Pro Max your phone will will maybe not heat
54:51
up as often who knows how effective this will be and then the other the other exclusive feature more RAM everyone
54:57
loves more RAM let you have more tabs open keep more apps in memory well looks
55:03
like the 17 Pro Max will be the only phone exclusively that will get 12
55:08
gigabytes of RAM a whole 12 gigs holy moly Whoever thought that you would be
55:13
able to have the power of 12 gigs right in your hand and of course they're going to Nerf the other phone so that there's
55:20
a reason for you to spend for the for the max version I don't know how many people care about more RAM I mean it's
55:26
like a pretty nerdy feature right most people don't know what a ram is and if you know you know but most people I'm
55:33
not sure know what it does or why they should pay more for it but you know it's one of those I guess Pro features that
55:39
professionals actually care about and it's and of course it definitely is Handy if you're trying to keep multiple apps open without having to reload when
55:46
you're moving around from app to app there you go there's your iPhone 17 Pro
55:51
update you want to tell us about entry level M4 Max with double Ram Griffin I
55:57
know you're excited about that actually actually come to think of it that actually is cool yeah yeah so while the company now
56:04
offers Max for professionals with up to 128 gbt of system memory entry level Max
56:10
still ship with apul Tre 8 gabt despite the industry moving forward uh with 16
56:15
gigabytes as the standard but uh Bloomberg's Mark German never heard of him says Apple finally changed this
56:21
reportedly the company is testing M4 Max with 16 or 32 GB of system memory the
56:27
lack of an 88 GB model indicates the company might do away with that configur configuration
56:33
entirely Gman also says that M4 Max will support up to up to 32 gigabytes of
56:39
system memory up from the uh up from the 24 gigabyte configuration
56:45
which is currently as high as you can go if you have the base M4 chip they'll be erasing that the additional entry-level
56:52
Ram should help M4 Max Run Apple intelligence and other AI related TS masks especially considering people can
56:58
keep their Maxs for much longer many more years than their phone and they expect their computer to you know do
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more things than their phone like it it makes sense that like they want to feature prooof these if you know for Apple intelligence models in the future
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to get you know bigger and bigger consume more of that memory they don't want a lot of it to be taken up um if
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you if you don't have very much memory Apple will likely launch M4 powered MacBook Pros iMacs and Mac minis later
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this year other devices in the Mac lineup like the MacBook Mac Studio Mac uh Pro we'll get the M4
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refresh in 2025 dang this is so long overdue I mean
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8 gigabyt of RAM is a sham a scam all an
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embarrassment this is this is why yeah apple has never increased the base level of ram since Tim Cook has been CEO wow
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it's all about Tim know pinching those pennies that that that's going to be his legacy I'm calling him 8 8 gig 8 gig Tim
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from now on that's going to be his name going forward we got to Brand him with this terrible atrocity I'm being serious
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8 gigabytes of RAM I was trying to find where that rhymed so maybe sham and scam are probably not the best ones but it is
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an absolute embarrassment that they still have 8 gigabytes of RAM in these machines for how expensive that they are
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I hear people say oh it's good enough for what the machines do dude my wife has an 8 gigabyte um MacBook Air it is
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not enough it is definitely not enough I I I feel like she's having like memory warnings pop up all the time and I never
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would have imagined that it would have struggled with 8 gigabyt of ram so I I I
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think going forward 16 I mean it makes such a massive difference in quality of
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life dude it's like I'm I'm just happy to see they're finally entertaining this as an idea we'll see if it actually comes to
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fruition but EG I can't even say a eight Gib Tim eight gig eight gig Tim I'm G
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have to we're gonna have to Workshop that there's something there's something in there but it's not rolling off the tongue maybe Lewis we could get
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something that rolls off the tongue a little bit more smoothly let me know if anything comes to your mind uh all right last story I'm
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ready to have my mind blown Griffin I hope you didn't oversell this I hope you did not oversell this I'll be the judge
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not write the headline to this article no no okay Leander and Lewis
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usually uh dress up my headlines because you know I I'm a very academic writer in
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that way and I'll say like oh these are the eight Apple continuity features and they'll be like no these are the mind-blowing features everybody
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should we're trying to add interest Griffin we're trying to add interest look hey man you got to add some level
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of clickbait in there if you just go six mildly useful continuity features you
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may be interested to know about that that article is getting no views you're not getting to the top of
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the Apple subreddit with that headline well look I I I I quit my marketing job for a reason anyways all right these are
1:00:03
the six features that you probably may have seen at WWDC or you may have seen like years ago when you're first setting up your Mac and you probably forgot
1:00:10
about because you know it's it's hard to ReDiscover these things but these are the features that if you have like a Mac and an iPhone or an iPad and a Mac and
1:00:17
you know if you have multiple devices in the Apple sphere which I'm sure all of the listeners who are showed you then
1:00:23
these are features that you could be taking advantage of if uh only you knew about them so the first one is continuity camera if you are sick of
1:00:31
your crummy little MacBook webcam and you want to dress it up a little bit it's a feature that I'm using right now
1:00:37
if you're watching the video version of this podcast you know all you have to do is stick your iPhone horizontally and
1:00:43
just like mount it you know vertically up so that it's you know pointing at your face and then when you uh take a
1:00:50
FaceTime call or video call or Zoom call really like anytime you use the camera on your Mac at all you can switch the
1:00:56
camera from your crummy little webcam to your highquality iPhone camera that
1:01:02
that's one of my favorite features I use it literally every week I use it on my uh Apple TV to make um FaceTime calls
1:01:09
and it's it's definitely I wouldn't say lifechanging but it it is kind of life-changing because before you didn't
1:01:15
really have a way to take FaceTime calls in your TV and and now you do and that's like one of the best ways that we do it
1:01:21
so super cool and very reliable like it just doesn't really ever not work it's
1:01:26
just reliable and the picture doesn't disappear or get like unsynced or anything like it actually works very
1:01:33
well handoff is another one that I think very few people know about if you're reading an article on your phone and you
1:01:39
come back to sit down on your Mac or the other way if you're reading something on your Mac and you want to you know somebody calls you in the other room and
1:01:45
you want to get up and carry on what you're doing uh you if you're switching to a Mac from using your phone you
1:01:54
should look in your Dock and you might see the app icon of the app you have on your phone and then you can tap on that
1:01:59
icon and it'll like you know bring up the same email that you were just composing in mail or it'll open the same
1:02:05
up website up in Safari or you know this or music or podcasts actually m not
1:02:10
music music is the one thing that doesn't work with continuity but a bunch of other features work uh that you could
1:02:15
just like hand off between your devices and if you're on iOS or iPad OS if you enter the multitasking view then you'll
1:02:22
see a little bubble in the bottom of the screen that's like Safari from your Mac and you can tap on that and it'll open the website it's a I use it all the time
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it it it's great you know if my dog asks to you know go to the bathroom while I'm
1:02:34
reading something on my Mac I can just you know pick it up on my phone dogs asking you things I think that's the next off
1:02:43
topic okay one of my dogs is smart enough to scratch the door when she wants to go out the other one just sort
1:02:50
of stares at me until I figure it out it's amazing how well they communicate when they want something isn't it it's
1:02:55
it's like like when uh I'm eating dinner my dog will come up and just Place her paw on my leg and just look at me you
1:03:02
know waiting for her for her bite okay we we've got no more time for
1:03:07
tangents keep going okay if you want to read the rest of the list uh you can check out the full article on cult of.com it'll be in the show notes oh
1:03:14
look at that teased the article or you can watch the Youtube video which is better oh
1:03:20
there's a YouTube video as well on the cult of Channel yes there is C ofac TV
1:03:26
that's right man kids don't even know what TV means they don't even use TV I mean so
1:03:32
many people watch stuff exclusively like on their phones or their
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laptops I I just can't believe that people do that I I if I'm going to enjoy something I can't do it on my laptop man
1:03:44
I I certainly can't do it on my phone I won't even watch a trailer for a movie that I'm excited about until it's
1:03:50
available on YouTube so I can watch it on my TV like I I can't have a moving experience that is dedication dude I I I
1:03:56
don't know how else you can do it and and enjoy it do you watch stuff on your computer or your phone exclusively I
1:04:03
watch trailers all the time I I don't typically watch a movie uh but trailers
1:04:09
sure all the time really yeah yeah I I save it all for the Big Screen Man and
1:04:15
uh or the movie theater which I almost never go to anymore you're a man of leisure then I I save it for acced the
1:04:22
floating the floating 5 foot tall screen in front of me when I'm wearing my Vision Pro yeah Griffin's watching it in
1:04:29
Joshua Tree National Park with the wolves howling gently in the background man that was a great
1:04:35
experience but um I did see a movie recently maybe we should do like a show or movie review I haven't been to a
1:04:42
movie theater in forever I saw alien Romulus oh yeah last weekend not as bad as I expected pretty
1:04:49
good I thought actually but you know aliens is one of those franchises that most people just don't care about at all
1:04:57
or don't like cuz they're like scary movies there is a dedicated core fan
1:05:03
base of people who love Alien movies and they love all of them and and how I know that's true is like there's this guy on
1:05:10
YouTube called I think he's German so like he's got like that German English accent which I I tend to like and his
1:05:17
name is like Croft talks movies he's like hey everyone CFT here and all he does is talk about alien stuff and he'll
1:05:25
do like a deep dive into the lore of aliens and the movies that come out and
1:05:30
like how the stories all tie together and this guy gets massive views he gets huge numbers and it's all he talks about
1:05:37
and he'll he he W he won't even come out with with videos all that often he'll do like a video once every couple months
1:05:43
and some of his videos get like a million views and I'm like dude there is a huge fan base out there for the alien
1:05:50
stuff and and the alien lore and just like how all of it ties together and and and it it kind of like ties into like
1:05:56
where humans came from where the aliens came from how they're connected to Predators I mean there there's like all
1:06:01
this crazy stuff and he like he'll go through the scripts and he'll be like here's how is the script does it not
1:06:08
tell you like what showed up is a movie and then he'll dive into all that stuff and like show you pictures from the scripts and stuff it's crazy man and
1:06:14
then he'll go through all the the um the interviews with Ridley Scott who I think
1:06:20
wrote the original Alien movies and now like sometimes directs but I think he like consults on like like the Canon and
1:06:25
stuff and it'll pull pull elements out of like the the interviews I mean this guy like his whole life outside of like
1:06:32
work and and whatever else he does it's just like devoted to learning about what's going on in the world of crazy
1:06:38
it's crazy funny mentioned that because Leander told me just today that he watched The Neil alien movie last night
1:06:43
and he described it as Garb kind of wretched what did he say kind of wred
1:06:49
said it was kind of wretched but you know what leer Kenny doesn't like any movies the only I mean look I remember
1:06:55
from a previous episode we did with him the show that he pitched was some weird British documentary or show about two
1:07:03
boring old geezers with metal detectors walking around you remember this detectorist that that's L K's uh idea of
1:07:12
entertainment can you think of anything more boring than that two old British guys with metal detect oh dude I gave it
1:07:19
an honest dry yeah Le does not like anything that is universally loved or even universally
1:07:27
liked he's got he he he he marches to the beat of his own drummer okay look that's it that's all the cast we have
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[Music] guys next time see how fast I did
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that and of course as soon as we start wrapping up our concurrent viewers
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skyrockets why does check always seem to be the cas alien was written by the late
1:08:56
great Dan O Bannon oh really so directed by Really Scott yes sir okay hang my
1:09:03
head in shame but no one cares about that other guy they only care about really this
1:09:09
guy so I think I'm still right even though technically I'm wrong I think thematically I'm right
1:09:16
corrected Spirit correct in spirit I like that I'm going to start using that when people
1:09:21
accuse me of getting the facts wrong correct in spirit though what
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one happy weekend bye y'all
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