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The major iPhone 17 Pro camera overhaul! (CultCast #682)
Mar 11, 2025
This week: new details on the super slim iPhone 17 Air and big camera upgrades coming to the iPhone 17 Pro, plus three overlooked Apple products that are getting upgrades this year. And stick around for an update on features likely coming to CarPlay 2 and our first impressions of the Nintendo Switch 2! Chapters: 0:00 Preshow 3:58 Intro 8:40 Factor 11:42 iPhone 17 Pro cameras 17:14 iPhone 17 Air 22:45 3 lonely Apple products getting updates 29:36 Hugo Last Honorary Segment 30:58 CarPlay 2 widgets 36:27 Severance Season 2 48:55 Nintendo Switch 2
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oh my gosh leou the nerves man you got to work on those nerves what a what a way to start the
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show that's what I was thinking set the byar the byar set a oh my God the set
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the joy bear sets the bar High let's see if that works I have no
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idea if anyone's here or what's going on andone my controls are working doesn't look like we have any
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bits oh my goodness oh my gosh there're the bits okay good and we're live you
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want the Tweet action here Louis that sounds like a great idea let we bring him in what a way to move the day along
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this is gonna be the one all right go ahead and give that
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some retweet action we really got to change our our uh video streaming thumbnail
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this is not working I mean I love it but like when you look at it from far away you're like what the heck is this can't
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tell anything but you know what we got Jeff crumpley here and with the last name of crumpley he's got to be from the
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UK got to be from the UK don't many crumpley over
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here in the uh us of you want me to make you a a template thumbnail that we can
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add for these live streams before I actually change it after we're done being live sure I mean okay it will be
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better than what we got now because we got our podcast artwork there we go yeah is it in Photoshop ah he's from
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Charlotte North Carolina wasting did I can't believe it
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I've never met a crumpley before though and it doesn't it doesn't crumpley it sounds like a UK last name like a British last name it's like Bumble bubbs
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my name is Jeffrey Bumble bubbs it's like that guy's from the UK turly
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whack scrumple do I mean I can just come up with these all day turly
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whack oh man the The turly Wack family has a great reputation in the talent of scrumple wle
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got to be like a okay he's originally from England see I told you east east buerton or
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yeah lower Shuffle fi right next to South tooting I think that might be
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where leander's from South toting tooting
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Hill all right man we got a lot of stuff to talk about and as I said I gotta be walking these sweet yet very muscular
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buns out the door in 62 minutes we got G blance here that means we got Quorum
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we're ready to start and uh we got a lot of stories to talk about here today so let's just get this thing rolling oh Mrs
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d d h my D my dear did somebody say muscular buns oh
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no this D let's goe and stop right there I mean I know you can't be that
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into muscular buns you wouldn't be with alcy oh man oh dear Heavens turn into a
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shot he's not here defend himself okay this D please just stop no
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one wants to hear about that anymore we got a lot of Apple news to talk about and not a lot of time to go into this
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stuff so let's get this thing yes Griffin is
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green and magenta today depending on which eye you have open he might be one or the other very 90s put on your
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glasses now he looks like one of those old school cable boxes with the dials and if you like turn the dial right
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between two channels it was like two different colors no all right I'm passing my video through an RF modulator
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it looks like it it looks like it um I think we're GNA talk about the switch too at the end of the show here because
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Griffin and I if we can get a move on if if Lou would stop talking we just get the show going I was just about to start
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all right let's get the music going and we'll get this thing rolling in three
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two hello and welcome to the co Cassy best 30 plus conversation you're going to
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hear all week long I'm your host a join me today to collect better Intel he has
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standing still for days at a time it's a tough job and some say it's inhumane but he's confident it's going to pay off
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magic C leis Wallace is here oh definitely going to pay off investing in
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the future that's what we're doing in Cult of Mac also with us he isn't interested in fancy new consoles like
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the new Switch 2 console gaming was perfected with the Apple Pippen and that's the only gaming system he's ever
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going to need he's a writer for culat Griffin Jones Is Here speaking of things
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we need uh DAV by the way Aon have you bought a computer I have bought a a
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computer have you bought a tablet uh no but I'm going to do that when my
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computer is ready and I'm going to be going to pick it up uh uh God took
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forever to be built but and I think I out outlined the specs last week it's
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going to be available well a week earlier than expected shocker but it's
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going to be available on the 21st so Tuesday it will'll be ready to pick up but I don't know if I'll be able to make
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it there Tuesday it's probably going to be the weekend before I can go which is hard it's like you know that you have a
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new computer just sitting there so I'm going to go pick up my new Macbook Pro on probably the 18 18th the 18th of
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January I shall have a new Macbook Pro um and I'm going to be picking up the
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new iPad Pro I'm like 98% sure I'm going to get the uh 13inch and try to live with it for two weeks I figure what the
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hey I'll give it a shot everyone's telling me it's too big everyone's telling me I'm making a huge mistake but
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huge but the thing is is it feels great in the store how does it feel in
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everyday life I just don't know no so I'm going to live with it and see how I like it Jeff crumpley formerly from the
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UK says Severance season 2 kicks off 900 p.m I'm not reading that time zone 6:00
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pm Pacific time I'll let you do the calculations for other time zones 9M
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greatest time zone 6m tonight oh it's tonight oh I'm forking it over big time
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G Big Fork incoming so if you're not already subscribed uh support. cast.com
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support.the cast.com I have some expensive purchases planned oh my gosh this is this is going to be the year of
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the great emptying my wallet just being emptied um yeah I have a feeling that
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we're going to get a new studio display we'll be talking about the Nintendo switch 2 which dude random announcement
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today but there was a leak yesterday on Twitter and I think Nintendo has had
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this video queued up and they were like okay cat's out of the bag I mean the guy who leaked it had like all these
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pictures it and he's extremely accurate I think it's on leaks on Twitter X and
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as soon as that came out everyone was like okay this is the new Switch so I think Nintendo had to do something I don't know if they were ready but man so
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excited about the switch 2 I've been waiting for the switch 2 for probably two years did he leak pictures of the
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actual product or just promotional images I think promotional images yeah okay I believe and a bunch of stuff has
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leaked and now Nintendo came out made the announcement this morning and it looks exactly like the leaks so cats out
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of the bag um there's only two things that I think I might be disappointed
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with and everything else is exactly how I was hoping it would be so we'll talk about all that stuff towards the end of
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the show we got a lot of uh Apple stories to cover we're going to talk about just how slim the iPhone 17 air is
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going to be we're going to talk about the big upgrades coming camera upgrades coming to the iPhone 17 Pro
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uh we got three overlooked Apple products that are going to be getting an update here in 2025 L is going to fill
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us in if we have time uh Griffin says we got to work this in by 110 I think
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that's a number he pulled out of the old keester but I'm going to stick with it if we if I can get to the story before
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110 we're going to do it carplay 2 features uh could feature iPhone style widgets which I actually did want to
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talk about Lewis is going to talk to us about sance season 2 and then we'll wrap
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up with the switch First Impressions if we have time and I got to be walking um
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these incredibly muscular manly buns out the door in 55 minutes so we got to get
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this thing rolling um before we do any of that I do want to thank oh man I want
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can eat a hamburger and I can tell you if that ground beef was was frozen I can eat a steak and I can tell you if that
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microwave huh it's not a microwave it's not a microwave no no no instructions
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specifically say to use a microwave well you can use a mic wave I like to use my infrared light oven which is a device we
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is it an easy bake oven is that what it is it kind of looks like that actually because it has the light inside which my
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just regular food ingredients right so it's like actually good wholesome food what were you going to say Louis I was going to ask if you had the chicken
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Florentine I did we had the chicken florentine was like the most tender
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chicken breast I've ever had in my life dude even the pork chop it was shocking which is hard to cook fresh and have it
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not be dry even that was juicy so it doesn't it doesn't have the texture or
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episode okay iPhone 17 Pro could go all in with 48 megapixel rear cameras
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sending it over to Griffin to fill us in sure so the current iPhone 16 Pro Series
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packs two 48 megapixel cameras and one 12 megapixel camera for the 5x telephoto
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lens the primary and Ultra wide cameras use pixel binning and fusion processing to capture detailed 24 megapixel
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pictures but you can unlock the full 48 if you're shooting raw or on a third party camera app uh but it's that
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telephoto lens that's sort of a few years behind I think the sensor in the 5x telephoto lens hasn't actually been
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revised since the iPhone like 13 or 14 generation I don't think I realized that but you can tell when you zoom in it
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doesn't look as good yeah yeah they've they've like updated like the the lenses that make it give that extra Zoom but
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the sensor is really old with the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro Apple will switch
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to a triple 48 megapixel rear camera setup as part of this it'll ditch that ancient 12 megapixel sensor for the zoom
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lens in favor of the same 48 megapixel sensor that it's using for the other two the sensor's focal length will seemingly
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remain unchanged still offering that 5x Zoom uh but the higher resolution will lead to a noticeable increase in image
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quality and it'll give you the option hypothetically for a 10x optical zoom
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which would be just insane apparently the upgraded 48 megapixel lens will
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debut on both the iPhone 17 pro and pro Max some R some rumors previously said
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that it would only be on the bigger phone for the main 48 megapixel and 5x
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telephoto cameras Apple will seemingly switch to a glass plastic lens which may improve light transmission and overall
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image sharpness I think that's the first time we hearing about that I don't even know what that kind of material would
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be additionally leaker digital chat station interesting name claims all
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iPhone 17 models front camera the the the selfie camera will get an upgrade as
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well to 24 megapixels this should enable it to capture more detailed and sharper selfies
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uh the combination of higher resolution sensors and enhanced damage processing should allow the F1 17 Pro lineup to capture significantly better photos than
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its predecessor all right love it an iPhone with a better
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camera than the last iphone did you this this must be something that German got from one of his Scoops you know what I
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mean one of his sources new camera upgrades coming but you know what Lewis
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as much as you make fun of us we like to know what the upgrades are going to be Lewis that's that's the point we want my
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eyes just aren't good enough to tell the difference because they all look great to me yeah I mean sometimes I like just
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the other day it was really snowy out here um so I took a picture of my my dog outside laying down in the snow using
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that 5x telephoto lens because it like perfectly framed her amongst the field of white and then I got back to my
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computer and I zoomed in and I was like I this actually took it with the telephoto lens right and I zoomed in and
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it looked kind of smudgy and blurry was like blown up on a big screen like I love the telephoto sensor but it's not
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great it's not the best camera by far it'll be interesting that um if they do
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this if they give it that 488 megapixel treatment that you would then have the iPhone rear camera would then have an
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optical range of what one to two and then 5 to 10 but like 2.1 to 4.9 it
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would be doing like digital cropping like yeah man I don't I I don't I don't
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love that implementation and and a 10x it's like okay I would love to have a 10x but if you're going to make me
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digital Zoom from you know 3x to 10x kind of like what you're saying
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no not a fan I just don't think that 10x is useful enough to sacrifice having a
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better a tighter Zoom optical zoom range um that I think would improve Fidelity
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yeah what else I I don't use the 5x as much as I thought I would you know and
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what because it seems like the only time I really ever go to use it is you know like Wildlife or something you know
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picture of a bird up in a tree or something like that H having you know a 10x that would be awesome cuz usually
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the 5x isn't quite you know isn't quite as far as it seems yeah it's just not quite good enough for what you really
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need that kind of a long lens for so I don't know they need to add an additional camera lens they need to have
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four yeah like needs to be like thick camera or they need to put like a little
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Periscope on the back so you can go like Pirates right just pull they three here then they need another another three
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right next to the other three yeah I mean lenses one day yeah big ugly
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horrible hexagon yeah well I'm not sure it be any worse than what we have now actually it would be well let's talk
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about the next iPhone which man was I showing the wrong story oh no I wasn't
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okay I was going to say I was just showing the wrong story that whole time Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 air might be
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thinner than originally rumored and I they're saying this
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thing's going to be almost as thin as the M4 13in iPad Pro unless you've held
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one of those in your hands you cannot begin to understand how thin that is the
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IP the the 13inch the 12.9 in sorry sorry the 12.9 inch iPad Pro I mean this
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sounds like buzz but it's like impossibly 13 now they yeah they they got rid of that 12.9 thing man it was it
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officially 13 now get with the program okay good because 12.9 in is way too much to say but it's ridiculously thin
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it's it's unbelievably thin when you actually hold it like it feels like it actually might be more fragile because
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it is so thin but having an iPhone that's that thin I could see why that would be a big selling point it's going
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to fit into your pocket a lot easier it's probably going to be a lot lighter um let me go back into the story here
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the iPhone 17 air will focus on form factor and slimness over features and functionality we've talked about that
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before I wonder how everyone feels about that let me know what you think chat in a medium post TF International
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Securities analyst man have to work on shortening that uh Ming quo claims the
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iPhone 17 air will maybe even thinner the thinnest part of the device could measure 5.5 mm for comparison the M4
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iPad Pro Apple's thinnest device this must be the uh 13inch is just 5.3 MIM
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thin uh potential side effect of the 17 air slim design is that it might lack a
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physical SIM card slot which be a problem for users in China cuz I guess
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Sim like physical SIM cards are still a important feature there and I don't
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think I realized this but Apple the iPhone currently has a version for China that has dual SIM card slots in China I
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didn't know that why do why do they need two of them is it one for personal use and one that the government
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monitors I mean they probably or both so that can't be it why do they need two
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one one personal number and one for work it's a pretty common thing in on Chinese phones but why would you need two
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physical SIM card slots for that purpose right it's like they don't like the eims
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I don't know yeah I don't know all right I I think that the EU still has physical SIM card right maybe every the iPhone
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outside of the US has the has a physical SIM card slot how do not miss physical SIM
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cards things you know I kind of miss them but really well it is more inconvenient you have to admit like if
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you've ever wanted to just take your sim card out and plop it into a new phone which I don't need to do that often so
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for me the eim card solution is fine but if you have to do the transfer it's kind
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of annoying and if you're going back and forth obviously that's not going to be something that works for you because you need to be doing the transfer all the
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time so I mean the the physical SIM card slot is so easy just to pop out and pop into a new phone now I don't know why
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it's always felt wrong to me like stabbing my iPhone with a paperclip and then this tiny little tray comes out the
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side of it like it's it's not it it just feel it just felt wrong every time I did that and like you have to hold on to the
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tray you can't drop it or lose it because then your phone just has a hole in the side of it like yeah it's not a
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good experience yeah I don't like doing that at the airport you know 14 hours after your flight oh my God that that
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was always not the most Pleasant thing to do upon arrival in a foreign
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country yeah actually that is interesting if you take your iPhone to another country
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country and you want to put in another sim card I don't know if you could actually accomplish that with a us I
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phone you can do an eim yeah you gotta do that so you can use an eim even if
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you're in Europe and their phones don't use eims yeah really yeah their phones I
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think they still have eims internationally they just uh still make phones with physical SIM card slots for
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whatever reason yeah that is interesting I wonder why there's uh
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this is super who I don't think anybody cares but uhan tell us more about it yeah let me spend 10 minutes on no uh in
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Italy you know Tim is one of the big big uh Tim is is one of the big carriers Tim
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and they oh yeah it should be but uh they have this really great tourist thing you know it's like 30 days a lot
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of lot of uh Giga as they say but uh you got to have a SIM card so I'm a physical
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one they don't they don't offer that yet with an or they didn't the last time I was darn
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it hey watch out the watch the language here loose so you buy your here yeah
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before one of the international phone plans with AT&T when I go abroad which is probably more expensive
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and not as good but it means I don't ever have to worry about that I think my AT&T plan actually includes a bunch of
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international countries because of the unlimited plan that I'm on they give you like free roaming and free text
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messaging across pretty much anywhere I would probably ever want to go so but I should look that up um it's
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and not just assume Verizon's works over there but it's like 10 bucks a day or something 10 bucks a day that sounds
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like Veron okay look let's move on yeah let's move on we get up we get these other stories um
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Lewis I hate when we Overlook Apple products and it seems like there's three here that may be worth mentioning that
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are going to get updates Poss yes this year uh update r
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point to new versions of Apple TV streaming box air tag and homepod is
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that exciting uh you won't believe the source of this is uh Mark Kerman uh
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author of a newsletter called power on so he he predicts that a fresh Apple
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TV model will come out toward the end of the year um supposedly going to have a faster processor like really say what
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else could it do uh I guess this one runs on a a15 bionic faster processor
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you know might make it better for games I don't know does anybody play games on Apple arcade I I think some people do
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yeah they can't even give it away to me I mean they keep asking me like hey do you want to take advantage of your app arcade subscription I'm like the free
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one that you get when you buy a Fone I'm like no I'm good uh let's see so that's not the only
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thing you know um uh air tag supposedly this actually sounds really exciting um supposedly going to have significant
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Improvement to the Precision finding feature which is awes awesome already uh
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this going to be because of an ultra wideband chip that gets an upgrade supposedly going to Triple the range wow
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I hadn't heard that triple the range yeah wouldn't that' be awesome and and that Precision finding thing is is great
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in the first place coming in clutch yeah let's see uh can't have enough air tags
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for sure uh let's see and on the homepod front supposedly an improved homepod
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mini is going to arrive in 25 built with Apple's new smart home ecosystem in mind
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I don't know exactly what that means um and I don't know if
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um yeah this is not talking I don't know there's been so much confusion about homepod and this home hub and people
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keep talking about them almost interchangeably you know and and like what's it going to be it sounds like there's going to be a wall
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mount uh like basically like an iPad light or
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something uh and nobody knows what's be called some people call it a home pod I think even quo called it a a hom pod but
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what's it really going to be it's going to be like a home hub so let's
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see do you know if do you know if the um homepod mini Lewis is gonna support sub
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dog I'm sorry what do you know if the hom pod mini is gonna support sub
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dog I have no idea is this some kind of setup I don't know what you're talking about
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I was what I say what what's up dog nothing what's up with you dog I was I
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was hoping he was going to go for it Griffin immediately caught on but alas I've been trying to bring back things
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that people used to say from like the 90s and early ODS and I thought man I thought you were going to do it you were so close you were so close I could see
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it on your lips you're like what's up dog think you didn't darn you yeah all
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right uh yeah you know supposedly knew why and Ultra wi band chips going to make it better for handoff and everything else blah blah blah um I you
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know what I wish they would do drop the price just a smidgen because I wouldn't mind having a few more of those sprinkled around the house they'll be
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supporting sub dog before they drop the price oh man actually I'm joking but
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they they they you that's a possibility man they keep removing features you know you know Siri's going to be so much
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smarter here in the very near future it's just going to be wonderful actually that's a reason why I wouldn't
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put those things all over the house because we have a few and they drive us crazy so we haveon alexas in our house
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instead MH have you guys seen these uh third-party products you can buy where you like plug your homepod into like a
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small little like hockey puck sized base and then it just adds a battery that you can use and turn it into a portable
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speaker no way I haven't seen that think I've seen that yeah and that's it if
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Apple actually like straight up made a portable homepod
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I'm kind it's kind of surprising they haven't I mean I don't know how big of a market it is there that's right there
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there is a lot of competition in the portable speaker Market but they charge so much money for those portable speakers they're all
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expensive well I mean they're also typically waterproof dust prooof you
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know can take a quite a beating dude I I love portable speakers like that we went on a couple Vacations
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so ankor sent me one and I think I talked about it on the show actually really great product um supports spatial
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audio and just having that thing like out at a pool when you're on vacation
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totally changes the whole dynamic of just being outdoors and just hanging out with your friends and stuff it's so nice
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to have music anywhere you want to go I love having those portable speakers I think Apple should make one G darn
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it yeah I'll just put one in the show notes right here yeah
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Amazon I don't know ohod mini but this is one that I've seen other people talking about okay just plug your homepod into it and then it's a portable
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speaker and it has like a little orb sized base that you can just use to pop it on a just don't drop just don't drop
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it don't get it wet yeah I mean like like the Ultimate Ears ones you know they they're
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waterproof they float they sound great I mean float wow Apple would have apple
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would have to have a they'd have to spend a lot of money and time doing that I don't I don't see them ever doing they
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already got like the Beats Pill right I mean any buy those I have no idea I've never
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purchased a beets product in my life I would be too embarrassed to be seen with Beats headphones really yeah man I mean
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I don't know not my vibe beats brand you know um I know they're popular I see
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them all over the place I'm a gym especially I always see people to beat stuff on but yeah I'd rather just get a
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pair of Sony headphones or something I got a pair of them for free when I got my 2015 MacBook Pro because it happened
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to be during the SCH summer used to be their uh back to school promotion thing they were nice surprisingly nice I mean
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at this point they're probably literally just a reskin of you know Apple
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technology so but with the I I had to replace the leather earbuds because they felt like the the little cups because
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those fell apart and also the cable like the the little Beats logo on the cable
29:19
fell off so I had to glue that back on really and then I think the cable broke so I had to replace it but you know wow
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what were you doing with these things mowing the grass mowing in the grass work no I was
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not I did not have a lawn to mow at that time oh man before we continue we got Hugo Lon with a $20 donation European
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phone systems European phone system is so much better yeah don't know about that
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Hugo sure is cheaper is it yeah oh maybe it's every time we talk
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S card any phone you want any of our you know British colleagues are just like you pay how much for what service it's
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like crazy how much we get ripped off for over here I mean but the other thing
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too is not to get too much down this Avenue is like our country is so big and our phones have to work over such huge
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areas and 5G don't forget the 5G and then there's 5G the next era of
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connection speeds which is so fast god it has transformed life on Earth yeah it is it's just different here in the US
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now that 5G is launched um whereas you know the European are so compact it's just easier
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to reach broader groups of people would be my guess but you know what for 20
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bucks I'll take your word for it hugas thank you for the Super Chat and thank you for last week's Super Chat which I think we got before the show and then
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completely forgot to mention oh my God I blame Lewis he's responsible for making sure we don't miss super chats I mean at
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least it seems like you should be responsible that's great we never talked about it
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what yeah what else can I do all right let's keep it moving here do we miss
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anything from this story Lewis I don't think so I think we're all all set you know what carplay 2 let's talk about it
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man I have been loving carplay I talked about a carplay computer that I got as a
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review unit God I can't remember the brand they're available on Amazon um I'll send you a link for the show notes
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Griffin if people want to check it out it's just this little computer that you mount to your dashboard and I can't
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believe how well this thing works and it syncs with your phone obviously and every time you start your car carplay
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just turns on and I pretty much only use the maps in carplay that's the only thing that I really have found to be
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useful especially with this computer but that's all it needs to do I mean having a map an always on carplay map and the
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animations and everything on this screen are smooth and it's like a huge screen I love carplay like once you get used to
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having those directions always there and every time you start your car it's like it it uses machine learning to be like
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hey are you going here and a lot of times it gets it right so you just tap yeah I'm going to go to the gym and it
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you know now people always say why do you need directions to your gym dude I don't but I just like to have the live
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map sometimes it will show you something useful it will show you red light cameras which we have everywhere here in
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Seattle you know it's like oh are you 2 Ines um too far into the intersection
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when the light turns red boom ticket those are those things are dangerous man I I think they should be banned if
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you're out here and there's like a train just blocking a street for like 20 minutes you see like a red line over it
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because it'll show up as a traffic jam does it really that's hilarious um yeah I use them all the time too for places I
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commonly go it's like which which route is less congested right now right yeah
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and I just want to see what's going on around me you know I just and I kind of like just having the animation going anyway we're getting way off way off
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tractor I blame leis running out of time uh Apple's carplay 2 uh while Apple
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carplay 2's expected 2024 24 I can't speak today wow 2024 release still
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hasn't happened newly leaked images Thursday show a familiar widget based interface that mirrors experiences
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across iOS iPad OS and Mac OS now this leaker is considered reliable uh if the
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images proved genuine who remembers him they suggest a sensible uh drive by the
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iPhone giant to provide a seamless experience across the Apple ecosystem even on the road so it looks like
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widgets that you have on your phone but super sized and now in carplay and I
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would say this is probably the only other thing that I would find useful inside of carplay besides the maps like
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I don't really I don't really need to see well I guess I don't really play a lot of music um when I'm driving so I
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don't really need to see like the music information on carplay although that might be useful um you just drive in
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silence or what I I listen to I listen well I listen to podcast but via YouTube like YouTube is where I listen to all my
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podcasts so and it doesn't support videos now that would be useful if it actually played
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video Griffin is just absolutely flumix that I listen to audio from YouTube all
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the time yeah I almost never use the podcast app anymore why is that that um well I mean you get video
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if you have the um ability to actually watch otherwise you can just listen to
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the audio so whatever I'm listening to because I I pay for YouTube premium so I can turn my iPhone screen I could put it
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to sleep and the audio continues playing I totally admit it's ridiculous that they lock that feature behind a pay wall
34:43
but what else they're going to make you what other feature is going to be there besides the ad removal that you're going to be willing to pay for I just have a
34:49
web like a safari extension that can do that for me and then I just use YouTube on the web app dude I tried to do that
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so many times and YouTube was always playing wacka with those kinds of features and then I would use them for a
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while and then suddenly they would stop working the one I've been using for years and still hasn't broken I'll put a link in the show notes it's called
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vinegar vegar what it does is it actually replaces the YouTube video player with like a standard iOS video
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player so you can do picture and picture you can keep playing in the background all that stuff it's great really yeah I
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I feel like solutions to bypass YouTube advertisements is like getting
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directions um from people in California to get somewhere it's like everyone's got their own secret uh you know you
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know way that they go they're like you know it's like that SNL sketch I take Pasadena to El tond then I take a ride
35:40
and like you try it and then it never actually works but I'll take your word the
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405 did you ever watch that sketch on SML The Californians oh dude that one was actually was cell
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phoner um okay I think we powered through all that stuff God look look at
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us go man we're at 101 and we haven't even gotten to Severance yet okay what
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are you what what are you typing okay you want me taking down notes of what to put in the show okay I was gonna say Griffin's typing me a live note
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here I'm like am I gonna have to go full Ron bery and just read whatever he's writing
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URL just go to URL to find it folks oh man oh my
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God okay uh Lewis let's talk about sance shall we
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yeah yeah so I guess you know by the time this podcast actually comes out it's going to be already out right
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season two I forgot it was tonight yeah so exciting so very exciting and and
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honestly like uh the the way that Apple has been promoting this show is insane I
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have not seen this this is genius I haven't seen anything about this really
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no this is the first time seeing it in fact when I was just scrolling just to look at the lead image I was like is
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this like an advertisement or is this a real thing yeah it's uh I mean they they set
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up a a like a clear cubical in Grand Central Station in New York and they had
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in it's like encased in clear plastic a glass it's a display in a zoo like just
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the and then inside there is like the set of four cubicles for the macro data refinement office in Severance I mean
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the fact know what they do I'm so impressed by that yeah they they had like you know people in there working
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but then then the Stars the show came in there like at rush hour I think way and I don't know if it was rush hour but uh
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you know three of the main stars from the show Ben Stiller who's a director of it and everybody was there they made
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this big splash right and uh and they were just like it's like they were just
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going about their business doing their doing their jobs and if you they were
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doing so they were just like pretending they were working for 3 hours for 3 hours straight they were in that Cube
37:56
like talking to each other and just doing macro data refinement it's apparently like a real thing that like
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those computers can actually do uh mil Che was there you know with the the ball throwing I mean it and not
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that so they they did all that stuff which was interesting enough then they put out a uh a video like a a minute and
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a half video look like a slick documentary about it you know with the that awesome soundtrack going in the
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background I me oh my it was it that all that was crazy then they they also they
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they put out this like I guess a web app that you can you can put your face on a
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balloon like which is part of another Severance ad I mean or promo spot I mean
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it's just I don't know I I've I've never seen Apple spend so much time and effort
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promoting a show and I'm really glad that they are because in my mind this is one of the most like interesting
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creative shows I've ever seen and I I just just today was you know looking at over all the different headlines
38:59
everywhere about it and I saw some headline that it really kind of summed it up it it was like uh sance is too
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good for Apple TV plus and and the it was all about how this is a really
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fantastic show but Apple TV plus has such a small subscription base that it's really just like lost lost to Society
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lost to culture and um so they did something else too I
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think that they they put Severance on on like Roku sticks or something like
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like they let they let watch season one for free on Roku right now I think okay
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yeah I don't know how long that lasts or whatever but uh you know so they're trying to they're desperately trying to get people to watch this show and for
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once I I think it's actually something that's worthwhile you know I mean it's not like they're promoting some you know
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silly movie that's kind of a dime a dozen sort of movie they're they're spending on on something that is
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truly a a weird creative show and it it's funny every time I try to explain
40:03
it to somebody it's like how do you describe that show I mean it it's kind of a Sci-Fi show uh some of the guys
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that ride around on our called it like a workplace comedy that really like is
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misleading short yeah I think that's very reductive there's way more going on than it just being a workplace office
40:21
parks and wreck and Severance you know three workplace comedies yeah that's right it's it's you know there's just
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it's hard to kind of encapsulate that the like weird it's kind of it's just ominous in
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a way you know it's ominous and then then it'll have something that's just so funny and creative that you're like how
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did they even think this up yeah so it is definitely one of the most unusual
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and creative shows on television right now I don't want to give any spoilers away but you know like when they start
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to show you a bit deeper into the building and like some of the rooms with some like the religious stuff that's
40:58
going on it's it's like oh man that's a whole element that gives you a little
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bit of insight into like how strange this company actually is and and and it
41:09
adds more mystery and and uh Mystique is to like what is actually going on here
41:15
like what do these people even do you know like you spend a whole season watching you still don't know you know
41:20
it's like but I will say this piece of advertising I just think is so smart to
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do something so simple and and yet if you saw this inside of a train station
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like you would be standing there watching it for sure trying to figure out what they're doing yeah if you hadn't seen the show you'd be what is
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going on here um have you SE did you go to sance bon.com
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sance balloon. comom let me see if I can do this real fast
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sance balloon. comom okay
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it's just got a simple proceed button yeah ah okay it's loading it's a
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computer screen one of the computers from Severance oh and then you can like
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upload your own face yeah so if you're listening which is most of you there's a sance computer and then on it there is a
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suit with a balloon um with a string going down into like where a head would
42:23
be inside the suit but instead the head is a floating balloon and on the on the balloon there's um what is his name the character's name
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Mark Mark his face is like imprinted on the balloon and I guess you can like change that imprint to be your own yeah
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yeah I mean you know pretty cool I might make that my new Twitter Avatar kind of it kind of feels a lot like um I don't
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know the early 2000s or something but uh can I do this live still cool oh my I don't know what's going to
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happen cuz I'm using my camera for the stream did I just disappear for you guys
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no it says no signal never mind it's not going to work afterwards I I was scared
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it was going to hijack my signal from the stream but it didn't do it uh they also uh you know if if people
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go to story you know you can also they see all this stuff got it all embedded they also put one of those uh Lumen
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industri terminals on the homepage of apple.com today like it's a I mean giant picture
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of it you know it's I I've just never seen them get behind the show so much and it's to me it's so refreshing the uh
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they also put out an ad or you know fake ad earlier this week it's like some kind
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of 70s style Lumen Industries ad that's like something you'd see you remember
43:44
how lost had those kinds of things those weird uh vintage uh commercials for the
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mysterious company behind it it's just it's a pretty uh it's a I I just they've
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spent a lot of time thinking about which is totally appropriate because it's such a creative show so I I I I oftentimes
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have problems with Apple's PR department but uh no say so I mean honestly like
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they're killing it with this yeah it's good man and it's worth all right well I
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think my I think my Apple TV Plus subscription is still going so maybe I can download
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all these and watch them go on a little trip may can watch them on my flight that's what's that's what's so
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disappointing you say I think my Apple TV Plus subscription is still well I got a free subscription show how muchir
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really watch oh they're only going to trickle out the episodes one by one though so never mind I can't even do
44:41
that this freaking Apple TV man that is the worst thing about Apple TV plus yeah well I know I think they do it because
44:47
they want to keep you around they don't have enough content to keep you going all the time so they have to trickle this stuff out so that you don't
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subscribe for a month watch the whole show and then peace out which is probably what a lot of people would do or seven seven day free
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trial or that or that um anyway all right Severance starts tonight well I'm
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sure we'll talk more about this as we watch the show but I hope it's good man like I really like season two of Silo
45:15
but I also feel like it just didn't really answer anything yet it just it just introduced even more question
45:22
marks and I was hoping for some kind of payoff but they're obviously going for the long Tale on this like maybe they're
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going to spend two or three episodes Building up or two or three seasons and then finally start answering questions I don't know and I'm kind of hoping sance
45:35
has a payoff here at least in some degree but surprise me if they didn't I mean I didn't read any of these because
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I just don't want to know anything about it but the reviews that I saw for the season two of sance which some kind of
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embargo lifted earlier this week I I saw a ton of of people saying it it does the
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show you know it it does write by the show it it's just as good and a worthy
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second season so yeah honestly Silo season two haven't been that thrilled
46:05
with it seems kind of slow there's a lot of like a it's so dimly lit I could barely
46:11
see anything that's going on it's like I sometimes feel like I'm actually just watching a a like a mud pile bubble or
46:19
something you know it's like but uh you know it just seems like a lot of that could have been boiled down
46:25
into less and I honestly I'm not not all that taken with the like internal
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politics of The Silo I don't know that part of it kind of driving me a little crazy yeah I I don't like when they take
46:40
modern Concepts and put them into like a scenario that's like sci-fi or just unusual and like the like the the silop
46:49
politics stuff right it's like normal politics that would happen but within the silo now so now it's like futuristic
46:55
and sci-fi they did the same thing in um walk of the Dead there's like a whole
47:00
season with like the governor and they're in this town there's like all these like politics that are happening I don't care about any of that stuff I
47:06
want to know what's going on with the zombies why are there zombies everywhere what are we going to do about the zombie problem I don't care about the
47:11
relationship struggles that we're having or the necessarily the fight for you know chocolate like I want to know why
47:18
is everyone turning into zombies and what are we going to do about that and and when they depart from that I I'm less interested in it anyway um man
47:28
I was going to give a quick plug um as far as things being true to the material
47:35
I have heard nothing but absolutely great things about the new Indiana Jones
47:41
game I don't know if you guys knew that that new Indiana Jones came and the circle of the dial of Destiny I think
47:48
it's called the dial of Destiny is what it's called what what was the last I don't the movie wasn't it yeah I was gonna say that's the movie um
47:54
oh oh my gosh it's that's going to bug me let me see Indiana Jones has a new game from
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Bethesda and the great circle and the great circle thank you and I have heard from everyone that has played it that it
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is it is the most reverent true to the source material Indiana Jones that has
48:14
been released since the Last Crusade people absolutely love this game they're
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all just talking about how well it's made how the voice acting is perfect how
48:27
the person they have playing in IND Indiana Jones does his voice almost better than he does the music is great
48:34
so I haven't played it yet but I want to just sprinkle that in for those who like the game because I have I've been
48:40
hearing nothing but great things like it's so it's so positive that I'm actually thinking about breaking from my
48:45
current game that I'm playing just to play it and I heard it takes like maybe 50 60 hours to get through the whole
48:52
thing if you're a completionist which I tend to be um but anyway speaking of gaming that's all the Apple news we have
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so if you want to tune out now you're welcome to do so but big announcement this week in fact hot off the press man
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I heard the first rumors I heard of this were last night it seemed to have leaked on Twitter and then this morning
49:13
Nintendo pulls the veil off we're getting a brand new Switch 2 which I
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think is when did the switch one came out wasn't it 2017 201 2017 or 2016 I think yeah 2017
49:27
yeah early it been that long when did switch come
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out yes it was March 3rd 2017 wow that is an old console I did not realize it
49:40
had been that long so here we are what is that almost eight years right and
49:48
switch is finally announcing a switch 2 there's been so much hype around switch
49:54
2 right what is it going to be what features is it going to support is it going to be a continuation of the switch
50:01
formula is it going to be something completely new like from Wii to Wii U was kind of a weird departure now I
50:07
really like the Wii U but that cons console did not sell at all I wonder if I can play this video without us getting
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copyrighted if I just mute the music let's see here I'll play Nintendo is pretty litigious I don't okay I'll just
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show some screenshots of it so this is the old switch the current switch and now this is going to be and
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know I'll describe this for you um for those of you who are listening which is most of you I'll make it the chapter outwork as well oh good idea so these
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are the new um I guess those are the the previous joycons I no those these are the current joycons um it's a little bigger and the
50:45
it looks a lot nicer it just looks like more refined in a way yeah and the uh
50:51
the joycons are black rather than colored with but they have like little colorful accents underneath the
50:58
joysticks and themselves yeah and like the little side rail where they attach to they attach magnetically by the way
51:05
no more like potentially awkward those slide controls were
51:10
really difficult to use sometimes yeah yeah like the inside of those side rails
51:16
are color accented as well and I saw some people saying that like it this doesn't necessarily mean that the color
51:21
is gone entirely because apparently the original switch teaser only showed the
51:26
the gray joycons and not the colorful ones so they may be just hiding the color options for the big reveal later
51:34
we should also say this is only a teaser all we've seen is like the design and a preview of a new Mario Kart game a full
51:41
unveiling that'll have like specs price actual release date possibly more color options is coming on April 2nd yeah man
51:49
I am looking forward to that so I'm so hyped about this so I think other big
51:56
thing things to note is they're expecting it to have 1080p in handheld
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mode which is an upgrade from 720p 720p the current switch and from the specs
52:09
that were leaked and from the leaked materials that have been revealed it looks like both the switch and the dock
52:17
are thicker and the dock is so thick it looks like maybe it houses some additional Hardware which is leading
52:22
people to speculate that this thing is actually going to be 4K docked mode which the current dock mode is
52:29
1080p that was my absolute number one feature it has to support 4K how is it
52:34
going to do that I don't know can it do that I don't know but if it can do 4K
52:40
docked then dream come true for me I the games are going to look so
52:45
incredible in 4k like playing through any of the Zelda games I don't know if they would go back and remaster those
52:50
games for 4K I imagine that they will it would be playr material at that point I
52:57
mean play through I wonder if when you're playing old switch games it'll have like some kind of upscaling mode where it can like dlss or something like
53:04
in the new Nvidia gpus I mean dude it might who knows also I think heard like
53:10
a rumor that it the the chipset inside is going to be based on like the Nvidia 3050 which is few Generations behind but
53:18
much more powerful than the original switch and pretty powerful I think for a handheld flat out Nintendo does such a
53:24
good job making their games look great at least they're first party games I don't know why You' pay play third party
53:30
games unless they're indie games on a switch like I see people buying like Borderlands on switch I'm like why would you do that why would you ever play I
53:36
mean I guess if it's your only console okay but the switch has never been good for playing thirdparty games like it's
53:42
perfect for indie games and then for Nintendo's first party games because Nintendo has some kind of magic I mean
53:47
their first party games look so incredible even in 720p which I would never even consider
53:53
for a game made by another publisher um so the other thing I would mention is
54:01
much bigger screen but the rumor is no OLED which I think is a huge miss extremely
54:08
disappointing for them to basically sell an OLED switch and then to go back and say actually we're doing L LED again
54:14
it's like dude OLED should be the standard going forward there should be nothing but OLED going going forward from here and I'm sure that they're
54:21
going to release an OLED model you know sometime down the line which is going to force all of us who love the switch to
54:27
buy another model so that's probably why they're doing it what I noticed is that this design although the screen is
54:33
bigger there's still a noticeable bezel around the edge and that almost makes me think maybe the bezel on this one is a
54:40
little big to give themselves leeway for a future OLED model to have like the same physical dimensions with a bigger
54:46
OLED screen yeah that's an interesting observation I love the magnetic connections for the uh joyon I really
54:53
don't like the rail system they have in place I mean it's fine works but it's so clumsy I also heard that they're
55:00
upgrading the um game port to support I forget the name of the standard it's brand new but
55:06
essentially you would be able to play games off of the dis instead of having to to download them and install them on
55:13
the switch before you could play them um which would make games which would allow you to not have to store all the games
55:20
on your on your switch SSD oh that is the new Mario Kart I didn't even realize they had a new Mario Kart that uh they
55:26
were showcasing here what I noticed is I really like the design of the kickstand do you remember how awful the kickstand
55:32
was on the original 2017 I have the original yeah like you just put it in if
55:38
you use the kickstand once then it gets looser and then like you try to put it in the dock and then like you don't
55:43
realize the kickstand is slightly kicked out and then you're afraid you're going to like break the damn thing like it's it was really flim flimsy little piece
55:50
of like just bent metal this kickstand looks really nice you know they're finally catching up to the micros
55:56
surface of 10 years ago with their kickstand the Microsoft Surface you know
56:01
what though if I had to poke a couple holes at least from what I've seen so
56:07
far I feel like the switch looks too grown up the last switch L like a game console was more Whimsical I like the
56:13
colored joycons and to your point maybe they have colored joycons that you can get cuz this current switch it just or
56:20
the switch to it just looks too like the whole thing's black it just kind of feels like it it lost some of its play
56:27
and it looks just like every other game console portable game console that is being released right now like it looks
56:33
like a steam deck which I kind of don't love I kind of like that it looked playful and it looked like something is
56:40
like twice as bulky like this is much thinner it'll probably feel nicer in the hand than the steam deck yeah it
56:45
probably will I just mean I mean from an aesthetic perspective the switch was so distinctive I mean I can't tell this it
56:54
looks like the color under underneath the actual joystick illuminates and I
56:59
can't tell if this is just the video that I'm looking at or if it actually does that that would be a surprising
57:05
feature I guess that would be a little bit weird circle around yeah like the circle like the the the area underneath the joystick like where the ball goes
57:11
into the ACT actual controller is colored and it looks like it's like illuminated in the video but that can't
57:18
be that can't be real it looks like just a video effect or maybe like my monitor's HDR maybe um yeah it's
57:26
probably just my monitor I've seen people talking about this that but I don't entirely know what it means the
57:32
part of the reveal where they attach the um like the additional plastic piece onto the separated joycons and you see
57:40
the joycons like slide around a little bit people are saying that that makes them think that the you'll be able to
57:45
slide the joycon around on the surface of a table like a mouse and I don't entirely know what you would use that
57:52
for but apparently that's a rumor um yeah so I heard that too um micro SD Express
58:00
cards level remix from the chat yes thank you I heard it's going to support that which increases the transfer rate
58:06
from 100 megabytes per second to 800 megabytes per second which obviously is a big deal um I think it enables people
58:12
to play more like PC gaming where they could have a controller be a mouse so
58:18
maybe you use one joy-con for like moving around and the other one for aiming or vice versa it's it's for Mario
58:24
Paint for the Super Nintendo or or or maybe that or maybe that
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um but again a lot of these are just rumored features like we can't really be sure what's going to happen and Nintendo
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hasn't revealed anything except for the way that it looks and that it does play
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original Nintendo switch games and then you know Nintendo switch 2 games as well what you going to say
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Lewis you know I've never even played a game on one of these things I don't even know how they work is so those those
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joons come off of it and and you put a little I mean is that when is that when you're like playing a game on a TV
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screen rather than the some games only require you to have one of them like if you're playing Mario Party then every
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per every player only gets one half of a joyc con but you can also uh play with
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both of them if you're playing like a more complicated game like Super Mario Odyssey or like Legend of Zelda where you need more in-depth controls and so
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you can either play with two of them like one in each hand or you can snap them together into like a little holder
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like a like using both as one solid controller or you can snap both of them on either side of the switch for like
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handheld gaming or you know you can dock the switch and play with like a fullsize Pro
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Controller that was the genius of the switch was that you could play it
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handheld in your hands but it also came with a dock and when you put in the dock it would send the signal to your TV and
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it would actually make the machine more powerful and so you can just pick your switch up play a game wherever you are
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and then put it in the the dock and now all of a sudden you're playing on your TV so it's like The Best of Both Worlds
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right it's portable but it's also on your TV and your game state was always
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wherever you had wherever you had stopped your game state or your game state was always there ready to be picked up so you could just put the
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switch to sleep and as soon as you woke it up it was like boom you were just right back in the game there's no like waiting for it to load or anything you
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could just keep playing and it's so simple and it's just shocking that no one has really nailed this formula
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before I mean the the PlayStation try with the PS vaita forever ago but like
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that was only a handheld console I don't think you could do anything on the TV with it and for
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me I prefer having experiences on my TV like I know people that watch movies on
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their laptop and I I just think that is such a poor experience why would you
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ever do that like you ruin the movie by watching on your laptop the same with games now not all games maybe but for
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the really good games I want to see them on my OLED TV I want to have the music
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and the sound routed through my homepods I want to have a better audio experience and I feel like that's maybe like an
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Antiquated way of thinking like all the kids all the youths they don't seem to care but I care I think as much as
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people were interested to see a new form factor because Nintendo can just make interesting designs I they had a winning
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formula with the switch and so I'm not disappointed that the switch 2 is basically a new Switch I think it's
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great this is all it needed to be this was all it needed to be it needed to be it needed to have a a bigger screen a
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better screen because the the original switch screen not great in my opinion in fact I almost never played handheld
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because I did not like the Fidelity of that screen the OLED is way way way way way way better um and then 4K I mean the
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the the resolution of the actual gameplay was always irksome to me I'm like 720 in handheld mode Drake hand for
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that not a fan 1080 even 1080p I'm like are you upscaling this it looks like
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you're cheating in fact I think that they were depending on the game and it reminded me of Nintendo switch con
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consoles uh of your when you'd be playing and the frame weight would suddenly drop to like you know seven to
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eight frames a second because there's just too much going on in the actual game like that kind of thing seemed to
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happen in breath of the wild all the time and I hope they've dialed out some of that stuff and yet it's still one of
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the most popular consoles ever sold in fact the switch 2 if not the most
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popular console I think might be close to the most popular console which would would be like PS 2 or PlayStation 4
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would be my guess but people love the switch it's one of the most popular consoles that's ever been made and it
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came on the back of one of the least popular consoles ever made the the Wii U was such a huge failure although I liked
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it as I mentioned it was it's like a very quirky console and it had a very opinionated opinionated way to play
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games because one of the controllers had a screen in it and so in fact it looked
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like a switch uh except there was a console that also had to be plugged into your TV so like some people have like a
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regular controller and then one person would have a controller with a screen on it and it did create some really fun
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Dynamics within gaming that was were totally unique and original to Nintendo like there was a Luigi's Mansion game
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where you were like if you had the main controller with the screen on it you were a ghost and you could see all the
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other players walking around the game but they couldn't see you on the TV so they're all looking at the TV you're looking at your screen on your
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controller and they had these flashlights and they would walk around the level and their flashlight only had
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a certain amount of battery power and they had to like solve these puzzles um
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meanwhile you're like walking around trying to grab them if you grab them then they get taken out of the game so
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like when you get close to them their controller starts to vibrate and they're start they're like shining their flashlight everywhere trying to figure
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out where you are and they can't see you but you can see them on your controller like that was a really cool game in fact
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I think one of my favorite games ever so it enabled experiences like that but a
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lot of the games were just kind of quirky and weird and so anyway the switch was last comment what's that the
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Nintendo switch 2 has a second port on the top for some reason I don't not sure what that's for but that does mean that
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the switch 2 has more ports than the $3,000 iPad Pro well you only need one
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port that's all you ever need that's it why would you ever need more than one
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anyway uh Griffin and I were excited about this because well it's the switch to it's
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