66: Geared Up For CES
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Are you geared up?
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To stalk cute girls at the ski lodge
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Can you imagine not having?
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Galaxy gear at CES. It's like they don't even let you in
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They hand them out at the airport I
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Saw I took a I don't even know why I don't know I took a stupid poll
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I somebody linked to it on Twitter on time Time magazine site today
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It was like answer these questions and will predict your political leaning and they're not political questions ostensibly
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You know, it's not like you know, what do you think about gun control or something like that?
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And I came out 72%
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conservative
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according to this and one of them was that
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conservative qualities was that I like dogs more than cats
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Interesting, but I don't think that that's I think that's nonsense. I mean, I'm not saying that I don't think that there's any kind of I
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Don't know. Maybe I'm wrong though. Maybe if you pulled a thousand people maybe you know, maybe conservatives do like dogs more than
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Liberals, I don't know. It seems crazy to me
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It seems that the the internet has
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Embrace cats more than dogs. I don't know why
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But I don't like cats at all
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Yeah, I probably just lost a lot of my audience there. Sorry
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We talk about baseball. Yeah. No, we should talk about we could talk about the pappies. Yeah
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Well for people who don't know but there's there's a
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Well bourbon is a very complex story, but there's a bourbon brand called pappy van Winkle
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And and I guess they were out for a while, you know like back in the 70s or 80s
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I don't know and they brought it back and they had this old mash and they've you know, it's a high-end brand and they have various
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What would you call it vintages ages, you know, there's tenure pappies 12 year pappies a
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13 year old rye which I believe since it's a rye is an entirely different mash
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It's really sort of it's the same brand, but it's a different beverage. There's a 15 year pappies
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20 year and then there's a 23
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And I think long story short, you know, it was it's sort of an aficionados brand and you know
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The older it is the more expensive it was and it was always a little hard to find and a little expensive
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but then somehow at some point in the last two years or so it it it like
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exploded and everybody got on, you know kind of caught on to the
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the this pappy van Winkle stuff is fantastic.
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And now it's impossible to get any of it.
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More or less. - I had never heard of it
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until there was a scandal about it being stolen or something.
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- That is correct. - I'd never heard of it.
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And then like, I don't know, six months ago or something,
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it was like, pappy's is a huge deal.
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You need to care about it.
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And I had never heard of it.
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- There was a inside job at the,
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I don't know if it's the distillery
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or if it's just where they store it,
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but it was an inside job and a whole bunch of cases of it
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were stolen about six months ago.
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I believe the crime has still gone unsolved.
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And Pennsylvania-- - Is that what you were
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drinking? - No, I don't know.
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Everybody was joking about that.
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I don't know.
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I don't think so.
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Pennsylvania is a weird state where everybody,
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including bars, has to buy stuff through the state.
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I don't know.
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and gets very tricky for bars to obtain it.
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But a local establishment, we're very close to me here,
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great barbecue place.
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Also, clearly a great bar, Percy Street Barbecue
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at 9th and South here in Philadelphia.
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Got their hands on the full six flights,
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the full six varieties of stuff from the Van Winkle Distillery,
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and had a special event yesterday at 5 o'clock.
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I had no idea how it was going to go, but I figured it was going to fill up quick, so
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I got there before five, which was good because I think they said by like 5.15 they were out.
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Well, what they did, and I think it was pretty smart, so they had all six.
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I can't help but think they had more of the lesser varieties, but when you came in the
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door for the event, there was a guy at the front door, and you had to tell him there
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was a limit of three ounces per patron of anything.
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person could only get three ounces, and you had to pick it as you came in and they would
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give you like a little chip. So I picked two ounces of 23 and one ounce of 20. So I got
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two chips for 23 and one for 20. And then you know, you could use that as you wanted
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if I wanted a single two ounce pour of 23 I could have turned into I went 111 I went
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123 than one of the 20 just sort of you know, see what the difference was and then back to the 23
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And and they advertised it as not breaking the bank because I think they could have charged an arm and a leg for the stuff
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but they charged
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Very very fair prices. Yeah, cuz that's part of the legend too that that you cost
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$200 for a glass of the you know, the good stuff. Yeah
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Well, and then now that it's gotten crazy like I mean quick look on eBay here
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People are selling one thing you search from on eBay for for pappy van Winkle, most of what you
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find are empty bottles, people just selling the bottles, which I can't help but think it. I mean,
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who wants an empty? I mean, maybe I can see why some people might want to keep a bottle that they
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drank if it was a special occasion. Keep it as a memento or something like that. But why would you
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want to buy an empty bottle from somebody else unless you were looking to like fill
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it up with something else and sell it.
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You know, I don't get it.
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Well, when I was in like high school and college, I used to order a lot of beer branded nonsense
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off eBay, you know, Zippo lighter and inflatable fish and stuff just weird, like Miller High
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Life crap, which I thought was cool.
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But yeah, I don't know why you would order an empty bottle of...
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I've heard...
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I can't even find it here on eBay, but some people have said that...
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I don't even know how legal it is.
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I guess in certain states it's legal to sell alcohol on eBay.
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But that on the secondhand market, the 23-year Pappy Van Winkle is going for like $2,000,
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$2,500 a bottle, because it's just you can't get it.
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The retail price is a lot less than...
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I think the retail price for the 23 is a couple hundred bucks.
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- And is it awesome?
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- I don't think any bourbon is worth
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a couple hundred bucks a bottle, frankly.
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You know what I mean?
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I like to spend the money on,
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I do like to indulge and buy good stuff in life,
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including finer, I like bourbon,
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so I like to buy good bourbon.
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But to me, it isn't even what I could theoretically afford.
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It's like at a certain point, it's just bourbon.
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You know, and it's like--
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- Yeah, exactly.
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- You can't drink that much at a time.
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And I'm very, very, I feel pretty confident
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that I would fail to do a Pepsi challenge between a,
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or it would be like a coin flip.
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I don't know that I could taste the difference between.
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Like you could, if you put six bourbons in front of me
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and said one of these is 23 Pappy Van Winkle,
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I'm not entirely sure at all that I could figure that out.
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- Does it have, you know, Pappy in general,
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does it have like a strong noticeable taste or flavor
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or is it just bourbon that's good?
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- Well, one thing that they're, and it came out recently,
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is that the one thing that they do differently
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than a lot of other bourbons, or almost all of the bourbons,
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is that they have a higher, or no, it's all,
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an all wheat that they don't,
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They put the minimum amount of corn in.
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That there's another bourbon called JL Weller, which is made from the same mash.
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There was this thing I linked to on Daring Fireball a month or two ago, which it tried
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to explain the complicated relationship between various bourbons and rye's in Kentucky and
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Tennessee and Ohio and the other places where they're made in the US.
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all these really just two vats right yeah more or less where there's only a
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couple of what they call that they start with a mash and then the mash you know
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it's sold to these distilleries to turn into bourbon but you know and
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presumably what happens is they'll take the same mash that's meant to you know
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in pappies the pappy van Winkle distillery will buy it and they'll
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they'll put it you know they'll put it into barrels for aging and then they'll
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sample these every couple years just to see you know, how's this
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barrel going? How's this barrel going? And that the better the
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barrel, the more the longer you know, they'll let it go and only
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the best of those barrels will go for the full 23 years and
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that the lesser ones will, you know, they'll say okay, this
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one, let's just bottle this one at 10. This one's, you know,
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it's not going to get any better. And then they'll bottle
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it. But that there's this other brand JL Weller, which is it
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retails for like, I think it's like 1819 bucks a bottle, but
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it's made from the same mash as pappy and that it's effectively you know like
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a poor man's pappy it's more or less like the same mash but like the stuff
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that wasn't good enough to be turned into pappies and that yeah it does taste
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a lot like pappies it's smooth but ginger ale in it who cares you know just
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I know what is is that they don't put any rye at all in that in their mash and
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so you know if you know just basic American whiskies you know the
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difference between bourbon and rye is that rye is sort of peppery and hot is
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the basic difference between a basic bourbon and a basic rye. Pappies to me
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and it's not just knowing that it doesn't have rye it's like sort of the
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taste of it is sort of what rye is to bourbon Pappy is the opposite to regular
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bourbon. It's less peppery, less hot and smoother and really is a lot more drinkable neat.
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Anyway, the tasting was pretty neat. Cool. Yeah, I'll definitely have to try it sometime.
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But you know, and it's and I did, I Instagrammed it and everybody's like, I got to go there. But
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it was like, it was like a one time only thing. Yeah. You had 15 minutes to come in and get these
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tokens and then we drank them out of it. That's awesome. Yeah, I was just in Tokyo and I brought
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back some whiskey but I haven't really had a chance to crack into it yet.
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The other thing I thought was definitely true is side by side going from the 23 to the 20
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and back to the 23 I absolutely tasted the difference.
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The 23 which I think I only had once before in my life and it was on a trip to Vancouver
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three or four years ago with a bunch of friends for somebody's birthday.
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It was before the whole Pappy's thing exploded.
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Me and my pal Jim Ray saw it on the list of the whiskeys available.
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We're like, "How can this possibly be?"
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It was like a totally reasonable price per pour.
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I don't know, like $20 a pour.
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We asked, we're like, "Are you sure it's 23?"
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They were like, "Yeah."
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They even showed us the bottle and we, you know,
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you had like two of them, uh, at like $20 a pour, which was unbelievable.
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Um, uh, but anyway, I think the difference for anybody who cares is that the,
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the 23 is a little bit, I don't know, a little bit nuttier and a little bit
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spicier. I don't know. It definitely,
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it's almost a little bit less like what I've associated with regular pappies.
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Like, whereas the 20 is that smoother,
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wow, that's definitely,
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it was like the platonic ideal of Pappy.
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- Which one is like the, you know,
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I wouldn't say the most common,
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but the one that's kind of associated the most
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with being the good one?
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Is it the 20 or the 23?
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- I don't know.
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I guess the 20 and the 23 are both fairly rare.
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I've almost never seen them.
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It used to be not that hard to find them.
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like what was that what's that shithole bar in San Francisco oh the tempest no
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not that one a little bit step up except the bathroom I don't know Jesus I forget
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the name of it but it's like across the street from the palace hotel I always
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forget the name but anyway they used to just have it I mean you know and you
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know like 16 17 dollars a pour then you know they ran out the park 55 hotel bar
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used to have the 12-year just sitting there and you could get it and you know
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wasn't exorbitantly priced back in the old days I think the 12-year was the one
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that I used to see the most often like not quite the youngest but not not aged
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all that much I'm gonna keep an eye out for it sort of ties into CES - I remember
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the because I go to Vegas a couple times a year the the Wynn Hotel and casino used to
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have pappies on the list you know and again very you know it's you know it's a the Vegas
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strip and everything's a little bit expensive and the Wynn and Encore is you know supposed
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to be the the best place on the strip so everything's you know even more expensive but like totally
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reasonable it was you know like a typical pour of a good bourbon that Wynn or Encore
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is like I don't know 12 13 14 dollars and they used to have pappies for like 16. It's crazy and
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of course not anymore it's not even listed which brings us you gotta be in the uh the the big roller
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or the yeah I'll bet if you get up to like the horses back there right the sky casino yeah
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there's a button in the in the win and encore did we go in there you know I was there for opening
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weekend and I haven't been there since I haven't been to Vegas in almost 10 years which is kind of
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- It's kind of embarrassing.
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- Yeah, that's a long time.
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Yeah, you go in the elevator
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and there's a button that says Sky Casino.
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It's like the top floor.
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And of course you can't press it.
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You have to have like a special card to get in.
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So I asked somebody at the hotel once,
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I was like, what the hell's the Sky Casino?
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And they're like, oh, you got, you don't,
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that's like, it's like people with like $100,000 credit.
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- Yeah, block, lot.
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It's like there's usually like a high limit,
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most casinos have like a high limit area
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where it's a lot of baccarat and blackjack tables
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that start at like $100 minimum, maybe even higher
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on the weekend.
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It's like for the people who like that high limit lounge
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is nowhere near high limit enough.
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- Yeah, did you ever read that book,
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oh, it's probably 10 years old now,
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by a Wall Street Journal writer
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who got I think a $40,000 advance
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and the book was that he was gambling his advance away
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- No, I don't think so.
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- Oh yeah, it was good.
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I mean, especially for, you know,
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then I had probably just turned 21,
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so it was very exciting.
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I was like, oh, this is the gambling
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we can't afford to do back here.
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- Was he like had a gambling problem,
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or that was the premise, like he--
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- That was the premise of the book.
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- Right, like--
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- So he's gonna take his advance,
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gamble it, and then write about what happened.
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and the kind of treatment he got and stuff like that.
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- Yeah, and all the money he won and lost and won
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and kind of interspersed with stories
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about famous Vegas people and personalities.
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- And he was a Wall Street Journal reporter?
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- I think that was what the cover said.
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You know, I don't know, could it just be a freelancer
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or something, but yeah, something like that.
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- We gotta find it, I'll put it in the show notes.
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- Yeah, it was good.
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- Yeah, something like that.
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I'll find it, I'll send it to you.
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- All right, that'd be great.
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- Yeah, it was fun.
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- Yeah, that would probably be a great way to do it.
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And you might go further than you think with that.
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I don't know.
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until I think he got sick of it.
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and then he came back again and lost all of it maybe.
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I don't wanna spoil too much of it,
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but something like that.
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- Yeah, that's crazy.
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Which brings us, of course, to CES.
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has now become an annual tradition which is after CES. I have you on the show and we talk
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about CES even though neither of us went or has ever gone.
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Dave Asprey I've ever been.
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Dave Asprey I've ever been.
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Dave Asprey And I think last year, I actually re-listened
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to it yesterday. I think we pledged to go this year so we can screw that up.
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Dave Asprey Do you know what the funny part is? The funny
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part is I asked you to be on the show this week because I thought, you know, I know you
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weren't there. And, you know, I, for every reason that I asked you last year, it was
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the same reason I thought you'd be a good guy to, you know, to talk about it, you know,
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CES from afar this year. And then after I DM'd you and said, "Hey, can you, you know,
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have time to do the show this week?" As soon as I hit send, I was like, "Hey, wait a minute,
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deja vu. Didn't I do this last year?" And I quickly, I was like, "Oh, yeah." And then
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I remembered that we agreed to go.
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Yeah. And actually this year, even more than last year, I'm kind of mad that I didn't go
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because everyone, you know, I don't want to repeat everything I said last time, we can just link to
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that show. But everyone I know who was there for the right reasons seem to have a lot of fun.
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Yeah, I totally agree. I, I, and again, we could just maybe we could just splice in all the audio
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from last year. But no, I had that same feeling where like at the beginning, like, at the start of
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of the... it seems like like if you go to cover the show in any sense whether
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you're there to actually do like a hundred posts a week like The Verge or
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Engadget or even if you're gonna take a saner more filtered approach you know
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and and do a lot of the filtering before you present it to your reader like I
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don't know like Pogue's new site or something like that or like my favorite
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the Wirecutter who did one post for all of CES which is... I just I love it. It's so
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awesome. They took like the most insane thing with 5000 vendors. It did one post, which
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is so great. But even so it seems like you go there, you try to get there by Sunday.
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Even though the show doesn't officially start till Tuesday, it seems like Sunday night,
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the pre show stuff starts Monday, there's a lot of announcements. And then like Tuesday,
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Wednesday, Thursday are like the main show days.
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And I think the main like, you're already you're already sweaty. So that's when you
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you just start drinking and gambling and whatever.
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In preparation, I watched a bunch of The Verge videos
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and looked at some of those,
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every year there's the article of the
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10 most ridiculous things that we saw at CES
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and that kind of stuff.
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The kind of comparison that really sprung to mind
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is another thing that I've of course never been to,
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Burning Man, it's just like the same,
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just a sea, like an endless sea of ridiculous nonsense
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and a lot of garbage and people smell bad.
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But if you're there for the right reasons,
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it can be really fun.
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- Yeah, I think the difference between Burning Man
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and CES for me, and in some way,
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like let's say daytime hours, both of them,
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there's a sort of, I'd like to see it at least once.
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But then in Burning Man at night,
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you have to sleep in a dirty tent
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Whereas at CES, you can sleep in a nice hotel.
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- Which is a real big deal for me.
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Sleeping in a tent.
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I'm kinda hoping I go from here till a long, happy life
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and eventual death with never having slept in a tent again.
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- So I don't know about Burning Man for me.
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Vegas to me is like Burning Man with a nice room.
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Just any of those pictures,
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there can be thousands of people in the field of view.
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It seems just unbelievable.
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And of course a lot of them are there to do actual work.
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Like there have been some pretty good serious stories
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about people who are there for actual job functions.
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And one of the things that seemed ridiculous to me
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at first about this year was like,
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"Oh, Marissa Mayer's giving the keynote.
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"What the hell?"
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But then I read an article about how,
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as digital media has become so much a part
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of the consumer electronics industry,
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huge ad deals are happening out there.
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And so you see, oh, there's some very strange vines of,
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who's that guy, David Blaine doing magic tricks
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in front of Dick Costolo from Twitter.
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It's just, did you see that?
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It was crazy.
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And yeah, and I'm sure Marissa Mayer and David Pogue
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went from the keynote straight into a meeting
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with Samsung or something and said,
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"Hey, write us a billion dollar check."
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So people are doing work out there too,
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but also just insanity too.
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It does seem like a lot of the consensus reporting
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I've seen from CES this year is that the craziness
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was dialed down a lot.
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not in terms of like the size and scope of the thing but the just like the the
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stupid crazy I don't even understand what's going on here sort of yeah no
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vaguely racist right acrobatic stuff or the whole and I saw a couple people
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mentioned that booth babes seem to be on the decline hmm maybe well they probably
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I listened to our show from last year and got some sense about it.
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One of the things I was thinking about is, wouldn't it be funny if this was the year
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that Apple actually had a giant booth and just didn't tell anyone?
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We kept the Beyonce album a secret.
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Let's have a huge CES booth this year, too.
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I just remember every year someone would report some rumor like, "Oh, Apple to give CES
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keynote and of course not you know well and it was rampant after they pulled out
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of Mac world right I mean it wasn't even just for the next year although that was
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one year and where it was at a fever pitch but even the next year there was a
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lot of rumor reporting that Apple was going to do a keynote and big exhibited
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CES and it's like no you know yeah no way they were gonna do that the guy
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from Nvidia has to outbid them.
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I did think one of the big stories,
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and I don't know, maybe the sample size is too small
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to really draw a conclusion.
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But Apple, of course, wasn't there officially,
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which is not to say that it weren't Apple employees there.
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There were, there always are,
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to talk to component makers and stuff like that.
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I saw one mentioned in an article, Apple retail buyers, you know, looking at, at stuff to
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sell in the stores.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And I'm sure that there are engineers there to just, you know, to see because it's the
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one thing that something like CES does is it gets the entire industry all together.
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And you can see stuff in person.
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And it's, you know, you know, there's, there's reasons to be in person, you know, the behind
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the scene stuff is as important as the show floor maybe more important but also
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Microsoft was not there even though they you know for years that was CES was sort
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of their Mac World Expo that was you know they were the keynote address the
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kickoff keynote for I don't know 10-15 years in a row dating all the way back
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to the Bill Gates era and then all the way through most of the Steve Ballmer
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era but they you know not only have dropped out of the keynote they had no
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show floor presence at all. Nor did Google. And just to throw in one more, nor did Amazon. Now
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Amazon never has either. But they do make consumer electronics, the Kindle line is, I think it's
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impossible to dismiss. I mean, it's, you know, the market share stuff I've seen after Christmas for
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tablet usage clearly puts the Kindles in second a very strong second place in the
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US but they you know we're not there either and the thing that struck me
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about all four of those companies is that they're US companies and I think
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that you know unless I'm overlooking somebody I mean tell me if I am there
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are the four big US consumer electronic companies Apple, Google, Microsoft and
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Amazon and none of them were at CES.
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It seems like it's almost, you know,
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like the big exhibits are all from the Asian companies.
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- Right, Sony and Samsung.
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- Companies like LG.
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- Yeah, it's interesting.
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- And I don't know if there's--
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- I wonder why that is.
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- Yeah, and I don't know if it's, like I said,
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there's only four of them and they're all uniquely
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their own company, right?
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I mean, Apple's not there just because
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Apple's an American company.
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I mean, Apple is just Apple and they wanna be left alone
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until they have their things to announce.
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- Amazon's kinda like that too.
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- Almost even more secretive than Apple in many ways.
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- Yeah, definitely.
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Google though, I think it's a little,
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it seems like something they might do,
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have a big haul and either just to promote
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like Nexus line of stuff or you know or even have like a Kumbaya you know look at all you
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know have every Amazon you know major Android phone on display at once and just you know.
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Which they did for at least both years that I was at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
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they had it the biggest most popular booth with you know smoothie people making smoothies
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and gigantic Android phones and they brought out a bunch of Android developers and gave
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them little booths and that kind of stuff. Right and maybe they'll do that
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again at Mobile World Congress this year right because that's... I don't know
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if they did it last year. I wasn't there last year. But you know in theory I think
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of all those companies the two that would be least surprising if they did
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have a big CES presence would be Microsoft and Google. Well especially
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Microsoft the new Xbox just came out. Right and Sony was gonna be there. They're
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Buying Nokia, right?
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And maybe just the fact that they are in the process of trying to buy Nokia
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and the whole CEO turnover thing kept them out.
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But that seems weird.
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And I also think that they really want Windows 8 on tablets to gain traction.
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I think they will do anything they could.
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I think I think you know, I don't know is it more important than the phone?
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I don't know but both are clearly important. I mean, I think everybody agrees that that the root cause of Microsoft's
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Decline in recent years is that they have no traction in either the phone or tablet markets
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And you know, I almost hesitate to say that one's more important than the other because I think that they sort of go hand-in-hand
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And even if Office and not Window is the path forward,
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or even the cloud services or whatever,
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that still needs, that's more important for the tablets,
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'cause Office is not gonna do awesome on Android
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or something like that.
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You know what, I'm gonna take it back,
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and I'm gonna say tablets are more important
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to Microsoft than phones, because, for two reasons.
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for one, their phones are already a two horse race with iOS and Android where iOS has a
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stronger position at the top end of the market and Android has a stronger position as the
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majority market share leader, right? And has the OEM market sewn up. Whereas tablets, I
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I feel like, alright, iPad is clearly in first place,
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way stronger in first place than you could argue
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anybody has in anything other than Windows
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and PC market share.
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And second place is up for grabs.
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And I think inevitably there should be
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some kind of strong second place.
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Even if it's really just ends up being the Mac,
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what the Mac was to Windows at the height of the PC era,
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somebody's gonna have an alternative to the iPad.
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And, you know, at least, I feel like Microsoft
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has a better chance of making Windows and Windows tablets
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be that than they do of putting a serious dent
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into either iOS or Android on phones.
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So I don't know.
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And I also think it's a little bit more what, you know,
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shoring up what they're already good at.
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Like I feel like tablet sales are coming at the expense
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mainly of Windows laptop sales.
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- Yeah, so that adds extra urgency.
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And Microsoft kind of started the whole tablets at CES thing.
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I mean, if you remember, what was it,
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two weeks or something before Apple,
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you know, unveiled the iPhone, iPad,
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Ballmer had that weird HP Slate thing at CES.
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- Right, we call them Slates, right?
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I kind of missed the Ballmer keynote at CES.
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That was like something to look forward to.
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- I, you know, and I'll say it,
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I regret that I never went during that era to see one.
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- Yeah, that's like the bulls with Jordan, you know?
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Now it's too late. - It's too late.
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All right, let me take a break
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and we'll get back to that CES talk.
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for the holidays, and you haven't used them because you
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don't really go to Starbucks, don't throw them out, don't give
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them away, go to Tonks, you can put them in there and put all
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that money into a Tonks subscription which is fantastic. That's very smart.
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It's genius. Absolutely genius. I love it. So they did a thing where they send it
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out I guess because they've sponsored my show before they sent me a Christmas
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card a holiday card that included a Starbucks a gift card and there was no
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explanation I thought it was just sort of a gag I tweeted it and I said it was
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like the best gag gift I got but now knowing that they have this promotion I
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realize it wasn't really a gag it was sort of a setup for this but anyway
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talks is so great I'm drinking it literally right now yeah I think
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Microsoft should add a big booth yeah I think for tablets honestly I think for
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phones because honestly I mean Nokia to me it they're making to me the second
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best I don't know about the software but they're making to me the second most
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interesting phone hardware today but they're still flailing they're not
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really gaining traction I don't know that they're sinking but they're not
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going to you know and if it's worth Microsoft's money to buy Nokia or at
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least their handset division I don't know it just seems to me like they ought
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to start ought to keep pumping them into the consciousness you know keep the per
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keep them visible I don't know trade shows are obviously very expensive
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expensive, especially I don't even I can't even imagine what it costs to have one of
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those flagship exhibits at like a CES or a big show like that. It means it's I'm sure
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it's millions of dollars. Yeah, it's got to be, you know, maybe 10 million or something.
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I don't know. Right. But you're talking about a company that's spending billions right with
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a B to buy Nokia, right? And you know, just in general, I mean, I'm on marketing and all
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that stuff and the cost of losing the windows, you know, everything they have is everything.
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It's hundreds of billions of dollars.
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I just can't help but think maybe the CEO turnover is why they didn't do it just to
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keep the distractions away.
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But I don't know.
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It's maybe a sign of paralysis.
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with the new Xbox out and trying to build a developer ecosystem around that and be part
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of all the 4K TVs that are out.
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How cool would it have been to be able to play a couple Xbox games on one of those things?
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There was one article I think also on the verge about how there's basically no 4K content
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to show off except Netflix had some so they were being demoed on all the new TVs which
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Yeah, Netflix with a big presence without having a big or maybe even any exhibit space themselves.
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Reed Hastings was just he just was at every single event for anybody related to TV.
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And it seems like like I would have to say if not the single biggest one of the big you know count
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them on one hand themes of this year's CES was 4k TV sets definitely and like you said the big
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question is well what do you well I've actually I think there's two big questions for 4k TV sets
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one though first one is where are you going to get 4k content because there's zero point to it
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without 4k content and so far the answer like you said is Netflix but even there they can't just
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magically make stuff that wasn't shot 4k be 4k but I know that they're going to
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you know the one thing they can control are their own shows and they have in a
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house of cards which they're going to have available in 4k yeah we guess the
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new season which starts next month yeah a couple few weeks from now yeah I mean
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that's and that's one of the beauties of vertical integration have have control
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- I'm gonna roll over that sort of stuff.
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4K is interesting to me.
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I'm kind of impressed by how inexpensive
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some of the supposed prices are gonna be for those things.
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I'm very frightened as to how much worse
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the wire is gonna look than it already does now.
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I think I'll have to rewatch it once more
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before I upgrade TVs or something like that.
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- I guess it depends what it was shot on.
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Maybe the wire is sold.
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- The wire was shot in, I looked it up this morning,
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it was shot in SD four by three.
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There will never be an HD remastering.
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- Wow, but didn't they shoot on film?
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Couldn't they--
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- This I don't know.
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Whatever article I read.
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- That there's no chance to get that,
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to go back and turn that back into HD.
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- I don't think so.
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'Cause a lot of the shows during that period,
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like the first few seasons were four by three
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and then something like Entourage or something like that.
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I think even The Sopranos,
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like the last several seasons were in HD.
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And there was a shift kind of halfway through.
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But the Wire, everything was always SD.
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- Four three. - Four three.
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Major disappointment.
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- Yeah, and it was sort of right at the tail end of that.
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Whereas if you go back a little further,
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and you know, like one of my favorite shows from the 90s
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was NYPD Blue.
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- Great show, especially the first few seasons.
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But it doesn't break your heart
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that it's four to three standard definition.
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'Cause it was the 90s, what do you expect?
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Whereas The Wire, it just feels like,
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was just a wee bit, a few years too early.
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Here's the thing.
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that the bigger problem facing 4k is how many people sit have a couch far enough
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away from their TV and have room for a big enough TV where 4k actually looks
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better right and you get into these arguments you know like the apples
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definitions of a retina display of you know it's distance from the screen you
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know and some math about the pixel size but there is a certain point where you
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can't discern it right and when you went from an old four three standard def
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glass picture tube TV to a flat screen you know plasma or LCD high def screen
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it you know you unless you had some kind of vision impairment or didn't have your
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glasses on it everybody had the same reaction which is wow this looks way
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better I don't know that when I first got a HD I don't know if I've talked
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about in this show but I even would watch skiing because it looked so good.
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Right. It's like this is crazy. Yeah I remember stuff like golf and tennis
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with these little tiny balls and it's like all of a sudden. Hockey. Yeah hockey was a big
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one. Hockey I think, god hockey was like unwatchable on standard def. I never
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understood how people could watch hockey. You couldn't see. Well unless you had Fox
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tracks glowing. Right which was awful. I don't know that 4k for most people is
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going to look better and I don't you know I think that's the problem the TV
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industry TV set industry has is everybody spent a lot of money to upgrade
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and go to high def flat panel displays and an awful lot of money was spent in
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what the last 15 years 10 15 years I got mine nine years ago yeah I think we
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bought ours around the same time I don't know well no not that long I think I got
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I got mine in like 2006.
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You know, and--
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- Yeah, that was right as they were getting cheaper.
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- A lot of people spent a lot of money,
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and I still love my 2006 TV.
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I mean, I really think it looks great.
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- Yes, yeah, I think it's gonna be one of those things
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where it will just gradually replace the HD components,
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and if you are buying a mid-range or high-end TV,
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it will be 4K.
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If you're not, it'll probably be 1080p.
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The way today, you still buy a 1080i or 720p TV
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if you wanna spend 300 bucks,
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and if you wanna spend 700, 800 bucks, you get 1080p.
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- I just don't know that it's going to really help
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the industry spur sales.
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I am glad, though.
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I feel like the good-- - I don't think it will.
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- The good news to me, as someone who really despises 3D,
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is that the whole 3D thing,
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which is like what the last two years,
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they were pushing 3D TV sets.
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And I just, oh man, if I could have just paid a genie
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to give me a wish and hope that a technology fails,
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it would be 3D TVs.
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'Cause I can't even imagine the world where
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movies are all 3D.
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Whether you need glasses or not,
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3D really gets to me every time I see it.
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- Aren't you kind of happy though
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that the good guys won on that one?
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- Yeah, I am glad.
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- You could see a technology lose
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over the course of a few years and feel good about that.
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- Yeah, I feel like common sense prevailed.
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- Like no, we don't want it.
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We certainly don't want to wear frickin' goggles
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and stuff like that.
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And I don't, you know, I think it was not because 3D
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was a good idea, it was because the TV manufacturers
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wanted to sell new TVs to people who already bought
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flat panel TVs, and so it didn't work.
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- Or wanted to upsell the 3D TVs as being
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a significantly more expensive product
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than the flat panel.
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- Right, as opposed to 4K, which I can in theory get behind
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because more pixels to me is always better.
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And so it's definitely, you know,
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I'm not, again, I'm not 100% sold it's gonna take off
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because I don't know that people are gonna be able
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to discern the difference unless they can get
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a big enough, you know, 60, 70 inch screen.
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- Yeah, I don't know about your household,
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but I still come home sometimes and see that the SD version
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of a channel is being watched.
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No one could tell the difference.
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I tweeted about it over the Christmas break, but my wife had a day where she'd be like,
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"Jonas was playing Minecraft and I was up 'working' in the office and she just had a
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relaxing day watching movies."
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It was three or four of her favorite movies that nobody else likes came on, like Houseguest.
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She loves Houseguest.
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Any time Houseguest comes on, she watches.
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It's a terrible movie.
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God bless Phil Hartman.
00:45:20
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I wish we still had him but I mean, you know
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Yeah, that that movie is rough
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But and I'd you know, I'd come down and get coffee and stuff and every everything she was watching all day long was standard deaf
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It had drove me nuts
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Maybe something like that is is better. I don't know I would pay more money and this is stupid because it doesn't make any sense
00:45:41
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I would pay more money to Comcast to just take all the standard channels out of our lineup
00:45:47
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Just get them off so that there's nothing we can't watch standard stuff
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I think if you dig deep enough in the settings on your cable box, you can override the SD
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Somehow, I don't know. I'm not sure I haven't tried that yet
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Well, another thing I'm wondering about is is the bandwidth stuff. I mean if if 4k video is
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You know two to four times more
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You know, is it gonna stream?
00:46:17
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Chapelle II is it is it gonna be watchable and B at what point does Time Warner Cable or
00:46:23
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Comcast or whoever say okay. Well you hit your 200 gigs limit now now you're done, right?
00:46:30
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We're gonna start charging you for it or something like that, right?
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Because they're not really all that much in favor of you watching TV over IP
00:46:37
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Exactly by which I mean not in favor at all
00:46:43
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Yeah, that's a good question. Wireless is not going to fix that. No, definitely not.
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Especially now with... I saw a couple of reports this week that it, with
00:46:54
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compression, and I don't know if they're using H.265 or what the Kodak is,
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but that they've, I think like in a lot of the Netflix stuff, because Netflix
00:47:06
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actually is putting the rubber to the road and doing it, that it's about 15
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15 megabits a second? Something like that is what it requires. Now I only, I
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mean like when I run speed tests when I'm in when my stuff's working well I
00:47:20
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only get about 20, 21, 22 down. Yeah same. So and I still can't load YouTube videos
00:47:27
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half the time. Yeah 15 is under that but it it's so much so close to it though
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that it it almost requires optimal you know optimal you know good weather and
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just a perfect, you know, hope that my neighbors
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aren't doing it too.
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- Yeah, which is why Netflix actually is,
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at least publicly, one of the fiercest companies
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in terms of publicly praising and rating
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and ranking ISPs in terms of their quality,
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which I find kind of interesting,
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I know there's a lot of people who think,
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well that's what, people who, the Gene Munsters of the world
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I don't know about that.
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I don't know about that at all.
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- Yeah, I would say no.
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I mean, I guess, you know, personally,
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I have kind of been waiting to upgrade my TV
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in case Apple were to have come out with one by now.
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You know, when it breaks,
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I'm gonna replace it with whatever's out there.
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that's how they would justify getting a 4K TV.
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because Apple controls a lot of the content
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that comes to Apple TV,
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because they have, they sell and rent movies and TV shows.
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But I honestly wonder how much control they have
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over getting that stuff in 4K format.
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I don't think it's any.
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It's not like they've got the original negatives
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for the films and can scan them at 4K resolution.
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You know, it's up to the studios to provide, you know, the,
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you know, I don't know that just because, you know,
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so much of Apple TV content comes from iTunes.
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I don't know that that gives Apple much control
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over getting the iTunes library into 4K.
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I don't know though, maybe I'm wrong.
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- Yeah, and how did it work with HD?
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Didn't it start with movies or TV shows?
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I don't remember.
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- I don't know that the, you know, it was,
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but it wasn't all at once.
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They couldn't just flip a switch.
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- No, it was like one by one, too.
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Yeah, well, obviously they don't make the content,
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so they can't just go out on their own and do it.
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And it seems like another opportunity for the studios
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to try to get something out of Apple
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before they hand over even higher res stuff.
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especially with that whole ultraviolet thing they have on their own.
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So yeah, and Apple, you know, big picture is often, they'll often make great leaps forward
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with things like being like the retina display on the iPhone 4 in 2010 was a huge leap forward
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in resolution over every other phone on the market. You know, literally double the the resolution,
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you know in one dimension as the previous generation of iPhones and you
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know 300 and some DPI instead of a hundred and some DPI but then ever since
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they've let it go and now it went from you know and now there's other competing
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phones you know from on the Android side that have four hundred and some pixels
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per inch and I feel like with you know with Apple it's like they'll make a big
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leap forward if they think there's a practical reason for it right and the
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original iPhone going retina was so clearly oh man this looks so much better especially you know
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everything looked better whereas I feel like going from 300 and some to 400 some DPI on a phone is
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you're just wasting battery you know that it's not worth you with a horrible Android UI right yeah
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it's like you know see those wonderful Roboto files rendered in all their glory like and I
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almost think that from an Apple perspective that 1080p is that sweet spot
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of looks really good in most typical household viewing scenarios you know in
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terms of screen size versus distance from screen well this was actually I
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still think it from this precedent for this - I actually wrote a story about
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about this for Forbes in 2006 or 2007 when at when iTunes first started selling movies
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and Amazon first started selling movies.
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They were both around the same time and what Amazon did is sold you a made you download
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I want to say two copies of the movie.
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One of them was a really big file and looked good on your computer and the other one was
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a really small file.
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Maybe it was Apple that did that.
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Yeah, I think Apple did that.
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I think that was Apple.
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I seem to remember that.
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Maybe Amazon had – I don't remember.
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Anyway, all right.
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Well, I'll define the article.
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I think it was Apple.
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Apple did do that too.
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But it didn't make sense to have a big 720p or 1080p file to show on your standard def
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It made no sense.
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Here's the article.
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Basically, Apple's total file size was smaller than Amazon's.
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And the question I was writing about was whether – yeah, Amazon had two files, a large version
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for your computer and TV and a smaller one for your like Rio MP3 player or something
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For watching movies on your Galaxy Gear.
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Yes, yeah exactly.
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Yeah Amazon was doing 720 pixel with an Apple said DVD quality 640 pixels.
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Anyway big picture, this is Apple saying we're okay not having the highest resolution possible
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because there are better trade-offs,
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like download speed that make this better.
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So I can see the same thing happening here,
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where they don't go with the most pixels possible on a TV,
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but instead one that will kind of hit the sweet spot
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in terms of bandwidth and content library
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and all that sort of stuff.
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I mean, how lame would it be if Apple shipped a 4K TV
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and literally nothing was available in 4K,
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like they wouldn't even do that.
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Everything you have looks like shit on our new TV.
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- Well, it would look like 1080p.
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I don't think 1080p is gonna look worse on a 4K TV set.
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- You don't think so?
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- No, I don't think so.
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I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
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- Yeah, well, the way that non-retina apps
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look terrible on a retina screen,
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but maybe the difference is imperceptible
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from six feet away or whatever.
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right because if it's because I think it's more like with like the retina
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MacBook Pros where you have those scaled sizes to simulate higher resolutions and
00:58:07
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they still look fine yeah because you're still only you're talking about pixels
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that are so small even at the simulated size right the simulated pixel is bigger
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than the native pixel of the display but that simulated size is still so small
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that you're it looks good your eyes whereas when you upscale a non retina
00:58:30
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iPhone app on retina those non retina virtual pixels are big and you can see
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them so I am nearly certain I mean and I'm sure otherwise from people out there
00:58:43
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but I would bet that 1080p content looks like 1080p content on a 4k display yeah
00:58:49
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Yeah, and things like...
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No worse than it would on an equivalent size 1080p thing, unless you get real close, which
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is, you know...
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Right, which is not what happens for a TV.
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For a monitor, that's a different story.
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But what's the point of powering all those pixels and paying for all those pixels to
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watch 1080p when you could have just spent less money on a 1080p native TV set?
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Now there are things like if they have a gaming app store
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with vector-based gaming artwork,
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maybe that does look appreciably different on a 4K TV.
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I don't know.
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Well, I guess we'll have to go to CES next year.
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- Yeah, I just don't think 4K is the factor.
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- No, I don't think so.
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You know, my thinking on this
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and just from not having any real information
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but just kind of reading stuff over the years
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that Apple really wanted to have some sort of subscription service that was just dramatically
00:59:53
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better and more interesting than a cable TV package and couldn't get the rights for that
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and therefore kind of dropped the ball on a lot of other stuff.
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I don't know if that's true or not, but that's the perception I have.
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I wonder too how much of it is still fueled by what may well just be a throwaway line
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in the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson that something about TV and Jobs said, "I've
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cracked it." And that's it. Yeah. Who even knows what the hell that means? I'm still
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half convinced at least if not 51% convinced that the Apple TV we have today is the that's
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Apple's TV plans. And that you know, they'll just come out you know, the it's getting to
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the point where it's overdue for a new version, but that it's just going to be another $99
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box with maybe higher resolution and a better remote. I've said this so many times and I
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still think it's the most likely scenario for how they go forward, that they just keep
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selling $99 set top boxes.
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- Yeah, and I'm sure, as a company that makes things
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with screens, I'm sure they've tested out computers
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in every screen size imaginable.
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They already make 30-inch displays, well, they did.
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So I'm sure they've tried out making a TV set
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or something like that, but making that into a product
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is a whole different story.
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I love my Apple TV, though.
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I find myself using it much more than even I did a year ago.
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I really hope they do more with it.
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It's one of those things where they add maybe one channel every few weeks so you don't notice
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But if you remember, even a year ago, they didn't even fill up the first screen.
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And now there's a lot of stuff on there.
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Most of it I'm not watching.
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But that's great.
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- It's been a pretty good year of adding content
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to Apple TV, I really do.
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- Yeah, I think it suggests that maybe they're starting to,
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well, I had read, I think it was HBO,
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had even admitted publicly
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that they made their app themselves.
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So it sounds like Apple has some sort of very simple toolkit
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that they're letting other people use now
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to make those channels.
01:02:25
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- Right, yeah, that to me could be the,
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my best guess for what he meant by I cracked it and it's you know just you
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know maybe it's some kind of next-generation thing bluetooth for
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the remotes and so that maybe you could even have like gaming remotes and a real
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app store SDK and let people just you know put apps on their Apple TV the same
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way they do their iPhone and iPad. But that would work with any TV.
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A lot easier to distribute those tiny boxes than a massive, you know, I see whenever one
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of my neighbors gets a TV, I see the massive cardboard box on the sidewalk.
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The one TV set at CES this year that did get a little bit of my attention, stood out from
01:03:20
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others was LG because they announced one that runs web OS which I had forgotten
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I had forgotten that they'd purchased they like purchased web OS from I guess
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HP what's what's the thinking behind that is it just that it's easy to write
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apps for it because it's HTML and JavaScript I guess I don't know I mean
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and it's obviously the original the you know the web OS as we knew it from the
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the Palm Pre phone and the what was their tablet called the Playbook was a
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you know iOS style glass touchscreen interface and obviously your TV set is
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not a touchscreen but it seems like they kind of kept it you know so it's not
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really web OS as we knew it but it's web OS based similar to how you know at a
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low level technically Apple TV the one you buy today is running iOS a version
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of iOS. It's just not, it's a totally different interface.
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Yeah, I actually did a research report about the various development platforms for smart
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TVs and it's horrible. It's way worse than Android. Almost every model year has a different
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SDK and you have to test them like crazy. It takes months or even years to make it a
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a smart TV app for a lot of manufacturers.
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And they all have different SDKs,
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and they're all using different technology
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and chipsets and all this crap,
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and it's a lot of low-level stuff.
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So it's just a disaster.
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So if WebOS is like, hey, just make HTML and JavaScript,
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and you're all set, that's a huge advantage
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over whatever Visio or Samsung has been forcing people to do.
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- Yeah, and that could be a big advantage for Apple,
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because apple not only has tons of developers now with iOS you know because obviously I
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mean I think it would be almost shocking if the SDK were anything other than you know
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objective C and the cocoa APIs you know but optimized for TV but they also it's not just
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that they have developers but that they have I mean let's go all the way back to 1990 and
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say you know 89 and say you know you know go back to next and say they've got
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20 to 25 years of experience making a developer platform that evolves over
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time so that it's not you know it is familiar that you you know for anybody
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who's written an iOS app or a Mac app the presumed Apple TV SDK would be
01:06:02
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pretty familiar and that as it evolves year over year over year it's not going
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to break it year over year and that you're writing an app in 2014 and then in 2015 it's
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going to be broken.
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It would be stable, a stable platform that evolves over time, which I think is a big
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difference compared to like what you're saying about the smart TVs on the market today.
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Tom Bilyeu: Yeah.
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Also a platform that has been smartly designed for the type of equipment it's going to run
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on. Now, whereas even even the attempts to kind of shoehorn Android into a TV, you know,
01:06:44
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I don't know how I don't know how well that's working.
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Right. And it is the sort of thing where even if they come out with and I think, you know,
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obviously, it would be the thing that would slow adoption the most is if if Apple's Apple
01:06:57
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TV of the future is a whole TV set the whole thing at once you have to buy a new TV set,
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it's all built in I think that would slow adoption because obviously the
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price would be higher and it would rule out anybody who says well I just bought
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a TV X number of years ago I'm not replacing it yet even for a cool one
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from Apple even if Apple you know their market share was very low like two three
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percent of the whole US TV market that whole two three percent would be on
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their App Store and even at two three percent of all households clearly I
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I think that would make it the most popular platform
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for developers already, even with just 2, 3% market share
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because the whole thing is so fractured.
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- Especially if they made it open.
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Like the trouble with stuff like the Xbox SDK
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is that they're still very tightly controlling.
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Right, that's maybe my biggest--
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- I also can't see that being the only way
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to run Apple TV apps.
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Like I could see that being the preferred way,
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Like maybe the Apple TV has, you know,
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you don't need to have some sort of other input
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for the whatever remote control they have
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or something like that.
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But I can't see them forcing you to buy it,
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a whole television to run.
01:08:18
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- Yeah, I've thought the same thing too,
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that even if they come out with a TV set,
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they'd still have set top boxes
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that you could put into other TV sets.
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But then you get into questions of, you know, latency
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And if you have apps that depend upon the lesser latency
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of the native, you know, the whole shebang built
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into the Apple one by itself,
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how do they run on the one that's hooked up by HDMI
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and has additional latency or something like that?
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I don't know.
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But yeah, I agree with you though.
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I don't think that they would do it that way.
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- Did you see any smartwatches you liked this week?
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- No, not at all.
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Although wearables totally seem to be the second big theme
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of the show, especially, I think,
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I mean it seemed to me from my,
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the coverage I saw sitting at home, wrist wearables.
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Some of them watches, some of them more like the,
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maybe by quantity more of them more like a Nike Fuel band,
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like a plain band around your wrist.
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I got people upset, I guess,
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when I called out the Pebble Steel as being ugly.
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- It's horrible.
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- Right, I don't know.
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- It reminds me of like the old Casio watches
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that my uncle Stash had in like the early 90s.
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- Yeah, and you can still buy those at like American Apparel
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and it's sort of like American Apparel style retro hip.
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Like they'll also sell you a pair of like,
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you know, like the eyeglasses my dad was wearing in 1982.
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The metal bar across the top.
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But it's almost, to me, it's more almost like a knockoff of those Casios.
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Just like the integration of the band to the watch face.
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It just seems really, really clunkily done.
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I like the first ones more.
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I don't have one, but...
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I do have one.
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So I do have some experience, you know, speaking of it.
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But like I wrote on Daring Fireball, at least the other one, the original one, to me it's
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true to itself.
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Is it a beautiful watch?
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No, but it's, to me, it's no uglier than any other digital watch.
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It's a slightly awkward form factor maybe, but you know, it's to support its, what's
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that called, a portrait landscape display.
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I think it's a big step backwards in my opinion, because I feel like they've concentrated like,
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and effectively from everything I've read, that like the screen resolution is exactly
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the same, the screen technology is the same, the insides are the same, like they
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they're like effort over the last year has been to to make these metal watches
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and metal and leather bands as opposed to improving the thing that I think they
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should have been working on which is the software and I know they have a 2.0
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software release coming too but it it's not a better computing device it's just
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supposedly a better a more attractive watch but to me it's not it's really
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horrid. It's like if the Juju people had spent that whole year making the case
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look better because that's what was gonna make it more competitive
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against the inevitable iPad. Right, and the thing that got me, and no offense to
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the Pebble people, and I'm rooting for them, I hope Pebble becomes a long-term
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success in terms of, you know, who I would love to see a public company like Pebble
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grow and become a success. I just feel like this generation is a step
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backwards and that they've lost their way or they've lost their eyes off the
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ball but they said it's like pebble came out at CES and said we've made our
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watches look better and all the tech press was like pebble has made their
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watches look better because that's what they said as opposed to actually
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looking at them and just saying man these are watches are ugly yeah so
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So here's the next annoying trend for the next year, maybe forward, is tech companies,
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the nerdiest of nerdy tech companies pretending that they have friends in the fashion industry.
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Case in point, this invitation my wife, who is a fashion journalist, got inviting her
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from Intel to the CES wearable technology briefing for an intimate session on what's
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next for Intel in fashion? This is a microchip company, semiconductor company, inviting fashion
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people to hear what they're doing in fashion. I can't even imagine how awesome that was.
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I think my favorite part of that invitation is the word next. As though there have been
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previous Intel, as opposed to Intel's previous forays into fashion. Like when they took Pentium
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three chips that failed testing on the assembly line
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and turned them into necklaces.
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- When they added YKK zippers to the bunny suit.
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That's what they did for this.
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Yeah, so that's, of course, Apple,
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they just hired the CEO of Burberry, so that's cool,
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but this is just gonna be on and on and on about,
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what was the one I read, this department store
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called Opening Ceremony is doing something with some,
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I don't remember, some wearable tech stuff.
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It's all this wearable tech stuff.
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Oh, we got fashion people, it's gonna be okay.
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- I feel like, I don't know,
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I feel like different people obviously have different tastes
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and of course, no doubt, zero doubt in my mind,
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of course there's some people who think
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the new Pebble watches look either just fine or even good.
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But I think in the mass market, I feel very, very confident
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betting that they are going to go over lead balloons.
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And number two, they cost $250, which
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I know by the standards of a Rolex or something like that
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But it's probably a lot more than the average person has
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ever spent on a watch in their life.
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It's a decent chunk of change.
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I mean, it's the same amount of money you spend on an iPod
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or something like that.
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And I feel like Pebble gets a pass
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from a lot of the tech, either the tech press
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or tech fans who read the tech press
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because they're a little guy
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and they're sort of an upstart.
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But-- - Yeah, kickstarter,
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success story, all this stuff. - Right.
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But 250 bucks is 250 bucks.
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And if they're charging $250 for a consumer
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to buy this gadget, it should be judged
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the same standards as say Apple or Amazon or Kindle, Samsung or anybody. It's the same
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250 bucks and you know if Apple came out with a watch that looked like the Pebble it would
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and should cause their stock to collapse. It should cause like a 50% decrease in the
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price of the stock because it would have to make you think that if they came out with
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with a watch and it looked like the Pebble Steel.
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I would say the company is doomed.
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And every, I was wrong.
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Steve Jobs was the entire company.
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They're doomed.
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- Johnny Ive is a fraud.
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And I'm not saying that that means that Pebble is doomed.
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I just think it means though that Pebble still has a lot
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of work ahead of them to get there because you can excuse
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Pebble as an upstart for having something.
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But I still feel like it's up to the tech press
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and the critics to call it as they see it.
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and as it is.
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- Right, yeah, if it's an early adopter nerd toy
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and that these guys are basically a lab upstart,
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cool, that's awesome, but it's being pitched
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as if it should be some sort of mainstream thing.
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- Right, and I don't think it's there.
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- I don't see it, I don't see it.
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- I think the fitness trackers kind of sort of are,
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if you're into that, and I was thinking about that this week.
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It never really occurred to me before,
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But everybody knows, everybody who follows this stuff
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knows that Tim Cook has worn a Nike fuel band
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for a couple of years at least.
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- And is on the board of Nike.
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I can't remember any Apple executive
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publicly using technology from any other company ever.
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And I know now Apple and Nike have a kind of relationship.
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And I know that, you know, like the integration
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with the iPods, the, what's that thing,
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it's like a dingus you put in your sneaker.
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- Nike Plus.
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- Yeah, whatever it's called,
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but there's like a thing you can buy to put in your sneaker,
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and when they announced it, I remember thinking like,
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so is Jobs gonna wear Nike sneakers
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instead of his New Balance, and he did.
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Like for the one event, he had like a pair of Nikes on.
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So it's not-- - Then he went back.
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- Yeah, it was just for that event.
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But, and I always wonder about that, like if, you know,
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And I think about some of the stupidest things,
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but because I feel like nobody else does.
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Like I'd love to get the story on that.
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Like did somebody have to go up to Steve Jobs
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and say, "Hey Steve, it would be a lot better
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"if you wore a pair of Nikes."
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And like what was his reaction?
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Or did Jobs himself say, "Give me a pair of Nikes
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"to wear for this thing."
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- Yeah, did he demo them?
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I don't remember.
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- I forget exactly how it went, but it was some kind of--
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- When was that?
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I don't even remember.
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- I don't know.
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It was a long time ago.
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I'm gonna guess it was like '95 or 2005.
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Mm-hmm 2004 2005. I'll have to look it up
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But I can't you know
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After that, it's not like Jobs was on stage wearing Nike shoes and he you know, certainly, you know, obviously he's not wearing the Nike shoes
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He didn't have the Nike tracker in them
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Can't remember anybody else wearing probably also not a fitness
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Hobbyist no, I don't think so
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But Tim Cook isn't he like yeah, he's a jock. Yeah, or if not a jock. He's like a
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Hiker basically, I think you might remember, you know do like mountain biking and stuff like that
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definitely fitness aficionado
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And like you said he's on the Nike board, right? Yes, which has always been weird to me
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Yeah recently like I see pulling an Eric Schmidt. I don't know and it's it would seem
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extraordinarily out of character for him to pull a Nike an Eric Schmidt
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Yeah, which would be to unveil like a Nike plus or Nike fuel band killer. Yeah, I
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Apple guests guest watch or whatever right gasps band and it's not just because he's on the board and
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you know and that he wears one, but they even specifically called out Nike when they announced the
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the iPhone 5s with the
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the m7 coprocessor
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You know and that it's not just for the iPhone to use but third-party apps can tap into it and that Nike was the one
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They called out
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You know and that app has shipped and that Nike has an app that can use the data from you know
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that they've
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Apple stance on that has sort of been that you know that it's there for everybody to use not just them
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Yes, you know
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And I don't know whether they work together on something like that. I don't know. Well, I if you know
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Like Apple's gonna make shoes. So I need shoes for something then
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where I mean wearable stuff definitely as
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Technology as everything shrinks, you know everything from cameras to to batteries to the CPUs
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I mean wearable is obviously of you know future direction for computers
01:20:09
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But what are they gonna do? Right? What's you know, I put it in
01:20:14
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Clayton Christensen slash horse dead you terms what's the job to be done what are
01:20:20
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you hiring these wearable devices to do and it seems like the one thing that's
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been a success so far is stuff like the fuel band and Fitbit where you're hiring
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these devices to track what you've done all day and tell you how far you've gone
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and you know to help you track your goals for burning calories throughout
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the day but that's a niche and I feel like it's already being satisfied I feel
01:20:43
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like anybody who just wants to know how far they've walked,
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how many stairs they've climbed,
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you can already buy a device at a reasonable price
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that works really well and integrates with your computer
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so you can store the data and stuff like that.
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I don't-- - And they're building it
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into the iPhone, right? - Right.
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- Just chips, so-- - It's already built
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into the iPhone, you know, and I just don't see that
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as a market that's ripe for disruption, right?
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It just doesn't seem like there's any kind of problem
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with those devices.
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If all you wanna do is track fitness,
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they seem to work really well and be pretty elegant
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as opposed to the pre-iPhone smartphone market,
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which was a mess and the phones had terrible interfaces
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and confusing and everybody didn't know
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how to use their phones.
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And it was just ripe for something
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like the iPhone to come in.
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I just don't see that in the fitness tracking.
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That's not to say, again, Apple surely is working
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on wearable stuff, tiny little things,
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but I don't think a fitness tracker is that.
01:21:52
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- Yeah, right. - Could be something
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that does fitness tracking as part of
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a dozen other things, but not a dedicated--
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- That's an app. - Right.
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- On the device, just as iPod is also an app,
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but whatever the music, you know the way.
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So, yeah, I don't know.
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And then what is the job that you're hiring it for?
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- Yeah, I don't know.
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I feel like that is just,
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it was not answered by anybody at CES.
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I didn't see anything that makes me think,
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wow, that's any kind of important step forward in this.
01:22:23
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I guess another thing I was--
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- But did you see the wearable thing
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that records audio around you for 90 minutes on loop?
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- No, 90 seconds, I think.
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- Oh, really?
01:22:34
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- Yeah, it's like a 60 second continuum.
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I forget the name of it.
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I saw it on the verge of it.
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- Fipi quarter?
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I don't remember something like that.
01:22:40
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- Well, it's interesting 'cause I do feel like
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that's inevitably where some of this stuff is going.
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The idea is you get 60 seconds of recording at all times
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and it just drops off at,
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61 seconds ago just drops off at the end of the buffer.
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But then if something has happened within the last minute
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that you wanna save, you hit a button
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and it saves that audio.
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It's the audio equivalent of capturing that photo
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that you're watching happen
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as you take your phone out of your pocket.
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- Right, and I remember, I forget who linked to it,
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but one of the questions on the website is, is it legal?
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- Yeah. (laughs)
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- Which is half funny in the creepy sense
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and half sort of, you know, we're gonna have to face this,
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because just think, like, if you just go forward,
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10 years is probably even too much,
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but 10 years from now,
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the storage on our phone size devices is going to be so much bigger and hopefully
01:23:44
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battery life will be so much better that doing something like recording a 60
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minute buffer of audio you know would not strain the device at all and so why
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not like how do you know if every if somebody isn't recording it and you know
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and and project forward with something like Google Glass that people wear on
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you know, his eyeglasses with a much smaller camera and heads-up display so
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that you don't see it per se, you know, like what happens if you can't see the
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camera in somebody's glasses? You have no way to distinguish between someone who's
01:24:15
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wearing non smart glasses and regular glasses and it has the storage that it
01:24:23
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can just store a 60-minute buffer at all times so that you don't have to record
01:24:27
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in advance, you can just decide, hey, this last five minutes
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has been sensational.
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I just saw, I don't know, a cab burst into flames
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on the street.
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I've got footage of it.
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I didn't remember to hit record, but I can just say right now,
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hey, save the last five minutes.
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Yeah, I just got into a really great argument
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with a drunk guy.
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I wish I could post that to SoundCloud or something.
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I'm not entirely comfortable about that.
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I don't think it's a great idea, but I'm--
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It's happening.
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There's no--
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- And you can't escape it.
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That's my main point.
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- It's the way it's gonna be, so.
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- We kinda have to come to grips with it.
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- And figure out how, you know,
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what's going to be considered acceptable and--
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- And for better and worse,
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like all those Russian dash cam videos are awesome.
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They've way improved my life, so.
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You know, there's absolutely an upside to this, so.
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It's not a separate device, but it's an app on my Apple,
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you know, whatever.
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- I guess that's probably the best, you know,
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in a weird way, those Russian dash cams,
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which apparently everybody, I guess you have to have,
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like your insurance even mandates it in Russia,
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because-- - Something like that, yeah.
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- So much insurance fraud and problems in Russia,
01:25:42
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and in, you know, car insurance,
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that everybody has these always-on dash cams
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that are always recording when your car's on.
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And so, yeah, like you said, YouTube is just full
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of all sorts of fantastic footage
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that never would have been captured before.
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It's almost like that's the canary in the coal mine,
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like the future of everything.
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Like at some point, everything will be like Russian dash cam.
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Everything that happens will be,
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if it was, oh, I wish we could put that on YouTube,
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you'll have it to put on YouTube.
01:26:12
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- Well, shit, did you see the plane crash today?
01:26:15
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You know, some guy had his,
01:26:17
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what are the GoPro camera on while he was in a plane crash?
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can survive, but there's a YouTube video of it.
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Is that true?
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It was – maybe you woke up late, but when I was looking at Twitter this morning, that's
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what everyone was retweeting.
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But yeah, crazy.
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The new normal is that everything is recorded.
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I didn't really see a lot in that direction at CES.
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I kind of was wondering if we were gonna see
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a bunch of Google Glass sort of
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heads up display type things
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and it didn't seem like anybody had anything like that.
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- I thought I saw one but it was just very,
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even more primitive than Google Glass.
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- Yeah, it was almost more like an Oculus Rift
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sort of thing. I saw somebody else had one that was meant for safety workers. Maybe it's
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the one you're talking about, safety glasses with a built-in heads-up display.
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Yeah, I think that might have been it.
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Which I think is a fine idea. Somebody on Twitter, it was like, "Gruber said Google
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Glass will never be useful." But I think something like safety glasses with a built-in heads-up
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display. Well that's great because if you're already wearing safety glasses
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you're not concerned about you know fashion at all. It's a practical you know
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you're in a practical situation so why not have a heads-up display if it could
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help you you know in terms of you know doing the job that you're doing to have
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the safety glasses on in the first place. Right if you're you know like a chemist
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or something like that you can have you know the step-by-step instructions for
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- Construction worker or something, building a building,
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and you wanna reference the plans.
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- Right, or consult about the supplies, do I need--
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- Or the IKEA instructions.
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- Right, but it would be cool,
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like if you're a construction worker and you need more,
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I don't know, nails, that you could bring it up
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on your heads up display and use gestures
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or buttons on the side and then have them sent up to you
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or something like that without having to take a phone out of your pocket or something like
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that. That would be great. But I didn't see anything like that.
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Dave: No. That's one of those things where maybe they're there hiding in the corner,
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but no one posted it. I don't know. Someday I'll have to get out there and find the weird
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I know again, sounds like hyperbole,
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I genuinely wonder whether CSS ever would have made it
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as a mainstream technology without Eric Meyer,
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because Eric Meyer, he made it understandable, you know.
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It's a weird way to specify styles,
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And it was really weird compared to what we did before CSS on the web.
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And it was very weird compared to what designers were used to in the print world.
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And Eric Meyer really helped make that understandable.
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I guess the only other big thing I saw
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was that there's a lot of car companies who are there.
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- I don't know.
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- And I wonder if they're, I mean,
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I guess they want to be considered
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consumer electronics as well.
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That one's really hard for me
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because I've never owned a car,
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so I don't really know.
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Like I remember when Cars got CD players,
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and that was cool.
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And now I get in the cab and they have the name
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of the song that's playing.
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And I still don't know how they did that,
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but on the radio.
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But yeah, no, and Ford and Microsoft, I guess,
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have that kind of alliance.
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- And there was something with Audi and Android,
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but it seemed like it was a lot more hyped before CES
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than when the show came and went in terms of anything
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that was actually announced.
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- Yeah, that stuff always just seems so forced.
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- Yeah, I'm still waiting to see how the announced
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back at WWDC, but still, it seems like the cards
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aren't gonna come out until later this year,
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how this iOS in the car turns out.
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Which is more or less a way to let you use your iPhone,
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presumably, but I don't know, maybe it'll work with iPads too. But you bring your iPad or iPhone to your car, plug it in, and
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then the UI of your car is driven by iOS.
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And I don't know, you know, I have so many questions about that.
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I feel like, you know, all they did just kind of threw up a bunch of, you know,
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here's the car companies who we've got on board so far.
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And in theory, it sounds great. And one of the things that sounds great about it is that rather than build, say, build Android
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0.3 into the dash of your car, but then you keep your car for 10 years and 10 years from now
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You're running an old version of Android if it was forward-thinking enough
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And it was just you plug your phone in then when you get a new phone in a year or two
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Your car gets smarter, too
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Yeah, and you get new stuff and you keep going forward and a new OS and right apps and all that stuff
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You know like in the same way that
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Steve Jobs on stage seven years ago at the original iPhone introduction saying
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Let's get rid of all these little plastic buttons on these phones because you can't change them over time
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And if you come up with a new idea in six months
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You can't add a new button or joystick or whatever to do it. Let's just make it all software
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I feel like that same sort of logic applies to let's let the brains of the cars computer be your phone
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Because you're gonna upgrade your phone a lot more fruit
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Most people at least are gonna upgrade their phone a lot more frequently than their car
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- Well, unless you lease.
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I guess people who lease their cars tend to
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maybe upgrade on a phone-like cycle,
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but people who buy their car don't.
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- Yeah, and I saw actually a really interesting chart
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on Twitter today, which was how people commute.
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And it was something like 70% of people commute
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in a car by themselves.
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So it actually is a real use case and a real market.
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there's billions, I guess, of hours a year
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are spent car commute.
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So that's certainly a market for audio apps,
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audio advertising.
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I don't think games or video are really,
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well, I guess for the backseat people.
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- It's about attention, right?
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I mean, attention, the quote, unquote, attention economy,
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which is sort of a, sounds like a buzzword,
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but I think it's an important,
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It really is an important component of understanding the whole computer industry today.
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I mean, that computer/entertainment industry is that all sorts of things are constantly
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in flux except for the fact that we only have 24 hours a day.
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Everybody only has so much attention.
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It's a limited resource.
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the supply is constant and the demand is ever growing.
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Or I guess the supply of potential,
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I guess it's that the,
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I guess on the supply demand curve,
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the demand is constant because we each only have
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so much attention to give,
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but the supply of what we could give it to is infinite.
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- And has been mostly dominated
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by terrestrial radio forever, basically.
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Right. And even, you know, what's the bigger change in recent years has been satellite
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radio, which is just terrestrial radio better.
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Using a different distribution technology.
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It's far closer to terrestrial radio in terms of experience and content than...
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The Internet or anything.
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Yeah. Exactly.
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Anything interactive.
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Yeah. I think it's interesting. I bet this is one of those things where just to get this
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technology in the car probably has like at least a two year,
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maybe three year lead time.
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So that's probably part of the answer as to why it's one of
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those things that they kind of mentioned quickly and then hope
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you don't think too much about unless you're going to be
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developing for that sort of thing. But once it's in there,
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if it is modular, and if it's something that you know, your
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phone is powering, it's kind of like a real a real use case for
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the palm folio.
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Yeah, maybe.
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But it really is built into a car.
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It actually makes sense.
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But I think like you said with that statistic where 70% probably Americans, as God it can't
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be, you know.
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I think, yeah.
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I mean, America is clearly skewed in that direction of solo commuters in a car.
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But it's certainly not unique.
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I mean there's you know people who drive to work all over the world but if you could get
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them to shift their keep me from being bored to death while I do this for an hour or two
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hours or you know I'm not there's all sorts of statistics you know on that number of people
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who have like two hour plus commutes a day and shift that keep me from going insane out
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of boredom from the radio, whether it's terrestrial or satellite, and switch that to iOS or Android
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or any other platform.
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Boy, that's a huge opportunity to suddenly have two more hours of somebody's attention
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a day going into the app economy instead of the radio economy.
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Dave Asprey Yeah.
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I guess the early adopters are the New York City cabbies who have chat lines that they're
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on all day, which is kind of interesting. That's not really a mainstream thing, but
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that's certainly one thing that could be more easily done with some sort of app platform
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in your car.
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Yeah. I have no doubt in my mind. I mean, I haven't conducted a survey. Maybe I should.
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I don't know. But there's no doubt in my mind that the whole rise in podcasting as a popular
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and something that can actually be a business is in large part driven by commuters.
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Dave: Definitely.
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I mean, I don't commute so I listen to far fewer podcasts than probably most people who
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listen to this show.
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But I think back to the years when I did commute.
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And then this is the thing where it doesn't even matter if you're in a car or not.
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I mean, people who walk to work or take a subway to work or anything like that, any
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kind of public transportation, you can listen to podcasts.
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And there's no doubt in my mind that commuting is the attention fuel behind podcasting as
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Dave Asprey Yep.
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Yeah, I think that'll be definitely one of the home screen apps on whatever that UI looks
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Justin Perdue But I think wouldn't it be great if to get
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Dave Asprey Marko's forecast or whatever it's called.
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Justin Perky Wouldn't it be great to get your podcast?
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Dave Asprey Thundercats.
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Justin Perky Yeah, Thundercats.
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Thundercats.
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Dave Asprey What's Marko's podcast app called?
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Overcast. Overcast, sorry. Oh, that's a good name. Yeah, damn, that's a good name.
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Wouldn't it be great if your podcasts that were on your phone were as natively accessible in the car as turning on the radio?
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Right? That to me is what this iOS in the car hopefully is getting at, where you don't...
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It's not like you're sitting there fiddling with cable connectors and a phone interface
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that isn't really meant to be used while you're in the car, you know, like when you want to turn
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on the radio, you just punch a button. Right? And then if you want to change the station,
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you twist the dial. Wouldn't that be great if you could pick through your podcast that easily?
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And that drives me nuts that Siri doesn't understand the concept of a podcast. Like if I say,
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play the latest episode of the talk show. It just even in the
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native Apple podcast app. Yeah, like in theory, boy, it would be
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great if you get Siri, you know, and, you know, and this opens up
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and we could do a whole show about, you know, yeah, Siri and
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third party apps. But boy, wouldn't it be great if you
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know, every podcast app could just provide Siri with look,
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here's a structured data in the format you want of, here's the
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the content I have to offer.
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And so that the person can say play
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the newest episode of the talk show in Overcast.
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- And where I left off listening on my headphones
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'cause iCloud knows.
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- Right, well I guess that would be up to each app.
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But each app could sync it their own way over IP.
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- But even when podcasts were part of the iTunes app,
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the music app, iPod, whatever it was called,
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it still couldn't handle it.
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It can do songs, it can do albums,
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and all that kind of stuff, but can't handle podcasts.
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- Right. - So I hope that's--
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- And the other thing too that occurs to me
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is clearly the future of entertainment in your car,
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if not the present, right?
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I'm sure there's a lot of people, it's already the present,
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but the future of entertainment in your car,
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it's not FM radio, and I think it's not satellite radio.
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I mean, I think satellite radio is a temporary cliche.
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- Yeah, when Howard Stern goes into podcasting,
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It's cellular IP, right?
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And why pay for some kind of cellular IP built into the car
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when you've already got your phone with you
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every single time you step into the car
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and your car has plenty of energy to spare
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to keep your phone charged while you use it?
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It's, you know, so hopefully that's the future.
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But there didn't seem to be any kind of major progress
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on that front at CES.
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And I was curious whether anybody was going to come out
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with something compelling before Apple does.
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And it doesn't seem like that happened.
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But maybe that's the wrong venue for it, I don't know.
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- Yeah, maybe, you know, you never know.
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But then why else would all these car people be at CES?
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- They say that for the car show or something like that.
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I don't know, Detroit car show or something.
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- Anything else?
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- Oh, that's about it.
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So next year we're going to Vegas.
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- We have to, yeah, let's do it.
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Someone's gotta sponsor it, but let's do it.
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Someone call Samsung, get us a...
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- Yeah, somebody like Samsung
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should be the one to sponsor it.
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- Yeah, then we'll do a live show at CES.
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We'll have, I don't know, special guest.
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All right, I'll get on it.
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I'll make it happen.
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- All right.
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Dan Fromer, thank you so much.
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throughout, what do you want to promote?
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- Hey, let's plug my podcast this week.
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- Oh, let's plug that.
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- Because I promised my wife we'd do one this weekend.
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So we'll have a new episode.
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It actually, it's called The Needle and the Mouse,
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and it covers some of the topics
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we were talking about today,
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specifically the intersection of technology and fashion.
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So we talk about stuff like why are TVs so ugly
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and wearable and all that crap.
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So theneedleinthemouse.com.
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- And that's spelled out A-N-D, the needle in the mouse.
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So I bet if you just Googled,
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just Google search for the needle in the mouse podcast,
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it'll show up.
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- Yeah, it's fun.
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We try to do it every couple weeks and it's been great.
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- Well, I think it's a ripe topic for a show.
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I think you easily fill up next two, three years.
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And the Mac people will appreciate our logo,
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which is the old Mac mouse.
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- Nice, very, very nice.
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All right, thank you, Dan.
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- Yeah, thanks for having me.
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- All right.
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- See you in Vegas.