106: I've Reached Acceptance
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From Relay FM, this is Upgrade, episode number 106.
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Today's show is brought to you by Hover, Ring, and Mack Weldon.
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My name is Myke Hurley, I am joined by Mr. Jason Snell.
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Hello, Jason Snell.
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Hello, Mr. Myke Hurley, it's good to see you.
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Again, and yeah, we are live in Portland.
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We're here for the XOXO Festival.
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So because we're in person, we are joined by Mr. Steven Hackett.
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Hey boys. Hey Steven Hackett.
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We were remarking earlier, this is my third live upgrade this year,
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but the first two I was sick, so I was in the hallway.
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Yeah, we banned you last time. Quarantined. But now I'm here and we're sitting around
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table together and we're going to talk about web objects.
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And old acts. Okay, we're going to end this episode now. Thanks so much for listening, everyone.
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Open doc? I have a lot of notes on open doc.
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Stephen and I are going to talk about the Mac SE, Myke, so just sit on back and...
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Oh, that happened that time, didn't it?
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So let's pull back the curtain a little bit. I'm sure everyone remembers our iMac special.
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I have vivid memories of sitting, looking out of my window,
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as you two were just talking about iMacs.
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It's like, well, I have nothing to say, so I'll just enjoy this. I'll just listen.
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Now you know how I feel when I'm connected when we're talking about workflow.
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Yep, or music streaming services.
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services. Especially that. So we are at the XOXO festival in Portland, Oregon. This is
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just a really nice kind of getaway festival. It's very relaxed so we're kind of just enjoying
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each other's company for a few days. We were playing some board games today. We recorded
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a top four special that's going to be out at some point in the next couple of days where
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we just ate cereal from a cereal van. So that's XOXO. That's a thing. That's Portland for
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This is just a fun thing. I think this is the last one, but if they ever do it again
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and you have the means and the desire I recommend it.
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So we do have some follow up today. This is from a couple of weeks ago but I didn't think
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it was worth talking about last week. Which was, if you remember, we spoke about the idea
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of maybe doing a, I said Myke at the magazine rack for comics.
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Terrible name.
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What do you want? You got a better one?
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The follow up does.
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Do you have a better one?
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So we were gonna do a comic segment at some point in the future and we have a couple of
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suggestions. Ryan suggested Hurley and the Heroes, because what we're going for here
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is alliteration, I don't know if I made that clear. But like you know, Myke at the movies,
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right, it works, Casey at the cinema, dude thanks, that's how they go. But I like Ian's
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suggestion the most, where he said "com Myke time". Now I am a fan of puns in such a way
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that I like this. Now Jason, I don't know what, actually quite a few people suggested
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Comike Time. Now I'm willing to break the alliteration for the incredible pun that has
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been suggested. Jason, do you have any thoughts, any further considerations for our segment?
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I'll take all of these great ideas under advisement and get back to you.
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Oh so we're not deciding on a name today. So if you have any other ideas, please continue
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to send them in with the hashtag #AskUpgrade, because that's a great way for us to collect
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that stuff. Clearly, Ryan and Ian, you have not won the prize of naming the segment.
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Not yet. Not yet.
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Jason, I understand you have some follow up in regards to Apple announcing hardware features
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and software features they haven't shipped.
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Yeah, I complained last time in the aftermath of the Apple event about how Apple... it struck
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me how Apple had a major feature tied to brand new hardware that it was essentially saying
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this isn't going to be ready when it ships, but we'll do an update later in this case,
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the bokeh feature, the, uh, on the, on the six on the seven plus. And I heard from a
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lot of people about that, um, who mentioned Apple pay and it is accurate to say that Apple
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pay, which was a major feature, uh, adding the NFC to, to, uh, to the iPhone six and
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it didn't work on day one. And then there was a moment where they flipped the switch
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and turned it on. I think that's a fair point. I guess the difference, the reason I didn't,
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I was well aware of that fact. The reason I didn't mention it is, I've always kind of
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ascribed that to the needs of getting, you know, hooks into a new payment system up and
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running and working with all the payment partners and having a date where it's like, as of this
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date Apple Pay is turned on. More than Apple's inability to ship it. I don't have, I think,
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facts to bring to bear there about that this was totally ready to go by Apple and it was
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just being delayed by the partnership.
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It may be that the software wasn't ready, in which case this is an exact analog.
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So that's a fair point, but my larger point was more just that I was surprised that this
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is something that Apple could have prioritized potentially and shipped with the phone, and
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I'm surprised that they didn't.
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But for all we know, something happened. And somebody said, "This isn't good enough to
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ship. Let's not ship it."
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I think it's clear that it wasn't a decision that, "Oh, we'll create this feature and we'll
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just ship it later." Like, it obviously was meant to be included. The invites were all
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about it, right?
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The extra credit. And that's what was kind of rivaling me, is the idea that this is just
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an extra credit problem. This is just a bonus.
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It's a nice spin, but it's not... I don't believe it.
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It can't be accurate.
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- It is code for we couldn't get this done in time.
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- Yeah, exactly.
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- There was one thing that I was thinking about,
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like with the Apple Pay stuff,
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I don't recall them ever saying this is coming later.
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Like this is the difference here.
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Things have been late, right?
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And like weird things happen.
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So like cross-platform features between iOS and the Mac
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don't work when they don't release the operating systems
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at the same time.
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- Right, but they don't ever really mention
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that sort of stuff.
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Like Handoff, Handoff was released in iOS
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and I think Mac OS was like a little bit later
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like it is this time.
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- Well that feature didn't work, right?
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'Cause you couldn't do it.
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So there are things like that where the timing slip,
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but I think this is an unprecedented thing in recent years
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that Apple had a thing that they're talking about
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which isn't yet available, where they did it on stage.
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'Cause you've got like 9.3, iOS 9.3 and stuff like that,
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but it's the idea of like, hey, here's this product,
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it's gonna do this great thing later.
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- Well, I think the reason it's so strange
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is that it is on their flagship device.
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And I would argue the biggest new thing
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in their flagship device this year.
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- It's the reason for two cameras.
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- Right, it is definitely strange.
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And I know going back to the Apple Pay thing for a second,
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they're still rolling banks out to Apple Pay.
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I mean, how's it been a year, a year and a half later?
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So that's a-- - Two years.
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- Yeah, I think that's a--
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- Apple Pay is a good point to bring up,
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but I think it's the differences in nuance.
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I think it is a good call for like, yeah, this is a thing that wasn't immediately available.
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But the difference that we're looking at is like, this is the thing that Apple is pre-announcing
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because they haven't finished yet.
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It's a feature versus a service, like kind of a different field.
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But yeah, it's just really weird that, I mean, I was trying to think about an analog even
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like historically, and I can't really come up with one.
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And I'm not trying to say what's wrong with Apple or anything like that when I say it.
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It just struck me as being not something that I think I've seen Apple do where I thought
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it was really interesting.
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There's probably more to the story.
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Like I said, I think they didn't want to do it this way.
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Several people wrote in, I think quite rightly saying, the alternative is don't say that
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this feature exists, but if somebody decides not to buy the iPhone 7 Plus and just goes
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for the 7 because they're not impressed with the 2X zoom, and then two months from now
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now you announce that you've got this other amazing feature
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and they say, "God, I would have gotten the bigger phone
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"if I had only known."
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- This is a-- - That's a problem.
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So you need to say, this is our intention,
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we are going to ship this.
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- Whatever they're calling it, portrait mode I think,
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this is a landmark feature of that device.
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Like, you have to talk about this.
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Like, there's no way they could have just said like,
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"Hey, 10.1, it's not like a small enhancement,
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"it's like adding new emoji."
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- This is like a big checklist feature
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that Apple wants to push.
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Like this is a big thing for them.
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- And I just didn't want to let, so I'm not saying,
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oh, this is the show's doom for Apple or anything like that.
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That's not the case.
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But I also felt like just taking it at face value
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and saying, oh, it's extra credit.
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It's not that important.
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It'll be there later and won't it be cool,
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but it's just a bonus feature.
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And I heard some people say that.
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I'm sorry, that I don't buy.
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That is Spin.
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This is a feature that is key to this product
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and it wasn't ready.
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And I think that's what really kind of made me
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want to talk about it a little bit more
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than you might expect is that, because this is important,
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and I am a little surprised that they didn't have it ready,
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but I will say again, if somebody was brave enough,
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let's use courage.
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- Too soon, dude, too soon.
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- To say, I know this is a banner feature,
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but in the shape it's in right now, we should not ship it.
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We should say that it's coming and ship it later.
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If that's what happened here,
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you actually have to kind of give them some credit,
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Because they could have shipped it
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and had it been terrible, right?
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And just like fix it later.
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And that's not what happened.
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- The traditional Apple thing of holding the feature
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for later, right?
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That's like the traditional thing is
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don't talk about anything you're doing.
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Just surprise everyone.
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- Yeah, I think the reason they had to talk about it
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is they want to move people to the Plus.
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It's a more expensive device.
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They make more money from it.
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- They're able to do more with it.
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- They're able to do more with it.
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So I think it's part of the pitch.
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- It's the biggest change in the whole product line too.
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So that's the balance, right? And I agree with you, Jason, that if it is true that it
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wasn't as good and someone had to say, "Hey, look, this needs a little more time," then
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that's the sort of decision-making at Apple that I want to see. I want to see, "Hey, even
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though this is awkward and even though this is going to be uncomfortable for us from a
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press perspective, it's the right thing to do for the product," I can get behind that
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sort of decision-making at the company.
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So since the last episode between then and now the iPhones have gone on sale so I'm going
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to talk about what we bought.
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So I was going into this to get a Matt Black was what I was going to get.
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The Matt Black.
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Matt Black and Jet Black.
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That's how I think of them.
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I know it's called Black.
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I like Matt Black.
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Matt had nothing to do with it.
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He did everything.
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So I was going to get Black 128 Plus.
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I opened the Apple Store app in the UK, absolutely no black of any kind, black or jet black available
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on launch day for delivery or pickup at any size tier, they had none of them. So I decided
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I then went back to my second pick, my original choice before they even showed the black which
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was 128 gold plus which is what I've got for pick up. The reason I did this is I don't
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care too much about the colour because I'm putting it in a case and for me personally
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having the phone on day one is more important than the colour when I won't even pay attention
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to that in a couple of weeks time. The reason I wanted the black one is because the back
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of it was so nice but I'm never going to see that and I really like the accents that the
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the gold and the rose gold have, like with the touch ID.
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So I'm happy with the gold, that's what I went with,
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because I want to be able to get it on day one,
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'cause I like to have this stuff so I can talk about it.
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I'm waiting until like October or November,
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that doesn't work for me.
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Like I want to be able to have the device
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so I'm able to come on this show
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and talk intelligently about it,
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so that's why I always go for day one.
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So that's what I did, and I'm happy with my decision,
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'cause I was gonna get the gold anyway,
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I have my gold iPad Pro, and I love it.
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I love the gold, so that's what I went for.
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Jason, did you buy anything?
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- No, I am in the unique privilege position
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of being a reviewer.
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- And so that gives me the opportunity to review the phones
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and try them out and then make a decision.
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So I just decided to defer and I'll figure out
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which one I'm gonna buy later on.
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My guess is it will be something in black
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and it will be a seven.
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- With the hope that you'll get a unit at some point.
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- Yeah, that I'll get a review in from Apple
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and be able to use that and write about it
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the launch and then I'll have those and from those lessons decide if do I want to buy one
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and which one do I want to buy.
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So, I mean you were on the fence about Plus. You're not going to go Plus? It was something
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you were considering at least.
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Yeah I think I mentioned this last time but that was a long show and it was very busy
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and you were very sleepy.
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I wasn't sleepy, it's just been a long day.
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It's been a long day.
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I'll say that.
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So what has been described about the Plus where it's just, you've got the 2x camera
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along with the 1x camera and this bokeh feature.
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And a bit more battery life.
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And a bit more battery life.
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And it's enormous.
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But that's a good thing.
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The size is a good thing if it's what you're looking for.
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You have a really big iPad.
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Did you know about that?
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I did know that.
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I don't put it in my pocket.
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And a big iPad.
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I don't run with it.
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You put it in a bag.
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But it's the same idea, right?
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It's like you're having the size for the utility of it.
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That's what a lot of people like about it.
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- Right, and my, unusually my iPhone
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is not really my primary device
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because I spend much more time on my iPad
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because I, you know, an independent worker
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or as you like to call it sometimes maybe a shut-in.
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- A free agent.
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- A shut-in, I was gonna say.
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I never leave the house.
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I rarely leave the house.
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And so I'm leaning away from the plus for the same reason
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which is it's very large and that means like
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when I go running it's a much larger phone
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wiggling in my pocket and all of those all of those reasons for it so it's and the camera on the seven is catching up
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Okay, the seven camera is getting better too, even though it's not gonna have that now
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I would love that I would love that 2x camera, but there's not enough of those features
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I if I had been blown away with we're doing
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Math to do amazing quality of that, but it really is just sort of like look we have two cameras
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So you can go 1x and 2x and what I said last week was I got kind of caught up in the fantasy of what?
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what a two camera set up could do. And the reality is it's camera one, camera two, one
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x two x and that's cool and I like that feature but I'm not sure that is enough for me to
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switch to a larger phone this year. So, but we'll see. I mean, my hope is that I will
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get both models from Apple to try and that allows me to spend some time with both sizes
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and see if my opinions changed at all about the bigger size.
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staying in the Plus Club, as one does.
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So that was really a no brainer for me.
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I like the size, I wanted the camera.
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Doing the 128 gig, I was going to go up this year
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from the 6S Plus, so I was happy to see
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that they doubled that storage tier.
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- So 128 gig and I did the regular black.
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I was tempted by the jet black and they were still,
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I think they were slipping by the time I got in to order.
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there now the dates are a little for day one but I have a regular black for day
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one for day one you see I think that well I think it's pretty obvious and I
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think Apple even kind of hinted towards this that the black models are supply
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constrained because they're new and you new manufacturing processes I think that
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maybe they just didn't have they just didn't send and it's not sending them so
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okay this isn't the first time there's another angle to that so last week
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the news broke that Apple is not going to be sharing weekend launch weekend sales numbers
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and reading the tea leaves I don't think it's hard to say that their number they can sell
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is going to be limited by the number they have yielded.
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Because one of the lines in that release was we're gonna sell out anyway.
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Right and so if that number they've been able to produce is lower than whatever they sold
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last time that number looks bad.
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Like they would sell out no matter what it was but they actually can't make enough so
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so it's gonna look like they've had a dip in sales,
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which right now Apple does not need that.
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- Right. - Right?
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- And so my guess is that maybe that is the Jet Black
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for some reason, they're harder to make.
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- And maybe they're regular black as well,
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'cause they said that they're both like immediately--
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- They're both new.
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- Late October, right? - Yeah.
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- In the UK, so and this is normal
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that they fill the US first.
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- Sure. - As they would.
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And then the rest of the world will wait.
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- But yeah, but I got a little scared off
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from the Jet Black about talk about micro abrasions
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and whatnot. I do carry my phone without a case. So I want to see how the Jet Black phones
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hold up and if that color sticks around and I end up liking it and they seem to wear okay
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then I may do it next time but for now the regular black will sue me.
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I want to play around with one. There's been a lot of people writing their impressions
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and saying it's kind of tacky feeling.
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It's a groupers said.
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Yeah, a couple of people have said that. I know that you kind of felt like it was just...
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I didn't get... I picked it up and put it down.
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Maybe there has a sweater than yours. Maybe that's what it is.
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But I want to see, I just want to see, because it's new as well, I just want to see what it looks like.
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I'm hoping they will at least have display models in a store on Friday.
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But yeah, I'm going in to pick it up at like 8.30 in the morning on Friday.
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And then I'll have it all day to play around with them. We'll be able to talk about them on the show next week, which I'm really excited about.
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Because I'm actually, we'll get into this a little later on, but I'm really excited for this phone.
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I think there's a lot of interesting stuff there.
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Unfortunately, and again, we're gonna talk about it
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again today, some of the things that have been taken away
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from it overshadowing the news of what it's got.
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- That's true, that's a fair point.
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- But the headlines and the things that are interesting
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to think about is what's been taken away.
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- And this is what, everything's happening, right?
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This is the high season in many ways
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for talking about what Apple's doing.
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And so this week we're going to get new iPhones,
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We're going to get a new version of iOS released to everybody.
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And then coming down the pipe, we've also got the new, you know, Mac OS Sierra release.
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So there's a lot going on.
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The new watches are going to come.
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- Hopefully new Macs.
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- The AirPods will appear at some point, right?
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I mean, all of that is happening in the next few weeks and that's exciting.
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- All right, let's take a break.
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They are now my traveling pants.
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- See how I call them pants as well?
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It makes me feel very uncomfortable.
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- Yeah, I also am using my traveling pants for Mac Weldon,
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but I mean--
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- My underpants.
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And Steven's wearing a nice Mac Weldon undershirt right now.
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- You can't see my underpants,
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because it is really good.
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Like the stuff looks good, the socks are great,
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they're long socks, which is really interesting
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and they have great colors.
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Jason is pulling up his trousers to show me his socks.
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I assume they're Mack Weldon socks.
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I wanna try one of their hoodies as well
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'cause the sweatpants are like a really interesting material
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and they're super comfortable, they have great pockets.
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They have pockets with zips,
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and considering I'm traveling, I want pockets with zips.
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It's like my passport and stuff,
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like they're absolutely fantastic.
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They have a line of silver underwear and shirts
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- Give them to a friend.
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So I'm trying so hard.
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- Not to say Mac Worlding?
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- Mac World On or Mac Welding.
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When you weld a Mac together, it's Mac Welding.
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- You don't wanna do that.
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- No, you've probably tried it.
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- The aluminum gets sort of burny.
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iPhone upgrade program.
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So we spoke about this last week.
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It came to the UK and I was considering it,
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but I took a look at it and I wasn't,
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I don't know why, but I wasn't that keen.
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I took a look at how much it would cost.
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It was like 45 pounds a month
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to get the iPhone unlocked that I wanted.
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And for some reason, I was turned off by that.
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Now, over the course of the product's life,
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I wouldn't pay that much more,
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'cause I mean, it was very expensive.
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I think my phone was over 800 pounds.
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It was incredibly expensive.
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But the way that I've been dealing with that in the past
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is by saving up through the year.
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So I'm gonna, I personally am gonna keep doing it that way
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because now I can sell my current phone
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and make a little bit of money back.
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- That's the math here is the iPhone upgrade program,
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you're paying essentially the cost of the phone
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divided out over 24 months,
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but after 12 months you hand it back in,
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the remaining 12 months is basically bought out
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and you get a new phone and begin a new 24 month payoff.
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So if you want to buy the phone yourself, like you did,
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and you can sell it back or sell it to someone else
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or give it to a friend who, however you wanna do that
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and buy a new one then, if what you're getting back
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after a year, let's say, is half the value of that phone,
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You've got exactly how much you had.
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And if you can sell it for more than that,
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which it probably is worth, you actually will be ahead,
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but you have to have that money upfront.
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- Exactly, so it's like I think that it is a good program
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for people that haven't saved the money.
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'Cause you're just doing it the other way around.
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But because I had been to--
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- Or don't want their phone back.
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Like every year they have no interest in selling it
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or giving it to a friend or handing it down
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to a family member.
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- You just don't wanna deal with that.
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- They just wanna hand it in at the end of the year
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and get the new iPhone and walk away.
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- But from what I can see, it looks like,
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so this is the first year where people have tried
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to renew their phones.
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It doesn't seem like it went very well.
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No, there's been, it sounds like Apple was taken by surprise because it looks, what I've,
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the reports I've been seeing the last few days are that Apple realizes this is a problem
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and they started to change.
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Like some of the notes used to say, you know, sorry we can't help you now, call us on September
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16th or September 18th.
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Like call us after the phone's been out a couple of days and we'll try to work with
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And that's changed to call our 800 number and tell them that you're with the upgrade
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program and we will you know we'll try to help you out because the complaints are you
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have to go to the store to pick it up which is for some people is problematic because
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the stores can be far away.
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Oh and you work.
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And well all of those things they're open other hours but yeah you've got your life
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and so you've got to get you've got to make a physical appearance at the store it sort
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of makes sense because you do need to turn in your old phone.
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It is the best thing for Apple to do rather than having to deal with people mailing their
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phones in. Like I understand why they want you to go to a store but it's not always easy.
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Right. They do need to be in good condition. I mean essentially what you're doing is leasing
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your phone here because if you bring a phone back, just like if you lease a car and then
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you bring it back and it's got a huge dent in it, they're going to charge you something
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for that. If your phone is not in great condition when you bring it back, you actually will
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be assessed an AppleCare fee and so that'll be money out of your pocket. That's all probably
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was all specified in the documents that people signed up front but it's still not everybody
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reads everything. On stage they just said you'll get a new phone. Yay! It's raining
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from the sky. Exactly. But still it does feel strange that when a bunch of people who are
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the most loyal excited iPhone buyers out there who say yes give me a new iPhone every year
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I just want the latest iPhone. That when they went to finally do their first little swap
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What they got was, well, you're not going to be able to get one for a while
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because we don't have them, we don't have them in stock.
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So even if you come in here, you're not going to be able to do that.
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And on one level, I kind of understand that in terms of Apple
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wanting to have stock for the people who are coming in to buy them.
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On another level, those are the most loyal iPhone buyers.
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This is the new customer, existing customer problem.
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You know, like you have financial institutions, you get a better deal
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if you're new and this is like the way you start to upset people because it's really
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difficult to understand what's best but really they should be taking care of these people,
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the existing customers. I think because these, if you're looking at your customer sat, this
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is where you want these people to be happy. But this is another reason why I didn't go
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with it because I started thinking to myself, it seems really uncertain as to how you get
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the phone. It's completely out of your hands. I do pick up now because I can't stand what
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waiting for delivery.
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Like I want the idea of me clicking this phone
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to be in my hands as much as possible.
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- Instead of waiting for the person to come to your house
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at 7 p.m. with a box.
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- I'm just gonna go and I'm gonna get it
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and I know it's mine.
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And that's the problem with the iPhone upgrade program
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is you may or may not get it,
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who knows when you're gonna get it.
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- I kind of expected it to work
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that when they announced it,
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the people would get their email that day that said,
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new iPhone is here, you got one last year,
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you're eligible on this date, make your choice,
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and we will get you, and I know they're supply constrained,
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but you would think that if they're eligible
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on a particular date for their new iPhone,
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that Apple would walk them through that process immediately
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and say, we will get it to you, or come to this store,
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or something like that.
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And I know it's complex situation,
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but it does feel like maybe these people
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weren't taken care of as well as they should be.
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- Maybe I walk through a land of lollipops and rainbows,
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but like in my head, 'cause I'd never looked into this.
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- Is that what England's like?
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- It's what it's like.
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Because I never really looked into this.
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In my mind, it was always just,
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they just send you a new one.
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But the iPhones are announced and they're like,
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hey, your new iPhone's on the way.
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Like you don't do anything, they just send you it.
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and put the old one in the box and send it back to us.
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- That was how I thought it went.
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Like that you didn't even really need to do anything
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and you were definitely getting one.
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- You subscribed to the iPhone, right?
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New iPhone comes, you get one. - So I'm pretty sure
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that a lot of people thought
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that this was the way it was gonna go.
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Wonder what they could do to change this. I think there were people who leave the program right again the most enthusiastic
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owners are now kind of
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Left and left in the cold a little bit
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I do like the idea that these people there's some sort of roped off inventory for the upgrade program and
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Maybe on that that day of the announcement you say this is my preference and then it gets pulled out of the main channel
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that the rest of us buy from.
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But if the yields are really low,
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then maybe it was just a decision that had to be made.
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But I would think either way
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that the way this works next year will be different.
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I think they're going to hopefully learn their lesson.
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'Cause there are a lot of vocal people about this
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that just aren't happy.
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And these are the customers you really wanna keep happy.
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- And I understand why you would be unhappy as well.
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- 'Cause you've paid them a lot of money.
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- And you've expected it, right?
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For the whole year you've been told,
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I can walk in and get a new iPhone and just trade this one in and maybe that's not the
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You know, I kind of don't understand why they can't.
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I mean with the exception of the black models, you know, like the silver and the two golds,
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if you have one of those, they could have just put that aside for you.
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Like you know, they knew how many they needed to make.
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Like I understand there's a problem with the black models because they're new and blah
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blah blah blah.
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But you know, it kind of just feels a little
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upsetting for these people,
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because, you know, we're all excited about this stuff, right?
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Like we all want to get it.
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It's all like Christmas morning, you know, like this is what we wait for
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every year is the new iPhone that we get really excited about.
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And it's a shame that there's these people that have had this expectation,
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have been given a check to Apple every month,
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and now they have to kind of wait.
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And like the thing is, even worse than that, let's say you wait
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for like a month or two, you're still paying the old one, right?
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Like you don't have a new one.
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And it's a shame.
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And I get like, again, like it's like
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with what we were just talking about a moment ago, this is a new thing.
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They're trying to understand it and they're trying to work forward from it.
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And I hope that we're going to see some change in the program going forward.
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So I mentioned talking about things which have gone away.
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I wanted to talk about the headphone jack a little bit more, because
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at least for me, I have had some time now to
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Assess my usage based on the facts that I have. Uh-huh because previously we didn't really know what they were gonna do
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Right. Are they gonna go all Bluetooth? Are they gonna be lightning? Is there gonna be an adapter?
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We didn't know any of this right sure, but now I know the realities. So I just took a trip and
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My trip days are very long because of all the travel that I need to do like I
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I'm awake and
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traveling when I come to the US five hours before I got on my plane.
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Those five hours include lots of phone time, listening to podcasts while I'm
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traveling, checking documents, reading Twitter like I'm traveling with it.
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So I arrived at the airport, got on the plane, sat down on the plane.
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We took off and I had 17% battery life on my phone in power saving mode.
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So like, OK.
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And I was listening to ATP.
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atp was three and a half hours long yep so I wasn't gonna get through that I only have
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podcast downloaded on my phone right this is just how it was, this is how I've been
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and I was listening with my headphones my my flight headphones I have some like Bose
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headphones that I use and I grabbed a lightning cable plugged it into the power in the seat
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plugged into my phone continued on my trip the next trip that I do with the exact same
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hardware that I have now with no changes I can't do this my phone would have died
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listening to that show or I had to stop listening and wait for my phone to
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charge. This is just a thing. Just take an iPod with you. Please don't. But
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that's the idea right there are there are and this is the thing the way around
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this is there's gonna need to be changes that I make but it was just interesting
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to me to finally really come across something that was an issue for me
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Because I travel a lot and whenever I travel it's 20 hours of travel by the time I've reached
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my destination.
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My iPhone's not lasting that.
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And it was just an interesting thing for me to think, okay, so now I have established
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an area which needs to change.
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So there are a bunch of different things that I can do.
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I can go to Bluetooth now.
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Get new headphones.
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I can get new headphones.
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I can use adapters.
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There's this new crazy Belkin thing,
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which has two lightning adapters, right?
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The lightning splitter, so I could charge and listen.
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There are a lot of different things I can do,
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but for me it was more, ah, there is change needed.
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And that's the thing that's interesting about this,
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and I think it's the reason that people are upset,
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is because this has been the way
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that we've done it for 10 years,
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and now we need to think differently, ding.
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- So to speak. - So to speak,
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about how we do these things.
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So there's a couple of things I'm gonna put in the show notes.
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One is to that Belkin thing.
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And again, this is the other part.
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No matter what I do here, it's more money.
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It's costing me more money.
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This Belkin adapter is 40 bucks.
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- Yeah, Belkin adapter is two Lightnings.
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I'm hoping that somebody will make one
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that is a Lightning and a Mini Jack,
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where it's like you charge, it passes through the charge
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and it's taking analog audio out.
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But that one, I don't think we've seen.
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- I haven't seen anything now.
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- 'Cause I saw this--
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- It's what the Apple doc does, right?
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The iPhone doc does.
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- Carry it around in a doc all day.
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Get your air tray in the airplane, open it up.
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iPhone doc, iPhone.
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Be very formal, be nice.
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- Yeah, no, I wrote about this on Twitter.
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A couple of weekends ago, I was in,
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or no, last weekend, I was,
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we took a family trip up into the mountains
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and I was, we were GPS navigating.
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And so that uses a lot of batteries.
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So I had my phone plugged in and we were also listening.
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to audio and my, it's the car my wife usually drives.
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So her phone's in the car,
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she's the one who's paired to Bluetooth,
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I'm not paired to the Bluetooth.
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And, but there's an aux plug.
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And so I was using the aux out,
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the analog headphone jack and charging simultaneously.
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And I thought, well, I'm not gonna be able to do this
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on the next iPhone.
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I'm gonna have to make some changes there.
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Which is not an argument.
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- Change happens.
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- Yeah, it's not an argument that,
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oh, this means Apple shouldn't have done this.
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- No, I'm past this now. - Right?
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But it is thinking about how does this change affect me
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and what's my strategy going to be
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to deal with this change that has come upon me?
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What am I gonna do differently?
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What am I gonna have to buy?
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New headphones, new adapters,
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what are the changes going to be?
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- Like I'm used to this now.
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Controlled leaks work, right?
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Like I've come to accept this as a thing.
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- Although you saw me write the story
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about the stages of grief when we were in Tennessee.
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It's I'm at acceptance.
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We've all reached acceptance.
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There's still some angry people out there,
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but I've reached acceptance.
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- And I don't even think that like,
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I'm not really upset about this anymore.
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- It's like a fact of nature.
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- Yeah, do what you gotta do.
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- It's like this is what happened.
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- We can argue about whether they should have done it or not,
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but I feel like we spent the last eight months
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arguing about this.
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And now we're at just the point where it's one of the facts
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on the ground is there's no headphone jack in the new iPhone.
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So what you gonna do?
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So one of the things that I saw this go by on Twitter,
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it really made me laugh, and I'm gonna put in the show notes.
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It's kind of a jokey image tweet,
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but it makes a lot of sense, right?
00:35:17
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As a lady called Alana Levinson,
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she tweeted an image of how you would listen
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in my scenario with my existing headphones and charge.
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You would need to plug the Belkin charger in.
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You would then plug a power cable
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into one of the lightning cables of the Belkin charger,
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you would then plug in the 3.5 to lightning adapter
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and then your headphones into the 3.5 to lightning adapter.
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- That's why I said there needs to be another adapter.
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- There has to be something else.
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But this was just really funny to me
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because given the tools we have now, as of right today,
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this is what you would do.
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And there probably will be more tools.
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'Cause like originally when I hit this problem
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on the flight here, Belkin hadn't even announced
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this thing yet, so there was no option.
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So basically the reason that I'm thinking about this
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and we're talking about this is this app
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always ahead of the curve.
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The rest of the world, the rest of the technology
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is not at this point yet.
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So we're in a transition period
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and transition periods are typically a little bit ugly
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and it will mean adapters and protocols
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and or new technology.
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And the thing is there are solutions.
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I don't see things, I don't have any wireless headphones.
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like that I want to use.
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I have this one little pair of Bluetooth ones
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that don't last very long and they're fine,
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but they're not the ones I want to use every single day.
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So I have to think about this.
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We all have to think about it.
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What do you want to do?
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Like usually I use ear pods.
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I use ear pods the majority of the time.
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I have them in my pocket all day when I'm out.
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They're the ones that I listen to when I'm out and about.
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They're great.
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And I'm going to be able to continue doing that
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because Apple are going to ship a pair of ear pods
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that I can use.
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But then there are little things
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that when I need to charge it, what do you do?
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And it's just about thinking about that now,
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that this is where we are and we need to kind of accept that.
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- I would argue a little bit with the ahead of the curve
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idea, I've seen this a couple places and I don't know
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if removing the headphone jack was so inevitable so soon.
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- No, it's the curve that Apple has set for themselves.
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- Right, they are defining that.
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We're saying other--
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- It's Apple's curve.
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- Right, okay.
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- We're just all on it.
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- Right, but you know, I agree with you.
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It is something else to think about and have to process,
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but I think at the end of the day,
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and I'm not in favor of the decision,
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but I understand that it's the reality.
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I can't argue with it.
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I'm still gonna buy a phone, right?
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Some people are saying they're not gonna buy a phone.
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That's fine, it's your decision.
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- But you're stuck now,
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because they're not gonna put it back.
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- Right, yeah, they're not putting it back.
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But the reality is I think we'll end up with,
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you know, most, it seems like every 12 months or so,
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I have to buy another pair of ear pods
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because they go through the dryer or I lose them.
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And so I figured, you know,
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I'll pick up another pair of lightning
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and keep them in my gym bag
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and keep the adapter in my travel bag
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and it'll mostly be okay.
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- But here's the thing though about that.
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The headphones that we're buying now
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are on average more expensive
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because they're gonna be stuff like Bluetooth, right?
00:38:19
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Like infomercial cases. - Well, we don't know.
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I mean, I'm just talking about the lightning earbuds.
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- No, I know, I know.
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- But I agree with you because,
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I mean, and I got into it the other day
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on Twitter with some people saying, like, the idea that Bluetooth is or isn't an open
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standard and what Apple's doing is a super set kind of on top of Bluetooth, but to your
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point they are more expensive and the cheap ones are way worse than cheap headphones are,
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wired headphones are.
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You can pick up a pair of wired headphones for $5 and they'd be absolutely fine. You
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can't get a pair of $5 Bluetooth headphones.
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If I'm going on a trip and I've forgotten my headphones and I go to the airport store
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And I want to buy Bluetooth headphones
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70 80 dollars if I'm lucky and you're still beats. Yeah. Well, I mean maybe
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It's like, you know, we were talking about the affordable thing right like affordable 150 dollars affordable
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Apple called those new Beats on stage. The affordable ones. And it's like affordable
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for Beats, yes. But that's what you're paying for decent Bluetooth headphones.
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There are $25 Bluetooth headphones. They're not very good. But they do exist. You also
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have to wonder if eventually this will, there will be lightning headphones in all of those
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kiosks at the airport because eventually because there will be enough iPhone people who don't
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have a pair of headphones that they'll desperately need them.
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See I don't know about this yet.
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I think in the long run there will be just because there will be some demand for it
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But in the short term in the short term you're gonna go there and you realize you forgot your headphones
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And you're gonna go to the kiosk and there will literally be no wired headphones
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You can buy because you don't have your adapter with you
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And they don't they don't sell lightning headphones
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And then now you're looking at do I pay a hundred and fifty dollars for a set of headphones here
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Or do I just sit on my plane trip across the ocean without listening to podcasts or music thing is about the cheap headphones
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I mean, I don't know enough about how the MFI program works
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But, you know, what if there can't be really cheap headphones anymore because the MFI program
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is too expensive?
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Well, any Lightning headphones have to, since there's no analog out, it's all digital, Lightning
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headphones have to have a DAC built into them, which means even if it's a cheap one, digital
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analog converter, you know, it's like so much of the stuff with Lightning and with Thunderbolt
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too, where these are intelligent connectors and there's hardware that you have to build
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into them. So they can't be really cheap and crappy. And if they are cheap and crappy,
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they're going to be extra cheap and crappy because they are now, if they're in there
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with a really bad DAC, then they're going to sound bad. Because it used to be you plug
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in cheap headphones, but at least the high quality audio converter in the iPhone is driving
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them. But that won't be the case now.
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So this is the thing, right? I'm past judgment stage. I don't think this is a good idea or
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a bad idea. Like this is just what they're doing. I'm reserving judgment for actually
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living in this world.
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Yeah, yeah. What does it mean? And what are the ramifications of it, right? You turn around,
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you live your life as you've been doing in traveling. You live your life and then you
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realize, oh, here's something that's going to change in the near future.
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But it might be okay.
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In the end it will be okay eventually.
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Yeah, but I don't know what it's going to look like yet.
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We should talk about what Apple considers the solution a little bit more, which is AirPods.
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Now Jason, I know that you wrote a little piece
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on Six Colors talking about your experience with AirPods
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in a little bit more detail.
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- Yeah, I realized that what I wanted to do
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was talk a little bit more about the hands-on experience
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because that's one of those things
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where if you were in the room, you got to use them.
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And I thought that as much as I have complained about things like the headphone jack and if
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it was really necessary to remove it, and I'm not a big fan, unlike you who carries
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them around with you, and you apparently carry them around, I don't really like ear pods.
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They work fine for me.
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They, well this thing, they work fine for most people.
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Do you remember all the ears they tested?
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I have nightmares about all that.
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This is what people do with their iPhone, right?
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They get headphones in the box and they use them and that's basically, I would guess it's
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something like 95% of iPhone users just use the headphones in the box.
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It's not our listeners.
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Our listeners is probably a much smaller percentage than that, but we're the nerds in the group
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Most people just use what's in the box.
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I don't love them though.
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But what I did love, what I did really, I was impressed, I mentioned it to you last
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week is some of the details of how the AirPods work and that Apple did a very good job building
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in the technology and being very careful with it.
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And so I wanted to describe what they had to offer because not a lot of people have
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had a chance to use the net.
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And I can't talk about how they sound because it was a really loud room and there's just
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no way for me to really tell.
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But at least I got to experience some of the thoughtfulness that Apple put into this product.
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Now the product's not for everyone.
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In fact, it's going to be for a tiny fraction of Apple.
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buyers themselves because like we said most people are just going to use the lightning
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the lightning ear pods but I do think there's going to be a nice number of people who are
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going to get these and I think be happy with them based on the fact that people seem to
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like the ear pod design to begin with and that they have been very thoughtful with how
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they've applied a lot of different technology and connected it to their software so that's
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what my story was about.
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So looking at these, I just have some kind of observations from the photos on what I've
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taken a look at.
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Like, one thing is that the case is really small looking.
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The case that you keep the things in.
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It's like floss.
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It's like a little case for floss.
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It was really hard to see that until I saw a lot of the hands-on photos.
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Because, you know, in the images it's as big as a house.
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They're just floating in a white room, you can tell.
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It's just a giant box with giant earbuds in them.
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And you know, it's clever, but it lasts for five hours, which is good, and then you can
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get another 24 hours of charge.
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And something I didn't know to I read your article is it takes just 15 minutes to get three hours of battery life
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Was asking for that rather quick charge mechanism and I mean ideally what I wanted to see was something
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I just plug straight into my phone rice and may have been just plug into the phone and it charges them
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But this is a good thing right my battery dies and my case is already in my pocket
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All I need to do is pocket in there for 15 minutes, and I've got another three hours of battery life. That's great
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That's the type of thing that I'm looking for
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But one of the things I find really weird in a way is like the way that you control the earpods
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Yeah, so because they have no clicker right? There's no there's no cord to have a clicker on it. So there's no clicker and
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I think that
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I'm sure they tried every possible mechanism of controlling these things, but the fact that I can only
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Like turn up volume and skip track and if I don't want to take them out my ears pause them
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by talking to Siri is
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No good. Yeah, it's that's their compromise right? I was wondering if they would have sort of
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Double tap to do this triple tap to do this
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Sort of like gestures or done spin around in the circle to shuffle double tap on your right ear pull your left ear
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You know if you had like all of the Siri stuff in one and all of the playback controls in the other
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It's not maybe the most elegant, but maybe I'm really talk about it like say you can do it with Siri
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You know what? This reminds me of I'm a little shuffle. I know the buttonless
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Shuffle. Yeah, that's they've just they just can't let that go right like here. We are back again
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the problem is
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For so many people you're commuting. Yeah, that's all we're gonna do. You want to turn your music up bleep. Hey, sorry
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I'm sorry everybody
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Please turn up
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The music yeah, like that's really a tab turn up the music. It's I think that louder
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Yeah, everyone's gonna be standing there talking to themselves now
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Again, this isn't that one of those things right? I'm so used to the way that I've been doing it
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Yeah, I use my little clicker turn it up and down, but there are other options
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Yeah, one thing I always I always did especially when I was commuting I for a long time
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I had because I had some really good headphones
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but they didn't have the microphone and remote control on it and
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And what I would do is I got really good at reaching in, I'm doing it now,
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reaching in on the outside of my jeans, I can feel the iPhone in my pocket
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and I can feel the volume buttons and I just squeeze in my pocket to make the volume go up and down.
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And it totally worked. So you could do that, you could take your phone out.
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If you've got an Apple Watch, maybe you use the Apple Watch to change the volume.
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When I'm running, I do that. I will actually open the, well, in WatchOS 2,
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you could flip up the little control center and now in watchOS 3 you have to have an app
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that you open but which is a complaint I have about watchOS 3.
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Is that a now playing app or is that just gone away?
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Yeah well I think there's a music app but the problem is if you're playing a podcast
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you can't use the music app for the podcast you could use the overcast app or something.
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So they've taken away what I thought was my solution which was just using control center
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and the watch.
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Yeah I filed a radar saying that music app needs to actually be a now playing app and
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they said it's a dupe so apparently people have complained.
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You know what, you're a dupe.
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Yeah, that's right.
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But anyway, you could do that, right?
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And play, pause, skip, change volume on your Apple watch.
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Or you could do it through Siri or you could do it by taking your phone out of your pocket
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or even just squeezing your phone in.
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I mean, I know that one way that you can pause these things, which is smart, is by taking
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one of the earphones out of your ear.
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But that isn't what I always want to do.
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Right, you may actually want to pause because you're busy with something and you don't want
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to miss what the podcast is talking about.
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- Like I'm on the train and I wanna see,
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like listen to the announcement that the guy's got
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going over the Tanay, I just wanna pause it.
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Like I don't have to take it out of my ear.
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And I think it's cool, like that's cool technology.
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I mean it makes a nice demo.
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- And it's a, well I think it's an interesting gesture too.
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The idea that if somebody's talking to you
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or there's something you need to hear,
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if you take one out, you can hear it better
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and it pauses the music and then you pop it back in
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and it starts again.
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- I like that, I think it's really smart, right?
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But there's there's there's more that I want here.
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Right. But this is another exactly thing I'm going back to from earlier.
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This is I just have to find a new way.
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Like I'm ingrained in my ways of dealing with this stuff.
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Now there are new ways.
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Like I remember I was using some beats for a while and my cable broke
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and the cable that I had had the playback controls on them. Right.
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So I had to get a new cable and I got the cable sent
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and they sent me on without the playback controls.
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So for a few months I was using headphones with just the cable and I got used to it.
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Because you just do.
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You find a way to make it work.
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You squeeze the phone when it's in your pocket.
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Check it out on my phone to pause it.
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Like, you know, that was just the things that I would do, how I would do with it.
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And so it's the same kind of idea.
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But I actually, I was, the more I've read and the more I thought about these AirPods,
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I want to get a pair to play with them because I think they could be really cool.
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and I love this one little thing that you mentioned,
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which is like the Apple magic.
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If you've got audio playing on an iPhone
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and then you pop in an AirPod into one ear,
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the iPhone automatically switches the audio input
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to that AirPod in mono.
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- Put an AirPod in the other ear
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and now you're hearing everything in stereo.
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- That's awesome.
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- And when you take them both out,
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it starts, basically the audio output goes back to the phone
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so you don't have to do what most Bluetooth headphones,
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you have to turn them off.
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You just take them out and it knows you're not listening to them anymore clarification on that. Yeah, so I take them both out
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Does the music automatically start playing? I don't think so
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I think it I think it you you're back with a play button
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But I press play it plays it out of the phone speakers. Yeah, so this is the thing
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I want to try these because they have some things that aren't so great like some things that I consider a step back like
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Poor access to playback controls. Yeah, but they have some things that are significant step forwards
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which is like the understanding of the context
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of where and how I'm listening to something.
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Like very frequently, when I'm getting ready
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to leave the house, I will start playing a podcast
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on a speaker and I will then plug my earphones in
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and keep listening as I leave.
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But wouldn't it be great if all I did
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was just put my earphones in and I don't have to,
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like it's just a more fluid type of thing, right?
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Where I'm not actually plugging anything in,
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all I'm doing is putting them in my ears.
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That is the kind of like devices working together
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that Apple does so well.
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So I'm interested to see where they go.
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Personally, AirPods 2, I think will have
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a different mechanism for playback controls.
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- Yeah, I wonder-- - I think they will do it.
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- I actually wonder, and we had a listener, Dale,
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wrote in and asked if they're capable of a software update
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for adding features later.
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I don't know, I imagine they probably have some firmware
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that could get updated, although I suspect
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that most of the support changes,
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Like could Apple TV have that same sort of iCloud sync pairing thing that you have with
00:53:22
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Max and I think it's quite possible that it might down the road.
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But this is an example where I do wonder if maybe the AirPods could even be updated for
00:53:34
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things like this.
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Like we added a triple tap gesture because people really wanted a triple tap to mean
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Because it's an accelerometer in there or a couple accelerometers.
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They could add gestures.
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They could, you know, the gestures are never going to be what we think of as, you know,
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it's not going to be swiping or anything, but they can tell when you're tapping on them
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and when you take them in and out of your ears.
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So there may be some ways for them to learn or they'll spend a year or two with this hardware
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and then they'll see how their customers are using it and what the complaints are and make
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changes that way too, which may happen.
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Because you're right, the problem is where do you put that?
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I think the idea of having it be just doing a little tap is super smart.
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Because you don't have a thing dangling down that you can click on, so you've got to find
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other ways to do it, but right now the fact that there's only one gesture, and it's the
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double tap, which will answer your phone if you get a phone call, and it will kick off
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Siri if you don't.
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And that's the only one right now.
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It feels like to me that the hardware isn't capable of anything more.
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Because it's a weird choice to make, I think.
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I don't know, I think the problem is that you could triple tap doesn't necessarily mean like,
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it's not necessarily a bad idea, but you're not going to do a quadruple tap,
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so what do you make the triple tap mean? Is that forward? Is that back?
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Maybe taps don't work, maybe they only have a couple of things, like maybe volume up and down,
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just find a way to do with it, but things like playing and skipping,
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like we're used to clicking with these things, there are things they could do,
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It just seems really strange to me to ask Siri to do this stuff.
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Yeah, I mean the alternative is something like putting buttons on them.
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And that's not great, but...
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They're too small for it.
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It would be uncomfortable.
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So just say, "I want to try them. I'm gonna get them."
00:55:23
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They're coming in October, right?
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Like, another issue with production.
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They couldn't get these things made in time, I assume.
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Too busy making iPhones.
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Maybe some FCC filings they didn't want to file until, you know, so they didn't get leaked.
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I don't know but they're coming later. I'm looking forward to trying them out. Not cheap
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Talk about looking forward this week. It's coming week
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IOS 10 is gonna be released and I want to just touch on very quickly a few things that we're excited about now. I
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Primarily am excited to have iOS 10 on my phone. I have not put iOS 10 any of the betas on my iPhone
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I have iOS 10 running on my iPads, but not on my phone a
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Couple of reasons first bunch of travel
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I just wanted to make sure I was gonna have
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the most stable phone that I could have
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during the travel that I've been doing this summer.
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And also, I kinda wanted to experience it
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when it was done with all of the apps.
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Because like on my iPad, there are a bunch of apps
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that just do weird things.
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Like the widgets look weird, right?
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Because they're not formatted in the right way.
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So I wanted to see what all that was gonna look like
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on the iPhone, you know, the primary device for this stuff.
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So I was been waiting to see a little bit.
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But I'm looking forward to Sticker Pack being released.
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I've played with a couple and the ones that I've played with are awesome.
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Uh, people that I know that are on betas have been sending me stickers and they
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look fantastic. I can't wait to try out more of this stuff. Uh,
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the interactive notifications and all the 3d touch stuff.
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I've not tried any of that, right? Because I'm on an iPad.
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So I'm looking forward to seeing what these things are like. And I've, I, again,
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I've played with a couple of betas of iMessage apps and there is some really,
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really interesting stuff.
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The iMessage apps are something that I didn't think I'd be particularly
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interested in but what it really it really changes the way that I think about sharing stuff with messages so before
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messages was just a
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Sort of a dumping ground for the share sheet, so I'm in an app
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I'm in tweet botters far your evercast I want to send you something
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I go to the share sheet select messages select your name and send it we're
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with the apps it feels like I can be within
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messages and we can be having a conversation and instead of
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Going to an app and pushing content into messages. I can pull it in from these various sources into our conversation and
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What that has led to is already in the beta just with friends on the beta
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sharing more
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Stuff and messages than I would have so the example. I think I told somebody earlier in person was
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Gifts as I use an app called gift wrapped keeps like a Dropbox library of gifts on my phone
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I used to have to go to the app, find the GIF of whatever I wanted to send to Myke,
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and then share it out to you.
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Well, if that app had an iMessage app, I could pull it in into our conversation.
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That makes sharing faster, and it makes me more likely to add things to our messages,
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to enrich them.
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So that was a surprise to me.
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I kind of rolled my eyes at a lot of the messages stuff.
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Many people did.
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There's still a lot of stuff in there that I don't care for, but the apps, I think, are
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going to be a really interesting place.
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You know, unlike iOS 9, you know, with the iPad, multitasking and apps
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works basically the same in all of them, but iOS 10, there's so many things that
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developers can implement in different ways.
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So a developer could do stickers or they could do a fuller iMessage app, or they
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could do new fancy things with notifications.
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And so I'm excited to see what developers do to improve their apps.
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and the space that they work in
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through these different tools.
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And I think we're gonna see a wide variety of stuff.
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And I think that'll be exciting.
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- What about you, Jason?
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- Well, I have been living with it for a while now.
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So I have to keep on searching back through my mind
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of like, well, what's new?
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Like as somebody who uses the iPad to do writing,
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I'm still just the only iPad feature really,
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but I love it is that I can turn off auto-correct
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for all my hardware keyboards.
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so it stops trying to rewrite all my words.
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- Like I'm also excited for watchOS 3,
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like I haven't tried that at all either.
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- And it's great, yeah, I'm very happy with that.
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I'm looking forward to having the apps
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that are built to the watchOS 3 SDK
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because those are the ones that are gonna be able
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to stay in the foreground if they're fitness apps
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and they're going to be much more useful
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than the existing ones, so I'm looking forward to that.
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The revamped notification center
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has a lot of things going for it.
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So, that's nice, the messages stuff is really good.
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There's a lot of nice stuff in iOS 10, it's just funny because I've been living with it
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over the summer, so now for me it's normal, that's what the iPhone is, but everybody else
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gets to use it.
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Yeah, I'm pretty happy with my decision to not upgrade my phone.
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Because I've played around with some iOS 10 stuff, but now I'll get to experience it.
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As it should be.
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I think that's the way to do it.
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I think it was the right move for me.
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I'd say it's a pretty gentle update though, and I feel this way about Sierra too.
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I agree with that, but I think it's because it's calm before the storm.
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A lot of the stuff that is in there,
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we can't really play around with too much because the apps aren't out.
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It's true. Something like the Messages apps, it's going to be a big difference.
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Siri stuff, maps, things,
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all the little things that Apple have added for developers,
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that's all going to start coming on Tuesday. Exactly.
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I like those kind of updates personally.
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When they've given tools to developers to go out and make new and exciting things.
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I love the line, it's an off-use phrase, but I really like it.
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It's like, imagine the things developers could do with this.
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We can't even imagine the types of things that we might see.
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And honestly, I've been that way with some of the stuff that I've seen
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with the iMessage apps that I've played with and see if I've ever played with.
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So I'm really excited for it.
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Just sent a bunch of stuff to Steven like I sent some stickers and I and some some animated gifs and some stuff from apps
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I'm gonna make was her
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Jeff's I don't know what you talk about. Oh, yeah, it's these animations. They're like JPEGs except it's pronounced Jeff
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Oh, this is the JPEG version. It's like a gif but like a JPEG, but it doesn't know which is why it's soft
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It's not like I don't know what a gif is that kind of giraffe?
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Gir, giraffe send your feedback to at Casey lists. Yes, see as you I'll ISS
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That was some Portland style lasers right there
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Jason what do you think?
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The galaxy note fiasco might do for iPhone sales people that don't know the galaxy note 7 has had
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Unfortunate time right now
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with setting fire. Yeah some battery problems. Apple had that with laptops
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you know 15 years ago. PowerBook 5300. Yeah so this is what I consider to be
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kind of a little bit upsetting about this. Sad. I feel really bad for Samsung
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because it could happen to anyone. Like on Friday the phones that we pick up the
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batteries might go wrong and they might start catching fire. Like this can just
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happen. Right? Like it's not necessarily that they're doing something bad but they just
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may have a batch of bad batteries and they're catching fire. This is like battery technology
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is crazy, it's difficult and it's flammable materials. So this stuff could happen to anyone.
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I feel kind of bad for them that they're in this situation right now. All the air agencies
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like the FAA and I think it's the EASA are saying please don't turn these phones on or
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charge them when you're on airplanes. Like it's and now they're having to recall them
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it's a real unfortunate thing. So one, what do you think about that? Two, do you think
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it's going to have an effect on iPhone sales?
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It might have a minor effect. I feel like most people are going to get a new phone,
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they're going to get a loaner and then they're going to get a new phone from Samsung.
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They're not going to like, say like, no, now I'm going to go buy an iPhone and be like
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$600 in the hole.
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It really seems unlikely that that would, I mean I'm sure you're going to get your money
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back if you don't want to keep your exploding Galaxy Note. You can probably find a way to
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just demand a refund, but it seems unlikely. I mean the people who bought the Galaxy Note
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have reasons to buy a giant Android phone, that's what they want, and they made a choice.
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It seems unlikely that most of them are going to want to suddenly go to a, you know, maybe
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similarly giant Apple phone, because, yeah, they've made a choice already. So, yeah, I
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feel bad, I mean, I don't feel too bad. It's Samsung. They're not my favorite.
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>> But it could happen to anyone, you're absolutely right.
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>> And it's just a shame. I think, I genuinely think it's a shame, because it looks like
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great phone and they're in a really unfortunate situation. Yeah and it's a
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case where one of their suppliers gave them a bad product and the fact is
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that's happened before Apple had the bad power adapters in the US that they have
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that's why we all have little green dots on our power adapters now. Yep. The little
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tiny square adapters that came with iPhones. They've had you know recalls and
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well not recalls but repair extension programs on Macs over the years right
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now there's one for MacBook Pros with the GPU basically just... Do you remember when they
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I did it on the iPod like not too long ago.
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It was like the iPod Nano.
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Yeah, the first Nintendo had a problem.
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So I mean it happens, you know, I think the tribalism of poking fun of it is pretty boring,
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This is not proof of the fact that Samsung sucks and Apple is great, right?
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No, that's ridiculous.
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This is a company who had a manufacturing flaw in their product and the supply chains
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are complicated and in this case they're getting two different batteries from two different
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manufacturers and one of them, this is why it's not a problem in Asia,
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apparently is that Samsung's using Samsung's batteries in Asia from another
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part of Samsung and those are fine.
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And this other one that is being used to supply the third
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parties in the U S is, is some other company. And those have the problem.
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It's, you know, Honda is going through this right now with airbags in the U S
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where the airbags for certain, um, early two thousands models of Honda cars are
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potentially explosive, like dangerously explosive.
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They may just explode while you're driving your car.
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That sounds like a good feature.
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Yeah, it's a safety feature.
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It's a surprise.
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That has turned horribly wrong.
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And it's just, you know, they had a third party
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and the third party it turned out was the story I read.
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I didn't report this myself,
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but they were like cutting corners
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and there were issues with them.
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And as a result, they have to do this massive recall
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of those products too.
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So it's terrible when something happens
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because this is, yeah, it's ugly.
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And I feel bad, the people I really feel bad for
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are the people who are very excited
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they got the brand new Samsung Galaxy Note and now they've got to live with the prospect
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of like they got to go back, talk about going back to a store where you bought something,
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they've got to go back with this thing that they're not supposed to use, they've probably
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migrated all their data to it, they might, yeah, they're supposedly getting like loaner
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phones that you then have to restore and then you have to wait and then you'll get another
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one and it's really lousy to be one of their customers so I hope they take, I hope they
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take other, they take care of the people basically.
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But they take care of the customers and make them feel better and maybe give them some
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free stuff because I feel really bad for them that they invested their money in a premium
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And they had this terrible experience.
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Myke wants to know, "Any mention of a headphone adapter that goes the other way, plugging
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lightning headphones into a 3.5mm jack?
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I haven't seen one."
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I think because of the DAC situation I'm not even sure it would be possible.
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Because I assume they're looking for a digital audio stream over lightning, which you would
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need... yeah.
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It seems unlikely, but that is a question that if such a thing doesn't exist, what it
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means is that if you're the kind of person who likes to take your iPhone headphones and
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plug them into your laptop, you can't.
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What if you buy one of those really expensive lightning headphones, like the really nice
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stuff, because you want to get the best sound when you're on your iOS devices, and then
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and you wanna use them on your Mac, right?
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And you can't do it.
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I mean, I think that's the reason this,
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I don't think Myke's wondering this question
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because of these AirPods.
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- A lot of the really expensive lightning headphones
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have detachable cords.
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- Right. - You can swap them out.
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- Right. - I mean,
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and it leads to the question of,
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are we gonna see lightning ports on the side of new Macs
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if they ever show up?
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And that I really go back and forth on.
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I think it could be confusing
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because lightning is data in on iPhones and iPads
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and you're using it just for audio out
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or some other weird stuff on the Mac, but--
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- And it's so similar to USB-C,
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which we all think is coming to the Mac.
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- You're gonna be jamming things in the wrong port.
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It's all very messy, but I--
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- This is Michael's question.
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He wanted to know whether we think
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that their new MacBooks and new MacBook Pros
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will have headphone jacks on them.
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- I think it has to be--
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- I think they're gonna take away from the MacBook,
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eventually, because the MacBook's whole premise is wireless.
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- Well, and wouldn't you rather have a second USB-C port?
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- I don't know if they would make that trade off.
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They just cover it up with aluminum.
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- No, I just think on the MacBook,
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they would just literally take the headphone jack on,
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and they'll put a lightning port on there.
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They're just gonna take the headphone jack on.
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- I think they would be consistent across the line.
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I don't see them doing that on the MacBook,
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and then leaving it anywhere else.
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But-- - Why?
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- Because it's--
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- But the line is inconsistent,
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because there's USB-C on one device,
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and not on another device. - For now.
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I mean I think we're going to see USB-C on these new Macs, but I think too...
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You know what I said before, eventually the headphone jack will go away from everything.
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Well I think too, I think the other side of this is that while two of the three of us
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sitting at this table use iPads for audio work, the Mac is much more sort of in that
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I think the MacBook Pro is staying.
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You've got a Pro system, you've got to have those extra AV things for your video editors
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and audio editors and things like that.
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I don't see them ripping it out of the MacBook and leaving it in other places though.
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So I think that they will, I think I definitely keep it on the MacBook Pro.
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I think it's less likely for the MacBook, but I agree with what you're saying.
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It would be weird, but it could do it.
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But anyway, I think maybe Michael's question is centered more around the MacBook Pros.
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Uh, and I think that pro audio production is still a good use case for the MacBook Pro
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existing and I think I'll take away the headphone jack from there for now.
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I also hope they won't.
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Also the iPhone is the one product that absolutely has space issues on the inside, right?
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I mean the MacBook does too actually, but even then the MacBook has so much space compared to an iPhone, right?
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I don't think that the the space taken by the headphone jack is so if they get on stage and rev the the
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27-inch iMac and they say without the headphone jack, we'd have more space to do things. I'm just gonna quit like yeah, we're done
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We're all done
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Eric wanted to know
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He says he's not gonna be getting this new iPhone
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But wondering in the future if Apple will still include the headphone adapter in the box
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I think this is a one-time deal Eric, but the adapters are only nine dollars, so they're not too bad
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Yeah, I totally agree. I think it's so I think it's a one time to ease the transition
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Think it's just to shut up the press
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Like that I like that it's nine bucks, you know
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The only other thing close to is like the magsafe two to one adapter or whatever
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Nine bucks is the right call. I think if this thing was
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19 like it would be not great $9 feels feels nice at $9
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You could buy like four of them and attach them to all existing headphones
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Yeah, right. You just lead them on there and you're all good
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You could dig up right Rajeev wants to know will the Apple watch eventually support night shift
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This was a shocking and admission to me with true tone on the iPhone. I think both of those things
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I think what should you not should have my shift especially the new one?
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Even brighter. He's you know this yeah, he's like opening the Ark of the Covenant in the end Jones
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It's now two times brighter, which is awesome. So my eyes will melt
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And no true tone on the iPhone is also very very surprising to me
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I'm surprised at that too because it's not like the iPhone doesn't have a light sensor and all the true tone is
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You know, it's a multi
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Multi sensor light sensor where it's it's not just sensing light. It's sensing the color temperature of the light
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so it's doing an RGB sensor instead of a
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Regular sensor Craig Hockenberry had a tweet. Maybe we can dig it up
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He'd found where that sensor is on the the nine point seven inch iPad Pro and apparently the the surface area
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Uses it's pretty large. Ah
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so he had said that you know, this may be a
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another space constraint issue right because you got it you've got a
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You've got a sample the RGB to do that
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Also, just thinking ahead, because we have done that from time to time in terms of conspiracy
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theories and all of that, if an iPhone 8 next year is sort of wall-to-wall screen and the
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home button goes away entirely and all of that, one of the challenges is going to be
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having space for sensors like the front-facing camera, the selfie camera, and the light sensor,
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they're gonna want to maximize the screen space there.
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So I wonder too, if that's part of it is,
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well, we could probably get it to fit this year,
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but our plans for next year,
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it's, I'm not sure we could get it to fit.
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So maybe we should just leave it alone.
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But I am surprised because that seemed like a feature
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that was gonna be everywhere and it's not.
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- I feel like there's a lot of that conversation right now
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talking about, well, next year,
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they're gonna do this and that.
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And so far my expectations for next year's iPhone
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is is ridiculous. The iPhone 7 has not even shipped yet and and people have been talking
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about iPhone 8 a lot. So I expect whatever iPhone 10th anniversary edition special special
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edition. I expect Apple to... iPhone 10. I think we will have some expectation setting
01:15:26
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for us. Yeah we'll see we'll see but Craig finding that that's good because that that
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shows that would make sense right there's really limited space and you know
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I don't know what a RGB light sensor takes up in terms of space yeah but back
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to the question I agree night shift on the Apple watch would be would be great
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you know my only thought is that the watch the screen technology can't
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support that sort of color shifting as well or maybe as smoothly as they wanted
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that's where I kind of out of my depth knowing about how the screen actually
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works or maybe how the graphics processor works because what you have to
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do is shift all of the color you have to detect what all the colors are supposed
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to be painted on the screen and shift them in real time. So maybe the
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maybe the GPU maybe something like the the Series 2 might be capable of doing
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that down the road in terms of software and maybe the Series 1 or Zero can't.
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Yeah so I guess we'll see I would like to see it especially on the watch I mean
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Lucas wants to know if the iPhone 7's water resistance means that
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that you could take underwater photos and videos.
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In theory, yes.
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- In theory.
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- Just don't have it under for too long?
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- For too long and don't go too deep.
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The challenge is going to be
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that your touchscreen won't work.
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- The volume up button.
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- But you can press the volume up button to do the shutter.
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So yes, it's quite possible.
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The problem is Apple still saying,
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watch out for water damage.
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I think the idea here is you're supposed to,
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not use this except when you accidentally put it in the water
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uh... but if it's truly as water-resistant as the first apple watch
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we know that speaking of craig hockenberry again
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uh... that he takes it in the surf
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like every day and it's basically apple is saying you can spill stuff on it or
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splash stuff on it
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so if you if it does work which it probably will but your iPhone breaks
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you're on your own
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because they're not saying this is the... they still say the water
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damage is not covered under the warranty.
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But like you know I think at least in my brain I keep getting the Apple Watch's water resistance
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and the iPhone's water resistance mixed up.
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The new iPhone's water resistance is the old Apple Watch's water resistance which is three
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feet for 30 minutes and the new Apple Watch is you know yeah do whatever and this is that's
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the point at which Apple says sure swim with it.
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So even though it was basically water resistant enough for you to take a shower with it or
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swim with it before, Apple didn't talk about it.
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And that's where the iPhone is now.
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So what I would say is, you could do it and you might even succeed doing it, taking underwater
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photography with it.
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That said, you're sort of taking the product into your own hands at that point.
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It will probably work, but when I took a shower with the Apple Watch on day one, people were
01:18:17
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like, "Oh wow, I can't believe you risked the Apple Watch there."
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And it was like, "Yeah, well, I did."
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- The thing I got very excited about the prospect of
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is having the iPhone in the shower with me,
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like on a shelf.
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- When I'm listening to podcasts.
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- Yeah, you may be able to do that.
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- Well, I'm gonna do it.
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- I'm very excited about it.
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I'm not gonna hold it, right?
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- But I could have it like on a shelf.
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- On a shelf and if it splashes a little bit, it's okay.
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- Doesn't matter, any steam, doesn't matter.
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- Doesn't matter.
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- I'm excited about that.
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- Some shaving cream.
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- Yeah, it's fine, it's all good.
01:18:47
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Ryan wants to know, "Do you think Apple
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"would ever license the W1 chip down the road
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for third party headphone makers to make a better Bluetooth experience. So this W1 chip
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is what is the special source I think. Is everybody keeps referring to it. Stephen what
01:19:01
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do you think? I don't see them doing this. They have a headphone company. Yeah they own
01:19:06
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Beats and there were what three Beats products that are going to be supporting this. Yeah.
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I think Apple is going to keep it as a competitive advantage. Which they're well within their
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rights to do. Of course. This is their technology why would they give it to other people? Right
01:19:19
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- It's not, that was kind of part of the debate
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about Bluetooth being an open standard
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and this not being that.
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And so my argument was, you know,
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there's a difference there, there's a gradient of difference
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and I don't see this showing up in other brands
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that I can walk into a Best Buy and purchase.
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- These things are Bluetooth headphones
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and they work over Bluetooth, which is great,
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but if you have an Apple device, they work even better.
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Synergy, everybody.
01:19:45
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I think there's a chance that this could be part of a made for iPhone kind of program.
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A chance, but it seems unlikely.
01:19:59
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It seems to me like this is Apple proprietary, they did the work, they're going to reap the
01:20:04
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benefits and you know, you said it, Apple owns a headphone company.
01:20:09
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Why would it not?
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And here we see it.
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These aren't just the first time AirPods.
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AirPods technology is in those three lines of Beats headphones so why share?
01:20:20
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I'm not very clear on what they get though, those Beats headphones. I think they get the instant pairing.
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And the better audio quality they say. Yeah because it's doing an AAC
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whatever stream it's doing is a better audio quality I think. So and
01:20:34
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maybe battery life as well is better. Yeah I don't know. Because it's more efficient. And I don't know if they're using the sensors and things too or not.
01:20:42
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- I think the sensors are not necessarily the W1 chip.
01:20:45
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- No, they're--
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- They're ear pods.
01:20:47
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- So that's, it may just be that this is the thing
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that drives all of their, this is their custom Bluetooth--
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- It's the brains.
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- Thing that does the special pairing and all of that.
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- And I think if they're gonna do it,
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it could, that could have been,
01:20:59
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that would have fit into the pitch of,
01:21:02
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we are in a wireless world and we've made this great thing
01:21:04
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and we're gonna have it in MFI
01:21:06
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so you can get any headphones you want.
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- And that would have strengthened the argument
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that we're now in a wireless world.
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They didn't say it at launch,
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I don't think it's gonna happen.
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- No, because it's not up to Apple
01:21:18
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to make everybody else's technology better.
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That's not what a company does, right?
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You're competing.
01:21:26
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They're competing with Bose.
01:21:27
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- Yeah, absolutely.
01:21:28
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- Right, so why would they give their chips away to Bose?
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That they're taking 10 years of development away from Bose.
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Like, you're just a leapfrog.
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They're not gonna do that.
01:21:36
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- The last kind of thing on AirPods that comes to mind,
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Tim Cook said a couple of years ago,
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maybe all things DE or some interview,
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that Apple is really looking at sensor technology.
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These AirPods have so much stuff,
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they know when they're in your ear,
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they know when you're touching them.
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I think that is potentially something he had in mind
01:21:54
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in saying that because the watch does have some sensors,
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but it's not really all that complicated.
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- The watch sensors do basic things.
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- And very specific things, where the AirPods seem like
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they have an intelligence about them.
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And Myke, to your point, maybe it doesn't look
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far enough but they seem to be really aware of their surroundings in a way
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that we haven't really seen from Apple hardware before. No I think it's that's
01:22:16
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what excites me about the earplugs this idea of like put one in get them on oh
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like put them both in take them out and like everything just reacts to it right
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and like oh how to speak their language you know how to use it their gestures
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then it becomes kind of second nature so wait and see we are in the wait and see
01:22:32
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period we are but not for long I'm sure next Monday we'll see how the setup
01:22:38
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process goes, it's that time of year again. How angry will Myke be when he tries to sell
01:22:43
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We really went to town last year on this.
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It was a disaster, so I'm excited to see how iOS 10 fares the setup. I mean, I know we're
01:22:51
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going to get another screen where I have to customize my home button strength.
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Yeah, that'll be exciting.
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But I'm interested to see.
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That'll be the new question, is how strong is your home button? We'll all be asking next
01:23:03
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I will go weakest, to the weakest possible touch, because I have a 3D touch as well,
01:23:07
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I worry about RSI stuff and I've had concerns and I was having concerns at the exact time that I haven't came out last year
01:23:14
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So I've always set mine to be the weakest possible and I haven't had any problems of it by no problem
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I know people that have
01:23:20
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So I think you know cuz you're pressing more and doing some weird stuff. Yeah smooshing your finger against a flat surface
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One last thing on this, okay, but it's home button I forgot to mention last week
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Why did they make it look like a home button if it doesn't click?
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Why did it need to be like that?
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Gives you a target?
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Yeah, but it could have just been a flat surface with the fingerprint sensor on it.
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My only thought is the Touch ID, the stainless steel ring activates Touch ID and that needs
01:23:47
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to be elevated enough where you can touch it and read on both sides.
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So my thought is it's a depth issue and let's put the hat on for next year if this new magic
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unicorn iPhone is great and the home button goes away, why spend a bunch of R&D time and
01:24:02
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engineering time we can basically reuse the same
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components and replace the underside.
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My theory for this next phone, the reason we're talking about this phone is because the
01:24:14
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current one looks exactly the same
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and there's been rumors like I think John Gruber started them about like
01:24:19
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don't worry the next one's gonna be all glass and it's gonna be the most amazing thing
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I've seen. I think they're gonna put the fingerprint sensor on the back
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because where would you put the fingerprint sensor on an all glass front?
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It's possible. I mean, we see that I've got that in my Nexus 5X.
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I love it on the back.
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And it's not bad. The only problem with it is you can't put it in the case.
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Or if you do, they've got to do a fingerprint cutout.
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The cases have holes in them.
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Which is whatever.
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Apple workshopped that a few years ago with the 5C.
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I already have a hole for my camera.
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So does that.
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So you'd have a thumb or a finger scanner cutout.
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But it does, you hold it for those who haven't done it.
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The idea of a fingerprint scanner on the back of the phone sounds kind of ridiculous.
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But you know what you pick up the phone and your hand is holding the phone and your for me
01:25:02
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It's my index finger is resting right on that scanner on the back and the phone opens
01:25:07
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And I'm looking at my phone and I've seen some really cool stuff that some make some
01:25:10
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Android makers are doing like I can't remember who it is
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It's doing it but you can swipe on the fingerprint sensor and it will bring down your notification shade
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How cool is that? Yeah, so you got your hand on the back you just swipe it down and the notifications pop up
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So it could be also, you know, Apple's happy to make the lives of case
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makers more difficult, especially after.
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That was the other thing, by the way, you know,
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as we were talking last week about the Twitter stuff popping out
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just as the event started, Amazon had a page go up with all of the iPhone 7 cases.
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So it was it was a yeah.
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All right. Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Upgrade.
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If you want to find our show notes, go to relay.fm/upgrade/106.
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Stephen Hackett, thank you for joining us. Yes.
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You can find Stephen online at 512pixels.net and he is @ismh on Twitter.
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Jason is at sixcolors.com and he is @jsnell, J S N E double L.
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I am @imike, I M Y K E.
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Thanks again to our lovely sponsors of this week's episode.
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There's Hover, Mac, Weldon and Ring.
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We'll be back next week with new iPhones in hand.
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Until then, I hope that you get the ones that you're looking for.
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Say goodbye, gentlemen.
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Goodbye gentlemen.
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