63: The App Is Named App
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From Relayer Fam, this is Connected, episode number 63.
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Today's show is brought to you by our friends over at igloo, an internet you'll actually
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like, Warby Parker, because glasses should not cost as much as an iPhone, and Braintree,
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code for easy online payments.
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My name is Myke Hurley and I am joined by Mr Federico Vittucci.
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How are you Federico?
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I'm doing great. How are you with the cold medicines? I saw the picture on Twitter.
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I hope I'm going to be okay. So yesterday I was doing the pen addict, and if I spoke
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for more than 20 seconds, I nearly ran out of oxygen. So I'm hoping today that won't
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be the case. And Mr. Steven Hackett, hello sir, how are you?
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I'm good, Myke. I'm glad that you're with us today.
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So we were together last week. Do you think you might come down with this plague that
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I'm about 36 hours behind you.
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I felt bad last night, I feel worse today.
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So we'll see.
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- Look forward to that.
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That's cough medicine.
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- Are you just taking a swig of it?
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- No, I was shaking the box.
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- Just keeping a glass of medicine next to you as you speak.
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- Well, I took it about 10 minutes before we started.
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It is non-drowsy, which is good.
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I made sure to ensure that I wasn't gonna get drowsy
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medicine 'cause then I might just fall asleep
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on the show and that doesn't seem like it would be a very good thing to do.
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I've made that mistake before, taking drowsy accidentally and it will ruin your plans for
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One of the changes that I noticed in my lifestyle after I went through treatments and all that
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kind of stuff, basically I don't care about medicines anymore.
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Before I used to be extremely careful in taking medicines, you know, "Oh, maybe I should avoid
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taking this you know cold medicine maybe I should you know it's bad for the
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stomach now I just don't care as soon as I see the symptoms I'm like okay I'm
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gonna take everything because I took far worse and what's a cold medicine gonna do to me I
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mean my stomach it's you know I wouldn't say it's gone but you know it's gone
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through a lot of stuff so whatever as soon as I see the symptoms are like nope
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I'm gonna take everything that's in my in my emergency closet I'm just gonna
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take the pills, I'm gonna take everything, I don't care. And it works, you know? I haven't
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had one of those high fevers in a long time, but I don't recommend this kind of solution.
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I think this is the first time that I've been concerned about losing my voice
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in the last few years, which is making me think that I should look into vocal exercises.
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You gotta put an insurance on your throat, Myke.
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But I had once considered that, but that seems a bit too diva-ish, you know?
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It's like a football player ensuring his leg or something.
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I'm not going to do that.
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And it was just even we were at Release Notes, and whilst at Release Notes, you received an
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incredible gift.
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So our friend Greg, who runs the Agile Tortoise software shop, you know Greg from apps like
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Drafts, gave me a Newton 120.
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So he found me in the hallway and was like, "Hey, I have something for you.
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Make sure you get it from me."
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then you have a picture of us. Greg's a very big man. I'm a I'm a you know, I'm six feet
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tall but Greg is enormous. So I look like a child next to him. Holding holding my new
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Newton message pad 120. So Newton has entered my collection now for the first time in a
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So are you gonna be working from the Newton Steven?
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So I had a Newton 2000 in college and I did use it in class.
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I had a little case and the keyboard and it was like you and your fancy iPad Pro just
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from the past.
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But yeah, I used it in school for notes.
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I had it syncing with my, I guess my PowerBook G4 at the time and so I had my contacts and
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calendars on it.
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I had email on it.
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I got a .Mac email working on it,
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and it was on the school wireless,
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and it was pretty awesome.
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But then I needed some cash to pay off
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my wife's engagement ring, so I sold it,
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and I've not had one since.
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So Greg has reignited my love of the Newton,
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and we'll see where that leads me.
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But my thanks to Greg and everyone.
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People were coming up to me,
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like wanting to see it and stuff.
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And this came up because last week I finally got around to posting my collection.
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So there's a link in the show notes to a GitHub page where I keep an inventory of my collection
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and the Newton has been added to that list as of the other night.
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So my thanks to Greg for edging me on in my collection, collecting of things.
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What are you going to do with all this stuff?
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More importantly, Steven, at which point do you become a hoarder of stuff?
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I think it's past that point now.
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I think hoarding, I think the difference between collecting and hoarding, and please email
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anyone but me about this, what I'm being ready to say, send Casey Liss all of my email, I
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- I am, there is a level of discrimination
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about what goes into the collection.
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So like someone at least was like,
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"Hey, I've got this whole PowerBook."
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And I was like, "Well, it's not like,
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"I'm not really looking for that."
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Like there are certain things that I would like to have
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based on importance to me or importance historically.
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So, you know, like there's a lot of like performers
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that no one cares about, I don't care about.
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I'm not interested in owning any of them.
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I think a hoarder would be like,
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"Yes, bring all of the Beige Max to me."
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But I am trying to build something that is
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an interesting look at Apple's history
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and the history of personal computing,
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not any random thing I can get my hand on.
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Now there are things in this list
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that don't really meet either of those,
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that I have maybe just 'cause I like them,
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but I'm not just scooping up anything that comes my way.
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I'm trying to be deliberate about what I add.
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So as far as what I'm going to do with them,
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Can't answer that question yet Myke because I don't know
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Stephen Hackett the first and foremost apple cuter in Memphis, Tennessee
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It's true. Definitely the biggest here. I would imagine I know a lot of people who collect Apple stuff and I mean there's
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I'm towards the head of that list at this point. I think I mean there people with more rare stuff than me, but um
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You know not too many people do this. So what can you say?
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What else did you get you got something else didn't you?
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Just goes on and on I
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Also added an iPod hi-fi
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Do you remember the iPod hi-fi I was probably too young to remember no
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Put a wicked we'll put a Wikipedia link in the show notes. This is like a jam box
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Do you know remember this Federica? No, not at all
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This was the thing where Steve Jobs got on stage and said that he was replacing all of his audio file equipment
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And it came out it came at an event with socks and leather cases for the iPod
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That's right. Very expensive leather cases. Uh-huh like $90 or something
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It's like Evernote they were selling socks and leather stuff. This was like the Evernote announcement equivalent I think
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Because the main thing of the main thing of the announcement was the iPod hi-fi like they set up these rooms
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So they in the demo area they set up like a student's bedroom and stuff like that like so you could see them in the natural
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Habitat it's crazy
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So yeah, so it's uh
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It was designed to use the iPod with a 30-pin dock connector
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but it used the FireWire power source.
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And they basically released this,
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and then like six months later they revved the iPod
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and ditched the FireWire charging,
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so newer iPods wouldn't charge on it.
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But it has an AUX in on it.
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And Jason Snell has one of these on his desk as well.
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And it still sounds really good.
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I've got it hooked up at home.
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I need to rearrange my desk if I'm gonna keep it there.
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But it's a really nice,
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like it's a nice sounding speaker.
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It looks good.
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It is shockingly heavy, especially if you put batteries in it.
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You could put like six, I think it's six,
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like C or D size batteries in it
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and like use it out in the yard or whatever.
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But it has entered the fold as well and it's nice.
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I want to use it, I gotta find a place for it
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if it's not my desk somewhere in the house
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to listen to music on it,
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'cause it really does sound good for its age
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and what I paid for it.
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- I love that you can put batteries in it
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like walking around with it like a boombox.
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You could walk around the streets of Memphis
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with this on your shoulder.
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Yeah, I do have I think at least one iPod that it will work with so I could definitely
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Of course you do.
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I could just replace the sound system in my car with this and just have it like strapped
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in in the passenger seat.
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You could take it down to like the strip mall and do break dancing or something in front
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of the Apple store.
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I think they would really like that.
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Yeah, it's like look at this guys, iPod Hi-Fi.
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It seems like something Federico could own.
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I'm just looking at the picture and I'm amazed by this idea of a...
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It was an Apple accessory, right?
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It's like a thing made by Apple.
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It's not like a third party collaboration or something.
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It's just made by Apple.
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Right, they built it.
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Yeah, and the keynote, which I haven't seen in a long time, but I think he goes into detail
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about how they crafted the speaker chambers and the type of resin they used to seal it,
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and all sorts of crazy stuff.
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I guess I heard about this name, I just never paid attention.
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I thought it was a version of the iPod, not necessarily like a speaker.
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So nice, nice, I had no idea Steven.
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I'm glad I could help educate you.
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How are you, Steven, how are you feeling about your keyboards?
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Are you still using it?
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Because I received one, right?
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I've got my new iMac here.
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And I do not like it.
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I really, really don't like it.
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- I do like it.
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I'm liking it more and more.
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I reviewed it like four, after four or five days,
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but I'm still enjoying it.
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Of course, at release notes,
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just had my MacBook Pro and the keyboard on that machine
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is more like the old Bluetooth keyboard
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than the new Magic keyboard.
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And I was typing on the MacBook Pro,
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and I was like, I wish this was a little firmer.
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So it's already sort of taken over in my brain
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that this is the way Apple's keyboard should be
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and not what's on my laptop.
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But I'm really still, I'm still real happy with it.
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So the only thing I still am just struggling with
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is the arrow keys being different,
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'cause that's really done by feel for me.
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And I still kinda, if I'm like navigating
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around a spreadsheet or something,
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I will still kinda take a second to remember
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that the keys are split differently, the arrow keys.
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But besides that, I'm still got both thumbs up
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for this thing.
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- When I was, I've used it a little bit,
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and it just feels like, I really feel the lack of travel
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the keys and I don't like it. I'm just not a big fan of it. Like it feels to me
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like every other keyboard I have feels superior because of that. And I don't
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know if that's just something that it's like it's built into my brain but I'm
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just not I'm just not on board of it. Yeah and you've been using the
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Microsoft sculpt for a while too so you're yeah you know I think if you were
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coming from the Bluetooth keyboard to this it might be a little bit different
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but the sculpt is so different then I could definitely see how you would feel
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that way yeah you used it for a minute I was like nope yeah just bailed on it yeah
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so it's probably something to do with the sculpt yeah how is the iMac I love
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it I need and I definitely need more time with it like to really understand
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the speed of it and stuff but it's a monster and it's my monster and I'm very
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very happy with it so yeah I I'm I'm enjoying it a lot I love the screen it's
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super powerful it's it's just everything I wanted and I'm looking at this old Mac
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Pro and I'm like see you later buddy it's nice having you. And are you using
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either the the mouse or trackpad with it? I'm not really I mean I have the magic
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trackpad on the desk but it's nothing to do with the devices I'm just battling a
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bunch of RSI problems at the moment so I'm kind of switching it up a lot and
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I'm using the Wacom tablet basically constantly for all of my navigation
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right now because my right hand is the problem.
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I'm left handed so I can use the pen tablet
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in my left hand.
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And I've used the track pad a little bit
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and I like that but I'm trying to think
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of how I can go back to a mouse
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but I'm still working on that.
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- Yeah, but with that RSI stuff,
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you gotta do what you gotta do.
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We did wanna mention the home app
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that Federico and I spoke about last week.
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It was in the show notes but it was a late edition
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so some people's podcast clients didn't find it.
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So we're gonna put it in the show notes again this week.
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Turns out naming an app home makes it difficult
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to find in the app store.
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But we've got a link to it and we'll make sure
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that you can find that this week.
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I've been playing with it Federico and I,
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even though like we spoke about my home kit is set up
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as simpler than yours, it's a nice app.
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And I feel like it's sort of what,
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almost what Apple should have shipped.
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But it's a nice addition, I think,
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if you're doing a lot of HomeKit stuff,
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you should definitely check out this app.
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It's worth the price, for sure.
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- If I could follow up on last week's episode,
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'cause obviously I listened to it,
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HomeKit sounds like a bit of a disaster.
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- Yep. (laughs)
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- Well, 'cause this is the type of stuff that,
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so when it works, it seems like it works great,
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but this is stuff that you need to work 100% of the time.
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If I'm gonna trust my iPhone to unlock my door,
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needs to work. Or if I'm gonna trust my own phone to turn my lights on, like all of those things I
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want to happen. I don't want them to be like "maybe they'll work sometimes" I'm not interested in that.
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Well yeah you don't want to be stuck in the dark yelling commands at Siri to turn on your lights.
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Exactly, like that's silly.
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Guys I have some follow-up for you speaking of HomeKit and the Apple TV. And so you guys may
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remember that I complained about the Apple TV not working for remote access for me.
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And I got some feedback from some listeners telling me to reboot my Apple TV or to sign out
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from my iCloud account and sign back in. I just didn't want to try that. I was really disappointed.
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So the other day, two days ago, I was at a birthday party with some friends. And we were,
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So my friends here in Rome, they usually, we go to this park, like after dinner at midnight,
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and like we bring a cake, we bring some beers, some cocktails, and we drink in this park.
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And it's a very, I realize it's a very teenager-y thing to do.
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Yeah, you sound like a little teenage yob or something.
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Yeah, it's basically that.
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And you know, this is Sylvia's hip-hop group, so these guys, they bring a stereo, they put
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on some music.
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You should get an iPod Hi-Fi for them.
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Yeah, for sure.
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So we were there, we were celebrating, my friends, and some of my friends started drinking,
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and one of them started drinking quite heavily, and at one point it was beyond the tipsy level
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of drinking.
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And we started talking about the Apple TV.
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And I was okay, I wasn't drinking because I needed to drive.
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So these guys started saying, "Yeah, what's the Apple TV?"
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And I started explaining what the Apple TV is.
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And basically I ended up selling my Apple TV to this drunk person.
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I had this guy come over at my house at 2am and I gave him my Apple TV for like 50 euros
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and because I just don't care, I'm like look, I bought this Apple TV last week, I
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don't use it, I don't want to put it up on eBay because I don't have the time or
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patience, I don't want to, I just don't need it, I'm going to buy the new one to
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on my Apple TV and he was all excited by the... apparently he was really into the idea of
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streaming YouTube videos to his TV with an Apple TV. So I wouldn't say that I took advantage
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of this person because the following day he texted me back asking for instructions and
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kind of like tips and tricks. So maybe, you know, in the moment he was kind of more excited
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than normal to get an Apple TV but he stuck with the decision. So I'm no longer an owner
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of an Apple TV third generation and I'm waiting for the next one.
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I just thought you guys might like my story.
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Well at least now I know the best way to get rid of my Mac Pro.
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Just go to a park.
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Yeah, that's all it takes.
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Go to a park, get people to drink and start talking about your Apple accessories.
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You're gonna find someone who is interested in one of those.
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So the Apple TV went for pre-order as we record this yesterday morning. Sort of, how do you
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feel about this, it sort of just happened, right?
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Like I was just kinda on Twitter in a waiting room
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and all of a sudden people were like,
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"Oh, the Apple TV's for sale now."
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Like there was no, Apple didn't pre-announce a time.
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Like there were people on Twitter like,
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"What time is it gonna be?"
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They were just like, "It's here and you can order it."
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And so I did and I believe that Federico, you did as well.
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What about you, Myke?
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'Cause you and I were going back and forth on this, right?
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- I didn't want one.
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I don't want one, right?
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Like I don't want one at all.
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I understand you, Myke.
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I feel like I just had to get one.
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Because otherwise I'm just gonna be the person on the show going like
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"I don't know, what does Apple TV do?"
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So like I spent the money on one because I felt like I needed one
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so I could sound smart, like a smart person.
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Rather than dumb, like a dumb person on the shows.
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I bought one.
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And I still don't want one.
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So the single reason why you bought one is peer pressure.
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Yeah actually, that is correct because I heard people texting me
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and stuff and saying "You should just get one! Come on, you should just get one, you need one!"
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I really don't. Buy another accessory.
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I got one, I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with it.
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I guess I'm gonna play games on my Apple TV because
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we don't watch American cable stuff of course in Italy.
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We don't buy our movies and TV shows on iTunes.
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There's gonna be apps, so maybe I will find
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a use case for my Apple TV. I just don't imagine myself looking at my TV all day,
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like actively using apps on my TV. I can see games,
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so I guess we'll see what kind of games are gonna come out on the apps,
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sorry for the Apple TV.
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That's the only reason I can think of. I don't know how I'm
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gonna use it, but like Myke, I bought one because
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I didn't want to miss out on all the craziness.
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And then it was like, "What one do you want to buy?"
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And it's like 32 gigabytes or 64, right?
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And it's like, I don't even know why I need one or the other.
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It just doesn't make sense to me.
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I don't even know why there's a storage size difference.
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because there's no idea of knowing which one is the right one for me. Do you see what I mean?
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I kept just looking at it and I'm like I don't know why I'd want 32 or 64 because I'm not going
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to be putting any videos on it I would assume. Like it's all going to stream. Like how big are
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the apps going to be? I don't know. What did you guys get? I went with 32 just because I didn't
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want one anyway so I wasn't going to pay for the 64. Me too. I just got the base model. I'm like
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what's the cheapest option for me so I can buy an Apple TV and forget about it
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and I got the 32 gig model because I
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again based on my only assumption that the way that I'm gonna use this is for
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and knowing myself I play a game on iOS and when I'm done with the game I delete
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the game I don't care about you know keeping the game installed
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I guess that I you know 32 gigs will be okay
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for me in terms of storage
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What did you do, Steven?
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- I opted for the bigger of the two.
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- But like we've been talking about,
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like Apple TV is television in our house,
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and while I don't see us playing a ton of games,
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I did not order a game controller,
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which I wanna ask you guys in a second if you did.
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I was like, you know what,
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we plan on keeping this thing for a long time.
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We've had our old Apple TV a long time,
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and I don't want to run into issues,
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especially if my, you know,
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the kids are gonna be using it,
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and all of a sudden it's like,
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I need storage space, they're not gonna know what to do.
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And it wasn't that much more, so I decided to just go ahead
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and opt for the bigger of the two.
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You know, it's not like, to your point, guys,
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about the streaming bit.
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It's not like it used to be where the first Apple TV
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you sync stuff over, like it was basically an iPod
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plugged into your television.
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I mean, this thing is designed to stream,
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and I really think the only thing it's gonna be storing
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locally is game assets.
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And of course they're doing, there's a link in the
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owners to Polygon they're doing the app sizing and the slicing and stuff to pull
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down assets on demand and imagine if you game a lot you'll use more of that disc
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but my thought was it's not that much more and I don't want to have any issues
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with it so I opted for the the bigger of the two sizes but I did not order a game
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controller what about you guys did you even look at him no I looked at them
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just because somebody tweeted to them and it was funny I clicked the page and
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got a 404 but I just looked at it like not with any intention to buy one
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because I'm kind of not I'm not that interested in it like because I want to
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see how it how it goes right like I want to see if there are games that require
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that like a good controller because in theory you know they're saying that
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every app has to use the standard remote so you'd like to think that all games
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will be okay to play irrespective of what controller you're using and you
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know I want to see if there's any games that come out that are even worth a full
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controller for because like if everything's like Crossy Road then it's
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gonna be fine obviously it's well I'd like to think it's not gonna be like
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that it seems that there are developers that are doing more stuff with it but I
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want to see what kind of the offering is like before I decide to drop the money
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on that because those things are nearly as expensive as the Apple TV itself.
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Yeah, I mean right now there are only two controllers for selling Apple's website.
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There's the SteelSeries Nimbus wireless gaming controller which is 50 bucks and then they
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have a Guitar Hero guitar for $100.
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So still less expensive than the $79 replacement Apple TV remote which is just insane to me.
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But definitely pricey if you're, like you said,
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if the remote is the common denominator,
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then I can't agree with you.
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I don't really see a world in which the gaming controller
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offers a vastly better experience,
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because Apple's put that limitation in place.
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If that limitation wasn't there,
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if they said, "Well, yeah, if you want to talk to games,
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"we have game controllers,"
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then I think developers would have more freedom
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to sort of go crazy with it.
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I just don't know I don't know it is interesting too that they're offering a
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Wii style remote loop so if you are chucking it around you to chunk it into
00:26:19
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your TV or into your spouse's head and that's $13 on Apple's website which is
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you know 13 anyway I'm I'm interested maybe in the guitar hero controller yeah
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right because I need to pick a platform for guitar hero if I want to play it in
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Guitar Hero and it might be kind of cool on the Apple TV.
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I'm really struggling, like I'm looking on the UK website and I cannot find where this
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Like where is the stuff?
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Where are the controllers?
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I wish the store would come back.
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There's one point that I want to make about the software aspect of the app slicing and
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the on-demand resources.
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So I was reading through, and I even linked to it, this Polygon article.
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There's great explanation of how game developers will have to adjust to these new storage features
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on the Apple TV.
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And one question that keeps coming back to me is, so the majority of games on iOS are
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the kind of arcade games where it's a bunch of levels and you either collect points or
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stars and you proceed through these levels but you can always go back and redo a previous
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stage if you want to get a higher score or collect all the stars and all the other collectible
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items that kind of stuff.
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And with these tvOS software features developers can tag specific assets or levels of a game
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and say "ok now you need to download this and maybe this level is no longer a priority
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so you can remove that from local storage and you can download some other things.
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So what Apple is doing here to me, it seems that it makes sense for story driven games
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where you proceed in the story and you no longer see a previous stage or area or characters
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in the game.
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So like something like an Uncharted game or something like an RPG where you go from like
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Initial stages and areas and then you proceed through the story and you don't see those places anymore
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So you can remove them from storage, but because the majority of iOS games
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Something like I don't know Angry Birds or you know
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I'm just thinking of all these other games where it's a bunch of worlds and levels and you can always go back
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So what happens if like I'm playing a game on my Apple TV and I assume that at least for now the majority of Apple
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TV games will be modeled after iOS games.
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What happens if I wanna go back to world two
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and I wanna play level 10,
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and for some reason it's no longer available,
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I need to sit back and wait for the level to download.
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That's what makes me skeptical of developers
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actually adopting these technologies.
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Like, I don't know.
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I'm just, I guess it makes sense for,
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again, for games with a story where you don't see
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initial stages or tutorials anymore, but for arcade games organised in levels and based
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on high scores and points, I just struggle to see how it's going to work in practice.
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I think the bigger issue, because I mean the level based games, you can assume that the
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majority of people aren't going back and playing level, like, I mean, there will be people
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that do it and when you do that you just have to wait, right? If you want to go back and
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play world 2 level 10 you'll just have to wait for the you have to wait for it
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to download I think the bigger problem is in like open world or bigger games
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like how could they come to the Apple TV like something like a Grand Theft Auto
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because you've got to be able like that would have to be some really really
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impressive content delivery like to be able to load the specific part of the
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world that you need to be in at a certain period of time that's that type
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game feels like it's kind of walled off from being able to do this. Although it
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does say that it can kind of download two gigabytes of levels, right? Like, so
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maybe you could just tag the game map as two gigabytes and it downloads that. I'm
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sure that there'll be developers that work their way around it, but it does
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seem to pose some, just some difficult, not difficult, different design decisions
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in the minds of developers as to how they're going to be able to effectively
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implement these changes. You also get an additional 20 gigs of storage in
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iCloud, so maybe 22 gigs in total will be okay for game developers who want to do that
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kind of game on Apple TV.
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I don't know.
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It's just a different, and the Polygon article does a great job at explaining this, just
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a different way of structuring a game for a TV.
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I really don't know what kind of game experiences we'll see on the TBOS App Store.
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The demo from the Apple event was not a good one.
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So we'll see.
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I have no idea what to expect.
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- So something interesting while we're talking about apps,
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a friend of mine who is going through app review right now,
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who has been going around and around through app review,
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it's kind of anecdotally said to me
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that it feels like that Apple's app review for the tvOS
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is kind of like original iPhone levels of picky
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about human interface stuff.
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like way harsher than the watch for example.
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So it's, and this has been punctuated by other people,
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like for example, Daniel Jelkirk got his app rejected
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for not being useful enough,
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and he was building a white noise app for the Apple TV.
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So it's interesting to me if they are being,
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and it does seem like, you know,
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from stuff that we're seeing,
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that Apple are being quite particular
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with the type of stuff that they're letting on the TV.
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And it makes me wonder, how are they viewing this platform?
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Like, are they viewing it,
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like it's a very, very important platform?
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Are they trying to curate more heavily?
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Like why are they doing this?
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- I mean, I think that a lot of that has to do
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with the interface being so new
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and Apple really pushing it as a new platform
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that they want only the best experiences.
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Someone, the future of apps, television,
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the first couple apps you download for your television
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are cruddy, that doesn't really set off
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in the right direction.
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It doesn't put their best foot forward.
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And so I think Apple would rather be hard on developers
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and designers and saying,
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"Hey, you know, you really need to fit into our vision
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"of what this thing is."
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Then flood the App Store on day one
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and have a bunch of garbage in there.
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- Yeah, it's,
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because they didn't seem to be this way
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with the watch though.
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- Yeah, exactly.
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- So is the Apple TV more important than the watch?
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- You know, it may be that because watch apps
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were bundled inside iPhone apps,
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that they felt less free to knock people around over it.
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Well, the Apple TV apps are sort of the separate new thing.
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But I think they should have been harder on Watch apps.
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But at the same time, all of Watch app conversation
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has to be filtered through the fact that Gen 1 Watch apps
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were inherently crippled by Apple's technology.
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And so maybe they knew that, hey, you know,
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all this stuff we gotta do
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and talk back and forth to the iPhone,
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we gotta give developers a lot of leeway here
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because we didn't give them very good tools
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and they're kinda doing it in the right hand.
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- Yeah, like you don't have a right to be picky
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because the software framework that you gave us,
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it's kinda, it's really not a good one.
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I understand that argument.
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I think it's the one that makes the most sense in my mind,
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whereas with the TV App Store, it's a new thing,
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separate apps, it's not dependent on an iPhone, so they think they can be picky and to really
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choose the kind of apps that they want to showcase, at least right now.
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I really don't know what to think, again, no idea.
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I know that there's a bunch of, I'm getting emails this week about all these new Apple
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TV apps coming and it's all over the place, you know, and there's like, there's apps for
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to set your TV with a particular ambient music or like there's some iPhone and iPad apps
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that are getting Apple TV versions and I'm like why are you making an Apple TV version
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of this? It doesn't make any sense when it's on your iPhone and iPad and even the Mac.
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Why does it need to be on the television? So at least judging from my email inbox it
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It seems that there's, at least from, you know, it's a very limited pool of data, but
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it's the same story with the iPad, with the watch, with the Apple TV.
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There's some apps that will make sense on the TV, some other apps are just conversions
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from existing platforms that don't necessarily make sense on a TV, which Apple wants it to
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be a new, a whole new platform, a whole new ecosystem, and I don't think that, you know,
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making the utility that makes sense on the iPhone to bring it to the TV. I don't think
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it makes sense. I guess we'll see. I don't know. My girlfriend is making fun of me for
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buying another Apple TV.
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It does seem a bit crazy because you just bought one.
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Considering the experience of buying an old Apple TV and selling it to a drunk person,
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but maybe this one will be better. Hey, maybe it'll actually work with HomeKit.
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I'm intrigued about it but I'm not excited about it.
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So it should arrive before next week and I'm interested to see what type of stuff is going
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to be on the platform just so I can, as usual, see what developers envisioned as being an
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Apple TV app.
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Like I saw Daniel Pascoe of BlackPixel tweeted about NetNewswire today and it just is a nice
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looking RSS reader for the TV which is an interesting use case, right? You get
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your news in the morning or something by looking at what comes up on the screen.
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But it's just I'm just I just don't know if this is a platform that I would use
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very much. I haven't really got a sense for that yet and I don't know if that's
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just me because there seems to be a lot of people that are really excited about
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this so I think it's just my own use case. I think it's because we don't have
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kids Myke. Yeah I think that is a big part of it. So we should we should we
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should have kids to enjoy the Apple TV. Yeah that's to ensure you get the
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entire experience. That's a step way past buying an Apple TV so you can talk about
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it on a podcast. Having a child so you can test Apple products for a podcast.
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That's commitment. Your life decisions but that doesn't seem like a great
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reason to become a parent? I don't know. What do I know? I don't know. Micah, I
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agree with you that there are some apps like out there that we've
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heard about or people are talking about that I don't see myself using but at the
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same time like I think anytime there's a new platform especially one that's so
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radically different like I think there's a lot of opportunity for some exciting
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stuff we haven't seen elsewhere like things like status what's the status
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board app from panic whatever it's called status status board isn't it is
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it is called status board things you know things like that like the Apple TV
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is great like in the living room but there are a lot of them used in
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businesses and in schools and stuff for just having a way to get content onto a
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a display and so for that sort of use case I think there's a lot of interesting
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things that developers could do turning the Apple TV plus a television into some
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sort of smart display that can do could do more. Probably not gonna say for my
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TV with remote and read my hundreds of our subscriptions but I do think there's
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an interesting market for integrating the TV more into like everyday life
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because I think us like the three of us like a lot of nerds like we don't like
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The TV is not a big part of my life.
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Definitely not a big part of my work life.
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We'll sit down and watch a movie or something,
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but at no point am I standing in front of my television
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for work or integrating that into my workflow.
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And maybe there's an opportunity there for the Apple TV
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to make the television itself smarter
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and more useful in work environments.
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And from that angle, I think the Apple TV is pretty exciting
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as far as the platform goes.
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- Here's another potential problem for me
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where maybe I don't see the Apple TV is that exciting. The TV that I'll be
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plugging the Apple TV in is on the same desk as my iMac. So like at that
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point it's like hmm you know like that smart stuff like could
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probably just access most of it on my Mac. So that might be part of my
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problem here. You must have a big desk. It's a very big desk. Oh nice. Yeah but
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But you know me that's like that's you but I mean I think a lot of people I know I'm saying that's like why I think
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It might I might not be excited about it
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I know that the majority of people don't have the TVs in and their max on in the same physical location, but I do
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Gotcha do people actually watch TV during the day. This is a harness question. I have no idea of course they do otherwise
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It was a programming
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You know we don't but lots and lots and lots of people do mm-hmm
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So the Steve Jobs movie is out.
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Now this is the one of many but this was the one that was meant to be the good one I suppose
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right so this is the Aaron Sorkin movie with Michael Fassbender playing Steve Jobs.
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However it has bombed in the in the in the cinema.
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So I give a quote from Variety.
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So Steve Jobs debuted to a measly $7.3 million in box office receipts, only a little more
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than the $6.7 million that Jobs, a critically derided film about the iPhone with Ashton
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Kutcher made in its initial weekend.
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Going into the weekend, some tracking suggested that the picture would do as much as $19 million,
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so it was really kind of undersold.
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Universal are going to continue strongly marketing the movie, and they're going to keep putting
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money into it.
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Steve Jobs cost 30 million dollars to make and Variety estimate that it's going to cost
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that much as well to market. So this is a potential big hole that is... is it Universal?
00:44:30
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This is a Universal movie? Yeah, so this is a pretty big hole that Universal found themselves in
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and it seemed to be reviewed pretty well by movie websites. There's like potential Oscar talk
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around this movie. So why has this happened?
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I'd say from the general public perspective, just overhearing
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people, there's sort of this idea of another Steve Jobs movie.
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We just had one and that one is pretty well known for not being very good.
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So I think people may assume that this one wouldn't be
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any different. I think there's sort of a Steve Jobs overload and
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out in the world right now and we can get to why nerds don't like it but I
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Can't help but think it's like a little too soon after the last one to really be seen in a different light
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I think the failure of the the previous movie
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Has not done much to help to help this one
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Can I can I just be that guy I don't know the actor who's this person Michael Fassbender
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He's okay. You might not know him. The rest of the world knows him. He's yeah, all the x-men movies
00:45:45
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He's as famous as DiCaprio
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Maybe now like I mean if you look at some of the stuff that well Michael Fassbender is currently in more
00:45:54
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Blockbuster movies than DiCaprio is because Fassbender is working more. It doesn't sound this famous as DiCaprio
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Well, DiCaprio is historically famous
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Yeah, I don't know. I'm not a movie person, but I know DiCaprio and I know-
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Well then you're the wrong person to make this decision.
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I'm just saying, I'm not a movie person, but I know who DiCaprio is, I know who Christian Bale is.
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He's the guy who played Batman, right? And I never heard of this fast bender.
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Okay, well he has been nominated for an Oscar, if that helps you.
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Oh yeah, sure, sure.
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He was in Prometheus, he's been in the X-Men movies.
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Just saying, you movie people get upset really easily.
00:46:32
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He's gonna play the Assassin's Creed movie?
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Oh, there's gonna be an Assassin's Creed movie. I bet that's gonna be great. Well, I know it's real
00:46:39
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Oh, no, it's gonna suck. But this is just my kind of
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Showing to you that he is a very very big Hollywood star. Okay, so just trust me on that
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So if I if I ask my any friend of my you Michael Fassbender is they're gonna say yes, we know Michael Fassbender
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I can't guarantee that all of your friends will know but this this is
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Find the drunk guy in the park look on his ice cake Federico
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I'm gonna put his IMDB into the chat room right so you can go joke and I'll put it in the show notes
00:47:07
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And you can see the massive long list of movies
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This guy's been in in the last 10 years and how many he has coming up. Let's just let's just say he is a very big movie
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Yeah, it does superhero stuff, which I don't follow
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I know but you also have to remember that superhero movies are the biggest movies now
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So you don't you don't know him because for whatever reason but the issue is not the the actor did the cost
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Right because like there's well like the the cost of this movie goes on to have
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Has is it Seth Rogen? Oh
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Yeah, another guy Kate Winslet and Jeff Daniels. They're like the four main actors in this movie
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So they got a big cost. It's like I look at this and think it's interesting
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I mean, I I hadn't really considered the Steve Jobs overload thing, but that makes sense
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like but I was thinking about the social network and how well that did
00:48:00
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Right, which was just a story about Facebook
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Written by the same guy and it is really interesting to me that for some reason this one just hasn't
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grabbed people when Steve Jobs is a
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More interesting figure to the rest of the world. I think then Mark Zuckerberg was at that time. Yeah, so I think that's where
00:48:21
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the strife in our community spills over so if you are
00:48:26
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an Apple fan or Steve Jobs fan or whatever
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It's pretty well known again. None of us have seen it. It is on my calendar actually for tomorrow night, hopefully, but
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From from listening to people and reading the views and whatnot
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Sorkin took a lot of liberties with this story and and that's fine
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like I think like we spoke about a couple weeks ago if you're going to make a movie you have artistic license to
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Change things to make it a better movie and generally I like Aaron Sorkin stuff
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but it seems like if you mess with the Steve Jobs story,
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there's a certain section of the Apple community
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that's gonna get upset about that,
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and that spills over, right?
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Someone's gonna go search for a Steve Jobs movie review,
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and they might come across someone who is really unhappy
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that Evan Sorkin really took big liberties with his life
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and really changed things to make what he thought
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was a better screenplay.
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And so maybe there's some of that bleed of, you know,
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nerds are unhappy about it and that has sort of seeped out
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into the general public.
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I think that any Jobs movie or any Apple,
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it's kind of such a movie, from this point forward,
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has to have the blessing of the community to do well.
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Because there's a lot of us, right?
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And there's a lot of people in this community
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who are unhappy with it and that's gonna get around.
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Like I'm only gonna go see it
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so I can do follow up next week.
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I'm not particularly interested in seeing it at this point
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and I'm going in knowing that I'm probably going
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to be disappointed for a bunch of different reasons.
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And that hurts it too, that word of mouth gets around
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and once it does I would imagine it's really hard
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to counter that no matter how many millions of dollars
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you can pour into marketing.
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I think it's a shame, I mean I think Aaron Sorkin
00:50:17
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does good work and I think that this could've been
00:50:19
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really interesting movie if he had done gone about it differently but I wonder
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that so much story tweaking just really set the wrong tone for everybody.
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It doesn't come out here until like the middle of November.
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It should have been with DiCaprio I think.
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So yeah that was the thing right so DiCaprio I would have I'm a big fan of
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would love to have seen him but he seemed the reports are that he got
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basically basically Lorraine Powell Jobs called him and said don't do it and the
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the same for Christian Bale as well but the thing was it seems like it doesn't
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matter who the actor was the story was always gonna be the same like it could
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have been however it was acted isn't the issue like most people's issues seems to
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be the way that it was structured in the story that was told because like I mean
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there's a great episode of the control Walt delete podcast from the verge which
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is actually becoming one of my favorite shows I actually really really like this
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show and in it Walt Mossberg basically expresses his extreme unhappiness about
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the way that the movie portrays Jobs and he tells some stories of his own to try
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and highlight what why he thinks that the movie is bad and he doesn't like it
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fictionalized things to a point and feels like overall and a lot of people
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said this it doesn't paint a full picture of Steve Jobs like it stops at
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the iPod right so it misses out the best kind of all of Jobs's best work right
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which came afterwards, like the iPhone, the iPad,
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and everything else that came after it.
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And this makes me wonder, like looking at this movie,
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all the stuff that's come before it,
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the books that have come out,
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is there ever going to be a fair and balanced account
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of Steve Jobs' life?
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Like, is this ever going to happen?
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Is it too late now for us to get a scenario
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in which everyone is happy?
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I think it's not gonna happen ever,
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because we just don't have the resources or materials.
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- I guess that in most cases,
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normal life doesn't make for a great movie.
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- Well, I mean, yeah, but mine and your lives maybe, but...
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So, right, so have you seen "The Social Network"?
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Because that is a really great movie.
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However, in the same issue,
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Zuckerberg says that a lot of it is falsified.
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Like it's not true, or like is fictionalized.
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So like, this kind of got me wondering though,
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will there ever even be a book?
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'Cause books can go into more detail, right?
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And it seems like the two books that have come out,
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kind of the biggest books that have come out,
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like the Isaacson book and the Schindler book,
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there still seems to be a lot of people
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that are unhappy with it.
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Like the Schindler book seems to have gotten
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Apple's blessing, but still people seem to not be happy.
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Like I'm just thinking at this point,
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there's never gonna be an account of Steve Jobs' life,
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which is gonna make everyone happy
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because the man isn't alive anymore to do it himself.
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- I think that the second book you referenced,
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Becoming Steve Jobs, is between those two,
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a much better book.
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But even it, there's this problem
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in telling the story, right,
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that the story is still ongoing from the Apple perspective.
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So the Islaxton book, this movie,
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Even Becoming Steve Jobs, they are weighted towards
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Steve's first time at Apple and then at Next
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and then Pixar, Pixar X is a pretty big player
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in the Becoming Steve Jobs book
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and was my favorite sections of the book.
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But telling the story of Steve Jobs' return to Apple,
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a lot of that is still locked up from a company perspective.
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A lot of people who can tell those stories
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aren't able to because they're still in them.
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And so I wouldn't say never,
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but I would say it's going to be a while.
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I mean, I do think there's an opportunity
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for 10, 15, 20 years down the road
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for a book that does interview people
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who were there with Jobs and who have been gone
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for a long time from Apple or as Apple has moved on,
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those people are more willing to talk about things.
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But right now, I'm sure there's really interesting stories
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locked up in Jobs' second time at Apple
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that no one knows because the people who are part
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of the stories just can't talk about them.
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And maybe those people will never talk.
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I don't know if someone like Phil Shiller's
00:54:29
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ever gonna have a book written about his career.
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But I do think there's an opportunity for that,
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but not anytime soon.
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And so I'm hesitant to say any more about Job's life
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or history of Apple or any of that sort of content,
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any sort of that stuff,
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until we sort of move past that era at Apple.
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And that's happening now,
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but all those same people are there, you know.
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Cook and Apple's board have done a really good job
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at keeping the executive team basically the same as under Jobs and so all those
00:55:03
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same players are still involved. Until that's not true I don't see the
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opportunity for somebody to come up with something new that is really powerful in any new way.
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Federico I want to ask you. Do you think we need this? Do we need a story of Jobs's life which is more full and has the stuff that we don't know?
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Well, it depends if you need a story or if you need to be entertained by a story.
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I guess that's what I try to ask myself.
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Do I want to know the truth or do I want to spend a couple of hours in front of a screen
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and be told a story that makes me feel good about my day or my evening?
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I think we need a story and we need more people who actually do the work necessary to document
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a person's life.
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I'm not sure we need any more entertainment about Steve Jobs.
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That's what I think.
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And again, I'm not a particularly knowledgeable movie person, but I have always been fascinated
00:56:07
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by Steve Jobs as a figure, as a businessman, as a creative, you know.
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And I guess I'm not really interested in Steve Jobs as a family man because we all have our
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own flaws and we we all make our own mistakes. I don't really feel the need to be entertained
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by the story of a man who has not a good relationship with his daughter, you know?
00:56:33
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I agree with you to a point there actually. All of the stuff about the family stuff,
00:56:42
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it's interesting in painting the fuller picture of him, but I don't know if that's something that
00:56:48
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needs to be exposed as much as it is. Like all of that stuff I don't know if it
00:56:53
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informs his work but I think that if you want to get a if
00:56:57
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you want an account on Steve Jobs you have that account because
00:57:00
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he's responsible in some part for some of the most important things to happen
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in technology and therefore shaping the world and I think a lot of that just
00:57:07
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comes from his decision making and the way that he did the work that he
00:57:11
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did and the way that he approached that and I don't know if stories about him
00:57:17
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not wanting to have anything to do with his first daughter really helps with that account.
00:57:22
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Yeah. Again, I would rather... if I wanted to hear about Steve Jobs' personal life,
00:57:33
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I would rather get that directly from the source, you know? From Lisa or from other people,
00:57:40
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not by a movie director. I think part of the problem that we're always going to have here
00:57:46
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is Jobs didn't want to share it in the first place so I don't think there's we're gonna get a ton more
00:57:51
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than this because people that truly care about him it's it's very likely that they will not share
00:57:57
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their stories so it feels like what we have like the Isaacson book that's as much as you're gonna
00:58:03
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get from a personal perspective yeah that that's how I look at it now it's like obviously his
00:58:07
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family is never gonna write a book about him like Johnny Ives never gonna write a book about him
00:58:13
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because they all care about his privacy because they cared about the man.
00:58:17
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So it feels like at this point what we have is what we're gonna get, to me anyway.
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And I think I'm okay with it, you know?
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I watched the Jobs movie with Ashton.
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I guess it was okay.
00:58:32
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If by okay you mean it's what you expect, you know, from this type of movie.
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I don't know.
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people are making a big deal here, maybe because Aaron Sorkin is a big name in the industry, I guess.
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I would like to see more books and more, you know, documents and interviews, not, you know,
00:58:55
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stories like this. That's my two cents as a non-movie expert or person in general.
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Any from what say on this? No, I think that pretty much covers it. I'm gonna go see it
00:59:05
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and maybe we can follow up if I have any interesting comments or when you guys see it, but
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but I expect mostly just to be sad.
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So we'll see how that goes.
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- When does it come out on iTunes?
00:59:18
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- I expect it will probably,
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I think it might be before the end of the year now because.
00:59:24
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- Well, 'cause if it's not gonna do well in the cinema,
00:59:26
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then they'll release it quick.
00:59:27
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- I don't go to the cinema, it's gross.
00:59:29
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- Yeah, it is gross.
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Can you guys see a world where Apple just doesn't let it
00:59:33
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in iTunes, they're like, sorry Universal or whoever.
00:59:35
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- That's an interesting thought, right?
00:59:38
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- They might say no, they could say no.
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- Could they?
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- Sure they could.
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- If that happens, it would definitely make it a follow up.
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- Yeah. - Yeah.
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- I mean that really would be like a stamp
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of disapproval from Apple.
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Like that's the biggest one I could think.
00:59:52
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That's really the strongest weapon they have against it
00:59:55
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is just saying we're not gonna sell it.
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Contrast that with the guys who wrote "Becoming Steve Jobs"
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being interviewed by John Gruber in an Apple store.
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Like you can't really get farther apart
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the way that Apple views something. A couple of executives tweeted about that
01:00:10
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book as well didn't they? They did I think Q and Schiller both actually. Yeah.
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Yeah they're the only one on Twitter. They're big Twitter users. That also
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shines a light in the opposite direction for me. It's like if it's so endorsed by
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So earlier or this week or late last week our friend Fraser Spears from the out of school
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podcast got some time with an iPad Pro at a private event in London. I'm just going
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to assume it was Myke who just put "Sci" in parentheses in the show notes.
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No, it was mine. It was yours.
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You guys seem to be sad about that. Really some really interesting tidbits of information
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that he has shared with people about that. Federica, you collected some of your favorites.
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you want to walk us through these?
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- Yeah, so in what the kids call a tweet storm these days,
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Fraser tweeted a couple of interesting details
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about the iPad Pro.
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The first one that jumps to mind is,
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he tried the iPad Pro with the pencil,
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with the stylus made by Apple,
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and he says, as many other people have said so far,
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it's got the best polymer ejection he's seen in iOS to date.
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Fraser has tried many drawing apps and silences over the years. He's probably the person who
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started the whole iPad deployment in school, the one-to-one program for pupils in a school
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in Scotland. He knows what he's talking about when it comes to iPad and drawing and giving
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accessories to iPad users. So he says that the pencil feels great, the polymer ejection
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really works as advertised. He got to try the stylus with Paper by 53 which has a couple
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of optimizations on the iPad Pro. He says that it takes advantage of the bigger screen,
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we don't know how because there's no screenshots. He also tried the pencil on a couple of Adobe
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apps and apparently it works really great. And as many other people have said, you know,
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or Disney artists it works well so that sounds exciting there's not gonna be a
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smart case for the iPad Pro there's going to be a pro size smart cover
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there's going to be the smart keyboard there's not there's not going to be a
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least initially pro version of the smart case to which I ask the question does
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anyone even remember the iPad smart case? Some people do use them unlike them like
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I think the reason, well yeah because Fraser put a little sadness emoji, I think he wants
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a smart case and I can see why for him with what he uses and what he does with iPads,
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so putting them in schools and stuff, having a case that goes all the way around with the
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smart cover functionality I guess could be really good.
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If you want to keep the device protected, that one maybe seems like the best option
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because you also get the benefit of the smart cover.
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I would never use a smart case. I worry less about about breaking my
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iPad by dropping it even though in theory it's probably easier to drop
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because like the weight and the center of gravity and stuff. I'm almost
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convinced that I will on multiple occasions flip my iPad Pro over
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accidentally. I'm holding it in the bottom corner and I hit something
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on the top and it just flips. Because I could just imagine the center of
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gravity being all kinds of crazy on a device that big, but we'll wait and see about that.
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Yeah, it's sad that the weight distribution on the iPad Pro is not as bad as you'd imagine
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given the bigger size.
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It doesn't feel as lightweight as an iPad Air 2, and it doesn't know if you're going
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to be able to hold it with one hand in between your thumb and your index finger for prolonged
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periods of time.
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Apple wants you to believe that you will be capable of doing that based on marketing images.
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I don't know what kind of hand training this Apple marketing people go through to
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shoot those photos.
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But it says it's most likely you're going to be resting the iPad Pro on your arm when
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You know, when you want to hold it upright, important maybe.
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You're just going to rest it on your arm so you can use it.
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The smart keyboard, it's more similar to the Logitech keys to go external keyboard, which
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means I think it's similar to a surface keyboard.
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So it's like there's no travel to the keys, you just press and it's not like a physical
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keyboard that you guys like.
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There's no travel here.
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It's like a single very thin surface and you just press the keys.
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like a membrane type thing.
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I know it's not that.
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I know because Apple are using those like--
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does that new butterfly switch.
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But I guess because of the covering over the top,
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it maybe even feels like it moves less.
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Yeah, that makes me sad to hear.
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I have all of this.
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And I don't know what I was expecting, but there
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are iPad keyboards out there that
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do have a clicky feel to them and do feel like real keyboards.
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And this seems like it's not that thing.
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And especially, I want to see how long it will take companies like Logitech or maybe
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Belkin to make keyboards with actual keys that connect with the smart connector to the
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I know that Logitech already has an announcement, I haven't seen any by other companies.
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So I'm curious to see how long it will take third party manufacturers to take advantage
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of that piece of hardware.
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Speaking of software, it says, as we suspected, there's no change to the springboard.
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So the home screen of the iPad Pro is a bigger version of the traditional iPad home screen.
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The only change is that instead of 6 or 7 apps that you see in the command tab switcher,
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you get 8 on the iPad Pro.
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So I guess, yay for bigger screen.
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There's no other change, really.
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The layout of the apps is the same, folders are the same, control center, I'm interested
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in seeing how it will scale in landscape mode.
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We mentioned this a couple of episodes ago, we were talking about the iPad Pro.
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I think there will have to be changes to the home screen there, you know, to fully take
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advantage of the bigger screen.
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Already the iPad home screen feels like a wasted opportunity compared to the iPhone.
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I can imagine on the Pro, again, Control Center, I want to see what they do there.
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Because I haven't seen any screenshots or videos with that specific portion of iOS.
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I think the thing that surprises me the most about this is that you don't just do the obvious,
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which is just put more icons on the home screen.
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Or something, I mean...
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Something, exactly.
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Yeah, like I know I'd like to see more stuff done with it, but like, you know, the obvious
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one is just you've got the space put the icons on at least rather than just
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making the gaps between them bigger. Yeah I mean compared to an iPad mini it being
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the same really is pretty ridiculous I mean the iPad Air 2 already that home
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screen feels like you said better go wasted in a way I was really hoping they
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would do more with that and you know maybe it's that it's coming out with
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iOS I guess 9.2 so it is sort of mid-cycle for an iOS release and they're
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not, you know, they're not gonna drastically change it at this point, so I
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guess, fingers crossed, for next year, which is like everyone who follows Apple
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like their favorite saying, like maybe next year they'll fix it. Yeah, I mean I
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think, I think maybe this is too early to start talking about this, but you'd kind
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of expect, and I know Federico you were kind of going along these lines in
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your review, that iOS 10 should be another big change, because it's 10. Yeah.
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I know it's maybe silly just because it's 10 but historically 10 has been an occasion
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for Apple to introduce changes.
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Like if you're gonna do something big anywhere.
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They replaced their entire operating system on the Mac.
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Yeah, twice!
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Because Mac OS X and then with Yosemite they changed the whole interface.
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They like the round number.
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What else do we have here?
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So multitasking is going to be more comfortable on the iPad Pro because as we also imagined,
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using two apps at the same time kind of feels like having two iPads in portrait mode at
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the same time.
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So it makes sense.
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Bigger iPad, bigger apps in multitasking, more comfortable to use because you can see
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more of both apps, not necessarily just one app. So I'm excited to see how it works there.
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Federico, I have a quick question for you.
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Have you ever used two iPads at the same time?
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You know, actually I have.
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And I'll tell you, actually it's very nice timing for this question, Myke, because today
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Apple will announce their fiscal results. There's a Q4 2015 earnings call and I remember
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last year, or maybe two years ago, I didn't have Workflow on my iPad, the app for iOS
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automation. And so I used Silvia's iPad to update my WordPress article on one iPad and
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do the image conversion and upload on another iPad.
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That was before multitasking, before extensions,
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before workflow.
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So I actually pulled a Dave Morin
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and I used two iPads at the same time, you know?
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- That is fantastic.
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- Now, of course, with multitasking, it's just perfect
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because I can use Excel with workflow at the same time.
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So I can pull in my charts, upload them,
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convert them with the extension, it's just amazing.
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And I will do that tonight.
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- Can we talk about that a little bit next week,
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because I'm interested about why you use Excel and stuff,
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but we don't have the time for it this week.
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- Okay, sure, sure.
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- When you said that, I was like, I wonder why Excel?
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So I'm gonna put that in for next week.
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So I just wanna conclude with Fraser as a comment
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on what you expect my reaction to be for the iPad Pro.
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And he says "You're gonna flip for this device".
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That's his comment.
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I kinda wanna know from YouTube because I don't know what to think here anymore.
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I guess I just cannot wait to try one.
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And it's not that the iPad R2 doesn't satisfy me anymore because I can get work done on
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a daily basis and it's been to date, the R2, my most used iOS device ever.
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The things that I've done on the iPad R2 I haven't done on any other iPhone or iPad before.
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So I'm super super happy with the iPad R2.
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But I think with the Pro I can do a lot more, especially for multi-casking and this bigger
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kind of canvas idea.
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But I'm concerned about the portability, holding the iPad with my hands, which I also do a
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lot when I walk around the house or work from, I don't know, when I'm waiting at the doctor's
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office or I'm waiting in the car and I'm concerned there, that it's just too big.
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I kind of want to know from you two if you've been thinking about the Pro, and especially
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you Myke, because you've kind of been doing stuff on the iPad lately.
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What do you think?
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So whilst at Release Notes, people were talking to me about you and the iPad Pro.
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That was the thing.
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And I remain, I know that you don't think you're going to do this, but I still believe
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that you will be a two iPad man after the iPad Pro.
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I genuinely feel like you will have the iPad Pro at home and you will take a small iPad
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like a mini with you out into the world for portability.
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Because I understand in what Fraser is saying, just looking at that research, you're going
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to flip, you're going to go crazy for this thing.
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Because you've been so far out of the mindset of like a home computer and a travel computer
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for so long now because your main computer has been fine for travelling with, but the
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iPad Pro is potentially going to be a little bit too big for you to take to the beach.
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But you're still going to want to do work at the beach, and you're also going to love
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the iPad Pro.
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So I continue to put money down, and this will be the greatest Myke was right, if after
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a couple of months you end up with like a mini or something.
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The closer we get to this, the more excited I get about the idea of it, because I tell
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you are. I love my iPad so much now. Like so much. Multitasking has made it so
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amazing. I love it. I really really love it. And I and Chrome now has
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multitasking even though their implementation. I wish they did slightly
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differently. I don't like the tab stay on the top. It takes up too much of the real
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estate but I know why they're doing it. They're kind of stuck but it's fine.
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Give me Google Docs man. All I want is Google Docs. Just give me Google Docs and
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and it's game over, I'll be able to do so much work on that iPad.
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Like all of my show prep, I can just see me doing it on the iPad
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because I'll be able to do it from wherever I want,
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and then to be sitting in front of my computer all the time.
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Because I sit in front of my computer for so many hours of the day, right?
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Recording and editing.
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It's nice to be able to do that stuff away, and I can use my laptop,
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but then if I'm using my laptop, I kind of feel like I should just be on the iMac.
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Right, so I like doing that kind of stuff on iOS. I like Tweetbot and Slack
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side-by-side. I love all of that stuff. So the idea of being able to use these apps
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in basically full-size mode, that really excites me, I have to say. So I'm very
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very intrigued for this device. And Steven, whilst we were at release notes, I
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heard you matter at least once or twice that you were becoming excited about it.
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Yeah I think like like you guys iOS 9 has changed the game and I can do more
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in my iPad but one of the reasons I still don't is that the split screen is
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still is still pretty snug depending on what you're doing and you're still kind
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of doing some juggling in and out of at least I am multitasking modes and so
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yeah I think that it would be interesting to see and I am interested
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in the pencil even though I'm not an artist by any means but I'm interested
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see how they how they do it so I think I'm where you were a couple of weeks ago
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Myke that I'm definitely willing to pick one up to try it out and the question
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will be is something that I keep and incorporate in my life you know the most
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most of the time no matter how good my intentions are my pad air 2 is still
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more consumption and I wonder if the screen size and the power will be what
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tipped that in the other direction for me so I'm interested in trying it I just
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I just don't know if it'll be something that sticks around, if that makes sense.
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Any more interesting tidbits from Federico that you found that you like?
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I was reading through his tweets again last night.
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Another one was, of course, it has a work feel to it, the iPad Pro.
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And I guess it, of course, it makes sense because it's a bigger iPad with a keyboard
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and it's basically a MacBook and he also says you're going to use this more at a desk instead
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of holding the iPad and walking around, which is what concerns me and what leads you to
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think that I will end up with two iPads. I really don't know what to think anymore.
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It's one of those things, ok just let me use one and then I will decide. Because in theory,
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Awesome! I can use two apps at the same time, they're bigger, they're more powerful, the speakers, you know, they're louder
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I can listen to music better on the iPad Pro and I'm no artist, you know
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So I don't know if I will buy a pencil because I every time I try to buy iPad Sile
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I feel bad, you know, like I can barely draw my name and
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You know, I just I just suck at drawings
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I will probably buy the smart keyboard because I want to try it, but I don't know if it'll be for me
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I just want to get the device and the model that I'm considering is of course the the top of the line
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Wi-Fi and cellular because I mean I need my 4G LTE and
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It's it'll probably cost a thousand euros and maybe more
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We don't know when it's coming. They said November, but we don't know anything else at this point
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I guess we'll just keep waiting now. We'll see
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It's bigger. It's I guess it's better
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Software and power, you know
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Seeing more at the same time that that that's the kind of stuff that intrigues me
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Portability and you know the weight and holding the iPad which is an essential aspect for me
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I don't know how it'll work out. I really don't want to be the guy with two iPads, Myke.
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You're gonna be that guy, I'm telling you.
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No, you gotta talk to Sylvia for me about that because I cannot have this discussion
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with her, you know, two iPads.
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She'll just ban me from
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from her household.
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So now your plan is, you're listening to it, you're thinking it sounds like a good idea
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so you want me to convince your girlfriend.
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Is that what you're saying?
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No, I'm saying if it's the only possible solution to keep me happy you will have to talk to her for me
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Okay, I can do that. It's all about the Moneta. Yeah
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Try that Myke that's a good idea. I'll try that. Do you have anything else you wanted to mention?
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I hope it's not the end of November, but maybe mid-november
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Because the weight is killing me
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That's what you'll be saying after you get one as well
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Yes, thank you, let's wrap up that's the end of this week's episode everyone if you want to find our show notes
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You can go and head over to relay.fm/connected/63
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I was really proud of that joke, by the way
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If you want to find all of us online as a couple of places you can do that
01:21:51
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Oh, we should mention Steven has a Nexus. He just got a
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new Nexus. What one did you get? The 5x? So we're gonna talk about it a
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little bit next week. If you have any questions about that you should send them
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in with the hashtag #ismhnexus which Stephen has chosen. We can tweet about
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that as well because now that I started the wrap-up of the show I don't
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know how many people continue listening so I guess we'll find out, right, if they
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continue to tweet. If you do listen to the end of the show, like if you're
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listening to me right now, just tweet at Stephen anyway and tell him.
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He really likes to hear from you all.
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And if you want to do that you can tweet @ismh and you'll get the lovely Mr. Steven Hackett.
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If you'd like to find Federico he's @vittici, V-I-T-I-C-C-I and I am @imike, I-M-Y-K-E.
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Steven also writes over at 512pixels.net and co-hosts Liftoff on Relay FM.
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Federico writes at maxstories.net and co-hosts Virtual with me on Relay FM.
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I host many other shows.
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You can find all those shows and all the great shows at Relay.fm.
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Thanks so much for our sponsors this week.
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The good people over at Braintree, Igloo and Warby Parker.
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And we'll be back next time.
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Until then, say goodbye guys.
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Adios, Erci.