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00:00:02 ◼   ► From Relay FM, it's connected, episode number 26.

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00:00:23 ◼   ► My name is Myke Hurley and I have the pleasure, as always,

00:00:26 ◼   ► of being joined by Mr. Federico Vittucci.

00:00:28 ◼   ► Hi, Federico.

00:00:30 ◼   ► - Buona sera, Myke.

00:00:31 ◼   ► - Hello.

00:00:32 ◼   ► - Hi.

00:00:33 ◼   ► - And howdy, Mr. Steven Hackett.

00:00:35 ◼   ► - Hey, boys.

00:00:37 ◼   ► - How you doing?

00:00:38 ◼   ► - I'm good.

00:00:39 ◼   ► How's Europe doing?

00:00:41 ◼   ► Europe's good?

00:00:42 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's dark, but it's fine.

00:00:44 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's fine.

00:00:45 ◼   ► - It's midnight.

00:00:46 ◼   ► So I guess it is.

00:00:47 ◼   ► - Steven, do you have snow in Tennessee?

00:00:50 ◼   ► - No.

00:00:53 ◼   ► Memphis maybe gets like an average of like

00:00:56 ◼   ► an inch and a half a year or something.

00:00:58 ◼   ► We get very little snow here.

00:00:59 ◼   ► But when we do, because we don't know what to deal with it,

00:01:02 ◼   ► everything shuts down and people freak out

00:01:05 ◼   ► because there's an inch of snow on the ground

00:01:07 ◼   ► and they can't go anywhere or drive.

00:01:09 ◼   ► We're really wimpy compared to our friends in the Northeast.

00:01:12 ◼   ► Somewhere Dan Morin is just like

00:01:13 ◼   ► smashing his phone against the wall listening to this.

00:01:15 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:01:18 ◼   ► So yeah.

00:01:19 ◼   ► - Michael, what about the UK?

00:01:22 ◼   ► Do you get snow in the UK?

00:01:23 ◼   ► - Very similar to Memphis.

00:01:26 ◼   ► Over the last few years we have had snow. We've not had any this year, so I expect that there probably won't be any now, because it usually has happened by now.

00:01:34 ◼   ► But when we do get snow, like snow that settles, like maybe a few inches or whatever, all of London closes. It's just a disaster.

00:01:43 ◼   ► Just closes.

00:01:45 ◼   ► There's always headlines in the news, like how many millions of pounds were lost in the economy, because basically every business stops working.

00:01:54 ◼   ► except relay. That's just 20 dollars though, so no big deal. Is the dollar that strong?

00:02:01 ◼   ► That doesn't feel right. I wish, I wish, I wish the dollar was that strong. It would work well for you.

00:02:08 ◼   ► Oh it would be great for me. I'm like, I'm now in that very small group of people in the UK

00:02:14 ◼   ► that wants the dollar to get stronger than the pound. There's not many of us, I am one of those

00:02:19 ◼   ► people. So you guys remember last week I told you about the gladiator movie and

00:02:25 ◼   ► and the guy that I that I knew was in the movie. He was the son. He was the son of the

00:02:32 ◼   ► of the gladiator of Maximus and so I told you that his brother now is in a band and so I was

00:02:40 ◼   ► just watching the band on television because there's a in Italy we have this sort of

00:02:45 ◼   ► national music contest which is called the festival of Sanremo. It's a town in the north

00:02:52 ◼   ► of Italy and so his brother was playing with his band on television. That was pretty cool. We used

00:02:59 ◼   ► to like when I was in high school and I was in my band, I'm sure Myke that you remember my band.

00:03:05 ◼   ► Yes, you shared a couple of songs once and so I used to play together with this guy. We would go

00:03:13 ◼   ► go to parties and we would like drink a little too much and then play guitar. So now the

00:03:20 ◼   ► guy's on television and I'm on relay talking to Myke and Steven. Quite different roads

00:03:26 ◼   ► we've taken.

00:03:27 ◼   ► Was that in the show last week or was that after the show? I can't remember.

00:03:31 ◼   ► I don't know, I think I was on the show. I asked you about the name of the Maximus.

00:03:36 ◼   ► Yeah, no I know we were talking about it as the three of us, I just can't remember if

00:03:40 ◼   ► it's in the episode.

00:03:42 ◼   ► I also, I also, I watched the Gladiator on TV.

00:03:46 ◼   ► Still a super great movie.

00:03:48 ◼   ► Good stuff.

00:03:49 ◼   ► Should we do some follow up?

00:03:52 ◼   ► The follow up is short this week.

00:03:53 ◼   ► I think that we broke everyone's hearts when we ended the old show notes, or browsers and

00:04:00 ◼   ► old show notes.

00:04:02 ◼   ► Good grief.

00:04:03 ◼   ► You know, the thing that we did, when people...

00:04:05 ◼   ► We finished show notes, if I remember.

00:04:07 ◼   ► Yeah, show notes are done.

00:04:09 ◼   ► And browsers don't exist anymore.

00:04:11 ◼   ► Although it was funny, even throughout last week, people who hadn't listened to the show

00:04:15 ◼   ► yet, we got some more emails and tweets like, "No, that's done."

00:04:23 ◼   ► But we do have a couple pieces of follow-up we want to talk about.

00:04:26 ◼   ► The first one's not really so much follow-up, but sort of like a shout-out.

00:04:30 ◼   ► Follow-out, remember?

00:04:31 ◼   ► This is how it works.

00:04:32 ◼   ► I'm not familiar with that show.

00:04:34 ◼   ► We follow-up on previous shows, we follow-out the things that are unrelated to other shows.

00:04:39 ◼   ► We're working with this, we've got to adopt this, this can be our thing.

00:04:43 ◼   ► This is new terminology?

00:04:45 ◼   ► You've not been listening to Upgrade, yes it is.

00:04:47 ◼   ► I told you that I don't listen to podcasts.

00:04:49 ◼   ► I thought you were going to say "I don't listen to Upgrade".

00:04:52 ◼   ► I can't!

00:04:53 ◼   ► Life in the heart.

00:04:54 ◼   ► I don't listen to podcasts much because I just don't have the time, too many podcasts.

00:04:59 ◼   ► I talk to you directly, I don't need to listen to you much.

00:05:02 ◼   ► Well okay then.

00:05:03 ◼   ► Sorry, I'm just behind, come on, give me a hard time for this.

00:05:07 ◼   ► No it's okay.

00:05:08 ◼   ► basically Jason coined a term for if you are talking about a podcast

00:05:13 ◼   ► that is not your podcast and you're either and you're like following up on

00:05:19 ◼   ► that show we call it follow out because it's out to another show it's got

00:05:24 ◼   ► nothing to do with us but we're talking about it anyway it has something to do

00:05:28 ◼   ► with you it does have something to do with me because yesterday you were on Mac break weekly episode 441

00:05:35 ◼   ► I was, imagine that.

00:05:37 ◼   ► It's crazy. I remember like, I don't know, like

00:05:40 ◼   ► 2006, 2007, like early on, listening to MacBreak Weekly, and now you're on it, which is super cool.

00:05:47 ◼   ► It's a great episode. I finished it up this morning. Good.

00:05:50 ◼   ► Thank you.

00:05:51 ◼   ► Your face looks great on video, Myke.

00:05:55 ◼   ► Thank you.

00:05:56 ◼   ► Especially the beard looks amazing.

00:05:58 ◼   ► Oh, it was trimmed. I went and had it professionally trimmed. Not for that show, but I did have it trimmed.

00:06:04 ◼   ► Fancy, nice. I like it. I like you, Myke.

00:06:08 ◼   ► You look great on video.

00:06:12 ◼   ► Thank you, buddy.

00:06:13 ◼   ► Genuine opinion. I'm a video cast reviewer.

00:06:18 ◼   ► Recording video shows, I mean, I've done a couple now.

00:06:22 ◼   ► It's very different. It's very, very different.

00:06:27 ◼   ► There's so many things that you have to think about and do that you don't usually have to think about or do.

00:06:33 ◼   ► You know?

00:06:33 ◼   ► Yeah, 'cause you never know when the camera's

00:06:39 ◼   ► gonna be on you.

00:06:40 ◼   ► Like, it just is.

00:06:42 ◼   ► Like, all of a sudden, you can see yourself

00:06:46 ◼   ► 'cause you see the feed.

00:06:47 ◼   ► Like, they give you back the feed in Skype.

00:06:49 ◼   ► But you're kind of like, you're never 100%.

00:06:54 ◼   ► Like, you know, you never know if you're gonna see it.

00:06:56 ◼   ► It's very weird.

00:06:57 ◼   ► Video is very weird.

00:06:58 ◼   ► It totally changes things as well.

00:07:00 ◼   ► Yeah, just very peculiar.

00:07:03 ◼   ► But it's enjoyable.

00:07:04 ◼   ► I like doing it when I do it, but I don't want to do it for any of my shows.

00:07:09 ◼   ► Right.

00:07:10 ◼   ► I mean, because normally you podcast, people might not know this, but you podcast in like

00:07:14 ◼   ► a speed skating suit.

00:07:16 ◼   ► I'm actually wearing an ATP t-shirt right now.

00:07:19 ◼   ► What?

00:07:20 ◼   ► Why?

00:07:21 ◼   ► Why would you?

00:07:22 ◼   ► I don't know.

00:07:23 ◼   ► So people should go check it out.

00:07:26 ◼   ► The link is in the show notes, which can be found in any modern browser at a URL that

00:07:32 ◼   ► that Myke will now describe.

00:07:34 ◼   ► - You can go to relay.fm/connected/26,

00:07:38 ◼   ► where you will find the link

00:07:39 ◼   ► for MacBreak Weekly episode 441, which is insane.

00:07:43 ◼   ► 441.

00:07:45 ◼   ► - So crazy.

00:07:47 ◼   ► - So connected is my same age this week.

00:07:51 ◼   ► It's 26.

00:07:52 ◼   ► - Hooray!

00:07:53 ◼   ► - Yeah, in about 10 episodes,

00:07:55 ◼   ► it's gonna be your same age, Steven.

00:07:57 ◼   ► - I just turned 29 like two weeks ago.

00:08:01 ◼   ► I wanna check this now.

00:08:02 ◼   ► - We are basically almost two years in

00:08:04 ◼   ► and you're still telling this fake story

00:08:06 ◼   ► about your birthing.

00:08:07 ◼   ► - Episode one of MacBreak Weekly was on August 12th, 2006.

00:08:13 ◼   ► - That's before the iPhone.

00:08:15 ◼   ► Wow.

00:08:16 ◼   ► - That's, yeah.

00:08:17 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:08:17 ◼   ► - That's when like iPod rumors were big.

00:08:19 ◼   ► - I remember listening to the show, like leading up to,

00:08:23 ◼   ► and then after like the iPhone was released,

00:08:25 ◼   ► that was when Merlin was on the show.

00:08:27 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:08:29 ◼   ► It's crazy.

00:08:29 ◼   ► - Nice.

00:08:30 ◼   ► We talked a little bit last week about Microsoft and their new Outlook app, which of course

00:08:36 ◼   ► is actually another app that they acquired.

00:08:39 ◼   ► And there was rumor that broke right, I think it was right before we recorded that they

00:08:43 ◼   ► had purchased Sunrise and today Microsoft and the Sunrise development team confirmed

00:08:49 ◼   ► it.

00:08:50 ◼   ► So Federico, you seem excited about this.

00:08:54 ◼   ► I am because Microsoft is clearly late to mobile devices in general but they've been

00:09:02 ◼   ► trying to catch up.

00:09:05 ◼   ► They're doing Office on smartphones and tablets now, they have integrations with Dropbox,

00:09:12 ◼   ► they bought Accomplia and they turned it into a free Outlook app that works with all email

00:09:18 ◼   ► services except IMAP.

00:09:20 ◼   ► So they've been trying to have the same level of basic functionality of competitors in this

00:09:29 ◼   ► space.

00:09:30 ◼   ► And now Sunrise is a great great calendar app for multiple platforms.

00:09:35 ◼   ► That's really the point.

00:09:36 ◼   ► They're not trying to...

00:09:38 ◼   ► They're not buying Fantastical.

00:09:39 ◼   ► They're not trying to buy iOS only apps.

00:09:42 ◼   ► They want to buy cross-platform stuff because they need to do apps for iOS and Android,

00:09:50 ◼   ► so it makes sense.

00:09:52 ◼   ► Sunrise is a great calendar app.

00:09:54 ◼   ► It's got integrations with third-party services like Todoist, Evernote, Foursquare, Twitter,

00:10:01 ◼   ► Soundkick, Asana, if anybody uses that.

00:10:05 ◼   ► There's something they call the Sunrise Platform, where if you have an API, you can make sure

00:10:14 ◼   ► that your service shows up in Sunrise.

00:10:17 ◼   ► So they bought this calendar service that has vision for a calendar that shows you more

00:10:23 ◼   ► stuff than just calendar events.

00:10:27 ◼   ► And I think it's smart for Microsoft to buy...

00:10:31 ◼   ► Because clearly at this point they either come up with stuff of their own quickly or

00:10:38 ◼   ► they buy something that already exists and that it's pretty good.

00:10:43 ◼   ► And they're buying great apps.

00:10:45 ◼   ► So I think that's a...

00:10:46 ◼   ► At least they're spending their money right.

00:10:48 ◼   ► That's my argument.

00:10:49 ◼   ► So smart.

00:10:51 ◼   ► This is what Marissa Meyer did when she went to Yahoo.

00:10:57 ◼   ► - Exactly, yes. - If you don't spend

00:10:58 ◼   ► millions of dollars and hundreds and hundreds

00:11:00 ◼   ► and hundreds of man hours, thousands of man hours,

00:11:03 ◼   ► just buy, like you've got the money,

00:11:05 ◼   ► just buy small teams because you get good apps

00:11:09 ◼   ► and you get really smart people that made those apps

00:11:12 ◼   ► that can help drive the products.

00:11:13 ◼   ► Like, it's genius, it's genius.

00:11:16 ◼   ► It's not like an incredibly complex strategy,

00:11:18 ◼   ► but I think it's a very, very effective one.

00:11:21 ◼   ► 'Cause if you buy apps like Accompli

00:11:23 ◼   ► that are already well respected

00:11:25 ◼   ► and don't do too much to them,

00:11:27 ◼   ► you then become Microsoft with a well-respected app,

00:11:30 ◼   ► like on iOS.

00:11:31 ◼   ► I think the problem they're actually starting to face now

00:11:35 ◼   ► is the apps on iPhone and Android

00:11:39 ◼   ► are probably better than the ones on Windows Phone.

00:11:42 ◼   ► Like the Outlook app on iPhone is probably better now

00:11:46 ◼   ► than the Outlook app on the Windows Phone.

00:11:49 ◼   ► - I'm not sure.

00:11:52 ◼   ► Is there going to be a Sunrise app for Windows Phone?

00:11:56 ◼   ► - Well, I don't think it will be called.

00:11:57 ◼   ► I think it will form part of Outlook, I suppose,

00:12:01 ◼   ► what they're planning on doing here, right?

00:12:02 ◼   ► I mean, have they said,

00:12:03 ◼   ► 'cause they didn't keep a Compley a Compley, did they?

00:12:05 ◼   ► They rebranded it. - Nope, yes.

00:12:07 ◼   ► - So-- - And it became Outlook.

00:12:09 ◼   ► - So I don't know, they might call it Microsoft Calendar

00:12:11 ◼   ► or something like that, or Outlook Calendar,

00:12:13 ◼   ► 'cause Outlook is a calendar and email app technically.

00:12:17 ◼   ► - That's my question also in the small link

00:12:22 ◼   ► that I put on Mac stories, is there going to be,

00:12:25 ◼   ► because there's a calendar view in Outlook,

00:12:27 ◼   ► in the Outlook app for iPhone and iPad.

00:12:30 ◼   ► So is there going to be some sort of integration

00:12:32 ◼   ► between Outlook and Sunrise?

00:12:34 ◼   ► It's going to be called Outlook calendar,

00:12:36 ◼   ► just calendar for Outlook.

00:12:39 ◼   ► - They may-- - The brand looks confusing.

00:12:42 ◼   ► I don't know.

00:12:42 ◼   ► - They may just no longer be a Sunrise app

00:12:45 ◼   ► and like the functionality might be rolled

00:12:48 ◼   ► into the Outlook app.

00:12:49 ◼   ► - That's my thought.

00:12:51 ◼   ► Probably, yeah.

00:12:53 ◼   ► - I mean, you can have a calendar app inside Outlook

00:12:56 ◼   ► and then another one, I don't know.

00:12:58 ◼   ► I think we're gonna see sunrise as we know it today

00:13:02 ◼   ► sort of go away and--

00:13:03 ◼   ► - Exist, exist. - So that's a filter back up.

00:13:05 ◼   ► - Yeah, interesting.

00:13:07 ◼   ► Maybe they just wanted really smart calendar people.

00:13:09 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:13:12 ◼   ► I think it's good, I agree with you, Federico,

00:13:14 ◼   ► that I think Microsoft is doing some smart stuff,

00:13:17 ◼   ► but I want them to...

00:13:21 ◼   ► I want to see how this plays out long term.

00:13:23 ◼   ► They're doing some good stuff right now on iOS, but when Google first started with the

00:13:29 ◼   ► Gmail app and the Maps app and stuff, they weren't super great and now they're actually

00:13:33 ◼   ► for the most part pretty good.

00:13:34 ◼   ► It took them a little time to get there.

00:13:37 ◼   ► So I'm curious if Microsoft will take that same path where you could be using a lot of

00:13:43 ◼   ► Microsoft apps and services on iOS and still feel like a first class citizen.

00:13:48 ◼   ► I hope they do.

00:13:49 ◼   ► I think it's good to have options and I think they, uh,

00:13:51 ◼   ► like we talked about last week,

00:13:52 ◼   ► they just need to really sort of recapture the consumer base that they've lost

00:13:57 ◼   ► in the mobile space. So yeah.

00:14:01 ◼   ► Yeah. What I'm interested in seeing is like if they go the Google route,

00:14:05 ◼   ► like you now feel like you're using good iOS apps,

00:14:09 ◼   ► but not, but iOS apps that don't feel like iOS apps. Do you know what I mean?

00:14:14 ◼   ► Like when Google first started out with their iOS apps,

00:14:17 ◼   ► like they felt like what the iOS apps at the time,

00:14:21 ◼   ► but now they do feel and look more like Android apps on iOS.

00:14:26 ◼   ► Even though, you know, they've got that,

00:14:27 ◼   ► they've got a totally different design language.

00:14:29 ◼   ► And I wonder if we'd see Microsoft going down that route

00:14:32 ◼   ► because Microsoft visually for their own platforms

00:14:34 ◼   ► have a very different design.

00:14:36 ◼   ► And I wonder if like they wanna get in now,

00:14:39 ◼   ► but like has to be moved down the road,

00:14:41 ◼   ► I wonder if it would change.

00:14:42 ◼   ► I don't think that's a bad thing

00:14:43 ◼   ► 'cause I actually really like the material design

00:14:45 ◼   ► and I like the way that they've brought that over to iOS, except the background on Chrome

00:14:51 ◼   ► for iOS, the weird background, I don't know why it's there, I know why it's there, it

00:14:55 ◼   ► looks weird.

00:14:56 ◼   ► But I like the way that Maps looks and stuff like that, so I'm interested to see if Microsoft

00:15:01 ◼   ► keep their own visual identity and move that into these apps or if they're happy to keep

00:15:05 ◼   ► them separate.

00:15:07 ◼   ► I wonder about the endgame here.

00:15:11 ◼   ► Because Google and iOS, they can make apps and even if you don't buy an Android device,

00:15:17 ◼   ► Google is fine because they're just "ok, you use my apps, and I get your data, I collect

00:15:22 ◼   ► your personal information, and I make money anyway".

00:15:26 ◼   ► But Microsoft, what do they want to do?

00:15:29 ◼   ► Because they have fine iOS apps at this point.

00:15:34 ◼   ► And I'm not buying Windows phone devices, and by "me" I refer to the user in general.

00:15:41 ◼   ► I don't want to buy Windows phone devices.

00:15:43 ◼   ► I like Microsoft's apps on iOS,

00:15:47 ◼   ► but am I supposed to pay for Microsoft services

00:15:51 ◼   ► at this point?

00:15:52 ◼   ► Is this how they want to use the apps for to make me pay?

00:15:56 ◼   ► Or do they want to collect personal information about me?

00:15:59 ◼   ► Because information doesn't seem to be

00:16:01 ◼   ► Microsoft's business in the way that it is for Google.

00:16:06 ◼   ► So is this a way to make me pay for Office,

00:16:09 ◼   ► to make me pay for OneDrive?

00:16:10 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:16:11 ◼   ► - I think it's either to have you personally

00:16:16 ◼   ► want to pay for Office or for you to continue to be happy

00:16:20 ◼   ► using Microsoft products in your workplace.

00:16:23 ◼   ► So like, basically Microsoft either need to sell it to you

00:16:28 ◼   ► or they need to sell it to your employer.

00:16:29 ◼   ► And if, again, we go down the bring your own device route

00:16:32 ◼   ► because people wanna use their own devices

00:16:35 ◼   ► because they're not happy with the other software

00:16:36 ◼   ► and services that they're using, maybe Microsoft products.

00:16:39 ◼   ► So if they can try and change that, and they can make you happy to use Microsoft products,

00:16:44 ◼   ► either you buy Word for yourself, or you're happy to use it at work.

00:16:48 ◼   ► That's the way I see it, or what I think is there.

00:16:51 ◼   ► Because they are saying now, they are using the term "Windows as a service".

00:16:56 ◼   ► That's what they see themselves moving towards, like they are a service provider.

00:17:01 ◼   ► Do you think Microsoft can make money from personal users who don't need apps in the

00:17:07 ◼   ► workplaces just work for, you know, they just use apps personally?

00:17:11 ◼   ► I think so.

00:17:12 ◼   ► They don't.

00:17:13 ◼   ► I think so.

00:17:14 ◼   ► I don't think any of their current apps are the apps that would do that.

00:17:16 ◼   ► I think they need to think about some different things.

00:17:18 ◼   ► But if Microsoft can continue to sell to the workplace, that's all they need to do to make

00:17:23 ◼   ► a ton of money.

00:17:24 ◼   ► Because every business in the world, right?

00:17:27 ◼   ► They pretty much every single business should or will come into a point in their time where

00:17:33 ◼   ► they will need Office.

00:17:35 ◼   ► I had to buy Office within like two weeks of starting Relay because we received a contract

00:17:40 ◼   ► in the Microsoft Office document file, like in Word.

00:17:44 ◼   ► So it's like, well, there's nothing I can do about it if I need to keep the formatting

00:17:49 ◼   ► of this document.

00:17:50 ◼   ► So I bought Office.

00:17:52 ◼   ► Oh yeah, for sure.

00:17:53 ◼   ► I mean, I'm using Outlook every day.

00:17:56 ◼   ► I keep Office on my iPad because I need Excel for how it creates charts and graphs.

00:18:02 ◼   ► I'm just wondering, I'm not paying Microsoft any money. I don't think they're collecting...

00:18:06 ◼   ► I mean, they are collecting data about me, but they don't show me ads or whatever. I

00:18:11 ◼   ► don't use Bing, I don't use Outlook websites or that kind of stuff. I'm just wondering

00:18:17 ◼   ► if they... I mean, because the app strategy needs to change, I guess, at some point. Because

00:18:24 ◼   ► I'm... again, they have Dropbox features, so I'm not supposed to pay for OneDrive, because

00:18:30 ◼   ► I can just use Dropbox. So I wonder if maybe down the road they will add more paid features

00:18:37 ◼   ► to Outlook to entice me to pay more as a personal user instead of as a business owner or as

00:18:45 ◼   ► a team manager.

00:18:46 ◼   ► Yeah, I agree. Or there will be something where it will be like, this is great, but

00:18:51 ◼   ► if you use OneDrive rather than Dropbox, you'll get X, Y, and Z, which is more awesome. And

00:18:56 ◼   ► then you'll be like, this makes sense.

00:18:58 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah. Anyway, we got lots to cover today. That was just... I don't know where that topic

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00:22:16 ◼   ► All right, topic zero this week is a computer I have sitting next to me that is not, as

00:22:27 ◼   ► you might mock me for endlessly, a some sort of old power Mac with weird ports on the back.

00:22:36 ◼   ► It's not that.

00:22:37 ◼   ► Okay.

00:22:38 ◼   ► Oh, we could do that.

00:22:39 ◼   ► We could do like old Mac of the week.

00:22:41 ◼   ► No one would listen.

00:22:42 ◼   ► No, no, no, no, no.

00:22:43 ◼   ► Please go ahead.

00:22:44 ◼   ► Please, please no. Please, please don't talk about that. Whatever you do, please don't do this stuff.

00:22:56 ◼   ► Maybe like a month ago we talked about the Chromebook a little bit and we set a

00:23:00 ◼   ► challenge out that I would use a Chromebook for, there was some

00:23:06 ◼   ► disagreement but it's sort of roughly like internet work stuff, so relay stuff

00:23:11 ◼   ► I've done some 512 stuff on it. So I kind of had a few thoughts about the Chromebook in general

00:23:17 ◼   ► and about the one I have here and then the chat room who's listening live has asked some questions

00:23:23 ◼   ► that I'm going to answer and then very sort of threateningly in the show notes someone has

00:23:29 ◼   ► written "Federico has questions" so I'm a little afraid. I wrote that myself. I talked about myself

00:23:35 ◼   ► in third person in the channels.

00:23:38 ◼   ► - Yeah, well you have to 'cause you don't know who said it.

00:23:40 ◼   ► - Just says I have questions.

00:23:43 ◼   ► I like that one.

00:23:43 ◼   ► - So the, so I have been using the Acer C720

00:23:50 ◼   ► which is like 200 bucks on Amazon Prime.

00:23:58 ◼   ► Pretty hard to argue with that.

00:23:59 ◼   ► A little 11.6 inch computer.

00:24:01 ◼   ► So kind of like, you know, MacBook Air sized.

00:24:04 ◼   ► It's been really interesting for some reasons that I didn't really foresee.

00:24:13 ◼   ► So the general kind of, if you're not familiar, a Chromebook is basically a laptop with like

00:24:19 ◼   ► the Chrome browser attached to it.

00:24:23 ◼   ► It's really about it.

00:24:24 ◼   ► It has local storage as you can download things to it and you can, it does a lot of cool stuff

00:24:29 ◼   ► with Google Drive, just keep that offline if your internet connection goes out and that

00:24:33 ◼   ► sort of thing. But more or less it is a browser hooked up to a keyboard. Which is

00:24:39 ◼   ► a little weird.

00:24:40 ◼   ► You know we've spoken a lot in the past about sort of our love of like native

00:24:47 ◼   ► applications and I definitely would much prefer to use something like mail.app

00:24:52 ◼   ► over gmail on the web and especially if you have like multiple accounts and

00:24:57 ◼   ► everything doing that all in the browser is strange. But in saying that it's

00:25:02 ◼   ► important like I am NOT an average user by any stretch of the imagination. I

00:25:06 ◼   ► think most people I see with even with Macs like they're opening up their

00:25:10 ◼   ► MacBook Air and they're going to Chrome and they're doing everything in Chrome

00:25:13 ◼   ► and for that sort of user a Chromebook actually is a really interesting product

00:25:17 ◼   ► because it it kind of gets to the heart of what how a lot of people are using

00:25:24 ◼   ► their computers these days you know Chrome the browser is very OS like for

00:25:29 ◼   ► a lot of people because they're doing everything in it and so it's not a huge

00:25:32 ◼   ► jump to see you know to see how you could live with something like this if

00:25:39 ◼   ► you're that sort of user. There are a couple things that I that I've missed

00:25:45 ◼   ► the two big ones are text expander and 1Password that two utilities that I rely

00:25:52 ◼   ► on on my Mac to make me work faster. Text expander especially like when I'm

00:25:57 ◼   ► writing have I have a lot of like markdown stuff and things I can do very

00:26:01 ◼   ► quickly and I have to do all that manually without it. It's not that it's a

00:26:05 ◼   ► deal breaker but it's it slows me down. I have an incredible amount of muscle

00:26:10 ◼   ► memory devoted to TextExpander. Oh me too. It's only when I notice I quit the app

00:26:14 ◼   ► accidentally or something and I'm like I typed something like it's broken like

00:26:18 ◼   ► some I'd like some all I know is something's broken like I can't

00:26:22 ◼   ► immediately work out what it is it's like oh hmm but yeah yeah. OnePassword

00:26:29 ◼   ► does have I think one password with Dropbox and they do have something

00:26:32 ◼   ► called one password anywhere there's a link to the show notes where you can

00:26:36 ◼   ► actually get to your one password you log into Dropbox and you go to this this

00:26:39 ◼   ► URL. I have Dropbox with two-factor authentication turned on so I feel a

00:26:45 ◼   ► little bit better about about having that enabled so I can like open one

00:26:49 ◼   ► password in a tab in Chrome and copy passwords out not great not nearly as

00:26:52 ◼   ► integrated as it is on the Mac or even on Windows and that's one password is an

00:26:58 ◼   ► example like sometimes it's a little weird that the Chrome extension doesn't

00:27:02 ◼   ► work but because this syncs with Chrome on my computer it the plugin is there so

00:27:07 ◼   ► occasionally I get like a warning saying the plugin is not working but I can't

00:27:10 ◼   ► disable it because then it would disable it on my Mac as well because Chrome

00:27:13 ◼   ► syncs all that stuff so there's a little like weird edge cases but all in all

00:27:18 ◼   ► things things work pretty well so one password anyway you're accessing it in

00:27:22 ◼   ► like via a web view you're not yeah okay so you can still get to the stuff

00:27:28 ◼   ► but it's just no way near as useful. Right so the Acer C720 it's

00:27:36 ◼   ► super fast the thing the thing boots up in like four seconds I mean it's it's

00:27:40 ◼   ► really unbelievable the keyboard is not bad for an 11 inch machine it's it's not

00:27:44 ◼   ► as good as an Apple keyboard the trackpad is not as good as an Apple

00:27:47 ◼   ► trackpad but it's for it's the best like $200 keyboard and trackpad I've ever

00:27:51 ◼   ► used. Battery life is just incredible I think because it is basically just a web

00:27:58 ◼   ► browser I don't think that the OS is well power hungry but I mean routinely

00:28:03 ◼   ► over eight hours of battery life on it easily if not more more so than that

00:28:08 ◼   ► than I read in the in the reviews. It's still a $200 computer it still feels

00:28:13 ◼   ► like a $200 computer in some ways but it's it's not as bad as you would think

00:28:17 ◼   ► It's not like using like some old cruddy netbook

00:28:20 ◼   ► It's definitely a step up from that experience that you may have had

00:28:23 ◼   ► You know four or five six years ago when netbooks were kind of a thing

00:28:26 ◼   ► So I have chatroom questions you guys want me just to go through these yeah, I don't want to like monologue but no

00:28:35 ◼   ► No, I only pulled I pulled out five or six so the first one is did you install crouton?

00:28:39 ◼   ► So crouton is a sort of I guess it's a package and a couple links in the show notes

00:28:46 ◼   ► where the c720 as with a lot of other Chromebooks you can install Ubuntu on

00:28:51 ◼   ► them pretty easily there's even some packages where you can install like

00:28:55 ◼   ► Chrome OS and Linux like you can dual boot or that you can even run at the

00:28:59 ◼   ► same time and like flip between them so you can be in Chrome OS and slide over

00:29:02 ◼   ► to Linux and do something. I have that set up it's it's a little nuts I haven't

00:29:09 ◼   ► been in Ubuntu a lot but if you need something for instance like Sublime Text

00:29:14 ◼   ► Like there's not a native text editor for Chrome OS and there's some markdown stuff on the web

00:29:20 ◼   ► But it's sort of janky. So if you need like a couple native apps you can

00:29:23 ◼   ► You can go through these insane steps and and run Linux on this thing

00:29:28 ◼   ► See what else our web apps as responsive as native apps

00:29:34 ◼   ► I mean, it's very similar to how it is on the Mac. The answer is no I

00:29:40 ◼   ► Will say that Chrome itself feels very fast on the machine

00:29:43 ◼   ► But you're still working in web apps and I think web apps for the foreseeable future will be slower than native

00:29:49 ◼   ► applications

00:29:52 ◼   ► Have you experienced any bugs with audio or video tearing like that?

00:29:55 ◼   ► YouTube and stuff works fine. I haven't had any issues with lag on the machine like even on

00:30:01 ◼   ► Like 1080p YouTube stuff it's been it's been rock-solid no problems there at all

00:30:08 ◼   ► Can you do audio video stuff? Can you podcast on a machine like this? Not that I've discovered.

00:30:14 ◼   ► Again, you're basically using a browser and so you know you don't have the sort of flexibility

00:30:23 ◼   ► you have with sort of a air quotes you know full operating system. You could probably do it on the

00:30:28 ◼   ► Linux side but again like out of the box I don't think you could podcast on a Chromebook. That

00:30:35 ◼   ► could change quite soon. I know there's like the weird web thing that someone's

00:30:39 ◼   ► working on. There's a few of them. Yeah. And it's possible like the way the

00:30:45 ◼   ► Chrome would still enable that I think even on a Chromebook you

00:30:49 ◼   ► would still be able to do it so that there is a potential that stuff like

00:30:52 ◼   ► that could change in the near future I think. Yeah so you know maybe at this

00:30:59 ◼   ► point though I don't think you could because Skype is stuck in a Chrome tab.

00:31:04 ◼   ► Can you write for 512 pixels? This doesn't connect via Skype though. Yeah no I know I know but

00:31:09 ◼   ► currently the answer I think is no. Can you write articles for 512 pixels? Yes

00:31:17 ◼   ► I've done several in Google Docs but it is you know not as good as something

00:31:26 ◼   ► like Byword because it doesn't do any of the markdown stuff natively I don't

00:31:29 ◼   ► any of the text expander stuff to like bring in a link and wrap it correctly

00:31:34 ◼   ► and do that sort of thing so I can it's just a little bit slower and then

00:31:39 ◼   ► someone asked what the touchscreen is like this is not the touchscreen model

00:31:42 ◼   ► there is one that is a touchscreen but I don't like in using like it's like

00:31:49 ◼   ► again it's using Chrome like Chrome on the Mac Chrome on this thing look the

00:31:53 ◼   ► same like I don't think a touchscreen would be super helpful a lot of the UI

00:31:58 ◼   ► is small, at least on this the screen resolution, so I feel like it could be a

00:32:02 ◼   ► little frustrating to deal with the touchscreen, but I haven't had

00:32:06 ◼   ► first-hand experience with it. So now we come to the part that Federico has

00:32:13 ◼   ► questions. So I want to know does this get updates when the real Chrome, I guess,

00:32:23 ◼   ► for computers is updated. Does it get the same update cycle? Did you see updates for

00:32:31 ◼   ► Chrome OS? Yes, I've seen a couple updates. I've had this thing maybe three or four weeks.

00:32:37 ◼   ► I've seen a couple updates. It basically just gives you a little alert in the bottom and

00:32:41 ◼   ► you click on it and it reboots. The Chrome version is a little bit different than what's

00:32:46 ◼   ► on the Mac. So it seems like to be maybe a different branch, but it's definitely updated

00:32:52 ◼   ► frequently seems to be at least.

00:32:56 ◼   ► And what's cool about it is you can actually, there's actually a website, I don't have it

00:33:00 ◼   ► handy, but you can download a recovery image and put it on a USB key.

00:33:04 ◼   ► So you can like wipe this thing and reformat it and all just like you can kind of a normal

00:33:12 ◼   ► computer.

00:33:13 ◼   ► So in general I want to know, do you think that most people would like a computer like

00:33:22 ◼   ► this instead of a PC or a Mac or an iPad for others?

00:33:28 ◼   ► Would you recommend this computer to other people?

00:33:32 ◼   ► I think if budget is your primary concern I would say yes.

00:33:36 ◼   ► I think if you've got a thousand dollars to spend I would say buy a MacBook Air because

00:33:40 ◼   ► you get all the benefits of everything you can do in Chrome plus all the native applications

00:33:46 ◼   ► and sort of a, you know, mature operating system.

00:33:49 ◼   ► You know, there's been, there's been articles recently about Chromebooks and education really

00:33:54 ◼   ► taking off and maybe even at the iPad's expense.

00:33:57 ◼   ► I think that is definitely a place where Chromebook can really shine because they're, they're

00:34:01 ◼   ► cheap.

00:34:02 ◼   ► If it gets smashed, it's not a huge deal.

00:34:05 ◼   ► Everything's web based.

00:34:06 ◼   ► So if it, if it gets wiped or you get a different one, you just log into it and all your stuff's

00:34:10 ◼   ► So I think if you're if you're on a budget or if you're in that sort of

00:34:14 ◼   ► environment I think it's a at the very least a really good alternative to an

00:34:19 ◼   ► iPad if you don't want a tablet. I would not say that it is better for the work

00:34:23 ◼   ► that I do than an iPad I don't think it is but I could see for for a segment of

00:34:29 ◼   ► the population maybe even a big segment at the very least it's a viable

00:34:32 ◼   ► contender. A weird contender but again I don't maybe I'm maybe different from you

00:34:39 ◼   ► guys in this but I don't do a lot of work in the browser like even like

00:34:43 ◼   ► posting to 512 which is on Squarespace I'll write and buy word and do

00:34:48 ◼   ► everything and then just copy it into Squarespace. I don't do a lot of work in a

00:34:51 ◼   ► browser tab most days and so for me that's been weird but I think I'm in the

00:34:56 ◼   ► minority there. I could do an incredible amount of what I do with a Chromebook

00:35:02 ◼   ► like obviously except for the recording which is obviously extremely important

00:35:08 ◼   ► So much of what I do is in Google Docs and I do it in the browser.

00:35:15 ◼   ► So I would be pretty okay I think.

00:35:18 ◼   ► I don't want to do that, but I could.

00:35:22 ◼   ► Well there's a question I guess.

00:35:24 ◼   ► Could you survive or would you like working like that?

00:35:29 ◼   ► Because those are two different things.

00:35:31 ◼   ► Yes you could survive.

00:35:32 ◼   ► They're two massively different things, yes I agree.

00:35:35 ◼   ► You could survive.

00:35:36 ◼   ► I mean, I could work for Mac stories.

00:35:39 ◼   ► I could, I don't know, use the email in the browser and then write in some markdown web

00:35:45 ◼   ► app and then, you know, use other, use Slack in the browser.

00:35:51 ◼   ► It would be pretty limiting.

00:35:52 ◼   ► I wouldn't like or love working like that, I think.

00:35:57 ◼   ► I don't know.

00:35:59 ◼   ► There's no iMessage for the web, which is kind of a problem.

00:36:04 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:36:05 ◼   ► I could survive. Say that my MacBook Pro was in the shop for a week, I could get by on this.

00:36:09 ◼   ► I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't reach for this if my MacBook Pro or my iPad were available.

00:36:15 ◼   ► But for getting by, I could definitely do it. Wouldn't it be my first choice though,

00:36:24 ◼   ► by any stretch?

00:36:25 ◼   ► Any blasting for any like parting thoughts on it, Stephen?

00:36:32 ◼   ► I mean I think I think my overall thought is that I think Chrome OS and

00:36:39 ◼   ► maybe even the Acer C720 in particular but but Chromebooks I think are a lot

00:36:44 ◼   ► more I can see how they're more attractive than I initially thought like

00:36:50 ◼   ► I can see why so many people like use them especially in education but I could

00:36:59 ◼   ► see how these things could take off in a way that I didn't understand before.

00:37:04 ◼   ► And again it comes back to a lot of people just use their browser and this isn't a bad

00:37:09 ◼   ► experience for that at all.

00:37:12 ◼   ► So, I'm not switching to it, but I'm more impressed than I thought I would be.

00:37:18 ◼   ► And I will admit I went into it pretty jaded.

00:37:22 ◼   ► It's been a pretty enlightening little experiment.

00:37:28 ◼   ► Do you think you're impressed because it proves that some apps can work only as browser versions

00:37:35 ◼   ► or are you impressed because it's genuinely a good computer?

00:37:39 ◼   ► Like I want to understand this the like do you get the feeling that yeah it's good for

00:37:46 ◼   ► a browser or like yeah it's a good computer it's a good OS.

00:37:53 ◼   ► I still struggle to understand Chrome OS concept.

00:37:56 ◼   ► Why does it need to prove a point?

00:37:59 ◼   ► You know, it sort of sounds like…

00:38:01 ◼   ► I don't think it's about proving a point.

00:38:02 ◼   ► I think it's that a lot of people don't need all the overhead that we deal with every

00:38:09 ◼   ► day and that for a segment, you know, probably a growing part of the consumer population,

00:38:18 ◼   ► this meets their needs.

00:38:20 ◼   ► say that it really competes with OS X or even Windows, I don't think it does.

00:38:24 ◼   ► I mean side-by-side spec sheets are hilarious, but I think there is a certain type of person

00:38:30 ◼   ► who maybe is maybe not too computer savvy or super budget constricted or just doesn't

00:38:39 ◼   ► need the weight of something like Mac OS X or Windows.

00:38:46 ◼   ► And for that sort of person I think it, I think if you're in that category I think it

00:38:50 ◼   ► is a good computer. Is it a good computer compared to my $2,000 MacBook Pro? No. But

00:38:56 ◼   ► that doesn't mean it can't meet the needs of a segment of the population just because

00:38:59 ◼   ► I don't fit into it very cleanly. Does that make sense? I don't know if I actually answered

00:39:04 ◼   ► your question. I think it just depends on your needs and I think if you're on the low

00:39:09 ◼   ► end of the market, I think it's a really... If I was to choose between this, a $200 Chromebook

00:39:14 ◼   ► in a $400 Windows laptop, if that was sort of my two decisions, a Mac wasn't in the equation

00:39:20 ◼   ► and an iPad was in the equation.

00:39:22 ◼   ► I think if you're in that sort of decision-making process, and a lot of people are, then I think

00:39:28 ◼   ► that this is a really good alternative.

00:39:31 ◼   ► I think that's great.

00:39:32 ◼   ► I think there needs to be choice and not just at the high end where we live, but in all

00:39:39 ◼   ► brackets of the market, I think there should be choice.

00:39:41 ◼   ► And I think Google's done that.

00:39:43 ◼   ► Did you use Google Now on it?

00:39:46 ◼   ► I did not.

00:39:47 ◼   ► Well, so let me take that back.

00:39:49 ◼   ► So that is sort of built into the menu bar, but since I don't use Gmail day to day, some

00:39:56 ◼   ► of that stuff is not as helpful for me because I use iCloud for my personal stuff, which

00:40:00 ◼   ► has been a little limiting, I think, in my experimentation.

00:40:04 ◼   ► But it knows about basketball games and stuff.

00:40:07 ◼   ► It kind of pops up, and that's helpful, but I don't think I get the full benefit of it

00:40:11 ◼   ► because I'm not in the Google ecosystem with my personal data day to day.

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00:43:27 ◼   ► Oh that's great. So again we haven't really talked about photo management

00:43:33 ◼   ► before but we're going to try it out. So we record this show on Wednesdays as you

00:43:40 ◼   ► know. Last week on Thursday photos the the new iPhoto aperture replacement for

00:43:48 ◼   ► OS X shipped to developers so this is part of 10.10.3 which is not public

00:43:55 ◼   ► yet to developers only to members of the Yosemite beta testing Appleseed program

00:44:01 ◼   ► that sort of thing. Coming later this year it'll be in public beta I think for

00:44:06 ◼   ► a while anyways it's here you can play with it if you're in one of those

00:44:10 ◼   ► if you're in one of those programs and I think at least a couple of us have

00:44:16 ◼   ► played with it a little bit and it's it's here and it's shiny and...

00:44:22 ◼   ► Couple of us means you and Myke, usually.

00:44:25 ◼   ► No, I haven't. I haven't touched it.

00:44:27 ◼   ► I thought... I've played with it.

00:44:29 ◼   ► I haven't. I have my iCAD for library just on iOS.

00:44:34 ◼   ► Oh!

00:44:35 ◼   ► Because I didn't want to download the beta because then what if it breaks Skype and Myke is angry and...

00:44:42 ◼   ► Oh yeah, I just went for it.

00:44:44 ◼   ► I had a bootable backup first. Don't worry, I did it quickly.

00:44:48 ◼   ► Yeah, that's too much.

00:44:50 ◼   ► Um, so it's here, I guess, I mean very quickly there's a link on Apple's website.

00:44:56 ◼   ► So this is really funny, this came right on the heels of people like freaking out that

00:44:59 ◼   ► Apple had removed it from its website.

00:45:01 ◼   ► Clearly it was in preparation for this page going up.

00:45:05 ◼   ► And in my like brief testing at least, it basically does what it's supposed to do.

00:45:12 ◼   ► So you, it works much better than iPhoto.

00:45:16 ◼   ► Guys it's crazy fast.

00:45:18 ◼   ► I don't know how many my MacBook Pro is in my bag, but I've seen some

00:45:22 ◼   ► like the verge had

00:45:25 ◼   ► preview along with a couple of other sites and they had some videos and they were showing like how quickly

00:45:29 ◼   ► It scrolls and I was I was presently

00:45:32 ◼   ► Pleasantly surprised to see that. Yeah, because I photo just really fell down once you got a really big library and

00:45:40 ◼   ► so it

00:45:42 ◼   ► Photos can kind of work in one of two modes more or less

00:45:46 ◼   ► You can run it just locally with your files or you can turn on

00:45:51 ◼   ► iCloud photos and at that point it sinks your photos up to iCloud and you can view them all on your

00:45:58 ◼   ► devices no matter where you are. So I have this turned on on my iPad and

00:46:02 ◼   ► You know my out my test albums are all synced to my iPad

00:46:06 ◼   ► not as quickly as I thought they would be but I think

00:46:09 ◼   ► You know, I did this on like day one or day two and I think they're still sort of ramping up

00:46:15 ◼   ► but

00:46:16 ◼   ► The photos are all there if I edit them in one place the edits show up elsewhere

00:46:20 ◼   ► So if I take a picture of

00:46:22 ◼   ► Federico and Myke and I make it black and white on my iPad when I come back to my computer that picture is in black

00:46:26 ◼   ► and white so it's

00:46:28 ◼   ► It's much more seamless than it is currently where you're you take a photo or you know

00:46:34 ◼   ► Like we all three use Dropbox if you take those

00:46:37 ◼   ► Photos and sync them over to your device

00:46:40 ◼   ► they're sort of view only and now you can edit them and it's more of a you

00:46:49 ◼   ► know Steve Jobs said the truth is in the cloud that sort of thought that all of

00:46:52 ◼   ► your devices are an equal playing field I think that's great if you're if you're

00:46:55 ◼   ► heavy on iOS but I'm a little I'm a little worried guys all right tell me so

00:47:04 ◼   ► that if you look at iTunes match which is sort of similar to this right where

00:47:09 ◼   ► you have local files and your files in the cloud and you can sync them and you

00:47:14 ◼   ► can remove your local files but they're still in the cloud and you can redownload

00:47:16 ◼   ► them. You know iTunes match is pretty similar to this but iTunes match and

00:47:20 ◼   ► iTunes for all of its problems I think does a pretty decent job at explaining

00:47:26 ◼   ► to the user where their file is so if it's in iCloud or an iTunes match and

00:47:32 ◼   ► not local you get a little cloud icon you can download them you can remove

00:47:35 ◼   ► them it's very clear if you delete an image say hey do you want to take this

00:47:38 ◼   ► off iCloud as well and at this point photos doesn't have much of that and

00:47:43 ◼   ► there's a lot of language in the settings in photo of like store

00:47:48 ◼   ► everything on your Mac which is what I think most people will should do at

00:47:52 ◼   ► least and then it's hey I want to preserve you know keep I forget the

00:48:01 ◼   ► settings so something along the lines of like keep an eye on my local disk space

00:48:04 ◼   ► You know and and photos will then like delete things to keep your disc free

00:48:08 ◼   ► But it's really confusing as to what it's actually doing. There's some you guys spoke about this on upgrade

00:48:14 ◼   ► so I'm not gonna rehash everything y'all said but

00:48:16 ◼   ► There's some sort of local cache and and I just worried that at some point

00:48:21 ◼   ► it's you sort of lose track where your photo actually is and

00:48:24 ◼   ► You know we spoke a month ago about how my iTunes match situation

00:48:31 ◼   ► Exploded after I moved my iTunes library and took forever to straighten that out and I actually ran to an album today. That's got screwy

00:48:37 ◼   ► Metadata has like random other tracks in it for some reason

00:48:40 ◼   ► Why do you have to know what the photo is the photo is in iCloud

00:48:46 ◼   ► Yeah, but is what if what if it goes wrong?

00:48:49 ◼   ► Or what if a credit card doesn't renew your storage because Apple's charging you for it and your what do that happens then?

00:48:54 ◼   ► There's an opportunity they're going to send you an email I guess

00:48:59 ◼   ► But how many people have their you know like

00:49:02 ◼   ► We've I mean, I'm sure one of us has done at some point

00:49:05 ◼   ► I know I've done it where you have a recurring bill and your debit card changes and because it was stolen by Home Depot

00:49:09 ◼   ► And then all of a sudden you're not paying your recurring thing like there is the opportunity

00:49:14 ◼   ► I think for photos to fall through the cracks and the system like this

00:49:18 ◼   ► It's even even possible between photo stream and your local albums

00:49:22 ◼   ► It's not real clear when something is locally sorted out of the photo stream

00:49:27 ◼   ► And I think that it's still a little too complicated

00:49:30 ◼   ► If if I James match explodes and I suddenly have Mumford and Sons inner leave in a Kanye album like that's super annoying

00:49:38 ◼   ► But I can deal with it because it's just music right I can go redownload it

00:49:41 ◼   ► I can sort it out, but if it if it

00:49:44 ◼   ► Takes photos of my kids and all of a sudden. I'm missing some of them because I thought they were

00:49:52 ◼   ► on iCloud so I deleted them off my local machine and really I deleted both copies

00:49:57 ◼   ► Like that's not good. And I think Apple needs to really make this

00:50:02 ◼   ► Like fail-safe like you cannot like there's got to be big alarms going off before you completely nuke something

00:50:09 ◼   ► From existence and and currently that's not true. And this is the first build that there's lots of lots of things

00:50:16 ◼   ► I see if you try to delete something like it just deletes it like you don't you don't know

00:50:22 ◼   ► like necessarily where you're deleting it from and or it doesn't kind of say

00:50:26 ◼   ► like you're deleting this from the cloud now so it's gone forever like there is

00:50:30 ◼   ► no backup yeah this photo like understand that like or what happens

00:50:35 ◼   ► you know like when what what if you have your photo library on two Macs and one

00:50:41 ◼   ► Mac is offline for two weeks and like and they fall out of sync can it get it

00:50:45 ◼   ► back updated correctly even iTunes match doesn't do that perfectly every time and

00:50:51 ◼   ► And so there's a lot of these weird edge cases when you have data locally and you have data

00:50:54 ◼   ► in the cloud and there's some layer in between connecting them.

00:50:59 ◼   ► Like it's got to be flawless.

00:51:04 ◼   ► Photos cannot drop a file, it can't duplicate a file.

00:51:08 ◼   ► It's got to be perfect and I don't quite trust iCloud to do that yet.

00:51:15 ◼   ► The thing that I don't like, is kind of what you touched on,

00:51:18 ◼   ► is the idea of ambiguous deletion.

00:51:23 ◼   ► And I get from a UI and a user experience perspective

00:51:28 ◼   ► why that just works metaphor, that idea.

00:51:32 ◼   ► So you've got 40 gigabytes of hard drive space.

00:51:35 ◼   ► Oh, and now you've only got 20,

00:51:38 ◼   ► so we're gonna take away some of your photos for you.

00:51:40 ◼   ► It's like, I don't know how,

00:51:44 ◼   ► Because that's so hidden, as in how does it make those decisions,

00:51:49 ◼   ► there's just something about that that puts me on edge.

00:51:51 ◼   ► And yes, in theory, of course, they're in iCloud,

00:51:54 ◼   ► and it shouldn't be a problem.

00:51:55 ◼   ► I'm sorry, guys, I still don't understand what's the problem here,

00:51:59 ◼   ► because the photos are in iCloud.

00:52:01 ◼   ► But the problem is, the problem is,

00:52:04 ◼   ► what if something goes wrong?

00:52:06 ◼   ► Like, let's just say, and it will happen to people,

00:52:10 ◼   ► like, that something's going to go wrong, right?

00:52:12 ◼   ► 'cause you're not gonna have a 100% success rate.

00:52:15 ◼   ► Like at some point, someone's gonna have a problem

00:52:18 ◼   ► where they're gonna lose some files that are in the cloud.

00:52:21 ◼   ► And if you keep them on a machine

00:52:23 ◼   ► and you think that they might be there,

00:52:25 ◼   ► but they're not because the Photos app.

00:52:28 ◼   ► So let's say that you, Federico Vatici,

00:52:31 ◼   ► you have 50 gigabytes of photos, that's all you have, right?

00:52:35 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:52:36 ◼   ► - And you have a 100 gigabyte hard drive.

00:52:39 ◼   ► Now, you've selected for Apple to make sure that you've got the right space.

00:52:44 ◼   ► And let's say that like...

00:52:45 ◼   ► Whoa, whoa, what I've selected?

00:52:47 ◼   ► Right, so there's a setting in the Photos app.

00:52:50 ◼   ► Okay, so there's stuff I don't understand.

00:52:52 ◼   ► There's a setting?

00:52:53 ◼   ► Right, so there's a setting in the Photos app that says, effectively...

00:52:59 ◼   ► On the Mac?

00:53:00 ◼   ► On the Mac.

00:53:01 ◼   ► Okay.

00:53:02 ◼   ► Remove files from this machine if I run low on hard drive space.

00:53:06 ◼   ► Okay, so it removes them from your machine.

00:53:09 ◼   ► IOS has the same setting actually.

00:53:11 ◼   ► - Optimized storage, yeah.

00:53:13 ◼   ► - So let's say--

00:53:14 ◼   ► - The files don't go away.

00:53:16 ◼   ► It's like when you tap a photo,

00:53:18 ◼   ► it downloads the full resolution.

00:53:20 ◼   ► So if you want to save storage,

00:53:21 ◼   ► they remove the full resolution

00:53:23 ◼   ► and you still see the thumbnail,

00:53:25 ◼   ► then you can tap it and you re-download it.

00:53:27 ◼   ► - But my point is like,

00:53:28 ◼   ► let's say that you have files removed from your machine,

00:53:31 ◼   ► you didn't necessarily know that they were gone

00:53:33 ◼   ► because you still see the thumbnails.

00:53:35 ◼   ► And then something goes wrong in the cloud, right?

00:53:37 ◼   ► Something.

00:53:38 ◼   ► 'cause it's gonna happen to some people.

00:53:41 ◼   ► And then you try and get those files back

00:53:43 ◼   ► and they're not there anymore.

00:53:45 ◼   ► I just have a concern about it 'cause it's like,

00:53:48 ◼   ► I personally don't like the idea of it just,

00:53:51 ◼   ► and I probably will never turn this setting on

00:53:54 ◼   ► for it to just, or remove things

00:53:57 ◼   ► and put things back and take them away.

00:53:59 ◼   ► I will maybe have it like one machine

00:54:02 ◼   ► that always keeps that setting on

00:54:04 ◼   ► and it's just always got everything.

00:54:06 ◼   ► But my concern is for like the one family or like the one person who has an 11 inch

00:54:12 ◼   ► MacBook Air with a small hard drive and they select that setting and then something goes

00:54:16 ◼   ► wrong because the difference between like...

00:54:18 ◼   ► I think you're overthinking it, honestly.

00:54:20 ◼   ► Well no.

00:54:21 ◼   ► It's just a setting to remove the cache.

00:54:24 ◼   ► But what happens if the originals...

00:54:27 ◼   ► But then the originals aren't there then, are they?

00:54:29 ◼   ► No, because why are you thinking about originals?

00:54:32 ◼   ► This is not like the finder.

00:54:34 ◼   ► You take a picture on your phone and it goes in iCloud and then it goes to other devices.

00:54:39 ◼   ► Okay, but let's talk about the pictures that you take on your DSLR, you put them into the

00:54:45 ◼   ► photos app.

00:54:46 ◼   ► Oh, but that's what all people do.

00:54:47 ◼   ► Come on.

00:54:48 ◼   ► Okay, you take a picture on your phone.

00:54:50 ◼   ► You take a picture on your phone of an important family occasion, right?

00:54:53 ◼   ► And you put it on your Mac and then you think that it's going to be there and then a problem

00:54:57 ◼   ► happens in iCloud and the picture's not in iCloud anymore and now the picture's no longer

00:55:01 ◼   ► on your Mac.

00:55:02 ◼   ► longer have that photo? I got lost there. Why would I take a picture on my phone and

00:55:10 ◼   ► then connect it to a computer? Alright, so you take a picture on your phone. The point

00:55:15 ◼   ► is that you take a picture on your phone. I don't know why you can't understand this.

00:55:18 ◼   ► Maybe I'm stupid. I take a picture, because I've been using iCard for library for months,

00:55:24 ◼   ► so I take a picture on my phone and that's it. I'm done. The picture goes into iCloud.

00:55:30 ◼   ► when it works. It's just my... I have a concern just about... Forget it. We're not

00:55:34 ◼   ► gonna get through this. Why are you thinking so much about this? Because

00:55:38 ◼   ► here's the thing. So here's the bottom line here. That you are

00:55:43 ◼   ► trusting Apple, you're trusting iCloud with things that cannot be replaced.

00:55:48 ◼   ► Right? Like... And so it has to work perfectly. And so far in very limited

00:55:55 ◼   ► testing it has but let's just be real here Apple is not the best cloud service

00:56:00 ◼   ► company in the world and so there's an opportunity if you don't have the

00:56:04 ◼   ► originals on your disk and the originals are only in iCloud and you stop paying

00:56:11 ◼   ► or you somehow end up in a situation where you're in between and you don't

00:56:17 ◼   ► have the originals and something happens you could be caught without your

00:56:21 ◼   ► original images and that is something that is, it might not be a big deal to some

00:56:27 ◼   ► people but is a huge deal to me and a huge deal to a lot of people. And all I'm

00:56:33 ◼   ► saying is that Apple has to prove to me that they have their word that I'm not

00:56:39 ◼   ► going to say on the air together about this file management stuff and the

00:56:45 ◼   ► app is great I actually really like the app but I'm not sold that I'm going to

00:56:50 ◼   ► ever choose the setting for to optimize the space. I think I'm always going to

00:56:56 ◼   ► have them on my local drive because that I could put my hands on it I know where

00:57:01 ◼   ► they're I know that they are there and I just I worry that Apple's language

00:57:09 ◼   ► around it isn't clear enough that's all I'm saying. I think if they can I think

00:57:13 ◼   ► I think they will I think they will improve this where it makes more sense

00:57:16 ◼   ► to a user when they sit down knowing where their things are.

00:57:20 ◼   ► Because if you don't know where your things are and you make a bad decision, you could

00:57:24 ◼   ► lose your originals.

00:57:27 ◼   ► And that's bad.

00:57:29 ◼   ► That's all we're saying.

00:57:30 ◼   ► I think how you end up there, there's a bunch of different ways.

00:57:33 ◼   ► But ultimately, they've got to make it crystal clear so you can understand what's going on.

00:57:40 ◼   ► So anyways, all of that aside...

00:57:42 ◼   ► Guys, I'm sorry, I don't understand.

00:57:44 ◼   ► I don't mean to sound like I don't believe you because I believe you have a problem.

00:57:50 ◼   ► It's just I don't think I have the same problem.

00:57:52 ◼   ► So it's difficult for me to understand like this talk about the originals.

00:57:57 ◼   ► Like I don't follow what the problem is probably because I don't use a Mac.

00:58:03 ◼   ► I think the main problem is my notion of file is different.

00:58:08 ◼   ► You don't have original.

00:58:09 ◼   ► I never see that.

00:58:10 ◼   ► That's why I never see the actual files.

00:58:13 ◼   ► I don't understand what's going on.

00:58:15 ◼   ► What is an original?

00:58:16 ◼   ► You gave up the originals a long time ago, my friend.

00:58:18 ◼   ► What is an original?

00:58:19 ◼   ► I mean, I just take a picture and it goes to an icon.

00:58:25 ◼   ► Oh, very cavatice.

00:58:26 ◼   ► While Stephen was talking, so, okay, real talk.

00:58:29 ◼   ► While Stephen was talking, I opened the photos app on my phone and I went to two years ago,

00:58:37 ◼   ► I tapped the little thumbnail and there's a spinner in the bottom right

00:58:42 ◼   ► and it loads for like three seconds and then I see the original. Is that the original?

00:58:49 ◼   ► Well, that's the original.

00:58:50 ◼   ► Well, yeah, but we're talking about like a file that you can see.

00:58:56 ◼   ► Like a JPEG.

00:58:57 ◼   ► Yes.

00:58:58 ◼   ► Could you kind of give that up and if Apple were going to like delete the master copy from your machine

00:59:05 ◼   ► So you see the file on the Mac? The actual JPEG file of the photo?

00:59:13 ◼   ► I think you still can. You can still inspect the package and open it up, right?

00:59:18 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:59:19 ◼   ► Oh, okay. So why didn't you guys explain this to me?

00:59:22 ◼   ► Well, me and Steven understood it.

00:59:25 ◼   ► Well, I didn't. Clearly, I didn't.

00:59:28 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:59:29 ◼   ► So, there's, sort of in conjunction with this, there's been a lot of conversation around

00:59:37 ◼   ► the fact that this is not a professional application.

00:59:39 ◼   ► Now, it supports raw images, you can import and sync raw images, but you don't have a

00:59:44 ◼   ► lot of the raw editing controls that you get in something like Lightroom or Bridge or Photoshop.

00:59:50 ◼   ► What is a raw?

00:59:51 ◼   ► I always wonder, what is a raw?

00:59:53 ◼   ► It's like a package of files?

00:59:58 ◼   ► is a it is an image it's so raw is actually a term for a lot of different

01:00:04 ◼   ► formats different camera vendors use different formats but basically it's an

01:00:07 ◼   ► image that you have a lot more data to it it's not a compress it's not a

01:00:12 ◼   ► compressed image like a JPEG is and so you have a lot more editing capability

01:00:16 ◼   ► they're a lot bigger a lot higher quality usually an aperture and

01:00:22 ◼   ► Lightroom can deal with raw files directly but after is going away and

01:00:26 ◼   ► there's this article over at iMore that is basically saying you know photos is a

01:00:31 ◼   ► sort of consumer maybe prosumer app but it's not it's not a Lightroom

01:00:37 ◼   ► competitor the controls the fine grained controls you have in something like

01:00:42 ◼   ► Lightroom you don't exist here and I agree with that but what I think is

01:00:48 ◼   ► interesting is that there's sort of this idea of you know you have iMovie and you

01:00:56 ◼   ► have Final Cut you have GarageBand and you have Logic. Is something like

01:01:01 ◼   ► Aperture going to make a comeback? Is there room is there a reason for Apple to

01:01:06 ◼   ► do professional photos app at some point since they have one they haven't really

01:01:14 ◼   ► cared about it in a long time like Aperture is pretty always actually for a

01:01:18 ◼   ► long time Aperture's been in pretty sorry state. So I don't know, do you guys think Apple

01:01:23 ◼   ► cares about the professional photographer anymore or do you think

01:01:28 ◼   ► that they're just gonna go middle of the road and and move on? I think care is a

01:01:33 ◼   ► is a is a too harsh a word. That's a loaded word. But it is the word that everybody uses. I think

01:01:41 ◼   ► that it is it doesn't need to be high in Apple's priorities anymore to provide

01:01:47 ◼   ► and develop Pro applications because there are lots, well not lots, but there

01:01:54 ◼   ► are competitors, right? I think that it is potentially, I'm sorry Aperture users, a

01:02:00 ◼   ► waste of Apple's resources to be competing with Adobe to create something

01:02:06 ◼   ► like Aperture. And I genuinely feel like that my beloved logic will go that

01:02:13 ◼   ► way one day. I think that Apple's time as being the vendor of the pro app, it

01:02:19 ◼   ► doesn't need to exist anymore because the pro app vendors, they all have, they're

01:02:26 ◼   ► all third-party versions, they're all third-party competitors.

01:02:30 ◼   ► Apple don't need to try and lock in the creative professional like they

01:02:35 ◼   ► used to because that's kind of, they're just there now, you don't need to

01:02:39 ◼   ► have that advantage. I think they tried to, and succeeded for many years,

01:02:43 ◼   ► to get the illustrators and the photographers and the audio

01:02:48 ◼   ► professionals and stuff by creating their own apps. I think that Apple's

01:02:53 ◼   ► business is so focused in other markets and other areas now that it's continuing to

01:02:59 ◼   ► devote so much time and resource to expensive apps when they don't even

01:03:03 ◼   ► charge really expensive prices for them anymore. I think it's kind of a fool's

01:03:07 ◼   ► there and for them and I think they're realizing that which is why they're

01:03:10 ◼   ► starting to phase out or significantly re-architect these applications like

01:03:15 ◼   ► Final Cut for example how that changed if they even keep that going but they

01:03:20 ◼   ► changed it significantly they did a similar kind of thing for Logic it had a

01:03:25 ◼   ► massive overhaul and and I think that stuff like Aperture is gonna go away

01:03:30 ◼   ► eventually I think logic is gonna go away and and they're just gonna start

01:03:34 ◼   ► focusing on making their consumer apps a good place, like the prosumer, try and make them

01:03:44 ◼   ► fit in the middle somewhere, but trying to service that market completely, I don't think

01:03:48 ◼   ► they need to consider dealing with anymore.

01:03:51 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean, I'm really divided on it.

01:03:55 ◼   ► I think that they could come back and do something professional.

01:04:00 ◼   ► Even with the iMac videos, photographers, yay!

01:04:07 ◼   ► But I don't know, I think if something does come, I think they're going to have photos

01:04:14 ◼   ► fully rounded out and then move upstream.

01:04:19 ◼   ► But I don't think they necessarily have to.

01:04:22 ◼   ► I think mostly because professional photographers don't really...

01:04:28 ◼   ► this sort of idea of like I want to sync all my files around all my devices like

01:04:31 ◼   ► that doesn't really appeal to a lot of professional photographers at least that I

01:04:35 ◼   ► know that they need the editing tools and they already have their own crazy

01:04:38 ◼   ► storage system and photos is very much about the storage system so maybe it is

01:04:43 ◼   ► a sort of a different like philosophical issue they've got to deal with as well

01:04:49 ◼   ► but I don't know I thought it was interesting I think that it's fine this

01:04:52 ◼   ► is consumer oriented I think it needs to be but we'll see where they go in the

01:04:57 ◼   ► future I guess. I just don't have thoughts. Well I mean you're again it's

01:05:03 ◼   ► it's totally different for you I mean yeah do you want to see like Apple start

01:05:08 ◼   ► to create professional level applications for iOS? Yeah of course I

01:05:15 ◼   ► mean if people ask for it if there's a market for professional users and

01:05:22 ◼   ► photography I guess. But I mean there's always the third-party ecosystem.

01:05:28 ◼   ► Yeah that's kind of what I wonder like is third parties better to service that

01:05:34 ◼   ► market than Apple? I believe yes.

01:05:36 ◼   ► Probably. As long as Apple makes solid APIs that's a bigger concern for me. As long as they allow other people to go where they don't want to go I think it's better

01:05:48 ◼   ► because they seem, especially in the past few years, they seem that they've moved away

01:05:53 ◼   ► from the pro market to let more like normals, normal people do basic stuff in a decent way

01:06:04 ◼   ► rather than have no solution for the stupid people like me and have Aperture or iPhoto

01:06:12 ◼   ► which was one professional and the other two complex.

01:06:16 ◼   ► Now they have the Photos app, which is for everybody.

01:06:20 ◼   ► And so if they don't want to spend resources and time

01:06:23 ◼   ► to do a new aperture, maybe they can just do the APIs

01:06:27 ◼   ► and let Adobe do Lightroom and that kind of stuff.

01:06:30 ◼   ► I think it's better.

01:06:32 ◼   ► So Apple doesn't do half-baked solutions everywhere.

01:06:36 ◼   ► They do one simple solution for everybody

01:06:39 ◼   ► and they let other people,

01:06:40 ◼   ► That's the thing about the App Store, that lets people do stuff.

01:06:44 ◼   ► Yeah, I think it's fundamentally a better way for Apple to do business, is to focus themselves that way.

01:06:50 ◼   ► They cannot cover every possible market, so...

01:06:54 ◼   ► So just do as much as you can for the best of your abilities, rather than kind of like half-arsing both.

01:07:01 ◼   ► Yeah. From my perspective it seems better, I think.

01:07:05 ◼   ► Arguably that's what they were doing with photos anyway.

01:07:07 ◼   ► I don't know how good Aperture was, but I know a lot of people that I know and trust

01:07:12 ◼   ► their opinion in those things were using Lightroom.

01:07:16 ◼   ► And I could never go near iPhoto.

01:07:19 ◼   ► Yeah I tried to use iPhoto on the Mac before.

01:07:22 ◼   ► My girlfriend still uses iPhoto on the Mac.

01:07:24 ◼   ► I don't know how she does it.

01:07:26 ◼   ► I tried to use iPhoto on iOS two years ago when it came out.

01:07:31 ◼   ► It was so confusing.

01:07:32 ◼   ► There were different interfaces all over the place.

01:07:37 ◼   ► And it was not just about this Qmorphic stuff.

01:07:40 ◼   ► It was really difficult to use and to understand and to browse.

01:07:44 ◼   ► It was super awkward.

01:07:46 ◼   ► And now the Photos app, it's just...

01:07:47 ◼   ► I mean, there's a few things I don't like about the Photos app.

01:07:51 ◼   ► Like the way that it doesn't let you see photos on a map.

01:07:56 ◼   ► I know you can enter the details for like a specific section of what is called the moment

01:08:03 ◼   ► in the view, in the Photos view.

01:08:05 ◼   ► can view a moment on a map, but you cannot view every single photo on a map, like you

01:08:11 ◼   ► can do in day one.

01:08:13 ◼   ► You can see all your photos from all your years in your collection on a map.

01:08:18 ◼   ► There's a few things I don't like, but overall it's much better, and for me it's

01:08:22 ◼   ► been super... like, it's been, and I mean this in a good way, it's been really nothing.

01:08:30 ◼   ► I don't have to think about it.

01:08:31 ◼   ► It's just there.

01:08:32 ◼   ► Like it's supposed to do, it's supposed to be there and it does the stuff for me and

01:08:37 ◼   ► I just take a picture and the picture is everywhere and then I tap it and it's what it's supposed

01:08:42 ◼   ► to be.

01:08:43 ◼   ► And I'm paying a euro a month so I guess that's a good price.

01:08:48 ◼   ► It should be free.

01:08:49 ◼   ► It's kind of awkward that it's not free.

01:08:51 ◼   ► It should be free I think, 20 gigs at least.

01:08:55 ◼   ► But whatever, you know?

01:08:56 ◼   ► Again, I think over the years I kind of become stupid in a way because I used to do the finder,

01:09:06 ◼   ► jpegs and I mean at one point I had a PHP script like some sort of bizarre marko armand.

01:09:15 ◼   ► A PHP script to move my photos around and now I'm just letting iCloud sync my pictures

01:09:24 ◼   ► And I know that many people have horror stories about Apple photo apps deleting pictures.

01:09:34 ◼   ► There's my friend Nate on Twitter.

01:09:37 ◼   ► He had his iPhoto rivalry wiped clean by iPhoto a couple of years ago.

01:09:42 ◼   ► That was scary.

01:09:43 ◼   ► That's fine.

01:09:44 ◼   ► But now...

01:09:45 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:09:46 ◼   ► Now...

01:09:47 ◼   ► That's why you need the originals.

01:09:49 ◼   ► Yes.

01:09:50 ◼   ► I'm just saying now, iCloud photo library has been there and it works. So I'm happy

01:09:58 ◼   ► so far. Hopefully they won't screw it up. They won't do anything stupid to iCloud. I

01:10:06 ◼   ► don't know. To answer your question, Myke, I think it's a better solution to let most

01:10:11 ◼   ► people have something that works rather than different segments with something they're

01:10:17 ◼   ► not really happy with. Yeah and to maybe round this out the upside of all this is

01:10:26 ◼   ► that you if you use iCloud stuff you do have a backup of your images which is

01:10:34 ◼   ► more than what most people have currently I think so there are there is

01:10:39 ◼   ► like there's a lot of upside to this I don't mean to throw cold water over

01:10:43 ◼   ► the whole thing I just need Apple to prove that they can be trusted with it

01:10:48 ◼   ► but I think for a lot of people it is going to give them another layer of

01:10:53 ◼   ► protection they don't have currently. I don't know how many people I've seen

01:10:57 ◼   ► over the years doing tech support who lose documents and the first thing they

01:11:02 ◼   ► ask is about, they lose data and the first thing they ask about is photos when a

01:11:07 ◼   ► hard drive crashes or something like that so I think there's a lot of upside

01:11:11 ◼   ► to this I do wish that it was not that the storage was free you do have to pay

01:11:20 ◼   ► for iCloud storage still it's much more reasonable than it used to be and you

01:11:24 ◼   ► can pay for a lot more than you used to be able to but it's still something that

01:11:29 ◼   ► I think that Apple should I think Apple should should throw this in for people

01:11:34 ◼   ► especially if they want this to take off if it's if it's behind a paid thing

01:11:41 ◼   ► You know, if you're paying 10 bucks a month or 500 gigs of storage, it's going to turn

01:11:46 ◼   ► a lot of people off.

01:11:47 ◼   ► And so I would like to see them address that, but I don't really have any anticipation that

01:11:52 ◼   ► they actually will.

01:11:53 ◼   ► I still subscribe.

01:11:54 ◼   ► You know, actually I have a thought, if you guys don't mind.

01:11:59 ◼   ► There is one thing I'm not happy with about iCloud is that they don't explain iCloud to

01:12:05 ◼   ► people.

01:12:07 ◼   ► Like I know that there's the website and they have sections in the settings, but like every

01:12:13 ◼   ► time my friends and my family, they come to me and they ask me what is iCloud?

01:12:19 ◼   ► Am I supposed to pay because it says that I'm over the 5GB?

01:12:25 ◼   ► And I think, especially for photos, they should like have some sort of explanatory video on

01:12:32 ◼   ► iPhones and iPads, and with simple words they tell you, you enable this iCloud photo library

01:12:41 ◼   ► and all your photos go into iCloud and you don't need to delete photos from your device

01:12:49 ◼   ► anymore to make space for something else. Because all the time I see, for instance,

01:12:55 ◼   ► I'm going to a concert, right?

01:12:58 ◼   ► And my friend says, "Oh, I cannot shoot a video because people record videos of live

01:13:03 ◼   ► performances.

01:13:05 ◼   ► I cannot shoot video because I need to delete some photos."

01:13:09 ◼   ► And so they go through the camera roll and maybe like they do this sort of weird magic

01:13:15 ◼   ► tricks.

01:13:17 ◼   ► They send pictures over WhatsApp to somebody else as a backup.

01:13:22 ◼   ► That's crazy.

01:13:23 ◼   ► They send the picture and they delete the picture so they can have more space for the

01:13:27 ◼   ► video.

01:13:28 ◼   ► So they need some sort of simple, human, non-geeky explanation that says "You enable this feature,

01:13:37 ◼   ► you give us one dollar every month and we store your pictures".

01:13:42 ◼   ► And it needs to be an explanation that my mom doesn't need to go to the Apple website,

01:13:47 ◼   ► My father doesn't need to go to Mac stories and read crazy guy talking about iCloud.

01:13:53 ◼   ► He needs to be there and need to explain to people what it is because I think right now

01:13:58 ◼   ► Apple always has done this sort of explanations of iCloud and people still don't get it.

01:14:05 ◼   ► So I think there needs to be a simple way, maybe make it like the trackpad videos they

01:14:11 ◼   ► have in OS X to explain the gestures.

01:14:14 ◼   ► They actually show you a hand doing the gestures.

01:14:18 ◼   ► So show me somebody with iCloud.

01:14:21 ◼   ► Show me Tim Cook walking into a server room or whatever, indicating like pointing his

01:14:26 ◼   ► finger to a server rack or something.

01:14:30 ◼   ► Show me a video of what is iCloud.

01:14:34 ◼   ► And I think that sounds so stupid and maybe kind of gross to show me a video, but I think

01:14:40 ◼   ► most people still don't get iCloud.

01:14:43 ◼   ► They won't get iCloud photo library, especially after all the confusion of photo stream, whatever.

01:14:50 ◼   ► Just make it simple.

01:14:52 ◼   ► Make it simple.

01:14:53 ◼   ► Explain it even simpler, if it makes sense.

01:14:56 ◼   ► Yeah, I don't disagree at all.

01:14:58 ◼   ► I think it's overwhelming to approach it because it is so many things, right?

01:15:03 ◼   ► Like iCloud is a collection of, I don't even know how many, 10 features at this point or

01:15:08 ◼   ► something.

01:15:09 ◼   ► So I think you're absolutely right.

01:15:10 ◼   ► a lot of room for improvement on that front.

01:15:15 ◼   ► That WhatsApp thing, like, I can totally see that happening and it's like, the things people

01:15:20 ◼   ► do with computers is terrifying.

01:15:24 ◼   ► Yes.

01:15:25 ◼   ► Yeah, something like, I think it was last year, I went to this concert with a group

01:15:35 ◼   ► of friends and they started sending pictures as attachments over email and then they deleted

01:15:43 ◼   ► the pictures from the folder library because they wanted to take a video.

01:15:48 ◼   ► And then they said the video will go to Facebook.

01:15:51 ◼   ► So when the video is on Facebook, then I delete the video from…

01:15:55 ◼   ► Oh my god.

01:15:57 ◼   ► No, please stop.

01:16:00 ◼   ► But yeah, they do crazy things.

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01:18:36 ◼   ► So Tim Cook, a guy you might have heard of, spoke I guess yesterday at a Goldman Sachs

01:18:43 ◼   ► conference and iMore has a link to basically they I guess they listened and

01:18:51 ◼   ► what's the what is the word I'm looking for transcribed transcribed Tim Cook's

01:18:56 ◼   ► comments and it's super long and there's some interesting things in here and I

01:19:00 ◼   ► thought maybe we could just talk about some points that jumped out at us before

01:19:04 ◼   ► we do that I want to do that I want to I want to mention how this happened for me

01:19:09 ◼   ► this morning so it's the I knew that this call was happening so I've seen

01:19:13 ◼   ► some of the headlines and then I kind of I open my iPhone this morning and you'd

01:19:17 ◼   ► sent me a link and was like read this for the show and I'm like okay no

01:19:20 ◼   ► worries I open it up and I start reading like and I'm scrolling through, scrolling

01:19:24 ◼   ► through a couple of paragraphs through and I look at the scroll bar I'm like oh

01:19:27 ◼   ► my lord how long is this like yeah 6,000 words or something like it's a full

01:19:33 ◼   ► transcription of like a 40 minute talk so then I started looking around online

01:19:37 ◼   ► for the audio version right because I was like there must be audio of this and

01:19:42 ◼   ► I don't want to read this.

01:19:44 ◼   ► So I'm looking around online,

01:19:46 ◼   ► and I could only find the live stream audio

01:19:51 ◼   ► you know, on Apple's website.

01:19:53 ◼   ► So I was listening to that,

01:19:53 ◼   ► that was 45 minutes that run for.

01:19:55 ◼   ► I was like, oh, it's probably faster for me to read it.

01:19:58 ◼   ► So then I thought, oh, maybe somebody's huffed off there.

01:20:00 ◼   ► So then I could put it into Overcast

01:20:03 ◼   ► and do it at double speed.

01:20:04 ◼   ► No, they hadn't.

01:20:05 ◼   ► So I then remembered friend of the show,

01:20:08 ◼   ► Mr. Matthew Bischoff's app, Velocity,

01:20:10 ◼   ► which is a speed reading app.

01:20:11 ◼   ► So I put it in velocity and I had it done in 15 minutes.

01:20:15 ◼   ► - And quite a workflow you got there.

01:20:17 ◼   ► - It's a whole thing that I had.

01:20:19 ◼   ► And I felt happier about myself because I found a way to,

01:20:22 ◼   ► that was a life hack.

01:20:24 ◼   ► - Do you wanna write for backstory?

01:20:27 ◼   ► - If you wanna just transcribe what I just said,

01:20:30 ◼   ► then you can have it.

01:20:31 ◼   ► I'm not writing it.

01:20:32 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:20:33 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:20:34 ◼   ► - So he, we can just kind of blast through this.

01:20:40 ◼   ► He starts off with sort of a--

01:20:43 ◼   ► so Apple's coming off their strongest quarter ever,

01:20:45 ◼   ► which we really didn't talk about.

01:20:46 ◼   ► It kind of fell in between shows for us a little bit.

01:20:48 ◼   ► But basically, Apple sold all the things

01:20:50 ◼   ► and made all the money.

01:20:52 ◼   ► Yeah, and during this talk as well,

01:20:55 ◼   ► Apple reached their highest market cap of all time, right?

01:20:58 ◼   ► Yeah, which is just nuts.

01:21:01 ◼   ► So he's talking about hardware, he's talking about software.

01:21:03 ◼   ► But what I really came away from this beginning part

01:21:05 ◼   ► is he talks about services a lot.

01:21:06 ◼   ► He talks about HealthKit and HomeKit and CarPlay.

01:21:09 ◼   ► And really, I think only the first one of those is doing anything.

01:21:12 ◼   ► Like, I haven't heard much about HomeKit.

01:21:15 ◼   ► You know, CarPlay is like a thing, but maybe not very good.

01:21:18 ◼   ► Uh, it's surprising that he pushed them so hard.

01:21:21 ◼   ► Um, you know, I did find myself kind of thinking, Oh yeah,

01:21:26 ◼   ► they did do all that stuff.

01:21:28 ◼   ► Like I did.

01:21:31 ◼   ► Like I just totally forgotten about these things and was like, yeah, okay.

01:21:34 ◼   ► It's in theory, very ambitious.

01:21:38 ◼   ► It just hasn't... just not much has been done with it yet, you know?

01:21:42 ◼   ► It's just because you don't have a car.

01:21:44 ◼   ► Or a home.

01:21:46 ◼   ► [laughter]

01:21:47 ◼   ► Or a health.

01:21:49 ◼   ► Oh yeah, I don't have no health.

01:21:51 ◼   ► What if your car is your home?

01:21:53 ◼   ► Then I guess home, health kit and carplay work well.

01:21:57 ◼   ► Two birds with one stone, Steve.

01:22:01 ◼   ► So is it that this stuff is just gonna be on a long cycle

01:22:05 ◼   ► and it's gonna be a little while before you really see like HomeKit take off?

01:22:09 ◼   ► Is it that HealthKit was so bad at launch that developers are afraid of it and haven't integrated with it yet? Is it that

01:22:17 ◼   ► CarPlay is only reserved in new cars and why people don't buy brand new cars? Like I don't know like

01:22:24 ◼   ► Clearly this stuff is not making a big impact now

01:22:27 ◼   ► But maybe it will in the future or maybe it will just fizzle out like I don't know iDVD themes like I don't know

01:22:33 ◼   ► It's it's just weird that he pushed it as hard as he did. Are you are you comparing people's health to?

01:22:39 ◼   ► IDVD themes that was a time people cared about I DVD themes, you know, and now it's not

01:22:46 ◼   ► Poor I do

01:22:50 ◼   ► It's funny he picked I DVD

01:22:54 ◼   ► Is this like a thing that like was a thing and now it's not right yeah

01:23:02 ◼   ► Listening to... Oh, listening. Reading Tim say this stuff, like...

01:23:06 ◼   ► It did make me think about HealthKit as like really something that will come into its own with the Apple Watch.

01:23:14 ◼   ► And that's when it will start to become sensible.

01:23:17 ◼   ► Like he mentioned one thing that I don't know if I knew this or I'd forgotten about this.

01:23:23 ◼   ► Like about how the Apple Watch will tap you on the wrist if you're sitting down for too long.

01:23:28 ◼   ► And it's like, I really want that.

01:23:30 ◼   ► Yes.

01:23:31 ◼   ► that's something I need and I like that and it did but you know that tactic

01:23:36 ◼   ► feedback thing like I'm really interested in that because the word like

01:23:41 ◼   ► it taps you I mean okay like I don't think that we can fully understand how

01:23:46 ◼   ► that feels until that happens you know because it's like it's like Tim Cook is

01:23:51 ◼   ► holding your hand I mean just work which is exactly what I want okay we're all

01:23:56 ◼   ► good here so carry on Steven. I think it's just like a just tap your wrist um

01:24:04 ◼   ► so he goes from that talks about IBM which is boring talks about the

01:24:09 ◼   ► environment and this they make an announcement with their first solar

01:24:13 ◼   ► partnership do you guys see this they're building a a new solar farm that's like

01:24:18 ◼   ► 1300 acres. Rockets. It will be quite a story. Maybe. Just rockets. It's to power the

01:24:29 ◼   ► the Apple Campus 2 which is really cool and some other things. It reminded me of

01:24:38 ◼   ► the when was it a couple years ago when someone was like badgering Tim Cook in a

01:24:43 ◼   ► meeting about like that the environmental stuff wasn't a good use of

01:24:48 ◼   ► money and he was like if you all you care about the RIs get out of the stock

01:24:52 ◼   ► right like this so far to me like if you zoom way out on Apple and Tim Cook's

01:24:57 ◼   ► leadership the two things that stand out are the watch and his relentless push

01:25:04 ◼   ► for... I would also throw diversity into the mix there as well. I think it's great. I think that's been

01:25:12 ◼   ► another key thing. Yes, the intersection of diversity. He actually told the people in

01:25:19 ◼   ► the audience that they needed to have more women, which was kind of awesome. He threw

01:25:23 ◼   ► a sick burn in for no reason, I loved it. He was just like, yeah, there's a lot of guys

01:25:28 ◼   ► here. Yeah, he's like on the stage, he's like, oh, by the way, you know, you guys, Goldman

01:25:34 ◼   ► Sachs. These are the same. Do you guys ever seen the Twitter account GS Elevator, the

01:25:41 ◼   ► Goldman Sachs elevator. It's like tweets for people from the Goldman Sachs. It's

01:25:46 ◼   ► awful awful things they say in the elevator of Goldman Sachs office,

01:25:53 ◼   ► whatever, building, I don't know. It's a funny Twitter account. I'll put it in the

01:25:58 ◼   ► show notes. GS elevator, yeah. Looking. GS elevator. So it talks a little bit, it

01:26:06 ◼   ► countermutes from that talks about the watch and basically says that it's sort

01:26:13 ◼   ► of like next in line with iPod iPhone iPad levels of importance which I don't

01:26:21 ◼   ► know if we talked about it so sometimes I get confused as we said something or I

01:26:25 ◼   ► hear it on other podcasts so forgive me but they're very confident about the

01:26:29 ◼   ► watch and like even in this thing saying that it's gonna be like as impactful as

01:26:34 ◼   ► of the devices is pretty bold.

01:26:36 ◼   ► - Yeah, with MG.

01:26:38 ◼   ► - Was it, I black out during many podcasts.

01:26:42 ◼   ► Do you guys see that?

01:26:45 ◼   ► Like, do you think that like in 10 years,

01:26:47 ◼   ► the watch is gonna make this world different

01:26:49 ◼   ► than the iPod and iPhone did?

01:26:50 ◼   ► - I can't see it right now.

01:26:51 ◼   ► I think they're being too confident.

01:26:52 ◼   ► Like the confidence says something which might be good

01:26:55 ◼   ► that they believe in it.

01:26:57 ◼   ► I don't see it like being,

01:26:59 ◼   ► like you know how they, during the watch announcement,

01:27:04 ◼   ► they show, you know, they show like we had these three breakthrough things, you know,

01:27:08 ◼   ► like, and they show like the Mac and the iPod and the iPhone.

01:27:13 ◼   ► I don't think in 20 years the watch is going to be one of those, like, I just don't see it.

01:27:18 ◼   ► I think the work they're doing on the watch rather than the watch itself as a device,

01:27:25 ◼   ► as a name, will make an impact in history.

01:27:29 ◼   ► That's a good point, yeah.

01:27:31 ◼   ► I think the work on wearable and like... because you're going to end up with a computer on

01:27:36 ◼   ► your skin anyway.

01:27:38 ◼   ► I think that's a fact personally.

01:27:40 ◼   ► So I think the work will be remembered more than the brand.

01:27:45 ◼   ► Which is probably not how it will be for the Mac or the iPhone.

01:27:49 ◼   ► Like we'll remember those products but maybe like we'll... basically they'll say like you

01:27:55 ◼   ► know if you remember we started this with a watch.

01:27:58 ◼   ► But even to an extent, you're already doing the same with the iPod and the iPhone, because

01:28:05 ◼   ► part of the... the iPhone comes from the iPod, you know?

01:28:09 ◼   ► You know what I'm trying to say?

01:28:10 ◼   ► That basically...

01:28:11 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean everything's on a line.

01:28:13 ◼   ► Maybe there will be the Apple Watch, and then after the Apple Watch, like a big wearable

01:28:17 ◼   ► thing, and then, like, the Apple Watch will be remembered, but there will be the next

01:28:23 ◼   ► thing based on the Apple Watch.

01:28:25 ◼   ► be like the iPhone because the iPod surely changed history and music but the iPhone really

01:28:32 ◼   ► changed society you know that's I think I'll go down in history I don't know

01:28:43 ◼   ► I think that's fair I think what the watch lacks those other things have is a unique

01:28:50 ◼   ► interface like the watch is still touch right like you have the digital crown but it's only

01:28:56 ◼   ► used in certain situations where the mouse the click wheel and using your finger were

01:29:03 ◼   ► so defining to those original products I just don't see the watch having that same sort

01:29:10 ◼   ► of weight historically but we're on the side of it so ask me again when I'm you know 10

01:29:16 ◼   ► 15 years down the road. You will be like 70. At least 85.

01:29:22 ◼   ► You'll still be able to walk us 15 years? Just wondering.

01:29:27 ◼   ► Maybe. Yeah, just turn the oxygen down lower so you don't hear it.

01:29:31 ◼   ► He has this quote after this, and he says, "Tim's been with Apple since like '97."

01:29:46 ◼   ► He came to Apple after Steve came back, right after Steve came back.

01:29:49 ◼   ► And he says, "I'm not a historian, so I can't tell you about the beginning of time,

01:29:52 ◼   ► but I really don't think Apple was ever a hardware company."

01:29:55 ◼   ► Basically saying that Apple, he views Apple as a software company first, which is something

01:30:00 ◼   ► Steve Jobs said several times.

01:30:02 ◼   ► And it's something that I think even in talking with photos just a couple of minutes ago,

01:30:08 ◼   ► I do think that Apple views itself as a software company first and that the hardware is just

01:30:14 ◼   ► a means to an end that the iPhone is what it is so iOS can be what it is.

01:30:21 ◼   ► For a software company they really treat their hardware well.

01:30:25 ◼   ► It's not like that they're just kind of like, "We just make a phone."

01:30:30 ◼   ► Like, "Look at the diamond cut chamfer edge."

01:30:34 ◼   ► And I'm not saying it's not a criticism.

01:30:37 ◼   ► It's just interesting.

01:30:38 ◼   ► Like a company...

01:30:39 ◼   ► Because you know, arguably at the moment they're doing hardware better than software.

01:30:47 ◼   ► People don't complain about the way that their iPhones are put together as much as they complain

01:30:51 ◼   ► about the way that their phones crash.

01:30:58 ◼   ► Yeah, and I think maybe a more appropriate way of saying it now is that Apple is a user

01:31:04 ◼   ► experience company that it is even like again with photos Apple is trying to

01:31:12 ◼   ► blur the lines between software and service that you don't really know where

01:31:16 ◼   ► the application ends and the cloud begins and while I might have issues

01:31:19 ◼   ► with that at times it's hard to argue that it is a bad thing in the grand

01:31:26 ◼   ► scheme of things to to merge services and software and I think Apple very

01:31:31 ◼   ► clearly their stuff works better when you have iCloud turned on or you know

01:31:36 ◼   ► same way that Android works a lot better if you have a Google account so that's a

01:31:39 ◼   ► trend overall in the industry but I think Apple is out there in front. It

01:31:45 ◼   ► jumped out at me in reading the transcript because it's it's something

01:31:49 ◼   ► that that Jobs said it's old Alan Kay quote that if you want to be serious

01:31:53 ◼   ► about or if you want to write your own software you have to be serious about

01:31:56 ◼   ► hardware. Tim should have called you for the historian. I think it's interesting. I

01:32:00 ◼   ► I think it's easier to test hardware than it is to put together good software.

01:32:06 ◼   ► Oh for sure. I mean I was kind of poking fun, but like it's just an interesting thing that I find that yes, I agree

01:32:14 ◼   ► they're a software company, but like

01:32:16 ◼   ► the hardware is not... it's not like as a software company

01:32:21 ◼   ► they don't care about hardware, you know, because they clearly do because they go to much larger lengths than anybody else.

01:32:28 ◼   ► That was kind of my point and then I was kind of poking fun.

01:32:31 ◼   ► I think people would be really really concerned if Apple's hardware starting to be of lesser quality,

01:32:40 ◼   ► you know, like if iPhones started... not the stupid gates that there are every year.

01:32:46 ◼   ► Like if iPhones started to like to, you know, to have like cracked screens for no reasons or

01:32:53 ◼   ► like

01:32:55 ◼   ► Yeah, but for real like like it would be that would be a problem because people just expect the Apple

01:33:02 ◼   ► hardware to be

01:33:05 ◼   ► To be I guess that it's not a something you need to worry about

01:33:09 ◼   ► Even if people even if people buy a lot of iPhone cases

01:33:14 ◼   ► That's another another thing. I noticed all like I bought a case myself eventually

01:33:23 ◼   ► People really protect their Apple hardware, I think

01:33:26 ◼   ► But you have an iPhone case on now about this you mentioned it on Twitter

01:33:34 ◼   ► No, I did you you badger me on where's my phone I believe you said as Joe no, no, I changed my mark

01:33:43 ◼   ► I never told you this

01:33:45 ◼   ► This is serious

01:33:49 ◼   ► So

01:33:53 ◼   ► Yeah, basically after long consideration, the phone inside the case is ugly.

01:34:02 ◼   ► It's so, like, I don't see the phone and I'm sad.

01:34:06 ◼   ► And I'm resisting the temptation of holding my phone as Johnny I've intended.

01:34:15 ◼   ► Basically my problem is that I'm too clumsy.

01:34:17 ◼   ► I was dropping my iPhone 6 consistently almost every day.

01:34:23 ◼   ► So in spite of my philosophical belief that phones, and especially iPhones, should be

01:34:34 ◼   ► naked as men are when they come into this world.

01:34:41 ◼   ► In spite of that, I had to put my phone in the case.

01:34:50 ◼   ► Also like people, we wear clothes.

01:34:54 ◼   ► You know?

01:34:55 ◼   ► Yeah, that's that.

01:34:57 ◼   ► Come on.

01:34:59 ◼   ► Why do you need to be so...

01:35:02 ◼   ► What's a good objective for you, Michael?

01:35:05 ◼   ► Precise?

01:35:06 ◼   ► Yeah, we'll go with that.

01:35:08 ◼   ► That's a better one.

01:35:09 ◼   ► Are you a precise person?

01:35:10 ◼   ► Okay, yeah.

01:35:11 ◼   ► trying to be polite, you know? So I put my phone in the case because otherwise I don't

01:35:16 ◼   ► want to, you know, throw my money out of the window. It's like this thing, this 64 iPhone

01:35:23 ◼   ► 6 cost me like 800 euros, probably more. Yes, that's like with the new dollar exchange rates.

01:35:32 ◼   ► like yes that's like a trillion dollars.

01:35:35 ◼   ► Benjamin's dollars and so I still I disagree with myself basically did the

01:35:44 ◼   ► phone exactly in this thing I bought a silicon case an Apple silicon case

01:35:50 ◼   ► because I like the Apple logo. What color? Black I think dark space gray

01:35:56 ◼   ► whatever, black. And I don't like it but I had to. But my point is that people

01:36:07 ◼   ► really use their imagination when they buy iPhone cases. And I saw people with

01:36:13 ◼   ► iPhones inside like cases with all with whole like structures on them like

01:36:22 ◼   ► little objects popping out of the case like bunny ears. Have you ever seen this?

01:36:30 ◼   ► I've seen bunny ear iPhone cases a lot.

01:36:32 ◼   ► Yes, and there's like cases with whole stuff going on, you know? There's like themed cases.

01:36:42 ◼   ► You should get a color, you should get a color man, it improves your life.

01:36:46 ◼   ► That's too crazy.

01:36:47 ◼   ► I got a red one and I love it.

01:36:49 ◼   ► No, I'm not a color guy.

01:36:54 ◼   ► I like...

01:36:57 ◼   ► What about an Apple Watch case?

01:36:59 ◼   ► It kind of snaps on around.

01:37:01 ◼   ► So basically, yes, Steven, I have my phone in the case and I feel like a terrible person.

01:37:07 ◼   ► I feel terrible for this.

01:37:09 ◼   ► Because my friends are like, "Oh, you put the other one in the case."

01:37:13 ◼   ► Because I made fun of my friends, you know, for years.

01:37:17 ◼   ► yeah yeah well the six is slippery it's just like a little stone I think also growing up

01:37:24 ◼   ► I have become more it's no good inefficient at using my hands in general I'm so sorry

01:37:32 ◼   ► I'm already here.

01:37:33 ◼   ► That's really rough.

01:37:34 ◼   ► You should go to the hospital.

01:37:35 ◼   ► I mean, handling objects, okay?

01:37:36 ◼   ► I think we're done.

01:37:37 ◼   ► I think we're done.

01:37:38 ◼   ► So yes, I bought a case.

01:37:54 ◼   ► The case of the teachers.

01:37:56 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:37:57 ◼   ► Do we have anything more?

01:37:58 ◼   ► Do we have... are we done?

01:38:00 ◼   ► We are...

01:38:01 ◼   ► Can I do one more Tim Cook quote?

01:38:06 ◼   ► We'll skip the rest of it.

01:38:07 ◼   ► It's fine.

01:38:08 ◼   ► He talks about China and Apple Pay and lots of other things.

01:38:10 ◼   ► But he says, "Five years ago, we were less than a billion dollars in revenue.

01:38:13 ◼   ► In the last 12 months, we were at 38 billion."

01:38:17 ◼   ► That's insane.

01:38:18 ◼   ► Right?

01:38:19 ◼   ► That's the whole thing.

01:38:20 ◼   ► Isn't that the amount of money?

01:38:22 ◼   ► Like it's just...

01:38:23 ◼   ► You might as well just say, "And we made good Liberty jibbit."

01:38:27 ◼   ► Like it doesn't even mean anything anymore.

01:38:29 ◼   ► It's so much money.

01:38:31 ◼   ► It's just an inconceivable amount of money.

01:38:34 ◼   ► Imagine the iCloud storage they could give to people.

01:38:38 ◼   ► Exactly.

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