545: Initially, I Was Happy
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Hello and welcome to Connected episode 545 for March 26th, 2025. Sometimes we say the date, sometimes we don't. It's kind of confusing. My name is Stephen Hackett and I'm joined by my friend and yours, our annual chairman, Mr. Federico Patigi.
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Oh, thank you. Thank you. Hello. Hi, Stephen. How are you?
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I am good. You doing all right?
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I am doing fantastic today.
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I'm really, really happy to do the show with you. I'm bringing a fun topic that we'll talk about. Actually, two fun topics that we'll talk about later. So yeah, I'm good.
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Yeah, you got some great stuff in here, but we're going to start with follow-up because that's what you do at the beginning of a tech podcast in our universe.
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Talking about the rumored design of the next generation of iPhones with that camera bar across the top of the Pro phones.
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Evan and many others, I'm giving Evan credit because Evan was first.
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Evan said, I've always assumed, but haven't heard podcasts mentioned, that the extra space will be filled with camera improvements.
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The telephoto lens in particular would benefit from a deeper area to run its tetraprism design across.
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I don't see Apple adding extra weight and dimension to the phone needlessly.
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And this does, this is me, not Evan.
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There is a rumor that the telephoto camera on the Pros will go to 48 megapickles up from the 12 that it is now, which would be awesome.
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And so maybe they need that extra space for like the 48 megapickle.
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I know I said it wrong, so I'm just staying with it now.
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That sensor will be physically bigger than the 12, I think.
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And so maybe they've got to shift it over or maybe they want to have even further zoom.
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But in addition to the area, like it gives them depth, right?
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Like the depth of the phone is really what limits the cameras.
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That's why we have the camera bumps to begin with.
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And so maybe this gives them more space in there.
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But I do agree with Evan.
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I don't think they would do this just as a design feature.
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Like if these phones come out and iFixit cracks it open on day two and there's like nothing in there or like there's no clear reason that that camera bar exists on the Pro phones, I would be surprised.
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So but help me understand something.
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So are we thinking that the Tetra Prism design will like, when Evan mentioned, runs across the area, like are we saying that Apple is going to extend that camera system like horizontal?
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Actually, across the surface of the camera bump?
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Like, is that the idea?
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Like a periscope lens.
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Well, that's something I was not thinking about.
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That's interesting.
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You can do that?
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I mean, I think some of the other phones that have the periscope lens, like it's more, you know, sort of long and skinny.
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The Tetra Prism that Apple designed, you know, the light bounces around a few times.
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And it may be that if they stretch that design now and it has fewer bounces or turns of the light, maybe the quality is better.
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Maybe it's the layout just has to change if they go up in density on the sensor.
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But it's definitely interesting to consider that what Apple could do with that that extra volume in the phone.
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Interesting.
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Well, I was not I was not considering this option.
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And then we have to talk about the iPhone Mesa.
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An anonymous.
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Anonymous listener wrote in and said, I worked on some Apple commercials a few years back, a few years back.
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At that time, Apple internally referred to the physical camera area of the phone as the, quote, camera plateau.
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And discussing on how they wanted the product to appear.
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This name, of course, never appears in public facing documentation, but it was their, quote, official name inside the company.
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So my question to you, Federico, Plateau or Mesa?
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Plateau, because more people understand it, because it's also the name of the great plateau in The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
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So I think Mesa is just a name that, you know, people want to use because they think they sound fancy.
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You know, you know, a lot of people, a lot of people in the Apple community have Apple marketing syndrome in which they think they work at Apple marketing and they can come up with nicknames because they have been imbued with the culture of Apple marketing.
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Plateau is a name that more people understand.
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And I think it's a more reasonable name.
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I love the feedback.
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That's awesome.
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We got some follow out.
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That's where we tell you to go listen to other shows when you're done with this one.
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Episode 428 of App Stories was a special one.
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Will you tell us about it?
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Yeah, we had, you know, this guy, Mark Gurman.
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I don't know if you've heard of him.
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We're going to talk about him again in a minute.
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The sheriff has been, you know, on App Stories.
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We talked to Mark about his Apple reporting career, how he got started.
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You may not know that Mark actually started making dashboard widgets.
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That's really cool.
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When he was in high school.
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And then, obviously, you know, when he started reporting rumors for 9to5Mac and the move to Bloomberg in 2016 and sort of like what the Apple rumor industry looks like today.
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You know, all those things.
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And I think it's been an interesting conversation with Mark, especially, you know, sort of talking to the person instead of the byline that you see on Bloomberg necessarily, like actually getting to ask Mark, you know, how do you actually get your work done?
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What is, you know, how do you make a decision as to whether you want to report on something that you heard or not?
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And those were like, you know, I asked Mark, hey, what do you think of this new generation of leakers that you see this?
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Like, it was a fun conversation.
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And so, yeah, I'm really happy that we were able to have that episode with Mark.
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Yeah, I thought it was great.
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I really enjoyed the interview.
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I think what was most interesting to me is that he writes in the CMS.
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Like, Mark, don't do that.
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That's a terrible idea.
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Like, don't write in the CMS.
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I was also surprised that he's been at Bloomberg for nine years.
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Like, that feels new to me.
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I know, right?
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It feels like, I don't know, three years, but no, it's one.
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But no, it was great.
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We're going to talk about some more German stuff in a second.
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But congratulations on the interview.
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Got a great job with it.
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I was on Upgrade episode 556 that came out on Monday.
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Mike, of course, is still on paternity leave.
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And so, Jason has had people filling in.
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I've got to say, I love being on Upgrade.
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Like, Jason and I don't get to talk about tech very often in public.
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I mean, we talk about it privately.
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And Upgrade is just such a great show.
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And so, we talked about a bunch of stuff.
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He's been on a bit of a journey with some TV streaming stuff.
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We talked about that.
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We talked about some rumors and some legal stuff.
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It was a lot of fun.
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So, Upgrade 556 and App Stories 428 both get the seal of approval this week.
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It is the end of March, and that means WWDC dates are here.
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Apple Newsroom yesterday announced that WWDC 25 will be the week of June 9th.
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So the second full week of June running through the 13th.
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And it is going to follow the template set kind of in this post-COVID era, right?
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So the keynote and a few specific things on campus are a small number of people, but the rest of the conference will be online.
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And there was some talk.
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I don't think we got to it on the show.
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It was like one of those things that was like in my notes and just never made it.
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But a feeling of like if Apple was going to return to the in-person conference, like this year may be a really good year for it, like vibe-wise, like to kind of bolster the community.
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They did not take advantage of that, but it's going to be the way it's been.
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And don't get me wrong, there are lots of positives, I think, to the current sort of version of WWDC.
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The main one being is it's accessible to everyone and the content's out there basically immediately for everybody, right?
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Like they drop a bunch of videos at a set time each morning.
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And then if you're a developer, I think they've used Slack in the past for like one-on-ones and you can, you know, meet with Apple experts.
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So, so yeah, June 9th through 13th, we're going to talk in a minute about some of the things we expect to be there.
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But of course, we'll be doing our Rickies episode on June 4th.
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So be sure to take off work in preparation for that.
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Prepare yourselves for the Rickies.
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So the, the question for me is, what are our plans?
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Are you, are you going to go?
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I don't know.
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I, I don't know because like, I would love to go and see people, right?
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See people like you or John or developers or folks that I know at Apple.
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My, honestly, like my main issue right now is the idea of traveling to the United States as a European.
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It's complicated.
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And the idea of potentially someone, you know, at the border, you know, looking at my social media history and determining, oh, we think this guy is not a friend of the U.S. government.
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And potentially something happening to me because of that, like, it doesn't sound great, you know, it, uh, I don't, I don't want to be arrested for doing nothing.
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Do you know, I, it goes without saying, uh, uh, like I, I, I love traveling to the United States.
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I, I love what I've seen in the United States.
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I have my closest friend, my business partner, they're all in the United States.
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I have a, uh, uh, yeah, we run an American company.
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We pay taxes in America.
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And yet here we are.
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It, it, it doesn't sound like a great prospect right now to just say blindly, yeah, I'm going to America.
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You know, sight unseen.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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No, I, I totally get it.
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And if you are part of the population that our current government doesn't like, uh, it's, it's genuinely scary.
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So I totally get that.
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I've had that conversation with several people, uh, that, that don't feel comfortable coming in right now.
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For me, I'm already here and my plan is to go if I have a press invitation, which I had for years, I did not get one last year, which was disappointing.
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Um, so I have a refundable hotel room, but no flights.
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And if a, if, uh, Apple PR smiles upon me, uh, my plan is to be there, but if not, I will cover it from home.
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And that's, uh, that's the plan.
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And Mike's busy.
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Mike's got a baby.
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He's not going.
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But, uh, that all, that all said, it's kind of dumb to read too much into Apple invite art, but let's do it.
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I think we should do it.
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Yes, we are dumb.
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It's a, yes.
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Um, we can, we can just say it.
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So you look at the WWDC 2025 logo, right?
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There is a colorful element, right?
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And there is a 25, uh, the number two and the number five, uh, with a sort of frosted glass
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light appearance going on.
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Basically almost looks, and it's got a bit of depth.
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It's got a bit of shadows.
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It looks like the light mode equivalent of the vision OS UI.
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And I'll give you one more, Steven.
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I'll give you one more.
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If you zoom in on the WWDC 2025 logo and you zoom in on the numbers.
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Oh, those are actually zooming on the numbers.
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Those are actually 3D.
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You see, there's actually 3D objects.
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There's like a, there's like a lip on the left side.
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And pay especially close attention to the number two.
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It reflects the colors of the WWDC logo next to it.
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Yes, it does.
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And you know, what's the other operating system that sort of has windows that reflect and
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cast off light and shadows?
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Wait, not Vista.
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No, absolutely correct.
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It's Windows Vista.
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So, I mean, it's dumb to, to try and predict to where Apple is going design wise by looking
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at a logo for WWDC.
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But then again, but then again, but then again, why not?
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It's right there.
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It's right there.
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I got a couple of things to add.
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I hate how they squished the two W's together.
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Like it doesn't even look like a letter.
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It's like three V's.
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V, V, V, V, D, C.
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V, V, V, oh wait, is V, V, V, V?
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That's like an, um, V, V, V is an old like Roman history thing from, is there another thing
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that Caesar said
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I conquered?
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the developer conference.
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Is that what,
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is that the message
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Apple wants to send
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to the community
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I'm just asking.
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we're just going
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to talk over it,
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but like my generator
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So if you can hear it,
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that's why we recorded
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late the other day.
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There's a guy
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here working on it.
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I can't do anything
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the reflection stuff
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is super interesting
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and I wouldn't normally
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read into it
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except that we have
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all these rumors
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that macOS and iOS
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is going to have
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some Vision OS
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sort of mixed into it
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that's really interesting
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and that brings us
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to the dueling rumors.
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There are few things
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than covering Apple
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report rumors
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disagree with each other.
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It's just so much fun
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because you get to pick sides
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and, you know,
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see who's going to win.
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Yeah, I love it.
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I love it, yeah.
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So let me walk you
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through the timeline.
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remember him?
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He shaved his eyebrows
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when he was wrong
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about something
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and I think he was the one
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who said there were
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going to be Steve Jobs
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limited edition
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vision glasses
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or something.
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Sorry, I think you mean
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Heritage Edition?
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Yes, I'm sorry.
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Yeah, that'll be in the show notes
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because we've got to be thorough.
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So Prosser for a while
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has said that this is going
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to be in the works
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early on that honestly
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I liked the way they looked
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on his podcast
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had some screenshots
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it was actually running
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it's kind of unclear
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the messages app
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this round racked
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around the keyboard
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and the buttons
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have circles around them
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so buttons look like
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buttons again
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but honestly
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when I saw it
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that's honestly
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a little disappointing
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like that's not
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sort of the big
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sweeping change
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that Gurman said
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was going to be coming
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and then Gurman comes out
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and was like
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hey those designs
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that are quote
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floating around
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are very old builds
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or based on like
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descriptions
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someone heard
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and aren't really
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what Apple is
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is going to do
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and on his Discord
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he, referring to Prosser
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either has very old screenshots
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or hasn't seen
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the real thing
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you put all this together
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I don't think
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you would lose points
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in the rickies
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there's going to be
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a redesign coming
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that seems pretty
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pretty obvious
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at this point
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Gurman didn't
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oh those screenshots
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are completely wrong
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this looks like
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and you know
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that Prosser did
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like he was talking
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to his co-host
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hey do you want
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to see a screenshot
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a screenshot
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I'm willing to bet
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that it's not like
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an actual screenshot
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you can obviously tell
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that it's a mock-up
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the quick type
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corrections above
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the keyboard
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front page tech
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which is the name
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of Prosser's channel
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it is a mock-up
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it's not a screenshot
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is not saying
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this is completely
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this is totally wrong
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it's not what
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it's going to look like
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I think the next few months
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are going to be interesting
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I want to see
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Apple in 2025
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especially when it comes
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is a company
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something that I want
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to keep an eye on
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under pressure
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like it or not
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do they have more people
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than in the past
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do you remember
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like the photos
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like right before
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I'm trying to
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Google as I talk
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we're going to see
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more of this
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before it's over
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I download blog
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so Sonny Dixon
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there's lots
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about right now
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in the Apple
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assuming they
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don't blow it
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in particular
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the way this
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and honestly
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making buttons
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look like buttons
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like some of
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that could be
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on the iPhone
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in particular
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as a computer
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you will hear
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more and more
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on this show
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this is gonna
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this is gonna
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multiple things
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I'm bringing
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so the first
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for the past
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I've been using
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started using
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just the base
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set up about
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and that I've
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them related
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to automation
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different kinds
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of automation
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and I kind of
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wanted to talk
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obviously gonna
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proper article
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this Android
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mentioned on
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mentioned on
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small tablet
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but obviously
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watching some
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and typically
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them somewhere
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because obviously
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shortcuts on
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figured out a
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more powerful
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than shortcuts
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played around
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with all due
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the quintessential
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user friendliness
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and just how
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and how you're
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supposed to set
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and workflows
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bring myself
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more complex
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it's basically
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the Mac Mini
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always there
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from Android
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the terminal
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automatically
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a transcript
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that transcript
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just because
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with automations
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and shortcuts
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something that
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because like
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automatically
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reorganization
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been sending
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these plugins
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I don't know
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makes me feel
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better about
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I would have to
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like grab my
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this episode
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of Connected
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feature where
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on conversation
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starts giving
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really useful
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for brainstorming
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and it helps
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microbiology
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conversation
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usually when
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doing chores
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just to paint
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you're driving
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yeah you got
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some dashboard
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confessional
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music playing
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but then you
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have a thought
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and then you
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happens next
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like if you've
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dogs part of
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management system
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i feel a little
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weird about that
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it all started
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you know i did
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experiment about a
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month ago and i
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used this app on
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my iphone called
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super whisper
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which is also on
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the mac obviously
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on the mac it
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does a whole
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it's a it's a
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it's a really cool
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app it's got
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dictation it's
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using like this
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new ai models
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for transcription
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like incredible
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potential for like
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even people with
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disabilities for
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example like the
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it's got it's got
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dictation that
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like doesn't it
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doesn't care if
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you stutter if
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you pause if you
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lose your train of
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thought like it
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keeps listening and
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transcribes everything
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it's incredible
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i did this on the
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you know it's
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kind of awkward
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like if my phone
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is in my pocket
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pocket and i'm
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driving gotta
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i gotta get my
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phone from the
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pocket or if
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i'm doing chores
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around the house
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and like you
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know i'm i don't
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know i'm doing
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something i gotta
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keep my phone in
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my hand when i'm
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doing something it's
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kind of awkward
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so i i recently
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started having this
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thought that sort
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of became an
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obsession um like
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what are the best
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dictation very
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simple question
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like what are the
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best earbuds that
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i can get to get
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like a really
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good recording
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by the way this
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brainstorming like
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it could be that
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i'm thinking out
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loud about a
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shortcuts problem
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making a list of
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the things that i
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gotta do tomorrow
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like that sort of
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thing like i'm
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just talking out
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loud about work
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and you want the
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cleanest capture of
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so the robot has
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the best thing to
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cleanest possible
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version so that
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the ai would have
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a good place to
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i tested the
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airpods 4 and
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before i sold
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them the airpods
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realized that i
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realized that they
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kind of suck for
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for dictation
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like when you
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record yourself
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and you know it
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shouldn't have been
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a surprise given
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how you know when
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you are on a zoom
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call people tell
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you are you wearing
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airpods because
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like you can tell
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you can tell when
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you can tell when
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somebody's wearing
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airpods because
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they don't have
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great microphones
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they they they
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they sound like
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they're far away
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they sound robotic
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they have all kinds
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of compression
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they're very bad
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so you know me
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i started this wrong
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this long research
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phase with which
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mostly consisted of
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like purchasing
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earbuds testing
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them for two days
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and returning them
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and starting the
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starting the process
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over and over
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so i i i started
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testing a bunch
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started with the
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google pixel
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uh these are
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just as bad as
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the apple airpods
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uh first of all
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google doesn't
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make a version
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yeah they're just
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like so i was not
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a fan i was like
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okay i'll try them
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but the microphone
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quality is not
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it's you know
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same issues as
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airpods 4 and
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the airpods pro 2
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cuts off some
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like they were
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not to be trusted
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with like here
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by the way we're
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talking for like
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recordings of
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minutes all right
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so long sessions
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started watching
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some can you
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believe it steven
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that there are
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people on youtube
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that do tier lists
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of earbuds when it
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comes to call
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quality that's a
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thing that's perfect
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uh i saw the
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samsung galaxy
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these are the
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airpods clones
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that are like
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what they have
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stem to them
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uh they also
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have in-ear tips
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and they are
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not that much
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the mic is not
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you know set
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aside the fact
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like they're
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kind of weird
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that angular
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microphone is
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absolute winner
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when it comes
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will surprise
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these earbuds
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for recordings
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because they
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i don't know
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to make this
00:40:54
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sound so good
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but believe me
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when it comes
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to recording
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you're looking
00:41:07
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for bluetooth
00:41:09
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that are good
00:41:11
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for recordings
00:41:12
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that's right
00:41:13
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recommendation
00:41:18
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these things
00:41:23
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yeah they're
00:41:23
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cool looking
00:41:28
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page the link
00:41:29
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and you scroll
00:41:32
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looks like a
00:41:37
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everywhere now
00:41:39
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yeah so these
00:41:40
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these are good
00:41:41
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actually give
00:41:51
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our document
00:41:53
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giant however
00:42:01
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already mentioned
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had in-ear tips
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because like
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using carplay
00:42:21
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using android
00:42:23
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reasons that
00:42:24
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will be clear
00:42:25
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the you know
00:42:26
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teaching changing
00:42:27
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as a computer
00:42:35
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super whisper
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android auto
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that point they
00:42:42
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completely ignore
00:42:43
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the fact that
00:42:45
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earbuds they
00:42:46
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just default to
00:42:49
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which defeats
00:42:53
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whole purpose
00:42:57
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finally have
00:42:57
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earbuds that
00:42:59
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record me with
00:43:03
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and i started
00:43:04
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i listened to
00:43:05
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my recording
00:43:07
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this recorded
00:43:09
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microphone which
00:43:12
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was actually
00:43:14
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it was still
00:43:15
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defeating the
00:43:16
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what i wanted
00:43:20
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either carplay
00:43:24
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particular app
00:43:27
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microphone of
00:43:34
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back to square
00:43:35
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one gotta do
00:43:36
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more research
00:43:37
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more research
00:43:38
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eventually we
00:43:40
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got to a few
00:43:42
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mind you this
00:43:43
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has been going
00:43:44
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two to three
00:43:45
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you're opening
00:43:46
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their bud you're
00:43:52
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was kind of i
00:43:53
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was like i was
00:43:54
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about to give up
00:43:54
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on this idea
00:43:57
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landed on the
00:43:58
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another chinese
00:44:00
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xiaomi website
00:44:04
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turns out they've
00:44:06
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earbuds right
00:44:07
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uh they're called
00:44:09
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the xiaomi buds
00:44:11
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specifically with
00:44:14
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so the apparently
00:44:15
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they've been making
00:44:16
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five of them
00:44:17
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uh so this is
00:44:18
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the fifth the
00:44:20
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there are both
00:44:25
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both of both
00:44:27
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support what i
00:44:30
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genius feature
00:44:33
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convinced more
00:44:34
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companies including
00:44:35
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apple will copy
00:44:37
◼
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at some point
00:44:38
◼
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obvious i wonder
00:44:41
◼
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why didn't i think
00:44:42
◼
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of searching for
00:44:43
◼
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these earbuds
00:44:45
◼
►
allow you to
00:44:47
◼
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triple click
00:44:51
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a local voice
00:45:08
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of local voice
00:45:15
◼
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either choose
00:45:19
◼
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actually even
00:45:37
◼
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available both
00:45:38
◼
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and on android
00:45:45
◼
►
can transfer
00:45:51
◼
►
whatever you
00:45:56
◼
►
i'll leave you
00:46:07
◼
►
only version
00:46:11
◼
►
wifi version
00:46:13
◼
►
wifi earbuds
00:46:14
◼
►
that's starting
00:46:16
◼
►
thing apparently
00:46:17
◼
►
you get much
00:46:18
◼
►
greater bandwidth
00:46:21
◼
►
greater power
00:46:23
◼
►
so this is a
00:46:24
◼
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thing called
00:46:25
◼
►
qualcomm thing
00:46:26
◼
►
this actually
00:46:27
◼
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was announced
00:46:28
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►
ago and it's
00:46:29
◼
►
only sort of
00:46:30
◼
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like a thing
00:46:32
◼
►
now it's called
00:46:33
◼
►
snapdragon sound
00:46:36
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►
of like what
00:46:36
◼
►
apple has been
00:46:37
◼
►
airpods when
00:46:38
◼
►
airpods with
00:46:39
◼
►
apple products
00:46:40
◼
►
it's not like
00:46:40
◼
►
plain vanilla
00:46:41
◼
►
bluetooth it's
00:46:42
◼
►
like actually
00:46:43
◼
►
these are using
00:46:44
◼
►
wi-fi between
00:46:46
◼
►
so far you can
00:46:48
◼
►
phones you can
00:46:50
◼
►
advantage of
00:46:50
◼
►
the buds 5 pro
00:46:53
◼
►
costs more than
00:46:55
◼
►
the bluetooth
00:46:55
◼
►
model only if
00:46:57
◼
►
xiaomi ultra
00:47:00
◼
►
i think it's
00:47:00
◼
►
called so yeah
00:47:02
◼
►
it's very much
00:47:03
◼
►
proprietary to
00:47:04
◼
►
ecosystem but
00:47:09
◼
►
so happy the
00:47:12
◼
►
the equivalent
00:47:14
◼
►
airpods 4 in
00:47:22
◼
►
the same the
00:47:23
◼
►
same design of
00:47:25
◼
►
they support
00:47:28
◼
►
noise cancellation
00:47:30
◼
►
cancellation even
00:47:34
◼
►
record audio
00:47:38
◼
►
testing this
00:47:40
◼
►
it's incredible
00:47:43
◼
►
the recording
00:47:45
◼
►
quality that i
00:47:47
◼
►
get from the
00:47:50
◼
►
as the quality
00:47:53
◼
►
wi-fi earbuds
00:47:56
◼
►
get in my car
00:47:57
◼
►
start driving
00:48:04
◼
►
triple click
00:48:09
◼
►
independently
00:48:14
◼
►
triple click
00:48:15
◼
►
the recording
00:48:24
◼
►
dream realized
00:48:30
◼
►
what i've read
00:48:31
◼
►
online don't
00:48:34
◼
►
same microphone
00:48:35
◼
►
system i think
00:48:37
◼
►
my understanding
00:48:37
◼
►
is that it's
00:48:38
◼
►
slightly worse
00:48:39
◼
►
even just from
00:48:40
◼
►
the fact that
00:48:41
◼
►
has microphones
00:48:42
◼
►
that can cancel
00:48:46
◼
►
resistance up
00:48:48
◼
►
second whereas
00:48:52
◼
►
resistance up
00:48:55
◼
►
reduction is
00:48:56
◼
►
measured i've
00:49:00
◼
►
would imagine
00:49:03
◼
►
basically measuring
00:49:04
◼
►
the strength
00:49:06
◼
►
that's that's
00:49:06
◼
►
what it looks
00:49:11
◼
►
second approximately
00:49:14
◼
►
that's pretty
00:49:17
◼
►
you couldn't
00:49:18
◼
►
i mean if you
00:49:19
◼
►
couldn't drive
00:49:20
◼
►
windows down
00:49:21
◼
►
i don't think
00:49:24
◼
►
if you're just
00:49:25
◼
►
walking around
00:49:25
◼
►
and it's breezy
00:49:26
◼
►
it should sound
00:49:27
◼
►
perfect yeah
00:49:33
◼
►
tested this this
00:49:34
◼
►
week i think
00:49:35
◼
►
out of curiosity
00:49:36
◼
►
i will place an
00:49:38
◼
►
order for the
00:49:38
◼
►
buds 5 pro even
00:49:40
◼
►
though they do
00:49:41
◼
►
have the in-ear
00:49:42
◼
►
dislike yeah i
00:49:43
◼
►
just want to i
00:49:44
◼
►
just want to i
00:49:44
◼
►
just want to
00:49:45
◼
►
test for myself
00:49:46
◼
►
how big of a
00:49:47
◼
►
difference they
00:49:47
◼
►
have in terms
00:49:48
◼
►
of microphones
00:49:49
◼
►
this far you
00:49:50
◼
►
might as well
00:49:51
◼
►
i'm exactly so
00:49:53
◼
►
now now i was
00:49:56
◼
►
at this fork in
00:49:57
◼
►
the road either i
00:49:59
◼
►
could only record
00:50:02
◼
►
with excellent
00:50:03
◼
►
quality on the
00:50:05
◼
►
huawei earbuds
00:50:06
◼
►
but that would
00:50:08
◼
►
have meant no
00:50:10
◼
►
earbuds in the
00:50:11
◼
►
car because it
00:50:13
◼
►
wouldn't work
00:50:13
◼
►
or get worse
00:50:18
◼
►
quality with the
00:50:23
◼
►
you're able to
00:50:24
◼
►
record in the
00:50:24
◼
►
car because they
00:50:26
◼
►
are completely
00:50:26
◼
►
independent from
00:50:27
◼
►
your phone i
00:50:30
◼
►
decided to go
00:50:30
◼
►
with the second
00:50:31
◼
►
one obviously
00:50:32
◼
►
because i just
00:50:33
◼
►
i i love the
00:50:34
◼
►
idea of recording
00:50:36
◼
►
something with
00:50:38
◼
►
itself like i
00:50:39
◼
►
think that's such
00:50:40
◼
►
clever idea that
00:50:42
◼
►
everybody to
00:50:43
◼
►
steal like i
00:50:45
◼
►
would love to
00:50:45
◼
►
do this with
00:50:46
◼
►
airpods at some
00:50:47
◼
►
point but and
00:50:49
◼
►
this is where i
00:50:50
◼
►
will leave you
00:50:51
◼
►
today steven with
00:50:52
◼
►
a bit of a teaser
00:50:53
◼
►
the files that i
00:50:55
◼
►
was getting from
00:50:57
◼
►
from the xiaomi
00:50:59
◼
►
earbuds app they
00:51:02
◼
►
had a whole bunch
00:51:03
◼
►
of noise they were
00:51:04
◼
►
not as clear as the
00:51:06
◼
►
audio recordings from
00:51:07
◼
►
earbuds okay
00:51:08
◼
►
and they were
00:51:11
◼
►
saved to m4a
00:51:23
◼
►
for example i
00:51:24
◼
►
have a bunch of
00:51:24
◼
►
shortcuts that deal
00:51:25
◼
►
with transcribing
00:51:29
◼
►
and they were
00:51:32
◼
►
just giving me
00:51:33
◼
►
an error because
00:51:34
◼
►
that they said
00:51:35
◼
►
though this this
00:51:36
◼
►
file format is not
00:51:36
◼
►
supported so i
00:51:39
◼
►
again did more
00:51:41
◼
►
research and i
00:51:43
◼
►
found another task
00:51:44
◼
►
for the mac mini
00:51:45
◼
►
i created a system
00:51:49
◼
►
so now follow me
00:51:51
◼
►
here because we're
00:51:51
◼
►
going to talk about
00:51:52
◼
►
this in the future
00:51:52
◼
►
this is just a
00:51:53
◼
►
teaser i created a
00:51:55
◼
►
system where i
00:51:57
◼
►
import the audio
00:51:59
◼
►
file from the
00:52:02
◼
►
there's only one
00:52:03
◼
►
thing i need to
00:52:04
◼
►
do take this
00:52:06
◼
►
file share it
00:52:07
◼
►
with the share
00:52:08
◼
►
sheet and save
00:52:09
◼
►
it in a folder
00:52:10
◼
►
of my google
00:52:11
◼
►
drive that's all
00:52:13
◼
►
i need to do
00:52:13
◼
►
on the mac mini
00:52:15
◼
►
there's a hazel
00:52:18
◼
►
automation that
00:52:19
◼
►
runs first and
00:52:25
◼
►
commands there
00:52:33
◼
►
runs a neural
00:52:36
◼
►
apply a filter
00:52:37
◼
►
to the audio
00:52:41
◼
►
cleans up the
00:52:42
◼
►
audio recorded
00:52:43
◼
►
from the xiaomi
00:52:44
◼
►
earbuds then
00:52:46
◼
►
and we'll get
00:52:48
◼
►
into the details
00:52:48
◼
►
of this workflow
00:52:49
◼
►
maybe in a future
00:52:50
◼
►
episode then it
00:52:53
◼
►
shortcut the
00:52:54
◼
►
shortcut uses
00:52:55
◼
►
ai to analyze
00:53:01
◼
►
comes up with
00:53:05
◼
►
and identifies
00:53:09
◼
►
conversation that
00:53:11
◼
►
mentioned things
00:53:12
◼
►
that are supposed
00:53:13
◼
►
actionable tasks
00:53:15
◼
►
like if i say
00:53:16
◼
►
things like i
00:53:20
◼
►
understands if
00:53:21
◼
►
there are items
00:53:22
◼
►
actually tasks
00:53:32
◼
►
the embedded
00:53:35
◼
►
the actionable
00:53:40
◼
►
listen back to
00:53:47
◼
►
just happens
00:53:52
◼
►
google drive
00:53:57
◼
►
dashboard in
00:53:57
◼
►
obsidian and
00:53:58
◼
►
everything is
00:54:06
◼
►
that's part of
00:54:09
◼
►
trying to still
00:54:10
◼
►
trying to wrap
00:54:10
◼
►
my head around
00:54:11
◼
►
you're in the
00:54:18
◼
►
you say some
00:54:18
◼
►
things you've
00:54:22
◼
►
file transferred
00:54:26
◼
►
gets pulled to
00:54:27
◼
►
a mac mini in
00:54:28
◼
►
which cleans
00:54:30
◼
►
up the audio
00:54:31
◼
►
transcribes the
00:54:32
◼
►
audio and you
00:54:33
◼
►
get it all back
00:54:34
◼
►
in your obsidian
00:54:35
◼
►
vault on your
00:54:37
◼
►
right that's
00:54:38
◼
►
right within
00:54:40
◼
►
minutes it's
00:54:42
◼
►
converting the
00:54:43
◼
►
audio denoising
00:54:49
◼
►
transcription app
00:54:51
◼
►
mini the text
00:54:53
◼
►
transcription app
00:54:56
◼
►
complex claude
00:54:57
◼
►
prompt that i
00:55:01
◼
►
that it comes
00:55:02
◼
►
title with a
00:55:03
◼
►
with actionable
00:55:04
◼
►
items identified
00:55:06
◼
►
conversation and
00:55:08
◼
►
everything is put
00:55:08
◼
►
together in an
00:55:09
◼
►
obsidian template
00:55:10
◼
►
saved into my
00:55:12
◼
►
obsidian vault as
00:55:13
◼
►
a markdown file
00:55:15
◼
►
dashboard note in
00:55:17
◼
►
have a i have a
00:55:19
◼
►
data view query
00:55:20
◼
►
that shows me all
00:55:22
◼
►
the voice recordings
00:55:23
◼
►
that i recently
00:55:24
◼
►
saved that still
00:55:26
◼
►
have open tasks
00:55:30
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true mad lad
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sort of thing
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you can expect
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a nerd who's
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rediscovering
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assistive ai
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tools in 2025
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yeah i feel like
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i have superpowers
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now and this
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long process
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that obviously
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will eventually
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think a really
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fascinating guide
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on mac stories
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in the near future
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computers man
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they do cool
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they do they
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do cool things
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but just as a
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final thing i
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i it's maybe
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really like this
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thing where i
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talk to myself
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discovered that
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about a problem
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don't know what
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there's a part
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and maybe it's
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because like i've
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conditioned my
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brain over the
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past 12 years
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of podcasting
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conversations out
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follow up on
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something else
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that some like
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you or mike said
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for example or
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john said you
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talking out loud
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sort of maybe
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tricks my brain
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into entering
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like yesterday i
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was in my car i
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was thinking about
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like contradicting
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myself out loud
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but like i was
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like but what if
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i tried this other
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approach instead
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yeah which is the
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sort of thing that
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thinking you know
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like a normal
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person silently
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in my brain i
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probably wouldn't
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do it but it's
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the talking that
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tricks my weird
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human brain into
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yeah talk about
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yourself it it's
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useful how is
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that to read
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right if you're
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going like the
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back and forth
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coherent when
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into obsidian
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like four days
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finally look at
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it you're like
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oh yeah this
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i don't know
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this recording
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outlines two main
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projects finalizing
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an article about
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automating shortcuts
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permission prompts
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and setting up a
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voice recording
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workflow the
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speakers the speaker
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details technical
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components of both
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systems including
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apple script automation
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dictation apps and
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file management
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considerations
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action items one
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finalize column about
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automating shortcuts
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permission prompts
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verify if the
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automation works if
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the schedule is
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reduced to 10
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seconds currently
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it's 15 seconds
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three install deep
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learning models for
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audio filtering on
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the mac mini server
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four install hazel
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and import rules on
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mac mini server
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five ensure shortcuts
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has access to to
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create files in the
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obsidian yeah i think
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it makes sense okay
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you know okay yeah
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uh yeah yeah and
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plus if i want to
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there's just uh it's
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there's an audio
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player in obsidian if
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you want to listen
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back or there's a
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link to read the
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full scrum transcript
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but this is the sort
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of thing where i think
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large language models
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are great at which is
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take a huge chunk of
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text and make sense of
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it you know summarize
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it you know find
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actionable items it's
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a sort of like boring
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task that an llm is
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good for and because
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it's my text and
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you know my data i
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feel much more
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comfortable about
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doing this um and
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it's a you know it's
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a i think it's it's
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it's a pretty good
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use case to combine
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sort of multiple
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forms of media and
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multiple forms of
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automation there's
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like there's an audio
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file and then there's
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some text there's
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azle there's
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shortcuts you know
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it's a sort of thing
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that is very much up
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my alley and sort
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of this new flavor
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of combining ai and
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shortcuts in this new
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type of automation
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that i feel it's like
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sort of my path as a
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shortcut user is taking
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me to this place and i
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really want to take
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advantage of it uh for
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both me and maybe it's
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going to be useful for
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readers and it's going to
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be useful for for
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you or for mike or
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for john you know for
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internal tools like that
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sort of stuff yeah and
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it's you're using some
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apple tech but you're
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also using a lot of
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tech that's not apple
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tech that's on the web
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yeah that's either open
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source or on the web
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like ffmpeg it's like
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open source and you know
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this this ai apis are
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web-based it's a it's a
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whole combination of
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different technologies um
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but at the very much at
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the center of it all right
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now there's mac os and
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shortcuts and hazel those
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are like the the main
01:00:24
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protagonists yeah yeah
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it's cool it's yeah the
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most federico thing you've
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built in a while it is a
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very federico thing yeah i
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cannot wear i cannot wait
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to to share this one but
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in the meantime this week
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i will share how i
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automated those permission
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prompts perfect yeah cool
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well i think that does it
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uh thank you to our
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sponsors ecamm and google
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gemini for making the show
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possible this week uh if
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you want to find more of
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us you can find federico's
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work over at macstories.net
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and of course go check out
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that app stories episode we
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mentioned earlier i write at
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512pixels.net and host mac
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power users this coming
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sunday we have an interview
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with david pierce from the
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verge nice really a cool
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episode i think people will
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enjoy that uh if you're a
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this week uh you and i we
01:01:28
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spoke about apple and
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nvidia both historically and
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then maybe the future because
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apple went out and spent a
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billion dollars on nvidia
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hardware yeah wild you can
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until next week federico say