174: ‘Election Escape Key’, With Special Guest Joanna Stern
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I what you want to talk about first
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we've got we don't have too much but i
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think the macbook pros are still
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interesting because i had a show before
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thanksgiving with Jason snail but at the
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time we have recorded that it was sort
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of at the time I like maybe possibly
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early orders were like unboxing their
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macbook pros but at the time it was
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really just people who had the the
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review units who'd had them whereas now
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lots and lots of people have macbook
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pros we have some real world experience
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might as well talk about it first
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yeah and I reached out to that was when
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I know I i really enjoyed your review
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and then let me let me pull up what you
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said about my review and it was it was
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good and I was like I need to come on
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the podcast and defend myself and and
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you know what we are also we can talk
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about i'm going to i decided i'm going
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to put the mic right up against the
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macbook pro keyboard so and even though
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your your your listeners your listeners
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don't like loud sounds
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I can just be typing on my macbook pro
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the entire time and which will annoy
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them or maybe that one into that that is
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a good topic I I'm glad you brought that
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up i would have been furious if if we
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hit stop and we stopped recording and
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never brought up the the sound loud
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keyboards all right what did I say let's
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see i can find it first
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oh so you said I'm so you said very good
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take as usual it felt really good to get
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that and then I i say that it that it's
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baffling let me out quote what I would I
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ruin I said I'm why this isn't available
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and this is the the touch ID isn't
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available on all of apple's macbook
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laptops especially the entry-level
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13-inch no touch bar pro is baffling and
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you said not baffling at all maybe you
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should do it you should read your own
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things like an interactive realize your
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emotions well I should do like your your
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vote what I think is your voice yes yeah
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you should just do my way not to
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baffling at all with Apple you have to
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pay for awesome new stuff that a good
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impression
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that's pretty good
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I think touch ID combined with the
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secure Enclave is so is at least half
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the value of the entire touch bar it's
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funny because I would say it no pun
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intended your impression your impression
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of me is is a little stern it is much
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better than my wife's that my wife's
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impression of me is always sort of that
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I'm like adult who the the girl who
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threw the tooth book that's out there
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that's how many does it does me and it's
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pretty and I i actually just hear your
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voice I don't hear i don't hear what
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every voice I did that was just like a
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this is what that
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yeah a blogger and i'm in a man with the
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computer you know that's what I am job
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in with computers not battling at all
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but you know what at this is exactly
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what I mean that what i mean by that and
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you know it's the format of during
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firewall that I tried to be now I do
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apologize it
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what's that i apologizing for for not
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apologizing but I I sometimes wonder if
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it's too easy to get CZ to be a little
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because I'm so terse sometimes that it's
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you know I that's why I sort of like
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having a podcast on the side is that we
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can go on lengthy digressions over when
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I'm looking at it right now two
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sentences it you know it's when when
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something new comes out like touch ID
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it's only available on the premium price
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models and you have to wait I know and
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I'm sure like a year from now the
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mid-range model will probably be
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upgraded with you know the touch bar I i
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hear that but let's let's think about
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how long I phone owners have had touch
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ID almost i would say now what ninety
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percent of iphone owners have touch ID
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yeah I would think so many how many at
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like we're going back to five hours
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range of right so okay maybe probably
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know I don't know I have the percentages
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you really only applies the percentages
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but that's that's a long time and we've
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all got used
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using it on our iPhone and it's great
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it's it's it's magical
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really you the the fact that you're able
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to do so many things now with your your
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your fingerprint and you don't have to
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punch and passwords it really made lives
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better it makes your life better on the
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macbook pro why can't I do it on a
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macbook why can't I do it on really just
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the macbook because that's really the
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only two new laptops apple has it just
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it kind of makes sense and and on on the
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on the 13-inch no touch bar which is
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supposed to be I think what they thought
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would be a very sort of not entry-level
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for $1,500 obviously but this basic
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model it seems like you could have this
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without the touch bar now I know there's
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a lot of technology that you could get
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that comes along with the touch bar but
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I don't know it just seems like it
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should be there
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my guess is that part of it is product
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marketing it with meaning putting the
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this appealing new feature or only at
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these higher price points what I think
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it's like 1799 for the first one that
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has the touch part yeah 1804 vs 1500 for
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the entry i think i keep saying entry
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level but it's that I guess it is entry
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level for the new yeah pros right then
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and it's you know clearly clearly
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occupies the mid range of the overall
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lineup it is right i would say it is the
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central you know it's the very middle of
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the lineup that right you know combined
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with the high-end regular macbook are
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sort of right there around the same
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price point and it's we know which one
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you want the super thin and light or the
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more powerful one right and i think my
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recommendation I i had i struggled with
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this review more than any review i've
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written in a number of years because to
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me there wasn't a very clear you should
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get this one
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I'm not that I usually tell people you
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should get this one but it that you
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deserve you talk through what you may
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want but it was so complicated and when
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you look at that 13-inch without the
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touch bar without touch ID without the
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extra ports with a slower processor
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but it's like why even though that seems
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like the one you'd want to recommend to
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people right if you don't need the touch
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bar get this one but you but you can't
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really say that because it doesn't have
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touch ID it doesn't have the extra ports
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and you're sort of like in this place we
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like you should pay three hundred
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dollars more to get this other one even
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though you might not use the touch bark
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yeah and if you compare that model the
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new 13-inch yeah I as it's called the
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macbook escape right all right if you
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compare that one to the remaining old
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generation 13-inch macbook pros that
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they're still selling the ones that have
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the SD card slot in it you know the old
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school USB a port
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it's cool that's a tough decision for
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that would be a tough decision even for
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me personally like if I and that was the
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tape that's my entire review right like
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my entire review was there's a new thing
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it's good i I don't I don't think it's
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bad it's very good there's a lot of
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great things in it but there's this old
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thing that is also still really good
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even though it hasn't been updated in
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many years and I don't really know which
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one to tell you to buy so let's just go
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through what's good here what's bad
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there and you decide you know I'm and i
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still like i like i don't even want to
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think about like I'm happy we did this
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podcast like a couple weeks after
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because like my brain hurt from thinking
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about macbooks so much agree it was
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actually great timing was happening
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during the election and it was a good
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escape in a way to escape it is it it
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was the election Escape key that's
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pretty good actually
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is that it was the macbook was the
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escape election Escape key for me you
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know like I i spent a lot of hours like
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being able to think about laptops and
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not being able to not having to think
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about what the disaster that was
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happening everywhere else so i will say
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this I I think you have a very good
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point that maybe it has taken to long
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for touch ID to come two macbooks in
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general that if you know if we had on
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iOS all the way back to the 5s why is
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November 2016 the first time it was
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available for the man
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there i think you have a strong point
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and I can't really refuse it
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it seems to me like if anything more
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proof on the side of right if you had a
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video podcast you'd see me dancing in my
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office right now that iOS is the favored
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child of that Apple and the mac is the
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you know it you know second seattle i
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think that you know you could definitely
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argue that I might even be hard to argue
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otherwise because how long ago was the
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5s last year was the 6 plus 6 6 plus 6
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ass success
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yes it was the six the year before so
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three years ago was when the 5s was new
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that's pretty well right right for four
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years ago right
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yeah so that's pretty long and I i agree
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with that but i'm not surprised by my
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take is that whenever it did first
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appear on the Mac of course it's going
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to start only at the high end and then
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trickle-down you're a year after year so
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I think you have a good point that maybe
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that first max with touch ID should have
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appeared across the line up at like 18
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months after the 5s or something like
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yeah and and off and across the line up
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is my well especially when you know but
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across the lineup never wouldn't would
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have wouldn't happen all at once it
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would but but then if it happen right
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if it happened two years ago then by now
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it would be across the line up right
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well or at least why didn't they come
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with the macbook and it was that was in
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my review when I reviewed the macbook
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when it first came out why is this not
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here and why is it still not there right
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yeah it could be i mean it
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maybe it's me and maybe I I would you
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know I people have had it now you're
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like you mentioned beginning the podcast
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people now have had the these new
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macbook pros maybe they aren't finding
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that it's a huge game changer for them
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but I mean I i like it a lot
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you know i'm i'm waiting for the
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dashlane integration but like I I i use
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it i mean i hate typing and passwords
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and I click open and close my laptop
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like all day long
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yeah and it's you know is i have you set
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up the thing where you can login to your
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Mac with your watch
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I haven't I haven't either because i
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two-factor authentication and turn onto
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authentication and it really seemed like
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more trouble than it was worth
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watch all the time and energy just and I
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seemed like it was going to be set up on
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did it and I forget people that it's not
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even that fast if it's not it's cool it
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works but it's not it may not be as fast
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as typing the password that i have in
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muscle memory that you know when I sit
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the thing with put your finger up there
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where that yeah just makes sense and
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it's like and it's funny just going back
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to Apple not having put this on laptops
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for years it's like the whole idea of
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fingerprint sensors and technology
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really began on enterprise windows
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laptops right they were terrible
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they were so bad you have to either
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swipe your finger in like the exact
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right direction and even then you get
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through like three different software
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layers that would say like whatever this
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you know whoever was making the the the
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fingerprint sensor would have their
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software then you have Windows software
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and apple just fixed that with the
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iphone right they fixed that would touch
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ID and then the entire android and
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it never on laptops know so I you know I
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I I don't play I'm not surprised I I
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kind of you know circle back i think
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that i was touched idea come to the
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macbooks earlier i think this is pretty
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late but now that it's here I really
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like it
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I'm not surprised it doesn't go across
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the whole line i do wonder how much
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Apple debated internally whether to
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release that macbook escape at all and
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help but think that that was a
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discussion it just it's what why it's
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it's a weird it's a weird product
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and it's very confusing it i think if
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that product had either been three
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hundred dollars cheaper right let's say
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well then that would be like right up
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against the macbook and that would be
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confusing the whole the whole lineup is
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very confusing to me but I'm not really
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but not the whole lineup is very
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confusing to me with the old models and
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then with that 13 in the new 13-inch no
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touch bar it's very confusing to me but
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why I think if that product didn't exist
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it might be a little bit easier or if
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the price was dropped my guess is that
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it's because they this is my best guess
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is that they clearly for the last few
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quite a few years they don't
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significantly change their mac hardware
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on a regular basis like I think we can
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safely assume that these new macbook
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pros are what the macbook pros are going
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to look like for at least three years
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probably for forever you yeah for a long
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time and at the most the most they might
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do would be add new like anodization
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finishes maybe total and maybe add a
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gold one or something like that or get a
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new version of black or something like
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that right and so I kind of feel that
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that $1,500 macbook escape isn't really
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there to sell in great numbers right now
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but it's there because it'll you know
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six months from now or a year from now
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it will move down you know it'll be
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thirteen hundred dollars instead of
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fifteen hundred dollars a year from now
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and maybe technically unchanged like
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that they'll do great where they don't
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change any of the yes any of the
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internals and eventually it'll be like
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1,200 1,100 dollar macbook with you know
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to us you know what that's a pretty good
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machine for an entry and maybe that is
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the machine that goes to to fill the the
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macbook air void right i mean for now
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the macbook air sticks around apples
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saying it very loud and clear the at the
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macbook air sticks around they know how
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much people love it and we can talk very
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good we could talk about some of us who
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have have considered stocking up
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the macbook air because we think it
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might be taken away at some point but
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maybe that is that's the thought process
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right like if and in my mind right and
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for someone who's constantly asked about
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laptops less less so more you know
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recently but if the no-touch bar 13 inch
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what is the quality escape the macbook
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is macbook pro escape was let's say a
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thousand dollars i think it's gonna be a
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while before it gets a thousand I I
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agree I agree agree but if it was I
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would have it would be a great system
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for students right put aside the dongle
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it situation it would be a good it would
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be great recommendation for students
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right I'm and prices part of it but also
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you all the other things that add to it
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right it would be great if I touch ID so
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okay so let's take it comes down to
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1,200 like you're saying or 1300 i think
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it is a much easier sell than it being
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$1,500 I i also think that it's that the
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touch bar as a whole including you know
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not just the actual display not just the
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touch screen but the touch ID sensor and
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the secure Enclave and the stuff that
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lets that you know it is it you know it
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really is kind of fascinating at a
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meta-level that it really is an iOS
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computer inside and Intel computer you
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know it's a computer and a computer it's
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it's a it's an input device that is
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itself a standalone computer including a
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display i think it is a it really is
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probably a you know 200-250 dollar
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component that the price difference
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between them it is a significant it's
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you know almost certainly we know it's
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way more expensive than the the trackpad
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or the keyboard it's a very expensive
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thing and it's it's not you know it's
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it's a pretty simple explanation why
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they started 18 hundred dollars it's
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because they are you know the ones with
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the touch bar have a very expensive
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component at the top of the keyboard
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totally and I'm and I don't have as big
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of a problem with the eighteen hundred
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dollars starting price on the touch bar
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I mean I i think it's high
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absolutely but when you consider that
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verses thirteen hundred dollar macbook
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old macbook pro where that starts it to
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me that that one in the middle just
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doesn't make sense the escape macbook
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pro I'll hard time recommending i really
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would you know you haven't even the fact
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that it only has two ports instead of
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four right that's the one that if
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there's one thing it as the week's go by
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that irks me the most about that is that
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it doesn't have the USBC port on the
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other side
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yeah at $53 it seems to me I understand
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i really do understand why it doesn't
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have even the touch ID because i think
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that you can't really separate the touch
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ID from the fact that it's this whole
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you know it doesn't make sense to avert
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like that to have touch ID and still
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have to have an iOS device it would just
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be an iOS device without the touchscreen
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but it would still have to have a
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miniature iOS device to have the secure
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Enclave and and all of that I don't
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think it'd be worth it for them to do
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the engineering to make it i think they
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do yeah but silly haha it's for $1,500
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it's really seems weird to me to cheap
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out on us bc ports right yeah i mean
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like and I mean this i'm in the place
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where I want a new laptop right I've had
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this macbook air for three years now and
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I have like beat it into the ground it's
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a great system could probably you know
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keep going for someone who doesn't do as
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much stuff on their laptop as I do and I
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I don't really know what to get like I
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keep going back and forth between the
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old 13 inch pro and the tech new touch
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I'm you know and i even had my review
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saying maybe I'm holding out for one of
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these price drops or something but it
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seems like odd to me that i still really
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want a two-year-old computer and part of
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it is the ports like part of it is i
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mean i'm i'm using the mac the new
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macbook pro with touch bar to podcast
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right now and I've got two of the you
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know $40 dongles that besides I've got
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you know though the one with the hdmi
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hooked up to my monitor
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got the my external mic plugged in
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I've got ethernet plugged into the other
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one that doesn't this isn't like a
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typical setup for me but you know that
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could be one of the things you have the
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SD card slot is a thing for me i don't
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know i came here for you to tell me what
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well it on the other thing I wanted this
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one to mention is that one of my
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favorite things about the new one and
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this is another one of the reasons why
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i'm i'm kind of annoyed that that that
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the macbook escape only as the two ports
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is that one of my favorite things about
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the new thing is that you can plug the
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power on either side and it seems like
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that it's a decent trade off with losing
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magsafe i mean it's it's like i said i
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really miss mag that's a good point but
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being able to plug it in on the right
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side in a lot of cases is really makes
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it a lot more convenient there are
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certain like I i don't know why but i
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always feel like every time I ride the
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acela between philly in New York and I
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if i'm lucky enough to get one of those
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seats with that the table right it's a
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really you've done it right and its
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really really it's you know it's nice to
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have a table but you're facing it i got
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like like a table right for anybody who
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doesn't know the amtrak on the East
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Coast there's there's some seats on the
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acela trains that you faced people on
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the other side and in between you is a
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very narrow table but it's really great
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and if you can get one of those seat and
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I always feel like every time I do that
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I the seat is like means that i have to
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like snake my power cord around people
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right it's 23 you're here like sitting
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left yes I always sitting on the left
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and it would be sit would be do you know
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it's not like wow that really changes my
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life that I have to drag the cable
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around the outside of my computer and
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plug it in but it would sure be a lot
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nicer if I could just have it sneak
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sneak up right next to my lap and just
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plug it in on the right side and that's
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a really good point
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I i thought you know maybe maybe part of
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the reason I've always chosen the left
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side of the bed is because of magsafe
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it's possible right
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what if that's true I don't even think
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about that but people using laptops in
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it's not my life
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stop in bed like all the time yeah i'm a
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walt mossberg because apparently on his
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newest model of the macbook air and he
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in his house till his current one stops
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this is this is the thing he's
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stockpiling and saving up for doomsday
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of the macbook air and I have agreed
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with some hearing you're like that's a
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crazy i think that's really the genius
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idea like so it's like you've got like
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money where I want to just like saving
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why I was a dollar laptop in my closet
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event Thompson my friend of the show
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sometimes guess Ben Thompson had the
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same feelings where he felt like I don't
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put words in his mouth but more or less
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that the the nice things about the
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macbook air that you like the keyboard
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you like the thinnest like the weight
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you like having a couple of those
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different ports he bought 12 I like I'm
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gonna buy one while it's still available
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open it up looked at the screen door
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closed it packed it back up and send it
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back to apple because he had forgotten
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just how crude the non retina displays
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are I can't see what there is that is
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appealing about the macbook air other
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than the price and I know that it's not
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like you and Walt are are you know
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limited $2,000 I don't stand right here
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that anymore i see no appeal to the
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current macbook air other than price I'd
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not 00 again really wanted to stockpile
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something if the ports were what's
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important to you why not get the 13-inch
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grabbed 13 inch yeah and that's I mean
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totally agree i'm not buying another air
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laptop and that's like why I guess they
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after two weeks and I was like I could
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work with this
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yeah I'm not like yes the screen is
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definitely this big jar adjustment back
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to basically seeing pixels all the time
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like home you know
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alright I'm going to think maybe maybe a
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little bit more time at the macbook pro
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and I could feel a little bit at home I
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won't take a break but when we come back
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we should talk about the the keyboard
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yeah remind me
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first sponsor is a i love this company
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hockey puck things and they're brand new
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this is this is a totally different
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system into distributed system they
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really only make one one type of device
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a couple of them to place them around
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your house your apartment and they
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create a distributed system to fill your
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whole house with Wi-Fi having just one
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router somewhere probably in your living
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room really doesn't work for multi-room
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homes its if you ever if you've got any
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floors up which is what I've got that
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gets yeah i kinda like yeah I got Wi-Fi
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but it's like nowhere near as good as it
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is downstairs hero solves that problem
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on time with rumors that apple is
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getting out of the airport business and
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they haven't updated their airport
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routers and years anyway I have a friend
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may vary i can't guarantee i have a
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friend good friend technically very very
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adept who just replaced the airport
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routers in this house with Nero system
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bandwidth went from 8 to 24 megabits per
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that eight megabits per second was what
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he was capped at by comcast he had no
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idea that there was even more upstream
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bandwidth to have it tripled by
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switching to ero it could not be an
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easier less technical product to set up
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this isn't like getting like enterprise
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stuff that you've got to configure in an
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enterprise you have to sort of put on a
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network administrator hat
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to set up no you just get these little
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punks they're all the same
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there's not like you have one that's the
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home one and then you get these little
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satellite ones you get like a 3-pack you
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can make anyone
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the main one and put it in where you
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connect it to your cable modem and then
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around the house for you you know
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they're all the same
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they're very very nicely designed they
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quite frankly look a lot like Apple
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products they're just very very elegant
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little pucks and I would i bought I
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bought the three set for my new
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apartment I'm sorry about the to set for
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my new apartment and I was going to say
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the same thing it just feels like the
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whole experience feels even simpler than
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setting up the airport and and it you
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really cut because i love we at 0 is it
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like the top of our holiday gift guide
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lists like it sounds like such a weird
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router like it sounds like Superbad and
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to this 0 absolutely does not pay me I
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them and and i'm in love with it
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one for every thousand square feet their
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houses but it's probably a little more
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bizarre thing on a web browser that's
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nice little iphone app I just hook them
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up connect them once you've actually
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it's really it's it could not be if you
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have an old Wi-Fi setup in your house
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you're going to get better performance
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out of a narrow so what do you do to
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find out more you go to the wall street
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journal you currently have a journal and
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that I'm not full of it
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testing and sometimes it's like it does
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the speed tests for you have you do it
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like the last like the last speed test
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let you know whether hey maybe we should
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jiggle some of the settings because it's
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you know you're getting worse
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performance and you were a month ago or
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something like that it's just that it
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really is quite frankly an apple-like
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oh yeah you don't have to understand it
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simple instructions instructions and it
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just works and it looks nice and etc etc
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so anyway what do you do to get more to
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get these things go to ero calm and at
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checkout select overnight shipping and
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shipping will be free so as you're
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listening to this depending on the time
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of day you can have these zeros in your
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hands tomorrow with no charge for that
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overnight shipping with that code the
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talk show my thanks to ero really I i am
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getting paid to say this but I really do
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that I've got him set up in the house
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it really is and I'm not getting paid to
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not even not even my impression of John
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end of the sponsorship we're done thanks
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Apple is getting out of the airport base
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station business whether or not I've
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anything he wrote was wrong but that he
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base stations but that that the appeal
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stuff it'll all just work and it'll be a
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lot less hassle to set up and a lot less
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hassle to keep it going and that is in
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the home if that is the next major one
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of the next major battle grounds in tech
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which it clearly seems to be with these
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talking speakers that are all about
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being home and if you look at google
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strategy there as well
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the equation seems pretty essential
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especially when you talk about smart
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home stuff right it's all on the same
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yeah I'm you know there's the there's
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the privacy of the variables the
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security of the network but there's also
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the management of the network and that's
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one thing that people to have seemed to
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always loved about the airport i
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actually never had one which is just how
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simple it is to manage it is that yeah
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that's what is the reason i've i've
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that i'm not getting or at least for a
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not getting the absolute best
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performance and one reason i justified
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that is I just know that that comcast
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service we have at the house isn't that
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great anyway like yeah and we're
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thinking about moving and it's all just
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back of my mind if that when we move i'm
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going to deal with comcast bite the
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service i possibly can and then i'll
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figure out you know get a Wi-Fi setup
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that takes advantage of it but it just
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seems weird for me to app for Apple to
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exit that because it doesn't it just
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seems like there once they start making
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going to buy an Apple blank then you
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that being able to have like hey all of
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my stuff is apple stuff makes it easy to
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just say well I'm just gonna buy another
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apple thing because i know it's just
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gonna work right and that's definitely i
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like your theory about whatever the you
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know if they get into this talking
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speaker race which seems like they've
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got you write that that that device is
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so core to the home it I i think this
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theory of it maybe possibly doing
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something with the with a network could
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make sense yeah yeah i mean the way to
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the end and that's it that's the other
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top thing that we have on our holiday
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thing which is the which is the the echo
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another one of Germans reports is that
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they'll have some sort of tablet version
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of the of the echo in the next couple of
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whatever next couple months are early in
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the next year I'm and that makes you
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wonder you know okay
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is that because people are then jumping
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on their phones or tablets to go finish
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up a task or whatever it is and in many
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cases that's probably an iphone or
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that's probably an iPad and Apple
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already controls that other part of the
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experience in the home I'd so that's the
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if i'm remembering correctly Germans
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report that this could just came out the
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other day and it was interesting to me
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at a meta-level because i like i like
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Mark a lot and now that he's at
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Bloomberg and these you know is so young
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is just getting started
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I thought what if when he took that job
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at Bloomberg my guess was he's going to
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expand beyond apple because he just
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seemed inevitable it doesn't seem too
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justified to have just apple an apple
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rumors guy edit at a publication is wide
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wide that covers is why did you know the
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entire industry like Bloomberg and here
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you go he's got a scoop of you know just
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like the scoops he typically gets on
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Apple upcoming stuff he's got one on
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amazon product the just a bit though is
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that it he like a 7-inch display built
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into a speaker
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I don't know and and I do think it's in
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some ways it is obviously competitive
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with tablets where you could just why
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not just you know put say an ipad pro in
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your kitchen and I've prop it up and the
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ipad pro as you know beefed up its
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speakers significantly compared to the
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pre pro iPads means probably not as good
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as a standalone speaker system but one
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of the other things that government has
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report is that this new echo is going to
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have better speakers anyway because
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that's sort of the complaint people have
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about Gredenko is that the speakers
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aren't that great
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they're they're good for like a novelty
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device if you think like oh my god
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damned I'm talking to a black cylinder
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this is amazing
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the speakers are great but then if you
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start listening to like music coming out
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of it and you really just judge it as
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like speakers for playing music it's
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like a it's kinda right you know it so
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you can get a better probably speaker in
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that price range or well they dropped
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the price is significantly right i mean
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I so yeah I i love the echo I'm you know
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it i did the review of the echo and the
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home a couple of weeks ago and you know
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even preferred it to to Google's product
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and speaking of Google's also doing a
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nero competitor right they've got this
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new google Wi-Fi which I don't think has
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actually come out yet I don't think
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sorry that i haven't I think it was
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supposed to but I don't think it has
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yeah they haven't sent review units and
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they were going to and you know so it's
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all this fight of these ecosystems are
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these companies trying to control the
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ecosystems we live in especially in our
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homes now so that you have the Wi-Fi
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thing is interesting i but it makes me
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wonder you know and you know and again
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government's report wasn't that specific
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but what would be the advantage of a a
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echo which with like a physical thing
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that has to be plugged in and is not
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itself a tablet you know it
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more of whether it's still a cylinder or
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whether it's a rectangle now because it
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has a display but having a built-in
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display what would be the advantage of
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that versus a a device let's just say I
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mean if Apple made one but that also
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could serve as an ipad dock and then
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just use the iPad as the display
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yeah I mean I i would assume that
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Amazon's thinking is that people start
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something on the echo right and like I
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just talked to my experience i'll start
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something on the echo and then realize
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okay i actually need more information
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right and so that I always have my phone
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i usually have my iphone in the kitchen
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and so I end up just sort of pulling
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that out and going and doing whatever
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i'm not doing that in the alexa app and
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i'm usually not even doing that at all
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with Amazon's assistance whether it's
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you know searching for something or you
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know now the new recipe functions things
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like that i would assume this is more of
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a ploy to keep people in you know an
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amazon world but also you know try and
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move them away from using their their
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I don't know well I the other thing that
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occurs to me is and i forget if the word
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kitchen appeared in government reporter
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not did it or are people just
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speculating that this is more of a
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kitchen optimized device so i know i've
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seen people saying that the echo is
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meant to go anywhere and some people
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have in their bedroom and some people in
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their living room and lots of people
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including me have one in the kitchen but
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this this new device with the display is
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sort of specifically meant for the
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kitchen and I can think of a couple of
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reasons why you definitely want to
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display one of them would be recipes
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right if you're doing something you know
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if you're cooking in the kitchen I not
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having a display is almost worthless
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right it's like who you know it
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nobody's going to do a recipe by audio
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right because you did he'd have to keep
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repeating all right how much of this how
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much that the new there's a new
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allrecipes at for the echo and it does
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read out some of the the instructions
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well I just think though that no but as
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a thing to depend on I totally great
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again that that's usually what i end up
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you know pulling up my phone for which
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is you know some recipe or something
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like that
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well and the other thing that's very
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obvious and a lot of people for a long
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time have had TVs in their kitchen you
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know like many tvs I couldn't
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when I was here they invented little
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like eight inch tvs that some people put
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their TVs and I thought that was amazing
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and I wanted my parents to get one and
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they were like no yeah but it's obvious
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you know and for as much as there's tons
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of audio stuff that you can listen to it
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you know like podcasts
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there's also a lot of people like video
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and a lot of people like to watch video
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and guess what amazon has a giant video
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service that was very you know it to me
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it's very obvious why they might want to
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have a display on the thing in the
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kitchen because it'd be like you just
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tell tell it you know to play something
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from amazon prime video and there you
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are watching it
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yeah and I mean like a part of what
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amazon also wants you to do is buy more
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things on amazon and it's very simple
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now but there are a lot of times where
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I'm like oh you know and uh I'll say
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alexa you add paper towels to my car or
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whatever and it usually tries to
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remember you will pick what I've ordered
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before but like having a visual
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indication of what that is or what I've
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just ordered or added is is helpful like
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I never really complete the order on the
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echo I always end up going to my you
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know my card on my laptop or on my on my
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phone because you have more confident if
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parents they just made it they just
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built a new house and I just think it's
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Syria chance and then they say stop
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almost years now that's apples biggest
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the answers are right there's not a lot
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that to that the single biggest problem
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who felt burned by it to try it again
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you know very long time and it doesn't
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many of your listeners are early
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adopters and so everyone tries all the
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stuff that's brand-new and in the case
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technology over the last couple of years
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done and gets better over time
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software because softwares so much of
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the experience like the Apple watch is
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the best example I think certainly the
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new version is faster because there's a
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better processor and it's waterproof and
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know there's really an argument we made
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it was better if you waited a year right
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it was really better if you waited or
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even if you waited and bought the old
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144 cheaper price because the software
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got so much better it's the same thing
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thing with serial number of these things
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problem with people are early adopters
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and get a bad get that really bad taste
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this thing socks and then they put it
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it right so it's like almost it's like
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it's a good time to be an early adopter
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be an early adopter a lot of thoughts
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let's talk about the new macbook pro
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keyboard the poor new macbook pro
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keyboard but first it's a good time to
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take a break i'll take a break and and
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do our next talk about an exposure and
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Rick Petrocelli this is sort of the
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unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs
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that came out last year that i found way
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more satisfying and way more interesting
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and way more insightful than his
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official biography by walter whatever
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his name was because it focuses on
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people like tim cook and a few others at
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it as well this is a white washing of of
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Steve Jobs his life or something like
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anybody who actually reads this book
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less about his personal life and a lot
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years at Apple his years in the
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wilderness when he was at next and when
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he founded Pixar and then how pixar
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became a great success and how Apple
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became you know at least some degree
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that you know I think Apple did a little
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bit better after steve jobs came back in
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97 it's a great great book I've read it
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this is the second time i read it and i
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couldn't recommend more they have it
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there on audible.com so you can use it
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becoming Steve Jobs listen all right
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macbook pro keyboard the new keyboard
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here that I i I've mentioned this so I
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while I was doing my review I at one
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point thought you know what this
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keyboard is different than what i
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expected it doesn't feel like the 12
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the same key travel it didn't feel the
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same to me at all and then you know
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Apple set on stage that they did
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underneath the keys and I believe it
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absolutely it it's less squishy and more
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clicky i would agree and it's like more
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of a bounce right yeah it's it just
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feels better it definitely feels better
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review I thought boy I'd like the way
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think this is too loud is this louder
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of crazy they're like it definitely
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sounds different but it's not loud and I
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didn't write about it but then when the
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reviews all hit a couple of people
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mentioned including you that the you
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have the keyboard is lat louder and I
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shopping so I have a theory that but
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it's hard because I haven't gone back to
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the macbook but i think you're right i
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think they fixed a lot with the keyboard
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i still don't love it i don't really
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like it really to be honest but I'm that
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more raised keys with that had more
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travel you might be hitting the keys
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harder and i know i think i hit the keys
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harder especially when I'm like in it
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do this i feel like i'm sort of slamming
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that it's it's it's part of my dear I
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certainly is a different sound than the
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the regular macbook and if you actually
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live the funny thing isn't in my video
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whatever the whole the video kind of
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stick was that i knew i was typing on my
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laptop is sort of like a you know a
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diary as I was going through my review
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process and so we recorded the two
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different sounds the beginning opens
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when I'm work i'm typing on my macbook
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and you hear the sounds of the macbook
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sorry was that meant I my macbook air
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macbook air and then we recorded the
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sounds of the macbook pro because then i
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switched to typing on the macbook pro
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for the rest of the of the piece so you
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hear you here like we are recorded in
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our booth here i do you definitely hear
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the different sounds
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the question I have is is it louder
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because I'm hitting the keys with more
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force or is it just genuinely louder I
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can't really think of a scientific tests
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to figure out what I can think of a
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scientific test but I I have
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done it i think it is ladder and i think
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but i think i think it's a little bit of
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column a little bit of column be i think
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it is louder I do think though that I i
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think i just tend to have a very hard
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typing style and so is right you know
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have very different you know maybe have
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a gentler typing style and I think if
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you were in like a library and you're
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self-conscious about the noise of your
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typing if you were thinking about typing
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softly I don't think that the macbook is
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going to be a problem i think though
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that if you you know have headphones on
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and weren't really paying attention to
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your typing it could be a problem
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yeah yeah i mean i don't i feel like i
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just some typing a lot harder on this
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computer but maybe I've always typed
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really hard
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yeah what's your opinion of the keyboard
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over all the noise aside like you get
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used to it right like i said in this
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piece and I know a lot of people thought
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it was a super harsh line i was like you
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get used to it
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you also get used to sleeping on a rock
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when you're camping great like I you
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know I didn't mean that to be super
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snarky I guess it came out that way but
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like you get used to it you know it's
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like anything that might not be
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comfortable at first that you just sort
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of get used to it and then you kind of
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learn to like it I like I was that's
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what the other thing I went back to my
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macbook air this weekend I'm just like I
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I missed you you know I i really missed
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you but I've but I've written something
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like I have this also like superstition
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sometimes where I like work on a laptop
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work on that laptop of like this is a
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great laptop you know I think they did
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the laptop made the work great and I i
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think i've done some really good work on
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this macbook pro so I really can't say
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that a that i don't like you know using
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yeah I i'd i would I I don't have a I I
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don't say that i think it's fine and I
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really am and I say that meaning that i
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think all laptop keyboards are
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compromised you know that none of them
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I've never had a macbook or powerbook or
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any apple laptop ever that has had a
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keyboard that I find as nice as a
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desktop keyboard and on the desktop on
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the yeah the guy who famously still uses
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20 something-year-old Apple extended
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keyboard to that's super cliquey and
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right on although not as loud as a lot
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of these mechanical keyboards by
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mechanical keyboard standard it's kind
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of quiet but it is very quickly clicking
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loud compared to modern lower travel
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keyboards and I will also add some some
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wiseacre on on Twitter after I made fun
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of you and Walter stockpiling at their
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phone MacBook Airs head this from the
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guy who has a closet full of all the
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aplex ended keyboards which is true i've
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i've got at least like four of them in
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my closet but my defense on that is that
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this keyboard they don't make keyboards
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like this anymore as a keyboard its if
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you do prefer it there it's you know
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there is a reason to stop bottom right
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right at that's the thing I i really do
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prefer the macbook air mat or the old
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macbook air macbook pro keyboard
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yeah I think I preferred the only
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because I'm used to it i think if i
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spend enough time on the new 1i would go
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back to the I go back to this one and I
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beyond did just be too unfamiliar with
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right right yeah it's like anything you
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get used to it you know idea there's
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another thing about the new keyboard
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that I think it and again i think i
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would completely get used to it but I am
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I haven't yet which is that the actual
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keys are bigger the keyboard isn't
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bigger but they've reduced the space
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between the keys and made the keys
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bigger and for some reason it makes me
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feel like my fingers are spread out more
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even though it makes no sense because
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the center of each key is exactly the
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same distance from each other as on the
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old keyboard but for some reason that
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that subtle difference makes me feel
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like I have to spread my fingers out
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more and it's not true but I it somehow
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makes it feel that way
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yeah I really think I've just typing on
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it right now I really think I'm hitting
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the keys harder because and maybe over
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time I wouldn't hit the keys as hard if
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I having i found it if I hadn't if I
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don't keep going back to the old
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keyboard i might get more used to just
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the regular feel of this and i won't
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strike the keys as hard
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and I i think it has something to do
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with the fact that i keep switching
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between them
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alright the other thing that bothers me
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lastly on the keyboard at the new arrow
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key arrangement and I I'd I don't know
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why but it's like that instead of being
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a t-shape now they've made yeah the left
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and right ones full height and I for
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some reason in the two or three weeks
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that i was using the new macbook product
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could never get used to that it just
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took the entire to three-week period
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never got used to it isn't that the same
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on the macbook to yes it started yet
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debuted with the new macbook but i never
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used the new macbook so it's you know I
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mean I other than like just kicking the
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tires in the store and the hands-on area
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i never liked reviewed yeah I really
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yeah I think I kind of got you so i used
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a macbook for like four four months
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about I used most of the summer
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switching that
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switching that
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to my air for sort of heavier work and
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stuff like that and what about the
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trackpad you do care that it's ginormous
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I love it and I don't have any palm I
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didn't have any palm rejection problems
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whatsoever i saw a couple of people on
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Twitter when they first started getting
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their they're 15-inch macbook pros
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saying I you know this is unusual for me
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might my palms keep getting registered
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as you know wonder if they were to get a
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I don't know i'll add hardware I don't
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know if they're their skin registers
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differently capacity of weird skin or if
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they you know they got a bum device
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I don't know but it didn't I i kept my
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eye on it and it didn't seem it doesn't
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seem to be like a rampant problem it was
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like a couple of people the first few
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days but i retested the 15-inch you know
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it was really thought about it and and
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you know my palms absolutely rest on the
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trackpad while i'm typing and it was
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never a problem I yeah I think I think
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it's a big thing about what the angle
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what angle you're using the laptop at so
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I don't have really any problem when im
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using it at my desk but there have been
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some times where i have it on my lap and
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I do have the problem or the or the keys
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are or the the laptops raised up a
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little bit more so my does the bottom of
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my palm will strike the trackpad is I'm
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trying to type like something lower on
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the keyboard
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i I don't I find it to be delightful and
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it's you know my personal the macbook
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that i own is a 13-inch macbook pro that
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I guess is exactly two years old and I
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think it was the last macbook pro that
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didn't have the magic trackpad and you
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know it's still it physically clicks and
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I much prefer the new trackpad to the
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one to the one that physically clicks
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work as a lever so when you click on the
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top it clicks just as nicely as it does
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when you click at the bottom
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yeah i totally agree and that's one
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thing i hate about going back to the
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macbook air is that it doesn't have the
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four stature whatever's going on
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whatever they call it
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it's my view it's it's it seems silly
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but at this point like I'm not really
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performance
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constraint nothing I really do on
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especially on a macbook really strange
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the cpu that much and in one of the
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little things I thought about was a what
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I've always done when I buy macbook I
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don't buy them that often you know I try
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to just get it set up exactly as I want
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and then use it until I can't stand it
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anymore and then get a new one and when
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I buy a new one I've always just maxed
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it out just go into the thing and
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upgrade from you know the core i5 to the
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core i7 you know the top-of-the-line
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whatever get the most Ram get the
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biggest SSD etc i realized i think that
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if I were buying a new matter or when
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when next I do buy a new macbook pro I'm
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not going to upgrade the cpu i'm going
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to probably stick with the default
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because the cpu is in constraining me at
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all and I'd rather have the longer
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battery life of the lower power cpu that
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I've got it
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I think I made a mistake two years ago
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when I bought the highest speed cpu
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because i don't i'm not i don't need it
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I never pegged this almost never mind
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the CPUs and but I'm getting no I'm
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that was
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pro and performance wise even though
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yeah there's one generation Intel that
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it leaps that happens you really cannot
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tell the difference in the performance
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that the Intel performance has basically
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slowed to a point where you're not going
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to notice much unless you're really not
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going to notice much unless i mean ii
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unless you're doing things that are more
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relying on storage and the SSD and the
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SSD speed was faster but not much faster
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for everyday type things so yeah like
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that you have tennis you know people
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said all well should I get the new one
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because it's faster i don't i don't
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think the reason to get the new one is
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because of perfectly well it's not
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because of / 4 processor performance is
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faster its graphics performance or SSD
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performance and for the everyday person
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that's not a ton that they're going to
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I i was surprised and it and I don't
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know how much of this is just that the
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constraints that Apple was under because
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obviously the touch bar ones weren't
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ready on day one
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and because nobody gotta touch bar
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review unit until like a week or so
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after the event like leaving the event
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everybody got a review unit got the
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macbook escape and I you know I think
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that they were you know I think it was
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simply because they didn't have them to
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give out yeah totally
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and when I did get the 13-inch the one
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that i got and I'm guessing they
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probably gave everybody the same one was
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the core i5 model not the core i7 I
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don't know this for sure but in my
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memory every other time I've ever gotten
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reviews from Apple they just give you
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the top-of-the-line model i was happy
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they didn't actually yeah me too because
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it's a typical more typical
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configuration but I honestly wonder in
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that in this case whether it wasn't just
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can split constraints but maybe like
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that they've really think that this is
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the better model because the battery
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life is so much better
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that's it one of the century one of the
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things that I found that is so much
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I'm not going to buy one right now I'm
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like my two-year-old macbook pro is
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still it's it's too good and it's
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there's too many reasons i think to wait
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another year on you know on upgrading so
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I'm personally not upgrading to one of
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these models it's just not maybe I
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should just buy your old one
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maybe you got your keyboard but they get
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you have me figured out I think I
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finally figured it out if they're why
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old old macbook if there was a reason to
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get it it would be the battery life it
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just so happens that when i'm using my
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macbook pro I very seldom and untethered
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for that long but if I were that would
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be the number one reason to upgrade
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because the battery life on the new
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macbook pro is unlike any other macbook
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pro I've ever used a it's just
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unbelievable I mean I go in my review I
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mentioned keeping it open on my lap
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during Game seven of the World Series
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which was I don't like four and a half
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hours incredibly long baseball game and
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even had like a rain delay and when i
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got i was done i still had seventy
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percent battery life left it was
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I've never seen anything like that and
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this is the one with the touch bar
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yeah 13 inch with a touch bar but the
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core i5 not the core i7 and you know i
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was on Twitter and Safari you know the
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whole game with varying results and I
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think it could be some of the apps and
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apple said that
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you know some of the apps that i I've
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user obviously more processor-intensive
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i'm talking like TweetDeck really like
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TweetDeck or I'll use them i mean
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obviously chrome as a as a really huge
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battery sucker but like you know i just
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noticed whether it's sweet talkers or
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Spotify both of those can have some
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various varying results but yeah pretty
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you know in line with with what they've
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said was with was my results but I'm
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I've gotten you get longer battery life
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with the now that we're going to but go
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back and start talking about that
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13-inch without touch bar gonna get
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longer battery life with that one
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yeah but not much you know couple 20
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minutes but if it's like your defining
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characteristic of what you need from a
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macbook it's that's the one to get right
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yeah you want to talk about dongles
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that's what I'm talking about dongles
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you know I i think the dongle thing is
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so overblown I it is obviously a problem
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if you get it now
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I mean I would need a bunch there's no
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doubt about it if my main computer was a
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brand new macbook pro with the touch bar
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I would be using a couple of dongles
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right now I would you know if it were my
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main computer i would I am at my desk so
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I would be like you I'd need one to hook
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up a display and i'd i would need a
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dongle to do it unless I've already
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bought that that LG 5k display which I
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probably would do if it was my only
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computer depending on when last yeah
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that's plenty and i would need one to
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hook up this microphone because this
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microphone is it connects to that my
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computer by USB a so i would need some
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kind of dongle to connect that to the
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USBC port and i would also need one to
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connect my external hard drives because
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none of my external hard drives are USBC
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they're all I think thunderbolt and I
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that also i have i forget i think i
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might even have one here that's old
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firewire one that I have a firewire to
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Thunderbolt so I have to go now i would
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have to i would i might have to because
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i don't think there's a firewire yeah bc
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i have to go firewire to Thunderbolt
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Thunderbolt USBC yeah I have a right at
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well that's not what I'm doing with this
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one I've got the
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displayport to Thunderbolt for my
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thunderbolt monitor did you see there
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was a story somebody had think i like to
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an underlying fireball but somebody on
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medium had a post where they called the
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new macbook pro surprising a great
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machine for hackers and that it yeah
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arguably the most open computer apples
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ever made and it you know just as a you
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know to synopsize that argument the new
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macbook pros don't have a single
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proprietary port on right they've got
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four open standard USB / Thunderbolt
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three ports and one standard headphone
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jack and that's it
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SFI it is there ever been an apple
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computer and a Macintosh without a
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single proprietary port I don't think so
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and I've said this many times
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USBC is the greatest port it's a great
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port i think the i think that the the
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backlash has been i think it's been to
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some of the obviously them cutting out
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the other ports but i also think that
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there's this major backlash to apple not
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having this sort of unified port
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structure and I mean why not you put us
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bc on the iphone right that was like one
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of the biggest complaints when when they
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announced the macbook was like okay so
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now i can't plug my iphone into into the
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and it can play your iphone into your
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macbook right in a different adapter but
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you also can plug your iphone into the
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same adapter that goes into the wall
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because that's USBC right and I don't
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have to find that article but it's a it
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but part of his argument is as you know
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sort of a nerdy android is already
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yeah he said he's got like a nexus 6p s
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his phone because he uses a nexus he
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just needs to take one chart he just
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takes his macbook pro charger with them
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and then he can plug as you can plug
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this phone into it as well which is you
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know convenient right but that and
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that's a great argument for why is an
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apple using USBC on iphones even for the
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connector that goes into the wall now of
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course they hadn't had the new macbook
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pros out yet
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and of course there's a far bigger
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market for people who are buying iphones
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and it's probably going to piss off
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we're going to hear all the complaints
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when they do switch to us bc there oh
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now I can't use my old cord to plug into
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my you know that
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you little wall adapter that comes in
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the box with the iphone we're going to
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hear all that all over again but you
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know it's a tough time is it goes back
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to my name is a tough time to be an
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early adopter there's a lot of
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transition that's going on I don't think
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they're ever going to switch to us bc on
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the iphone or ipad and I don't think
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they're going to switch from the USBC on
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the input right female input on the
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iphone or on the iPad because they love
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lightning and now they've made a big
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to-do about lightning as a audio
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interface but i do think they will
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switch to us bc on the adapter that goes
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into the wall
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yeah i yeah that's what I think they'll
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do I think and I again in my review I
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call them out as a nickel-and-dime move
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I i think what they should have done is
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done exactly what google did with the
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pixel phone isn't ship both cables in in
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the box when you buy the new pixel you
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get a USBC to us bc cable that's right
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and you get a USB a to us bc cable
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that's right or just put I mean are we
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talking about which box so they put that
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in them they should put that you put
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them in the iphone i think and and if
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they you know I don't think it would
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have killed killed him that maybe put
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that cable in the two-thousand-dollar
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macbook pro bar either but i think
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everyone should come with the iphone 7 I
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think the iphone 7 should should have
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shipped with both cables and I have
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adamantly said that they should have
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included the u.s. bc2 usba adapter
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that's $19 but now nine dollars the same
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price as the adapter that you get in
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from the lightning cable to the
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headphone jack in yes the iphone box
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include that in the macbook pro box
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yeah and then everyone will be pretty
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much okay yeah I it's a nickel-and-dime
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of I really think they should have
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included one of those in the box and I
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know that the you know I've made this
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argument before that shipping the
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dongles with the device is sort of an
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apple-like but you know what they did it
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with the headphone jack right with the
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iphone 7 and ultimately i think that was
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the right thing to do I really do it
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built up a lot of goodwill
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yeah they will they should not okay it's
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here I got this year I have this article
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it will be in the show notes it's adam
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that in the i said i don't know
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even before they announce them and I you
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about all the dongle situation around
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the iphone so i did this piece about
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this is the year of the dongle and you
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know actually you know these newports
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are great so let's not complain about
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the ports but we can't complain about
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the dongles that kind of stuff and you
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know I recommended a couple of good
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options there are some really good
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options you know they're there it's a
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it's a booming dongle market out there
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so it's a great time to be in the dongle
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business the problem is frankly on us
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that you were you forget them at places
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and they are annoying right there just
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like are annoying
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well are even if you from even if you
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don't forget them or lose them
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it's did you take the right bag right
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all right you know did you know where do
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you keep them so that they're always
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there you know and you buy two sets so
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you have one in your office and went
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I'm you know and I'm an apple makes
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money off of these there's no doubt
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apple makes money off of these I think
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that secondary to the in all of their
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thinking but it's you know it's
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certainly the fact that they could cut
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the prices as much as they did is true
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right but I mean by the way and that
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article that i wrote you light it you're
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better off buying apple dongles right
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because USBC has had some issues with
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the open development of these of these
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you know but it depends on which ones
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are buying but of of some of the
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adapters where some have fried ports you
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know and you know amazon has a number of
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them listed there even though app
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amazon says they will only carry USB is
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certified USBC dongles and and adapters
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there are many that get through so
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you're who you really are best buying
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something that either apple sells in
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their stores or that Apple make
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themselves i get this is an interesting
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tangent and I'm not afraid to go down
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but I did it come up recently where
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amazon has been found to be selling
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fraudulent stuff you know like Apple had
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a thing where they you know found that
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there is a whole bunch of you know
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supposedly first-party Apple chargers
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being sold on amazon our third party
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ones and that they're completely
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inferior and you know Dave downright
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dangerous in some cases in terms of just
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how shoddily made they are i don't trust
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amazon for stuff like that anymore i
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really don't
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yeah i mean like it was funny when I was
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doing the reporting for the story you
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know I think the only cables i would buy
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from amazon honestly are the amazon
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basics right amazon branded ones because
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you know that those aren't fake and
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that's a really experienced with them so
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when I was doing this dongle reporting
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because i'm a dongle journalists at this
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point I so so I spoke to the USB I f
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which is the the governing body that
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controls the standards around USB USB CD
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and USB in general and so they you know
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ran me through how something get
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certified right and that they have to
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meet their specs and blah blah blah and
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they said okay amazon says that they
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will only carry things that I've met
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that have been started there's did not
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certified because some things haven't
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been certified but meet the requirements
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of the USB I f.m so the companies don't
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have to have a USB iaf approval which
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cost some money they just have to have
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said we'd meet these we meet these it's
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basically just give a they just give
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their work on it to be honest and so
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when I i started doing some research and
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I was like I found one product on Amazon
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I looked very sort of it looks shady
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frankly and so I emailed amazon PR and
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they said yeah we don't we
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they say that this meets the USB is
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certification but more than that we
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don't really know right so you're in
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this place we're like okay amazon says
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yes we do this and they have it listed
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on their site in this dongle article i
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linked to their policy but there's
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really no assurance that they really do
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meet that and so you know my advice and
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at the one i do recommend here I spoke
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to the company they said yes we do have
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meet the stats I are we do meet the
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certification or the requirements that
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went to the US BF they also said this
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one is listed but yeah there's lots more
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than meets the eye you know these
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goggles are not just it's just cheap
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piece of plastic and there's more to it
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you buy stuff from monoprice now I love
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this company and I've never had a bad
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bad product from them announcing the
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segue into an ad no it is not obviously
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it is an honest just endorsement the end
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I but the truth is I was looking but I
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mean you're like that was a compliment
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you are that such a great segue or for
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the ads for your for your sponsors that
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sometimes you don't really know so I was
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like it's a not answer I would love to
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have my sponsor but I'm monoprice is a
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great company they there there stick is
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that the you know that their cables and
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dongles and a center are very low price
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but they're also really well made and
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they make them themselves as far as i
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know all they sell our their own
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products so you go to monoprice.com and
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search for various cables and they even
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have like it it's a little can be a
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little bit confusing we're like
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sometimes they have like three different
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tiers and I don't know what the names
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are but there's something I look at this
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good better and best of the cabling and
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there's like the one that's the cheapest
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and then they have ones like a like I've
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bought a bunch of little lit real little
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like six-inch tiny 6-inch lightning
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cables because there's certain
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situations for that you don't want a big
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long cable like when i plug a like a
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movie battery pack into my phone I don't
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want I don't want a three foot cable
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okay on a tiny little cable and they
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have said this company makes them they
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make them and they're super low priced
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and they have a great reputation for
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quality but right now in my opinion they
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don't have a lot of the USBC Thunderbolt
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stuff because I think they're not ready
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you know it's like I feel like by this
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time next year so these and they're all
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mfi certified yeah and by next by this
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time next year i think model price is
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the place you maybe even six months from
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monoprice will be the place to go to get
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all your you know USBC stuff that you
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don't want to pay thirty nine dollars or
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29 direct from apple for but you can't
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do it yet because i think it's still so
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new but they have ones like that the
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high-end one has like this is like a
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just a lightning USB a to lightning
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adapter and it has like a nice braided
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oh yeah canvas cable and gavin has this
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is the thing I really love about it
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a little green light on the lightning
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and it was sort of like the old yes like
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magsafe yeah it's like magsafe which is
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another thing that i really miss on the
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new i mentioned that in my review I was
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it is maddening not to have the little
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light you know what and for me and you
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know it again we're buying these right
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now by the way I'm telling you it's a
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great guy i did again they haven't paid
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me in a climate i love this company and
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also they're certified again when i did
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my dongle reporting it really is
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important to get the certified stuff
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because it means apples tested it like
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Apple I mean say what you want about
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buying some of these you overprice
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dongles Apple tests all of those with
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their products right
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in fact it's funny i just got an update
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i plugged in one of these adapters and
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said I needed to update the system for
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the dongle have you seen that pop-up yes
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yes I just an example of like had that
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the two are integrated right so but mfi
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you know it might seem like it's a
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stupid little thing but it's it's
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important to look for this it's the same
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with the USB CIF stuff you want to look
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for that you sbif certification
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the other thing that monoprice has their
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mid priced ones have like flat cables
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like a ribbon cable instead of a tube
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and those can be really nice too because
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they're a lot less likely to get tangled
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up if they're longer anyway they make
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great stuff i love having you want to do
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a column now not on goals but cables
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yeah well monoprice cables are great and
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I love having the indicator light and i
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really miss having another macbook and
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one of the things is that it's it's our
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stupid house the stupid house we live in
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we have some why don't know who the hell
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set up these goddamn sockets originally
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and thought it was a good idea but
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there's way too many of them that are
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set up where they're connected the
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switches on the wall
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yeah in races and the only reason you'd
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ever want that is having a light but
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like in our kitchen there is a light
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hanging from the ceiling like why would
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anybody put a water it that we have it
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we have sockets that have their you know
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meant to be hooked up to light switches
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in positions where you never want to put
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a light and a totally but that means
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we've got sockets that are sometimes off
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and i love it you know and there's
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nobody comes into the room and flicks it
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but they don't realize that it's not
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until then you turn it off and you plug
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something in your likewise it's not
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charging
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right and the other common scenario for
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me at least is weird you know it's
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somewhat older house and some some of
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the sockets are little loosey-goosey and
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when you put the heavy macbook charger
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right in the wall sometimes gravity just
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pulls it out enough where it's not
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actually in the light having the light
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actually go on when you plug it into the
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thing I find to be very very helpful
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because every once in a while i'll plug
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in the magsafe on my macbook and the
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light doesn't go on and I know it's
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either plugged into a socket that needs
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to switch to be flipped or the thing on
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the wall isn't in all the way
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yeah I'm with you on ID on the light
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especially to the side of the same
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situation or sometimes it will fall out
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like well like you know you're pulling
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out and it falls out or like we have you
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know that when we had the dog and it was
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younger we would take it we would unplug
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everything because we don't want to eat
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anything and you know you think you plug
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the orange to green it's like aren't you
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know it's still charging green you know
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it's good yeah you don't even have to
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open the thing i really ask that
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and these lightning cables from
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monoprice have those so anyway that's
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about cables you know this Griffin
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tested i didn't write about it it's
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really not worth it because again you
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had with then you have this little
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dongle thing you have another dongle
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hanging off for us bc you know in the
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USB port you're stuck with what should I
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do with that thing you know it's just
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like and I've lost it like I don't know
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where it is right now I mean the offices
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and that's already but so you've lost
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the dongle for the whatever priced it's
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like a table it's an oven for your uncle
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yeah it is god bless Griffin for for
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having tried to make it but no media
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thank you think I'm sorry to be mean to
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you it doesn't know where it doesn't
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satisfy it doesn't it
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it's not the same yeah no it's not it's
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i plan to send it back
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Thank You Griffin for sent me this
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product that i did not like but good
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work making it ya know i'm happy about
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monoprice that this is a great great
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have said that with there's you know I
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bought a
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USBC a thumb thumb drive
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do you know because that's one of the
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little things that you you know you'd
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you know being able to plug a thumb
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drive in it just you know usba is so
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ubiquitous that it did the first time I
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i really did run into this well as
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testing them the macbook i was going to
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transfer is just one thing with a thumb
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drive and it's like oh crap can't do
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wow that's weird so i bought a
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thumbdrive that's us bc i've seen people
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probably not the cables but you know
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like drives or card readers or something
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and powered well but the problem on the
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new macbook pros is that the USBC port
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so close to each other that there are
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some things that you can plug in and it
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covers the other port or is at least
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close enough to the other port that you
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can't even plug the cable
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well that's that's exactly the problem
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that i have on the 13-inch as we come
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back to the tape the 13-inch no escape
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whatever it's got the macbook no escape
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we should come up with another name for
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that I don't like love the no escape
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anyway no it's not no escape it is the
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macbook back to escape sorry that
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happened to escape on that the ports are
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close to each other
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yeah and i have this SD card reader that
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has to be powered because many of these
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dongles don't require power to work
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them and depending how good the dongle
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hyperdrive it's a really cheap you SD
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card USB USB see SD card reader but you
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can't plug in the power because it's
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blocking the port you laugh at my my
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well it's ya know but it's part of the
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thing that is part of the thing i think
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i bought I bought an SD card reader too
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and I'm i don't know what the hell i put
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it open my bag right it's no good
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like as much as people complain about
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these and it does look silly and stupid
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companies are like these are things that
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people deal with in their everyday life
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you know and maybe some of us more than
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I like I'm lucky I'm sitting here with
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like a giant bag of dongles you know
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because i just called them all in when i
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was doing this dongle piece but knowing
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literally it's like five hundred dollars
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worth of dongles if not more than i had
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sad one mother nice thing about
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monoprice is that with other cables that
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they sell they have some color choices i
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know and the color choices if you if you
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if you think about it before you place
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your order you can do some smart things
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where I when I started doing a few
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months ago is for life what's the old
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USB to microUSB right the right one that
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was sort of that's the real small the
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smallest USB connector before us bc but
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how many many is it magic its micro mini
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was the one that was sort of small but
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well whatever it is the one is what are
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you talking about which the one that
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standard on most at miss android fronts
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that micro that's the one
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so I still I need to have one of those
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because my kindle charges with that yeah
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and my little mophie battery packs
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charged with that so I whenever i buy
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those I just buy them in orange and then
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one day in my bag
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it's very distinctive it's not black
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it's not white the white ones are the
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worst because they could be anything but
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if I see orange I know exactly what it
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is and I there's no confusion
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it's a great if you have to put like a
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bunch of cables and stuff in a bag
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having them color color coordinated by
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type is this is a genius you're a genius
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this is truly like most useful
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anywhere and everywhere ever happens
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everything white is very good for their
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brand but it is absolutely a disaster
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for a laptop bag of yeah listen dongles
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it is absolutely terrible i'm looking at
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these colors that was about to say when
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yeah but if you call if you keep it by
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this whole thing has been a game-changer
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snapchat spectacles on here but
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understand it and then you have a column
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you've got a review out of the snapchat
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spectacles I just before we get into the
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spectacles I just want to say I saw this
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someone somewhere my twitter feed
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someone was talking about
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that they have a friend who has three
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teenagers and at all they were in
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together and and the topic came up that
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everytime facebook / Instagram copies
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something from snapchat it makes these
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teenagers more brand attached to
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snapchat that they they know what's
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going on they see it and it makes them
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rather than make them i'll just use
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Instagram and snapchat it makes them
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want to use snapchat more because they
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see it as the rip-off that it is and the
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end in specific context of this was that
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instagram has added a snapchat like
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screenshot of one of the ephemeral
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things that you send them right right
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yeah i mean and the whole stories
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feature in Instagram which was added you
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know a couple months ago is a complete
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ripoff of snapchat right and I note some
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degree that really did work because i
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think it worked for people like you who
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were just like why do i I've already in
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instagram instagram used to be cool
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I'm here and why should I go learn some
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complicated snapchat thing and then you
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know Instagram went and added snapchat
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like stuff and people are like okay cool
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yeah i think that it's you know like for
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the teens that there everybody you know
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they use snapchat is all their friends
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are already on I don't need snapchat
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because I I don't really like the
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honestly I don't really care that much
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about the Instagram what are they called
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stories i've started checking them out a
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little bit but i really don't pay
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attention to them and anywhere near as
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much as just my regular Instagram feet
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yeah I mean yeah I i see them up there
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and I like click on them and I'm just
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like oh ok you know then but then you
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end up seeing like the same photo
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no it's um you know in your actual feed
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know you posted on either i don't think
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i've seen that
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like once or twice and then I was like
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why the hell am i doing this and yeah
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stick for it doesn't stick for I've put
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some in there but it's not surprising
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that you haven't noticed them because
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it's you know going that way right
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anyway and I thought that was just
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interesting though that in the least it
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might be it might be giving some of the
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benefits of snapchat the people who
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haven't signed up for it like me when
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I'm seeing these stories from the people
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i follow on instagram but it doesn't you
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know it's not doing anything to draw
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teenagers and the people who are
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snapchats core market away from snapchat
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there anything that you know and again
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it's anecdotal is one guy talking about
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his friends three teenagers but it's
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pretty interesting i thought yeah i mean
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i think it makes sense i think that like
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though and especially the brand's
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awareness that's happened around these
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glasses like the the scramble to get
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them it they have this really strong
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I'm you know just for better or worse
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like cool coolness you know it and and I
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think part of it is like they haven't
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really caved to being this sort of like
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mainstream place like they do have the
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whole discover thing with all the brands
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and stuff like that and they try to sort
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of shut that down your face but there's
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still the core of what snapchat is which
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is you know building these stories are
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sending your expiring photos and videos
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yeah I did yeah I've been and and i
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think since I've written that piece that
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the piece about you know what is
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snapchat and how to use it i feel like
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many adults sort of either they sort of
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just were like okay I get what it is now
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but i'm not going to use it or they've
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you know they've started to use it and
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they've sort of just said this is a
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place where there are our younger people
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and their stuff to do here and I don't
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really need to know what's happening
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here is the thing and I don't I get it
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now but I don't need to know it right
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like it for me honestly it's like I
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don't I don't want to hang out in a bar
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where I'm 20 years older than everybody
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who's in the bar yeah I don't know that
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I would go running away but i might just
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you know finish
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finished one drink and you know it love
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it for some reason and I have a lot of
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people in here that like our colleagues
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or friends that are are similar age to
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me for sure
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um yeah I mean and but it's like it is
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random things that you don't really have
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to think that much about you know
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Twitter I mean I'm kind of over Twitter
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I need to like get get a twitter for a
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little bit but yeah it's just like stuff
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that you know you and then the filters
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are fun you know the filters are really
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fun to play where I'm with and even
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though now for some of them are so
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promotional for some of these companies
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it's ridiculous but yeah it's the the
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glasses are interesting because
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obviously they've done what google glass
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just never did which was make wearing a
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camera super cool right everyone's such
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an interesting comparison in so many
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ways it from i have just a simple design
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perspective of what they look like uh
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how much they cost and you know honestly
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I think it really comes down to the fact
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that ok they announce these spectacles a
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couple of weeks ago but that's not a a
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vaporware announcement they're out now
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right i mean there's people who have you
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know the production ones are out in the
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real world so it's not like you know but
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whereas google glass was I forget with
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google called it but it was you know for
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ya the explorers program or something
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like that and they were expensive and
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they were just so weird and and I in so
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many ways everything about it from the
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mo much they cost what they look like to
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do the envisioned usage of like
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recording everything everywhere vs these
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spectacles which are the design wise
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there so obviously toys right and that
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they're not to be taken seriously in any
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way I can maybe that's just the bottom
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line was that Google's google glass was
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clearly meant to be taken seriously and
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it I couldn't take it seriously but it
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it was such an earnest device whereas
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these things are just may have fun with
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some sunglasses that have take 10 second
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first videos or you know I mean totally
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and I mean as and and I think they're
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the awesome like I even though i was
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totally frustrated with this experience
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of trying to get them which led to this
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funny story that I wrote about all these
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people scrambling to go to these vending
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machines to get these things I mean it's
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totally insane
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they're awesome because they're just so
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simple right there and that was the
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other thing about glasses like they were
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trying to do all of this stuff they were
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overlaying things they were it was all
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this complicated technology to swipe
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places there's voice control this is
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just so simple that you that you just
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feel like it's so easy to capture the
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moment that you're looking at in the and
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the point of view videos awesome i'm
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obsessed with it to begin with and and
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you know being able to like instantly
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share it
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although the the bluetooth pairing is a
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bit of an issue and it just works it's
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just like super easy and and works but
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you know it's a lot of hype about
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something that's really very simple
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I what's your experience with like like
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the quality of the video not that good
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is it is it difficult in low-light I
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mean what what is it what is the latest
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low light is not good at all
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I'm but like again their sunglasses so
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when he really going to be wearing them
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that much in low-light like I you I'd i
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know i should the video my video this
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week we shot pretty much like it's a
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shot of me on the left-hand side with
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our regular camera and then the shot
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from the spectacles on the right-hand
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side for most of the video and I mean
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obviously the quality is just like you
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can very much see the difference and I
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you know my first idea for the video was
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like let's shoot the whole video with
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the spectacles and just when i started
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watching the footage I was like nobody's
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gonna watch more than a minute of this
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like it's just not it's it's it's grainy
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it's it's some of its blurry you I i saw
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some people saying that they think it's
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as good as an iphone i don't agree at
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all even when you export it as HD
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directly from the glasses into the app
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and then directly to your phone
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it does not look like a an iphone or a
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good smartphone i think it's a clever
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design choice to make them sunglasses
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because that it it says this is you know
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you can use them for everyone but
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they're meant to be used outside where
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there's daylight which
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yeah huge difference furred you know a
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camera that has you know trouble with
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you know low-light totally and that was
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the piece that i wrote this week which
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was like these are really fun and
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exciting and we should all be like we
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should be excited about this kind of
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thing it's it's it's an interesting way
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of of taking a video and I wish it took
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photos without shoving a phone in your
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face right in somebody's face and like
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the the clips I've captured of kids who
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are sort of scared of of the phone or
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you know sort of back away and get a
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little shy and when when you stick the
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phone in their face or even my dog my
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dog knows about the phone you know he's
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always like kind of like pushes it out
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of the way right he doesn't like the
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phone you got that kind of goes away
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with these but there's still this there
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is this stigma of being able to record
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people when they don't know and and you
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definitely can do that with these i had
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i said the piece like I've recorded many
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moments this week that people did not
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know I was recording because you're not
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holding a phone up and there's this year
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the social norms around holding up a
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phone people know you're recording
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something something weird is happening
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you sort of staring like there's one
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situation i'm staring at a barista with
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these sunglasses on
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she's like what the you know she's
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looking at me weird which is good
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because she she notices that something
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is different but also I don't think she
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necessarily knew that there was video
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recording you know maybe she thought I
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was like shooting lasers in my I don't
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know what you think she might have
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thought but right I'm yeah it's really
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interesting i dado that the piece ever
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was that we sort of need to have some
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rules around wearing cameras because
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this is this is just the start of it
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right like the augmented reality glasses
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if they do look like fun
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cool see ya especially as they become
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more and more subtle
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it's obvious you've got to be if people
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don't know what they are they just at
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yeah exactly but it's not going to be
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too long before you'll have classes that
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could have a camera on them where you'd
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on them it's not going to be long you
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know and it's not like you know like if
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you strapped a GoPro to your head or or
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lower like you do on some of your videos
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when you strap an SLR your head and I'd
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i tweeted about this yesterday the
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spectacles cannot replace that know that
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the technology of my helmet camera is
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just far too good and the design is far
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too good for me to replace them with
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these toys on glass well it'll happen
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soon though I mean just look at what
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happened with the iphone right the
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original iphone nine years ago didn't
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even shoot video period
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yeah which is crazy if you think about
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it like he and I I've looked that there
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have been several times over the years
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when I thought wait am I misremembering
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that maybe it's not really bad video and
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then go back and it's like nope didn't
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shoot video I so it went from shooting
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no video to shooting really terrible
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video to now shooting better video than
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my then my twelve hundred dollar fuji
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because it has image stabilization on
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the video in the fuji doesn't and as
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you're Fugees shoot 4k on that you
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probably shoot that for much more k with
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your iphone but i know but if i wanted
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to i could which is you know kind of a
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man right yeah i mean it definitely is
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gonna happen and I think glasses are
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things are going to be a egg at the next
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big wave of what we see in this you know
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whether be a RV our world and especially
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ones that do look like very normal
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glasses that look like you know the
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warby parkers and and raybans so these
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are a hundred and thirty bucks
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do you think what what's the word on
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availability like they gonna say like
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there's no way that like they're going
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to meet demand for the holidays
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well you're you know how they're sort of
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selling them in these pop-up vending
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machines yeah yeah so I'm so that's how
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I got into this story so I like I wanted
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to I wanted to review these snapchat
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said no review units you have to go to
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these these vending machines and so you
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know they started popping up mostly in
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California a few times I asked them to
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the wait in line and their the lines
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were three or four five hours deep when
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people with waiting in the lines
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and not getting them i had a friend who
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stood out in Venice for me or no sorry
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Santa Monica they were the in line for
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four hours never ended up getting them
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you know snapchat has done an incredible
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job apple-like job of creating hype
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around these things with the lines with
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the marketing its its it i mean it's
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pretty incredible as a user it's totally
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it's it's the worst it's really bad but
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from when you look at it from a tech
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company perspective the tech you know
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industry perspective I don't know the
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last time company has created this much
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hype around of a gadget no other than
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apple right so they've done that they've
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really done that with these with these
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things then and then there's the resale
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market right because you could only get
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these so i wrote this paint this front
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page piece i wrote in a head for the
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journal about these people who are going
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to insane lengths to get to the vending
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machines so they could buy the hundred
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and thirty dollar glasses and quickly
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flip them for ten times the price on
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ebay right so I mean again
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i I really don't think that there's any
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comparison other than to apple totally I
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mean and it like you know when I was I
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started telling people about this and
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they're like well isn't aren't the lines
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basically just like Apple and you know
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so well they are they definitely are but
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the scarcity of it and the fact that
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they're only releasing them in these
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vending machines and random places it
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was created madness I mean imagine if
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Apple did that I mean if Apple did that
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now would be totally madness right you
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only could get your the new iphone i
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mean that people would probably lying up
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for for an apple product like one of
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these probably this USBC dongle if it
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was some sort of special thing you know
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it only came from certain types of
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vending machines and it was the only
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thing you could get maybe the dongles
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about example but whatever
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so yeah they've done like this crazy
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this crazy I mean I said it was you know
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it's evan spiegel version of The Hunger
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Games basically it's just like dropping
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random in vending machines and random
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parts of the country and seeing who who
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goes to it a lot
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it's a very simple product that's the
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thing it and it's such a simple product
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and it's something that's like the
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technology has been around for years you
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could buy these cameras you know a
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hundred dollars on amazon for a
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you know camcorder glasses you know what
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get these things the only other guy I
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thought of another example the other
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example would be Tesla we're with the
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i'm going to forget the name of their
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upcoming mid you know 34 whatever the
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mid-priced sedan is but ass
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yeah there's at it then whatever it's
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called the whatever the new one that's
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that's not out for another two years and
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they got so many pre-orders you know
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that the little it was backed up people
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who were you know signing up you know
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again you have to pay the whole price
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pre-order but tremendous tremendous you
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know would get in line
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buy it sight unseen brand awareness
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right right
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price-wise you know ya hundred and
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thirty dollars sunglasses are a little
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different than a fifty-thousand-dollar
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car but still it just speaks though
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to me it is a under may be undervalued
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by many people at way to measure a brand
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you know that there's very very as
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always you can count them on one hand
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the companies that can do something like
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yeah I mean and you didn't really think
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snapchat could but they have you know
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and they're going to IPO soon and I
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think it's something I think there's a
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sedating company i do too and I think
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again I don't I I'm you know I'm not an
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expert on them i don't use the service
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but I you know as a guy i am fascinated
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and I do like reading stories about them
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and to me the demand for this these
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spectacles is a excellent i think it's
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excellent news for anybody who's
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involved with the IPO because to me that
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sort of a brand awareness brand trust
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Brandon thusi as it may be is the best
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way to put it is is a valuable thing and
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it's the sort of thing that that isn't
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likely to dissipate quickly
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yeah and i think you know it's funny
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like we spend but an hour an hour and 55
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minutes talking about laptops right
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snapchat has no presence on your
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computer 19 and I have been less than
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Instagram which at least has a website
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that is you know more or less meant to
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be used on it on a desktop computer and
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its fat you know I make a video series
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III do one video a week that basically
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we do it does go on our platform but it
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goes on snapchat and we have far more
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viewers on snapchat for the for the
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and we have anywhere else and you know
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the the a that means that whatever i'm
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doing is resonating with people on
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snapchat which is great but it also just
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means like people are so hungry to watch
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these videos in this format and you know
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I like i did that piece a couple months
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ago on vertical video and I hope that
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there will be some sort of solution down
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down the road I actually you know these
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these take up circular video which i
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think is pretty cool how does not mean
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at all on the dl but how does that work
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on the desktop like if you just like it
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just exports a circle so you like when
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you open it like in quicktime player
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whatever on your Mac it just plays in a
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yeah watch my video this week because we
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like to do and did you see the circles
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yes so the circle is actually what you
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yeah like the the shots where there's
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like the circle on white like there's
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this circle in the middle and then wait
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on the other side of it like a big polka
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dot that's how it exports fascinating
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and then as you're watching it the cool
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thing is as you're watching it on the
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yeah you can watch watch join this video
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you'll see it but as you rotate the
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phone it just takes a rectangle within
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the circle so if you're holding your
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phone vertically it takes a vertical
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rectangle within the circle and then as
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you rotate it just you know you never
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see you never see black bars it's always
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fills the screen
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yeah and win the weird thing is I get it
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it's the framing with the glasses isn't
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great like you don't really know like
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that's where you could see like an
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augmented-reality thing being very
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helpful in these like if there was a way
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to sort of be looking at your glasses
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and say this is the center of your frame
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you know we're like you know actually be
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really cool if they showed you inside
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where the circle really is no I'm
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because like they're under a mountain of
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many shots where I would like take a
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shot at the dog and like half the dog
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space was cut off
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yeah like oh yeah like love to capture a
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memory with you know half a child's face
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in it but yeah I think like they're just
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doing really interesting things around
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video with interesting like that it you
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know in the piece where it was a journal
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magazine piece and evan spiegel
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announced that he was making these and
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renaming the company snap and he kept
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saying that the company is now a camera
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company it's interesting positioning I
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keep thinking the company's much more of
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a like a TV network or this or or
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it's sort of more like the YouTube of of
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mobile in my in my sort of thinking
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about it but it seems like he's very set
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on controlling the camera experience and
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giving people interesting ways to use
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their smartphone or now glasses camera
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so makes you wonder what kind of other
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camera products they're going to work on
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but given that like today there's news
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that GoPro just laid off fifteen percent
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of their workforce so you know great
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time to be in the camera business I'd I
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think go pro I'm invited I'm not an
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expert on that either but I think GoPro
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remember the flip cameras totally
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totally and it's I've never end whenever
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doesn't make any sense to me they're
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exactly like the flip where they you
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they were ahead of the game but that
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to sustain it and I side already noticed
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I see less people with GoPros at places
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like the beach and stuff like that like
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a couple years ago when know you know it
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was like yeah I'll need safeway people
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felt to you know take photos at the
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beach I think now that we have at least
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splash-proof phones i see a lot more
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people who are willing to like you know
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go knee deep in the water with the phone
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in their hand to take a picture and you
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know no longer need to have a go pro I
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one of the event at the apple of the
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iphone event it was like this is the
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worst news for gopro right now this this
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because I'm that way now like I don't
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worry about using that i use my phone in
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the shower on election night I i tweeted
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that I was like I was legitimately in
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the shower looking at CNN looking at the
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expo I was like you know it it's it's
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it's really you don't really even when
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it was announced that this is gonna be
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waterproof / 50 know it's all this fun
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stuff we again I obviously did a lot of
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the pool stuff or whatever but there's
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just there's this huge level of anxiety
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that just goes away
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yeah and and especially the beach or the
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pool or you know you're trying to get
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your washing your dog or you're watching
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your child and you don't really care
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that the phone gets wet
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and those were the times he would take
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out the GoPro always been paranoid about
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using my phone in the rain
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honestly I've always been super paranoid
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about you know scorching a whatever you
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call it you know ruining the phone by
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getting it wet even know like the
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headphone jack has pointed has been on
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the bottom for a while I don't know but
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it's yeah you know I feel much better
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anything else you want to talk about i
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think we could wrap up otherwise unless
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you have a topic now I think I'm you
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know I'm so what am i doing about the
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laptop back buying your old one
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you're currently the fall you're not
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buying my own because I don't want to
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get a new one yet I wanted
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I'm gonna hold onto in front of you
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because you wouldn't have to make this
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decision i mean i'm in the case where I
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would eat i'm probably going to add that
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this is a company laptop i might see if
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we have any old pros hanging around and
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it's not that it doesn't work it works
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fine but I just need I need a little bit
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more been doing more video stuff and
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you've got to get rid of the non retina
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screen it's a non retina screen is it is
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the thing is going to recognize wrecked
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by I i think that is how wall stud got
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this next heir all set for the for the
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apocalypse
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you know I by the time he needs it in
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the next macbook pros will be out it
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it's it's really easy he's never going
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to open that box because by the time the
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time even would be tempted to its he's
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he can get a macbook pro that will you
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know in the dongle situation will be way
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better Wi-Fi USB see everywhere mr. i
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say at you know ultimately if you can
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wait a little bit until the you know
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USBC everywhere is a little bit closer
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to the truth and maybe even one more
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generation of these comes out it's
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probably worth it but if you you know
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really are desperate
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I wouldn't hesitate to just get the
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macbook pro touch bar right now if you
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really need it if you can wait a year i
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would wait here
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yeah I guess I wait a year I'm curious
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when the main event want to go on a long
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discussion here but i'm curious when
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because i know it's going to happen is
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that the macbook air is going to go away
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i think the fact that they didn't update
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it at all is
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shows that it's going to it's either
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going to go away or Apple would like to
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start dropping the actual price and sell
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it for like seven ninety-nine instead of
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999 but i don't think that they'll do
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that I kind of think they're the mac is
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a thing that like with the ipad they'll
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keep dropping the price but i think the
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mac is something where they want to
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maintain the average selling price and I
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think that's sooner rather than later
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the macbook air will truly disappear and
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the macbook will drop to 999 yeah and i
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think there's a push to I think there's
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a push to get people to buy those ipad
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pros you know when you look at really
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what you what you can do an interview
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it's really the difference of an
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operating system
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yeah well in the prediction here's a
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prediction with absolutely zero sourcing
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whatsoever i don't have any inside
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information on this but it's just my gut
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feeling as to how Apple does stuff like
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this is that sometime in the first half
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of next year I don't know I don't
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remember when the macbooks the regular
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12 inch macbooks got updated last year i
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think it was like April or May or
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something like that
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yeah maybe around that time again they
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will update them and they will get the
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touch bar and the one without the touch
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bar will remain unchanged and drop in
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I don't know that that's I don't think
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they'll quite get rid of the air yet but
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then like maybe like within the next 18
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months that device the macbook without
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the touch bar will drop to 999 and are
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there are some rumors about a new iPad
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pro oh I think they'll def I think they
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definitely do that in march and I don't
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have any information on that other just
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my hunch that they're not going to go
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that long without updating the ipad pro
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and they've already got this new what
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are they up to now the 810 processor and
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the iphone 7 whatever they call it
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yeah a nine-year and whatever yeah and
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I'll just put but they'll update i think
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what they'll do is update both ipad pros
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at the same time the big big one in a
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medium-sized one I hope they update that
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keyboard
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the keyboard cover yeah yeah I never did
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it's alright but it never did it for me
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yeah it's a good way to get happy with
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the macbook pro keyboard that wasn't
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true that's true i saw this is wonderful
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to spend some time with that one alright
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I our actual links in the show notes to
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your recent work that people can all
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your recent work that people can all
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it's fine to hit the wall street journal
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and then on twitter twitter twitter
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handle just joanna stern just spill that
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Joanna Joanna joa na its eastern sterl
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should have done it in your in your
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yes not it's funny how many times I have
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somebody on the show who I see on
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twitter and interact with on Twitter all
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the time and I completely draw a blank
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on what their their twitter handle is
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because it's a sort of like phone
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numbers you know what I mean like once
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you have a min your Twitter feed you
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don't really need to to pay attention to
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yeah and Twitter doesn't make it easy to
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like add names sometimes even that like
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autocomplete thing doesn't really work
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that well yeah i don't know i honest to
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god I don't even know my wife's phone
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number III think I know it
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anything I think I know but I wouldn't
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want to I wouldn't wanna bet that I get
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every digit correct because i do 1990
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times out of a hundred I just Tapper in
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the favorites and then like but like
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sometimes I can't go and pick up a
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prescription for something like that and
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they're like you know what's the phone
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number and I have to fish out my phone
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and like look at her contact and read it
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yeah I I I think I know my wife's I and
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I i don't know like immediate family
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members anymore just like in my home
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line of miners tell my parents and I
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know like my best friend from high
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schools
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yeah I know my best friend from high
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schools a cell phone number but I don't
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have my oh no I don't know my honored
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cell phone number not cellphone i know
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my best friend from high schools home
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phone number that i haven't dialed in
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I don't know 20 22 years right as he
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doesn't live there anymore right but I
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dialed it so many times as a teenager
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that it's like completely burned into my
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friend in my mind anyway Thank You
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Joanna what it was a great time talking
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to you yes you too
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