258: ‘Pousse-Café’ With John Moltz
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John Moltz, my friend. How are you on this? How are you on this Friday, late July?
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Sweaty. I had to turn the air conditioning off, so I might be profusely sweating by the time this
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is done. If I was smarter man, if I were a much smarter man, I would have turned the AC down
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hours ago, and then instead left it at 73. So, oh yeah, so it's not like super,
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It's not gonna last you.
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And as I sat here waiting for this to start, the weather outside went from overcast to
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It's beating right down on my desk.
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Just thinking about it is making me sweaty.
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But it cooled off there, right?
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Yeah, it did.
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We had a stretch of about eight or nine days where it was mid-90s with really high humidity.
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I don't know if it's the same thing.
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the heat index and then there's the quote unquote feels like which I'm a big believer in I actually
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almost wish that I could change some of my weather apps to prefer the feels like as opposed to the
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official here's what a thermometer says the temperature is because I feel like it's a much
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more accurate gauge we were down in uh Orlando at the beginning of the month for for some time at the
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Disney parks and the universal and etc etc you know July down in Orlando it's yeah perfect time
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to go yeah it's absolutely beautiful well you know what we time it right
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though we do this every year and we we have it scheduled so that like the last
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two days last two or three days even we spend a lot of most of the time at the
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pool and it's that's actually kind of nice so you like you like kill yourself
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going on all these rides for a couple of days and then yeah spend some time at
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the pool but anyway it was general and this is Orlando Florida in July it was
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generally like plus eight on the feels like index so if it said it was 94 it
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would be like feels like 102 the other at the end of this heat wave in Philly
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it was plus 13 it was like I swear to God it was like 93 degrees and it was
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like feels like 107 it was that thick in humid it was man it was pretty bad
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nothing wrong with the climate though I'll tell you no no that's fine that's
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It's all gonna work out.
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You know this because we're on a slack together.
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Amy and I went to see the Rolling Stones here in Philadelphia Tuesday night at the Lincoln
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Financial Field.
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Now that was after the heat wave broke.
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So it was actually pretty pleasant.
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We actually had rain during the concert, but it was sort of a light rain.
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It wasn't a heavy rain, so it was all very pleasant.
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uh, but it could have melted. None of the mouth had Keith maybe almost
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a little soft, but they didn't melt.
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Can I just say, I would just like to say to start the show that I,
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it's like the jokes about the rolling stones being old started when I was a
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kid, you know, like in the, in the eighties, you know,
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like I've always been a fan of the rolling stones. It's a, it's a band.
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My mom, God bless her turned me on too.
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Although my mom, like, I don't know if it was a sign of the times or what, but my mom
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like tuned, completely tuned out of popular music as soon as I was born.
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So every, she didn't buy any, like she had like no records after 1973.
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I think that's a typical, I think that's a sort of typical parent thing.
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Oh, I, you know, I'm probably as guilty of it as anybody.
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I probably tuned out before, before Jairus was born.
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Like so my childhood I loved listening to her Beatles and Stones records
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She was you know had big on both, but they were all sort of like mid-60s. And so it was older stuff
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Always a fan of the stones, you know for most of my life probably if you press me to say who's your favorite band?
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I probably would have said the Rolling Stones from
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Ten years old through today
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But the jokes about them being old started, you know
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like in the 80s and and I feel like they've gotten so old and if still still
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the same thing that nobody even jokes about it you know I mean like they've
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looped around and everybody I honestly I just think people are like they're just
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in awe it was funny we had seats it was at the football stadium the Lincoln
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financial field and don't feel great name don't get me started on stadium
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number one it's been the Lincoln we've already talked about that it has been
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Lincoln financial field ever since they built the damn thing. I still have I have no idea what
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Lincoln financial is. I don't know it's really working. I really don't I don't think it's a bank.
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I think I don't know what it is. But yeah, the money money well spent but anyway, we had seats
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probably at like the equivalent of the 50 yard line maybe a little bit closer more like the
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45 yard line but they were on the aisle in the stones. There's a big stage up front with some
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of the biggest, brightest displays I've ever seen in my life. It's unbelievable that these things
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get trucked around the country for the concerts. I mean, they're way bigger, taller, brighter than
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most of the similar type signage on the Las Vegas strip, which is permanent 365 days a year. Just
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unbelievable. But they had this sort of catwalk that came out from the stage to maybe the 50-yard
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line. And Mick would, you know, sometimes run out there and then they the whole band came out for an
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acoustic set like how you know, two or three songs halfway through the show. And we were really close
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to that part of the stage. It was really cool. But we're right on the aisle. And it's sort of an aisle
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between us and this catwalk that comes out 40 yards from the main stage. And we're waiting for
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the concert to start. And the, you know, as people are wanting to do at a concert people, people with,
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you know, tickets in the back might try to wander up to the front. And the security people were
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right on top of it, were very clear. And at one point, it made Amy laugh out loud. Somebody came
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up and was like, you know, saying like, "I just want to come up here and dance." And the security
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guard said to her, "Ma'am, this is an older audience. You never know. We might have a medical
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emergency. We need to keep this aisle clear." I swear to God, Amy almost died. Because, and it was
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we could somebody might break a hip somebody might break a hip and it's wet you know it's somebody
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might might be a slip and fall so now the jokes are about the fans yes exactly and it is it is so
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true like if you if you're you know mid-40s you maybe even you know maybe 50 maybe up to 55 you
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want to feel young you want to feel good about yourself go to a rolling stones concert wow
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Yeah, that's that's probably beds better. Yeah, I mean I've done I've done the opposite which I think is about when I stopped going to
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Live music because I was with a friend and we're looking around like oh my god, we're the oldest people here. We're the old guys
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I will say we gotta stop coming to these I it is amazing mick jagger. I looked it up. I did the research
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He's 76 years old, which is stunning. He looks absolutely fantastic
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I really, I mean I can't say I got super close to him, but I mean he certainly fit.
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I think he has done an incredible service to himself.
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I mean he's obviously coloring his hair, his hair is still brown, but he's not doing
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the plastic surgery thing.
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His face is craggled and he's doing it the right way.
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I think their initial aging was, you know, is the Indiana Jones thing. It's not the years, it's the mileage, right?
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Yeah, yeah, totally. And then that's why they probably mostly stayed the same since then. Right.
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Yeah, you know, Ron Wood looks great. Charlie Watts is the drummer.
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It looks amazing. And also, just is like the least rock and roll guy you'll ever see. He just, he was just wearing like a green
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Oxford shirt.
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I said to him, he's dressed like I dress.
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It's just wearing a plain green shirt looks like it came from the gap or something
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Keith you know Keith is doing something with his hair now that I have to say I would I would probably advise him against just sort
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Of got like a shoe polish
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think it looked a little better when it was sort of gray and wiry and and
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But you know he sounds good the sound stone sounded amazing. It's a great was a great concert
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You have to say and I've got almighty. I hope I'm in
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Still doing what I do when I'm 76 years old god bless him
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- Doing the talk show live and a security guy
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says this is an older crowd.
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- We need to keep these aisles clear.
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Anyway, my idea for this is that we would do
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a Q&A episode and so thinking ahead,
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two or three hours ago, I asked--
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- You destroyed my mentions.
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I asked people on Twitter for their questions.
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I think this should be fun.
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I think there's a lot of stuff in here.
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I'm not gonna organize these in any sort of topical way,
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so we'll skip around unless you object.
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- But it seems like too much work to actually--
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- Exactly, yeah.
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And we should have done it beforehand.
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- Oh, obviously.
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- Which obviously we did not do.
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- I gave my intern the day off.
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- Okay, yeah, well, he deserves it.
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All right, here's the first question from Lincoln Roselle.
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asks who do you think the next Bond will be and who do you want it to be do you care about James
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Bond everybody knows I like James Bond I do I probably don't care as much as you do but um I do
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care uh and didn't they announce something like someone's gonna be the next 007 right uh yeah I
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I'm trying was that a rumor no because I didn't read that whole thing yeah I'm trying to remain
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you know I'm doing my spoiler free thing with this uh still still untitled Bond 25 film but
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something I did see something to the effect of that there so I don't know if
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it's true or not but that some I think it's a woman is already you know it's
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somehow it's leaked that in this next film she's double-oh-seven and so I
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guess the assumption there she's not James Bond right she's double but that
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somehow James Bond has either lost his double-oh status or retired from his
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double-oh status and he's been replaced in the ranks as double-oh-seven by by a
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woman which would be an interesting twist I suppose I guess it depends on
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how they want to play the continuity game going forward mm-hmm it is funny I
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was thinking about this I forget where somebody somebody was tweeting
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something about bond oh I I think I linked it up on daring fireball where
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somebody ranked all of the Bond villains from all 24 films and ranked them from
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worst to best which was I didn't necessarily agree with his rankings in
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a lot of ways but I thought it was just it's just an enormous amount of work
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because it's an awful lot of any villain or henchmen who was worthy of a name you
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know as opposed to like henchmen - was was in the listings and ranked but one
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of the things he pointed out and I think back in the day when Dan Benjamin and I
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were doing the let's go through one at a time and and at the end you'd show do a
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review of the Bond movies. I think we touched on this because we did them in chronological order.
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But when you look at them in the aggregate, and especially when you look at today's
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blockbuster movie world, especially I would say, most especially with the Marvel,
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quote unquote, cinematic universe, where these films tie together almost like TV episodes,
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you know, you kind of need to watch them in order. And the characters from the various
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Films good guys and bad guys pop up in the other ones and then they have the Avenger ones where they're all supposed to be
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there and it's it's
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tons and tons of continuity the Bond movies in the early decades the 60s and 70s had like the most ridiculous
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lack of continuity like the
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The only time you're coming back playing do different two different characters, right? They had a guy
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You you only live twice which is the one where Bond goes to Japan Sean Connery goes to Japan and he meets
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somebody from mi6 who's been like the station chief in Tokyo for a long time and he's you know,
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even though he's very British he's like dressed up in like a Japanese kimono and
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Losing a very Japanese house and get stabbed in the back. Oh and that was the scene. It's a famous scene where
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He offers bond a martini and says stirred right or stirred not shaken
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Which of course is backwards from his preference but bond being the gentleman that he is says. Yes, that's perfect
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It was a it's a very nice little scene of sort of British
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But anyway that same actor played Blofeld in diamonds or forever like which is like four years later and they did no makeup
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There's no makeup. He has the same hairstyle. It's just the same guy. It's the same guy
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Like so not only did they not it like I think it's I mean, you know back then
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It might show on TV every once in a while
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But nobody had video, you know, right VHS tapes floating around of it or anything like right? So it's like you wouldn't remember right?
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Right, right. It just was so they could get away with it, right? The only the only
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Characters who they consistently cast the bond of course and then money penny and M. M
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Thank you and Q
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That was it other than those four. They would just they'd recast anything goes anybody and everybody
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One movie the first movie Felix Leiter is Jack Lord and he looks cool AF, you know looks
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You know to me any good Felix Leiter should look like a guy who should have his own series of films
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films. And then like two movies later, he was like an old man going to KFC. Like a muthafuld
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old man. It's so bizarre. Anyway, who do we want as the next Bond? I don't know. Everybody,
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the name at the top of everybody's list is Idris Elba of various fame, including The
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Wire and a bunch of other great movies. I certainly wouldn't object to it. He's certainly
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cool yeah you know the fact that he's black doesn't matter to me at all I
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think that would be sort of a cool thing to do actually and of course you know
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there's some weird corner of the internet that would go crazy the way
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that of course you know there's people who've gone crazy because they're gonna
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make a live-action Little Mermaid Disney you know Disney's take Disney's taking
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all of these classic animated cartoons and then making live-action ones for
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absolutely no good reason very strange like that was my take on them I didn't
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see I think it's I think it's to make money I'm pretty sure that's the reason
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right that you can somehow make more money by spending a hundred million
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dollars to make a live-action Lion King that just remakes the animated version
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but you make 500 million in worldwide box office that I guess they wouldn't
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have made if they just put the animated version back in but anyway apparently
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they've cast a young african-american woman as the little mermaid and of course there's they're not racist at all
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They just you know
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They're just pointing out how a black person could not be a mermaid
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And typically speaking right you guys realize that the if there's a realism
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Problem with the character
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I sort of went away at fish person.
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You don't think a black mermaid is realistic?
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You really might want to...
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I'm out. Forget it. I can't believe this anymore.
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So anyway...
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I was fine at singing mermaid.
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Also it turns into a we're a woman right?
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There's a lot of scientific problems with the but I'm out at black
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Count me out. Yeah
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So it almost be worth it if they cast Ildris
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Oh, but just to see those reactions and watch people's heads sure blow up and then watch the movie still go on to make
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600 gazillion dollars. Yeah, I've been people have already flipped out when he was in the Marvel movies. Yeah. Yeah playing Heimdall
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Yeah, and I have to say the way that Hollywood works and that they the way that it there's sort
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of a hive mind mentality, you know, that when something works, like, you know, I don't know how
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long it was before there were big budget space shooters, but then Star Wars comes out and then
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every other movie in the late 70s. You know, even the James Bond movie Moonraker all of a sudden
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they're going into outer space shooting lasers at each other. I would have to think that the
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phenomenal, critical and box office success of Black Panther certainly would motivate people to
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cast, you know, someone like get this role but in a big, big role like that. And it's a shame that
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you have to have somebody, you know, they're just following the lead. But it's I think it's a good
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thing for just the overall diversity of the casting in these big budget action movies.
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So that'd be great. I think he would be fantastic in or I think he's, you know, certainly got the
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gravitas. He's got the voice. He's got the cool. You can absolutely positively see him and just
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imagine him in a nice tuxedo ordering a vodka martini. Absolutely. The downside to Idris Elba
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is that he's already 47 years old. Right. I was going to say he's kind of old now. People have
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been talking about it for 10 years. Right. And so, presumably, if this is the last movie that
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Christ what's-his-name
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Daniel Craig Daniel Craig makes which it's you know, he's had a good run
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It was rumored that the last one was gonna be the last one that he would do
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Five movies is a hell of a run in the role and he you know wants to go on to other things
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Certainly makes sense that this is probably going to be his last one you would think though
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They'd want to recast it with someone who himself could make five movies and maybe at 47 Idris Elba is a little too old
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Yeah, one of the things that people like when they cast Roger Moore
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Well one of these sort of ran into a problem toward the end
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Definitely ran into a problem at the end and one of the things that was curious about casting Roger Moore's Roger Moore
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Was actually a year or two older than Sean Connery, right?
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So he was already older than Sean Connery when he took over the role
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I think did very very fine
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Through the 70s and then by the 80s
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Definitely and I had the he had the old man run by that. Yeah
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his last was a view to a kill in 1985 and it's it's a funny little you know
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bond trivia thing that 1985 was also the year that never say never again came out
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which was the only Bond movie that was not from the same production team
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because of a very long-running legal squabble over the rights to the novel
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Thunderball where
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There was this other guy who apparently had worked with Ian Fleming on a television
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play or script and
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They you know, it was basically the story of Thunderball. What if what if terrorists could could hijack a nuclear
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Missile on a jet, you know by by by getting a pilot to be a double actor
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They it never came to fruition and then Ian Fleming when I went ahead and just made a novel with the basic plot called
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Thunderball long run, you know, they ended up making that movie
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But this guy I forget his name doesn't really matter
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but he eventually won the legal rights to to co-own the plot and the name James Bond and
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So never say never again is a very strange movie because it doesn't have the same theme song because that obviously belonged to the eon productions
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The credits were very strange, but they did convince Sean Connery to take the role
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which is really the only way it got made and Connery did it just because he had a
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Falling out with the Albert Cubby from eon and just one wanted to stick it to him
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but so in 1985 there were two Bond movies there was never say never again starring Sean Connery and
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View to a kill with Roger Moore and view to a kill actually did better at the box office, but
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I think Sean Connery clearly better looked to the part and yeah
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And it was interesting because at least in never say never again at the beginning they sort of
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Acknowledge that he's old bond, you know, and there's he there's a new M who is clearly, you know
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like maybe 15 20 years younger than bond himself and does the famous scene where
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Tells him he's got too many free radicals
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free radicals sir, and he goes yes, it's
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Too much red meat too much bread too many vodka martinis
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And Connor without missing a beat says then I shall endeavor to cut down on my bread
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But anyway, they at least acknowledged that he was older and sort of at the end of his career
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Where is never our view to a kill? There's no acknowledgement whatsoever that Roger Moore
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Yeah, 60 year old man who can't really run up a place to be out there. Yeah, just like fighting people and
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And I don't think the makeup team or the cinematographer really did him any any no any justice either
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Didn't really get a lot of help
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So anyway Idris Elba I would give a thumbs up to with the provision that who knows, you know
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Can he go for you know, and especially nowadays these Bond movies even if they you know start there's such major major blockbuster productions
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That you know, they come three four years apart
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So if he's going to do five, you know, you're talking maybe 20 years, you know, I really I don't care
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What kind of condition I mean, it could be Mick Jagger, right, but you don't want bond as a 67 year old
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No, I think we learned that
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We learned that lesson unless it's less. It's a very different movie
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anybody who's
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got an English accent and is handsome and
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Vaguely tall is often mentioned as a bond Tom Hiddleston Hiddleston
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I just him Hiddleston. Yeah, who probably is best known as Loki in the
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back to the Marvel Universe
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He's often mentioned and he did a I'll recommend this here. I don't know if you ever watched it. There was a TV series
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I forget what network it was on was like a eight or ten episode TV series called the
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the night manager
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And he plays, you know a vague, you know
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Sort of a spy, you know, it seems sort of like his Remington Steele. Yeah
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That was it. That was the comparison. I was gonna draw it too because he seems like a more Pierce Brosnan II. Yeah
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Like he would be a more Pierce Brosnan II bond
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And I I like Pierce Pierce Brosnan his bond a lot more than I thought I was going to for sure
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And I think he did a fair job. I think he was in some bad movies. Yeah, he was in some really bad movies
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I think he got I
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Think he was born for the role. I think he was absolutely fantastic at it and
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Really got stuck with just some god-awful movies. Yeah, if you just watch GoldenEye you you can really appreciate
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What a great bond he was. Mm-hmm
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Well, my favorite thing is I was watching some documentary at one point
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I don't know
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It was like the commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bond or something like that and they talked to a whole bunch of the actors
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Of course Sean Connery wouldn't wouldn't participate
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but even even Pierce Brosnan got mixed up between the titles of his movies and he totally he totally
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acknowledged that he forgets which ones which yeah I don't remember I don't remember either
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no it doesn't so it doesn't sound like this this woman is going to be James Bond but if they were
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going to cast a woman I was gonna throw at Frankie Adams who is she's from New Zealand so she's not
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British per se but
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She is in the expanse
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And she plays Bobby Draper in the expanse and she's just a she's a badass Frankie Adams. Oh Frankie Adams. Yeah, okay
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Yeah, I don't know. I mean, you know, maybe you know, I
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if they wanted to cast a woman I I think it's I think that's probably
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Better serve to create a new character like and you know, maybe I'm on maybe I'm on the wrong side of this
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You know, maybe this is me being you know on the spectrum of saying I can't I can't imagine a black guy is James Bond
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But I don't know I sort of depends on how much you define misogyny as part of the role
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Exactly, right. I you know, I do I like the trend of putting women in
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Action roles in within the movies, you know, the new money penny is a badass
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As opposed to all of them being damsels in distress type characters, yeah
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But we shall see I don't know. I also feel like the best thing they could do is
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Go in a different direction pick somebody who in some ways is not Daniel Craig, you know
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just to and it's part of what made the the Roger Moore transition work is that
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he didn't try to do Sean Connery at all. He was just very, very comfortably Roger Moore,
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for better or for worse, you know, and I think in some ways better for the 70s.
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But in a way that didn't age as well. There's not as much retro cool to his movies to me.
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I think in general, I like a Bond who seems like he's believably a good fighter. And I don't,
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I mean, I don't think Roger Moore really pulled that off that well. Maybe early on he can he gets by but well
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I know unless so Pierce Brosnan as well, but even I like him I
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Always said I always thought that re watching the more movies and I think it was to his credit that that he turned
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Bond into a little bit more of a superhero
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And he always came across and somehow made it feel right like he came across as a bond who had already
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he read the screenplay and knows that he's gonna survive and wind up, you know, wind up in a
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floating spacecraft making out with a beautiful woman at the very end of the movie. Like, and so
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no matter how dire his circumstances, he really was like, I'm not gonna worry about this. I got it.
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Yeah. I don't know. Nothing more on the Bond thing. Anything else on that? We're not gonna
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what are you any questions pop out to you
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asked about uh... dream laptop
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mmm basically
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mmm that's a good question i got that that was him
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uh... you'd want to go first
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i think that the best laptop i feel like i've had best mac
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laptop I feel like I've had was the 11 inch Air for me. He was saying something about
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building it from scratch so but I'm not sure I can do that in my head. And I feel like
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looking back I feel like I maybe would have been happy with the 13 inch maybe more even
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though I stuck with the 11 inch and loved it for so long. I do like a slightly bigger
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screen. So I think I'm kind of thinking like something that
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would be the current 13 inch MacBook Air. But with a, you
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know, a keyboard that actually, you know, a scissoring keyboard
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instead of the butterfly. Yeah, both for feel and for reliability.
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Right. And and no, yeah, no, no touch bar. But But yes, with the
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touch ID. Hmm. I would say, I'll start out by saying this, I bought, I own two computers
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right now, an iMac, which I'm in front of right now, and a 13-inch MacBook Pro, and
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I bought both of them in 2014, so they're now both five years old. I've been thinking
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about this a lot, I should write it up for Daring Fireball. I'm not even sure which
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one I would rank first or second, but they're clearly the two best Macs I've ever bought
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in my life. And they have both served me incredibly well with incredible reliability. They both
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still feel fast to me. I suspect the MacBook Pro in particular, like when I last summer,
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I spent six weeks on a review unit of the then new 15 inch MacBook Pro, and I definitely
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could feel that some things were faster. So I suspect I'm, I'm, it's my lack of, you know,
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Once you go to a faster machine, it's not so much that it feels faster
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It's that when you go back to the old one it feels slow
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So I suspect that there, you know, I'll probably really replace that MacBook Pro first, but my iMac
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I can't think of anything that's slow. It's just unbelievable machine. I
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Love that MacBook Pro. It's a 13 inch 2014 MacBook Pro
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It's a little thick by today's standards compared to the current 13 inch MacBook Pro, but it's got I
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The SD card slot I use I use rarely but when I do use it like on vacation to offload
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Photos from a quote-unquote real camera to keep the SD card on the camera free for shooting more photos and video
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You know it do I have could I put a dongle in my backpack?
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I think I have one that's USB C so that I can connect it to like an iPad or something
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I don't know. I've got a lot of dongles in my backpack, but it's nice not to have to fish around for it
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It is nice to have more USB ports than I need it is nice. I love magsafe
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I really find that in hindsight to be such a curious
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Regression I like I like magsafe too, but I am
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Probably just as happy with USB C for power because well for several reasons
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I do like switching being able to switch sides, you know any port
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I mean like if I'm in a hurry I can I can fumble around and find a port and I don't need to care
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which one it is, which was not really that much of a problem with MagSafe
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obviously because it would find it pretty much on its own. But the thing
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that I like the most is being able to get other chargers that I can rely on.
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Because getting MagSafe, getting you know non-Apple MagSafe chargers was
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not a good idea. Right, right. And so you were basically stuck getting
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an Apple branded one and you know and they're like 70 bucks or something. Right
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You're always worried that it's gonna be like one of those sparking space guns. Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna blow up in your face
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So, um, it's nice being able to get other power options for like, you know, you can get a good one for 40 bucks
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Most yeah, I totally accept that there's a trade-off there on
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Universality and you know and being able to share a charger between iPad and MacBook
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You know like on vacation just earlier this month Amy didn't even know she did mean she's a normal person
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So she doesn't pay attention, but she was very very pleased that Jonas's
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MacBook Air from last year uses the same charger as her iPad Pro so
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He could charge overnight and then she could just plug it in while we went out for the day
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You know and it's what just one less plug littering your own. Yeah
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So I'm except the demise of magsafe. I miss it
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But what I would want in a new laptop is first and foremost, I would want a keyboard that has a good feel
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I want yeah, and I I
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Just write so much on my MacBook
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I just want the keyboard to feel great and I don't like the feel of the butterfly ones and I know some people do but
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I know I want more travel
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Other than that, I guess the other thing he asked about his touchscreen or no. No, I I don't want to touch
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I thought that's what you're saying.
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No, I really don't.
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I'm on the fence.
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I guess I'm on the fence.
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The only reason I think yes maybe
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is because every once in a while after using my iPad,
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I will have to resist the urge to touch the screen to do
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something on the MacBook.
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Well, I mean, we could do a whole episode on it.
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But I don't want a touch screen.
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And I realize--
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And you can't just put the touch screen on.
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You have to redesign the operating system.
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Just the red, yellow, green buttons alone,
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Just to name the yes obvious thing. They're too small and too close to each other for touch, right?
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And I don't want the interface. I don't mean to be too dismissive of the iOS look and feel but I don't want it to be
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Fisher priced
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Just to accommodate touch that I I won't even use, you know
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I like the density and the smallness of the controls of a mouse driven interface, so I would say no to a touchscreen
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Hope I really really hope
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So I want a better keyboard. I think I want better battery life than what?
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Apple's current MacBook pros are offering and that might just be waiting for arm as opposed to Intel
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I don't know I
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Have no complaints about the display especially now that they have true tone across the board
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I guess if they shrunk the bezels, which I think is what they're doing with this rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro
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I'm guessing that I've said this before
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I'm guessing that that's just a replacement for the 15 inch and that they're just keeping the footprint roughly the same and
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Making the display go more closer to the closer to the corners making it 16 inches instead of 15 and it's like already
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15.4 inches or 15 point something inches, so it's actually not even like a full inch to make it
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Yeah, I get you know
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Yeah, but the other thing that I really hope Apple is doing is I really hope that they are taking to heart the I
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would say the consensus on the touch bar is
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ambivalent at best
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And I suspect the people who like it the most are generally silent and it's the people who really dislike it who are vocal
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But at least judging from the comments I see
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It is not it has not been well received
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I don't hate it. Like I said, I spent 64 weeks either, but I don't love it
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So I really would do you how do you have it? How do you have your set? Do you have it?
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Well, I don't have one in front of me
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I'd like the last time I used it was like I said six the six weeks I spent on a MacBook Pro a year ago
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And I I more or less used it as it was
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factories as it was designed see the thing that the thing that I don't I can't get in on is
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the idea that you're gonna go into every single app
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that you have and customize the touch bar.
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I mean, I can see that there are some people
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who probably use certain apps,
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professional digital editing apps all the time
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who might do that.
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I don't work that way and the writing apps that I use
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don't have that many special features
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that I feel like I need special buttons for them.
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So I basically turned it into,
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just the regular function buttons that what the functions were for on a mac so instead of having
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you know the f numbers it's just the icons for you know volume up and down and that kind of thing
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and that's uh i like that i mean and there's in i can the nice thing is i i have a keychron
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keyboard that I use and I basically now have that that the the function keys on that are similar in that they are
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Dedicated max style function keys and I can set up the touch bar basically to look exactly like that
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So now I you know when I have the keyboard plugged in and I'm using it. It's the same thing
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I I just basically I sincerely hope that Apple is has
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internalized the public's ambivalence towards the touch bar and is working on a a
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Rethinking like I think as a fundamental idea
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It's a brilliant idea and I think the idea of having all of our keyboards lined up with 12 of these F F keys from
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1978 is is odd and I think it's very odd that
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that we we collectively but led by Apple have sort of repurposed them with these icons and they're all sort of
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It's fiddly and just seems outdated
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And so I think the idea of making it a touch little touchscreen integrated above the keyboard is a great idea
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But I really think that it it's it needs like a huge 2.0 like a yeah
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I agree, but just a serious rethinking and I don't even know what that is
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I'm not creative enough to think of it, but I would know it if I saw it
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I kind of feel like the other thing too is I feel like they made a mistake by not keeping the escape key as a hardware
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And it's a little thing but because like maybe a lot of people never never ever use the escape key
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But people who do use the escape key use it a lot and making it this thing that doesn't actually click is
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You know leads to people touching the wrong thing and I think that symmetry wise it could work
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By being symmetric with the touch ID button that's on the other side
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Maybe wider. Yeah, but basically I would just want a
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Something like the 13 inch MacBook Pro
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Maybe with a display that goes closer to the edges better keyboard at least for USB C ports and a improved touch bar
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That's about it. It's not very I kind of feel like the form factor is basically, you know doesn't need to radical change
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What else do we have here? Let's see. You see this story that came out today where
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Apple contractors quote regularly here confidential details on Siri recordings The Guardian had a story. No. No, I did not
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When you got back to me well, it's just you know, it sounds bad but it's I I don't think I
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Don't think anybody that does that. I don't think anybody has their recording sent to Apple without opting into it
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Like, I regularly, I regularly –
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But I think it is the kind of thing that everybody's been saying about Amazon and Google and had
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not come out about Apple, and Apple is making much more of a marketing angle on privacy
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than the others who are.
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Yeah, I kind of feel like they need to come clean about it and be as transparent as possible,
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but I don't think there's any way to get those improvements without somebody listening
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it and I just think they just need to make sure that they're like if there is
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some path I don't know the details enough to really comment at length here
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but if there's a path where somebody goes in to the Apple Store buys an
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iPhone sets it up and really on you know just without any sort of it could could
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very easily not understand that the OK buttons and continue buttons that they've pressed
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are allowing their anonymized Siri recordings to be sent to Apple. I think that's a problem.
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I just think it needs to be as crystal clear as possible that if you click this, your recordings
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might be sent in a completely anonymized fashion to Apple. And here's a learn more button where
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you can go and get the full Craig Federighi differential privacy mathematical explanation
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of how they're ensuring that they're anonymized and can't be, you know, give people a way
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to, if you really want to go deep on it and figure out how we're doing this in a way that
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is private, we'll tell you everything. But if you just want to take our word for it,
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hit this button. And if you know you want to opt out, hit this button. And as long as
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that's going on, I'm okay with it. Because I don't see how it's possible. And I think
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I've been fairly consistent on this that I haven't really criticized the Amazon or Google
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so much for this. Although the stories about Amazon seem a little fishier about the degree
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to which employees are listening and maybe can even reverse, you know, figure out, you
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know, that this was John Gruber in the, you know, one nine one four seven zip code in
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Philadelphia. You know, who said this goofy thing? You got to come over and listen to
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this guy but I you know I don't think it's possible otherwise I just think
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they just need to be transparent here we go how about this somebody can't find it
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somebody was asking about the the leaks of the new iPhone supposedly coming out
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in September and do we think they're horrible the look of them yeah well and
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presumably this is all based around the the big square camera back as opposed to the
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What would you call it a pill a capsule sized one that we've had for the last few years, right?
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but the most but everything that we've seen so far is
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Basically a mock-up based on case designs, right? Yes very much
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So we don't the thing that we don't really know is the sort of fit and finish of the whole thing
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because I've seen a whole bunch of these things and it looks terrible in certain circumstances
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in certain you know depending on how you render it this is Santiago Santiago Dawson the leak
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design for the iPhone 11 seemed hideous no he calls it the iPhone 11 with roman numerals god
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almighty I hope they get rid of the roman numerals here's my thing I will admit that
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I don't think it looks good to have a big square camera thing on the back,
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but the camera is so essential and so useful and I rely on it ever more and more as my primary
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camera that I'm okay with it. And I kind of feel like it's the inevitable consequence of the,
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the, the first step towards this was just making the, what was it? The iPhone six that had the
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first camera bump. I think so where it was still just a little, little tiny circle. Like, like,
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even now with the iPhone 10 and 10, our antennas and these cameras, it's like to think that we
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that including me, I have to admit, I gave that camera bump an awful lot of snark just because
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it bothered me, because you know, it should be flush. But the the way that photography works,
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having more distance, even a little fraction of an inch from the front of the lens to the sensor,
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you know, makes things better. Um, right. So, and so the only alternative is making the whole thing
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thicker. Right. And I don't think that's worthwhile. I really don't. And I think it's in the real world
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when you, when you appreciate the enormous percentage of people who keep their iPhones in a
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case at all times. The bump isn't a bump. So I feel like the bump, it's time to get over it.
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I'm over it because I know that it makes the photography better. I get such amazing photos
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from my iPhone. Even when I go on vacation and I take a quote unquote real camera and then I come
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back and I do like the sort of triage of just at least getting rid of the garbage shots or if
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there's like if I took four shots of the same scene, figure out which one's the best and get
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get rid of the other three. I am still occasionally like, Oh, I
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must have taken this one with my Fuji. And then I'm like, Oh,
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nope, I was the iPhone. Unbelievable. I'm blown away
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by it. I think it's necessary. I think adding a third lens, which
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is what they're rumouring. You know, rumors are saying why the
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camera unit on the back is getting better is a good thing.
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I think because I it's just a, you know, the funny nature of
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trying to make these incredibly slim devices by the standards of cameras into serious cameras.
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When you buy a point-and-shoot camera that has a zoom feature where you can go wider or long,
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the lens comes out like two inches from the camera. You can't do that with a single lens at
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a phone device thickness. And so using multiple lenses wider to longer and then having the
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software switch between them as you zoom is ingenious, but it necessitates making this
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a little bit more awkward. But I think it's a trade off well worth making. And I think,
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you know, we've seen leaks of like Google's upcoming Pixel 4, which has a very, very similar
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design where the camera unit is a big square with three lenses. It's a trade off worth
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making for better photography, whether it makes the device look
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ugly or not, but we'll get used to it.
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The Yeah, it's like he just says that most of it, he puts the
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camera in a case. The only thing I can think of was what, what if
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they made an iPhone where the case was already on the iPhone?
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Hmm, where everything would be flush, but it's it's not like,
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it's protection rather than
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Yeah, I can't, I can't
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the only reason I think that they couldn't, they well, I
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mean, I think the Emily, they want to do that in the first
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place because they want they want to ship a device that's as
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slim as possible. But the other reason I would think is that the
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materials right that are protective are not going to last
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as long. Right. And then and then you have an iPhone that
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looks like crap. Yeah. And and I think people would still put
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cases on them. I really do. I know I really do. And it's, you
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know, it's very reasonable. I, I generally, I was thinking they
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would sell it that way. You know, they would sell it like we
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put the case on for you. Yeah. And I,
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people wouldn't believe it or they wouldn't trust it and they,
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and they really want to keep their 800,
00:49:06
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$900 purchase pristine. Right.
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And so they're still going to want to put a case on the case if,
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especially if they can do it with a $10 case, right. That,
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that they don't care if it gets scuffed up. And then if it,
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if it gets like really, really scuffed up,
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you just snap it off and buy another $10 case. Yeah.
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I guarantee you if Apple did that people would put cases on them and it would just be way
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thicker and Johnny I've on his island in retirement just sob sob silently people just keep putting
00:49:41
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causing and turning in his bed of money anything that pops out to you Cletus fetus okay I didn't
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want to say the name but I have to give him credit asked about pricing that
00:49:59
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there is a $329 iPad but Apple does not make a $329 phone hmm and why not make a
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329 phone with bezels or whatever you have to do yeah I wonder about that I
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I mean, I find it interesting that the iPad, because we got my father-in-law an iPad for,
00:50:23
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you know, the cheap iPad for Father's Day, because his old one was acting funky.
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And it's a really nice device for not very much.
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It is a really, really nice device for $329.
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Yeah, and it was on sale at Costco for like $250 or something.
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When they came out with that, when was that?
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Or maybe it was like a year. I thought it was really a year. Yeah, like and maybe like off
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Yeah, and maybe like like March or April or something like that. Yeah, and they had they didn't have an event
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they just had like press briefings and I went to the ones in New York and talked to people from the iPad team and
00:51:03
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Basically, that's that's kind of what it came down to and they you know, they added pencil support
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And basically what it came down to is this is a this is definitely not the best iPad the iPad pros
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Absolutely hold their own justify. You know they're much higher prices, but this is a really nice
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$329 device like really really nice and and really money fast right the only complaints everything it just it just has a you know
00:51:31
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An older look yeah, yeah the only complaints you can really have about it are the basic fundamental complaints about the iPad OS
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Which you know Apple is as hopefully tackled you know with iPad OS 13 this year
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But really every the only serious complaints you can have about this device come down to the OS and I think for typical users
00:51:52
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Who really do use it in?
00:51:55
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You know I think the people who really care about multitasking and two documents at once and doing things side by side are all sort
00:52:01
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Of the sort of people who are going to lean towards an iPad Pro
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I think the sort of typical people like my dad
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my mom who both really really
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Really get along well on their iPad, right? They
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You know, they'll call me every once in a while with weird problems with their Mac
00:52:17
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Even just the stupid things like, you know, the the mail icon isn't in the dock anymore
00:52:21
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Although the Apple sort of fixed that a few years ago where they made it like you have to drag like a couple inches off
00:52:26
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The dock to get an app out of there
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But just you know, they get confused by the Mac sometimes
00:52:32
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Whereas I they never ever call me with anything to do with their iPad and they'd you know, they just use it the way
00:52:37
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You know it was used from 2011 on where it's just one one nap at a time
00:52:42
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Boy that 329 one is so nice. It just has just about everything you could want yeah
00:52:48
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Why does it why no phone? I don't know I was listening to ATP
00:52:53
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I don't know if it was the most recent episode or the second most recent and Marco was talking about wanting a
00:53:00
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This is right up your alley a
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four inch iPhone for testing overcast layout and
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You know Marco being Marco
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I think he was at his beach house and so he didn't want to go home and get one that he already had
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He wanted a beach house one and a house house
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And I think the other angle was that his four inch testing device was like an iPhone 5s and the 5s is dropping
00:53:30
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Either has dropped off or is dropping off this year from the still supports the latest OS chain
00:53:36
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And so he wanted to get an iPhone SE as the last
00:53:40
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You know latest and greatest four inch phone and would have at least another year or two ahead of it
00:53:47
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you know for keeping up with the OS and so we went on Amazon and bought a
00:53:53
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Don't think it was refurbished. There's a different word
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But you know basically he got like a used iPhone used on SE
00:54:02
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And it was it was like I forget what he paid, but it was really cheap
00:54:07
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It was like $200 or 220 or something like that and he said then it's great
00:54:11
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You know and it's it's you know all the ways that you could you John Moltz could wax poetic about the thinness lightness
00:54:18
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Pocketability and just pleasure the straight sides everything is like you know this is just really really nice
00:54:24
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So I kind of feel like Apple's strategy for years really almost
00:54:29
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You know dating back to the you know
00:54:33
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When people first started upgrading iPhones in the first place around the 3GS or the iPhone 4
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it's always sort of been the cheap iPhone is just an older iPhone and
00:54:43
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What the fundamental
00:54:47
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Thinking behind that strategy is I would love to know I love to get Tim Cook to open up about that
00:54:53
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But you know good luck good luck getting them to explain
00:54:57
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What they're thinking there, I guess Schiller would probably be the better person to you know, if we could drug him and
00:55:03
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Get some bond James Bond true serum into sure yeah, Phil Schiller and figure out what their strategy is there
00:55:14
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But I really do feel like there are three hundred and twenty nine dollar iPhones to be had that are really good devices
00:55:20
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But they're you know, iPhone 7s and iPhone SEs and stuff. So the seven yeah, the seven's 450
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But I think you could get a really good one
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For 300 bucks with a trade-in right which most people probably have
00:55:33
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Maybe I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's not yeah, I feel like it like that
00:55:39
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It's not terribly far off, but that's an old phone now, right? That's a pretty old phone. Right? Is that whereas that iPad is?
00:55:47
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brand spanking new really right and has like not top of the line but but real new and has a recent a series processor that
00:55:54
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Has a healthy number of years of iOS updates ahead of it
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Which is something you're not gonna get if you buy an iPhone SE
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I think the iPhone SE really is I think iOS 13 is probably it. That's probably the last one. Yeah, I would think so
00:56:07
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You know, so who knows I don't know it. It's an interesting difference between the iPad and and the iPhone
00:56:14
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I mean the iPads different in a lot of ways the Mac is sort of in the same boat or you know
00:56:18
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Why doesn't why is the cheapest Mac? It's now $1,100 because they
00:56:23
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They didn't completely get rid of the 999 MacBook Air the non retina one it's but it's no longer sold at retail
00:56:32
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It's only available like through education and like the the quote unquote channel
00:56:37
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So I think you could still buy them at like Best Buy or something like that
00:56:40
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But you could go into an Apple store the cheapest Mac is the $1,100 MacBook Air, so why don't they make a $400 Mac?
00:56:47
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I don't you know I guess the what he caught the Mac Mini is a little cheaper, but you have to get a display
00:56:55
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Yeah, it's in some ways. It's not in some ways
00:56:58
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It's not the iPhone that sticks out for not having a quote unquote cheap the iPad version
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It's the iPad because yeah because it does
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The iPad the 329 iPad is the one that's abnormal
00:57:09
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Yeah. I mean, I wonder if they are just they wanted to move more units of iPads.
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And I know because the because they had I mean, they had a definite problem.
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While moving iPad units.
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And never really I mean, you know, iPhone units have topped out. Sure. But they've
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always been fairly consistent.
00:57:32
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Chris Lakata asks will we see AMD CPUs in max before the arm transition?
00:57:40
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That's an interesting question. So the basic
00:57:42
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Premise behind this and I'm I don't think you're in the same boat as me, you know, I
00:57:48
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Long ago years ago stopped keeping up with the intricacies of Intel's roadmap. Yeah, I
00:57:55
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Just can't be bothered. I'm too old
00:57:58
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It's too too boring. All I know is that Intel has been slow and I know I know they're slow
00:58:04
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But are you going nobody going to a stones concert keeps up on Intel? I?
00:58:07
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Do know though that you know and I just can't be and their names confuse me
00:58:13
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You know like you can get a core i5 that might be faster than a core i7 and I don't know how that's possible
00:58:19
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Who gives a crap? I just want good CPUs that are power efficient. I know that thinner
00:58:26
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Fabrication is better and it makes things more, you know, it's just better in every way
00:58:31
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So going from 11 nanometer to 9 nanometer to 7 nanometer. It's all good
00:58:36
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It's all you know
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and apples a series chips are doing a tremendous job at that and Intel is just
00:58:42
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Ever slipping behind on this and that in the x86 world where there's really only two two competitors Intel and AMD
00:58:51
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AMD is apparently kicking Intel's ass and like a lot of people who care about
00:58:56
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You know get the gamers, you know the gaming PC, you know thing is AMD is apparently doing very very well in that arena. I
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Just would be very surprised to for them to come out with AMD
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CPUs and even even if they
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Well, I don't know. I I think the arm transition is inevitable but at at some point it we all become Gene Munster
00:59:22
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Talking about Apple making a TV set right where we're all on these podcasts for years now
00:59:27
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Saying I think Apple is gonna. You know Apple's a arm team is obviously kicking ass. They're doing an amazing job
00:59:35
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They're keeping the phone somehow
00:59:37
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Years ahead of their top competition in the Android world
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And they're doing it year after year every single year Johnny
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Saruji's chip team is coming out with new a series chips right on time
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ready to be announced in early September ready to ship mid to late September and
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every year they are showing some sort of
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terrific gains in
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CPU or GPU or power performance every single year like
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Clockwork it is not just one of the best teams at Apple
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But I would say one of the best teams in the entire world of technology period is Johnny
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Sirigy's chip team and so it does seem inevitable that they're gonna switch the Mac to them especially now
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you know like the the
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the rumor-mongering or just the pure speculation with no in birdies or anybody telling us anything just this sort of
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lick your finger stick it in the wind and see what you think is gonna happen like
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When the iPad started creeping up on the MacBooks in benchmark performance
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We you know, it seemed like well, this is inevitable
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But now they're they're smoking them right like an iPad Pro is as a computing device way faster
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Than like MacBook pros or maybe not the 15-inch. I don't know
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I guess you can probably max out of 15 inch but for the most part most
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iPads are faster than most MacBooks being sold. So why wouldn't they switch? It's complicated.
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But I don't see them switching to AMD. I feel like they've kind of got a relationship with
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Intel and until they make that switch, that's what we got.
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Yeah. If they're going to work on one thing, they would probably work on that rather than
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spend a bunch of time doing something else.
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Here's a guy named bop bop bop.
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And the username is Disco Hootie. He asks us to choose. I'm not sure this is a weird question.
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A desktop and a laptop. B a desktop and an iPad.
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C a laptop and iPad or D desktop, laptop and iPad. I feel like D is is cheating and should be removed.
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Yeah, exactly. I know. I think because that's, that's what I'd pick because that's what I have.
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Yeah, why not? And why not give us an extra choice of having both an iPad and an iPad mini?
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Right? Just just, you know, we're gonna do the we're gonna do this. Do you ever hear the story
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about Frank Sinatra's writer late in his career? Frank Sinatra's writer, or at least one of the
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I don't who knows how long it was probably like 13 pages. But one of the details of Frank Sinatra's
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Ryder was that he wanted in his hotel room. There's probably a sweet
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Forget his brand of cigarettes, but he wanted and it's to say they were Winston's he wanted a
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complete fresh pack of Winston's already opened
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With one of the cigarettes popped out and a and a complete matchbook
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Next to each one all no further than five five feet apart from each other so that wherever he was in the hotel suite
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He was within five feet of a fresh pack of Winston cigarettes with a complete matchbook
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That's you know, we could do that with our iPads, right?
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We could just you know
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Just why don't we have why don't we have one everywhere in the house?
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Put them five feet away from each other and all signed into your iCloud account pick it up
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We were so I kind of feel like you have to you know
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The thing that I've the thing that I've struggled with over my entire
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computing lifetime has been the question of whether you get a
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Powerful desktop and a like a really lightweight, right?
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Laptop that can't do everything the desktop can but can go play everywhere right you want it to go or you get
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Maybe two that are more
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Whether you need the desktop whether you need the desktop or not. Maybe you don't need the desktop
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maybe you just get a super powerful laptop and
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I keep going I go back and forth on that depending on
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What's available I guess yeah
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and I'd like when I so I bought this MacBook Pro in 2016 when the first when those came out and I
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Still don't know the I still don't have a good answer. I
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My answer is complicated and highly personal to my specific needs right now where
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And I don't want to go into the details of it and it's all gonna be fine
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But my eyesight is is a bit in a strange place and I can see up close
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close perfectly and I really struggle to see at arm's length distance. So I use my iMac
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right now very little because I really have trouble seeing the screen. So for me personally
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right now I would go laptop and iPad because the iPad for me is somebody who really needs
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to hold the screen really close to my face to read right now or at least to read comfortably
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is absolutely fee nominal. It is. I, if I had,
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if I had run into this same vision problem 10 years ago,
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I don't know what I would do.
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I guess I would make do with a laptop and get really close to the screen.
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without even getting into the software sides of accessibility, the,
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the hardware aspects of accessibility for someone who needs to get close to a
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screen of an iPad that's so lightweight,
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It's just absolutely phenomenal.
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So I would pick that right now.
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If and when my eyesight goes back to working better
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at arm's length, I would go desktop and laptop
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and skip the iPad if I only had to have two.
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- Yeah, I think I have to have an iPad.
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- See, I don't have to have an iPad.
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Although I kind of do right now,
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just be for the vision reasons, but not for usability.
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- I do all my reading on an iPad.
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Yeah, I do almost all of it and especially if it's longer and and I use that that continuity feature where if I encounter a
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Longish article and this is good
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You know share and then you just turn your iPad screen on and jump it over there and it just opens up which I love
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Do a tremendous amount of reading on the iPad well good news though your your vision may get better
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Because that's that happened to me. Oh, it's definitely my farcet in this got better
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And it was weird because I was having a lot of trouble seeing things up close and I was thinking,
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"Oh no, my near vision is getting worse." And I was having to take reading glasses with me to,
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you know, mostly to like restaurants and bars and stuff because I couldn't read the bill at the end.
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And so I'm like, you know, coming the end of the night, I got to pull out my grandpa glasses and
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look at the bill. And then I go to the eye doctor and she said, "Oh, that's because your
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Prescription is not working for you anymore because your farce and this is getting better. So now you're it's overcompensating, right?
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So I got a new prescription and now I don't need the cheaters anymore
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Yeah, I had the same thing refer like to two years
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I needed reading glasses especially for bars and any anything dark, but I really needed him for reading and now I don't
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But it's a long story. I've been basically I haven't I have a good eye and a bad eye and my good eye now has a
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So it's it's actually not very good right now
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But the good news about cataract is you can have cataract surgery and it's not perfect
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Yeah, but you know so then when I say that my vision might get better
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It would be after I have cataract surgery, which I'm delaying as long as I can. But anyway,
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very personal
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Here's a football question over/under for ten wins for the Dallas Cowboys this year. That's from Richard Stovall
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I'm gonna go over but I'm that's for you. I have no opinion
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Weighing in on that I've been optimistic on the Cowboys for 20 years now and yeah
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Hasn't worked out for you. I wouldn't I wouldn't take this advice to Vegas Richard I
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Would actually I would take this you probably would I would not advise anybody listening to me to do
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Somebody asks, I can't really it's a very strange username will Apple's design language change now that Johnny I've has left
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I think inevitably a little bit I there's some people on Twitter who seem to object to my I
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think Apple is going to be fine without Johnny I've take you know that accusing me of a sort of
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doesn't matter what happens to Apple I'm going to John Gruber is going to say that's fine that's
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good for Apple and you know I feel like it's it misses a lot of new I feel like
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most things in life that are interesting and worth talking about or writing about
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there's a lot of nuance and but long story short I basically feel that I've
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inordinate influence in the post Steve Jobs Apple it you know it's been a good
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Apple's been fine without him right where nobody's really the whole Apple is doomed without Steve Jobs thing is over now
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It's they're doomed without Johnny I've but yeah
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Even though we even though we hated their design for the last
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Right eight years or whatever. I just feel though that
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His singular vision is a bit off in a couple of ways and it's been to the detriment of
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Apple's design and
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Again, you know designed by committee is never good but getting something with more of a consensus view is probably going to be good
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For Apple, so I kind of feel and you know the rumor
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Sort of suggests that this is already true. You know that that that the rumors strongly suggest
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That either late this year or early next year
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True revisions to the whole MacBook line are going to bring back
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The scissor key a new scissor key designed to the keyboards which will have more travel and you know
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Am I right do I know for a fact that the the butterfly keyboard can be pinned on Johnny?
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I've I can't verify that but I mean that's basically what I've heard and knowing that his obsession with thinness and neatness and
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Maybe a little bit too much emphasis on the way things look as opposed to how they work
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It's hard not to think that it was
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You know ultimately his decision
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You know and there's rumors too that they're going to switch back to the upside down T for the arrow keys on the keyboards on it
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You know the small keyboards
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Which again I I will fully admit that the current keyboards which have full height
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Left and right keys and half height up and down keys to fill in the keyboard
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It absolutely looks better like the gaps on the keyboard that were caused by the upside down T arrangement
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Didn't look right, but they certainly worked better because you could feel you feel your way around them better
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You know and I wrote this on daring fireball. It's I think maybe when maybe when I've
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Departure was announced but somewhat recently, you know that I feel like he's he has
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Dilated Steve Jobs's design isn't how it looks it's how it works axiom in a few ways
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And I feel like both on the software and hardware sides
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In the last 10 years or 9 years, you know, however long it's been since
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Since Steve died, I guess it was 2011. Yeah, that's 2011. I
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Do think that Apple has veered a little bit to a little bit in the design is how it looks
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Yeah area and I feel like it that because I've got two of these key
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I've got two different keyboards are in front of me right now
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one of them is the upside down T and then in the other one is the MacBook Pro 2016 and
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It's like I think you really have to be looking at the upside down T too long to be like
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Upset about the fact that there's gaps right above the left and undeniably works better in my opinion. Yeah
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I mean I still say yeah, that's one of the things I struggle with with this keyboard. Yeah
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How close are you two to switching from Dropbox to iCloud Drive?
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That's from R. Stevens, cartoonist extraordinaire.
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I have to say, I don't think I've gotten
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this Dropbox update yet that shows up in the dock.
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I don't have it running in my dock, but there's apparently--
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- I never saw it running in the dock.
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I definitely got a new interface
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in the dropdown menu though.
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- Yeah, basically Dropbox is going to hell in a handbasket.
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- It really is.
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And again, I'm stealing from Marco here from ATP,
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but basically, we collectively as users of Dropbox
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have granted Dropbox extraordinary access to our computers.
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When you install Dropbox,
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you're letting it write to your file system,
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you are letting it auto update itself.
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Like Dropbox just runs in the background
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and when it wants to update to a new version,
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it just happens.
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That's an extraordinary privilege to grant an application.
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We collectively as Dropbox users,
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and I suspect most people listening to the show
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either use Dropbox or have used it extensively.
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We've given them an awful lot of our trust
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and I feel like they've abused it.
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And I get it that they are venture capital backed
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and that they're not just shooting
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to be a nice little business
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that collects a nice little bit of money from people
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to have a folder that syncs across devices
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and that they're shooting to be
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a multi-gazillion-dollar conglomerate
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that's up there with the tech giants
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like Facebook and Google and Apple and Amazon.
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And that they've raised a valuation
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that makes just having a folder that syncs
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for 10 bucks a month or something like that,
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they're never gonna get there.
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And so they're effectively,
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all of these companies are effectively trying to build
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an entire suite where you're gonna use Dropbox
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for everything from your spreadsheets
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and your word processing and your collaboration
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and it's like Slack and video conferencing
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and file sharing all in one.
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I just want a folder that syncs, I really do.
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And I get it that they've gone down this route
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and we've all sort of known that that's what they,
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they were raising all this money
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and how long can this last as a nice little utility.
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So I don't think anybody is shocked by this,
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but it is very disappointing.
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So I hope that iCloud's new shared folder feature,
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which is coming this fall on Mac OS and iOS,
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I hope it works as well as you would expect it to,
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because if it does, then that's when I'm leaving Dropbox.
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'Cause the one thing Dropbox has right now that I need
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is the shared folder feature.
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- And is that for, I mean, the only reason I use Dropbox now
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is for sharing podcast files, basically.
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- That's same here, and so I guess I could do it another way
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so maybe I'll switch before that.
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But I do also--
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- But it's easy for that, and I've used it for years.
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And I used to use it, I mean, I used to have all my
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text files on it as well so that I could access them
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from my iPhone and from my iPad
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and whatever device I was using, and then they cut back
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so they said no, you only get, and I'm not paying.
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So I mean, I can't complain too much.
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But I would pay a little bit if I was getting something
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that I really wanted.
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And they want more than what I feel
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like I would get out of it.
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And I can do the things that I need to do with iCloud.
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So I have moved my MacBook.
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I have a weird setup, admittedly.
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I have an ancient MacBook here, a 2009 MacBook
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that I usually do the recording for podcasts on that
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just sits here to do that.
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And that one is still on Dropbox for sharing
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because the other people that I work with
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are still on Dropbox.
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And then I took Dropbox off my main machine,
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which is this MacBook Pro.
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- The other thing you can do, which is interesting,
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is I use transmit from panic as a file transfer.
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- Right, and so I still have our transmit set up
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to use Dropbox, yeah.
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- I'm guessing that some other file transfer apps
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probably have the same thing,
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but you can sign up, you know, sign in with your Dropbox credentials and transmit and then you can get your
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Dropbox that way and just treat it like an FTP server FTP server, right?
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And it's so you can still have shared folders and and if somebody does share something you can log in and still get your files
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You know obviously more of a Mac thing than a iOS thing, but maybe there's a iOS solution for that as well
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I guess you could just use the Dropbox app on iOS and you're not getting stuck with all the
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You know, it's the Mac version that in Windows version that everybody's complaining about the iOS version. Thanks to the
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You know sandboxing rules and various other rules of iOS
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Can't really interfere with your daily
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Computing as much so you can uninstall Dropbox from your Mac, but still remain in the Dropbox universe, which is my plan
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The thing that's right. That's what I mean what I did. Yeah the thing I don't like about
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For compared to Dropbox
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I I like the idea of trusting Apple more than I trust Dropbox, especially just in terms of like not being annoying
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Like the way that Dropbox
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I guess they've added a couple of magic folders within your Dropbox folder over the years right like they want you to have a photos
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folder inside your Dropbox
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But there's not a lot right and I think you can even opt out of that so basically you know inside your Dropbox folder
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It's all organized the way you want it organized
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whereas iCloud Drive
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Mm-hmm at the root level starts with a folder for every single app that is using iCloud Drive and
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You know I'm not gonna go all John Siracusa
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But I I do find it
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I wish I had control over that.
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I wish that there was-- just put them all inside an application
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data folder.
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Just say, inside iCloud Drive, there's
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a folder called Application Data.
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And then inside Application Data are all of these folders
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that get created automatically for every single app.
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I just kind of hate the fact that the root
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level of my iCloud Drive has 33 folders.
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That's crazy.
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and only like two of those are the ones that I've made.
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Yeah, there's two folders out of 33
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are the ones that I made.
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So I find that a little annoying compared to Dropbox.
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But for me, iCloud Drive has been very solid,
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although I'm not really using,
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I've been spooked enough by developer friends
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that I'm not even really beta testing
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the iOS 13 stuff right now.
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Just because I've heard--
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- Yeah, I only heard that stuff after I upgraded one of them.
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I mean, I have an old, I have an iPad Air 2,
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and I put it on that.
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So far, I've been lucky, but.
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- Right, but the betas this summer have been buggy enough,
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and I mean, they're doing really cool stuff with iCloud,
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and every developer I've heard talking about this
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is saying like, what they're doing is great,
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and once they get the bugs worked out,
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iCloud is gonna be better than ever,
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but right now, in the middle of 2019 summer,
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these betas can lose data in your iCloud folder,
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even if you're only using it on a secondary device,
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if you're signed into the same iCloud account.
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So what you could do and probably should be doing
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if you're testing it as a developer or whatever
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is using like a secondary iCloud account.
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But that would make it, I don't have any need for that.
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I don't have any apps that I need to test.
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If I don't have my real iCloud account,
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the device isn't really useful to me.
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I guess it would help if I had signed into my,
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talk show account on the iPad I was doing the show from. I had just gone through uh
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I was just yeah I can get back I can do it on my phone.
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I kind of like this question you're at a fine cocktail establishment this is David Smith
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okay with all the Apple execs you get up to buy your round what is each person's drink order oh
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Interesting. Hmm. I feel like it's sort of like I'm maybe stereotyping to say that
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Tim Cook's is a mid julep. I can see that or yeah.
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But that was the first thing that came to me. I can see that. I'm gonna say Phil Schiller is a
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white Russian. Like a little nutty, right? Yeah. Johnny, Johnny? What about Johnny Ive? Do we still
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count, Jonny Ive? I think just a glass of cold water with no ice. Just cold water.
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Well, but then that's not a cocktail. I was going to go with the—
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I was going to go with like a gin martini.
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Yeah, so then maybe a gin martini.
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But stirred extraordinarily slowly so as to keep it as crystal clear as possible.
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Crystal clear.
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How about Eddie? Oh, Eddie Q.
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you. I don't know. Eddy Cue is a tough one. At a fine cocktail establishment. I'm gonna
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say even at a fine cocktail establishment maybe Eddy Cue wants a six pack of beer.
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I was thinking Eddie would want something that was really difficult to make. Yeah, maybe, maybe.
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I was trying to think of something that's really hard to make. I think Craig Federighi would
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probably be like the opposite. He'd be like, "Whatever's the easiest thing to make." Yeah,
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right, right. Whatever you got is fine. Whatever you're having. Yeah, like somebody ordered,
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whatever somebody orders right before him, he'll just be like, "Make it two. That'll be nice and
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and easy. Right? Go along to get along. There's this old Martin Short movie, I can't remember
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the name of it. It was like a TV movie. It was a comedy. And in the movie, everywhere he goes,
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he orders this thing called a pouscafe. And every time the bartender is like, "Oh, God, really?"
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It's like, "Yeah, yeah, I want to Poof's Cafe."
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And you'd see the bartender in the back, and he's like, he's got a blender, and he's got
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all this stuff, and in the foreground, you know, he's just having a conversation with
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whoever he's talking to.
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Poof's Cafe, that's a funny name.
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I never heard of it.
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Which apparently is a real thing, which I didn't know at the time.
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This came out in the '80s.
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I only saw it once.
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How do you think you spell that?
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P O U S S E dash C A F E, something like that. Let's see if that's the, if that comes up.
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Is it complicated?
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I'm trying to look. So it's like a dessert drink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's got multiple
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That's what it is. That's...
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It's not even like the list. It sounds terrible, really. It's grenadine maraschino liqueur,
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Kremdemens, Kremda Violet, Yellow Chartreuse, and Brandy.
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But it's layered, that's the, that's the, you know,
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and you have to create a stripe, it creates a striped effect.
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Right. Yeah. Painstaking. You know what? That, that wouldn't be ridiculous if,
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as the question presupposes that we're at a craft cocktail facility,
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you're not really putting them out.
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It is a major pet peeve of mine when you're at a busy bar,
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Let's say standing room only and you've got to order between standing sitting
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guests at the bar. It's a pet peeve of mine when somebody asks for a,
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a difficult to drink, difficult to, or not even difficult,
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but, but multi-step
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when the bartender is obviously, uh,
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over taxed by the number of requests coming in. Yeah. Like, Hey,
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maybe wait, maybe you just get a glass of wine or a glass of beer, you know,
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shot of something or something on the rocks, you know, vodka and soda. You never go, you
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can't go wrong with a vodka and soda. Yeah. I find that the places that I usually go,
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I mostly just get shots of something, you know, like something neat because you go to
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a dive bar, you don't necessarily want to order a martini.
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Or an old fashioned, you might get like an old fashioned. Yeah, exactly. You don't want
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fruit salad in there.
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Is that a strawberry in there?
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All of a sudden there's a half of an orange and a strawberry and the guy's muddling it
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all up and then you're like, "Oh, God."
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Now he's gonna pour some kind of good bourbon in there
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Let's see here Jay mush asks
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Before the newest iPhone only had to appeal to those who had two-year-old model
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For us to 5s 5 to 6 5 s to 6 s has Apple lost that a bit by using a three-year cycle for their design
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language. Will the 11 excite 10 use iPhone 10 users like a six excited five
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users? It's a good question. I kind of feel that it kind of has but I feel like
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that's actually a good thing and I know that from like a Wall Street perspective
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the idea that the upgrade lifecycle is getting longer from most typical users
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Is not seen as a good thing obviously like people who are invested in Apple on
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Wall Street would like everybody to get a new phone every year, you know
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So like when those goofy stories come out and say like apples, you know iOS updates
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purposefully
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Slow down your phone
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And everybody is you know, most people are you know, like people like me and you are like, that's actually not true
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People who believe it take it on face value or like oh that sucks and then people on Wall Street are like, yeah
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seems like a great idea I feel it it's multivariate and I feel like one of them
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is that over the course of the last 12 years the you know iPhones have gone
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from like a very niche product you know I forget how many they sold in the first
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year. But it was like, remember, Jobs wanted to sell 10 million in the first year and a half,
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you know, like 18 months. And they made it through the first, like, the first 12 months, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. It was about 12 months and they hit the mark already. But 10 million is a joke. You
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know, there's, you know, there's hundreds of millions of them in use and they sell,
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you know, 70 some million in the first quarter when new ones come out.
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But it's inevitable as something goes from something for early adopters to truly mass market.
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The mass market end of the market is going to hold on to them as long as they can.
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My mom has an iPhone now. My mom thinks she likes it a lot, but she didn't get one until
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just like two years ago or something like that because she just thought it was crazy and she
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She didn't think she would use it as much.
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So she just had like a, she had a cell phone,
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but it was like a $20 candy bar type thing.
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God bless her.
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You know what she does?
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I'll tell you this is honest.
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I don't wanna throw my mom under the bus.
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I love my mom.
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I think she still does it with her iPhone even.
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I swear to God, when she's done using it, she turns it off.
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- Okay, I'm gonna one up you.
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'Cause not only is my mom,
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at least she does this anymore, but for a long time, not only did my mom turn it off,
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she would put it back in the box. It's like, "What are you doing?"
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Darrell Bock But we go on a vacation with my parents,
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it's actually very nice, and my sisters, husbands, parents, we all go together for a couple of days
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in August and everybody gets along. It's, you know, it's almost a miracle. But, but, you know,
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you go on vacation. And, you know, one of the things that's nice about the modern world is when
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you're, you're first getting to the destination, you can coordinate with each other by cell phone,
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to organize, hey, we're how far, you know, we're only half an hour away, oh, we were going to go
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out to eat, we'll wait for you, you know, if you're only 20 minutes away, etc. It's, you know,
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You can you can just coordinate the the getting together initially right aspect my mom
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You can't do it. She she'll call and say something and then you go to call her back and it says like this this
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Goes right to voicemail and it's like mom. Why'd you turn your cell phone off? She's like, well I was done
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But anyway as people like that
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Buy more iPhones, of course, they're gonna keep them
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I really cannot imagine my mom getting a new iPhone until her iPhone breaks. I really,
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I don't think she would take one if I gave it to her. She would say, "Take that back to the store.
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I don't need that." So I think that's natural. But I also think that Apple, and to go back to
01:32:30
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Johnny Ive, I do think that they have taken the iPhone to where they see it as being very close
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to the platonic ideal of what an iPhone should be given the limits of today's technology, right?
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Like surely, you know, something that was just a piece of glass that could light up would be
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more Apple-like and better. And if you could fold it up like a dollar bill, that would be even
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better. There's all sorts of hypothetical science fiction technology in years to come. I'm sure
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that 10 years from now, we'll look back at 2019 iPhones and think that they're crude devices.
01:33:06
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But given the limits of today's technology and the the you know prices which they've raised right?
01:33:12
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I mean, they're already, you know selling like eleven twelve hundred thirteen hundred dollar iPhones
01:33:16
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It's going there
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I think it's natural that they change less year over year and it's definitely a Johnny I've
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thing that he has said to me personally in like
01:33:28
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Off the record briefings and I know he said in interviews multiple times in public that Apple
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Does not want to change things for the sake of change. They only want to change a design when it is
01:33:42
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Clearly better and so they're not going to do decorative changes year over year
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I mean, I might do things they do play with like the colors of the anodized aluminum and and stuff like that
01:33:54
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But again, that's not really I that's not the sort of thing that people who think
01:33:59
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Three years of the same fundamental design is quote boring that doesn't satisfy them either
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there right if you suddenly find out there's a new shade of rose gold yeah I
01:34:09
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think it's worked out I think that's I tend to think that the popularity iPhone
01:34:15
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10r is partially because it's different and it's definitely because it's cheaper
01:34:21
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yeah I think that's probably the bigger reason but I think also people are like
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oh I can get this in a bunch of colors yeah and then I'm gonna cover it with a
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case and then I'm gonna cover the case that's gonna be a different color and
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it's gonna look like.
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But you'll be able to see the color poking out
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at the lightning port, just a little bit, just a little bit.
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At the lightning port.
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Yeah, I guess, but I don't think that,
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I wouldn't be surprised if we have something
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that looks a lot like the iPhone X,
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not just this year, but for several years to come.
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I really do, and I think it's a mature technology.
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I mean, and look at the MacBooks, right?
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you know however much we want to complain about the new keyboards and that maybe there took them made them too thin that they should have
01:35:08
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Been a little across the board maybe a little thicker and just fill it up with battery
01:35:11
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That's what we always want them to do right we everybody always says we want them to make it
01:35:15
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Just maybe a little thicker and fill it up with battery, and then I get better battery life
01:35:18
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But fundamentally the MacBook lineup, there's a direct lineage in
01:35:25
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industrial design from the titanium g4 power book to all of today's
01:35:30
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Models, you know and titanium as a material obviously didn't work out that well
01:35:35
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But using metal instead of plastic and then once they got to aluminum and then going to unibody
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it's you know, there've been definite breakthroughs and they've evolved but it is
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There's never once really been a radical change
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since the titanium g4 power book really hasn't and and it's just I
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I feel like they've gotten to the point where this is, you know, I forget the exact Johnny Ive words,
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but to reduce a product to its essence. I would say, I mean, I guess the air is kind of a radical
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change, but yeah, a little bit still. I know what you, I know what you mean. I mean, it's basically
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the same. Well, you know, it's like, it's, it's a screen and a keyboard, right? Right. But I feel
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I feel like this round rectangle shape
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of the current iPhone lineup is sort of,
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given today's technology, this is it.
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And it might change, play with colors.
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I don't expect anything truly radical.
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And I think if you really wanna get excited by,
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and I always think it's, in many ways,
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when people complain about that,
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and I don't wanna say the guy who asked this question
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is saying this, but a lot of it is getting,
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wanting to get excited about what it looks like before you even turn the screen on. You
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know, like what is it just, does it excite you just as an object in your hand? And I
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get it. I mean, it would be nice if, you know, if something, you know, if you, if it was
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so different and new and clearly better that you were excited before you even saw what
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it looked like with the screen on, that would be better than, that would be good, but I,
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I just don't see how that can happen, you know, every two years. Yeah. Yeah. It's just
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natural for a maturing device. And we basically evolved it. Or
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they've basically evolved it to, we can take credit based on our
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demand into something that is really just it's a screen.
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Right? It's just a screen with a backing. Yeah. Well, and I think
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there's not much else you can do at that point. Well, and the
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other thing, you know, that they did with the iPhone 10 is, I feel
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like it was a an instance of measure twice cut once of okay we're gonna make
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this the single biggest change they've ever made to the iPhone from a how does
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it work perspective I mean the only other thing I could think of would be
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going to retina screens but that's sort of very much by definition how it looks
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but the big change is getting rid of the home button and because the home button
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was central to the whole paradigm of how you used it. It was, you know, how you woke it up. It was,
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you know, launch an app, how do you get out, hit the home button. And getting rid of the home
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button was truly a rethinking at the most fundamental level of the experience of how
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you use it. And I feel like they really took their time to get it right and decided, you know,
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is this actually a better overall experience than having a home button at the bottom of the screen and
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I feel like now that they've done that I feel like it has panned out
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I still feel and I wrote this on during fireball a while back. I still feel that maybe some of the perceived
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not even perceived the actual sort of slowness in
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iPhone sales in the last two years. I think to some degree can be attributed to people who
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Who are reluctant to get rid of a home button?
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based mmm iPhone because it's too new and different and they're the sort of people who are
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They're just regular people and they're used to it and they know that it works
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And they know that touch ID works and face ID sounds like something that maybe wouldn't work. You know sounds too good to be true
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But maybe you think it's creepy or right you know, but it'll happen over time and I'm
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Personally 100% convinced that it's it's a better paradigm for using the phone
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But now that they've done it
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I really feel like it's even less likely that the basic shape or look at the phone is going to change
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The only thing I can think of is is and I would as someone who owns an iPhone se I would actually like to see
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This is something that's more informed by the form factor or you know, just the edges of the iPad. Yeah. Yeah
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Yeah, I would I would kind of like this. I love the feel of that
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Yeah, I would kind of like flat sides again. Yeah, I would also like to see them add a smaller model
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I don't know how much smaller but I would like to see I
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Think the iPhone 10 and 10 s size is too big to be the smallest iPhone
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Accounts there this year's phones are the same sizes as last year's there is no smaller iPhone coming in September
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I don't know. I would like to see them do that. Lou Piper asks, "What product currently
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in Apple's lineup do you believe will be the most influential in shaping the tech industry
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as a whole over the next 10 years?" Looking back, it seems like the iPhone was the answer
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for the last 10 years. I would say it's undisputably the iPhone for the last 10 years. The iPhone
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is truly the most world-changing computer product ever made by any company. And I can't
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even see how somebody could argue with it. Every single, almost every single person I
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know carries either an iPhone or a very iPhone-like Android device. I linked to, in my retrospective
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links on looking back on Johnny Ives career I linked to Walt Mossberg's 2007
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review of the original iPhone which I thought it rereading it 12 years later
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was incredibly spot-on like man when you're writing an 800 word column for
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the you know the Wall Street Journal mass audience explaining what this new
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iPhone is it it really almost seems like he cheated like he just wrote it now and
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like slipped it into the Wall Street Journal CMS
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Every single thing that was great about the iPhone he got he completely
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Nailed it with the software keyboard and said this is controversial and a lot of people don't think it's work
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He goes after a couple of days. I got used to it
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It's not an issue and I mean how many thousands of words were wasted in 2007 and 2008 on the damn keyboard?
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Mossberg had it nailed after like six days with the iPhone, you know, yeah
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But the other thing that really stuck out to me about it was there was a comparison chart that they pushed on they put on
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the article where it was like here's the iPhone against the competition and it was like
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Three three other top smartphones and it was the blackberry whatever the Samsung blackjack
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Which I always forget I always forget just how it was such a you know
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Samsung being Samsung before they started ripping off Apple they ripped off blackberry and even named their product the blackjack
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So it would start with the word black
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And palm trio something or another that had a like a pencil
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pencil diameter
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Antenna sticking out at the top of it
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which they look I
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Mean Jobs himself compared you know put the similar products up on the slide at the iPhone introduction and
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In talking about you know hey, they put these
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You know they all have these keyboards and they all have all of these buttons and one thing with all these hardware buttons is you?
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Can't change them depending on the application context we realize that hey we could do this
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It's called software, and we'll just do it all in software including a keyboard and you know even he put that slap
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But when you looked at it in the Wall Street Journal article. It's just it's just preposterous how how?
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Closely the entire industry followed the iPhones lead within a handful of years
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Yeah, so for the next ten years
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Hmm and you can't even get a phone that looks like I mean
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Does anybody make a phone like that anymore? No, you know
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What's interesting is the only phones you can get that aren't iPhone like our flip phones the flip phone has survived
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Yeah, and yeah, I did I see people not all the time, but sometimes surprisingly young, you know
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I don't know if it's a hipster thing. I don't know if it's I
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Don't know, you know just not be running thing. It's not being into technology at all
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But yeah, you go into a convenience store and buy a burner phone. It's probably one of those right?
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Yeah, but nobody sells a blackberry style phone anymore that I know of
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It's all you either go all the way back to it
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Just a simple flip phone with you know, a zero to nine keypad or you've got or it's a blank screen. It's a blank screen
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Hard to say for the next ten years, I don't think there's anything like the iPhone on the market
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I mean, I think you can see a lot of people running around trying to copy air pods
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Yeah, I would say it's the wearables in general the come some combination of air pods and the watch
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It's not about a device in your hands. It's you know that it's wearable
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Mm-hmm, and I don't think that air pods
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Or the watch or air pods combined with the watch would have the direct
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Influence on the next 10 years the way the iPhone has the way that we really know. Yeah
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I mean, it's not gonna be doesn't seem like there's anything currently
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Shipping that but there have but there are packed there. They're leading the way of making
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Gadgets that are actually
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Unix computers
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And doing things that you could only do with a full-fledged
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iOS computer running in them
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That I think ten years from now
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We'll look back and say that the the watch and the air pods were the start of this
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You know the fact that we have like six six different computers on us at all times
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You know in front of our eyes and our ears on our wrists, etc, etc
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So I would go with the wearables
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Yeah, I find it funny too that the wearables
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Get dismissed as a business
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In the in the Johnny I've
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Johnny I've is leaving Apple
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Trail of news stories. I know that I think it was trip Mickel's piece for the Wall Street Journal
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That was the one that Tim Cook objected to publicly
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My with an email like did you see this?
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I didn't really mean to it on during fireball because it would seemed hard to get into without doing the full
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paragraph by paragraph takedown and so it just
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It I punted on it, but I thought it was fascinating like the Wall Street Journal ran a story by trip mickle
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more or less
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pushing the line that
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Johnny I've has been checked out of Apple for years now
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Then at some point was like they haven't had a hit since the iPad
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Think I'm almost certain that if you just take Apple's wearables, although it might be wearables plus
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services which is a little different but
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Just their wearables business and maybe wearables plus services alone would be a fortune 50 company
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Yeah, it isn't the iPhone but the iPad wasn't the iPhone either
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So somehow the iPad has been grandfathered in as a hit product at this point even though like in its earlier years when it was
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actually selling better it wasn't because it wasn't selling as well as the
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iPhone well the iPhone but now somehow that the the the Apple bear line has
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includes the iPad as a hit but that's because it was I guess because it came
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out while Steve Jobs was still around right and air pods and the watch don't
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even though everywhere I go I see people with Apple watch and the watch has taken
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Is just as well as I think like iPods did in the air or the iPad. Yeah
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Oh, I definitely like the first year. I mean, and I don't know if you know, it's probably gonna tie
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it's gonna keep going like that necessarily but it might top out but it's
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It's still doing extremely well. I
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Think it was Horace Deju who yeah made the case
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He noted that he made it the case that the Apple watch is now bigger than the iPod ever was even at peak iPod
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And I think it has much better legs. I think the watch is here to stay. I mean, I think it might
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You know and again naturally so just like we were talking about with the iPhone
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It might turn into something that people don't upgrade as frequently and and as well they should expect I think when you buy a
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$350 watch you should expect to get more than two years out of it and I realize it's not just a watch it is different
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it's you know, it's more a thing on your wrist that
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can function as a watch but
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Again, I'm sure Wall Street people would love it if people were buying a new watch every year, but it's 350 bucks
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Which is almost certainly the most expensive watch most people have ever bought in their life
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You know, you should expect to get more than two years out of it. Yeah, but boy, oh boy
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I see I see so many of them and oh, yeah. Yeah and in a cross, I mean, yeah, I don't want to
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Stereotype people again, but like a cross economic background see me. Yeah - oh, I think so, too
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I definitely think so. I see you know, I mean I see baggers at the grocery store. Yeah, I mean them. Yeah
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And it's it people really like it and I think for people like that. I remember reading that there was a story
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I probably never find the link but
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Specifically remember it is and it was a great story but service industry people bartenders
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Mm-hmm servers
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Grocery baggers it's super popular with them because they're not allowed to check their phone during work. Oh, yeah
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And so they can wear the watch and still get notifications and still can you know?
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See what people are texting them and maybe do a quick tap thing to send a quick response or something like that
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So if anything I would actually say, you know in terms of like the demographics it is it
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It is definitely not like an elite
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Purchase or something like that. It's really dem, you know Democratic people really have it
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And I've seen people complain about air pods the same way that oh, it's you know
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They're so expensive that nobody only the rich can afford them and it's like I see mail carriers with them
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I see everybody when I actually was I was out for a walk the other day when the heat broke and I actually was like
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I mean, I gotta get out of this house and go somewhere
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I should have actually kept track but I was just doing it like a rough estimate. But I
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Convinced I don't think it was biased. I really I didn't do like an exact tally
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But I saw more people with air pods than I saw with corded white headphones
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Mm-hmm, and you know, of course maybe you know and people who are cynical can argue well
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of course because they took out the headphone port and if they hadn't removed the headphone port to
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To convince people to buy air pods. It wouldn't be that way
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But I suppose I don't know I I
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Cannot believe how many years of my life I spent tangled up with the cable between yeah, I am
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Way happier with air pods so much happy and I listened to so much more I listened to
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I'll just even on a five-minute errand. I'll go and listen to five minutes of a podcast, you know, let me get five more minutes and
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Whereas you know in the courted era I would just wouldn't couldn't be bothered
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I was like, I can't even talk to my wife anymore. She's got him in all the time. Yeah same here
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It's actually really improved my marriage
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simply on the grounds that a lot of what I say annoys my wife. Like, I'm not saying that it's
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she doesn't hear anymore. And then we do talk, we always talk about podcasts.
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It's forty six thousand dollars a year. There you go
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It's not nothing no, yeah, but still it's not like yeah
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Will we ever see here's one from Dan stud Nicky will we ever see iMessage and FaceTime go cross-platform?
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I would say maybe I would say more likely for iMessage than FaceTime. I don't know why I would feel that way
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Definitely I know frozen face face time was the one that he said was gonna be open source
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But yeah, that was jobs just pulled that out of his ass
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I've said this before I know for a fact
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I know someone who was on the I'm on the FaceTime team and
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They they learned of it going open source when he said it in the key note
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And they were like wait what?
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And then they're like quick like looking at the source code
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We can't and they're like looking at the source code like well
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we can't open source X, Y, and Z. It's no surprise that it never actually went open
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source. And then there was a lawsuit from some troll that had a goofy patent that never
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I wrote, you know that site I'm talking about, right?
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- And I wrote, 'cause you know,
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I like to give credit to writers.
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I like to say, you know, I don't just say
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the New York Times reports, colon, here's the block quote.
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I'll say, you know, Jane Smith reporting
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I like to give credit, I think bylines matter,
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but Mac Daily News has been around forever.
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I think it's been around a lot longer than Daring Fireball,
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But whoever it is who runs it has always been anonymous.
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And so I wrote from whoever the hell it is
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who writes Mac Daily News.
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But he apparently had a tipster like two or three years ago
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say that Apple was going to, right before WWDC,
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was going to announce iMessage for Android.
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Obviously that was incorrect, it didn't pan out.
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But I don't find it incredible.
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I find, and I happen to know that they at least circulated
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designs within the company of what iMessage for Android would look like, with the various designs
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sort of going on a scale of one to ten of being the most natively Android-y to the most, at the
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other end, the most direct copy of the iMessage app, even if it's not idiomatic Android UI.
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I know that they circulated that, but whether that means that they were actually close to
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considering it, or it's just like, you know, this is just a sane thing to do in case the
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powers that be decide to do it, I don't know how close they ever got to actually doing it.
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You know, the counter argument would be that, the cynical argument would be that Apple sees
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iMessage as platform lock-in. And I actually think, you know, I don't even think you have
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to be a cynic there is definitely a lock-in angle to this that you know and if you switch from iPhone
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to Android it's not just the superficial green versus blue bubbles thing although that is a
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factor for some people but you know you group chats don't work as well when everybody's not
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on iMessage you don't get end-to-end encryption which is a very strong privacy thing I mean you
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You know, there's a definite factor there.
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But I don't think that that really,
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I think that if Apple, in the hypothetical world
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where Apple does release iMessage for Android,
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I don't think it's going to adversely affect iPhone sales.
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I really don't.
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I don't think that there's going to be any,
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even a measurable--
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- None of that, yeah, not in any measurable way.
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- Yeah, I really think that maybe in like our sphere
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of tech writers, you know, there might be some people
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who do the, you know, write for a site like The Verge say that it isn't really an Apple-focused
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site but sort of treats Apple as one of several technology companies where there might be some
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people who maybe have been holding on to an iPhone as their primary phone and switch to a Google
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Pixel or something once there's iMessage for Android. But I think that the number of people
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who that qualifies as that is a tenth of a percent rounding error overall. I really don't
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think it would. And I think that there's an argument for Apple doing it on the lines of
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like Apple Pay and Apple Card and sending payments and stuff like that where they don't
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really monetize iMessage. There's certainly no advertising, thank God, in iMessage. But
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It's not entirely a loss leader at this point because they do make some money whenever people do send money to each other
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using Apple pay over iMessage and
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So I could see that there might be an art and that would be to me the argument inside Apple for doing it
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Mm-hmm is that the the amount of money they can make by skimming a tenth of a percent off these credit card and debit card
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transactions of Apple pay
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Would would more than compensate
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For the handful of people who might be tempted to switch to Android if only because of iMessage
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I don't know why I feel differently about FaceTime. I
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Guess it's possible
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maybe you know and they are sort of they they're different apps, but they're clearly sort of hand-in-hand in terms of
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You know FaceTime is the video and audio component of iMessage, you know
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So I would say I could see it going anyway
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I could see you know 30 years from now and when I'm Mick Jagger's age and we're still doing the talk show
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We're still there is no still no iMessage for Android. All right, I could see them doing it this fall
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You know as a surprise announcement, I really could see this one going either way
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But I wouldn't put too much weight in the idea that Apple values the lock-in so much that they wouldn't even consider
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yeah, I wouldn't either I I would think that they wouldn't do it just because
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It doesn't give them. What does it mean? I like I don't I'm not
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Convinced that that amount of money is worth it to them or that it's that much
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I guess I don't know or that they I mean, but they don't know the spreadsheet. So
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What else do we have here any other good questions? I'm scrolling down here. I feel like we're getting towards the end
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Yeah, here's a question fairy Plouger asks
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were there any subjects off limits in your interview with Craig and
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Although he spelled it Josh. I'm gonna chalk that up to
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Autocorrect although you would think if anybody could make sure Jaws gets through autocorrect. It's Greg Jaws
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Yeah, every once in a while. I find an Apple thing that it seems to screw up right? I'm always surprised when that happens
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right and and even if it if it does screw up Jaws Jaws himself might not notice because
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Surely 90% of the people he I messaged just have him in their contacts already and
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And so it would it would pick up the correct spelling from there
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It's a lot simpler than you might think there are there are no
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I have never once in all the years starting with Schiller's first appearance on my live show five years ago, whatever that was
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Do talk to Apple PR beforehand?
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I don't give them my questions beforehand, but I do talk about what I want to talk about
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about. Basically, I think for the same reason that on TV talk shows, the producers go through
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questions with the guests just so that they're ready. I don't want to surprise somebody and
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not just have them not be ready to answer something. But that's different than giving
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the questions in advance. But I've never been told x, y, and z are off limits. Not even
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I would imagine there are certain, I mean you're not gonna ask, what are this false
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iPhones gonna look like? Right, right. You know, I mean you're not bothering with stuff
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that you know that they're not gonna answer. Right, and I do... And that's not, that's
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not like, I mean that's just like, try not to waste time. Exactly, because it's, you
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know, there's a limited amount of time. I also want it to be entertaining. You mostly
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asked them about me right yeah for the most part especially this year it was mostly about
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mostly about you um you know that's fine and i'm fine with that the keyboards were an interesting
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omission this year i didn't bring up the macbook keyboards um part of it too is the that the
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nature of the live show every year after wwdc is often you know and this year was a perfect
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example where there was so much stuff announced at WWDC the day before that it
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you know officially the show is supposed to be an hour long I think this year's
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was like 90 minutes so it go even going half an hour over the allotted time we
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still only covered some of the stuff that was announced the day before WWDC
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and what were they gonna say about the keyboards you know that's the thing you
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know they were they would repeat I know what they would do they would
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repeat the talking points from the two weeks before WWDC when they announced the third gen
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keyboards and the new quote material and say that this you know the vast majority you know this only
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affects a small number of Mac users. I wouldn't say that would be a waste of time it was it was
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something I considered bringing up you know it might have if there had been less WWDC news but
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nobody said to me before the show don't don't talk about the keyboards never came up.
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I really think it's more or less a mutual trust that they trust that I'm not going to waste their
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time with questions they can't answer but that you know I can ask questions that are hard or
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difficult it's you know I don't know I feel like this year show I did a good job I hate to pat
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myself on the back but I feel like I did a good job and it's um because you have them then right
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you're more inclined to talk about the stuff that just happened, right?
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And particularly in a year where there's a lot of pretty exciting stuff like this year,
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it just seems... I mean, maybe people want you to stick it to them more.
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Yeah, that's what some people want. Some people want to really, you know,
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to burn all the bridges and...
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So they'll never come back.
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I make them really uncut but make them really uncomfortable for an hour with a bright spotlight on their face
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You know and it's different too than if I were writing a feature article and it was like hey you get to follow Jaws around
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for two days and
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Right, you know like a 5,000 word profile
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I I would be much more inclined to ask questions like that
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then then in a live show where it needs to be entertaining and and
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A bad line of questioning that I stick with could take the air out of the room. Yeah, you know I can
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I mean, I'm trying to remember I can't remember exactly what it was
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But it seems like if not at this one at least at previous ones
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There have been questions that you've asked where they you know
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There's there's a lot of laughter from the audience and they smile and you know
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Right and then give you and then give you a pat answer. Yeah, you know to something
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that's… but they don't really want to talk about that much.
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Trevor Burrus Right. Very true. That's very true.
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Mike Fleagle asks, "How did the two of you Johns meet?" I don't remember. I really don't remember.
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John Green I don't remember exactly either. I remember us
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having a drink at a burger or something at one of the bars down near Moscone.
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Trevor Burrus Yeah.
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John Green That seems like one of the first times.
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Trevor Burrus Probably like a Mac…
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John Green We spent any amount of time together just talking.
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Probably a Macworld Expo. Yeah, it was definitely a Macworld Expo. Yeah, because I didn't go to I'm Ava
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She's a I've only been a 1ww DC. I haven't been to many that's for sure
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Yeah, so it would that was and that was um
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The first the first Macworld that I went to was 2007 which was quite the one to go to
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Because I said next I'm resource it next to Glenn Fleishman
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after it was over I said, "Wow, are they all like this?" And I don't think, I can't remember if we,
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I went and saw you in Syracuse to do the talk show, I guess. No, it was Cable Sasser, right?
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Oh, Cable, that's right. That's right. Yeah, yeah, Cable. Yeah, it was Cable. Yeah. And what's funny
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was I hadn't met Merlin then, I don't even know if I knew who Merlin was. And I did a little video
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on like some crappy camera that I had and as I panned the audio, you know, like the people
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standing around watching and I watched the company like a few years later, I was like, oh, there's
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Merlyn. I remember that. He was standing like five feet away from me. I forget if we were even
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calling them podcasts at the time, but Merlin was doing some short form audio stuff. Yeah. And so,
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he interviewed me and Jason Snell. And this was the day of the keynote. And then, but we were over
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in the expo hall so you know probably like one o'clock and I think cable and I
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did our live show that afternoon that you know the very day look and it could
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just I just honestly I've never I couldn't get hired doing drugs then I
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was thinking about this iPhone but Merlin did like a five-minute interview
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with me and Jason Snell I'll have to see if I can find a link to it but it was
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amazing because we started just talking about the iPhone and within five minutes
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Snell and I had convinced ourselves that Apple has to do an SDK and there's they've got to be able to you know
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Like we just went to we just like completely predicted the App Store. Yeah, absolutely
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Within five minutes. It was like five dense minutes of of really
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Predictions that panned out very well. I have to see if I can find this. Yeah
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And I care it so I can't remember if we managed to get that was when we yeah probably drink probably yeah
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It seems like maybe we knew each other we knew each other through email. So yeah, definitely before yeah. Yeah, right
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Hmm trying to think I'm running out of questions. I thank everybody who asked them here if I forgot
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If I if I've missed any good questions, I'll save them up for the next one
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We'll probably I'll probably need to do another Q&A over the summer just to just to fill fill air time
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Any others that really stick out to you or should we wrap this up?
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No. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks to everybody. Oh, here's…
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They're all wonderful questions. I want to thank everybody for…
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Here's a good one, just as a recommendation. Have you seen the movie, the General Magic
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movie? Somebody… Groots?
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Oh, no. I haven't seen it yet.
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I don't think it's… I think the reason most people haven't seen it is I don't
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think it's out on a home video.
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I actually saw it at a screening here in Philadelphia and it's okay. It's well worth watching if you're a
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What you think the general magic movie might be like?
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I don't you know what I mean? Like if you're a nerd who likes 90s nostalgia, right? It's it's really great
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I don't think my wife would have enjoyed it at all
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Yes is what I'm trying to say like
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It was really interesting. I don't think that the general magic
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Product was I think the movie sort of over sells how far ahead of the time it was
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I think they were on the right track, but I
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Don't think I think they lost fair and square to the palm pilot and the same say I've always thought the same thing about the
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Newton as well as much as I love the Newton and there were parts of it that were
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Brilliant and way better than what palm had and there were parts of the general magic system that were better than what the Newton and palm
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Had I think the one thing palm got right in hindsight that people seem to overlook is that the thing could fit in your pocket?
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It sounds stupid but the Newton was too big to fit in a pocket. And so we're the general magic devices
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right, I mean
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Even the name since now even the name palm was you know kept them focused
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You know like where does this device go when you use it it fits in the palm of your hand. It's you know
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And I'd ever owned a general magic device
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I think the you I think their user interface was a little too cutesy real world where they they actually took the quote desktop
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metaphor of the Mac and
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It's not quite skeuomorphism in this sense of textures because it was still a black and white screen
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But they literally had like a three-dimensional desk and the desk had it looked like a video game more, you know
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it was in three dimensions and
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There's a desk and there's a telephone on the desk and you would tap the telephone on the desk to like open up the phone
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App and yeah, that was a pretty common sort of thing because that was like Microsoft Bob, right? Yeah
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Yeah, and you know in the general magic one having been largely designed by former Mac team employees at Apple was obviously
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May more tastefully done than a Microsoft Bob shows
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But just the idea that oh, you know in order for people to understand it. It has to look like yeah
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Things that they know yeah, like you're literally playing a video game of being in in an office
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But like they and nothing I it's not like leisure suit Larry were funny things have it, right?
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It was literally you're just calling your dentist to make an appointment
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And you're opening an actual book to find the dentist number and stuff like that
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Oh, here's one. We can't go. We can't finish without Gus Mueller's question.
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Moltz's prediction of Apple made sex bots has yes to yet to come to fruition. What's up with that?
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Is the project still going on and what's the code name for it? I can't. I'm not allowed to say.
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Talk about predictions. Do this in legal.
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I am pretty proud that I'm not sure if I'm the first person, but I feel like I'm probably up
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there to say the word sexbots on NPR. Because I got interviewed, somebody from NPR interviewed me
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after one of those, I don't know if it was that one where we met or if it was the one after that.
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I think it was the one after. I think it was the 2008 Macworld called me to interview me about
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and she called me back later and she said, "Did you say sex bots?"
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I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, robots you can have sex with."
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"Okay, thanks."
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Just wanted to fact check.
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Because you don't want to screw somebody on that.
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My editor wanted me to call back.
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Yeah, you don't want to attribute that quote to somebody and have it turn out it was or what they
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actually sure I know what you're talking about here although it would make for
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one of those really funny like corrections of the year yeah earlier
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version of this see I always just thought that you know if anybody is
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gonna make a robot that you're actually gonna want to have sex with it should be
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Apple because nobody else is gonna do it well enough no nobody else can you trust
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anybody else to keep you exactly private it also privacy also privacy it all
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stays on device oh god John moltz it's a pleasure having you on as always hope
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you have a good rest of your summer people can get back outside our mutual
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pal Dan Morin just got married you were you were there friends so
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congratulations to Dan if you're listening and you've got a how many
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podcasts you have with Dan Morin I have two podcasts with Dan Morin I have the
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Rebound which we talk about similar stuff to this podcast and then I also have Biff
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which we talk about superhero tv shows and movies yeah you renamed that one right that was used to
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be called well it's a yeah we show well we finished the well we shut down the old one
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which was uh the speedy arrow cast because arrow was ending uh this year and um started up a new
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one yeah there you go but it's the same crew it's it's me and dan and guy english yeah mostly you and
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Dan last week yeah everybody depends on many drinks guys had my thanks to you my
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thanks to our sponsors let me see if I could do them off the top my head we had
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great have a great rest of your summer John okay you too