00:00:08 ◼ ► From Relay FM, this is Upgrade, episode 274, and today's show is brought to you by Squarespace,
00:00:48 ◼ ► Joel wants to know, "Do you let someone touch or take your phone when scanning a ticket,
00:01:07 ◼ ► Like I go to the airport and I get to the security and I just lay it down on the little
00:01:11 ◼ ► scanner and I hold it out and have it kind of like get the, when I'm boarding the plane.
00:01:32 ◼ ► My thing with this is my typical thing, like in airports, which is in airports, you lose
00:01:43 ◼ ► You lose your dignity, your individualism because you want to get on the plane and airport
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00:02:37 ◼ ► Tomorrow is the 3rd of December and it will go off sale at like midnight, I think UK time.
00:03:39 ◼ ► Well I don't know about you, but I thought it was funny because it's just, all this conversation
00:03:45 ◼ ► was going on and I was listening to ATP on the first kind of like really dark and rainy
00:03:59 ◼ ► while sitting in a garage with a single floor lamp thinking, "Wow it's really dark in here.
00:04:09 ◼ ► to Marco and I laughed because he was describing the situation I had just recognized about
00:04:37 ◼ ► I don't have a ceiling per se, I have some beams and then I have like insulation in this
00:04:47 ◼ ► I actually have a video light up there, which is more for me than to light the room so people
00:04:54 ◼ ► But I am thinking about like I need another light either hanging from the ceiling or maybe
00:05:04 ◼ ► Right now I actually have a hue strip, light strip that I had on the back of a piece of
00:05:19 ◼ ► And that is more for demonstration purposes of like what would it be like if it was well
00:05:27 ◼ ► But having the kind of randomly snaking hue strip is probably not a long-term solution.
00:05:37 ◼ ► So I'm thinking now maybe I do want something that's kind of high up and pointed at the
00:05:47 ◼ ► I actually do need more light in my office so I don't feel like I'm in the winter especially
00:06:17 ◼ ► In my office I have just a kind of a bulb hanging from the ceiling with a BB8 lampshade
00:06:29 ◼ ► And I've forgotten that that existed until I just looked up at my light because it's just
00:06:41 ◼ ► I have one of those light strips stuck to the outside edge of my desk which is just a fun
00:07:03 ◼ ► cut in half effectively and you can just move it around and it has a battery in it so you
00:07:53 ◼ ► We also put lights in the living room and the reason for that was that we had no lights
00:07:58 ◼ ► in the living room except this little floor lamp that I've got in here now and it wasn't
00:08:03 ◼ ► And so when I commented that it wasn't enough light for the garage she said we already learned
00:08:20 ◼ ► I have one of those at the door so I can turn on my floor lamp because it's on a smart switch
00:08:34 ◼ ► And then the other smart lights are also on that so if I want to turn on the the the hue
00:08:39 ◼ ► strip if I want to turn on the lava lamp that I that my daughter got rid of that I was like
00:09:31 ◼ ► If you would like to hear more about Tim Cook and Donald Trump then you should listen to
00:09:46 ◼ ► If you did enjoy our discussion last week and or just want to know more about this from
00:10:03 ◼ ► I'm surprised that we we touched the third rail a little bit last week and didn't really
00:10:09 ◼ ► get any complaints which is because I think that we did a great job not to our own horn
00:10:43 ◼ ► If you go to the this happened over the Thanksgiving weekend which is the perfect time to do something
00:10:50 ◼ ► Sir Johnny Ive was removed from Apple's executive leadership page so he just doesn't exist there
00:10:57 ◼ ► There were no other changes Evans Hankey and Alan Dye have not been added as vice presidents
00:11:05 ◼ ► Alan Dye was actually previously on this page when they did that big reshuffle and Johnny
00:11:12 ◼ ► kind of like moved to a more over like overseeing role and they split design into like user
00:11:23 ◼ ► Alan Dye appeared on the leadership page but then got removed when they kind of reshuffled
00:11:41 ◼ ► Yeah right like this page hasn't existed for as long as Johnny Ive has been a senior leader
00:11:58 ◼ ► Yes I mean yeah there was he designed he had a hand at least in designing the E-Mate which
00:12:08 ◼ ► It had translucent plastic and stuff it was him experimenting with some of the materials
00:12:12 ◼ ► that would end up becoming a big hit in the iMac so he's been there a long time and this
00:12:33 ◼ ► I was going to say the final shoe dropped but there have been so many shoes I don't know
00:12:41 ◼ ► and they've had time to settle and it's like the last final move of his departure the long
00:12:58 ◼ ► According to podcasting industry newsletter Inside Podcasting Apple have hired National
00:13:13 ◼ ► Ochsenslager had previously worked at NPR in both reporter and producer roles apparently
00:13:23 ◼ ► So we spoke about this a while ago the idea that Apple could be breaking into the original
00:13:27 ◼ ► podcasts game it was previously a report from Bloomberg they are now hiring in a way that
00:13:37 ◼ ► So I think it we don't know is the form that this might take because there are some very
00:13:42 ◼ ► simple ways that this could take where Apple has decided as a leader in the podcast medium
00:13:51 ◼ ► For example what about producing a run of podcasts for all of its Apple TV+ programming.
00:14:20 ◼ ► So there's that right who would do that Apple would do that I mean they might not work in
00:14:28 ◼ ► in somehow and Apple having you know control issues let's say it wouldn't be surprising
00:14:34 ◼ ► They could be building premium stuff that is like the Spotify stuff that's like if you're
00:14:45 ◼ ► I also kept thinking about like other ways that they could do this they could make things
00:14:57 ◼ ► If anybody out there listening to the show has any say in this you don't have to publicize
00:15:15 ◼ ► is such a leader in podcasting that you could make the argument that Apple wants to make
00:15:20 ◼ ► some of its own podcasts and that's the point of it and it's not to like wall it off inside
00:15:29 ◼ ► News Plus podcast right that something something that's journalism related or a couple of those
00:15:34 ◼ ► things like the New York Times is daily that come out of the Apple News editorial organization
00:15:41 ◼ ► because there is one and would that be a thing that they would use to promote Apple News
00:15:45 ◼ ► Plus and giveaway for free or would that be a thing for Apple News Plus subscribers because
00:15:53 ◼ ► I mean I could argue given and we're going to talk about what's going on with Apple News
00:15:56 ◼ ► Plus in a little bit like using it to promote Apple News Plus might be a better use of that
00:16:05 ◼ ► lot of different ways they could go here and we don't know which way they're going to go
00:16:09 ◼ ► but it sounds like they're one way or another Apple is hiring people to make podcasts public
00:16:34 ◼ ► Photoshop user but basically they've published some blog posts talking about the features
00:16:44 ◼ ► I think it's really great to see them be in public right like Adobe has faced criticism
00:16:48 ◼ ► for Photoshop for iPad for not being complete enough and people are like oh you lied you're
00:16:57 ◼ ► So I think sharing the roadmap of the features that they are going to be adding only helps
00:17:10 ◼ ► Right they they definitely communicated their priorities in going into the 1.0 version like
00:17:19 ◼ ► the year this and then next year we're planning on doing these features and it's not like
00:17:29 ◼ ► yeah that needs to be communicated because they need to have their users understand where
00:17:39 ◼ ► I did use Photoshop on the iPad for the first time at length on the weekend basically doing
00:17:45 ◼ ► a dumb Photoshop to reply to a thread from Joe Steele and Todd Vizzieri just to say say
00:17:52 ◼ ► like this is a thing that I could Photoshop very quickly on my Mac but I was sitting on
00:18:07 ◼ ► leave the leave the warm confines of my couch in order to do this stupid joke in Photoshop.
00:18:12 ◼ ► I've got Photoshop on the iPad let's see if I can make it work and the answer was I could
00:18:15 ◼ ► make it work more or less as I went I figured out what the tools the analogs of my Mac tools
00:18:22 ◼ ► were and I was able to do a you know passable job with a dumb Photoshop thing and could
00:18:29 ◼ ► I use another iPad tool sure but I thought let's let's try this and would this work and
00:18:33 ◼ ► the answer was yes I can confirm really dumb bad Photoshop stuff can be done on the iPad
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00:20:48 ◼ ► So yesterday evening there was a press release and I saw a bunch of tweets coming from a
00:20:54 ◼ ► bunch of different places about a thing that affects me personally which I'm very excited
00:20:59 ◼ ► about there is a feature in Apple Pay on the iPhone and on the Apple Watch called Express
00:21:06 ◼ ► Mode this was previously used I believe only in Japan on their transit service so it basically
00:21:14 ◼ ► allowed for you to use Apple Pay so you would use whatever device without needing to authenticate
00:21:21 ◼ ► with either touch ID or face ID so it works basically like a debit or credit card because
00:21:32 ◼ ► it was enabled for the TfL transport for London service in the UK so wherever we use the Oyster
00:21:37 ◼ ► card or wherever it was previously using Apple Pay we can now use the Express Mode so what
00:21:54 ◼ ► know exactly what it is that makes it quicker but it was as fast as if I put a credit card
00:21:58 ◼ ► down which was not the case before even after the authentication it always took an extra
00:22:02 ◼ ► second or so for the transaction to be authorized so there's absolutely no delay and it works
00:22:14 ◼ ► that this feature will work even if your battery is dead on your device which is wild yeah
00:22:20 ◼ ► so it must and I don't know a lot about NFC but I feel like it's writing a the NFC thing
00:22:44 ◼ ► have to use any power and it will be read just like the chip in your card would be right
00:22:49 ◼ ► I'm keen to understand how exactly it works because I think it's taking a little bit of
00:22:54 ◼ ► power because it will only work for five hours yeah keep traveling up to five hours so there's
00:22:58 ◼ ► well there's enough enough power to hold it or whatever but they're not like even if the
00:23:02 ◼ ► battery dies so you're you're you're out late at night your phone dies you've got five hours
00:23:11 ◼ ► right that like knowing that you still have that extra even if somehow your battery dies
00:23:15 ◼ ► so it's just like a nice little feature but the real win here is that you don't have to
00:23:18 ◼ ► do like face ID and then tap or any like you don't have to do any authentication like that
00:23:23 ◼ ► you can just tap your phone and and go because I've said this a bunch of times my biggest
00:23:28 ◼ ► downside for face ID over touch ID is needing to authenticate in that very in like specific
00:23:41 ◼ ► you could just write take your phone out your pocket you're already holding the home button
00:23:45 ◼ ► you double press the home button and it will work right because you're already authenticated
00:23:53 ◼ ► found that kind of frustrating because it was a it was a much clunkier way of authenticating
00:24:08 ◼ ► that this is making its way out to different places this is used in a few other transit
00:24:13 ◼ ► areas and it's not just in London I mean I think when it started it was just in one place
00:24:18 ◼ ► but now it's it's really it kind of stretched out a bit more but I just think it's super
00:24:28 ◼ ► works on Apple watch as well so you don't have to double tap on an Apple watch and then
00:24:31 ◼ ► tap which is what I do mostly when I'm doing Apple pay stuff so you can actually just do
00:24:38 ◼ ► a quick tap and that's it it's it's done that's pretty great and yeah I like that it's not
00:24:44 ◼ ► what you say more clunky or more clunky yeah mclunky exactly mclunky that's what he was
00:25:22 ◼ ► plus is struggle to grow its subscriber base I think to nobody's surprise so during the
00:25:26 ◼ ► first 48 hours of launch which was last March Apple was apparently able to attract around
00:25:45 ◼ ► signed up since but they haven't really broken that initial figure of 200,000 that's the
00:25:57 ◼ ► I always forget this and that's just seems like so much money compared to other services
00:26:24 ◼ ► will get one publisher told CNBC they receive 20 to 30 thousand dollars a month which is
00:26:36 ◼ ► like that is not a lot of money for us from a service like this but I feel yes would you
00:26:41 ◼ ► agree with that I would agree with that it's not a lot at all another publisher said their
00:27:11 ◼ ► I have a bunch and I'm happy to pay the athletic and New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle
00:27:21 ◼ ► you can pay them directly and you get access to all their content without the without getting
00:27:26 ◼ ► annoyed or there being a paywall or something like that and you can pay for Wall Street
00:27:30 ◼ ► Journal or Bloomberg or whatever so then you look at Apple News Plus and you think okay
00:27:39 ◼ ► ten dollars a month that's that's great except that's that's not a great price for many of
00:27:52 ◼ ► but even if that is a decent price like you're only getting you're not getting the ones that
00:28:01 ◼ ► the last time I visited Apple News Plus which was in the trial period because I canceled
00:28:07 ◼ ► my trial the the big problem with it is that the interface was atrocious that what Apple
00:28:22 ◼ ► the problem I understand but I don't particularly like Apple News and its interface and then
00:28:31 ◼ ► the problem that you and I spoke about a few weeks ago about the TV app interface where
00:28:35 ◼ ► Apple is trying to do two things at once it's trying to be an aggregator of content from
00:28:40 ◼ ► other people as well as a pusher of a premium product that's got content inside it and that's
00:28:53 ◼ ► that's difficult from a user experience standpoint because sometimes you want to mix them all
00:28:58 ◼ ► together but you also want to kind of highlight out what are you paying for and here's what
00:29:03 ◼ ► you're gonna get and it's not not just kind of marketing it is literally like I want to
00:29:07 ◼ ► see the stuff that I paid for I want to see the stuff that I get because I'm a subscriber
00:29:17 ◼ ► just kind of a mess and if you're a publisher you're not you're getting a fraction of what
00:29:20 ◼ ► you would get for direct so all the publishers that think that they're gonna have a successful
00:29:25 ◼ ► direct subscription system are not gonna want to be a part of it I don't know I don't know
00:29:37 ◼ ► I pay for access to the Wall Street Journal and to Bloomberg because they are two websites
00:29:45 ◼ ► where like they publish stuff behind a paywall that I want to be able to read for myself
00:29:52 ◼ ► I pay for them directly and I don't know like can I don't even know can I get that through
00:30:00 ◼ ► My understanding is that the Wall Street Journal I don't know about Bloomberg Wall Street Journal
00:30:09 ◼ ► is that you can search and find other articles and it's a way that they're putting up a barrier
00:30:14 ◼ ► so that it's better for you to pay them directly rather than be a part of Apple News Plus.
00:30:20 ◼ ► And this is it right like so Bloomberg I can get Bloomberg Businessweek but does that will
00:30:28 ◼ ► And so this is so it's like I don't it's not clear enough to me as a user as to whether
00:30:33 ◼ ► I would be getting the content that I actually want to pay for out of it but so that's why
00:30:40 ◼ ► it's just like I've never even bothered because I don't I don't care for everything else like
00:30:44 ◼ ► I don't feel the great I don't feel a great requirement requirement to read X or Y magazine
00:31:03 ◼ ► I feel like the way this works for publishers is if it means they don't need to spend money
00:31:10 ◼ ► but the thing is too late they all did this already spend money to make and then update
00:31:14 ◼ ► their individual apps and major publishers are going to want complete control but I could
00:31:20 ◼ ► see small publishers saying you know what this is a lot of money we're spending on development
00:31:25 ◼ ► what if instead we just tell people that if they want access they sign up for Apple News
00:31:30 ◼ ► Plus and they'll get it there and it'll be super easy in fact I wonder I wonder if Apple's
00:31:34 ◼ ► doing this behind the scenes one of the things that if I were Apple I would build is an API
00:31:40 ◼ ► for news authentication so that if somebody so basically you can read Apple News on the
00:31:46 ◼ ► web but you can also log in to a participating company media company's website with your
00:31:53 ◼ ► ID like a single sign on because what that would yeah because what that would do is allow
00:32:07 ◼ ► if you want you know but they need to be able to have it be on the web too and have it be
00:32:12 ◼ ► related to that so that they could get people who aren't using Apple devices but that would
00:32:15 ◼ ► be a way that Apple could maybe make it appealing to them and in saying like look Apple's just
00:32:19 ◼ ► going to handle all of this pay content stuff for you and you can kind of walk away is that
00:32:25 ◼ ► scary because Apple's in charge of your your strategy well sure but if you don't have the
00:32:29 ◼ ► money to build the technology to compete with Apple's app then maybe you could do that but
00:32:37 ◼ ► but from an Apple News Plus product perspective you are you know you're talking about the
00:32:45 ◼ ► third tier stuff being in your in your service which is not great right so I don't know I
00:32:56 ◼ ► people who don't like it aren't getting something out of it I think the more perplexing things
00:33:05 ◼ ► don't know I I joked about it last year but I'll say it again part of me wonders why Apple
00:33:10 ◼ ► isn't doing something as outlandish but maybe necessary as buying some of these flailing
00:33:20 ◼ ► often hedge fund purchased falling apart newspapers and building its own sort of news network
00:33:27 ◼ ► out of existing regional newspapers in the US maybe Apple doesn't want to be in the news
00:33:33 ◼ ► business but Apple's in the media business and that would be one way to turn this around
00:33:37 ◼ ► is to say Apple's going to save local news and it's going to pour it all into Apple News
00:33:40 ◼ ► Plus and have that be this amazing journalism engine but instead they're just sort of like
00:33:47 ◼ ► laying back and saying here's a service we made we take half of the money give it a try
00:33:51 ◼ ► and it's just I don't I just I don't I don't see a path forward here that makes sense to
00:33:56 ◼ ► So a few days after the CNBC report the Koch media conference Roger Lynch who is the CEO
00:34:03 ◼ ► of Conde Nast who became CEO after Conde Nast had entered into their agreement with Apple
00:34:16 ◼ ► also says that Apple News Plus did not hurt their own paywall subscription so people aren't
00:34:27 ◼ ► Oh and also for the Black Friday weekend Apple is offering a three-month trial instead of
00:34:37 ◼ ► Is that oh it's Cyber Monday as we're recording this my favorite holiday that includes the
00:34:40 ◼ ► word cyber I don't know if it's continuing to be offered or not but yeah it is interesting
00:34:59 ◼ ► Do you think that this is something that can realistically be turned into something better?
00:35:12 ◼ ► Yeah well I think I think bundling it will make it better because it'll make it a better
00:35:27 ◼ ► You would you would hope so I think that there's probably something Apple could do here that
00:35:38 ◼ ► be a system here where Apple makes a service that works for publishers and it works for
00:35:54 ◼ ► it can throw off a little bit of revenue for them and also make the experience of using
00:35:59 ◼ ► an Apple device better potentially than the competition they've got that potentially going
00:36:04 ◼ ► for it but I feel like it's going to require at this point it's going to require somebody
00:36:10 ◼ ► at Apple to admit that this is just broken and doesn't work and that the initial connect
00:36:14 ◼ ► conception was a failure and that they need to go back to the drawing board and who would
00:36:24 ◼ ► is Eddy Cue going to say wow I really screwed this up we need to start again I hope so because
00:36:30 ◼ ► I think one of the big problems with companies in general not just Apple but including Apple
00:36:36 ◼ ► is this reluctance to accept that something is just a failure and to move on from it and
00:36:44 ◼ ► a little bit too much pride and you know this Apple news plus I'm not quite ready to call
00:36:49 ◼ ► it the butterfly keyboard of services but it's close like I don't think it's gonna work
00:36:55 ◼ ► I don't think it's gonna work for anyone in the long term I it doesn't work for customers
00:36:59 ◼ ► it doesn't work for publishers maybe it works for Apple although it seems like not well
00:37:08 ◼ ► I just I I think they could I think tweaking it is not gonna work I guess that's the way
00:37:15 ◼ ► I'll put it as I think this needs to be broken and reconceived and I doubt they're gonna
00:37:21 ◼ ► do that so can it work maybe it will it work I'm doubtful because I think it would require
00:37:41 ◼ ► So, talking about services that I think well I think this one is in the complete opposition
00:37:48 ◼ ► to Apple news and that it was a surprise that the quality that we have gotten is Apple Arcade.
00:37:58 ◼ ► talk about some of the games we've been playing because you were maybe looking for some recommendations
00:38:06 ◼ ► I still want to play and then we could talk about maybe our overall thoughts sure so I've
00:38:11 ◼ ► only I've only been really diving into a small handful of games and I really want to get
00:38:16 ◼ ► into more I just I haven't had time to put into Apple Arcade games because there's been
00:38:21 ◼ ► some console games that I've been wanting to play recently but the games that I've spent
00:38:26 ◼ ► the most time with is Grindstone which is a matching puzzle game with some action elements
00:38:46 ◼ ► it's like not like but kind of like Bejeweled I guess in that idea you know it's like that
00:39:08 ◼ ► Yeah, Cards of Darkness is great I have played it I love it it is a complicated concept although
00:39:15 ◼ ► it starts you off fairly slowly I hit a roadblock in terms of gameplay and stopped so I was
00:39:23 ◼ ► really enjoying it for a couple of weeks and then the difficulty level ramped up very quickly
00:39:32 ◼ ► if my the complex I appreciate the complexity of it I feel like it gets too complicated
00:40:00 ◼ ► point I just hit the wall and was so frustrated and I gave up and it's a shame and I feel
00:40:04 ◼ ► like there could be something there that there's something there that is is missing that it
00:40:13 ◼ ► the wall because I'm misunderstanding some aspects of the game but when I try to figure
00:40:18 ◼ ► out what I'm misunderstanding and what it means and I will admit I didn't go on a Google
00:40:23 ◼ ► search although the little side note by the way one of the challenges of a lot of these
00:40:38 ◼ ► nothing else what I found is that a lot of the resources that you find for games on the
00:40:43 ◼ ► internet aren't there for these games a lot of these games because they're new and they're
00:40:54 ◼ ► I didn't look up how I could figure out what is wrong with my conceptions of Cards of Darkness
00:41:00 ◼ ► and maybe there's stuff there now that wasn't there a month ago but it's too bad because
00:41:19 ◼ ► it when I have a lot of time but it is a game that on the surface to me it kind of looks
00:41:25 ◼ ► like oh just jump in and play a level whenever you want but I can't play it like that I have
00:41:29 ◼ ► to really devote time to it to actually really work out what I'm doing like I have to be
00:41:52 ◼ ► What the Golf which is a game that I actually don't really want to spend a ton a ton of
00:42:11 ◼ ► I will go further and say much to my surprise what the golf is my favorite Apple Arcade
00:42:15 ◼ ► game I completed the entire linear storyline and went back and completed I ended up getting
00:42:23 ◼ ► to like 98% Wow basically there are like three holes that I can't get through at the highest
00:42:49 ◼ ► not but it just every level every permutation of every level hilarious loved it and I'm
00:43:15 ◼ ► sometimes I want to show it to people and like I opened the game up because I was going
00:43:24 ◼ ► you video game you a genius because you know this is a game that you have to show people
00:43:29 ◼ ► for them to understand it right and to have it so you can play through some of the weird
00:43:38 ◼ ► What else have we got on this list so Sayonara Wild Hearts rhythm based action game this
00:43:45 ◼ ► one probably got like the most critical acclaim from the original lineup you know people really
00:43:54 ◼ ► to play on iOS it is it's much more comfortable with a controller but it is not necessary
00:44:07 ◼ ► can change the sensitivity of what swiping will do in the game like swiping left to right
00:44:13 ◼ ► you can change the sensitivity of that I found that that helped but it is better to play
00:44:21 ◼ ► Yeah so this is my story here is that I found it unplayable on my iPad and so I put it on
00:44:33 ◼ ► much more playable and enjoyable and I played a couple of levels and I have never gone back
00:44:43 ◼ ► when it's just me and I can play video games yeah I know more often happens on on my iPad
00:44:49 ◼ ► that my iPad is my primary gaming device and I had a very very very hard time playing I
00:45:07 ◼ ► In a similar vein for me iOS gaming happens on my iPhone like 90% of the time I'm playing
00:45:14 ◼ ► games on my iPhone if I'm ever playing a game on iOS so the games that are more optimized
00:45:18 ◼ ► for larger screens like Sayonara Wild Hearts are the ones that I'm not playing as often
00:45:28 ◼ ► so the Pinball Wizard is another one it is a pinball game but also like a dungeon crawling
00:45:34 ◼ ► game it's super fun like there are these little levels and you have pinball mechanics to defeat
00:45:52 ◼ ► I didn't love it it's you know it's based on a really dumb joke that it then takes literally
00:46:24 ◼ ► have is like Cards of Darkness like is there something they could do to alter this to make
00:46:30 ◼ ► it better and and make players like me not get frustrated and will they like or they're
00:46:36 ◼ ► like no it's fine it's fine the way it is and I feel the same way from about Mini Motorways
00:46:47 ◼ ► game where you just keep on adding roads and it keeps on adding houses and you just kind
00:46:52 ◼ ► of keep going and and you can't fail because it's it is not just a game it is what they
00:47:00 ◼ ► used to call I think this came from the from Will Wright the creator of SimCity back in
00:47:14 ◼ ► seeing what happens also I think there's some fundamental like problems with the gameplay
00:47:21 ◼ ► stuff gets placed in weird places that make it that are not realistic for a city simulator
00:47:27 ◼ ► and I think if you're going to pretend that this is you're making it a city having a giant
00:47:35 ◼ ► giant like big box store open where it's only entrance is on the water away from all the
00:47:42 ◼ ► roads it's like why would you do that like no nobody would do that and it's just because
00:47:47 ◼ ► I think they didn't program in any intelligence nor did they make the rule that you could
00:47:51 ◼ ► connect at once at any point and that that would be where we build from like it's little
00:47:56 ◼ ► stuff like that where I feel like it just it makes it feel it makes the game feel unfair
00:48:07 ◼ ► the joy out of it and it is supposed to be a game that is is joyful to play I don't know
00:48:12 ◼ ► it's it's a it's not I don't like it as much as mini metro but it's got a lot of potential
00:48:17 ◼ ► I think it could potentially be better than mini metro but they need to do more work on
00:48:21 ◼ ► it and I'm not sure they ever will so yeah that's kind of like the the real thing about
00:48:29 ◼ ► these types of games with these games on Apple arcade I should say what is gonna happen like
00:48:36 ◼ ► I mean my our assumption is they have a deal with Apple like does Apple give them a revenue
00:48:42 ◼ ► cut if they do that incentivizes upgrading but if Apple just gave them an amount of money
00:48:47 ◼ ► up front and the agreement was make sure the game doesn't break then maybe there aren't
00:48:53 ◼ ► gonna be new features I think it really depends on what that looks like because if it was
00:49:16 ◼ ► that has happened to yet so I'm keen to see what happens there exit the gungeon is a game
00:49:22 ◼ ► that I've been having my eye on it is difficult to explain but it's like a riff on a pretty
00:49:29 ◼ ► much like a sequel to another game it's effectively a second dungeon calling games you go from
00:49:38 ◼ ► level to level you I see going up you like trying to get out of a dungeon and it's called
00:49:47 ◼ ► of monsters it looks fun it's it's it's a game that I've had my arm for a while because
00:49:52 ◼ ► it comes from a great publisher so that's one that I've had my eye on so I have a special
00:49:58 ◼ ► guest review of it which is that this is a game that my son has been playing for a while
00:50:04 ◼ ► on on console let's enter the gungeon oh this is oh this is like a sequel it's a sequel
00:50:12 ◼ ► oh interesting well I will say for enter the gungeon he thinks it's great yeah that's why
00:50:17 ◼ ► because like I I have a winner to the gungeon but I know people love it so I've been wanting
00:50:22 ◼ ► to play exit the gungeon because it's like a sequel to it basically which is like built
00:50:26 ◼ ► for iOS where enter the gungeon was built for the platforms and really the biggest appeal
00:50:31 ◼ ► of it is that it is a retro style game the graphics are all pixel art and it's it's adorable
00:50:41 ◼ ► overland is a game that I have known about for a long time it is a post-apocalyptic mystery
00:50:48 ◼ ► point-and-click type game it's just very beautiful and I've wanted to play this one for a while
00:50:54 ◼ ► again still haven't been able to okay possessions which is a puzzle like game in what is like
00:51:01 ◼ ► referred to as a zen style I've played a few games like this where you're like exploring
00:51:06 ◼ ► a room exploring an object to solve a puzzle this one just looks very cute and it's published
00:51:25 ◼ ► so it's like a very chill game Guildlings this is probably the next game that I'm gonna
00:51:30 ◼ ► get into it is an adventure game like an RPG game which has been developed by one of the
00:51:44 ◼ ► like threes it is more of like an RPG point-and-click type game but I've heard very very good things
00:51:51 ◼ ► about this game from like friends and family members so I really really want to get into
00:51:56 ◼ ► this next that this is probably the next one on my list and then Outlanders as well which
00:52:07 ◼ ► it's like a little village like a little farming town I like games like this a lot this is
00:52:11 ◼ ► a genre that I enjoy on iOS like kind of like a SimCity or whatever but for years these
00:52:17 ◼ ► games have been full of in-app purchases right pay to speed up this and pay to upgrade this
00:52:23 ◼ ► so I'm keen to see what a game on Apple Arcade that has this type of mechanic would look
00:52:29 ◼ ► like so there's some of the games that we've been playing and that I've had my eye on I
00:52:34 ◼ ► think we would both love recommendations from the upgradients for stuff that we may have
00:52:44 ◼ ► like for five dollars a month five pounds a month or whatever it is this is just a fantastic
00:52:48 ◼ ► deal Apple Arcade there is so much good stuff and they're adding new games like every week
00:52:58 ◼ ► five six games that I've liked out of it I mean I would have paid each of those you know
00:53:07 ◼ ► worth from it yeah I'm I'm a little more negative than that I'd say I'm on the fence about it
00:53:13 ◼ ► I think the launch apps were great and I found a bunch that I really enjoyed and I I was
00:53:24 ◼ ► I kind of moved my way through them and if there was one like a good example of possessions
00:53:39 ◼ ► the the big question was gonna be after launch what's it like what what are the new games
00:53:51 ◼ ► the truth is I have yet to find a post launch game that interested me so it's early yet
00:54:00 ◼ ► and the launch titles were really really strong and there were lots of them and there were
00:54:15 ◼ ► love to hear them I think given where you and I are I'm I'm tempted to say that we should
00:54:25 ◼ ► challenge your co-host to do to do something I don't think so not without horrific trademark
00:54:30 ◼ ► infringement oh I see well because I was thinking maybe we could challenge each other to like
00:54:34 ◼ ► play a specific game and then talk about it we challenge ourselves maybe maybe we could
00:54:49 ◼ ► may be the way that Apple's marketing it like they do have a new this week area but for
00:54:55 ◼ ► whatever reason I go there and I'm like yeah and then I kind of move on so sometimes you
00:55:11 ◼ ► it will be great if you can to say very quickly what you like about that game rather than
00:55:16 ◼ ► just tweeting the game and it's let us know and then we can maybe follow up on some games
00:55:33 ◼ ► segment something something like that a weekly Apple Arcade challenge I don't know whatever
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00:57:26 ◼ ► and sign up for your free trial. A few weeks ago Jason you said you had some thoughts on
00:57:32 ◼ ► CarPlay and I wanted to get a check in from you about those I thought I would also because
00:57:39 ◼ ► as somebody who does not have a car and as somebody who's only ever seen CarPlay in use
00:57:44 ◼ ► once I kind of forgot a lot about what CarPlay did it is effectively a service that can be
00:57:51 ◼ ► wireless or you can plug in and you get access to a bunch of features from your iPhone so
00:57:57 ◼ ► this can be like text messages and maps and calls and all that kind of stuff iOS 13 added
00:58:03 ◼ ► a bunch more features like for example the ability to see multiple things on the screen
00:58:08 ◼ ► at once it's called the multifunction dashboard this is something that didn't do before so
00:58:13 ◼ ► it lets you see a map what's playing and also turn by turn information on one screen rather
00:58:43 ◼ ► there's also Android Auto which will do that on Android phones and it means that you don't
00:59:19 ◼ ► I have ever done before like all of my previous CarPlay time put together would not match
00:59:24 ◼ ► even close to match the CarPlay time in the last three months that I've had so the dashboard
00:59:31 ◼ ► thing is huge right like the dashboard thing instead of having one app you can have this
00:59:35 ◼ ► very I find it very pleasant dashboard view where you've got your now playing essentially
00:59:47 ◼ ► then it's got like another tile that will be showing you it could be like a series suggestion
01:00:03 ◼ ► of course they could do more but it's like a good it's a huge upgrade from what was there
01:00:17 ◼ ► and CarPlay it would switch apps on your phone which means you couldn't have the passenger
01:00:28 ◼ ► time they move to a different app the CarPlay would change and every time you tap something
01:00:37 ◼ ► it's completely independent CarPlay is happening on the screen and and then you can use the
01:00:49 ◼ ► is great I really like it and not a new feature but I really like the toggle there's a quick
01:01:15 ◼ ► how to get to the freeway from my house right I know how to go across a bridge from my house
01:01:20 ◼ ► I'm well aware it's late in the game where I start to have those questions like now where
01:01:25 ◼ ► do I get off the freeway where do I turn and so with that with that toggle you you go and
01:01:40 ◼ ► going to take now you're going to get there at 138 now you're going to get there at 129
01:01:49 ◼ ► know and then when you get closer if you need first off it makes it nice you can just do
01:01:54 ◼ ► that even though you don't need directions just so you can see the ETA that's very convenient
01:02:04 ◼ ► likewise likewise the other direction if I'm someplace and I need to get home I can say
01:02:08 ◼ ► take me home and it will get me home but at some point along the way I will have reached
01:02:18 ◼ ► talking to you so not a new feature but like something that I've really gotten into using
01:02:27 ◼ ► having an onboard map computer thingy without it interrupting you to tell you to like make
01:02:33 ◼ ► that right at the light next to your house to get home that's this is an Apple maps only
01:02:44 ◼ ► live in California where Apple maps is good I don't know if Google Maps has that feature
01:02:48 ◼ ► it may well have that feature but it definitely is an Apple maps and that's where I'm using
01:02:56 ◼ ► maps you can use Google Maps on CarPlay yeah for sure and you can use their different audio
01:03:13 ◼ ► using the MLB app but it didn't get really updated for iOS 13 and didn't work quite right
01:03:18 ◼ ► which was unfortunate and I think could be a lot better that's that's one of the things
01:03:27 ◼ ► is just app implementation like Overcast doesn't do chapter markers in CarPlay and I don't
01:03:41 ◼ ► sort of a standard now playing thing but it's one of those things where I would really like
01:03:46 ◼ ► it to show me the chapters and for Major League Baseball I know that there are Apple wants
01:03:51 ◼ ► safety in cars so I know Apple doesn't want to put like too much data on the screen that
01:04:13 ◼ ► I would like you know the apps could be better but I think some of that may be limited by
01:04:21 ◼ ► CarPlay but but still it's pretty good there's oh also new in 13 there's a light mode which
01:04:26 ◼ ► I turned on and then immediately turned off because it was very bright and I didn't want
01:04:42 ◼ ► the time there's calendar in there now which can be useful and it's kind of it's also tied
01:04:54 ◼ ► which is clever yeah right it's like when I saw it I was like why would you want a calendar
01:05:02 ◼ ► way for you to get that is just to tap locate like to go there from the event right yeah
01:05:07 ◼ ► ideally you would I mean yeah you can do that I've also found that Siri suggestions is actually
01:05:12 ◼ ► pretty good and even in the maps app I think of saying I think this is where you are going
01:05:16 ◼ ► next and then you can just tap and it's in there because of course if you're in CarPlay
01:05:27 ◼ ► and say where you want to go because you're not going to want to type it or whatever so
01:05:37 ◼ ► you can also open the calendar and say that's that's my that's my next event and yeah it's
01:05:55 ◼ ► that do you think CarPlay is important to Apple I I think it is because I think honestly
01:06:05 ◼ ► I think we've reached the point now where having your phone be able to drive the entertainment
01:06:11 ◼ ► system in your car is almost table stakes like even on the best not every car has CarPlay
01:06:18 ◼ ► and Android Auto but like even on the best cars I think the entertainment systems aren't
01:06:24 ◼ ► very good and there's an argument to be made that by the makers of the entertainment system
01:06:33 ◼ ► your podcasts we you know your your GPS navigation and all your favorites and your calendar all
01:06:39 ◼ ► of that's on your phone we're we're not going to even bother we just are going to talk let
01:06:43 ◼ ► your phone handle it all of that stuff and and maybe we'll overlay all the car controls
01:06:49 ◼ ► although even there I would say that there seems to be a movement to have more and more
01:06:54 ◼ ► kind of like support in the between car controls and these operating systems so that they can
01:07:01 ◼ ► they can sense that this car has this certain control and can use it in the UI and there's
01:07:05 ◼ ► also weird shaped like different screens that are like in the car presumably like heads-up
01:07:10 ◼ ► displays will go in this direction to like I feel like this is a trend is that car makers
01:07:15 ◼ ► know that people have all their stuff on their phones and so they're I think over time what's
01:07:22 ◼ ► not going to have happened is car makers reasserting that they want complete control and they want
01:07:27 ◼ ► to block out your phone I think they're going to build around the fact that you're going
01:07:31 ◼ ► to connect your phone to your car and including interface stuff like this that's richer than
01:07:37 ◼ ► just like a USB you know music library collection and so I think at that point like Apple has
01:07:44 ◼ ► to do this because this is the world we live in now and I also Apple wants to take control
01:07:49 ◼ ► of that experience as much as it can so yeah I think I think it's here to stay just because
01:07:54 ◼ ► I don't think this this concept is going to go away yeah I think that it's at this point
01:07:59 ◼ ► they have to keep doing it because Android do it too right like you you get certain situations
01:08:09 ◼ ► to keep it going now even if they didn't want to and I think it's yeah table stakes is the
01:08:20 ◼ ► now where it's really more like the car makers are going to innovate where they want but
01:08:41 ◼ ► that we want and the like the weirdly shaped screens is a good example of that which is
01:08:46 ◼ ► you know we've got a screen that's a different shape and we want to put a CarPlay interface
01:08:49 ◼ ► in it so what do we do and Apple built that feature so that you can do that you know weird
01:09:00 ◼ ► if I'm running CarPlay or Android Auto that's like top part of my job is just talking to
01:09:07 ◼ ► the car makers and and like you're all you literally you are all partners in this because
01:09:13 ◼ ► you are you know CarPlay doesn't exist without a car but the car makers know that people
01:09:17 ◼ ► have their phones and they're not going to be going into their cars without their phones
01:09:26 ◼ ► a CarPlay box that I wired into a plug that could sit on my desk which is really not the
01:09:37 ◼ ► have that now so I've seen it in a few cars with friends and it does seem like yeah okay
01:09:42 ◼ ► this is probably the experience that I would want because the applications that I would
01:09:46 ◼ ► most likely use are there right because it is worth knowing right it's not an open platform
01:09:50 ◼ ► there are third-party apps but they're under much more strict controls from Apple about
01:09:54 ◼ ► the approval and stuff which I actually agree with it I wouldn't want it to be an open system
01:10:04 ◼ ► well reviewed for safety concerns you don't want distracting stuff on the screen and all
01:10:08 ◼ ► that kind of for sure yeah you don't want some random like video app to play video which
01:10:12 ◼ ► is like illegal like because there's legal reasons why that said I think sometimes it's
01:10:17 ◼ ► taken too far the MLB app is a good example of that we're like I think they could probably
01:10:26 ◼ ► forget car place not just for the driver it's for the passenger and as a passenger in a
01:10:32 ◼ ► car with carplay you know I would especially like more data on my screen not video or anything
01:10:43 ◼ ► information I think that would be okay and and and you do have to draw a line somewhere
01:10:48 ◼ ► because you don't want to be distracting the driver that said you have a big touchscreen
01:10:52 ◼ ► with a bunch of buttons where you're saying you know forward and previous and pause and
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01:13:35 ◼ ► it's very frustrating because if you have it set up like we do so we watch I don't know
01:13:40 ◼ ► say we're watching something from the Apple TV app or we watch something from the Netflix
01:13:45 ◼ ► app or whatever we can set it in kind of the settings and little control center menu that
01:13:50 ◼ ► they now have on Apple TV we can set the audio output to be the home pods and it sounds fantastic
01:13:55 ◼ ► it's like a great way to get a kind of like pseudo surround sound like room filling system
01:14:04 ◼ ► my home I just don't want to do that but the home pods work great but then if I then want
01:14:17 ◼ ► be changing the volume for my home pods if I turn the volume up and down yep so so yeah
01:14:36 ◼ ► that's weird why is it not outputting properly don't know man it seems like a bug that seems
01:14:51 ◼ ► really a good replacement for for something like a play bar or some other sound bar like
01:15:09 ◼ ► all falls apart so don't is what I'm saying I think I wrote an article about this I would
01:15:24 ◼ ► be really nice but that doesn't exist so for now you want something like the play bar or
01:15:29 ◼ ► a different sound bar or some other kind of audio system attached to your TV I would it's
01:15:33 ◼ ► funny our friend Alex Cox was saying how their speakers are shot on their TV and so they're
01:15:54 ◼ ► it there are better speakers than whatever TV you're using the speakers aren't very good
01:16:15 ◼ ► our home pods for this I bought the home pods so just did music would sound better but you
01:16:19 ◼ ► get a bonus which is you can make your sound better sort of manually if you want to yeah
01:16:23 ◼ ► but don't buy it back to the TV speakers yeah it's a good bonus but it's not like like video
01:16:29 ◼ ► games you can't play video games with this system right like you can't play PlayStation
01:16:34 ◼ ► games you can't even play Apple Arcade games I don't think with this it just because of
01:16:38 ◼ ► the latency I've tried yeah that's right because what's happening is that there's latency in
01:16:47 ◼ ► asks I'm a fellow weather geeker just like Jason how many Jason how many weather stations
01:16:51 ◼ ► do you have in your home and what do you find is the most accurate weather app so I asked
01:16:56 ◼ ► Jeffrey on Twitter what he meant by this and he didn't answer me I only have one weather
01:17:00 ◼ ► station and I keep it outside where the weather is so if he is asking how many weather like
01:17:18 ◼ ► in it's attached to the side of my roof I have had it since 2004 and I changed a couple
01:17:24 ◼ ► of parts out this summer but it it uh it still works which is amazing and then so that transmits
01:17:33 ◼ ► to a console that's on the inside of my house that's a Davis little console that's got all
01:17:44 ◼ ► not exist when I bought it but they have since made a an ethernet adapter for it that you
01:17:50 ◼ ► plug in and then it it can relay all that data to the cloud I also have a piece of software
01:17:56 ◼ ► called weather cat that runs on my Mac that can talk directly to the to the console the
01:18:01 ◼ ► ethernet based console and get the data directly from there before it even goes to the cloud
01:18:05 ◼ ► it's it pings that and gets that data out that's generating a web page that I can check
01:18:29 ◼ ► are going to sell you a weather station which is not what I have I have an existing weather
01:18:34 ◼ ► station from a time of 2004 and in fact that shipped with a Java app on the Mac that was
01:18:40 ◼ ► terrible so when I found weather cat it was very very very very good because it's actually
01:18:51 ◼ ► leopard or snow leopard wallpaper as its back on the website showing you exactly when the
01:18:58 ◼ ► software don't even use their templates I actually use a PHP template that I wrote myself
01:19:03 ◼ ► like 10 years ago yeah so it's really of a time itself but anyway it also outputs a text
01:19:17 ◼ ► tool called bit bar that just reads that data file every minute and updates and parses it
01:19:22 ◼ ► and then puts my the temperature and in this case how much rain we've had today in my menu
01:19:27 ◼ ► bar I have a cool gadget called a lemetric time Stephen's got one and it and I actually
01:19:44 ◼ ► a programmable clock that's on the internet and so I wrote a you know a one-line app for
01:19:52 ◼ ► it that basically queries my weather station data and puts it on the screen so I have right
01:20:10 ◼ ► put batteries in it and stick it outside because I wanted the temperature in more places and
01:20:15 ◼ ► I didn't really want a sophisticated internet-based weather station display system everywhere
01:20:22 ◼ ► in my house and for like 30 bucks or something on Amazon I'll get you the link I got these
01:20:27 ◼ ► little ambient weather things that are basically on the inside of the house you get two or
01:20:31 ◼ ► three there are little plastic things that show the current temperature and the current
01:20:34 ◼ ► temperature outside and then there's a little plastic thing that you stick outside that
01:20:39 ◼ ► measures the temperature and that that means that like because Lauren was saying I don't
01:20:44 ◼ ► you know I can't see all the way over to the little black box by the TV when I'm in the
01:20:56 ◼ ► the weather so there you go I've got and the and our friend a friend of the show Kieran
01:21:01 ◼ ► Healy actually discovered that I have all this data historical data on my weather station
01:21:06 ◼ ► and he made a bunch of because he is a data visualization professional wrote a book about
01:21:20 ◼ ► amazing so thank you Kieran. What about the app though? Jeffrey wants to know about the
01:21:24 ◼ ► app was the most accurate weather app? Where I live relying on on weather apps it doesn't
01:21:33 ◼ ► work because of the microclimates in the Bay Area they are frequently deeply inaccurate
01:21:48 ◼ ► me is Carrot Weather with the premium subscription that allows me to point it at a weather station
01:21:55 ◼ ► which is my weather station. That's how you would get the most accurate like in my mind
01:22:01 ◼ ► is you need to have an application that will allow you to refine the source to the most
01:22:08 ◼ ► accurate source. That's right right and so so that's what I use is I use Carrot Weather
01:22:11 ◼ ► and their subscription and then I pick my weather station from the weather station list
01:22:16 ◼ ► and then the temperature the forecast is obviously coming from their forecast sources but the
01:22:20 ◼ ► current temperature on my Apple watch on my phone is the current temperature at my house.
01:22:26 ◼ ► Love Carrot Weather it's one of my favorite iOS apps. Yep. Really solid application. So
01:22:38 ◼ ► weather geeker Jeffrey for letting me talk about the weather. Well and ask upgrade question
01:22:45 ◼ ► picker Myke for picking it putting it. Thank you question picker Myke. Got to throw your
01:22:50 ◼ ► weather every now and then I know you love it. It's been raining so it's a perfect time
01:22:55 ◼ ► we actually have some here. Jim asks since I since upgrading to iOS 13 my series 0 Apple
01:23:06 ◼ ► my situation the series 3 seems outdated already so should I update to a series 5 wait for
01:23:16 ◼ ► would say I feel pretty safe in guaranteeing you will get better battery performance from
01:23:32 ◼ ► watch in a long time right but I get all their battery life I recommend taking a look around
01:23:38 ◼ ► for good deals across the holiday period now because you could probably get a good discount
01:23:43 ◼ ► on Apple watches even the series 5 one somewhere I wouldn't recommend necessarily waiting for
01:23:54 ◼ ► gonna be very happy right with the advancements in that surely yeah definitely I also don't
01:24:11 ◼ ► yeah were some people having battery life problems but I think the battery life inverted
01:24:20 ◼ ► gonna get in most instances rather than what they were getting before which was much longer
01:24:25 ◼ ► than what Apple quoted right the 18 hour battery life period it seemed that there were some
01:24:30 ◼ ► people that were having problems but I think that that mostly got mostly got cleared up
01:24:36 ◼ ► by this point I think like 13 one had some fixes for battery life problems with the Apple
01:24:41 ◼ ► watch so I recommend that you go ahead and just look at Jim go and look ahead at getting
01:24:48 ◼ ► a new Apple watch I think that you'll be very happy I like my Apple watch I use it in the
01:24:55 ◼ ► most stupid way anyone's ever used an Apple watch by basically leaving in do not disturb
01:25:14 ◼ ► to to use a watch it's doing things right like you know I'm getting data I can get data
01:25:23 ◼ ► am wearing it because I like the fashion of my of the white one Kent asks is it safe to
01:25:29 ◼ ► upgrade to iOS 13 or Mac OS Catalina I think at this point 13 is is as good as it's gonna
01:25:52 ◼ ► like you need it need it need it you can also wait and you the number one thing as we said
01:26:17 ◼ ► you can do what Myke did and buy a Mac that's currently shipping that was shipping before
01:26:22 ◼ ► Catalina was announced or before Catalina was released final which means any Mac shipping
01:26:28 ◼ ► today other than the 16-inch MacBook Pro those will run Mojave so you could do that but eventually
01:26:40 ◼ ► need to update and your software that you're relying on will not come with you unless you
01:27:03 ◼ ► Patrick asked I like this question this is a weird question I like my questions Patrick
01:27:18 ◼ ► I mean it's a good it's okay it's good to be cautious always good to be cautious I like
01:27:25 ◼ ► when hotels have USB ports because it means I don't have to use a bunch of adapters when
01:27:29 ◼ ► I'm in other countries the phone should be asking you if any data is trying to be accessed
01:27:37 ◼ ► right it's like do you want to trust this computer or whatever you trust or don't trust
01:27:41 ◼ ► it you still gain power from it but I understand the cautiousness I just plug them in anyway
01:27:53 ◼ ► I well I don't travel I travel with a charger so I generally don't do this but I think that
01:28:06 ◼ ► hardened iOS from a lot of them right like you have to like trust a USB charger in order
01:28:14 ◼ ► to if it's trying to connect via data like it will let you do dumb power without a problem
01:28:20 ◼ ► but if it's more than that you actually need to say yes I trust this thing and don't trust
01:28:24 ◼ ► it don't do that but yeah I've noticed that like sometimes when I've been on a plane and
01:28:34 ◼ ► and I plug the inner thing you want to trust this computer like no no don't know it shouldn't
01:28:43 ◼ ► read your music library and like make it available using the entertainment system or whatever
01:28:52 ◼ ► so yeah so what I would say is it's probably not that big a deal unless you're in a place
01:28:58 ◼ ► like if it's if it's I would say if it's sketchy if it's like I don't know if I trust this
01:29:03 ◼ ► place and this random USB port that's here yeah sure but I think overly paranoid probably
01:29:17 ◼ ► like to send in a tweet with a question for us to answer on the show just tweet with the
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01:29:37 ◼ ► very excited about so make sure you get those in we don't have a closing date yet but we
01:29:42 ◼ ► will announce that with some time to spare and I'm going to be working on that over the
01:29:47 ◼ ► next few weeks because it's very complicated to to amass the nominations because people
01:29:57 ◼ ► system by this point but yeah upgrade ease dot vote and if you're still in time upgrade
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