Connected

00:00:00 ◼   ► (upbeat music)

00:00:02 ◼   ► - Hello and welcome to Connected episode 388.

00:00:11 ◼   ► It's made possible this week by our sponsors,

00:00:14 ◼   ► Bombas, Fitbot, and New Relic.

00:00:16 ◼   ► My name is Steven Hackett and I have the pleasure

00:00:18 ◼   ► of introducing in person, Mr. Myke Hurley.

00:00:21 ◼   ► - Hello everybody.

00:00:22 ◼   ► - Hey buddy. - My name is Myke Hurley.

00:00:23 ◼   ► - High five. - I'm in person.

00:00:24 ◼   ► - Can't fake that in editing in any way.

00:00:26 ◼   ► - No way to fake a high five,

00:00:28 ◼   ► but I can confirm that I am situated within the pod cabin here in an undisclosed location in Memphis, Tennessee.

00:00:34 ◼   ► And of course we are joined by our one and only Mr. Federico Vittucci. Ciao Federico.

00:00:39 ◼   ► Ciao Myke, and thank you for the intro. I like this new thing we're doing.

00:00:44 ◼   ► It's good, right?

00:00:45 ◼   ► I don't know, it feels new. It feels like we're just getting to know each other all over again with these new intros.

00:00:51 ◼   ► It keeps things fresh, you know?

00:00:55 ◼   ► Introducing people is a specifically new task for you, as we have learned very recently,

00:01:01 ◼   ► because ConnectedIntro.com, which has been put together by Zach and Matt and the Discord mod team,

00:01:08 ◼   ► has now got a new feature thanks to just a heroic effort from Zach and Kate, where they listened to

00:01:15 ◼   ► the beginning of every single episode of Connected to work out how many introductions have taken place.

00:01:22 ◼   ► and there's now a leaderboard, an introduction leaderboard.

00:01:25 ◼   ► So I'm assuming this means the person who starts, right?

00:01:29 ◼   ► Because now we introduce each other.

00:01:31 ◼   ► How does it tick up?

00:01:32 ◼   ► I expect it's like the person who begins.

00:01:34 ◼   ► And as it stands right now,

00:01:36 ◼   ► Stephen is introduction king with 204 intros for the show.

00:01:41 ◼   ► I have introduced 179 times.

00:01:46 ◼   ► Federico has introduced a whopping four times.

00:01:50 ◼   ► So...

00:01:52 ◼   ► I don't like that I'm losing this game. I don't like it. Can we just record 201 intros

00:01:59 ◼   ► done by me so that I will score first? You can. Like, there is no way in this.

00:02:05 ◼   ► You need to record 201 introductions, just you introducing 200 times. But it would have to be

00:02:11 ◼   ► 200 discrete episodes because the way that it's being counted, Kate has confirmed in the Discord,

00:02:17 ◼   ► is the person who starts the show, like this is episode whatever of Connected.

00:02:21 ◼   ► So you know, you're going to slowly start taking them up there Federico, but you're always going to be behind them, I think, you slacked.

00:02:27 ◼   ► Well, this, I don't like it. I don't like it because I'm never going to win at this game. There's no redemption in here for me.

00:02:35 ◼   ► I'm always going to be third.

00:02:36 ◼   ► Yeah, the ratio is going to always stay pretty similar as we round robin our way through the future.

00:02:43 ◼   ► All over again. Like, we haven't even begun scoring the rickys and there's really already a conspiracy going on here from, you know...

00:02:50 ◼   ► This is all it goes back to this concept that we have shared before.

00:02:55 ◼   ► Big Steven controlling us.

00:02:58 ◼   ► Yes.

00:02:58 ◼   ► And conspiring against us.

00:03:01 ◼   ► This is all part of Big Steven again.

00:03:03 ◼   ► Look at him.

00:03:03 ◼   ► Look at him with the crown and gold medal.

00:03:05 ◼   ► I'm looking at him.

00:03:07 ◼   ► And right now he's taller than me.

00:03:10 ◼   ► So, you know, I've got that going.

00:03:12 ◼   ► Well, you know, everybody is.

00:03:13 ◼   ► Everybody's taller than me.

00:03:15 ◼   ► There's some notes from Kate around collecting these statistics.

00:03:18 ◼   ► Note one is that Myke settled into his intro quicker than Steven did when he took over.

00:03:23 ◼   ► Which makes sense because I had already been introducing the prompt before so I just adapted

00:03:26 ◼   ► it.

00:03:28 ◼   ► Steven is much more likely to change it up for a jape than Myke.

00:03:31 ◼   ► Tichi was not the third person to introduce an episode of the show.

00:03:35 ◼   ► That is my favourite part because there are, there's a selection of people listed at the

00:03:39 ◼   ► bottom of the document who have also introduced episodes of the show and so one of these people,

00:03:44 ◼   ► I'm not sure who exactly, beat Federico to the punch.

00:03:47 ◼   ► bud you know you're not really doing a good job with this there's nothing I can

00:03:52 ◼   ► do it's it's out of my hands it's out of my control and I am once again the

00:03:58 ◼   ► victim so there's some more I have some more important follow-up which is

00:04:02 ◼   ► definitely more important than talking about yesterday's Apple event so Patrick

00:04:07 ◼   ► did not get a new case color there were no iPad mini case colors which I'm very

00:04:10 ◼   ► upset about because I think Patrick would look really good in one of these

00:04:13 ◼   ► new spring colors. And I wanted to bring to the group, Derek wrote in to say what about

00:04:19 ◼   ► spelling it Pad-trick, P-A-D-T-R-I-C-K, like iPad?

00:04:25 ◼   ► No, well, not DT, but what about Pad-rick, D-R, Pad-rick.

00:04:31 ◼   ► Yeah, P-A-D-R-I-C-K.

00:04:33 ◼   ► Okay, we can do that. I will now have to remember to do that, but I'll try my best. I have named

00:04:38 ◼   ► it Pad-trick, and I did send you both a screenshot of where it says "Pad-trick has been left

00:04:42 ◼   ► behind, which is very funny to me. When I left the hotel and left my iPad in there,

00:04:47 ◼   ► Patrick has been left behind. So I'm very much enjoying Patrick's life, you know, this

00:04:52 ◼   ► new new entrance to the family, but he did not get a cool new suit. So I'm very upset

00:04:56 ◼   ► about that.

00:04:57 ◼   ► They did a few new colors, right? Some Apple Watch bands and some iPhone cases, but it

00:05:02 ◼   ► wasn't as like fully done as it has been in the past, I feel like.

00:05:06 ◼   ► And they look great, great colors, really bright, beautiful colors. Federico, how many

00:05:10 ◼   ► cases did you buy?

00:05:11 ◼   ► Not even one.

00:05:13 ◼   ► Not even one.

00:05:14 ◼   ► Not even one.

00:05:15 ◼   ► I'm keeping my plain old boring black leather case.

00:05:19 ◼   ► Got like yellow.

00:05:20 ◼   ► It's a really good yellow.

00:05:22 ◼   ► Some of the new solo loops are good?

00:05:26 ◼   ► I think Silvia wants to get the flamingo one for her Apple Watch, but that's the only

00:05:33 ◼   ► purchase that we may be planning in terms of new accessory colors.

00:05:37 ◼   ► Is that the solo loop?

00:05:39 ◼   ► the solo loop, the pink, what's it called,

00:05:42 ◼   ► flamingo, pink flamingo, something like that.

00:05:45 ◼   ► - Yeah, flamingo.

00:05:46 ◼   ► - The bright green also looks good, but not for me.

00:05:48 ◼   ► So I think we're gonna get that one for Sylvia,

00:05:51 ◼   ► but nothing else.

00:05:53 ◼   ► I don't know, I don't really feel like

00:05:56 ◼   ► colorful cases right now, because I really, really like

00:06:01 ◼   ► the Apple leather one that I have,

00:06:03 ◼   ► and the gold iPhone black leather case,

00:06:06 ◼   ► it's a good color combo, visually speaking.

00:06:09 ◼   ► I think that's it for follow-up.

00:06:10 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:06:11 ◼   ► - Anything else we need to cover?

00:06:12 ◼   ► - Well, I don't know.

00:06:14 ◼   ► Is there anything else you wanna share

00:06:16 ◼   ► before we get to the thing?

00:06:21 ◼   ► Any things you wanna share with us

00:06:23 ◼   ► before we fight with each other?

00:06:27 ◼   ► - Oh, oh.

00:06:28 ◼   ► There's any last friendship before that happens?

00:06:31 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:06:32 ◼   ► Any last words before scoring the thing?

00:06:37 ◼   ► friendship ended with scoring.

00:06:39 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:06:40 ◼   ► I think we should just go,

00:06:42 ◼   ► I think we should just get on with it.

00:06:43 ◼   ► - I think we just gotta write the bandaid off

00:06:45 ◼   ► and see who won.

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00:08:33 ◼   ► It's time to read the rules!

00:08:36 ◼   ► I didn't want to put that in. - Wow, that was good!

00:08:38 ◼   ► - It felt weird to shout it in front of Steven.

00:08:40 ◼   ► Like he looked at me, he invited me with his eyes

00:08:43 ◼   ► and his hands to shout, it's time to read the rules.

00:08:46 ◼   ► And at first when he did that,

00:08:47 ◼   ► I didn't know what he was asking from me.

00:08:49 ◼   ► And then it clicked because it's time to read the rules.

00:08:52 ◼   ► - I think that was like spatial audio, which you just did.

00:08:54 ◼   ► - I think that's what I was going for.

00:08:55 ◼   ► - That's good. - Yeah.

00:08:57 ◼   ► - The Bill of Rickeys, you can stand if you want.

00:08:59 ◼   ► - I'm gonna try and stand.

00:09:00 ◼   ► - Myke doesn't really have room to stand.

00:09:02 ◼   ► I'm gonna stand. I'm gonna stand.

00:09:04 ◼   ► I'm more hunching today than standing.

00:09:06 ◼   ► There are two types of rookies, annual rookies and keynote rookies.

00:09:13 ◼   ► The winner of the annual rookies is named annual chairman and retains the rights to the corresponding Twitter account for the full year.

00:09:20 ◼   ► This position is awarded every January.

00:09:22 ◼   ► The keynote rookies winner is named the keynote chairman and retains the rights to the corresponding Twitter account until the next keynote is held.

00:09:30 ◼   ► Order for annual rookies is based on the winner of the previous year.

00:09:34 ◼   ► Order for keynote rookies is based on the previous Apple event.

00:09:37 ◼   ► The loser goes last.

00:09:39 ◼   ► To earn any points, everything written down in the prediction document must come true.

00:09:44 ◼   ► No half points may be awarded at any round.

00:09:47 ◼   ► And picks cannot be reused by any contestant within 365 days of first being made.

00:09:52 ◼   ► One point is awarded for any pick deemed correct in the first two rounds.

00:09:56 ◼   ► Two points will be awarded for correct picks in the risky pick round.

00:09:59 ◼   ► If your risky pick is wrong, you lose a point and the two other hosts must have agreed that

00:10:04 ◼   ► your pick was risky.

00:10:06 ◼   ► For keynote rookies, like we're doing today, the scoring window starts when the event begins

00:10:10 ◼   ► and closes when the picks are scored.

00:10:13 ◼   ► Scoring is now closed now.

00:10:15 ◼   ► Information must be publicly verifiable to be used in scoring.

00:10:19 ◼   ► After scoring is complete, each host must update their official tricky to reflect the

00:10:23 ◼   ► new winner.

00:10:24 ◼   ► The large location marker is for the annual chairman.

00:10:26 ◼   ► Mine aren't here.

00:10:27 ◼   ► I should have brought mine with me.

00:10:28 ◼   ► I can't do the updating.

00:10:29 ◼   ► Yeah, you have to do it when you get home.

00:10:30 ◼   ► Ooh, I can't have my own ceremony.

00:10:33 ◼   ► You do it in the privacy of your own mega studio.

00:10:37 ◼   ► This is very upsetting.

00:10:38 ◼   ► While the smaller location marker

00:10:40 ◼   ► is for the keynote chairman,

00:10:41 ◼   ► trophies should be updated at the end of the scoring

00:10:43 ◼   ► as part of the closing ceremonies,

00:10:44 ◼   ► which we promise we'll do this time,

00:10:46 ◼   ► with photographic evidence provided on demand.

00:10:49 ◼   ► Listeners with mag turkey

00:10:51 ◼   ► should hold their own private closing ceremonies

00:10:53 ◼   ► with their magnetic trophies.

00:10:55 ◼   ► A tie in the regular picks or the flexies

00:10:58 ◼   ► be broken by coin toss.

00:11:01 ◼   ► As Jason Snell has a well-earned lifetime ban

00:11:03 ◼   ► on flipping the coin, dice by a P-Calc in relay FM mode

00:11:07 ◼   ► is, at least for now, the official way to break a tie.

00:11:10 ◼   ► - Thin ice.

00:11:11 ◼   ► - Thin ice.

00:11:12 ◼   ► As a reminder, yours truly is the current annual chairman

00:11:16 ◼   ► and Federico is the current keynote chairman.

00:11:18 ◼   ► We'll see if Federico holds onto his title today.

00:11:21 ◼   ► - Can I sit down?

00:11:21 ◼   ► - You may be seated.

00:11:23 ◼   ► Round one, Federico, you're up.

00:11:25 ◼   ► - Round one, I'm up first.

00:11:26 ◼   ► I said a new iPad Air is introduced with a better system on a chip and 5G support.

00:11:33 ◼   ► I gotta get my bell so I can ring it. I left it in the other room.

00:11:36 ◼   ► Oh, he needs the bell. We're not prepared, really.

00:11:39 ◼   ► I'll be right back.

00:11:40 ◼   ► He needs the bell so he can ring his bell.

00:11:42 ◼   ► Myke, do it now.

00:11:44 ◼   ► Do it now.

00:11:44 ◼   ► We have something from...

00:11:45 ◼   ► [bell rings]

00:11:47 ◼   ► There's the bell.

00:11:47 ◼   ► Thank you, Steven.

00:11:49 ◼   ► Are you excited about this new iPad Air?

00:11:52 ◼   ► Ah...

00:11:54 ◼   ► Actually, before we get to that, can I just say on last week's episode, I did bring up the idea that they may introduce an M1

00:12:02 ◼   ► and I believe that you two chip nerds just was like "no way, don't be so stupid"

00:12:06 ◼   ► That's how I remember it going

00:12:08 ◼   ► But I did bring this up and you were like "no, A15 Bionic 2 or something"

00:12:14 ◼   ► Mm-hmm

00:12:16 ◼   ► Well, it did seem strange at the time

00:12:19 ◼   ► And I think now it's obvious that they see the M1 as the baseline for everything, right?

00:12:25 ◼   ► It doesn't really mean anything, it just means this is the baseline.

00:12:29 ◼   ► The base flavor M1 is what you get in something like the iPad Air.

00:12:34 ◼   ► So yes, Myke, you were right, you should have used that as a pick, but you didn't.

00:12:38 ◼   ► You fool!

00:12:41 ◼   ► If you want to brag about it, you can, but...

00:12:46 ◼   ► Yeah, there is a system in which I could have bragged about it. You are right.

00:12:50 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:12:50 ◼   ► And now there's overlap in these products, but I don't think Apple cares that much about that.

00:12:56 ◼   ► I assume the iPad Pro will get the M2 and the 11 inch will get the fancy display and then there'll

00:13:01 ◼   ► be room between them again.

00:13:02 ◼   ► I think the iPad Air redesign last time proved they didn't care about the overlap.

00:13:07 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:13:08 ◼   ► I think we'll remember there was a time period where we were saying if you want to get an iPad,

00:13:12 ◼   ► you're probably best to get the Air rather than the Pro, because it had more modern features, new design, all that kind of stuff.

00:13:18 ◼   ► Yeah, and it comes and goes, right? Because then now for a few months the iPad Air, if you're okay with the base storage,

00:13:25 ◼   ► I guess, is probably the better recommendation.

00:13:27 ◼   ► And then I guess in a few months the 11-inch iPad Pro will be, again, a better recommendation,

00:13:31 ◼   ► because it'll have a new chip and more features.

00:13:34 ◼   ► I still find the sort of this mid-range of the iPad lineup kind of confusing.

00:13:41 ◼   ► I think the iPad lineup, and I said this last night on Discord,

00:13:47 ◼   ► I think the iPad lineup is at its best at the two opposite ends of the spectrum.

00:13:52 ◼   ► The iPad Mini and the Big iPad Pro. Those are the most obvious, easiest to explain iPads.

00:14:00 ◼   ► It's the biggest, most powerful one, and it's the smallest, most portable one. In the middle,

00:14:05 ◼   ► I find a ton of overlap.

00:14:10 ◼   ► There's the base model iPad, there's the iPad Air, there's the 11-inch iPad Pro, and I get it,

00:14:16 ◼   ► like they want to cover all possible price ranges, right? Which is why if you go to the Apple.com

00:14:22 ◼   ► comparison page, you can see how they cover, you know, all the price ranges within

00:14:26 ◼   ► $200 of each other,

00:14:28 ◼   ► starting from the base model iPad up to the iPad Air, then the 11-inch iPad Pro, and then the bigger one. And the iPad Mini is

00:14:34 ◼   ► just there, sort of in the middle. So I get it, but still,

00:14:39 ◼   ► I find the iPad Mini and the big iPad Pro the two iPads that have a clear role, they're easy to explain,

00:14:48 ◼   ► they don't have that many asterisks involved. Like, you either want the biggest possible iPad,

00:14:53 ◼   ► or you either want the smallest possible iPad, or maybe you want both. So, am I excited for the iPad Air?

00:15:00 ◼   ► I am curious about the new iPad Air, because I think there's potential for it to be, once again,

00:15:07 ◼   ► the recommendation for most people, right?

00:15:12 ◼   ► Provided that you are okay with the starting storage

00:15:16 ◼   ► configuration of 64 gig.

00:15:18 ◼   ► That's the big question mark right now.

00:15:20 ◼   ► - I think that that's a joke.

00:15:23 ◼   ► 64 gigs, I think that is a joke.

00:15:25 ◼   ► That is so small.

00:15:26 ◼   ► On a device which is gonna be used for entertainment

00:15:30 ◼   ► as well, right?

00:15:31 ◼   ► Like that's such a small amount of storage.

00:15:34 ◼   ► And then if you do wanna upgrade it,

00:15:36 ◼   ► then you're bumping into the iPad Pro territory price.

00:15:40 ◼   ► And it's just like, yeah, I think that's a kind of a missed opportunity.

00:15:44 ◼   ► You know, as you were talking, Federico, and talking about those extremes,

00:15:47 ◼   ► I like that as a thought, like iPad is best at the extremes, right?

00:15:50 ◼   ► Smallest and biggest.

00:15:51 ◼   ► It kind of made me think, is it?

00:15:54 ◼   ► I could see an argument to be made for removing the smaller iPad Pro

00:15:59 ◼   ► completely from the lineup and just having the iPad Air take its place

00:16:03 ◼   ► if they made some slight tweaks to it.

00:16:05 ◼   ► I am a big fan of the 11 inch pros.

00:16:07 ◼   ► I said before, like I think that it was the best iPad,

00:16:10 ◼   ► but now I think if they could sort out the storage tiers,

00:16:14 ◼   ► because that's the biggest thing for me with the iPad Air,

00:16:18 ◼   ► honestly, I would say just have that rather than getting--

00:16:21 ◼   ► rather than having the smaller 11 inch pro,

00:16:23 ◼   ► especially if Apple are going to continue--

00:16:27 ◼   ► because I've done this in the past, right-- updating both

00:16:29 ◼   ► pros on a different schedule with features.

00:16:32 ◼   ► If you're not going to keep those the same,

00:16:34 ◼   ► don't have both of them is the way that I look at it.

00:16:37 ◼   ► Yeah, I wonder if in hindsight the display difference between the big and small pro

00:16:43 ◼   ► is like an aberration and moving forward the pros will remain more in lockstep.

00:16:48 ◼   ► Maybe, but historically though they have moved.

00:16:51 ◼   ► Who cares about technology history?

00:16:52 ◼   ► But historically right, the entire history of the pro line is the smaller one and the bigger one

00:16:58 ◼   ► have moved at different paces and I feel like if they're going to keep doing that

00:17:02 ◼   ► it gets too complicated when you've got the Air right there.

00:17:06 ◼   ► Like, I think maybe getting rid of the small one...

00:17:08 ◼   ► Here's a thought experiment. Here's a thought experiment for you both.

00:17:12 ◼   ► Imagine next year, a simplified lineup that is more clear in the middle,

00:17:19 ◼   ► where you have, maybe not next year, maybe in two years, but bear with me,

00:17:23 ◼   ► better iPad Air that doesn't start at 64 gigs anymore,

00:17:27 ◼   ► the 11 inch iPad Pro is gone, you have a 12.9 inch iPad Pro, but you also have a 16 inch iPad Pro.

00:17:36 ◼   ► Yeah, I agree with you completely. I think it makes more sense to go bigger on the iPad Pro

00:17:41 ◼   ► in the long term, because then you're really making the iPad Pro...

00:17:46 ◼   ► You're making the iPad Pro a thing because of its size, not what's inside it, right?

00:17:54 ◼   ► and that ultimately then the iPad line with the regular iPad is the outlier because that's

00:18:00 ◼   ► supposed to be the cheap one for education that kind of thing so keep that but then you go mini

00:18:05 ◼   ► air and two large iPad pros I think that that is a clearer lineup for what those products are

00:18:12 ◼   ► supposed to be I agree with you I think that's a really good take we fixed it the tablet king

00:18:17 ◼   ► is spoken. Yeah. We fix it. This is the... well, I think judging by our rules, I should

00:18:25 ◼   ► also get an extra point because I fixed Apple. So yeah, no? Bring it up at the next rules

00:18:32 ◼   ► hearing. Alright, alright, cool. Alright, Myke, you're up next. Alright, my first pick

00:18:37 ◼   ► was Apple introduces a new Mac Mini with an updated design. Nope. I mean, I wasn't far

00:18:43 ◼   ► off this is I'm not gonna get this point but like I wasn't far you're in the

00:18:47 ◼   ► spiritual ballpark I was in the spiritual ballpark and you know like

00:18:50 ◼   ► this was really funny like our picks are like this I think our draft picks were

00:18:54 ◼   ► like this everything we thought was gonna happen to the Mac none of it

00:18:57 ◼   ► happened and nothing we even imagined was going to happen ended up happening

00:19:02 ◼   ► which is just like wild really like this event for the Mac was kind of bananas

00:19:10 ◼   ► right? It was very much like things we could have only wished for and they kind

00:19:15 ◼   ► of came it really the Mac studio came out of nowhere. I tip my cap to 9 to 5

00:19:20 ◼   ► Mac right because they got that but I also kind of wish they hadn't. Yes. That

00:19:25 ◼   ► was so it was so close to the event right and there was nothing about this

00:19:29 ◼   ► if this would have just come out of nowhere it would have been really

00:19:32 ◼   ► freaked out even more than we did. Yeah. But I don't know how they got it but

00:19:37 ◼   ► that was excellent reporting.

00:19:39 ◼   ► - The Mac Mini still feels like a bit of a question mark,

00:19:42 ◼   ► right?

00:19:42 ◼   ► It is untouched.

00:19:43 ◼   ► It's still the M1 with its inherent limitations

00:19:46 ◼   ► and the Intel Mac Mini also still for sale.

00:19:49 ◼   ► - I don't know why they kept that around.

00:19:51 ◼   ► They should just get rid of that.

00:19:52 ◼   ► - Yeah, and so maybe that's gonna be an M2 product

00:19:55 ◼   ► and it's never gonna get a Pro or Max version

00:19:58 ◼   ► of a Apple Silicon chip.

00:19:59 ◼   ► We just don't know.

00:20:00 ◼   ► It just feels like the questions we had

00:20:02 ◼   ► about the Mac Mini before this event,

00:20:04 ◼   ► zero of them were answered.

00:20:06 ◼   ► We'll talk about the Mac Studio a bit more.

00:20:08 ◼   ► I think it'll fit into the Rickeys portion a little more.

00:20:11 ◼   ► - Yes, definitely.

00:20:12 ◼   ► All right, my round one pick was that a larger,

00:20:16 ◼   ► more powerful iMac is introduced.

00:20:19 ◼   ► Not only--

00:20:20 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:20:21 ◼   ► - This couldn't have been more wrong.

00:20:23 ◼   ► - Not only was it not introduced,

00:20:25 ◼   ► the 27-inch iMac has been discontinued completely.

00:20:28 ◼   ► - I think they very clearly, our good friend John Turnus,

00:20:31 ◼   ► who wore the wrong color t-shirt,

00:20:33 ◼   ► I think our good friend John made it pretty clear that for the rest of this year there will not be one.

00:20:38 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:20:39 ◼   ► That's how that seemed to me. Federico, do you have a read on that when he's like the only thing,

00:20:43 ◼   ► like the next thing is the Mac Pro and we're done, basically?

00:20:45 ◼   ► Uh, yeah, that thing is not happening.

00:20:50 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:20:50 ◼   ► The bigger, I think it means it's not coming at least this year or at least not in the M1 generation.

00:20:58 ◼   ► Right.

00:20:59 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:20:59 ◼   ► But then the question is, is the Mac Pro in the M1 generation?

00:21:02 ◼   ► I kind of think it it may be. We can get to that though. If it's, you know, I don't know.

00:21:08 ◼   ► It depends. It depends on, you know, there was the rumor of the Jade 2C and the Jade 4C. We've now

00:21:15 ◼   ► seen the 2C version, the Ultra. We dubbed it on upgrade yesterday the M1 Extreme, but turn to

00:21:22 ◼   ► say... So I see this thing going around. Who's Jade? Yeah, I don't... I get so confused when

00:21:27 ◼   ► people start talking about Jade 2C. Like, why are we all repeating this word without knowing what it is?

00:21:32 ◼   ► It is the code name, apparently, for the chip.

00:21:34 ◼   ► Okay.

00:21:36 ◼   ► But I get so confused when people talk about j2cchop and j4dchess and all this kind of stuff.

00:21:42 ◼   ► But, Turnus said this is the final chip in kind of the M1 family, so maybe it is the M2.

00:21:49 ◼   ► I'll say I have confirmation of that too.

00:21:52 ◼   ► It is, like, you know, he said it, but yes, this is the final M1 chip.

00:21:57 ◼   ► There are no more M1 chips.

00:21:59 ◼   ► It's final forms, if you will.

00:22:00 ◼   ► This is it.

00:22:00 ◼   ► So if the Mac Pro is an M1, it will have probably Max and Ultra.

00:22:09 ◼   ► If it's going to have something different, it will be M2.

00:22:11 ◼   ► Okay, here's my pitch for the Mac Pro.

00:22:15 ◼   ► - Alright? - Please, this is what I want.

00:22:17 ◼   ► Everyone's looking for this.

00:22:19 ◼   ► - It's a genius take, okay? - Okay.

00:22:22 ◼   ► M1 generation of chips, alright?

00:22:25 ◼   ► The Mac Pro, one of each.

00:22:30 ◼   ► - I just got all of them in there?

00:22:32 ◼   ► - The M1 Pro, the M1 Max and the M1 Ultra in one machine.

00:22:35 ◼   ► Are you getting it?

00:22:36 ◼   ► It's not multiple chips.

00:22:38 ◼   ► It's a whole generation of chips all in the Mac Pro.

00:22:40 ◼   ► - So the Mac Pro comes with M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra

00:22:45 ◼   ► all in one box.

00:22:47 ◼   ► - You know how other computers have performance

00:22:48 ◼   ► and efficiency cores?

00:22:49 ◼   ► It has performance and efficiency systems on the chip.

00:22:52 ◼   ► - It's just performance and performance

00:22:54 ◼   ► and performance and performance cores.

00:22:56 ◼   ► - Yeah, that efficiency down there.

00:22:58 ◼   ► - It's one of each.

00:22:59 ◼   ► I love it. It's like the buffet of computers. It also has like 26 USB-C ports on it and

00:23:08 ◼   ► like four Bluetooth radios. It can do everything! Yeah, still no card slots. Okay, so at the

00:23:15 ◼   ► end of round one, Federico, you have one point. Myke and I are tied with zero points. Good

00:23:20 ◼   ► job. Thank you. I was talking to Federico. You and I didn't do so well. Still could have

00:23:26 ◼   ► good job to me though. I mean you were less wrong than I was. You did a good job describing how you

00:23:32 ◼   ► didn't get the point. Yeah that's true. That's good. I did a good job. All right Federico,

00:23:38 ◼   ► lead off round two please. Round two I said new iPhone case colors and or see our friend and or

00:23:45 ◼   ► coming into play here, watch band colors are introduced at or after the event. I would just

00:23:53 ◼   ► say I think I blacked out during this round because I cannot believe how this is written

00:23:58 ◼   ► and I'm not testing it but new iPhone case colors and or watch band colors are introduced at or

00:24:05 ◼   ► after the event. Hold on, Steven. Steven. I was present. Oh, no, sorry.

00:24:17 ◼   ► Thank you. Yeah, I was trying to play it safe to get this point.

00:24:23 ◼   ► New iPhone and/or iPad and/or watch case and/or colors and, you know, you could have just carried on forever.

00:24:29 ◼   ► Hey, we allowed it.

00:24:30 ◼   ► It's perfectly fine. I am not contesting it. I'm saying I forgot it was written like this.

00:24:35 ◼   ► So if there's one thing I've learned about programming is the role of conditional statements.

00:24:42 ◼   ► when you do if, then, else, you know, that sort of thing.

00:24:44 ◼   ► And I'm bringing that logic to my picks in this game.

00:24:48 ◼   ► So you gotta have multiple conditions,

00:24:51 ◼   ► you gotta account for multiple scenarios.

00:24:53 ◼   ► In which case I'm accounting for iPhone case colors

00:24:56 ◼   ► and/or watch bands announced at the event

00:24:59 ◼   ► or after the event.

00:25:01 ◼   ► And we got both of them after the event, obviously,

00:25:05 ◼   ► because they were not mentioned during the keynote.

00:25:08 ◼   ► We got the yellow, we got the flamingo and green.

00:25:12 ◼   ► I think Tim was wearing the yellow one.

00:25:14 ◼   ► Tim was wearing the yellow one.

00:25:16 ◼   ► By the way, I think Tim's blue sweater and the yellow watch band.

00:25:22 ◼   ► I've seen people comment on this.

00:25:23 ◼   ► I think it was a very subtle nod to the Ukrainian flag.

00:25:27 ◼   ► So I saw someone, I think this was Matt Comey, developer of Sofa,

00:25:31 ◼   ► like, quote tweeted this and I thought it was great.

00:25:33 ◼   ► Like that someone said, "Oh, here's like a subtle nod."

00:25:36 ◼   ► like, it's like, he could have actually made an actual nod. Like, you know, like,

00:25:39 ◼   ► he could have actually said something rather than, oh, I'm making a statement,

00:25:43 ◼   ► like, without saying anything. You can also make a statement by saying something as well.

00:25:47 ◼   ► Right. So I personally felt that it was a bit out of touch, that they just completely

00:25:54 ◼   ► avoided mentioning anything. And I get it. Things are moving fast, but you know,

00:26:01 ◼   ► there's still a war going on and it's, I don't know, it did feel, I was expecting, I guess,

00:26:06 ◼   ► better from a company that, you know, prides itself upon, you know, participating in social

00:26:10 ◼   ► issues and caring for the planet. So I thought that was a bit out of touch. Regardless, I did

00:26:18 ◼   ► get this point. There was also new Hermes band colors. Those are expensive. Straight to the

00:26:27 ◼   ► saw right now let me go take a look. Yeah let me go drop $800 on a watch band. It does look pretty

00:26:32 ◼   ► good but also like it costs like a thousand euros or something. Yeah it's ridiculous.

00:26:36 ◼   ► All right uh Myke you're around too big. I'm looking at Hermes bands first. Should I read it

00:26:43 ◼   ► to you? No no let me just take a look at these things real quick before we start. I have to go

00:26:47 ◼   ► all the way to the bottom. All right so they got like, these are actually pretty fun. They're like

00:26:51 ◼   ► they're like funky they're like they're kind of sporty looking they're called jumping single tour

00:26:56 ◼   ► features bands crafted from a woven textile of a vibrant design that seems to leap off the wrist

00:27:03 ◼   ► it says. They are $319 each. Because what you want is your watch to leap off the wrist.

00:27:10 ◼   ► Do look nicer. I will say maybe one of the first times I've actually thought that they look like

00:27:15 ◼   ► legitimately nice and or I would wear one but I will not be buying one. Okay mine was Apple's

00:27:21 ◼   ► classical music services unveiled. Man this is just bad news to me the whole

00:27:26 ◼   ► way down up and down left and right like I'm not doing good here gang I'm not

00:27:29 ◼   ► gonna lie this one felt like oh we've already we already know it's coming and

00:27:33 ◼   ► we're already starting to see like elements of it we spent two weeks

00:27:36 ◼   ► talking about it nothing I blame you two actually that's unfair actually more I

00:27:42 ◼   ► blame Federico it was poison in my mind of classical music follow-up do you think

00:27:47 ◼   ► It's a conspiracy. This is a conspiracy. Why did you think I kept doing it? Oh, this is a conspiracy

00:27:52 ◼   ► This is some like long term long term fail play. The problem is you trusting me. That is a problem. You should know better at this point.

00:27:58 ◼   ► I should but I can't help it

00:28:00 ◼   ► Just too caring. Well, let me bring this up. Okay. To a better place

00:28:06 ◼   ► My round two pick was a new iPhone SE with 5G support as announced

00:28:11 ◼   ► It's particularly egregious when he rings the bell for himself

00:28:16 ◼   ► himself, I'm just gonna say.

00:28:18 ◼   ► Well, he'll also do it.

00:28:20 ◼   ► You could give it to me.

00:28:21 ◼   ► I could do it.

00:28:22 ◼   ► That doesn't feel right.

00:28:23 ◼   ► No, see, you want to ring the bell for yourself.

00:28:25 ◼   ► He wants to ring his own bell.

00:28:26 ◼   ► You know, who's who's excited about the new iPhone SE?

00:28:30 ◼   ► You getting one?

00:28:32 ◼   ► Sylvia's mom probably is.

00:28:34 ◼   ► She she uses the the what was it, 2020, 2021 iPhone SE.

00:28:39 ◼   ► The one before this, basically.

00:28:41 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:28:42 ◼   ► And she I don't know what she does to iPhones.

00:28:44 ◼   ► she's always has these completely destroyed iPhones. I don't know why. Like, some people

00:28:49 ◼   ► drop iPhones a lot. I think something that I've realized growing up is that some people

00:28:55 ◼   ► are really clumsy, but not like just regular clumsy, like really clumsy. And she's one

00:29:02 ◼   ► of those people. So she's probably... I looked at her screen a couple of weeks ago and it

00:29:08 ◼   ► was all cracked up against. I was like, "How?" And, you know, it sleeps every once in a while.

00:29:14 ◼   ► - The phone is lips.

00:29:14 ◼   ► - No, I got it.

00:29:15 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:29:18 ◼   ► - Sorry.

00:29:18 ◼   ► - I was like, okay, okay.

00:29:20 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:29:22 ◼   ► - Oh, dear.

00:29:23 ◼   ► - So you're probably gonna get one.

00:29:24 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:29:26 ◼   ► - I am personally not excited for the iPhone SE.

00:29:29 ◼   ► I am glad it exists for people who do care.

00:29:33 ◼   ► - It's the same story the iPhone SE

00:29:35 ◼   ► has been on for a while, right?

00:29:36 ◼   ► It's the old design, but it has amazing performance

00:29:40 ◼   ► and incredible battery life.

00:29:41 ◼   ► Remember it's driving a comparatively low resolution LCD screen.

00:29:47 ◼   ► People who buy the SE type of people hold on to phones for a long time.

00:29:50 ◼   ► So if you've got somebody who that fits the bill, or they really just want Touch ID, and

00:29:54 ◼   ► there's still some people who definitely feel that way, this is great.

00:29:58 ◼   ► It is a little more expensive than it was.

00:30:01 ◼   ► That seems like such a miss to me.

00:30:02 ◼   ► It went from $399 to $429.

00:30:04 ◼   ► Stupid.

00:30:05 ◼   ► Apple should have eaten that $30.

00:30:07 ◼   ► Just like, then Tim Cook specifically called out during the presentation that it's a product,

00:30:13 ◼   ► it's a value product.

00:30:15 ◼   ► Like, it's one of the reasons people want it, it's for value, and they made it more

00:30:19 ◼   ► expensive.

00:30:20 ◼   ► Like, okay buddy, you keep doing your own thing, I suppose.

00:30:24 ◼   ► Apparently they put a bigger battery in it.

00:30:26 ◼   ► Yeah, so two hours more battery life on the video playback test is on the website.

00:30:32 ◼   ► So it has a bigger battery in it, so get even better battery life than before.

00:30:35 ◼   ► I bet that's partial battery and then partial Apple silicon efficiency.

00:30:41 ◼   ► Because they may have also put the bigger battery into account for 5G.

00:30:45 ◼   ► 5G.

00:30:46 ◼   ► 5G.

00:30:47 ◼   ► And it now comes in Midnight Star Light and Product Red.

00:30:50 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

00:30:51 ◼   ► Good-looking, if boring, colors.

00:30:54 ◼   ► Yep, and they keep the touch ID on button because that's what people will continue to

00:30:58 ◼   ► want, I think.

00:30:59 ◼   ► I don't know how they're ever going to get rid of that, but we'll see.

00:31:03 ◼   ► So at the end of our regular picks, let me give you the score.

00:31:06 ◼   ► Myke is in third place with zero.

00:31:10 ◼   ► I am in second place with one point.

00:31:13 ◼   ► Federico is perfect so far, two points.

00:31:16 ◼   ► I can't win now, right?

00:31:18 ◼   ► You cannot win.

00:31:19 ◼   ► Okay.

00:31:20 ◼   ► No.

00:31:21 ◼   ► That's very unfortunate for me.

00:31:22 ◼   ► So I'm gonna leave now.

00:31:23 ◼   ► Oh, are you?

00:31:24 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

00:31:25 ◼   ► Okay.

00:31:26 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:31:27 ◼   ► Not interested if I can't win.

00:31:28 ◼   ► We'll move on to the Ricky picks,

00:31:31 ◼   ► which bring an extra amount of stress and anxiety,

00:31:36 ◼   ► depending on what your pick was

00:31:38 ◼   ► and if it depended on a certain classical music service

00:31:41 ◼   ► being introduced, but we'll get to that in a second.

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00:34:06 ◼   ► Ricky's time.

00:34:08 ◼   ► - Federico.

00:34:09 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:34:10 ◼   ► A new base model Mac Mini is introduced with an M2 chip.

00:34:14 ◼   ► - Going good so far.

00:34:15 ◼   ► - The new Mini is at least 30% smaller than the current one.

00:34:22 ◼   ► It's thicker than the existing Mac Mini, but narrower, making it more similar to an Apple

00:34:27 ◼   ► TV or Intel NUC.

00:34:30 ◼   ► I mean, this pick is obviously wrong, and it starts out wrong with a new base model

00:34:36 ◼   ► Mac Mini is introduced, and it only gets worse from there.

00:34:40 ◼   ► No M.2 chip, it's much bigger.

00:34:43 ◼   ► It's over 30% bigger.

00:34:45 ◼   ► It is thicker, you're right, but it's not similar to an Apple TV or an Intel NUC at

00:34:50 ◼   ► all.

00:34:51 ◼   ► to two and a half Mac Minis on top of each other.

00:34:54 ◼   ► And also it's not a Mac Mini anyway.

00:34:55 ◼   ► - And I mean, it's not the product I was looking for anyway.

00:35:00 ◼   ► I was looking for the new base model Mac Mini

00:35:04 ◼   ► and it's not that.

00:35:05 ◼   ► So maybe this product will come true at a later time

00:35:09 ◼   ► but this means I will not be able to reuse this pick.

00:35:12 ◼   ► - At least in the next year.

00:35:13 ◼   ► - Based on our rules.

00:35:14 ◼   ► - I mean, to be fair though,

00:35:15 ◼   ► you could still pick this product.

00:35:17 ◼   ► It's a complex enough pick.

00:35:19 ◼   ► Yeah, I could break it down somehow.

00:35:21 ◼   ► You could say at least 20% smaller and then you're fine.

00:35:25 ◼   ► You could do the exact same thing again.

00:35:27 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:35:28 ◼   ► So what do you all think about the overall design of the Mac studio?

00:35:32 ◼   ► Here's the thing that I realized last night.

00:35:34 ◼   ► So we watched the whole keynote.

00:35:37 ◼   ► I was talking about it all day, looking at images all day.

00:35:41 ◼   ► And it wasn't until last night where I was like, "That is not a good looking computer."

00:35:45 ◼   ► Yeah, I kind of agree.

00:35:47 ◼   ► The front's just kind of plain.

00:35:48 ◼   ► there's ports on the front from a usability standpoint but the back has

00:35:54 ◼   ► all those perforations like the old cheese grater design and it's like it's

00:35:58 ◼   ► just very... I'm honestly I'm surprised how much it just looks like a tall Mac

00:36:01 ◼   ► Mini. Yeah. That's the thing that surprises me most. The dimensions are all kind of

00:36:06 ◼   ► weird because we're used to the Mac Mini. If you look at the the images on Apple's

00:36:11 ◼   ► website when it's like tucked up underneath the display like it looks

00:36:14 ◼   ► like a you know pretty chunky thing. I mean that's obviously not the most

00:36:18 ◼   ► important thing when it comes to a computer, but a computer that is gonna

00:36:21 ◼   ► sit under your display, a bunch of people these are just gonna push these to the

00:36:25 ◼   ► back of their desk and like put a coffee mug on top of it and never see it again.

00:36:28 ◼   ► Yeah this is like it's very utilitarian and I'm fine with it like I would have

00:36:33 ◼   ► liked to have seen them do something a little bit more like the MacBook Pro

00:36:37 ◼   ► design amazing right iMac design amazing. This is a brand new thing they could

00:36:44 ◼   ► done anything and I look what they've done inside is super cool I'm not putting this machine down

00:36:49 ◼   ► like it is great for what it is and I'm really happy with a lot of the stuff that it has like

00:36:55 ◼   ► the front IO and stuff I just think is fantastic it just surprised me really that aesthetically

00:37:00 ◼   ► it's not much to look at so as as the resident cubicle aficionado I guess I love me

00:37:12 ◼   ► any kind of thick, chunky computer that approaches cube-like territory, obviously, in terms of

00:37:18 ◼   ► design.

00:37:19 ◼   ► But there's something about this that I've been thinking about, and that of course, friend

00:37:23 ◼   ► of the show Steve Transmith perfectly encapsulated with this tweet, that I'm gonna read to you

00:37:30 ◼   ► both and I wanna hear what you think.

00:37:32 ◼   ► Kind of funny, kind of fun that Microsoft's Studio PC is a beautiful giant drafting table

00:37:37 ◼   ► with pen and touch for designers. But Apple's Studio PC is a dull little metal box, packed

00:37:44 ◼   ► with specs for developers, video editors, and workstation-level workloads. We are definitely

00:37:49 ◼   ► in an alternate timeline.

00:37:51 ◼   ► I think Microsoft Studio PC is not named as good for what it is as the Mac Studio is for

00:37:59 ◼   ► what it is. Like, the Surface Studio, it should be like, the Surface Design or something like

00:38:06 ◼   ► that.

00:38:07 ◼   ► What it does differently and is good at is drawing. That's what it's made for.

00:38:15 ◼   ► It's cool feature is to use the pen on the screen. That is I think a more

00:38:21 ◼   ► narrow use case where the Mac Studio has a much broader application of studios

00:38:28 ◼   ► that it can be in. I think it's named better. But I do agree it is funny that

00:38:33 ◼   ► that the weird design, the cool design is the Microsoft one.

00:38:39 ◼   ► And it's Microsoft going after the, you know, artistic types, I guess.

00:38:44 ◼   ► And Apple is more like, "No, no, here's a super powerful box for you."

00:38:48 ◼   ► And it's just that, a metal box.

00:38:50 ◼   ► And it's uninspired, probably, but it's utilitarian and it's incredibly powerful.

00:38:55 ◼   ► Here you go, it's $4,000.

00:38:57 ◼   ► Like, I think that's kind of funny when you think about it, but I also get it.

00:39:01 ◼   ► and it's got a broader market, quite possibly I'm sure, because tons of different people can use it,

00:39:06 ◼   ► not just folks who want to design with the digital pen input. So I get it, but it's still funny when

00:39:13 ◼   ► you do that, you know, straight up comparison, studio versus studio. I'm also reminded,

00:39:18 ◼   ► Myke may remember this, I don't know if you will Federico, I think you, well you came to the Mac

00:39:24 ◼   ► about this time, that a lot of people thought MacBook Pro was a bad dumb name, and now we just

00:39:31 ◼   ► just don't even think about it. Right. And I do think Mac Studio has some of that

00:39:35 ◼   ► awkwardness right now as a name. I love it man. But I think it will get better with time.

00:39:40 ◼   ► I'm so into it like Mac Studio, Apple Studio, Display because I feel like it's

00:39:45 ◼   ► talking to us, like what we do. Yeah. Like I think... Mine's gonna whisper sweet things to me in a

00:39:52 ◼   ► couple weeks. Maybe. Well I like that name a lot. I like this brand a lot that Apple's

00:39:58 ◼   ► making. I want to see more studio products.

00:40:01 ◼   ► I'm a creative fountain today. Here's another pitch for you both.

00:40:07 ◼   ► Oh, Jesus.

00:40:10 ◼   ► Hold on. iPad studio.

00:40:13 ◼   ► Yeah, boy.

00:40:14 ◼   ► Giant drafting iPad.

00:40:16 ◼   ► That's that 16-inch iPad, right?

00:40:18 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:40:19 ◼   ► I think I saw Chance Miller say, do you remember that the AirPods Max were apparently going

00:40:24 ◼   ► to be called AirPods Studio?

00:40:25 ◼   ► Oh, yeah.

00:40:26 ◼   ► have been a way better name considering this like i love that fedorico and i'm very into

00:40:31 ◼   ► this brand like this speaks to me more than pro does yeah yeah because it's like pro like

00:40:40 ◼   ► you know it makes okay this is very much about like the meaning of words but like pro makes you

00:40:47 ◼   ► second guess yourself like am i pro enough studio is like yeah i work in it like i'm a creative

00:40:54 ◼   ► person. I have a studio. I do creative things. I want power. Like, it's not a qualifier of who you are,

00:41:00 ◼   ► it's a qualifier of what type of work you do. And it's subtle, but I like it more.

00:41:05 ◼   ► So, yes, I'm very into that, right? Because then you're like, we'll probably be like,

00:41:09 ◼   ► "Oh, am I actually a professional? Am I a prosumer?" No, like, studio, it doesn't even mean that you have

00:41:15 ◼   ► to have this machine or these products because of your day job. Like, you could just be making

00:41:22 ◼   ► a podcast in your bedroom on the weekends, that's your studio.

00:41:26 ◼   ► I'm into it. It is leaning honestly,

00:41:30 ◼   ► just it's branding, which makes me think I'm such a sucker here,

00:41:34 ◼   ► but it's branding is drawing me towards wanting to own it.

00:41:38 ◼   ► Right now I want an iPad studio though.

00:41:42 ◼   ► Oh, so do I. Yeah, iPad studio, that sounds amazing.

00:41:46 ◼   ► Then it can be the Surface studio.

00:41:50 ◼   ► what I mean like then they can make do some fun weird stuff with it or whatever

00:41:53 ◼   ► 20 24 inch iPad and all you can do is still two apps in split view and slide

00:41:58 ◼   ► over they can't many shortcuts you can see it once and there's still only like

00:42:07 ◼   ► five like a grid of five by four app I know it's all spaced out it's just all

00:42:13 ◼   ► in the middle and the borders are just like 10 inches on each side. And the icons are just shouting at each other "hey, surprise!"

00:42:20 ◼   ► No, no, no, they're clustered in the middle like the iPad Mini. Oh no. And then there's just massive borders around the outside.

00:42:25 ◼   ► They're huddling together out of fear. And they'll say it's for like forearm detection, you know? Yeah.

00:42:34 ◼   ► So you don't actually accidentally draw a string. It has forehead detection for when you slam your head into it because something doesn't work.

00:42:39 ◼   ► work. Okay the new iPhone SE has a design influenced by the iPhone mini it does

00:42:45 ◼   ► not feature face ID it has a touch ID power button. No. Yeah. Hey look I said at

00:42:52 ◼   ► the time you remember you can cast back the tape I said I didn't think this was

00:42:55 ◼   ► gonna happen but this is my Ricky pic alright I was swinging for the fences

00:42:59 ◼   ► because if it did happen how cool would I look right now you know sometimes

00:43:04 ◼   ► that's what you gotta go for. If this had come true you would have to buy and carry an

00:43:07 ◼   ► iPhone SE for a year. If that thing, if that had happened I would have bought one of those

00:43:12 ◼   ► just as a celebration for myself. Yeah. Alright, my Ricky pic. Apple announces an update to

00:43:19 ◼   ► AirPods Max to support wireless lossless playback to take full advantage of Apple's new classical

00:43:24 ◼   ► music service. Full advantage. Not even a little advantage. Full advantage. Maximum

00:43:29 ◼   ► advantage. And how did that go for you? Well, you're, you led me astray with your classical

00:43:35 ◼   ► music bit. Federico let us both astray. Ah, you see that's the conspiracy. He gets

00:43:40 ◼   ► into you. Yeah, but now you're sitting across from me wearing AirPods Max taunting me.

00:43:44 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm recording with AirPods Max Federico. I have an iPhone SE up there, we can get that

00:43:48 ◼   ► down and I can taunt you. I'm using that really expensive stupid cable. Is that the

00:43:52 ◼   ► worst cable Apple sells? From a feel perspective and like cost... Foot life's thin, it is terrible.

00:43:59 ◼   ► It's... it feels like it is a single strand of human hair. Don't pinch it, you might break

00:44:04 ◼   ► I could it's so terrible this this cable is so bad and it's so expensive

00:44:08 ◼   ► But I'm using it and I got my own volume dial and I can turn federal carpet down in my ears. It's great

00:44:14 ◼   ► So at the end of the risky pick rounds, we all are losing a point

00:44:19 ◼   ► So that means Myke Myke got nothing right?

00:44:23 ◼   ► So Myke has Myke is Corey negative Myke sucks

00:44:27 ◼   ► Myke is it is it the lowest possible score of minus one? This might be my worst performing

00:44:33 ◼   ► I would be interested to know someone has someone has that statistic. I think this might be my worst performing Ricky

00:44:38 ◼   ► It is at the Ricky's co and the Ricky's net go check it out. You've done so bad. You've almost done pretty good

00:44:44 ◼   ► If I were to lose I will lose with a minus one if you think about it

00:44:50 ◼   ► I got 100% if you think about it you won the negative race

00:44:55 ◼   ► Yeah, is that a right race? Is that a thing can be I am one before my I am 100% that's it

00:45:02 ◼   ► I got 100% you were consistent. I'm very consistent 100% here's what's gonna happen

00:45:08 ◼   ► okay, Apple's gonna have another event and

00:45:11 ◼   ► All these things that Myke picked will come true then he'll be a hundred percent for future picks. Yep

00:45:16 ◼   ► That's gonna be amazing. I would quit the game after that

00:45:20 ◼   ► What's that? But then well, no, I would be the one who want to quit cuz that would mean I lose everything

00:45:25 ◼   ► It's true. So Myke is at the bottom at minus one. Uh-huh. I am in second place

00:45:31 ◼   ► So I had one right, but I lost a point in the rookies. So I am at a flat zero points

00:45:36 ◼   ► Federico retains the keynote chairman Twitter account. You are still the winner with a total of

00:45:44 ◼   ► One single point not bad. Congratulations, Federico bad Federico

00:45:49 ◼   ► Hello, it's me

00:45:53 ◼   ► keynote chairman from Italy

00:45:56 ◼   ► winning once again

00:46:00 ◼   ► The connected rikis

00:46:02 ◼   ► Because I am the best one

00:46:05 ◼   ► That's the Italian national anthem. What is that?

00:46:09 ◼   ► Yeah, that was the national anthem

00:46:11 ◼   ► Yeah, so you should make your own anthem

00:46:15 ◼   ► Should be an independent ricky nation

00:46:18 ◼   ► mm-hmm

00:46:21 ◼   ► Hello fellow connected listeners. It's you and you know, thank you for your support as always in these difficult times

00:46:27 ◼   ► but I am once again reclaiming my rightful place as... How do you reclaim something you already had?

00:46:35 ◼   ► I am taking what's mine once again. I can take from myself and, you know, I can take it again.

00:46:41 ◼   ► I can do whatever I want because I won. Okay. Okay. So... Well, we're not done yet. I'm done

00:46:46 ◼   ► yet, bud. We still have the flexies, so we gotta deal with that before we go, but congratulations.

00:46:54 ◼   ► Congratulations Federico, well played. Well played, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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00:48:34 ◼   ► It's time to read the rules.

00:48:38 ◼   ► - Wow.

00:48:39 ◼   ► - Please lie down for the flexy rules.

00:48:41 ◼   ► - Oh, do I have to?

00:48:42 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:48:43 ◼   ► - You probably shouldn't in here.

00:48:44 ◼   ► I don't think there's enough room.

00:48:45 ◼   ► - I'm gonna like, what is it called?

00:48:47 ◼   ► - Slouch.

00:48:48 ◼   ► when you're squatting. - Neal, to your flexi king,

00:48:52 ◼   ► your flexi attorney general.

00:48:53 ◼   ► - What is this?

00:48:55 ◼   ► - Squatting.

00:48:56 ◼   ► - I'm squatting.

00:48:56 ◼   ► (dramatic music)

00:48:59 ◼   ► - Loser of the flexis must compensate the winner

00:49:01 ◼   ► of the flexis by donating to the charity

00:49:03 ◼   ► of the winner's choice.

00:49:05 ◼   ► The amount of the donation is $25 per wrong flexi

00:49:08 ◼   ► made by the loser.

00:49:09 ◼   ► Each host must make a minimum of five flexi picks.

00:49:14 ◼   ► Flexis may be reused as future flexis or regular picks.

00:49:19 ◼   ► The winner is determined by the ratio

00:49:21 ◼   ► of correct to incorrect flexis,

00:49:22 ◼   ► and the winner can use their chosen name

00:49:24 ◼   ► during their reign.

00:49:25 ◼   ► As a reminder, Federico's chosen name is Prince Flexi.

00:49:29 ◼   ► Myke is the Duke of Flexington,

00:49:31 ◼   ► and I, for some reason, and the Attorney General Flexi.

00:49:35 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:49:36 ◼   ► Of course, of course, the money must be donated on air.

00:49:42 ◼   ► Myke, do you wanna walk us through your flexies?

00:49:44 ◼   ► - Tim Cook mentions the war in Ukraine.

00:49:47 ◼   ► - Nothing.

00:49:48 ◼   ► - No iMac Pro, bigger iMac.

00:49:51 ◼   ► - That is correct.

00:49:52 ◼   ► Oh yes, I will bell you.

00:49:53 ◼   ► - John Turnus is wearing a black t-shirt.

00:49:57 ◼   ► - It was like a navy, right?

00:49:58 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:49:59 ◼   ► - Apple unveils the first Mac powered by an M2 chip.

00:50:03 ◼   ► No Mac gets 5G.

00:50:05 ◼   ► - So I got two out of five.

00:50:08 ◼   ► - Two out of five.

00:50:10 ◼   ► I know we talked about it earlier.

00:50:11 ◼   ► I do not know how Apple didn't mention Ukraine.

00:50:14 ◼   ► It blows my mind.

00:50:16 ◼   ► It's weird.

00:50:17 ◼   ► Super weird.

00:50:18 ◼   ► It's really weird.

00:50:19 ◼   ► Super weird.

00:50:20 ◼   ► Not even vaguely.

00:50:21 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

00:50:22 ◼   ► Very strange.

00:50:23 ◼   ► And so I got 40%.

00:50:26 ◼   ► Okay.

00:50:27 ◼   ► So I said, no preview of an AR headset.

00:50:31 ◼   ► (bell ringing)

00:50:32 ◼   ► Oh, I dropped the bell.

00:50:32 ◼   ► I dropped the bell.

00:50:33 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:50:34 ◼   ► (bell ringing)

00:50:35 ◼   ► Oh no.

00:50:36 ◼   ► Mac OS 12.3 does not come out within 48 hours of the event.

00:50:41 ◼   ► event. And then it's just sad from here. Universal control is demoed again. Nope. Nope. The new

00:50:49 ◼   ► Mac Mini comes in more colors than silver and gray. I couldn't have been more wrong

00:50:53 ◼   ► could I really? What new Mac Mini? And it's only silver, the Mac Studio. Apple releases

00:50:58 ◼   ► new AirPods colors. When I read this back, I kind of couldn't believe you picked it,

00:51:03 ◼   ► honestly. Yeah. If they do something like that, it'll be the fall, right? I don't think

00:51:07 ◼   ► they're gonna do colors. I don't think they will either, but if they did, it'd be holiday

00:51:10 ◼   ► season right like get your kid the orange AirPods 4.

00:51:16 ◼   ► Craig is wearing a blue shirt.

00:51:18 ◼   ► There was no Craig.

00:51:19 ◼   ► It could have been.

00:51:21 ◼   ► Here's the thing this is where the publicly identifiable information comes in.

00:51:24 ◼   ► You could have gotten a tip that Craig was wearing blue.

00:51:26 ◼   ► On if you would have got a snap.

00:51:28 ◼   ► On yesterday.

00:51:29 ◼   ► We've got a picture of it.

00:51:30 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:51:31 ◼   ► He could have like holding the newspaper.

00:51:32 ◼   ► Yeah like a hostage photo.

00:51:35 ◼   ► 33.33% correct for Federico.

00:51:39 ◼   ► Let's see how I do.

00:51:41 ◼   ► A new color of iPhone 13, family, is announced.

00:51:45 ◼   ► So the iPhone 13 has a green color, which I think looks pretty nice.

00:51:50 ◼   ► And an Alpine green for the Pro.

00:51:52 ◼   ► Thoughts on green, Federico?

00:51:55 ◼   ► I don't like it.

00:51:56 ◼   ► Okay, just in general or just this one?

00:51:59 ◼   ► I don't like green in general.

00:52:00 ◼   ► I don't like it as a color.

00:52:03 ◼   ► Green is good for grass and salad and that's about it.

00:52:06 ◼   ► Pesto, maybe, but that's about it.

00:52:08 ◼   ► Scoring the the flexes in our Google Doc. Yeah, and a push pesto

00:52:11 ◼   ► Halfway through the pesto is where the line is drawn

00:52:18 ◼   ► The Intel Mac Mini is removed from sale

00:52:21 ◼   ► Again, it's still hanging on. We do not see jaws during the event a

00:52:26 ◼   ► Revised 13-inch MacBook Pro drops the touch bar, but does not add mag safe that I still don't fully understand

00:52:35 ◼   ► I read this and I still can't get in my mind what you're actually saying.

00:52:39 ◼   ► Just re-release the escape.

00:52:40 ◼   ► That's what I'm saying.

00:52:41 ◼   ► No touch bar, just USB-C.

00:52:42 ◼   ► I don't know why you had to put the MagSafe part in it.

00:52:46 ◼   ► I don't know.

00:52:47 ◼   ► Because I think I wanted a little spice in my flexi, you know?

00:52:50 ◼   ► And how did that go for you?

00:52:52 ◼   ► Well it's marked in red.

00:52:53 ◼   ► I remember that.

00:52:55 ◼   ► iOS 15.4 and/or Mac OS 12.3 get a release date.

00:53:03 ◼   ► Do they have a release date?

00:53:04 ◼   ► So my, just what Apple has said, "In the press release for the green iPhones, it says iOS

00:53:11 ◼   ► 15.4 will be available as a free software update starting next week."

00:53:16 ◼   ► Is next week a date?

00:53:18 ◼   ► I don't think it's a date.

00:53:19 ◼   ► In the English language, would you consider that a date?

00:53:22 ◼   ► I don't think that's a date.

00:53:24 ◼   ► Next week is a relative time range, it's not a date.

00:53:29 ◼   ► What week are they even talking about, you know what I mean?

00:53:32 ◼   ► It's the next one.

00:53:33 ◼   ► what if it's the one after, it's just a next week.

00:53:36 ◼   ► - They didn't say a next week.

00:53:37 ◼   ► - Next week compared to what? - They said next week.

00:53:39 ◼   ► - I don't think it's a date.

00:53:39 ◼   ► - And they said that the iPhone 13 would come with that.

00:53:44 ◼   ► - That doesn't count.

00:53:46 ◼   ► - So it's before the 18th.

00:53:47 ◼   ► - That's not a date either.

00:53:49 ◼   ► - But I'm saying it's not as hand wavy, hippy dippy,

00:53:52 ◼   ► you're saying it that it is.

00:53:54 ◼   ► - Okay, but still, even if it was next week,

00:53:56 ◼   ► it's not a date.

00:53:57 ◼   ► - Okay, okay, you know what?

00:53:58 ◼   ► I'll take the L on this one.

00:54:00 ◼   ► I will not ring the bell.

00:54:01 ◼   ► Look, if I were you, I would scream and shout for this point.

00:54:05 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:54:05 ◼   ► And I would make you feel super bad.

00:54:08 ◼   ► But it's not in your character to do that kind of, you know,

00:54:12 ◼   ► arguing.

00:54:13 ◼   ► This is an interesting way of approaching that.

00:54:15 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:54:16 ◼   ► We're saying if it was Myke in my shoes, he would be crying.

00:54:18 ◼   ► I'd be on the floor kicking and screaming.

00:54:20 ◼   ► I would've smashed four Macs by now.

00:54:22 ◼   ► Well, look, the reality is that I've won with or without it.

00:54:25 ◼   ► Because my next one is there is no preview

00:54:28 ◼   ► of an Apple Silicon Mac Pro.

00:54:31 ◼   ► Did you win?

00:54:32 ◼   ► I did.

00:54:33 ◼   ► I hope you have won.

00:54:34 ◼   ► I got three out of six, which is 50%.

00:54:37 ◼   ► Oh yeah, you won.

00:54:38 ◼   ► Putting me ahead of Myke

00:54:39 ◼   ► and definitely ahead of Federico.

00:54:40 ◼   ► I was only pushing on that

00:54:42 ◼   ► because I thought maybe I could beat him.

00:54:43 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:54:45 ◼   ► No, I had it either way.

00:54:47 ◼   ► So I am the Attorney General Flexi.

00:54:53 ◼   ► Oh, AG Flex.

00:54:54 ◼   ► AG Flex is back, baby.

00:54:56 ◼   ► Please listen to the laws that I enforce.

00:54:59 ◼   ► - AG Flex.

00:55:01 ◼   ► - AG Flex is back.

00:55:03 ◼   ► - AG Flex is back.

00:55:05 ◼   ► Now, Federico.

00:55:06 ◼   ► - Yes.

00:55:07 ◼   ► - You, my dear friend.

00:55:08 ◼   ► - I am your dear friend.

00:55:09 ◼   ► - Or the loser.

00:55:10 ◼   ► - I am.

00:55:11 ◼   ► - So we need to work up how much you need to donate

00:55:13 ◼   ► and where you should donate it to.

00:55:15 ◼   ► - Well, something for Ukraine, right?

00:55:17 ◼   ► - Yeah. - Absolutely.

00:55:18 ◼   ► - That's what I wanna do.

00:55:19 ◼   ► - I think that Apple makes it pretty easy.

00:55:21 ◼   ► I don't know if this is in Italy too, Federico.

00:55:23 ◼   ► - Yeah, I wanna do that.

00:55:24 ◼   ► - So we're being told by the discord, $100 is the total.

00:55:28 ◼   ► I think we're going to make an unprecedented flexi move today.

00:55:32 ◼   ► That's right.

00:55:33 ◼   ► We're all going to give the money.

00:55:34 ◼   ► We'll match you Federico.

00:55:35 ◼   ► Oh, thank you.

00:55:36 ◼   ► Okay.

00:55:37 ◼   ► That's a very kind gesture.

00:55:39 ◼   ► Wait, is it actually, was this a role instituted by the attorney general?

00:55:44 ◼   ► I would say that it is a, uh, it is a one time situation that the attorney general approves

00:55:49 ◼   ► of.

00:55:50 ◼   ► Okay.

00:55:51 ◼   ► Now here's the thing.

00:55:52 ◼   ► What, how much are we donating?

00:55:53 ◼   ► Is it dollars?

00:55:54 ◼   ► Uh, it's a, yeah, we, we donate in dollars.

00:55:57 ◼   ► what we've done I think so me and Federico can't do that so you just have to

00:56:01 ◼   ► pick an approximate number so I'll donate $100 I'm gonna donate to UNICEF

00:56:05 ◼   ► yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna donate a hundred euros I don't care okay I need to

00:56:09 ◼   ► do a hundred pounds then don't I yeah I'm gonna be that guy yeah I mean who

00:56:12 ◼   ► knows how much that actually is well you can't be that guy but it's for the kids

00:56:16 ◼   ► and I would just like to say a hundred pounds is more money than either of you

00:56:19 ◼   ► donated because I have the strongest look we get it you live in a rich

00:56:22 ◼   ► country I have the strongest currency raw Britannia strong currency dude you

00:56:27 ◼   ► You hit donate on the iPhone, it wants you to sign in with your Apple ID, it doesn't

00:56:31 ◼   ► give you the password button.

00:56:32 ◼   ► But also I was expecting I would get a choice of where the money was going to come from,

00:56:36 ◼   ► like I usually do with the App Store, which is Apple Pay, and it's like nope, your donation

00:56:40 ◼   ► is accepted.

00:56:41 ◼   ► So I don't know what card just got charged.

00:56:43 ◼   ► It's whatever your Apple ID is on.

00:56:44 ◼   ► Yeah, but I use Apple Pay with my Apple ID.

00:56:47 ◼   ► Whatever backs up Apple Pay I guess.

00:56:48 ◼   ► Yeah, we'll find out later on kids.

00:56:50 ◼   ► We'll find out where that came from.

00:56:51 ◼   ► So we've all donated, congratulations to me.

00:56:54 ◼   ► I'm gonna send you my receipt in just a few seconds.

00:56:59 ◼   ► I'm using the UNICEF website because I have a fake US Apple ID and I don't want to do

00:57:05 ◼   ► anything.

00:57:06 ◼   ► Yeah, that's gonna get you, isn't it?

00:57:07 ◼   ► That's how they get you.

00:57:08 ◼   ► They've laid this trap for you, you know?

00:57:10 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm using the website.

00:57:13 ◼   ► I've donated.

00:57:15 ◼   ► Well, this was a game well played.

00:57:18 ◼   ► Is there anything else from the event that we didn't touch on through our picks that

00:57:22 ◼   ► we want to talk about before we go?

00:57:23 ◼   ► Federico, thoughts on the studio display.

00:57:26 ◼   ► I like it. I think it's the right product for the right audience that was asking for it.

00:57:31 ◼   ► It's not for me though.

00:57:33 ◼   ► Oh!

00:57:34 ◼   ► Yeah, so a couple of reasons.

00:57:38 ◼   ► I think if I were to buy a monitor right now,

00:57:41 ◼   ► I think in my future at the moment,

00:57:45 ◼   ► I would rather do the research and spend the money on a proper gaming monitor.

00:57:50 ◼   ► I think I would really like to have one of those like ultra-wide, high refresh rates, gaming monitors.

00:57:57 ◼   ► And this is not that, right? So this is not that.

00:58:00 ◼   ► When, if we'll be moving to a new place, I want to do my research and get one of those.

00:58:05 ◼   ► Additionally, I could have been convinced, maybe by this monitor, if it had any kind,

00:58:14 ◼   ► some kind, any kind of proper iPadOS integration.

00:58:19 ◼   ► Like, I don't know, because it's got the A13,

00:58:21 ◼   ► you can now do something with an iPad Pro or an iPad Air and this monitor.

00:58:25 ◼   ► I mean, isn't that more on the iPad's shoulders than the display?

00:58:29 ◼   ► Well, I don't know. It's on Apple's shoulders, I guess.

00:58:32 ◼   ► It doesn't really, you know, it's not up to me.

00:58:35 ◼   ► Yeah, but this, basically, this display could be better for you in the future than it is now.

00:58:39 ◼   ► -Definitely. -It could be.

00:58:40 ◼   ► So I will keep an eye on this.

00:58:42 ◼   ► I do think that once Apple does proper display integration for iPadOS, it will not be Studio Display exclusive.

00:58:51 ◼   ► So, I don't know, I think I am more interested in the ultra-wide form factor and high refresh rate myself,

00:58:59 ◼   ► because what I want to have is a monitor that works for everything, for regular computing as well as gaming.

00:59:07 ◼   ► And this is not that kind of monitor.

00:59:09 ◼   ► Yep, that makes total sense.

00:59:12 ◼   ► Myke, you ordered one.

00:59:13 ◼   ► Yes, it is what I ordered yesterday.

00:59:15 ◼   ► I ordered the display.

00:59:17 ◼   ► I desperately need this for my work.

00:59:22 ◼   ► For my studio, like where I plug my laptop in every day.

00:59:25 ◼   ► Please, my LG is very sick.

00:59:27 ◼   ► Because it's just not working out for me very well with the LG and the Thunderbolt...

00:59:33 ◼   ► What's the name of the company that I use?

00:59:35 ◼   ► The CalDigit dog.

00:59:36 ◼   ► It's like I've mentioned this before on the show, but every day I have to plug the laptop

00:59:41 ◼   ► into the dock with a Thunderbolt cable then I need to grab the monitor pull it

00:59:46 ◼   ► towards me so I can get to the back unplug the USB-C cable plug it back in

00:59:49 ◼   ► tap a couple of keys and about 70% of the time it works. That is very annoying

00:59:55 ◼   ► I'm hoping that this product will fix this in my life that I will just plug in

01:00:01 ◼   ► I might have to get a different dock I expect I'm probably gonna be best off

01:00:05 ◼   ► with a USB-C dock now yes but that's perfectly fine because all I have

01:00:10 ◼   ► plugged in it's like just like a couple of USB peripherals or whatever and you

01:00:13 ◼   ► know so I'll say this that's gonna be better for me and I'm really excited

01:00:17 ◼   ► about having an actual is this 5k it is so it is the 5k it's excited about that

01:00:23 ◼   ► it's a hundred nits brighter than this panel was in the in the old iMac and I

01:00:29 ◼   ► love and the LG but it's it's otherwise the same and you know Quinn Nelson his

01:00:35 ◼   ► video Quinn's got to find something to poke at I understand that but it being

01:00:39 ◼   ► that display is like yeah that display has been around a long time but also

01:00:42 ◼   ► it's a good display like it's a good panel and they've put it in an enclosure

01:00:48 ◼   ► and with features that make more sense to a Mac user than the LG Ultrafine ever

01:00:54 ◼   ► did. I'm really excited to hear what the speakers sound like in these you know

01:00:59 ◼   ► with the Pro Display you don't have them and the LG speakers the 4k didn't have

01:01:04 ◼   ► speakers I don't or didn't have a camera so there's something with the early 4k

01:01:08 ◼   ► that was missing. The 5k speakers were garbage and so I think Apple's made

01:01:13 ◼   ► something that will fit the the needs of more people with this. I'm happy there's

01:01:18 ◼   ► a camera but it's gonna be useless to me. Yeah because of the inability to change

01:01:23 ◼   ► the refresh rate in the camera. I actually think I'm gonna test it out

01:01:27 ◼   ► with this monitor I don't expect it to be any different. I think we're gonna start

01:01:29 ◼   ► this as a personal crusade like I'm actually gonna file a radar and I'm

01:01:32 ◼   ► gonna try and stop going through the official channels for this because this is wild to me.

01:01:36 ◼   ► that they sell these products around the world but in office environments outside

01:01:41 ◼   ► it like in Europe we need the 50 Hertz refresh on the lights for it because the

01:01:46 ◼   ► overhead lights will make things flicker and I just there are ways to what is

01:01:52 ◼   ► this okay so you know overhead lighting right? You know I'm talking like in a in

01:01:55 ◼   ► like office environment you got the overhead lighting right? Like fluorescent lights.

01:02:00 ◼   ► Yeah. In Europe I think I know in the UK but in Europe they're like the Hertz

01:02:06 ◼   ► rate the refresh rate on the light is 50 Hertz and in America it's 60 Hertz

01:02:11 ◼   ► really so because of that okay cameras they're tuned like the the cameras in

01:02:17 ◼   ► Apple's laptops are tuned for the 60 Hertz so when you put a camera in an

01:02:22 ◼   ► Apple computer in a 50 Hertz environment the background flickers which is very

01:02:27 ◼   ► weird and disorientating how do you know this stuff because I have this problem

01:02:33 ◼   ► every time I use one of Apple's laptops in my studio it's trash so I have to use

01:02:39 ◼   ► a Logitech camera which has the ability for me to switch the refresh rate on the

01:02:45 ◼   ► like the on the camera itself I'm not speaking exactly correctly with the

01:02:48 ◼   ► terms but people can understand no no I get it so I can change that one from 60

01:02:52 ◼   ► to 50 and it stops doing it so I believe Apple's should Apple should have be able

01:02:57 ◼   ► to make this a possibility for me but they don't that is a fascinating tidbit

01:03:02 ◼   ► Thank you. And so I'm I'm gonna like I'm gonna see how this one fares

01:03:06 ◼   ► I expect it would be exactly the same but just in case and then I think I'm gonna have to make this like a

01:03:11 ◼   ► personal thing that I just keep shouting about and I'm gonna follow radar about it and just like

01:03:16 ◼   ► Something happen big refresh rate boy. I just think it's really annoying cuz like

01:03:21 ◼   ► Oh, yes

01:03:21 ◼   ► very standard in

01:03:23 ◼   ► offices where these computers are used and I have to and I see this all the time you have to use like a lot like

01:03:29 ◼   ► I'm gonna have this beautiful monitor which is costing me like

01:03:32 ◼   ► 1800 pounds because I got the really nice stand and I got to have some crappy

01:03:36 ◼   ► Logitech cameras on the top of it so I can never have a video call. Yeah

01:03:40 ◼   ► It's a bummer. Mm-hmm. I did not order display

01:03:43 ◼   ► I've got that covered but I did order a pretty nicely specced Mac studio

01:03:48 ◼   ► That will replace my 2019 Mac Pro. So do you want to talk about it on the show? Are you gonna?

01:03:55 ◼   ► Are you gonna sell it? What are you gonna do with the Mac Pro Federico? See if you join me

01:03:59 ◼   ► I'm trying to convince Steven to keep his Mac Pro

01:04:01 ◼   ► Why should he to just roll it in with the rest of these freaking computers?

01:04:06 ◼   ► It's a lot of money tied up in it. Yep. That'd be a very expensive addition

01:04:11 ◼   ► Here's what I'll say. Don't sell it immediately. Mmm. See if my heart tells me to keep it flip-flop, baby. Can I have a race?

01:04:18 ◼   ► Who you are the CFO of the company you could just choose that if you want to I need a raise

01:04:24 ◼   ► What can I do? Don't sell it until you're comfortable with the Mac studio. Yeah. Oh definitely. This is what you do. Yeah

01:04:32 ◼   ► Emma's suggesting to give it to my brother who very often gets my older machines, but he actually just bought a 14-inch MacBook Pro and

01:04:39 ◼   ► Just four days ago took delivery of an LG 5k and I texted him the link to the studio display

01:04:45 ◼   ► I said return the LG and buy this instead

01:04:47 ◼   ► So, I don't know if he's done that I need to I need to see

01:04:51 ◼   ► If he does that James wants me to flip a coin to see if key because he's he's not something very clever and dice

01:04:57 ◼   ► By peacock we don't need it this week, so I do it in the pro show

01:04:59 ◼   ► Okay, we're gonna flip the coin in the pro show. Oh, sorry James the rules are not on your side

01:05:04 ◼   ► But if you go to get connected protocol, we're gonna flip coins

01:05:08 ◼   ► Okay, and that's why he peak how can see what he's a little afraid of that. It's time to flip the coin

01:05:13 ◼   ► No, that's what we'll say in the pro show, but only if you give us money. You got to give us money to get it

01:05:18 ◼   ► Yep, get connected to pro.co. So yeah, ordered the Mac Studio, plans to replace the Mac Pro.

01:05:24 ◼   ► I did the M1 Max, I didn't do the Ultra. Unnecessary.

01:05:28 ◼   ► Unnecessary, another $1200 or something. But I did max out the Raymond storage. So it ended

01:05:36 ◼   ► up being about $5,000. He got an 8TB SSD in Federica.

01:05:40 ◼   ► Oh my god. I know.

01:05:41 ◼   ► That's what's in the Mac Pro. Because of all of his research.

01:05:44 ◼   ► just get like a two terabyte one like a normal person? Like for some reason all of these

01:05:52 ◼   ► old Macworld magazines they must remain inside the computer I don't know what we think it'll

01:05:57 ◼   ► lose them what's gonna happen you have them outside they're just gonna fall onto the ground?

01:06:00 ◼   ► Could. Alright that's a problem there right we can all see this like I'm surrounded by

01:06:05 ◼   ► all this stuff and I just don't want a mountain of external drives on my desk and so eight

01:06:10 ◼   ► terabytes is the end. You're not going to need any more than that.

01:06:14 ◼   ► I mean, I'm at five now. Right. And my research, I was looking to

01:06:19 ◼   ► marry about this the other night, my research, like Dev and

01:06:22 ◼   ► Think collection databases exploded in size. When I was

01:06:26 ◼   ► preparing the my Kickstarter calendar last year, because I

01:06:30 ◼   ► needed a lot of dates from like, periods of time that aren't

01:06:33 ◼   ► easily accessible with what I had. And so my like Dev and

01:06:37 ◼   ► Think collection, I think it actually doubled, or more than

01:06:40 ◼   ► doubled in size through that and I don't foresee having like an intense research

01:06:45 ◼   ► period that broad in the future like if I do an article about the history of the

01:06:49 ◼   ► power book like I probably have another calendar or the calendar I'm gonna do

01:06:55 ◼   ► this year and so could that increase it by another multiple terabytes I don't

01:06:59 ◼   ► think here first by the way Apple calendar 2 confirmed yes yeah Apple

01:07:05 ◼   ► calendar 2.0 it's gonna be made of aluminum this time no it's not Wow it's

01:07:09 ◼   ► - Wow. - It's gonna be really expensive.

01:07:11 ◼   ► - Interesting, interesting, okay.

01:07:13 ◼   ► - This calendar has been carved

01:07:15 ◼   ► from a solid block of aluminum.

01:07:16 ◼   ► - That's right. - And has chamfered edges.

01:07:18 ◼   ► - That's right.

01:07:19 ◼   ► If it falls off your wall, it may break your foot

01:07:22 ◼   ► if it lands on you.

01:07:24 ◼   ► So yeah, there will be another calendar coming.

01:07:25 ◼   ► I'm in the process of already starting it.

01:07:28 ◼   ► But I don't think that'll double my research stuff again

01:07:30 ◼   ► because I only need to find all of Apple's press releases

01:07:33 ◼   ► from the 1990s one time, and now I have them all.

01:07:36 ◼   ► - James has made a great suggestion in the Discord.

01:07:39 ◼   ► Apple Calendar 2.

01:07:40 ◼   ► Like the, what was that?

01:07:41 ◼   ► The Mac 2 with the two brackets?

01:07:44 ◼   ► The Apple 2.

01:07:44 ◼   ► Apple 2, that's it.

01:07:45 ◼   ► This one right there.

01:07:46 ◼   ► Federico, it was very fun for me to be able to sit

01:07:48 ◼   ► in a room with Steven as they were showing the charts

01:07:51 ◼   ► that obliterated his many millions of dollars computer.

01:07:55 ◼   ► He was, the sounds that Steven was making

01:07:57 ◼   ► when they were showing those charts,

01:07:59 ◼   ► it was pretty incredible.

01:08:01 ◼   ► He was very upset.

01:08:02 ◼   ► If you wanna find links and stuff we spoke about

01:08:04 ◼   ► or look at the final scores for this,

01:08:08 ◼   ► We have links to all that stuff at relay.fm/connected/388.

01:08:13 ◼   ► While you're there, you can join and get Connected Pro,

01:08:18 ◼   ► which is a longer ad-free version of the show each week.

01:08:20 ◼   ► We just talked about that.

01:08:22 ◼   ► You can send us feedback or follow up from the website,

01:08:24 ◼   ► or you can do so on Twitter.

01:08:25 ◼   ► You can find Myke on Twitter as I-M-Y-K-E.

01:08:29 ◼   ► Myke is the host of a bunch of other shows here on Relay FM,

01:08:32 ◼   ► and he's currently sitting in my office.

01:08:34 ◼   ► - Yo.

01:08:35 ◼   ► - You can follow Federico on Twitter as Vitichi,

01:08:37 ◼   ► V-I-T-I-C-C-I. He's the editor-in-chief of MacStories.net. Go check out their hub for

01:08:43 ◼   ► this week's Apple event. Lots of great stuff. I love y'all's, like, "Here are all the numbers"

01:08:48 ◼   ► mentioned. That's always my favorite. It's always my favorite post. The little bits one,

01:08:51 ◼   ► is that what it's called? All the small things. All the... That one. That one.

01:08:55 ◼   ► Yeah. Is that why you name it that, by the way? I believe that was the intention years ago when

01:09:03 ◼   ► when we started doing that, yeah.

01:09:04 ◼   ► - Very good.

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01:09:15 ◼   ► Until next time guys, say goodbye.

01:09:18 ◼   ► - Arrivederci. - Cheerio.