Connected

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00:00:02 ◼   ► Hello and welcome to Connected, episode 371.

00:00:12 ◼   ► It's made possible by our sponsors,

00:00:14 ◼   ► Mac Weldon, Indeed, Squarespace, and Setapp.

00:00:18 ◼   ► My name is Stephen Hack

00:00:19 ◼   ► and I'm joined by a very cheery Mr. Myke Hurley.

00:00:22 ◼   ► - Hello. - Hello.

00:00:24 ◼   ► And you know, like, I don't know.

00:00:28 ◼   ► Federico seems like he's in a good mood too. He has a new computer. Hello Federico.

00:00:32 ◼   ► Hello. Hi. I'm in a good mood. Good. Myke isn't.

00:00:36 ◼   ► It's just faking it.

00:00:37 ◼   ► No, Myke's in a bad mood. He's just doing it for the show because he's an entertainer.

00:00:40 ◼   ► He's a professional, but he's not. I'm a professional. Yeah. But even,

00:00:45 ◼   ► even entertainers are sad, you know, sometimes

00:00:49 ◼   ► Myke is kind of sad, but we're going to cheer him up today. So that's,

00:00:54 ◼   ► that's the goal of this episode to provide good entertainment and cheer up.

00:00:58 ◼   ► Myke, maybe.

00:01:00 ◼   ► Do you want to start by telling me how I was wrong about romance?

00:01:04 ◼   ► Is this the beginning?

00:01:06 ◼   ► So don't mind, but we got this interesting follow-up

00:01:09 ◼   ► from UnknownCabbage, interesting username,

00:01:14 ◼   ► follow-up on 300 Like the Romance,

00:01:17 ◼   ► where on the last episode, I said--

00:01:19 ◼   ► there was some kind of discussion about 300,

00:01:22 ◼   ► the movie, which is set in Greece, in ancient Greece.

00:01:27 ◼   ► And I said, oh, why am I confused with 300

00:01:30 ◼   ► like the Romans?

00:01:31 ◼   ► And then I remembered, oh, because Kanye was wrong

00:01:34 ◼   ► in the lyrics of a song where he said,

00:01:39 ◼   ► I keep it 300 like the Romans.

00:01:42 ◼   ► And Unknown Cabbage wrote to us saying,

00:01:44 ◼   ► "Kanye has many flaws, but this line was actually clever,

00:01:48 ◼   ► not incorrect.

00:01:49 ◼   ► The Roman numerals for 300 are CCC, by which Kanye

00:01:54 ◼   ► meant "cool, calm, and collected". Instead of saying "I keep it 100", which is a common

00:02:00 ◼   ► phrase for meaning "keeping it real", he said "keep it 300". So the 300 he's talking about

00:02:05 ◼   ► is actually Roman numerals, not the Greek 300 from the eponymous movie. But I'm sure

00:02:10 ◼   ► he was aware of the crossover and the play on words, and I bet he liked the mental image

00:02:15 ◼   ► of the 300 from the movie, even though he's definitely not saying the original 300 were

00:02:20 ◼   ► So, this is interesting. Like, I feel like I buy this theory. Other people online buy this theory.

00:02:31 ◼   ► I don't know what to say other than if Kanye did it on purpose, we all know that Kanye was, is, used to be, still is, a very good lyricist.

00:02:44 ◼   ► And in that case, this is some really cool follow-up.

00:02:49 ◼   ► I didn't know about the CCC Cool, Calm and Collected.

00:02:53 ◼   ► Like, I didn't know there was a thing about that.

00:02:56 ◼   ► It's not an expression I've come across before myself.

00:03:01 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm still not convinced about this because of the following line in the song,

00:03:06 ◼   ► but I actually can't read that line on air.

00:03:09 ◼   ► Like, I'm still not convinced about this.

00:03:11 ◼   ► Like if you read the next line, if you just google the lyrics, I think he is referencing...

00:03:16 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:03:17 ◼   ► Trojan horses?

00:03:19 ◼   ► Yes.

00:03:21 ◼   ► Which is Greek, like the Spartans.

00:03:26 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:03:27 ◼   ► But why would he... because he's bringing Romans and Trojan horses together.

00:03:33 ◼   ► Exactly.

00:03:34 ◼   ► So I'm still not convinced, personally, about this.

00:03:39 ◼   ► I think that he may have just been as confused as I was.

00:03:43 ◼   ► Yeah, maybe.

00:03:44 ◼   ► This is Black Skinhead, by the way.

00:03:46 ◼   ► This is the song that we're talking about, right?

00:03:49 ◼   ► You will have heard this song before because it is in every single trailer for an action

00:03:53 ◼   ► movie ever in the office.

00:03:54 ◼   ► Or a video game.

00:03:55 ◼   ► Or video games.

00:03:56 ◼   ► Yes, yes, yes.

00:03:57 ◼   ► That sound.

00:03:58 ◼   ► No, no, no.

00:03:59 ◼   ► It's that one, isn't it?

00:04:03 ◼   ► That is the one.

00:04:04 ◼   ► I think we've had this a few times on the show.

00:04:07 ◼   ► I think this first came up, I think it came up most recently when we were talking about

00:04:13 ◼   ► spatial audio, which by the way I want to recommend to people, there is so much more

00:04:17 ◼   ► spatial audio stuff now and it's getting so much better.

00:04:21 ◼   ► They have released Back to Black by Amy Winehouse and it's beautiful and haunting.

00:04:27 ◼   ► Like the album.

00:04:28 ◼   ► Is it?

00:04:29 ◼   ► I kind of felt like that mix was horrible myself.

00:04:32 ◼   ► The mix wasn't like, I didn't find it very special, but it had a bit more depth to me.

00:04:39 ◼   ► But anyway, what I'm saying is there's lots of stuff now, and some of the stuff I think

00:04:45 ◼   ► is really good, and so I think it's worth trying out.

00:04:48 ◼   ► The best that I have found recently was from Federica's recommendation, which is "Kind

00:04:53 ◼   ► of Blue" by Miles Davis.

00:04:54 ◼   ► It's absolutely stupendous.

00:04:56 ◼   ► I also found recently, I'm probably not the only person to have found this, if you long

00:05:01 ◼   ► press on the audio like the volume and you've got your AirPods Pro or Max in, you can toggle

00:05:07 ◼   ► the head tracking of spatial audio on and off. I think this is a 15.1 feature. You used

00:05:13 ◼   ► to have to go into accessibility to turn that off. It used to be like you could turn on

00:05:18 ◼   ► spatial audio on and off and spatialize stereo on and off. But when you have those on, you

00:05:21 ◼   ► can now turn off the head tracking portion if you want to, which I think is pretty good

00:05:26 ◼   ► that they give you that there. Sometimes I like it when I'm just listening to some music,

00:05:30 ◼   ► Most of the time I don't, but sometimes it can be interesting.

00:05:34 ◼   ► So I like that I have the option.

00:05:36 ◼   ► We were talking about 300s because of MagTrickys, because we have sold I think around just over

00:05:41 ◼   ► 300 MagTrickys.

00:05:42 ◼   ► Go to MagTricky.com, the pre-order is available just until November 11th, so if you're hearing

00:05:47 ◼   ► this when we release the episode, you maybe have one more day.

00:05:51 ◼   ► MagTricky.com, you can buy this wonderful set of magnets and stickers that will allow

00:05:55 ◼   ► you to keep track of who the chairman is for both the annual chairman of the Ricky's and

00:06:00 ◼   ► the keynote chairman of the Ricky's.

00:06:03 ◼   ► Pre-order ends November 11th and orders will ship in December.

00:06:08 ◼   ► So if you want to keep up, magtricky.com.

00:06:11 ◼   ► Do it.

00:06:12 ◼   ► Do it now.

00:06:13 ◼   ► I have my kids helping pack them in advance.

00:06:15 ◼   ► Yeah, if you don't do it, like look, Myke has already said, you want to make Myke more

00:06:19 ◼   ► sad?

00:06:20 ◼   ► I don't think so.

00:06:21 ◼   ► More sad?

00:06:22 ◼   ► So magtricky.com.

00:06:23 ◼   ► I have new HomePod minis. Why? Plural minis. Because they came in orange. They? How many?

00:06:34 ◼   ► Well, we'll get to that. To back up a minute, I had three original HomePods. One in my office,

00:06:45 ◼   ► one in the kitchen, and one in our bedroom. The one in our bedroom died, and I replaced

00:06:50 ◼   ► it with a HomePod mini. I didn't have AppleCare or anything on them, they were out of warranty.

00:06:54 ◼   ► More recently, the one in my studio is not completely dead, but it keeps forgetting that

00:07:01 ◼   ► it's connected to Wi-Fi. Like, I have to reset it up all the time, and I have like factory

00:07:07 ◼   ► reset it and all the stuff, and they had an orange HomePod mini. I was like, "Well, I

00:07:12 ◼   ► like orange computer things." And so, I ordered one.

00:07:16 ◼   ► First off the bat, like, the color is amazing. There's a link to a tweet of mine of the

00:07:20 ◼   ► show notes. It the packaging is is great. The color is fantastic. And I had never tried

00:07:29 ◼   ► even with the two home pod or three pods. I never tried the pairing. The stereo pair.

00:07:35 ◼   ► Yes, thank you the stereo pair. And so I picked up what was supposed to be a second home pod

00:07:41 ◼   ► mini I was going to have a studio pair here in my office. So like, I like listening to

00:07:45 ◼   ► stuff like if I'm working not at my desk you know I could have the home pods going

00:07:50 ◼   ► but when I went to order the second one I was having trouble with the Apple like

00:07:56 ◼   ► the App Store app and it was like just freaking out this is like well I'll just

00:08:01 ◼   ► go to the web and add them to my cart at the web and I wasn't really paying

00:08:07 ◼   ► attention and I bought two because you had already had one in your right so I

00:08:12 ◼   ► I now have two orange HomePod minis that are set up,

00:08:15 ◼   ► and I have a third HomePod mini that's orange

00:08:18 ◼   ► that is not set up.

00:08:19 ◼   ► And this is where I'm just gonna sweeten the deal

00:08:22 ◼   ► a little bit for the MagTricky.

00:08:24 ◼   ► One person.

00:08:27 ◼   ► - Oh, this is good.

00:08:28 ◼   ► Oh no.

00:08:28 ◼   ► - One person who buys a MagTricky,

00:08:30 ◼   ► your box will also include an orange HomePod mini.

00:08:34 ◼   ► - Oh my God.

00:08:35 ◼   ► - Oh wait, you're being serious?

00:08:37 ◼   ► - Oh my God.

00:08:38 ◼   ► - I thought you were gonna be like, you'll get a sticker.

00:08:39 ◼   ► - No, I'll give him an orange HomePod mini.

00:08:41 ◼   ► - Wow.

00:08:42 ◼   ► Wow.

00:08:43 ◼   ► Is this technically legal?

00:08:44 ◼   ► - I don't know.

00:08:46 ◼   ► Sure.

00:08:47 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean, it's just a business giving away something.

00:08:50 ◼   ► - Okay, cool.

00:08:50 ◼   ► So magtricky.com, you have the chance to win

00:08:54 ◼   ► a HomePod mini in our age.

00:08:55 ◼   ► - I guess some rules, you can't be related to us and win.

00:08:58 ◼   ► Buying more than one MagTricky

00:09:00 ◼   ► doesn't make your chances go up.

00:09:02 ◼   ► What I'm going to do is I'm going to paste

00:09:03 ◼   ► everyone's order numbers into a,

00:09:05 ◼   ► spread into like a ram.org thing

00:09:07 ◼   ► and pick an order number at random.

00:09:09 ◼   ► I'll mail it in.

00:09:10 ◼   ► - Yeah, see, I wouldn't have agreed

00:09:11 ◼   ► what you just said there, because I like the money, I would have said the more you buy.

00:09:15 ◼   ► But I think you're probably making the right decision.

00:09:18 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean, look, if this was for the podcast-a-thon, the more you give, the more chances you would

00:09:22 ◼   ► have. But this is just commerce. And I'll ship it anywhere in the world. So if you live

00:09:27 ◼   ► in someplace not the US, you're still eligible. Those are the rules. We'll make it happen.

00:09:33 ◼   ► Wow. I wish you would have done this last week. I know there was nothing you could have

00:09:36 ◼   ► done about it, but...

00:09:38 ◼   ► What if I win one?

00:09:39 ◼   ► Well, you're related to us because you're you, so I would draw again. Well, I don't

00:09:45 ◼   ► need another HomePod mini anyway. James says, "What if I'm in the line of

00:09:50 ◼   ► succession?" I would say the triple J are not eligible. Okay. Correct.

00:09:55 ◼   ► So where does the relation to us end? I feel like the triple J is far enough out.

00:10:01 ◼   ► I don't know. I feel like we need rules for this. It's time to read the rules!

00:10:06 ◼   ► I don't know if I'm not eligible, Myke isn't, I assume our partners aren't either.

00:10:14 ◼   ► Because they're related to you?

00:10:15 ◼   ► Triple J aren't.

00:10:17 ◼   ► Triple J aren't.

00:10:18 ◼   ► How deep does it go?

00:10:20 ◼   ► What about the triple J's children?

00:10:22 ◼   ► No one in the line of succession to the show.

00:10:24 ◼   ► Okay.

00:10:25 ◼   ► Okay.

00:10:26 ◼   ► Okay.

00:10:27 ◼   ► Okay.

00:10:28 ◼   ► All right.

00:10:29 ◼   ► All right.

00:10:30 ◼   ► Fair enough.

00:10:31 ◼   ► So yeah.

00:10:32 ◼   ► So if you order a Mac tricky and you get a big box, you've won.

00:10:35 ◼   ► That's pretty cool. Do you like the orange? It's so good. It's very vibrant.

00:10:42 ◼   ► It's really nice. I really want to see the yellow and blue in store because

00:10:47 ◼   ► if they're the same like vibrancy and brightness I think I think all three

00:10:52 ◼   ► will be like really fun. I kind of do wish... okay so a couple of the details.

00:10:58 ◼   ► The cable is the same power cable that came with the orange iMac so it's braided

00:11:04 ◼   ► lighter orange power cable which looks really nice but the top is white and I

00:11:11 ◼   ► kind of wish the top was tinted to match the orange a little bit better or maybe

00:11:15 ◼   ► they'd use the dark top yeah but IMAX have white borders so it's similar there

00:11:20 ◼   ► right yeah yeah or maybe they've done the dark top, could have been nice

00:11:25 ◼   ► mmm but it looks good so yeah they only have three colors right

00:11:32 ◼   ► orange blue and yellow and then white and midnight I think they changed the

00:11:36 ◼   ► color name from the black to midnight I think no space gray

00:11:42 ◼   ► space gray blue yellow orange white they are they are options

00:11:46 ◼   ► Steven I think I accident I think I accidentally blocked you on Twitter

00:11:51 ◼   ► what when when I open you when I open your tweet for the for the HomePod mini

00:11:58 ◼   ► Oh God okay I accidentally blocked you. I wonder how long this has been. Oh yeah it

00:12:07 ◼   ► says follow I will follow you now. Yeah. Wow how long has that been for? I don't

00:12:13 ◼   ► know. That's so good. I think it happened just now when I was clicking around

00:12:19 ◼   ► because I'm not used to using an actual. You did the stealth unfollow right? That's

00:12:24 ◼   ► what you just did to him. Okay, okay, I'm still following Myke. Let me just check my friends. I'm following Myke.

00:12:29 ◼   ► What about John? Am I following John?

00:12:32 ◼   ► Yeah, you follow each other. What about Steven again?

00:12:36 ◼   ► Okay, yeah, we follow each other. I'm sorry Steven. I don't know how that happened.

00:12:41 ◼   ► That's hilarious. Is it because I made a joke that you got a MacBook Pro and I said, "Hey,

00:12:45 ◼   ► you finally got a real computer," so you blocked me in anger? No, I really didn't do anything. I saw your reply.

00:12:51 ◼   ► Maybe he didn't read that it was you and he just thought it was like a random emoji person and just immediately blocked them

00:12:58 ◼   ► Yeah, that's what I reckon happened

00:13:00 ◼   ► No, no, I think I was doing something now when I was like

00:13:04 ◼   ► Using the Twitter web app in Safari for Mac and I'm not used to it

00:13:09 ◼   ► So I must have clicked something that I wasn't supposed to click that that is my theory anyway

00:13:14 ◼   ► Yeah, it must have been Matt makes a good point the discord that it must have been today since we applied to each other

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00:15:47 ◼   ► Mr. Fattichi.

00:15:48 ◼   ► - Hello, that is me.

00:15:49 ◼   ► - Tell us about your Macintosh book professional.

00:15:53 ◼   ► - I am a Mac user now, so you've all been warned.

00:15:58 ◼   ► I am a Mac person, again.

00:16:02 ◼   ► - What have you been warned about?

00:16:04 ◼   ► - He's gonna put the Mac back in Mac stories.

00:16:05 ◼   ► - You've been warned, I'm back.

00:16:07 ◼   ► I'm back. - Poor John.

00:16:10 ◼   ► - I'm taking names, you know?

00:16:13 ◼   ► Back on Mac OS.

00:16:15 ◼   ► Well, back to the Mac.

00:16:17 ◼   ► I mean, sure, yes.

00:16:18 ◼   ► I have a MacBook Pro review unit on loan from Apple.

00:16:23 ◼   ► It's a 14-inch model, M1 Macs,

00:16:27 ◼   ► 64 gigs of RAM, two terabytes of storage.

00:16:30 ◼   ► Nice.

00:16:31 ◼   ► It's a very, look, it's a very nice computer.

00:16:33 ◼   ► It's a great machine.

00:16:35 ◼   ► I personally love the look, the chunky,

00:16:38 ◼   ► you know, thick boy look.

00:16:40 ◼   ► I love it.

00:16:41 ◼   ► I'm just gonna tell you the stuff I love

00:16:42 ◼   ► about the hardware up front.

00:16:43 ◼   ► The keyboard is fantastic.

00:16:45 ◼   ► The screen is amazing, the speakers they sound great.

00:16:48 ◼   ► And mind you, this is my first exposure to,

00:16:51 ◼   ► like I haven't personally owned a Mac laptop since 2013.

00:16:56 ◼   ► That's when I bought my MacBook Air,

00:17:02 ◼   ► which eventually became the Mac Mini in 2018.

00:17:05 ◼   ► And I've used on and off occasionally,

00:17:07 ◼   ► Sylvia's MacBook Pro, a 2017 one.

00:17:12 ◼   ► So I was still stuck on the idea of the touch bar and the butterfly keyboard.

00:17:17 ◼   ► So I'm new to all of these, you know, the Magic Keyboard and the, you know,

00:17:23 ◼   ► a better typing experience on a MacBook.

00:17:29 ◼   ► I love it. The screen is fantastic.

00:17:30 ◼   ► And you're new to Apple Silicon, right?

00:17:31 ◼   ► And I'm new to Apple Silicon, yes.

00:17:32 ◼   ► I'm going to talk about that in a minute.

00:17:34 ◼   ► So from a hardware standpoint, it's an incredible machine, I think.

00:17:39 ◼   ► I was very happy about the inclusion of MagSafe.

00:17:42 ◼   ► about the USB-C ports. Apple sent me, they asked me, "Do you want an Italian keyboard

00:17:49 ◼   ► or a US or UK keyboard?" And I told them, "If possible, anything US or UK is ideal for

00:17:55 ◼   ► me because I never use an Italian keyboard." I actually prefer the US and UK layout because

00:18:00 ◼   ► of the easier access to square brackets, for example. The problem is, because they sent

00:18:05 ◼   ► in UK model. I also had a UK power brick, so now I cannot use the fancy 96 watt adapter

00:18:13 ◼   ► because there's no Italian plug. Why did they do that? I guess they didn't have in the warehouse

00:18:21 ◼   ► that ships press units. I'm guessing they didn't have the combination of Italian European

00:18:28 ◼   ► power adapter and European plug with UK keyboard because that's built to order. You can order

00:18:33 ◼   ► them right and it comes normal like yeah you can do that on the apple story did y'all see how far

00:18:39 ◼   ► back ordered that power adapter is yep i checked last night i was like okay you know what i'm just

00:18:44 ◼   ► gonna buy another one it comes in january yeah which one the 96 watt yeah no the big one is the

00:18:52 ◼   ► six watt the biggest one no it's 140 is the biggest one okay but for so which one is back

00:18:59 ◼   ► order the biggest one or the 96 watt? The 140 watt delivers here in December. For me the 96 said last

00:19:08 ◼   ► night in Italy January. Late December to January that's what it said for me last night. I've got

00:19:15 ◼   ► middle of November. Actually no I could get one on Friday. Maybe it improved then okay. Yeah

00:19:20 ◼   ► check again. Yeah with the 141 that's the one I was looking at earlier and it's uh yeah it's

00:19:25 ◼   ► It's mid-December.

00:19:26 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:19:27 ◼   ► Okay.

00:19:28 ◼   ► Maybe I can get one then.

00:19:30 ◼   ► Anyway, the screen is incredible.

00:19:33 ◼   ► I really love the colors and the almost edge-to-edge look.

00:19:38 ◼   ► The notch doesn't bother me at all.

00:19:40 ◼   ► And we knew this, right?

00:19:41 ◼   ► I knew that everyone who was making a big deal about the notch is the same kind of people

00:19:45 ◼   ► that were making a big deal about the notch on the iPhone and the other displays that

00:19:51 ◼   ► Apple has done before.

00:19:53 ◼   ► It's totally fine.

00:19:54 ◼   ► It doesn't bother me.

00:19:55 ◼   ► I think it's actually quite clever how they extended the display into the top edge of the screen.

00:20:01 ◼   ► So not a problem at all. I didn't notice promotion. In fact, I don't know if I'm

00:20:09 ◼   ► looking at promotion at all or not. I have a theory where maybe you don't notice promotion

00:20:17 ◼   ► on MacOS as much because of the way animations are designed on iPhone and iPad.

00:20:24 ◼   ► I think maybe on the iPhone and iPad, the way things animate on screen, and because

00:20:32 ◼   ► you're constantly scrolling with your finger, you notice that more.

00:20:37 ◼   ► And maybe on macOS you don't, but also it's my understanding that the story around supporting

00:20:43 ◼   ► promotion right now on the Mac is kind of weird at the moment in different apps.

00:20:49 ◼   ► But yeah, I don't notice that.

00:20:50 ◼   ► I'm not sure if I'm looking at it or not.

00:20:52 ◼   ► Regardless, the screen is incredible. I watched some videos on it. It was really nice.

00:20:57 ◼   ► It's not a lightweight computer, I would say, especially coming from an iPad Pro,

00:21:06 ◼   ► but also coming from Sylvia's previous 2017 MacBook Pro. This is a thicker, heavier computer,

00:21:15 ◼   ► and I had her hold the computer for a few minutes yesterday and she told me, "I mean, yeah, I'm gonna

00:21:22 ◼   ► get one but it's gonna bother me when I'm gonna throw these in my bag and I

00:21:27 ◼   ► need to go to my dance school how heavier this is gonna be and so I will

00:21:32 ◼   ► say I got used to it incredibly quick I have initially had this feeling this is

00:21:37 ◼   ► heavier I don't know about this and then within a couple of days I stopped

00:21:41 ◼   ► noticing I think when you hold it in your hands you feel the weight you put

00:21:46 ◼   ► it in a bag put that bag on your back it's not that much of a difference I

00:21:49 ◼   ► I think. That's my experience anyway.

00:21:52 ◼   ► Battery life is incredible. Honestly incredible.

00:21:56 ◼   ► Like, I've been using this all day, and including doing like the initial indexing of mail, photos,

00:22:05 ◼   ► you know, all the things that it needs to process up front, like my music library, all those things.

00:22:11 ◼   ► I've been testing Sidecar. I have been testing my recording setup.

00:22:18 ◼   ► In fact, I have sidecar going on right now even, and I'm not connected to battery.

00:22:24 ◼   ► So I've been doing the show on battery power.

00:22:27 ◼   ► I'm not connected to power and I still have 50 and I still have 51% battery left.

00:22:35 ◼   ► It's like how I cranked up the brightness.

00:22:38 ◼   ► I mean, it's wild.

00:22:40 ◼   ► What this could.

00:22:41 ◼   ► Yep.

00:22:41 ◼   ► And the funny thing is I think you have the one that has the worst battery life of the three.

00:22:47 ◼   ► like the theory of options you could have.

00:22:49 ◼   ► - I guess.

00:22:50 ◼   ► - The 14 inch with the M1 Max, which is what you have, right?

00:22:55 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:22:56 ◼   ► - That has the worst battery life of the three of them.

00:22:59 ◼   ► - Imagine if it was the best.

00:23:00 ◼   ► - And it's still incredible.

00:23:01 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:23:02 ◼   ► - That's the 16 inch, the 16 inch is the best.

00:23:04 ◼   ► - Right.

00:23:05 ◼   ► And I mean, and of course apps, they open incredibly fast,

00:23:10 ◼   ► especially the ones that are not being emulated

00:23:12 ◼   ► via Rosetta emulation.

00:23:14 ◼   ► I mean, you click on Mail and it just opens.

00:23:18 ◼   ► And you click on Photos and it opens.

00:23:21 ◼   ► Like, I'm not used to that kind of experience.

00:23:24 ◼   ► On my Mac Mini, I mean, it was a fast computer,

00:23:26 ◼   ► but you still got that occasional double bounce

00:23:30 ◼   ► in the dock when you click on an icon.

00:23:31 ◼   ► It's like, bounce, bounce, then it opens.

00:23:34 ◼   ► That doesn't happen anymore.

00:23:36 ◼   ► So that's very nice.

00:23:37 ◼   ► Now, oh, and it's a silver computer.

00:23:41 ◼   ► Looks nice.

00:23:42 ◼   ► I would have preferred Space Gray,

00:23:43 ◼   ► "Hey, Apple sends you a unit, you get the unit, and you keep quiet."

00:23:47 ◼   ► So it's a nice silver, so I'll take it.

00:23:52 ◼   ► Now, the software story is more interesting to me,

00:23:57 ◼   ► because I've been working on iPadOS for the past of, I don't know how many years, seven, eight.

00:24:03 ◼   ► But I'm fascinated by Monterey for a couple of reasons.

00:24:07 ◼   ► First is the ability, of course, to use on M1 computers,

00:24:11 ◼   ► on Apple silicon computers to use iPad and iPhone apps, which I've installed some of

00:24:17 ◼   ► them, but also of course in Monterey there's shortcuts. And so I was really intrigued by

00:24:22 ◼   ► that. Now, we've talked about this before, John has covered this before in his review,

00:24:29 ◼   ► Jason has talked about this on Upgrades and Six Colors. Shortcuts on the Mac is just weird,

00:24:37 ◼   ► and it should have been called a beta version of the app. There isn't a single feature that you can

00:24:44 ◼   ► point your finger to and say "that's why it's weird." It's a collection of rough and unfinished

00:24:51 ◼   ► UI elements or interactions with actions, missing actions. It's a bunch of unrelated things that all...

00:25:04 ◼   ► It's not like they seem unfinished. They are unfinished.

00:25:08 ◼   ► And it's exactly why you label that kind of product a beta.

00:25:12 ◼   ► Right? For example, Steven has covered the saddest UI element of macOS, which is the little dialogue

00:25:21 ◼   ► that pops up when you need to choose an item from a list. That is such a sad element, honestly, and

00:25:26 ◼   ► using it in practice is even worse. It's a horrible UI element. I tried to use MusicBot,

00:25:33 ◼   ► which is my shortcut for Apple Music that brings up a list of actions.

00:25:38 ◼   ► And that list is just so sad on the Mac.

00:25:41 ◼   ► But there's other things, like, for example, last night I was trying to...

00:25:45 ◼   ► You know, there's the action called "Run Shortcut".

00:25:49 ◼   ► It's an action that lets you run another shortcut.

00:25:52 ◼   ► And the shortcut name is a parameter, so you need to click into it.

00:25:57 ◼   ► And on iPhone and iPad, you click into it and you can choose

00:26:01 ◼   ► from your shortcuts the one you want to run. That doesn't work on the Mac. You click into it,

00:26:07 ◼   ► and it forces you to pick a variable. And it's like, no, that's not what you're supposed to do.

00:26:12 ◼   ► And that was very strange to interact with. I was very surprised by the lack of additional

00:26:21 ◼   ► UI control actions, meaning there are no actions to say, for example,

00:26:29 ◼   ► in this application, click this item in the menu bar.

00:26:34 ◼   ► Like, that kind of UI scripting that is so common in AppleScript or Automator,

00:26:40 ◼   ► I'm actually not sure if Automator had it, but BetterTouchTool, Keyboard Maestro,

00:26:45 ◼   ► all of these pre-existing automation utilities on the Mac, they had that kind of feature.

00:26:50 ◼   ► It's absent from shortcuts, unless you write some AppleScript and you do some UI scripting

00:26:56 ◼   ► manually on your own, which is not fun and I do not recommend that. That is absent. There are some

00:27:03 ◼   ► window management options in shortcuts for Mac, but they are so slow. Like, I couldn't believe

00:27:09 ◼   ► how slow they are to execute. There's one that is actually made by Apple, one shortcut featured in

00:27:15 ◼   ► the Shortcuts Gallery for macOS, that is like "Tile the last four windows", which is a fun idea. You

00:27:24 ◼   ► You take the last four windows that you've recently used on your computer

00:27:28 ◼   ► and you tile them as a grid on the screen.

00:27:31 ◼   ► That's fun, that's useful.

00:27:32 ◼   ► The problem is that it takes like 10 seconds to run on a MacBook Pro.

00:27:38 ◼   ► And it's just...

00:27:40 ◼   ► That, to me, seems like...

00:27:43 ◼   ► This is the brand new sort of...

00:27:45 ◼   ► The highlight of your macOS release this year, this new app.

00:27:50 ◼   ► the Mac version of a popular app coming from an iPhone and iPad, you've added some Mac-only

00:27:57 ◼   ► actions. You would think that those actions were super polished and featured high performance

00:28:04 ◼   ► and they were fast and intuitive, but they really aren't fast. I mean, it took me a few

00:28:12 ◼   ► minutes to put together the same action in BetterTouchTool, and it takes two seconds

00:28:17 ◼   ► to rearrange my windows, I can't believe that those actions in shortcuts are so slow.

00:28:24 ◼   ► And yeah, and I've been running into all kinds of issues, really from a performance perspective,

00:28:33 ◼   ► shortcuts on iPhone and iPad is so much faster to run shortcuts than shortcuts on the Mac.

00:28:41 ◼   ► the same shortcut is so much faster on iPhone and iPad than on a MacBook Pro, it's really

00:28:48 ◼   ► strange. I don't understand why that's the case. You would think that, if anything, it

00:28:53 ◼   ► should be faster on a MacBook Pro, but it's not. And so, this... Like, I'm gonna keep

00:29:01 ◼   ► playing around with this, because there are some really nice things that I like. Like,

00:29:04 ◼   ► For example, I like being able to trigger a shortcut with a global hotkey on Mac OS.

00:29:11 ◼   ► I like that there's menu bar access.

00:29:14 ◼   ► I like that there's some basic windowing integration.

00:29:17 ◼   ► I like that there's finder integration.

00:29:19 ◼   ► So I'm going to keep at it.

00:29:20 ◼   ► But boy, is it slow and unfinished.

00:29:24 ◼   ► You got to hope it's going to get better, right?

00:29:26 ◼   ► Like they're going to...

00:29:27 ◼   ► Next year.

00:29:28 ◼   ► Yeah, we'll do it next year.

00:29:30 ◼   ► I gather some other quick first impressions. This is like my first run experience with

00:29:35 ◼   ► macOS coming from HyperOS. When I installed Discord, I downloaded the Discord app from

00:29:43 ◼   ► the web, and I thought it was very strange that I got this dialogue saying, "To open

00:29:49 ◼   ► Discord, you need to install Rosetta." And I personally know what it is. I feel like

00:29:56 ◼   ► That kind of dialogue is more for people in the know.

00:30:00 ◼   ► Like, does the average user need to know what Rosetta is?

00:30:05 ◼   ► And do you need to see this dialogue?

00:30:07 ◼   ► It felt to me like this is supposed to happen in the background.

00:30:10 ◼   ► And also, why is it not pre-installed by default?

00:30:13 ◼   ► Like, why isn't the emulation stuff already in the OS?

00:30:17 ◼   ► And why do you need to show me that dialogue?

00:30:20 ◼   ► And I'm like, yeah, okay.

00:30:21 ◼   ► Yeah, I don't understand why that is needed to be...

00:30:25 ◼   ► Like, why don't I just include it?

00:30:26 ◼   ► I never got that, like why don't they just include it?

00:30:30 ◼   ► Would it make the machine worse?

00:30:34 ◼   ► Like I never really got that.

00:30:37 ◼   ► - Very quickly in setting up macOS,

00:30:40 ◼   ► you realize how incredibly more customizable it is

00:30:43 ◼   ► than iOS and IOS.

00:30:45 ◼   ► There are so many options.

00:30:47 ◼   ► There are so many things you can do, right?

00:30:49 ◼   ► But even without installing third-party apps,

00:30:53 ◼   ► and maybe this is something that I fully know

00:30:56 ◼   ► that this is going to sound so obvious to all of you.

00:30:59 ◼   ► But coming from iPadOS, you get that different perspective

00:31:03 ◼   ► of things.

00:31:05 ◼   ► Even the simple things, like so many preferences

00:31:09 ◼   ► for the dock on macOS.

00:31:12 ◼   ► Imagine if we had these many options for the dock on iPad.

00:31:16 ◼   ► We have the dock.

00:31:17 ◼   ► There's the dock on iPadOS.

00:31:20 ◼   ► But you don't have all those preferences.

00:31:22 ◼   ► And it's nice that you can customize the accent colors.

00:31:27 ◼   ► I really like the new UI color stuff

00:31:31 ◼   ► that they've done on macOS.

00:31:32 ◼   ► And I wish that there was more consistency there

00:31:35 ◼   ► in terms of system customizations

00:31:37 ◼   ► that you can apply on macOS.

00:31:39 ◼   ► I feel like those should be available

00:31:41 ◼   ► on iOS and iPadOS as well.

00:31:45 ◼   ► But yeah, you do realize very quickly,

00:31:46 ◼   ► oh, I can do all kinds of things.

00:31:48 ◼   ► Hot corners.

00:31:50 ◼   ► Like, I still love that feature.

00:31:51 ◼   ► I used to be super into that feature years ago, and I was very pleased to see that it's

00:31:56 ◼   ► still here.

00:31:57 ◼   ► It actually gained a couple of new tricks.

00:32:00 ◼   ► You can now summon Quick Note, which I'm going to talk about in a minute.

00:32:03 ◼   ► But yeah, hot corners, that kind of stuff.

00:32:06 ◼   ► Why is it not an iPadOS?

00:32:08 ◼   ► It should be an iPadOS.

00:32:09 ◼   ► There's a pointer now.

00:32:10 ◼   ► I should be able to take advantage of all these features.

00:32:16 ◼   ► There are also so many different settings to grant permission for the whole security

00:32:25 ◼   ► and privacy or accessibility stuff.

00:32:29 ◼   ► Oh my, like any...

00:32:31 ◼   ► It seems like every time I download something that is semi-audio or video related, I need

00:32:39 ◼   ► to grant permission to do...

00:32:42 ◼   ► I'm not even reading the dialogues anymore.

00:32:44 ◼   ► I'm like, "Yeah, okay.

00:32:45 ◼   ► I'm either typing in my password or I'm holding the finger on the Touch ID button, whatever.

00:32:52 ◼   ► Just let me in.

00:32:53 ◼   ► You know, like, if I told you I want to use Discord, just let me use Discord.

00:32:56 ◼   ► Like, instead of being typing in my password like 20 times in the past 24 hours, and I

00:33:03 ◼   ► don't even know what I'm--

00:33:04 ◼   ► And I assume you had to install a-- when you put Audio Hijack, you have to install the--

00:33:11 ◼   ► That was an adventure because I had to reboot in recovery mode, and from recovery mode,

00:33:19 ◼   ► open the system utilities, and from there, I had to disable full security, and it was

00:33:27 ◼   ► a whole thing.

00:33:28 ◼   ► I needed to follow an online tutorial by Rogamiba, like all the steps that I needed to follow.

00:33:34 ◼   ► You get the sense that Apple really dislikes all these things that were pre-existing to

00:33:40 ◼   ► to macOS before, but at the same time, they also know they cannot get rid of them. And

00:33:48 ◼   ► so instead, they put in all these different roadblocks that you need to work around and

00:33:53 ◼   ► you need to grant multiple levels of permission to. I just wish there was a single, easy-to-do

00:34:01 ◼   ► like kill switch for these kind of things. Like, let me put in my password five times,

00:34:09 ◼   ► maybe, in a row, but then don't ask me anymore for anything? Like, I wish that it was like

00:34:15 ◼   ► that. Like, I'm gonna do it. Like, let me do a one-time thing, even if it lasts five

00:34:22 ◼   ► minutes but I don't have to do it anymore. Instead, this is like a constant drip of authentication,

00:34:30 ◼   ► grant permission, typing your password, touch it. It's like, enough, all right? So that

00:34:36 ◼   ► was annoying.

00:34:37 ◼   ► Also, when you get a new Mac, you have to do it again, even if you do Migration Assistant.

00:34:43 ◼   ► Oh, I didn't know that.

00:34:45 ◼   ► I didn't do the Migration Assistant.

00:34:46 ◼   ► I started fresh.

00:34:48 ◼   ► So this is the last thing I want to mention, maybe.

00:34:53 ◼   ► Window management on macOS is bad.

00:34:57 ◼   ► It's really bad by default.

00:34:59 ◼   ► Yeah, I just gave in and just let everything overlap.

00:35:03 ◼   ► I've just given up, and it just is what it is.

00:35:06 ◼   ► I am a big believer in the snap behavior from Windows.

00:35:11 ◼   ► That is why I installed Better Touch Tool immediately,

00:35:15 ◼   ► because it comes bundled with that kind of feature,

00:35:17 ◼   ► where you grab a window, you drag it toward one area

00:35:22 ◼   ► of the screen, and it creates a window that is like half

00:35:26 ◼   ► the size, or it fills one quarter of the screen,

00:35:28 ◼   ► that kind of behavior.

00:35:30 ◼   ► But window management on the Mac,

00:35:32 ◼   ► it's not bad because I don't understand the overlapping.

00:35:34 ◼   ► I'm fine with the overlapping. I struggle with the rearranging of windows.

00:35:41 ◼   ► Like, I still don't understand what the green button does, for example.

00:35:46 ◼   ► I fundamentally dislike the fullscreen mode, because when I think of full...

00:35:51 ◼   ► Like, what I want to do is, I just want to take a window.

00:35:55 ◼   ► I always want to stay in the same desktop, right?

00:35:58 ◼   ► I don't want to switch spaces, whatever they're called.

00:36:01 ◼   ► I just want to take a window and make it the biggest possible size, starting from the top left corner of the screen,

00:36:08 ◼   ► until it fills the entire screen with the dock being on the right.

00:36:13 ◼   ► That's what I just want to have one app at a time,

00:36:16 ◼   ► but not in full screen, because I want to get the menu bar, you know...

00:36:20 ◼   ► Double-click the top of the window.

00:36:23 ◼   ► But it doesn't do that. It doesn't do that.

00:36:26 ◼   ► Depending on the app, it will. Like if you just double-click the top of the window.

00:36:31 ◼   ► No, for me, like if I double click Safari, it doesn't fill it until the very edge of the dock.

00:36:37 ◼   ► What you want Federico is to hold down the option key and then go over the green button and select

00:36:43 ◼   ► zoom. Zoom? Yeah, so the green button has multiple modes, enter full screen or tile left or right,

00:36:51 ◼   ► and then if you hold option you can zoom. It does the same thing with as the double clicking.

00:36:57 ◼   ► it doesn't fill the whole screen from the left to the edge of the dock.

00:37:04 ◼   ► It doesn't do that. It just, like, it stops.

00:37:07 ◼   ► -Yeah, it's right. I'm trying it. -It stops before.

00:37:10 ◼   ► And, look, I just want to have a very easy way to say,

00:37:14 ◼   ► "Okay, random window, become quote-unquote full screen."

00:37:20 ◼   ► Where by full screen, I mean, feel the screen, maybe.

00:37:25 ◼   ► Like, because I don't want to see other overlapping windows.

00:37:28 ◼   ► I just want to see you, but I don't want to use full screen

00:37:30 ◼   ► mode because full screen mode takes me out of the current space.

00:37:33 ◼   ► Windows does this in a good way where you just drag the window to the top of the

00:37:37 ◼   ► screen, like you would do if you were trying to change space and it just goes,

00:37:41 ◼   ► it spills the whole screen up.

00:37:42 ◼   ► Yes.

00:37:43 ◼   ► Like, even trying to, like coming from

00:37:47 ◼   ► iPadOS, Split View, which is available on macOS, is so confusing.

00:37:53 ◼   ► You can tile windows to the left or right by holding down whatever, the green button.

00:38:00 ◼   ► But it doesn't work like on iPadOS, where...

00:38:05 ◼   ► On iPadOS, when I tile a window to the left or right, I can then choose a different app

00:38:12 ◼   ► that I want to put on the other side with the dock, with the home screen, or with Spotlight.

00:38:18 ◼   ► Like, I can either tap an icon on the home screen, or I can grab an icon from Spotlight

00:38:27 ◼   ► or the dock, and I can drag it to tile the other side.

00:38:33 ◼   ► On the Mac, on iPad, on the Mac, when you tile the first window to one side of the screen,

00:38:40 ◼   ► on the other side, you see all your other windows that are currently open.

00:38:47 ◼   ► You don't see the dock.

00:38:49 ◼   ► You can't use Spotlight like on iPadOS to search, drag, and place.

00:38:55 ◼   ► You only see those currently open windows, but some of them, they say, "Not available

00:39:02 ◼   ► for SplitView."

00:39:03 ◼   ► It's just so confusing, honestly.

00:39:05 ◼   ► It's honestly so confusing.

00:39:08 ◼   ► Why?

00:39:09 ◼   ► Like, why is this so different from iPadOS?

00:39:12 ◼   ► I just want to take two apps and place them side by side.

00:39:16 ◼   ► I don't understand how something could be not available for Split View, because you

00:39:20 ◼   ► can move the windows however you want.

00:39:23 ◼   ► That doesn't make any sense to me.

00:39:24 ◼   ► I was trying this today and there was a little area at the bottom of the right side of the

00:39:28 ◼   ► screen that said "Not available for Split View".

00:39:31 ◼   ► It's like, what?

00:39:34 ◼   ► It honestly, and I cannot believe I'm saying this, but I honestly prefer the drag and drop

00:39:40 ◼   ► multitasking on an iPad OS.

00:39:42 ◼   ► so much easier to just say "Yeah, take icon, boom, place, drag, done." There's all these

00:39:47 ◼   ► preconditions that need to happen on macOS to make Split View happen. And also, when

00:39:57 ◼   ► it happens, it's not the kind of Split View that I want. So that's still my problem. It's

00:40:02 ◼   ► not the kind of Split View that I want, which is one window on the left, other window on

00:40:06 ◼   ► the right, dock on the right. I'm still in the desktop space. No, it takes me to a separate

00:40:13 ◼   ► space. It's also honestly confusing. So I'm just using BetterTouchTool.

00:40:18 ◼   ► And I just want to just reconfirm to everyone who's listening to this, Federico knows about

00:40:22 ◼   ► the apps that you can use to do this. He mentioned he used one, BetterTouchTool. Everyone uses

00:40:27 ◼   ► their own app. He's not saying this doesn't exist. He's saying it should exist in MacOS,

00:40:32 ◼   ► right?

00:40:33 ◼   ► I mean, it's funny to me the two things you've complained about the which are both totally valid the security preferences

00:40:40 ◼   ► BS when you set up a new computer and then the window management both of that those things have so much

00:40:48 ◼   ► Legacy baggage in them like mission control only exists as a brand to pull together

00:40:54 ◼   ► spaces and split-screen all this stuff they've added over time and

00:40:59 ◼   ► It's just gone out of hand

00:41:02 ◼   ► It's ridiculous.

00:41:04 ◼   ► And you shouldn't have to get, like, I know third-party apps.

00:41:08 ◼   ► The thing that I wanted to do here was, I'm coming from iPadOS, where those third-party apps

00:41:14 ◼   ► cannot exist, and I want to see what the default macOS experience is like. You shouldn't have to get a third-party app to get

00:41:21 ◼   ► a better windowing system, to get a better multitasking system.

00:41:27 ◼   ► that defeats the point of like the OS maker should do a better job.

00:41:33 ◼   ► And I honestly think this is also confusing.

00:41:35 ◼   ► Yes, I'm pleased that you can modify the system.

00:41:38 ◼   ► I am doing it myself, but that's besides the point.

00:41:42 ◼   ► The point is the default behavior should be better.

00:41:45 ◼   ► And this feels like a confusing mix of different metaphors,

00:41:50 ◼   ► some that are somewhat familiar with iPadOS,

00:41:54 ◼   ► but they don't quite behave the same way,

00:41:56 ◼   ► and some that are just so perplexing, like not available for split view.

00:42:00 ◼   ► How is that possible?

00:42:02 ◼   ► Anyway, very last thing before we move on.

00:42:05 ◼   ► Did they forget about QuickNote on Monterey?

00:42:09 ◼   ► Have you guys tried QuickNote on Monterey?

00:42:13 ◼   ► No, because I can just copy and paste or use the share extension.

00:42:17 ◼   ► Like, I don't know why it's needed on the Mac.

00:42:20 ◼   ► So you can use it?

00:42:22 ◼   ► Like, I assign Quick Note to the bottom right hot corner,

00:42:27 ◼   ► sort of like the bottom...

00:42:28 ◼   ► -Yeah, it's the default. -Yeah.

00:42:30 ◼   ► It's there by default.

00:42:31 ◼   ► It's kind of mimicking iPadOS.

00:42:33 ◼   ► But when you do that, you get this little floating thing

00:42:37 ◼   ► that says "New Quick Note."

00:42:40 ◼   ► And I click it, and it opens the first note

00:42:44 ◼   ► that I have in the Quick Notes folder.

00:42:46 ◼   ► I don't think there's a way to switch

00:42:48 ◼   ► between multiple Quick Notes.

00:42:51 ◼   ► Like on IPRS, you get the little page indicators,

00:42:53 ◼   ► you get the little dots that let you move across multiple Quick Notes.

00:42:57 ◼   ► It doesn't seem like it's possible here.

00:43:00 ◼   ► This feature on the Mac, it feels like someone on the Notes team was like, in late July,

00:43:07 ◼   ► was like, "Oh, no, we forgot to do the Quick Note thing on Monterey.

00:43:12 ◼   ► What's the easiest way that we can ship it?"

00:43:14 ◼   ► And I guess it's like, "Get it done by mid-August!"

00:43:19 ◼   ► you know, and this is what we got. But like, this is not the real QuickNote.

00:43:24 ◼   ► But it's completely different from iPadOS. It doesn't have the same benefits of being able to

00:43:30 ◼   ► switch across multiple QuickNotes. It's too bad. So yeah.

00:43:36 ◼   ► So what you're saying is you want the real QuickNote to stand up?

00:43:39 ◼   ► No, what I'm saying is that there's this incredible hardware and this incredible

00:43:46 ◼   ► degree of customization and I cannot wait to dig in again and spend some time with the MacBook Pro

00:43:52 ◼   ► and with shortcuts. But shortcuts is a beta, it's in a bad state, and I'm very surprised by how

00:44:00 ◼   ► inconsistent and unintuitive window management is on macOS. I have something weird and funny for you.

00:44:09 ◼   ► So the bottom right corner for Quick Note doesn't work for me unless I'm holding the command key.

00:44:15 ◼   ► Why? Don't know. Okay. But it's what it says in Hot Corners. If I go to Hot Corners, it

00:44:24 ◼   ► says Command Quick Note. And if I hold the Command key and go to the bottom right, the

00:44:30 ◼   ► Quick Note window pops up. If I don't do that, it doesn't pop up. I don't know why. I don't

00:44:35 ◼   ► know why. I mean, I get the option to turn Command on or off by pressing the Command

00:44:40 ◼   ► key. Okay. I don't know why mine's set like that. I didn't change it. Friends don't

00:44:46 ◼   ► let friends use Quick Note. Well, welcome back to the Mac Federico. Yeah, I'm excited

00:44:51 ◼   ► to see what you do with it. How many people have I upset today? Probably a lot.

00:44:56 ◼   ► But like, those people are also probably pretty happy that you're using

00:45:02 ◼   ► a Mac, so. Yeah, yeah. It's, yeah, I really want to make some, I really want to make

00:45:07 ◼   ► some Mac shortcuts and look into that better

00:45:10 ◼   ► touch tool integration.

00:45:11 ◼   ► Yeah, I have a bunch of ideas, so it's gonna be fun.

00:45:14 ◼   ► Yeah.

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00:47:43 ◼   ► - So, "Roasting Time." - ♪ Roasting time ♪

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00:47:56 ◼   ► Anyway, roasting time.

00:47:58 ◼   ► So we are gonna be roasting iPhone home screens today.

00:48:02 ◼   ► So we've done this two times in the past.

00:48:04 ◼   ► We've roasted menus, menu bars.

00:48:07 ◼   ► - Roasted menus.

00:48:08 ◼   ► - Menu bars.

00:48:09 ◼   ► - I don't like the edit menu in Tweetbot, burn.

00:48:11 ◼   ► - The issue is the next one is roast my dock.

00:48:14 ◼   ► And I have to be so careful about how I say that every time.

00:48:17 ◼   ► I don't know why, but my brain wants to say other things.

00:48:20 ◼   ► And I just don't want people to make any compliments

00:48:25 ◼   ► about my decking.

00:48:26 ◼   ► It's like, I would hate that, you know?

00:48:28 ◼   ► - Right. - 'Cause I don't have any.

00:48:29 ◼   ► - Makes sense.

00:48:30 ◼   ► - So we're doing iPhone home screens this time.

00:48:33 ◼   ► The three of us have taken screenshots of our home screens

00:48:36 ◼   ► and we have put them in the document.

00:48:38 ◼   ► (coughs)

00:48:40 ◼   ► Sorry.

00:48:41 ◼   ► (both laughing)

00:48:44 ◼   ► I was trying to hold it back and I couldn't do it.

00:48:46 ◼   ► - Yeah, that's good.

00:48:47 ◼   ► - So we have taken some screenshots,

00:48:49 ◼   ► we've put them in the document.

00:48:50 ◼   ► We haven't looked at them,

00:48:51 ◼   ► so there's just links for the three of us

00:48:53 ◼   ► and we haven't looked at them.

00:48:54 ◼   ► and we're just gonna take this in turns as we do.

00:48:56 ◼   ► The way that we're gonna decide who goes first,

00:48:59 ◼   ► second and third,

00:49:00 ◼   ► and we're gonna do a dice by pCalc three-sided dice.

00:49:04 ◼   ► - Look, if this reads out in one of our spouses' voices,

00:49:09 ◼   ► I'm gonna quit the internet,

00:49:12 ◼   ► because James didn't know we were doing this today,

00:49:14 ◼   ► and if he has somehow programmed it this quickly, I quit.

00:49:18 ◼   ► Like, I'm just done.

00:49:18 ◼   ► I'm leaving the internet.

00:49:20 ◼   ► - Technically, it isn't a three-sided dice,

00:49:23 ◼   ► So I'm gonna use a four-sided diet

00:49:24 ◼   ► and it's gonna be one, two and three.

00:49:26 ◼   ► I will be one, Stephen will be two, Federico will be three.

00:49:30 ◼   ► - You're just assuming you can assign?

00:49:32 ◼   ► - It's how we're linked in the document.

00:49:34 ◼   ► We already have Myke, Stephen, Federico.

00:49:37 ◼   ► All right, so first is gonna be?

00:49:40 ◼   ► - Three.

00:49:41 ◼   ► - Federico's going first.

00:49:42 ◼   ► All right, so Federico goes first.

00:49:47 ◼   ► So let's take a look at this.

00:49:48 ◼   ► What have we got here?

00:49:49 ◼   ► We've got main and additional.

00:49:51 ◼   ► Wait, do we need to do the rest of the order?

00:49:53 ◼   ► Or we'll just do it...

00:49:54 ◼   ► Nah, we'll just get to it when we get to it.

00:49:56 ◼   ► We don't need to do it now.

00:49:57 ◼   ► Wow.

00:49:58 ◼   ► Alright, so what is main and additional?

00:50:01 ◼   ► What is this?

00:50:02 ◼   ► Additional is just additional pages based on focus modes.

00:50:06 ◼   ► Which is the...

00:50:07 ◼   ► Oh yeah, you're a big focus guy.

00:50:09 ◼   ► I just listened to App Stories today and Federico's doing some wild stuff.

00:50:15 ◼   ► At some point we're going to get into some focus mode inspo, but that time is not the day.

00:50:19 ◼   ► we'll do the inspo eventually. But yeah, so the idea is that I keep a single page on my iPhone at

00:50:24 ◼   ► all times, and on the iPad. Like I always have just one page on, and on the left of the page

00:50:31 ◼   ► there's the Today page, and on the right there's the App Library, which I never use. I wish that I

00:50:36 ◼   ► could turn it off, or I wish that the right page was Search or something else. Oh okay, so we have

00:50:42 ◼   ► the home screen and we have the Today page where you're putting a bunch of widgets on it. That's in

00:50:46 ◼   ► the main. And then additional, there's three?

00:50:49 ◼   ► Yeah, I just showed off the, I believe, the music page, the reading page, and the shortcut

00:50:57 ◼   ► that lets me switch between different focus modes to give you an idea. So this is the

00:51:02 ◼   ► same approach that I described on App Stories where on both the iPhone and iPad, I keep

00:51:09 ◼   ► a shortcuts widget at the very top on the iPhone, it's in a corner of the screen on

00:51:14 ◼   ► an iPad that has two shortcuts, one called Focus Modes, the other called Reset Focus.

00:51:22 ◼   ► Now, the idea here is that my devices are always in a Focus Mode. There's a default

00:51:28 ◼   ► Focus Mode that I called Personal. I describe this approach on AppSeries, but to sum up,

00:51:35 ◼   ► I'm always in this default sort of Do Not Disturb mode, where I allow my close friends,

00:51:41 ◼   ► you both, John, my mom, Sylvia, and critical apps like Home, Pushcut, Shortcuts, and my

00:51:55 ◼   ► heart rate notifications from the watch, but I basically block everything else. So I am

00:52:01 ◼   ► always in this kind of "do not disturb" mode that allows a selection of people and

00:52:08 ◼   ► apps to notify me. And of course I also allow WhatsApp because I want to see if my friends

00:52:13 ◼   ► or Sylvia are texting me. I also have a collection of activity-based focus modes. And the ones

00:52:23 ◼   ► that I use most on my iPad and on the iPhone are the music and the reading modes. So the

00:52:30 ◼   ► idea here is that when I want to just relax to read something or to listen to some music,

00:52:36 ◼   ► I want to block more apps and I want to silence more people. So for example, in the music

00:52:43 ◼   ► mode...

00:52:44 ◼   ► It's got a better way to say that.

00:52:46 ◼   ► Well, it's what it is. I don't want to see notifications from... There's a higher threshold

00:52:55 ◼   ► of disturbance that I allow. So in that mode, for example, I only allow my mom and Sylvia

00:53:04 ◼   ► and no one else.

00:53:05 ◼   ► Wow.

00:53:06 ◼   ► If I'm listening to an album, it's fine.

00:53:10 ◼   ► I'll catch up with you guys later.

00:53:13 ◼   ► But you know, those 30 minutes for myself,

00:53:15 ◼   ► I feel like I deserve those.

00:53:17 ◼   ► So now the trick here is,

00:53:21 ◼   ► what I really like about my approach is that

00:53:23 ◼   ► that widget that is in the top spot on my home screen

00:53:28 ◼   ► is always there.

00:53:29 ◼   ► On the other pages, I always put the widget there.

00:53:33 ◼   ► You may ask why.

00:53:36 ◼   ► The idea is that I want to give the illusion to myself, really.

00:53:40 ◼   ► I want to trick my brain into thinking that I'm not switching between multiple pages.

00:53:47 ◼   ► I am refreshing the current page with a different set of icons and widgets.

00:53:51 ◼   ► >> And different apps and widgets.

00:53:53 ◼   ► >> Because it creates that kind of illusion.

00:53:55 ◼   ► If you switch between focus modes using shortcuts, and if you reset to the default focus mode using a different shortcut,

00:54:02 ◼   ► it doesn't look like you're moving left and right between pages.

00:54:06 ◼   ► It's always refreshing the one page.

00:54:09 ◼   ► And that's a very nice visual trick.

00:54:12 ◼   ► I really like it.

00:54:12 ◼   ► And it's the same on my iPad,

00:54:14 ◼   ► it's on the iPad Pro, on the Mini, and on the iPhone.

00:54:19 ◼   ► Underneath those two widgets, focus modes and reset.

00:54:24 ◼   ► I'm just going to say right here,

00:54:25 ◼   ► this is too much explanation and not enough roasting.

00:54:28 ◼   ► I just want to let you know this.

00:54:31 ◼   ► This isn't like Federico gets to talk about his grand vision here.

00:54:34 ◼   ► It's Steven and Myke get to say,

00:54:37 ◼   ► "What on earth is going on with Federico's home screen?"

00:54:40 ◼   ► You're not jumping in, so I'm just going to talk.

00:54:43 ◼   ► Well, I was waiting for you to finish, and you weren't finishing,

00:54:46 ◼   ► so now I've jumped in, because it's time for me to...

00:54:49 ◼   ► It's time for us to tear this thing apart.

00:54:51 ◼   ► Where's your task manager?

00:54:52 ◼   ► How do you know what to do during the day?

00:54:54 ◼   ► It's reminders, and it's in the left

00:54:58 ◼   ► of the, I'm using, so in the dock,

00:55:02 ◼   ► the icon with the arrow facing up

00:55:05 ◼   ► is an app called Remind Me.

00:55:08 ◼   ► Super easy way to add new reminders.

00:55:10 ◼   ► And then I-- - I was gonna ask,

00:55:12 ◼   ► it's a beautiful icon.

00:55:14 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's real pretty.

00:55:16 ◼   ► And on the left, there's the--

00:55:17 ◼   ► - What is it called?

00:55:18 ◼   ► Remind Me.

00:55:19 ◼   ► - Remind Me.

00:55:20 ◼   ► It's fast entry for reminders.

00:55:23 ◼   ► It supports natural language,

00:55:25 ◼   ► and it's got like, you can have little presets for times.

00:55:28 ◼   ► And you can set priorities, which I use for the critical and soon smart list.

00:55:35 ◼   ► That is one new feature of iOS 15.

00:55:38 ◼   ► So there's a widget for that.

00:55:40 ◼   ► It's impossible to find this app with a Google search.

00:55:43 ◼   ► Yeah, this just-- I cannot.

00:55:45 ◼   ► You're going to have to give us a link to this one, because, yeah, that

00:55:48 ◼   ► is an unfindable application.

00:55:51 ◼   ► It's a really nice icon.

00:55:52 ◼   ► I thought this was like some Federico Vittucci special,

00:55:56 ◼   ► let me create my own icon for an Obsidian explosion.

00:56:00 ◼   ► No, no.

00:56:00 ◼   ► It isn't.

00:56:03 ◼   ► Speaking of which, Obsidian in the dock, huh?

00:56:05 ◼   ► Yes, yeah, I spend a lot of time in Obsidian every day.

00:56:10 ◼   ► It's where I take notes, write, save thoughts.

00:56:14 ◼   ► I don't do the thing, tending to your digital garden.

00:56:19 ◼   ► I think that's a bunch of--

00:56:22 ◼   ► Zetacastan.

00:56:24 ◼   ► Why I just don't understand why you need two selections of shortcuts.

00:56:29 ◼   ► You could have so many more icons on your home screen.

00:56:32 ◼   ► If Apple frames is like dashboard menu, whatever that is,

00:56:36 ◼   ► all that stuff was just one swipe away under the main shortcuts, which it,

00:56:41 ◼   ► I understand you want that to be consistent across the focus modes.

00:56:43 ◼   ► I think that's very clever, but you're just like double shortcut it all the way.

00:56:47 ◼   ► I don't understand the question.

00:56:53 ◼   ► You have on your main home screen, you have two separate short card widgets.

00:56:57 ◼   ► Make it a stack.

00:56:58 ◼   ► No, I dislike stacks because I always forget that they exist.

00:57:04 ◼   ► I don't like the way they are designed.

00:57:07 ◼   ► I think stacks are badly done and useless.

00:57:09 ◼   ► So you have like an object permanence issue.

00:57:12 ◼   ► We also have talked about the elephant in the room.

00:57:16 ◼   ► You're using light mode on your phone.

00:57:19 ◼   ► That hurts me.

00:57:22 ◼   ► I don't care.

00:57:23 ◼   ► So...

00:57:25 ◼   ► Fair enough. This is good.

00:57:26 ◼   ► This is good Roasting Energy.

00:57:28 ◼   ► Dark mode is also...

00:57:31 ◼   ► Well, okay, now some people like dark mode.

00:57:34 ◼   ► I feel like dark mode has a bunch of problems when it comes to low contrast

00:57:38 ◼   ► between UI elements.

00:57:40 ◼   ► I prefer the contrast of light mode.

00:57:42 ◼   ► I've never noticed a low contrast issue with dark mode.

00:57:46 ◼   ► Well, you know, yeah.

00:57:48 ◼   ► What is a Marvis?

00:57:51 ◼   ► It's an Apple Music client. It's an Apple Music player.

00:57:55 ◼   ► So Marvis is what I...

00:57:59 ◼   ► So, okay, this is going to sound ridiculous, but...

00:58:02 ◼   ► Federico, I just want you to know,

00:58:05 ◼   ► so much of what you've said to most people sounds ridiculous already.

00:58:09 ◼   ► So we're in the territory anyway, so you can just keep going.

00:58:12 ◼   ► Alright, so for the past two months, I've been using last.fm again.

00:58:17 ◼   ► And I subscribed.

00:58:18 ◼   ► No, I wasn't ready for it.

00:58:19 ◼   ► I was wrong. What I said was wrong. What you said was ridiculous.

00:58:25 ◼   ► No, hold on because it gets worse. It gets worse.

00:58:29 ◼   ► Are you scrubblin?

00:58:30 ◼   ► I subscribed to Last.fm Pro.

00:58:33 ◼   ► Oh my god, he's scrubblin baby. He's back on the scrubbles.

00:58:38 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:58:39 ◼   ► Oh, they still call it scrubbles as well, huh? I'm just on the website.

00:58:43 ◼   ► They do. If you go to Last.fm...

00:58:45 ◼   ► Oh, god! I'm not gonna put Last.fm in the show notes, because it will tip it off to people.

00:58:51 ◼   ► No one should have to have that spoiled for them.

00:58:54 ◼   ► Marvis can scrabble by default.

00:58:56 ◼   ► Oh, boy. Why?

00:58:58 ◼   ► Because, look, Jason Tate from Chorus.fm, which is my favorite music website, he got me back into this, so he's to blame. Jason is to blame.

00:59:08 ◼   ► But I actually really like how they give you weekly and monthly stats about the music you listen to.

00:59:15 ◼   ► I really like that idea. You get this fan, this really beautiful breakdown of the songs, the albums, and the artists that you've been into lately.

00:59:23 ◼   ► It's a, if you care about music, it's a nice way to see how your habits are shifting.

00:59:30 ◼   ► And I fully, like...

00:59:32 ◼   ► So it is a third-party Apple Music client.

00:59:36 ◼   ► Which is great in and of itself, regardless of the scrolling that is built in by default.

00:59:43 ◼   ► It's a highly customizable client that lets you put together your own view, basically.

00:59:49 ◼   ► And so when I open Marvis, I see like, I was able to put together a section that is "My

00:59:56 ◼   ► Recently Played Albums".

00:59:58 ◼   ► And then you can do "My Recently Added Albums".

01:00:02 ◼   ► And then you can do "Show me the last 10 songs from this playlist."

01:00:06 ◼   ► Like you can design your own homepage, and it's really well done.

01:00:11 ◼   ► But then it also scrabbles.

01:00:12 ◼   ► Do you have a custom icon for Marvis?

01:00:14 ◼   ► No, it's one of the default ones that you can use.

01:00:18 ◼   ► Oh, yeah, that's what I meant.

01:00:19 ◼   ► Sorry, because the one in the App Store is not that one.

01:00:21 ◼   ► I wanted to make sure I was putting the right application on it.

01:00:24 ◼   ► But that's from the...

01:00:25 ◼   ► Yeah, the default one from the App Store is ugly.

01:00:27 ◼   ► But this one is really pretty.

01:00:28 ◼   ► Myke, get a load of this.

01:00:30 ◼   ► I'm on their app store page.

01:00:31 ◼   ► Uh huh.

01:00:32 ◼   ► Interact with your music and fall in love with your library all over again.

01:00:36 ◼   ► That's featured on Mac stories.

01:00:39 ◼   ► Where is the editorial clarity and transparency?

01:00:44 ◼   ► There's none.

01:00:45 ◼   ► Big Marvis money.

01:00:46 ◼   ► Oh, tweetbot.

01:00:48 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:00:49 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:00:50 ◼   ► He's on Twitter all the time.

01:00:51 ◼   ► He says he's not, but he is all the time.

01:00:54 ◼   ► No, no, no, no.

01:00:55 ◼   ► It's more of the tweetbot is interesting to me.

01:00:57 ◼   ► Not Twitter.

01:00:59 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:01:00 ◼   ► When did that happen?

01:01:03 ◼   ► Two months ago.

01:01:04 ◼   ► You guys were busy with the... you were not paying attention to me.

01:01:08 ◼   ► You don't pay attention to me anymore.

01:01:10 ◼   ► I'm not...

01:01:11 ◼   ► Are you asking if I look where you tweet from?

01:01:14 ◼   ► I look where you tweet from.

01:01:16 ◼   ► Sometimes.

01:01:17 ◼   ► It's creepy.

01:01:18 ◼   ► I take a look at your screenshots.

01:01:22 ◼   ► Just kinda wanna keep an eye on you and see what you're up to.

01:01:26 ◼   ► You know?

01:01:27 ◼   ► look at your screenshots but I didn't see how long I've been looking at this screenshot for the last 15

01:01:31 ◼   ► minutes and didn't recognize Tweetbot was there. I've shared my home screen a bunch you could have caught Tweetbot

01:01:37 ◼   ► weeks ago. But I just said I'm not very good at finding it. It's all these blue birds they look the same to me

01:01:43 ◼   ► what am I supposed to say? Why Tweetbot? I think they're doing some really nice things with now that they are

01:01:49 ◼   ► subscription based I like that they are updating frequently and I realized about myself

01:01:55 ◼   ► myself, I want to try Timeline Sync again. Like, I want to try different ways to use

01:02:02 ◼   ► Twitter again, which is, I catch up with Twitter at different moments of the day. And that's

01:02:10 ◼   ► impossible to do unless you have Timeline Sync. You could use the algorithmic timeline

01:02:15 ◼   ► on Twitter, but that's not really the point. The other way to do it, and I'm not saying

01:02:20 ◼   ► I'm right or wrong, but the other way to do it is, what I do is, I just don't care about

01:02:24 ◼   ► reading anything everything anymore but the thing is I'm not saying that like

01:02:28 ◼   ► I'm better or worse than anybody I'm just I just gave up on that and I get it

01:02:33 ◼   ► but I realized I I was I had missed a few things like interesting articles and

01:02:39 ◼   ► apps yeah and and John kept like by the fifth time that John told me oh didn't

01:02:46 ◼   ► you see on Twitter I'm like no I must have missed it I realized something had

01:02:51 ◼   ► to change. Really people needed to send things to you in case you did actually

01:02:56 ◼   ► miss it. You know? This is why in case you missed it exists.

01:03:02 ◼   ► Because of this situation. Mail, your mail, I don't really have much to say about that but I just

01:03:10 ◼   ► don't understand how people can use the mail app and get by life. I don't like

01:03:15 ◼   ► the placement of the shortcuts icon because the color of the icon like it's

01:03:20 ◼   ► eaten by the wallpaper?

01:03:22 ◼   ► Yeah, look at that.

01:03:23 ◼   ► I need more contrast between the icon and the position of the wallpaper.

01:03:27 ◼   ► I like the wallpaper, you know, you've been in a very like chill...

01:03:30 ◼   ► Is this a Federico Vittucci gradient like creation?

01:03:34 ◼   ► I think so. I think it was made with shortcuts actually, yeah.

01:03:38 ◼   ► Very nice. It's good. It looks real good.

01:03:41 ◼   ► So you're using in your Today view, which is very funny to me how extensively you're using the Today view.

01:03:46 ◼   ► Maybe more than ever it seems like at this point, which is very intriguing.

01:03:49 ◼   ► You're using the widgets the widget for show me some apps was it

01:03:55 ◼   ► Because all the series all that Siri suggests is apps so it may as well just be called show me some apps

01:04:05 ◼   ► It's also funny how it looks like a double height dock. You know what? I don't like

01:04:09 ◼   ► How the two badge? Yes. Oh my god slightly be breaking outside of the border of the widget

01:04:16 ◼   ► It's so broken

01:04:19 ◼   ► - It's horrible. - Who would let that happen?

01:04:21 ◼   ► - Apple! - It's horrible.

01:04:22 ◼   ► [Laughter]

01:04:24 ◼   ► There's a way to deal with this.

01:04:25 ◼   ► Honestly, my main problem with my home screen

01:04:27 ◼   ► is that I wish I could put another row of icons in.

01:04:32 ◼   ► And there's a space for it.

01:04:34 ◼   ► Like, look at the empty space

01:04:38 ◼   ► between the dock and the second row of icons.

01:04:43 ◼   ► I wish that this home screen was a little tighter

01:04:45 ◼   ► and that I could put in more icons.

01:04:49 ◼   ► I have a whole bunch of problems with widget layouts and widget sizes and the home screen grid,

01:04:54 ◼   ► but this is the worst one in my mind, which is, let me have more density for icons.

01:05:02 ◼   ► Or maybe even five icons in the dock.

01:05:05 ◼   ► I don't understand why they have to be so spaced out.

01:05:08 ◼   ► Like, let me put in a fifth one.

01:05:10 ◼   ► Yeah, they let you put 116 in the dock on the iPad.

01:05:13 ◼   ► The iPad Mini is ridiculous. You need a magnifying glass to get it out.

01:05:17 ◼   ► And in here, you just know just four because of the original iPhone.

01:05:23 ◼   ► I don't care about the original iPhone anymore.

01:05:25 ◼   ► This is not 2008.

01:05:27 ◼   ► Let me put 10 icons on the iPhone.

01:05:29 ◼   ► I don't care.

01:05:30 ◼   ► It's my problem then.

01:05:31 ◼   ► But yeah.

01:05:32 ◼   ► Are those two in your Today View, those two single squares,

01:05:36 ◼   ► are they both different reminders lists?

01:05:38 ◼   ► So one is the default Today List.

01:05:44 ◼   ► The other is a smart list that you can now create in iOS 15.

01:05:50 ◼   ► So that aggregates reminders that are due in the next day with high priority.

01:05:56 ◼   ► I like that they put the little gear in there. That's cool.

01:05:59 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:06:00 ◼   ► To show that it's smart. I actually kind of like that. I think that's pretty nicely done.

01:06:03 ◼   ► Yeah, I think so.

01:06:04 ◼   ► Alright, so I don't know about you, Steven. I think I'm done with the main home screens here.

01:06:10 ◼   ► I don't think I have any more comments.

01:06:12 ◼   ► I think I'm good too.

01:06:13 ◼   ► Alright, so let's take a look at these additional ones right off the bat

01:06:18 ◼   ► What I assume is the reading focus

01:06:22 ◼   ► You have a shortcut

01:06:25 ◼   ► Single shortcut widget that takes the space of four icons and then you have some icons and you have a wide widget underneath it

01:06:32 ◼   ► But on the music focus you flip-flop those where you have a wide widget and then four icons and a single short like single

01:06:40 ◼   ► widget so why

01:06:42 ◼   ► Why the inconsistency?

01:06:44 ◼   ► Also, could we just make fun of that single shortcuts widget? It just says reading list with the Safari icon floating in it.

01:06:50 ◼   ► Yeah

01:06:52 ◼   ► That one's a little sad. That's a sad widget. Now that you mention it, it bothers me

01:06:57 ◼   ► I guess I hadn't noticed it before because I never see them side by side

01:07:02 ◼   ► But yeah, they should be consistent I think so I will have to rearrange the... So good has come from the roast

01:07:10 ◼   ► Yes, yes, this is a good point.

01:07:12 ◼   ► Or bad, depending on how you think of it.

01:07:14 ◼   ► The reading list shortcut, what does that do?

01:07:17 ◼   ► It's so sad. That is actually a Siri shortcut,

01:07:21 ◼   ► meaning it's the only way to open reading lists with shortcuts,

01:07:28 ◼   ► is to use one of those donated actions from the system,

01:07:34 ◼   ► and that's all it does.

01:07:35 ◼   ► It's a single action shortcut that opens reading lists in Safari.

01:07:39 ◼   ► Sorry. Now, that shortcut shouldn't be there. I didn't finish this home screen in time,

01:07:47 ◼   ► because I'm not using Reading List for Read Later links anymore. I don't know if you guys

01:07:54 ◼   ► saw, I'm using Reminders to keep my...

01:07:58 ◼   ► I heard this.

01:07:59 ◼   ► ...Read Later items.

01:08:00 ◼   ► So you have your tasks in Reminders, and your Read It Later things.

01:08:08 ◼   ► That's right.

01:08:11 ◼   ► What's wrong with that?

01:08:12 ◼   ► Why?

01:08:13 ◼   ► I can kind of get reminders.

01:08:15 ◼   ► I can kind of get reminders, right?

01:08:17 ◼   ► Because it does like the link previews and you can...

01:08:20 ◼   ► Exactly.

01:08:21 ◼   ► I get that.

01:08:22 ◼   ► No, I've been sending emails to Instapaper of tasks that I want to do.

01:08:25 ◼   ► I get it.

01:08:26 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah.

01:08:27 ◼   ► I fax my bills to Pocket and they pay them for me.

01:08:33 ◼   ► I get it.

01:08:35 ◼   ► Because with shortcuts, you can do some really nice things when it comes to just picking

01:08:42 ◼   ► articles.

01:08:43 ◼   ► Like, those articles, they stay in their own lists.

01:08:47 ◼   ► They don't bother me.

01:08:48 ◼   ► They don't have due dates.

01:08:49 ◼   ► But with shortcuts, I can use Reminders as a database, basically.

01:08:54 ◼   ► And you can do shortcuts like open random article, and I can save them in different

01:09:01 ◼   ► in like I have two lists, one called short stories and the other called long stories.

01:09:06 ◼   ► Oh, what goes to nuts.

01:09:08 ◼   ► Yes, the articles are saved with shortcuts because when I'm saving an article it checks

01:09:20 ◼   ► the word count of the article in Safari and it knows where to save.

01:09:25 ◼   ► No, but what? That's so good.

01:09:27 ◼   ► But where do you draw the line?

01:09:28 ◼   ► at 2,000 words I believe oh yeah it's pretty good wait you can sit 2,000 words

01:09:36 ◼   ► sure you read his iOS reviews yeah but still though 2,000 words is sure how

01:09:43 ◼   ► long does it take to read 2,000 words I actually don't know 50 minutes how long

01:09:47 ◼   ► does it take yeah 15 it's pretty clear yeah okay I thought that would take me

01:09:52 ◼   ► way longer yeah this is more of a micros than a federal yeah it's actually

01:09:57 ◼   ► out of myself. It's actually 20, it's 2,500, but yeah, basically it's a pretty short story.

01:10:03 ◼   ► Okay, and there are reminders. You have music and Marvis right next to each other.

01:10:07 ◼   ► Yes. Yeah, that's a good question. Why is that? I mean, if Marvis is so good,

01:10:13 ◼   ► why do you need the Apple Music app? I'm surprised you haven't complained about anything else.

01:10:18 ◼   ► Another thing, um, we're not done yet. Okay, because of, because of, I can feel the rose coming.

01:10:26 ◼   ► I know where it's going.

01:10:28 ◼   ► I'm looking right at it.

01:10:30 ◼   ► I know where it's going.

01:10:32 ◼   ► Because of lyrics, Stephen.

01:10:34 ◼   ► Because of the real-time lyrics.

01:10:36 ◼   ► That is a good feature in Apple Music.

01:10:40 ◼   ► Yes.

01:10:42 ◼   ► In Marvis, you can also quickly open music by double-tapping the mini-player at the bottom of the app.

01:10:52 ◼   ► the app. So if at any point you can switch over to the Apple Music app

01:10:56 ◼   ► because you want to control, you want to check the lyrics or, you know, there are

01:11:00 ◼   ► some features that you cannot see in Marvis. You can do so by double-tapping

01:11:04 ◼   ► the progress bar in Marvis, but I figured, you know, this is a music home screen.

01:11:09 ◼   ► I'm also putting it there.

01:11:12 ◼   ► I feel like the recently added albums widget that you

01:11:16 ◼   ► picked these albums for this screenshot because one says screen violence

01:11:23 ◼   ► that's a recent album yeah but like did he listen to it so it's a screen

01:11:27 ◼   ► violence on the home screen roast so I'm saying but my biggest problem here and

01:11:32 ◼   ► it is on all of your screens is you have a comma splice in your focus modes

01:11:38 ◼   ► shortcut no it's not yes it is pick a focus mode comma change your home

01:11:45 ◼   ► screen semicolon boy oh god I'm leaving the show I don't care about any of this

01:11:52 ◼   ► anymore bye oh geez can I get to my point now cuz like yeah what's your

01:11:58 ◼   ► point I thought you go after the comments why I know what it I know what

01:12:02 ◼   ► it is I know what it is I like that you know you may think to yourself hey on my

01:12:06 ◼   ► music home screen why would I need a reddit widget well the reason is so you

01:12:11 ◼   ► you can find out.

01:12:12 ◼   ► The top news in the audio files subreddit.

01:12:14 ◼   ► - Oh, look at that.

01:12:15 ◼   ► - At any moment, at any time, you might need it.

01:12:18 ◼   ► Hey, what are the audio files up to?

01:12:21 ◼   ► Can't wait a second.

01:12:22 ◼   ► Must get that headline directly on the home screen.

01:12:25 ◼   ► I don't want to go into any Reddit manually.

01:12:29 ◼   ► No, no, that's going to come to me.

01:12:32 ◼   ► I cannot wait a second.

01:12:35 ◼   ► What are the audio files complaining about today?

01:12:38 ◼   ► Stacked mono speakers, far superior than stereo.

01:12:41 ◼   ► Everyone knows that.

01:12:43 ◼   ► - I need my audio file inspo, you know?

01:12:46 ◼   ► It's a good way to see what the audio files are doing.

01:12:50 ◼   ► All these audio files, they have very large rooms,

01:12:53 ◼   ► and they have a cat, and they must have,

01:12:57 ◼   ► they have a lot of money, I suppose.

01:12:59 ◼   ► They take these pictures where nobody's ever around,

01:13:03 ◼   ► they have fancy setups.

01:13:06 ◼   ► I like those pictures.

01:13:08 ◼   ► It's one of those things where you're like,

01:13:09 ◼   ► it's like Pinterest, but for audio people, you know?

01:13:12 ◼   ► - It's inspo.

01:13:13 ◼   ► - It's inspo, it's audio file inspo, you know?

01:13:16 ◼   ► - Or inspo.

01:13:19 ◼   ► All right, I think I feel like we can release Federico now.

01:13:23 ◼   ► - And look at the subreddit.

01:13:25 ◼   ► - Oh, you shouldn't.

01:13:26 ◼   ► - These people have really bad cable management.

01:13:28 ◼   ► - Probably because if you tighten the cables too much,

01:13:31 ◼   ► the music can't get through.

01:13:32 ◼   ► - You need it to naturally follow the curve.

01:13:34 ◼   ► - It doesn't flow, you're choking the music

01:13:36 ◼   ► if you tie them.

01:13:37 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:13:39 ◼   ► - That's how you get discordant beats.

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01:15:51 ◼   ► - Now, by the way, for the record,

01:15:52 ◼   ► I wanna say that I will not accept

01:15:55 ◼   ► a comma splice correction by someone who doesn't believe

01:15:57 ◼   ► in the Oxford comma.

01:15:58 ◼   ► - Oh, it's getting worse.

01:16:00 ◼   ► I went to college to write as a journalist.

01:16:04 ◼   ► I feel like I have the high ground here.

01:16:05 ◼   ► You went to college in America.

01:16:07 ◼   ► I live in Europe.

01:16:08 ◼   ► Yeah, but the Oxford comma is not a hard and fast rule.

01:16:13 ◼   ► There are two schools of thought on it.

01:16:15 ◼   ► Yeah, and one is wrong.

01:16:16 ◼   ► There isn't a right or wrong.

01:16:17 ◼   ► Oh, yeah, there is one.

01:16:18 ◼   ► I agree.

01:16:19 ◼   ► I mean, I agree.

01:16:20 ◼   ► The Oxford comma is a fantastic device

01:16:22 ◼   ► because otherwise things just don't make sense sometimes.

01:16:25 ◼   ► I like how you're talking as if this

01:16:27 ◼   ► is going to remain in the episode.

01:16:28 ◼   ► - Myke, roll the dice again.

01:16:31 ◼   ► - I'm gonna heads or tails this one

01:16:32 ◼   ► because there's only two of us.

01:16:34 ◼   ► So I'll be heads and you'll be tails.

01:16:36 ◼   ► - Cruci.

01:16:37 ◼   ► - That's Sylvia.

01:16:38 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:16:41 ◼   ► - This is gonna happen forever.

01:16:43 ◼   ► I don't even know anymore,

01:16:45 ◼   ► like when we're gonna get these and who we're gonna get.

01:16:47 ◼   ► So Steven, it's your turn to be roasted.

01:16:51 ◼   ► Do you wanna spend 25 minutes explaining focus modes?

01:16:55 ◼   ► - Let's see how many car masks we find here.

01:16:58 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:17:00 ◼   ► - Oh, I really hope that there's a spelling error somewhere.

01:17:03 ◼   ► - Oh, see, he blurred out the commas in the widget.

01:17:07 ◼   ► See all those commas?

01:17:09 ◼   ► He blurred them out.

01:17:10 ◼   ► - I blurred out some things in my calendar

01:17:11 ◼   ► 'cause it had my details about where my children are.

01:17:14 ◼   ► That felt like something I shouldn't have put on the internet.

01:17:15 ◼   ► - Yeah, but there could be commas.

01:17:17 ◼   ► There could be comma issues in those calendar events.

01:17:19 ◼   ► - He was using the Oxford comma,

01:17:21 ◼   ► but now he's too ashamed of like,

01:17:22 ◼   ► he's built up this persona against the Oxford comma.

01:17:25 ◼   ► So now he needs to blur out the widget.

01:17:27 ◼   ► So I use two home screens.

01:17:31 ◼   ► - It's not even that.

01:17:31 ◼   ► - And then the app library.

01:17:34 ◼   ► So I don't use focus modes,

01:17:36 ◼   ► I don't change out my home screens

01:17:37 ◼   ► depending on what creative mood I'm in like Federico.

01:17:40 ◼   ► So yeah, I mean, I really don't think

01:17:45 ◼   ► you're gonna find anything wrong with this.

01:17:47 ◼   ► So.

01:17:48 ◼   ► - Where's your wallpaper from?

01:17:49 ◼   ► Like I'm putting it in the show notes,

01:17:50 ◼   ► but where does it come from?

01:17:51 ◼   ► - It is from a collection that Knupsy did.

01:17:54 ◼   ► So I probably actually shouldn't give that away, so.

01:17:56 ◼   ► - No, you shouldn't share this.

01:17:58 ◼   ► If you have to pay for this, then you cannot be in the show notes.

01:18:00 ◼   ► - So you can see it in the background,

01:18:02 ◼   ► but it won't be in the show notes.

01:18:04 ◼   ► - All right, my initial thing that I noticed,

01:18:08 ◼   ► actually, I noticed like seven things at once,

01:18:10 ◼   ► but the first one that I need to mention is like,

01:18:12 ◼   ► "Hey, you need to add a task?"

01:18:14 ◼   ► - So that's a stack, because I do believe stacks are useful.

01:18:18 ◼   ► Normally that would be my task list,

01:18:21 ◼   ► but again, there were things in there I didn't want to share,

01:18:22 ◼   ► so I just dropped in the new task thing there

01:18:25 ◼   ► as a placeholder.

01:18:26 ◼   ► That's a nice way out of that.

01:18:27 ◼   ► Normally it is my list of tasks.

01:18:28 ◼   ► So which one of these is the home screen or the one on the left?

01:18:31 ◼   ► OK, one on the left.

01:18:33 ◼   ► OK. Is the Bible so you can pray for a better home screen?

01:18:37 ◼   ► Yes.

01:18:40 ◼   ► Yeah, that's true.

01:18:41 ◼   ► Is it so you could pray that you don't have to use group me anymore?

01:18:47 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm stuck in group me.

01:18:48 ◼   ► It's bad.

01:18:49 ◼   ► What is that about?

01:18:51 ◼   ► I got a group of friends that group me is where

01:18:55 ◼   ► - Still. - Where everyone is, yeah.

01:18:57 ◼   ► - I know every time we,

01:18:59 ◼   ► I know we have this conversation every time

01:19:01 ◼   ► and I just love, I love so much that it's there.

01:19:03 ◼   ► - And it's on the home screen right now

01:19:05 ◼   ► because that's particularly chatty right now.

01:19:08 ◼   ► - Hold up, group me, Slack, Discord, iMessage.

01:19:13 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:19:15 ◼   ► - Got a lot of-- - Big chatty boy over there.

01:19:16 ◼   ► - Got a lot of friends.

01:19:18 ◼   ► - He's got a lot to say.

01:19:20 ◼   ► - Slack is how we run our business.

01:19:22 ◼   ► Discord is where our wonderful members are.

01:19:25 ◼   ► Get connected pro.co, you can be in the Discord.

01:19:28 ◼   ► iMessages, social stuff, friends, family,

01:19:31 ◼   ► and then GroupMe is just this one particular group of people

01:19:34 ◼   ► with this group, a couple of these group threads

01:19:36 ◼   ► that I stuck in.

01:19:37 ◼   ► - The phone.

01:19:41 ◼   ► - Yeah, the phone.

01:19:43 ◼   ► I'm an adult.

01:19:44 ◼   ► I have to make phone calls.

01:19:45 ◼   ► - That doesn't mean anything.

01:19:46 ◼   ► - I have to make phone calls.

01:19:48 ◼   ► I get phone calls.

01:19:50 ◼   ► - Do you have to have the app on the home screen

01:19:52 ◼   ► - To receive a phone call?

01:19:53 ◼   ► - You don't need the iPhone.

01:19:54 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:19:55 ◼   ► It doesn't work like that.

01:19:57 ◼   ► - I spend a lot of time recording each week

01:20:00 ◼   ► and I like to see if there's a badge

01:20:02 ◼   ► if I missed a call or a voicemail or something, so yes.

01:20:05 ◼   ► - The-- - Well, not yes.

01:20:07 ◼   ► - I got three kids at three of my schools.

01:20:09 ◼   ► Like, I need, you know, I get phone calls.

01:20:11 ◼   ► - Yeah, no, no, no, no, but what,

01:20:13 ◼   ► you said to receive a phone call,

01:20:14 ◼   ► you have to have the home screen.

01:20:16 ◼   ► - Oh, right, sure. - You don't have the home screen

01:20:16 ◼   ► and that's not true.

01:20:17 ◼   ► - I do receive a lot of phone calls,

01:20:19 ◼   ► but it's on the home screen 'cause I have to make calls

01:20:20 ◼   ► That's a good way to get to voicemail and stuff quickly.

01:20:23 ◼   ► - It's nice to see you got your dream journal

01:20:25 ◼   ► always at hand there, day one.

01:20:27 ◼   ► - Always at hand.

01:20:27 ◼   ► - The camera in the dock.

01:20:28 ◼   ► - Why do you use the white Slack icon?

01:20:30 ◼   ► Oh, camera in the dock?

01:20:32 ◼   ► What is that? - Camera in the dock.

01:20:34 ◼   ► Camera in the, I just wanna say camera in the dock.

01:20:36 ◼   ► - Let me answer the Slack question first.

01:20:37 ◼   ► The other two Slack icons I find displeasing visually.

01:20:42 ◼   ► - That I actually agree with you, the white icon

01:20:45 ◼   ► is the best icon. - No, no, no.

01:20:46 ◼   ► We'll find out about the best one shortly.

01:20:47 ◼   ► - No, the purple one's bad.

01:20:50 ◼   ► How do you know what one I've got?

01:20:51 ◼   ► - Well, I can just look into the show notes real quick.

01:20:53 ◼   ► - Don't look yet, that's the whole point of this.

01:20:55 ◼   ► - We all know you're using the purple icon.

01:20:57 ◼   ► - Yeah, and don't change it now

01:20:58 ◼   ► and re-upload your screenshot.

01:20:59 ◼   ► - Why would I?

01:21:00 ◼   ► I'm already using the best one.

01:21:01 ◼   ► Anyway, this isn't about me.

01:21:02 ◼   ► Why is the camera in the box?

01:21:04 ◼   ► - Because I want the camera to be in the same place

01:21:06 ◼   ► if my phone is locked or not.

01:21:07 ◼   ► I've explained this a hundred times, and it--

01:21:09 ◼   ► - So when you unlock your phone,

01:21:12 ◼   ► do you press and hold the camera icon?

01:21:13 ◼   ► - No, but it's in the same place, so I can just tap it.

01:21:16 ◼   ► - But you're not just tapping it when,

01:21:18 ◼   ► see, 'cause what you're trying to say here is,

01:21:19 ◼   ► "Oh, I need consistency of place."

01:21:22 ◼   ► But you don't have consistency of action.

01:21:23 ◼   ► - Well, that's Apple's fault.

01:21:24 ◼   ► I can only control what I control.

01:21:26 ◼   ► - Right, but I don't think that that means,

01:21:28 ◼   ► to me, that doesn't play what you've said.

01:21:30 ◼   ► Because if it's meant to be a muscle memory thing,

01:21:32 ◼   ► the muscles can't remember that.

01:21:34 ◼   ► It's two different actions.

01:21:35 ◼   ► - I want it in the same place.

01:21:36 ◼   ► - All right, what's Unwind?

01:21:38 ◼   ► - It's a Mac, sorry, Sparkcast.

01:21:40 ◼   ► - It is like a mindful breathing app.

01:21:43 ◼   ► Yeah, why don't you mock me about my anxiety now, huh, Myke?

01:21:45 ◼   ► Come at me.

01:21:46 ◼   ► - Yeah, ha ha, anxious boy.

01:21:48 ◼   ► I heard your joke Federico and it was good.

01:21:50 ◼   ► What did he say? What did he say?

01:21:52 ◼   ► It's a podcast.

01:21:53 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:21:56 ◼   ► You always losing things, Steven?

01:21:59 ◼   ► You lose things a lot?

01:22:01 ◼   ► The Find My?

01:22:02 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:22:03 ◼   ► Yeah, out of everything,

01:22:06 ◼   ► that is probably would be the first to go

01:22:07 ◼   ► if I had another app to promote onto the home screen.

01:22:10 ◼   ► Honestly.

01:22:11 ◼   ► Are you constantly in the settings there?

01:22:12 ◼   ► You know, you go to tweet some stuff.

01:22:13 ◼   ► Always.

01:22:14 ◼   ► Hey, settings used to be in my dock.

01:22:15 ◼   ► This is a very,

01:22:16 ◼   ► I've matured.

01:22:17 ◼   ► strange page. Like it starts... This is weird, like I... It doesn't have a theme, it doesn't

01:22:24 ◼   ► have an activity, it's like just random things. So I guess like... There are things here that

01:22:30 ◼   ► like I don't know what... No, I guess the approach is just apps that you use, but they're

01:22:35 ◼   ► not grouped in any particular way, because even the last row, there's home and ring,

01:22:40 ◼   ► and one may think, okay, this is like the home row, but then you have YouTube and settings.

01:22:45 ◼   ► So like, I like, here's Google maps, Google maps, find my like, okay, location, you know,

01:22:54 ◼   ► but then Google docs and the Bible.

01:22:55 ◼   ► Well, that kind of makes sense.

01:22:58 ◼   ► Like it's a document, it's Google docs, it's Google maps to find things and then find my

01:23:02 ◼   ► frequently, like copying things from the Bible into Google docs.

01:23:06 ◼   ► Is that what you do?

01:23:07 ◼   ► Look at the show notes every once in a while.

01:23:08 ◼   ► There's some good wizard in there copying them from the Bible and the scriptures finding

01:23:12 ◼   ► putting them in day one.

01:23:14 ◼   ► It's weird to me, Google Maps on the second screen is weird to me.

01:23:22 ◼   ► Because if you feel like you need maps, I feel like you just want them right there immediately

01:23:27 ◼   ► or you just, I don't know, search or just like use CarPlay.

01:23:31 ◼   ► I don't know.

01:23:32 ◼   ► It's like weird to me that you deem Google Maps important but not more important than

01:23:36 ◼   ► good lengths.

01:23:37 ◼   ► I do use Google Maps and CarPlay a lot.

01:23:39 ◼   ► It's on the second screen hanging out.

01:23:43 ◼   ► How many parcels do you get that you need right there?

01:23:45 ◼   ► Well a lot recently because I've been doing the fulfillment of the Kickstarter and now

01:23:49 ◼   ► the MagTricky.

01:23:51 ◼   ► Stuff coming in all the time.

01:23:52 ◼   ► Wait, are you tracking everyone's parcels?

01:23:54 ◼   ► No, no but stuff coming in.

01:23:56 ◼   ► So like I had to order more stickers.

01:23:57 ◼   ► I got to order more magnets.

01:23:59 ◼   ► That's ridiculous.

01:24:00 ◼   ► It's like copy and paste 1000 tracking numbers.

01:24:06 ◼   ► post office. It takes 20 minutes to open the application. The Pozol service sent me a cease

01:24:18 ◼   ► and desist. Yeah this second screen is like the first screen, group me strange, I can't

01:24:25 ◼   ► believe you're using another task manager, he's on good task now, but we already knew

01:24:29 ◼   ► he was doing that. Yeah it's pretty great. What other widgets are in these stacks? Let

01:24:35 ◼   ► - Let me get my phone.

01:24:35 ◼   ► Okay, so under the calendar,

01:24:39 ◼   ► there's a WidgetSmith one with the time zones

01:24:42 ◼   ► for San Francisco, New York, London, and Rome.

01:24:47 ◼   ► I use that quite a bit.

01:24:49 ◼   ► And I use like, what is it?

01:24:52 ◼   ► What's the ugly app that we found?

01:24:54 ◼   ► The clock?

01:24:55 ◼   ► Is that what it's called?

01:24:57 ◼   ► Yes, the clock.

01:24:58 ◼   ► I use that if I need more fine grain time zone stuff,

01:25:02 ◼   ► but the widget's close enough.

01:25:03 ◼   ► gets me there most of the time.

01:25:05 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:25:06 ◼   ► - The carrot stack is two carrot weather widgets.

01:25:08 ◼   ► One, the first one is the one you see there.

01:25:10 ◼   ► And then the second one is a radar

01:25:12 ◼   ► of the Memphis area where I live.

01:25:17 ◼   ► So I got my carrot stack.

01:25:19 ◼   ► - You live in Memphis?

01:25:20 ◼   ► - Underneath photos is day one.

01:25:23 ◼   ► And I have it set to the memory.

01:25:25 ◼   ► So I see one year ago, four years ago, six years ago.

01:25:28 ◼   ► So let's see, six years ago,

01:25:31 ◼   ► It's a screenshot of an iMessage between Myke and I.

01:25:34 ◼   ► Look at that.

01:25:34 ◼   ► - That's nice.

01:25:35 ◼   ► Is it a good one or a bad one?

01:25:37 ◼   ► - You were trying catchphrases.

01:25:41 ◼   ► So you had Boom Shakalaka and Scrum Diddly Dumptious.

01:25:44 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:25:45 ◼   ► - Oh, that's nice.

01:25:46 ◼   ► Well, I was--

01:25:47 ◼   ► - And we decided that was the one.

01:25:48 ◼   ► Scrum Diddly Dumptious. - Interesting.

01:25:50 ◼   ► Scrum Diddly Dumptious is what we're actually

01:25:52 ◼   ► looking for there.

01:25:53 ◼   ► I don't know what I needed that catchphrase for,

01:25:54 ◼   ► but that's good. - I don't know.

01:25:55 ◼   ► And then under the good task one,

01:25:57 ◼   ► I mean, it's good task.

01:25:58 ◼   ► It's usually my list of tasks.

01:26:01 ◼   ► - Okay, what is Good Links?

01:26:04 ◼   ► Is this like an Instapaper?

01:26:05 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:26:05 ◼   ► - Or something?

01:26:06 ◼   ► - Read later, yeah.

01:26:07 ◼   ► - See, there's not much to say, it's pretty good.

01:26:10 ◼   ► - No, we said a lot.

01:26:11 ◼   ► - Pretty good.

01:26:12 ◼   ► - No, we said a lot, it's--

01:26:14 ◼   ► - It's not good.

01:26:15 ◼   ► - It doesn't really sell you as a person, this home screen.

01:26:19 ◼   ► - No, you have a bad home screen system here.

01:26:22 ◼   ► It's like, it's bad.

01:26:24 ◼   ► It's like, there's a lot of chat apps.

01:26:27 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:26:28 ◼   ► And then there's like, just that second screen is so weird.

01:26:32 ◼   ► This is like a home screen.

01:26:33 ◼   ► It's got so much stuff on it.

01:26:35 ◼   ► This is like the home screen you get at Walmart.

01:26:38 ◼   ► This is like a home screen you just...

01:26:40 ◼   ► I'll have that one please.

01:26:42 ◼   ► Grabbed at a department store.

01:26:44 ◼   ► It's like, it's a bunch of stuff.

01:26:46 ◼   ► YouTube.

01:26:47 ◼   ► It's all things I need.

01:26:48 ◼   ► It's like, why is it there?

01:26:50 ◼   ► Do you not search?

01:26:52 ◼   ► I do.

01:26:53 ◼   ► Anything that's not on here, I search for.

01:26:55 ◼   ► So okay, so if you want to watch a YouTube video, right, do you scroll to the page and

01:27:00 ◼   ► hit the icon?

01:27:01 ◼   ► Yeah, it's a tough choice.

01:27:02 ◼   ► It's a swipe and tap.

01:27:03 ◼   ► It's between the Bible and YouTube.

01:27:06 ◼   ► Do I want to learn from God or from NKVHD?

01:27:10 ◼   ► So...

01:27:11 ◼   ► D.U. is an interesting choice there too, I think.

01:27:14 ◼   ► Why?

01:27:15 ◼   ► I use it for medication reminders.

01:27:17 ◼   ► You're going to mock me about my anxiety again, Myke?

01:27:19 ◼   ► Jeez.

01:27:20 ◼   ► Yes.

01:27:21 ◼   ► So your phone, you need the phone on the home screen so you see if you had a missed call.

01:27:27 ◼   ► But your medication, you're fine to not see if the badge is there.

01:27:30 ◼   ► Well the phone app doesn't send me a notification every 15 minutes like Do does.

01:27:35 ◼   ► That's true.

01:27:36 ◼   ► That's true, alright.

01:27:37 ◼   ► He's right about that.

01:27:38 ◼   ► Yeah, that's what Do is so good at.

01:27:40 ◼   ► I don't like this character you're creating for me by the way, that I have issues with

01:27:43 ◼   ► people with anxiety, this is not fair.

01:27:47 ◼   ► I don't like this.

01:27:48 ◼   ► Toxic masculinity, Michael.

01:27:49 ◼   ► Michael. Here we go. Now we're taking it too far. Again, we're not on me yet.

01:27:57 ◼   ► So let's do you. Are we done with Steven? Are we gonna release him? I think

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01:29:35 ◼   ► So you can go ahead and open mine.

01:29:37 ◼   ► is this thing that I realized I didn't add after I saw Federico's which is my

01:29:42 ◼   ► like today thing. Oh yeah. But all that's in there is just a couple of like

01:29:47 ◼   ► shortcuts widgets with a bunch of shortcuts in them so that's the only

01:29:51 ◼   ► thing I use that for it's probably not that important I don't know you can tell

01:29:55 ◼   ► me if you feel like you desperately need it and I can give you another screenshot

01:29:59 ◼   ► but I'm not gonna put it in. See look you are using the purple slack icon. The best one.

01:30:04 ◼   ► I already told you. And the purple craft icon. Can we talk? That's not purple. What?

01:30:10 ◼   ► It's blue. Deep blue. Talk about what? The wallpaper, Myke. It's the best wallpaper.

01:30:18 ◼   ► I have no, there's no comment on this. It's great. It makes me feel happy. It's an

01:30:22 ◼   ► abomination. It's too busy. When I see it, it makes me feel happy. You want to take my

01:30:25 ◼   ► happiness away? Yeah. Yes. That's fair. That's fair. For the greater good. Well, you're never

01:30:31 ◼   ► gonna take it away from me so... Looks like the wallpaper from a doctor's office in the 70s?

01:30:39 ◼   ► Hotel. It's actual a photo of wallpaper in a hotel. Oh, I see. And this wallpaper is the wallpaper on

01:30:47 ◼   ► all of my devices. It's on my iMac, it's on my Mac Pro, and it's on my iPad. Isn't it?

01:30:51 ◼   ► Doesn't it bother you how the labels of the icons are not readable against the wallpaper?

01:30:59 ◼   ► I don't need to read them. I know what they are.

01:31:02 ◼   ► It'd be nice to be able to turn them off. I wish we could.

01:31:05 ◼   ► Yeah. I'm not like, "What app is that? Which is this? Oh, it's Discord."

01:31:09 ◼   ► That never happens to me. I don't know how you... Maybe it's difficult when you

01:31:13 ◼   ► have 25 home screens because of your various

01:31:15 ◼   ► like focus modes that you go through every day. I only see one at a time.

01:31:18 ◼   ► I can remember my apps. Just see one at a time. I got three items down here.

01:31:23 ◼   ► - Why, why?

01:31:25 ◼   ► - Why?

01:31:26 ◼   ► - Why is Timery, which is a great app, it's a great widget,

01:31:31 ◼   ► you have multiple Timery widgets,

01:31:33 ◼   ► which I guess we'll get to.

01:31:35 ◼   ► Why is it in the bottom right?

01:31:36 ◼   ► That seems like prime real estate for tapping an app icon.

01:31:40 ◼   ► That's why in my home screen, the widgets are where they are

01:31:43 ◼   ► because that's sort of far away from my thumb.

01:31:45 ◼   ► - It's prime real estate for one of the most important

01:31:49 ◼   ► things that I do on my iPhone which is open time-ery and set timers I also have

01:31:54 ◼   ► shortcuts underneath that for adding time to my time widget.

01:32:00 ◼   ► Have you thought about not time tracking?

01:32:02 ◼   ► No.

01:32:02 ◼   ► Interesting.

01:32:03 ◼   ► Why would I do that?

01:32:05 ◼   ► It's very freeing not to know.

01:32:07 ◼   ► Not to know what you're doing? Oh that sounds so free.

01:32:10 ◼   ► Stuff gets done.

01:32:11 ◼   ► Does it?

01:32:12 ◼   ► How often, okay look I love James but as we know he's a trader, how often are you using a

01:32:17 ◼   ► calculator that you needed on your home screen?

01:32:19 ◼   ► a lot. I use pcalc multiple times a day. But why not on your mac where you do your work?

01:32:25 ◼   ► You pull out your phone? Yeah. Like it on the phone? Yeah, I like it on the mac. I have the

01:32:32 ◼   ► little menu bar, but I also use up my phone a lot. So I don't know, it's there. I like it. I

01:32:38 ◼   ► like looking at the icon. I have it there. It's there. Well, there's nothing I would replace it

01:32:42 ◼   ► with, so I'm gonna keep it there because I do calculate a lot. I calculate. I'm calculating.

01:32:48 ◼   ► you also have the wrong icons for one password and overcast I was about to say

01:32:54 ◼   ► that thank you I am a dark mode user the applications have dark UI it wouldn't

01:33:01 ◼   ► like so for example overcast yeah right then why isn't todoist black yeah and

01:33:07 ◼   ► you have the red icon with the red badge all of todoists icons are ugly as that's

01:33:12 ◼   ► That's true.

01:33:13 ◼   ► That's why.

01:33:14 ◼   ► That's true.

01:33:15 ◼   ► They're all terrible, so I chose the red one.

01:33:18 ◼   ► Yeah, that makes it like the badge is like a wart growing out of the side of the icon.

01:33:23 ◼   ► They look so wrong.

01:33:24 ◼   ► Plus red is pretty prevalent in the application.

01:33:27 ◼   ► So like the overcast one for example, right?

01:33:29 ◼   ► It's orange and white.

01:33:31 ◼   ► There is no orange and white in my overcast.

01:33:34 ◼   ► It's blue and grey.

01:33:35 ◼   ► See, I used the dark mode in overcast, but I used the orange icon because in my mind

01:33:39 ◼   ► orange is like the brand color for overcast.

01:33:42 ◼   ► And orange should be in the dark mode too, I don't know.

01:33:44 ◼   ► Well he's redesigning it.

01:33:45 ◼   ► Make that happen, Marco.

01:33:47 ◼   ► Maybe it will, and then maybe I'll change it, but for now I'm blue and grey the whole

01:33:51 ◼   ► way, as they say.

01:33:53 ◼   ► Camera and Instagram, right next to each other.

01:33:55 ◼   ► Yep.

01:33:56 ◼   ► What, do you think I take all of my photos in Instagram and look at the Instagram feed

01:33:59 ◼   ► in camera?

01:34:00 ◼   ► What, what, what?

01:34:01 ◼   ► I just...

01:34:02 ◼   ► They're two completely different applications.

01:34:03 ◼   ► Why do you...

01:34:04 ◼   ► I mean, why do you need a camera on the home screen?

01:34:05 ◼   ► I got in trouble for camera on my home screen.

01:34:08 ◼   ► Because camera also serves as the photos.

01:34:11 ◼   ► for both. The issue with yours wasn't that you had camera. You could just use

01:34:16 ◼   ► camera from control center and put photos on the home screen. No because

01:34:20 ◼   ► then when I want, no because I don't I don't need that. Now I have both right? I

01:34:23 ◼   ► understand people always say this but I have both so I can use this one

01:34:27 ◼   ► application and just have a second tap I get to the camera roll and it's

01:34:31 ◼   ► fantastic and I love it. If I need to go to anything else I can tap again. I love it.

01:34:36 ◼   ► Look at this fancy boy that wants to see how much he's walked and all

01:34:41 ◼   ► the exercise is only 15 minutes of exercise though why do you need to know

01:34:48 ◼   ► how much you've walked today like how is why I like it I like to know what if you

01:34:56 ◼   ► don't feel the ring you're gonna go out for a walk at 11 p.m. no no I don't care

01:35:02 ◼   ► about meeting the goal I just like to know how much I've done this used to

01:35:06 ◼   ► just say the number and I tried out this I tried out this new one yesterday yeah

01:35:11 ◼   ► It looks nicer than just the number for sure.

01:35:13 ◼   ► - That's why I did it.

01:35:14 ◼   ► It looks, it's a bit more visually appealing.

01:35:16 ◼   ► - I think I know what it is

01:35:17 ◼   ► and I assume it's why it's blocked out,

01:35:19 ◼   ► but what is Train Beacon?

01:35:21 ◼   ► - It shows me train times between two locations,

01:35:24 ◼   ► which is my home and my studio.

01:35:26 ◼   ► - Which is obviously why it's blurred.

01:35:28 ◼   ► It's what I figured about, I just wasn't familiar with it.

01:35:30 ◼   ► - It's a cool one.

01:35:31 ◼   ► This, that's the stack by the way.

01:35:32 ◼   ► So it's two widgets.

01:35:34 ◼   ► One is one direction, one's the other direction.

01:35:35 ◼   ► - Oh, that's good. That's clever.

01:35:37 ◼   ► Notes and craft are side by side.

01:35:40 ◼   ► - Yup.

01:35:41 ◼   ► - Why are you splitting your notes apart?

01:35:43 ◼   ► - Because Kraft only has things to do with Cortex brand,

01:35:46 ◼   ► everything else is in notes.

01:35:47 ◼   ► - Your other company.

01:35:49 ◼   ► - My other company, yeah.

01:35:50 ◼   ► - Without us in it.

01:35:51 ◼   ► - Without you two in it, yeah.

01:35:52 ◼   ► - The other company also gets a widget on the last page.

01:35:56 ◼   ► - Yeah, there's no relay widget.

01:35:58 ◼   ► - Trying that one out.

01:35:59 ◼   ► So the reason, both the activity and the Kraft widget,

01:36:04 ◼   ► they are there because I'd previously had the,

01:36:08 ◼   ► I only had this third page because we had the fundraising widget.

01:36:11 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:36:11 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

01:36:12 ◼   ► And then I just wanted to see, like, I'm with that page at the moment,

01:36:15 ◼   ► I'm just trying out other widgets and these were the two that I picked.

01:36:19 ◼   ► Uh, Relay isn't even in the stack.

01:36:21 ◼   ► It's just, uh...

01:36:22 ◼   ► Yeah, it's his old company.

01:36:24 ◼   ► Wait, what are we talking about?

01:36:26 ◼   ► What do you...

01:36:27 ◼   ► I mean, the Cortex brand, your fancy new company with your new best friend has a widget.

01:36:33 ◼   ► I don't have a Relay FM craft.

01:36:36 ◼   ► Prime spot on the home screen on the third page,

01:36:39 ◼   ► fancy widget, it gets blurred out

01:36:41 ◼   ► because of all the secrets.

01:36:42 ◼   ► - Secrets, ooh, we're making secret pins.

01:36:44 ◼   ► - Yeah, there's a lot of secrets.

01:36:46 ◼   ► Let me tell you, I'd say this,

01:36:47 ◼   ► there's no nice way for me to say it

01:36:48 ◼   ► as such, 'cause I say it the way that it is.

01:36:49 ◼   ► I made the mistake of intermingling all of my Relay FM,

01:36:53 ◼   ► everything with everything in my life, right?

01:36:55 ◼   ► So like, I don't have personal notes,

01:36:57 ◼   ► 'cause personal notes and Relay FM notes, same place.

01:36:59 ◼   ► Like everything's all mixed in, all my email,

01:37:02 ◼   ► all in the same place, everything's all in the same place.

01:37:04 ◼   ► And so I decided with Cortex brand, I would not allow for that.

01:37:08 ◼   ► And I'm setting up, like I use a different email app.

01:37:11 ◼   ► I used it like just so it's all on its own thing.

01:37:13 ◼   ► So I'm in that mode. - Where is it?

01:37:14 ◼   ► - I get all that there.

01:37:15 ◼   ► - Where is it? - Where is what?

01:37:16 ◼   ► - The different email app. - Where is what?

01:37:18 ◼   ► - The different email app.

01:37:19 ◼   ► - Oh, it's not on my home screen.

01:37:20 ◼   ► It's Gmail.

01:37:21 ◼   ► I don't get enough email there that I need to worry about.

01:37:25 ◼   ► I use the Gmail app on my iPhone.

01:37:27 ◼   ► And my Mime stream, I don't know.

01:37:31 ◼   ► - Mime stream. - Mime stream.

01:37:33 ◼   ► MAMASTREAM on my Mac.

01:37:35 ◼   ► MAMASTREAM!

01:37:37 ◼   ► MAMASTREAM, that's good.

01:37:39 ◼   ► That's really good.

01:37:41 ◼   ► I have Gmail on my iPad home screen, but I don't have it on my iPhone home screen.

01:37:47 ◼   ► Yeah, that's for a different time.

01:37:49 ◼   ► Hmm.

01:37:51 ◼   ► It's all very busy.

01:37:53 ◼   ► Very busy.

01:37:55 ◼   ► I think because of the wallpaper, and the other thing that I've just noticed is that you're a big fan of Serif typefaces in WidgetSmith.

01:38:01 ◼   ► typefaces in Widgetsmith. I think that also makes it look busy.

01:38:05 ◼   ► Yeah, what's wrong with that?

01:38:08 ◼   ► I just think that looks really classy.

01:38:11 ◼   ► Clutter on the home screen is clutter in the mind.

01:38:15 ◼   ► Wait, where's the clutter? I don't see any clutter.

01:38:18 ◼   ► Oh, you don't see any clutter here! You don't!

01:38:21 ◼   ► No, there's no clutter!

01:38:23 ◼   ► It's impossible to clutter it! You can't clutter it, you can just fill it.

01:38:27 ◼   ► Yeah, it's impossible to clutter it more. That's what you mean, maybe.

01:38:31 ◼   ► - I mean, look at this.

01:38:31 ◼   ► - No, I've just filled it.

01:38:33 ◼   ► That's all I've done.

01:38:34 ◼   ► And I'll just say out of everyone,

01:38:35 ◼   ► I just have one home screen that has app icons on it.

01:38:39 ◼   ► The two of you, it's like, oh, I put them everywhere.

01:38:42 ◼   ► I have restrained my app icons.

01:38:45 ◼   ► - Oh, you've restrained yourself.

01:38:46 ◼   ► - You two, you two are just like, oh, I need more.

01:38:49 ◼   ► I need to throw this stuff over here

01:38:51 ◼   ► and this stuff over here.

01:38:52 ◼   ► I need 17 home screens.

01:38:53 ◼   ► - I mean, he's using focus modes,

01:38:55 ◼   ► which is a total fad anyways.

01:38:57 ◼   ► And you have two screens of widgets,

01:39:00 ◼   ► I mean, that feels a bit much.

01:39:03 ◼   ► - I am a big, big App Library user, just so you know.

01:39:06 ◼   ► - Not search?

01:39:07 ◼   ► - I use search too, but I use the App Library a lot as well.

01:39:10 ◼   ► - It just opens the App Library, it's like,

01:39:12 ◼   ► "Hmm, what am I in the mood for?

01:39:14 ◼   ► Oh, utilities or creativity?"

01:39:17 ◼   ► - Yes, what would pair nicely with this wine?

01:39:19 ◼   ► - You know what it does?

01:39:20 ◼   ► Hey, Federico, you know that widget that you love so much

01:39:24 ◼   ► with the Siri suggestions?

01:39:25 ◼   ► It's just that, but more of them.

01:39:27 ◼   ► - Yeah, but at least it doesn't categorize them.

01:39:30 ◼   ► It's like, yes, I want to do, I want to do creativity now.

01:39:34 ◼   ► Why do I care about categories?

01:39:35 ◼   ► What do I care about categories?

01:39:37 ◼   ► Nothing, but it shows me more applications I want to use.

01:39:39 ◼   ► Badges, badges for Discord, but no badges for Spark.

01:39:48 ◼   ► No, because badges for Spark would be terrible.

01:39:53 ◼   ► It's got to stay on your email better.

01:39:55 ◼   ► I have badges.

01:39:56 ◼   ► I'm not, I'm not sure why I have badges for Discord.

01:39:59 ◼   ► I go back and forth.

01:40:00 ◼   ► I do just for the admin channel.

01:40:03 ◼   ► Or maybe I just have push notifications for that

01:40:05 ◼   ► and no badges, I forget, but.

01:40:07 ◼   ► I don't think you can choose where you want your badges.

01:40:09 ◼   ► Yeah, then I think I have no badges on Discord,

01:40:11 ◼   ► but I get push notifications in the admins and mods

01:40:14 ◼   ► in case somebody does something we need to address.

01:40:16 ◼   ► What is the Mega Studio Timer?

01:40:19 ◼   ► Oh yeah.

01:40:20 ◼   ► What are you tracking?

01:40:22 ◼   ► Why specifically a Mega Studio Timer?

01:40:24 ◼   ► It is time spent dealing with stuff here.

01:40:29 ◼   ► connected pro listeners will know I had internet issues today.

01:40:32 ◼   ► So that was an hour and 17 minutes up to that point of trying to fix my internet

01:40:36 ◼   ► problems. So you're tracking everything in your day? No, no, no.

01:40:40 ◼   ► Like if I wasn't working, like wasn't actively working on something,

01:40:45 ◼   ► there's no timer running. This was like,

01:40:47 ◼   ► I was spending a bunch of time today. Like there was also some other stuff.

01:40:50 ◼   ► I was just like setting some stuff up at the studio. So I was tracking that.

01:40:54 ◼   ► Um, it's very rare actually. It's kind of funny.

01:40:56 ◼   ► It's very rare that the mega studio timer is used,

01:40:59 ◼   ► but it's just turns out to be that today I used it a lot

01:41:02 ◼   ► because of things outside of my control.

01:41:04 ◼   ► - I also find, and we've talked about this,

01:41:07 ◼   ► but I find your time tracking system to blow my mind

01:41:11 ◼   ► because your top categories are things like editing

01:41:15 ◼   ► or recording or show prep.

01:41:17 ◼   ► And when I was time tracking, I did per show

01:41:21 ◼   ► 'cause I wouldn't know how much time I spent

01:41:22 ◼   ► on connected versus MPU, et cetera.

01:41:25 ◼   ► - Their tax.

01:41:26 ◼   ► - Yeah, but then you gotta, it's like one layer down.

01:41:28 ◼   ► So it's like your camera, open the camera,

01:41:31 ◼   ► open the camera app to look at your photos.

01:41:34 ◼   ► - But it's not so important for me

01:41:36 ◼   ► that I have to know a top level

01:41:39 ◼   ► which show I'm spending time on.

01:41:40 ◼   ► - See, I mean, that's what really kind of surprised me

01:41:43 ◼   ► 'cause I wanna know that.

01:41:44 ◼   ► In fact, I track my income monthly based per show.

01:41:49 ◼   ► So I can know like, oh, I'm spending eight hours a week

01:41:52 ◼   ► on this show and it makes this or 10 hours versus that.

01:41:56 ◼   ► It's very easy for me to get that information in Timery

01:42:00 ◼   ► and also in the toggle website.

01:42:02 ◼   ► You just, instead of filtering by project,

01:42:04 ◼   ► you just fill up a tag.

01:42:05 ◼   ► I have both pieces of information,

01:42:09 ◼   ► which is also very helpful.

01:42:11 ◼   ► - Federico.

01:42:12 ◼   ► You and I both have social apps in our doc.

01:42:17 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:42:19 ◼   ► - Myke's doc is all business.

01:42:20 ◼   ► Do you notice this?

01:42:21 ◼   ► You notice this flex on us?

01:42:23 ◼   ► Like, do you really think to do this?

01:42:24 ◼   ► Do you, Federico, do you really think

01:42:26 ◼   ► to do us as in Myke's iPhone dock,

01:42:28 ◼   ► or do you think he switched it with messages

01:42:30 ◼   ► for the screenshot?

01:42:31 ◼   ► - No, no, I think it's, you know,

01:42:33 ◼   ► I mean, the man is running two companies.

01:42:35 ◼   ► He's an easy boy. - I know.

01:42:36 ◼   ► - He's all about work, no time for social.

01:42:38 ◼   ► - I'm very busy.

01:42:39 ◼   ► I don't care about my friends.

01:42:41 ◼   ► I don't leave that you make me money.

01:42:44 ◼   ► (laughs)

01:42:45 ◼   ► - I just wanna know who you left unread in messages for this.

01:42:48 ◼   ► - Who was that?

01:42:51 ◼   ► - He used to hang out with us,

01:42:53 ◼   ► used to, you know, spend time on Twitter,

01:42:55 ◼   ► do the memes, now it's all business, #hahabusiness.

01:43:00 ◼   ► So yeah.

01:43:01 ◼   ► - That is me actually, that's my,

01:43:03 ◼   ► the haha business guy is my spirit animal.

01:43:04 ◼   ► - He's doing GTD, he's doing Spark,

01:43:07 ◼   ► he's doing some browsing.

01:43:09 ◼   ► - There are some stacks here by the way,

01:43:10 ◼   ► Fantastic Cow lives under Carrot weather.

01:43:12 ◼   ► - Interesting.

01:43:13 ◼   ► - That's just where that is.

01:43:14 ◼   ► - I figured you'd want the calendar front and center,

01:43:16 ◼   ► I just actually just realized this,

01:43:17 ◼   ► you don't have a calendar front and center.

01:43:19 ◼   ► - It's smart rotating, and otherwise I know where they are,

01:43:23 ◼   ► it's nice and easy for me that way,

01:43:25 ◼   ► I like, I actually kind of like it. I at first thought, oh, I don't know if this is going to work for me.

01:43:29 ◼   ► So the smart rotate's pretty good. I haven't ever tried it.

01:43:32 ◼   ► I would say so because I very, I would say I very infrequently feel like, oh, this isn't what I want.

01:43:38 ◼   ► Like, I don't feel like I have that feeling because if I did, I would not have stuck with it, you know?

01:43:45 ◼   ► I think another stack you could do is combining the steps and the fitness,

01:43:52 ◼   ► and they just have like a buff mic but they're not the right they're not the right shape we can

01:43:58 ◼   ► make a widget smith widget however you want can you make a medium step counting widget maybe

01:44:04 ◼   ► yeah maybe i could do that actually because that's the activity is is new like i wasn't sure if that

01:44:10 ◼   ► was something that i wanted i actually do actually really like that widget i think it's a really

01:44:15 ◼   ► nicely done so i may do that but then i'm gonna have to change stuff up because if i want it on

01:44:20 ◼   ► that second home screen still. I'm gonna, you see, now to me to do what I've done there,

01:44:25 ◼   ► I have to like... It cascades. Mess that up big time. It cascades. I mean, one thing you

01:44:30 ◼   ► could do is you could have your two photo widgets side by side because... I kind of like

01:44:36 ◼   ► that they're not side by side. I like that they're, I like the diagonal. I like the diagonal.

01:44:43 ◼   ► It's just a thing. I don't want them side by side. Why, if, you know, then I would just

01:44:47 ◼   ► have a medium, which I like that they break things up. I would say clearly I have the

01:44:52 ◼   ► best home screen because the only thing... No, I think I won the... I think I obviously

01:44:56 ◼   ► won the roast. No, no, no. I... yeah, you won the roast by having the worst and then

01:45:03 ◼   ► I've had the best. So I lose the roast, but that's perfectly fine. I had the best narrative

01:45:09 ◼   ► around my home screen. So... No, because really that narrative has only opened you up for

01:45:16 ◼   ► further mocking, so I don't actually think that it's worked in the way that you want

01:45:20 ◼   ► it to. The narrative fascinates people, and you know that I'm a man of the people, so

01:45:25 ◼   ► the people will agree with me. Are the people using focus modes? I don't think they are.

01:45:30 ◼   ► Yes, our people are. And you would never know because you can't reach them. Anyway, I'm

01:45:37 ◼   ► hungry and dinner is, I ordered pizza tonight, so if you guys can please. You said roast

01:45:42 ◼   ► too many times I think is the problem. Yes and if you can let me go I would like that pizza.

01:45:47 ◼   ► It's good to know that I won the roast. Also it was exhausting to, it's actually exhausting to

01:45:53 ◼   ► roast you guys like it's. Because you have to work so hard to try and find things that are

01:45:59 ◼   ► wrong with my home screen. Yeah no it's I don't like complaining too much. It's, it's, it's.

01:46:06 ◼   ► Is that true? Is that true?

01:46:09 ◼   ► Well, we're not to my friends.

01:46:12 ◼   ► You know, I mean, you're fine, you know.

01:46:15 ◼   ► I had to push myself to my limits here.

01:46:18 ◼   ► It requires a lot of energy.

01:46:20 ◼   ► I'm so lucky to find things that were wrong with me.

01:46:21 ◼   ► No, that's, oh God, no.

01:46:24 ◼   ► I get it, it's okay. You've lost the roast.

01:46:26 ◼   ► I understand.

01:46:27 ◼   ► No. I understand.

01:46:28 ◼   ► No, you don't. You don't understand.

01:46:30 ◼   ► If you want to find links to our iPhone home screens

01:46:33 ◼   ► to make your own judgment,

01:46:35 ◼   ► You can find them in the show notes.

01:46:37 ◼   ► They are at relay.fm/connected/371.

01:46:42 ◼   ► Also links to the other stuff we spoke about,

01:46:43 ◼   ► including MagTricky.

01:46:46 ◼   ► MagTricky.com.

01:46:48 ◼   ► Orders end this week on Thursday, November 11th.

01:46:52 ◼   ► I'm gonna shut 'em off.

01:46:54 ◼   ► So get your order in.

01:46:55 ◼   ► One.

01:46:56 ◼   ► - Win an iPod Mini.

01:46:57 ◼   ► - Win a HomePod.

01:46:59 ◼   ► - HomePod Mini. - HomePod Mini.

01:47:01 ◼   ► - iPod.

01:47:03 ◼   ► - I don't wanna give an iPod Mini away.

01:47:05 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:47:06 ◼   ► - So go do that, magtricky.com.

01:47:08 ◼   ► You can find us all online.

01:47:10 ◼   ► You can find Federico on Twitter as Vitici, V-I-T-I-C-C-I.

01:47:14 ◼   ► He's his tweet bot, you know?

01:47:16 ◼   ► Did you know?

01:47:17 ◼   ► - I do now.

01:47:18 ◼   ► - I do now.

01:47:19 ◼   ► Yeah, he's the editor-in-chief of magstories.net.

01:47:22 ◼   ► Federico, anything fun coming up on Magstories?

01:47:25 ◼   ► - We are working,

01:47:27 ◼   ► we have finalized the list of Magstory selects,

01:47:31 ◼   ► But we are announcing the readers,

01:47:35 ◼   ► we are opening up the Readers' Choice Award voting process

01:47:40 ◼   ► this Friday with some news from last year, so stay tuned.

01:47:46 ◼   ► We'll announce it on Friday.

01:47:48 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:47:49 ◼   ► With some news.

01:47:51 ◼   ► - Yes.

01:47:52 ◼   ► - Instead of trophies, the winners all get a puppy.

01:47:54 ◼   ► - I would love to do that, but no, it's still a trophy.

01:47:59 ◼   ► - Okay. - This year.

01:48:00 ◼   ► Is it a trophy of a puppy?

01:48:02 ◼   ► - Yes, you got it.

01:48:05 ◼   ► - Oh, it spoiled the surprise.

01:48:07 ◼   ► - It's a picture.

01:48:09 ◼   ► - That makes so much sense.

01:48:11 ◼   ► - Steven, you spoiled everything.

01:48:14 ◼   ► - I'm sorry.

01:48:15 ◼   ► - Steven, why?

01:48:16 ◼   ► - Yeah.