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00:00:08 ◼   ► Hello and welcome to Connected episode 291.

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00:00:15 ◼   ► Pingdom, and Bombas. My name is Stephen Hackett and I am joined by Myke Hurley.

00:00:20 ◼   ► Oh, hello. Hey buddy, how are you? Not terrible? Not terrible? Fine. I'm excited

00:00:27 ◼   ► about the Hackett number. You know, look, do you want to know? Like, yeah, things aren't

00:00:31 ◼   ► great. Like, what do you want from me? Like, I'm not a top energy. I'm like happy to be

00:00:36 ◼   ► here. This is one of my very favorite shows to record because it's happy fun times. But

00:00:40 ◼   ► no, things aren't great right now. And I am stressed out like 97% of the time.

00:00:46 ◼   ► Not feeling that big quarantine energy.

00:00:48 ◼   ► Yeah, it goes in waves, you know? Some days are better than others.

00:00:56 ◼   ► Hey Federico.

00:00:58 ◼   ► Hello. Hi.

00:01:00 ◼   ► Wow. You doing okay?

00:01:02 ◼   ► That's some big quarantine energy right there.

00:01:04 ◼   ► I'm great. I'm great. Honestly,

00:01:06 ◼   ► I spend all my days

00:01:08 ◼   ► at home playing with the dogs, eating food,

00:01:10 ◼   ► cooking, drinking wine,

00:01:12 ◼   ► occasionally writing.

00:01:14 ◼   ► Honestly, I'm working a lot.

00:01:16 ◼   ► But yeah, I miss going

00:01:18 ◼   ► outside. But I'm

00:01:20 ◼   ► trying to keep my big energy

00:01:22 ◼   ► up. You know? It's important.

00:01:24 ◼   ► That's good. We have some follow-up, but it's all about me, which is weird.

00:01:29 ◼   ► How are you?

00:01:30 ◼   ► Do you want to do this?

00:01:31 ◼   ► Stephen, how are you?

00:01:32 ◼   ► I'm, oh, thank you.

00:01:33 ◼   ► How are you, Stephen? You're taking care of us, but nobody ever takes care of you.

00:01:36 ◼   ► That's so sweet. I have John. John takes care of me.

00:01:40 ◼   ► Oh, God.

00:01:41 ◼   ► John did take care of me once. He rescued me from the airport.

00:01:44 ◼   ► Oh.

00:01:45 ◼   ► That is true.

00:01:46 ◼   ► He let me stay in his house. It was quite nice. John's house is really nice, guys.

00:01:51 ◼   ► That's what you get. I mean, we should have all become lawyers before we quit our jobs.

00:01:56 ◼   ► And here's a shameless plug, if you want to see Jon's studio, there's going to be a story

00:02:04 ◼   ► in this week's newsletter for Club Max for his members.

00:02:07 ◼   ► This is unacceptable.

00:02:08 ◼   ► I'm just saying, on the topic of Jon's house, if you want to see his studio...

00:02:13 ◼   ► Alright then. If you want to see Jon Siracusa's desk, you need to become a Relay FM member,

00:02:20 ◼   ► And then you need to, I don't know how you do it, Stephen can answer, but you've got

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00:02:27 ◼   ► And you can see what John Syracuse's desk looks like.

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00:02:54 ◼   ► This is unacceptable.

00:02:55 ◼   ► This is absolutely unacceptable.

00:02:56 ◼   ► Give us your money and we'll show you photos of people's houses.

00:02:59 ◼   ► What do I have?

00:03:00 ◼   ► This is how it works.

00:03:01 ◼   ► Cortex-mark and go to thethemes.com and who knows, someday in the future there might be

00:03:06 ◼   ► some journals.

00:03:07 ◼   ► I don't even want to get into the stress I'm having with journals right now.

00:03:10 ◼   ► It's just a nightmare.

00:03:11 ◼   ► So Myke, do you want to follow up?

00:03:12 ◼   ► Uh, so, so, so follow up.

00:03:15 ◼   ► Now we're out of the shilling portion of the episode.

00:03:18 ◼   ► Yeah, we are so sorry.

00:03:19 ◼   ► Cool.

00:03:20 ◼   ► Phil?

00:03:21 ◼   ► Is Phil here?

00:03:22 ◼   ► You know what?

00:03:23 ◼   ► I am not sorry.

00:03:24 ◼   ► I'm not sorry.

00:03:25 ◼   ► This is tough times.

00:03:26 ◼   ► I got no credit for my Phil Schiller shilling joke.

00:03:29 ◼   ► No, because it wasn't good.

00:03:31 ◼   ► I just wanted to ignore it, Steven.

00:03:33 ◼   ► It's just a bad joke.

00:03:34 ◼   ► Yeah, because you drew attention to it.

00:03:36 ◼   ► So now you can't edit around it because it's in there.

00:03:38 ◼   ► You don't know what I can edit around.

00:03:40 ◼   ► I can keep bringing it up multiple times during the episode.

00:03:44 ◼   ► Just randomly.

00:03:45 ◼   ► That's true.

00:03:46 ◼   ► Right. Like, you remember that bad joke you made, Stephen, about showing it?

00:03:49 ◼   ► He's gonna edit it out every single time.

00:03:51 ◼   ► Yeah, I'll make it in like the middle of sentences.

00:03:54 ◼   ► So it'd be super. Anyway, the Radeon Pro W5700X, which is how I'm assuming that that's said,

00:04:04 ◼   ► is now available. This is the graphics card that you, Stephen Hackett, have been looking

00:04:08 ◼   ► for for your Macintosh professional with feet. Did you buy it? Did you get it? I know you've

00:04:15 ◼   ► waiting for it. So did you get it? Yeah, it's ordered. It's on its way. I knew basically

00:04:19 ◼   ► when I bought this machine that the base GPU wasn't going to be enough. It's really rough

00:04:23 ◼   ► and final cut with 4k video, because it's actually worse than the iMac Pro. So my video

00:04:27 ◼   ► editing is actually more painful than it was. So this will be a nice update. And it's way

00:04:32 ◼   ► less expensive than the Vega. So I'm excited. You should have kept your internet Macintosh

00:04:36 ◼   ► professional with stand rather than moving to your Macintosh professional with feet.

00:04:41 ◼   ► on that you didn't buy the wheels did you? No I did not. No we had a conversation afterwards

00:04:46 ◼   ► where we all agreed that Stephen buying the wheels was just ridiculous so he didn't buy

00:04:50 ◼   ► the wheels even though me and Federico were willing to front the $150 each it still seemed

00:04:55 ◼   ► silly. Yeah. So yeah I'm excited about the video card I'm excited to see an increased

00:05:02 ◼   ► fluidity in Final Cut and yeah I'm excited I'm also excited about installing it because

00:05:06 ◼   ► I get to unscrew things in my computer and that's just the best. Is it? I guess it is

00:05:11 ◼   ► actually. It's pretty good. I've seen inside one of those Macintosh Professional with feet

00:05:17 ◼   ► and they are quite beautiful inside. They are. You finally did what we asked you to

00:05:22 ◼   ► do about a month ago and connected your Macintosh Professional with feet to an old monitor, right?

00:05:28 ◼   ► How did that go? It went really well. You can find a video of it on YouTube. So I was

00:05:33 ◼   ► I'm just gonna do the studio display and then I realized that I had a really old

00:05:37 ◼   ► studio display and a cinema display and so I hooked all three of them up through

00:05:42 ◼   ► what was an increasingly uncomfortable number of adapters and yeah so go check

00:05:48 ◼   ► out the video the link will be in the show notes it was a lot of fun to do.

00:05:51 ◼   ► We need to talk about one of the adapters that you used. Yes. Because it's the size

00:05:58 ◼   ► of an Apple TV mm-hmm what is the deal with this adapter this is the ADC to DVI

00:06:06 ◼   ► adapter we'll put it up what is ADC so ADC was this short-lived video

00:06:12 ◼   ► connection that Apple used that had video USB and power but all over one

00:06:19 ◼   ► cable right so you would have one cable going from your g4 g5 tower and then it

00:06:27 ◼   ► would power the display and power the USB pass-through and everything. The issue

00:06:30 ◼   ► is that DVI came along and well DVI was actually around before this and Apple

00:06:36 ◼   ► switched to ADC then went back it's all very confusing but ADC was short-lived

00:06:42 ◼   ► and so it ended up being a real issue when you went to go plug in your new

00:06:50 ◼   ► computer to you know a display that had this weird adapter. So Apple put this on

00:06:57 ◼   ► sale back in 2002, originally for for the power books when they got DVI. But this thing

00:07:03 ◼   ► is massive. It was $150 new $160 new something like that. And it was it's a yeah, it's about

00:07:12 ◼   ► the size of it's bigger than an Apple TV. It's kind of somewhere in between an Apple

00:07:17 ◼   ► TV and like a old airport base station. And it gets power, a power plug and you plug the

00:07:24 ◼   ► ADC adapter into it and you get DVI and USB to plug into your computer. It's pretty wild.

00:07:30 ◼   ► Oh, you found a good press release. Yeah.

00:07:33 ◼   ► Yeah, when they announced it. I keep all these in Dev and Think so I can just find it.

00:07:39 ◼   ► When watching this video, so my first thought was, "This is cool and this is exactly what

00:07:42 ◼   ► I asked you to do." Well, almost because you didn't try with the Niacat Pro, but that's

00:07:47 ◼   ► fine.

00:07:48 ◼   ► I did tweet from somebody. I'll see if I can find it of using

00:07:52 ◼   ► Using an iPad to power it so you didn't get USB pass-through, but the rest of it worked

00:07:59 ◼   ► How do you keep track and organize all of these dongles and adapters that you have?

00:08:04 ◼   ► Yeah, so that is crucial as you may imagine

00:08:06 ◼   ► So I keep them organized by the type the newest like connector. So all my thunderbolt two ones are together

00:08:13 ◼   ► I got a thunderbolt three ones together and then I sort of have a collection of

00:08:17 ◼   ► like HDMI stuff and so I can go through and find what I need I have them all in

00:08:22 ◼   ► baggies in a drawer I can go through and find what I need. But like but like

00:08:25 ◼   ► they're labeled? The bags are labeled so it's like here are all my

00:08:29 ◼   ► Thunderbolt 2 things and I can just pull it out and anything that's Thunderbolt 2

00:08:32 ◼   ► is in there. So I can can you like with other labels you wouldn't be able to

00:08:37 ◼   ► tell between Thunderbolt 2 and 3? I could but I find it but if they're all in a

00:08:42 ◼   ► giant pile then it takes time to sort through them so the organization is

00:08:46 ◼   ► really to speed the finding up a little bit. Interesting. Okay, well thanks for the video.

00:08:55 ◼   ► I mean it's always awesome when old tech, you know, still working today you can use

00:09:03 ◼   ► it, you know, it speaks very much to my heart to this kind of project. It's very nicely

00:09:07 ◼   ► done. Well like shout out to Thunderbolt 3 for being backwards compatible with everything,

00:09:12 ◼   ► is pretty cool. And on this weekends in Mac power users, it's coming out a couple days

00:09:18 ◼   ► after this show. I talked with David a good bit about the production of this video, I

00:09:22 ◼   ► changed up a lot about how I did this use a teleprompter for the first time. And so

00:09:26 ◼   ► I'll talk to David on that MP you about that. So if you have questions about that, go check

00:09:30 ◼   ► out that episode.

00:09:31 ◼   ► So can about dongles, I realized I was I thought to myself, there was a as a dongle that I

00:09:37 ◼   ► for my iPad, the USB-C dongle, and then I opened my bag and realized I don't have

00:09:43 ◼   ► any of my dongles. My dongles are all in my studio, which is locked up right now.

00:09:49 ◼   ► And that was very upsetting, so the basically the the moral of the story is

00:09:54 ◼   ► you can have a dongle bag but don't leave it anywhere, because then you

00:09:58 ◼   ► can't get it. So I don't have any dongles anymore.

00:10:01 ◼   ► Oh man, the chat room wants me to do a video where I am blindfolded and I have

00:10:06 ◼   ► to identify different dongles.

00:10:08 ◼   ► - I would love to see that video very much.

00:10:10 ◼   ► - I'm putting that in the list of video ideas.

00:10:14 ◼   ► - This show is just becoming like an endless source

00:10:16 ◼   ► of video ideas for you now.

00:10:18 ◼   ► - It's absolutely great.

00:10:20 ◼   ► - Well, what it means is you're giving the people

00:10:22 ◼   ► what they want, you know?

00:10:24 ◼   ► - That's right.

00:10:25 ◼   ► - Which is, that's never a bad thing.

00:10:27 ◼   ► Well, sometimes it's a bad thing probably,

00:10:28 ◼   ► but most of the time it's a good thing.

00:10:30 ◼   ► - All right, that's in my YouTube ideas list.

00:10:33 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:10:35 ◼   ► - Excellent, where'd you keep that list?

00:10:36 ◼   ► - In reminders.

00:10:37 ◼   ► - Not in dev, not in deventing.

00:10:40 ◼   ► - Not in deventing.

00:10:41 ◼   ► No, I use reminders for like little checklist things.

00:10:44 ◼   ► So I have five lists.

00:10:45 ◼   ► I have a grocery list that I share with my wife,

00:10:47 ◼   ► books to read, media to watch,

00:10:50 ◼   ► which I can check the couple off here

00:10:52 ◼   ► 'cause I've watched those,

00:10:53 ◼   ► YouTube ideas and then column ideas.

00:10:56 ◼   ► - Right.

00:10:56 ◼   ► - Michael is very curious about apps today.

00:10:58 ◼   ► - He is.

00:10:59 ◼   ► - Yeah, I'm app curious.

00:11:01 ◼   ► - Why are you?

00:11:02 ◼   ► - I don't know.

00:11:03 ◼   ► you just get that feeling like you wanna... You wanna try something new? Yeah, you know where it

00:11:08 ◼   ► started? I can't believe I'm doing this, this is just like Plug Central today. I was listening to

00:11:13 ◼   ► Mac Stories Unplugged. Oh nice! Yeah, you can find that at relay.fm/liftoff. Oh, lift off is that,

00:11:22 ◼   ► oh that's good. Yeah, and you gotta join lift off to get this podcast. But by promoting this

00:11:27 ◼   ► podcast and putting Federico Fattucci on blast, because Federico's back in OmniFocus. Oh no,

00:11:33 ◼   ► I don't see it.

00:11:34 ◼   ► No!

00:11:36 ◼   ► And so it's like, you know, you know,

00:11:39 ◼   ► those things you're like, hmm,

00:11:41 ◼   ► do I want to be back in OmniFocus?

00:11:43 ◼   ► You know, like when you do that and

00:11:45 ◼   ► now I'm like for absolutely

00:11:47 ◼   ► zero, no reason thinking

00:11:49 ◼   ► about upending my entire

00:11:51 ◼   ► productivity to do system

00:11:53 ◼   ► just to try out OmniFocus

00:11:56 ◼   ► again because Federico is doing it.

00:11:58 ◼   ► And then, you know, so so now I'm

00:12:00 ◼   ► just like, well, what else are you

00:12:02 ◼   ► doing, both of you, that might be like a little less disruptive to my entire life.

00:12:06 ◼   ► Right? So like where do you keep your text files? Where do you keep your lists?

00:12:11 ◼   ► Like I just want to know, you know? Interesting. I got some recommendations

00:12:16 ◼   ► for you buddy. I'm testing a bunch of things. I'm sure you are. You need to go to

00:12:21 ◼   ► Remember The Milk. Sign up for an account. But you're not even using Remember The Milk

00:12:25 ◼   ► anymore because you told me you were using Todoist again. I tried things for a

00:12:29 ◼   ► little while recently but then I remembered very quickly that its

00:12:32 ◼   ► repeating reminder system is completely broken for how I work. I can't believe

00:12:37 ◼   ► they haven't fixed that. I feel like we've been talking about it for seven

00:12:39 ◼   ► years. They told, yeah, a year and a half ago they told me they were fixing it.

00:12:42 ◼   ► Nothing. It's so nice though, like design-wise. I know, it was beautiful and

00:12:47 ◼   ► I like a lot about how it works except I want to check off repeating tasks before

00:12:51 ◼   ► they're due because sometimes... I still don't understand how that's not a

00:12:55 ◼   ► feature like that that is incredible. It blows my mind. I wouldn't even consider

00:12:59 ◼   ► Consider it a feature, it just feels like a fundamental way of managing life.

00:13:02 ◼   ► It's like, hey, I've done this thing earlier than expected.

00:13:06 ◼   ► Yeah, no, no.

00:13:09 ◼   ► They are sticklers over at Culture Code.

00:13:11 ◼   ► I want you to live in the moment, man.

00:13:13 ◼   ► Just embrace, you know, don't do things in...

00:13:17 ◼   ► Never help yourself.

00:13:18 ◼   ► Don't do things in advance, man.

00:13:20 ◼   ► Just chill, you know.

00:13:22 ◼   ► That's the spirit.

00:13:24 ◼   ► That's how they live in Germany, I think.

00:13:25 ◼   ► Are they in Germany?

00:13:26 ◼   ► Yeah, they're German.

00:13:27 ◼   ► Yeah, they're German.

00:13:28 ◼   ► Things, yeah, they're German.

00:13:30 ◼   ► I didn't know that.

00:13:31 ◼   ► Yeah, that's why it's so rigid.

00:13:32 ◼   ► Well, the German people are known for their efficiency and such, so like...

00:13:39 ◼   ► And I'm so efficient, sometimes I check the PO box one day early,

00:13:43 ◼   ► and I can't check it off till the next day.

00:13:45 ◼   ► Well, that's wrong of you.

00:13:46 ◼   ► I know.

00:13:47 ◼   ► Okay, we're gonna take a break, and then we're gonna come back.

00:13:51 ◼   ► We're gonna talk about some more things.

00:13:52 ◼   ► That's good.

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00:13:58 ◼   ► I'm just doing it again. Just take a break. I'm sorry.

00:14:01 ◼   ► Are you done?

00:14:04 ◼   ► I think so. I don't know.

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00:15:40 ◼   ► So I'm looking through, just as a quick aside, Steven, through the dev and think forums as

00:15:45 ◼   ► I do. I go on forums. It's very active. There's a lot of people here. There's a lot of people

00:15:51 ◼   ► that use DevOnThink.

00:15:53 ◼   ► I think that there's probably a pretty good Venn diagram of forum user and DevOnThink

00:15:58 ◼   ► user, just in general, that those things probably intersect quite heavily.

00:16:05 ◼   ► Probably.

00:16:06 ◼   ► Yeah, I gotta look into this again, because I used to use DevOnThink years ago.

00:16:12 ◼   ► It's it's really good. If you got a bunch of data, you need to sort through. Okay. All

00:16:17 ◼   ► right. All right. I have a story for y'all. Oh, good. One of our home pods has gone to

00:16:23 ◼   ► the great Apple store in the sky. So we, we had three at one of my office, one of the

00:16:30 ◼   ► kitchen, one in our bedroom and the one of the bedroom has, has been, it's acted weird

00:16:35 ◼   ► for a while. Like sometimes I would need to unplug it and replug it for it to like be

00:16:39 ◼   ► on the network like just strange little things. And the other day, Mary was like, hey, the

00:16:45 ◼   ► HomePod in the bedroom isn't working. I tried plugging it in and like, and it won't come

00:16:49 ◼   ► on at all. And I thought, well, you know, maybe the, you know, it's like, it's a power

00:16:53 ◼   ► strip with some other stuff that will maybe the power strip got kicked off or maybe who

00:16:56 ◼   ► knows what. So plug it straight into the wall and nothing. There's a way to like hard to

00:17:02 ◼   ► reset it. So if it powers on, you can press the top into the top turns red, and then it

00:17:05 ◼   ► like beeps at you and then it will completely factory reset. It can do that?

00:17:09 ◼   ► Yeah. Really? I will put a knowledge base article in the show notes. Of course, of

00:17:16 ◼   ► course you have. You just found your knowledge base article of the week right

00:17:19 ◼   ► there. I did the one about face masks but yeah I can do this one. This is the next one.

00:17:23 ◼   ► Sometimes if you pay attention I do the k-base articles of the week based on

00:17:27 ◼   ► something that's coming later in the week as like a teaser. Ah you have a

00:17:31 ◼   ► whole strategy for that okay. I mean most of the most of the time the strategy is

00:17:34 ◼   ► look for a random article, but sometimes there's a strategy. So anyways, nothing I

00:17:39 ◼   ► couldn't give reset wouldn't power on. So, you know, there's no Apple stores open. So

00:17:46 ◼   ► I went online and, you know, did the thing of like, hey, ask Apple support to call

00:17:50 ◼   ► me and you know, they called me and you can customize your hold music, which is

00:17:55 ◼   ► cool. I think I think we've talked about that. But it's the first time I've

00:17:57 ◼   ► experienced it. It's like, you know, do you want classical or like modern rock or

00:18:02 ◼   ► you know, whatever it was. What is modern rock for you? You know, like... The Eagles.

00:18:09 ◼   ► Yeah. Wings, you know? I'm sorry. Topics from the 80s. Yeah. My era. The more synthesizer,

00:18:26 ◼   ► the better really. So you were saying you were on hold listening to Sweet Home

00:18:31 ◼   ► Alabama. Yes. Yeah and so I talked to the person and hey I have plugged in

00:18:37 ◼   ► different place I've left to unplug for like 24 hours like I was like you know

00:18:40 ◼   ► is there something like some sort of like deep cycle thing tried to reset it

00:18:44 ◼   ► and the person was like well you've done everything I would walk you through.

00:18:47 ◼   ► Turns out this HomePod is out of warranty. Do you know how much an out of

00:18:51 ◼   ► warranty replacement is from Apple support for a HomePod? Just guess. I mean

00:18:55 ◼   ► It's in the document, but just like...

00:18:57 ◼   ► Oh, is it?

00:18:58 ◼   ► Don't look at the document.

00:18:59 ◼   ► What?

00:18:59 ◼   ► I just looked at the document.

00:19:00 ◼   ► You told me not to look at the document.

00:19:02 ◼   ► I couldn't help but look at it.

00:19:03 ◼   ► If you're listening out there, just

00:19:05 ◼   ► guess what a HomePod may be to replace.

00:19:09 ◼   ► Shout the number now.

00:19:11 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:19:12 ◼   ► I mean, to be fair, they're probably

00:19:14 ◼   ► manufacturing one for you.

00:19:16 ◼   ► Just because I don't like--

00:19:19 ◼   ► are they even producing the HomePod?

00:19:21 ◼   ► Like, this is still--

00:19:23 ◼   ► I don't think they are.

00:19:24 ◼   ► - Okay, they're guessing in the chat room.

00:19:25 ◼   ► Here we go.

00:19:26 ◼   ► 200, 300, 300, 399, and out of warranty swap is $279.

00:19:31 ◼   ► - That is just ridiculous.

00:19:36 ◼   ► - I went to Best Buy's website, and I thought,

00:19:39 ◼   ► how much does Best Buy have at the HomePod

00:19:41 ◼   ► for sale right now?

00:19:41 ◼   ► You can get an open box return for $249 from Best Buy.

00:19:46 ◼   ► You can get a new one from Best Buy for $299.

00:19:48 ◼   ► It's like, so I told the guys,

00:19:50 ◼   ► like, yeah, I'm not paying that.

00:19:54 ◼   ► No offense against you, but that's crazy.

00:19:55 ◼   ► And...

00:19:56 ◼   ► No offense against you.

00:19:59 ◼   ► You're talking directly to the HomePod development team right there, you know?

00:20:04 ◼   ► It's $2.99 new from Apple.

00:20:06 ◼   ► How is an out of warranty placement, you know, so...

00:20:08 ◼   ► And that's just so upsetting.

00:20:11 ◼   ► $20.

00:20:12 ◼   ► Oh, great.

00:20:12 ◼   ► Thank you.

00:20:13 ◼   ► So I told, I was like, yeah, I'm going to pass on that.

00:20:16 ◼   ► He was, and he said, he was like, yeah, yeah, good call.

00:20:19 ◼   ► He's just being completely honest.

00:20:23 ◼   ► So I'm down to two HomePods. I'm not replacing it right now because I think I want to see if there's a HomePod Mini maybe because the, you know, just kind of see.

00:20:31 ◼   ► So anyways, I have a non-functioning HomePod and I don't know what to do with it.

00:20:34 ◼   ► So I think I'm just gonna put it on my shelf and make it part of the collection.

00:20:36 ◼   ► No, you know what you got to do with it.

00:20:38 ◼   ► Take it apart.

00:20:39 ◼   ► You got to take it apart. You got to open it. You got to see what's inside.

00:20:42 ◼   ► Yeah, open it.

00:20:43 ◼   ► Open it and put it inside the cube.

00:20:46 ◼   ► Just let the computer run it.

00:20:48 ◼   ► Do something. Put a computer in it.

00:20:51 ◼   ► Put a computer in it.

00:20:52 ◼   ► Put an iPod in it.

00:20:54 ◼   ► Put a bird on it.

00:20:55 ◼   ► [laughter]

00:20:57 ◼   ► Yeah, put an iPod in it.

00:20:58 ◼   ► It's probably going to be a better music player.

00:20:59 ◼   ► Try and put something in it.

00:21:00 ◼   ► Pivot to that.

00:21:01 ◼   ► Okay.

00:21:02 ◼   ► You know?

00:21:03 ◼   ► All right, I'll figure out what to do with it.

00:21:04 ◼   ► Or you could do like the guy who turned out to be like a fake video, like the HomePod

00:21:10 ◼   ► Glitter Bomb that he turned out to be staged.

00:21:13 ◼   ► That was the guy who was secretly working for Apple, right?

00:21:16 ◼   ► Yeah, he was.

00:21:17 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:21:18 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:21:19 ◼   ► That was crazy.

00:21:20 ◼   ► Wait, what?

00:21:21 ◼   ► Mark Rober?

00:21:22 ◼   ► for Apple. In secret. Yeah. And also doing YouTube videos. I was thinking of the guy from The Verge.

00:21:28 ◼   ► He was working on like a special projects engineering team. Hmm, okay. All right, should we

00:21:34 ◼   ► should move on to the the big topic? The real topic. The big topic. No, I wanted to just say about the

00:21:41 ◼   ► HomePod last thing real quick. This is not a product that anyone should be buying right now,

00:21:46 ◼   ► like especially at full price, right? Like do not buy a HomePod at full price right now. Like that

00:21:50 ◼   ► is such a silly thing to do. Like it does feel like something should be around the corner

00:21:55 ◼   ► if this is still to be a thing. I don't remember what we spoke about it or not, but like there

00:21:59 ◼   ► was reports that it's that the HomePod OS is now built on tvOS instead, which is super

00:22:05 ◼   ► weird, right? Another massively successful product. I have noticed recently that my HomePod

00:22:11 ◼   ► is making new noises. Have you come across this? It makes a different chime. Mine doesn't

00:22:17 ◼   ► talk anymore because we muted all of them.

00:22:19 ◼   ► Oh yes, yes.

00:22:20 ◼   ► And we're fine.

00:22:21 ◼   ► It's a really expensive earpiece speaker.

00:22:23 ◼   ► Sanity and peace has been restored in our household.

00:22:27 ◼   ► That's good.

00:22:28 ◼   ► Because everything's gone.

00:22:30 ◼   ► Yeah, it's very good.

00:22:32 ◼   ► Anyways, the Hackett number.

00:22:33 ◼   ► Are we ready?

00:22:35 ◼   ► Oh yeah, the Hackett number.

00:22:37 ◼   ► Can you remind people what this is?

00:22:39 ◼   ► Yes.

00:22:40 ◼   ► So last week the question was asked about computers per capita in my household.

00:22:47 ◼   ► we are defining computers as iPad and up. So no iPhones, no game consoles, but iPads

00:22:54 ◼   ► and up and I did count other things. So I have totals. I've asked y'all to guess to

00:23:01 ◼   ► guess what this may be. So we're going to look at desktops, notebooks, and then the

00:23:06 ◼   ► total number and then looking at and then looking at the the hackett number I did I

00:23:13 ◼   ► did just realize that I didn't give a place for you guys to guess iPads, but I have that

00:23:16 ◼   ► number as well. So that's that's alright. So we're gonna have to put that guess in

00:23:19 ◼   ► real quick. Yes I'm sorry. On a scale of one to ten, how much did you enjoy

00:23:24 ◼   ► yourself counting up all of your equipment? It was pretty good. It was hot

00:23:30 ◼   ► in the attic for the few things I have up there, but it took like two hours and

00:23:33 ◼   ► I just listened to a podcast in my office and like took apart my shelves

00:23:37 ◼   ► and counted things and I dusted a bunch of stuff like it was a very it was very

00:23:40 ◼   ► nice time. And what app did you keep do you now have the inventory in? So the

00:23:45 ◼   ► inventory itself lives in WordPress on the site but when I was temporarily

00:23:49 ◼   ► updating it I had it in tot. Hmm. Are you curious about tot Myke? Yep.

00:23:57 ◼   ► Tot curious? Tot curious. I'm curious about all apps now. So how do we want to do this?

00:24:02 ◼   ► Do we want to do like desktops and I tell you the number, notebooks that tell you

00:24:05 ◼   ► the number and then we'll reveal the winner? How do we want to do it?

00:24:09 ◼   ► First of all we should say though that I, unlike Michael, have never been to

00:24:14 ◼   ► Steven's house so I don't have that kind of advantage. Right, but the thing is most

00:24:18 ◼   ► of Steven's stuff is in his attic which I've never been in. No, no, no, very, very little is in the attic.

00:24:22 ◼   ► Oh, there's an attic? Yeah. With just a few things. Okay. Most of it is in the office, but Myke hasn't been here in a year, almost, and

00:24:31 ◼   ► and the way the studio is set up, like, the top shelf is full of laptops and you

00:24:37 ◼   ► have no idea how many are up there. Because what I've been doing is I've

00:24:40 ◼   ► been going through your videos and trying to count computers on the shelves

00:24:43 ◼   ► in the background. Oh my word. I just guessed. Guessing is for suckers, Myke. No, I mean,

00:24:50 ◼   ► well, you know what? How about we'll see, won't we? Okay. Steven, can I get a link to

00:24:56 ◼   ► your inventory thing to put in the show notes? Cause I can't find it. Yes, but we can look

00:25:00 ◼   ► at it after. Ah, yes. I want to look at it now. Do I? Yep. Okay. Okay. Okay. So do we

00:25:08 ◼   ► do desktops first? Yes. Okay, so Myke, how many desktops do you think I have? 35. Okay,

00:25:16 ◼   ► Federico? Uh, I'm gonna go with 20. The total number of desktops is 40. Oh my god, oh my god,

00:25:25 ◼   ► wow, I'm so gonna lose this. Oh boy. Oh, I need to adjust my hacking number now. You're a problem.

00:25:34 ◼   ► We're just keeping the guesses, so... No no no, because you've got the iPads in there,

00:25:38 ◼   ► I need to adjust my Hackett number. Oh okay yeah yeah. Federico, did you adjust your Hackett number

00:25:43 ◼   ► calculation? Yeah I did. Okay. You divided by five right? We have five people in the house.

00:25:47 ◼   ► Yeah. All right, you can carry on, I'm just doing some stuff. Okay so notebooks...

00:25:51 ◼   ► 40? How can you have 40? You'd be surprised. So Federico, how many notebooks are you guessing

00:25:58 ◼   ► are in the collection? Oh well, this is gonna be super wrong, uh 35 notebooks. That is super

00:26:04 ◼   ► Myke what about you? 50. You are super close the number is 52. Yeah! Oh my god. Very close.

00:26:13 ◼   ► How's you counting? How's your counting doing for you? Huh? Oh my god. Alright iPads. Let's talk

00:26:19 ◼   ► about iPads. Myke, how many iPads do I have? 10. And Federico? 8. You are equally wrong. I have 9.

00:26:30 ◼   ► 9 iPads. That's frustrating. So you split the middle. So that, oh and we, so I counted server

00:26:39 ◼   ► separately, there's two servers, we'll just add them to the desktop number, so that's 42

00:26:43 ◼   ► desktops. That brings the total to 100, I think. 40 plus 52 plus 2 plus 9.

00:26:54 ◼   ► Oh, I broke, I broke, Alfred.

00:26:56 ◼   ► It's not one, it's not 100, it's 101, I think? No. I can do math.

00:27:02 ◼   ► 103.

00:27:03 ◼   ► 103? 103.

00:27:05 ◼   ► Wow.

00:27:06 ◼   ► Oh my god, it's 40 more than I expected.

00:27:10 ◼   ► You underestimated, Steven.

00:27:13 ◼   ► The Hackett number is 20.6.

00:27:17 ◼   ► My Hackett number was 23.75.

00:27:20 ◼   ► And Federico's, yours was 12.6.

00:27:23 ◼   ► So I won big time.

00:27:25 ◼   ► Yeah, because I thought he was a normal person.

00:27:27 ◼   ► See, I never would have assumed such a thing.

00:27:29 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:27:30 ◼   ► Like, you know, just yes, I have been there, but by being there,

00:27:34 ◼   ► I've seen as much as you've seen by looking on videos.

00:27:38 ◼   ► There are just stacks and stacks of laptops.

00:27:41 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:27:41 ◼   ► Like that's that's the thing.

00:27:43 ◼   ► The amount of laptops that I expected there would be

00:27:46 ◼   ► is what made me bump up my numbers across everything.

00:27:49 ◼   ► I knew the laptop number would be like 50 or something

00:27:53 ◼   ► like that because there's--

00:27:57 ◼   ► how many MacBook Pros do you have?

00:27:58 ◼   ► Or like aluminum, like metal laptops.

00:28:04 ◼   ► That's got to be like over 30.

00:28:06 ◼   ► Yeah, it's pretty close probably because I've

00:28:08 ◼   ► got a lot of iBooks and PowerBooks

00:28:12 ◼   ► that are plastic and stuff.

00:28:14 ◼   ► That is wild, Steven.

00:28:15 ◼   ► So there are 20 computers per human being.

00:28:20 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:28:21 ◼   ► - There are over 100 computers in Steven's house.

00:28:24 ◼   ► - We haven't even gotten-- - I just try and think about

00:28:26 ◼   ► that. - To the three bonus rounds

00:28:28 ◼   ► that we have for other various computing devices.

00:28:32 ◼   ► - You have over 100 computers

00:28:35 ◼   ► for essentially you and your wife,

00:28:39 ◼   ► because you have three kids,

00:28:41 ◼   ► and your wife is like, you're only gonna use like what,

00:28:44 ◼   ► a MacBook and an iPad? So you have 101 computers for yourself? You are a greedy person!

00:28:56 ◼   ► You're like the Scrooge McDuck of computers. You just have a massive pool that you jump

00:29:02 ◼   ► into and swim around in. You could open up a school and furnish the

00:29:06 ◼   ► school with computers. I mean it would be very bad for most students.

00:29:11 ◼   ► Yeah, most students go to the software.

00:29:12 ◼   ► Well, they would be better than most Chromebooks, but still.

00:29:14 ◼   ► Whoa!

00:29:15 ◼   ► Still!

00:29:16 ◼   ► Oh my god.

00:29:17 ◼   ► Alright, bonus rounds.

00:29:18 ◼   ► We're not even done yet!

00:29:21 ◼   ► Bonus rounds.

00:29:22 ◼   ► We're not even done!

00:29:23 ◼   ► How many Newton devices do I have?

00:29:27 ◼   ► Now this one, so we talk about like, like...

00:29:29 ◼   ► I don't even know.

00:29:30 ◼   ► What's the...

00:29:31 ◼   ► The Newton is...

00:29:32 ◼   ► This number could be telling, because if me and Federico are very close, if you are significantly

00:29:37 ◼   ► higher than this, then the lengths of your problem have yet to be...

00:29:41 ◼   ► Yeah, it goes much deeper.

00:29:43 ◼   ► I guessed five.

00:29:45 ◼   ► Five newtons.

00:29:46 ◼   ► I guessed four.

00:29:47 ◼   ► I have four.

00:29:48 ◼   ► Okay, okay.

00:29:49 ◼   ► Man, I am dead on with this.

00:29:52 ◼   ► Yeah, well, it's getting ready to change.

00:29:56 ◼   ► Okay.

00:29:58 ◼   ► How many iPhones?

00:30:00 ◼   ► 21.

00:30:01 ◼   ► 25.

00:30:02 ◼   ► Just 15.

00:30:03 ◼   ► 15?

00:30:04 ◼   ► Just.

00:30:05 ◼   ► Okay.

00:30:06 ◼   ► words. You're so reserved. Such an iPhone hater. You are... uh... iPods? I said 15. Now see I went big on this one. I went to 30 iPods. Didn't go big enough because the

00:30:21 ◼   ► answer is 42. 42 iPods? Oh my god. You have 42 iPods? Why do you only have 15 iPhones? 42 iPods even exist? Oh yeah. Or is it...

00:30:34 ◼   ► I could go way higher because I only have oh, yeah, the nanos only have the blue and orange ones

00:30:39 ◼   ► But there's billions of nano colors if you have 42 iPods. Why do you only have 15 iPhones?

00:30:46 ◼   ► Because iPhones hold their value way higher on the the second-hand market and I don't keep my old iPhones

00:30:52 ◼   ► They go to family members who slowly destroy them

00:30:54 ◼   ► So yeah, but like you can't say that that 42 number of iPods is because you keep iPods

00:30:59 ◼   ► No, it's not

00:31:00 ◼   ► So one day you will have over 40 iPhones, but you just need to wait for them to all be old enough.

00:31:05 ◼   ► Probably.

00:31:06 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:31:06 ◼   ► Look, you gotta open up a museum, man. Like, I don't know, build like a shed or something, like an actual exhibition.

00:31:14 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean people could just come here, but it's my office, so please don't come here.

00:31:17 ◼   ► Well, not right now, huh?

00:31:18 ◼   ► I'm recording right now. Can't come now.

00:31:21 ◼   ► Well, also, like, it would have to be a super big museum because social distancing.

00:31:25 ◼   ► It's true.

00:31:26 ◼   ► So, hold on, 103 computers plus 4 Newtons, that's 107, plus 15, that's 122?

00:31:41 ◼   ► Plus 42 iPods, that's 164.

00:31:43 ◼   ► 164 items.

00:31:44 ◼   ► And I didn't count, like, I think Apple TVs is like 4 or 5, I have some airport base stations,

00:31:51 ◼   ► like I have other stuff, but as far as things that were counted.

00:31:54 ◼   ► So if we do include the number to have iPhones, iPods and Newtons, which I think is, I mean,

00:32:03 ◼   ► we didn't include it in the standard Haggit number, but you could if you wanted to, it's

00:32:07 ◼   ► 32.8.

00:32:08 ◼   ► You gotta sit down with your kids and tell them, kids, one day you will own 32 computers

00:32:17 ◼   ► each.

00:32:18 ◼   ► Each.

00:32:19 ◼   ► Well, I mean, by the time he actually sits down to have that conversation, it's definitely

00:32:23 ◼   ► going to be more, isn't it?

00:32:24 ◼   ► But like, so if we do it the same, it's like, it's like, Mary has two.

00:32:27 ◼   ► You have 162 devices.

00:32:31 ◼   ► Just for yourself.

00:32:32 ◼   ► Well, they're for the audience.

00:32:34 ◼   ► No they're not.

00:32:35 ◼   ► Greedy, no, they're for yourself.

00:32:37 ◼   ► No they're not.

00:32:38 ◼   ► You know why I know they're not?

00:32:39 ◼   ► Because you texted us and said you found things you didn't know you had.

00:32:42 ◼   ► That's true.

00:32:43 ◼   ► So, you know, who's that?

00:32:45 ◼   ► Who are those ones for?

00:32:46 ◼   ► You, for the future.

00:32:48 ◼   ► But so for context, how long have you been collecting, collecting things?

00:32:52 ◼   ► I got my cube which was like the first collection piece probably like eight or nine years ago

00:33:00 ◼   ► but I only had when I moved in this office I probably had I mean maybe 25 or 30 items

00:33:07 ◼   ► it's really gross.

00:33:08 ◼   ► So assuming you started nine years ago that would be an average of 18 items you buy each

00:33:15 ◼   ► year.

00:33:16 ◼   ► Which is 1.5 a month.

00:33:21 ◼   ► That's a lot of good number, isn't it?

00:33:24 ◼   ► So what have you bought this month, Stephen?

00:33:26 ◼   ► I bought that ADC to DVI adapter for that video.

00:33:29 ◼   ► We didn't even include it in dongles, and just offered a little peripheral items.

00:33:32 ◼   ► How many displays do you have?

00:33:35 ◼   ► That video had all of my Apple displays in it.

00:33:37 ◼   ► All three of them.

00:33:38 ◼   ► Okay.

00:33:39 ◼   ► Well, no, four, because I have a CRT Apple display over here that I didn't draw up.

00:33:44 ◼   ► Because last time I plugged it in, it made a weird noise.

00:33:46 ◼   ► I'm afraid of it.

00:33:47 ◼   ► And they're really dangerous.

00:33:49 ◼   ► That was a stupid technology.

00:33:51 ◼   ► Yeah, CRTs? Oh yeah. Seriously. And I will say, you know, I'm sure people out there are

00:33:58 ◼   ► just worried. That's fine.

00:34:01 ◼   ► Yeah, I was gonna ask, do you think it's a problem?

00:34:05 ◼   ► I mean, looking at these numbers, it's hard to argue with that.

00:34:10 ◼   ► Okay, good. I just want to make sure that you have the clarity of mind to at least understand

00:34:15 ◼   ► those numbers are high.

00:34:16 ◼   ► I'm not trying to stop you.

00:34:17 ◼   ► I am not. No one's no one's trying

00:34:20 ◼   ► to take your computers away.

00:34:21 ◼   ► The majority of these are in my

00:34:22 ◼   ► little like 200 square foot office

00:34:24 ◼   ► because I have shelving.

00:34:25 ◼   ► You know, there's 11.

00:34:26 ◼   ► There's 11 max in the attic.

00:34:28 ◼   ► You can't justify it by saying

00:34:30 ◼   ► you have space like that's

00:34:32 ◼   ► not a justification.

00:34:33 ◼   ► Someone in the chat room was like,

00:34:34 ◼   ► what is your house look like?

00:34:35 ◼   ► It's like, well, they're all out

00:34:36 ◼   ► here. So

00:34:37 ◼   ► in our old house, they were in

00:34:40 ◼   ► random closets and my wife would

00:34:42 ◼   ► have to move an Apple to see to get

00:34:43 ◼   ► diapers out. It was very upset with

00:34:44 ◼   ► me. Yeah, the studio was a bad move really for this because like you were limited by

00:34:50 ◼   ► how much your family was willing to cope with. Now they don't even know. Now they don't even

00:34:54 ◼   ► know. You don't even know, nobody knows. I don't know. We haven't even considered, like

00:35:00 ◼   ► if you go to the Apple collection page on your website, Steven, and just go to the mice

00:35:07 ◼   ► section, you have the USB mouse in Bondi Blue, Blueberry, Graphite, Grape, Lime, Strawberry

00:35:13 ◼   ► and tangerine. Yeah. Like you have all the... Oh, there's a lot of mice here. There's a lot of mice.

00:35:17 ◼   ► There's things like iPod socks, of course. There's like, there are some extra things.

00:35:27 ◼   ► You have over three mice per person. The Hackett number on mice alone is over three.

00:35:35 ◼   ► And this collection page now is, I think, as up to date as it can be.

00:35:41 ◼   ► The Hackett number on quick take cameras is 0.6.

00:35:45 ◼   ► I have all three of them.

00:35:47 ◼   ► Yeah, that's good.

00:35:50 ◼   ► This is so much better and worse at the same time than I expected.

00:35:57 ◼   ► Yes.

00:35:58 ◼   ► It's a real situation.

00:35:59 ◼   ► Because like...

00:36:00 ◼   ► You have a Hackett number of one on the 5C.

00:36:03 ◼   ► Yeah, I've got all the...

00:36:05 ◼   ► Everyone in your home could have a 5C.

00:36:08 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:36:08 ◼   ► I want the blue one. I call it the blue one.

00:36:11 ◼   ► No, I'm sure you'll get first pick, don't worry.

00:36:13 ◼   ► The iBook G3, Hackett number of one.

00:36:18 ◼   ► Okay, so now we have a set... so okay, part of the reason of doing this

00:36:24 ◼   ► is so we could establish the baseline because then it becomes a convertible number.

00:36:28 ◼   ► So we are set and the actual official Hackett number is 20.6 because that's the rules that

00:36:35 ◼   ► we decided on. So if you need a refresher so everybody can play at home if they want to...

00:36:40 ◼   ► Yes. I want to see a bigger Hackett number with proof if you have a bigger number.

00:36:46 ◼   ► Sure, you gotta ask the Airy Ford Museum.

00:36:48 ◼   ► I didn't even count those 13 iMacs that I gave to them. They don't count.

00:36:53 ◼   ► Yeah, that's kind of you. You know, you only have 100 left.

00:36:57 ◼   ► Yeah. Wait, so you said 13.

00:36:58 ◼   ► Well, they're not in this number because I gave them to the Henry Ford.

00:37:02 ◼   ► I was going to say the Hackett number of computers donated to the Henry Ford Museum is 2.6.

00:37:07 ◼   ► [laughter]

00:37:09 ◼   ► Which is a lot.

00:37:11 ◼   ► But okay, so we're now, from now on,

00:37:13 ◼   ► when we say hackit number, we mean 20.6.

00:37:17 ◼   ► That is the--

00:37:19 ◼   ► When is that ever going to come up?

00:37:21 ◼   ► Right, but like, because I just, because now when we say the hackit number,

00:37:23 ◼   ► it has to be a fraction of that, right?

00:37:25 ◼   ► So the baseline of a hackit number is 20.6.

00:37:29 ◼   ► So if we set that as the baseline,

00:37:31 ◼   ► so that is now the equivalent of 1, right?

00:37:34 ◼   ► Because that is a hackit number.

00:37:35 ◼   ► a Hackett number. So if Google buys Evernote for $20,600, it's some, you know, multiplication

00:37:43 ◼   ► of the Hackett number. Sure. I don't really understand $20,600. Well, I was trying to

00:37:49 ◼   ► be funny because they're not worth anything. $20.6 million. Right. Then it would be 1 million

00:37:54 ◼   ► Hacketts. $20,000 is about right. So the Hackett number is 20.6. So if you owned 10.3 per person

00:38:03 ◼   ► in your home, you are 0.5 hackettes. Right? So that's the equivalent, that's like the

00:38:09 ◼   ► baseline because you remember we were setting it like the kilogram? So the hackit number

00:38:14 ◼   ► is 20.6, that's the value, so one hackit is 20.6. That's where we're going from now. This

00:38:24 ◼   ► now needs to live in our document forever because we will forget it otherwise. Yeah,

00:38:27 ◼   ► I'll put it in the bottom somewhere. Oh, great suggestion from Kate. What do we need to do

00:38:32 ◼   ► to get James to put this into Peacock. I mean honestly, I've found not much because I got

00:38:37 ◼   ► him to put in from a long conversation between me, Grey and James at a dinner table, we were

00:38:49 ◼   ► able to convince James to put into Peacock two values. One is like the mass of a rock

00:38:58 ◼   ► And then also, The Rock.

00:39:02 ◼   ► Right now he's working on a die set for me with the 13 iMac colors.

00:39:06 ◼   ► I sent him high res versions of the Flower Power and Blue Dalmatian graphics.

00:39:10 ◼   ► You see, it's not hard to get James to do things for you.

00:39:13 ◼   ► You've just got to get him on board that it's a fun idea.

00:39:16 ◼   ► So if you're a friend of James Thompson, you can end up with some wild things.

00:39:19 ◼   ► I actually got him to change something very important in PCALC, which I don't know if

00:39:23 ◼   ► I want to say publicly, I'll tell you about it later on, but it was like a big thing.

00:39:27 ◼   ► I just asked him to do it.

00:39:28 ◼   ► agree that it made more sense. No, actually I think it's fine to say. We'll find out.

00:39:32 ◼   ► So when you hit the percentage indicator in Peacock, so if I did like 20,000 minus 17%,

00:39:40 ◼   ► when you hit percent, it shows you what 17% is before you press equals, and then it gives

00:39:45 ◼   ► you the answer, because that mimics Apple's calculator. That's how the Apple calculator

00:39:49 ◼   ► does it. And I convinced him to change that, and that's now the default behavior in Peacock.

00:39:53 ◼   ► So if I do 20,000 minus 17%... what's this number?

00:40:02 ◼   ► That's 17% of 20,000.

00:40:04 ◼   ► Really?

00:40:05 ◼   ► Yeah, and when you press equals...

00:40:06 ◼   ► And you came up with this?

00:40:07 ◼   ► Well, no.

00:40:08 ◼   ► I didn't come up with it.

00:40:09 ◼   ► Apple's calculator does this.

00:40:10 ◼   ► And when you press equal?

00:40:11 ◼   ► It gives you the answer.

00:40:13 ◼   ► This is amazing.

00:40:16 ◼   ► See?

00:40:17 ◼   ► That's the way the calculator... because you get both then.

00:40:19 ◼   ► You get both answers.

00:40:20 ◼   ► That is really nice.

00:40:22 ◼   ► So Apple's calculator does that.

00:40:25 ◼   ► So I requested that I told James that I wanted it, and he said nobody ever asked for it before

00:40:29 ◼   ► and agreed to me that it made sense.

00:40:30 ◼   ► You are an app director, Michael.

00:40:33 ◼   ► I am.

00:40:34 ◼   ► Good job.

00:40:35 ◼   ► I just got promoted.

00:40:37 ◼   ► The chat room has a good idea.

00:40:38 ◼   ► June 20th will be Hack It Day.

00:40:41 ◼   ► Oh my god.

00:40:44 ◼   ► Put it in the calendar!

00:40:46 ◼   ► Hack It Day.

00:40:49 ◼   ► And I am...

00:40:50 ◼   ► Oh, it's a Saturday.

00:40:51 ◼   ► Oh, it is?

00:40:52 ◼   ► What can we do? What can we do? Can you like, I don't know, donate a computer on Hackett day?

00:40:57 ◼   ► Each year you donate a computer to a good cause.

00:41:00 ◼   ► I thought you meant like to Steven. Like everyone sends Steven a computer.

00:41:05 ◼   ► That is a good cause.

00:41:06 ◼   ► Each year you got a new computer on that day.

00:41:09 ◼   ► Mmm.

00:41:10 ◼   ► And I'll say too, a lot of these have come from people, like right now

00:41:14 ◼   ► I have someone mailing me a MacBook Pro. Like people just email me

00:41:17 ◼   ► wanting to know if I want something that they found that they were gonna recycle otherwise.

00:41:20 ◼   ► And I say no to a lot of that stuff, but I also say yes to some of it

00:41:24 ◼   ► So that that is a lot of these are donations, right? I'm not spending money every every

00:41:28 ◼   ► Three and a half weeks on something on eBay

00:41:31 ◼   ► Mmm. Well somebody is though like somebody

00:41:35 ◼   ► Yeah, but you know someone mails me a performa right also hack it number dot report

00:41:42 ◼   ► will forward to the

00:41:44 ◼   ► To what collection page

00:41:48 ◼   ► Relay.fm/membership. Wait, did somebody buy HackItNumber.com? I couldn't, it wasn't for sale, so I bought HackItNumber.Report instead.

00:41:56 ◼   ► There's no way that like, no HackItNumber.com is available, and I now own it.

00:42:01 ◼   ► Oh, Hovard didn't show it to me as being available.

00:42:04 ◼   ► Well, it's because I was, just because they kept it for me. Hmm. Well, I have HackItNumber.Report, which I think is funny, too.

00:42:10 ◼   ► Oh, I think somebody's bought it from out underneath me. Yeah, I couldn't buy it, so. Some of the chat room may be buying it.

00:42:18 ◼   ► Someone's got it in their cart. Yeah. Alright, so... 20.6. Wow. So, June 20th.

00:42:27 ◼   ► June 20th. Put it on my calendar. 20.6 computers per capita. I was not expecting this, honestly.

00:42:35 ◼   ► Thank you for your counting, Steven. You're welcome. What did you use to keep

00:42:40 ◼   ► track of these numbers. What app did you use?

00:42:42 ◼   ► Mmm. Good question.

00:42:44 ◼   ► T.O.T.

00:42:45 ◼   ► T.O.T. See, Myke?

00:42:46 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:42:47 ◼   ► You're using T.O.T.

00:42:48 ◼   ► Everyone's using T.O.T. now. I own HackItNumber.com.

00:42:51 ◼   ► Ah!

00:42:52 ◼   ► Okay.

00:42:53 ◼   ► Got it.

00:42:54 ◼   ► Where are you going to forward it?

00:42:55 ◼   ► I don't know. Maybe this episode?

00:42:57 ◼   ► Okay. And then HackItNumber.report will go to the collection page.

00:43:01 ◼   ► HackItNumber.

00:43:02 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:43:03 ◼   ► No, you should go to HackItNumber.com.

00:43:04 ◼   ► Yeah. You know what?

00:43:05 ◼   ► Always go to the double redirect.

00:43:06 ◼   ► Are you going to put the HackItNumber on your page?

00:43:09 ◼   ► Oh, I should.

00:43:10 ◼   ► Yeah, and then I'll send it there.

00:43:12 ◼   ► Okay, yeah, I'll link to this episode and then explain it.

00:43:16 ◼   ► We're having a meeting now, everyone.

00:43:18 ◼   ► We are.

00:43:19 ◼   ► So this is on your Apple collection page?

00:43:21 ◼   ► That's where you're going to put it?

00:43:22 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:43:23 ◼   ► All right.

00:43:24 ◼   ► That's where I'm forwarding the domain to.

00:43:25 ◼   ► All right.

00:43:26 ◼   ► That was fun.

00:43:29 ◼   ► That was actually a lot of fun.

00:43:30 ◼   ► That was surprising.

00:43:32 ◼   ► Yes.

00:43:33 ◼   ► I'm not surprised.

00:43:35 ◼   ► Like it was a lot to take, but I'm still not surprised if that makes sense.

00:43:41 ◼   ► I know he had a problem, but not to this extent.

00:43:45 ◼   ► And those iPods, I mean, I don't know what's more upsetting, if it's the notebooks or...

00:43:52 ◼   ► No, actually the desktops.

00:43:55 ◼   ► It's either the desktops for me, like 42 desktops, that's insane.

00:43:58 ◼   ► Especially because a lot of those are old, so they're really big.

00:44:01 ◼   ► But the desktops, like 42 desktops.

00:44:05 ◼   ► And they're massive, like these towers? Wow.

00:44:09 ◼   ► Yeah, that's the worst.

00:44:10 ◼   ► That's the worst number.

00:44:11 ◼   ► 42 desktops.

00:44:15 ◼   ► That's a lot of desktops.

00:44:16 ◼   ► It is.

00:44:17 ◼   ► All right.

00:44:19 ◼   ► Should we take a break?

00:44:20 ◼   ► Man, everyone just wanted to hear us talk about the Magic Keyboard, right?

00:44:24 ◼   ► That's why people tuned in.

00:44:27 ◼   ► Oh yeah, the Magic Keyboard.

00:44:28 ◼   ► We should talk about that.

00:44:29 ◼   ► Okay.

00:44:31 ◼   ► We'll do it after this break.

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00:45:53 ◼   ► - All right, so the iPad Magic Keyboard.

00:45:57 ◼   ► Federico has one, I have one.

00:46:00 ◼   ► Stevens is on the way, I believe?

00:46:03 ◼   ► - Yeah, it could be here as we record.

00:46:05 ◼   ► So if it is, I'll disappear, but I don't have one yet.

00:46:08 ◼   ► So I'm gonna let you guys share your impressions.

00:46:11 ◼   ► - So I read Federico's wonderful article.

00:46:14 ◼   ► You wrote a great article, Federico Bravo, on that one.

00:46:18 ◼   ► - Thank you, thank you.

00:46:19 ◼   ► I figured we could maybe go through, some of my notes that I've made are taken from

00:46:25 ◼   ► observations of reading your article, some are taken from my own use cases.

00:46:29 ◼   ► I figure we'll just go through all of this as we go.

00:46:33 ◼   ► And then Stephen, I guess you can ask us questions in case you want to know anything you didn't

00:46:37 ◼   ► know about.

00:46:38 ◼   ► Okay.

00:46:39 ◼   ► So I think it's probably, I think maybe funnily enough, the least exciting part of this whole

00:46:46 ◼   ► product or like the thing that is getting spoken about the least is the thing that it's

00:46:51 ◼   ► really supposed to do the most and it's to be a very good keyboard and it is a very good

00:46:56 ◼   ► keyboard and that's not really the exciting part of it. You know what I'm saying? It's

00:47:01 ◼   ► like the keyboard is excellent, right? Like the actual keyboard itself. I find it to be

00:47:06 ◼   ► better than most or if any laptop keyboard I've tried recently and it doesn't feel like

00:47:12 ◼   ► any concessions have been made for this keyboard. The way the keys feel themselves, they feel

00:47:18 ◼   ► full-sized, they're nice and stable. It's great, right Federico? It's just like a great

00:47:22 ◼   ► keyboard. It's a very good keyboard. I've never used one of the new keyboards in the

00:47:32 ◼   ► 16-inch MacBook Pro or the new MacBook Air. I have an old external Magic keyboard and

00:47:39 ◼   ► I have as a frame of reference the Sylvia's old 13-inch MacBook Pro with the butterfly keyboard.

00:47:46 ◼   ► And this is so much better than the butterfly keyboard. It has a bit less travel than the old

00:47:53 ◼   ► Magic Keyboard, but it's totally fine for me. I like typing on it. It feels nice, it feels great.

00:48:00 ◼   ► It's quite stable. I honestly have no complaints. The backlight is really even. We both have the

00:48:07 ◼   ► the 12.9, I'm very curious to try out the 11 and see how that feels as a keyboard

00:48:15 ◼   ► because it's naturally going to be more cramped, right? Like it has to be because

00:48:19 ◼   ► on the 12.9 the keyboard runs all the way to the edges. So like I wonder what

00:48:23 ◼   ► that feels like but the 12.9 is very very good. It's very very good. One of the

00:48:32 ◼   ► things that surprised me the most when I was watching all of the YouTube videos

00:48:36 ◼   ► that were coming out in advance, right, because there were people that were

00:48:40 ◼   ► receiving this thing before any reviewers could publish reviews,

00:48:44 ◼   ► was that the level of adjustability seemed less than I expected it to be.

00:48:50 ◼   ► And it is, like even in using it. But I've found that at the same time,

00:48:57 ◼   ► when I'm used in a device itself, it's as much as I need it to be.

00:49:01 ◼   ► I thought it was going to go back further, but I haven't had a situation in using it over the last 24 hours,

00:49:09 ◼   ► which admittedly is only 24 hours, where I feel like I've needed more adjustability from it.

00:49:14 ◼   ► Right, right. Yeah. I think we mentioned that we basically knew that it was not going to fold all the way into the back of the iPad,

00:49:23 ◼   ► and judging from the comments that I've seen and the discussion that I've seen on Twitter and Reddit,

00:49:30 ◼   ► I think a lot of people were actually expecting the opposite.

00:49:33 ◼   ► They thought that they would be able to fold and to have a 180-degree folding angle, basically,

00:49:41 ◼   ► like to completely hide the keyboard in the back of the case and use the iPad in tablet

00:49:47 ◼   ► mode, like in drawing mode for the pencil, or just if you wanted to use the software

00:49:51 ◼   ► keyboard.

00:49:53 ◼   ► As you can do with the SmartKeybarfolio and the SmartFolio, you can fold the entire thing

00:49:58 ◼   ► in the back of the device. And that's not possible with a magic keyboard. But I think,

00:50:06 ◼   ► we mentioned this is not going to be possible, and we talked about my kickstands, we said

00:50:12 ◼   ► you're not going to be able to use the kickstands because this thing is not going to fold. But

00:50:17 ◼   ► I agree with you that I haven't found myself in the position of saying, "Oh, well, I wish

00:50:25 ◼   ► that the screen would go a little further or... I haven't yet found myself wishing for

00:50:32 ◼   ► a bigger viewing angle, if that makes sense. So I do appreciate that I can bring the iPad

00:50:40 ◼   ► closer to me. Say that I'm laying in bed and I have the... using the iPad with the Magic

00:50:51 ◼   ► keyboard, I can bring the iPad closer to the keyboard and it stays

00:50:59 ◼   ► attached and it doesn't fall and crash onto the keyboard.

00:51:03 ◼   ► That's because of the hinge, that it's a relatively stiff inch.

00:51:07 ◼   ► But I don't know, I've seen a lot of complaints about "oh the hinge is too

00:51:15 ◼   ► stiff" or maybe "oh the keyboard is way too heavy" and I don't feel

00:51:19 ◼   ► that way. I think the stiffness of the hinge is regular, like it's normal. It's exactly

00:51:29 ◼   ► what I expected it to be. And the weight and the weight distribution is also like... it

00:51:35 ◼   ► made sense for me right away. I was not expecting this keyboard to be as lightweight as the

00:51:41 ◼   ► smart keyboard. And I guess we were all expecting this. But I'm very surprised, and maybe this

00:51:48 ◼   ► is like my general reaction. I'm very surprised by other people's surprised reaction. Like,

00:51:57 ◼   ► what were you thinking? That this was going to be super lightweight, despite the fact

00:52:01 ◼   ► that it's an actual keyboard with backlit keys and a trackpad, and it needs to support

00:52:08 ◼   ► a floating design? Not even the floating design means it needs to be heavy. Any keyboard like

00:52:15 ◼   ► this would, if it's like to give you adjustability, has to be heavy.

00:52:20 ◼   ► But especially because it's a floating design, which means it's entirely based on this two-hinge

00:52:26 ◼   ► system and magnets. You gotta put that weight somewhere, right? That's just how physics

00:52:34 ◼   ► work? Like, what were you expecting? And so, I don't know, I find most of the conversations

00:52:41 ◼   ► surrounding "Oh, it's an heavy keyboard" or "Oh, it doesn't let you fold it all the way".

00:52:48 ◼   ► Quite surprising because Apple decided to go with this design direction, and we can

00:52:54 ◼   ► talk about that. But how can you wish for... It seems like wishing for impossible things

00:53:02 ◼   ► here. Like, I like the design...

00:53:04 ◼   ► I think a lot of these opinions are held by people that want to use the product. They

00:53:09 ◼   ► an iPad keyboard to be something else. And if you are someone who thinks like this is too heavy for

00:53:16 ◼   ► me or I can't fold it around to the back, well the Smart Folio is the thing for you, right? Like

00:53:23 ◼   ► that's what that's for. You know there is like this product is a focused product, you know, it is

00:53:29 ◼   ► a product for people that use a keyboard so much with an iPad that they want to make it more laptop

00:53:36 ◼   ► like they want to make it more adjustable, they want to have pass-through charging,

00:53:39 ◼   ► and will therefore take the weight addition of this becoming laptop weight, right? Like

00:53:46 ◼   ► that if you're going to carry it around or put it in your bag, you have a laptop now, right? Like

00:53:50 ◼   ► that's what you have. But in it being a laptop, it's way more comfortable to use on your lap.

00:53:55 ◼   ► You can pick it up and carry it around by the base, right? Like these are two things

00:54:00 ◼   ► that were either difficult to do or not as comfortable to do. Like, well,

00:54:04 ◼   ► Wasn't as comfortable. This is more comfortable to use than the smart folio. Not wildly, right?

00:54:10 ◼   ► Like it still has a sharp edge that can dig into your leg. You know, it's it's still it's not

00:54:15 ◼   ► completely balanced in every situation, but it's way better than that. And like you couldn't pick

00:54:19 ◼   ► up like comfortably confidently the smart folio by the keyboard part and carry your iPad around.

00:54:25 ◼   ► But you can do that with this because it's more like a laptop because this thing is super sturdy.

00:54:31 ◼   ► I really want to see someone tear one of these down because I want to know what is in that base

00:54:36 ◼   ► because it's very thin, very heavy, like it does not flex at all which is wild but like anyway my

00:54:41 ◼   ► point being that like this the magic keyboard for iPad Pro is a device for people that consider

00:54:52 ◼   ► a keyboard vital to the usage of an iPad Pro which is not everyone, it doesn't need to be everybody

00:54:57 ◼   ► and for the type of person that uses it so much that they're willing to make some trade-offs.

00:55:01 ◼   ► Right? And like if you are not that person, then there are other products available, which is great.

00:55:07 ◼   ► And at the same time I feel like, and this is not something that I think enough people are

00:55:12 ◼   ► considering, and which is why I try to make this point multiple times in my story,

00:55:17 ◼   ► it's a keyboard that turns your iPad into a laptop, but it's also a keyboard designed to

00:55:23 ◼   ► invite you to detach the iPad when you want to use it as a tablet.

00:55:27 ◼   ► And I feel like that is an important design decision that needs to be considered, that needs

00:55:34 ◼   ► to be understood about the Magic Keyboard. Because Apple could have gone in a bunch of different

00:55:39 ◼   ► design directions, right? They could have done something like the Breach Keyboard, they could

00:55:43 ◼   ► have done something like Logitech and Zag, for example, have done before, with these cases where

00:55:47 ◼   ► where you snap the iPad into, and you have a laptop form factor, but it's also very difficult

00:55:53 ◼   ► and it's like a chore if you want to remove the iPad from it. Whereas the Magic Keyboard

00:55:59 ◼   ► has been designed with the entire thing with the floating design and the magnets. It's

00:56:04 ◼   ► not just to be fancy, it's to be a design that invites you, that encourages you to detach

00:56:09 ◼   ► the iPad when you want to switch to tablet mode. And I think that's an important design

00:56:14 ◼   ► aspect of the Magic Keyboard and not enough reviews or pointing out. Most people are saying,

00:56:19 ◼   ► "Yeah, it turns your iPad into a laptop." But the "why" of the design, you know, like

00:56:24 ◼   ► the way that it works from a design perspective is, yes, it lets you turn the iPad into a

00:56:29 ◼   ► laptop, and yes, it has a customizable viewing angle, but it's designed that way with that

00:56:35 ◼   ► floating design because it makes it as easy as it could be for you to detach the iPad

00:56:41 ◼   ► and hold the screen in your hands.

00:56:43 ◼   ► I found that the detaching was possible. It's not easy or natural to just pick the iPad

00:56:53 ◼   ► up off the stand. Really?

00:56:54 ◼   ► Like I've had many times where the stand comes with me.

00:56:57 ◼   ► Really? Yeah. What I'm saying is your mileage may vary

00:57:02 ◼   ► on this. Sure.

00:57:03 ◼   ► But it is not like, "Oh, you just pick it up and it stays exactly..." No, that's not

00:57:08 ◼   ► the case. I mean, if you cannot do it with one hand though,

00:57:10 ◼   ► we're talking about like using your left hand on the keyboard and picking it up with the right hand.

00:57:14 ◼   ► Which is fantastic, but like the marketing and everyone's been like "oh you just pick it up with

00:57:19 ◼   ► one" and you can, it's possible to do it with the 12.9 inch, but it doesn't work every time.

00:57:24 ◼   ► Sometimes the keyboard comes with it. I've also seen a video sent to us from listener Lamin on

00:57:28 ◼   ► the 11th, it just doesn't work at all. The 11 inch one, like there's just the weight distribution I

00:57:34 ◼   ► guess is different, but like it just stays connected, right? But again you compare it

00:57:40 ◼   ► to a bridge keyboard, you compare it to the Logitech, what you call the slim combo.

00:57:44 ◼   ► They're way harder to get off. I found the bridge keyboard less frustrating than you to remove,

00:57:50 ◼   ► but comparatively between these two, it's night and day. Like we're in different product categories

00:57:55 ◼   ► at this point. Stuffing the iPad into those clips of the bridge keyboard and getting the rubber to

00:58:00 ◼   ► align just right? It's a bad feeling. It's like, and it feels like you're squishing, you know,

00:58:07 ◼   ► Oh, no, no, no, no.

00:58:09 ◼   ► This is so much better.

00:58:10 ◼   ► You know, it doesn't, it doesn't, it just pales in comparison, right?

00:58:15 ◼   ► Like what I'm saying is it is incredibly easy to remove this device from it whilst also

00:58:21 ◼   ► staying connected when you need it to, which is the wonder of the design here, right?

00:58:25 ◼   ► That you can very easily remove it, but it also stays put.

00:58:29 ◼   ► It's like perfectly balanced.

00:58:31 ◼   ► My point is just like, it's very easy to do it.

00:58:34 ◼   ► not as easy always as the ads would let you believe, but they're advertising, right? Like

00:58:39 ◼   ► of course they show the best. I just wanted to get it out there because I've just seen

00:58:42 ◼   ► a lot of people say like, oh, you can remove it one hand. And I think it perpetuates this

00:58:46 ◼   ► idea that it's like the keyboard always stays put, but it's not the way it works. It's also

00:58:51 ◼   ► tricky to open, right? Like it's not... In my mind it wasn't going to be as difficult.

00:58:59 ◼   ► Like we're having very different experiences here.

00:59:02 ◼   ► Can you open it one hand only?

00:59:04 ◼   ► No.

00:59:05 ◼   ► That's what I mean.

00:59:06 ◼   ► What I'm saying is…

00:59:07 ◼   ► But is that a problem?

00:59:08 ◼   ► Like is that a problem?

00:59:09 ◼   ► Using two hands, is that a problem?

00:59:10 ◼   ► No, but what I'm saying is not what I expected.

00:59:13 ◼   ► Like I just in my mind didn't think that it would be like, the hinges would be so stiff,

00:59:22 ◼   ► but I know they need to be, I want them to be, but like it's, you know, they're just,

00:59:27 ◼   ► The reason I'm saying a lot of this stuff is I just want to set the realistic expectations

00:59:34 ◼   ► for our listeners for some of this stuff because there are things... this product you have

00:59:40 ◼   ► to accept physics to accept it. There are things that you imagine this thing you would

00:59:48 ◼   ► want it to do. I would want infinite adjustability everywhere. But it can't do that because then

00:59:57 ◼   ► it would just fall to pieces all the time, right? I would love it to flip around to the

01:00:01 ◼   ► back, but you can't do that, right? I would love to be able to open it up like I do a

01:00:05 ◼   ► laptop, right? Just one hand, but that's not the case because the hinge needs to be stiff

01:00:11 ◼   ► because the iPad's where all the weight is. And I only say all of these things so I get

01:00:17 ◼   ► that out of the way because I'm absolutely in love with this keyboard. It is unbelievably

01:00:24 ◼   ► well designed, it is fantastically executed. They completely nailed it. Apple have given

01:00:31 ◼   ► me the iPad 2 in 1 that I have wanted for a long time now. Since Jason first put the

01:00:39 ◼   ► idea in my mind of an iPad laptop, which was a long time ago now, before I ever tried a

01:00:47 ◼   ► Brydge keyboard, I was like "Oh that could be interesting" and then over time I've bought

01:00:52 ◼   ► different products to try and give me that and I've gotten most of the way there but

01:00:57 ◼   ► this thing is it, right? Like it is it. The keyboard is fantastic. It is adjustable in

01:01:03 ◼   ► the way that I need and there's a freaking trackpad at the bottom of it. It completely

01:01:07 ◼   ► changes the way I use the device. It's amazing. You don't have to charge it. Exactly. When

01:01:13 ◼   ► you disconnect the iPad you don't have to make sure that you turn it off because it's

01:01:16 ◼   ► not Bluetooth. So when you detach the iPad, the keyboard is also gone. So yeah.

01:01:21 ◼   ► And it charges at full power, which I did not expect.

01:01:25 ◼   ► It doesn't seem to support fast charging, but I'm not surprised by that. So it's almost

01:01:30 ◼   ► full speed, but it's not, I mean, it's obviously more than five watts, but it's not like 30

01:01:37 ◼   ► watts. I think it averages around 20 maybe.

01:01:40 ◼   ► But yeah, I was definitely expecting it was going to be a, it will trickle charge.

01:01:44 ◼   ► Right. I was expecting that too, so I'm surprised.

01:01:47 ◼   ► But it's doing full charging but not high speed charging.

01:01:50 ◼   ► So it's like you can continue using it and it will continue charging,

01:01:53 ◼   ► but you can't plug it into the big chargers and get a fast charge from it.

01:01:57 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:01:57 ◼   ► There's some nuance in understanding that it's a little bit confusing.

01:02:01 ◼   ► Which is fine because I mean it's literally power going through a tube,

01:02:05 ◼   ► going to three pins in the back of a tablet.

01:02:09 ◼   ► Like, it's totally fine. You know, I'll take those 20 watts or whatever.

01:02:13 ◼   ► Yeah, exactly. I want to ask you all about the trackpad

01:02:17 ◼   ► I had assumed this was gonna be like the magic trackpad and not moving and how does it feel to go back to a trackpad?

01:02:23 ◼   ► That actually clicks you would never know a difference really

01:02:27 ◼   ► Yeah, because because they they do the all like the entire thing clicks, right?

01:02:33 ◼   ► You know, you could tell me it was

01:02:37 ◼   ► The force touch trackpad and I would believe you because it's so consistent and feels so good

01:02:43 ◼   ► like it's as good as a trackpad clickly in a clicky perspective as you would

01:02:48 ◼   ► want do you agree Federico? Oh because there's another trackpad that doesn't

01:02:53 ◼   ► click? No no no that it's perfect. Yeah it's a perfect trackpad but yeah just

01:02:58 ◼   ► like no but Steven mentioned how does it feel to go back to a trackpad that

01:03:01 ◼   ► physically clicks? Yeah yeah because like in the laptops they don't physically

01:03:05 ◼   ► click it's all... Oh but I don't own a laptop so I don't know. Yeah okay. Yeah I have

01:03:09 ◼   ► no idea, like I have no reference for that. What about the Magic Trackpad? Oh, it doesn't

01:03:14 ◼   ► physically click? No, you see, you wouldn't know, right? Like it just feels the same now.

01:03:18 ◼   ► It just feels the same to me, I don't know. So here's the thing Federico, fun thing for

01:03:22 ◼   ► you to do, turn off your Magic Trackpad and poke it. It breaks your brain. Oh yeah, it

01:03:27 ◼   ► doesn't do anything, it's like the old home button when the iPhone was off. Oh yeah, I

01:03:34 ◼   ► guess it's not a physical click then. But it just feels like it though. Yeah, they feel

01:03:38 ◼   ► exactly the same. It's satisfyingly clicky, I find. I think it's great. This whole thing

01:03:46 ◼   ► is satisfyingly clicky. The keyboard is clicky enough and it feels good. The trackpad feels

01:03:50 ◼   ► good. I have had no problem with the size of the trackpad. It's a small trackpad. Federico,

01:03:56 ◼   ► you measured it, right?

01:03:58 ◼   ► Five centimeters by ten centimeters. I have no idea what that's like in inches or whatever.

01:04:03 ◼   ► Yeah, who needs it? But like which feels wild because Magic Trackpads are so massive.

01:04:08 ◼   ► That is 1.9 inches by 3.93 inches.

01:04:13 ◼   ► I got a lot of love for this. I got a lot of love for this product.

01:04:17 ◼   ► Yeah, it's um... the trackpad is one centimeter shorter than the trackpad in the bridge keyboard Pro Plus,

01:04:26 ◼   ► but this is a trackpad that works and lets you click everywhere. Like you can literally click everywhere.

01:04:32 ◼   ► You don't have dead spots in the trackpad where you cannot physically click.

01:04:36 ◼   ► It works everywhere and it supports up to four-finger gestures.

01:04:39 ◼   ► And I find the four-finger gestures to be a little tricky, like they require a bit of additional precision,

01:04:44 ◼   ► but three fingers are totally fine.

01:04:47 ◼   ► And the three, actually the three-finger and four-finger gestures are basically the same on iPadOS, at least right now.

01:04:53 ◼   ► I am, and I've seen a friend of the show, Steve Chandler-Smith, tweet about this.

01:04:59 ◼   ► I am seeing some difficulties now when trying to pinch to zoom and like pinch you close and open,

01:05:06 ◼   ► like in photos for example.

01:05:08 ◼   ► I do believe this is the kind of thing that will be fixed with a software update.

01:05:13 ◼   ► It feels like that. It doesn't feel like a physical limitation of the trackpad

01:05:16 ◼   ► because it's a multi-touch trackpad.

01:05:18 ◼   ► So the pinch to zoom thing, it does feel to me like something that will be fixed on the iPadOS side.

01:05:25 ◼   ► I am, and this is now, I know that it's my problem but I need to mention it,

01:05:30 ◼   ► I am adjusting the way that I type

01:05:33 ◼   ► and the way that I place my hands on the keyboard because every once in a while

01:05:38 ◼   ► I bump my fingers against the bottom

01:05:41 ◼   ► edge of the iPad because when the iPad, because the iPad is floating on top of

01:05:46 ◼   ► the keyboard

01:05:47 ◼   ► at its most open angle the bottom edge of the iPad is

01:05:51 ◼   ► sort of parallel to the number row, and sometimes my finger bumps against that,

01:05:57 ◼   ► which means that when I'm typing I accidentally touch something on the screen. I know that it's

01:06:02 ◼   ► because of the way I type, because I don't type with all my fingers, I've never learned how to

01:06:10 ◼   ► professionally type. I must be doing something weird with my hands, I'm not like one of those

01:06:15 ◼   ► people that can type with all their fingers and look at the screen. Every few seconds I need to

01:06:20 ◼   ► to look down at the keyboard. I've never learned, because I've never been taught how to actually

01:06:25 ◼   ► type like a professional. And so I'm a just like a professional. Just I type with my index

01:06:31 ◼   ► fingers really fast. That's what I do. But I'm not like Jason style. I am. I am still

01:06:36 ◼   ► trying to get my head around this. You are touching the screen. Yeah. Cause he's, he's,

01:06:42 ◼   ► he's typing with his index fingers, like little finger guns. And so are your knuckles touching

01:06:47 ◼   ► the screen? Yes, exactly. Yeah, I was like holding my hands out up in the air. I'm still

01:06:52 ◼   ► not sure how you're touching the screen though. What fingers are touching the screen? For

01:06:58 ◼   ► example, like my middle finger occasionally. Ah, I get you now. Okay, now I understand.

01:07:03 ◼   ► Right, right, right, right. I've seen you type, now I can get it together, right? Like

01:07:07 ◼   ► I've seen the way that you type. You type slightly differently to me, but you are very

01:07:11 ◼   ► index fingery. So you kind of like, "Yeah, I understand now. Yeah, that's interesting."

01:07:17 ◼   ► But I think I'm adjusting. I think I've done some typing today and I think I was doing

01:07:21 ◼   ► already better than yesterday. So I just need to slightly change the way that I move my

01:07:30 ◼   ► fingers around when I type. But I think I'll be okay. I've had these issues before and

01:07:34 ◼   ► I'll always adjust when I was using different keyboards with the iPad in the past. Also,

01:07:41 ◼   ► issue, that it's not a big deal, it's only happening to me, I've checked with other people,

01:07:46 ◼   ► this is specific to my Magic Keyboard, so I don't know if I got a faulty unit, I don't

01:07:51 ◼   ► think it's a faulty unit, I think it's a problem with the setup that I have that I will describe

01:07:56 ◼   ► now. Sometime, and again, please don't make this a big deal, it's not a big deal, it's

01:08:00 ◼   ► not happening to any, you know, all the other people that I've asked have not seen this

01:08:04 ◼   ► problem but my Magic Keyboard makes a buzzing sort of hissing noise only only when I charge it

01:08:18 ◼   ► with a USB-C cable of course coming from the ultra fine 4k display into the USB-C port of the Magic

01:08:28 ◼   ► keyboard. It's a very loud buzzing noise. I sent you guys a recording yesterday. It woke us up

01:08:35 ◼   ► a couple of nights ago. The dogs thought that it was like a bug or something and they started

01:08:40 ◼   ► barking because they are afraid of bugs. But it's like... it's very loud, actually. And it only

01:08:48 ◼   ► happens when I try and charge the keyboard using the Ultrafine 4K, because the Ultrafine 4K can

01:08:54 ◼   ► also act as a USB-C hub and power source. So, I don't know what's going on there. It's not

01:09:03 ◼   ► promising as a thing for the keyboard to do, so I'm gonna keep an eye on it. But also, I mean,

01:09:13 ◼   ► I don't charge this computer during the day, so I'm fine with charging the iPad via the iPad's

01:09:22 ◼   ► own USB-C port, you know, at night. But I just thought I would mention this because

01:09:27 ◼   ► maybe there's something going on, maybe not. Maybe this keyboard is going to explode, maybe

01:09:31 ◼   ► not. I hope it doesn't, because I really like it. So yeah. But aside from that, I absolutely

01:09:39 ◼   ► love this keyboard. It's, yeah, I mean, it's in the story. It's very easy to tell. I think

01:09:47 ◼   ► it only takes you like 30 minutes or maybe an hour to say "Okay, yeah, this is the real

01:09:51 ◼   ► They've done it again in terms of redefining the iPad Pro experience by just giving you

01:10:00 ◼   ► a new accessory.

01:10:02 ◼   ► It's fascinating how much an accessory can change your perception and your usage of a

01:10:09 ◼   ► device.

01:10:10 ◼   ► And I know that there's more to the accessory, right?

01:10:13 ◼   ► It's the combination of the accessory and iPadOS and 13.4.

01:10:18 ◼   ► But still, it's quite remarkable how you buy a different piece and the main computer changes

01:10:24 ◼   ► with that.

01:10:25 ◼   ► It's, you know, fascinating to me.

01:10:28 ◼   ► Do you think this is going to really change how you work with the iPad day to day?

01:10:32 ◼   ► I mean, you're using it as a desktop a lot of the time.

01:10:35 ◼   ► Do you feel like that's getting ready to change again?

01:10:37 ◼   ► I do believe there will be a healthier balance of when I use the iPad in desktop mode and

01:10:44 ◼   ► when I use it in laptop mode with the Magic Keyboard, because I cannot stare down at a

01:10:52 ◼   ► laptop configuration all day long. I do think it's better for my neck and for my posture

01:11:00 ◼   ► in general to work with the Ultrafine 4K and to keep my head straight and look at the screen

01:11:06 ◼   ► in front of me, whereas with the Magic Keyboard I'm always going to have to stare down, and

01:11:11 ◼   ► I know that's gonna be super bad long term for my back and for my shoulders and everything.

01:11:15 ◼   ► But I do really like using it though. And I mentioned this in the story, I feel like I

01:11:23 ◼   ► must have really missed having a laptop in my life, because it just produces so much enjoyment

01:11:30 ◼   ► for me to be able to just lay in bed or just stay on the sofa and have the iPad in front of me,

01:11:35 ◼   ► and use the trackpad without having to constantly lift my hands off the keyboard and touch the screen.

01:11:42 ◼   ► It just feels so nice and I must have really missed this feeling since I stopped using MacBooks

01:11:48 ◼   ► eight years ago or something. I want to get something that can raise the Magic Keyboard

01:11:56 ◼   ► off my desk. Yes. Stop using the stand that I use and so now I will just put it down

01:12:05 ◼   ► on something and then use my external keyboard and trackpad but never take it out.

01:12:13 ◼   ► Like a bunch of books or some some desktop computers?

01:12:16 ◼   ► Or like one of those 12 south stands that they do for the...

01:12:21 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean, you know, for when I can ever go back to my studio, like my desk has

01:12:25 ◼   ► the laptop VESA arm which will work perfectly fine for this but for what for at home right now

01:12:33 ◼   ► I just, because I don't want to, it's frustrating to like have to put it in the stand, take it out,

01:12:39 ◼   ► put it back in, put it, like I would prefer to just set it down. Like Adina has a, we got her

01:12:45 ◼   ► a new desk and she has one of these laptop arms, she just puts her laptop on the laptop stand on

01:12:50 ◼   ► the face arm. So I want something like that now for my desk where I do all of my kind of like

01:12:59 ◼   ► typical desk work and then that will be great. Then I have to take it out, put it back, take it

01:13:03 ◼   ► it out, put it back. Because this is nice and adjustable anyway, so it will work perfectly.

01:13:08 ◼   ► I just need something to put it on, to lift it off the desk a bit.

01:13:12 ◼   ► The 12 south curve stand for MacBook and laptops looks very nice.

01:13:18 ◼   ► I'll take a look.

01:13:20 ◼   ► It looks like it's fairly big.

01:13:24 ◼   ► Is it going to raise it high enough though? That's what I want to know.

01:13:29 ◼   ► There's a diagram of somebody staring straight ahead.

01:13:33 ◼   ► not massive but it may be enough. I don't think that's high enough. Like my Viacom

01:13:40 ◼   ► stand is high off the table. Yeah it's not as high as the Viacom. Yeah I see, I

01:13:45 ◼   ► want something that can raise it high. But I'm sure there's something like this

01:13:53 ◼   ► maybe by another company exists. It doesn't have to be iPad specific I mean

01:13:59 ◼   ► as long. It's basically a 13-inch laptop. Yeah, you just need a laptop stand.

01:14:04 ◼   ► Federico, can you talk about the media keys and the brightness issues, or what's going

01:14:12 ◼   ► on there? There are no media keys on the Magic Keyboard,

01:14:16 ◼   ► which is unfortunate, and I really think that in a future revision Apple should figure out

01:14:20 ◼   ► a way to have an additional row of function keys and media keys to control brightness

01:14:26 ◼   ► and music playback, have a home button basically. I know that Myke wishes for a physical home

01:14:33 ◼   ► button. That's the only one I care about. I don't care about media keys, I just want

01:14:37 ◼   ► a home button. Personally, that's all I want. Are you going to use it to go back home or

01:14:41 ◼   ► to open multitasking and stuff? I got really used to having a physical home button on the

01:14:48 ◼   ► bridge keyboard. So I know I have the trackpad but I very frequently

01:14:55 ◼   ► would tap that home button after doing something on a keyboard, right?

01:15:00 ◼   ► Send a message, go home, right? That's something I would do all the time and

01:15:06 ◼   ► it's just my hands are on the keyboard and I know that I can do command H to go

01:15:11 ◼   ► home. I know that exists, I use it now, it's what I do, but it's just much nicer

01:15:15 ◼   ► said I have just a button in the place of the escape key, which is where it was, considering

01:15:21 ◼   ► there's no escape key. It's like the perfect placement for a button like that. I would

01:15:25 ◼   ► like that. Apple has gone some way to allow me to remap modifiers. Just let me change

01:15:31 ◼   ► the Caps Lock key to a Home key. Just let me do that. That's what I want, and then I'll

01:15:36 ◼   ► be happy, you know?

01:15:38 ◼   ► Because there are no media keys, if you want to change the brightness of the Magic Keyboard's

01:15:43 ◼   ► keys manually, you have to go in Settings. And it's quite the trip to Settings, because

01:15:48 ◼   ► you've got to do Settings > General > Keyboard > Hardware keyboard, and there you will find

01:15:54 ◼   ► a slider that lets you manually adjust the keyboard's brightness. Now, I've been totally

01:15:59 ◼   ► fine with letting the keyboard adjust its own brightness automatically via the ambient

01:16:03 ◼   ► sensor. Like, I have not felt the need to manually slide this slider, but a lot of

01:16:13 ◼   ► people are saying that it's annoying that they cannot do so quickly. So thanks

01:16:19 ◼   ► to the help of Max Stories readers, we figured out the path to take you directly

01:16:26 ◼   ► to that page in Settings. And in my story I've included a simple two action

01:16:31 ◼   ► shortcut that you can save as a widget and you can tap from the iPad home screen even,

01:16:36 ◼   ► and it takes you directly into the hardware keyboard page of settings. Directly from the

01:16:43 ◼   ► widget, it doesn't even take you to shortcuts first, it jumps straight into settings, straight

01:16:48 ◼   ► into the hardware keyboard page. So that's at least convenient if you're one of those people who want

01:16:52 ◼   ► to manually change the keyboard's brightness, you can do that. Another complaint that I've seen is

01:16:58 ◼   ► the lack of an escape key on the Magic Keyboard, and that is true, there's no escape key on

01:17:05 ◼   ► this keyboard, just like it wasn't on the Smart Keyboard Folio before. But a little

01:17:10 ◼   ► known fact of iOS and iPadOS is that for years now there has been a system-wide keyboard

01:17:18 ◼   ► shortcut that replaces all functions of the escape key, which means closing photos, closing

01:17:27 ◼   ► video players

01:17:29 ◼   ► Dismissing any kind of preview screen or you know menu and that keyboard shortcut that again works

01:17:35 ◼   ► everywhere in every single app because it's a system shortcut like command C to copy is

01:17:41 ◼   ► command period so if you did not know this until yesterday that

01:17:46 ◼   ► Replicates the functionality of the escape key everywhere on iPad OS so

01:17:52 ◼   ► That's been a shortcut on the Mac forever

01:17:55 ◼   ► Back in like the classic Mac OS you could do command period to quit a file copy

01:17:58 ◼   ► I think in logic it works to quit a bounce

01:18:01 ◼   ► So if you're exporting something and then rels you screwed up does it's it's all over the Mac

01:18:06 ◼   ► So like I guess it makes sense to be on the iPad but an escape key would make

01:18:12 ◼   ► Just a billion times more so I mean nicer would be nice a lot nicer thumbs up for the magic keyboard

01:18:18 ◼   ► So happy so far right it's so good. It's good

01:18:23 ◼   ► I'm in love with it. It's like...

01:18:26 ◼   ► You know, I feel like I really wanted to just get out some things which I think are not like...

01:18:31 ◼   ► magical, wonderful about it.

01:18:34 ◼   ► You know, like just to have them out there.

01:18:37 ◼   ► But overall this thing is absolutely awesome.

01:18:40 ◼   ► So good.

01:18:42 ◼   ► Like it's exactly what I wanted from a product.

01:18:44 ◼   ► And more.

01:18:45 ◼   ► It's given me something...

01:18:47 ◼   ► It's given me like an experience that I've wanted for a long time.

01:18:51 ◼   ► where I feel like I actually have an Apple Made 2-in-1, which is what I wanted.

01:18:55 ◼   ► Oh yeah, and speaking of which, because you've said a long time, and I feel like we need to

01:19:01 ◼   ► address this, because somebody on Reddit... Why are you doing this?

01:19:06 ◼   ► If you've started with somebody on Reddit, like, you know...

01:19:09 ◼   ► So this person actually even replied to my reply, and they were actually kind of nice,

01:19:15 ◼   ► but I feel like they were making a bigger point that it's worth addressing on the show.

01:19:20 ◼   ► Basically, the original comment said "I cannot stand" or like "it bothers me" how people

01:19:27 ◼   ► like Federico and Myke, they're saying that the Magic Keyboard is what they've always

01:19:32 ◼   ► wanted while unconnected in the past, they were saying that they did not think that the

01:19:38 ◼   ► iPad could use an external keyboard or a trackpad or a pointer, a cursor, whatever.

01:19:44 ◼   ► Now, that is absolutely true. Years ago, I personally, I was opposed to the idea—and

01:19:53 ◼   ► we're talking 2013, 2014—I was opposed to the idea of split view on the iPad. I

01:19:58 ◼   ► thought it was not necessary. And years ago, I'm sure that if you asked me in 2016, "Hey,

01:20:05 ◼   ► do you think the iPad needs a trackpad to be a real computer?" I'm pretty sure that

01:20:11 ◼   ► I would say no, I disagree with that. I still think that it, if you know me, you know that

01:20:16 ◼   ► it, I mean I was working on the iPad two years ago, I was working on the iPad six months

01:20:20 ◼   ► ago before the Magic Keyboard, before iPadOS. I don't think the iPad needs a trackpad or

01:20:27 ◼   ► a pointer to be a computer. But it is also true that people's opinions change with time

01:20:35 ◼   ► and products, in this case Apple products, evolve and new features are added and the

01:20:40 ◼   ► operating system changes, and the landscape around you changes, the ecosystem around you

01:20:46 ◼   ► changes, and at some point it started making sense for the iPad. Once we had the iPad Pro,

01:20:52 ◼   ► it made sense to have Split View, and once we had these powerful apps with multi-window

01:20:58 ◼   ► and drag and drop, it made sense to say, "Well, why not just also have a trackpad, and have

01:21:05 ◼   ► a pointer and have a keyboard. Because with time I think, yes, maybe Myke and I years

01:21:12 ◼   ► ago had different opinions, but that's just how people are.

01:21:18 ◼   ► One of the biggest changes for me was when I started using the iPad, I didn't have the

01:21:24 ◼   ► type of posture and RSI problems that I do now. So now, for me to be able to use an iPad

01:21:31 ◼   ► Pro as much as I want to, I need to be able to have things like it be elevated off the

01:21:36 ◼   ► desk. I need to be able to not be reaching out and touching it all the time, right? Like

01:21:41 ◼   ► it started with the Apple Pencil for me. I'm sure you could go back far enough and find

01:21:45 ◼   ► a time when I said that a stylus would be ridiculous on an iPad, right? But when things

01:21:50 ◼   ► are introduced and they start to make more sense, you can see them. And sometimes we

01:21:55 ◼   ► can make accurate predictions for our future and sometimes we don't. But the point that

01:21:59 ◼   ► you're making, which is the ultimately most important one, which is always worth remembering,

01:22:03 ◼   ► especially when thinking about and evaluating technology, is appreciating that people's

01:22:08 ◼   ► opinions change over time.

01:22:10 ◼   ► That's healthy. It's a healthy thing.

01:22:12 ◼   ► You should. If you do not change your opinions over time, not on everything, but on things,

01:22:18 ◼   ► you need to think about that. You have to be able to critically assess your own thinking

01:22:25 ◼   ► change it based on input from external sources. That is a very important thing to be able

01:22:31 ◼   ► to do. Or to even be able to actually understand other people's point of views. Like, these

01:22:37 ◼   ► are important traits that you need to be able to develop as a human being. So, yes, I am

01:22:43 ◼   ► sure there has been a time where I've said, "put a mouse on this thing" and it was ridiculous.

01:22:48 ◼   ► It was in the essence of like, TJ's brought it up in the chat room, like you go back far

01:22:52 ◼   ► enough into like cortex and I wasn't using an iPad at all right and thought it was silly.

01:23:01 ◼   ► I remember that. You know like because I have been in and out of using iPads over time and

01:23:06 ◼   ► it wasn't until the iPad Pro where I was like that's it right got it and then you'll hear

01:23:12 ◼   ► times where like Gray right everybody knows Gray like you had a million iPads he just

01:23:16 ◼   ► stopped using iPads for a while completely. And now uses them again. You know, like people

01:23:22 ◼   ► change depending on their situations, you know?

01:23:25 ◼   ► I guess what bothered me in that original comment, and again, the person later replied

01:23:31 ◼   ► and said, yeah, it was my bad for the way that I wrote that comment, is that they said,

01:23:35 ◼   ► oh, Federico, I don't like how he's concluding his magic keyboard article saying this is

01:23:41 ◼   ► the keyboard I've always wanted, and I didn't actually write "I've always wanted" in my

01:23:46 ◼   ► story. I wrote "I've been waiting for..." But you can never win against people's interpretations

01:23:51 ◼   ► of what you say as opposed to what you say. Because I know that I didn't always want a

01:23:56 ◼   ► Magic Keyboard with a trackpad. But also, even if I wrote that, you need to understand

01:24:01 ◼   ► that we've said right here today on the show, "Oh, this is the keyboard I've always wanted."

01:24:06 ◼   ► relative always, if that makes sense. Like it's always since the iPad changed, right?

01:24:13 ◼   ► Not always since, oh, in 1993 I didn't want the Magic Keyboard. Well, of course you didn't

01:24:19 ◼   ► because it didn't exist, right? I am known to exaggerate, you know, I am a

01:24:24 ◼   ► hyperbolic person, right? Like I exaggerate a lot. So I will say things like, I've always

01:24:30 ◼   ► wanted this, where this always has been three years.

01:24:34 ◼   ► Exactly. That's what I mean. It's always relative to the point where you changed your opinion

01:24:40 ◼   ► and you changed as a person since you put yourself in the position to always want something.

01:24:46 ◼   ► From that point on. So that's a clarification for the record. Some day in 2020, maybe in 2026,

01:24:55 ◼   ► somebody will say, "Oh, in 2020, Federico said he wanted the Magic Keyboard." And yes,

01:25:00 ◼   ► people change opinions change that's just how the world turns on and on but yes we do like the magic

01:25:06 ◼   ► keyboard it's it's a very good keyboard very good keyboard ah are we looking forward to mine showing

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01:26:51 ◼   ► So we're going to end the show talking about some rumors

01:26:53 ◼   ► Let's start with the high-end headphone report. This is in Bloomberg from Mark Gurman and Debbie Wu

01:26:59 ◼   ► Apple according to them is working on high-end headphones with a bunch of features including

01:27:05 ◼   ► Interchangeable parts which would include ear pads and headbands magnetic attachments for some of these options

01:27:12 ◼   ► Made from premium fabrics or light breathable sport materials

01:27:16 ◼   ► So maybe a range of headphones here even and Federico you are the headphone guy, but before we cut you loose

01:27:22 ◼   ► Am I? Oh god, do I have the reputation now?

01:27:25 ◼   ► Between the three of us you are.

01:27:26 ◼   ► Wait, should we do like this Federica number being the value of headphones?

01:27:31 ◼   ► Oh no, no, please don't do it.

01:27:33 ◼   ► No, you say you don't want that Federica number, do you?

01:27:35 ◼   ► Yeah, it's higher than 20.6.

01:27:37 ◼   ► You are like, of the three of us, you care the most about headphones.

01:27:39 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:27:39 ◼   ► Okay.

01:27:40 ◼   ► You're the Marco of the situation.

01:27:42 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:27:43 ◼   ► I'm like a teeny tiny Marco.

01:27:45 ◼   ► Mm-hmm, teeny tiny.

01:27:46 ◼   ► Uh, what, you want my opinion on this?

01:27:49 ◼   ► I do but I just I want to say like the I've seen some tweets like oh my gosh interchangeable

01:27:54 ◼   ► parts like that's not a new thing in headphones like even my I use Sony MDR-7506 is to edit

01:28:00 ◼   ► in and last week I replaced the ear pads like this is a thing but maybe with Apple's flare

01:28:06 ◼   ► I think the magnetic is what is what excites people

01:28:09 ◼   ► yeah but it took me three seconds to like replace the leather with nicer pieces that

01:28:14 ◼   ► weren't disintegrating so sure this would be Apple's flare on top of it I just kind

01:28:18 ◼   ► I'm gonna like put that to bed a little bit in interchangeable parts on headphones. That's a thing an apple of course

01:28:24 ◼   ► I'm sure would do it in a more

01:28:26 ◼   ► Like fantastic way than anybody else, but it is a thing that other companies are doing apples not inventing this

01:28:32 ◼   ► I just wanted to get that out there. Yes, they're not inventing this and in fact

01:28:36 ◼   ► When I cheated about it, we I received a bunch of tweets pointing me to this company

01:28:42 ◼   ► called

01:28:45 ◼   ► Aye aye aye aye aye! It's called A-I-A-I-A-I-A-I audio. Aye aye aye aye aye audio. They do modular

01:28:58 ◼   ► headphones. So this is actually quite awesome and I came this close to making an order for

01:29:05 ◼   ► a custom setup. I was not familiar with this company. They let you put together your own

01:29:12 ◼   ► headphones. So they send you modular headphones. You can choose the headband, you can choose

01:29:17 ◼   ► the ear caps, you can choose the material, you can choose the style, you can choose the

01:29:21 ◼   ► cable, you can make it wired, you can make it wireless. In fact, they have this like

01:29:27 ◼   ► wild technology that is the wireless headband. So the chip is actually in the headband itself

01:29:33 ◼   ► and you can actually upgrade your old AI, AI, AI headphones to be wireless headphones

01:29:41 ◼   ► by just purchasing a new wireless headband.

01:29:44 ◼   ► So anyway, they're called the TMA-2HD headphones.

01:29:49 ◼   ► They are modular headphones.

01:29:50 ◼   ► They have a very nice put-it-together sort of page

01:29:54 ◼   ► where you go step by step through all the components.

01:29:57 ◼   ► It's very nicely done.

01:30:00 ◼   ► But I think-- Stephen, you mentioned the Apple flair of it.

01:30:04 ◼   ► And this is exactly what I think they will do.

01:30:07 ◼   ► So based on this rumor, my gut feeling

01:30:10 ◼   ► is they will do to headphones what they do to the Apple Watch.

01:30:14 ◼   ► Not in terms of like the fashion angle, but in terms of the personalization of it.

01:30:19 ◼   ► Oh, they will be fashionable.

01:30:20 ◼   ► They will be. I also think so.

01:30:22 ◼   ► But I think like the, at least what I would like to see is that the very,

01:30:29 ◼   ► the very basics is the idea that you can buy the Apple headphones and you can buy

01:30:37 ◼   ► these different pieces for it and you can easily swap them and whether they are based

01:30:43 ◼   ► on magnets or you know some other proprietary system but the idea is that you can do it

01:30:49 ◼   ► in 20 seconds and they look good and they look you know they're made of premium materials

01:30:56 ◼   ► and they change the experience for you so I'm thinking I don't know maybe you want to

01:31:01 ◼   ► go with a very breathable fabric for sports situations. So like you want to workout and

01:31:10 ◼   ► you want to wear these headphones, you can go with the light and breathable fabric that

01:31:17 ◼   ► is sweat resistant and whatever. Or you want to sit down and enjoy music, you have these

01:31:22 ◼   ► different types of ear cups and perhaps they're made of leather or Alcantara, I don't know,

01:31:28 ◼   ► you know, premium material that lets you enjoy music and has a better sound isolation and

01:31:33 ◼   ► has, you know, lets you enjoy, you know, the bass response or whatever in a different way

01:31:38 ◼   ► than the workout mode. The idea of like a modular headphones made by Apple is really

01:31:44 ◼   ► intriguing for me because I know that they can make it look nice, they can make it easy

01:31:49 ◼   ► for you, they can make it expensive for you, I'm sure. These will not be cheap headphones.

01:31:56 ◼   ► But it's also the idea of what app... like I can imagine a system where it's not just

01:32:02 ◼   ► that you swap the pieces, like you attach these different components, but also the software

01:32:08 ◼   ► recognizes the things that you're attaching and detaching from the headphones.

01:32:13 ◼   ► So like it'd be cool if the iPhone, for example, when you put on the workout cups, for example,

01:32:20 ◼   ► did something to you with Siri to say, "Oh, it looks like you're about to work out."

01:32:25 ◼   ► like, I don't know, gives you a playlist or whatever, because it recognizes that you're

01:32:29 ◼   ► wearing the iPhones, yes, but also the workout mode for those headphones. You know, the little

01:32:35 ◼   ► things like that, those kinds of integrations. I can imagine Apple doing with these headphones.

01:32:40 ◼   ► So like they recognize the pieces and then adjust? I mean, you got to assume that it

01:32:44 ◼   ► will, right? Because, you know, and they have their custom, what's it called now, the H1

01:32:50 ◼   ► cheap in the in the iPhones. So they can do all sorts of things there like sports,

01:32:55 ◼   ► office mode, you know, listening to music mode, whatever.

01:32:59 ◼   ► So, yeah, it's this is exciting to me because it's the Apple spin on an existing

01:33:05 ◼   ► idea. But hey, this is an Apple podcast.

01:33:08 ◼   ► We like what Apple does most of the time, usually.

01:33:11 ◼   ► So that's why we're excited.

01:33:13 ◼   ► I think about it. You could build like a whole little collection of parts and just

01:33:17 ◼   ► do what you need to do at any given time.

01:33:19 ◼   ► that is exciting to me. Oh you would like to build a collection wouldn't you? I

01:33:23 ◼   ► would yeah. Head pod parts per capita. Literally per capita. Yeah. You know what

01:33:31 ◼   ► capita means right? It's latent. It's a head. Yeah. Yes. Yes. I'll just pass them.

01:33:37 ◼   ► Well yes. I don't think we actually count in heads. Oh what's a figure of speech

01:33:43 ◼   ► called when you like... It's a speech. No but there's a figure of speech for when

01:33:48 ◼   ► you use like a part to indicate the whole. So like when you say "capita" in this case

01:33:55 ◼   ► is like the head but it means a person. And that's a, in grammar and in literature that's

01:34:00 ◼   ► a feature of speech like a, I would find it. This is how my brain works, I'm sorry, go

01:34:04 ◼   ► ahead.

01:34:07 ◼   ► The design of these that is described in this report is very interesting. That it's like

01:34:14 ◼   ► a kind of old school design of like these ear cups will have metal bars coming out of

01:34:22 ◼   ► the top of them and then it goes onto the headband. I just think as a really interesting

01:34:28 ◼   ► design language it feels kind of like 70s maybe, right? Like in its kind of like just

01:34:36 ◼   ► typical design of headphone. I think that that will look really classic. I think that

01:34:40 ◼   ► will be really nice. I'm super intrigued to see if they try and make this fashionable

01:34:48 ◼   ► because my imagination of this product was it would be like it would look like AirPods

01:34:56 ◼   ► in its design language, right? That it would be plastic or white.

01:35:02 ◼   ► The figure of speech is called the Synactoke. Oh, like the movie.

01:35:07 ◼   ► Sure. Yes. It's a part of something that refers to the whole of something or vice versa, which

01:35:16 ◼   ► is different. My teacher in high school always got me for this. It's different from the metonymy,

01:35:22 ◼   ► which is a substitution of cause for effect. So anyway.

01:35:26 ◼   ► All right, then. Yeah. Glad we got that squared away.

01:35:30 ◼   ► Me too. Yes. Yes. Thank you. There's a couple of,

01:35:34 ◼   ► know, uh, synect the key people in the chat, so thank you. I see you.

01:35:39 ◼   ► Synecty heads. I appreciate you is what I'm saying.

01:35:43 ◼   ► Well really, if we only have one, then the whole chat room is that way.

01:35:47 ◼   ► Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

01:35:50 ◼   ► Think about it.

01:35:51 ◼   ► So anyway, Myke was saying the design language of the AirPods, and I agree with that. I think

01:35:58 ◼   ► it, I think those will be, honestly, they will call it the AirPods Pro. No, well, not

01:36:02 ◼   ► AirPods Pro they cannot call it that right because we do have AirPods Pro now. AirPods

01:36:07 ◼   ► Studio? AirPods Studio is what I'm going with.

01:36:10 ◼   ► Yeah. I wondered if they would want to walk on the Beats branding.

01:36:15 ◼   ► It's possible right? I don't think they would I don't know but then again there's only so

01:36:19 ◼   ► many words right? Yeah. I don't think Max I've had people because we brought this up

01:36:25 ◼   ► a little bit on upgrade too and people have been tweeting at me and saying like AirPods

01:36:29 ◼   ► Max. I don't think that... that doesn't sound right to me.

01:36:34 ◼   ► Although you can go back and listen and we said "Oh, iPhone 11 Pro Max doesn't quite

01:36:39 ◼   ► sound right, it doesn't really roll off the tongue."

01:36:41 ◼   ► And I still stand by that opinion. It's not a good name.

01:36:46 ◼   ► Look at how things went though.

01:36:49 ◼   ► Maybe they will just be AirPods Pro Max. Maybe it's that.

01:36:53 ◼   ► You know it's gonna happen. AirPods Pro Max. So, I am very excited and now that we just

01:37:01 ◼   ► talked about it again, I am once again on the IIII website looking at the TMA2 builder

01:37:09 ◼   ► page.

01:37:11 ◼   ► This is like when I bought the Bridge Pro Plus. This is what you're doing to yourself,

01:37:17 ◼   ► right? You're buying a thing that Apple's gonna make.

01:37:20 ◼   ► No no no, I will not buy it. I gotta be responsible. There's a pandemic going on. Gotta save money.

01:37:26 ◼   ► I did cancel my bridge order by the way.

01:37:28 ◼   ► Yeah, you did the right thing.

01:37:29 ◼   ► I did do it. At this point it would have never been used. Even if they may,

01:37:33 ◼   ► even if there was no problem with their product, like I wasn't gonna use it

01:37:36 ◼   ► past the Magic Keyboard coming out.

01:37:38 ◼   ► I feel bad for them. Yeah.

01:37:41 ◼   ► I figured they'll be okay. Like Bridge-

01:37:45 ◼   ► Eventually.

01:37:46 ◼   ► Bridge have had problematic products in the past.

01:37:49 ◼   ► Do you remember when their original one wasn't working very well?

01:37:53 ◼   ► They just didn't work.

01:37:54 ◼   ► Yeah, and they got through it, they made a better product.

01:37:56 ◼   ► They can recall that.

01:37:57 ◼   ► I have complete faith that they will be able to produce a second iteration of the pro,

01:38:02 ◼   ► or whatever they're calling it, what do they call it? Pro+?

01:38:06 ◼   ► I hope so.

01:38:06 ◼   ► Where the tracking pad will be more effective, provided that Apple actually

01:38:10 ◼   ► allow for external tracking pads.

01:38:12 ◼   ► I hope so. Apple needs the competition, competition is good.

01:38:16 ◼   ► -Yazoop is cheaper and a different form factor and I think some people will prefer straight

01:38:22 ◼   ► up make this a laptop, right? I think some people will really like that still more than

01:38:27 ◼   ► the Magic Keyboard which is like, it's kind of like a laptop but different, you know?

01:38:33 ◼   ► -Yeah.

01:38:34 ◼   ► -Aye aye aye aye.

01:38:35 ◼   ► -Aye aye aye.

01:38:36 ◼   ► -Aye aye aye. I think is the site, right? Yes. But I will not buy them. I will not buy

01:38:44 ◼   ► them because I'm a responsible boy and I will not fight them. Good boy. Yes.

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