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511: A Potentially Warm Take

 

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00:00:07   Hello and welcome to Connected episode 511.

00:00:12   It's made possible this week by our sponsors, NetSuite, Squarespace, and 1Password Extended Access Management.

00:00:19   I am your Keynote Chairman, Steven Hackett, and I'm joined by our Annual Chairman, Mr. Mike Hurley.

00:00:25   Hello, I am Annual Chairman Mike Hurley and I'm joined by Federico Vittucci. Ciao Federico!

00:00:31   Sup Chairman, how's it going?

00:00:33   Sup! Welcome back, welcome back to the show.

00:00:36   So thank you, thank you. I wasn't here and I just want to let the people know that I have no idea what you did last week.

00:00:46   Because Steven forbid it. Like, Steven told me you must not listen to the show.

00:00:55   And I have not. I just saw the title, the Tichy Olympics. I have no idea what it's about. Literally no clue.

00:01:05   Is it fair to tell him what it was about at least or do we don't even do that?

00:01:10   I think even knowing what it's about could taint it. It's got to be...

00:01:14   Is there a point, like at any point in 2024 will I be able to listen to this episode?

00:01:22   Possibly. It's unknown. It's unknown. It's unknown.

00:01:27   Okay, so I guess I gotta delete it from my hue. I was waiting for like...

00:01:30   Yeah, you really actually should do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:01:33   Okay, so not even this year at all?

00:01:37   No, in a year you can. The danger is...

00:01:40   In a year?

00:01:41   We could create a space-time rift if you listen. And so we have to be really careful about that.

00:01:47   There's a real problem.

00:01:49   Okay, well I hope it was a fun episode.

00:01:53   It was. It was. It was. I was interested to have Jon on the show. Did you know Jon was on the show?

00:01:57   Jon was on the show.

00:01:58   I knew that. That's the only thing. And Jon told me the Connected was fun.

00:02:03   Good.

00:02:04   That's it. Good.

00:02:05   As everyone says, Connected is fun.

00:02:07   Jon really does have a way with words, doesn't he?

00:02:09   That he does. He does.

00:02:14   Mike, tell us about next week.

00:02:17   So we're off next week because we're going to be live in London. We look forward to seeing

00:02:24   everybody at the Hackney Empire who's coming out. So we're going to be doing a live show,

00:02:28   which I'm very excited about. It's going to be a good time by all and we're very excited.

00:02:33   I'm really looking forward to it. I'm knee deep, shoulder deep, eye deep in planning.

00:02:39   It depends on the way that you look at it. But I'm excited. Everyone's coming into town now.

00:02:45   People are starting to arrive. And I'm really, really, really looking forward to our show at

00:02:50   the Hackney Empire.

00:02:51   Yeah, a bit of a bummer update that I need to share. Unfortunately, I won't be there.

00:02:57   So I've already spoken with the guys, obviously. I don't want to get into details. Everything's

00:03:06   fine. Just not really a good time of year for me to leave. And we're good. Obviously, I'm

00:03:16   going to miss a lot being there. And I know that it's an incredible milestone for Relay.

00:03:23   Doesn't feel like 10 years. At the same time, it feels like forever, which usually it's a

00:03:30   good feeling to have. I'm very bummed that I can be there. But regardless, I know that

00:03:38   you will both do an incredible job. And I know that you're going to have the time of

00:03:43   your life with everybody coming in. So yeah, I just felt like I needed to share just in

00:03:50   case, you know, in case anybody was coming in.

00:03:52   The tichy fans. The tichy fans are going to be out there. Yeah, it's a shame. It's understood.

00:04:00   But disappointing, but you're not disappointing. You know what I mean? We all wanted to be

00:04:05   there together, but unfortunately, life finds its own ways sometimes. And they're not necessarily

00:04:12   the ways that you want them to find. That's the full quote. That's the full quote. It's

00:04:18   shrunk down in Jurassic Park.

00:04:20   Yeah. We had some follow-ups. We had a lot of follow-ups that we can't talk about because

00:04:28   Federico's here. I didn't really anticipate that being a problem. So if you sent feedback

00:04:34   about what we did last week, thank you. I read it all. I'm sorry. But we did have someone

00:04:41   point us to an Apple support document that I was not aware of. And anonymous wrote in

00:04:48   Federico. I'm going to read this Federico. Know that it's coming from our listener, not

00:04:54   for me, because it's a little antagonistic. I think I keep hearing Federico ignore this

00:04:59   point about Apple bot crawling content, robbing the shop. I'm not ignoring it. Without ever

00:05:07   pointing this out. If robot instructions don't mention Apple bot, but mention Google bot,

00:05:12   the Apple robot will follow Google bots instructions. This is an important distinction.

00:05:18   So other than the spiciness, I want to know what you think about this.

00:05:23   I don't think it's an important distinction. And I think this person was probably playing,

00:05:31   ah, gotcha. No. Because first of all, even Google bot extended is a relatively new addition to web

00:05:38   crawling. So forgive me if I have not paid attention in the last six months. I mean,

00:05:43   Google AI answers are something that are still rolling out, literally. It's like a feature that

00:05:49   is launching now. So forgive me if I have not implemented the Google bot extended blocking.

00:05:56   Obviously I do not want to block Google bot. So the, I'll tell you what's the important distinction.

00:06:03   The important distinction is recognizing that I don't want to block Google bots because I still

00:06:09   want my website to be indexed on search engines. Yeah. And Apple bot is also something that people

00:06:16   want. Exactly. Exactly. Because I do want Mac stories to show up in spotlight. For example,

00:06:20   if you are a suggested website that's made possible by Apple bot, but more importantly,

00:06:26   why is it exactly like I failed to understand this point? Why is it that I should be okay with Apple

00:06:35   doing what Google does? Like this, this part does not compute with me. And I feel like it's quite,

00:06:43   um, ironic that we spend, you know, in the Apple community, a lot of people hold the Apple to a

00:06:49   higher standard, but in this case, the argument would be, oh no, but they do what Google does.

00:06:54   Therefore it's okay. I thought we were expecting better from Apple. Are we not? Um, so yeah,

00:07:00   I disagree. Or different at least. I mean, I don't think, I mean, again, we will probably keep

00:07:06   mentioning this for a while. We were not expecting Apple to do things the way they did them. Yeah.

00:07:12   And also I would just mention like, just as a general, like rule of thumb with feedback,

00:07:18   just because we don't mention something explicitly, it doesn't mean we don't know it.

00:07:23   Like not everything needs to be explicitly drawn out every single time. Like, yes, this is an

00:07:30   interesting distinction that if you don't mention Apple bot, but have restrictions around Google

00:07:36   bot, then Apple will follow them. Okay, great. But that doesn't change the fact of what's happening

00:07:42   here. They're still doing. The situation was that Apple, like, cause let's imagine Google,

00:07:48   that Federico did know about Google bot extended, right? And he could have made a decision about

00:07:54   Google bot extended. Apple bot extended didn't exist until after it had already crawled. Right.

00:08:00   So they didn't, the situation's not different. Apple did not give a choice and just follow

00:08:08   Google is not necessarily the way to do things. And like, it doesn't, it didn't, it didn't give

00:08:13   people a choice. There is a scenario in which someone could say, I want Google to do this,

00:08:20   all of it. I don't want Apple to do it. And part of the reason for that could be,

00:08:24   if I'm ever going to make any money out of this, Google's probably going to be the one to work it

00:08:29   out. Like if, if publish it, there's like a history that if publishers are ever going to make money,

00:08:36   Google is the company who has a history of that being the case. I don't think that's going to be

00:08:42   the case going into the future, but if you were to take the optimistic take, right? Like if you

00:08:48   look at what Google pay, like what, you know, like Google sending traffic to people or YouTube paying

00:08:56   creators, like all of those scenarios tend to be better off for the creator. I still don't believe

00:09:04   that any of these things will have a better off for a creator, but that could be a decision I can

00:09:08   imagine someone making. Apple's never going to give creators any money ever for anything.

00:09:14   So that could be a decision somebody would make and just Apple being like, we'll just follow the

00:09:19   Google rule is not, it's not an, uh, it's not a wholly acceptable way of doing things. That's just

00:09:27   what they decided to do, but it doesn't mean that every publisher, like they were given no agency

00:09:32   given no choice. They just went and did it. That's the issue. Talking about locks.

00:09:37   Steven, you got a home kit lock. I did my, my first one. Okay.

00:09:48   I, uh, what do you want to know? What do you think of it? Does it work? It does. What did you get

00:09:55   and how does it, how does it work? Yeah. So I got the aquara aquara, a car, a car, a car, a car,

00:10:04   you 200 smart lock. So this is there as of this according their newest smart lock. It works with

00:10:12   matter and Google home and home kit. And most interesting to me, uh, the home key,

00:10:21   uh, support or mechanism with an iOS and watch us where it basically puts a card and wallet.

00:10:27   And when you bring your device near the lock, it senses it and then unlocks it, which is pretty

00:10:32   cool. Yeah. This is, this is like the, it was, it's called, what is it called? Home home key feature.

00:10:39   I think. Okay. Cause I have car key for cars. Home key thought imagine such a world, the naming

00:10:45   incredible. Uh, but that's the key feature of these things, right? Is that you can just

00:10:51   walk up to them. And then I don't think this lock is getting it, but like the next version of this

00:10:57   is using ultra wide band. So you just walk up to the lock and it will open. Right. So ultra wide

00:11:02   band is support for smart locks is coming in iOS 18 and watch us 11. And that will obviously require

00:11:10   different hardware and I'm sure a car and others will, will move on that. And that is interesting,

00:11:16   but this seems like something that is maybe a little bit better fit for me. Um, because my,

00:11:24   like my, because my studio is in my backyard, I wanted a bit more, uh, I don't know,

00:11:31   like intentionality about unlocking. And I just wasn't sure about like, how close do you have to

00:11:36   be for the ultra wide band? Does it sense that you're moving towards it? I think the thing about

00:11:41   ultra wide band is it's precision. I think that's the benefit of it over Bluetooth.

00:11:47   Yeah. There's a distance, but like ultra wide band would know you were walking towards the door.

00:11:52   Maybe so. So, but nevertheless, this is, this is a fantastic system because you don't have to do

00:11:59   like open the app, unlock the lock or whatever. Oh yeah. And Bluetooth wouldn't work for you for,

00:12:05   because you're so close all the time. Right. And it has a fingerprint. So, so you have the lock

00:12:12   mechanism that goes on the inside of the door and it works with the lock that's already there. So

00:12:16   it's like turning the dead bolt in my case on my very American door. And it has a keypad that's

00:12:23   weatherproofs and go outside. It has a keypad on it. So you can, you can use a key, a pin code to

00:12:28   get in, uh, in the car app, you can set a temporary pin. So it's like, if you know, if it's an Airbnb

00:12:34   situation or you're letting your dog sit her in or something, you can give them a pin code. It's only

00:12:39   good for a set amount of time, but it also has a fingerprint sensor on it. So I can also walk up to

00:12:45   it and touch it. You know, I think I registered both my thumbs and both my index fingers and I can

00:12:50   touch it and it will, it will unlock. And, uh, the installation wasn't too bad. I've got pictures and

00:12:56   stuff on, on the blog post. I will say, and this is true for a car really across the board. Their

00:13:02   documentation is pretty bad. And, uh, I don't know what that's about. I have some theories.

00:13:11   You're buying products from a Chinese company. That's it. I think that's it.

00:13:15   It's not like it's, it's, this is a totally fine thing, but like, I don't know how much of a

00:13:20   presence, I don't really think they have much of a presence outside of China, but they sell worldwide.

00:13:25   Yeah. And I think that they're not putting the work into localization. I mean, you can see it

00:13:31   throughout the app. The app is just like weird, it weirdly words things, but it's fine. Um,

00:13:37   one of the things I do like about a car is a lot of their products you can use without ever touching

00:13:42   the car app, but you may just lose some features because of that. Yeah. And there, there was a

00:13:48   thing, the initial version of the blog post, I had something that was incorrect. So I had to go back

00:13:52   and edit it. Um, after a couple of friends pointed it out where this thing will work with matter.

00:13:58   And I don't have any matter stuff enabled on my network. And in the setup flow for the lock in the

00:14:05   Akara app, it's like, Oh, if you want to use matter, you have to upgrade to the new hub,

00:14:09   which is the M three is there. Their current hub, the sports matter, but turns out that's not true.

00:14:15   You can enable matter with a firmware update on the M two hub, which is the one that I happen to

00:14:20   have. And, um, I ended up not doing that yet because when you enable matter, basically you're

00:14:27   going to have duplicates of everything and home kit. You have like the standard to do it for this

00:14:31   stuff. And I don't need to do it. So yeah, that for this particular product, like it, it gives

00:14:36   you no benefit, right? Like only if you were tying, like if you, you know, if you had a home

00:14:42   alarm system, like let's imagine that ring actually do what they promised and support home kit, which

00:14:47   I don't think they're ever going to do as a matter. Sorry. I don't think they're ever going to do it,

00:14:51   but if they had done that and you had like a ring alarm system, right. You could like tie these

00:14:55   things together somehow. So I do have a system and the way I do that is home bridge, which

00:15:01   explodes every six months, but that is more. Yes. But that means you don't need matter, right?

00:15:06   Cause you can, you can just rebuild home bridge. Yeah. You know, it's like, it's like changing the

00:15:13   batteries in the smoke alarm. You know, you do that and you rebuild home bridge and, and you're,

00:15:18   you're good to go. This is exactly why I have no interest in those. Oh yeah. It can be, it can be

00:15:23   really frustrating. But this it's pretty great. I mean, the home key thing's awesome. And I have it

00:15:29   set up on the, you can see in the picture, I have it set up on the doorframe because I have the

00:15:33   regular door and then I have a storm door with like a, like a screen on it. And when it's nice

00:15:37   outside, I leave the regular door open and the screened open so I can like get fresh air and like

00:15:42   hear the kids in the backyard or whatever. And so I have it in between those and I can just walk up

00:15:48   and I do with my watch and just like put my wrist up to it. It unlocks and I've really enjoyed it so

00:15:55   far. And of course you can do interesting automation stuff based on your locks. And I've done,

00:15:59   I've, I've tinkered around the edges of that. I feel like it's easy when you're automating things

00:16:04   with locks to like get yourself in a situation that's probably not the best safety wise. Yeah.

00:16:08   So so I've, I've had fiddle with that a little bit, but it is it's pretty great. And I mean,

00:16:16   like the other car stuff, I've got a bunch of their water sensors, like under the sinks and I

00:16:22   have one in the pan for my hot water heater. And I have a couple of their, they have these, like,

00:16:26   they don't sell them anymore. I don't know what happened, but they have these buttons and basically

00:16:31   you can just use them as home kit triggers. So I have two of those. I do have one of those. Yeah,

00:16:37   they're great. Um, the Acara mini button something. Yeah. And I've got two on our fridge and one opens

00:16:45   and closes the garage door and the other turns on a lighting scene that basically turns on the lights

00:16:51   across the front of the house. So you can just hit the button and, um, all their hardware is great.

00:16:57   It's really the localization and some of the directions where things, uh, things fall down

00:17:02   a little bit. And this lock is currently 20% off for prime day. Oh, nice. Yeah. Uh, I want to,

00:17:09   like, while we're talking about this, I give like a massive recommendation for the, the doorbell,

00:17:13   the G4 smart video doorbell. Uh, I have one and I love it. And what makes it so good compared to

00:17:21   other products is it is home kit and it is wireless. Like it's powered by batteries. Yeah. So it was.

00:17:28   Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Which is there's nothing else. It's the only product that does this. Yeah. And

00:17:34   the way that they do that is the chime that you have inside is actually what's connecting to home

00:17:40   kit. And then it is then creating a connection between itself and the camera. That's cool.

00:17:48   Like section. So it's very clever the way that it's doing it. They make a lot of products that

00:17:53   no one else kind of does. Like, uh, I was interested in like w water sensors for a while.

00:17:59   And, uh, at least at the time, they were really the only company making them that worked with

00:18:03   home kit. And the way they do that with home kit is super smart. They basically act like an alarm

00:18:09   system in home kit. It's like, if one of those gets tripped, my phone is going to go nuts. And

00:18:13   that's exactly what I want it to do. If there's water in a cabinet under a sink, interrupt my

00:18:18   podcast recording to tell me that, you know? Um, so I have one of those. Yeah. Yeah. They're great.

00:18:24   My irrigation system. And I think it's very clever how they use the, uh, the critical notifications

00:18:32   of IUS so that even if you are in a focus mode or you have like your notification silence, like it's

00:18:38   always gonna make a noise and a loud one at that. It makes me sleep better, honestly. Yeah. They

00:18:44   have like their little temperature sensors, temperature, immediate sensors are great.

00:18:48   And I have a couple of the cameras too. They have a camera that you can make look like a cat.

00:18:55   Um, it comes in the box. Little cat ears. I'm realizing now that I have a lot of Acara products

00:19:01   because they make such good stuff. Like their products are really, really good. And this,

00:19:06   the camera, I don't remember which one it is, but I'll put, I'll put it in the show notes.

00:19:10   The camera, the cameras are good because they are also hubs. So you don't need a hub.

00:19:14   You can have a connects as a hub and then you can connect other things to that. And again,

00:19:19   it's like you can, it's the hub G3 camera hub G3 is the product I'm talking about. Like you can

00:19:25   just use it in home kit and you can use it as a camera. But then if you go into the Acara app,

00:19:29   you can change what the, like, you can move the camera around up and down and turn it around.

00:19:35   Like stuff like it's just like clever stuff that they do. I think they make,

00:19:38   they make really, really good products. Ooh, I'm going to buy a door sensor right now.

00:19:43   I, I don't use their door sensors, but I like the idea of having those. And cause I,

00:19:48   the door sensors I have a like tied to the alarm system that we use, but it's good stuff.

00:19:54   I've got, I got one door. I mean, all my doors are like that, but I got one door in particular

00:19:58   that would be very handy to know its status. Cause you can't really see it easily. Uh, and it's $14

00:20:04   on prime day. So doing that. I, uh, I put a lot in a Acara one on the fridge.

00:20:12   Oh, that's clever. So, you know, if the fridge door is like stuck open, if the fridge is open.

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00:22:04   Vision Pro is available worldwide now, which is well, not what, thank you. Uh, not completely

00:22:12   worldwide, but more countries. They have it in a lot of Asian and European countries. It's in

00:22:17   Canada too. Um, and a couple of people wrote in about this, Jonathan, including them with like

00:22:25   pointing out, it is interesting in all of the newsroom pieces that they've done. They show,

00:22:30   uh, the dual loop band instead of the solo loop band. Yeah. And yeah, I've read a report. I don't

00:22:37   remember where this came from now. It might've been from Mark Gurman actually that that has just

00:22:41   become a directive. Like Apple's kind of refreshed the way they're doing in store stuff and the dual

00:22:46   loop band is, is one of the things they've refreshed to. It is more comfortable, I think

00:22:52   than the solo loop. And I will also, I wanted to bring this up because I now am a solo top boy.

00:22:58   So I did the solo top because I could get a solo band now because they're out in the UK. So I was

00:23:05   waiting for them. So the solo top is where you take two of the solo loops, like the knitted one,

00:23:10   and you get this 3d printed adapter and you can then use two of those instead of the dual loop.

00:23:17   Here's what I'll say about it because I feel like everyone that uses it,

00:23:23   it like goes wild for it. I would say it's fine. Like it's, it's more for me, it's more comfortable

00:23:31   and it is more easily adjustable, but it is not as big an improvement improvement for me as I

00:23:37   expected based on other people. And this is, I think for me, based on the fact that I found the

00:23:45   dual loop to be comfortable where most people don't. Interesting. So I think if you, I think

00:23:52   that's maybe your, uh, the thing to consider if you're considering this, if you already find the

00:23:57   dual loop comfortable, I would say, I'm not sure that it is worth the amount of money that I had

00:24:01   to spend on a second solo band. They're really expensive and like may, you know, I'm sure it

00:24:08   will be better when I have other people trying it out, but you know, for adjustability, like

00:24:13   just ability sake, it's, it's way better. And what I'll say is I need to do some more testing on this.

00:24:18   Like I've been using my vision pro the last couple of days and the eye tracking is just so unreliable

00:24:23   and I don't know if it's related to this. So I might need to do some, some testing if like

00:24:28   something's happening and now it's not eye tracking me as well. But like, I had to stop using it today

00:24:32   cause I was, I was really getting frustrated because I just couldn't, it would just would not work.

00:24:38   Maybe you need to do the calibration thing.

00:24:41   I did. It didn't help. But I mean, like I'm also on the beta, right? So like,

00:24:45   I know I've got way too many factors here that are going on for why it wasn't working.

00:24:50   Sometimes I genuinely feel like it's like a weather thing. And I think it's something with

00:24:56   my eyes. Like I think that there might, sometimes there might be something going on with my eyes and

00:25:00   it's just not, not as reliable, but it's a thing I've had on and off over using the vision pro. But

00:25:06   like today it was just like particularly annoying, but I do feel like maybe I've thrown too many

00:25:11   factors at it. Um, because one of what I was doing today is I'm like deleting all my apps and

00:25:17   reinstalling my apps because it's, I have the app store now, like, and I'm nearly done. So I've just

00:25:22   been going through slowly and like delete one thing and still another thing. Because if I try

00:25:27   and do an update for an app, it's like, put your old password in. It's like, well, I don't want to

00:25:30   do that. So, yeah. But so, so, so, but you're thinking that you have unreliable eyes. That is

00:25:37   your, potentially there is, I am not ruling that out as well. That my eyes are unreliable. Oh God.

00:25:45   No. That wasn't necessary though. Like, okay. I'm reliable. No, stop. We got it the first time.

00:25:53   I don't think you did. Well, I'm taking the word eye, like, like I like eyes and I'm putting it in

00:25:58   the middle. Oh, he's explaining it. Yes. You didn't laugh. So you didn't laugh. So I just figured

00:26:04   that like you didn't get it, which is fine to not get it. Do you want us to clap for you? Should we

00:26:11   clap? Please clap. Please clap. Thank you. Thank you. Just two claps. Wow. Two claps. I liked it.

00:26:18   Is this how I am? Is this how people view me? Yes, Steven. Yes. Now you, you understand the pain

00:26:26   now. Oh, okay. No, actually Mike was worse. Mike was worse. Way worse. But yeah.

00:26:36   Big news. The HomePod mini has been updated. Are you guys excited?

00:26:41   What's the point of this? So Apple had a newsroom release on July 15th.

00:26:54   Today, Apple introduced HomePod mini in midnight made with a hundred percent recycled mesh fabric.

00:27:00   The internet freaked out. Didn't they already make a black one? Yes. A space gray one. And let me

00:27:05   tell you, they look identical. In my blog post, I took Apple's own press images and all I did was

00:27:11   put them side by side in Photoshop and hand on heart. I cannot tell the difference between the

00:27:17   two dark ones. Oh, let me play this game. Hold on a second. So I'm opening 512. Is there. Okay. I'm

00:27:24   not reading the cat. I'm not reading the text. Okay. Don't read the text. Okay. So you have,

00:27:30   okay, so you have the image on the left and the image on the right. Um, and I got to make out

00:27:35   which one midnight is. I'm going to see that meeting. Okay. So the one on the left seems a

00:27:42   bit darker. Is midnight darker than space gray? I'm going to go ahead and say that midnight is

00:27:49   the one on the left. Nope. Other way around. Oh my God. No. Midnight is lighter than space gray.

00:27:57   Now we know. Now we know. Wait, midnight is lighter than space gray. Apparently so.

00:28:03   Okay. I'm done. Can we move on? Like what's the, like, so the other ones not made of a

00:28:11   hundred percent recycled materials. Like, is that what they're saying? Is that the thing?

00:28:14   Uh, I don't, I don't think so. So in the 2021 press release, when they added the different colors,

00:28:23   all it says is, uh, mesh fabric. They don't say anything about recycling. So recycle. So

00:28:30   I have here the 2020 product environmental report for the HomePod mini. Oh man. The receipts.

00:28:37   90% recycled plastic in the mesh fabric. Okay. So the press release was for the additional 10%.

00:28:46   And the maybe impossibly, uh, difficult color change. Wow. Okay. Very exciting.

00:28:53   Sure. Very exciting. This obviously got people very worked up saying that how dare Apple

00:29:01   update the HomePod mini without preparing it for Apple intelligence is still powered by whatever

00:29:07   the HomePod mini is powered by, you know, some Stephen, everybody knows that 10% of recycled

00:29:12   mesh fabric is all you need for Apple intelligence. That's you know, I forgot about that.

00:29:17   You forget about that. It's the mesh of intelligence. You know, it's like a brain,

00:29:21   the Apple mesh, intelligence. Uh huh. See, I've meshed those two words together.

00:29:27   Yeah, that was good. If you like to be clapped, please clap me, daddy. Okay. So, uh, that HomePod

00:29:36   mini up next, Mike, what is happening with your AirPods? All right. I have a problem with my

00:29:41   AirPods and this is just one of these things that I want to say. Are you sure it's, it's AirPods and

00:29:45   not your unreliable years? I don't know. Okay. There could be a lot of things. I want to explain

00:29:51   the situation that I'm having. So AirPods in, this is usually happening when I'm on a train,

00:29:58   but not exclusively. Sometimes it happens randomly. My AirPods in and I'm listening to something,

00:30:04   sometimes listening to something and playing a game. The game I'm playing right now, by the way,

00:30:09   is Pegglin. I have been playing this game all day, every day for months. This game rules so hard.

00:30:16   Thank you, John Voorhees for doing this to me. I love this game. It is a peggle rope like,

00:30:22   which is just a beautiful sentence. Fantastic video game. Love it so much. Anyway, so playing that,

00:30:30   listening to a podcast, like one of my favorite podcasts, like NPC, you know? No, thank you.

00:30:36   Although I have recently started listening to Into the Aether. So I've been listening to a lot of

00:30:40   that and they're all just one episode. Do you know what I mean? I'm halfway through their 15 hour

00:30:44   episodes. They put out a couple of days ago, Steve, we listen to a podcast that put out in

00:30:48   a 15 hour episode. You know, I've heard y'all mentioned that a couple of times and it blows

00:30:52   my mind. Yeah. That episode is so long. It will never appear on Spotify. Yeah. Like that's the

00:30:59   thing. Smart speed is going to save you five hours. It was hilarious to me, right? Like I

00:31:07   was like, cause they just put out another episode today, which is six hours and 40 minutes long.

00:31:11   They don't always do this. It just so happened to happen two in a row. Um, and they're like

00:31:16   long-term projects that they do, which are really cool. Um, and I want to listen to the GameCube

00:31:23   one. I've really been looking forward to the GameCube one cause I want some GameCube recommendations.

00:31:28   And I was like, well, surely I'm nearly done with the games of the decade episode and I have eight

00:31:31   hours left. It's like, Oh man, I'm never going to get there anyway. So I'm listening to podcasts or

00:31:38   whatever. And what happens is all of a sudden audio stops and the transparency or noise cancellation

00:31:48   fails. So, you know, if you ever go from like transparency mode to like off, right? Yeah. If

00:31:55   you ever try that, you know, you can like turn it off. You just be like, no, I don't want any of this.

00:31:59   So like I hear it. And usually it's happens in one year first. So like say the left year will,

00:32:06   the transparency will fail. Then the right one, all audio stops. It disconnects from like disconnect

00:32:12   from my phone completely. And I have to wait. Then what will happen is it goes in reverse.

00:32:19   The transparency mode will kick back in again. Then it will reconnect to my phone and then I

00:32:26   can listen to audio. Like essentially my AirPods are rebooting and this happens. Sometimes I'm on

00:32:32   a train journey, like a 15 minute train journey. And it will happen multiple times. At first,

00:32:38   I thought it was like I was going through a specific area. Like I know this is a thing where

00:32:41   sometimes Bluetooth connections can be knocked out, but that's not the case. It happens at

00:32:46   multiple points, different points, and sometimes I'm not on a train at all. So this is a very weird

00:32:52   and actually very annoying thing that I have. I'm having happened to my AirPods and I want to put

00:32:58   this out there into the world of like, am I alone in this? Just to set the record straight. I am not

00:33:05   doing any betas here. My phone is not on the betas. It's happening on my phone. I wouldn't even know

00:33:11   how to do anything with AirPods. I am just using the devices as a regular human would be using them

00:33:18   and this keeps happening to me. So essentially it's like they're just like rebooting, which is

00:33:24   very strange. Have either of you ever had this happen to you? No. No. No. No. You don't know

00:33:32   about US 18 on your phone? What's the point? That is the thing. Fair enough. I'll stop.

00:33:39   Seriously. The stuff in there is interesting to me, but right now I will put it on,

00:33:48   but I will probably wait for at least another beta because I mean we're going to talk about

00:33:53   the beta in a second, but they regress some stuff that I was excited about even. But

00:33:56   there is nothing that is really drawing me in. There are lots of things I'm interested

00:34:03   about. By the way, Federica, I'm very happy that you got back on the right side of history with

00:34:08   the photos design. Yes. It is good. The photos redesign is good. It's good. It's good. I'm a fan

00:34:15   now. I'm happy that you... But I like that you... One, I love that it happened and two, I like that

00:34:20   you wrote about it because I think for me that was always the point of the thing that you had to

00:34:25   settle. I have a potentially warm take. It's the best time. Well done. Stay with me. I think in the

00:34:37   Apple community, a lot of so-called pundits, they have this weird obsession with being right and

00:34:47   they don't understand then being wrong and being wrong in public actually makes for great content.

00:34:54   Okay. That's my warm take. Okay. So like, I see what you're saying, which is like,

00:34:59   a lot of people may make a decision and they won't ever change from that decision where yes,

00:35:05   if you change your decision, you get two blog posts out of it. Exactly. You know what I mean?

00:35:10   And maybe you could change your opinion again and you get a third one. Well, then you just look like

00:35:14   an idiot if you do it too much. Two is the maximum. There's a balance is what I'm saying.

00:35:21   Yeah. Anyway, yes. Photos. Photos is good, but probably, you know, you're fine just waiting for

00:35:28   maybe even a couple more betas actually. I mean, yeah, I saw that. That's my thought. Like,

00:35:33   just wait until it gets really, really solid. I would probably expect the next one to have

00:35:38   Apple intelligence or at the very least the new Siri, but we'll see. I don't know.

00:35:41   Yeah. I think I am at this point kind of waiting on that at least because then it would be like,

00:35:46   well, I might as well jump in and try it because I've tried some of these features out on my iPad,

00:35:52   right? And like, I feel like that is going to be best to try on my iPhone, like on my iPad Mini,

00:35:56   because obviously if there's any intelligence features, they're not going to work on that poor

00:36:00   little thing. But it gets very hot, very slow, very hot, very slow. But anyway, we'll come back

00:36:06   to that in a second. Going back to my Apple's problem, I find it very frustrating. If anybody

00:36:10   has experienced this, please let me know. This is my feedback. This is the end of it. This is

00:36:17   the feedback. The feedback is given. It's given. It's out there. What's the feedback number for

00:36:22   people at Apple? Tiny topic three on connected episode 511.

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00:38:37   and Relay FM. So we spoke about betas a second ago, but public betas are out over on max stories.

00:38:47   This has been a slew of articles covering iOS 18, Mac OS, Sequoia, watch OS 11, and they're out.

00:38:54   People are running them. There was some confusion because the day the public betas were supposed to

00:39:01   come out, there was a new developer build, but it was of beta three and it regressed one area,

00:39:09   Mike, that you talked about. So why don't you tell us about that and then we'll get Federico's take

00:39:13   on the public betas. Yeah, so they republished beta three. Presumably it was then going to be

00:39:19   the public beta because Apple have done that before. I don't remember when, but I remember

00:39:24   this happening before of like redoing a developer beta and then the public beta came out.

00:39:29   And in that reissuing, they removed the feature where stickers could become emoji.

00:39:38   My expectation is that it was just, and I will say, I use it, this is kind of broken, like it worked,

00:39:43   but it was like shaky. And I'm hoping that they just need to do some tweaks because it would be

00:39:50   really weird to not have this feature. So like, I feel like it's just one of these things that

00:39:55   it will appear maybe in beta four or beta five again, but they did remove that feature.

00:40:02   It's a bummer. It's a real bummer. Yeah. Yeah. There's no public beta for Vino OS either.

00:40:09   So that's probably good. They used to not do a watch public beta, remember for years. And I think

00:40:15   just the complexity of restoring one of those devices, if it goes sideways is, I'm okay with

00:40:21   that being. Is it still like a horror show if you mess that up? Like, is it still really bad?

00:40:27   On the watch? Yeah. Probably. Maybe they just finally gave in.

00:40:31   You need to go back. I mean, it can be fun. That's for sure. Like

00:40:36   just by virtue of not having a USB cable, you know, like that's not, and being a slow device,

00:40:43   like it's not going to be fun. The restore process, which I have not done in many years,

00:40:49   probably only happened once to me, but I'm going to bet that it's not pleasant. You know?

00:40:58   Yeah. On watchOS, I'll give a shout out to Jonathan who wrote your watchOS 11,

00:41:04   the imagery. Yes.

00:41:08   It's really good. Yeah. Jonathan has a template that I actually want to steal eventually.

00:41:14   You can just be like mine. He's not stealing. He works for you.

00:41:17   Mine now. I made this. I made this. I made this.

00:41:24   Jonathan is, this is something that we did not share publicly, but actually Alex, who's been

00:41:31   doing the previous watchOS coverage and annual reviews, been doing them for 10 years. Alex

00:41:37   decided to wrap it up with watchOS 10. So going forward, Jonathan will be taking care of the

00:41:44   watchOS coverage and the annual review on Mac stories.

00:41:47   Can I, considering the time has passed, can I talk about what happened at WWDC when it came

00:41:53   to watchOS 10 and Alex? Do you remember this? I do not.

00:41:59   At WWDC last year, Alex was expressing a, what is the opposite of desire?

00:42:06   Non desire to write the watchOS 10 review. He didn't want to do it.

00:42:12   Oh yes. And at one point he pitched having Jeremy

00:42:16   Burge do it. Alex was trying to get out of this so bad. I remember it was very funny.

00:42:26   And like, we just like the whole week, just hearing him pitch different people to you

00:42:31   to do the reviews. Walking by somebody like, Hey, do you want to write something for Mac stories?

00:42:36   Honestly, I was around Alex enough that week that it did feel like that at a certain point where

00:42:44   he just didn't want to do it. Well, he would have asked you, but you're tied up with tvOS.

00:42:48   No, I got fired. It was a shame. And, uh, there's, there's, unfortunately, uh, we're in an

00:42:56   arbitration right now. There's legal proceedings going on. I can't share anymore. And I also can't

00:43:02   write any reviews because of the way in which I was fired.

00:43:05   Interesting. Yeah.

00:43:08   Are these proceedings in the room with us right now?

00:43:13   Please point to the proceedings. If you can see the proceedings, point to them.

00:43:18   Unfortunately, I can't talk about this right now. You'll be hearing from John Voigt. He's my lawyer,

00:43:27   which is the second twist in the story.

00:43:30   Oh, that works. That works. So he's suing himself. Interesting.

00:43:34   Some people like that. Sure.

00:43:41   Okay. Uh, no, but I'm very excited about Jonathan taking care of this and he's done a great job,

00:43:45   I think, with the, with the public preview, um, testing things that I, that I would have

00:43:50   never tested. So yeah, there's going to be a watchOS 11 review on Mac stories this year.

00:43:55   For me currently, feature for feature, I am most excited about watchOS 11.

00:43:59   Actually, I agree. Uh, like right now,

00:44:04   like live activities in the smart stack. I want that. Right. And also the smart stacks promise

00:44:11   to actually do what they said they would do last time, which is like reflow them a bit better.

00:44:17   And I'm sure in watchOS, the watchOS 10, like I haven't checked this, but this is my memory

00:44:22   that they said live activities would be in that. And that never happened. Um, training load. I'm

00:44:28   really interested to see the judgment that my Apple watch report on me after my workouts.

00:44:35   Um, I'm like, is that going to be good about, and also the vitals thing.

00:44:38   And I can tell you, please share that story. I, uh, walk, uh, like, uh, last week in the evening,

00:44:49   I started feeling a sore throat and I was like, um, uh, usually as we know, it's pretty much a

00:44:58   sign that something is going on. Sure enough, woke up the next morning with a notification from the

00:45:04   vitals app on my Apple watch running the watchOS 11 beta saying, uh, there's three data points

00:45:10   that are outliers here. And specifically it's your temperature, your heart rate and your respiratory

00:45:16   rate. It was like, boy, I'm dying over here, but it was like, your temperature is like 1.5 degrees

00:45:23   higher and your heart rate is really off and your respiratory rate is also kind of off.

00:45:29   And that persisted for multiple days. Of course I got sick and, uh, and you know, sure enough,

00:45:36   I got a fever and I got a cough and everything. So, and, and then, um, it did it for like three

00:45:43   days. And what was cool about it is that I could tell that I was getting better because every

00:45:49   morning, like there was going to be like one fewer data point. So like the one day the temperature

00:45:55   was okay, but the two other values were still not. And then it was just the heart rate that it was

00:46:01   still high and then it stopped. So the vitals app, I know that it's not new data, like all these data

00:46:07   points, you could manually check in health before, but I think it's the UI and the bringing them

00:46:13   together, making them very actionable, like in the way that like it's presented in plain English.

00:46:20   It tells you every morning when you wake up, it doesn't require you to go open health on your

00:46:26   phone. You can just do it all with a very simple UI on the watch. I think it's very cool. And I

00:46:32   think it's going to help a lot of people. Yeah. I don't worry, Steven. I got you. Uh, I see this

00:46:39   data in sleep plus plus like, cause it underscore uses it to form like a sleep, like a readiness

00:46:46   score is what he calls it of like pulling in. I think it's some of these are all of these things

00:46:51   as a way to show you how prepared you might be for the day. But I don't check that every day.

00:46:58   Like I, I actually check that usually because of something that I'm feeling. I like the idea of my

00:47:04   watch actively reaching out and telling me like that something's changed. Like, I think that's

00:47:11   cool. Uh, and in terms of, in terms of, um, Sequoia, John, uh, John wrote about it. Um,

00:47:19   it's takeaway, I think pretty much in agreement with him. Um, there's that two features that are

00:47:26   really cool, like the iPhone mirroring and the iPhone notifications. Like that's gonna be,

00:47:31   that is the highlight of my quest Sequoia. And I think it's, it's gonna be something that a lot of

00:47:36   people are gonna use, especially nerds. I think people like us, we're going to be all over that

00:47:40   feature. Um, but otherwise, and that is also pretty much my sentiment right now in mid July

00:47:49   with iOS and iPadOS 18, we're all just waiting for Apple intelligence stuff to show up. And,

00:47:55   and so what you're left with in Sequoia, in iOS, in iPadOS is a lot of smaller, like app related

00:48:05   features on iOS. You do have the customization to sort of salvage this release without Apple

00:48:13   intelligence. You, you have control center, uh, which is customizable. And for me right now,

00:48:19   it's the highlight of iOS 18. You do have the home screen stuff. Um, and, uh, the, the photos app,

00:48:28   which as we have established, I am now a fan of it. And I think it's, I'm curious to see what Apple

00:48:34   does now that there's a public beta. Uh, I don't think we are witnessing the kind of backlash that

00:48:42   we experienced three years ago with the new Safari, because the new Safari, that version of Safari was

00:48:48   bad. This version of photos, it's, it seems like it's more of a subjective thing. I wouldn't say

00:48:54   it's an objectively badly designed photos UI. I don't think that's the case. I think Safari

00:49:03   was not good and unhelpful for people. I think that in the new photos design,

00:49:11   they came at it from the thing of there, we have all this stuff and nobody looks at it.

00:49:18   And people like this kind of stuff. And so let's show it to them, but in a way where we're not

00:49:24   taking away what they're used to, like all you need to do is just swipe to get,

00:49:28   like you just continue scrolling. If you need to go further, like my expectation is like,

00:49:33   I would say 90% of the time when people open the photos app, what they want is one of the

00:49:39   last 20 photos and they're still visible. They're still there. And so you can still get to those if

00:49:45   you want to, but now you're also going to be pulled into like, Hey, look, here's these pictures of you

00:49:49   and your friends. And Hey, look, here's this. And Hey, look, there's that. And so I think that is

00:49:53   like, I think the design has come from a, from a sincere place, not just a, how can we rethink

00:49:58   this application, which is what Safari felt like, whether that was the case or not.

00:50:03   I saw some people say, Oh, but I don't want to discover photos in my library. And like,

00:50:09   that to me is like a mind blowing comment. Like, I'm sorry.

00:50:12   Why are you even taking pictures? Like if you don't want to rediscover memories and photos,

00:50:20   like it's almost like saying, um, no, actually I don't have an analogy. It just seems wild.

00:50:26   It's really strange. That's weird.

00:50:28   It's really strange. It's really strange that you may be against the idea of rediscovering photos

00:50:34   and memories when you do have a photo library. Like, you know, uh, anyway, we'll see if Apple

00:50:41   listened to, for example, one feedback that Apple may want to listen to is if you set your grid to

00:50:50   be fully expanded on the, on the phone. So you swipe down and you see just the grid and you force

00:50:57   quit photos, maybe something that Apple could implement is remember the state of photos. Um,

00:51:03   right now, if you expand the grid and you force quit photos, the next time you open photos,

00:51:09   the grid is not fully expanded. Um, so maybe that's something that Apple could do, but honestly,

00:51:15   I don't think it's, I think it's a pretty good design and I think Apple is onto something with

00:51:21   this idea of, look, you can still do just the basics and that's literally 60% of the screen

00:51:28   by default. But if you want to, you can keep, you can keep scrolling and find stuff because

00:51:36   and you can change so much about what the app shows you and where it shows you it.

00:51:44   Yeah. Like that's like the second shoe to drop for me with this design,

00:51:48   which is like, Oh, so you don't ever want to see, you know, X or Y thing. Just get rid of it.

00:51:53   Like, I just think that's very, it's very, I love it. And I think, I think that a good job.

00:52:00   What I also think it's wild is that we've gone from photos being a completely non customizable app

00:52:07   to photos being Apple's most customizable app ever. Like second only, I mean, at this point

00:52:15   to shortcuts really. And shortcuts is the app that literally is designed to let you create stuff.

00:52:20   So it's customizable by design, but what you can do in photos, it's, it's wild. Like rearrange stuff,

00:52:27   modify pin collections. Like I hope it, like, I hope that Apple is now entering it's actually,

00:52:36   this is a pretty good sentence that I should say for my iOS review. See, this is something that we

00:52:43   spoke about on the pre-show. Mike, where can people get connected pro while I'm saving this out.

00:52:47   Getconnectedpro.co is where you can go to get longer ad-free versions of the show. We were

00:52:53   talking about Federico preparing for his iOS review and what his plans are for that this year.

00:52:59   Yeah. What I was going to say in the sentence that I wrote down is that I hope that we are,

00:53:05   Apple is now entering its second era of customization. The first one being visual

00:53:11   customization with the home screen, lock screen, widgets. And I hope that iOS 18 is pointing at a

00:53:17   more functional customization in the sense of like, look at photos and look at control center.

00:53:23   That's my theory. Yep. Which I literally just saved. So yeah, that's good. That's good. It's

00:53:30   been, it's been interesting this year. I feel like there's been more overall like change in evolution

00:53:36   in some areas than maybe we've seen in past years, like particularly around like the tinting and some

00:53:41   of the home screen stuff on iOS 18. I don't know. It feels like things are maybe a little bit less

00:53:47   set in stone this year, which is, which is always interesting. It's interesting to see how Apple

00:53:52   solves these problems as time go on. Right. I think we talked about Safari,

00:53:55   obviously the biggest example of that sort of in modern Apple history, but even, even there's

00:54:01   other features, you know, they're continuing to evolve and continue to change. And that's always

00:54:05   really interesting to watch. I think I'm going to change the color tinting. Do you think,

00:54:09   or you think that's done now? Oh, I think it's done. I think it's done. Yeah. Yeah. I think

00:54:15   if that time is passed now. I have seen, I can kind of on one hand, I have seen two, three examples

00:54:25   of a pretty good looking tinted and custom icon layout on the home screen. Like I saw a photo on

00:54:34   threads of a person with wallpaper and on the left side was like this skyscraper with like orange

00:54:41   lights. And on the right side, the person had put like, just like, like a vertical row of two icons,

00:54:47   tinted orange. I was like, yeah, that, you know, that looks pretty good. It's not something that

00:54:53   I would ever use. And you got to wonder, like, especially on social media, how many of these

00:54:58   screenshots are done for clout and like, do you actually use your phone like that? But I do think

00:55:04   that there will be enough people using phones with cast, with weird and beautiful icon, custom icon

00:55:10   layouts that it's justified for Apple to do it. Not something that I will ever do, but Hey, you

00:55:16   cannot like customization only when it just so happens to be your kind of customizations. It's

00:55:22   kind of like democracy, you know, you got to love it all the time. Otherwise you're not going to love

00:55:27   it ever. Sure. That's the thing. That's the way to say it. I just, I just, I just want to be able

00:55:36   to use dark mode and not have dark icons though. And dark widgets. Like I want to be able to

00:55:44   separate those things out a little bit. Um, and like be able to pick and choose like dark mode

00:55:50   or not dark widgets or not dark icons or not. And yeah, I don't like that. I have that choice.

00:55:57   Here's the thing I also don't understand. I don't understand this. They can do whatever they want

00:56:01   with this people. I don't know why they tint the wallpaper. I don't know why that's the thing. Like,

00:56:05   like make it dark wallpaper, darker. That is like a very strange setting to even exist to me. Like,

00:56:12   I'm not really sure what that serves. Like there is very, is I am concerned that there are user

00:56:20   interface designers at Apple that don't understand what dark mode is like what people are using dark

00:56:27   mode for. And the tinting is one of them. Like, I don't like when people choose dark mode, it's not

00:56:36   like, Oh, I can't stand bright color. Like even like the way that they're doing this like dark

00:56:42   mode tinting of apps. Like I'm looking at an image here in Federico's article and it's like, they

00:56:48   make the WhatsApp icon a little less saturated. Like why though? Like for what reason? They're

00:56:53   trying to get people to use messages. You know, that's, that's anti-competitive behavior.

00:56:57   I guess, but like for, I just don't understand for what reason is felt to do that. Yeah. It's

00:57:05   strange. Uh, and I'm concerned about the way that they do into dark mode. Cause like, I also just

00:57:11   don't really like in general, Apple's dark mode icons. I don't, I don't think, no, I think some

00:57:19   of them look great and some of them look not good at all. And what is the vibe check from both of

00:57:29   you? Um, small icons, large icons. I don't like the large icons. I have not used it on my phone yet.

00:57:41   Right. Like I have not tried it on my phone, but in every image that I see, I don't like the large

00:57:47   icons. They are too big for me. Like it's too big. Yeah, but after a while, like I'm telling you,

00:57:53   I also thought like, Oh, this is going to be like old person's home screen, you know, like,

00:57:58   Oh, giant icons because grandpa can read the labels. Um, but after a while you do get used

00:58:04   to them and it makes you appreciate, especially if you have like nice icons on your home screen,

00:58:09   it makes you appreciate the icons more. And then when you go back to the smaller ones with the

00:58:13   text, you're like, Oh, these are small and have text underneath them. They look, Oh, I don't know.

00:58:20   Maybe it's like a novelty bias type of thing now, but I really like my chunky icons. You know,

00:58:26   I'm gonna, I'm gonna try it when I, when I put it on my phone, but I've just, I'm not sold on it yet.

00:58:34   Something that I was thinking while I was working on, on the preview article,

00:58:41   um, for all the, the thoughts that I shared about AI and I'm not like, I, this is not an AI segment.

00:58:52   Um, but over the past week I have found myself very much look forward to the new Siri,

00:59:00   especially because of the, uh, text activation that it's going to be possible. Like the text

00:59:07   mode. I was at the beach and, and I wanted to do a bunch of things. And obviously I had to do them

00:59:13   like, for example, I had to, uh, turn off a specific light that I left on at home. And I had

00:59:24   to open the whole map and, you know, find the room and find the accessory and turn it off, which was

00:59:29   fine. It took me 20 seconds, but I had the thought of like, it's going to be so nice when I can just

00:59:36   tap the virtual indicator and be like shut down balcony light and it's done. So like that idea of

00:59:45   going from just an assistant to a smarter assistant that is also like,

00:59:52   basically like a tiny command line on your phone. It does make me very excited.

00:59:59   And I was kind of wondering if you also had, like, if you've been thinking about this at all,

01:00:04   like anticipating the new Siri. I anticipate it in faith. Like I am going to choose to believe

01:00:17   it will be as effective as they showed us. If that bears out, then I am excited about this.

01:00:26   And so like I, and at the moment I am choosing to believe that that is true. So I am excited for a

01:00:32   much more capable system. Like that's what I am looking forward to. Like the ways in which you can

01:00:38   trigger it is nice. The new UI is nice. Fine. But like, that's not like, we're not going to get the

01:00:44   capability until later on. It seems like the full capability. That is what I am most excited for

01:00:50   because I want to be able to have a natural conversation with my devices and have it do

01:00:58   things for me. Like that's what I want to be able to do. Like I use this example already,

01:01:05   but I'll say it again. So I'm like, I had to do this thing where, uh, for, we have like a

01:01:12   selection of tickets for the live show that we're giving out to the family members of hosts and like

01:01:17   friends and stuff like that. So I had a like 100 page PDF and every page on the PDF was a,

01:01:27   an individual ticket and I needed to do, I needed to split that PDF into individual PDFs

01:01:35   and name them with the seat number, which was on the PDFs. The way I did this was I created a

01:01:45   shortcut to separate it, but then I did, couldn't, I could not come up with a way to extract that one

01:01:54   particular piece of information and then rename the file as that. I have no idea and I don't

01:02:02   actually think that Siri will be able to do this, but that's what I'm aiming towards. Like that's

01:02:09   what I want to be able to say to my computer, take this PDF, separate it into individuals,

01:02:15   take the seat number and rename each file with the seat number. Computers should be able to do

01:02:22   that task, right? Like, yeah, I don't think the Siri they showed, no, neither do I, but

01:02:27   to get to there, I think is this middle part, right? Of like, Siri will understand what I want

01:02:35   more, Siri will be able to talk to applications, there are Siri intents and like, you can see a

01:02:40   scenario where we get to that, which on the face of it, a computer should be able to do that. I

01:02:49   know computers can do that. I know people can make this work, right? That like, with a combination of

01:02:53   OCR, like you could make it work, but the amount of time it would take to do that, I just did it,

01:03:00   right? Like it took me like 10 minutes and I'd renamed them all, like not even that,

01:03:03   but I would like to be able to just give one command to my computer and like,

01:03:09   and it activate all of the things needed to do that and just provide me with the result, like

01:03:15   in seconds, I think we're on the path to a computer being capable of doing these things

01:03:21   for us, like a personal computer, but to get there, we got this part in the middle and is

01:03:27   that part in the middle, I'm also excited about the idea of being able to have a communication

01:03:33   with my phone and it surface information for me and then perform simple actions. Like I am excited

01:03:40   about that rather than a, I ask the assistant a question and get an answer and that's the end of

01:03:48   it. That is like all Siri has been for like 10 years and like, I am ready to move past that and

01:03:56   give it another shot, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And it's not that computers can't do those things,

01:04:02   right? You could make something to do that on a Mac, but you have to know how to do it. It's

01:04:08   about unlocking those capabilities, not only on a new type of device, like an iPhone or iPad, but

01:04:14   for people who aren't going to open automator or shortcuts or the command line. And yeah,

01:04:20   but even then, like if I was the type of person where I was having to do that task frequently,

01:04:25   I would work out the way to do it. Like I know I could do it. I could get some help from some

01:04:28   friends to maybe write a script for me. Like for example, Jason created a script for me,

01:04:34   which I did some modifications on and like he did some modification. So like every year when we do

01:04:39   the upgrade is I can have it go through the calculations and try and like pull together

01:04:46   the way that people write things. So like Breath of the Wild and Zelda Breath of the Wild, like try

01:04:51   and like lump those together to make that job easier. And while that took a lot of effort,

01:04:57   I need that every year. So it's good to have done the effort because then it saves me time in the

01:05:02   long run. But this task about the PDF I needed once, right? So like it wasn't worth doing the

01:05:09   effort, but I should still ask the computer once, right? Like and it do it that one time

01:05:14   because there shouldn't be any set up for me. Like even just to have not written the shortcut,

01:05:22   right? Like that's the part where like I knew I could get shortcuts to separate this PDF for me

01:05:28   into individual PDFs. Like I should at least be able to say like, hey computer, take this PDF and

01:05:34   split it up for me. And it do that part at least. And I would expect that new Siri should be able

01:05:41   to do that. Like from my expectation, if it's in shortcuts, it should be able to do it. That is like

01:05:47   a absolute minimum bar for me. I have no idea if I'm going to get that. Like whenever this probably

01:05:53   ships next year, but like that for me is like the, if it's in shortcuts, it should be able to do it.

01:05:58   If it can't, I don't understand why. But I don't know. - I don't think we're too far off from what

01:06:05   you are envisioning here, especially if like Apple is going to add more domains to the app intent

01:06:13   and they're going to roll out the app integration of course in the iOS 18 cycle. And it sounds like

01:06:19   from Mark Gurman's report, one of those, that Siri will also get like the ability to chain multiple

01:06:25   commands into one. So I think there's a scenario in which like late 2025, say early 2026 maybe,

01:06:34   what you just described is actually a reality. - That would be amazing. - Yeah.

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01:08:07   their support of connected and all of Relay FM. I wanted to close this week with a couple of

01:08:14   app stories. Hey, that's the stories of apps. The stories. My name is John Voorhees. I used to be a

01:08:25   lawyer. I came to America on a boat. On a week for a week. If people are asked us, it took a week.

01:08:31   We found that out today. Yeah. It took a week. UTM-SE is a retro PC emulator for the iPhone,

01:08:41   iPad, and vision pro. And I think out of everything that has changed in the app store in the last

01:08:46   couple of years, for some reason, this is the one that blows my mind the most. That I can emulate

01:08:51   windows XP on my iPad. What is happening? Did you see my hot take on threads about this?

01:08:58   What'd you say? So I responded to probably neil i potel, I think, saying that using with windows XP

01:09:08   with UTM-SE on an iPad, you have a better multitasking than stage manager.

01:09:14   Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, you saying that this has changed, like this has changed within the last

01:09:22   month. Like this app has been on a whirlwind and it was rejected a bunch of times and things

01:09:29   were changed. It was rejected. And now it's here and everything that I've found, no one is really

01:09:35   saying why? I don't know why it got approved. Well, there is no why. Isn't that also like a

01:09:44   Smashing Pumpkins song? Probably. There is no why because the idea is that, I mean, Apple is now

01:09:53   letting... The way I look at it is if Delta is successful and old store is so successful,

01:10:00   we also got to let it on the app store because that's what the people want. And we're going to

01:10:05   give people what... We'd rather have people be happy on the app store than be happy on a third

01:10:12   party store. That's sort of my takeaway. Well, because this one was making headlines because

01:10:18   they rejected it from notarization to be on old store initially. Like that's what the big problem

01:10:24   was with this because that's not something that Apple should be doing. Right. But they did it and

01:10:33   then it became a whole thing. And then some stuff got changed. And now, as you say, it's also on the

01:10:39   app store as well as being in Delta. Sorry, in old store. So, what happened? Why is this now

01:10:49   available? And this is the consistent thing which is becoming more and more frustrating

01:10:54   about authorization. What Apple is and isn't allowing on the app store and how it's changing

01:10:59   its rules. And sometimes the rules are this and sometimes the rules are that. It's like,

01:11:06   I'm happy it's there for the people that want it, but this is just a consistent...

01:11:11   The only thing that is consistent about this process is how much of a mess it is.

01:11:14   Yeah. Regardless of the politics of it all, pretty incredible that we can now have a

01:11:23   basically virtual machines for retro operating systems on an iPad. You know,

01:11:30   just technologically speaking, I think it's very cool that you can run Windows XP, you can run

01:11:36   older versions of Mac OS. Steven, you should probably try this at some point.

01:11:40   I should. Yeah. There's something for you to do here, obviously, when you're less busy.

01:11:45   But yeah, this is something that you can do, like run older, like,

01:11:48   DLS games, like whatever. Anything that is considered retro, you can emulate with UTM SC.

01:11:57   UTM I have used before on the Mac to run the Linux distro that runs Home Assistant on my Mac Mini

01:12:06   server, and SC is the iPad version. So yeah, that's pretty cool. And hopefully, slowly but surely,

01:12:14   more and more of these apps are coming on the vanilla app store, and I hope that will continue

01:12:19   to be the case, especially with emulators that require JIT, for example. I hope that Apple can

01:12:25   relax that stance in the future, you know, progressively, but I hope they can do it.

01:12:31   The other app that I think we want to... Oh, we should also mention Delta on the iPad.

01:12:37   Yeah, version 1.6. Update finally got out there.

01:12:41   Yeah, you can now run it on the iPad. You don't have to be in the EU, you can just get it on the

01:12:47   app store. There's some iPad-specific skins, especially impressive, I think, are the DS ones.

01:12:54   And what I think is also pretty cool is that you can use Delta with multi-window. I don't know who

01:13:00   wants to play multiple video games at the same time, but Delta has been optimized for iPadOS

01:13:06   and Stage Manager. So if you want to, you can keep, I don't know, Pokemon Red going in one window

01:13:11   and Tetris in another. Like, you can run Mario Kart and, I don't know, give me a DS game, Mike.

01:13:19   Mario Kart DS. Well, okay, sure. You can run two versions of Mario Kart at the same time.

01:13:26   Uh-huh. Sorry, I did a bad job. No, that works. That works.

01:13:30   Super Mario 64 DS. There you go. Excellent game. You can do that, multiple windows. I don't know

01:13:38   why, but you can. And so, yeah, I think it's going to be... I think the iPad is especially well suited

01:13:46   for DS emulation because of the dual screens and, you know, you have a bigger display. And I think,

01:13:54   especially like an 11-inch iPad Pro, for example, in portrait mode, running Delta with DS games,

01:14:01   it's a pretty sweet setup. So that's also quite exciting and it's on the App Store.

01:14:06   This week also marked the launch of the new version of Overcast. Overcast turns 10 years

01:14:15   old this week, which is mind blowing. And Marco has been talking about...

01:14:19   I'm just something turning 10 years old. Yeah, something else I can't think of.

01:14:24   Where did the time go? But Marco has been talking about this for a long time on ATP and, of course,

01:14:31   under the radar here on Relay, talking about... Basically, Overcast was in a position where there

01:14:37   was a lot of really old code and he was unable to move the app forward in a lot of ways that he

01:14:44   wanted to because of all this Objective-C. And, you know, he wasn't in the Swift UI land that

01:14:51   an app starting today would be in. And so he underwent a massive rewrite to basically bring

01:14:56   Overcast over into the modern times using Swift and Swift UI. And the result of that currently

01:15:03   is an app that is more or less the old version of Overcast minus a couple of features, but built on

01:15:11   a new foundation to move forward. And we got some links in the show notes for people to go check

01:15:16   out. I'm sure... Actually, I know that the majority of you listening are listening in Overcast because

01:15:22   it is the most popular podcast client for this and many other tech podcasts. And I'd love to know

01:15:28   what you all think about it. This update for me, Mixbag. I have some things about it that I really

01:15:36   like, some things that I don't like, and some things that I'm kind of in the middle. So visually,

01:15:42   a lot of the design tweaks that Marco has done, I do really like. I especially like the new

01:15:48   home screen. I like the circle playlists. I would like to be able to remove some of them because I

01:15:54   don't need them all, but like I only use two playlists and I think that they look nice.

01:15:59   I like the kind of like carousel of shows that's at the top. I expect in the future that I'll be

01:16:06   able to long press on these and do stuff with them, but I do like that they're up there because

01:16:11   I do sometimes just find just, oh, that's just like a really quick way to just jump into what

01:16:16   I'm listening to. I'm still getting used to the nail playing screen. The way in which you access

01:16:23   show notes and chapters is especially what I'm trying to get used to. I really like the sliding

01:16:27   cards that was there in Overcast before. You just slide left to right. I'm much more used to the,

01:16:39   I actually quite like the way to get to, there's like a quick way to get to the show notes,

01:16:45   which is just tap the artwork and that's how I'm doing it and that works pretty well. Although

01:16:49   sometimes, you know, with some things that you, when you tap something, usually you tap it again

01:16:57   to undo what you've done and obviously you can't do that here, but that's fine.

01:17:00   I don't like the chapter screen where it just like full screen takes over and that UI I'm not a fan

01:17:11   of, but it works though, which is fine, you know, like it's working for me, but I know I've got to

01:17:19   get used to it. We've been using that nail playing screen for like six years, like in the exact way

01:17:25   that it was. I think that's how long it's been since that was released and so I kind of got to

01:17:31   get used to it. Originally I was very upset about the removal of streaming because that was how I

01:17:36   don't download podcasts. I just press play and they stream, but in actuality it has not caused

01:17:45   a problem for me and I think the way that Marco designed the idea that you press play and it brings

01:17:51   up playing screen and then just goes downloads for you, I think is a very clever way of dealing with

01:17:56   that problem and I'm sure because the way he's described it is essentially it was just

01:18:01   the way in which podcasts are being produced now, which is what a lot of direct was the AI,

01:18:07   like the ad insertion stuff, is causing him dynamic, I was gonna say direct but that's wrong,

01:18:12   dynamic ad insertion. That was really making things difficult for him it seemed like and so

01:18:18   if this allows him to continue making like the audio effects and all that kind of stuff better,

01:18:23   great, like that then I'm fine with it. I really love the go back button that he's added,

01:18:32   so if you accidentally seek or if you like skip chapters and something, there's like a little

01:18:37   button that pops up on the artwork inside of the app, it says go back and there's a little time and

01:18:42   it counts down and it will go away for you. This is great because I was listening to that 14 hour

01:18:48   episode of the podcast that I mentioned earlier on and I accidentally knocked the home screen and

01:18:53   jumped by many hours in that podcast and so I quickly opened Overcast and was able to hit the

01:19:00   go back button and it took me back to where I was before I did the accidental jump. I really like the

01:19:06   context menus for moving episodes between my, I have two playlists, an all episode playlist and a

01:19:12   queue playlist, so I just move things from the all episodes to my queue and I like that when you kind

01:19:18   of like tap the three dots you get some options of like add it to the queue, add it to next in the

01:19:23   queue, I just like the way that is designed and similarly when I'm in my queue playlist how I can

01:19:28   tap on something and just like make it jump right to the top or go right to the bottom,

01:19:32   I like those buttons that are there but something that I miss is that you can no longer drag and drop

01:19:37   multiple episodes or episodes between playlists, I used to do that a lot. This is kind of like the

01:19:44   back and forth is where I am with this app where like there are things that I like about it,

01:19:49   there are things that have changed that I don't like about it and that's because I've used this

01:19:53   app in its, the state that it has been in for six years is an incredibly long time for an app to

01:19:59   remain in a state. I actually think that is a testament to how good the design was in my opinion

01:20:06   then that it has maintained for that period of time. I can't imagine any other app that I would

01:20:13   still want to use after not changing for that amount of time so I think that that was a

01:20:19   testament to the work that Marco had done but like the back be kind of like for me

01:20:25   I am really hoping that it bears true that this rewrite allows for further iteration of the app

01:20:34   because for me this version has not provided enough to warrant the time difference but like

01:20:41   so I hope that it continues to get better because there are things that I like about it and there

01:20:45   are things that for me are regressions. I understand the regressions but they are

01:20:50   regressions for me and so we'll see where it goes from here. That's kind of my feeling on it. It's

01:20:55   like this is fine for what it is right now and I hope that he will be able to iterate on it in

01:21:01   the way that he said that he will be able to because this version doesn't click for me everywhere

01:21:05   but I'm confident and hopeful that the app will continue to get better because there are these

01:21:10   little shining moments in here which are like so nice like that go back button and I really like

01:21:16   a lot of the animations in the app now and the app feels modern again so I'm hoping that this is

01:21:23   as Marco has very well put it so I believe in completely like the foundation for the app moving

01:21:27   forward so that's kind of where I am with it. I have some thoughts. So for the past year I used

01:21:34   Pocket Casts as my primary podcast client. I do need to have voice boosting and stream silence

01:21:43   or smart speed to listen to my shows so Apple Podcasts is out of the question. It's not something

01:21:49   I can use. I use Pocket Casts for a year and just last month I decided I cannot use it anymore

01:21:59   because and I know that it's something that Automattic who own Pocket Casts are working on

01:22:04   but Pocket Casts is way too slow at refreshing my podcasts. So many times it happened for example

01:22:11   that Mike just put out a new episode of Upgrade or a new episode of Cortex and I couldn't listen

01:22:16   because it was not showing up in Pocket Casts and I know that Automattic has said they're working on

01:22:22   improving server speeds and refresh times but I just needed you know I was so fed up that I

01:22:29   started looking for something else. I would be surprised if they're able to do this and the

01:22:33   reason I say this has been a fundamental issue of Pocket Cast for its entire existence and they've

01:22:40   always said that they're working on it and it has gotten better but there's clearly something going

01:22:45   on with their architecture which makes that complicated for them. So like I don't know in your

01:22:52   situation I wouldn't believe it was going to improve to the point that you want it which is

01:22:56   instant like Overcast has been and Apple Podcasts is and Castro is as well. Yep so just last week I

01:23:04   tried Castro with the new owners. I really like Castro and for me right now it is the app to beat.

01:23:12   I love its UI, its inbox and queue based approach. It's fast, I get notifications from it, I really

01:23:20   like the now playing screen but I realized I decided you know with the new version of Overcast

01:23:25   you know that's I want to give it a try and I am giving it a try. I temporarily deleted Castro and

01:23:31   I put Overcast on my home screen. So this is the opinion of someone who hasn't used Overcast in a

01:23:36   long time. I love that it's fast, that it feels a lot more modern than before and that it shows me

01:23:45   those like quick new episodes at the very top of the UI. Something that I immediately noticed that

01:23:52   is a common limitation all throughout the Overcast UI is that you cannot long press anywhere.

01:24:02   Just like you cannot long press on those episodes, you cannot long press on a podcast, there are no

01:24:09   context menus at all for these episodes. So that is something that I wish that Marco could add.

01:24:16   I like that there's now like a more clear UI for having like the separation between all episodes

01:24:26   and the queue. That's all I need to do, like I just want to see all episodes from my shows and

01:24:33   then select some of those and put them in a queue. I like that there's like a proper playlist called

01:24:39   Queue. It's obvious, it's simple, it's large enough, easy to get to and I appreciate that I

01:24:46   can reorder episodes in the queue like you mentioned with the context menu or using drag

01:24:51   and drop. Although I wish the drag and drop supported multi-item drag and drop. So let me drag

01:24:56   and drop multiple episodes at the same time. Previous Overcast could, new one can't. I asked

01:25:03   Marco about this and said this is a SwiftUI limitation. So okay or at least I see how whatever

01:25:10   he's doing here like it's something that he wanted but it can't do. Okay. It's unfortunate.

01:25:19   I think I like the new now playing screen. I'm okay with where the show notes are,

01:25:27   where the chapters are. I love the undo button and obviously the audio effects are still the best

01:25:36   ones. Like having used the PocketCast version and the Castro version, the Overcast audio effects are

01:25:42   the best ones. So there's absolutely no question. I just want to make something very clear here that

01:25:47   like Marco would have to mess up this app so bad. Like so so bad for me to not want to use it for

01:25:54   how good that is. Like he has so much latitude for destroying this application if he wanted to,

01:26:01   to like before I would want to switch because of how good it is. Like the smart speed and the voice

01:26:07   boost features are so so good. Industry leading for sure. For sure. I love how fast it is. I was

01:26:15   having some issues with refreshing a Patreon based RSS feed this morning but I know that Marco is

01:26:20   working on some fixes for the new version of the app already so that's fine. The episode eventually

01:26:25   showed up and I love how search because this is something that I do quite frequently. Search lets

01:26:32   me search through my episodes so quickly. Like recently I needed to find a six-year-old episode

01:26:43   of Into the Aether which is one of my favorite video games podcasts and it like searching for

01:26:49   those old episodes in Overcast is excellent. I'm gonna give you two things that I dislike

01:26:56   and hopefully these are areas where Overcast can improve with this new foundation. The first one is

01:27:02   I dislike that the queue is a playlist rather than something that I can access from my now playing

01:27:12   screen. This is something that for example it's something that I really like about Pocket Casts

01:27:19   where I can see what's coming up almost like a music player right. Like the queue is part of the

01:27:26   now playing UI and so I can manage my queue without having to dismiss the player and go

01:27:32   back to the main view of the app. Right now the queue is basically a glorified playlist

01:27:38   and I think it should also be something that you can access from the player. And the second thing

01:27:44   and this is something that I have asked you guys to explain to me multiple times, you have and I

01:27:49   still don't get it. In the home screen of Overcast right next to podcasts it says there's a segmented

01:27:59   control that says current and all. I do not understand what this means. I just wanna see

01:28:08   all my podcasts and I don't understand what's current and what's all. Some podcasts are decided

01:28:16   by Overcast to be inactive because they've not published in a long time. Isn't that something

01:28:28   that I should form as my personal opinion instead of Overcast's opinion? I have this consistent issue

01:28:35   with all podcast apps that do this because people will sometimes let me know why is your show not,

01:28:42   why is your show gone? And it's like well no that's not how it works. Actually you know what

01:28:48   I'm wrong that's not what it is because I'm on current and I can see some things that are

01:28:53   considered as inactive. So some I don't know. I thought I knew but maybe I don't because when I

01:29:00   go to current some of my shows that are listed are inactive are there and some oh okay all right I

01:29:09   think I've got it now. I think I've got it now. I think it shows that you have episodes that are

01:29:18   unlistened to in. That's what it is. I'm always gonna have episodes that are unlistened to.

01:29:26   Yeah but that's what's going on. This tab just makes me feel bad. So this and this is what I'm

01:29:31   trying to get to. Like the way I listen to podcasts is I subscribe to a lot of shows.

01:29:37   I don't listen to every single episode of every one of those. I just pick and choose and put them

01:29:42   in my queue. I'm always gonna have unlistened episodes. So I'm guessing there's always gonna

01:29:49   be something that is current. What I want is I just want to see all my shows. When I tap on one

01:29:55   I see the list of all episodes and some of them are like grayed out or they have a checkmark or

01:30:00   something that says you've played this. That's all I want. Like this if there was like an in-app

01:30:07   purchase to spend two dollars to make this segmented control disappear I would pay for it.

01:30:13   Like just because it visually bothers me. Just like because everything is for me everything is

01:30:20   current and all at the same time. Like this state I don't need and I don't understand.

01:30:27   So yeah but otherwise I'm really liking this update and like this is a very small thing. Like

01:30:36   the audio quality is top-notch. Search is incredible. I like the new design and I

01:30:41   hope Marco has a new foundation to iterate on this app now. Yep. My only really kind of big thing

01:30:49   UI-wise is I don't understand why different components of what should be kind of the same

01:30:56   thing look radically different. So the screen to manage or skip around chapters is a separate screen

01:31:05   from the show notes which is a separate screen from the EQ and audio you know settings including

01:31:11   the sleep timer and I think show notes and chapters could be one thing but they all interact in

01:31:17   different ways. Like the EQ and the sound effects is a panel that slides up from the bottom. The

01:31:22   other two are full screen but operate in different ways and I don't understand why they're not all

01:31:28   similar and I would like to see that sort of stuff tidied up and that's feedback that I shared in the

01:31:33   beta and again in my blog post so we'll see if that happens but overall I agree with you all.

01:31:39   It's an app that a lot of people including three of us love and have used for a long time and if

01:31:44   this means that he can move it forward in ways that are meaningful again then I'm super excited

01:31:49   for him and you know our complaints are I think minor if he can move the ball forward in these

01:31:56   new ways and I seem to think that he can. Yeah I think we're very consistent on that of like

01:32:02   there are changes and changes to an app that you use this much you kind of question them but none

01:32:10   of that will matter if the app gets the improvement that we want it to get. Yeah. Which is just like

01:32:15   consistent features and and love and care and you know moving it forward so yeah I'm excited for it

01:32:23   it's doing me great you know we've been using it for I don't know like a few weeks a month

01:32:28   or something right through the beta process and it got better during that and I know that

01:32:33   Mark has focused on it and I know that he pays attention to what people have to say and so I

01:32:39   expect that it's only going to get better and only going to get better quicker too so. Yeah.

01:32:43   He did and I would just say like you know listening to him and understanding what he's been through

01:32:49   to get this done he has done something quite herculean it's basically started again like

01:32:54   it's a new app like he may as well have given another name and like released another app like

01:32:59   that's essentially what he has done here like this is not the typical like redesign like this is just

01:33:05   like he went start new project basically and like let's go over again. Maybe should have called it

01:33:12   overcast new year like you remember those names? Neuer. For like 15 years ago overcast Neuer.

01:33:21   And so yeah I think it is quite an incredible thing and we only we only give it criticism

01:33:29   because we love it you know. Yeah. Yeah. So that yeah I just want to say that to end.

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01:34:00   off. Except next week. I've been I feel like underscore you know like when they did the

01:34:05   the longer episode of under the radar and now he's like usually not longer than 30 minutes

01:34:12   like so for the last two weeks I've been I've been I've not been I've been really restricting myself

01:34:16   from saying every week. That's fine Mike. So and then like two weeks out and I'll be okay again.

01:34:23   It's fine you know. Everybody will be fine. If you want to find us on oh I didn't finish my sentence

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