Tailosive Tech April Q&A!

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize already. Yes, we're doing an apology stream because my goal was to find time to stream once per month and I missed the entire month of March. But hey, we won't miss April because we're starting super early. Um, schedule's been filling up a lot lately. all kinds of exciting things going on that have no correlation to this channel, but I found a little hole in my schedule just now. So, I was like, you know what? We're going to make time. So, now we have the time. Um, I didn't really do a formal video covering the announcement of Dubdub because, hey, it's always on the first Monday of June. So, it's not like a huge realization that there's one on uh what is it this or is it the second Monday? I forget. Is it June 8th? I think it's the 8th. That can't be the first Monday. That's not possible. Um, yeah, it's the second Monday. I guess they don't want to have it on June 1st because that's a little too close. But yeah, I think uh Apple has a lot of catching up to do. Spoiler alert for my M5 Max MacBook Pro review. I'm not a big fan of Tahoe. Got to be honest. I I've seen other people complaining as well. Oh yes, Josh. Hello, Tech God. Sup? I am alive. I am not artificial intelligence yet. But I would totally embrace it, just for the record. I just am so I'm so limited on my time, but I still want the channel to be like active. So, I haven't seen a good one yet. Uh there's been people who have recommended to me like AI video editors, and I've tried a few. I'm not impressed yet, honestly. There's certain aspects of AI that have gotten really good. Like that's genuinely impressive. Like I would say most of them have actually gotten very good at uh photo, you know, image generation. Um spoiler, I have used some in my video thumbnails. You can probably tell just by looking at them, but I don't see the comments bring it up immediately, which is why I'm not exactly sure if everybody notices. But hi Scott. Yes, we're back. There should be my goal is to have one of these live streams a month, but I've already failed my own goal. There was no live stream last month, but that's why I'm starting early for April. Um, for those who haven't joined one, or maybe you all have, but just for the record, uh, these live streams, the reason I'm calling them just Q& A now instead of trying to pick a topic for the title, um, is because the whole beauty of a live stream is you guys get to decide what we talk about rather than me try to guess what you're interested in, make a video on that, and post it and then get feedback. Um, the live streams are always fun to me. They're a little bit more timeconuming. So that's why I can't do them as frequently. But um I do enjoy them because I get real time feedback on what you guys want to talk about or what you're most interested in. So fire away. It's you guys get to dictate what happens. Um Scott says he hasn't updated to Tahoe because I've refused to give up Launchpad. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, Launchpad's gone. So, I have a fascinating like cross comparison now because in case you missed it, I'm live streaming off my iMac Pro which is stuck on Soma. Not mad about that though. I love Soma. It's very reliable. It's consistent. The UI is very clean. Um, so I'm actually quite happy that on my iMac Pro, they're not trying to change it. I don't get push notifications telling me to update to Tahoe. Different story though on my M1 Max MacBook Pro, which yes, is still my personal laptop. It's the Tailosive machine when I'm on the go. Got to admit, I don't use it as much on the go anymore because of work now. But man, that thing is desperately trying to get me to update to Tahoe. And the funny thing is, I have Tahoe on my work laptop, which is the M5 Max. And boy, has it been a buggy mess. For one, like the spotlight key didn't work at all for like the first week. Um, I don't really notice that much of a performance upgrade to be honest. Um, there were some other bugs. I'm trying to remember what they were. Uh, yeah, I don't know. Just the UI, everything being liquid glass, I don't know. Doesn't excite me all that much. Well, I will give it credit. I'm glad they finally after freaking like 40 years or whatever moved the volume indicator to the top corner. They should have done that ages ago. It's still crazy to me that when you change the volume, you know, on a Mac that's not running Tahoe, they still put the big square overlay on top of everything. It's like, really? That's where you want to put volume? I still think they should just emulate how it works on iOS and tvOS and iPad OS. Just a little indicator on the side would be fine. instead. It's a little better now. It's

like a little slider, but it's got dots, which I guess some people might prefer. Um, but anyway, Zora Link, welcome back. Hey, thank you everybody for tuning in. I'll try to keep up with the messages here, but the chat is too close to my I have a very jank ring light at this point. Um, the M1 is still somehow aging so well. It honestly is like I haven't done a backtoback uh export test yet, but I have exported quite a few videos on the M5 Max. I got to admit I don't notice that much of a difference. And I got basically the widest delta between Apple silicon models, right? Like I got the very first, you know, 16inch Apple silicon Mac I could get. M1 Max I got on launch day. I've been using it ever since pretty much daily. and the batteries degraded. You know, it's probably 82% battery health now and all that. And yet, I used that old MacBook and compared to the M5 Max, which just came out, you know, skipped all these middle generations, M2, M3, M4, all the way to M5 Max, and I got the non-bin chip that I could. And yet, videos export about the same speed. It doesn't really feel that noticeable. I do love the nanoexture display, but that is not unique to the M5 Max chip. Also, a huge bug that I thought maybe was an M1 Max problem. Turns out it's not. It's still just a Final Cut bug that is still present on a brand new $5,000 machine, which is occasionally when you're dragging iPhone footage into Final Cut. Early on in the project process, it will start like not cutting. Even when you have the razor tool selected and you're cutting up the clip, it'll just suddenly not let you cut up the clip. And you can't fix it unless you close the program and open it up again. See, I've had that for years and I thought, "Oh, maybe this is an M1 Max thing. It's getting old. It's showing signs of, you know, slowdowns. It's wearing down. I have to reboot applications more often. Maybe it's a bug with um Soma or what am I on? I think I'm on Sonoma on my old MacBook Pro. " Um, so I thought maybe on Tahoe that would be fixed or with newer silicon and nope, still a problem. So it's kind of cool that, you know, obviously for security reasons and IP reasons I had to get a new work machine that I thankfully didn't have to pay for. Um, but I still get to experience what the new MacBook Pro is like. And it's a longer term review. It's not like the MacBook Neo where I just use it for a couple weeks and then send it back. This time I actually get a long-term experience and I'm discovering, yeah, I would not have bought this if it were my own money. I asked, you know, if I could just turn my personal computer into a work computer. I suggested that to my company and they weren't interested in doing that. So, it's not like there was another option really. But, um, I don't mind the removal of Launchpad as much as I thought, but the bugs in Tahoe are inexcusable. I'm using it on my M1 MacBook Air. Oh, yikes. Okay, so I'm not alone. That's good to know. Tech god said the spotlight bug is so frustrating. Yeah, you designated Apple. You created a whole new button just for spotlight search and then it straight up just didn't work. Okay, great. Also, another bug. Tell me if you guys experience something like this because I'm not sure if this was a Tahoe bug or potentially a bug with the security protocol. Um, did I get 3% cash back? No, because I didn't pay for it. Um, basically I had to tell the IT people at my job which computer I wanted and then they got it. Um, so no, I guess you could say I got 3% cash back on $0. 3% of zero is still zero. Um, anyway, I was more impressed with the MacBook Neo than the MacBook Pro to be honest. Not that impressed with the Pro. Um, but it could have been, you know, there's security IT software on my computer because it is technically not mine. It's like a work machine. And I woke up the other day and I heard this really loud buzzing noise. It was just like And I was like, "What is that noise? What the heck? " Um, and I go over to my laptop bag and sure enough, it's the M5 Max MacBook Pro with both fans just screaming full blast and it's completely shut. I haven't used it again. I had just woken up. Um, I don't even think I used the MacBook Pro the day before. So, randomly, just in the middle of the night, I guess, um, the fans just started cranking and I'm like, what is it doing? I didn't have it export. I didn't even tell it to update or anything. I open the laptop and it's freaking like Slack. Slack is like we need to update. We need to restart to

update Slack. Which felt like malware to me. I was like that doesn't seem right. Like why would Slack, a third party application need to restart? Um, I hadn't downloaded anything weird other than, of course, the IT software, which is again, part of me wondered if it was a bug with the IT software because I was like, I haven't heard of anybody having this problem where they just wake up in the middle of the night to their MacBook fans just screaming at full blast. Like, I'd never heard it that loud. Even when editing ProRes, 4K video, multiple streams, multicam footage, I've put it through its paces. We've done a lot of video editing on that thing already, but I've never heard the fans kick on. And yet randomly in the middle of the night, the fans just started blasting. Has anybody had that bug? Not even on a new MacBook, just on any MacBook ever. I don't recall my personal MacBook ever doing that. So yeah, I'm afraid I just have to agree with you guys. Like the M1 line of chips has aged so gracefully, so insanely well that even after all these years, it's been almost 5 years since they came out, I still can't really recommend upgrading. I mean, there's a handful of handy features here and there, like the nanoexture display is kind of cool, and the center stage camera is kind of nice. I don't have that on the M1, but I do have it on the M5. But really, like for the amount of money you could save by going with an older generation, I'm not even saying you have to go back to an M1, like but just going back to like an M2 or an M3. You could probably save thousands of dollars depending on which trim you're interested in. I think I went on eBay not that long ago and looked up an 8 terabyte M1 Max MacBook and it was like two grand or something. I was like, "Wow, okay. I spent like six grand on mine and now you could get that same MacBook for two. So, if you really just want a ton of storage, um I don't think there's really a lot of downsides to going with an M1 or M2 even in 2026, which might be a hot take. Um, holy crap, Bart Jans's been a member 53 months. Thank you for your support. Very generous of you. Um, chairman, what will I do? I'm I think as far as I can tell for the rest of my life, I will probably do some form of YouTube. I can't promise how often I will do it. I'm not going to commit to doing daily uploads, but you know, whenever there's something interesting going on or Apple announces something kind of exciting. Um I think I'll think I'll be posting about it in some way, shape, or form. So, I still enjoy YouTube and I wish I had more time for it, but it's just kind of a busy season of life right now where I don't have as much. But also looking around on the news, I'm also the kind of YouTuber that's not afraid to admit there's not that much going on right now. You know, like I try to be available and more active on the channel when there's announcements being made like MacBook Neo or the new iPhone 17e came out. You know, I'll talk about things as they get announced. But now that I have a full-time job with a different company, that is kind of the priority. And when Apple stuff kind of falls into the dry season, I'm okay just not posting as much. You know, like before, when YouTube was all I had going on, it was a little bit more of a struggle and kind of a stress point of like, okay, we got to find some kind of apple related topics to talk about during the dry seasons. Now I'm like, you know what? That's okay. I'll just take a little break for a week here and there instead of trying to upload something every day when the truth is there's just not always something to talk about. Um yeah, politics and finance YouTubers very busy. If I was a political YouTuber, I'd have no shortage of content. Oh my god. But I I'd have other problems. Anytime we talk about politics with, you know, offline online, I just get depressed. That's why I always preferred talking about tech stuff because I was like, we just get to debate which tech is the best and deal. That's more fun to me than talking about how the world's going to end, you know? I'm going to need a lot more than what the Neo offers. Yeah, I agree. The Neo is not for me, but still, just from a value perspective, it's genuinely impressive how much you get for such a low price, especially factoring in inflation. It is by far the cheapest Mac pretty much to ever exist. Um, when you think about what the older Mac like the cheapest MacBook I can remember before in my whole life was the $900 11in MacBook Air. My sister had one of those things and it sucked, but it was the cheap one. And I remember at the time being like, "Wow, it's under $1,000 you can get a MacBook, but it was tiny, tiny. " Fun fact for you, the 11in

MacBook Air was, I think, one of the very few MacBooks of all time that had a 16x9 aspect ratio. Is that still correct? Correct me if I'm wrong, chat, but let me look this up. 11 in. Definitely the smallest display I think ever on a Apple laptop. But yeah, it was weird. It was like wide. Yeah, look at this thing. People don't think about that, but it was like look at the aspect ratio for that MacBook. Aluminum bezels, too, not glass bezels. Um, it was like wider than usual. Like the 13-inch MacBook Air was not 16 by9, but the 11in one was. It was kind of weird. It had something to do with the keyboard layout and making it so small. Um, but that was $900 like 10 or 15 years ago. So, when you factor in for inflation that 11in MacBook Air would be more like $1,300 or $1,400 in today's money. So, the MacBook Neo adjusting for inflation was literally like less than half the price of that crappy MacBook which had awful specs. you definitely couldn't do much power intensive stuff on it. It was the Intel days, you know, battery life was pretty crappy. Um, so the fact that the A18 Pro chip that they put in the Neo is faster than the last 16in Intel MacBook Pro is pretty nutty. Like it's not, in my opinion, uh, in my opinion, it was not even like uh that slow of a chip. I know there were a lot of reviewers out there saying like, "Well, the MacBook Neo, you know, it's good for the basics if you're just doing web browsing and text editing. " And I'm like, "No, you could actually do some pretty intensive video editing. " A point I forgot to mention in my review for the MacBook Neo is that speaking as a social media manager for a startup company that's, you know, raised millions of dollars. It should also be mentioned that a lot of video editing now is not really a game of can you throw 8K video at 60 fps. Like I would argue that's particularly niche even in the professional market because more and more content creation these days is optimized for mobile. It's optimized for vertical. It's optimized for Tik Tok, Instagram reels, YouTube shorts. That's an increasing amount of video production as time goes on because that's an increasing amount of what people are watching. There's a very niche num amount of people that are actively looking for 60fps HDR 8K video content. That's just not what the majority of advertising is anymore or social media management is anymore. So, acting like the MacBook Neo is not a great option for video editing simply because uh you can't edit, you know, 8K ProRes, super high bit rate stuff on it. I'm like, well, the truth is the majority of video editing these days is probably going to lean more towards 1080p 30fps in the vertical format because that's what social media is optimized for. So, it's not really a game of resolutions, color correction, and frame rates anymore. And I think the Neo can cover even what a lot of professionals do with video editing. That's my hot take. Sure, like if you do wedding videos, you probably want something higher quality, higher production value, and maybe you're doing some marketing content that's more advanced, and in which case the budget is likely much higher and you can afford that. But um no, it's like I would not even say the Neo is bad at that particular field. It's like a niche of that field. Um let me see if I can pronounce this correctly, but Shaur Galani, thank you for the super chat. Appreciate it. Will we ever get Mac OS on iPhone? In a way, we kind of did with the Neo, right? um because an iPhone is powered by an A19 chip now and they put Mac OS on an A18 chip. But that's not really what you're asking. I understand. I think it's possible. I'm not saying it's a guarantee, but I do think as time goes on, Apple will probably start running out of features to add on to the iPhone. Um and they're going to be like, "Okay, what else can we add to it? " It could be this year. I don't know. It hasn't been rumored, but I do think we could get to a point um where Apple's trying to think of features to justify the Pro line because the base model iPhones are going to get better and better. Um sounds like they're delaying them now. That's what's happening this year. So, in case you missed it, we're not getting a base iPhone 18 this year. All that's coming out in September is likely to be 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, folding iPhone, which I think they'll call the Ultra, but I could be wrong. iPhone Ultra and maybe an iPhone Air 2, but

even that's been debated. Like there's a chance they just might not do another iPhone Air. Um, usually they give it two years to see how well it does and the sales data has been kind of conflicting. At first the iPhone Air was flopping pretty hard, but now after some time has passed, they've said it's performing a little better. Um, thank you for 55 months of support. Appreciate that, Michael. Um, I'll answer your question in a second. Um, so the regular iPhone 18 isn't coming out until spring of next year and it's supposedly coming out alongside the 18e. Um, but as those get cheaper and better and better, then they'll have to come up with reasons for you to get a Pro and the camera will probably run into some barriers of like, okay, how much better can we really make a camera? Um, so they might reach a point where they just go, "Okay, let's uh full-on put a Thunderbolt port on the iPhone and let you boot it into Mac OS when plugged into an external monitor. " It can basically do it now. We have the evidence based on the MacBook Neo. So, I'm convinced. Uh, there's even some people that have like not what's the term jerryrigged or jailbroken Mac OS onto an iPhone. Uh, you can look it up. A few people have made it work. Um, but it's not really a battle of can Apple do it. They're probably internally having the debate of should we do that? Like will that impact Mac sales? Personally, I don't think it would because the kind of person who would use that feature means they're only using it at a desk. Um, and desktop only Macs are a little bit more niche. And in order for it to work properly, you could easily force people to say, "Well, in order for it to work, you need to connect a keyboard and mouse, which makes it increasingly niche compared to just a MacBook that you can just open up and use. " And, you know, you buy a iMac and it comes with all that stuff automatically. So, I think it's a particularly like niche part of the market that would be interested in their iPhone powering their Mac desktop setup. Um, and also Apple could easily have some philosophical thing that's against a device running multiple operating systems. They're like, "No, it can only run iOS. That's all it's good for. If you want a Mac, buy a Mac. " But, I don't know. It's up in the air, but it's I think we can all agree now without any disagreement. Some people might disagree, but I think it's very obvious that um it's not a question of can they absolutely have the hardware to run Mac OS. Um but will they? Yeah, that's up to Apple. And um I think there's a chance, but I don't feel super confident like I don't think it's inevitable. I'll put it that way. Like there's also a chance like I've said for years iPads should run Mac OS as an option built in the settings if you really want to access a fullyfledged desktop operating system assuming you have the keyboard and mouse even assuming you had a higher end of uh silicon. They put really powerful chips in the iPads and yet they've still never let it run Mac OS. So there's an example of even though it can they don't let it. Um, yeah, I'd rather have Mac OS on iPad than stage manager on iPhone. Yeah, I agree with that. With the MacBook Pro rumored to get a touchcreen, I wonder how much Mac OS 27 will change this year. That's a good question and we probably won't even know in June. We'll probably have to wait till the touchscreen Max get unveiled later in the year. Oh, sorry, Michael Lzito. Thank you for your support. When do you think the new iPads will come out? Um, there's been a lot of site refresh activity this spring, which makes me think it could honestly be at any time. There's been rumors for a while now that they're just going to throw in a new chip um to some iPad. Well, did didn't they do that a few weeks ago? Yeah, the new iPad um Air got the M4 chip, I believe. So, they could easily do that with the iPad 11th gen. They could just throw in a slightly newer A series of chip. Um but I have heard the iPad Pro is going to be done for a while. Um, they put the M5 chip in it pretty early as is and most of the sales data is saying that not that many people bought it just because the M4 chip looked, you know, the M4 chip iPads looked identical and the performance has never really been a complaint on the iPad. So, uh, we might just get a new cheaper iPad at Dubdub or they could do a site refresh before then. I don't have a real strong guess, but um iPad mini would be cool. I think iPad minis have actually leaned more towards refreshing alongside iPhones. So, if they did put an OLED display on an iPad mini, they'd probably do it around the iPhone 18 season in September, which is going to come up real fast. It's already April, so we're only 5 months away. You're going to blink and we'll be there.

Margel Rainbow says, "The NEO puts the air in a tricky position on what the market appeals to in my opinion. " I agree. I think at least it's thinner, so it's not as confusing as the iPad Air, which is not the thinnest one. Now, the iPad Pro is the thinnest and the iPad Air is the heavier, thicker model that costs more. It's very weird in the iPad lineup, but um yeah, I think the MacBook Air now has just become like the slightly well, not slightly, the more expensive one with better features, but not quite a pro model. It is kind of awkward though. I agree. It used to be like, oh, the cheapest one which had good specs and good performance and good features, but obviously thousand bucks isn't cheap. But um yeah, it's that the Neo is just too good. It's so like unlike Apple, honestly, for them to make such a compelling product that's that much substantially cheaper. Usually when Apple does like a dedicated cheap product, it's so close to the price of the next model up that most people are like, "Yeah, I mean, I guess it's technically the cheapest, but just spend a hundred bucks more and you'll get a way better deal. " I don't feel that way about the Neo and the Air though. There's such a big price gap between them now that it's like, "No, don't get an air that is not adding that much for a lot more money, which is again, it feels like John Turnis has an impact or something. I don't know. It feels like it's not that big a difference. Uh, if the ifold is really good, do you think it'll keep it? Probably not. I've reviewed a few folding phones. Let me be clear. I still want to check out an iPhone or an iPhone Ultra, whatever they end up calling it, just because of the software. That's usually something Apple gets better than everybody else. You know, they were not the first to make a smartwatch. wireless headphones, but they usually get the implementation in the software so good that it convinces a bunch of people who wouldn't ordinarily buy, in this case, a folding phone to buy a folding phone. So, I'm very curious about it. I'd love to know more about it. I want to know how they market it, how they brand it, what features they bring over from the iPad, if at all, or do they just beef up iOS to be way more capable, or do you put iPad OS on a folding phone? I'm very curious about the implementation of the software and everything, but every time I review a folding phone, I'm reminded like I don't like having to make the decision every time I take my phone out of my pocket. Is this a unfolded use case or is this a folded up use case? What's the task that I'm doing right now and what does it justify? You know, I try to remind people, you know, the reason the reason um vertical format video has done so well where people are watching content, you know, in portrait mode instead of landscape is because we already have two ways to use our phone. You can use it this way or way. But people are so lazy, they don't even want to rotate their phone. So, they prefer the convenience of the video being in the vertical format so that they don't have to do this, which I would argue is a lot easier than doing this and unfolding it. Um, I know a lot of people with folding phones that straight up just never unfold them because they don't like the extra step where it's like you already are taking it out of your pocket. You don't want to have to take it out and then secondhand. A lot of people are using their phone one-handed. Um, so the folded phone obviously is going to require more of a two-handed operation. Um, so I imagine if I bought one, I would probably end up just using it folded up most of the time. And also the folding I the folding phones in general tend to have worse cameras. And right now particularly I use my phone for work as a camera a lot. And I'm talking all the lenses. When I'm doing interior shots, I'm doing ultra wide. When I'm doing exterior shots of the truck, I'm doing telephoto shots. Uh I actually really like portrait mode cropped in. Um portrait mode doesn't look as good to me from 1x. I prefer it from at least 2x, but oftent times I'll use it at 5x because that's what my 16 Pro Max can handle. On the 17 Pro Max, it was nice to use a 4x as well. Um, so I'm definitely, at least at this stage in my life with how I'm using my phone, um, I prioritize camera performance and battery life above all else. And from what I've heard of the folding phone, it doesn't sound like that's going to be the top priority. I I'm pretty sure the folding iPhone is going to have decent battery life, but I don't think it will outshine the Pro Max. And it will also be a dual camera system. Um, and that's kind of a turnoff for me. I would be more open to a folding phone if there were just no compromises. Like the

folding iPhone had the best battery life of the entire lineup. It had the best cameras, but usually to get it into such a thin, slim chassis, uh that's probably going to impact the thermals. So, I wouldn't be surprised. You know, the rumors are saying the folding iPhone is going to be like a titanium chassis with more glass, so built more like an iPhone air. whereas I've actually been using CarPlay a little bit more often lately and CarPlay overheats my iPhone quite a bit. I didn't realize that because in my personal vehicles um they don't support CarPlay, so my phone just kind of sits charging or sitting idle. But at some of the work vehicles that I'm driving around, they have CarPlay in them and I'm overheating my phone all the time and I'm like, "Okay, maybe I need that vapor chamber. Maybe, maybe I want a phone and at least a longer battery life. My iPhone was straight up overheating while using CarPlay and stuff, so I had to stop using it. Should I wait for an M5 Max Studio if I'm looking for a new one? You could, but honestly, I would encourage waiting, but honestly, I think the M3 Ultra or the M4 Max Studios are still perfectly adequate. Um, and I don't think the M5 Max Studios are going to be that much noticeably faster, at least in my experience. It depends on what you're doing, obviously. Um, but for my line of work, I'm not noticing a huge difference in performance between my M1 Max and my M5 Max. There's five years between those two chips, and at least for video editing stuff, they perform very similarly. Um, my problem with folding phones is that they tend to be more expensive than an iPhone plus an iPad and doesn't do either as well. Yeah. And I don't even use an iPad. My wife has one that I occasionally use, but um just for like basic, you know, media consumption. I'm not doing anything intensive on it. It's the uh I'm looking at it right now. It's the iPad Pro from 2017. And because it had 120 hertz, it actually ages great because you'd never notice anything lag or choppy because it's like, "Oh, wow. The screen's still buttery smooth just like my iPhone, even though it has a home button and lightning and all that crap. " Um, would you be more interested in a flip iPhone rather than a fold iPhone? No. I've reviewed a flip, too. I think those are even worse because now you have to make that extra step when you pull it out of your pocket. Um, to the point when I reviewed the flip phone, I ended up just not folding it up. I would just leave it unfolded in my pocket because I wanted fewer steps to reaching in my pocket, grabbing my phone, and doing stuff with it. I didn't like reaching in my pocket, pulling it out, and then unfolding it, and then unlocking it. It would It just felt like there was more delay to getting stuff done. And I use my phone for a lot of stuff these days. So, no, I find the Flip iPhone even harder to justify than the Fold. The Fold, at least I could see you arguing, okay, now I don't need a mini iPad. Now I can have a mini iPad with me. If I'm going to be using my phone for a longer period and I have both hands available, then I can do stuff with a larger screen. That argument I can get behind. Honestly, as far as which folding phone application makes the most sense to me, I think I did a video on this a while back. The trifold actually might be the best argument because the trifold actually gets you a genuine tablet size display. That's the funny thing about folding phones is people are like, "Oh, it's like having a tablet that's with you. " But I'm like, "Nobody buys the 8 in tablet. " I mean, I love the iPad mini, but it's not the best seller. Um, most people are buying the 10 to 11in iPads. That's like a genuine tablet experience. And the trifold is kind of the first I think Samsung already discontinued it. I mean it's super expensive obviously so it makes it kind of difficult to justify because yes of course it will be cheaper to buy um iPad plus nice iPhone but I don't think that in itself is the whole reason that a product is necessarily bad. I think there is some value in combining two different products into one. You know, like you could argue it's cheaper to buy a dedicated point andoot camera and an iPod than it is to buy one iPhone, but you don't want to have to carry around a bunch of different devices, you know, separately. Um, but back in the day, you know, you had a digital camera, you had an iPod, and you had a flip phone, you know, three separate devices, and you could probably get them all pretty cheap. Um, and an iPhone, you know, was probably more expensive than all of them put together, but it was more convenient because you could charge one device and you didn't have to switch between a bunch of devices. It was nice to have music and camera all on one device. So, I tend to push against the narrative that, you know, it's bad to buy a twoin- one product because there is some value in combining products into one thing. Um, but yeah, it has to be good at all those things. Then the iPhone over time especially got really good camera

performance, best music player performance, and a great phone. So, you have to be good at all the things obviously to be justified. Samuel Francis says, "What's the biggest or first things you'd change if you were CEO of Apple? Mac OS on iPad, MacBook Neo Shrine, no camera bump, etc. " Oh, that's a fun question. Thank you, Sam, for asking that one. Um, it's been a while. I think we've talked about it before. Um, yeah, I think that I would approach the iPad pretty aggressively. I think that's what needs the most attention. The Mac line, I have very little notes for it. The Mac line is amazing. I would probably do an iMac Pro. I would basically just take the Studio Display XDR. I saw someone asking about that. Um, I've been so busy and moving crap around that I haven't really had time to review the Studio Display XDR. I haven't even seen one yet. I would love to review one, but I've just been gone a lot, so there's not much of a opportunity to just sit down at a desk and look at a monitor. But, um, I would just love to put in M5 Max chip into a Studio Display XDR and then boom, call that the iMac Pro. You don't need a chin. You don't need thicker bezels, but just having the speakers integrated and the center stage camera and the high dynamic range, the high refresh rate. Oh my god, that would be sick. Or, you know, even cooler would be take that old chassis from the Pro Display era, update that with miniledd with prootion. I understand the whole reason or one of the main reasons they couldn't do 6K at 120 hertz was because of some of the limitations of the Thunderbolt connector. But if you had an iMac, the whole computer is in the monitor. You don't need to be bothered with the throughput of what Thunderbolt can do. That's actually part of the reason, fun fact, um that the 5K displays from Apple started in the iMac. they began in the iMac was because they could directly connect the display to the motherboard. They didn't have to worry about the limitations of Thunderbolt or whatever or video display ports way back when. So, it was crazy at the time like holy crap, they did 5K back at the time where it was replacing like a 1080p iMac or a 1440p iMac. So, it was a huge jump in resolution and it started on the iMac. Um, so I would love it if um there was a pro display size, you know, 32 in super thin bezels, but I guess then you might not have a webcam or speakers built in. But I don't know. I would task the Apple engineers to come up with some ultimate all-in-one. It would not sell very well. I understand the desktops aren't as popular. Most people are buying laptops now, but just as a like me personally, I would like to see that. I think it would sell better than Vision Pro, let's be honest. And they released that for $3,500. This dream iMac would probably be five grand, but hey, that's what the iMac Pro I'm using right now cost. Great deal. You know, it was it's not a cheap Mac by any means, but great value. Um, yeah, the pricing of that iMac Pro would be around six grand. Well, the Pro Display without a computer in it was six grand. So, I think you could design a cheaper basic stand. It doesn't have to be height adjustable and rotate and everything, but um let's see. Samsung Treadful, an iPod, a phone, an internet communicator. I did see that Mac OS got a charge limiter. Yeah, which is funny because I was asking for that for years and everyone kept saying, "No, Drew. B Optimized battery charging knows what it's doing. You don't have to worry about it. Just leave it plugged in all the time. " And now they're letting you cap it at 80% manually. I'm like, "Oh, interesting. " So, maybe there is a difference between optimized battery charging and leaving the battery at 80. I'm convinced that stupid optimized battery charging fried my MacBook because the battery health is particularly low, which is not unexpected for the age, but it is unexpected for the cycles. Because so much of my MacBook Pro's life, it was plugged into a wall and it shouldn't have been pulling any power from the battery. it should have been getting all of its energy from the charger. Um, so it's a very low cycle count and yet the battery health is still deteriorated quite a bit compared to something like an iPhone, which let's do a check-in. I haven't done one in a while. I'm still on the 16 Pro Max. Battery health is 92% after 399 cycles. That's pretty normal. Um, for those who don't know, what's typical of a phone I would say is like you should be around 80% health by 800 cycles. So, I'm at almost 400 cycles and I'm at 92%. That's actually slightly above average. That's pretty good. And I pretty much

abuse the crap out of this thing. You know, I fast charge it. I put it on my MagSafe nightstand at night and it's hot, you know, and it's in a black case. And again, when I use CarPlay, the phone gets really hot and everything. I don't baby this phone at all. I let it die. I charge it up to full and leave it there. Um, and it's doing fine. But the fact that my MacBook Pro was at like 82% battery health, but like 300 cycles, like that's unusual. And I think it's because most of the time the battery was just like stuck at 100% and they didn't let it cap. So, I don't want to update it to Tahoe because Tahoe has been a buggy mess for me. Um, but at the same time, I'm grateful that they did add a charge limiter. Uh, make photo video importing from iPhone to Mac less annoying. Yes. Oh my god. Thank you, Martin. This is Martin for saying that. That is so true. Still to this day, I think it is awkwardly and bizarrely hard to move files, video files, and photo files from your iPhone to your Mac. The stupid photos app is useless. I always delete that almost immediately. I'm like, I can never get photos out of that and put them anywhere else. It has to like re-export them. The photos app takes up so much space. Yeah, you're right. Mac OS could use a lot of updates there. like it should. It's frankly, bizarrely enough, it's actually easier to move photo and video files from an Android phone onto a Mac. I don't know about Windows. I have so little experience with Windows. Um, everyone I know with a Windows machine that wants to get their photos and videos onto it basically will just use Google Drive, you know, they'll just upload it to the cloud and download it because the process of plugging a phone in with a cable is just a mess. Um, but there's like, funny enough, the easiest way to do it on Mac is with an Android phone, you can get Android file transfer and then it just treats your phone like an external SSD. You just plug it in and then you drag the files over. It's so much easier. And yet, when you do it with an iPhone, everything flips out. It's like, what? Do you want to back up your whole phone? It's like, no, I just want to move some videos into Finder. And yet they're like, "No, it go through image capture, but the image capture has the laziest, weakest, to horrible UI. It should just treat my phone like an external SSD. " That's all I'm asking. At least the option to do that. Like if you delete the photos app, it should default to that. But I don't know who's actually using the Mac photos app genuinely. Like who is importing their files that way? I think Apple's ideal scenario that I don't fall into is that you just pay for iCloud storage and every time you take a picture or video, it just automatically gets backed up to the cloud and then it shows up in the photos app and then you can drag it from the photos app into whatever app you want. It's like, okay, Apple, we don't all have access to gigabit internet everywhere we go and not all of us want to pay 40 bucks a month for infinite iCloud storage. It's not infinite. Actually, if it was infinite, I'd be more willing to pay for it. But that's why out of principle, I canceled all my iCloud storage was because I was like, "Okay, I'm paying for this and it will hold two terabytes, 4 terabytes, or 8 terabytes or whatever. " But then eventually I will fill it up and then I'm going to have to go through and start deleting stuff. If it was infinite and I knew, okay, I pay this fee and then all my photos and videos are backed up forever and it doesn't matter how many I take, that would be a different story. But that's not how it works. Even the 12 terabytes you will eventually fill up, especially if you're doing high-res video photos all the time. And they don't all back up instantly because we don't always have access to crazy fast internet, you know. Um, capping the charging percent can affect the battery board reading stuff. So, it's just better to let the device charge to 100% a few times in between. That's what Apple did. As well as with charge limit. I'm sure you're right, but I still think they let it go to 100% way too much. Bingo. Apple wants you to uproot your family, move to a place with gigabit internet speeds, and pay 40 bucks a month to get more iCloud storage. But that's the crazy thing. Even if I did that, I would still fill it up and then I would have a huge mess of things to like, okay, now I got to clear it out. Even if you got the best of the best iCloud storage, you can't it storage is just a matter of time. That's why I was such a big fan of Google Photos back when they had unlimited photo and video storage because I was like, I'm using this because it means I can technically take as many photos and videos as I want and I'll never have to go through and filter out stuff. That's a whole different argument. If I have to eventually go through and delete things, then it's like, well, I'll just do that now and not fill up 12 terabytes worth of stuff cuz it was a mess. And we only were paying for two terabytes because that was the most you could do at the

time. Let me look. I forget what the prices are. iCloud Plus. Why does it only go up to two terabytes? I knew there was more than that. There's more. 12 terabytes. How much is 12 terabytes? Isn't that like 40? Yeah, here it is. $60 a month. I forgot. I thought 40 sounded outrageous. 60 bucks a month and you don't get anything else other than iCloud storage. That's not including Apple Music, Apple TV. I feel like if you're the kind of person to get 12 terabytes, you should get a little something. I'm not saying you have to throw everything in, but throw them Apple Music or something or Apple TV at least. If you're paying 60 bucks a month and I would fill it easily 12 terabytes, that's like three years. Three years go by. Photo video taking you'd fill that up. Um I have other ways of backing up. Yeah, I'm promoting iCloud minus. That's good. You guys are funny. I wish I miss these streams. I wish I could do them more. Um, Martinel Rambles, thank you for eight months of support. Apple should allow third parties to use AirDrop at this point after what Google did. By the way, have you gotten my recent messages on Discord and Twitter? Uh, probably not. I haven't checked in a while. Sorry. I will check. But I had I think I had our meeting scheduled. I'm just going to do it right now before I forget. Oh my god, Twitter is bugging out. Um, the last message I got was three days ago or something. Excuse me. I free fitness plus. Well, that's pretty worthless. I feel I'm convinced you can get Fitness Plus for free at any time. Anyone paying for Fitness Plus is being scammed. You know what's funny is I've watched so much content on Apple TV. We watched we had another free trial a few weeks ago and we watched a bunch of movies. They're all fine. Everything I watch on Apple TV is pretty mid. Um except Severance. Severance was awesome. Um what was something else I really liked? Trying was pretty good. I wouldn't say it was like the best show ever, but I enjoyed Trying. But uh all the movies we watched on there, what did we watch? The Gorge. We watched F1. I thought F1 was really overrated. It was fine. It was not a great movie, but um Oh, the other one uh the afterlife one. What was that called? The one with Miles Teller and uh Elizabeth Olsen. Forever. Forever is a long time. I don't know. Watched a bunch of movies that were all okay. And I've still yet to pay a penny for Apple TV. Anytime I'm interested in something on Apple TV, I can literally just Google Apple TV promo and within 10 seconds I can find a 30-day free trial and I've still again haven't spent a single scent on this service. Yeah, Severance isn't for everybody. I know people who didn't like it, but I really liked it. I mean, there was definitely a lot of B plots and C plots that didn't need to be there, but the A plots were really interesting to me. Uh, do I think SSD prices will come down anytime, or is now the best time to buy an external SSD drive if I need one if they keep going up? It's really hard to predict with the AI bubble we're in right now. It has to be a bubble. There's no way, in my opinion. I mean, I will confess AI has been more impactful and more disruptive than I realized, but I still just do not think that all these AI companies will survive. I think there will be a handful of winners, but I don't think there's going to be 10 to 20 different AI companies that all succeed. I think there will be like two to three big ones in the future. Um, and they'll all probably stabilize. And right now there's just a lot of investment going into AI companies. So they're all buying up equipment really quickly and that's creating this artificial scarcity mindset or unnatural high demand for things. Um but it's very difficult to predict if that'll last another 5 years or another 10 years or another six months. You know it's your guess is as good as mine. Personally, yes, I do think they will come down at some point. Um, I don't think they will keep going up over the next two years, but I've been wrong many times. So, don't take my word as sacred. Um, let's see. Blip is the best. I use it for my Mac or iPhone to Windows laptop. Blip is a good alternative to AirDrop. How does it work?

Is it use the cloud? I need to look into that. They're working on the sequel caps lock. That's good. Do you think Sora shutting down is the first indication that the AI bubble is popping? It's kind of like uh what's another example? 5G, but to a bigger extent. It's like AI isn't going to go away. I don't think it's a fad, but I do think we are overestimating a lot of its capabilities. And there's certain things um there's certain things that it will stick around for and continue to be very effective for and there's other things that we think it will be useful for that it's actually not going to be that useful for. Um video I think is actually one of them. I do think there's a certain demographic for it. Like maybe a quick B-roll shot is good for a good use for AI, but not replacing entire movies or entire TV shows, which I've seen a lot of people speculate on. Um, oh, Blip is sick. You sign into one account on all your devices and it works over the internet directly, device to device. No need to be on the same network. So, is it going up to a cloud and then coming back down or is it transferring via Bluetooth? Is it bypassing the cloud? Anyway, take your time to answer that while I speculate on AI pointlessly as I have for many years. Um, but I think we've actually noticed quite a bit of push back. Sora is a good example that when AI becomes the entire the whole video even for short form which you would think is like the lowhanging fruit like that's something that AI could jump on and replace really easily. Um there's actually quite a bit of consumer push back like uh we talked about this quite a bit um because in case you didn't know I run social media for a startup company and we kind of had some debates over what AI can generate as far as visuals. Like you can plug in some simple prompts and get some pretty convincing looking imagery of any particular product or service you're interested in. Um, but very quickly noticed for other companies who have attempted this, there's a lot of push back there. People don't like it. Like it puts a bad taste in a lot of people's mouth. Um, where they're like, "I don't like the Coke ads, you know, the winter ads that are AI generated. People are like, ah, this is AI slop. You're replacing jobs or it's not as real anymore. " And maybe it's just bad AI that puts a bad taste in people's mouth. And if you can make AI that's convincing to the point that people don't realize it's AI. Um maybe that will take off and do better. But I don't know. I think people are getting a finer eye for it as time goes on. Have you seen the occasional question on YouTube where it asks whether a video you watched was AI sloped to you? No, I've never been asked that, but I have seen videos that I can tell our AI that other people in the room uh can't tell or um what's another example? I'm not 100% convinced, but do you guys watch um Daily Dose of Internet? You probably do. He's much bigger YouTuber than I am. Um, but there's been several times where I'm watching Daily Dose of Internet and I'm like, I'm pretty sure that's an AI generated video. And I know he doesn't intend to include those, but I think sometimes he gets tricked into including them because they can generate something that's really convincing or real looking. And if everybody falls for it, then it kind of might as well be a real video. But there's been several times where I'm watching Daily Dose where I'm like, that was AI generated. and I don't think he realizes it. Um, but again, it's a fine eye and bad AI slop, as we call it, can put a real foul taste in people's mouths. Um, and I do think there are applications where you can trick most people into thinking that the video is real. Um, just go on Facebook. It's like 90% AI now and a bunch of people think it's real. It's actually quite sad. Uh, if you just scroll on Facebook for any amount of time, find the AI slop and go to the comments. And I don't even know if the comments are real. Maybe it's a bunch of AI bots watching AI generated crap. You know, it's real eyes, real AI. Yeah, I don't know. I've seen a lot of people convinced. Um, it's fair to say most AI is overrated. They're pushing too far into it. There's certain applications where I don't think people push back on it. You know, like customer service is a

good example. Like if you go on to a uh I don't know any site like Verizon um and you explain and you go on the chatbot, you know pretty early on that you're not talking to a human and you just say like I want to cancel my service or I want to transfer my phone number to a new line. and they are increasingly now using large language models to manage a lot of those customer service bots um because they understand context better. They can get a lot more things done than a you know pre-programmed bot which obviously you can only teach so much and it only has five different responses. But they are incorporating more and more of those large language models into the customer service bots and you get almost no push back on that. customers are like, "Oh, great. The chatbot actually understood what I needed and it did something. " Okay, cool. You could argue it's the same problem as using AI generated video content. It's like you replaced someone's job, now you don't have to hire as many customer service agents. You know, the large language model is taking away jobs and you're using more AI. But it's like for that use case, people are more accepting of it because they're like, "Well, it meant I got what I needed quicker and I didn't have to wait on the phone for 30 minutes. Uh, this was a smarter customer service bot. " So that that's a good demographic or use case where I would say large language models have replaced a bunch of jobs in this field and the public is generally accepting of it. They're like, "Okay, cool. " Like AI did its job. Um, but then you do something like a movie trailer or a Coca-Cola commercial and people are like, "No, I don't want to see this crap. " You know, it's the way that it's pushed. Um, that's interesting. I saw actually a really good example of this. So again, it's a new tool that we're learning about and I think we're in this transitionary process where we're discovering use cases where AI is quite useful and effective and will probably continue to get better. And then we're also discovering use cases and examples where it's quite annoying and it's like, okay, please don't do this. Like we don't want to see this. um like AI generating entire episodes of a TV show, not a great use of the tool in my opinion. It's noticeable. The dialogue gets chunky, the visuals get weird. um or even just doing an entire car commercial or something, you know, you start to pick up on little details and you're like, "Yeah, I mean, it's good and it's cool that you didn't have to film anything and you know, filming an entire car commercial would probably cost 20 $30,000 and now you can crank it out with like a $300 AI token receipt. " Um, so people are like, "Yeah, that's a little weird and it's generic and it's not that creative and I'd rather people get paid to do something more interesting and creative. " But there was a demo I saw. I don't know how real it was yet, but of using AI within video editing software to remove certain things uh just for the sake of visual effects. This is actually something I always thought Christopher Nolan films were really good at was that, you know, if you want to have a puppet or something in the movie, but there's a puppeteer that's wearing a green suit in a stick and he's controlling the puppet. Obviously, you want the real object to be real because when you animate a CGI alien or critter or character, it looks fake. you know, it looks CG. So, they make the puppet real so that you can tell the actor's really looking at it. It's being truly lit by the same lights that are in that room as it's being filmed. But, they were using AI uh image tools to erase. So, get rid of the guy in the green suit, pole that's controlling the puppet. And it was obviously very good at it. See, that's an example where similar to basically the cleanup feature we have in the photos app on our phones. Like, yeah, obviously you can very easily find like, oh, there was a bug in this part of the picture. I want to erase the bug. So, you just circle it and the cleanup feature gets rid of it and it's almost unnoticeable. So, it's still like a real photo, but you touched it up a little bit. And technically you could have done that with Photoshop 20 years ago, but it took a little more work and time. AI simplified that, dumbed it down so that even on a smartphone, you can take a picture and do something that maybe would have taken an hour to do on Photoshop, now you can do in a few seconds. So, it's kind of like an accelerator tool. And I saw them pitching that on some ad recently for um video editing. It's like before you

probably would have needed to be like a Hollywood budget professional video editor, especially if you were doing like a video feed where the camera's moving around the puppet or around some suspended object and it's got fishing line on it or it's got poles a guy in a green suit that's manipulating it. you would have needed a whole visual effects team to remove the puppeteers and the fishing wire and the poles and it would have taken weeks to get rid of those guys. But now with AI image generation tools, you can erase all those guys and replace them with what the true background is using um large video models or the same kind of technology that goes into AI video generation. But the AI is not creating things now. It's just removing and editing things. And I'm like, okay, I could get behind that. So now we might reach a point where little old me could use my MacBook Pro to do some Hollywood sequence like that where I delete the puppeteer or delete a pole or delete some fishing line on my laptop and one guy could do it maybe in a few minutes whereas it used to take a team of 20 people in a few weeks to do, you know. So there's an application again where I'm like, okay, so it's not going anywhere. It's a very useful technology. We're just learning how to use the tool. You know, it's like we're cavemen discovering fire and we're discovering what can we use this fire for? Certain things it's not that great at, you know, like do you want to put uh fire under your bed so that your bed stays warm? It's like, ah, that might not work out so well. But you can put your bed near the fire to stay warm. Um, and you know, can you cook with fire? Yeah, you can warm up some stuff, but uh not everything. You know, you might not want to put strawberries in the fire if you picked some fruit that day or you might stick some uh blueberries in there and then it's too hot or it's ruins it or you know, it's not too much fire but not no fire. You know, you're we're finding the edge cases. We're finding the tools and we're still discovering what the best way to use them. And I think Sora, to your original question, is a good discovery of okay, this is what AI is not good for. It's not good for replacing the entire creator. But I do think it can be helpful to the creator. I also think AI will get much better at editing videos over time. I'm honestly quite impressed how badly all the AI video editors I've used are so far. already makes better hit country songs than what airs on my local radio station. That's true. Humans are not particularly good at a lot of things that AI is pretty good at. Um there's also other noncreative examples, you know, like analyzing X-rays and discovering cancer in people. That's uh AI is very good at that I don't think anybody would be opposed to. Like if AI can detect cancer in people so that the cancer doesn't spread or get much worse, that's a lot of fun. Yeah, we should do fun is the word. We should pursue that. If AI can help people stay healthier or help diagnose people earlier, then yes, like push that. Keep doing that. Um let's see. Strawberry tart in the oven is nice though. Oh yeah. So right demographic, right application for the heat. Um, thanks for being so honest in your commentaries. I bought a refurbished iPad Air because of your recommendations. Oh, cool. I hope it works well for you, Brian. Thanks for asking. Do I think the next MacBook EO will Neo, sorry. Neo will have 12 gigs or 16 gigs of RAM or will Apple purposefully separate the different tiers of MacBook? I could see them doing 12. 16 is a bit of a jump because remember that's they're basically putting an iPhone CPU in a MacBook. So, I think if they made the jump to the A19 Pro, it would have to have 12 gigs, right? I thought all the A19s had 12. That all the A19 Pro chips had 12 gigs. And I could easily see them making that an upcharge. So, maybe the base model MacBook Neo is still 8 gigs, but if you spend a hundred bucks more, you get 12 gigs. Um, but honestly, I tend to think unified memory is over overexaggerated. Like people think they need more than they do. I did quite a lot with the MacBook Neo. I was pretty impressed. Honestly, what turned me off from using the Neo as my personal computer more than the memory was actually the size. That was more of the deal breaker. I know it's small and for the demographic it serves, that's fine. It's perfectly adequate, especially if you're crossopping it with an iPad. Oh my god.

iPad for that same price is going to be 11 in, not 13. So, it's still pretty decent size for the money, but I have a little bit more money. I can afford a larger screen. I'm very much, especially when editing on the go, prefer having a 16inch display. Um, I would buy a bigger MacBook if they sold it. If they had an 18inch model, I would buy that genuinely. I would spend more money. Um, so I was more turned off by the screen size actually prevented me from doing more multitasking features. It wasn't so much the memory. It was just like I can't fit that much stuff on the screen all at the same time. Um, but yeah, let's see. Uh, Parker eats trees. Wow, poor trees. Sorry if you've talked about it the stream already, but what are your thoughts on the iPhone fold based on the leaks we have so far? I'm interested. I'm excited. I definitely want to check one out. I want to review one, but I'm 90% certain I don't want to keep it. Um I don't have an iPad now, so I don't really feel like I need a little iPad in my pocket. And also for my line of work, um camera is very important. Battery life's very important. Also, vapor chamber is very important. And I think there's a chance that the folding iPhone will be so thin, especially being all glass and titanium, that it will overheat more and probably have a weaker battery life. I'm not totally against upgrading this year. Again, I'm not sold on it. I'm not saying I definitely will upgrade, but if I do upgrade, it's going to be an 18 Pro Max, hands down. Uh, I don't think there's any debate there. I'm debating just because my wife's phone is filling up with storage a lot. Um, she's got a 128 gig 15 Pro, so debating if I should just hand this one off to her and have me get a newer one. Also, my phone's been overheating more because I've been using CarPlay more. Um, so it's making me want a vapor chamber and more battery life and that kind of thing. And again, I'm not totally sold. I might just There's also a chance I would just get like a refurbished 17 Pro. Um, Apple could paywall the additional 8 gigs of RAM, but that would be like the time BMW tried paywalling heated seats. I honestly thought that wasn't a terrible idea. I know everyone hated it, but I was like, "Well, I don't need heated seats in the summer. " So, if I only had to pay for them in the winter, and you can stretch out the margins across things when you software lock, you know, there's a reason they do that. What do you think Apple will do with the iPhone 20 next year? It sounds like they're going to redesign the chassis again, do some crazy thin bezels or something, but I'm actually not as excited about that one. Thinner bezels don't excite me as much as the folding phone. Even though I don't plan on keeping the folding phone, I just so different. It's so unlike Apple, you know? What do you think of the price potentially being $2,000 plus dollars? That's fine. It's not that far off from what they're charging now. I mean, the Pro Max, which is like the bestselling iPhone, is $1,200 and that's for the base model. If you spec it up, it becomes 14,500 really quick. So, an iPhone with a crazy creaseless display and, you know, folding technology um that's all titanium and glass and everything with state-of-the-art software. There's never been a folding phone with iMessage. I think they could charge 2400 or 2500 for it and probably it would be the bestselling foldable. That's my guess. I think more people will buy a folding iPhone than anything because Android does have more market share than iPhone. That's true, but it's mostly on the lower end. If you look at the smartphone market share on more expensive phones, it's Apple dominates more expensive iPhones. Sorry, more expensive phones. Like, um, if you just look at phones sold over $1,000, it's like I forget what the more recent data is, but it's like 70% Apple or 80% Apple. It's really high. Um, so Android dominates smartphones globally because the average selling price of the Android phones is like 500 bucks. Um, but folding phones inherently are more expensive. So, Apple's very good at convincing people basically to spend a lot more money um on their phones. So, so the brand power is very strong, the software loyalty is very strong, ecosystem loyalty is very strong. So, I actually think even at $2500, um, the folding iPhone will probably outsell everybody. What if there was negative bezel? Well, didn't Xiaomi or somebody do that? Like the bezels that the screen that just goes all the way around the edge. Again, it's a should you do it, not a can you do it. We know the technology exists to do

that, but the debate is, is it worth Is it actually better to have a screen that goes that far? I don't think so. I'm not that interested in the 20th anniversary. I mean, it'll look a little different, but I don't think it would change the way you use your phone. It's still going to be a rectangle. The folding phone might actually change the way people use their phones or change the way they use their iPads. I bought the Galaxy Trifold at a discount for 2,600. I thought that was too much for 512 gigs, but they are saying folding fund might start at 2400 with 256 gigs. Yeah, it's not cheap, but you know, it's different. It's not a little rectangle anymore. Now it's two rectangles glued together. I am I'm starting to set up a smart home and wondering if I should get the rumored HomePod with a screen. I don't have any HomePod at this time. We don't know much about it, like what it'll do, what OS it will run, how much it'll cost. So, I have a lot of questions before I could say it's recommendable, but I could see a situation where that would be a pretty practical product. I know a lot of people who bought I didn't buy one, but I know a lot of people who buy those Nest Google Nest hubs and there's a lot of use cases for them. You know, when someone rings the doorbell, it shows up the camera feed or you can talk to it and play YouTube videos on it. You can take video calls on it and it kind of follows you around the room. I think there is a market for something like that and I could I understand why Apple's trying to make a HomePod with a screen. Um but I could easily see them overpricing it uh or under specking it or making it not as useful. Um the boy especially like taking care of the elderly, you know, if you've got a grandparent or someone that you're taking care of that a care home facility and you don't want them to have to learn how to iPad works. I mean, I have older relatives that never learned their way around an iPad and even that's a little bit too much for them to understand. But if you could just plant a little very loud speaker that they could hear because they're hard of hearing and it has a screen on it and you could just call that device and the person could answer the call very easily. They just press one button or maybe there's a setting where it just automatically answers the call immediately and you could have people in their 90s, just be like, "Oh, there they are. " And you could talk to them and ask them if they're okay. Ask them if they've taken their meds today or ask them to take their meds on camera. That kind of thing. That's that'd be so useful. And I'm sure there's devices that probably already do that. But just building that into the Apple ecosystem so that you can do it through FaceTime instead of some third party app that's going to want another email and password and maybe a membership to do all that. Yeah. The safe prediction I have for the iPhone 20 is that they'll likely have the biggest camera bump ever. Yeah, maybe the iPhone 20 they'll finally just make the camera bump the whole back or at least flush with the back. That would be cool. I actually wouldn't thinking about it. I wouldn't mind a wedge design. I know the Mag Safe kind of has to stay there. I don't want them to get rid of Mag Safe. But if they made it really thick on the top and then kind of tapered off so that it sits flat but kind of at an angle so that face ID even works better. Um, and then crazy thin bezels on the front. If I was doing a crazy 20th anniversary iPhone, that's probably what I would do. Smoothing out the edges, make a little wedge phone. Um, but they'll probably not do that. They'll just keep growing up their big old bump on the back. Um, rumors are that Apple glasses are going to be coming out this year for the non-dis model. Will you review one? I'd love to check one out, but I haven't heard rumors that those are coming out this year. I thought that was next year. But yeah, they need to catch up. Meta's got some pretty impressive stuff. I again, I've been busy, so I haven't had a chance to review the Meta glasses, but they look fun. I love the idea that you could just take a video or pictures just from the glasses and kind of talk to them for basic dictation needs and that kind of thing. Like, yeah, Apple could probably cook something up like that pretty easily. I'd like to see them do that. I think that would have a much bigger demographic than Vision Pro, which was kind of like a dev kit that they sold to individuals. Vision Pro is cool, but it's Yeah, it's very hard to justify for that price point. And I could tell when I reviewed it that I was definitely not going to use it regularly. I was just in the two weeks I had it already trying to go out of my way to use it. And I was like, h, this thing's going to collect dust. I can tell if I keep this, it's just going to be sitting around and I'm never going to put it on. I actually, that was my hot take in case you forgot it. When I reviewed the Vision Pro, my hot take was the price is not the problem. I actually think you could justify a headset for $3,500 if it was more comfortable, it had longer battery life, and it could do more things. It's actually a feature issue in

my head. Um, not a price issue. But that was what everybody else was saying. Everybody else in the tech community was like, "It's too expensive. It needs to be like $1,000. " It's not like h if this was your one screen, if there was a headset that was comfortable to wear and it was your Mac display and it could improve your iPhone display and you could wear it while driving for better map navigations. It's like a HUD with augmented reality stuff. I mean, I don't think it would be like screens that you're looking at anymore. It would have to be like transparent glasses and stuff like that. But if the technology was that good, I actually do think you could you could probably justify $3,500 if that's your TV, that's your monitor, that's your phone, that's your everything. Um $3,500 bucks to kind of do all that stuff would be cool. I wish the camera bump was like iPhone 4, like the whole thing is the same thickness. The battery life would be amazing. I do think people who ask for that don't realize how thick the phone would be. The iPhone 4 was not that thick. If you were to extend out the back of this phone to be flush with the camera rings, it would be very chunky, especially if you put a case on, which most people do. Do you think the Vision Pro could still have potential to be mainstream if Apple just played their cards, right? It would have to change a lot. I don't know if you would even call it Vision Pro at that point. I think what I'm getting at is more of like a glasses type product where you look through physical glass and it's not just a display with cameras on the outside. Um, but I do think there is a way to make it go mainstream if it was comfortable enough, lightweight enough, and capable enough. Um, but in its current format where you're just looking at screens that are stitching together reality through a bunch of cameras, no. No, not in that format. I don't think that would ever go mainstream. That's going to continue to be pretty niche and just good for little gaming things, but I yeah, very quickly ran out of things to do with it. When I had it, I was like, "Okay, this is it. This is all I can do. " It's like watch TV by myself. I pretty much never do that. I'm almost exclusively watching TV with someone else, in which case it's very awkward and isolating. It'd be cool if we could both wear a headset and have a shared experience, but $7,000 could buy a nice TV setup, you know. Anyway, man, this is fun, guys. I miss catching up with you guys like this, but unfortunately, I have to get going. I'm a little over the hour, but um I will definitely try to keep the channel as active as I can, especially when there's um news coming out. Um, hopefully we're just a week or two away from the new M5 Mac Minis dropping or the M5 Ultra dropping in the Mac Studio. That' be fun. But again, it's just a spec bump, so I don't plan on reviewing those. But I'll keep on reviewing the M5 Max I got on my work computer and uh keep you guys posted as we hear more. Thanks everyone. Hope you have an excellent rest of your day. Thank you for the support. Um, VR seems like a dead end to me. Yeah, I agree, Mike. It's very niche. But yeah, thank you all for watching and uh I'll see you guys again soon. Bye-bye. See you.