Google's New AI Phone Does Everything That Apple Couldn’t

Josh: Google just wrapped up their star-studded presentation announcing all of their Josh: new devices including their new phone and their AI strategy that they're planning Josh: to go forward with for the rest of the year.

Josh: As I'm watching this episode or as I'm watching this unveiling event I Josh: could not help but think this was everything Apple promised Josh: me a full year ago that they didn't deliver on Josh: and it makes me a little frustrated because these features are amazing and Josh: we're getting into all of them we'll talk about everything that was announced today but there's Josh: things that i actually really want in my phone it turns your pixel or your smartphone

Josh: whatever phone you have into a proactive assistant so now your phone pulls the Josh: right info before you ask it speaks other languages in your own voice on phone Josh: calls it coaches you to take photos in real time and turn you into a photographer Josh: gives you a fitness coach adapts to your sleep and travel, Josh: there's so many amazing features they unveiled and as i'm watching this i can't Josh: help but think this is everything i was promised but didn't get from apple so

Josh: you just you just finished watching this. What are your first impressions?

Josh: What do you think after seeing this presentation from Google?

Ejaaz: Google just killed Apple at their game, consumer mobile devices. Ejaaz: I watched this stream and I consistently just had this one term keep popping Ejaaz: up in my head, PPAI, Practical Personalized AI. Trademarked, I just came up with that. Ejaaz: And what I mean by this is the theme of Google's new phone is very much not Ejaaz: just a new hardware device, but something that's deeply ingrained with AI at the consumer level.

Ejaaz: You've heard this term many times before, personalized AI, you know, Ejaaz: something that intuitively understands what you want, that predicts what you're Ejaaz: going to do, that serves you up information before you even think of it, right? Ejaaz: But we've never really seen this materialize very well. Ejaaz: But that's what Google's going after. And I have to say, Josh, Ejaaz: They're doing it in a really functional way.

Ejaaz: Now, you mentioned earlier on that there's a bunch of features that you would use.

Ejaaz: I think that's the sense that I got as well. The features that they all listed, Ejaaz: and I'm about to jump into some of my favorites, Ejaaz: are things that I feel hundreds of millions Ejaaz: of people specifically those that use android devices Ejaaz: that run google software are going to use Ejaaz: um i'll give you an example there was this one thing called Ejaaz: um magic magic cue or magical cue Ejaaz: i think it was magic cue magic cue imagine this when you are on text using an

Ejaaz: apple iphone you can typically get something known as predictive text right Ejaaz: it kind of like predicts certain words that you might say most of the time it's Ejaaz: wrong and I think like 15% of my friends actually use it Ejaaz: Google's done exactly this, but it's for every single app that you might use Ejaaz: on Google, which is just insane, right? Ejaaz: So it doesn't just predict what to respond to in a text.

Ejaaz: It grathers all the context that is needed for that conversation itself. Ejaaz: So in one of the examples, Jimmy Fallon, who is actually the host of this event, Ejaaz: was scrolling through his phone, through his emails, and he picks out an email Ejaaz: that he receives from a guy called Rick. Ejaaz: And Rick is asking him a question saying, dude, where are we going out tonight?

Ejaaz: Like they obviously made plans before, they were having a little chat somewhere Ejaaz: else, presumably on text and Jimmy hadn't responded. Ejaaz: And as you can see on Jimmy's phone here, if you look down to the bottom right, Ejaaz: for those who are watching, there's Ejaaz: a tiny bubble that has the restaurant suggestion already pre-prepared. Ejaaz: Now, Apple iPhone predictive text doesn't know this, would never know this.

Ejaaz: It doesn't read your emails. It doesn't read your calendar. it has no idea. Ejaaz: But this magic cue is basically Google's Gemini AI embedded across your entire Ejaaz: phone, which I just thought was super cool. Ejaaz: Later on in this live demo, they then show a follow-up response from Rick, Ejaaz: who says, are you sure it's this restaurant? Can you like confirm with them somehow?

Ejaaz: And Jimmy goes back on his like email, he's reading this, and then suddenly Ejaaz: a reply pops up on his phone, which has the number of the restaurant. Ejaaz: So without doing anything, he just taps the number and it starts calling the restaurant. Ejaaz: And Josh, do you know when you call someone on your iPhone? I know you have Ejaaz: an iPhone, I have an iPhone. It just shows like a bunch of buttons, right?

Ejaaz: Loudspeaker mode, switch the callers or whatever. It doesn't really show you Ejaaz: something functional, right? Ejaaz: In this live demo, when he tapped the phone number to call the restaurant, Ejaaz: it had popped up his open table reservation on the phone screen as it was ringing.

Ejaaz: And to someone like me that uses my phone pretty incessantly, Ejaaz: that calls a lot of people day in, day out, that minor change doesn't seem so Ejaaz: minor when it's so fluidly integrated into my user experience. Ejaaz: I just thought this was like one of my favorite feature updates. Josh: Yeah, this is cool. And like, why is this cool? Why does this matter? Josh: It's because this is the only private tech stack that actually does this promise.

Josh: So in the case of the iPhone, their promise was, hey, we're going to we have Josh: this new chip. It's built just for Apple intelligence. Josh: We are going to deliver an experience that pulls all of your private data on Josh: your phone and gets aggregated in the small model that runs locally on the device. Josh: And then it could serve you these suggestions, just like we're seeing Google do right now.

Josh: The problem is that doesn't exist. And our only options, like we've discussed Josh: in previous episodes, are going to the cloud to offload all of our data to give to somebody else. Josh: So in this particular example I'm thinking about, I'm thinking about ChatGPT and OpenAI. Josh: When I want to connect my Google Calendar and my Gmail, which are two things Josh: I use a lot, well, now it just goes all to OpenAI servers. And they have full Josh: access to all of my information.

Josh: And I only get to integrate my Gmail and my calendar. Josh: So if there are any other applications that give helpful context. Josh: OpenAI just can't see that. It doesn't have access to the rest of the stuff on my phone. Josh: The cool thing about Google is it runs all of this locally on your device, Josh: fully synchronously across all of the applications you have. Josh: This was the promise Apple made. This is the promise that the Apple failed on.

Josh: And there are a few cool technical things that happened to enable this, which is a new chip. Josh: It's called the Tensor G5 chip. This is like the cool new chip that goes into Josh: this phone. And basically what it is, is three nanometer processor, Josh: super, super tiny, really fast. Josh: And it's just really fast and beefy. and it enables 20 fully on-device AI features

Josh: at launch, which means super low latency. You don't have to ping a server and Josh: tons of privacy because you don't have to ping a server. Josh: So all of this gets done locally on device. It's all really fast.

Josh: It all just kind of works the way that we were promised again, Josh: but doesn't as an iPhone user. Clearly, I'm very frustrated. Good for you, Google. Josh: This was not the only cool new AI feature they showed. My favorite. Josh: I use my phone as a camera a lot. Josh: I love photography. I love taking photos. they had some fantastic new photo Josh: features for the camera that I want to get into the first one. Josh: Being editing by text. So this was a really cool example.

Josh: So what we're seeing here is podcaster Alex Cooper. She took a video with Jimmy Josh: Fallon backstage and it was kind of a crappy photo. Josh: It didn't look good. And in fact, this is what most of my photos look like when I take them. Josh: They're just, they're not that great. A lot of the magic is in post-production Josh: and editing the photo, but it takes a lot of technical skill. Josh: And when I want to teach my friends how to edit a photo, it just doesn't go very well.

Josh: So what she's doing in this example is she's saying, hey, I just want you to Josh: fix the lighting and make the image just kind of look a little more aligned instead of crooked. Josh: And you see the before and after on the screen right here. It's pretty incredible. Josh: This is exactly what I would do as a professional editor that would take me Josh: a couple minutes to do in Adobe Lightroom.

Josh: And it's just done by typing into your photos app, what you want to change, and then it changes it. Josh: And to me, that's magic because it simplifies the process, the hardest process Josh: about photography, which is the actual editing of your crappy photos. Josh: Most people, listen, this is the truth. Josh: You don't always take the best photos out of the camera. You need to edit them. Josh: Now anybody could edit them. And this is all powered by AI locally on device.

Josh: This was cool. This was like a really exciting feature for me. Okay, okay, okay. Ejaaz: So I completely agree with you. And I have a sister that is just as obsessed Ejaaz: as you, Josh, with taking pictures and like getting the right kind of like filter and gradient. Ejaaz: I showed this to her. Like I sent this like a clip of this to her like five minutes ago. Ejaaz: And she was just like, holy shit, this is going to change my life.

Ejaaz: I don't need to spend hours editing my pics anymore. Ejaaz: That's good for you. But what about me? Ejaaz: What about me that has no directive sense in terms of taking photos, Ejaaz: that has a girlfriend that's like, you know, trying to film content for like all her food stuff? Ejaaz: I am going to be honest with you, Josh, I'm like a low IQ caveman when it comes to this stuff. Ejaaz: But they launched a feature that would help me with doing that.

Ejaaz: It's something called camera assist. And we're actually seeing this on the video right now where... Ejaaz: Alex Cooper is basically trying to get a good shot of Jimmy Fallon, Ejaaz: who is seated on a blue cow right now.

Ejaaz: And what you can see in the live demo is that the AI has created a bunch of Ejaaz: example shots from her screen recording that she's having right now, Ejaaz: like before she captures an image, Ejaaz: prompting her of what kind of angle she can take for the shot of Jimmy. Ejaaz: So it's talking to her in real time. And so she selects one. Ejaaz: She's like, I like this close-up.

Ejaaz: How do I get this close-up image? And then it starts guiding her in real time Ejaaz: as she moves the camera around. Ejaaz: It's telling her, hey, you should lower the camera maybe about 20 inches. Ejaaz: So you can see her. She's about to walk forward. Ejaaz: There we go. She's walking forward and now she's starting to crouch, right? Ejaaz: And then it's telling her, line it up with his eyes. And there's a bunch of Ejaaz: other instructions that are happening in real time.

Ejaaz: All I'm going to say is if I had access to something like this, Ejaaz: I would be probably on the level that you are, Josh, when it comes to video Ejaaz: and camera production. I just thought this was super cool.

Josh: No, this is amazing. And it kind of it inverts or it solves a serious problem Josh: I have, which is helping my friends take good photos. Josh: Again, they asked me to edit the photos. They asked me to take the photos. Josh: But now this is a cool thing. So the quick and dirty process is basically you Josh: point a camera at a subject.

Josh: It gives you a series of different suggestions. You pick the one that you like the most, Josh: and then it just tells you where to move your camera to do it and how Josh: to change the settings and the focal length and the right proportions of Josh: where to place the head and it just makes sense it Josh: feels really nice and because it's built directly into the Josh: phone experience i mean granted this is a demo we don't know what the production

Josh: software is going to look like but it seems really seamless imagine your iphone Josh: photo app which i assume most people on this are probably apple users because Josh: that's just how it is in the united states um it's just built right in and it Josh: has these little suggestions as you go along the top again another really cool Josh: use case for ai i think google in particular is really good at images and video.

Josh: They have the entire data repository of YouTube. They have Google Photos, Josh: which everyone backs up their photos to. Josh: They've trained on a tremendous amount of visual data. Josh: And we're seeing the culmination of that on this very small locomotive that's Josh: running on the phone. And now all this revolves around the camera. Josh: The camera is clearly a very important part of the phone, Ejaz. Josh: Explain why. Like what makes the camera so critical to this new AI effort?

Ejaaz: Maybe a hot take, but I would say 90% of the reason why people buy a new phone Ejaaz: is because it has a sick new camera. Ejaaz: And this new Google phone actually does. AI aside, I think it has like, Ejaaz: they quoted something like a 50 megapixel camera, Josh, which when I think back Ejaaz: to the first phone I had, that was like some measly 2.5 megapixel. Ejaaz: I thought that was super cool, but apparently I was filming on a potato.

Ejaaz: This is just like astounding, right? But the point is, most of the people spend Ejaaz: their time on their phones using the camera. Ejaaz: And so Google was really thoughtful about how they integrate AI through the Ejaaz: camera. And it's not just with photos. Ejaaz: It's not just with how to take photos or how to edit photos, but it's what you can see Ejaaz: And so they announced this new feature, which is basically like a real-time AI assistant.

Ejaaz: It's their AI model, Gemini, except you can show Gemini the world around you Ejaaz: now, and it can identify different things. Ejaaz: So say, for example, you wanted to show Gemini a problem that you're having Ejaaz: with your car, and you don't know what you need to do. Ejaaz: You can flip on and put it in your camera app.

Ejaaz: You can start the recording session and just show the app or Gemini, Ejaaz: the AI model, what you're seeing, and it'll start diagnosing what's wrong with your car. Ejaaz: You could show a picture or video of your friend and say, what would this person Ejaaz: look like with kind of orange hand? It'll kind of like live edit in real time.

Ejaaz: Or, and I really enjoyed this feature, Josh, they have like a live translation Ejaaz: feature, which maybe isn't necessary to do with your camera, Ejaaz: but it's in the realm of real time AI feedback, which is what we just described here, right? Ejaaz: And so they had this really cool demo of Jimmy Fallon talking to a native Spanish Ejaaz: speaker, I believe, backstage.

Ejaaz: And Jimmy doesn't know how to speak Spanish at all. So he would speak English Ejaaz: and it would get live translated into Spanish on the other end. Ejaaz: What was fascinating about this was it was in his own voice. So it sounded like him. Ejaaz: And this worked the other way around as well. She would speak in native Spanish Ejaaz: and it would sound like English to Jimmy Fallon's phone in her voice.

Ejaaz: I just think this real time AI, both from the camera sense and the translation Ejaaz: sense was super cool. And I would use that every day. Josh: Oh, yeah, me too. These were the two features I was also very excited about. Josh: I want to unpack a little bit. First, I have to start by the megapixel count. Josh: So there's this 50 megapixels. I got to defend. Josh: Listen, I'm upset with Apple, but we're still family. I got to stick up for my boys.

Josh: They have 48 megapixels in this camera. It doesn't have 100 times zoom.

Josh: Like the pixel does but there are 48 megapixels so if we're Josh: keeping track of megapixels very close by but i think Josh: the real-time ai feature is is really important to Josh: to mention particularly the first feature you talked about which was Josh: the selection of objects in a camera Josh: frame so if anyone ever has tried the advanced voice Josh: mode in chat gpt that we've mentioned a few times you're able to pull up the

Josh: camera and the camera can kind of see what you're seeing in real time and you Josh: could ask questions about what the camera is seeing what it can't do is select Josh: specific parts of an image so let's say that you are building a desk and there's Josh: a bunch of screws on the floor and they're all different sizes.

Josh: Chat gpt can kind of tell you hey you need to pick this Josh: screw but it can't show you which screw you need to Josh: pick uh this new version of google's gemini Josh: running on google pixel can actually do that it can Josh: highlight a very specific part of a visual that you're showing and it could Josh: actually kind of write so not only can it read but it could also now write to Josh: an image where it can actually add displays on top of what you're seeing and

Josh: i think this is a really cool progression towards this mixed reality where you Josh: have like now these ai systems can read but also write on your mixed reality. Josh: You have this on glasses. You very clearly see where this is going. Josh: Like no one's ever been able to do this before. So that was a net new. Josh: That was a win. The second thing was on the translation. Like you mentioned, so cool.

Josh: I don't know how they do this. I'm a bit skeptical because how did they get Josh: Jimmy's voice transcribed in real time in Spanish? Josh: Basically the demo, Jimmy Fallon is talking to the Spanish speaker and he says Josh: something, you wait maybe a quarter of a second. Josh: It translates in a very similar voice. And I'm curious, this is where I'm getting Josh: a little skeptical on the actual delivery of this because how do they get it so accurate?

Josh: Don't normally traditionally speaking when you are training Josh: or when you have an ai emulate your voice it needs to Josh: be trained on your voice so you need to feed it a little bit of Josh: voice data before it actually just works like that so i'm curious what Josh: the actual execution of this will be like but it was incredible it Josh: was really really impressive and they demoed this at Josh: google io a little bit earlier in the year but to see it in actual

Josh: production is cool it's like okay you're speaking Josh: to a foreigner and it almost translates in Josh: real time it's really impressive so you say something and it Josh: comes out in your voice vice versa so if you're speaking to a female Josh: it sounds just like just like a loved one if you were talking to them and Josh: they only speak spanish my grandma only speaks spanish i could talk to her it Josh: would translate live in real time that's really cool it's just like a really

Josh: nice human connection feature of ai it's just very wholesome it's like hey now Josh: you can talk to a lot of really interesting people in real time and this gets Josh: translated into their translate app as well so now the google translate apple Josh: you could also just talk to people in real time in your voice. Josh: So these are really cool features of real time AI.

Josh: And you could kind of see, I mean, again, they're building this stack for a Josh: world in which we are going to be wearing some sort of visual layer on top of our phone. Josh: So we don't have the phone, we have visual layer, it can transcribe stuff in Josh: real time, we could see augmented overlays in real time. Josh: It's like all very clearly progressing towards this, the center point, Josh: which is the glasses, the spatial reality world.

Josh: And these are all really good steps in the right direction. This is cool stuff.

Ejaaz: All I can think about is Google has completely leapfrogged Apple here. Ejaaz: You know, you mentioned, you just don't know how Google Translate has gotten that good. Ejaaz: I remember watching a video two months ago. We actually, I think, Ejaaz: spoke about it on this show where it was a live Google Meets and they were demonstrating Ejaaz: V1 of this translation feature.

Ejaaz: And back then it was working in practical cases. So I presume it's only gotten Ejaaz: better since then, which I just think is awesome. Ejaaz: And I can't help but think that Google was always behind Apple in the consumer kind of race. Ejaaz: Yeah, you know, they launched a bunch of phones. And to be honest, Ejaaz: their cameras have been better than Apple for a while. Ejaaz: Sorry to hate on Apple, Josh, but it's just been true.

Ejaaz: Those are fighting words, but I think it was true. But no one really cared because Ejaaz: the software stack of Apple was just so good. Ejaaz: It was so addictive. The consumer layer was something that you just didn't want to kind of leave. Ejaaz: But now Google has somehow caught up with them whilst building a completely Ejaaz: new sector to integrate into all their devices, which is AI. Ejaaz: And so I've kind of run out of excuses for Apple.

Ejaaz: Not that I had many to start off with, but I just don't know where to kind of Ejaaz: go from here because Apple has lost a bunch of their AI talent to meta, open AI, and Anthropic. Ejaaz: And there's no need to get into that. But I don't know. I guess I'm just disappointed. Josh: If Google has killed Apple, are you switching? Are you going to Team Pixel? Ejaaz: Oh, God, such a good gut test. No. Ejaaz: And the only reason why I say that, and maybe this is pathetic,

Ejaaz: but all my friends use Apple. and so I feel like I still want to see the blue Ejaaz: bubble appear on my phone. Ejaaz: I'm hating on the green bubble that I know is of an Android user, right? But if the Ejaaz: AI integration is seamless enough for me to kind of like, you know, like 10x my lifestyle.

Ejaaz: Like if I don't need to text as much, if I don't need to look at my phone as Ejaaz: much, if I don't need to search for the right kinds of details as much, Ejaaz: if Google can kind of like compound that over the next couple of phones, Ejaaz: might I say, and that might be still a year and a half to maybe two year period, Ejaaz: there's potential for not just me, but a bunch of my friends as well to convert.

Ejaaz: What about you? are you still diehard apple or how are you feeling here Josh: I have a very simple answer to this one it is hell Josh: no i am staying with apple till the day that i die i am obsessed with Josh: apple i will not leave the ecosystem till death do us part i am Josh: a believer to the end um i just they make such Josh: unbelievable products their ecosystem is so Josh: rich it is so cohesive everything works together

Josh: it's all very elegantly designed it is beautiful system Josh: inside and out i love it they totally screwed up the software Josh: it is an abomination that's okay for me at least like the same way that for Josh: a very long time i use my apple iphone with google applications i use gmail Josh: i use google calendar i use chrome um i believe that that will just continue Josh: where now i'll just use open ai and that'll be my agent that sits on top of my smart device well.

Ejaaz: Here's a hot take maybe it's not the phones we should be talking about josh Ejaaz: maybe it's a new ai hardware device Josh: Right and we don't need everything uh-huh okay. Ejaaz: We don't need to get into what this might be, but I'm talking different form factor.

Ejaaz: Maybe it's something that listens Ejaaz: more, that has a million cameras around it, but that is more subtle, Ejaaz: that doesn't permeate your eyes and visuals as much, that you don't have to Ejaaz: pick up and out of your phone like an archaic caveman of the technological past. Ejaaz: And it's something that's just there.

Ejaaz: In that world, where there's a new AI official software or open software, Ejaaz: a new stack to kind of interact with this thing, maybe, maybe Google or another Ejaaz: company that we've never even heard of yet that we haven't even spoken about Ejaaz: on this show takes the lead. Josh: Or even OpenAI. I mean, they have their hardware device designed by the guy Josh: who designed the iPhone.

Josh: So if there is ever a contender to compete, it is OpenAI. They're not going for the smartphone. Josh: They're going for a secondary device to the smartphone. The battle will be won Josh: on this next generation of hardware, whatever it may be. Josh: I know a lot of companies, Apple included, are going for the visual game, Josh: the spatial reality where they'll have glasses and goggles.

Josh: Meta's working on this. Google's working on this. Apple, basically every major Josh: hardware manufacturer. Josh: I would imagine OpenAI probably is at least considering this in addition to Josh: making their sole hardware product. Josh: But what we're going to start to see is, I mean, I'm a diehard Apple fan in Josh: this current ecosystem.

Josh: So in a world where screens and solid displays, like basically rectangles with Josh: either keyboards or not keyboards, like I'm thinking a MacBook, Josh: my iPhone, my AirPods, in a world where these devices dominate, I will not leave Apple. Josh: I love the ecosystem, it goes very deep. It is beautiful.

Josh: In a world where these things become less valuable, in a world where more people Josh: aren't really using smartphones, aren't really using laptops, Josh: a lot of the compute get abstracted away to this spatial layer. Josh: If there's a better product, we're going to have to reconsider this. Josh: I mean, we've kind of reached the end of the smartphone era where iPhones really Josh: every year, they get marginally better.

Josh: There's nothing super interesting. The camera gets a little better, Josh: processor gets a little better.

Josh: Now the war is totally fought on the software side i Josh: mean we've tapped out the physical form factor here we are fighting on software Josh: and ai is very clearly the software lead and Josh: apple is clearly following behind so they're not they're not in great shape Josh: google's cooking but also still i have no interest in getting their phone so Josh: apple really has like a death grip that they really have to royally screw up

Josh: to to lose and i guess we're just gonna have to see how this plays out yeah.

Ejaaz: I'll take the the other side of that coin flip uh i i think apple is the weakest Ejaaz: that it's ever been and i think if there's ever going to be a kill shot it'll Ejaaz: be sometime in the next couple of years um i agree with you on the form factor point though um Ejaaz: Just this week, all Meta could talk about was these new glasses that they're going to be launching.

Ejaaz: Supposedly, it's going to be super cheap and be way cooler and better than their Ejaaz: Meta AR glasses that they released Ejaaz: a couple of months ago. They're talking about a new wristband thing. Ejaaz: I'm hearing about a bunch of different companies that are going to be trying Ejaaz: different kinds of form factors. I definitely think that's going to be the case.

Ejaaz: Bringing it back to google and all Ejaaz: their new ai features josh you and Ejaaz: i spend way too much time in the gym um i Ejaaz: don't know for better or for worse but i know Ejaaz: for most of the time um sometimes we get Ejaaz: bored of our workout or we are obsessed with tracking different metrics around Ejaaz: our health right it's love the inside and outside of the gym right i know you Ejaaz: and i track things like kind of like heart rate monitoring sleep scores and

Ejaaz: health you know um how much hydration we're getting a number of different things look at this Josh: I got an aura ring in my watch on the same hand i'm tracking. Ejaaz: Everything there you go there you go absolute health junkie over here right Ejaaz: um but sometimes it's hard to coalesce and condense all of that down to like Ejaaz: some singular helpful advice

Ejaaz: more so in real time. Well, Google, as you can see on our screen here, Ejaaz: Announced a new feature that is essentially like an AI personal coach or health fitness instructor. Ejaaz: And it's connected in this live demo to Google's watch, which is, Ejaaz: I think they released a new smartwatch as well, which is kind of similar to Ejaaz: the Apple iWatch, except, you know, it has a bunch of Android features here.

Ejaaz: So, you know, you can do the things like measuring your heart rate, Ejaaz: your pulse rate, It can like track your calories, see how far you've run, Ejaaz: GPS location, all that kind of stuff. Ejaaz: But it kind of integrates it into everything else as well, right? Ejaaz: So let's say you have a Whoop that's connected to your Android device or you Ejaaz: have the Eight Sleep app on your phone.

Ejaaz: It now can like read all of these different types of data sets and feed you Ejaaz: information around, you know, whether you're fit enough to go for that intense Ejaaz: run that you'd plan to do today. Ejaaz: Or if you should do a wait session versus some random hit or cardio session Ejaaz: that you had planned for that day. Ejaaz: They had this really cool score. I forgot what it was called.

Ejaaz: I think it was called a readiness score, which is kind of like an overall factor Ejaaz: or health assessment every day when you wake up to kind of like figure out what Ejaaz: might be the best for you. Ejaaz: And I personally love this as someone that kind of like wants to live beyond Ejaaz: the whatever average age of a human is. Ejaaz: I love this. What are your takes, Josh? Josh: Yeah, I wonder how this is all gonna work.

Josh: Also this this doesn't feel totally novel to me i mean Josh: apple earlier wwdc announced workout buddy for Josh: ios 26 which is coming out next month which is kind Josh: of similar to this we have the aura ring which gives Josh: the readiness score we have the whoop which gives a lot of similar metrics even Josh: the apple watch has third-party apps that give similar metrics so i'm not sure Josh: this is anything super new or novel i think the thing you mentioned that caught

Josh: my attention was when you said it works with other data sources that to me is Josh: pretty cool so if if you have an eight sleep or if you have a whoop. Josh: I'm guessing the data... Josh: Kind of gets aggregated to a single place uh that seems if that's the case that Josh: seems very valuable because a lot of that.

Ejaaz: Is the case Josh: Yeah that's that's one app versus many and and Josh: i was i wouldn't think this would be true because google Josh: owns fitbit if you remember google actually bought fitbit which Josh: is a personal tracking app and i believe this is Josh: embedded into the fitbit app um but the Josh: fact that they're opening up the platform and allowing other data sources to Josh: happen well you're kind of getting a phenomenon like we have with

Josh: the apple health app where the health app just kind of like takes all Josh: the metrics you have it in one place it's not really the best it's not Josh: gamified i think if they could bring that unified experience Josh: to the google smartphone without third-party devices that Josh: seems really cool like if i could turn my apple watch Josh: into a whoop without getting third-party apps that would Josh: be really exciting for me and if they're able to do that on the

Josh: google pixel and using the google pixel watch that to me seems really cool also Josh: the watch is very pretty it's round instead of oval so that's like i don't know Josh: different it looks it has like some nice metal bands they see the shine they're Josh: acting on it and i guess we'll see how that compares to apple's workout buddy Josh: which we're getting pretty soon well.

Ejaaz: A reminder as well um if you're worried about google Ejaaz: and their ai model getting access to all your Ejaaz: personal data it's private it's run locally so you know you don't have to worry Ejaaz: about any of that and as a result of that it works much quicker in real time Ejaaz: so that's how you can get like uh increased performance and privacy whilst you're Ejaaz: doing your thing which i i just think is like a all-round great theme to kind of like

Ejaaz: seed into all of the AI products that they announced today Josh: On device AI this is a big day for Google Josh: I think that covers all of the highlights in terms of the AI stuff Josh: if you're interested in the hardware go check out the highlights I think Josh: it goes on sale for pre-order whatever if you're pre-ordering it why why don't Josh: you have an iPhone I honestly like tell me why tell me why I need to get rid

Josh: of my iPhone that I am obsessed with and in love with and cannot go anywhere Josh: without because I'd love to hear feedback like I'm I'm open I'm open to changing Josh: I just don't believe you can change my mind but i think i think that probably Josh: covers it for the sounds like.

Ejaaz: Josh isn't open to changing we'll see Josh: Listen i'm excited about a lot of these new features that was google's made Josh: by event today they did it live in new york city jimmy fallon was the person Josh: who was kind of like commentating and narrating the whole thing he was the host of it you.

Ejaaz: Just reminded me josh including jimmy fallon alex cooper and a number of different Ejaaz: kind of like hosts that were entertaining was just a great strategy by google Josh: Because this is fine i compared it directly to.

Ejaaz: Open ai's live stream of what is it two weeks ago which was pretty robotic but Ejaaz: kind of human but pretty robotic and then i go back to the masters of this the Ejaaz: ones that i've been hating on this entire episode, Ejaaz: Apple, at their WWDC event earlier this year, which I just thought was extremely Ejaaz: structured, forced, and just disingenuous, which really made me hate it. Ejaaz: But on this Google event, Jimmy Fallon was making mistakes.

Ejaaz: And he had like his co-host correcting him being like, actually, Ejaaz: no, it's this phone, Jimmy, pick up this phone, you picked up the wrong phone and the wrong color. Ejaaz: And Jimmy was just kind of joking his way through it. And it made it way more Ejaaz: relatable to me, which I think is the theme that tied into all of the AI products Ejaaz: that they announced today. It was relatable. Ejaaz: It was things that I would use every day.

Ejaaz: They weren't promising me the next new iPhone or the next new ChatGPT, Ejaaz: but it was something that would add use to my life today.

Josh: Interesting okay i'm i'm a hater i i Josh: didn't love the way that they did this i think it Josh: was it's very reflective of the brand so when i when i think of an Josh: apple presentation it very much feels like an extension of Josh: the brand it's kind of like an art in itself how they present it the Josh: visuals are gorgeous the animations the transitions everything is Josh: super high touch super high polish and they Josh: they kind of convince you to care about

Josh: the product in a way you otherwise wouldn't and as someone Josh: who is planning to buy the products that they're selling regardless i Josh: want to fall in love with them and they do a really good job of Josh: creating this world this brand extension that allows Josh: me to fall deeper in love with these products and really understand the Josh: decision making why you often hear with apple from Josh: the actual designers themselves versus google where

Josh: you're kind of getting like vps of this that and the third it felt Josh: a little less refined a little less polished there was Josh: a lot of jokes it was kind of light-hearted i think it's just a testament to the Josh: brand my personal preference is this like really cool refined Josh: beautiful delivery of these like specimens of Josh: art and google is just kind of like hey we got this really cool Josh: stuff and we're just going to show you how it works and here's a comedian

Josh: and a talk show host to kind of walk us through this fun thing and i do want Josh: to give him credit because he does play the dumb guy and it makes it very easy Josh: to explain to the dumb guy all the the smart things that the phones can do i'm Josh: excited for the iphone event that's happening next month because that to me Josh: feels like it's going to be this like really cool fun like you're watching a movie i'm.

Ejaaz: Bearish all right good i like Josh: When we disagree this is perfect oh so here's another here's another thing you Josh: could share in the comments are your team google presentation or apple presentation Josh: do you want steph curry and uh jimmy fallon and, Josh: alex cooper on the show or do you just want like tim cook standing in his like Josh: his stance like this and he's like today we're announcing a.

Ejaaz: New emoji update Josh: Okay we can talk about the principles of Josh: the features which have been an abomination they actually make Josh: me sick to my stomach when they stand there with the straight face and say you Josh: can now design and color your own emojis that drives me insane okay so i guess Josh: in that sense yeah apple apple kind of sucks you got it so here's the thing Josh: you got to match the quality of the product to the delivery and they've definitely

Josh: I failed on that a couple of times. So yeah, there's work to be done on both sides. Josh: But without rambling on too long, I think that's it. That is your show. Josh: That is everything that happened today with the Google new announcement. Josh: These are the new AI features that are pretty cool. Josh: Check them out. Hopefully we get them sometime soon for the iPhone users, Josh: for the Android users who have Google Pixels. Congratulations.

Josh: Your phone is about to get really freaking cool. Josh: And yeah, so I think that the theme is just like, hey, local AI, Josh: pretty cool. real-time AI with translations and camera operations, pretty cool.

Josh: Doing it all privately, pretty cool. So there's like a lot of interesting things Josh: that happened today. And I think it's reflective of a trend that we're going to be seeing more of. Josh: So again, as always, if you enjoyed, please share with your friends who are Josh: either team Google or team Apple. I want to hear their side of the story. Josh: Let everyone know, please don't forget to rate us in the App Store. We fell a little bit.

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