iOS ’26 Rebrand, Sky AI App on Mac, What Apple Intelligence Could’ve Been

You see, sometimes a year just isn't long enough. Welcome to Primary Technology, the show about the tech news that matters. This week, is Apple gonna call the next version of iOS 26 instead of 19 following the year? Rumors about Studio Display two point o. A Netflix cofounder is joining the Anthropic board.

It's good. It's it's going good. It's been a

You know that movie quote? It's it's a little general. See, you see, sometimes a year just isn't long enough. I did that because the whole iOS 26 thing.

I I think you stumped me.

Okay. Well, this is from the 02/2005 movie Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice.

That's why I didn't.

Not seen

it? Not my thing.

Not not in your pantheon.

Okay. I have a pretty good memory of movies I've seen.

Oh, yeah. If you haven't seen it,

you can. And I've never read the book. Okay. I was gonna make a very derogatory term. I wanted to be like, I could've texted my daughter, my 16 year old daughter, and maybe she She would've known it.

She would've known.

Yeah. She probably would've.

I I wanna start the show also by making an official prediction about the OpenAI Johnny Ive hardware because I've been thinking about a lot after hearing a bunch of podcasts also pontificating about it. And I don't think I've heard anyone predict this thing. But before we do, one five star review shout out. Tiaz the Apple guy from The UK. Not basic Apple guy.

Yeah. We don't actually know.

We don't do. You have to say dominant hand, right pocket, or whatever. But, anyway, we appreciate the five star review. Keep them coming. We're still a 4.9 star podcast here in The US. One day one day, we'll return to a to a five star. Have you been listening to some of the tech podcasts that have come out talking about the I mean, every podcast talked about OpenAI, Johnny Ive, and predicting about hardware. Have you had any more thoughts since our last recording?

I mean, yes. This is like the marriage of the century. Right? Like, this is like Charles and Diana's wedding, like, whatever many years ago. That's what this thing was. It was a very big deal. And I was actually just this morning, I finally got around to listening to Jason Sell and Mike Hurley talk about an upgrade, and it was very interesting because they have very, very different opinions about it, and they feel very strongly about those opinions. And so, I mean, I'm curious to hear yours.

Yeah. So I've heard, you know, John Gruber and Brian or Ben Thompson on Strathecari were talking about it and a few other shows. The Vergecast talked about it. And, you know, we have the previous AI devices in our minds, like the Humane AI pin, the Rabbit r one, which I do think it was funny. Rabbit, like and they they tweeted something the other day, and they were like, if you're still basing your thoughts about Rabbit r one on the early review videos, we've done a lot since then.

know? Right.

It's a chat window. I don't think Johnny Iva is gonna be doing too much design on a Compose window. But to design a UI on a small screen tablet type device where you could chat with it, but it could also display things, images, maybe even videos, because you're searching or you ask at things. I would be, I think it's gonna be a small display tablet type device. And so that's my official prediction to see if we're right.

What do you think about that? You're not talking about the first thing they're gonna

No. I think it'll be like the flagship thing they release. I think they'll release a pendant style thing or whatever, but I I think it's you know, because the Rabbit r one has a screen, but it's not a great screen. And it's not a touch oh, is it a touch screen? I can't even remember.

No. It's got that wheel. Right?

It's got the wheel, but anyway, that's not a good screen. I think this is gonna be something that you might use to read. Like, if you were doing deep research with ChatGPT, imagine a displayed device where you had that deep research, and you would put it next to your MacBook because you're wanting to see what it's saying. You would probably have a web browser, whether it's a web browser that made by OpenAI. So whatever you search in it you know, we'll talk about AI browsers in a

little bit. I don't know.

I feel like that's a device that makes sense. That would be a third device to the MacBook and the iPhone and would make sense for Johnny Ive to do design both the hardware and the software.

Okay. So I do think it's possible that there's a piece of this that you have over indexed on.

Over in okay.

Which is the idea that he the the metaphor of the desk. Because they did talk about having a a device that you have on your desk, but I don't think that they meant that that's a literal thing because no one thinks of the iPhone as a device you have on your desk. What they're saying is, like, you might sit down, you have your MacBook, you have your iPhone, and you're gonna have this one other thing. I would be astonished if what they're building is, like, the Google Nest Home Hub Max plus thing for ChatGPT. I I don't think that I think that because that has such a limited utility because it only exists in one space.

I'm not saying a stationary device. I'm saying like an actual tablet.

Yeah. But even my

iPad mini.

But my iPad can't see the world unless I take it out of my backpack. So I think I think it has to be a wearable. I think there's a 0% chance that the things that they're building aren't going to be wearables. Will there be something down the road? Maybe.

I see. Well, I'll I'm gonna be in San Francisco for the first time, very soon, for Dub Dub. But to your point, if they do a pendant style device, it's dependent on the phone. But if they had an iPad mini style device that also connected to the pendant, then they wouldn't be dependent on some third party software because it could be like, here's my little tablet, and I have my pendant that's always listening, always watching. And now I can jump onto a screen and see like, oh, yeah.

I don't know.

I feel like that that made the most sense of everything.

Well and so, like, think about that for a minute, though. A tablet has to run an operating system. Are they gonna be building their own operating system? And if so, then will this tablet only run ChatGPT? Because that's, like, not a thing. People are not going to spend I mean, listen. If Johnny Ive made Johnny Ive has made a tablet before. Right? He the iPad.

He did. He did.

He's done it once, and it's the flagship version of that. It's, like, the best version of that product. I don't think that with someone else, he's going to make a better version of a tablet and iOS on a tablet is, or iPadOS is infinitely superior to anything. Like it's infinitely superior to Android on a tablet. Right? So it

Except for the assistant that comes with it.

Sure. But you can run ChatGPT on your tablet. I mean, it's fine. Like Sure. But I guess what I guess I'm saying is, is this tablet running Android, or is it running some bespoke, you know, chat GPTOS type thing? And if that's the case, will other developers be able to develop for it? And who would do that for a device? Like, you're already like, there are not even that many apps for Android on tablets.

Yeah. But to that point, ChatGPT has an entire custom GPT store already where people have made custom GPTs for various purposes. I understand it's not apps and such, but of any platform and hardened software maker, I think OpenAI would probably have some sway for not, like, millions of apps like the App Store, but could they hit up Amazon to make a Kindle app? Probably for their tablet. And you could buy Amazon books, and it happens all in it.

I think as a concept, we could all see Johnny Ive building a thing that sits on your desk and the thing that you could take with you. Whatever. I just think when you actually start to pick it apart, like, now you're basically in the same app store business that Apple's in. Right? Like, that becomes your business model if you're doing that.

Sure.

My children never call me, literally. I mean, they live in my house, so they don't have a lot of reason. Right. But they text me a hundred times a day. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I still stand by because we're gonna talk about some new tools like the Sky app that, was shown off by Mac stories, like AI for your Mac and AI browsers. I do think it would be a different slash better experience if you were browsing on a device that everything could be AI'd, for lack of a better word, as you were looking at it. So if you were browsing The New York Times and you were looking at a web page rather than having to send that link, like go over to the ChatGPT app, paste the link, ask it for a summary or whatever, that on a bespoke device, could just tap one button. The summarize button just always lives there in the corner of the little tablet, and you can just do that for anything you're looking at, Whether it's a web browser, whether it's a PDF document that someone emailed you, like, whatever.

Yeah. I mean, definitely, that's the impression from the brand that Apple wants to we're the car dealers.

A little bit no. Yeah. They they came the Apple.

Couldn't do a better like, this is absurd, Steve. First of all, yeah, you buy an iPhone 16, it has iOS 18, and your Mac is running I MacOS 15. Like, that's dumb. Nobody cares about the watch version. It's 11.5. Okay. That doesn't matter. The tvOS doesn't matter. What your HomePod is running doesn't matter. Honestly, I don't know that it matters that much on your on your Mac and your iPhone because the number of times when I walk up to somebody and ask them, hey.

It's gonna look real funny seeing the number 26 and those little round wrecks every time, they come up. It's I don't know. That that's kinda funny. But I what if because we've talked about iPhone numbering. Everybody's talking about iPhone numbering.

I mean, there was an iOS nine.

There was an iOS nine. True.

Now And there's a macOS classic, was version nine.

That's true. There could be I'm gonna throw a curveball. There could be, you know, instead of the iPhone 17, what if they just match it all? And like the Galaxy s 25, which follows the year, Apple just makes the iPhone and iOS the same number. So it's just iPhone 26 and then running iOS 26.

I think they're more likely to do what they do with the iPad, which is it's just iPad, and then in parentheses, it was like, well, I guess that wasn't even the year. It was a '16 or whatever. It was like

It was just iPad. But, yeah, iPhone iPhone air, iPhone pro, Pro Max.

I guess the MacBooks well, they use those. What are they using just the dates on? They do that with something, don't they? Like, something

Well, for Max, they do, like, early twenty twenty five or whatever.

Yeah. But, also, they just call it the m four MacBook Air. Yeah. And they

think they see the 13 the 13 inch MacBook Air, the 15 inch MacBook Air, the Mac Studio, the Mac Mini. You know, I think everything has, like, a moniker, a descriptor, basically. And I think the iPhone is in the Apple Watch. They call the Apple Watch series 10, series 11,

which Yeah. I guess I was thinking that with the with the Macs, we identify those not by year or model version increment, but by the increment of the processor at this point. Right? Like, if you're like, I'm gonna get a MacBook Air, get the m four version or the m

three version. I think think we do that, and the press does that. I don't know if Apple does that.

I think they just talk

about MacBook Air, and they'll say powered by m two or whatever. And, you know, they'll talk about the processor.

But I don't know. I I feel like The title does say MacBook Air thirteen and fifteen inch with m four Okay. Okay. Yeah. I don't I

don't know. The the 19 verse 26, what is your opinion? You're you're the writer. Twenty six with an apostrophe or without.

Denoting the No. Because well, the thing is they're not denoting it as 2026. They're just saying it's iOS '26, and the number just matches the year. But, yeah, you would not be using an apostrophe for that. Like, there's

What would your preference be? No apostrophe?

I don't even think there's gonna be a space. Right? Like, there's where are you gonna put the apostrophe?

A very small apple y apostrophe?

I don't know. I feel like No way. No. Apostrophe. Doing an apostrophe.

I don't know.

If they do, I quit. I'll quit the show. I feel like the, I don't know.

Having it uniform across all operating systems, I'm down for that. It will be hilarious that we will gone from Vision OS two to Vision OS 26.

This is how they get past, like, we we've done it, folks. We're we're way into this now. This is not even a new platform.

Nailed it. Nailed it. Well, we're gonna literally see in a little over a week, but, yeah, I was not expecting that. I was not expecting I was 26, for my first desktop. Anyway, we'll see. Alright. Some other a hodgepodge of Apple news and then other news. But there was a new app shown off by Federico Vettichi at Mac Stories. He got early access, an alpha version of this new app called Sky. So talking about AI on devices, Sky is going to be a Mac app and utility.

Yeah. I don't know. You there's a lot here. I don't

It does a lot.

I I mean, so the the headline of the article is, like, from the creator of shortcuts. So it sounds like this is obviously a team of people who kinda know what they're doing. Shortcuts. What like, was it

There's two people that was originally on the workflow team Yeah. Then shortcuts, and now they've made this.

Yeah. So because they Apple bought workflow, turned it into shortcuts, and then those people have gone on to do other things. So that's great. I don't know that this is a thing that most people will ever experience because this is in the category to me, this is in the category of things like, Alfred or Ray Cat. Like, I've never met a person who doesn't listen to a podcast or do a podcast that's ever installed one of those things.

On the Mac specifically, I mean, you're always gonna, I think, be able to request this kind of access. I mean, this is the Mac is still the one platform Apple will allow this kind of stuff.

Steven, it just turned off all of the things I had enabled on an app because they had updated their app.

I'm not saying it's not gonna be annoying. I'm saying you can probably go in and enable all that again and give it permissions. But, you know, just another one, like single example. If you're looking at a website, you could do the hotkey and say, send this link and a summary to Jason Atin. And then it'll little pop up in a message window, the your iMessage to that person, and it'll have the summary and the link, and then you can click send.

And I agree. This is probably what we should be able to do with Apple Intelligence. Like, if I hit command twice, which apparently I do a lot because the stupid Siri box just pops up randomly on my Mac all the time. But I should this is the kind of thing I should be able to do. I should be able to hit command twice. It says type to Siri. I should be able to say, take this web page and send it to Steven, and it should just do all that.

It should be able to do that, but it doesn't.

It doesn't actually do anything. I can't even get the weather if I do that. What does

it Listen. Maybe iOS 26. I mean, it's gonna be five versions newer. Maybe it'll do it. Maybe it'll do it. Alright. It's another sort of quick hodgepodge stuff. We'll go through this. WhatsApp released an official iPad app. This was rumor like, it was in test flight for months. So it's not like it was a rumor. Like, we knew this was coming. It's officially out now. You can get WhatsApp for iPad. And they're supposedly working.

Because of Meta AI. And there's Meta AI. They're trying to have more surface area for their stupid AI thing so that you'll download WhatsApp and chat with the Meta AI bot instead of chatting with Chad.

You know what? That's, that sounds about right. That sounds

I mean, like Yeah. I and I think that's I would love to know if there's a better answer for that, but but I don't know. I have a I do have a real time follow-up, though.

Yes. Yes.

I hit command command on my phone on my computer. Yeah. And I asked Siri, what is the weather? And first of all, it told me it couldn't tell me because it doesn't have access to my location. Apparently, that was one of the things that got turned off when I downloaded I don't know why why doesn't my Mac I have location stuff set on. So I gave it the ZIP code of, where I live. I said, what is the weather? I'm not gonna say it out loud.

Thank you.

But it told me that there's a tropical cyclone because it thinks that that ZIP code is somewhere called Autland. What is wrong with this? Why is this so bad? It thinks that I'm living in where does this where is this?

New Zealand? Auckland?

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Somewhere in Mexico by Guadalajara. It thinks that my ZIP code is in Guadalajara, and there's a tropical cyclone coming. Steven.

You're in Michigan if our listeners don't know.

Yeah. See, Steven, this is so broken. I don't know what's happening.

I don't know what's happening.

I'm sorry. Go on.

You know what's not broken? One of the best games in Apple Arcade, Sneaky Sasquatch. Okay. And I

I You're welcome.

This is, I don't know, news for our family because I know all three of my kids have played Sneaky Sasquatch and loved it. It was an Apple arcade game. I didn't realize it developed by just a two person team at a studio called Rack seven. And now that two person team in Rack seven has been acquired by Apple. They acquired them as a video game studio.

Yeah. A great game. It is a great game. I mean, Apple could have bought Nintendo, but instead they bought a sneaky Sasquatch.

They're gonna buy Nintendo.

They could have at one point in the past.

Oh, sure.

No. But they don't do it. But this is a this seems to be a trend because they bought this, but they also didn't they buy what? Was it Pixelmator or whatever? Like Yeah. About Pixelmator. Earlier this year or whatever. So Apple seems to be

They're buying stuff.

Stuff. Yeah.

Spending some rumor that they might finally release a standalone game app or game store, which honestly, would be totally for because when I if my kids ever search for games, they'll send me, like, requests via screen time, And I deny everything that's not an Apple Arcade game because I don't want them to deal with ads or in app purchases. But it's not easy to search specifically. You can't filter for just Apple Arcade games. You can't search for Snake and then only show me Apple arcade games in the App Store app. So I would be totally for, like, an arcade stand alone app with all of Apple's arcade games, and you could do all the game features in there.

Alright. Well, I mean, I maybe Johnny Ive has a little extra time.

That was was he the skeumorphism?

Yeah. Yeah. I I thought that

was Scott Forstall more so.

Sure.

I thought he Probably. You're probably right.

You're right. IOS seven was Johnny Ive was like Yeah. Strip it bare. Hairline hairline lines are real. What do you mean you can't read this font? It's

Exactly. This was a new rumor. Apple Studio Display two might be in the works. Could be late this year or 2026, but the Apple might revamp it. Still keep the same 27 inch size display, but use mini LED and also maybe raise the refresh rate to 90 hertz instead of the current 60 hertz. Listen. I love my studio display. And if this is the update that comes out, I'll be getting it immediately.

Well, here's the thing. The current models of studio displays just have extra panels sitting around from when they discontinued the 27 inch iMac, and they haven't been making a 27 inch iMac for a long time. So that production line has finally been shut down. That's true. Apple has to do something. Like, that feels like what this is. Probably. The problem is, is this still going to be a $1,500 display? Because it is not worth a penny more than

No. But I would say it's I'm down for for that. I mean, obviously, would like it to be cheaper, but my studio display, when I bought it at that full price, I mean, I love the display. Obviously, I use it every day. It's great. Don't you use a studio display too?

I'm looking at one right now, but I guess the thing about it is, what did a 27 inch iMac start at?

Yeah. I know you could put a computer on it, but, you know, you get the, high quality webcam and the studio display. You get great speakers, and you can, Visa well, I guess you could Visa mouth

on it. The webcam is such high quality that I stick an iPhone above it to use to record this podcast.

I was that was I was being so crazy good. I know. I know. I know. But I still love my studio display. So I yeah. 90 hertz, the little mini LED, I'll take it. I'll take it. Apple had its own newsroom article earlier this week. I think it was funny timing considering all the epic and Fortnite and App Store shenanigans here in The US.

That is a very interesting thing. I think it's helpful to put this thing in context. It says the App Store prevented more than 9,000,000,000 in fraudulent transactions over the last five years. What that means is that Apple stopped 9,000,000,000 of transactions from leaving the App Store and going to developers websites directly. Like, that's basically what they're trying to say.

Like No. That's not their thing.

Stuck inside the App Store. We've had complete control over it.

No. No. So listen. Listen. That said, they said a 46,000 developer accounts over fraud concerns were terminated, a 39,000 developer enrollments, and there was, like, millions of customer account creations that they rejected and removed because it was fraudulent. So they're saying that they're doing the stuff.

They're saying that, but also the first paragraph is very important to understand. Says the App Store has protected users by preventing over 9,000,000,000 in fraudulent transactions according to Apple's App Store fraud analysis. So they're doing they're doing their own math to to decide how much because there's literally no way. It's not like $9,000,000,000 worth of fraudulent transactions occurred and then were reversed. How do you it's like that would be like me saying, I put a lock on my front door and prevented over 100 burglaries from happening at my house.

Well, but but from the amount of accounts that they either rejected or removed, I don't know. I feel I mean, I don't think they're making these numbers out of

Sure. I think you're you're probably a % right. Can we just agree that the only reason that this press release came out is because they're trying to make it seem like the App Store is the way you should be going and not be doing this other linking out to other people?

It is that. It is that. All but also okay. So last year, Apple identified nearly 4,700,000 stolen credit cards trying to transact on the App Store and banned over 1,600,000 accounts from transacting again. So, I mean, they're listen. I'm not defending the App Store. It looks like they're doing stuff. It looks like there is a lot of malintent that they're trying to stop. But, yeah, the timing is also just hilarious with with all the App Store stuff and the DOJ. So anyway, yeah.

They kept away the burglars.

They they kept away the burglars. But that's not the only App Store news because the EU is still saying that Apple's App Store is in violation of the DMA, and they have thirty days to comply. And this is a €500,000,000, or they they were originally fined €500,000,000 back in April for, not complying. And the EU is saying they're still not in compliance. So maybe they'll pay another fine. What what exactly do they have to change? Were you aware?

Well, basically, Apple has they I I I believe that this was related to the whole anti steering.

Right. It was the steering thing.

And they just felt like they weren't doing a good enough job. Right? Because they like, we need them to to essentially, Europe just wants it to be a free for Right? And so Apple it's kind of the same thing that judge Ivan Gonzalez smacked Apple down for, I think. This isn't actually, like, a huge fine. Right? I think that they could have fined them up to 10% of their global revenue, and this is a relatively small fine. I don't know.

Change it more. They just want them to do more, I guess,

to No. They just want them to follow the spirit and not the letter of the law. And which I don't mean I'm I have been very critical of the European Commission over this. That statement is not meant to be critical. What I am saying is that the European Commission's not super great at writing these regulations because it feels like a bunch of people get into a room and they're like, yep.

Yeah. Loosen the rain a little bit. Let let let Phil Schiller do something. Okay? You know?

Yeah. Except for then you get the bill and you have

to pay

the tariffs. Now like

When you get when yeah.

This isn't This is bonkers. And this is we knew that everything about this has been bonkers this entire time. But essentially, the president said that there like, there's this very old law, and he declared an economic emergency. The law doesn't say tariffs are one of the things you can do if you declare this particular type of emergency, and yet she just did it anyway to stop fentanyl. So it's like, we wanna impose a a tax on iPhones coming in from India because of fentanyl.

There's a lot of smaller companies too. I know Neil I the verge interviewed someone who makes, like, a bespoke piece of hardware Yeah. Or whatever. And it's just like sourcing the materials. Or if you produced it in China, some of these businesses just won't be able to exist.

I mean, Netflix just put OpenAI, like, put ChatGPT into Netflix. There is some that is interesting.

That's true. But Yeah. It will be it was the homepage that they're running, like, AI, like, on the homepage. So when you open the Netflix app and what it serves you to get you to, like, watch something.

Well, and it's gonna power the search. So you can search for, like, natural language stuff. So you could be like, give me a movie that has, Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne The Rock Johnson. They're like, we have 60 of those. Let me show you lucky day. That is what we do. Our specialty is Ryan

It's core competency. Ryan Reynolds

is Do you want a bromance? Do you want action? Do you want spy thriller? It's like, we still have 40.

Yeah. That's actually what they all are.

Yes. Anyway, that's what they're doing with OpenAI. But this is interesting. Like, I don't know if this is one of those things where, like, why he doesn't really need anything to do. Right?

These guys just like to be on boards, I think. You know? Just like to sit around and tell people what to do. Brainstorm.

I mean, he could have kept doing that at Netflix, but he decided he didn't want to. I don't know. Whatever. Like, it's interesting. Anthropic is sort of like the they're kind of the underdog in the sense that they don't get nearly the much as much attention, but they definitely are doing some interesting things.

Netflix is incredible at making a business of mediocre movies.

Yeah. I mean, their thing is there's always going to be something to watch. And if you're going to have that much stuff to watch, literally none of it can be good.

It's, probably very difficult to do that. One other AI thing. So the Arc browser was a thing for a while, and a lot of people really loved it. It was like an AI browser. Well, they're gonna stop making the Arc browser, and it's now become or is part of Dia?

It's a new that's a new one. Right? They're gonna release a new browser.

A new browser. I don't know, man. I've not gotten into I'm not getting into AI browsers per se. And I also don't feel like I naturally want like, don't want I don't know. Do you use or have you ever used an AI browser?

I I've used ARC, and I just can't get over the user interface. Just like, it's hard to name which is sort of the thing here. Like, I think that's part of the reason that they're sort of making this change is because so, like, Gruber had a post, with a quote from Scott or he had a it was about Scott Forstall who has been helping the browser company, which is who makes ARC. ARC. And it says, Scott Forstall told us ARC felt like a saxophone, powerful but hard to learn.

So I did see someone post about that. I didn't realize the context. What's I saw someone post around this news. It's a good thing instruments weren't powered by VC money. Otherwise, the saxophone never would have made it. Yeah. So I forget who that was, but hilarious quote and, yeah, very germane. Yep. All of this just reminds me that, like, wow. Apple intelligence really could have, like, obfuscated all of these products if it had come out early enough.

I don't and I just think yes. The only piece, I guess, I would push back on is I don't think the card project distracted them from Apple Intelligence because Intel Chat GPT came out. No one thought that this was going to be this type of a product, and so they were already behind at that point. Like, the Vision Pro did not distract them. You can imagine if they started dreaming the Vision Pro now, the fact that you would have a fully generative interface.

Amazing, like Google VO plus Apple Vision Pro generating immersive environments. Yes. That would be sick. Yeah. That would be amazing.

But I like, I listened to Ben Thompson talk about this. Like, the killer application for AI is going to be generative interfaces that it it just so, like, for example, they that this is one of the things he talks about with things like Orion or with the Android XR glasses that, like, you don't build notifications or interfaces. It's just that the device will will generate the interface you need based on what's happening. So it's like a notification pops up so it generates the dismiss or You know what I mean? And so, like

Interesting.

Why doesn't just build that into the vision pro. Let me just talk into the vision pro and be like, just I want to be at at the Golden Gate Bridge or whatever.

Like, just

make me an environment.

No. That's good. Alright. Some other quick tidbits, then we'll get to personal tech. Our notifications, Apple repair program expanded to cover iPads, but only the most recent. And so this is Apple's DIY self-service repair where you can, like, order the tools, and they'll send them to you in a Pelican briefcase, and you can repair your own stuff. But it's only for the most recent devices like the m two iPad Air, m three versions of the iPad Air. And I think maybe it's just

the The m four iPad pro, the a 16 iPad, and then the a 17 iPad mini. So, yeah, it is basically the most recent versions plus one generation previous iPad air.

Which I was a little upset because I literally have sitting here an m one twelve point nine inch iPad Pro that doesn't work because this, iPad Pro was dropped on its sleep button. Yeah. And it's messed up. I've talked about this before, but it worked for a while without the sleep button, and we just used a shortcut in the dock to lock the screen, and that was working fine. And then it just stopped working.

thanks. Had a similar experience with the ninth generation iPad that one of our children dropped, and so the screen is kinda busted on it. And was like, ugh. And so I saw this. I'm like, oh, great. Maybe I could just order a I'll give that a shot. Like, whatever. Doodle. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I got it priced at the Apple store and the repair was gonna be like $750.

Which was what it would cost you for them for the self-service repair. Because all of the costs are the same. Yep. All if you look at the repair, the replacement costs, they are the same as the out of warranty cost of having Apple do it. So it's essentially, you can do it yourself.

case for all tools.

So so

I just went to the page, and it doesn't have the iPads there yet from the you can't select it from the drop But when it appears, I'll I'll see.

Even though it may not be the same because it's not the same device. Who knows?

I

know. And that's the reason that this is true that it's limited because Apple has essentially and I've asked Apple about this. It's because the newer devices were manufactured and designed with this in mind. Right?

With repairability.

You can't retroactively go back to a five year old device and be like, what if it's repairable? We didn't you didn't make it that way.

Listen. I peeled many a display off of a 21 inch iMac. That's all I'm gonna say. I'm capable. Have you ever done that?

No. I have a 21 inch iMac that I would like to put an SSD Yes. And a bunch more memory in it and and just be like, have fun kids. But I have not worked up the courage to get out a blow dryer to heat up the glue and peel it off. No. No. You don't need

a blow dryer. You buy the iFixit toolkit, and you get the pizza cutter. You pizza cutter around the edge. You do that, like, a bunch of times to make sure all the adhesive is. You get the little playing cards that they give you in the iFixit kit, and you start wedging them in.

On the same iMac?

No. No. No.

I was

like Once I figured out how to do it, then they were like, people were like, hey. Can you do this to mine? So

Steven figured out how

to do it.

He's just walking around. He was like, hey. You've got an iMac. Can I borrow that? I just wanna do something.

You know? Fine. They when Apple updated in 2015, they updated the iMac to have a retina display, which looked amazing. And a bunch of people bought them around that time, but the base model was still a spinning hard drive, and it stunk. It was so slow.

Yeah. I mean, there's still this one still has an Intel I five or whatever in it Yeah. From 2018. But there is a part of me that has thought, like, I mean, that's fine. That chip should should be fine for running, you know, Brave

or Safari. So I had my 2015 setup, and then I realized because it won't update to the latest OSs, certain things start to break, especially if you wanna try to do any kind of screen time. Or if you're trying to sync your iCloud, there's some iCloud features like advanced data protection. You have to have every device signed into your iCloud account

Yeah.

Past a certain macOS, and those computers won't co pass whatever it's necessary. So I had to take that iMac off my iCloud, off everybody's iCloud. Now you could set it up as just like

It's on.

This is a in a Yeah. Pure medically sealed whatever. And it's not connected to any iCloud account that is also syncing to your other devices. And you can do screen time manually on device and not sync that to iCloud either. It's a little cumbersome, but you can do it. And it would work. Like, could still use it for stuff. So

In the meantime, I'm just using the Apple loaner m four iMac that's just sitting down there.

Same. Same. It's still sitting out here, I'm just hoping to send me an m five when that comes out before I have to send it

to me.

Our last news before we get to personal tech, NVIDIA still making a ton of money because those GPUs. They're the winners.

I think I mean, just all you need to know is the distinction between so what they call is data center data center revenue, which is the chips that get sold for AI. Right? Okay. So there's a difference. So the the total revenue for the quarter was 44,100,000,000.0.

like Right.

Five. That was their whole business until, like, three years ago. This is a company that is, like, eight times bigger by market cap. It's it's insane when you think about how much money is getting spent on, and that's why their stock price is huge. And they had had a problem because they were facing some export restrictions on like, they gen they created the h 20, I think it is, which is essentially a chip designed for China.

Lots of money. And yeah. So there you go. It went up the stock went up 6% after after that news. Alright. This was your personal tech last week. Great idea. What apps do we have notifications on for? And before we even do that, do you use focus modes in your life?

I so yes. But let me give so let me give a tiny bit more context to this. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes will be, like, near someone and you look at them and they pull down their like, their screen is closed. Yes. And you see the notification center. And I'm like

It's horrifying.

Why do you have notifications for all of these things? Like, what is even happening? Why why? Like, why are

you so many notifications?

And it made me think, so and then someone asked me a a question. Actually, I think it was my wife asked me, did you see the message for about whatever? And it was, one of those apps, like, Teamreach or something, which is an app that, like, our kids' sports teams use.

I'm like,

I don't have notifications turned on because you can't tell it only send me notifications that I care about. It's just like you get everything. And so I have and I said, I don't have notifications on for that. Oh, well, do you have I don't have notifications on for that. So it made me think, like, what I turn almost everything off, Steven.

Same.

I don't want notifications. I don't need my life should not be governed by what pops up on the home on the lock screen of my iPhone. And so I just thought it'd be interesting for us to talk about that. Now to answer your question, I do have a sleep focus mode because I haven't dug into this, but for some reason, sleep plus plus the app on my watch will only track my sleep if my phone is in sleep focus mode.

Okay.

Or, but I,

it reads that from Apple health.

Yes. So I have it set up. I guess it's not, it is a focus, but it's set up through the health app where it's like, what is your sleep routine? I go to bed by this time. I want my alarm sets for this time in the morning, and then it, it tracks the sleep. So I have that one. I also have, basically a work one, which is essentially, I don't want any notifications, even the things that I have except for text messages from my wife and our kids. But those are the ones that I use.

Wait. Like, of all the notifications?

No. I'm saying those are the only Oh, yeah. The that I use is a sleep one and a work one. And other than that now we'll talk about the notifications in a second. But that was your question was whether I use And

I use I mean, anybody watched my YouTube channel, I use a ton of focus modes. I don't have a work focus. I just kind of leave that as an open thing. And then I have an evening focus, which triggers at 6PM every day. I have a weekend focus that triggers on all the weekends.

Yeah. So let me I'll walk through the list of them. I mean, I don't know. I probably have 200 apps on my phone. I I'm not gonna Yeah.

Yeah. No. No.

Yeah. The ones I have notifications on for are I have to scroll a while here. The App Store, but the only reason for that is well, because if my kids want to request to download something, I have to be able to get that notification.

Doesn't that come through messages?

I get it. I actually get a pop an App Store notification that says Really? Yeah. It's listen. Let's not get started on screen time. Because sometimes I get requests on my watch and not my phone. And if I go to the phone to approve it in messages, it's not in there, but it is on the watch. And sometimes I probably maybe I could turn that one off. But for a long time, that was how the the App Store request came through. I have Apple TV keyboard notifications or not because, like Yes.

Did you see that, the Tesla app added a live activity for supercharging?

Yeah. Yeah. So Yep. So And normally, if I'm if I'm charging at a test, I don't care because I know how exactly how long I'm gonna be there. But if I'm parked at something, like, at a hotel or whatever, sometimes hotels are like, you have to move your car when it's done.

That's good.

That's good. The FaceTime app, Find My Yeah. The the Fly Delta app for obvious reasons. That's fairly important to me. I need that. The Google Home app because our cameras are set up for, like, notification if it sees a person come to the door or that kind of thing or someone in our person in our backyard. So that's that is useful. Then I have to go to the Marriott app because you cannot get a, key, like a phone key Oh, yeah. Without having notifications on. I don't understand why.

So in Spark, you can actually specify individuals for notifications.

You can tag people as priority. Is that what it's called? Let me just double check that I'm saying that

right now.

Because I I one of the reasons

I I keep not using third party email apps is because I use the VIP feature in the stock mail app, and I love that it just syncs across all devices. And then I I get to specify exactly who I can get the notification from, and you can specify a different sound for VIP emails. So that's one of the reasons I like the stock stuff.

Yeah. So in Spark, you have the option to only have people you only get just the same thing, essentially, as VIP. So if I tag someone as a priority in Spark, I can then say only send me push notifications from for messages from people in that list. The wording is a little bit different, but it's essentially the same.

Okay. I didn't I didn't realize Spark got that granular because a lot of times email apps will say like, just send priority notifications, but it doesn't allow you to specify exact contacts. And I don't want it trying to figure out what's priority or not.

Like, how does this five So basically the way that it, so I can tell it I don't wanna preview, but then for each of my email addresses, which I just gave away all my email addresses. I just realized.

I'll drop a marker and I'll put overlays, but so no one can see, what you just did.

Why did I just do that? But, anyway, we'll pretend that I didn't just do that. But, yeah, in there, you can choose. So for each email, do you want all notifications? Do you want smart notifications, which it decides?

What do prefer I email you at?

No. It's totally okay. I it pops up into a different box in Spark, so it's totally fine. My point is I don't, like, need notifications, and Steven is never going to just email me something important. It's gonna just be a text message. Yeah. Yeah.

It's fine. So okay. So I have a couple more apps giving me notifications, but do you get notified for podcast episodes, new episodes or shit? You don't get notified for that. Okay. Do you have any kind of like grocery delivery or robotic vacuum type notifications?

We don't have a robotic vacuum. So no. That would be really weird if he had notifications for

some of You don't.

Yeah. But no. And I don't handle, like, Beth handles all of our household expenditure type things. And so, like, she'll get Walmart deliveries, but I'm not gonna get a notification for that. I do have the Walmart app, and we are signed into the same thing, but I don't get any.

And what about YouTube? You don't have, like, notifications for videos? I see how it is.

No. But you know one thing That's good. On the grocery on the grocery notifica I'll I'm gonna address that in a second. But on the grocery notifications, this is actually a huge pain point that just ticks me off, and I've actually been tempted to write about this. So, like, for example, I don't act I must have skipped over it in the list. I'm sure I have Uber turned on.

Right.

Because yeah. So Uber, do have turned on. But I don't want it on because you know what Uber does?

Promo.

Hey. Seems like a great time for you to order some more food. No. Stop. I hate okay. I hate companies that do that. It's the worst.

I will literally turn on Uber if I'm traveling, the notifications, and then turn it off when I'm not because those promo notifications are

because they're abusive. They are abusive. You should not be doing this. No company should do that. It is a gross violation of the spirit of why notifications should even exist. I know on on YouTube, just to be fair. So I literally only subscribe on YouTube video it's talking to me now, to I think let me look.

Three channels.

Two, three, four channels is all that I subscribe to on YouTube. And, yes, yours is one of them.

Thank you.

And primary tech is one of the other ones. But I don't turn on notifications or anything for any of that stuff because Yeah. Like well, first of all, the like, I don't know if we call this the for you screen, but they get us a pretty good job of serving up the new stuff anyway. So

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I have notifications for basically a lot of the things you said, although I don't use Spark. I still use the StockMail app. I do the Instacart orders if we ever do that. It's not like weekly, but we do them. And so I have Instacart turned on.

I don't even have the Apple Vision Pro app. It's pretty slick. I mean, you get

to see, like, what's the latest thing. So anyway, so I got that. The Chick fil A app, of course. The so I have Instacart. Oh, my robot vacuum, which my current default is the Dream x 50 Ultra.

Mean, I realized I missed a couple of them. So Slack, I do have turned on, but I love the the, like, the flowchart of whether you're gonna get a Slack notification or not. In Slack, I'll I only get notifications if I've been at mentioned.

Yes. Exactly.

Or I get notifications for there are two keywords. So, like, if I get a message in a thread, but that wasn't mentioned, but it says something about, like, when a time to publishes or something like that, I will get those put push notifications. Other than that, I don't get notification. Every almost every channel in Slack is set to, like, mute for me.

Never send me.

Yeah. I don't ever want notifications.

I do the same thing. Just DMs and at mentions, and that seems to work pretty well. And Slack is really good with, like, the time off. Like, so if you schedule, like, only send me between 8AM and 5PM, it's really good at that. I have things for my to do list. That's on. I also have what is it? Transloader. I'll explain that in a second. Transloader.

I do also sorry. I did miss so no one will, like, ask me. I do have reminders notifications turned on.

Oh, yeah. Me too.

Because I use that. I use that all the time. That's like the only thing I ever use Siri for is just making me a reminder. Like, constantly Exactly. It's such a great anyway, it actually makes, like, having an Apple Watch pay for itself just because I can talk I can pull pull pull reminders up and just do the reminders.

Yeah. No. No. You do that. And I have the health app as well. And just side note, my mom got I got her a blood pressure reader from Withings that connects to the health app.

Yep. We got that.

And then you can share your health data with a trusted friend or family member. Yep. And so I started doing that, and it's really cool. Like, it works really well. Like, I can just go in and see the blood pressure reading she's had. I can also go in and see, like, the medications she's taken throughout the day as she checks them off. So yeah, it's a it's a cool feature.

I agree.

Those are notifications. It does I do have that change in my different focus modes, specifically, like, Slack and all those other kind of things. But, yeah, those are notifications.

That's good. Good personal

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