iOS 27 Siri Leak, Jony Ive’s Ferrari, AI Slop Crash Out

Out there is the perfect lap. No mistakes. Every gear change, every corner, perfect. Welcome to Primary Technology, the show about the tech news that matters. We just got leaks from journalist Mark German about iOS 27 and the Siri overhaul. We're going to show some images there. The Ferrari Luce is out. MKBHD has a video of the inside, the Johnny Ive designed interior.

Highlight three is out, the Fitbit Air is out there, YouTube is putting AI labels on a bunch of stuff, Spotify has new podcast tools and a ton more. This episode is brought to you by Keeper, Scribe, and Nordlayer, and you, the members who support us directly. I'm one of your hosts, Steven Robles, and joined by journalist Jason A Ten. How's it going, Jason? This is gonna be a long episode. I'm saying journalist a lot because i if you don't it's an inside joke.

You have to listen to our unedited feed to get the joke. And you can become a member at join.primary tech. Or just click the link in the show notes or below the video and you get it for like two dollars and fifty cents a month or fifty dollars a year. It's crazy deal. ~ do you know where that quote is from? Out there is the perfect lap, no mistakes. I just wanna correct you for one second. I just pulled that quote verbatim.

It's not two dollars and fifty cents a year or f or a month or fifty dollars a year. No no no. Tw twenty five dollars a year. It's twenty five dollars a year. 'Cause I'm like, that math does not work. If you use the promo code. No, Okay. no, math ain't mathin'. Two fifty a month, twenty five dollars a year, the link is down in the show support the show, ad free, all that. Yeah. I think that the movie is not F one because no, That's correct. No, that's not F1.

but I think it's the other one with Javier Bardem Yes, that's right. one of the topics we're talking about today. and Brad Pitt. Ford vs. Ferrari. I know. I just tried to see how Okay, well wait minute. It is Ford v. Ferrari. It is not either of those actors. It is Matt Damon. ~ how confused I c make you. okay, anyway. That is Ford v. Ferrari. we have a lot of exciting stuff. I've been sending out pins ~ secretly to even more people. And spoiler, we're on six out of seven continents.

That's not a six seven meme. It's six out of seven. Actually we're on seven out of eight, which we'll get to in a second, which I didn't know. But anyway J D. Storch from the USA gave us a four star review. I have to go an entire episode without saying a specific word, so we'll see if I'm gonna do it today. He's gonna bump it up to five stars. Joe drinks coffee from New Zealand. He says Zealandia is officially a continent. What does officially mean?

Officially. I don't know. Journalist Jason Kitan, you should tell us. What what? Sorry, this is gonna be an inside general time. It also said ~ doc dots could be on or off. I don't know because we don't use doc down in this part of the world. I also don't know what that means. Are you saying everyone in New Zealand and Australia no one uses the doc on their Mac? Everybody uses Yeah, I didn't understand that either when I read it.

I just I didn't know if that was a joke or I didn't know if this is like Please yeah. Is it a Hobbit joke? I don't know. in the EU you're not allowed to do in app subscriptions and in Australia you can't use the doc. I don't know. I don't know. Please explain. Leave us another five star rating review. Yeah. Please explain. Aluir one one one from the UK and the the title of this review it really hurt because it said Jason thank you, Jason. That was the whole title of the review.

And it said a while back, Jason said to drink black coffee for two weeks and you'll never go back. And he was very right. I love my iced Americano in the morning. Really, Jason? Yeah. I don't actually remember saying that, but it does sound like a thing I would say. I probably was trying to convince you to just switch to black coffee, think he says. Maybe I'm not doing it. maybe. I don't know. ~ yeah, Do you say you drink black coffee just straight? and I had a really sad story. It'll be quick.

Don't worry. That last night, so we get these Nespresso pods right for our Nespresso thing. And whenever you get them, Yeah, yeah, yeah. they actually send you like samplers of other types. Like you didn't order this, you might want to next time. And what they sent us this time, I definitely will not be ordering next time because it was supposed to be some kind of caramel something. And I'm like I hate flavored coffee. Now, I will drink like a latte with something in it.

That's different. Flavored coffee, Sure, sure, sure. Hmm. it should be a crime. I just think it's so bad. It's also a crime how you said caramel and not caramel, but I don't know if we have time to get into that. So I it's definitely wrong though. I don't think it was a crime. Carmel? ~ yeah, that's not that's not right. ~ but anyway, ~ we have listeners so You can leave us a five star review and tell us how you say that word. Also also don't spell it out because it's only spelled one way.

Please spell it out. How do you say caramel? But I don't think Yeah. That's right. Exa that's exactly right. That's exactly right. With all the letters. It's not C A R ~ E L. That's all I'm saying. I mean there is a city in in Indiana called Carmel, but anyway. There's also one in New York, I think, Mm. Carmel, Carmel. Anyway, I want to talk about listeners around the world because we actually

had a listener who's been to Antarctica before, and she also has her own podcast, Podfeet. ~ she heard our plea about Antarctica and had the same dream, and so she took it into her own hands and went to Antarctica herself to listen to her show down there. Listen, kudos. Well, But she didn't take one of our pins? this was years ago. This happened years ago. She didn't invent a time machine, She didn't go recently. get one of our pins and go back and do this.

No, but that is amazing. We've had listeners in Antarctica. It happened once. I think it can happen again. Let us know. Listen, your grandparents who's going on a cruise to Antarctica. How do you say that word? Antarctica? Caramel? How do you say that? Anyway, Yeah, how many A's are in ~ so listen, if you're going to Antarctica, let me know. I will send you a bunch of pins. I don't think that's right. I think it's Antarctica, not Antarctica.

You just swallow some letters, No, put that put the screenshot back up there and look at the letters. Antarctica? Antarctica. I'm putting it up there, but that's how that's how you say it. How do you say how do you say eternity? I can't see it. And Arktika. Eternity? Eternity? Antarctica. As opposed to what? How else would you say Yeah. Anyway, Nate's brother Jacob gave me a hard time 'cause I said eternity a lot of times on a podcast and I guess you need to swallow the second tea,

you gotta say eternity. Anyway. Hm. Okay. So I think we need to start another podcast, mispronunciation on the side. I've read The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth, which is an excellent book, and ~ I think I recommend to everyone. But anyway, Antarctica. I'm gonna say all the T's. Let us know if you're going there. But we I sent a pin to Ottavio in Brazil. So now we have South America covered, Oscar in Sweden, Ernesto in Uruguay, so we have Central America, and so they're going everywhere.

We're gonna be on all the continents. We just need to get Antarctica. Help us get there. Journalists Antarctica. Journalist Antarctica. I also want to shout out two other things before we get to F1 iOS twenty-seven series and all of that. We talked about Lego a couple weeks. Yeah. Jason's well acquainted with Lego. Big Broncos fan on Thread sent us a picture of his son's Lego collection. Listen, this thing, epic. He's got like the Marvel, he's got the Doctor Strange, Yeah.

the Marvel Tower, he's got great posters, he's got Grogu up there, multiple shelves, classic cars. He's got the setup. Yeah, if this if it wasn't for the Arod fat head on the wall there, I think that this would rival some of the rooms I've been to in the Lego Museum, just to be honest. That's pretty pretty impressive. Mm? Yeah. And if it wasn't for the fact that there's such a good story that goes with this, I'd actually be mad that he just wanted to show me up.

No, no, Big Bronco fan said it helped his son get through chemo brain, and this is just a portion of the Legos. And so very incredible. Ver very well. Very very well done. So thanks for sharing that. And finally, I wanted to shout out an app. this is Chalk Lift. Have you seen this app, Jason? Chock Lift? So it is think of it as like a digital stream deck on your phone.

No. But basically you install this app on your phone and on your Mac, and then you can launch shortcuts by tapping the icons on your iPhone. Or you can run like open apps and even open different window panes, a lot of it through shortcuts. But if you don't have Stream Deck but you want to experiment, you can use it as a free app to download. So we'll put the link down below.

And you do there is a pro subscription if you want multiple pages on your iPhone of things to tap, but it's also just free if you just want like one eight button like little Stream Deck on your phone. I thought that was pretty cool. Chalk lift by Phil Trout. All right, That is that is very cool.

you were on a at an F1 race and you took a picture of Mm-hmm. Lewis Hamilton on a razor, is that accurate? I don't know what he was on, but yeah. I mean he showed up on a Jacoti bike one day. He showed he ro r goes around on his little scooter. Wow. My favorite yeah, I was at the at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. Actually I w I left before the race. Is that stupid? I'm gonna do the same thing again next week, but but it's because I so I was there Friday and Saturday,

Wow. Yes. flew and Sunday and then flew home. But Monday was my son's birthday. So in going from Montreal to here, ~ yeah, you gotta be there. there are not a lot of direct flight options. So it's like if I wanted to be home for my son on my son's birthday, I had to come home Sunday night, You gotta do which meant I actually left before the race started. I go to F one races and don't go to the race. Nice, as you do.

But there you listen, an F one race weekend, there's a lot of stuff there's a sprint race. I was there for that. There's qualifying, Right, right. there's f practice, there's a F one Academy race, Old red. actually three F one Academy races. So there's an F two race. There's a lot going on. So but Very cool. The super fun stuff. Yeah. The my favorite thing, I just want to say this.

You know, s when I've been to the races, ~ as a press person, you have access to basically everything except for like the paddock club or whatever, you know? And I and so you're in the paddock, which is the space between the garages and the hospitality tents. That's the paddock, right? And that's you can you can watch the drivers going back Yeah, yeah. and forth from the garage right before the races,

all this. It's great. So the there are people who sort of ~ what is it gather whatever in that area. Sure. Congregate. Congregate, that was the word I looking for. Thank you. Yeah, they Journalists, yeah. they journalist in there. Some of them are journalists, but everyone else is maybe paparazzi just trying to get photos.

And my favorite thing is right before the race, they the the drivers, particularly Charles Clare and Max Verstappen, they run out of their their hospitality tents and everyone's like, They're going to the garage. And it's like, nope. And they all just sort of like run to the there's a bathroom section right between them, you know?

And then the people all just stand outside the bathrooms waiting and I'm thinking, ~ if you're an F one driver, how locked in do you have to be to not be thinking about the fact that you're standing in here peeing and there are seven hundred people standing right outside waiting for you to come out Right. Well listen, if there's any athlete that understands performance anxiety, it's F one drivers and so I'm sure that they're locked in they're locked. Can I show this picture of Lewis Hamilton?

You you can show any of the pictures you want, ~ this will be the chapter R but also here it is if you're watching in Apple, yeah. Spotify, or YouTube, there he is, Lewis Hamilton on a scooter. It's not quite as dramatic as the picture I took with Sony Elfle One at the Vegas w no, I'm saying I had one of Lewis that was pretty dramatic, With Beyonce and Jay Z. Yeah, that but yeah. was a very good one. But I this is dramatic in a different way.

It was fun. Yeah. Listen, this is hardcore journalism.

Okay, it's beta sea beta season is about to be upon us. Dubdub is a week and a half away. And I'm going out to WW. I'm trying to figure out what am I gonna install betas on ~ because I want to make videos of stuff. I'm bringing my iPhone Air, that's my beta device. I'm not bringing another iPad. If I do an iPad beta, I'm just gonna raw dog it on my main iPad Pro. I don't think that's the term, but I'm I'm going with it. Jason's cameras is just violently shaking.

I mean if unless you're making a shrinking reference, But here's ~ I haven't watched the last the last season, the No, so I I don't I don't ~ yeah, anyway, it doesn't matter, but there's the okay anyway. Because but the Harrison Ford character keeps saying that and they just keep saying to him, I don't think that means what you think that means. yeah, he doesn't say he that's not what it means. That's not

what it means. But but my Mac, I this whole segment is just so I could explain how I did this on my MacBook Air. But I was thinking there's gonna be a lot of changes on ~ no, I just said it. I'm gonna have to cut it out. Anyway, I said a word. I'm gonna I'm gonna mute it. It's fine. It's it's fine. Three point nine. Three point nine. this I wanted to be able to run the macOS beta on some device while I'm out there at dubdub. Because I think there's going to be big changes.

If there's big changes to Apple intelligence and shortcuts, last year there was a whole like like automations on the Mac were brand new for shortcuts. So I wanted to be able to do a beta on my Mac, but I also have I need a Mac to like edit video and not be buggy while I'm out there because I'm going to be recording podcasts, editing video. I ~ my word, I thought about, I thought about buying a second MacBook Air like a crazy person to have a second Mac with me for the beta.

And that felt like overkill. So I'm not gonna do that. But what I looked up is you can create a partition on your SSD for your Apple Silicon Mac and break it off and then install Mac OS like it's a whole other computer. And then when you start up your Mac, you hold the power button. You used to be able to do this like reboot, and you still apparently can reboot from an external SSD. You could partition old hard drives. Well, apparently you can still do all of that and it works.

And so I went through the whole process. I installed Mac OS on a partition of my SSD on my MacBook Air. And once the Mac OS 27 beta comes, I'm going to put it on the partition and hopefully I can run both. And my Tahoe side stays not buggy.

Now I've read some places that doing all of this rig and roll doesn't even matter because as soon as you go like if you update the operating system, even it's on a partition, it might change things at like the kernel level of the MacBook and it could affect things there. Whatever. I've done enough obscurity where I'm going to go with it and I will see what happens. This is a terrible idea, Steven. That's all. Why? Why is it a terrible idea?

This this is a worse idea than buying the rabbit humane pin or whatever. Why? Why is it bad? Steven, like the MacBook Neo is a thing. Just buy a MacBook Neo. But it's so I'm not gonna it's that's so thick to carry that I'm traveling, Jason. You don't even carry the Vision Pro on a plane. Steven. Did you wear it on the plane to the F one race? Of course I did not. Exactly. Exactly. That's not the same thing, by the way.

The ma the the Vision Pro is a thousand times bigger than carrying a second lap. I don't know. It's a different shape, but I feel like with the waterfield case, the volume I don't know, might be similar. It's a it's a s I Stephen, do you know do you do you understand physics? Jason's brain is breaking right now. Yeah, yeah. Like I just think okay, okay. ~ still, I think this is a terrible idea. Yeah. Why? But I'm super excited for the content that's gonna result from ~ That's right.

how iCloud wiped out all of my stuff because I had two versions of two different versions of Mac OS on the same laptop. I'm not signed into iCloud on the beta side for the re for just information. I just don't I think just put it on your laptop. Just put it on your laptop. You've got your Mac Studio. That's your main machine. Don't put the beta on that. But I'm when I'm traveling, I'm gonna be editing videos out there at Dubdev. For like thirteen minutes you'll be traveling. It's fine.

Yeah, but I wanna I I gotta be like in the moment. I gotta I gotta turn around like thirteen videos in four days. Final Cut Pro on your iPad. It'll be fine. Anyway. Well, I do think about that too, Yeah. No, just don't put but if I put the beta on my iPad then I'm like I got nothing. the bait on your iPad until you get home, it'll be fine. Yeah, but if I want to make a video about it. Anyway, ~ what is your what is your strategy?

The all the all that to say, you have a thousand different devices over there, because you got review units you keep for four years. What are you gonna put the beta on? Not four years. I'm I don't think I have anything from before COVID. It's fine. I know. I'm wait, That's six years ago. Six years. What are you gonna put the beta on when it comes out? what was what's your question? What is my strategy? I'll just put it on everything. Dub dub Your main iPhone? It's fine. I don't care. Of course.

This is crazy. This is crazy, Why not? It'll be fine. No, I ~ but honestly, Jason. the the betas unless there's a thing y so I understand people who didn't run the betas of Tahoe because they just hated liquid glass. Fine that's fine. But the betas, I have I it has been a very long time since a beta version of iOS or Mac OS or even iPad OS has been a problem for me. I So I wouldn't put it on the MacBook Pro because the one thing I would Sure, sure. be nervous about is audio hijack.

Like that's the one thing. That is the one thing. Right. Exactly. That's what I'll be using out there, But but hypothetically, ~ we could do this without audio hijack. yeah. Sure. It's just a backup. I'm not saying we shouldn't do it, but I'm just saying like that. Riverside'll run fine. Well, no, Yeah we Riverside never runs fine anymore, but it'll won't it's not because of a beta version of the operating system.

I just want to say that ~ po zoom for podcasting right now, Yeah, don't yeah, there's d someone don't don't clip that. Uhhuh. Yeah. that is a industry ripe for disruption. Wait, like zoom? Just in I'm saying no, like Riverside, this is how I describe it to people. Riverside is the Zoom but for podcasting, right? I think that that category of software is ripe for disruption right Sure, okay, yeah. now because there are no good options. I mean Riverside does pretty well.

Like we've never had a Until they figure out that they should change things and then they're like, Wait, no one asked for this and it broke everything. The editor's but the editor's been problematic, but anyway, we don't get into it. Beta season's coming. I'll follow up what it ha what happens when you put a Mac OS beta one on a partition of a MacBook Air. I will probably put iOS beta on the iPhone Air and not r put it on my i Not Germany. Yeah. and not put it on my iPhone seventeen.

And then I'll probably pull out either the Neo or MacBook Air. Yeah, yeah. One of your eighteen computers that you have Four excuse me, Not eighteen, fourteen. fourteen. All right. Right as we were recording,

journalist Mark German at Bloomberg released a bunch of information about I was twenty seven. Basically the Siri overhaul, which he has a bunch of things here. We will link a Bloomberg article. How many people can click a gift link before it expires? I think infinity it just expires Do you know? ~ really? in seven days. So today is Thursday the twenty eighth. You th you're on the timer. All right. Alright, you're on the timer. So we will put Jason's gift link in the show notes.

The nine to five Mac article is great, but they didn't include the images for obvious reasons because they wanted to, you know, Bloomberg is releasing this stuff and and it's under behind a paywall. So I I just gonna show a couple of the images, but German is basically saying that there's a bunch of redesigns of Siri, which we kind of knew already. There's going to be this bubble type thing from the dynamic island. That will be the Siri assistant.

You'll be able to ask. There'll be a dedicated Siri app with your conversation history. Siri will be in the camera, kind of like visual intelligence, but if you want to just go straight to that from the camera, you'll be able to do that, I think, rather than having to go to the visual intelligence screen, which I always forget is there. And so he is giving a preview of the Siri overhaul. We kind of knew this was happening.

The the dedicated app is what I'm curious if this is actually gonna happen or not. Like, will there be a series? Yeah, that you can go and see your conversation history, resume a conversation, search it, all of that. And Jason doesn't think that's necessary, but I want a conversation history because I use it all the time

in Claude and ChatGPT. And if that history also then speaks to context, meaning your future requests will be tailored based on your past requests, I think that would be ~ positive. Now, in a lot of these ~ images, in all these images, There is ChatGPT as an integration, kind of like how you can do visual intelligence with both Chat GPT or Apple Intelligence and all of that.

There are no images that show like Claude or Gemini as one of the popover options that could just be it's not in this version or whatever images that ~ journalist Mark German got. But that is, you know, Gemini and Siri. That's hopefully what we're gonna be hearing about at WWDC. Is that deal happened? We haven't heard anything since that agreement between Apple and Google. And so ~ maybe that is just what like the main Siri option is here. It's just Jim and I behind the scenes.

But and now I'm sorry, I've said Siri a thousand times. My home pod is now flashing at me. I don't know what is about to happen. It's probably gonna start blasting Han Zimmer music. But that's it. Go to the GIF link if you want to see all the images. it's right there. Yeah, and I'm the I'm I can understand wanting a Siri app, but if all the Siri app does is punch you to Chat GPT or Gemini, why don't you just use the ChatGPT of Gemini app?

I feel like there has to be a much better story than that. I fine, chat history, like whatever. But did you look at the chat history? Like this this feels like someone designed these things who just doesn't want It's not good. Yeah, it doesn't look good. you to use them. Like even the glowy orb thing coming out of the dynamic island. Alright, I'll show It looked weird, yeah. Steven, it looks like it is like sucking the content of that page up into the L L which is exactly what's happening.

But like I don't understand like That is what's happening. There is no I will I'm gonna say this right now, and you can call me a I don't know, whatever this is, whether I'm right or wrong. The conversation history will not look like this screenshot. This screenshot is showing these like bubble conversations where there's two columns offset and every conversation is like a round wreck little bubble. Ain't no way it looks like that.

It will it will at the very least be a list, just a regular list. Except you just know that they have to have a different mode of operating. And I would not be surprised. I'm not saying it will look like this, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it looks exactly like this because Apple's gonna Apple and instead of just doing the logical thing that every other version of these apps is doing, they're like, Well, let's figure out how we could do this in a way that would be Apple.

It's like you know you're behind. Like you don't double down on being behind. I tell you what, Jason, if it if the conversation looks exactly like this in the Siri app in iOS twenty seven, I will ca Apple cash you five dollars. But if it doesn't look like this, you have to say the word leaker at least once in an episode. Just just the word leaker. Not not around anything else. That's fine. Mark German is not a Mark German is not a leaker. No, no, no, no, no. No context.

You just have to say the word at at one point. Anyway, we're gonna know about in a week and a half what is actually happening. So there you go, iOS twenty seven series. Gift link below if you want to see all the screenshots.

R2, Rivian R2. The official launch date is June 9th, by the way. We're gonna get to the Ferrari Luce in a moment. But if you wanted to order a Rivian R2, some people are getting delivery on June 9th. There's invitations if you are on the wait list. It's gonna be out there. I am on the wait list. Aren't you on the wait list? I I have not gotten an email. I'm waiting for my VIP R2 to arrive. Just kidding, that's not happening. but yeah, I don't know, we'll see.

There was ~ also the performance models are the ones that are available right away. So if you want the cheaper models, you're gonna have to wait. This is like for the most expensive models or whatever, Yeah. which that's not what I was h hoping for. So I'll be waiting. But we'll see. June ninth, Rivian. Cool. I didn't you booked one too, didn't you? Reserve one? that's it.

No, I did not. But we I I we've talked about how ~ there's like at some point we'll have to replace our Model S because like it's almost seven, eight years old. They don't make it anymore. That that product is obsolete. And they don't make model S anymore, which is actually pretty unfortunate. ~ but just thinking about what we might what we might want and I don't know, an R Two's kinda nice. Did I tell you when my Model S fell apart? Did tell you about that? Was that before you bought it,

after you bought it? What I have a twenty thirteen Model S, Which is basically OG. if any it is one year past the original release date of that model. And it has the bubble plastic nose, you know, so i it I yeah. Yeah. That's how you can tell someone has a a very old bottle S. A year a couple of years ago after I first got it, I went to my barber, which was obviously a couple of years ago because

I don't go anymore. ~ one of the guys when I walked in the barber shop, they were Why does your Tesla look so weird? I was like, Because it's old. Okay? It's because it's an old car. But then I I know. I don't ask you that as you get older. What are you talking about my car like that for? You got a moped out front. Why are you talking about me?

~ so I it's got the plastic bubble nose on the front of the Model S. And one day I was pulling into somewhere, I forget what it was, and when I got out, the bubble was gone. The front nose had just disappeared. It was just like the metal plate behind it. No bubble nose. Well, it disappeared, Like somebody stole it? and I don't know what happened to it. And I was like, what? What could happen?

And I did remember I when I I back into my garage, and there was a instance where I didn't back up far enough, and the garage door kind of like touched the bubble nose and then went back up because it registered that there was an object there. And I was like, huh. And apparently that weakened the little clips, maybe, that connect the bubble nose. And then One day it just was gone. And I was like, How when did this fall off? Cause 'cause it happened recently.

And then I remembered, I wonder, did I loosen it with the garage? And then when I went through the car wash, was that enough to break off the bubble nose? So ~ the bubble nose. So I went back to the car wash and I you know, trying to go to a car wash and asking for help, that's like going to the middle of the desert and looking for a Starbucks. They only know how to do one I guess like thing, which is put your car in the little rails and just go.

That's it. And I don't even know like, you know, there's no like office for the car wash to go to, but there are people around working. And so I find someone running around like emptying the trashes and I'm like, Hey, listen, y do you guys have a lost and found? Like I know this sounds weird. And I People y typically lose parts off of their car. I don't know. And I I listen I gestured towards my car. I was like, I I'm wondering if the thing and the lady was like,

~ actually, hold on a second. Disappears into the back room. Jason sure enough comes out with my bubble nose for my Tesla. And the mo there was one clip that's like kind of bent now so it doesn't fully go in the the thing, but I was able to just kind of rest it on there. I pushed it in, most of the clips clipped and now my bubble nose has been on ever since, been on there for like three months. To get some gorilla glue, put it back there, just

Nah, I just let it alone. I did go on eBay and you can bear like buy the plastic bubble part for like three hundred fifty dollars from some reseller. And I ordered one because I was like, I don't know where my bubble nose is. But then I went to the car wash, they had it, and I canceled my eBay order. But apparently you can get it. Can you get can you get one with like hue lights that you can control with an app as you're driving down the street?

The 'cause the fila, whatever, You can get different colors, which I don't want. ~ yeah. ~ I should get a screen. that discontinued Sony car, they actually had a screen on the front top that you could put stuff on. It was stupid, but I should get a screen that just says beard.fm. It just scrolls on the top on the front of my thing. You should. Get an e paper, bubble nose. No, I'm not gonna do that. It's ridiculous. My car already looks weird, apparently. Speaking of cars though,

the Ferrari Luce is now out there in the world. MKBHD has a video of the interior. There has been endless memes about this car. Cause it's the first time we see the exterior and the hole of the car. One of my favorite memes was someone put it ~ s side by side with the Nissan Leaf, similar color, and it's Leaf and Leaf Pro Max. Excellent joke. Can I just say? Nice. Nice. Yeah.

Very good. Very good meme. This is of the reason why this car is news and tech news is because it is designed well, there's a lot of tech in it, which we'll talk about. But it is designed by Johnny Ive and his company Lovefrom. And everybody's like if this if You wanted to know what the Apple car was gonna look like, it's gonna look like this. It wouldn't look like this, just so everybody knows. This is a Ferrari. This is not an Apple car. I am not a car guy,

Jason. I don't know the first thing about Ferrari. I have never in my life desired to have a Ferrari. But then I saw the interior of this car and I thought, you know what? Six hundred thousand dollars? Maybe it could be tax deductible. No, just kidding. I didn't think that. This is the Ferrari Lucian. Did you see the interior of this car, Jason? Yeah, I mean we'd already seen the dashboard and the steering wheel. We saw the dashboard and the screen like disembodied separate from each other.

~ I don't you're you're are you're a car guy? I mean you go to F one races, like is the exterior of this car I like cars, yeah. as offensive as people are saying? Did you see the video of so on so they released it on Monday, I believe it was, on Memorial Day. Yes. And there was Ferrari put up a video of Lewis Hamilton and Charlotte Claire, the two F1 drivers, like seeing it for the first time. Yes. They were like, that was the release video,

was the two of them. And they're both like sticking their hands underneath that part Right. where you in the front there. Like it's like it's like an airfoil open Yeah, it's like a open. all the way up. It's like, I don't understand what's happening. There's a lot of strange things going on with this car. It looks sort of like a lucid air meets Nissan Leaf meets Yeah. the grocery cart thing with the car on the front of it that you get at the store where you push your kids around.

~ Yes, yes, yes. I don't it's got suicide doors. I don't know that I fully and this is an SUV. Yeah. Sort of? That feels generous calling that an SUV. Yeah. It is I don't know what that means. It's a hatchback, It's 'cause it's larger than Ferrari. I think. I don't know. Yeah. I actually saw a lucid air in clear water y the other day, by the way, which I thought they look cool. They're great cars. They got great range. Yeah. But I just don't understand this car really.

I don't know. Th what I wanted to mention is like the connection or integration of like digital and physical things in this car feels pretty innovative. And so MKBHD talks about like the techometer and the speedometer. And there's like physical needles and even physical elements to the dials, like an aluminum ring, but then there's like digital things behind it.

Even so much like when you change from like sport to touring To range mode, you actually see the dials change, like for the amount of power or whatever, but the physical needle stays the same. And so it's it's a pretty cool thing, like when the dial like changes. And then there's the screen in the middle that's like a weird iPad that

you can tilt and swivel. And then there's physical switches, which several times MKBHD said the tactile feel of all the controls is one of the most satisfying things ever, which I like a good tactile physical control. And apparently all the little levers and things that you flip are like that. And the middle part of that middle screen can actually show car play. So this, you know, if you want a six hundred thousand dollar car that has car play, you can get it. And yeah, that looks cool.

This looks very designed. This looks like very designed. The air conditioning vents, you like rotate it and it opens and it looks like the craziest like jet engine style ~ design. I don't know. Looks cool. Do you remember the we're watching the MKBH detour of the interior right now, so if you're listening to this you don't see that, but he Marquez is like moving the center thing around, right? He great there's like a bar there and he's grabbing onto it.

But do you remember when was it like ~ Joswiak, they were like doing all those demos after the iPhone Air or all those interviews, and they're Yeah, go ahead and bend it. It's hard. And you everyone's trying to bend it and they can't. ~ yeah, Ben is hard to It turns out the iPhone Air is the strongest phone in the world. But can you just imagine the Far Ferrari guys are like, Yeah, Marquez, go ahead and just just move that around and do whatever you want.

You have to bend it around. That's exactly right. And he just yanks the whole thing right off. That would have been amazing. I don't know that this in that this that the infotainment and the display doesn't really feel to me like it fits the outside of the car. Like I I understand all the finishings are, No, not at all. you know Delicious or you can lick them or whatever it is that they say. But I d I j yeah, I just feel like I don't again, Lickable. I'm not a Ferrari target market person.

I if I was gonna have a if I had six hundred thousand dollars, this is not the thing I would buy, right? It's just not what I would spend it on. Listen, can we play a game real quick? Okay. If you had six hundred thousand dollars today and you couldn't invest it or like save it or whatever, you had to buy something, what would you buy? Well first I would definitely buy a nine eleven Turbo S, the nine nine two dot two, for sure.

Which by the way is the which by the way is the car that Marques has. You just said, I don't know if I'm a car guy and you just rattled off some I have no idea what that is. Is that Porsche? He does actually drive he does have that Porsche. Okay. It is the wait, is it Porsche or Porsche, first of all? Okay, thank you. Porsche. All right, so you'd buy that car. I would d that's about three ish, a little less than three. So with the rest of it,

Okay. Okay. I might be able to put my kids to college. It's like dad got a toy, the rest of you just choose wisely, Very responsible, we'll see. very responsible. I will say, we've been to the beach a couple times in the last few months, just weekends, and I rent these Airbnbs out there, and I'm like, if I had six hundred thousand dollars, which listen, if you if I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell you, but there would be signs.

One, I might be driving a six hundred thousand dollar car with car play, because I don't have car play now. No, I would probably just get a Rivian. but two, I would get like a beach house. I would I would get a beach house. Now listen in Florida, I understand. I don't you can't even get hurricane insurance for six hundred thousand dollars, No you cannot. No you cannot. Steven. But the beach house, it's an investment. Which beach? So th this this is a tough one. This is a little side tangent.

Please forgive us. But the age my kids are now, they like waves. And so East Coast is which what they prefer right now. Mm-hmm. Which the East Coast you get sunrises and you get waves. But as my kids get older, maybe I have grandkids in like tennish years. Little kids can't do big waves. They need a calmer beach. And personally I would choose a sunset over a sunrise.

That's just me. So if it was up to me, I think I would do a west coast of Florida, somewhere in the Treasure Island Fort DeSoto area, and do a beach house over there. Sunsets, calmer waves for the grandkids, and ~ less hurricane risk. Slightly less hurricane risk, I would say. At least than the east coast where they just get hammered by a bunch of stuff. You're still at risk. Don't don't get me wrong, but I would I would go west coast. Okay. Till so w y which beach did you say?

That's it. I just want to play the game. You didn't Treasure Island's a good place. I was saying like Treasure Island. Yeah, Treasure Island. yeah, that's where yeah, Yeah, been there many, many times. yeah, yeah. You're you're journalist Treasure Island. I'm the Treasure Island Herald. Okay, anyway. That's right. So you should go go watch MKBG's video if you want to see all the interior of the Ferrari Luche. I think I called it a loose the first time we talked about it,

That's okay. So did like Ben Thompson. and I apologize for that. Yeah, It's fine. okay. Lucha Luche.

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~ Meta is actually launching subscriptions. This has been rumored that they were testing subscriptions, and now it is official. They're launching subscriptions both for users, like four dollars a month for Instagram plus, Facebook Plus, and you get features like profile customization, super reactions, better story insights, and all of that. You can basically pay to not be shown as a story viewer.

So if you want to like creep on somebody and them not see that you looked at their story, you can pay for that feature now, which seems kind of weird. All of that to say, it's not in the US right away, they're testing it in other countries first. But they're also launching like pro creator type plans all the way up to fifty dollars a month. And the big feature, if you pay fifty dollars a month. People will see your content. People will see your content and you can put a link on a reel or post.

And listen, Jason, let me just say, the kind of world we live in, where you have to pay $50 a month to put a link on a post that you made just seems wild to me. I'm actually so I didn't s I didn't read that part. Like I hadn't gotten that far. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I just kept trying to figure out so wait, pe there's a lot of people who pay ten dollars a month for meta verified. But I think now you also have to pay more for this other stuff if you want to be verified and creepy, apparently.

That's right. That's right. I don't know. But and there's also gonna be like a bundle plan. You get the verified badge and the creepy stuff. Yes. Yes. And you can that's good. That's really good. But also make a story last longer than twenty four hours. You can highlight a story for a week. Anyway, go ahead. All that stuff is weird. It has always been strange that the ephemeral stories, you can add links right in it, but the ones that are supposed to stick around you can't.

And and then I w I I just got so tired the other day of every time Correct. Yes. you tap on a link, it opens it in the stupid Instagram or Threads browser. And you have to dig through the little menu to try to find the open and I'm Yes. ~ the worst. The worst. I so I just posted on Threads. I was like, the only thing I ever want this to do is open an external browser. I don't even need the button. Just like let that be the thing. Right. Right. A lot of people agree with me,

Stevens. A lot of people are like, I know, I saw that thread going viral. I saw that. just like yes, never did, but they're just coming at the fact that they're gonna make you pay fifty dollars a month to put a tap clickable link in a post just tells no. you how desperate they are to keep people on the platform. That and here's the thing, Jason. Well, no, I would consider paying that. Okay, there's more.

Because I now post a lot of reels, I post a lot of stories, and you might be wondering, why do you care about Instagram? What even why does it matter? When I went independent as a creator, one of the decisions I wanted to make was do a lot less to zero dedicated YouTube videos. So in the creator space, the lingo is you can do a dedicated long form video, you can do an integration, which is like a 60 second ad in a video, or you can do a short, reel, or TikTok.

And the one audience that I want to protect the most, protect the sense of trust the most, is my long form YouTube audience. That's what I grew my channel on. That is where I put like some of the best content out there. And that is also the marketing channel for like my shortcuts community. So I can tell people about that. And this podcast and Mike Power users. Like YouTube channel is what I want to protect the most. And so I didn't want to do dedicated robot vacuum videos anymore.

And I haven't. I say no to a lot of sponsors where they say, Listen, we're only interested in a 10-minute dedicated video about our robot vacuum. And I say, Okay, not for me. And it has been wonderful because you guys who support this show, my shortcuts community, the support you guys have in those places allow for that. It allows me to say no to things like 10-minute robot vacuum videos, which don't perform well anyway. Nobody cares. You they're obviously not a review because they're sponsored.

So the one place that I wanted to put more sponsorships that I didn't care as much about, because this content is even more ephemeral than YouTube videos, is reels and TikToks. Because I don't care what I post there. I mean I do care to an extent, but the cost of posting a reel about a pool vacuum. is so much lower than doing a dedicated sponsored video on YouTube long form of a pool vacuum. So I needed to grow my Instagram following and TikTok following Right.

so sponsors see that and will pay me to post about their stuff on those channels. So Instagram reels and TikTok and YouTube shorts are a key part of my business now because that's where I point sponsors. I say I'm not going to do a dedicated long form YouTube video, but I'll do a short reel and a TikTok And you can pay me for that. And many of them agree. And one of the hardest things is linking to stuff. And so I have to do link in bio on Instagram. You can do the many chat automation.

And this is why you see all the reels where they'll say, comment link, and I'll DM you a link because that's the only option you have. Many chat is like $15 a month. Just point of reference. So if I could put a link on a reel to a shortcut, which is nine times out of ten, what I will do, like, hey, tap here and download this shortcut. People will love that experience and it'll be a way less friction for them. And then if I do a sponsorship, I could say I can link your product right on the reel.

I'm actually considering that and might might pay fifty dollars a month for that, which is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Sorry. I lo I got really distracted because I just found a S D card thing that has dog teeth in and then the S D card's missing. And I'm just trying to figure out did I take it out and not notice the teeth marks? Or I probably did. No, I'm just kidding. Did you chew the SD card I just noticed that and I'm like, I gotta go find my dog. I gotta go look in the yard real quick.

That S D card's probably worth two thousand dollars. Actually I'm pretty sure that the reason that that was sitting on my desk I mean is that that S D card doesn't work, so it's fine. But have you gotten scan have you listen, this is a real thing. You can buy sand disc S D cards from Amazon and they are nothing. They are just the outside casing. Okay. What do you mean? There's nothing inside them. They are just you'll pay three hundred dollars Really?

for a five twelve S D card. You put it in your camera and it's like, I don't know you. Yeah. It's happened a couple times. Really? I just bought a micro SD card, Sandisc, for my contraband Osmo Pocket Four. Cause I have one of those, even though you can't get them here in the US. Okay. but it was real, it was legitimate. I did have to pay a hundred twenty dollars for five twelve ~ gigabyte SSD, which is almost double what I paid probably a year ago.

I mean those those contraband devices, they take only the good stuff. So why they call it contraband? They tick all in the good stuff. Anyway, I had lots of thoughts on on reels and and s and things, Yeah. but I don't think that anyone should pay fifty dollars a month for that, but that's because I think that it is absolutely ridiculous that that's just the way they've built the platform. Like, how hard would it be the fact that they okay, for a long sorry, for a long time it was like,

we can't do this. It's sorry, it's just sorry, that's there's no way to add a link in this little text field where Yeah, yeah, yeah. you put the description. It's just not possible. Never mind that you've been able to do it on Facebook for whatever eternity. The possible. You c it doesn't matter though, Yeah. Twenty four years. because but they'll never send you any traffic from that link. So it doesn't it's basically like you can't add a link.

Correct. Yeah. Yeah. You can just put it there and it makes you feel better, but no one cares. But now they're like, actually we figured out a way, it'll just be fifty dollars a month, please. Anyway, I might pay that. I'll let you know. It's not available in the US yet, but but I might do it. Rise up. Rise up, Steven, you gotta stick with the people. I'm gonna put a break there. ~ okay.

I was like, did I make you stall out or something? No, no, no. I was thinking about how to structure the rest. I'm at okay. I'm we'll let's do an early lightning round because I want to talk about our travel gear in a minute, because you've been traveling. I'm about to go to dubdub. But Halide 3 is officially out. I wanted to mention because we interviewed Ben Sandowski of Halide 3. That's right. And so you should go listen to that interview. I'll link it below. But that's out there.

Great. Yeah, we did. We did, We talked about halide three, didn't we? Yeah. yeah, because it was out there in Alpha or Beta or something like that. So that's out there. There's been a lot of reviews of the Fitbit Air. And I will point you to Lexi Savage's review of the Fitbit Air. She had really good in-depth review. This is the, you know, Google's new fitness tracker. And people are liking the hardware because it's light, great battery life, all that kind of stuff.

But there's been a lot of pushback against the app. The Google Health app is apparently a bit of a mess. And I've been seeing also on social media that while the Fitbit Air has no subscription, like many other fitness trackers, like the Whoop and stuff.

People are saying that you really do have to pay for the Google Health premium for ten dollars a month, or that comes in Google AI Pro for the twenty dollar a month plan, because without the Google Health app, you don't get a lot of the metrics and trends or interpreting of the data that you get when you actually have the, you know, subscription. So it remains to be seen. I don't have one of these. ~ I still like my Apple Watch and it works just fine

for all that stuff. But but Lexi had a great video if you're Wondering about don't know the in depth of the Fitbit Air and how good it works for different things. She compared it to the Apple Watch. So yeah, it's there. The good thing about a device like this is it's relatively low profile. If you wanted to wear something other than an Apple Watch but still Yes. get your stats or whatever, like I've got the what is this thing? You got the whoop, right? I got a whoop on right now, yeah.

And it's nice because if you're wearing something else, then it's then you can still get keep track of your data if you don't you so you're not like Marquez. Marquez's review he was wearing like three different things at a time or whatever. Yeah, you got all that. Right.

So that's that's nice, but I don't know, I've seen a lot of people The s the pain point seems to be yes, you have to pay for a subscription and also Fitbit used to be I mean, obviously Google has owned it for a while, but it used to be f relatively platform agnostic in some ways, Right. right? If you had I know a lot of people with iPhones and Fitbits. But if you have this one, this isn't gonna do with Apple Health what you'd Yeah, yeah. pay for with Google Health. So

That correct. So we'll leave those videos in the show notes and the Verge article has ~ why the Google Health Backlash is out there. We talked a couple weeks ago about Amazon acquiring GlobalStar or at least a portion of it. Well, they are now acquiring even more of it, and Amazon is going to acquire Apple's share of GlobalStar, which is the satellite provider that does like the satellite SOS for the iPhone fourteen and newer, and Amazon's just gonna own all of it.

So there you go. Amazon is powering your satellite. Connectivity. I mean, the interesting thing here is that 'cause this is also Apple's or Amazon's Leo satellite network will be the source on iPhones and on Delta Airlines, right? And it's interesting because w last week or this week American said they're Delta Airlines, yeah. now using Starlink. So that means Apple and Delta are the only That's right. two companies holding out against the twenty eight trillion dollar addressable For Amazon Leo.

market that ~ sp Elon Musk says that SpaceX is going to capture. Starlink. I mean, you're a Delta guy. Do you wish Delta had gone with Starlink? Yeah. at this so the weird thing is that the Wi Fi on Delta flights has been basically mostly fine. Unless you were on one of the planes that still had the old go go hotspot, whatever stupidness. If you were on one of the ones I think it was via sat maybe maybe and you had the free Wi Fi, you couldn't do great streaming necessarily to devices,

but it was fine. Like for the stuff I use on an airplane, it was fine. I don't know. So like this is them moving up to the next level and I don't I haven't asked I should ask somebody why not Starlink? Like Starlink, everyone's using Starlink. Yeah. That seems to be table stakes. it's but I do think it's interesting that Delta is the only I said it, it was me, not Steven. I'm allowed to say it. It wasn't me though. It wasn't me. You're you can say it, I can't say it,

No one told me I couldn't. Right. And I also meant it in the way that that it was meant to be used is yeah. the only major airline that is not using Starlink. Fair. And and Apple seems to be pushing against that as well. Yeah. So anyway, I will there you go. Starlink Leo. ~ okay. The MacBook Pro overhaul. We've not really talked about this, but apparently the MacBook Pro is due and going to have a major hardware overhaul. Not just a new chip, but everything gonna be changing.

Switching from mini LED to OLED. That's been rumored for the last couple of years, but it's like maybe finally coming. Journalist Mark German over at Bloomberg has talked a lot about this. And how Apple is optimizing Mac OS to take advantage of a possible touch screen. Though might it be a dynamic island on the MacBook Pro, a thinner design. And everyone's saying this is going to coming with

the M6 chip generation. I'm still saying I don't think there's going to be a touch screen on the MacBook Pro. ~ the overhaul, thinner design, dynamic island. I could see all that. I don't think it's gonna be a touch screen. Do you? I I don't know if it's gonna be a touch screen. I really hope it's not. OLED, great. I've had some laptop I've reviewed like some Dell XPS with OLEDs. They're all that's that's great. That's fine, whatever. Apple, I mean the mini ID is pretty darn good.

So if I'm I don't feel like there's a need there necessarily. Pretty good. But the touch screen thing, I don't understand the desire to have a touch screen Mac at all because I have used many, many Windows PCs that have touch screens, including a surface like book. Yeah, yeah. thing l and I you never touch the screen. Like you don't th maybe the occasional like scroll. Scroll with your thumb. Yeah. Man, it's really like the thing is the trackpad is actually closer than the screen.

And you're gonna want to type probably soon after too. Yeah. And I don't wanna have to clean it off later. So yeah. It's so gross. Even even not touching my MacBook Air screen, I there's stuff all over it. There's just stuff all over it. Yeah, 'cause you touch the keyboard and the keyboard touches the screen, That's the problem. but I don't I really don't understand the desire to have a touch screen Mac.

I I just don't get it. I can understand the I the desire to run Mac OS on an iPad, I wonder yeah. fine. Like whatever. I mean I get but I understand that sort of. Yeah, that's not gonna happen either though. Yeah, yeah. But that's mostly because it's just a b it's just a sweet form factor, right? It's like I got this cool little thing. Yeah, yeah. We're gonna talk about our hopes and dreams for dub dub, and I have some thoughts about iPad that will be coming.

So stay tuned. Next week will be our our preview prediction hopes and dreams episode. That'll be fun. All right.

YouTube is actually getting serious about AI labels. So e both on long form and YouTube Shorts, there are going to be more prominent AI labels. On a long form, you're gonna see it, you know, right by the title and the channel. There'll be a little AI tag, and they're gonna detect whether it is AI and on shorts, there's gonna be an AI tag just visible. You're not gonna have to like tap to see the label. It's just gonna be there watermarked on the video.

If anything is made with Google synth ID or C2PA detects ~ AI, then that label is gonna be there. And it will also try to detect, even if it wasn't generated with Google's tools or tagged with C2PA, it's gonna try and if it is AI, it's gonna try and label it proactively. Creators can challenge that if in fact what they made was not AI. But this feels like the like a positive move, like in the right direction. Like this is what it would be nice to have

all the platforms doing. Like just put the AI label right there on the video, on the reel, on the short, and YouTube is like really doing it. So it's good. Or they could just not have the stuff there. I know it's not, That's not Jason. That's not gonna happen. That's not gonna happen but I just feel like this is this is pointless. I don't know. I don't think it's pointless. Why would you say it's pointless? It's it's it's it's utterly and completely pointless.

This is gonna have zero effect except for making them feel better about it. Why? How how is this gonna be useful? No, I think no. Well, I'll extrapolate. I think it would be really useful on platforms like Facebook, where the predominant audience is older and maybe less likely to spot AI content right away. And if they could just see a label that says AI on the video they're currently watching, I think that would be very helpful in reducing the amount of misinterpretation, misinformation.

of what people are seeing and then what they tell their friends about I saw this video and it's true. I think that would help. Steven, every AI video on the platforms could have a warning screen at the beginning flashing in your face saying, This is fake, this is fake. It was made by AI and people will still just be like, Yeah. ~ these is just big tech trying to get us to not believe the truth. Steven I hate I hate that I kind of agree with that assessment,

Ye Yes. That but that is what but it's something at least it's something. At least it's something. the people at Google are saying to themselves about doing this. At least it's something. But what a what could you do? I mean, the AI content is gonna be there. People are going to post it. There are entire Instagram accounts and YouTube channels that are all AI gener I I was gonna share this

on social media and I didn't. There's a T feature on Apple TV that came out with TV OS twenty six dot four for the continuous connection to audio. Like so if you connect like a soundbar or something, sometimes like your Apple TV might disconnect or the volume changes from when you turn it off to turn it on. Like every time you turn on your sonos bar somewhere. And there's exactly Yeah, okay.

Yeah. And so there's a feature in the Apple TV 26.4 where you can enable continuous audio connection and it should prevent some of that issue. For some reason I don't have that setting on my Apple TVs, even though it's connected to a Sonos soundbar in my bedroom. So I went to Google where can I change this setting? Because I looked where I thought it was and where I found several websites that it was. It wasn't there. When I Googled it, the Google AI overview gave me a video result first.

And I was like, I don't typically watch a video just to look Where a setting is, but I'll watch this video. Jason, this video, it was an abomination. From Mordor. This video, I don't even want to try and look for it to find it. It was an AI-narrated voice with all AI generated video imagery. And it was talking about the Apple TV and this feature and the AI-generated Apple TV images, including the remote, nothing looked like an Apple TV.

It wasn't even close. And the Apple TV is a a round black box. Yeah. Like this is not hard to generate. Like I could generate it out of clay probably better than this video was portraying. You could just generate an SSD into the closer. It would a hockey puck would have been closer to an Apple TV. My earb my earbud bud case looks like a

Yeah, the case is better. Yeah. And it is, it was infuriating because I was like, Google serve me this video that A is not giving me the instructions that I want. And B is a completely AI generated video that's garbage. The Apple TV remote that this video, I'm gonna try and find the video and I'll try to put it in the show notes. The Apple TV remote that it just AI generated was insane. No Apple TV might ever look like it. And I was like, this is infuriating.

Now, you're not going to prevent that from being posted. That's there. And Google is even pushing it. So to your point, yeah, Google wants to feel better about it being labeled as AI, but they also like allowed that to be on their platform and even promoted it in a search result, which is maddening. I but all that to say, I still think it would be better to at least put the label on there. So when someone Googles and clicks that video. They can at least know like, this is not real.

So my point is that that point, your point is letting them off the hook. Because all of these tech companies with all of this C TPA, synth ID, whatever flavor you want to call today of we'll mark this as AI acts as though someone else out there in the world, some evil villain, is creating all of these tools and all of this AI content. And Google's like, But we will put this little tag on there. You made the evil villain. You made the t you are the evil villain.

You made the tools and this is just a way for you to feel better because you're like, but we're gonna add this thing on there. Never mind the fact that like do you know how hard it is to f to take an AI conta AI generated image and take a screenshot of it? Guess what happens to the metadata when you take a screenshot or a screen recording? That right. It's gone. Like this is nothing. It is nothing. Jason, I found the video. I will But d here's the thing. You can show it to the audience.

You just can't put a link because I do not want this channel to get any extra views. Yes. Okay, hold on. Let me let me hide the channel name. I'm gonna ~ sticking YouTube is like reformatting it, so I can't hide it. I won't link it. That's fine. You can put it in there, but I just don't want you to link to it. I will nick it. I will link it. And ~ before I even press play, I want you to look at this Apple TV remote. Okay? I understand if you're just listening,

I apologize. I will put this image as the chapter art so you can at least see this part. I'm gonna I'm gonna hit play. Look at just just just look. That is a that is a sweet looking USB C port. What is even like this this whole thing just makes me unreasonably angry. This looks like a promo video for what was that r the function remote or whatever? Like they came out with a new one. Wasn't that the like replacement Apple TV remote?

This is not And all the UI, none of it is what an Apple TV actually is. The and what's what's maddening is the title of this video has continuous audio because that is the feature that I searched for. So the title of this video is exactly what I was looking on information for, but this entire video is just AI generated slop. And like I don't typically get this worked up about it, but it hit really close to home because I wanted to find sorry.

I wanted to find a video about this fe like what even i what even is this? Apple Argate It said applar cake, but it was applargate. Not Spanish. It was just an AI generated mistake. Just total control canter Sonic with a period Look at this, look at this control Provose Ladada Home Shund ~ This is so crazy making. Anyway, control contr Control Cantor. This is nightmare fuel right here. This this is Steven, C A N T E R. Control Cantor.

you know what this is? This is this is I'm crashing out right now. this is software body horror. You're absolutely right. The control canter. I can't I can't even anyway. I apologize to anyone who's your eyes might be bleeding from seeing that, but listen, If you're only if you're that's what's out there. only listening to the audio, don't go watch don't listen to the well don't watch Yeah. the video of this version. We're sorry.

And like there is a YouTube comment that's like don't listen to any word of this AI generated and then expletive, which is fine. But then there's also like actual legitimate comments and it makes me so sad. Like this video doesn't have a ton of views, it like eight hundred views. But man, Google, why would you surface this video as a result? Right. And why and you made the tools to make this video possible and then you allowed this thing on your platform,

which fine, whatever. I'm not like a control freak where I'm like, Google shouldn't allow certain things. We have free speech, whatever. But my point is you can't then be like, but we also made the little label so everyone will know. No one will pay attention. No one will know. And you're just trying to make yourself feel better about the fact that you've created this terrible dystopian problem and you think putting a little circle with the letters AI in the middle is gonna solve it.

It's not gonna solve it. I'm putting in the title of this episode That's that's that's that's that And they served it as a result to your search query in Google search. one was so offensive to me. It was like, this is your top result. Google, this is your top result. Anyway, I'm gonna put a AI slop crash out in the title of this episode somewhere. I'm I'm I'm worked up right now. I'm I'm worked up. I can't I can't even deal. Anyway, Spotify is releasing new podcast tools.

I don't know if I could recover. ~ no, that's not this. This is Robinhood is letting AI agents trade money for you. Speaking of AI They say in their terms of service my goodness. What could go wrong? Why do I do say that a lot, I guess. I'm sorry. ~ they say in the terms of service, actually, ~ that you might lose all your money if you use AI agents to trade. So just be warned. yeah, okay, duh. You might lose everything.

Anyway, Robinhood is letting Yeah, I mean, you might lose everything if you do it yourself. I think it the the odds exactly. greatly increase if you just let a robot do it for you. Cause you know what? You know what robots don't care about? I was actually They don't care about your money nearly the way that you care about your money. You or you as a person. Where my kids play with their toys. You you you make investment decisions based on Yeah, they don't care they don't care about it.

the fact that you feel pain when the number of dollars in your account goes down. Right. That's right. The robots don't feel pain. You know what yes, and a robot did not feel the incredible shame it should have felt when it made that AI slop Apple TV video. It should have felt guilty, shame, distress. That's all I'm saying. Apparently neither did the human being that uploaded it to YouTube. Shame on you.

You know what? I wouldn't I wouldn't throw that around loudly, but I do think, you what, if you uploaded that video, I think shame on you. I think shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. This is the Spotify.

I wanted to put this in here because Spotify is actually pushing harder, fetter, b better, faster, stronger on like podcast features and tools for real people. Because Spotify is now gonna let you actually clip, like create a clip of the show you're listening to or watching right now, and then post that easily with a link back to that episode.

And they're at Spotify, I I don't know if this is like a dig at Apple, but Spotify is like, you know, people really love the chapters we have when they're watching a podcast. And so we're gonna make it even easier to share links to that chapter with a video clip or audio clip. And it's gonna be so easy to share podcasts. I'm like, App Apple, just rip with all the stuff that Spotify is doing. Do that. They have chapters and follow along transcripts for video.

Now they're gonna make it easy to share clips of podcasts. Apple, you need to do all do all of this. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, use some AI for good. AI for good. Thank you, Jason. The title of this episode is gonna be AI Slap Crash Out and Steven Never Recovers. That might be that might be it. I don't know how I'm gonna record a Mac power users after this, but I'm I'm gonna try and do it. I'm gonna try and do it. S Sparks is gonna be like, You are unusually amped up today.

My b my blood pressure is elevated right now. I di I was so I'm I'm glad I got to get that out of my system though, Huh. because I've been I've been thinking about that video. Sorry. thinking but wow. I now it's now it's just skipping. I'm gonna have to leave it all in. I've been thinking about that video since I saw it. I probably last week, so it's been a full week, and I can't I could not get over the concr control canter. I just couldn't believe someone would post that.

Anyway. You've been traveling some. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna go I'm going to WWDC. We talk about travel tech every once in a while and I was just curious, ~ is there anything new or fun or different or things that you would double down and say, This is the travel gear, this is the st this is the thing. man, I wasn't prepared for this, I let but yeah. me give you a s let me give you a second think about I'll give you a second thing about it. Because I want to mention a couple things.

One, Apple Apple is selling directly through the Apple store, not the like you can't get this on Amazon. They have this new like charging brick. I believe it's 45 watts, but they're like made for kids. It's got like multiple fun colors. It's kind of a big charging brick, but if you're wanting to not lose it, and it has a retractable cable built in. That's a pretty good length. And it has a little magnet where the cable will like

stick to the little brick. And you can just get through the Apple store, but it's it's a fun charging brick. So, you know, for kids or you just want something that's easily to spot, that's pretty cool. I'm also gonna mention this charging brick because Ugreen has a new ~ line of chargers. It is very small. It's basically like the old iPhone charger bricks, like the old five watt ones. U-Green has these, they are 65 watts though. This little brick is a 65 watt charger.

It's only one USB-C port, but 65 watts, and it comes with a color-matched USB-C cable, which I thought was pretty fun. So you can get like a cool orange and a blue. 65 watts. I love how small chargers are getting and how powerful they still are. So there's that. ~ this thing went on sale recently. ~ and yeah, I'm gonna put affiliate links down below. You buy it or don't buy it. I just want to tell you what I'd bring. ~ the anchor power bank.

That has a little screen on the front and it has a retractable cable up at the top. I bring this everywhere on all my trips because I can charge my MacBook Air with this. Like I can charge it one whole time and maybe a little more with this anchor retractable USB-C cable brick. So I'm bring that. And MagSafe battery wise, I did get sent the Cool Sill S4 solid state battery pack. And they did send me an orange. It's got a screen on it and a little kickstand.

But when it comes to charging speed, I've been testing a lot of recent MagSafe charger, MagSafe batteries. I haven't got a chance to like post videos on it. But the CoolSIL, which is ~ K U X IO, the S4 is one of the fastest wireless chargers. And so that's been very impressive. I really like that. But I also bring my basis that has like a built-in USB-C cable. So if I ever need to like charge extra fast, I can just plug the cable in and do that.

I still use the Cool SIL 3 and 1, which is like a foldable metal. A three in one charger for my iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. And yeah, I'll probably bring three more power banks than I actually need, but I'm gonna do it anyway. And I'm gonna bring my Osmo Pocket four, which is contraband here in the US. So thank you. Okay. Y everything you mentioned basically is charging. But it occurs to me that when you're traveling, kinda that's the thing you care the most about.

That's a big deal. That is the thing you care the most about, So I but I would just encourage you people to like I am a big fan of this anchor. yeah. I think this is a ten thousand milliamp hour or whatever. Yeah, the little one. You can charge your phone basically twice. And I think it's forty watts fast charging and it has this retractable USB C cable, It is. which is great. Plus it has two other yep, exactly. It's got the little screen on it, Yep. I got the same one. Yeah, it's great.

so it's great. Yeah, this thing is in its Small, right? And it even has this little strap to attach it to things. This thing is great. If you have like a water bottle bottle pocket on your It's nice. lap on your note backpack, just stick this in that and then you pull your cord Yeah. Yeah. out while you're walking through the airport. Big big fan of that. I also am still a big fan. I I will tell you, I don't actually upgrade my travel stuff because I just want to only go with stuff that works.

Only think about it. Yeah, yeah, But this 65 watt nomad slim charger, exactly. I love this thing because it's light. I still use that too. Yes. Yes. It is so stinking lightweight. And it's thin to like put in bags and stuff. Yep. But the other two things I will just say I s I use this the Belkin. This is the thing that sticks on the top of your laptop, right? If you want to use your iPhone for continuity camera. The continuity camera mount. Yep. It also works as a pop socket,

by the way. A MagSafe pop socket. It does, yeah, it's nice. So there's that. Also, OWC sent me this USB-C travel, ~ what do they call this? Travel hub, travel dock. So it has the SD, Nice. USB A, USB C. It has a built-in US or UC port, Nice. so you you don't have to like use up any of these ports for that. So this thing is cool, it has eth no, Nice. it doesn't have Ethernet, but it has HDMI. So that's kind of cool. But then two things, That's cool. Yeah. Steven. I mean this sincerely.

Listen up, friends. If you travel with any tech, two things you should take. You should take no you should travel with Yes. Apple Vision Pro. a stash of sterile alcohol prep pads. Yeah, yeah. these are great for cleaning screens and we had this debate so don't tell me you shouldn't use alcohol swabs on your screens. Apple says it right on their website, even the nanotextures displays on the yeah on the on both the iPad Really? and on the MacBook Pro. So take some of these.

I carry like 40 of these just all the time. It's great. And also by the way, if you're ever somewhere and you're like, ooh, what did I just touch? I'm in an airport, you pull one of these out. Right? What what did I just touch? A terrible question to arise. You know that happens a lot in in an airport, right? And then also I just keep one of these in my in my is a binder clip. I just keep it in my travel bag, my little gear bag. You know why, Yeah, that's what was it?

Steven? You know what never works the way it should? The blackout curtains in a hotel room. And you know what you can do with a binder clip? You just make them stay together. So you just keep all the light so you can shut up the light. I like the sound effect. If you're someone who likes it really dark, you know, when you're traveling. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's again.

So I'm just saying, I'm just recommending that you invest in some very low tech devices to take with you to make the trip better. And also, by the way, like as many magsave batteries as you can fit in your back. Right. See, that's what I'm saying. Exactly. And you I'll I'll police all those. When I'm putting Apple support article in the show notes because there's a big call out box on their website says, Is it okay to use a disinfectant on my Apple product?

Using a seventy percent isopropyl alcohol wipe, seventy five percent pro ethyl alcohol wipe, or Clorox disinfecting wipes, you may gently wipe the hard, non porous surfaces of your Apple products, such as the display, keyboard, or other exterior surfaces. Do not use these cleaning products on Apple Vision Pro, as they may damage the device. Which doesn't matter because Jace I don't travel with my vision pro so it's fine. Jason doesn't take it anywhere.

Yeah. It it says right there, you can accept honestly I didn't know that, Yep. Jason. We talked about this once before because people were like, my gosh, I can't believe you would do that. I know. And I'm like, it says it right on the I've forgotten everything the last six months after that AI slop crash out, Okay, great. Well I'm telling ya, so I just didn't Yeah, it's these are these are these are great. And by the way, if you this is disgusting. But if you take one of these and a Q tip, Yes.

perfect for cleaning out your AirPods, bro. yeah, those are yes, that's important. That's important. One other thing I'm gonna tell you I did get over the year headphones. Which ones are you still bringing? Is it the Bowers and Wilkins when you travel? Yeah, most most of the time or I'll take the XM fives. The Sony's, yeah. XM5s. So I usually try the latest Sony headphones and then I return them and I compare them to AirPods Max. And then I remember I'd never wear over-the-year headphones,

so I don't keep them. Well, I did keep my AirPods Max too. But anyway, Sony released some new headphones. I don't know if you saw this. Did these are Was this the X sixes, the sevens? Okay. the 1000X The Collection, Collection with an X wireless Noise Canceling Headphones. Steven, if you bought these, I quit. Well, maybe don't quit until you learn of whether I return them or not. How about that? If you keep these, I'm quitting.

Thank you. These are six hundred and fifty dollars, a hundred dollars more than AirPods Max, Sony headphones. They are premium, I guess. Anyway, I'm gonna try them. Are they you don't have them yet? They d they arrived today, actually, later today. Also they don't do the th they don't fold. I mean the ear cups turn inwards. do they okay? Because that was the problem with these. These by these, by the way, Steven. No, no, no, no. Look. Yeah. Yeah, Okay. So these ones here, the XM5s, they go.

these were Sony sent me these. Okay. And then I was like, cool, thanks. I'm I'm done. Like I put like I I genuinely think they're great. And so I put them in a travel guide, except for the one problem is the XM4s, they fold it down. These do not, Right. Right. so they don't you can't they take up the space that they take up. So I said to Sony and by the if someone from someone from Sony's listening and you want these boxes. Pl just email me because three times I sent an email, Three seconds.

three times over like eight months, I sent an email and I was like, Hey, I'm done with these. Could you send me something so I can send them back? And one time I got some kind of response like, Hey, I'll s forward this to the team. And then I got ghosted the other times. And I feel like at this point it's like eminent domain or something like that. I don't really know what to do with these, Statute of limitations, yeah.

but y maybe. But I've taken my plane and at some point I'm gonna be like, Well, I've been using these, I'm gonna like a two-year review of this one pair of headphones or something. Two year I So if someone mean from Sony wants them back, otherwise I'm gonna keep taking him on planes. The Bowers and Wilkins are still my favorite, except something you can say about Sony headphones. They are about the most comfortable thing you can put on your headphones. That's the thing. They're comfortable.

They're super lightweight. They feel And they yeah. like they cannot possibly be worth four hundred or whatever dollars because they feel so lightweight compared to everything else. But they just they feel really good and they sound great. So Well, and that's why I don't bring AirPods Max or wear them a lot, because the clamping strength for my big head is still too great. Yeah. It just is not comfortable for hours on end.

Whereas the Sony's and even the Sonos ace headphones I could wear for longer periods and the clamping strength doesn't put so much pressure. So I'm gonna try these Sony's. They do come with this little case and supposedly the ear cups are larger, which with my big head I also have large ears. And so I'm curious how the whole big ear cup thing, ~ how that goes. So I'll follow up because I think I'm gonna bring these on my trip just to to say I did and then review them after.

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