Nintendo Switch 2 Specs and Pre-Order, iOS 18.4 Features, Amazon Bids to Acquire TikTok

If I'm gonna get busted, it's not gonna be by a guy like that. Welcome to Primary Technology, the show about the tech news that matters. This week, iOS 18 dot four came out, info about the Nintendo Switch two and how you can preorder it, what they're doing to prevent scalpers. Tariffs is probably gonna make your Apple products more expensive later this year. Jason reviewed the Sigma BF camera, and we have a bunch of other news.

I'm I'm good. You're, like, so discombobulated today, and I love it.

I'm I'm a little discombobulated. I'm in I'm in a hotel room. I'm using a different mic, and my hand's cramping, but I'm I'm I'm trying my best not to move it at all.

You got your x m four.

This is a Shure m v six, by the way. Just saying.

No. I'm talking about your headphones. You're right.

I have my x m fives because I'm using wired headphones. That's right. And I have my MacBook Air. This is the first podcast I've recorded on this, and, I have no screen real estate. So, like, I can't I can only see one thing at a time. I'm either looking at you, I'm looking at the movie quote, or I'm looking at Notion. It's one one of the three.

That's great. So, yeah, the movie was Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Thank you. Yes. Because at least, well, Google told me because I've actually never seen that movie. You can berate me about that later. I guess that movie takes place in Chicago according to Google.

The for a guy with a movie podcast, your your anthology of the movies you haven't seen is pretty big.

I mean, maybe, but first people's day off is, like, 19 it it came out the day the year I was born. So I was zero when that movie came out. And I don't think there was, like you know what I mean? Was, like, right before me.

Yeah. They but, you know, there was a period of your life where DVDs were invented, and there were stores you could go to and you could borrow the DVDs and stuff like that. And, actually, probably you have a library. Anyway, my point is there's 1,700 streaming services right now, and I bet you that this one is like there's I bet you there's a cable channel that just plays it day all day. Like Christmas story.

Even in the middle of whatever month we're in. I don't even know what month it is right now. April. We're in April. I'm in We are now in April. We are now in April. I'm in Chicago.

Change is not that I mean, it's an hour different. It's not actually a month different between us.

Yeah. I went through a time a wormhole. I'm in Chicago because I'm at Podcast Movement Conference, and, I'm the closest to you I've probably ever been, when traveling. You're you're just a few hours away. I'm in Chicago.

Yeah. Normally, if we're closer than this, it's because I came to Florida.

That's right. That's right. But then we don't record. We only go to First Watch, and we have brunch.

That's true. We have breakfast.

Yep. Yeah. That's right. But yeah. So I'm here and still recording. And, yeah, I'll post a picture of my behind the scenes, like, setup here. Got my Osmo as my webcam, my m v six. Anyway, I don't know what's happening. Hopefully, we're gonna get through this. We're gonna get through this together.

I'm just happy because this is the first time we've recorded when my video looks better than yours.

Yeah. It does. It definitely does. I'm using the portrait mode of the built in Mac because apparently the Mac wants you to do something with reactions and anyway, we're gonna talk about that. The annoying pop up.

wanna say. Yeah. Let me just say one thing about that. Yeah. Steve, I was gonna try to skip right over

the No. No. I knew you gonna say something. Go ahead.

No. First, I actually wanna give credit to the person who left us that review because not they didn't just leave us a one star rating.

Right.

They actually wrote a review

They did.

Which means they put their name on it. So I do appreciate that. That is much better than people who just try to snipe you with one star Snipe. Ratings and then just, like, leave it there. So that's great.

And it's really

I mean, just

And it's really not trying to you know, if if we genuinely think a decision is bad from either side, I feel like we should be able to say that and say, like, this is probably a bad law. You know, we talk about, you know, the EU Digital Markets Act and the whole web browser choice screen. We talked about it on the show, and I think we both agreed that was, like, a silly decision, and it's not a good user experience. That's just sharing how we feel about it, and no one gave us a one star review for that. But, you know Yep.

do appreciate it.

It's awesome. But we also do, like, personal second stuff that might be green you know, evergreen. So that's cool. Yeah. Pineapple six six seven, and this is I I want all of these. Battery oh, no. Battery percentage on. You want that. But Apple pencil towards volume buttons, phone and dominant hand pocket, dots on. So I'll take the three out of four. That's good. Dubbzxn two from The USA. PBN Jason, this is not you. Right? You didn't do this.

No. No. I promise.

Okay. Good. Because they said we're their favorite tech podcast. So thank you for that.

I mean, that part's true.

I I

also think this is my favorite Chuck podcast.

Very good. And then Greeny 24 from The USA. They bought a Blu ray drive that I recommended, and, they're ripping away. So that's, yeah, that's fun doing that too. Alright. Let's do, actually follow-up. We don't need to do, like, follow-up follow-up. Let's do

We've literally never done follow ups.

I think we've ever done follow ups. So we'll do a quick one follow-up, and you talked about the Sigma BF camera in our bonus episode just for subscribers and paying members, but you've now posted a review on ink.com. So I'll put that link in the show notes, but, yeah, nice picture. What did you now wait a minute. What did you take the picture of the BF camera with? That's the question.

I was hoping somebody would ask about that because in all of the pictures so in all of the pictures I took with the Sigma BF, I indicated shot with

Shot with the Sigma.

Yeah. So people would so people would know. Yeah. I just shot those with my Nikon d six two. Okay. But I don't z six two. Excuse me. But I did not put that in

In the article.

It's it's actually kinda meta when you're writing a review about a camera because you have to take pictures of the camera with a different camera. Some of the pictures in your article are not going to be about the, are not gonna be taken by

the camera.

Viewing. So, anyway, it was yeah. So I just we talked about this on the, on our bonus episode last week, and so I just wanted to I published the review this morning. I will say I was impressed with this camera. I actually think that if someone is looking for something that is more capable than an iPhone, but you just aren't interested in getting into, like, a full fledged system, I think this is a pretty reasonable option.

That's cool.

That are very good. They're not quite on the same level as the Fuji, but, yeah, I I think it was a lot of fun. It was delightful. I was upfront with my headline. I thought it was gonna be ridiculous.

So The photos look amazing. You know, obviously, we already talked about it, and we shared those pictures early. So if you support the show, you already saw those. But we'll check out the link. I am tempted by this camera even though I have no reason to have it just because it looks so cool, but you probably won't be able to it

for real. And before anyone asks, I didn't really do any video testing with it because one, I don't do much in the way of video, and two, it doesn't have an internal cam or, internal microphone at all, so you'd have to attach something to it. And so I just I didn't I skipped that part. So don't don't ask me about it.

So how's the, no. Just kidding. So b roll. It's like a b roll camera, basically. Like, no audio. Maybe just camera

USB c for data, so you could plug in, like, DJI mic stuff to it. You could do that. I just I just didn't care.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, very cool. Well, that article is in the show notes. Also, is not follow-up, but I wanted to mention the Sofa app.

No. It's good to I might give it a try, but I just don't really have a spot for it in my life.

What do

do They don't do that thing where I, like, wanna pin movies to watch later or something.

So do you have any place where you like, a note or whatever where you're like, oh, yeah. Wanna watch that movie sometime.

No. We usually sit down in front of the computer, open every streaming app, go through the catalog, and then go to

And then go to bed.

Hours and we couldn't find anything.

See, that's why you use an app like Sofa, so you don't do that. You you, you know, you hear a movie or you remember, like, an old movie that you saw as a kid and now you wanna show your kids. That's that's what I use. Sofa, I put them in there.

Alright.

Just say you should try it out. IOS 18 dot four came out earlier this week for everyone. It's publicly available. I'll put a link to my video about it, where I go about all the features. I say 15 new features. One of those features is the volume icon in the control center changes to blue when you drag the volume up and down, which is not really a huge feature.

But you're being generous.

Calling it a feature. But there's, like, visual intelligence is now on the iPhone 15 Pro. So if you had a 15 Pro and you wanted to try that, you could do it. Plus you can map visual intelligence to the action button or in a control center widget, there's ambient music features. The news plus recipes is probably one of the bigger features, or something that you could try.

but I want if any of our p if any of my PR friends at Apple listen to our podcast, I would like to, like, talk to the product person for this recipes thing because I still can't figure out why it's a part of News Plus.

I feel like they wanted it to be part of, like, under a paywall somewhere. And then where else would where would you put it? They would probably they wouldn't wanna do a standalone app because standalone apps are usually free, like the Apple Invotes.

Except for the they just did one. The invites app, like, most of those features are part of iCloud plus.

Right. But you could download it for free. And so, like, it would be a pretty bad experience if, like, you had to down like, if you downloaded the food plus app and it just said, subscribe. I feel like that's against

Yeah. But maybe I I think Apple could figure out the freemium thing where it's like

That's true.

You get to look at this stuff, but if you want the timers and the You know? By step and add them to your your,

you know,

shopping list, you have to pay.

You or you don't get the ingredients. Kidding me. You get you get half the ingredient list, and then it's blurred out. The second thing.

In fact, now I'm thinking that was the original plan that Tim Cook came up with, and someone was like, dude, let's just stick it in noosebumps.

Stick it in noosebumps. Yeah.

It is worth the grief. And it's it's kinda weird

to get to. You have to go to, like, this this magnifying glass tab and then go and then there's, like, the food plus section. It's not even, like, one of the main tabs on the bottom. So so When you

say the magnifying glass tab, is that the search tab? Is that what you mean by Yeah.

Okay. I didn't know if it actually said search or browse, and so I didn't wanna, like it's the no. See? It's not. It's the following. Another reason to update your phone, which you wrote an article about this. One feature I actually didn't cover in my video is, it's one of the best features yet according to this Inc.com article. Why don't you tell me about the feature since I didn't

cover it? Be clear. This is this is tricky because it is tangentially an iOS 18.4 feature in the sense that your iPhone has to have I iOS 18.4 on it, but it's actually a Mac OS

Fifteen fifteen to 15.4. Yeah.

Yeah. Feature where now if you buy a new Mac and you didn't have a Mac before, you can use your phone to set up your Mac in the same way that you could previously use your phone to set up a phone or use your Mac to set up a Mac. Yeah. And it will log into your Apple account. I think that's what we call it now. Your Apple account.

It's your Apple ID iCloud mobile me account. That's what it's called.

It's yes. It's your

It's your iWeb account.

Yeah. Anyway, that thing Yes. You just log into that and it will it will copy that information over. It'll start downloading all your iCloud data like your photos. If you use iCloud to store stuff, iCloud Drive, it'll start doing that.

Yes.

And I, you know, I compared it the list of things like continuity cam camera, universal clipboard, sidecar. Yep. Those types of things that are just, like, features that are baked in when you're a part of the entire ecosystem that like, the real reason I can't switch to Windows isn't because of some, like, Linux kernel or we you know, whatever, like, the Unix kernel in the base. It's those types of features that really make using your computer easy.

100%. And, like, I I have a Nothing Phone three a. I've I've flashed it on this podcast a couple times. And I was like, I wanna I wanna use this to like, for a full weekend, total like, put my iPhone in a drawer so I can really give it a go. And I could say, what what is it like to use this phone full time?

Yeah. Now maybe maybe, not to get political, maybe we're gonna have to see Apple, like, open up some of these features to third parties.

Never happened. Didn't do you remember

I mean, DOJ is literally suing over,

like I know. The Apple Watch

and AirPods and that kind of stuff. Yeah. So

we'll see. Dan, is this a fever dream, or do you also remember when FaceTime was announced with the iPhone four that Steve Jobs said they were gonna open source it, and they were gonna make it available for other platforms? It wasn't that didn't he say that?

I think you're right.

I thought

I don't know why, like, whatever happened. They they, you know, they they promised that they were going to do that. I'm guessing the reason that they didn't is that one, none of the other platforms cared. Right? Like, they didn't want to.

Sure.

Because you can now sort of, like

You can send a link.

FaceTime, but it's still Apple software. Yeah. Exactly.

It there's no FaceTime app on it.

It doesn't work with Google Meet.

Right. Right. I think it was just a no one reads books anymore moment where it was like, you know, this, but then that. So, anyway, that was a cool feature. The setup with your iPhone's kinda like how setting up a new Apple TV, you can, like, hold your iPhone close to it and, you know, does all that.

Yeah. Let me explain what happened here. Okay. When the it was WWDC, what, like, 2022, '20 '20 '3. I can't remember which year it was. When they rolled out these reactions features, and I actually thought it was pretty cool at the time. The problem was this was still when a lot of things were happening on, like, Zoom, for example, and you might show up to a memorial service on Zoom, and suddenly you're scratching your brow with your thumb up and, like, fireworks go off or

something. Lasers.

And it just or you're in, like, this the others are reports of people, like, in therapy and, like Oh, yeah. Know, the in the therapist, like, does this just to, like, is an encouraging thing. All of a sudden,

like, bubbles are coming

up or

something. Right.

And it was a bad thing. So Apple made it so that the third party software like Zoom or Google Meet or whatever could, by default, deactivate reactions. So the the software can decide that. So Zoom just decided, nope. We're turning it off. Same thing here is, like, Riverside is like, no. Let's not have reactions on. You can go back and turn them on. You can click on the little thing and turn them on. Right.

You click the x.

If you want notification away. What would you do?

You click the x. It's right there.

If there's an x there, you would click on the x. But, Steven, what would happen if you clicked on that x? Now, I mean, if looking at the picture, nothing will happen because it's a photograph. But guess what? In the real notification, the x does nothing.

Nothing. It's so annoying.

Literally does nothing. You can click on it. Like, I watched one of my kids click on it for, like, three minutes the other day, and I'm like, just click on the green micro

And then it goes away, which is

And then it goes away.

So weird.

You know what's really weird? If you click on the green The camera. Camera.

Yeah.

It doesn't bring down the drop down menu. It just makes the notification go away. Like, is like first of all, the notification should not exist. No one needs this. No one needs to know that Zoom or Brave has turned off reactions. What is the worst thing that's gonna happen? You're gonna be sitting in the meeting and you're gonna do a thumbs wait. You got your reactions on.

I just know I just did a manual thumbs down.

Okay. But, like, you like, no one has ever, like, been sitting in a meeting, did a thumbs up, and was disappointed the reactions didn't go off. And if you did, it was just because you're being goofy and you just go do what you just did.

Exactly.

No one needs a notification, but if it's going to be there, Apple, you have to you have to fix this. If you have not noticed, like, it has been trending on threads and Reddit

and Yes.

Twitter, and people are just mad about this.

Yeah. Yeah. But here here's a there you go. If you're watching on YouTube, I just put fireworks on.

And I texted you back in December, and I was like, what the heck is going on? Yeah. Why is this happening?

You did. You could and you you would have been the first. You would have been the first in the wave to notice this.

I should have written about it then.

But, anyway, yeah, it's annoying. Hopefully, I guess 15.4 1 maybe. We'll see if that comes out soon. But, yeah, that's annoying. Now what's not annoying, Nintendo Switch two. And I know we don't talk a lot about video games on this podcast, but I'm excited about the Switch two because, I'm a Smash Bros fan. I'm a longtime Nintendo fan. There's some interesting things. The Switch two is more expensive. First of all, I think it's a hundred and $50 more than the previous model.

49, 4 50.

4 fifth $450. It is still an LCD screen, so it's not OLED like the Switch OLED.

The Switch OLED.

It's kinda weird. It's ten eighty p resolution on the actual Switch, but then when you put it in the dock, you do finally get four k out of a Nintendo Switch, which has not been the case. The the old Switch, even in the dock, was ten eighty p. So we finally got four k. There's more internal storage, 256 gigabytes.

I think it's fifty hours, but, yeah, that is still a really interesting it's like, if you haven't been I'm gonna write I'm gonna write about this. But if you're not a big enough fan, we won't take your money and

give you this thing. Exactly. Which which, again, like, of all the game systems, again, I don't I don't do this very often, but the Nintendo Switch, though I remember the Wii, when the Wii came out. Nintendo game consoles are just notoriously hard to get on launch day because, you know, I don't know if there's been preorders on past game systems, but it's just people go nuts. And they they just buy it, and then people buy multiple to then scalp it.

Do you remember, Steven, when people were scalping the Vision Pro for, like, $5 then shortly after launch because you couldn't get those either?

That that's wow. I do remember that name.

Bought one for more money than $3,500, I wanna hear from you. I wanna know how you feel about that now.

They feel bad. I can tell you that.

But if you were one of the geniuses that's because right now, if you buy one on eBay, it's, like, $40 and throw in a box of Wheaties, and I'll send it to you.

So it's so bad. Alright. So we we do have to talk about say, I'm gonna save it for after the break. I wanna mention tariffs, mention so who's interested in buying TikTok, and we'll talk a little bit about AI and things like that. But, before we get to the break, Jason had one other follow-up article. Last week, we talked about the tell all meta book, and now you've, you've written a thing to so if you don't wanna read the book, can go read Jason's article.

Yeah. I I did I did the work for you. I read the whole thing, and I just summarized the four most surprising leadership

Lessons. Yeah.

Lessons that you could get out of that book. So and, basically, it's just like, don't be a bad person.

I feel like that's leadership and life, I feel like. Right? That's everything. Evergreen principle. Evergreen principle, don't be a jerk. That's all you gotta do. Alright. We'll we'll link that article in the show notes too, and check it out. Alright. Let's thank today's sponsor, which is Notion.

Well, that's the point of tariffs is to make things more expensive because you want no. No. I mean, like, for real, like, the whole point of a tariff is you charge a tax on an imported good. Right. The theory is that it incentivizes companies to instead make those goods in The United States instead of making them overseas.

Yeah. Yeah. That was

the the kind of thing that's happening right now is these kind of negotiations. This tank the stock market is not responding well to this Right. Because the cost of all of these things is going to go up in a way that neither the companies nor consumers can absorb. So you can just imagine if everything that Apple imports goes up by 46, people will just stop buying Apple stuff, and that's not good for Apple's shareholders because it's not you know what I mean? And so this this has got some very real impact on, like, the stuff that we all buy.

No. You can't.

I mean, it's not gonna work that way. So it's gonna be it's gonna be, one, interesting to see how these companies decide to handle this. Some of them are probably going to be able to find ways to be somewhat exempt. Like, Apple has done a very good job of this in the past. But, again, like, this is pretty across the board, and, and it's just it's gonna be really difficult.

I'm curious. Do you think Apple will raise any prices before the new iPhone comes out in September, or will they wait for that new product cycle to possibly increase prices, like, with the new phone?

Okay. I think, one, Apple has incredibly smart people trying to figure that question out.

Right.

Two, so I think there's a couple possibilities. I think what has made all of this difficult is that if you remember so when I said the thing about the TikTok sale, I actually mean that quite seriously. I think that there's a view inside the administration that tariffs can be used as a negotiating position. Right. If you don't do this thing we want, then we're going to put this tariff on your goods.

That's what happened.

Yeah. I just wanna be clear. And so but then, like, on day one, they were, like, delayed. Right? And then they were reduced, and then they were this, and then there's so I think what's hard for some of the companies is it's like, we actually don't know.

Mhmm.

The other thing is I think that there are gonna be cases, and I don't know if this is true with Apple because Apple is so large at scale, and it would be pretty devastating to them both as a brand and as a business. But I think we're gonna start to see companies that are like, actually, that thousand dollar MacBook Air is now $1,300.

That would stink. Well, we'll see. The tariffs go in effect, like, in days. Like, this is not this

is not something that's, like,

weeks and months away.

Yeah. The first round goes into effect in, like, less than a week.

Yeah. I'm trying to see it here in the verge article, but, yeah, it's, like, less less than a week. So, anyway, we'll see we'll see what happens, to the prices of things. Also, like you just mentioned, the the TikTok, will someone buy TikTok? This has been a long time coming where the administration Trump administration delayed this TikTok ban.

Yep.

That TikTok has to change its ownership, structure. So we'll see. I mean, is it is it possible the administration can delay it again, or does it actually have to happen right now?

Well, is it possible?

I guess anything's possible. Let

me just do the quick recap on this if you don't mind. So Please. Right? There's a law passed a little over a year. It was, like, April twenty fourth of last year.

Right.

Right? So this was just literally a letter from Donald Trump to the Department of Justice and then the Department of the Attorney General writing a letter to Apple and Google saying it's cool if you put it in the App Store. Right? Because if you remember, Google and Apple had taken it out of the App Store, and it was out of the App Store for, like, more than a month.

Yeah. And

so it is back now. So so what happens on Saturday? I think that unless there's an actual deal, it goes it's no longer going to be available in the App Store. Right? And we could be in a situation again where all of the content on TikTok is served up, I think, mostly by Oracle and potentially AWS as well.

to be political, but, like

Oh, no. I think we've seen that it doesn't really seem to matter because it's like if if the Department of Justice who is the people who would enforce the law are told by the president don't enforce the law, it doesn't really matter what the law says.

Right.

You just gonna keep up. But you are gonna have companies at some point like Apple and Google heard me like, you gotta figure this out because we can't keep living in this limbo. Right. Because they would be exposing themselves to enormous liability down the road Right. For continuing to break the law.

This will be honest, though. This was me in college. I had all semester to write the paper. I was not writing it until two days before, likely one day.

But the paper didn't cost

you $80,000,000,000. I mean No. But

Like, you need lawyers and banks and merger and analysts and consultants, and you gotta figure out, like, how do I make a business case? Because no matter what company buys this, they're gonna get sued by shareholders. Like, that's the board is gonna get sued. Like, that's a % guarantee. Like, it's just gonna happen.

It's complicated. Well, we'll see what happens on Saturday.

Please no please no one star reviews. I'm just telling you what I'm just telling you guys There's no there's

no floating. I think we should say not to be political, but then be something totally unrelated. Like, not to be political, but visual intelligence. Poor. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. It is not well, it's great. No. Just kidding. Alright. Well, one of the couple of quick pieces of news, and then I wanna get on to Jason for his travel accessory article on Inc.com. This one

Which I thought was the most benign safe article I've literally ever read. Not huge. Even has a problem with.

Well, two things. But, anyway, I will talk talk about it in second. We'll talk about it in a second. Did Elon Musk announced to OnX that his AI company, xAI, has acquired X, the social media platform, for in an all stock transaction. So now they are one company. I I have not seen any changes in terms of service or really any articles. I I don't think about, like, what this might mean for content on x and training the models, but curious acquisition. Talk to me about this. Because I

I I asked you,

like, what what does this actually mean?

See, see, see, it was like, do I keep posting to X? What's going on? Now the reality is X has been sharing all of its content with XAI anyway.

Well and let me say one thing. I've I we we can talk about ChadGPT and the Studio Ghibli thing in a second, but I I anything I post online anywhere, I assume will be some model. I mean, ChadGPT, you can ask it anything, and it will answer you. It's been trained on everything. And so, yeah.

Okay. Well, let me just say something about that really quickly. There is a difference between asking ChatGPT a question and having it be able to find information on the Internet because it has a search capability. That doesn't mean that the model was trained on that information. Right.

Right.

Which is separate from if I publish something today and you ask ChatGPT about it, it's gonna be able to find the article, and it's gonna be able to summarize it for you, but it wasn't trained on

it. But but when you ask ChatGPT write something in the style of Jason Aitin, if it can do it, that lends itself to like, it was actually ingested a bunch of your work.

Probably. So that's the only way it could do that. Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty likely.

Pretty likely. And even I feel like this is even earlier, Chatuchipiti days. MKBHD made a video where he asked Chatuchipiti to write an intro to the video in his style, and it did it. And it knew how to do it. So it was clearly trained on at least his YouTube videos, likely all of YouTube, most of YouTube.

So Not only that, but what didn't he ask Sora to make a video of a tech YouTuber? And it had his plan. His plan. Yeah. Exactly. So it's like, clearly,

you're not just searching right now and doing that. Like, you have been trained. Because I was, like, generating images. So

anyway Okay. So the XAI thing. So this is another thing that's interesting because what does it actually mean? Very little, except for to the essentially, what they're gonna do is create a holding company that will own both of those two companies, XAI and X. The the reason that this happened is because it allows Elon Musk to assign valuations to the two companies as they formed a combined company.

Okay. Thank you for that. Thank you. Alright. I I wasn't sure if we should talk about this in-depth. I might save this because I I wanna develop more thoughts about it. But we mentioned the whole ChatGPT four o image generation last week and the Studio Ghibli phase and all of that. So I don't I don't think I wanna rehash it. I wanna kinda see where it goes from here, but, I wanna talk about Jason's travel article instead. So I wanna go right to that.

Who is a fantastic artist. That's why I'm

talking him. Amazing artist. I should see if it could generate three d chalk art the style of Nate Baranowski. We'll see.

Well, the thing about that is it could generate a photo you could post on Instagram of it, but it can't actually put it on the sidewalk like he does.

That's a good point.

A good His job is safe.

That's a good point. That is good point. Alright. So here's our personal tech. Jason had a travel article here. I saw it come up in my my RSS. 11 travel tech gear essentials and accessories. You have some very good recommendations here. I would I would make the same recommendations. I have two quibbles. Okay? The first, as you talk about, the accessories in this article, like, the Anker Nano three in one power bank, where do I click to go to that thing? Where where where's the You

don't know how to Google it?

You want people to do this. You're gonna copy and paste it. You're gonna you're gonna send it over here. Oh, now what which one were you talking about? There's 18 different products over here. What is that? What is all this? Listen. As as a YouTuber, as someone who does a lot of affiliate links, link link the thing. Just link the thing.

Them actually are. If you scroll up to the top I think some of them actually are. I think

I You have the plug bug charger. You have a link there, but the that's the only link. The Belkin MagSafe mount, the Crucial x nine portable SSD. AirPods Pro two, you have linked, but this probably

Probably to one of my probably one of my stories. I just found I just

saw an ad. Yeah. It was just to another one of your stories. The Timbuktu, was I was like, oh, what oh, no. There's no link there.

Yeah. There are so there was a little bit of a technical glitch on there should be photos with some of these. I will get that cleaned up.

Oh, I see. So, anyway, that was

I didn't know you just wanted to edit my article. I thought you actually wanted to talk about the actual choices that

I made. There was one well, there is one choice I wanna talk about specifically. I mean, the no. No. All this stuff is great. I mean, I like the, you know, the Anker three in ones. The the Plugbug has fine mice. That's good. I like the the tech bags. I'm still like, I wanted is this the Timbuk two in the picture on the left?

No. No. That's the Bellroy tech pouch. Okay. That's Timbuk two is the actual backpack.

Okay. Right. Right. So I I I want that Bellroy tech pouch. The one that I actually have issue with is the Native Union active power bank. Okay? Now this is only because I have reviewed 1,000 MagSafe battery packs. Okay? But and I actually have the Native Union one as well. So it's a 5,000 milliamp hour battery.

Yeah. That's great.

Right. But it is not wireless. And so I think, just editorially, should mention that it has to be with the USB c cable if you wanna charge that fast. Otherwise, it's like five watts or at the most seven and a half watts, which the native Union one isn't even Qi two. It's like Qi one.

it's literally two.

It doesn't get as hot.

Literally two of them.

Faster capacity. Like, can I hold on? I've this entire time, I have been muting myself when I have to switch hands because my hands are cramping anyway. Listen. Yes. It is thicker.

No. No. No. It's not thicker. It is two. Literally, look at the difference. Look at the difference.

Going to carry an extra battery, that is not that big of a difference to throw it in a bag. It is not that big of a deal.

It's two. No. I mean, I have both of them. But

See? Okay. But listen. Faster charging doesn't get as hot, more capacity. The Anker Chi two is a better option. If you're bringing up batteries because you need to charge stuff and then the native one gets warm. Have you actually used the native one? Like

All the time. I use it all the time.

Doesn't it get warm?

It's fantastic. It's made out of metal. When it gets warm, it's because it's it's cooling. It's because it's the it's like in it's

conductive cooling. No. Call BS. No. I guess No.

I don't know what I don't know what I just said, but my point is, like, no. It gets warm. Stand by the this I mean, I I love this Anchor one.

It's great.

But it is literally, like, the weight of three of them.

Okay. Okay. That I actually so there's someone at the conference here from Apple, and he was using the Apple MagSafe battery pack still.

Look at how look how lit.

Yeah. It's thin. It's just it gets hot, barely any capacity, and charges glacially slow. No problem. Anyway, this guy from Apple, he had the Apple MagSafe battery pack, and I was like, bro, it's lightning. It charges slow. And I and I said, get the Anker one. He was like, no. I don't wanna do that. I wanna use the Apples.

It's perfect. This is perfect.

Yeah. Okay. He's all this is the nomad, like, the tiny USB c cable thing.

Yeah. I don't even know what it's called.

Yeah. But

do keep it in there.

It's the emergency

cable is what it is.

Yeah. I mean, yeah. Sure. It could is that how you do it, though? Or do you know me?

I've never done that in my life except for right

now. So

But, also, I don't care how fast it's charging because I'm not playing video games on my phone while I'm traveling trying to, like, keep this thing. Like, my phone it charges my phone faster than my charge is depleting. That's all it needs to do.

It's fair, but it's yeah.

That's That's literally the only thing I need a battery charger to do, and I would much rather have the slim because I wanna be able to, like I I hate the idea of taking this and putting this into my pocket.

Sure. Okay. That's fine.

So the the for the use case that I'm using, I wanna just be like, okay. Shoot. I need to slap a battery on this because I've been traveling all day, and I just need to be to get to the hotel room. So I'm gonna put this on there and not have to even think about it or worry about it. Or I frequently will use this, like, if I'm at a kid's sporting thing and I'm taking video, which does, like Yeah.

Right.

Right? Like, and that's that's exactly what I want. I just got, like, three hours of 40%.

Sure. Well, when your readers start emailing you saying, my this battery burned a hole in my pocket, you let me know.

It's not that's

It doesn't get that hot. It gets warm, though. That that was the only one I would take issue with. And I get if you want something thin, I guess. But

Well, no. And listen. I this is a great battery pack. I love it. And the only thing I would've I wanted to put on there, but it's not really a travel accessory. Hang on.

Jason's reaching around is

This one's better. This anchor one is much, much, much better because this is the one that's part of this two in one charger that I have on my desk.

Right. Right. Right.

And it is it is comparatively it's probably the same thinness as the as the MagSafe one, and it's just a little taller.

Sure.

Right? But compare like, it's if you just I I hesitate to put these things back to back to

back because I know you gotta make sure these

I mean, they're magnets, but, anyway, like, when you compare those things

The thick.

I I is probably my but you I don't think you can just buy this. That's why it

comes with the two in one charger.

Yeah. This the Anker does

have a standalone that they sell directly through Apple that's like that, but it's it's not as good. Like, it's five thousand million hours. It gets really hot. I did a review on it. It's not good. But anyway

This one is really good. This is probably actually what I would would recommend, and then you can just put it on your desk when you're sitting at your desk. So

Alright. Well, I guess it's fine. I don't, I like recommending ones that that are good.

And just to be clear, I don't not recommend this one.

Right. I got you.

I love it. And if I'm traveling for a long time, I'll probably just take them both. But the nice thing about this this Native Union one is I'm willing to compromise a little bit of charging speed for the light, like the super lightweight and small form factor. Cause if I'm traveling, that's what I care about.

Very good. Okay. That's all. That's all I wanted to bother you about. It's just the battery.

I gotta go back

and your stuff.

Photos and links.

Link your stuff.

Link your stuff. Stuff.

You should do you should do affiliate links. Let's do affiliate links. I I I Oh, you can't, but you can't. No. Yeah.

I I I don't know if Inc has affiliate links for some things, but I

I'll send you my affiliate links. You can put them in your article. How about that?

I don't know that that will work either.

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