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Out there is the perfect lap. no mistakes. Every gear change, every corner Perfect Welcome to Primary Technology show about the tech newews that Matters. We just got leaks from journalist Mark Germman about Iowa twenty seven and the Siri overhaul. I're going to show some images there. The Ferrari Lue is out. MKBHD has a video of the inside, the Johnny Ive desesigned interior. Hlight three is out, the fitfit 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 by Kefer, Scribe, and Nord Layer and you and members who support us directly. I'm one of your hosts, Steven Roblz and joined by journalist Jason Aidon. How's it going Jon? This is gonnaives be a long episode I'm saying journalists a lot because 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 d. Primary Tick Fan or just click the link in the show notes or below the video and you get it for like two dollars fifty cents month or fifty dollars a year. It's araz de do you know where that quote is from? Out there is the perfect lap? I just want to correct you for one second. two dollars and fifty cents a year or a month. No fifty dollars a year. It's twenty five dollars a year. twenty five dollars a year. Yeah like math does not work. No, no, mathin math. two do fifty a month, twenty five dollars a year at Link is down the show of Sorts showow ad for you all. I think that the movie is not F one because No That's correct. But I think it's the other one. Yes. That's right One of the topics was Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Ford versus Ferrari Okay, wait a minute. It is Ford V Ferrari. It is not either of those It is Mat Damon. you. Yeah. 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 epode without saying a specific word. so we' see if I'm going to do it today He's going to bump up to five stars. Joe drinks coffee from New Zealand He says Zealandia is officially a continent. What does officially mean offfficially. I don't know, journalist Jason Nyton you could tell us. what what? Sorry, this is gonna beence ins jke I also said dock dots could be on or off. I don't know, because we don't use dock down in this part of the world I also don't know what that means Are saying everyone in NewZealand, Australia, no one uses the dock on their Mac Yeah I didn't understand that either when I read it. I just I didn't know if that was a joke or Is it a hobbit joke? I didn't know if this is like in the EU, you're not allowed to do an 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 re review, please expl.ouis' one hundred one from the UK. and the title of this review it really hurt because it said Jason, thank you, Jason. That was the whole title of the review I said a while back, Jason said to drink black coffee two weeks and you'll never go back and he was very right. I love my Ied Americano on him. Yeah. Really, Jason? 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, maybe. I don't You say you drink black coffee just Yeah, 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, 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 or something. and I'm like, I hate flavored coffee. Now, I will drink like a latte with something in it. That's different. Sure. Flavored coffee 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. I don't think it was a crime It's definitely wrong Garble. Yeah, that's that's not right. But anyway, we have looking here is a five star review and tell us how you say that word Please spell it out. Also say C. Also donon't spell it out because it's only spelled one way That's right. That's exactly right with all the letters. Yeah. It's not C A R M. E L I mean there is a city in Indiana called Carmel, but in There's also one in New York, I think 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 Pod feeet 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. But she didn't take one of her pins Well, this was years ago. This happened years ago. Sould you invent a time machine, get one of our pes and go back and do this No, but that is amazing. We've had listeners in Antarctica. It happenedce. 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, cararamel? How do you say that? Yeah, how many a Anway So listen, if you're going to Antarctica, let me know I thinkunch ofpeins. I think it's Antarctica. You just swallow some letters and are put that put the screen jot back up there and look at the letters Ant Arctica I'm putting it up there, but that's how you say it. How do you say, how do you say eternity ity Antarctica. eternity Yeah, as opposed brother Jacob gave me a hard time because I said eternity a lot of times on a podcast and I guess you need to swallow the second tea. You got toa say eternity 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 it to everyone. But anyway, Antarctica, I'm going to say all the Ts Let us know if you're going there. But we I sent a pin to Oteavvio 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 going to be on all the contents. We just need to get Antarkct to go jour A Journalists Antarctica. I also want to shout out Two other things before we get to F one, IOS twenty seven Si and all of that We talked about Lego a couple of weeks. Jason's well acquainted with Lego. Big Broncos fan on Threads sent us a picture of His son's Lego collection Listen. This thing He's got like the Marvel, he's got the Doctor Strange, 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 it wasn't for the A Rod 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. 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, but Big Bronco fan said it helped his son get through chemo brain, and this is just a portion of the Legos.'s very well, very very well done Very incredible. So thanks for sharing that. And finally, I want to shout out an app This is chocolift. Have you seen this happen Jason No awkward. So it is think of it as like a digital stream deck on your phone 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 know Stream deeck, 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's a pro subscription if you want multiple pages onn 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 Chocolate. Thatight' is very cool I feel trapped. All right, you were at an F one race And you took a picture of Lewis Hamilton on a Razor. is that accurate? I don't what was on, but yeah, I mean he showed up on a Jacati bike one day. He showed goes around on his little scooter. My favorite Yeah, I was at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montre. actuallyctually I left before the race. Is that stupid? I'm gonna do the same thing again next week, but but it's because Yes. So I was there Friday and Saturday, and Sunday and then flew home, but Monday was my son's birthday. So ye. And going from Montreal to here, there are not a lot of direct flight options. So it's like if I wanted to be home for on my son's birthday, I had to come home Sunday night, which meant I actually left before the race started Nice. I go to races and don't go to the race. But listen, an F one race weekend, there's a lot of there's a spring race. I was there for that There's qualifying There's practice, there was a F one Academy race, actually three F one accademy races. So there's an F two race, there's a lot going on. So but very cool uper fun my favorite thing I just want to say this. Yeah. You know, 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? So you're in the paddock, which is the space between the garages and the hospitality tents. That's the paddock, right? And that you can watch the drivers going back and forth from the garage right before the races, all this. It's great. So there are people who sort of U what is it gather, whatever in that area. Congregate. Congregate, that was the word I was looking for things. 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 drivers particularly Charda Cler and Max Verstappen They run out of their hospitality tents and everybody's like, they're going to the garage. 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. Well, listen, if there's any athlete that understands performance anxiety, it's F one dramas and so I'm sure that they're locked. They're locked. Can I show this picture of you show any the pictures you this would be the chapter R, but also here it is if you're watching in Apple, Spotify, or YouTube there he is. Lewis Hamilton on a scooter. It's not quite as dramatic as the picture I took with Sony Epha onene at the W they say JZ No, I'm saying I had one of Lewis that was pretty dramatic, but ye that was a very good one. But this was dramatic in a different. It was fun. Yeah. Listen, this is hardcore journalism. Okay It's beta. beteta season is about to be upon us. Dve Dub is a week and a half away And I'm going out to WWb. I'm trying to figure out, what am I going to 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 bait, I'm just going to raw dogged on my main iPP roroom I don't think that's the term, but I'm going with it. Jason's cameras is just violently shaking. I mean, butess you're making a shrinking reference I haven't watched the last the last seasason. No, it doesn't matter, but there's o anyway. Oh Be the Harison Fk character keeps saying that and they just keep saying them. I don't think that meanans. Oh yeah, he what it means That's what it means But but My m I this whole segment is just so I could explain how I did this on my MacBook Air. But I was thinking there's going to be a lot of changes on Ohh no, I just said it I' going to cut it O the way.'s I said a word. I'm going im mute it.'orry three point nine three point nine. I wanted to Be able to run the MacOS beta on some device while I'm out there at DubDub becausecause I think there's going to be big changes. If there's big changes to Apple intntelligence and shortcuts. Last year there was a whole like automations on the Mac, were're 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 becauseuse I'm going to be recording podcasts, editing video 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 going to do that Well what I looked up is you can crereate a partition on your SSD for your Apple Silicon Mac and break it off. And then install MacOS likeike 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 could still do all of that and it works. And so I went through the whole process. I installed MacOS on a partition of my SSD on my MacBook A And once the MacroS twenty seven beta comes, I'm going to put on the partition and hopefully I can run both and my Taho side stays not buggy Now I've read some places that Doing all of this rigamorle doesn't even matter because as soon as you go Like if you update the operating system, even if 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, Stephven. Why? Why is a terrible idea? This is a worse idea than buying the r Hain pin or whatever. Why? Why is it van Stephven like the MacBook No is a thing. Just at it. They's so thick to carry that I'm traveling. Yeah. You don't even carry the Vision Pro On a plane. Did you wear it on the plane to the FFO O course I did' not Exactly, Eactly. That's not the same thing by the way the visual probe is a thousand times bigger than carrying a second one. It's a different shape, but I feel like with the wateraterfield case, the volume so it's Stepven, do you know Jason's brain is b. You understand physics. Like I just think Yeah ye. Okay. stillill I think this is terrible But I'm super excited for the content that's gonna resolve from That's right. How iCloud wiped out all of my stuff because I had two versions of two different versions of MacOS on the same laptop. I'm not signed in into iCloud on the beta side for the for just information. I just don't I think just put it on your laptop. justust put it on your laptop. You've got your Mac studio. Thats your main machine.ou'ble b on traveling. I'm gonna be eding videos out earer thirteen minutes you'll be traveling. It's fine Yeah, but I want Ive gott to be like in the moment. I gott to turn around like thirteen videos't on iPad It'd beine Well, I do think about that too, but if I put theait on myiPad then I'm like I don't the bait on iPad until you get home, it'll beine But if I want to make a video about it anyway, what is your strategy? 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 going to put the beta on? Not four years I don't think I have anything from before COVID. It's fine That's six years ago S years. Wait, what's your question? What is my st? What are you going to put the bait on when it comes to put it on everything' fine Your main iPhone? of course. why not It'll be fine. No, I u Honestly, the The betas, unless there's a thing, so I understand people who didn't run the betas of Tahoe because they just hated liquid glass. Fine That's fine Betas, I have it has been a very long time. beta version of iOS or MacOS or even iPadOS has been a problem For me. Sure, sure So I wouldn't put it on the MacBook Pro. Because the one thing I would beervous about is audio. Right, That's the one thing his name exact thing. But's be using it out there. But hypothetically, we could do this without audio hijack. It's just a backup. I'm saying we shouldn't do it, but I'm just saying like that riverside willll run fine Well, no, Riverside never runs fine anymore, but it's not because of a beta version of the operating system. Yeah, don' yeah I just want to say that Zoom for podcasting Right now That is an industry ripe for disruption Like Zoom. I'm saying no, like Riverside, this is how I describe it to people. Riverside is a Zoom but for podcasting. Sure. Okay. I think that that category of software is ripe for disruption, right because there are no good options. I mean, Riverside does pretty well And we they figure out that they should change things and they're like, wait, no one has editor broke everything. The editor has been a problem But anyway, we don't get into it Beta seasonons iss coming I'll follow up what it what happens when you put a macOS beta one on a partition of a MacBook . I will probably put IiS beta on the iPhone air And not put it on my not put it on my iPhone seventeen. And then I'll probably pull out either the Neo or MacBook Air and run the data. One of your eighteen computers? Not eighteen Fourteen F, exxcuse me, fourteen right as we were recording Journalist Mark Germman at Bloomberg released a bunch of information aboutb IowS twenty seven Basically the Siri overhaul. which he has a bunch of things here. We will link Hey Bloomberg article, how many people can click a gift link before it expires? I think infinity, it just expires in seven days. So today is Thursday twenty eighth. All on the timer All right, you're on the timer. So we will put Jason's gift link in the show notes. The niney five Mac article is great, but they didn't include the images for obvious reasons because they wanted to. Bloberg is releasing stuff and it's under behind a paywall. So I'm just going show a couple of the images 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. kindind 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's giving a preview of the Syi overhaul kind of knew this was happening. The dedicated app is what I'm curious if this is actually going to be happen or not Will there be a sera 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 Claud and ChatPT. 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 and all these images There is ChatuPT as an integration kind of like how you can do visual intelligence with both ChatBT or Apple Intelligence and all of that There are no images that show like Claude or Gemini as one of the pop overver 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 going bearing about at WWDCs. That deal happened. We haven't heard anything since that agreement between Apple and Google. so Maybe that is just what the main seri option is here. It's just Jim and now behind the scenes But and now I'm sorry, I've said Siri a thousand times. My home pot is now flashing at me. I don't know what iss about to happen. It's probably gonna start blasting Han Zimmer music But Thats it Go to the gift link if you want to see the images it's right Yeah, and I'm I'm I can understand wanting the Siri app. But if all the Sir app does is punch you to Chad GPT of Gemini, why don't you just use the Chad GPT of Gemini? I feel like there has to be a much better story Th that I fine chat history, like whatever. But did you look at the chat history? like They're not good. This feels like someone designed these things who just doesn't want you to use them even the glowy orb thing coming out of the dynamic island. It looks steven. it looks like it is like sucking the content of that page up into the LLM, which is exactly what's happening. But I don't understand like There is no I'm going to say this right now And you can call me 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. at the very least be a list Just 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 going to 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 we could do this in a way that would be Apple. It's like, you know you're behind. L don't double down on being behind. I tell you, Jason If it if the conversation looks exactly like this in the seriesap in Iowas twenty seven, I will c App will 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, M G. Not around anything else. No, no, no, no, no. no context. You just have to say the word at one point. Anyway, we're going to know about in a week and a half is actually happening So there go IO twenty seven Ser. gift link below if you want to see all the screenshots Rur two, Rivian R two, the official launch date is june ninth, by the way. We're going to get to the Ferrari Luce in a moment If you wanted to order a Rivian or two. someome people are getting delivery on june ninth There's invitations if you are on the wait list Its to be out there, aren't you on theaitist I am on a wait list. I haveven't got an email I'm waiting for my VIP R two to arrive Just kidding that's not happening But yeah, I don't know we'll see. There was Al also the performance models are the ones that are available right away. So if you want the cheaper models You're going to have to wait. This is like for the most expensive of models or whatever, which that's not what I was hoping for. So I'll be waiting but we'll see, june ninth, Rivian ool I didn't you booked one too, didn't you? was. But we've talked about how There's like at some point, we'll have to replace our mododel S because like it's almost seven eight years. They don't make it anymore. They don't model S anymore, which is actually pretty unfortunate U, but just thinking about what we might What we might want and I don't know, on our T is kind nice. Did I tell you when my model S fell apartid I 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. It is one year past the original release date of that model And it has the bubble plastic nes. Yeah. So that's how you can tell Some has a very old photeless 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 ne of the guys when Ialked thearber shop, they were like, whyy does your test look so weird because it's old, okay? It's because it's an old car. I don't have to you that As you get older, when talked about my car like that before. We got a moped out front. Why are you talking about me? So it's got the plastic bubble nose on the front of the mododel S And one day I was pulling into somewhere, I forgget what it was. And when I got out bubble was gone front nose are just disappear It was just like the metal plate behind it. no buble. Like somebody stole it Well, it disappeared 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 an 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. I was like, how when did this fall off? it could have 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 the bubble no. 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 starb. O know how to do one thing, which is put your car in the little rails and just go That's it. And I don't even 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 their trashes and I'm like, hey, listen, do you guys have all lost and found? Like I know this sounds weird. People typically lose parts off of their car? I don't know. l I gestured towards my car. I was like, I'm wondering if the thing and the lady was like, o Actually, hold on a second. disappears into the backroom Jason sure enough comes out with my bubble nose provide Tesla And there' one clip that's like kind of bent now so it doesn't fully go in the thing, but I was able to just kindind of rested on there. I pushed it in, most of the clips clipped And my bubble nose has been on ever since's on there for like three months. Did you get some gorilla glue, put it back there? J I just let it alone. I did go on eBay and you canare like buy the plastic bubble part for like three hundred and 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 wasash, they had it and I canceled my eBay. But can get it. Can you get one with likeQ lights that you can control with an app as you're driving down the street They can get different colors. Cuse the Athela, whatever, 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 think Nm not gonna to do that. Get an e paper Bubble nose P 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's been endless memes about this car because it's the first time we see the exterior and the whole of the car. One of my favorite memes was someone put it side by side with the Nissan leaf simimilar color and it's Leaf and Leaf Pro MX Excellent jo. Can I just say, very good. very good me This is 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 it is designed by Johnny Ive and his company Lover And everybody's like if this if you wanted to know what the Apple C was going to look like, it's going to look like this. It wouldn't look like this, just so everybody knows. This is a Ferrari, this is not an Apple c. 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 kiding, I don't think that. This' is the farase. Did you see the interior this car, J? Yeah. I mean, we'd already seen the dashboard and the steering wheel We saw the dashboard in the screen like disembodied separate from each other Uh on you're a year Are you a car guy? I mean, I like cars. Yeah. You go to F one races. L is the exterior of this car as offensive as people are saying? Did you see the video of So so they released this on Monday, I believe it was on Memorial Day And there was Ferrari put up a video of Lewis Hamilton in Charotalelair, the two F one drivers, like seeing it for the first time. They were like, that was the release video was the two of them And they're both like sticking their hands underneath that part where in the front there, likeike it's it's like it's like airfoil 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 Laf meets 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. It's got suicide doors. I don't know that I fully And this is an SUV Sort of Yeah. That feels it is generous calling that an SV I don't know what that means it's a h because it's a larger I actually saw lucid air in clear water the other day, They're great cars. They got great range, but I just don't understand this Car really I don't know, what I wanted to mention is like the The connection or integration of like digital and physical things in this car feels retty innovative And some KHD 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 fromr like sports to touring to range mode, you actually see the dials change like for the amount of power or whatever the physical needle stays the same. And so 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 iP that you can 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 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 carplay So this, you know, if you want a six hundred thousand dollars car that has car playay, you can get it and 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 U design. I don't know. lookooks cool Do remember the We're watching the MKBHD tour 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, rightight? great there's like a bar there and he's grabbingt it. But Do do you remember when was it like Um Joswak, they were like doing all those demos after the iPhone a. all those intervs and they' like, yeah, go ahead and bend it is hard. and you know everyone' trying to bend it and they can. It turns out the iPhone aeriror is the strongest phone in the world. But can you just imagine the Ferrari guys are like, Yeahah, Marquez, go ahead and just move that around and do whatever you want And just Yanks the whole thing right off. That would amazing I don't know that this in this that the infotainment and the display doesn't really feel to me like it fits the outside of the car. Like I understand all the finishings are you know, delicious or you can lick them or whatever it is that they say But I just ye I just feel like I don't A againain, I'm not a Ferrari target market person. If I was going to have 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 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 hundred eleven TurboS the nine hundred n ninetine two. two for sure, Wh by the way, you just said, I don't know if I'm a car guy and you just rattled By the is the car that Marquez has. He doesn' that porsche. He does have that porsche. It is wait, is it a porsche, Porsche, first of all Porsche Okay, thank you. All right, so you'd buy that car. That's about three a little less than three. So with the rest of it, I might be able to put my kids to college. It's like dad got a toy, the rest of you. Okay. justust choose wisely. veryer responsible, very responsible. I will say we've been to the beach a couple of times in the last few months, just weekends, and I rent these Airbnb's 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 dollars car with carplay So I don't have car playay now. No, I would probably just get a review but two, I would get like a beach house I don't get a beach. Now listen in Forida, can't get hurrane insurance for six hundred thousand dollars. No, you cannot. No you cannot But the beach house It's an investment. Which beach So this this is a tough one. This is a little side tangent Please forgive us The age my kids are now, they like waves. And so East Coast is what they prefer right now which the east cooast, you get sun rises and you get waves But As my kids get older Maybe I have grandkids in like tennis years. Little kids can't do big waves. They need a calmer beach 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 cooast of Florida somewhere in the Treasure Island Fort Deoto area. and do a beachhouse over there. suunsets Calmer waves for the grandkids And less hurricane risk, slightly less hurricane risk, I would say. at least then the East Cast. where they just get hammered by a bunch of stuff. You're still at risk Don't get me wr But I would I would go west coast So So which beach did you say didn't I was kind of like Treasure Island. Treasure Island iss a good place. Yeah Treas. Oh, yeah, that's've been there many, many times. Yeah.' Journalist a Treasure island. Okay, anyway. I'm the Treasure Island Herald. That's right. 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Just go to nordlayer dot com slash primary technology And you can get a ten percent on top with coupon code primary technology. That link is down below. Our thanks to Nord Layer for sponsoring this episode 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 ike four dollars a month for Instagram plus Facebook pllus, and you get features like profile customization, super reactions Bet 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 P creator type plans, all the way up to fifty dollars a month Big feature. If you pay fifty dollars a month, people will see your content People will see your content and putut a link on a re or post And listen, Jason, let me just say the kind of world we live in where you have to pay fifty dollars a month put a link on a post that you made justust seems wild to me I'm actually so I didn't I didn't read that part like I hadn't gotten that far because I just kept trying to figure out so wait, there's a lot of people who pay ten dollars a month for Meda Verified. But I think sure now you alsoso have to pay more for this other stuff if you want to be verified and creepy, apparently. I don't know But and there's also going to be like a bundle plan You get the verified badge and the creepiest stuff. Oh, that's good, that's really good. But And you can also make a story last longer than twenty four hours. You can highlight a story for a week anyway 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. Correct. And and then I I just got so tired the other day Every time 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 the worst. And 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. J th Let that be the thing. A lot of people agree with me, Steve. I know, I saw that thread going. A lot of people were like just like, yes, never They're just coming The fact that they're going to make you pay fifty dollars a month to put a tap Cable link in a post. It just tells you how desperate they are to keep people on the platform that And here's the thing, Jason. Okay, there's more Well, no, I would consider paying that. because I now post a lot of reels Pulw 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 sixty second ad in a video Or you can do a short re or TikTok And the one audience that I want to 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 my power users is 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 have it I say no to a lot of sponsors where they say, listen, we're only interested in a ten 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 ten minute robot vacuum videos, which don't perform well anyway. Nobody cares. They're obviously not 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 ephemerle than YouTube videos, is reels and TikToks 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. R. So I needed to grow my Instagram following and TikTok following. so sponsors see that and will pay me to post about their stuff on those channels So Instagram reels on 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 in 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 and bio. On Instagram, you can do the mini chat automation and this is why you see all the reels Well they'll say comment link and I'll DM you a link because that's the only option you have. Min chat is like fifteen dollars a month pointint 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 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 this And might might pay fifty dollars a month for that which is ridiculous, but It's ridiculous. sorry I got really distracted because I just found a SD card thing that has dog teeth in it the SD cards missing And I'm just trying to figure out, did I take it out and not notice the teeth marks? Did you chew the SSD c? Probably did I'm just kidding I just don know what' say, And I'm like I got to go find my dog. I gott to go his DD card is probably worth two thousand dollars, I mean? Actually, I'm pretty sure that the reason that that was sitting on my desk is that that SD card doesn't work so it's fine Have you guys sk haveave you This is a real thing You can buy Sandisk SD cards from Amazon And there are nothing. What do you see the outside casing? There's nothing inside Re three hundred dollars for a five twelve SD card You put it in your camera and it's like, I don't know you. Really? Hven a couple times I just bought a microSD card Sandisk for my contontraband Osmo Pocket four. Okay I have one of those, even though you can't get here in the US. But it was real, It was legitimate. I did't have to pay a hundred twenty dollars for five twelve. gigByte SSD, which is almost double what I paid probably a year ago, but I mean, those contraband devices they take only the good stuff. They take a long anyway I had lots of thoughts on reels and things. 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 But that's just the way they've built the plat. Like how hard would it be The fact that they okay, for sorry. for a long time, it was like, oh, we can't do this. It's sorry. It's just sorry there's no way to add a link in this little text field where you put the description. It's just not possible. Never mind that you've been able to do it on Facebook for whatever, Eeternity. Yeah. It doesn't matter But they'll never send you any traffic from that l So it doesn't it's basically like you can't add a link. You can just put it there and it makes you feel better, but no one cares But now they're like, oh, actually we figured a way it'll just be fifty dollars a month, please Anyway, I I pay that. I'll let you know It's available in U.et, but. Rise up, Stephven, you gott to stick with the people. Rise up I'm put a break Oh U I was like, did I make you stall out or something? No, no, no, I was thinking about how to structure the rest of my Okay. I love 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 WW. But Halied three is officially out. I wanted to mention because we interviewed Ben Sandovsky Halied three. so you should go listen to that interview. I'll link it below. That's out there. We talked about Hell I had three, didn't we? Yeah, we did we did, yeah. because it was out there in alpha or beta or something like that That's out there. There's been a lot of reviews of the Fitbit Air And I will point you to Lexi Savideid's review of the Fitbut Air. She had a 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 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 Many other fitness tracksers 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 dollarars month plan becausecause 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 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 Aellexi had a great video if you're wondering about to know the in depth of the fitbit Air and how good it works for different things. you 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 get your stats or whatever, like I've got the aoop. I gotaoop on right now. Yeah And it's nice because if you're wearing something else, then it then you can still keep track of your data if you don't. you're like Marque. Marquz's reviews were like three different. time or whatever. So that's nice, but I don't know, I've seen a lot of people 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 relatively platform agnostic. In some ways, you had I know a lot of people with iPhones and Fitbits, but if you have this one This isn't going to do with Apple Health what you 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 of weeks ago about Amazon acquiring Global Star or at least a portion of it They are now acquiring even more of it and Amazon is going to acquire Apple's share of Global Star, which is the satellite provider that does like the satellite SOS for the iPhone fourteen and newer And Amazon is just going own all of it. So There you go Amazon is powering your satellites I mean, the interesting thing here is that because this is also Apple's or Amazon's Leo satellite network will be the source on iPhones and on Delta airlines. R airlines. Yeah. And it's interesting because lastast week or this week American so they're now using Starlink. So I mean Apple and Delta are the only two companies holding out Aazon Aainst the twenty eight trillion dollars addressable market that St Musk says that SpaceX is going to capture I mean, you're a Delta guy. Do you wish Delta had gone with Starlink U this So the weird thing is that The Wi Fi and Delta flights has been basically Mostly fine unless you were on one of the planes that still had the old Go hotspot, whatever, stupidness. If you were on one of the ones, I think it was ViSat maybe and you had to free Wiifi, 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 Starling Like Starlink, everyone's using Starlink. That seems to be table steakakes But I do think it's interesting that Delta is the only I said it. It was me. It wasn't even. I was allowed to say it. No one told You could say it I can't say. And I also meant it in the way that it was meant to be used is the major airline that is not using Starlink. and Apple seems to be pushing against that as well Anyway, I will there you go Starlick, Leo Oh okay The MacBook Pro overhaul, we don't really talked about this But Apparently the Macro Pro is due and going to have a major hardware overhaul notot just a new M chip Everything It're going to be changing, switching from M mini LED to OLED. That's been rumored for the last couple of years, but it's like maybe finally coming Journalist Mark Germman over at Bloomberg has talked a lot about this and how Apple is optimizing MacOS to take advantage of a possible touchs screen So might it be a dynamic island on the MacBook Pro, a thinner design. And everyone's saying this is going to be coming with the M six chip generation I'm still saying I don't think there's going to be a touchscreen on the MacBook Pro The overhaul Thinner design dynamic island. I could see all that I don't think's going be touch screen Do you I I don't know if it's going to be a touchs screen. I really hope it's not. OLED, great. I've had some laptops. I've reviewed like some Dull XPSs with OLED. all that's great. That's fine. whatever. Apple, I mean, the mini ID is pretty darn good. so it's pretty good. I don't feel like there's a need there necessarily But the touchscreen thing, I don't understandstand the desire to have a touchs screen mas at all because I have used many, many Windows PC's that have touchs screens, including a surface like important thing And you never touch the screen. likeike, you don' 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 going to want to type probably soon after too. And I don't have to clean it off later. It's so gross. E Even not touching my MacBook air screen, I just stuff all over. Yeah becausecause he touch the keyboard and the keybard touches screen but I don't I really don't understand the desire to have a touchs screen Mac. I just don't get it. I I don't understand the desire to run MacOS on an iPad, fine, like whatever. that you know I get but I understand that sort of, But that's mostly because It it's just a sweet form fact Right? It's like I got this cool little thing We're going to talk about our hopes and dreams for DubWub And I have some thoughts about iPad that will be coming. So stay tuned. Ne week could be our preview, prediction, hopes and Dreams episode That'll be fun YouTube is actually getting serious about AI labels So both on long form and YouTube shorts There are going to be more prominent AI labels on a long form, you're going to see it You know, right by the title in the channel, there'll be a little AI tag and they're going to detect whether it is AI and on shorts, there's going to be an AI tag just visible. You're not going to have to like tap to see the label. It's just going to be there watermarked on the video. If anything is made with Google Synth ID or C twoPA detects AI, then that label is going to be there. And it will also try to detect, even if it wasn't generated with Google's tools or Tag with C twoPA, it's going to try and if it is AI, is going to try and label it proactively. creators can challenge that if in fact what they made was not AI. but this feels like 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 there on the video on the realel on the short And YouTube is like really doing it. So or they could just not have the stuff I definly, Jeez Yeah That's not gonna to happen. I know it's not, but I just feel like this is this is pointless Oh, I don't know. I don't think's pointless. Wh why would you say it's pointless It's utterly and completely pointless. This is have zero effect except for're making them feel better about it How I was this going to be useful? 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 and people will still just be like, o this is just big tech trying to get us to not believe the truth I hate. I hate that I Kind of agree. Yes. With that assessment. but it's something att least it's something. That is what the people at Google are saying to themselves about doing this At least it's something. But what what could you do? I mean, the AI content is going to be there peopleeople are going to post it. There are entire Instagram accounts and YouTube channels that are all A was going gonna share on social media and I didn' There's a feature on Apple TV that came out with TVOS twenty six. 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 vole changes from when you turn off to turn it on. Like every time you turn on your sonos bar. Exactly. Okay Yeah. And so there's a feature in the Apple TVOS twenty six four where you can enable continuous audio connection and it should prevent some of that issue For some reason, I don't have that sitt on AppleVs even though it'snected to a Sono sound bar in my bedroom went to Google Where can I change this setting becausecause I looked where I thought it was and where I found several websites 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 Abomination from Mordor This video, I don't even want to try and look for it to find it It was an AI narrative 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 thing look like an Apple TV It wasn't even close And the ATV is the 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. It generate an SSD and it was the closer. It would a hockey puuck would have been closer to an. my earpud buds case the case better Yeah And it is it was infuriating because I was like, Google serve me this video 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 at this video, I'm going to try and find the video and I'll try to put in the show notes Apple TV remote that it just AI generated was insane No AppleTV would ever look like it. And I was like, this is a fury You're not going to prevent that from being posted That's there. And Google is even pushing it. So to your point 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 madness 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, o, this is not real. The point is that That point, your point is letting them off the hook Be All of these tech companies with all of this CTPA, syynth ID, whatever flavor you want to call today of, oh, we'll mark this is 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, well we will put this little tag on there. You made the evil villain. You made the you are the evil villain. You made the tools and this is just a way for you to feel better because you're like, oh, but we're going to add this thing on there Never mind the fact that like Do you know how hard it is to take an AI generated image and take a screenshot of it? Guess what happens to the metadata when you take a screenshot or a screen recording It's gone. Yeah. Like this is nothing. It is nothing Jason, I found the video hereere's the thing You can show it to the audience. Yes You just can't put a link because I do not want this channel to get any extra views. Okay, hold on, let let me hide the channel Oh Sticking YouTube is like reformatting it so I can't hide it. fine. You can put it in there way but I just dont want you to I link it I' link it. I will l it Before I even press play I want you to look at this App TV remom 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 hipplate. Look at just just just That is a sweet looking USBC port What is even like This whole thing just makes me Unreasonably angry. This looks like a promo video for what was that the function remote or whatever? L 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's what's maddening is the title of this video has continuous audio becausecause 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 just wanted it to f sorry I wanted to find A video about this feat like what even what even is Apple Argadee? It said Apple arqu, but it was Apple arrgadee. Not Spanish. It was just an AI generated mistake. Sonic with Look at this control canter. Pr legic like home then This is so crazy making Anyway, control It's a nightmare fuel right here. Control canter. This is C A N T E R. Stven you know what this Control Cter. I'm crashing it. This is software body horror You're absolutely right. The control canter I can't, I can't even anyway I apologize to anyone whoses your eyes might be bleeding from saying that. 's if you're only listening to audio, don't go. Don't don't watch the video of this version. We're sorry And like there is a YouTube comment that's like, don'tisten 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 vs. It has like eight hundred views Man Google, why would you surface this video as a result? Right why And you made the tools to make this video possible And then you allow this thing on your platform, which fine, whatever. I'm not like a control freak where I'm like, o, 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 going to solve it. It's not inside it I'm putting in the title of this episode And they served it as a result to your search query Gg That search. That that was so offensive to me. It was like This is your top result Google, this is your top result Anyway, I'm going to put an AI slop crash out in the title of this episode somewhere I'm worked up right now. 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. Uh No, that's not this. This is Robin Hood is letting AI agents trade money for you. Speaking of AI. What could go wrong They say in their terms of service, Oh my goodness, I do say that a lot, I guess. I'm sorry Um, They say in the terms of service actuallyct that you might lose all your money if you use AIH as to trade. so just be warned. Yeah, okay, duh, you might lose everything Rob I mean, you might lose everything if you do it yourself. I think it yeah ye it's greatly increased if you' just let a robot do it. C you know what you know what robots don't care about They don't care about your money Or you ne the way that you care about your money. Wh My kids play with their toys. Yeah, they don't care. they don't care. You make investment decisions based on the fact that you feel pain when the number of dollars in your account goes down, the robot 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 's allane. apparently neither did the human being that uploaded it to YouTube Shame on you you know what In't I wouldn't throw around Lly, but I do think you know what, if you uploaded that video, I think you. I think sameame on you. Same on you This is the Spotify And I wanted to put this in here because Spotify is actually pushing harder, f better, faster, stronger I'm like podcast features and tools for real people because Spotify is now not going to 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 Spotify, 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 going to make it even easier to share links to that chapter with a video clip or audio clip. and it's going to be so easy to share podcasts. I'm like 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 going to make it easy to share clips of podcasts. Apple, you need to do all of this 's all I'm say Yeah, use some AI for good AI for good. Thank you tight on this episode is going to be AI slap crash out and Stehven never recovers That might be that might be it. I don't know how many record and make P uses after this I'm gonna try do it. I'm going to try and do it. Sparks is gonna be like, you are unusually amped up today My My blood pressure is elevated right now. I was so'm glad I got to get that out my system though because I've been I've been thinking about that video, sorry. thinking about wow Now now it's just skipping. I'm going to have to leave it all in I've been thinking about that video since I saw it. probably last week, so it's been a full week and I can't I could not get over the control canter. I just couldn't believe someone posted it. You've been traveling some I'm going to go I'm going to WWWC We talk about travel tick 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 this is the thing. Oh man, I wasn't prepared for this but yeah, let me let me give you something think about it. I'll give you a think about it. because I want to mention a couple things One Apple is selling directly through the Apple store, not like you can't get this on Amazon. They have this new like charging brick I believe it's forty five 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 buuilt 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 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 going to mention this charging brick because you gream has a new line of chargers, it is very small He' basically like The old iPhone charger bricks, like the old five wat ones Ugreen has these They are sixty five watts though. This little brick is a sixty five watt charger It's only one USBC port, but sixty five watts and it comes with a color matched USBC cable whichich I thought was pretty fun. So you can get like a cool orange and a blue. sixty five 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 going to put affili links down below. If you buy it, don't buy it I just want to tell what I bring The anchor power bank It 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 ne whole time and maybe a little more with this anchor retractable USBC cable of bricks so I want to bring that And Maxafe battery was I did get sent the Coolsill S four Solid state battery pack And they disished me an Range and just got a little screen on it. and a little kickstand So when it comes to charging speed, I've been testing a lot of recent Macax safe charger, Max batteries. I haven't got a chance like post videos on it, but the coolsill which is U K U XIO. The S four 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 USBC 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 coolsill three and one which is like a foldable metal three and 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 going to bring my osma pocket four, which is contraband here in the US. Okay Everything you mentioned basically is charging, but it occurs to me that when you're traveling Kind of the thing you care the most about. That is thing you care the most about. Yeah. So but I would just encourage people to like I am a big fan of this anchor. I think this the ten thousand million power or whatever. you can charge your phone basically twice. And I think it's forty watts fast charging and it has this retractable USBC cable, which is great. pllus it has two other. Yep, exxactly. I got the same. It's got little screen on it. so it's great. Yeah this thing is in smallall, right? And it even has this little strap to attach it to things. This thing is great. If you have like a water bt bottle pocket on your lap on your backpack, just stick this in that and then you pull your cord out while you're walking through the airport. a big fan of that. I also am still a big fan. I will tell you, I don't actually upgrade my travel stuff because I just want to only go with stuff that works. But this sixty five watt nomad slim charger. I still I love this ink because it's light. 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 use this the Balcon. This is the thing that sticks on the top of your laptop, right? If you want to use new iPhone for continontuity camera. It also works as a pop socket by the way, a Mag safe pop socket. It does. yeah. So there's that. Also, OWC sent me this USBC travel U Let the comments traravel hub T travel doock. so it has the SD USB A USB C. It has a built in USC port so you don't have to like use up any of these ports for that. So this thing has No it doesn't have Eethernet, but it has HDMI. So that's kind of cool. That's cool. But then two things, Stehven I mean this sincerely. Listen up friends. If you travel with any tax, Two things you should take Aation proro? N You should travel with a stash of sterile alcohol prep pads 'a 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 both the iPad and on the MacBook Pro So take some of these, I carry like forty 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 did I just touch? That a terrible question to in an airport, right? And then also, I just keep one of these in my in my is a mininder clip. I just keep it in my travel bag, my little yearbag, You know why, Stephven? as it? You know it 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. Pw I like this out effect. So just keep all the so you can shut up the. If you're someone who likes it really dark you know, you're traveling. 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 Mag saave batteries as you can fit in your back Right See, that's what I'm saying, exactly And I'll link to all those When I'm putting Apple support article in the show notes because there's a big callout 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 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 Pros, they may damage device or st. I don't travel my v. This doesn't take it anywhere It says it right there, you can actually honestly, I didn't know that, Jason. We talked about this once before because people were like oh my gosh, can't believe you would do that. And' like it says right on the I've forgotten everything the last six months after that AI slop proash out. I'm telling you. 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 tip Perfect for cleaning out your airPods, bro Oh yeah, those yes, that's important. That's important. One other the thing I'm going to 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, mostost of the time, or I'll take the XM Fives Excellent cls. 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 ear headphones so I don't keep them Well, didick you myPods Max too, but anyway Sony released some new headphones. I don't know if you saw this Was this the XM sixes? These are the one thousand The collection, collection with an X Wireless noise can. Even if you bought these I quit Well, maybe don't quit until you learn if whether I return them If you keep these, I'm quitting. Thank you. These are six hundred and fifty dollars, one hundred dollars more than AirPods MX Sony headphones They are Premium, I guess I would have tried them Are they you don't have them yet They They arrive today, actually later today. Also they don't do the they don't fold I mean, the earcups turn inward. Oh do they Okaykay. because that was the problem with these. Th these by the way, Stephven Okay Yeah So these ones here, the XM fiveives, theseese were Sony sent me these, okay And then I was like, cool, thanks. I'm done. like I put like I genuinely think they're great. And so I put them in a travel guide except for the one problem is the XM fours. They folded down These do not so they don't they take up the space that they take up So I said to Sonyum, and by the way, if someone from Sony' is listening, you want these back, just email me because three times I send an email Three times over like eight months, I seent an email And I was like, hey, I'm done with these. couldould you send me something so I can send them back? And one time I got some kind of response like, hey, I'll forward this to the team, and then I got ghosted the other times And I feel like at this point it's like emminent domain or something like that. I don't really know what to do. limitation. But maybe but I take them in the plane and at some point I'm gonna be like, well, I've been using these. I'm gonna do like a two year review of this one pair of head phones or something. So someome of them are selling ones in back. Otherwise, I'm gonna to keep taking them on planes. The Bowers and Wilkinens are still my favorite except Something you can say about Sony headphones They are about the most comfortable thing you can put on your. That's the thing They're comfortable. They're super lightweight. They feel like they cannot possibly be worth four hundred doll or whatever dollars because they feel so lightweight compared to everything else, but they just they feel really good and they sound great Well that's why I don't bring AirPods Macs or wear them a lot because the clamping strength for my big head is still too great. It just is not comfortable for hours on end. Whereas the Sonyyss 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. 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