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Your Apple devices are about to cost more. Tim Cook said it himself this week. Price increases are coming and there's nothing they can do about it . AI is eating the world's RAM supply , some have dubbed Ragnarok, and there's nothing Thor's gonna be able to do about it . And your next iPhone is going to feel the heat. Meanwhile, Snap just launched a pair of AR glasses for just under two thousand two hundred bucks. They look like something like your optician 's most eccentric patient would wear. And people are already asking you the question nobody at Snap wanted to hear , When will they be available to the public and even wearable in the public? Big tech, big prices , big questions. This is a tech hangout. Let's get into it. And this episode is sponsored by Chuck Joinier's Polo Coest Collection, a collection so complete that even his PJs have collars. Let's do this Chuck, you should get into that. That is a business . Was that in the script? I don't remember . Where did I come from? Yep. Well, well, like I said welcome to the check hangout . I would like to introduce our lovely panel today . Since they couldn't make it, I will introduce who we have . First , our sometimes h today engineer , Ms. Patrice Today engineer, sometimes host. Okay, yeah, I 'm it's crazy. It's already been a wee k since we did the first show. So much has happened since then, but I'm very happy to be here. I'm roasting right now. There's a heat wave going on in Europe and yeah , it's hot . Hot like the prices Yeah, hot like the RAM prices definitely, definitely I'm gonna mix it up a little bit here . Let's go with Mr. Chuck Joyner . Hello, Ben . Mr. Polo shirt collection. The papers have turn ed with me in the host seat? Yeah, really. Yeah, I noticed a little editorial comment there that was sort of you warned us we're going to go off script. So that's fine, that's fine. That's fine. I will look forward to hosting you next time on MacBoyishes Live Revents . And speaking hosts , the man who who helped hosts at least seven podcasts a day Minister Marty Gentzius . What else is there to do? Come on. Terryl, somebody somebody give me something more important to do than seven podcasts a day . It's not seven podcasts a day by the way. I'm looking for only six and a half. Friday. Yeah, yeah, six and a half . This is Friday. I love Frid ays. I get to put my feet up after this thing and for medical purposes too . So yeah, I'm looking forward to the rest of the weekend Yes, just don't do it on camera take that back. Some people are into that . And we're swimming on the wrong network for that. Yeah, it's my only feet . It's my only feet page . Yes . And lastly , finally a professional mister Dave G insburg You professional what? Yeah, exactly . Yeah, maybe a bottle was But could be your penticks . Professional bottles . Depends on what was in the bottles, right? Yes . Oh boy And I'm trying to think of a segue into our stories, but I ain't got them. Now, let's go for the feet . Yes . Feet with the D. Not the feet. Yes. Yes, with an E Marty . Yeah , you know what? We're gonna start with something funny today . You know , Apple released a comed ic video about Tim's last good morning and we'll have our crack reporter Chuck Joyner tell us all about it. I picked this story because it feels like it got so little attention . And of course dubbed up, you know, there's always a competition for attention. But this was Tim's last official p ublic kind of thing . And I thought this seemed sort of in character, sort of not in character. It's sort of the character that Tim has evolved into . And I really really, like that about, you know, about Tim and because he when he stepped into Phill Steve Jobs shoes , he had to be pretty serious. He had to be terrified. I mean, in spite of his experience . And he has really evolved into someone that I think the majority of the MAC community really appreciates. He's got this subtle, self deprecating kind of humor that he has done over time , not just this video, but also the most recent one that resonates with me was the pit stop video he did for his golf cart that he uses on the Apple campus. You know, and Patricia just that's it. You can't kind of can forget about these little things. They're can't, they're little throwaways , but they also show a pattern of humanizing the guy who is running this huge technology company. And it also is something I think about Apple's culture it allows and encourages this kind of of self deprecating humor you seem to be under the under the gun for so many things . If you haven't seen it, one other point I want to make about it is that although it's not just Apple TV stars , there are a lot of Apple TV stars in there . And it won't take you long to watch. It's very short . And it's so, you know, it's just, I think it's so well done . It's so much fun . You know, you can go and check it out . Yeah. I mean it really was and the I mean the whole the whole the culture I think it goes back to the two Steves like I mean they were they were pranksters. They loved to like a good joke and and I think that goes like that persist to this day in the company and you see it in here. I really like that. I mean, it's like basically the storyline for the ones who haven't seen it is like that the other like the Apple TV stars and also stars in general are trying to come up with better ways of saying good morning like Tim says. And Tim at the end says, No, I'll stay with I'll stick with mine bas ically and then says good morning. Like he does always . So I really love that. It's a really fun, fun little video . There's a part of my cynicism here that's sort of like okay , let's all laugh at grandpa's jokes or dad jokes . But I think this was the quintessential tip here . I mean, with him you went with Apple from an apple that was basically revolving around one personality , one personality that famously got rid of a major GPU dale because AMD or ATI at the time accidentally leaked it to a laid back southerner turned Apple into a more accessible, more collaborative place . I mean, we don't know what the Apple of John Turnis is going to be yet , but this is the culmination of over a decade Tim's apple . He had to fight for so many years . What would Steve have done until people finally let go of that ? And that's when I think he can't speak for Tim, but that's when I think the culture changed at Apple in terms of being a more approachable , progressive kind of collaborative kind of business . Yeah. And I think I think part of that had to had to be getting rid of some of Steve Stalwart's like Scott Forestall who had shared Steve's personality . I'm not so sure Tim . Yeah , but under Tim, Apple evolved , and I'm not talking about the success in the business and the products. I'm talking about just it grew up a little bit in some ways. That Steve hadn't been allowed to let it