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foreign people of the internet welcome back to
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another episode of the waveform podcast we're your hosts I'm Marquez I'm Andrew and I'm David and today on this episode
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this week we've got a tick tock introducing a paywall for Content that includes 20 minute videos Spotify is AI
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DJ we want to talk about and we'll wrap it up with the objective top 10 smartphones of 2022. no disputing the
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list we'll get into that one too it's fun uh but first usually we leave our our huge our huge Breaking News segment
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for the middle of our video but this I think this is the biggest news too big probably the biggest story in 2023 like
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we can't like bury the lead like if if people realize that we didn't talk about this at the top of the episode like
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we're in trouble like this is the biggest Story Probably of Our Generation Um so let's just get right into it a new
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yellow iPhone 14. this I I didn't see this coming to be honest we've gotten
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these like pale colors in the past of iPhones of like what is it we have the the the midnight and the Starlight and
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there's a purple one yeah um yellow really like just shook
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the whole Tech World up for a day there I think yeah it's a it's a bold choice I appreciate their bravery but yeah we
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have it yeah you know green purple that was expected but as soon as the yellow hit I just I I didn't know how to handle
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it I had to I had to call my therapist do you see the sides the the back is yellow but the sides are like a
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different yellow yeah what two yeah dude you got to watch the video soon it's incredible so they they invited a lucky
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couple YouTubers and people with cameras to point their cameras at it and I'm amazed that the camera is like actually
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were able to capture what they saw like a wider Spectrum in real life I wouldn't have believed it if I saw it it was hard
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to tell through the tears in my eyes of how beautiful it was yeah so for the Vibrance of it sure would you say it's
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like more yellow than the sun or it kind of has like a gold look to it I think it's gonna replace this one like one of
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the most important product releases is I think I've ever seen I've never even seen it with my eyes but me neither I've
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seen it with my ears now that you're describing it and I can't even I can't even imagine what it's like the articles are something they're poetry they're
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special this is I'm I'm just glad to be able to end the Pod right here yeah no that's that's kind of it for this
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episode there's nobody just tuned in no that yellow iPhone it's like released I did a video like two three years ago on
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like mid-cycle new color product releases if you want to watch that that's kind of the summary of uh the new yellow iPhone it's yellow it's in the
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purple iPhone video last year get like 5 million views well that's why I did the video I was like I usually wouldn't make a video about a new color of a phone but
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if you just look down at the view count you understand why this video exists so yeah that's
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um that was a thing for sure like the purple iPhone show up on camera so the purple iPhone was last year yeah I think
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so yeah oh my God yeah yeah it's like 13. because Ellis has it the 13 mini 12. I don't think the 13 came in I think
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no I think the purple's 12. and then there was like a red iPhone was it red Seven Ten
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not ten because the seven I think then right because I just remember us getting that
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and doing an unboxing in like an hour and a half and that video had like five million views yeah that's crazy the 1320
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is green you know it's actually funny kind of some of these uh these new colors everyone's like camera settings and everyone's color correction is a
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little bit different so you kind of have to like if you watch three different videos on a new color you might actually not really know what the color is
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because I look a little different in each video and that's especially true with the red because it was a really saturated red yeah and that notoriously
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will over saturate the red channel of people's cameras and it will start to peek and then look pink a little bit when it was not pink at all
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fun fact I can't prove that my red is the same as your red anyway though that's true in my brain I know what red
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is and I hope everyone listening and watching also knows what red is it's just a different red yeah
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anyway tick tock on the clock we we have a tick tock headline so Tick Tock
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introduces paywalled content kind of a trend that we've seen on social media in
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general is enabling creators to make more exclusive content behind a paywall for smaller audiences like Twitter
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already does that um Instagram actually already does that and so now Tick Tock is doing that I
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mean YouTube does it also YouTube exactly so so I'm just gonna read the bullet points here and maybe we have
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some reactions to it so it's called series which lets creators sell collections of videos that you can purchase each collection of videos can
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have up to 80 videos in them and those videos can be up to 20 minutes long so creators can choose the price for the
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series they can go between one dollar and 190 dollars to to charge for their series at launch 100 of the revenue goes
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to creators minus the App Store and processing fees and there will be a new series website to publish and track
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performance that's it it's just sell videos behind a
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paywall within the tick tock platform yeah packs of videos which is really interesting yeah that's way different
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than what I was expecting yeah and I mean I'm assuming that they want it to be unique videos but I'm wondering if
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creators would like sell if they have like a a series of videos that they already do if they're just gonna package
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them and then be like you can buy but what does it mean to buy a digital product especially on Tick Tock that you
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can already look at for free it would have to be a unique it would have to be a new video yeah maybe you do like a series and you have Parts one through
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eight are for free on your thing but then Parts nine and ten are behind the paywall something like that or you could
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do like if you're a cooking Tick Tock Channel or something you could do like we're gonna do a Thai package and then
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it's like 20 Thai videos there's an idea yeah I went from seeing the the title of
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this that you posted thinking this is an awesome idea to reading this and thinking I don't think this makes any
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sense at all it's kind of like really I mean so it's really it's up to the creators to decide like what this extra
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content is going to be so like when Instagram did this you can be a paying subscriber or supporter of an Instagram page or whatever and then there will be
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specific stories and posts that only paid subscribers see so it might be similar photography to your other photos
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or it might be special you know behind the scenes or something like extra content whatever same thing with YouTube
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YouTubers can choose what they want to be just for the paid subscribers so I
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wanna that's what I thought this was going to be but this makes me think it's different now because when you're saying
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can charge between one to ninety dollars for a series it makes it seem like you are going to create a series of five
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videos charge x amount of say ten dollars for that just that series is unlocked right whereas like YouTube and
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stuff is you subscribe for extra and then like you also open all the past stuff that was like that so it was a
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little different movie on Google Play movies or on on Apple TV basically yeah
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you're buying a digital product that only you have access to it would have to be a really great video yeah yeah right
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individual video I well that's why it's there I don't think they want it to be individual they want it to be multiple
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videos yes ideally it's multiple videos that's like harder if Tick Tock did like YouTube subscriptions I think it would
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make perfect sense and allow 20 minute videos in there because then it can be like I'm gonna make my regular tick
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tocks that got me popular but I can also make some 20 minute deeper Dives or if
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you could do paywall live live streams where you could do paywall like yeah long q and A's that are 20 minutes and
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then whenever you subscribe for that month the the Creator gets that seems perfect it's like the patreon model
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right yeah I think like the cooking example that I said before I think that could really work because you could do one Tick Tock video where like we're
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making Pad Thai I have a whole collection of like Thai food videos that you can pay for I was just gonna say
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about like travel you could do like one Tick Tock to be like I'm going to Columbia next week and then 90 videos
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about like the cool things to do there and you just buy that series I would argue you'd be better off making the
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tick tock that makes you popular and the YouTube long version of that well I would argue you should just go on YouTube period I mean yeah yeah like
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they're trying to figure out a way to Mac to maximize the revenue that creators can make which is like if I was
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gonna pay I get that I totally get that because most people don't subscribe to tick tock remember it's like usually for
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you page stuff for most people so paying to subscribe to a user might actually really not feel as at home on tick tock
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I think it feels more at home than doing weird charged like video on demand things I mean like to pay for a one-time
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yeah I I feel like if they went the YouTube the like YouTube subscription series or patreon like uh method or
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whatever like that would make so much more sense it's just that like you would be surprised at how many people will pay
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for people's courses on things there's unlimited information about that thing
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on YouTube already but people still pay for instructional courses yeah like that guy Marquez Brownlee he has like I was
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then tied to like Trust of that particular instructor right and that platform where I just like Tick Tock
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feels like a not the same place I just feel like the other one feels way more tick-tocky and Creator based than like
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this yeah Tick Tock doesn't feel like a place I would go to pay for Content pay for some specific content not even just
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like extra content yeah I mean it's cool that it's an option and I'm glad Tick Tock is thinking about what is to
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diversify a little bit in that way and offer it at least and maybe somebody takes advantage of it and it looks really cool and people get ideas from it
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I see that's why I think it would be amazing if they did it the other way you may be underestimating the power of
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parasocial relationships I think you're overestimating I I feel like it it feels less parasocial relationship if I buy a
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person's specific video rather than get like the to open the curtain behind the scenes of like extra videos that they
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will make I think that's a different that is I think people paying for individual pieces of content because of the
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parasocial relationship oh that is individual pieces of contact yeah yeah or I think it's I think it's a tougher
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it there's like a lot of different things going on there that are let's add
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different things like I think a perfect example is we've done we've done member only live streams right like that to me
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feels like now once a month I get this live stream where I am in a smaller category of people and a better chance
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to get in contact with this person that is primo parasocial relationship whereas
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if I'm just buying an already created video that I get I just only get to open those five
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of them feels like maybe almost like another step away from parasocial I don't know maybe someone gets creative
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and like offers custom videos on Tick Tock that you pay for before or you like
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ask to be made and then pay to unlock you know they can get creative with it it might not just be here's a pack does
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anybody want to buy it it might just be hey does anybody want to see a video on a certain set of things oh okay yeah
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you're interested okay I'll make it it's here for you to unlock whenever that type of thing I don't know we'll see people get creative with it but I do
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think it's funny that instead of just trying to figure out how to monetize Tick Tock with with advertising the way
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that YouTube shorts is trying to do it tick tock is like Yeah The Creator fund isn't really working uh can you figure
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out a way for the audience to pay for it instead of actually just trying to figure out an actual ad model I do think
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it's like especially 100 Revenue like basically is agreeing hey we're making plenty of money by ourselves for now
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though yeah yeah so I like I liked how successful it is I Like the patreon Model it lets smaller creators be able
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to turn things into a living because if you do have the super loyal base getting that extra thousand true followers
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basically exactly yeah like that's incredible this is yeah yeah but this is almost like the
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opposite of that's why it treats followers that's why I think it's weird it's like you'll just find one follower
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every five minutes forever instead of a thousand right now forever yeah I don't
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know I mean I don't know how much people stand each other on Tick Tock you know what I mean yeah that is the other thing there's a pretty notorious drop-off in
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how connected you feel based on the platform like when people follow each other on Instagram versus YouTube
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versus even something like Twitter or patreon where you feel more connected and then on Tick Tock you're just sort
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of like scrolling people you don't know most of the time so I feel like that that does make it that's a new wrench in
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the dynamic yeah of like how do you monetize this I'm effectively a boomer because I don't even have Tick Tock so I
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don't really understand the parasocial relationship on there and I mean I have uh Instagram reels so I unders I
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basically yeah but that's the most Boomer thing you could have said is I don't like this newfangled thing but I
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do like watching it two weeks well no I don't like watching it I don't like watching it just forced upon me yeah I'm
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just saying yeah I don't know I I'm not really sure the level of parasocial relationship that happens on Tick Tock I
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would bet that there are some people that are insanely obsessed with some of the creators on Tick Tock yeah so most
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of the best examples of successful Tick Tock creators that I've seen have turned
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it into a following on a different platform yeah so that says this is true Tick Tock this is true yeah so I don't
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know I guess we'll see I mean they uh like they said they're taking 100 of the they're giving 100 of the revenue for
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now it's great to me that says we're gonna see how this actually plays out that's it ends up being successful we
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take 30 yeah like that all right Andrew I had a question for you actually yeah are you you remember how you said you
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were gonna review everything for what are you still reviewing everything yes but I'm like I've found that I need to
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give myself Point more time to review things and I like because if I'm going to be this specific which I also think
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plays into I don't want to go to ranty again but yes I would I'm trying things more often
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I'm reviewing them and I'm also just returned like I'm returning things and giving them bad reviews actually there's a pair of socks
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I bought the other day and I got very upset and then I got ghosted by the website and then and then you left a
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review yeah and then they refunded me another two weeks after that dang dang so my review is probably deleted but oh
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yeah for sure my question I have I have just been thinking I have these several
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weird review scenarios happening to me at the same time that just made me think of like how do I review this this
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product and is and am I just reviewing the product or am I reviewing the the
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overall experience can I clarify real quick you're not talking about like something we're doing for work you're
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talking about like a more personal thing that you can review on a website okay so they are actually personal purchases
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that I've made so so here's one of them I bought a year and some change ago a
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table a marble uh like a like a small counter height dining table
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uh from Wayfair I'll just name and shame I mean I can already tell you two stars
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okay so it was a great table and it lasted like that year and a half or
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whatever it looks great it was sturdy everything I liked about it pointed towards like I never reviewed it but if
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I did this would be five stars and then uh a week and a half ago it just broke
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spontaneously not quite full shattered like that uh tempered glass thing that we have but I have a picture of it and
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we'll put it on the podcast where like the side of it just kind of like broke open like it cracked like but like like
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big crack big crack like sharp dangerous crap like fit your picky up to your first knuckle crack yep pretty bad so
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this table just breaks out of nowhere spontaneously I'm like whoa that's that's really weird was it because it
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was sitting in the sun I don't really know how to address like how to diagnose the problem but it clearly broke like
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okay well I can't keep this table or keep using it so I go back online and I start looking for other counter height
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similar size tables that would fit the same look and for like an hour I'm going
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through all these other options I'm reading reviews uh this one's built cheaply this one's plastic this one
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doesn't it's square instead of circular all these other things and you know what I landed on
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the original listing for the table that I bought and I started reading the reviews for the table and everyone loves
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it and nobody mentions it breaking so I'm like is is it still five stars even though it
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broke I called them I was a year and a half out so they were like oh yeah it's out of warranty so we can't do anything sorry you're kind of screwed and I was
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like all right well I need to buy another table am I gonna buy the same table because everyone had great
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experiences and it seems like nobody else was broken maybe it was a freak accident or do I go with a different lower rated table
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I don't know I'd probably buy the same table I might okay are you allowed to re to edit reviews on Wayfair
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I I don't know maybe I haven't left my initial review yet well that would be interesting because if you're not then
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that doesn't necessarily mean all those people didn't have that issue it means they left their review that's really early exactly it's possible a lot of
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people like built the table set it up and a week later they were like I love this thing and left a great review and then disappeared and then everyone's
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table broke and nobody can adjust their reviews Amazon does let you review yeah edit reviews and I actually usually find
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those ones to be like that's something I like to look for three months later yep and they'll be like update and it's like
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oh that means something important enough happens that either it got that much better or that much worse and if that
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happens down the line and you're willing to go back and review it that feels like major green flag to me like I want to
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read that review I'm submitting a review on Wayfair right now so I reviewed this you did an originally review it right I
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didn't originally review it but now that I've done that do your deed to the people also
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if I I would just not buy something off Wayfair I would go for something really no I was looking at a bunch of other
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tables online on a bunch of other different websites like I googled this specific type of table I wanted and went through all these other sites and it
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landed me back on this one table that is on Wayfair yeah I feel like Wayfair is
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just kind of like Amazon at this point where they're just bringing a bunch of third-party garbage and making it look
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incredible and it's all just like white labeled the same trash and if one of them gets really good I don't know I
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submitted a review and it says pending review so it's not even on the listing yes would you review it I just I just
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submitted like a blanket that I got just put a five star thing and hit submit and now it says pending you're just five
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stars have reviewed the table that broke no no no just a random other thing to see if I could edit a review okay they
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have to review your review it sounds like they're gonna review my review there what if you review their review
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David no David no we were David it was suddenly back in February like
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what happened I bought something recently um period
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um and I'm probably going to review it because it was way worse than I was
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expecting okay what happened uh so I bought some exercise clothes um because I have traditionally only had
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one exercise shirt one exercise pair of shorts uh and I need more so I bought
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some random like no name brand on Amazon because it came with three pairs of like
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shirts and shorts funny enough how do you pronounce that I think it's baidya nice okay yeah it's Bui jya all caps
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always that's that's good first off red flag immediately Amazon listing all Cap
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Caps company name red flag yeah immediately but so it comes with three pairs of both a shirt and shorts red
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flag
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no that's comparable to Old Navy pricing red flag you don't buy socks in bulk I
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the last pair of pants I bought at Old Navy I wore them immediately to a wedding and my whole crotch just split
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open and I had to do the whole rehearsal dinner with oh my God the pants just ripped down the center so I think coming
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in a package I don't know if it'll be a yellow flag yeah it was a pack of three I thought value because like look I'm
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just going to the gym how bad could these possible I just need to get them sweaty like that's the only thing I'm
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using them for right so I opened the the package and I I wear them and I like go
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to wear them and the pants are literally backwards like that drawstring is is
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coming through the wrong side of the pants on the back and the pockets are backwards too and I was like I walked
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into the gym I walk into the locker room and Dave is just like looking at his pants I was like because I put them on and I
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tried to put my hands I try to put them on the way it looked like it should be and I tried to put my hands in my pockets of like these pockets are
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backwards and then I realized no the the drawstring part is backwards so I was like wait that's weird this brand like
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makes weirdly shaped pants hold on and then I can I cut you off and I think
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it's just the question we all have yeah the drawstring and the pockets are facing opposite directions opposite direction oh okay okay you put I thought
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you just had them on backwards it just sounded like you had them all backwards no no yeah
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my feet are facing this way and the pants are facing the other way okay so
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okay look okay so I put them on and yeah the drawstrings like in the back like on my lower back and I'm like that's really
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weird yeah right so I just dealt with it and and I thought like I guess this brand just puts the drawstring around
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the back which is confusing modern Chic Vibe yeah but then the next day I opened the the next pair and there the right
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way so I'm just like they literally made that part of the pant backwards I think
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what see what you need to do is use the backwards pants for core day because
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when you're doing sit-ups the forward the backwards facing Pockets will prevent your phone from falling out when
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you're flying down but your tailbone will be on your tailbone no no because if the pockets are backwards then the
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drawstrings the right way front oh if I flip it around yeah well it Rockets if the pockets are oh that's good are they
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Side Pockets or boom they're Side Pockets I think I've turned this one star review to a five six feature okay
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the other problem is that feature or a bug every single yeah feature but it's only one pair of the pants because I
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bought six right because you only have one core day per week yeah exactly exactly yeah um and then every single shirt just has
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tons of like threads hanging out of it like it is the lowest oh and I got a medium and they're like extra large they
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did look pretty they're so big so anyway I'm gonna I'm gonna review I just I
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this is a learning experience here because the name of this this listing is just the ultimate Amazon
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red flag and I think we can we can connect this to Tech here I'm gonna read it for you right okay
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men's workout clothes athletic shorts shirt set three pack for basketball
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football exercise training running gym that's every Amazon list exactly yeah
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the more words in the title the bigger the red flag is I feel like
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yeah the yeah there's a lot of things about that I think I would probably be like this is an Amazon but when you
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bought it it was a 4.4 star listing it still is which is not that bad compared
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like I was looking at Value versus like ratings right how many ratings is it
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there are 1 346 ratings I would I would take a shot on that yeah like the value
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versus rating scale I was like yeah but then I it's 4.4 but then when you when you expand the five star there's only 67
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five-star reviews and then is it like stratified evenly or is there a bunch of two and one Stars 67 and then 16 oh it's
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like a percent yeah so but there's a you notice there's more a little bit more reasons the reviews are pretty positive
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all this year did you get a fluke backwards elastic package and with like
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crazy oversized like you just got a weird bad one but that was only one pair of pants and then all of the other ones
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were still terrible quality and super oversized this person only got the shirts they didn't even send them the
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pants Oh My Gosh okay you gotta so what are you gonna what do you what is your story I'm gonna give this I was it was
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probably I was thinking two star because the sizing is completely wrong like the backwards pant thing is like funny and
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weird and I don't really care but like the fact that it's super oversized and the shirts just have threads like
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hanging out of them constantly it just feels low quality like I think the two star even though again they're just
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exercise clothes and I really don't care but they managed to goof it up that bad and if I could get it for the same price
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at Old Navy then maybe I do that I'm gonna I'm thinking about this table I think I'm going to I think I'll go to
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a furniture store and look yeah but it's gonna be 20. that's a lot of work I know it is I know it is but it's also a lot
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of work to throw the like attempt to return this table or get rid of it and we had another one and set it up yeah I
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mean I with a friend like I could go to Furniture I just won't know if the table is going to explode by doing anything different you might get a better
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warranty though yeah oh this time I'm going to probably get the warranty that's more than one you can buy it you
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can buy it I'd skip the warranty I always skip the warranty that's my thing so I just I take good care of stuff but this one just exploded uh one other
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thing uh wait is this another review another review yeah
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um I bought a set of wheels and tires for my Tesla oh so it's a site that just
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does wheels and tires for Tesla just Wheels actually and they happen to sell a wheel and tire package okay and so
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they ship you the wheels with the tires mounted already I got the wheels I went to a a shop they
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Jack it up they put the wheels on and one of the wheels is one of the tires is
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flat and I go oh you got to air up this tire it's not I can't drive home unless you air it up they air it up I drive
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home the next morning tire is flat again Ah that's weird I air it up
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I come home from work it's flat again oh it's leaking that's like the obvious answer uh I go have it looked at at a
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tire place and the cords like the seal around the rim is just leaking as if it
00:26:04
was ripped during installation everything else about the rims gorgeous Wheels I love the wheels the tires are
00:26:11
installed everything else about them is great but I can't drive because yeah but
00:26:16
I have to literally and I probably will end up having to get another tire what is the what's the star rating well
00:26:22
you're also I mean it sounds like a fluke right I mean they'll replace it right what's their return policy I think
00:26:27
that's what it'll depend on I would wait until the customer service yeah yeah are you need to gonna need to get two tires
00:26:33
if you have to get new ones I know they're all matching uh I will have to I'm guessing what I'm going to need to
00:26:40
do is they they damage the tire when they mounted it so I'll have to get one new tire and get that installed wait the
00:26:46
second time you've had work done on a vehicle where they kind of damaged it a little bit wait wait but you said the tires were installed already yeah they
00:26:52
mounted the tire onto the wheel and then shipped me the four wheels with the tires oh yeah so the company not the
00:26:58
place you got to install that right okay sorry I thought you installed them just like took them and put them on the car for sure they didn't do anything bad
00:27:04
it's the the shippers who like put the wheel and tire package together those are the ones I think that I need to I
00:27:10
would go through the customer service policy and like wait for that and then if they return it and it's good and it's
00:27:16
easy and they're doing it for everybody then that's on you that part's on you but if if the customer service is good
00:27:24
then it's five stars to be fair they probably shouldn't have sent one that was messed up to start with but I agree yeah I would do four four because
00:27:30
mistakes happen though yeah but if you if you're not lucky enough and you don't have another card you could potentially
00:27:36
be missing days of work now or having to rent a car like that's quality control yeah yeah I would do I would do four I
00:27:41
can't give it a five okay yeah it's also not it's not subtle when you tear a tire and
00:27:47
there's a link in it you know what I mean um uh yes I'll give them benefit of the doubt yeah maybe something weird it's
00:27:53
tough to say because it's a slow leak and so they could have like put it all on and then everything looked fine they
00:28:00
aired it up and then they shipped them yeah and then they slowly lost air during shipping and they never noticed but I mean I'm not a mechanic but like
00:28:06
I'm sure there are a Litany of tools to make sure that the aircraft tire is constant I bet the person who did it in
00:28:12
the back of their head is like I hope I didn't rip it oh but they probably knew fire them they probably know well that's
00:28:19
the end of mine my segment of exploring weird uh review scenarios I think we
00:28:24
should keep this up because I think we constantly have questions about like we review things professionally but there's
00:28:29
also like random things that we buy but we're like how how do you review this like backward pants could we do a
00:28:35
segment at the end where people send us in things that they've been wondering about I was waiting for the trivia
00:28:40
section to say that well too bad my idea now check me Adam so like people send in
00:28:46
ideas of things that they people bought something and they send us what they liked and didn't like about it that'd be
00:28:52
fun yeah maybe on a slow week and end of the off the rails only only weird things though not just like I bought a
00:28:58
toothbrush like if you bought it too yeah like I bought three sets of pants and
00:29:04
one of them was backwards and the other one had like the shirts were cute yeah I want to hear about all the weird stuff like that yeah I like that idea all
00:29:11
right well let's get into trivia all right
00:29:17
lights are back uh speaking I need the new iPhone biggest story of our time that we we were just talking about the
00:29:24
yellow iPhone 14 biggest new story of our time we can't stop talking about it what was the last yellow iPhone I knew
00:29:30
that's what you're gonna ask damn it oh I know exactly what it is yeah I know what it is no no I just know
00:29:37
I'm gonna write it yeah I'm gonna write mine you're gonna write it down while we go to break that confidence either way
00:29:43
ad break now you don't have to watch us write it you know does anyone else have my pants anyway we'll see the answers at
00:29:49
the very end let's take a quick break foreign
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this AI feature the yellow iPhone this is a this AI color no it's uh Spotify has a
00:31:05
new AI DJ feature I have
00:31:11
feelings about this I have thoughts I don't actually have this feature yet I've been trying to live on reloading
00:31:16
Spotify you're the only one that doesn't I'm somehow yeah the only one who doesn't have this beta feature it's like the opposite of what normally happens
00:31:22
but hey okay I didn't have it until literally 35 seconds ago and you have it now yeah so like maybe I'll get it soon
00:31:28
but here's what it is okay so you know what AI uh synthesized voices can be
00:31:36
um AI DJ is basically like it'll play through a playlist which Spotify can
00:31:41
curate playlists but it'll also include like a radio DJ voice that like talks you through the playlist as if you're
00:31:47
listening to the radio or something so it'll just be a guy going like hey I'm your Spotify DJ your first few songs are from your high school days because you
00:31:54
listen to this artist a lot plays a few songs then it comes back and it's like time to change up the mood I have some
00:32:00
more songs from the end it's just like a radio yeah AI thing whatever it has some
00:32:05
scripts that it reads I don't I I'm not gonna use this ever but it's it's AI everyone who has a company has to do AI
00:32:12
in some way so here's spotify's AI I'm gonna let David go off it like let David
00:32:17
talk on his because so I was in your okay DMS David likes it Adam likes it
00:32:23
Marquez and I were super skeptical of it you no no you I've tried I tried it all
00:32:29
last night and all this morning so I have notes but I want you to talk about I want want you to talk and then I'll show you my notes okay so the The Voice
00:32:36
map that of the guy that is talking to you there's only one voice but it's based on one of their early employees
00:32:41
okay so they got like a lot of his voice and then they he's got a DJ voice yes
00:32:46
yeah sounds like a DJ um and they got script writers and a bunch of other people to like kind of
00:32:52
decide on how he was going to talk how he's going to mix it around but I I really enjoy it because like I was just
00:32:58
listening to it um this morning and then it's like yeah we're gonna throw it back to the music you were really liking in
00:33:03
2018 and I was like damn this kind of nice I mean just it was how about you
00:33:08
just play the song yeah but it does it for me I mean yeah I think this is my like my initial thought was that's cool
00:33:15
but it's because you have a playlist called my top songs of 2018. I do is just playing that and I like can go back
00:33:21
to that but like the fact that it's jumping around to a bunch of different stuff that is the thing I like about it and and like I think that we have we're
00:33:28
always on a sine wave of wanting more control and wanting less control like the reason that people watch they're
00:33:34
like uh what is it called that TV channel that just like Cycles through TV but it's online but it's streamed I
00:33:40
don't remember that do you remember stumble upon the website yeah it sounds like that we're like yes wow yeah I
00:33:46
think that people are in a phase where they kind of don't they have over too much choice and over abundance of choice
00:33:52
and they just kind of want to be served stuff and the fact that like regular radio right has no mapping to you it's
00:33:59
like a billboard right it's like you're going by a billboard it has probably has nothing to do with your interests
00:34:06
the radio is the same way and it's probably if you're listening to 96.9 the eagle it's only going to play classic
00:34:11
rock radio but this one is tailored to the music that you've liked over the years and you can hit the DJ button to
00:34:19
be like I'm not really into this and over time it will better match your taste so it's like a better version of
00:34:26
what Spotify already does Okay so I would like all of this without the DJ
00:34:31
voice so like just like an endless there's already without the DJ yeah there's like lots of good playlists it's
00:34:37
got like a hip-hop mix that's tailored to my hip hop listen so it's got a bunch of hip-hop artists I listen to and then
00:34:44
radio sprinkles in some more then there's a pop mix then there's a Kanye mix then there's a drake mixed and there's a dead mouse mix a muse mix and
00:34:50
they're all like because those are things that I've listened to and so it'd be cool to have like a Throwbacks plus modern whatever like but
00:34:58
I don't want the voice context too and it's like so I like yeah I think we can we all agree that Spotify
00:35:05
is really good at making these playlists right yeah like discover weekly all that
00:35:10
kind of stuff is incredible like they do a great job at that and the tailored to you part is super important I do like
00:35:16
the fact that he jumps between them I kind of wish I could just say like here's a bunch of playlists I have can
00:35:22
you Shuffle between playlists and then like do that without the voice that'd be
00:35:27
cool I think that would be cool he sometimes talks a little long he
00:35:32
sometimes is a little quick yeah he like okay
00:35:38
some of the things he's saying is basically just like like the
00:35:44
scriptedness of it is just essentially explaining the name of the playlist because it's like here's the songs you liked in 2018
00:35:50
it's just popular 2018 songs that you listen to I also have noticed with a
00:35:56
couple bands or like artists he's got a very grocery store self-checkout Vibe where it's like you
00:36:03
really liked songs from 2018 so you're gonna listen to banana and like it's just like it says the name of the artist
00:36:09
really oh really some are totally fine some of them they're he they tried to
00:36:15
pronounce Foo Fighters and I thought they said firefighters and I was very confused which this brings me to my next
00:36:21
point the immediate thing I thought of this was this is like radio how are they gonna bake ads into this oh no because
00:36:27
it's only for premium subscribers so no I already got something I think I
00:36:33
could kind of relate to an ad which is it was like you've listened to the foof you seem to enjoy the Foo Fighters who are going to
00:36:39
be starting their touring again blah blah blah soon and then giving me close by tour dates which I can only use gave
00:36:46
me nearby tour dates because they're starting a tour again and then that was the intro to this like next five songs
00:36:52
it played one Foo Fighter song and then four songs that were from a completely different genre so it really felt forced
00:36:59
sorry just to enunciate the force I'll slam the microphone but it really felt
00:37:04
like pigeonholed in there to be like Foo Fighters are playing near you and Foo Fighters absolutely paid to put their
00:37:10
tour dates on Spotify well that's exactly right why I enjoy this so much yeah because right now it's cute it's
00:37:17
cool there's a voice but with location data with all the data Spotify has about you with if I want to start a running
00:37:23
playlist and just be like I'm running give me the DJ hyping me up playing with
00:37:28
Tempo songs that match my Pace to give me the weather while I'm driving to work what's the traffic on my commute to work
00:37:34
and I just hit the aid DJ and it does all this yeah like that is where they're headed I want this I hope because that I
00:37:41
get it I could see I get it because they're never gonna replace a human DJ yeah like they was saying it's like a
00:37:46
human DJ is broadcasting to everyone but if they could get an AI DJ to do the same things but be very specific to you
00:37:53
yeah it's over it's like the Google Assistant of your audio world yeah
00:37:59
listening yeah yeah I get it I have two more things that I noticed sorry do you
00:38:05
have anything else to say because I feel like I just I took a bunch of notes one so I had two things back to back
00:38:12
that were kind of weird okay it brought up hey here's an artist you used to listen to but they've seen to fallen out
00:38:17
of your rotation let's bring it back it was some like Lo-Fi playlist that I must have played when I was working once so
00:38:24
it was like really strange so I immediately skipped all five songs and then it like
00:38:29
I must have skipped them too fast and it got confused because then there's just 15 seconds of Dead Silence with the but
00:38:35
like my Android auto said the DJ was up and it just like didn't know what to say I just waited speechless and then you
00:38:42
just like came back so it was like clearly processing what it wanted to recommend me next and that that I
00:38:48
thought was kind of weird but I have been trying to think of like what I think this could do you're talking about
00:38:54
like running Tempo I think it would be cool like I'm going on a 30 minute run can you pick songs that will end at 30
00:39:01
minutes like so you're not ending a run at a certain point or like a warm-up Tempo then like right in the middle get
00:39:06
really intense yeah yeah and yeah and basically but so here's here's a pitch that I have that I I think could be cool
00:39:11
we've all played pod quiz right do now the first five is always music
00:39:16
based and it's like Play a clip of a song and you guess I think it's always my favorite part of pod quiz If the DJ
00:39:22
could somehow do something like I'm going to pick 20 songs that you might know and I'm gonna play you clips of
00:39:28
them and you can like play this in your car of like guessing the song and the artist and like I think that would be
00:39:34
that's what I'm saying this is Limitless when you tailor things specifically to the user it makes the the possibilities
00:39:42
yeah a lot bigger okay let me let me propose another version of this to you and see if it sounds absurd or not
00:39:48
YouTube has a recommended page let's say in a theoretical World YouTube can put
00:39:54
together a quick AI generated 10 video playlist for you based on what it knows you like watching and it's usually
00:39:59
pretty good but then also insert a video AI Alex
00:40:06
Trebek all right next video for you is going to be a throwback to use to watch
00:40:11
when you were younger okay it's me at the zoo and you skip a few too fast and then you get to the end of the playlist
00:40:16
and he just looks at you like I wasn't ready for that man hold up new video different mediums I like the playlist
00:40:23
just minus the the I don't know I would like that here's mine at movie theaters yeah but music you listen to over and
00:40:29
over and over again videos you'd probably talk on here here is my Counterpoint and another thing I think
00:40:35
could be interesting is I wish it was more interactive potentially with voice or it could be with forward and back buttons because in your car it you
00:40:43
should not be controlling your phone yeah I wish the DJ in some sense was like hey uh we can either play oldies
00:40:50
from the 70s or the stuff you listen to in 2019 and I could like give it the direction or like scoot it in a certain
00:40:57
direction because right now it really is just going all over the place like sending me Summer 2018 into Lo-Fi beats
00:41:03
into Dua Lipa is like yeah that's wild crazy sounds like a Vibe
00:41:08
I do think that eventually they'll introduce some sort of natural language processing their house and interact with
00:41:14
it and you can be able to interaction I'm kind of thinking of more like I want some Island Vibes right now and then it
00:41:19
just is like yeah Island Vibes you were listening to those in 2018. I heard you on Island Vibes
00:41:28
yeah I don't know I I it's very beta I think there's potential it's very beta I think it has a lot of potential
00:41:34
um it's based on a company that they bought only a year ago so they like implemented it very quickly and I could
00:41:40
see them doing a lot of like chat GPT style natural language processing uh injection pretty soon so I'm I'm down on
00:41:48
the DJ as it exists now but I'm you've talked me into its potential future I think it is a success we did that yeah
00:41:56
we convinced Marquez of something yeah that's not too bad he can't use it let me use the feature I'm just gonna
00:42:03
throw this out here solely out of pettiness when I was uh applying to college as a high schooler I applied to
00:42:09
like this fancy Business and Technology hybrid program at a university I'm not going to aim and I uh I wrote an entire
00:42:16
essay about how Pandora's music Genome Project was worthless because all the
00:42:22
important data as far as music went is going to be user data and listening data
00:42:27
because you never like a song because you liked another song that sounds exactly the same you like a song because
00:42:32
of the time you heard it and who showed it to you and I was like whoever can collect all this data and use it is
00:42:38
going to be the you know biggest player in the music industry and I didn't get into the school [Music]
00:42:45
but somewhere there's a professor who read that he's like I'm gonna teach this yeah I so I won't name them it rhymes
00:42:52
with University of mother and malifornia
00:42:58
yeah I like I love shaming the schools I didn't get into it's my favorite Stanford Cornell yeah it's whatever it's
00:43:06
no big deal so there's one other thing we wanted to
00:43:11
mention which is a not it's not AI is it it's a micro machine learning machine learning so slowly A J super resolution
00:43:19
uh super resolution video yeah this okay well I pitched this to you this morning
00:43:26
about talking and you had some strong thoughts you want me to read the the and then you can sure okay cool yeah so very
00:43:32
quickly Edge is introducing a new feature that can use machine learning to upscale online video content to create
00:43:38
higher resolutions the videos have to be 720p or lower they can't be DRM perfect
00:43:43
protected so Netflix Hulu HBO stuff like that probably mostly YouTube videos
00:43:48
um and you have to have some certain uh Hardware requirements so like 20 series
00:43:54
or higher or an RX 5700 or higher um then it also says Microsoft has not
00:43:59
mentioned if VSR can boost 720p resolutions to full 1080 which we're just like what's out there yeah
00:44:06
um I know David's worked with video resolution yeah upscaling stuff before yeah
00:44:11
so like that's why I kind of saw interesting and like in an ideal world if I can play me at the zoo at a higher
00:44:17
resolution or like old stuff like that yeah it sounds cool before you I know you really don't think
00:44:23
this is ever gonna happen how's your uh like your upscaling yeah how is it uh it does really bad with hard edges so text
00:44:30
is terrible it kind of looks like if you put into Dolly to like make a sign that
00:44:36
says something and you know how the text is just like random letters all scrambled and kind of like they don't really have hard edges I remember
00:44:42
upscaling for a video we were working on the original Apple like iPhone keynote
00:44:47
because it's only available in like 240p yeah you've done it for me before for a couple podcast things yeah and I upscale
00:44:53
it to 4K and like Steve Jobs looks great the theater looks great everything looks kind of great but all the presentations
00:44:59
on on the screen are just the text is just totally scrambled yeah so we've
00:45:05
upscaled a few of the videos we've posted on the waveform Twitter from 720p
00:45:10
to 4K and no one's like noticed or said anything yeah and also it's gotten way
00:45:15
better recently um the tote I used topaz video AI for that before and I think that within the
00:45:23
last year or so all of this video upscaling stuff has gotten away way better like Nvidia has Dynamic super
00:45:28
resolution and all this different stuff and I'm just throwing this out here I have no proof of this but I think one
00:45:34
reason they might be closing the edge upscaling to older stuff is because I find when I try to upscale things that
00:45:41
were shot on film or shot on analog video it can't make sense of what it's
00:45:47
seeing like it try I think it's really noise instead of well I think it's probably trained on high resolution like
00:45:54
4k digital video so like the soft lines and the noise and the subtle color banding it just freaks out because it
00:46:01
has no reference to look like yeah that makes sense yeah yeah my my take on
00:46:07
upscaling is it's generally not good generally so I've used various and I
00:46:13
think also this is this is Source dependent so upscaling like I've seen a lot of really uh
00:46:20
like interesting demos of upscaling video Technologies on a TV and it's like
00:46:26
I will play a 720p video on this TV with the TV's upscaling technology turned on and it'll look like 4K and then I play
00:46:32
it and I'm like it looks like sharpen 720p I know what that looks like so I've never looked at uh the result of
00:46:38
upscaling and thought wow mission accomplished it looks like the higher version high-res version um and I think that also applies to
00:46:44
audio where like the worse your source is the harder it is to do a good upscale
00:46:50
so like me at the zoo 240p 480p video Whatever It Is will never look like new
00:46:58
modern digital video because of the way it was captured it just there's other
00:47:03
than like really severely altering it there's no way to make it look like normal 4K video I think with diffusion
00:47:10
you can do that though because like they yeah then you're like generating and adding yeah yeah yeah versus like
00:47:17
sharpening and that can look good yeah the the old upscale I would completely agree with you that like a few years ago
00:47:23
upscaling looked pretty trash but some of the most recent examples that I've seen have been actually quite good and I
00:47:29
don't know whether they're using diffusion or whatever but I think that there are new AI models that do it a lot better yeah I have yet I would really
00:47:35
love to see like some of this in action I should probably should try it on edge yeah we should try this this isn't out
00:47:40
yet oh yeah but we can try it on some of the other in video or topaz you said you were using yeah but yeah I don't know I
00:47:47
want to try the the no I do want to try the edge one when it comes out um it's not out quite yet yeah it one thing to
00:47:53
think about though I think though is like I don't think 720p is gonna look as good as 4K but if 720 can look
00:48:01
70 it can be close to 4K it'll still look way better than 720 like we should
00:48:07
test it with your your uh HP laptop video we should upscale that bad boy because that's rough lighting and I
00:48:14
think the tonality is still going to look exactly like yeah that quality you won't get more Dynamics you won't get
00:48:20
more yeah it'll be like a like a nice sharpening filter yeah with like a little more detail in some of the finer
00:48:26
lines maybe so now we need your YouTube DJ to play Old YouTube videos upscale so
00:48:32
then we can just flashback YouTube remastered here's one you will watch in 2007. HP Elite Pro remote review
00:48:41
Minecraft tutorials tutorials are good yeah that's funny all right we're gonna take another quick break to talk about
00:48:47
the top 10 phones in the world in 2022 objectively objectively but first
00:48:53
[Music] all right so last night Andrew Adam me a
00:49:01
few other people went to a hockey game a New Jersey Devils game so I thought today would be a fun week to do a Tech
00:49:09
hockey collab question let's go I finally might have the advantage get it
00:49:15
wrong so maybe uh the NHL has an official app for players and coaches
00:49:20
it's called sap hyphen NHL it runs on iPad and it gives all sorts of like live
00:49:26
statistics live insights it's actually like the kind of data it provides is super duper cool yeah um but the trivia
00:49:33
question today is on game day at the arena how many iPad Pros is each team
00:49:40
allowed to have okay maybe I might have an answer that's also
00:49:46
an interesting question because the Flyers coach banned all iPads off of their bench so is are the Flyers paying
00:49:53
off of there sports
00:49:58
um yeah [Laughter]
00:50:05
we'll be right back foreign
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right welcome back to the official countdown of the top 10 best smartphones
00:52:02
of 2022 and by best I mean I mean most
00:52:07
unit sales globally of the Year number one is the yellow iPhone I mean no doubt
00:52:13
about that yeah but 100 2020 is locked already 100 of you we
00:52:18
already know how this year's gonna go but this is 2022. um so this is uh this is a some data
00:52:23
Gathering From a site called Counterpoint and they've actually broken it down into a pretty interesting chart which is every single month
00:52:31
uh we have the top ten for the year but then for every month how many where on that list each one of them was it's rank
00:52:38
yeah it's rank for the year so it's really cool so let's just I think we're just going to put this chart on screen
00:52:43
so you can see this real quick and for our audio listeners I'll just break it down our top 10 smartphones starting at
00:52:50
number 10 is the Samsung Galaxy a03 number nine is the iPhone SE
00:52:56
number eight is the iPhone 14 pro number seven is the iPhone 14. number six is
00:53:04
the iPhone 12 number five is the iPhone 13 Pro I'm sensing a trend here yeah
00:53:11
number four is the Samsung Galaxy a13 number three
00:53:17
is the iPhone 14 pro Max number two is the iPhone 13 Pro Max and number one is
00:53:22
the iPhone 13. this was surprising for a couple reasons to me number one this is
00:53:28
global yeah so this I mean this is I would expect this in the US right for sure but there are a lot of other
00:53:33
markets and a lot of other regions where I don't expect to see much on the premium iPhones like at all like a lot
00:53:40
of countries a lot of regions just don't buy premium iPhones like that um and that also we don't see premium
00:53:47
phones from other manufacturers that are competing with the iPhone so then you
00:53:52
look at the month to month and it gets even more interesting uh obviously the iPhone 14 series didn't come out till
00:53:58
September so they don't have anything listed on there on this list until September uh where the iPhone 14 pro Max
00:54:05
debuted at number one and was number one for September October and November and then gave up its spot to the iPhone 14.
00:54:13
um and it stayed at number two so the pro Max is the one that's actually selling the most volume and it sold so
00:54:19
much volume in those four months that it became the number three best-selling phone on the planet for the entire year
00:54:25
that is a lot of volume and when you obviously Apple sells the most volume right at the beginning of the of the
00:54:31
release but that's gigantic yeah um then the 14 pro sells a lot the 14
00:54:37
the 13 people are still buying the iPhone 12 in such mass that in January
00:54:43
it was the number four best-selling phone of the entire month in March and March and April and May and June and
00:54:50
July was all top five every single month people just buy iPhone 12s regularly that's insane I mean the iPhone 13
00:55:01
[Music] 44 so people continue buying the iPhone
00:55:07
13. crazy yeah yeah this is like also really disheartening for like Samsung
00:55:13
yeah because if you're Samsung first of all you wish that your premium phones
00:55:18
would sell in the same mass and be your most popular phones but clearly here it's the a13 and a03 which are like 190
00:55:26
phone and 100 phone selling the most volume and number two instead of buying
00:55:32
a cheaper Android phone people are buying old premium iPhones which is
00:55:38
really interesting like people would actually go buy an iPhone 12. at what I presume is not a very steep discount
00:55:44
from what we know about Apple's pricing yeah um they'll keep it in the lineup drop it by maybe 50 to 100 bucks you know when
00:55:50
they put the like graphic on stage so yeah this is it feels crazy opening
00:55:56
because like the amount of phones that real me and read me a lot all of these
00:56:01
guys make so many variants of all their phones and you would imagine that they would ship like hundreds of millions of
00:56:07
units and in some markets they they do so like yeah like in India they sell like craploads yeah in China and like
00:56:13
walking phones that is probably part of it though is like because this is by model when Samsung and real may not have
00:56:20
like 30 models and then those 30 models each year or whatever like it's so much
00:56:25
so one interesting thing about this graph is between the third spot and the 10th spot is 1.7 to 1.1 percent so like
00:56:33
yeah 10 to 20 could be neck and neck and that's where we could see a bunch of other Samsung phones a bunch of other
00:56:39
real new phones the other thing here though is the number one spot is five percent of total market share globally
00:56:45
was the the iPhone 13 yeah and then the next closest was half of that yeah
00:56:51
Apple totals about 15 of all global market share with these charts so this
00:56:57
this is the type of chart then that favors Apple because they have so few models yeah and that they're not the
00:57:03
number one uh global manufacturer of phones by volume I mean they might be like number three or
00:57:09
something like that yeah I think we'll always surpass them for a while a number of years ago but now I'm not sure if it was by volume I almost wonder if they
00:57:16
could they would even be top five no I I wouldn't be surprised if they were but you think of like Huawei honor real me
00:57:23
yeah there's just so many phones Samsung but they have so few models that in order to
00:57:30
get a model at the top of this list it's easier when they have less models so yeah it's still like Samsung still has
00:57:37
like clear flagships like s 23 23 plus and 23 Ultra are kind of like their
00:57:43
flagships in the same vein as these iPhone flagships but they didn't crack the one percent Mark so they didn't end
00:57:49
up on this list yeah yeah I mean it does still seem like apple has a huge amount of market share
00:57:57
like Samsung is a is above them uh with let's see q1 of let's see Q4 of 2022
00:58:05
oh Apple was above them I don't know yeah they sold 70 million phones of Q4 in of 2022 and Samsung sold 58.3 million
00:58:14
phones you know also yeah another stat that just keeps blowing my mind more and more is in the US how dominant they are
00:58:21
among young people so like you think of like what's a dominating market share for a smartphone
00:58:26
in any one country you'd think like 50 for one company is pretty crazy
00:58:31
that's 60 is crazy 70 is like dominant and then the numbers of like uh people
00:58:39
in the US ages like 18 to 24 18 to 24. no it's like 90 plus it's like an insane
00:58:46
percentage of people who specifically get pressured into the iPhone and the ecosystem because not only do all their
00:58:52
friends already have one but their parents have one it's just like the communities have them it's just it's just the phone in the US well it went up
00:58:57
from I'm trying to remember the years but within a five-year span between I think 20 2014 and 2019 it went from 40
00:59:06
of 18 to 24 year olds in the US owned an iPhone to 75 this is just a recent
00:59:11
article I pulled up from Phone Arena according to uh their survey nine out of every 10 teenagers in the in the US on
00:59:18
an iPhone 87 9 out of every 10 87 percent nine out of every ten that's
00:59:23
insane most people yeah in in like that age bracket like 13 to 19 whatever so
00:59:29
it's crazy it's crazy how dominant they are in this one country but then it is kind of eye-opening to see a global chart where I think the global thing is
00:59:36
what surprised me the most here because I know we talk about Apple a lot because we're us-based but we clearly get a lot
00:59:41
of comments that's like Apple's not big where I am they're way too expensive or like import fees all this stuff and like
00:59:47
but I think it said they're most popular in US UK Germany France and China and
00:59:54
like if you just really can dominate a few markets you really can dominate Global sales like it's yeah pretty crazy
01:00:02
yeah I think that really shows the power of the ecosystem lock-in especially in that age group like if you're not able
01:00:09
to use the thing that the social dynamics of the other people your age use you're going to get Outcast and
01:00:14
that's the worst age to get outcast in because you're trying to make friends you're growing as a person and it just
01:00:20
it's a strong it's an Oro Boro so it eats its tail because it the more people
01:00:25
that get pressured into getting an iPhone then they become part of the amoeba that pressures other people to
01:00:30
become part of their amoeba and eventually the smaller amoebas just get completely eaten and it turns into one they grow out into crabs
01:00:38
we're all back to crabs that's a that's a deep cut but yeah I don't know it's like it makes sense that scent in the
01:00:45
last five years the uh the market share has grown that much in Apple's favor because they're the most ecosystem
01:00:51
forward brand and because they already have a dominance that's just going to keep getting bigger and bigger and
01:00:58
there's gonna be a day where there's like 99 of teenagers have iPhones in the
01:01:03
US that's that's always been an interesting question is like can any other brand crack this because you can obviously emulate the same pressures
01:01:10
with your own ecosystem but you also have to get switchers so like Samsung can build a really strong ecosystem and
01:01:16
they have like you can get a Samsung laptop that talks to your Samsung phone and has Samsung services and it has
01:01:21
their own version of airdrop and their own all this stuff like works really well together Huawei does the same thing Opera does the same thing but you also
01:01:28
have to bow balance the the people who are already in a different ecosystem and get them to switch into your ecosystem
01:01:35
which is way harder so I think it's tough to like pick someone cracking This
01:01:42
and like actually starting to turn over market share and get into what Apple's doing yeah well in the fragmentation of
01:01:49
the fact that like yeah you can have a Samsung phone and you can have a Samsung laptop but it's actually a Microsoft
01:01:54
laptop because Microsoft makes the software this is true and just the the level of parity between those devices if
01:02:01
they're not made by the same manufacturer is just always glitchy and buggy and never really works that well because like what is Microsoft's
01:02:07
incentive to make this random Samsung pairing app any good yeah and it'll be a
01:02:12
Samsung laptop with an Intel processor exactly and the other yeah Microsoft's OS and it's like you look across the
01:02:19
aisle and it's an apple chip with an Apple computer with an apple piece of software on it and like an Apple phone
01:02:24
of course they all work great together like apple Architects things within the hardware to be some software features
01:02:30
that work well with their other devices yeah you can't do that if you're fragmented as a device yeah so this is
01:02:36
tough anyway they're pretty good at this huh yep people always ask like oh wow well there's always a there's always the
01:02:42
like wow you guys do a lot of iPhone videos and then you look at uh we were joking about the iPhone the
01:02:48
yellow iPhone being the biggest story of our time joking what I mean of course it is the biggest story over time but it's
01:02:54
like you wonder why so many uh we were talking about the this is another thing I could make a video about if I really
01:03:00
got if I really wanted to I don't actually want to but about
01:03:06
um YouTube channels because there are so many YouTube channels there are now
01:03:11
increasingly fewer ways to differentiate yourself in the YouTube ecosystem and so you see like back when I started if you
01:03:18
were a tech YouTube channel that was enough of a differentiator if you'd be like oh wow you do Tech you do videos
01:03:23
but you do Tech videos that's really interesting I haven't seen that and now there's a bunch of tech videos now there's people who just do smartphone
01:03:30
videos or people who just do software or just do productivity inside of tech yeah and now we're so saturated that there's
01:03:37
just like what can you latch on to to just you know sort of drag yourself above the noise and and all the
01:03:44
saturation and I think a lot of people find that just making apple videos is just yeah people are interested in apple
01:03:49
there's always a popular Apple product around we might as well just hook onto that or like the menorah
01:03:56
fish on the side of the shark you know so I don't know if there's a video essay in there somewhere but that I think
01:04:01
that's even too saturated at this point Apple channels now you need to unbox iPhones while jumping out of a plane
01:04:06
it's true because there's gonna be a bazillion Apple videos and and if you're not on the first page of search you
01:04:12
might as well just I mean is Bing AI ever gonna find you nope probably not steal your content yeah by the way it's
01:04:19
not a menorah fish what is it sorry thank you kill me I can't believe I got I'm sorry
01:04:26
thank you for that thank you for that so yeah it's a real thing the iPhone turns
01:04:31
out is a pretty popular phone I can't wait to tell my grandkids like in my day we hadn't we had Android phones shut up
01:04:38
Grandpa it's time for bed all right girl two different reports and you had to
01:04:43
pick one Android it's not real go to bed no the there are ancient menu
01:04:49
scripts that detail the Samsung Galaxy S
01:04:59
um super old carcass of a video idea in video board which is is the iPhone the
01:05:05
most successful product of all time and I started like writing down others that could possibly compete with it one of
01:05:10
them is sliced bread well so it has to be a company who's made a product
01:05:15
foreign Tech is one of the things that iterates
01:05:21
every year so you have newer and newer versions of the product so it keeps getting sales so Ford Model T
01:05:27
doesn't really have a modern equivalent that I can say oh it's one of the most like successful products ever it turns
01:05:32
out Toyota Corolla every single year is one of the best-selling cars on the planet for a long time yeah you can make
01:05:39
an argument for that or F-150 you can make an argument some others I saw um Lipitor a drug product that's just been
01:05:47
popular and useful to people for a long time penicillin and then some other random dark horses like the Harry Potter
01:05:53
series or um just another rant just like a one-off
01:05:59
thing Pokemon yeah like like one-off media entities which are really interesting but I ultimately kept going
01:06:05
back to the iPhone I think the iPhone is probably hands down the most successful
01:06:11
individual product ever yeah I love Harry Potter
01:06:17
that's really quiet I love Harry Potter it is like my thing I have tattoos for it and everything it doesn't hold a
01:06:23
candle so the iPhone it's just like cultural impact was probably a higher Spike for Harry Potter but the iPhone
01:06:30
yeah I don't know I don't know I still meet people that are like oh I've never
01:06:36
read the books oh I've never watched the movies so maybe and it's Heyday Harry Potter and it's absolute Heyday was like
01:06:42
every kid it's like Pokemon was standing outside the store waiting for the book to drop or at least just like the iPhone
01:06:48
or at least knew about it yeah right because it was like a it was a book instead of 100 300 500 thing everyone
01:06:54
knew about it but then it's got to get translated in all these languages and it's got to be International too I'm just like the iPhone
01:07:01
starts new economies almost like right the iPhone started so many new sections
01:07:07
it is the reason apple is what it is and then they have all these other businesses that are built on top of the
01:07:13
iPhone being popular which is just like the iPads the App Store entire App Store like all of that is from iPhone yeah
01:07:21
exactly I think it's hard to compare product to like story based entertainment too yeah that was like a dark horse yeah like the Apple watch is
01:07:28
the most popular watch on the planet it's an iPhone accessory yeah it's what it is yeah so that's true yeah I think
01:07:34
yeah and airpods are like one of the biggest companies in the world on their own right if you were to map out all
01:07:40
headphone companies like Sony makes headphones so we consider them a headphone company uh Audio Technica
01:07:46
makes headphones among other things um I think airpods would be like a top five like headphone company and Sony
01:07:53
makes movies yeah like they make a lot of stuff Nintendo just bigger than all
01:07:58
of Sony too just kind of airpods as their own Standalone business are about as valuable as Netflix in its entirety
01:08:06
so I think they if they were their own company they would be actually I guess yeah yeah yeah it's insane yeah and
01:08:12
they're just iPhone they're an Apple products yeah so yeah the more you know I think we've talked about it I was
01:08:19
thinking about making this video but it also kind of felt just like if I make a whole video about why the iPhone is the most popular the most successful product
01:08:25
how much did they pay you it just feels like I'm just patting them on the back like congrats guys you did it you really
01:08:31
did it this time with the iPhone take a Victory lap make a yellow one yeah they wouldn't dare so it is what it is
01:08:39
now it's a podcast thought I think that's appropriate pod thot hashtag yeah David wants to talk about well yeah yeah
01:08:46
um it's kind of a quick thing uh yeah I guess this is perfect what we just talked about yeah
01:08:52
um realme shipped its first phone that has it's like a extremely Dynamic Island
01:08:57
ripoff that it's it's like it's not just like a ROM that you can download yeah or an app that you can download it's
01:09:04
literally a feature on this realme C55 phone
01:09:09
um and you know what the thing is like apple can't really stop manufacturers
01:09:14
from like making software things it's just a software thing it looks it's cool
01:09:20
like it's a good idea right I think that the hype behind Dynamic island is
01:09:25
probably one of the reasons that the iPhone 14 pro max sold so many units like it's a very simple feature that got
01:09:33
a lot of people invested now what I wanted to talk about with this specifically is that one uh people have been
01:09:40
complaining since the iPhone 14 pro and pro Max launched that still not that many apps take advantage of the API
01:09:48
um but even less apps are going to be made for this one because this is not
01:09:53
like this is not like there's an Android API that can take advantage of dynamicon it'd be like real me it would have to be
01:10:00
like hey guys uh Uber uh this is calling all developers the real me C55 like
01:10:05
every single time a company releases like a fringe product they're they always go like and we opened the API so
01:10:13
anyone can make anything like razer's done this a ton of times with like their weird products and nobody makes anything
01:10:18
it's tough and the fact that Apple can't even get enough manufacturers to make stuff for the dynamic Island it's like
01:10:24
yeah real me is just gonna there's gonna be system information charging animations whatever the charging
01:10:30
animation looks it looks dope terrible wow wait I haven't seen it so I don't
01:10:35
know what to think right now look at this tell me this isn't a tenth of as good as what apples is and I'm saying
01:10:40
that because they wrote super boots in the charging animation how could you it says super boost why would you put that
01:10:47
on the top you know what's funny too is it says 99 right next to the battery icon that says 99 exactly this is yeah
01:10:55
this is what I would call it in my day a poor use of space this is crazy I mean the space is there right it's a software
01:11:01
feature this is funny because it's just a regular webcam hole punch cut out yeah like yeah I do like like having stuff at
01:11:07
the top as basically like quick switch I think that's what was cool about Dynamic Island they needed to do it more so in
01:11:14
on the full pill cut out if you're gonna do all this for charging why is this also here oh I'm not talking about this
01:11:21
I'm not talking about charging I I agree with you on that one but I think to what David said like and it's not even
01:11:27
necessarily realme's fault it's not Samsung's fault it's Android in a million different
01:11:33
specifications where like to ask a developer to do that is like please hire an entire new branch of this development
01:11:40
yeah in order to get it to work so if it's not working on Apple which has like two models that are exactly the same
01:11:46
where it's so much easier and we see this in a million different apps and it's just an unfortunate side effect of
01:11:53
the Android yeah I mean I'd say the reason that there's still not that many Dynamic apps that take advantage of dynamic island is because yes it's Apple
01:12:00
yes it's the iPhone but it's still only two models of the iPhone I would bet you that when the iPhone 15 comes out
01:12:06
especially if Dynamic Island comes to the regular model of 15 we're gonna see every app manufacturer taking advantage
01:12:13
of uh trying to find developers to do it yeah yeah there's a couple cool ones now my weather app does it Uber does it
01:12:19
Spotify does it so we'll see we'll see more yeah um super super teaser
01:12:25
we kind of have some of our own first-hand experience in this now too which is kind of interesting so it is
01:12:31
what it is it's a it's a Shameless clone which is what the Verge called it and I
01:12:36
agree with that um but that is it okay that that concludes our
01:12:52
anyway the last trivia question all right so trivia time quick update on
01:13:00
the score of course Marquez has eight Andrew has seven David has ten that's
01:13:06
right David's in the lead that's a wow that changed yeah Andrew you gotta you gotta get on it yeah catch up and also
01:13:12
before we do trivia we did hear feedback and we are going to make this much faster we are doing very strict time
01:13:18
limits and we will try and cut out Dead Space so you will just hear the question and you will hear the answer and you
01:13:24
will like it and you will rate it well and you will not listen to my rating restrictions and you'll give it five
01:13:30
stars you're welcome thank you for that very concise explanation okay you're welcome we're making this longer than it
01:13:36
needs to be I've already written we could have just had the delay in the trivia but now we delay the
01:13:44
first question yeah so just got the yellow iPhone what was the model number
01:13:50
of the last yellow eye model number yeah the model the model oh not the number I
01:13:55
mean same thing what was the last iPhone that was yellow yeah okay yeah yeah so you have until the end of this music to
01:14:02
write down your numbers or answers okay they're not numbers I
01:14:07
just may have confused myself a little but yeah we wrote it down no Adam I did not change but you changed yours from
01:14:13
before I'm just saying mine's still what I wrote the first time you're changing it you better hurry up we got about
01:14:18
three seconds okay all right flip them and read okay I have to really think about that one oh
01:14:26
yeah okay iPhone iPhone I wrote iPhone 10r oh that's not the least I wrote 10r
01:14:34
really nope iPhone 5c no is there a 12 iPhone 11 11 was it the last yellow
01:14:43
okay because the 11 was when they first didn't they basically the first time
01:14:48
they made the pros like quite a bit better so the 11 was almost just like an 11R yeah that's why oh you know what's
01:14:56
funny I thought about that too because the 11 always skips my mind I always forget it the 11 was basically the 11R
01:15:02
but they just like shifted everything forward yeah all right next question brought to you
01:15:09
by I really thought I had that Alice no in a regulation NHL hockey game how many
01:15:15
iPad Pros is each team allowed to have what is it called Andrew is it a bench bench so like in one team's bench how
01:15:23
many iPads are allowed in that bench not assuming it's two because there's two benches right not in the arena per bench per
01:15:30
team per team okay how many iPads are allowed on game day in the arena
01:15:36
per team in the arena on game day in the arena no
01:15:41
no I'm in the bench I thought wait per team or not per team per team okay on the bench or is this including their
01:15:49
characters because they have like analysis people outside of the bench this is uh on the bench okay final final
01:15:57
a bench if you guys want contacts a bench holds three coaches and 20 players here's the reason it's important because
01:16:02
during the week outside of game day they are allowed X number of iPads per team
01:16:09
all right flip them and read
01:16:17
because I thought it was a trick question because like the NFL doesn't allow any iPads because they do services but then I changed it to two
01:16:24
he wrote two that is the kind of question I would write but that is a great I wrote three I wrote four let's
01:16:34
go so on game day they're allowed four and during the rest of the week they're allowed to per team yes interesting
01:16:40
that's exactly what my thoughts did you know that or did you just get a nice little guess well I originally wrote two and then I didn't and then Ella said
01:16:47
they'd go up I almost changed to four when I said that but I assumed one for each side of the bench and one for the
01:16:53
coach one of the coaches Mark has take us home please thanks for watching we
01:16:58
appreciate you guys uh please suggest topics for future questions so that we can catch up to David
01:17:05
yeah catch you guys in the next one peace bye
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