iPads Get More Expensive and Austin Evans Guesses Smartphones!
Episode Description
While Marques is away being a professional athlete, Andrew and David sit down to discuss the news of the week. First they go over the new Nothing Ear(stick) earbuds before digging into the new iPad and iPad Pro. After that, we have a pre-recorded phone-guessing segment that Marques played with Austin Evans the last time he was in town. Finally, we finish up with the answer to some difficult trivia questions. If you have any good tech trivia that you think we should ask make sure to tweet it at us! It's another long one this week, but we hope it's a fun one.
Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:41 Nothing earbud news 13:30 New Apple iPads 25:55 Trivia question 1 26:43 Zocdoc (Sponsored) 27:58 Updates to Google Messages 46:40 Trivia question 2 48:42 Ad break 48:44 Phone guessing game with Austin Evans 01:07:10 A Race to Z 01:13:33 Trivia Answers 01:19:26 Outro
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Brief Summary
Hosts discuss new iPads, Google Messages updates, and a trivia game with Marquez and Austin.
Key points
- Price Increase for Nothing Ear Ones. The Nothing Ear Ones are seeing a price hike from $99 to $149, raising eyebrows.
- New iPads Released. Apple has released new iPads with updated designs and features, but at a higher price.
- Apple Pencil Limitations. The new iPad only supports the first-generation Apple Pencil, creating an artificial limitation.
- Apple Pencil Hover Feature. The new iPad Pro introduces Apple Pencil hover, allowing users to see where the pencil is without touching the screen.
- Google Messages Updates. Google is enhancing Messages with RCS features, improving the texting experience for Android users.
- RCS Messaging Evolution. Google Maps businesses can now chat with customers via RCS messaging.
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Episode highlights
- Price Increase for Nothing Ear OnesThe Nothing Ear Ones are seeing a price hike from $99 to $149, raising eyebrows.“That's a lot!”0:42Oct 21, 2022
- New iPads ReleasedApple has released new iPads with updated designs and features, but at a higher price.“This is five percent more a laptop.”16:21Oct 21, 2022
- Apple Pencil LimitationsThe new iPad only supports the first-generation Apple Pencil, creating an artificial limitation.“This is 100 percent an artificial limitation.”18:48Oct 21, 2022
- Apple Pencil Hover FeatureThe new iPad Pro introduces Apple Pencil hover, allowing users to see where the pencil is without touching the screen.“This is very useful for when you want to do things like changing the size of your tip.”22:01Oct 21, 2022
- Google Messages UpdatesGoogle is enhancing Messages with RCS features, improving the texting experience for Android users.“Now Android users can react with two messages and receive reactions even over SMS.”34:56Oct 21, 2022
- RCS Messaging EvolutionGoogle Maps businesses can now chat with customers via RCS messaging.“If you want to communicate with a business, they'll be able to chat with you.”43:12Oct 21, 2022
- Messaging PreferencesA discussion on the preference for chat over phone calls for customer support.“I will click chat live one thousand percent of the time.”43:57Oct 21, 2022
- Feature Parity in MessagingThe push for iMessage-like features in RCS to improve user experience.“Let's add iMessage feature parity to RCS!”44:51Oct 21, 2022
