 It's Apple event day and that means we're here to dissect and share our reactions to the new iPhones 15, the new Apple watches, and more here on Mac GeekGab 999, the super pal andromic expialidocious edition for Tuesday September 12th, 2023. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac GeekGab, the show where we usually answer your questions and share your tips and share some cool stuff found, but today we are doing things a little differently because of course there was an Apple event earlier on this wonderful September 12th and so we are here to talk about it and do all of those things. Sponsors for this episode include PIAVPN.com slash MGG where you can go to save 82% off of their great VPN service plus like four free months. So we'll talk about that in a little bit and then also BBE at it at barebones.com. So we'll talk about both of those things in a little while. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton and here in Longbond, Colorado, I'm Jeff Gamet. Thanks for joining me here on this Jeff Gamet. This is I know we've had you on for several Apple event reaction episodes and so it seemed perfectly fitting to have you here for this one. Well, when you asked if I could be on, there was no hesitation. It was I couldn't type yes fast enough because of course I want to be here with you doing this. Yeah, it's great. Pete was unable to make it today. So it is just the two of us for those of you listening at home. It's also an interesting episode for us. It is Mac Geekab 999, right? It is the last of the triple digits. It is the it is the one of the most palindromic episodes we've ever had because it's all the same number, right? But what's cool is we actually get three two palindromic episodes in the next three weeks because this one because 1000 and one is coming up. You got it. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. So it's very cool. Congratulations. Thanks. Thanks. Yeah. It's it's for a lot of reasons. It's good to have you here for this particular episode. You and I many times over the years have dissected Apple events together either on this show or on daily observations, which was a show that you and I worked together to create when we were running the Mac Observer. So it's yeah, this feels this feels very, very natural and very good. And it's a special episode. You were, you know, you were around when Mac Geekab started. So, you know, it's Oh my God, I'm old. Yeah, same. Sorry, sorry, but in a good way. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. All right. I think I want to just dive right in here. And as always, I never feel any obligation to go in the exact same order that Apple did for their event. Of course, they started with watches and and because of course, they did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fine. But, you know, I'd like to look at the things that sort of matter to us and and go and craft our own little path through. We're not here to regurgitate what Apple said in its entirety. We're not here to just just summarize the event because you get to watch it. And there are other people out there summarizing the event. What we do is we dissect and share our reactions to the things that we react to, which means that there might be some stuff that we don't cover. And that's OK. But I want to start with the iPhones 15. So as typical, two different models, the 15, two different families of iPhone, the 15, the 15 pro, and then there are the standard and max sizes in each of those 6.1 and 6.7 inches. I want to jump around here when. So in terms of the sizes, they sound like the same sizes that we've had for a little while. They do. They do. However, as often happens over the last week or so, I've been receiving shipments from various third party vendors of cases for the new what's called up until today, twenty, twenty three, six point one inch iPhone, right? Pro iPhone Pro, which is important, an important distinction. And as always, I take my existing current then current gen iPhone Pro, so my 14 pro and I put it in the cases to see did the buttons move, whatever, because it's the same size, six point one, six point one. And with cases from all of the vendors I've received, which are multiple and they are very reputable vendors. I don't know if I'm supposed to share their names yet, so I won't. But my iPhone 14 pro did not fit into the case with the 15 pro. It was my 14 pro was a little too tall. And I didn't understand that until today. In fact, I thought with the first one showed up that maybe one vendor had made a mistake. But when they both were like this, I realized, no, there's something going on. And jumping around, I think that it is because the 15 pro when Apple was announcing that it is titanium, they said, and that makes the that allows us to make the the case for the for the phone, not the not the case that you'd put around the phone, but the shell of the phone, the frame, the frame a little bit thinner. And it was like, Ah, ding, ding, ding. Yes. So no, your 14 pro case would probably cause the iPhone 15 pro to swim a little bit in it and fall out. And so you probably don't want to do that. This seems like a great third party opportunity for for in case bumpers. Oh, yeah, you think people will will sell, you know, adaptor kits to make your 14 pro case work with the 15 pro? I don't think so. I think they want to sell you a new case. Yeah, they want to sell you a new case. But but I could see the company that's like, man, we just don't have the infrastructure to make cases. But we can take adhesive silicone strips, and we can die cut the crap out of those all day long. It's I don't think it's going to happen. But I don't know you could as you say that that is this is a perfect opportunity for a cottage industry, right? It's it's a low priced should be a low priced item that can be made, like you said, die cut or even potentially 3D printed, although, you know, maybe it's simpler to just do the die cutting, like you said. But yeah, I could see that like, like the the all of the various continuity camera mounts that just come and go on Amazon, you buy one today, and then in a few days, like that same one isn't there, but something very similar to it is I could see something like this showing up. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, my guess is it would screw up your MagSafe connector. Depending on that, I don't think it's yeah, the thickness it's it for me where it felt like it was too big was on the height of the phone, like the long edge of the phone from the top to the bottom, but we'll see. So I wanted to share that but that's certainly not the most important thing to to spend all of our time on. Let's let's talk about the phones. What what was what jumped out to you on on the iPhone's 15 or 15 pro? I'll start with the 15s. Okay. And first thing was when when for the 15 line, they said thinner bezels. Yes. And that was actually a point where I thought, Well, maybe cases aren't going to work. When they started talking about the changes they're making to the frame there. So you have the more contoured edges. They're doing the the the etching for texturing for better grip. They talked about the the new strong coating on the display surface. And just all the things that they they were talking about going down the line about about making it more comfortable in your hand and making it look more grippy. Yeah. And what that tells me is that Apple really, really would love us to not put cases on our iPhones. I had the same feeling as I was. Yes, like and this is true. Like Apple really doesn't want us to put cases on our iPhones. I think that's especially true now of the 15 pro or made land better with the 15 pro being made of titanium. People saying, well, a titanium super strong like and be gorgeous. Like maybe I just want to and maybe it feels good or feels feels good or not feels good or feels good or feels safer in one's hand. If like you said it's been it's been etched. The other thing that I noticed as they were talking about these so the the iPhone 15, right? The it's got the OLED display, right? This is the non pro model, right? OLED display goes all the way up to 2000 nits. If you're running HDR 1600 nits, like it's got this whole new matte finish. It's got the ceramic shield on the glass. The cameras on the 15 regular 15 are quite impressive. 48 megapixel main camera, a telephoto using the center 12 megapixels of the camera. It's got auto portrait mode, which I have been seeing on my iPhone 14 pro with with the iOS 17 betas I have seen it jump into portrait mode. So I think that we all might get that or at least some of us might get that all the night mode enhancements and as they were going through that and there's some other things I want to talk about too and maybe we'll even come back to some of those that I just glossed over. But as they were talking about that, my feeling was this is they're describing a pro iPhone here they are selling this to pro customers. In fact, they even said something like very early on. They said this is going to be a hit with our pro users. They they they. Yes, you're right. They did say that. And so that's interesting to me. And and it's interesting for a lot of reasons. One, the big one is amongst the people that I talk to regularly, many of whom are nerds like us, almost always buy a new phone every year, even though we really don't need to. A lot of folks were like, I don't know if this is the year that I'm skipping a phone. Like I don't know that I need a new phone. You know, the economy isn't as rocking as it has been for a while. Right. You know, and so it's much softer economically, you know, people are more conservative with their dollars and a little more risk averse. And so I this was an interesting given that backdrop in my own head. I thought it was really interesting that one of the first things they said was this is going to be a hit with our pro users because it's like you you what you're doing is setting up my hypothesis, which is which is, yeah, the economy is not as good. People are a little more risk averse with with spending. And but there's a lot of people that really, really wanted the iPhone 14 Pro. So Apple says, let's give them the iPhone 14 Pro at a more affordable price. Yes. And and they just change out the the outer shell on it, essentially, essentially, right. And and then sell it at a lower price. There we go. Now you have the iPhone 15. But it's basically the iPhone 14 Pro. It's basic. You're right. The camera is only two cameras, not three. Like, you know, it's essentially the iPhone 14 Pro. But it's a better camera than I would have expected in the non pro model. And I agree. Yeah. When they started rattling off camera specs. I was quite surprised because I felt like I was listening to to the pro iPhone camera specs. Yep. Yep. Same. And I was actually sitting there with my wife and my daughter was the first time I had company watching an Apple event that wasn't like you. Well, we were sitting next to each other somewhere in California, right? Yeah, good times. Good times. Yeah, exactly. But for the couch, usually I am left alone in the living room, but my daughter's home from Italy. And so she was there with me. And it was really interesting because it was you know, we were we were able to have some conversation. And then of course, we had conversation in our Mackie cab discord room too. And there was a lot of this like, well, what's the differentiator going to be? And we'll get to that. Maybe. I mean, we will address what Apple says the differentiator is whether that is a differentiator that matters to you or me is going to be interesting. But but yeah, I it is interesting. I switching gears for a second, I was super and like I am super impressed and happy that the emergency SOS that we got starting last year carries over, you know, to the iPhone 15 and 15 pro. Not only is it and they have the find my via satellite so that well, yes, find my via satellite, they also have like we'll come rescue you if you're dying in the woods or whatever. But now there's roadside assistance through AAA in the United States. So this has moved from it's not just for I'm dying in the woods. It's now for my car died in the woods, right, that you can use this SOS for not just calls that you would make to 911 here in the United States. I was not surprised to see this feature at all. Okay. And the reason being is because I get how people are. What what two first responders qualifies as a real SOS emergency? And what qualifies to the average person as a real emergency are not the same thing. So they're being stuck lost on a back road out of gas to you as an average user. This is my my time to do emergency SOS because holy crap, I'm lost. It's night. I don't I I don't have gas in my car. Yeah. But for first responders, that's a AAA call. Correct. Correct. Yeah, you don't call you don't call the you don't call 911 when your car is stuck in the woods. Usually I mean, there might be a scenario where you would be surprised. Okay, maybe people do. Yeah. But this is great because it will probably also cut down on those 911 calls that don't need to be 911 calls. Right. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Also calling 911 in those situations. Well, it's easy to bag on people for doing that. You're lost somewhere. Back country. You don't know what city what county you're in. So air. So what phone number non-emergency phone number would you call anyhow? So people the AAA thing, you've just solved that problem. You don't you don't need to understand what jurisdiction you're in. All you need to know is that your iPhone can get AAA up there to give you gas to tow your car to whatever it is that you need AAA for. Yeah. Yeah. It makes sense. It makes sense. Yeah, yeah. I have a hypothesis why this didn't happen last year. And I think it's because Apple didn't want to roll out everything at once and then have something break in a horrible way. So try the try the most important part. Let's save lives. Yeah. Yeah. And and that's working well. Yes, we've seen where the problems are, which which accounts for for the second part. Right. Which is right. Yeah, sort out the system. It doesn't really matter what you're using it for. You get to learn whether the system works, right? Right. Yeah. And my guess is that the roadside assistance will get used a lot. And I'm AAA is going to see a nice little boost in subscriptions. I liked that you can if you already have a AAA subscription, this is included. And if you don't, you can get a just via your phone, you know, via your iPhone roadside assistance subscription, presumably priced somewhat differently, although I don't know what the difference is. So maybe it's just a AAA subscription, which is fine. Like that's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's fascinating. So yeah, I'm so we've got this camera in there, which I find fascinating, even the front camera has true depth and auto focus. Yeah, it's a it's a that's an interesting that the iPhone 15 is a compelling product, even for us, for me as a, I've only ever bought a pro except that one time I bought the 10R, which interestingly, was the last time the economy was kind of soft. Oh, interesting. But I'm with you. I've always been a by the pro model ever since the pro models were a thing. And I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, I need to actually really go through the specs and my needs and figure out what phone is the appropriate purchase for me. I agree. I agree. Yeah. I am very happy that both iPhones 15 now have ultra wideband in the Bluetooth chip, right? So that this this now allows for find my friends to use the same sort of precision finding tracking that you get with AirPods, right, where it narrows you down to a thing. One other thing along those lines that I believe will come with the iOS and Apple TV OS 17 is that our Apple TV remotes or Apple TV 4k remotes have an ultra wideband chip in them to be tracked like an air tag and hopefully now it will be enabled, even though we've had this in our possession for a long time. This is criminal that it hasn't been activated. It's especially criminal. And when I say it's especially criminal, it's like it makes me want to commit criminal acts when I am looking for my remote knowing that I have all the technology there except the software to to help me find it. Yeah, I am so with you. I have refrained from committing any criminal acts. Jeff, I just want to make that clear. I I laud you for your self control. I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So oh, and and by the way, USB C connector, I know we all kind of knew that that was coming. But I'm kind of I kind of like it. Apple, like they did, they set us up for this the right way, because we have USB C on our iPads and our laptops, and we have MagSafe as well for our phones. And so it it's the least amount. It's the least worst time to do this, I think. Yeah, it's the least worst time to do this for me. I was thinking about it. Oh man, what am I going to do about chargers, blah, blah, blah, wait, except in my car. I just put my iPhone on a wireless charger. Oh, right. The car. So in my car, I don't need to change out anything other than the cable, right? So I'll just throw a USB A to C cable in there. Yeah. Because that's it. That's all you need to do. Yeah, that'll be fine. Yeah. I think they're no better way to say this, what I need to do when I have a moment, which we have not had yet, is to go through all of the USB C specs for the standard and the pro phones. Because I've had this nagging thing in the back of my mind for a while now. But ever since I accepted that, yeah, Apple actually is going to do USB C instead of skipping it and doing something else. I've been thinking that they will have two versions of the spec, the one for the standard phone and the high power version for the pro phones. Which they do in terms of speeds. So we already know that. Yeah, they, well, in a sense, they talked about once they got into the iPhone 15 Pro land, they said, and the iPhone 15 Pro with the right cable will do 10 gig transfers. Okay, so I was probably typing something snarky on mastodon at the time and miss that. Okay, so that confirms the hypothesis. Now it can be a theory that I had, which is that there will be different specs on the standard versus pro phone. Is that enough to make someone feel like they need to go to pro? If you're transferring large chunks of data wired to or from more likely from your phone, then you would want that fast speed. One thing that they showed, I mean, of course, you know, taking, you know, 4k video off of the phone or whatever, of course, they also showed a scenario where they someone was using the phone wired to a Mac and taking pictures that were going directly to the Mac, not even being saved on the phone. And when you need the 10 gig cable for that too. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah, we did. I just while we're talking about cables, a lesson that we learned recently here on the show, which I will reiterate is that in our tests, and I want to make it very clear that I am not saying the specs are the same, because they're not the same. But in our tests here, USB for 40 gigabit cables work interchangeably with Thunderbolt three and Thunderbolt for 40 gigabit cables. In so much as a USB for 40 gig cable, 40 gig cable will connect to a Thunderbolt device, including a Thunderbolt dock and acts like it is Thunderbolt. Now I know that the Thunderbolt stuff is held to a tighter standard in terms of the the, you know, you have to have to have it reviewed by the by, you know, Intel and Apple and the Thunderbolt consortium or whatever, you don't have to do that with a USB for cable or you can do it with the USB consortium, but you don't have to. But as far as just doing it, you know, the USB for 40 gig cables, which are less than half the price of a Thunderbolt for cable will work just fine. In our tests, that's good, good Intel. Yeah, now if I were relying on this for a professional workflow, I'd probably just spend the extra money and pay the Thunderbolt tax. Sure, it's also a business expense at that point. Yeah. But it but for throwing things in my travel bag that A are going to get beat up and B I need to have work with all the devices that I have. Those USB four cables are my go to now because I can just replace them when they start to flake out. And I'm not treating them like they're, you know, flexible gold or something. So Do you have a favorite brand? I'm asking not even for a friend. I'm asking for me. Yeah, there's there's notes. I will find the episode where we recently talked about it and I will link it here. I listed the cables that I bought, but I intentionally bought some cables of brands that like we've never heard of before. I bought OWC and cable matters, right? And those all worked as they were supposed to. And then also I bought like, you know, the cheapest Amazon would would sell me cable. And that also worked. So okay. Yeah, that's that's actually awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So of course, Thunderbolt five was just announced as someone in our live discord chat as Brian and Rowan our chat tells me so that'll change everything maybe or maybe not because you can get USB four to go way faster than 40 gigs. So maybe it's all still the same in terms of the cables. Devices are different. I'm totally talking about cables here. But but anyway, so like for my car, I might wind up buying just some cables that'll do anything. And that way, if I need to like connect my Mac to a monitor, it's like, Well, I know that this cable is capable of that, right? Yeah. And keep in mind, when Intel announces new Thunderbolt, that doesn't mean they announced that something and I haven't read any of the stuff on Thunderbolt five yet. But just because Intel announces it doesn't mean that it's available for products today. Oh gosh, no. No, it'll be here. It'll be quite some time I would imagine. Yes. What else about the iPhone 15 Pro? What other differentiators did you notice? One of the things that okay, I just have to address it because it's a thing for me. Yeah, and it's getting rid of the mute toggle, physical toggle switch and replacing it with the action button. There are so many reasons why this makes sense. Okay. And yet, I wish it hadn't happened, because the toggle switch was put on the first iPhone and has been there on every iPhone ever since, because it needs to be that. And I remember Steve Jobs standing on stage and saying that you don't need to go through all this weird stuff of which what's the right button push or right sequence to make your phone mute. When you need it to stop making sound, you needed to stop making sound flip the switch and it's done. Also, you can feel in your pocket, even if it's toggle the switch back and forth to know if your phone is on mute or not, you never have to look at it. Replacing it with an action button while giving us all of these new features, which will be very cool, takes away that core functionality of your phone being a phone in that sense. And and and even though I'm certain, no, I'm not certain. I was going to say, even though I'm certain, I will adapt to the way it works. I don't know. For me, that switch is something I use multiple times every single day. And and I am not exaggerating that at all. And the fact that I can that I know the the sound state of my phone without ever having to look at it is a key thing for me. And with the action button, you will lose that. That is true. You won't be able to just feel your phone with your thumb in your pocket and know is it muted or is it not muted? I will give you that. I wonder if you are in the majority or the minority, my my guess, and this is I guess I'm in the minority. I think you're in a very, very small minority. Yeah, in terms of this, because I think most people leave their phone ringer on mute 100% of the time or near 99% of the time, except those rare scenarios where it's like, no, I need to know like there's an important phone call, whatever. But other than that, I think most people just keep their phones in that in that muted state. And therefore that switch becomes all but useless. Yes. And I agree. If that's the case, then then I need to suck it up and move on. I think even if it's not the case, you still need to suck it up, Jeff. Yes. Yes. This this is true. I just like it less. No, I get you. Okay, so so we've hit on we've touched on one of the things and that's USB three speeds, 10 gigabit, 10 gig USB speeds, just to be very specific. That's one differentiator between the 15 pro and the 15 another, of course, is the chip, the 15 has 17 pro chip. Correct nanometer. That's right. Yes. It seems a little faster. The neural engine is a lot faster. Double the speed if I if my notes are correct. The GPU is 20% faster. The CPU is 10% faster. One of the big benefits of the faster neural engine. And it comes to both the non and pro version is that more of the Siri things happen on device. Yes. And so you're able to do more, especially things with health and all that. So like that's fine, but that's not a differentiator. That's a nice feature. Their whole thing other than like really high end photography or videography seem to be if you play games, the 15 pro is the best handheld game device you could buy. I thought that was so weird that that that was the thing. Yeah. What a niche use. I mean, you're really pushing on other than, oh, but you don't get titanium and you don't get an always on screen, which is kind of a bummer because the 15 has the OLED screen, right? It's got the, you know, the same, the A16 bionic chip as the 14 pro, like it should be able to do always on. I have a hypothesis on this. It doesn't. Yeah, go ahead. Okay. So when you look at what we get in the 15 line, not the pro line, yeah, it's basically the 14 pro. Yeah. So then you go to the pro line and you have the 15 pro and the 15 pro max. So what sets the 15 pro apart for most users? Exactly. It's the 15 pro max that's different. Because only a little bit, right? It's got the 5x zoom instead of 3x zoom, but that's it, right? Yes. But it's also the one that lets you do the spatial videos. I think spate. Okay. So we haven't talked about this, but there is a way to do spatial videos. I thought that was the both pro models. Oh, if it's both models that that totally knocks my someone will correct me if I'm Well, tell us which one of us remembered it correctly. I thought it was just the max. I didn't think so. I thought it was both pro models. You turn it, you turn it in portrait mode. Sorry, you turn it in landscape mode. And then the two cameras at the top now take a stereo video that can then become a spatial video. Yeah, right. Totally targeting vision pro. Yeah. So right. Yeah, you can't watch it on the phone. I mean, you could watch it, but it's going to be 2D, but then you could go watch it on a vision pro. So in order to make take advantage of that, you need to spend the extra cash in addition to the 15 pro on the vision pro. But but it's smart because if you want people to use vision pro, giving them the ability to make content that they can look at on the vision pro is important. Yeah. All right. So so I think for a moment, I think that is correct because I have the I take little screenshots as we're as we're doing the thing. And if you're watching the video, you'll be able to see this is a screenshot I grabbed from the keynote that is this that when they show like they're at the end of the segment on the 15 pro, they put up this screen, this screen that shows all of the features in like a little grid and it's it's laid out nicely. And this is for both pro models that it talks about. And it says Wi-Fi 6E, by the way, that, you know, that non announcement. So there you go. It shows USB three. It shows five X telephoto. And on that, it specifically says on the pro max, right? But then right next to that, it says spatial video without that without a distinction. So yeah. Okay. Well, then in that case, this causes, I think a product, a product lineup problem for Apple. Yeah. For the for the 12 pro, not 12 pro max. The 12? You're talking a 15 pro. Yeah. Okay. See, here's the funny thing. There's a 12 pro max sitting on my desk right now in front of me. Okay, the 15. Yes, the 15. Yeah, yeah. The 15 pro versus the the 15. Because the 15 is is basically last year's pro model in a different case. Yeah. Unless you, unless you need the the cameras, if you, you know, being able to do 24, 28, 35 millimeter yeah, spatial video. Yeah. What, where does the the 6.1 inch 12 15 pro fit into the mix anymore? It almost doesn't make sense for me. If you're going to go pro, it's it's feeling to me like at this point, you need to go pro max. And if you're not going pro max, then go with the standard. Yes. Yes. Yeah, that's interesting. That's yeah. It's it's crazy. I like yeah. I am looking here at the screenshot that I grabbed for the non fifth non pro 15. And I don't see Wi Fi six e nor do I see thread on it, which are both on the spec sheet for for the other one for the pro. So maybe that's a differentiator. I don't know. It's I'm going to speculate it's a differentiator because if they basically took the 14 pro and put it in a different body, then your manufacturing costs will be lower for the newer phone. Oh, maybe I'm looking at tech specs on Apple's website here. And and we will see if, in fact, there is truly a differentiator here. So let's get to the wireless section of Apple's tech specs, video recording, true depth camera, face ID, apple paper, the cellular and wireless. So we get Wi Fi six on the the 15 Wi Fi 6 e on the 15 pro and no thread on the the regular 15. So yeah, that is a differentiator. Yes. So and I'm looking at Mac Tracker. Yep. And the specs that I'm seeing for the 14 pro. Yes, it's basically the same as the 15. What I just what I just read. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So I have a question for both of us. I'll ask it to you first. Will you be buying a new iPhone this year? And if so, if you had to make the decision right now and you reserve the right to change your mind between now and whenever you order, you don't have to like lock this in stone. But if you had to make the decision right now, which one would it be? I it would actually be a really tough call for me between the the 6.1 inch 15 and the 6.1 inch 15 pro. Yeah. And honestly, the thing that that's making it a tougher decision for me, it's it's not the the Wi-Fi. It's not the thread. It's not better bandwidth on USB-C. It's what's in the cameras. And am I likely to use the camera features in the in the 15 pro? And regardless, I'm getting better cameras than I have in my 12 pro today. So OK, fair. Yeah. 15 is a very enticing price point right now. I agree. I agree. So here's I will answer the same question. I have a 14 pro that I use as my daily driver. If I am going to buy a new phone, I don't know if I'm going to buy a new phone because the 15 makes no sense for me. I would essentially be getting the same phone, essentially, that I currently have. I would have to spend some amount of cash on it, whether I trade my 14 in or hand it down through the family system that we have, right? But I would be spending some amount of money to get the same phone with slightly less features because the 14 pro will do the the standby mode where you put it on its side. I mean, they all the phones will do that that run iOS 17. But my 14 pro hasn't always on screen. The 15 does not. So for me, it's the always on screen that that is the differentiator there. There's no reason for me to get a 15. It would be the 15 pro, which is spending even more money, obviously is a $200 delta there. And do I really want the titanium? The answer is yes, obviously. Will I do this? Probably. But I'm also do for a new Apple Watch this year. 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Before we get to the Apple watches, I wanted to share something that I saw on Apple's website because all these new phones that we just talked about will be running iOS 17 as their baseline. And many of our phones will be able to upgrade to iOS 17 and that day will be September 18th, which I believe is Monday the 18th. So that is off by a day on my prediction. I was predicting the 19th. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. So it'll be it'll be the 18th, which is fine. You know, it's all good. Dave, have you seen anything that says if iPad iOS 17 is dropping on the 18th as well? Because I know that we're it's another two weeks before we get Mac OS Wine Country. Good question. I just looked and iPad OS 17 also comes out on the 18th. OK. Yeah. And and we think that Mac OS is also coming Monday. No, it's two weeks later, I believe. Let's see. Apple has not given us a date for this, so I would not have. Oh, have they? OK. Yes. And I think it's two weeks later. All right. And I'm sorry, I don't. It was it was one of the screenshots that I saw someone pop up. And on one of my social media is probably came from the footnotes here, maybe. Yeah, I'm looking at the footnotes on the page. It might have been from the press releases. But it's like it's coming. It's coming two weeks later. Which is much earlier than we have previously seen. Oh, yeah, I'm not seeing it on the page for Mac OS. If I if I wait, I'm on Ventura here. This is why. Oh, yeah, you are. Yeah. Yeah. You need to go to Wine Country. Yes, I need to go to Wine Country. Yes. OK. Well, I'll look for it while we while we chit chat. I bet someone that's watching live is looking it up right now. They are. You're right. It is September 26th. OK. 100 percent correct. Yep. Thank you. And thanks to Ben in the in the chat. Thank you, Ben. Yep. Yep. All right. Two on nine twenty six. OK. Well, thanks for looking up the iPad OS thing for me and as if my fingers won't work so I couldn't type it myself. Yeah, yeah, no. But this is what we do here. So so let's let's talk. Let's talk Apple watches. I I'm I'm excited about what Apple is doing here. I mean, the the S nine sip, right, is way faster than the series eight, right? The 60 percent faster CPU. Now it's got that four core neural engine in there so that Siri requests can also happen locally on the watch, which holy crap. Right. Like it's like, yeah, how powerful does this thing need to be? What are they planning with this? I the watch has always felt overengineered to me. And and the evidence I will share for that is I'm Dave and I'm a nerd. I have only ever owned two Apple watches. I owned a series zero, which I still own and it still runs, arrived on release day and I own a series five. Last year, I bought a series eight and I wound up not even taking it out of the box until I gave it to my dad and helped him take it out of the box. It just I didn't I didn't need it. I have the always on screen, which was a big deal to me. But once I got that, I was like, well, do I need another watch? I don't I don't know. So they last a long time is what I'm saying. I am due for one, though. So and I went from the four to the eight. OK. And and honestly, my reason for doing that what it was a family thing. I I really wanted to watch on my dad's wrist that had fall detection. Yes. And it had been several years since I'd had a since I got a new watch. And I thought, this is my opportunity. I'll get my new watch and then I'll put my my series four on my dad's wrist, you know, as fall detection. Yep. And and I'm glad I did on every level. And and I'm not a watch wear yet because I needed to try one out back in our our TMO days. Right. When the series zero came out, I've been wearing an Apple watch ever since. Yeah. A lot of people. That's true for a lot of people. The Apple Watch made a lot of folks watch wearers who had never been watch wearers. That's right. Yeah. And I have I always have a hypothesis. Here's my hypothesis on why our Apple watches seem way over engineered and why Apple is talking more and more about Syrian device. Both with the watch and the phone. I think that this painfully over long time frame we're going through, where Siri feels incredibly stagnant is going to change. But Apple needs to have all of these other elements in place before that happens. You are 100 percent right. I in that I agree with you. I can't say that you're right because I don't know that you're right. But. But you also know that I'm right. Yeah, that's it. Because it's the whole I mean, it's fallen terribly far behind with with in the voice assistant world. And that's going to get leapfrogged as voice assistants and, you know, large language model chat things like chat GPT become one. Right. As soon as the Amazon A lady is essentially a voice interface to chat GPT or something like it. Siri is going to feel like you're talking to a parrot. Yeah, it it it'll be like, oh, you remember when we used to play with Eliza on our Apple twos? Exactly. Yeah, I do remember. It'll feel like that. So why? Yeah, yeah. But but I think Apple is setting us up for a huge leap forward with Siri. And when it happens, we will be both frustrated and excited, frustrated because why did we have to go so long with with what feels like an inferior product and then excited because we're going to be getting something that that exceeds what other voice assistant tools are offering us. Jeff, you just spent 99 cents for me and you're going to spend it for you to unless you have already paid it. Did you know that Eliza exists in the Mac App Store and it looks like you're playing it on a on an Apple, too. Were you aware of this? I'm looking it up right now. Eliza. Yeah, 99 cents on the Mac apps. There it is. Oh, my God, they even have the dual floppy drives sitting there in the icon and by. Yep, there it is. So anyway, I just went to put it in the show notes and the first thing that came up for Eliza was the Mac App Store. I'm like, why is it showing me that? Like, that doesn't make any sense. And turns out it makes good sense. Yeah, it's downloading even as we speak. So everyone, go get Eliza so that you can get your practice in for using Siri up until we get the the big change whenever that comes. This is interesting to me because I have noticed it has not been intentional, although my guess is you folks listening might have noticed the last few episodes have included what I will call nostalgia segments. Pete has asked me questions, maybe Pete's doing it intentionally, but where we've sort of gone down memory lane a little bit here and there. I only thought about it this past weekend when I was like, oh, you know, we are coming up to show a thousand. Like maybe that's why I'm feeling more nostalgic, or maybe that's why Pete's leading me that way. You just introduced today's nostalgia segment. And so I I'm channeling my inner Pete for you. I appreciate that. Yeah, I'll make sure Pete knows. But yeah, interesting. So anyway, back to the Apple Watch out of the nostalgia here. I'm terrible with the nostalgia. Like in moments, I embrace it, but then I really just kind of want to move forward because that's that's how I am. I'm I'm impatient. I like this watch. I like I love how Apple has yet again taken something from accessibility that people have used and sort of like found ways to make part of their lives. People that don't need it for the its intended accessibility used to people that are regularly abled instead of differently abled using some feature. And then Apple just brings it to the forefront. And of course, I'm talking about what we used to call assistive touch, I believe, and is now the double tap. Double tap. Yeah. Yep. To me, that's the killer feature on the new Apple Watch. But is it only on the new watch? Like, will we get it with the new watch? Oh, yes, on older watches, because they can do it. I thought it was just I think you're right. And so I think the assistive touch version, of course, that stays. Yes. But then. But then, yeah, fair, fair, additional things that it does. That will be just on the Apple Watch night, which tells me that they've probably refined the sensor. I'm sure they have. Like, yes, it always it always involves that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think this is great. And if you didn't see it in the keynote, it's a thing where you you on your watch, wearing hand, you tap your forefinger and thumb together twice and can cause the watch to do some different things, which is cool. Yeah. It's very cool. And watching the types of things they were doing. I'm like, oh, I want this right now. Yeah. Taking pictures when you're using the camera remote answering or hanging up calls, muting things. Yeah. So they said they did say something interesting. They said available next month. So I don't think this is because the watch you can get if you were to order the watch, you can order it today and it would arrive next week, which is not next month, right? That's September 22nd that it would arrive. So when they said this is next month, I think this is coming in, you know, watch OS 10.1. By the way, watch OS 10.0 is also released on Monday the 18th with everything else. So. Yeah. So interesting. I don't know. I don't know. What else about the new watch? What are we that new bands, right? They've got their what are they calling their vegan leather thing? Fine woven, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Fine woven. OK. So when they announced that we are getting away from from leather. Yeah. All of our products. I turned to my office manager who was napping on the couch beside me. This would be my cat. Yes, of course. And I said, well, goodbye, Hermes. Because because the Hermes leather bands have already been pulled from sale. That happened like yesterday. Oh, interesting. But they have new they have four new Hermes. Right. And then they announced the new bands, which are not leather. Right. And I was like, OK, well, that that makes sense. But I was thinking, yeah, if you're going to go with Hermes, you went leather bands and and and three of the bands that they're making now, I look at and think, OK, those are nice. And I feel like there's kind of a Hermes thing going on. But then there's the one that's the the kind of silicone kind of one, the plastic one. Yep. And that does not feel like a Hermes product to me at all. You know, I'm curious to see what it looks like it like on a watch because it might be like, you know, it might wind up being like one of those things that Hermes creates. And then it becomes iconic because they created it. Yeah. It redefines what we think of when we think Hermes like a Birkenbag or what I don't think these watch bands are going to be like in in quite as short supply as a Birkenbag. But, you know, that sort of thing. I only learned about Birkenbags this week, and it's because my twenty three year old daughter is home and she's obsessed with fashion. So that's now. Yeah. My niece has taught me all about Birkenbags. OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is a new thing. And now welcome to the club, Dave. Yep. Yep. Exactly. Yep. I'll put a link in the show notes. If anybody actually cares to research Birkenbags, I can't believe we talked about Birkenbags on the show after that. Dave, I'm on. We could go anywhere. I know the the the bands that the Fine Wolven, which is Apple's, you know, different thing, though, I thought those were interesting. I'm curious to touch one and see what it feels like. Yep, me too. I want to see the Nike bands. The Nike bands look cool. They do like the recycled one with the flecks of things like those look fun. Yeah. When when when they did that or when they showed those, my first thought was, OK, so this concept is working well. And for those of you that are listening, I'm holding up my wrist and I have this year's Pride Band on. And it has the the little sprinkles. It's got little sprinkles that is similar to what's going on. Each watch band is unique because they just kind of dump them in so you get a random pattern on each watch. That's what they're doing with the Nike bands. Just different just different flecks. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. No, the Nike bands look cool. I'm I'm excited about those. He the sport loop band, they made a big deal about how the sport loop band now uses 83 percent recycled yarn. And my first thought was, what about the Amazon knockoffs? Like, are they also going to use 83 percent recycled yarn? My I have a theory. I would love to hear your theory. My theory is 100 percent yes, because those Amazon knockoffs are made in the same factory. I think I think it's, you know, they sell out the front door to Apple for 10 hours of the day. And then for 14 hours of the day, they sell out the back door to an Amazon distributor. That totally makes sense. I love this theory. I am completely on board. It's how it works. It's the it's it's the culture of of that industry over there. I don't know. I ended up with a really good travel mic. And it was because you had discovered it was like Ali Baba. Yeah. Some Barringer mic where they didn't silkscreen the logo on. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And I bought and I and I still travel with that. It's an awesome mic. So thanks for that. Yeah, you're welcome. Yeah, yeah. So I'm I'm excited about the I like what they're doing with the watch. I like I'm the chip in it makes a big difference to me. I before we answer our would we buy one question this year? I want to talk about the ultra. OK, I think that's that's part of this this question, because chances are we wouldn't buy two watches, although we're nerds and I accept that. So let's let's talk about the ultra, right? The it also has the same chip, right? The S nine chip in there, which means the on device Siri, the double taps. It both of them have ultra wideband, which makes the finding of things easier, both the finding of your watch and also the finding of things using your watch is now as long as they all have ultra wideband, which is great. The brightness of the Apple Watch Ultra two now goes up to three thousand nits. That's 50 percent more than even the regular Apple Watch, which is super bright. Dual frequency GPS. They've got that. They call it the modular ultra watch face. That I it goes like edge to edge and has every gizmo and gadget you could possibly imagine on there. I'm I'm I've been tempted by the ultra. I put one on my wrist. I have I know I know I think if I remember correctly, you are someone with with small wrists as well. I think mine aren't quite as small as yours. Yeah. And I actually wear the smaller Apple Watch. Right. And even though I could wear the bigger one, I don't like wearing watches. So I wanted to be as small in light as possible. Sure. Well, the new watch Ultra is somewhat lighter because it's now 95 percent recycled titanium or whatever. So like they said, it's a little lighter. Like maybe I misunderstood that, but I'm tempted. I've worn the watch Ultra. It is chunky, but not too big for me. And I am also someone who wears mechanical watches, which are sort of naturally chunky, especially an automatic, because it's got to have the little winding, you know, whatever they call it, the counterweight in there. So I'm used to chunky watches. I like chunky watches. So the chunkiness of the Ultra does not bother me. And I'm I'm toying with the idea of just going with the Ultra, too, this year. But I don't know what about you? Is there anything about the Ultra you want to talk about? Or do you want to answer this question here? I'll blend it all together. First, I am completely the demographic for this watch. Interesting. Just straight up, because it's designed for people that do a lot of outdoor activities. Yep. End up in places where you're not going to have a cell signal. Where places where you get weird weather changes, you have big altitude changes. It's like everything about this watch says, oh, yeah, Jeff probably already owns one and I don't. And the reason I don't is because this would be a secondary watch for me. And I can't justify having two watches, right, or two Apple watches because it's too big for for what I want for daily use. That's fair. Yeah. That that said, holy crap, what what they what they're doing with Ultra, too. I mean, this is a really, really cool watch. And the titanium, we should talk about titanium for a minute as someone that does a lot about door stuff. If you haven't had side by side comparison between the regular thing, which is like stainless steel or aluminum or whatever. And then the titanium version, you don't get it. It's it's like it's like it feels like it can't be real. Like it's magic, the difference with the titanium because it's stronger and it is so much lighter. So that the whole titanium thing to me is very compelling. It's actually one of the things that's that's very compelling about the the iPhone Pro this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the screen brightness, when you live in a place like I do where you're higher altitude, you have more glare. It's just brighter in general. A brighter display makes a big difference. The and it has the dual GPS. So if I'm interpreting that correctly as someone that's done a lot of GPS stuff in the past, that means that it's acquiring two signals simultaneously. Yes, I believe that's correct. It's not just the one. And then, well, it yeah, normally you would have like what we've had traditionally in the watch. And I think some of the phones, although I believe it's changed over time, someone will clarify this for me, please. But is that you'd get we have one GPS receiver. And then it also uses the cell tower triangulation to sort of be the secondary you know, secondary location data point to give you accurate location data. As you point out, the watch ultra is built for folks who are not near a cell signal. And so you need that or that second GPS receiver now actually makes a big difference. Yes, and it's the setup for what I think is coming next for for Apple Watch Ultra. OK, so with one signal, what it what it does is the watch gets a lock on a single satellite. And now it's tracking the position change of the satellite relative to you. And then it uses those different positions of the satellite to to pinpoint your location right slower, not as accurate. But it's way better than not having anything. And it's still pretty accurate. Yeah, you get to and now it's using the two satellites simultaneously to to to locate your position. And so you get much faster acquisition and you have much higher accuracy. So series three will add in the third. And that's your golden place in the gold standard. That's right, because now you have three satellites to triangulate your position basically instantly. And now you get GPS altitude. Oh, you're totally right. Oh, man, you're you are full of theories today. And they're good theories. I like this. I am so happy I can bring theories to you of all people. Dave, I want to debunk one of them, I think. So you talked about titanium and I'm with you. It's lighter than than many other metals that are used in many of these other things. So I went and looked at the specs for the iPhone and the iPhone 15, the the, you know, 6.1 inch iPhone 15 is 171 grams. OK, the 15 pro, the titanium version is 187 grams. Well, thank you, bigger battery. Yeah, bigger battery. That's my guess. More cameras, too, right? There's yeah, yeah. And my guess is that that that's where your extra weight is really coming from. I think you're probably right. And it would weigh significantly more if it wasn't an aluminum frame or excuse me, a titanium frame. Yeah, fair. Yeah. No, yes, of course it would. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I am. You know, I'm in a different spot than you with the watch because I didn't buy one for me last year. So I am on a series five. I am in a world where I could like I could buy a new watch and then also use my series five when I want, right? Like, see, this is a totally legit way to do the upgrade. And yeah, and I could do the same thing. My series eight is awesome. I have no need to replace it. You don't need. Yeah, that's the thing. If I wanted to supplement it. Yes, this would be the way to do it. And supplementing one year after you bought your most recent watch or, you know, four years after you bought your most recent watch, our different economic or at least different psychological games that we play with ourselves. So yes, they are. All right. I have one last thing to share before we take off here for this week. And that is that Apple mentioned this in the keynote, but they also put out a press release about it to make it very clear. There is a new case that is included now with the AirPods Pro second generation. And that case now has USBC. The mention we got of that in the keynote wasn't even really a mention. No, but it was there. And if you and if you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't have seen it. Nope, because they said you can use that same USB cable to charge and they listed off everything and, hey, check it out. There is an AirPods Pro case. There's an AirPods Pro case. And I'm like, I don't think that's how it is, but sure. OK. So yeah, there you go. All right. So Dave, now the next question is, yeah, can you buy the case separately? Oh, I see this is let's see, shop accessories for AirPods. Hang on, let me pull this up for us all to see if you happen to be watching. So I am looking at accessories for AirPods. No, no, no, second generation USBC. It's right there for two forty nine, but I don't see. But no separate case. Headphone accessories, maybe. Let me see. Headphone accessories. I can buy a case for the case. I can buy a case for the case and another cushion for the case. Wireless charging case for AirPods. OK. And the answer, Jeff, is not that I can tell. Not today, Jeff. Not today. Yeah, that's probably the right answer is not today. But we shall see if, in fact, that comes around. So. Fun stuff. Thanks for thanks for doing this with us. I think we've dissected everything. Is there anything else on on your list before we say goodbye to one another and every everyone else? Super fast. I like that that they're OK, making it a bit commercial and having fun. That's the way the keynote should be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I thought the pacing of this one was much slower than what we've seen previously, and that's what told me, oh, we're only getting air like watch and iPhone. There is no. And by the way, we have more to talk about with the Vision Pro or whatever. It was like, no, they spent obviously spent a lot of time talking about their Apple 2030 environmental. That was a big thing. Yeah, that was that was a lot of time to do that whole. It was a nice way to sort of poke fun at themselves for their obsession with including this in keynotes to do the whole mother nature thing. That was that was cute. And it was cute. And I thoroughly enjoyed that. They owned it like they like, yep, we know we talk about this. Let's let's have some fun with it this time. Thank goodness, you know, but that made it that made it last way longer than just somebody throwing up a slide and saying, here's all the things we're doing thanks by, you know, now now on to the good stuff. So now people are going to be talking about Apple's environmental initiatives a lot more than they otherwise would have. That's right. Oh, and one more, one more thing. iCloud Plus adds six terabyte and 12 terabyte plans. So yes, I saw that to the mix there. So that's good. That's good. Uh, you can buy. So listener Ben in our chat says you can buy a replacement AirPods case for for sixty nine, sorry, for eighty nine dollars US. And perhaps that would be one with USBC. OK, so yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be that would be if there is a path to it. And that that should be the path to it. That's how you get there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I like that the iPhone Pro, I think it's only the iPhone Pro can charge AirPods or Apple Watch from its USBC port. Right. The charging of the watch, that's a, you know, that's kind of nice. That that's yeah, that's a nice differentiator. Yeah, it is with USBC. Ben confirms. So yes, you can buy an AirPods Pro to Gen 2 case with USBC for eighty nine bucks to replace your one with lightning. OK, thanks for looking that up, Ben. That's amazing. Thanks for hanging out with us, Jeff. Thank you so much for doing this with me. I love this. So, Dave, thank you so much for having me. This is so much fun. Tell people where they can find you, if that's not something that people would have already done for those of you that haven't found me yet on social media is Jay Gammett right now, mostly mastered on an Instagram. Other shows I'm doing right now, most Tuesday evening. So it means later tonight. Check joiners, Mac Voices Live, I bet we'll talk about some of the same things Thursdays on Dave Ginsburg's in touch with iOS than on the British Tech Network. I'm hosting the big show on Thursdays, the Mac Show on Fridays. And Dave, you remember this guy, Brian Chaffin? Yeah, Brian and I, we do show called the Context Machine and it's a pretty safe bet. We will probably find something out of the keynote to talk about this week, too. I am eager to hear how the two of you dissect this because my guess is it's going to be a very different set of angles than what you and I just went through here. I am certain it will be a very we'll come in from a completely different angle. Yeah. Fun stuff. Thanks for hanging out with us, folks. Thanks for checking out our sponsors, of course. You can find them at MacEekab.com sponsors. Of course, PAVPN.com, MGG and Bare Bones.com. Thanks to Cash Fly for providing all the bandwidth to get the show from us to you. And thanks to all of you for listening. Nine hundred ninety nine episodes, man. Congratulations. I know. Thank you. It actually does mean a lot. It really does. It really does. It's kind of amazing. Yeah. Jeff, do you have three words of advice to share with our friends before we say goodbye to the three digits? I do, in fact. Don't get caught. Made. Later. That was just more fun than should be allowed by law. That was great. Thank you so much. What a blast. We are still in pre-show here just just to remind you that what we say is still being broadcast to folks. So we're not in pre-show. We're in post-show. Yeah, I knew you knew what I meant. Yeah, I know what you meant. Yeah. Oh, that was that was a lot of fun. OK, since we're in post-show, I feel OK, bringing this up now. When they started talking about double tap and saying, so when when you're when you're doing one thing with one hand and the other hand isn't free and I was already waiting for the 12 year old jokes to to go out on social. Did they go out on social? I was I was in our I was in our discord room, which is we certainly all have soft, morick senses of humor. But by and large, we stay focused by and large, you know, yeah. You know, I was just watching my own personal mastodon stream for that. Yeah. And by the time the keynote was over and I closed my iPad so I could grab something deep before we started recording. Yeah, I hadn't seen anything yet, much to my surprise. Well, you know, it's out there. Hunt for it and you can find it. It is the Internet after all. It has to be out there already. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I do now have to produce this show with with great haste because it is being released today, which is weird for us. Normally I have like three days to get it out, but not today. Well, I'm glad that I minimized the opportunities for edits for you. Oh, yeah, we're not editing. There's no about. I'm going to listen back and make sure that it's OK. But otherwise, no, no, there's no there's no editing. So excellent. Yeah. Yeah. The protected crown has eliminated my wrist activating series that on the ultra the protected crown. Is that what we're saying there? If so, that's great. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I guess that is. Yeah, that's an ultra thing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I know a lot of right handed people with Apple Watches that flipped their their watches and put them in left handed mode. Absolutely. And where that's not left handed mode. That is correct mode. And the the I'm putting my watch on to demonstrate here. But I have done this almost since day one. So, you know, this is my watch. You can see that the crown is over here. And that's because I like to be able to use the crown with my thumb. Well, I can still see the screen. That totally makes sense. I can hit these buttons with my fingers while still seeing the screen. If the crown's over here, it like I wind up, I don't know, it's it's the wrong place for it because, you know, my fingers, my hand works this way. This finger is longer than this thumb. And so everything's where it should be. Yeah. And that makes sense. Yeah. As someone who's left handed. Yeah. And until I had an Apple Watch, every watch that I had was designed as a right handed watch. Sure. I I always had the crown on what on the correct side, on the correct side. And so when I got an Apple Watch, I thought, wait, this is the first time I've had a watch where I can set it up where where it's the same as what all the the weird ratings are doing. Yeah. Right. And so I did that just because for the first time in my life, I could. Yeah. Right. Of course. Realistically, I'm thinking that I would probably be more efficient with the the crown and the button if I flipped it back. Yes. Right. Right. Right. But just the fact that I can do something that I was never able to do before. I can get that. Use my watch that way. I get that. I totally get that. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. Fun stuff. I like this. This was. Yeah. This is awesome. Yeah. You know, Dave, I love that. Pilot Pete, we just finished the episode. We are in post-show now, but I just got a text from Pete. It's interesting because I'm in I'm in my podcasting focus mode, right? Which means I don't get texts from anyone except Pete, who I do this show with Paul Kent, who I do giggab with and Shannon Jean, of course. So so yeah, it's it's fascinating that I can get text from basically one person right now. And so, hey, Pete. Yeah. Hey, Pete. Yeah. Isn't it cool that even after all these years, we are still in a place where we can get excited about announcements like this? I love it. Yes. Yeah. I mean, that's the reason I still do this show. It's candidly, right? I mean, I like helping people. Like, I know the show is not about me. It's about everybody who listens, right? Like that I figured out a long time ago. But I like, if I wasn't excited about the tech, why would I? I mean, no one would want to listen to me. I wouldn't think. I agree. And I'm not talking about you specifically. No, in general. In general. Yeah. Yeah. And as I was watching comments on social media, as the keynote was happening and I'm seeing some people and they're like so excited about whatever's being announced, whatever's happening. But then I'm seeing tons of comments from people that are bagging on it on the whole keynote, the announcements. And I'm thinking if this isn't making you happy and it's making you so unhappy that you feel compelled and justified to act like this publicly, maybe you shouldn't be involved in this. Just don't do it. Just don't do it. Like, don't watch the keynote. Read a press release later and then decide if the product is for you or not. Right. Right. And and if it's not for you, that's OK. It's OK. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think I think we. A lot of people understandably so forget that like Apple used to be the underdog. When we started doing this show, Apple was belagered by many people. Right. Right. That was the definition. You know, if you looked up belagered in the dictionary, it just had the Apple logo. That was it. But yeah. You know, it was like these products on giving the money back to the shareholders. Right. Right. Exactly. Like there was a time where it was like that would have been the right thing to do from, you know, financially responsible CEO. But Steve Jobs was like, no, we're going to do this. And he was he was right. He did it with the team. I mean, it wasn't just him, but it certainly. I don't know that it would have happened without him. So but Apple's products were by by nature of their presence in the market, not for everyone. I like it like it like it wasn't that the most popular phone or computer or whatever was Apple's that that was I was shocked. I was on a Mac voices with Chuck Joiner, Allison Sheridan, I believe Maria Langer, I believe, was there. And Dan, poor, Hottie was there as well. Dan was either in college still or fresh out. But I think he was in college. He was writing for Mac World as well and talented writer, like, you know, absolutely deserve to be there. And we were talking about, you know, Max and stuff. And Chuck asked Dan, he says, hey, so is, you know, how many people on campus have Macs? And of course, Chuck was looking at it through the lens that we all were looking at it at that time. Like, oh, yeah, you know, it's Apple's the underdog. Like, how difficult is it to use a Mac on campus? And Dan heard it through his lens of a, you know, late teen, 20-something college student. And he was like, oh, yeah, well, I mean, certainly there are some people on on campus with Windows machines. But yeah, by and large, everybody has a Mac and it's it's fine. You know, it's it's the Windows people are able to get by. And like, you could have heard a wonderful answer. You could have heard a pin drop because the three of us that were there were like stumbling about how to like process what he just said. And I forget if it was me or Chuck that chimed in next. It was like, wait, say that again. Did you mean to say that you can get by using a Mac on campus? Like, or are you saying that Macs are the most popular computer on campus? He's like, no, obviously, Mac laptops are the ones that that most people have. And again, we were speechless again, processing this. It was really my first exposure to, holy crap, what? Yeah, you know, yeah. And now this is the world we live in. Obviously, you know, this this, but that was the moment. If I was smarter and I'm and I'm not, I would have bought a lot more Apple stock that day, right? Because it should have been obvious to me, wait a minute, the switch has flipped. And and I didn't. But, you know, the day that it really clicked for me, that that the switch had flipped and it wasn't just an anomaly. Yeah, the day that I unconsciously went, you as I walk past someone with a Windows laptop in a coffee shop. Yeah. And not because specifically because you're using Windows, but because it was weird to see something that wasn't a Mac in the coffee shop. And then a minute later, I'm like, oh, my God, what just happened? And then I had the little epiphany because at that point, I realized the transition had happened, but it had been this gradual and subtle thing. And as I looked around, it was a sea of Apple logos. Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Crazy. And we we live through all of it. We live through all of it. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. Cool. All right. Well, now I really do need to go because I got to process this thing. Thanks for hanging out with us, everybody. I'm going to start saying goodbye first to the audio streams. So I audio stream by audio streams. There goes the second one. All right. And now we will say goodbye to all the video stream simultaneously. Thanks for hanging out. Pete and I will be back on Friday morning to do Mac. He kept a thousand at about 10 a.m. Eastern. I hope I did OK sitting in for Pete. I think it was this was great. It was a lot of fun. This is so much fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Bye video stream.