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and good Monday morning on October 9th I had to double-check because I am very tired after spending the entire weekend at New York Comic Con my name is bebe G and it's time for episode 296 of the 359 podcast brought to you by alfred and roger who is gonna be a national sponsor there for a second yeah no we're not bad yeah I didn't go to comic-con either but I am also tired so good yeah I was there it was awesome it was it was mostly awesome a lot of time on your feet and it's a lot of time to feed we'll be talking a little comic-con actually but first we'll talk about how well your iPhone ages and a study that has some surprising results on the whole conspiracy theory of planned obsolescence it's not a conspiracy theory I don't know and then lastly we'll talk about getting disconnected deal detox we'll just talk a little bit about that as always if you have any questions about these topics live them in the comment section Brian will pick out the best and we will get to them in three minutes and 59 seconds from 3:00 to welcome to the 359 I'm Roger chan I'm Alfred hang so we've all heard those conspiracy theories about planned obsolescence your iPhone hits a two-year mark and all of a sudden it doesn't seem to work as well so guess it's time for an upgrade right well a study from future mark shows that older iPhone units actually performed pretty consistently throughout the years especially thanks to software updates that surprise you or you each cup to go let's let's disregard to the study for a quick second here that's just when you use your old phones after two years do you get that feeling that it's like it slowed down its bogged down or anything like that yeah I do be actually more more so less what the performance more the battery yeah my point is I think there's a reason why people have had this theory like independently and not you know some article comes out and everyone just feels that way but it's interesting that this research came out and basically saying it's kind of like a placebo effect where you just feel like it's much slower the battery's like much well you know you see a new iPhone that looks all nice and you and scheisse they talk about how fast is it it is also your phone doesn't see as passengers it is very interesting that these you know all like these theories of you know my phone is like much slower and Apple Apple plan for this always happens around when new phones come out oh yeah absolutely I've had my phone for about like two years now it's a 5s and it actually yeah it's run pretty well from the day that I bought it but to be fair I also like I'm very low maintenance on my phone like I delete like most photos after I take them I'd like to eat a lot of files I there's that element where people don't update their software they also overload with tons of photos and videos and apps they don't delete unused apps or hogs up so there is that element where you know you're you're you're wearing down your phone yourself and so there's that extra yeah I'd be interested in what benchmark that future marks did with you know their study like did they load it up with a bunch of apps like overtime or anything like that or they just left it as is for two years straight to the CPU of the GPU but for all the details just definitely check it out and see that next up we wanted to talk a little bit about New York Comic Con I had the pleasure of attending and so did Brian I got my fill of sort of awesome cosplayers panels cool celebrity sightings Brian I want to throw it out to you our producer what was your favorite moment or your favorite bit about comic-con this weekend I as I get older spend less and less time on the floor and have started to enjoy more and more the panel's because they had comfy chairs at the devas and personally I had a really great experience at the the the Judge Dredd panel which was called super copper satire go figure it was satire but the one thing I took away from that was a really clever quote from some of the writers of the current IDW run that said oh people wonder is is is Judge Dredd homosexual or heterosexual because who cares right and they said oh well he's neither he's lhamo sexual and that made my entire weekend right but he's never had a relationship through like Judge Dredd just killed what was the best cosplay you saw will have to I didn't see a person but I saw a tweet from from been on someone who came as the jab Center itself that is that the New York Convention Center building was that glad I guess it's very meta and fortunately I think he made it into the show floor but blesses our awesome there are a ton of stranger things that the demo gorian I saw tons of interpretations including one coming out of the floor which is creepy but I thought that person just was gonna see the comic did he like dig into the ground or he or she was just laying on she was sitting on the ground but the costume was kind of designed so when she sat it looked like it was kind of like it was kind of awesome kind of freaky actually the cosplayers are usually pretty impressive yeah all right comic-con related we saw the Justice League trailer drop last night or yesterday and then we're expecting a new trailer from Star Wars coming in today in fact today is the first day you can pre-order your tickets to watch Star Wars if you're planning for December 15th already so lastly we want to check out a feature from our own Ian sure about how to properly disconnect yourself the idea of digital t-talk saying after you you started your article yeah there's an interesting piece from The Guardian actually about the Facebook engineer that created the like button talking about what a monster he's created and how he's been unable to you know he has to like put on parental controls on his own phone to like get away from Facebook and all this stuff so this whole digital detox article you know kind of takes a look at something like that where it's how do you get yourself from away from the the addictions of like social media checking your notifications that everything like all the time so I was actually on a cruise ship two weeks ago where I was disconnected for large stretches of time I was mostly okay except I was really annoyed I couldn't find the USC store but aside from that aside from the early panic I'm not having that connection and not having that access I kind of got over it yeah it's act like you don't need to go to like a camper like some off-site place to get rid of it though I feel like just have some a little self-control people a little self-control goes a long way alright for more of these stories check us out on CNN I'm Roger Cheng I'm alfred Aang thanks for listening Alfred have you ever been to any of the comic-con sir I have not Connie no in your uh no I have never been to comic-con nothing okay so if if we were to drag you next year would you cosplay as um I actually have a set of like costumes I've been putting in rotation for Halloween's that I'm like I'm ASA Kaleem aid three really good costumes like I'm never gonna need a new costume again that's because I would just rotate every three years so I have a very thorough Mega Man costume a very thorough Ness costume from Super earthbound and Super Smash Brothers and speed racer costume okay solid selection so I rotate between those three but I'm not using any of those this year for Halloween just because I'm trying to be a little bit more creative what are you gonna be I'm the the millennial killer like all the industries that Millennials are killing that's that's I'm the millennial Grim Reaper there's no killing Applebee's and and homeownership did Millennials kill homeownership or they just stayed why are Millennials buying homes because they can't afford yeah yeah they're not killing it they're just picking that's the whole joke it's like yeah maybe like you know these industries aren't surviving because they're bad all right what what questions do we got I'm still digging but before we go any further I needed to send a quick shout-out a lot to a friend who found me on the New York comic-con floor yo Billy York Francisco you made my day that was so fun that you caught me we got to catch up say hi take a selfie so uh that was really great laughter yo he's a celebrity is in the chat right now I don't know I don't know the chats right that's fine no no that's awesome that that he actually recognized you yeah weird I've never happened before that's not a mess dude that's happened to me once not because the podcast just cuz I've seen it and it was started we exchanged pleasantries and then he said cute kid and then it got like awkward well that's just awkward silence and they have you on Facebook or something do tweet photo no no he was I was with like him kid and they're like it got kinda has a different direction like if your kid wasn't there that no that would be really weird you're right no no no he was there fortunately yeah like your wife be cuter beautiful just like so what do you live I want to take some questions yeah let's do it as always Danny Green's got a really good yeah Danny why buy a house when you have to upgrade it in a couple of years when a better one comes out oh that's right planned obsolesce house just feels a little creaky that's why you don't get a smart Club is that working too well now it's time for an upgrade I could easily see that happening with my home's where you have to like 301 it's all aluminum yeah I talked to it I talked to a security expert last week I'm like I'm Wednesday talking about you know all the dangers with like IOT stuff and you talk about if I buy like an old dumb doorbell I can have that doorbell for like 30 40 years and I will never have to care about if I get like a smart doorbell like that's something I have to look at like every month like yeah updates yeah it's so there are things that you don't new sounds or just Rob Paulsen a point that's fresh in my memory from comic-con so I'm just gonna roll thanks we got another good one here hold on yeah so we talked about specifically how iPhones age right but let's think about this we Danny points at the house we talked about planned obsolescence in general yeah Chris Gonzalez is oh how well do Samsung phones aged how well do any of them age besides the 3310 cuz that stuff though record I mean I don't want to just like list only Samsung phones I would say like this like all Android phones and my argument is like not that well yeah there's no way also because they don't get software updates that's the latest problem I feel like battery life is definitely an issue I mean I I don't know if I just got a bum phone but my Samsung Galaxy s6 edge worked perfectly well for about six months and then also the battery life just it could yeah I feel like that always happened you know like every year Samsung comes out with phone I think this is the best top-of-the-line phone in the world it's so much work of a battery so much and then like a year later it's like what what phone are you even talking about I remembered that when the s5 came out and everyone's like this phone's incredible and it was forgotten in like a year well less than a year really yeah yeah yeah and then when you look at during during the pixel 2 event from Google when they were saying this is gonna get security updates first this is gonna get all the Android update honors from Google because it's our phone for the next two years like what like two years that's that's well to be fair I think I mean pixels tend to get updates even beyond two years I mean yeah but I'm saying like that's not like a really good like forecast right you know like you could like my flight I forgot what your the the 5s came out but like I'm on iOS 11 on my 5s right now oh wow yeah okay all right and that's definitely more than two years so there you go and I mean I think the software update issue is a big one especially if you're not buying a pixel if you're not buying you're buying a carrier phone in particular especially a low-budget one those things don't get updated very often so yeah all right next to the line for the questions is Josh Boyd ah I feel like this isn't a question as much as just an interesting thought I feel like people that think their phone is outdated because they download the phones and feel that the phone itself is slowed down by Apple when it's actually them that's slowing the phone down so as you said the accountability you leave crap on there you don't delete all apps that was the point that I was trying to make no I just I think Josh strongly agrees with you on that but I mean I guess I guess the argument is how robust is your phone for like you know all these apps and stuff that you download for later because what's the argument here like don't download things on your phone and like bog it down like that I mean I would but I would say like don't download a million apps and then like complain that they don't never use like no use clean out your phone take out apps you don't use if you're if you're constantly hitting the storage limit your phone that's gonna affect performance - yeah my phone my phone's pretty fast and like constantly delete things yeah that's the thing like I think it's there is the some of the onus is on you right now maintain your phone to make sure it does run but what about the battery argument though about that stuff right yeah that is a tougher one I think battery load batteries are just gonna drain that's just physics you can't fight that so I mean there's always replacing your battery I know a lot of the older a lot of the Android phones a lot older phones you can swap them up pretty easily can't throw an iPhone though you have to pay to swap it out this early I actually tried to swap out a battery on my one of my older Samsung phones if you ago and like I ordered like some like oh yeah don't do that yeah that's a bad idea yeah I'm sure you all saw the report of a Samsung phone exploding last week Samsung you know basically said the person was using a third-party battery and that is the risk you run when you use like a non approved batter my concern about SARS how that how do they even know that though like did they contact the person was affected yeah all right I've only got a couple minutes left because I know you got to run to a meeting right yeah yeah let's take a question from new friend Jackie touch I enjoyed my Note 3 for nearly five years and only just now the battery is giving up on me good thing it can be replaced I did recently purchase a new Note 8 which battery cannot be replaced it was that a dumb move don't move on your part for Samsung's part I mean look it's for your perspective it's not dumb move that's kudos to you for keeping a new 3 for that long any phone for yeah that is definite time to upgrade and I think the note 8 is an excellent upgrade the reality is I mean all the high-end phones nowadays are under like lock and key they're all sealed up you can't get a you can't get a new better easily so yeah I used to can't you can't blame really anyone at this point cuz that's sort of where the industry is gone yeah software out of that argument we talked about the planned obsolescence by as far as like getting that much of your money's worth out of hardware that is impressive yeah yeah I mean I also I used to think that the whole like not being or replace the battery thing was a deal breaker because I had replaced batteries on my laptops like all the time but then it got to the point where I was thinking I could do that I used to buy new batteries and just put them in so I didn't have to deal with you know like bad batteries all right and then I got to a point where well I'm only doing this like every like three years and by that time I'll have gotten a new phone anyway so right what is the point of me like just buying the battery straight off because the phone itself is bad like at that point so I don't think it was a dumb move to get the get like a completely new phone after five years no and for sounds like for Samsung it's not a dumb move that they went to this because that's just sort of where everything is going yeah I just like this comment from Josh Buddha again he says every two years I deep-clean my phone I think that's a really that's smart fantastic approach I think that would be a kind of an interesting topic for us to cover one day if it was ever like a slow news cycle we should go over like how some good processes for actually cleaning your phone out yeah yeah without having to do a full-on hard read I don't I don't do like a spring cleaning kind of thing I kind of just like every now that I just go through yeah it's like everybody does this to a little it's like when you walk around your house and you just like fine like a sock laying around so let's get rid of that like I don't do like dedicate like a specific period of time I just like go through it oh this is garbage maybe that's not a bad habit to get into yeah all right unfortunately we are at it we got a run sorry we start a little bit late we gotta end a little early we'll try to do better tomorrow you liked anything you always tried to do better whenever I should that's our motto I know we try all right if you liked anything you saw or heard here check us out on CNET our podcast is also available on iTunes TuneIn stitcher SoundCloud feedburner and Google Play Music see you all tomorrow