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Is Apple REALLY making the best possible products? (Apple Byte Extra Crunchy, Ep. 78)

2017-03-31
from mid top of the CBS Interactive building in San Francisco California it's the Apple buy the extra country podcast with your host mr. Brian Tom whoo what's up everybody we are back man you're Mike can we are you still there crunch okay here we go welcome to the show boys and girls ladies and gentlemen children of all ages we are back in the original studio things are a little dusty if it gets crunchy we're gonna fix that it's it's called the Apple byte extra crunchy for a reason Steven what is that sound that what what is that that is a preamp over here that you know we had like all this construction on the sixth floor first seven months yeah for seven months and I covered this whole room in plastic but still dust gets in places and there's dust in this preamp behind me and that's what's causing Brian's voice and I think we're good now okay don't jinx it okay yes anyways ladies and gentlemen welcome to the show it's apple pie extra crunchy episode 78 for those of you joining us first time listeners this is a complimentary piece to our Apple bite show we're doing a little early this week but guess what uh you can't not talk about what happened with the Galaxy s8 and how it stacks up of maybe what we have now and what we've seen we do want you to also be a part of the show like you always are we have people on YouTube livestream and periscope watching live if you guys ever want to check that out you can check out my Twitter at Brian Tong but to call us and be a part of the show because it's all about you all 1-866 to 638 leave us your name where you're from look if we even show you the graphic right here yeah there it is it's on the screen now so you guys have guys and gals can call you message will work on bringing back live calls we're easing back into the old studio so let's talk about it yesterday I was actually off-site doing some cool stuff that we'll be able to talk about later like in a few weeks but the s8 dropped it was everything we expected but when I look at the whole entirety of that keynote there is really nothing about the s8 that would tell me a large group of people whether they're on a Google pixal an iphone maybe a oneplus phone there was nothing about the s8 that would convince me that flocks of people will draw it will jump ship and change platform for the s8 I know there will be some but just not a lot and for for right off the bat before you think I'm hating on the s8 that is the best screen and the best design on a phone that we have today but when you look at kind of the other new features the Bixby virtual assistant it's actually still half-baked it's not completely there it's going to be better the ability for it to pull up general information questions that you typically will ask Google or ask Siri it's not as good at doing that and it's really gonna be more about integrating into the OS making access to your apps easier being able to use that easier but again it's still half-baked like when we got our hands on there early versions it wasn't working completely and so it's gonna be take time first to see really how good Bixby is I'm curious what you guys and gals all think like was it was Bixby even compelling enough because right now as it stands the Google assistant is still better than Bixby and arguably Siri at this point in time it's a little you know maybe flip a coin but Siri might be actually better than Bixby at this right now at this point in time and you don't want to talk about that when it's a new feature that you have just launched you want it to be the best well yesterday we were watching the keynote and they they talked about Bixby they barely talked about it it was just like just like I mention oh we got this new thing here it is what it looks like that was it we didn't really even I don't really recall a demo happening either yeah it's it is there a I will see how it flows you know comes together but when we talk about the perspective of the Apple you know Apple nation because that's who this show is all about you know I'm just wondering if you all felt threatened about it do you think how about this Steven do you think the based on all these crazy rumors do you think the iPhone will be better looking than the galaxy s 8 which really looks amazing with that screen it's tough to say because I have seen every a lot of people on Twitter elsewhere saying the new Galaxy s8 is amazing it looks beautiful you know I've have seen that comment a lot yeah we don't know what that bold iPhones gonna look like but people are saying it's gonna look like the for so are people gonna just be like oh it looks like a phone we've already seen before you know it's hard to say how people are gonna are gonna accept the new iPhone I think either way right you have a built-in built-in to man that is already part of the platform of Apple it has continued to show us that people are willing to buy the next generation of the iPhone whether you're on the two-year cycle now even on a one-year cycle with their Apple upgrade program I just don't see any this number this market share balance isn't going to change I the last time I saw I believe Apple was just like just slightly ahead of Samsung you know with with shipments from the last quarter of 2016 it was like 79 percent versus like 17.6% Apple / Samsung yeah which is barely right you have your the lines have been drawn now we are integrated into we are committed to these ecosystems we always talk about that so we'll see I I did but I do got to give them props that screen looks amazing again is just a better looking phone enough for you to switch over I don't think so yeah another another thing I kept seeing people make comments about was just like all smart phones look the same now I'll just the same form factor like there's not much difference in them they're black they have a screen like you know what else can you do people really feel that way now you know this is a really mature space and that it's just hard to say that there's a significant you know innovation but that infinity screen yeah take me there look cool yeah take me there Apple can take me there I'll be happy about that yeah well that was kind of like I remember we had a voicemail last week where a guy was talking about how they're gonna extend the belt you know the bezel is gonna disappear on the iPhone it's gonna go out to the edge so it could be look a lot similar to this Galaxy s8 and I'm sorry I don't want to hate on you know people that make these videos but it's like the instant video that comes up which is total BS is Galaxy s8 versus iPhone eat you idiots it's not even out it's like I'm sorry there's things that are being worked on in this building not I'm not one of those that are like oh let's talk about what how the new iPhone is better than the I say I'm like the new iPhone isn't even out all these are unconfirmed rumored features that literally are not even remotely official and you're gonna make a video on that yeah like that bothers me I'm sorry as someone who cares about this that bothers that's why people get turned off by some of the stuff that just in general is thrown out there yeah yeah I'm you know in in their defense a little bit the iPhone 7 when it came out like every rumor that we heard was true sort of right I mean like there's a lot of rumors that came out that ended up being happening so maybe people are just kind of trusting in that you're you're right but I guess I come from an old-school world where I'll talk about the rumors and completely treat them as rumors but I'm not gonna headline something that makes it sound like it's facts yeah yeah and alternative facts y'all it just bought it I'm sorry well I saw that I saw that same argument when the Nintendo switch came out because a lot of people were reviewing it before the actual ship version of the switch came out so I saw a lot of back-and-forth about that too it's similar similar situation you know and guess what the videos that come out first the way that SEO and search works they get the most views oh yeah right it's it's it's a it's a run for clicks and views and fine I'm just saying I wish that we were a little smarter about it I just wish but hey that's right or was it early worm nope early bird really bird worm fine get all the worms you want and I'm criticizing us in house - okay I'm not criticizing I'm everyone it's everyone okay let's talk about um other things right now we're gonna transition a little bit over to iPad stuff but sometimes people get all so sick about iPhone this iPhone that we've got more iPad stuff the new iPad nine point seven inch is available for personal pick up at stores and it's kind of funny because I fix it who is known for basically dismantling this stuff did a teardown of the new I again this is a new version okay how about this let me let me remind and explain this we had the iPad air to this new iPad is the same thickness as the original iPad air it removes the error name it brings in a faster a nine processor chip so I fix it tore down and basically said this looks just like the original iPad air in the inside as it does on the outside so what was the difference like just a chip it's it's really a strategic market thing where they're bringing in a nine point seven inch tablet at 3:29 which right when I said I'm like that is the best value the best nine point seven inch tablet you're going to find on the market now it's not the best it's not from a price standpoint it's the best value I never said its feature wise the best but it kind of bothered me when I looked at this iPad teardown because there it's like okay they are outright saying this is exactly the iPad air with just like a faster processor and then it brings me back to how the philosophy is Apple has completely changed because I remember all the time and don't say don't be that old dude talking about Steve Jobs would always say we're making the best possible products that was what he said and damn that is what he did right we had one iPhone we had one the iPhone doesn't hire during his entire reign okay we had one iPad join his entire reign all right desktops laptops that's a little different now when I see this iPad which again is a great value but to know the fact that there's an iPad Mini there's an iPad there's an iPad pro 9.7 there's an iPad pro 10.5 there's an iPad pro 12 point 9 Tim's philosophy is when he says we're making the best possible products I think this is really what he's saying Tim Cook in my mind is saying we're making the best possible product at multiple price points hmm and that guess what Apple is raking in the cash they're making more money than they ever had but don't when he says oh we're making the best product possible he's really saying we're making the best product possible at multiple price points but when you really break that down that means you're not making the best possible product right yeah you know you've got five iPads bro you know Steve Jobs just a hard act to follow man so Tim Cook is like doing everything he can you know to keep Apple profitable and keep them up on that higher echelon that they are so you know I kind of get it I kind of get it but I I get your argument too there's like so much it's becoming like like I remember in the when Android first came out we're always like oh it's what was the word we see use all the time on it you know there's just so many Android products just started together Oh fragmentation so that's kind of what happened what's happening with Apple now you know and and Steve Jobs is an amazing salesman and Tim Cook doesn't have that same kind of you know he doesn't have that that it and that's a good thing here's the thing that's okay not to have that it okay no no I'm not saying be Steve Jobs all I'm saying is that don't say the same stuff he said yeah it's not true yes right yeah like that's you know when they're still borrowing lines from the script but thank you wholly different you know sales it's and a whole marketing things different you know when you when you again so that's that's all I'm saying I just want to use it as another example of where it hit me and I'm just like man this company has changed and yes they're super profitable and fine investors be happy and I still buy Lord knows how much Apple stuff right like it's a you know I'm the guy who buys the iPad twelve point nine inch okay yeah I'm that guy iPad pro but this dude in the YouTube chat room he said uh SHhhh I'm gonna slay his name I'm sorry AB he Scheck vu Paula the Paula he says Tim Cook is a Salesman Steve Jobs was an innovator but I would argue Steve Jobs was both a dative a tyrannicide big time so again that that whole iPad in just the fact that and guess what as a supply chain guy you're using older parts that you have to sell a lower-cost product which is just you know kind of business 101 when you talk about clearing inventory put damn the day that I see Apple literally doing that like actually doing that kind of hurts I mean I know we have the iPhone se right now people love that from Pete and that's still popular form factor it's just a different world and I'm still having a problem dealing with it want to be honest with you all and I know some of you are I know some of you are there too so whenever someone says oh they're not innovative like it goes deeper than that you know well another guy in the chat room just said Tim Cook is afraid to take risks that Steve wasn't I'm gonna call BS on that too because they put out the air pods I mean that's a huge risk they took the boat the headphone jack out of the phone I mean that's a giant risk you can argue that's innovating but it also like freaked everybody out the same time w1 chip was the best innovation from 2016 I've said that when it came out I'll say that now I think it still holds water the W the air pods are going are like I said they're a really really really really good product I will never call them a great product cuz they don't do everything yet but damn they're really good and over time you'll like them but again they still look fugly yeah and they're still there's you know it's not a company that's not the best possible version of the air pods no like I know this yeah I mean that they know it too the design they could have changed the design just a tiny bit man I'm a little different than the air earbuds yeah you know and I you know I think they would might have even been a little more popular you know like I was hating on the air pods I still hate on how they look you made a whole music video about but if you those who saw the video which is very well well produced and mixed by my friend over there Steve abrasion thank you you know at the end we say we disclaimer it like until they're in stock and I did say positive things about the air pods in the video for the record technology you know but Apple was technology and aesthetics they they did good on the technology part yeah and everyone's calling it me out for being cheap because I don't want to buy air pause seventy bucks come on 170 bucks it's a lot of money for one who yeah one sixty with tax one six two attacks all right we'll we'll keep on moving around in the show because I know you don't want us to sit here forever talking about that would the cup that could almost be every show here that could be every show here I'm not sure if y'all heard about this maybe it did there was a laptop ban on planes that came after a plot to put explosives in iPads this recently just happened a few days ago earlier this week and Monday or something yeah the US UK ban on selective like this is from the Guardian this article that were pulling from but the US UK ban on select electronic devices from the passenger cabins of flights from some countries in North Africa and the Middle East part was partly prompted by a previously undisclosed plot involving explosives hidden in a fake iPad according to a security source so now the UK has a ban on tablets laptops game consoles and other devices larger than a mobile phone that came into effect on last Saturday it applies to inbound flights from six countries Egypt Jordan Lebanon Saudi Arabia Tunisia and Turkey now there's also six UK airlines that and eight foreign carriers that are affected including British Airways easyJet jet to monarch Thomas Cook and more now it also follows a similar move in the US which applies to flights from 10 airports in eight countries they do say and of course at least with the u.s. these are Middle Eastern countries Jordan Egypt Turkey Saudi Arabia Morocco Qatar Kuwait and Qatar Kuwait and United Arab Emirates so the security sources both said bans were not the result of a specific incident but a combination of factors so if you are traveling to and from those areas and you're like um yeah I'm not I'm not gonna give up my iPad pro dude I'm they're gonna have to wrestle that away from my cold dead like that is my favorite gadget yeah you can't take it that's such a bummer you again taking on the plane and watch a movie when I first heard that story and my immediate thought was like oh some Intelligence Agency got a tip about some laptop exploding or something so um you know better to be safe than sorry there also is a weird discrepancy about this because see the reaction to this is different from the UK and the US right there's not all the countries are the same on both the lists and it was kind of what the article kind of dug into was like they were suspect because they were raised questions how did they arrive at different conclusions if this was something that they were both worried about clearly these two organizations share these two countries share more than enough information between each other so why all of a sudden is like oh yeah we're gonna have a few different countries than you you know the suspicion is that because of you know the current administration that runs the show here decided to maybe throw in a few extra just cut room travel man yeah yeah because we obviously have a different I think we meaning administration has a different idea of what is which countries should be on that list or not but it's just a little reminder that there the article also stated how terrorists are trying to use more innovative ways just yeah and explosives like remember there were shoes there's the guy that got caught for putting like an explosive like in his underwear yeah what that was an underwear bomb that's right and it was like sitting in his seat and his underwear were exploding but yes he wasn't moving or any he was just kind of sitting there waiting for it to happen and someone was like that guy's on fire over there so then that is terrifying if you're on an airplane and some like that's how many on that is terrifying so just just be the lookout just want to let you know there has been no resolution to this but this is where the kind of the ban on electronics larger than a mobile phone from the UK and US specific to certain countries is happening at the moment just to also follow up on more iPad news I know it's like iPad all the time right now it's kind of like the thing if you want to listen to more iPhone talk just rewind about 10 minutes ago you can listen to that um the ten point five inch iPad is entering limited production but a spring or WWDC or even a follow-on remains unclear that's according to Forbes magazine yeah there it doesn't mean that it's not in the pipeline but again the all rumors indicate that we have some sort of an iPad announcement in April we're pretty much getting to April people said early April I there's plenty of time I'm not gonna really hold Apple to like oh it's gonna be an event this now I do want to see the iPad at ten point five inch come out I think in a weird way if the screen is roughly the same size as my twelve point nine inch as long as I can see comics and the full page proportions that they're meant to be and that doesn't happen on the nine point seven inch iPad I might have to give that thing a look but honestly I'm gonna stick with the twelve point nine inch line I love that big screen um but the article in the Forbes continued to kind of add on the initial production is limited but Apple's been known to do fairly fast ramp ups in the past it's also possible Apple could do a limited launched initially adding countries as volume allows nice so we're down with that a low-cost iPad remember that kind of talked about the nine point seven inch we talked about earlier last week we talked about how or a couple weeks ago we were talking about how new identifier z' for new iPads had been discovered you know from some of this data analytics with identifiers I clearly point to this new family of iPads the low-cost iPad that just came out is now available to pick up in stores was not one of those oh really yeah that it was not part of the logs that has been confirmed so there's another one in the world yeah so this is I mean this is exciting I whenever you see these product identifier numbers pop up in logs by developers and other analytic websites it's always a good thing so iPad seven one seven two seven three and seven four were the ones that were found in the logs which currently do not exist at all hmm pretty pretty dope so cool see how that happens um in other new Apple announcements we know this week iOS ten point three TV OS ten point to watch us three point two did you did you update I haven't I haven't I've been meaning to do it but every time I it like pops into my head to do it I have to do some my phone so I I haven't done it yet I want to know how many of you all updated because I have always been a stickler on this and I wait like I'll wait like two or three days before I actually do it knowing that you know historically there typically are some big bugs that happen but up to this point no major bugs have been really talked about with the 10.3 update nice so for those of you that want to play a little catch-up at least with iOS 10.3 the big kind of two features is find my air pods that's gonna be part of it the new Apple file system does that mean it's not my voice this is your video yeah sorry no it's okay I don't like hearing myself on myself it just sounds weird it's weird right so we have like the find my ear pods feature also Apple's new file system that is optimized for modern usage we're in the back of the day was made really for like old floppy drives hard disk drives we are now in solid state drive so that in itself will help with performance it's optimized for that it's also a lot more secure and then a subtle thing that has been overlooked is iOS 10.3 has reduced animations they've actually shortened some of the animations jumping from apps and from different screens so according to sources and maybe y'all can verify this it uh you know could be snappier that's good I actually turned off the animations on my phone me too exactly what a little faster and yeah I hated that it took it took me way too long so are the funny thing is yeah I wouldn't even know if the animations were snappy because I've turned off turn them off so that it's a snappy it's that they can be nice um I'm gonna talk about I works okay are you is can you believe this along with the up oh sorry you know let me let me get it through TV OS 10.2 look out it improves the scrolling it improves the scrolling and TV OS 10.2 it also has to do with navigating when you're typing in letters and also we talked about last week the ability to rent one time on one iOS device and that rental movie now showing on all of your devices as long as you update TV OS 10.2 and also update your iOS 10.3 you'll be able to watch a rented movie across multiple device is without having to rear-end it which was the problem that happened before that sounds silly watch OS 3.2 gets the theater mode option it's basically turned the sound and the screen off while you're in a movie theater if you need to see your screen you can double tap the screen to turn on but that is specific to the theater mode that's a new feature and then also they've added new Siri implementation that will allow you to do things like say start workouts send messages make payments book rides it's that type of stuff is now coming to your Apple watch so you can look even more like awkward in public that's just talking to your wrist like it's threatened you don't have sometimes I feel awkward talking to alexa in my own house you know I'm like I wish I could do something else to turn it on this way I like when you might have a nice moment and then you have to say Alexa turn off what so not hot so not hot alright I were to get a update and some of the cool thing this is like you know keynote Pages and Numbers I the only eye works app that I use actually a lot is still keynote oh yeah yeah I actually legitimately use keynote I think it's awesome you and Brian Cooley like Brian Cooley's like mr. keynote keynote his keynote is a stellar app to me I don't care what you all say actually there's no there's no better-looking presentation I think he note when you put it together yeah that's that's why aesthetically so they've added a new feature in this update to the iWork suite most notably the ability to unlock password-protected documents using touch ID nice so people that are working on it on their iPad and their iPhones you can now have touch ID locked Iwerks apps and then another thing that was kind of cool these are all subtle things but I didn't want to mention them and show love to all y'all that love I work I'm gonna see how many people heart that right now I'm not seeing any hearts right now for iWork fans but you can also now embed an I work a keynote presentation in a website nice so you've had this ability to like collaborate and share you know update and edit a keynote but you can now take your presentation that you made and embed it directly into certain websites that that's kind of sick that is cuz it's it looks good yeah it looks it looks really good alright um in other news the WWDC 2017 lottery is open this week for those of you that want to go I believe the price to enter so this is the thing it's a lottery system you're not guaranteed to go in because there's such high demand but you pay basically $15.99 I'm sorry 1599 oh this is a big deal that I'd see it to pay that for the lottery well you gentle the lottery and then if you win then obviously you get charged okay so tickets are doled out using a random selection process again it's been implemented because it's been so crazy the demand for it approximately 5,000 attendees are expected at the conference so that's really you know when you think about developers that's there's so many people that want to get a piece of that apple pie that 5000 is pretty limited but again this is specific to developers a thousand Apple engineers and executives will be there as well the lottery will end on Friday March the 31st at 10 a.m. Pacific time so if you're listening to this and you didn't even know you better get on that site better get on it but tons of sessions also I like the WWDC we typically see at least some sort of hardware announcements this is going to go down I believe June 5th is when WWDC starts through Friday June 8th and typically there's a keynote on the first day so we're also looking at that as a target date if we don't see any iPads in April which I hope we do will will most likely see something in June from them and if we don't see something in June then that's really bad like what are you guys actually doing over there it does the lottery cost money to enter I know it's not like the Hamilton lottery we tell max it's absolutely yeah absolutely um and then this kind of fun story before we wrap up and go to our calls Apple has been declared the most intimate brand in a survey of 6,000 customers this was held by what does that mean well I'll tell you what it means my friend and there's no Apple panties coming out anytime soon although I did a search online and they do exist Apple oh yeah there's actually a funny sorry this is my job to do research guys and gals there's a Apple thong oh yeah and there's a on the certain parts of the thong there's a slide to unlock feature [Laughter] yeah slide to unlock just look it up when you're not at work and if you're at work good luck so MB LM the company behind the survey said that hard data actually proves the rankings aren't just fluff the top ranked intimate brands continue to outperform the espy and fortune 500 in revenue and profit over the past 10 years these are the factors that they measured it they really measure the overall positive feelings consumers have for each brand so here's the factors number one fulfillment exceeds expectations delivering superior service quality and efficacy to identity reflects an aspirational image or admired values and beliefs that resonate deeply 3 is I know you're like wow people both those first two make me laugh yeah I don't make enhancement becoming better through use of the brand smarter more capable and more connected I'll give them that ritual in graining a brand into daily actions more than that is traditional behavior the brand becomes a vitally important part of the daily existence true nostalgia I'll give them that focuses on memories of the past and the warm hmm poignant feelings associated with them sure I guess the nostalgia for me is deep that's why I'm still with the damn brand indulgence creates a close relationship centered around moments of pampering and gratification that can be either occasional or frequent Wow so Apple rated number one Disney at - Amazon at 3 Disney yeah Disney shoot yeah what happened tell me I took my kids to Goofy's kitchen it was like it was last year like in December oh this is still resonating it's still resonating baby yeah really bad don't character breakfast character breakfast don't ever go everybody cuz because it cost nine million dollars and my kid like he it was just it was a night I don't even want to get into it but my kid like cut his hand on a piece of furniture there and then the kitchen didn't have band-aids and it was just they told me had to go buy band-aids and I'm like my son's here it was just enough I don't even want to get into it sorry sorry sorry don't go it is also nine million dollars but uh I mean I can see how it's fun but yeah I'm sorry they got to go through that maybe maybe of Disney's listening they'll they'll throw you a buy one get one oh they'll it I've dude I went through all the channels to complain and they didn't they didn't help you out no all right so Apple one Disney to Amazon three I find Amazon s3 is very all about the money you know the savings harley-davidson number four that's really cool that is ran like Harley Davidson is that hi Netflix was five Nintendo was six seven is Samsung Whole Foods is eight BMW is ten and Toyota is I'm sorry BMW is nine and Toyota's ten I find it funny that Nintendo is six because I know plenty of people that love the Nintendo when I'm like yo there's only one game that came out on your system launched and I bought a switch and I haven't even opened it up yet really yeah you're all I'm sorry y'all shop you know I've been trying to find that for my kids know I get after the whole debacle with the Nintendo mini retro what was the classic classic and no one could get one and I it's like tried I tried I went to Best Buy at like 5:00 in the morning I tried I could not get one I'm over it I don't even want one I think that yeah that I don't even want to switch either again Apple declared the most intimate brand nice in a survey of 6000 consumers cool all right let's get to the call shall we calls call y'alls okay we have a first call is from hey Brian this is James from Washington State and I was calling to find out any rumors that the Apple earpods will be updated this year - maybe a w-2 chip I just want to get your thoughts on that I'm thinking about buying a pair but I want to wait if they're gonna update them sometime this year thanks guys love the show bye thanks for the call based on the time you know the fact that the air pods actually only started becoming available in limited quantities in December for them and even they aren't even caught up to the supply and I started the demand and it's what April already so I don't expect us to see a new one this year maybe we might get an announcement but I don't I don't expect to see in a year and the fact is that if there is so much demand even after they catch up with supply it they don't need to rush out a new model so if people are still waiting to get their their order and Tim Cook likes to slow play Tim Cook likes the slow play they're there they just like to milk it take their time so it's I don't think we see one this year but if I'm wrong I'm wrong all right next call hey guys what up is Jay man from Brooklyn love your show been a fan since the beginning generally I always leave long messages so you guys never play me that's right Beecham jonathan mcintosh AKA anyway Brian just wanted to know I'm in the market to get a new iPad what should I get the iPad quote 12-inch like you or the new pro nine point seven or ten point five or whatever it is at 349 for 32 gigs that's it love the show guys keep it going Jay Mac you got in 30 seconds one second we see Jamie um I don't think I think you should wait for the new air air pot I'm sorry iPad announcements don't don't make a decision then I do think the 10.5 is really compelling if you want it to be a little more portable but you still get a bunch of screen real estate that's the one that I'm most curious about but I love my twelve point nine inch I'm gonna be I'm twelve point nine for life you know what I mean iPad iPad nice okay next call I can do it that's a new table on the cover in the custom Apple TV stuff quick first the Siri remote requirements that Brian dislikes on the Apple TV with WestEd last June so good Apple there but then some improvements I'd like behind-the-scenes Apple work with Luder Amazon and Google Play to get actual apps on the Apple TV so I don't have to airplay and also get the TV app to work with families sharing better because right now it doesn't show family purchases well or just take a lot of extra steps thanks have a good day thank you for all that that was that was super helpful information so I think also the other thing is everyone's running when is theirs it's been at least a year now where we had heard that Amazon was actually going to release an Amazon video app on the Apple TV and it still hasn't happened that's a bummer so uh I don't know where the we still don't know where the ketchup is technically it should still be able to live on Apple's platform I don't know if Amazon decided oh we're just gonna hold it back but I Amazon has typically been very free and open about just making their content available everywhere look at what they did with the Kindle and you know it's they put on every platform possible but the Apple TV is the only one where the Amazon app kind of the Amazon video app isn't there so that's what I want to see but thanks for the call I'm still waiting for chromecast on that on the Amazon app - yeah yeah yeah they all hate each other all those companies hate each other I mean they're trying to protect themselves I get it but whatever come on just make it everywhere man exactly okay next call hey Brian isn't any from Texas and I just wanted to give you a call and about the si si plus unveiling and when it to ask if you could speak to someone that may want to get my galaxy may already be any Apple iPad iMac and some of those other Apple devices I know for me being able to text on all the different advice different devices really handy how pictures would work so if you could just kind of think to someone who's in the Apple ecosystem and considering getting one of those features and how all that might work from the middle of a tornado yes that was windy but I think your points are good and clear look with the galaxy samsung I say you're right all the way everyone that I known that has switched at least off of Apple for whatever reasons they miss a message across all the vices yeah like come on your computer to your tablet to your phone your watch like it's ever it'll pop up everywhere you will miss that I look the advantages of the platform is if you like Android and but you specifically you have to like Samsung's flavor of Android I prefer the the pure Google pixel experience I think that's the best Android experience I think most people will tell you the same the Google assistant is there so if I was if someone was gonna jump over to Android beyond just having a gorgeous looking phone that only goes so far for me I know the Google pixel isn't the best looking phone in fact it looks like an iPhone right like it you're talking about yeah but to me that is the best Android phone on the market right now and just to know that that was their first attempt and their second one it's probably gonna be pretty ridiculous I would just wait out and see what they do before you make a decision but I know there's plenty of people that you know love Samsung's platform and I think it's great it's just not the one that I like yeah yeah but uh so you'll be missing you know you will get the best damn screen on planet earth that's for sure um you know you won't have 3d touch I don't know how many people really care about it I think that's a polarizing issue every time I say I kind of use it but not really people get mad at me really is it but I would say the majority of users are I would say maybe thirty thirty to forty percent of people reaction I would say maybe thirty percent of people really use it all the time and care about it like that they would defend it I think the rest of us don't really use that much and might use it once a blue moon or accidentally use it I accidentally used it on Instagram the other day oh okay yeah try oh I could pick a pop pick a pop now you know my parents have Android phones and I have an iPhone so like texting with them there's always like this weird communication breakdown you know like sometimes they don't get pictures or videos and you know it's just it's always kind of weird you know and then and then when it comes down there's like you end up using a third-party app that yeah cover that but it's not as integrated like you'll always there's always ways to get around it but you know it's look the ecosystem has power no matter what side of the coin you're on yeah yeah the Google ecosystem has power as well totally you know they just make it at least a little easier to you know you can use you can't use the Google assistant on an Apple phone yeah I Paul Apple iPhone yet but you at least still have access to Google Voice and all of that it brings totally so I would just wait it out I'm a pixel boy if I have to go Android mm-hmm all right last call hey Apple bike hey I just want one more bad Apple about the Apple TV not just the fact that it does not in 4k but I set up my TV system I wanted to get the fastest streaming possible so I said of mine TV with my router and one of the wire everything Wow I wired my Playstation and then wired my app my Apple TV right into my my router thinking that that's going to be the fastest but then I started streaming some stuff and then I realized it's lagging a little bit and lo and behold the Apple TV this is the newest model doesn't have a gigabit port on the back it's only two 100 so my internet because I got new internet was three minutes after so I what did I do I unplugged it now I'm using using more Wi-Fi for my Apple TV that six inches away from my router so bad apple on then let's pour it on the back of that because I mean why go wireless if it's right next to it but anyway good at great show love listen you guys I'm all about that I am all about that yeah yeah so alright Beach that is that what we've got for the show that's it man excellent back in the studio I'm happy I'm still like what's wrong yeah you're like re readjusting back readjusting what old is new is old is new sometimes old Albin you what's old is new again I think right yes yeah I got to work on that I'm gonna I'm gonna work on that for you all next time all right just remember again to be a part of our show call us at
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