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good morning Internet or good afternoon depending on where you are on the planet Earth my name is Steven Beecham producer of the Apple byte extra crunchy podcast with your host mr. Brian Tong yeah what's up everybody we got a groovin we are moving and grooving today back in the studio here live in living color in the same room beachin tong rappin Apple byte extra crunchy episode 100 and I think 14 Couture say Thursday 14 at our sale all right so you guys and gals who are listening know this this is the show Apple white extra crunchy it's everything Apple it's all the good all the bad it's an extension of our weekly video show but this is where we got to dive in dig a little deeper and new stories pop up I think we cannot start this show without talking about net neutrality it was just repealed the Obama era rules for net neutrality were just overturned in a vote that was expected three to two and I'm pretty pissed off about that yeah I think extremely lame other than corporations and that small at least those three FCC board members who put that vote through I the majority of the internet is frustrated about this and here's the thing net neutrality let me I'll just kind of give the quick synopsis what by repealing or removing net neutrality what it does is it allows providers like Comcast AT&T internet providers to either throttle block or prioritize what goes through their pipes meaning quicker access to certain sites priority to get information from services that pay for it it is completely made this right a corporate run entity now there are no there is really no oversight the only thing they have to do is just tell us that they're going to block something or tell us that are going to prioritize something but they can do whatever they want this hurts small businesses this does hurt innovation this is kind of their long-term implications and we're not gonna see this switch flipped right away it's something that's gonna happen let's say I think around February they're gonna obviously there's going there's going to be people that are gonna modify what happened it'll look differently no matter what the internet that we have today will look different in the future it won't be an overnight switch I think what happens is maybe in six months nine months something funky is gonna happen you're like why is this what's going on here this is not and people want emo sleep alone even realize it right but someone's gonna be like what what what's going on like why is this slower wise it's not and then all of a sudden you're gonna hear a story about how oh yeah we prioritize this this site or this service now it's stuff like that that is very subtle we've never had to think about it before but we're going to have to think about it now and it's really disappointing it it's fundamentally they can talk about on the surface yeah you can buy a burrito you can still you know surf the internet like the FCC head or chair I guess a Jeep I made like a quirky tone-deaf stupid-ass video of him really trying to be goofy about the fact that things will be the same after these net neutrality the current rules that were in place were overturned he just basically comes off as looking like a huge d-bag trying to as if he wants us to like him and believe him that he's giving us the right direction it's absurd if you look it up um yeah this is a guy who likes to do interviews with a giant Nestle Quik coffee cup which is ridiculous he's into Jesus you can tell he's into himself it's it's par for the course if you know what I mean we're not gonna get into that you know it's funny for for an administration that is all is cutting regulations from everything they just added a massive regulation to the internet which is completely just uncalled for and you're just gonna slow everything down and I've already been seeing a lot of things on Instagram and like you know other places that they're they're fake things but they're they're kind of like foreshadowing the future like I saw an Instagram if you go through I went what's going through someone's stories and then I got to one thing that said if you want to access to Instagram stories pay $5 you know it's like stuff like that is possible I mean I'm not saying it's gonna happen but stuff like that is possible you know well they think they can even this doesn't mean it's going to happen yet but I'm sorry my brain is all over the place today but even in other countries that that basically unlimited net neutrality rules and allowed corporation to take control and do what they deem is important to them cuz what do corporations care about making money it's all about that Chetta they don't care they really don't care because in their brain they're like hey you're still getting Internet we're just gonna control it how we the way that we want to control it so you have prioritization of services maybe maybe they break down your plans where you're gonna actually you might have to pay extra to use video streaming services right this is a real possibility this is not made-up stuff we're not making this up this could actually happen all the provider has to do these internet providers have to do is just decide they want to do business differently and by removing that neutrality they are going to be able to do things differently based on height at the highest bidders and it's going to happen it won't happen in a month or two this is one of those stories that people gonna kind of forget about unless we keep on talking about it but uh maybe you won't get to see or listen to a show like the Apple it won't be it'll be like lower prioritize oh oh you wanna list some people might like that act for this for this episode some people might actually like that so we just want to let you know that's what that's what's going on um with net neutrality this this battle is by far by no means over but it did just happen and it did just drop and it's gonna affect everyone so that's why I wanted at least kick it off at the top of the show but we are here to talk about Apple right yeah is that it what's the name of the show Apple byte extra crunchy crunchy that is right okay I did forget to let you all know again this is your show the comments are just going full force right now but to be a part of the show we have a hotline hotline bling' well you gotta call us is that one eight hundred six one six two six three eight that is to get into our voicemail system we have plenty of voicemails this week name where you're from and your commentary your thoughts your ideas your suggestions we take it all and let's just kick things off the big really the big story from Apple this week is the launch of the new iMac Pro there five thousand dollar machine again just saw the price tag and I was like I'm sure it's a 5k scream so you got to charge five thousand dollars per you quite honestly I'm actually not hating on the iMac Pro from a standpoint if you stack up you know the specs and what's involved in this machine let's just talk about the raw power here the base model I'm not gonna go through everything because you don't want to hear all this the base model of 3.2 gigahertz eight core Intel Xeon processor there's going to be multiple configurations an eight core a ten core there's also gonna be an 18 core available later on a 14 core there's multiple configurations available I think someone even specked out the highest iMac Pro you could you could get beefed up to the max and it can go as high as $13,000 if you want again this is cater to the pros but what what I also there's two other things right the base model comes with one terabyte of solid-state drive storage it's kind of crazy Radeon Pro Vega 56 with 8 gigs of memory so that that's just the baseline the model that they've been giving to reviewers is a 10 core model with 16 gigs of video memory it's even a better SPECT machine than the base model $5,000 now I think this is gonna be a beast even based on performance results marques Brownlee and Jonathan Morrison caught the machine basically a week before anyone else did favorite youtubers awesome dudes um j-mo is a buddy of mine so I gotta give a shout out to him but what happens is here is they SPECT it out and basically on the multi-core geek bench score the iMac by Mac Pro 10 core model has a multi-core threads thread score of 37,000 400 now yeah that's just a big number but if you compare that to performance of the current iMac 5k it's a 93 percent increase in performance so these are beasts you just have to pay for the other thing about this is if you're not the only thing I don't like about this is in the past at least the Mac Pro line or the Power Mac line when it was the g4 the g5 it was at least within reason for a user to be able to you know pay two thousand three thousand dollars it wasn't a five thousand dollar machine that was not up gradable that's the biggest issue I have this is gonna be a machine that maybe corporations are going to invest in you know hi and it's gonna be able to handle virtual reality 360-degree video a rendering and outputting you know these amazing videos that people are shooting for k8k videos it's gonna be able to crunch right through that but this is not really for your general even prosumer even for a it's it's borderline prosumer so that's that's my biggest issue and the other thing that I've talked to you all about on this show is the reason why I was frustrated by the iMac Pro more than anything else is this was an indication of what Apple's idea and apples vision of a professional computer was moving forward that's why after the Mac Pro garbage-can design we never saw something for four years they were set on the iMac Pro being the pro machine and then it was in April of 2014 where they came out and they're like you know what we might have made a mistake with the iMac our sorry we might have made a mistake with a Mac Pro we're going to build a modular Mac Pro it'll come sometime down the road we don't have an exact timeline not even a year so it may come out on 2018 it might come out in 2019 we really don't know and it will be modular so you will be able to expand it because that's what a real pro wants prosumer iMac Pro maybe but it's still a little high in price an actual Pro yeah they want that but they want expandability customization the ability to put in cards to do different things sound cards audio cards customized graphic cost cards more RAM you can't do that with this iMac once you buy it that's what it is and it's so great it's gonna be a great performing machine but like it like many Apple products there's always this caveat that you're like oh like why are they doing this I just this is a beefed up iMac more than it is an iMac Pro in my opinion that is out of the range of a of the general consumer I think sometimes we sometimes I'm not gonna call out people but when you get access to this stuff and you can just like play with it the sense of reality of like actually going to a store and dropping five thousand dollars on it that's not normal for your average consumer No it just isn't so you people I think we allowed a you know the reviewers in general lose that perspective there are seduced by the fact that this is an amazing machine but are they gonna buy it most of them aren't and I even did just to get some idea of where your brains or thinking I put up polls on Twitter all the time I asked this morning the day that the iMac Pro comes out how many of you will actually be buying an iMac Pro so I put up this Twitter link and this is the results right now it's still early but it's around nine hundred votes only twelve percent of respondents said yes and eighty eight percent of respondents said no oh wow that's huge said they I like to say that's a big sign - yeah I like to call it yes or pass 12 percent said yes yes BAE 88 percent said pass and it doesn't mean this is a failure if Apple is really just trying to target that small market fine but even at 12 percent if you had your general Pro market you would at least see maybe like a third of people say yes we're talking about 10% people saying yes yeah and that is not a product that resonates with either of general consumers which maybe it's not for but even pro consumers we the professionals want this it should be higher than 12 percent I would bet this twelve percent of the people who've been actually waiting for this to come out and like they're excited about it you know it's like something in the they've been planning to purchase like it's been in their brain like once they thought they were ready to do it yeah like they've been in you know on their radar for a while and they can't wait for it so so there you go first orders if you do order this the first orders I'm thinking like Star Wars when I say that the first orders arrive on December the 27th the 14 core and 18 cores I think they said they're somewhere around six to eight weeks out so those will be coming later the other of course Apple had to do this the other caveat about the iMac Pro there's an it does get a new keyboard in a mouse that has that whole like space black deep black I do like the break you know graphite looking color they included for the first time the first ever Apple licensed black lightning cable oh wow slow clap that was amazing Thank You Apple for the black lightning cable if you search on Amazon a black lightning cable has been around for quite some time for six bucks it is Apple m-phy certified and it only cost six dollars and thirty cents so thank you Apple for the black official how much is unofficial the Apple ones play what around I'm around twenty bucks or thirty bucks depending on the length of cable yeah thank you thank you for that we really there's good one on Amazon that's well I found this one for $11.99 I found one for like six bucks earlier I'm some other cool stuff obviously new iMac Pro gotta have more power you've always got to bring new software with new hardware that's in the past that hasn't always been the case Apple released a new version of Final Cut Pro 10 that's not Final Cut Pro X mmm Final Cut Pro 10 it's version ten point four it brings support for 360 degree VR video editing HDR video editing H EVC which is their new kind of high quality high compressed video codec that is used as part of Mac OS high sierra and much more so they're giving us some more control tools and more power great thing again I think a lot of the momentum has moved away from Final Cut Pro because they haven't had these tools it'll be interesting to see how much of an impact that makes but there are plenty of creative professionals that will stay in the Mac platform but if you talk about it in general I think a lot of creatives because Apple hasn't done anything significant in the pro mark for literally four years they've actually moved on other platforms this is still like iMovie the way the videos laid out on the timeline cuz it kind of looks like that I can't tell it's still high if anyone that used Final Cut Pro 10 it's like an I don't want to say it exactly like it's like an iMovie how about this there are remnants that make it feel like iMovie Pro they have done a lot of improvements to it ice I do like the real-time you know rendering on Final Cut but that's probably one of the best things about it but yeah it still has a an iMac pro feel but I after its evolved in some of the new things that they've done to it I don't I don't feel like calling an iMac pro anymore I got to give them credit on that one yeah yeah so I'm looking at the screenshot here looks more like like premier like you know like a traditional timeline kind of thing yeah so you you do you do have Final Cut Pro still a great prop but most of our interaction 99% of our team is is using a premiere now yeah and there's one person one percent as one dude I think we were waiting it took too long for them to give us a product that we wanted that we needed that that was best for our workflow so that that's why we moved on from that and then um the other thing this is kind of interesting not that everyone's gonna do this from the software standpoint snapchat just released a new app called lens studio it's called the lens studio app for Mac there's even like a video clip that shows it in that article and it it's basically a snapchat filter that you can build on your Mac and then actually publish it with like a special code that people so although snapchat may not officially support it it'll it creates like a code that's integrated into the app that then you can then use send it off to friends it can be shared and then they can use play with your little snapchat lens creation well I think that's that's pretty cool I mean that's gonna create a lot of new I want it that someone is someone pitched the beat easy the beat easy hair snapchat lens why are we doing that at CES yeah I'm not the one that's gonna pitch that because that's really self-indulgent is this available now yeah they just released that app I want to make the bTW hair emoji thingy someone's got this is this is how you know if it's gonna get made if our actual marketing department listens to this show yeah they're not gonna get it made I'm just being real with y'all all right let's take a little breather here we've got to show love for our sponsors that keep this show poppin moving and also you the audience that continues to watch it in large numbers that's why we get sponsors cuz they're like oh we want our goods to be talked about on the Apple byte extra crunchy check this out Wi-Fi is something you don't think you really need until you don't have it or it's not working properly so video you know it's buffering there's Wi-Fi dead zones around the house there's too many devices connecting to everything it's just slowing this whole thing down it's like neutrality in a way maybe I don't know I don't want it someone's gonna be like no no beach it's not with all these there's more people connecting in the home you want to make your network and make sure it's tight but when was the last time you upgraded your Wi-Fi at home if you 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deal well bet they didn't get a deal when they were valued at 1 billion but they got a deal with Apple two years later for for honey this happens like when a product is hot right before you really know what how pop sometimes the popularity dies after that time right but Shazam was purchased by Apple for four hundred million dollars I think what's gonna be interesting here is to see how this all plays out specifically because Shazam is already plugged into the Apple music service and Siri in fact as far back as iOS 8 whenever you ask I know I don't want to say because I might set off people's devices when you ask the S lady or a guy depending on the voice you said to you know what's the name of the song it's actually using Shazam as a third party a filter corning partner to get that information that's not Syria at work it's Ceri using Shazam so that's already been integrated into Apple's ecosystem I know we'll see a much tighter integration but Shazam goes beyond music you know it pulls up the music videos I I can't remember if it pulls up the lyrics of the song as well I swear there's an option to see the lyrics yeah but there was there's music streaming on it too yes yeah awesome you know and so Shazam not only does that it can identify TV shows TV ads we know that Apple is obviously more than just music so there's kind of maybe some interesting ways that they can integrate this in it's not gonna be a game changer or anything that's gonna be like I'm just curious Shazam integration is or whatever improvements they make is not gonna have me say I've got to have Apple music I still not a subscriber yeah I think the reason why they bought is just cuz Shazam its name is just so popular you know it's like it's the brand identity is really strong so it makes sense for them to buy it and then you know I know Google has this ability already just in the Google search bar you know if you just play a song to it it'll tell you what song it is so well I know I know the next feature that's coming to the Nick the the next iPhone what's that it's easy it's the ability to have your phone just sitting down there with a always-on display and then if it hears a song it will show you that song on the display it's a feature that is on the pixel 2 phone already that's where I saw it I was like racking my head like weird I've seen that before where was that oh the pixel y'all haven't seen that before the other thing that how this deal plays out is what will Apple do in regards to other services we know Shazam is already integrated into Spotify as well it's it has its own app on the Android platform this is not something Apple has offered Apple has an apple music app on Android so I guess that's that would blend me to think that Shazam will still live in its current state but I could see them strip it out of Spotify because that's a complete that's a co-editor competitor yeah like why so these other streaming companies are probably gonna get worried you know oh man we're gonna lose all the Shazam customer or maybe Apple raises their pricing as prices for them to use for Zam integration I just because Apple is set an island and they want you to be on their Island I'm curious if if they'll retract some of those deals I'm trying to think right off the top my head when have they done anything similar like that from some service that is so broadly used I mean I know they've purchased kind of other apps and killed those apps but it wasn't like as big of a name as Shazam yeah yeah I know I don't see them killing Shazam just because the brand you know the brand name is so big there's even like a stupid game show with what's his name Jamie Foxx hosts it right this is yeah yeah yeah that's the next show that's coming Apple that's coming Apple music guys that's so so we'll see how that all plays out but it's just interesting it's their biggest acquisition our biggest big-name acquisition since they got on board with Beats for three billion dollars I think that was back in 2014 ish if I recall I can't lose I won't break up the crib dance yep that was Drake and Tyrese get all crazy and happy and a Jimmy Iovine for a vine and also for the fifth time on the show watch Defiant ones on HBO it's fantastic and they talk about the crib dance and the whole that whole deal that went down and everything and other deals going on Apple this kind of stirred up the internet a little bit it was reported that Apple was investing in company finis R and who exactly is finis R finis R makes one of the important components that are part of the true depth camera in the iPhone 10 right now but what Apple basically clarified or Finnis are clarified is that Apple didn't invest in the company it was a three hundred ninety million dollar I guess pay or contribution to them to a in an agreement to lock down future orders and why is this important well the company makes like I said a component of that tree that sensor it's a it's a vertical cavity surface emitting laser let's say that one more time it's a vertical cavity surface emitting laser Wow shoots the laser on your face I can't wrap my head around it vertically it's fine how many you totally don't have to so this is a commitment to basically say hey we want to work with you in the future and also to prevent other companies we heard once Apple did their face ad recognition that Android manufacturers were looking phone manufacturers were instantly looking at facial recognition this prevents them from basically making the deal with those Android manufacturers and and giving up their components so it's like a retainer like they're giving them some retainer cash hey you guys don't go don't go somewhere else and build some stuff just we want you for us and this is interesting because I don't know about y'all face ID over time is just not as good as touch ID and the only reason I say that is I think a lot of times everyone was used to like okay I need to hold my phone in my face but and they'll do it for maybe a week or two but I'm telling you like I don't hold my phone to my face all the time and there I really feel like in general now face ID doesn't work for me on the first time because I like to just kind of casually pick up my phone yeah where I used to just touch my touch ID button it was money I was in face ID works when you hold it up properly but even in some late conditions it doesn't my face ID probably works the way it should that I like maybe 2/3 of the time but 1/3 to maybe I don't want to say half the time but more than one-third of the time face ID doesn't unlock my phone and it's annoying do you have that do you have it enabled all the time or do ya just turned it off I know I have it enabled all the time so then I have to punch in my code and that's annoying it's just that I'm curious what what your experiences are because I think everyone was like yeah face ID works because yeah you're like holding it up and you want you're using the phone the way that you're training but I want to use the phone that way that I'm used to like I just want to pick it up and it's already ready to roll and that's not the case and it's over time it's actually gotten annoying for me yeah so that sounds very annoying I that would drive me crazy hey Jonna Craig our new boss he talks about his issues when like driving or something you want to change a song you have to go through a whole thing like move your head so it just sounds it sounds very annoying yeah is a pain in the butt the other thing that I wanted to jump on as we talked about face this Finnis our true depth camera component and an Android jumping on face recognition the thing is that not everyone in Android is drumming on face recognition because this story just came out we were we were all lusting after this whole fingerprint sensor under the glass forever right yes like that was the thing that I was like you know the iPhone that's what I want honestly but okay fine face ID that's apples direction Apple said they weren't looking at a fingerprint sensor on the glass at all they're committed to face ID and it will get better synaptics announced this is a company that has their first in display fingerprint sensor the company synaptics announced this week that they're launching with a top-five smartphone ommm and what does that mean well that means we're going to see the first fingerprint sensor under glass we'll see how good it is that that obviously remains to be seen but they say it's a top five company and they also call out the demand in this press conference for bezel free OLED infinity displays oh man let me get my sound effect here so what company has a bezel free OLED infinity display Samsung its Samsung Samsung has got to be the company that's gonna roll out with this thing next year so it's really gonna be now and find this interesting it's gonna be a battle like which is actually better face ID or fingerprint through the sensor now we know the numbers they say like technically one in 50,000 people can unlock your fingerprint sensor iPhone and the face ID is one in a million but how many stories have we heard of someone stealing someone's phone and being able to unlock it with their finger I haven't heard a signal one a single story about that you would have not won but we heard first week iPhone X came out iPhone 10 there's that at least ten ten stories kids other people kids other people being able to hackers so you know although yeah it is technically more secure in a day to day situation is it really more secure it's probably arguably less secure in a day to day situation you know if your brother or your sister kinda lock it yeah your son or kid so either way this sets up a really interesting dynamic between which platform has the better security from a standpoint of not only secure sorry unlocking your phone not only from a security standpoint but from a speed standpoint mm-hmm I think in most cases speed is speed is the priority because we never complain about the security of touch ID in the first place we never did never did no one has I'm so used to it now and it's just like second nature it's easy yeah I mean speed it's everything to do with speed if you guys are watching this I'm I'm curious what you think in the comments like does would you rather have a fingerprint sensor under the glass versus face ID knowing that most likely the fingerprint sensor will be faster and is in one spot and is a home screen versus face ID being a little slower but you having to use your phone differently I'm curious what people are thinking so well if if if having the the button the touch ID or the fingerprint ID on the screen if that gets rid of that little bezel that everyone hates on the iPhone X and that's a win-win for everyone that's all we'll see how this plays out it's really to two different totally different ideas and who it's like VHS versus beta like beta was better beta beta was better yeah but VHS won out like HD vs or what ray yeah HD DVD versus blu-ray someone's gotta win all right um just some quick updates Apple released iOS 11 point 2 point 1 to update that home kit remote sharing fix where someone could basically get access and unlock your smart locks and other smart devices remotely that wasn't you iOS 11 point 2 point 1 also fixes this auto focus issue that's some people with iPhone tens 8 and 8 plus users were experiencing where while you're focusing you would kind of almost priority or switch between the two lenses and you could see your image is kind of fluctuating it was annoying they fixed that and then the third thing is a lot of Sprint customers were recently unable to use wife by calling once iOS 11.2 rolled out this was as far back as the iPhone 6 all the way the iPhone 8 plus it was a carrier issue they updated that so in case you were wondering what the heck was happening Sprint has that fix and has rolled out that as a carrier update so just just want to let you know that is good calling over Wi-Fi is very important man it is we tell you cuz you know there's a lot of times in a dead spot and I forgot Wi-Fi I'm stoked Shamal inland in the periscope says why do always need a fix for the fix there's been a fix for a fix I think I think re believe four or five weeks in a row now it's funny I mean you fix something in a break something else it's you know that's that's just a problem in our new technologically advanced society I think it's also different than when it's a very public bug like the eye bug that was atrocious yes I still see all right um we're gonna skip a couple stories but I want to jump to before we get to our calls the last story of our show this is always fun this is Apple related the Google at the top Google searches for the year beach you can use the second link as it actually is the display from Google's article it'll be able for us to see but um this is what was training in 2017 what it before you look at this Beach so are you looking at no don't let hasn't loaded okay what do you think was the search term what do you think was searched more in 2017 iPhone 10 or iPhone 8 I would have to say iPhone 10 okay well if you look at the top five oh my god search trends in across all of search not just in different categories officers number one hurricane Irma yes all right very important obviously number two was iPhone eight you know I 3 was Eiffel 10 I think that's because the iPhone 8 was out longer than the iPhone acts and the iPhone X just came out a couple months ago so maybe you know this this is the entire year so that was part of it and only see what the other part of it was what's that everyone thought that it was gonna be called iPhone 8 for the longest time so really people were already searching for iPhone 8 before the rumours of iPhone 10 were out and if they had listened to a like the Apple bayit extra crunchy that that iPhone X movement would have been like maybe maybe iPhone future would have made that list of people if if everyone was listening future would have made that list yeah but they weren't well just just a reminder we did come up with iPhone app you did come up with iPhone acts before mean I don't know if I did but maybe public maybe on a public forum we said it on this show we marked a date we probably marked a day thanks gonna give it to you woman does Matt Lauer number four I wonder why it's so sad man it is sad let's go over those two computer tech consumer tech horrible consumer tech number one obviously iPhone eight number two i phone 10 number three Nintendo switch number four Samsung Galaxy S eight and number five Xbox one X hmm those were the top consumer tech trends for the year there's a lot of other stuff are you so don't look at everything really quickly okay I want to we haven't looked at everything do you know what the number one song might have been that's a good question I don't know just throw out something I'm gonna say uh what's her name Taylor Swift look what you mean though very good that was that was number five that was number five I'm gonna give you props we've been breaking the top five is it uh cardi B no actually surprisingly I don't know why not J spa seeped oh ah okay yeah yeah number one yeah number one gotcha all right she'll get to the calls memes wait can we just go through the air lines mean was it like I think it was the dude like getting pulled off the plane I don't know okay I didn't see that let me click on that one real quick yeah let me see what what is this all about I don't know no it doesn't have any just has like data information nothing about what it is all right till the cols y'all to the calls thank you guys all for calling we got a bunch of good calls today remember if you all want to be a part of the show comment/question all that good stuff you'd be on these dope life dope calls we had a lot of people requesting collaborations which we probably are not gonna take them up on but uh thanks for calling anyway there we haven't done people okay let's just get this out of the way we haven't done a music video for any new products recently because we were told from the uppers that we can't do it yes like parodies specifically so we're gonna it's gonna take a little more time but we're working on some new ideas a music video will return in 2018 but the the parodies will no longer live on week imparity an Apple commercial which we've silly yeah which we've done but the music video specific parodies are are dead which is a bummer which we were we've fought about this for probably six months at least seven months yeah we had a blast we did like five of them right oh no I'm saying we've we fought oh yes we've been talking about lawyers have this way of talking until you just give up because there's gonna tell you no but talk to you in circles over and over and over they're not trying to hear you they're just trying to tell you and then you're like screw it we're gonna do it differently the last meeting with some of the things I said didn't make sense like of course they didn't get that so of course it did we're gonna we're just gonna stop it before we get fired but their their argument was like there's there's an argument for whether or not it's funny or not I mean come on they were funny when you have a lawyer that doesn't follow tech and doesn't even know what the Apple bite is and they said this wasn't funny to me go read the comments get that out of here I don't even respect that all right let's do these calls here we go number one this guy is very excited about his Apple watch hey Beach and tongue spread foot from East Lansing Michigan say one of my favorite features of the Apple watch that I've never heard mentioned is the flashlight on when you get your Apple or when you get to watch face just swipe up to the little utility screen find the flashlight and it is the most awesome soft perfect little light not too bright we're getting from the bathroom to your bed or in dark spots it's just fantastic and then the coolest thing is to turn it off don't look for buttons just put your palm over the face and it turns off automatically super-sweet thought I'd mentioned it thanks for the job you guys do oh yeah dude a remix he did a speed up version of Apple bite he's like it was his own that was like his own Apple bite extra crunchy bit that was his show yeah that was his show thanks for calling uh yes the I only just never used the flashlight because I actually don't think it's bright enough for me but he didn't make a point it's not too bright it's a nice glow and you can oh he didn't mention you can swipe it to get a dimmer light and then one I think is red what I use none of them that's amazing I wonder what the red lights for it's not it's you know I mean maybe you want to read you maybe you want to go visit Amsterdam for a night you know for sexy time or so here's the regular there's blue blinking - huh oh that's the blinking one and then this is the red one you can't if you can't I can't see him in the dark it doesn't help me see anything yeah I always use my iphone flashlight to get around in the dark maybe it's my eyes that are that are having issues I'm not gonna make jokes like that no no no I just I just picked up on where you were joking about okay it's horrible it was yeah no you're not somebody no you're some people don't even oh we're talking about stuff I literally thought like you're you had bad eyesight but I realized what you were joking about okay next call here we go hey beat on the show I just wanted to call and tell you about my experience with Apple pay cash they're different greatly from years Berrien I know that you had talked about how it was a pain in the butt three had to go and enter in the last four social all this other stuff I think it's because you didn't have dual factor authentication turned on though like I said I think because I've had that turn on on my phone for a while literally all I had to do was go in and turn on like I just went into the settings I saw an Apple pay cash it clicked on it so set up now I clicked on that I had a ring come up for like five 10 seconds like a loading ring and then it came up and said you're all set up like that was my whole setup like it was it so I no like I said maybe this gives you to have the dual factor authentication turned on so that's why but you know I guess maybe experience it'll differ based on you know different settings you have on your phone um my name is Lou come from cigarette style by the way love your show thanks cool thanks Luke cool yeah that makes sense he had double no what is it double superior yeah and III know I know that's why it was but I just was like damn it was crazy yeah because you were putting them like your social signal I put in my last 40 just my social security then they wanted to scan my driver's license and they want me to punch in my entire social security number I felt really comfortable doing that or like send us your birth certificate I felt very comfortable doing that yeah that's scary man okay cool okay next call let's go hi Brian hybrid Jersey I'm calling with a few suggestions I mean I love the show and it's great but I think that Brian this year is to bring too much on Apple if you look on Wikipedia you can see a lot of like every iOS release and all the bugs I think it's just Twitter and everyone's just making a big fuss over thank you love the show bye okay we think yeah sure sure thing to check Wikipedia to make sure that we can cross John I've never seen an iOS released with literally like four to five weeks of straight updates to the updates to the updates the updates yeah I've literally never seen that me neither like four or five weeks consecutively sometimes even in less than a week nah yeah but granted the Internet does put a microscope on it a little more but these were like you can't the I issue is a thing like a phone not working in cold weather that's kind of a thing that's a thing man I've never heard of that like literally affecting a line of phones because of software like where people literally couldn't use their phones yeah sure if you're maybe in like under in Antarctica underwater but not a widespread issue that actually genuinely affects all phones of that nature No so yeah I mean that's a giant part I mean it's wintertime that's a huge part of the population not able to use their phone yeah for however long it was okay we have a couple more here we go each and uh what's going on guys all this home pod talk um I don't know if you guys have talked about put the apples trying to make the best sounding speaker but then Sonam says the Sonos one which apparently is going to open up into the Apple ego system eventually probably not gonna be as tightly integrated but there's another nail in their coffin as far as I'm concerned I think you guys know at least Tong I think but yeah I think I've broken down the home pod more than enough and what it has and what it doesn't have if Apple's biggest differentiator is superior sound quality for 349 I don't again I'd never underestimate the power of Apple by Apple loyalists and fans but series not smart enough it's it's just not and it doesn't support and it's only has Apple music natively out of the gates to support on device so the third thing you're like ours is the best sounding not really smart speaker I think people care more about a speaker that the home assistant is where it's at it's where everything is moving totally where everything is moving and I don't think it's at 3:49 it's it's not it's not compelling it's just not compelling as a product and now I'm just sitting here hearing hearing you talk about that and I'm thinking like you're gonna stream mp3s through this high quality speaker you know III sound like crap or AAA sees you know they're not they're not FLAC files they're not high res file so if people people that already have high quality speakers already have high quality speakers exactly that and so to make it more compelling you need to have a high quality speaker with the best assistant supporting the most services you don't that's how it becomes compelling yeah and we don't need okay fine best sounding speakers for their size what about people people with homes the other systems and stuff like they don't need this yeah What did he say about Sonos though like the Sonos one has a Amazon integration right now or I don't want to say the word but you know the a word oh yeah yeah it's already integrated into their dual speaker system they're their speakers don't look as large as the home pod so we'll see how that is but it's still using you know beamforming to figure out like the layout of rooms and stuff like that or to listen so again I'm going to buy and home pod to review it but I right now I guarantee you I'm going to return it because because I already have a Google home in an Amazon system that works perfectly fine and supports everything yeah yeah I forgot to even talk about smart home support yeah so they all do it better right now they do sound is not gonna convince me to buy it or keep it okay let's go to the next call we got two left here we go someone's all is this a live yeah it's live yeah we could just get up and walk out of the room and still be streaming here we go hey this is uh Damien James again I'm from Minot Kentucky and anyway I had a really good idea for a Apple watch series for whenever that may be released of a really cool future that could actually save lives and bring a whole lot more really to what it can and can't be but I noticed okay I get to get right into it I noticed that the Apple watch obviously has the SOS future how cool would it be if I had the ability to detect like a stroke or something like had the ability to detect if you were to pass out or have low levels of blood pressure or blood sugar whatever the condition may be maybe it can have a sensor that could affect that and prevent you for passing out or even dying give them I think it would be a really cool to mention on the show and give me a shout I'm on Facebook and you can call me back he actually gave us our number we always played that part there were two people that gave us a phone number this week that's true this is some really great stuff I just want to bring up to the tension for listeners well that Apple did launch recently there Apple heart study where basically you can sign in and they're using the masses you know Apple watch users to build data and information and the idea is to detect irregular heart rhythms depending on let's say if you're just sitting down doing nothing and all of a sudden you have extremely irregular heart rhythm they're using that to kind of link that to warnings and be able to build systems and get a larger knowledge base of how our bodies are reacting in different conditions to warn us hey maybe maybe a stroke is coming up you know your heart or whatever this is I'd like to know that know it so that's what they're really doing with this Apple heart study the other product that is out there is this really interesting thing called the cardia band Katie I know I was gonna be like dude seriously one that one okay so when this product came out actually wanted to do a music video with it but guess what we couldn't it's like ah that would have been fun called the cardia ban are you for real khadi be who you be um so it's the first of its kind it's an FDA cleared clinical grade wearable EKG band that replaces your actual Apple watch band so it does an al instant analysis that's tied to an app as well so there are things that are out there as these studies and data is collected from everyday users constantly we're gonna start building a knowledge base and so to your point this is this is coming soon and everything you said and thought of it's it's happening right now it's happening right now there's pretty much a spread out now cuz you might have thought he had yeah that idea but yeah we talked about this a long time ago where you know apples really trying to get into the health the health area you know health care and there's probably gonna be a time where you walk into a hospital and they're gonna check you in and they're gonna give you an Apple watch and that's gonna monitor all your vitals and your heartbeat and everything blood pressure yeah it'll send like an alert send an alert to the nurses if something goes wrong so that's probably gonna be the future we're getting there we are again it's not the sexy thing but I think it's really important so yeah that's cool all right everybody I think that's gonna do it for doing that we have almost one where it's real quick oh sorry I send us a message take care oh you say you'll miss us because we tilt we basically told you when we're gonna go on like a month break after next week's show yes yeah next week's the last show of this year next week next week all right we'll miss you too we'll miss you I also will enjoy my vacation though all right remember to be a part of the show again those are calls 1-866 two six three eight you know the drill you know what to do other than that Beach always one more place of biz oh we do have one more piece of business I it's right okay fine I'll do it Wi-Fi is something you don't really think about until you don't have to or it's not working properly you heard from our friends earlier in the show or be you got your video buffering Wi-Fi dead zones everyone home for the holidays they are fighting for Wi-Fi so when did you last upgrade your system if you want better Wi-Fi everywhere check out an or B Wi-Fi system from Netgear with or B you'll enjoy super strong fast and more reliable home Wi-Fi from your basement to your backyard change your Wi-Fi world again that's our b o r bi the Wi-Fi system from Netgear visit Netgear com that's or b yeah alright now we're done we out of here thanks so much Beach no I guess in a few weeks are you gonna you're gonna not gonna be here next week I'm not gonna see you for like at least two three weeks bagus Vegas see us coming up soon everybody all right we'll talk to you soon be safe everybody enjoy your week or weekend whenever you hear us we'll talk to you soon peace