Episode 188 Sep 16, 2024

OS updates today! Features in iOS today and in October; AppleIntellegence; Series 10 vs Ultra 2 watches; New features today; A18 chips is much faster than A17 (iPhone 15); FDA authorizes hearing aid feature; Vision Pro keyboard may be a vector; lightning is almost gone from the Apple lineup; Apple Intelligence will roll out over months, but first will be in October; iPhone 17 early rumors are too early.

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 187 Sep 9, 2024

Apple iPhone event 09/09/2024

Apple Watch 10

  • S10 system on a chip

  • Larger screen than Ultra

  • Wide angle oled

  • New polished black aluminum (iPhone 7 had this)

  • 2 new watch faces

  • Thinner more rounded (thinnest)

  • Titanium instead of stainless steel

  • Sleep apnea detection

  • Depth app new

  • Tides app

  • Water temp app

  • Order today, ships sep.20

ULTRA 2

  • Same watch

  • New Black titanium

  • Millenese loop bands

Order today, ships sep.20

(25 min)

Air pods 4

  • Short stem

  • Designed to fit all ears

  • H2-processor

  • Better bass

  • Open ear design

  • Immersive audio

  • Senses head nodding

  • Better voice isolation for phone calls

  • Smallest case ever

  • USB C

Air pods 4 dictate noise cancellation

  • Transparency mode

  • Noise cancellation

  • Transparency mode allows pass through

  • Conversation awareness will drop volume auto magically

  • Wireless charging

  • Speaker in case to help with “find my”

  • USB C

All fiber base packaging, no plastic

Order today, ships sep.20

Air pods max

  • New colors

  • USB C

Air pods pro 2 iOS 18

  • Better noise cancellation

  • -Prevention

  • Hearing protection for loud environments

  • -Awareness

  • Hearing test clinical level, secure in health app

  • -Assistance

  • Clinical grade hearing aid feature, personalized (this fall)

(39 min)

iPhone 16

  • AI stuff

  • Parallel cameras (2)

  • Has action button and camera button

  • 5 colors

  • Blue, green, pink (ultramarine, teal, & pink)

  • Ceramic Shield screen

  • 2000 nits to 1 nit

  • Camera control

  • A18 (skips a17)

  • Increase memory bandwidth

  • 3nm tech

  • 16 core neural engine

  • 6 core cpu

  • 5 core gpu

Apple Intelligence

  • Used to integrate personal data

  • On device and “private cloud compute”

  • Custom built servers

  • Not stored or shared

  • Independent verification

  • -Express yourself

  • writing tools

  • -memories

  • Intelligent search for images and videos

  • -prioritize and summarize

  • Intelligent notifications

  • Siri “new era”

  • Expansive knowledge

  • Screen awareness

Next month first features in beta

iPhone 16 only

  • Use camera to “learn more” about things places.

  • Add event to calendar

  • Etc.

  • Third party tools tied in… chatGPT and others

  • Camera experience

  • Control is sapphire crystal w stainless steel trim. Taptic Engine and touch sensor

  • 3rd party integration “instagram”

  • 48 main camera

  • Spatial images and videos

  • Wind noise reduction for video

  • Photo clean up ai editing

  • Hardware acceleration ray tracing

  • Better for gaming graphics

  • Battery life “big boost”???

  • Emergency sos live video

  • Satellite messages

  • Roadside assistance?

  • USB-C

  • Regular $699

Plus $799

iPhone 16pro

  • Larger displays

  • New heat management for sustained cpu use, larger battery,

  • AI - same as standard phones

  • Only on 16pro

  • Pro chip!

  • A18pro

  • Faster, more efficient 3nm

  • 16 core neural engine

  • 6 core gpu

  • 6 core cpu 2 perf 4 efficiency

  • ML engines

  • New video encoder and image processor

  • Camera features

  • 48mp “fusion” camera

  • 48mp ultra wide camera

  • 5x telephoto on both sizes

  • Photographic styles

  • Video updates

  • 4k 120fps slow motion

  • Framing assistance screens

  • Audio recording improved

  • Spatial Audio capture during video

  • Audio mix feature

  • Voice memos coming later with layers

    (93minutes)

  • New cases

  • Have special spot for camera button

  • No plastic in packaging

  • WiFi 7

  • 6.3 and 6.9 inch

$999 & $1199

iPhones available

Preorder Friday 13th

In stores next week Friday Sept. 20

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 186 Sep 2, 2024

Bob Zimmerman is from Minnesota! Electronic Drivers licenses; Apple ordered more iPhones than usual; Your fist apple product experience; The EU is forcing Apple to let users delete core apps; iPad mini may get an update next week too; The Mac mini may get more mini; Lots of changes in iPhone land; M4 Macs probably in October-November; What might be new with Apple Watch; Disney and DirecTV are at war.

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 185 Aug 26, 2024

Our sound issue is fixed! 3D video, Google Pixel AI images are a concern; Apple event expected on the 10th, we should know for certain soon; iPhone 16 to have a “camera button?”; foldable 19” screen device; AirPods gain some functionality; head wobbles; and a long conversation about mactracker app.

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 184 Aug 19, 2024

Audio troubles continue, 3D video and the QooCam Ego, Spatialify; Dexter V4 (now V5); Obsidian Pro and R, spatial video for only $30,000 or $5,000; Apple Robots?; Apple Modems are not getting here fast; M4 rollout will commence, slowly; Maps in iOS 18 will add trail maps; NFC might make Apple easier to use; Common at ya and Anaglyph 3D.

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Episode 182 Aug 5, 2024

Tempest Weather update and the wrath of Debbie!; Apple Intelligence is rolling out just fine; Stocks are looking shaky and Berkshire Hathaway is selling; Intel valuation have nosedived; Is CO2 the real culprit; Nvidia chips are banned from export but aren’t they made overseas; Apple used Googles Tensor TPU to train Apple Intelligence; Meta is paying big to use celebrity voices in its AI plans; Intels 8008 processor was the both of our current computers its 50 years old; iPad sales push apple over quarterly expectations and growth year over year.

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 181 Jul 29, 2024

Tempest Weather; Crowdstrike, Yikes! Lex.games; Apple exploring quad level memory; Samsung may second source image sensors; Rumor says they will use home developed modems in some phones in 2025; Apple Maps is now available in beta, online; Marc Benioff; Apple Intelegence (AI) won’t ship with initial versions of new OS’s; SearchGPT may threaten Google, but so does Apples relationship with Open AI; Ultra Thin iPhone rumored for 2025; 911 calls from Apple will add video soon; Political blah blah.

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!