iPhone Duo Reviews, Touchscreen MacBook Pro, How Walmart May Beat Amazon

0:00 If you don't step aside, I'm gonna fold you in half. Welcome to Primary Technology, the award-winning show about the tech news that matters. this week the iPhone Duo reviews are out. We're gonna comment on a bunch of them. We might even get it in hand during the show. We'll see. Also, Apple now has another event, pro until, next week. Walmart wants AI agents shopping for you.

0:18 Claude announced their agent like Muse, but it's Claude Duet, and there's a ton more. This episode is brought to you by Copilot Money and Claude, and you, the members who support us directly. I'm one of your hosts, Stephen Robles, joined by my award winning co-host, Jason Aten. How's it going, Jason?

0:31 That's literally true actually. It is now If it wasn't for me, we would not have won one of those awards. It lit I'll 100%. Thank you to everyone who voted. I turned off my camera instead of sharing my screen. Thank you to everyone who voted in the Signal Awards. We have won not one, but two Signal Awards best co-host team.

0:50 We have won silver and in the technology category we have won bronze. And we were in great company in both of those shows. You know, thank you all. And now you're gonna hear me say award-winning podcast every time. No, no, you won't. but I did put the badge that we are a signal award-winning podcast on our website.

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1:21 And now forevermore, we can say we're we're an award-winning podcast. So that's super fun. and also speaking of podcasts, I did want to plug I was on the Verge cast ~ earlier this week talking about all the the vibe coding things, and David invited me on. So we'll link that down in the show notes. It's in Apple Podcast on YouTube.

1:38 And yeah, I even got to troll him with my shortcuts pillow because I had my shortcuts pillow and I wore my shortcut shirt. And yeah, it was a super fun episode. So just check that out. Amazing. All right, and we have one five-star review shout-out, Davinger from Barbados. And this was a funny connection because when we were talking about Apple TV and how they're set up in conference rooms and what happens if the owner is in Barbados, well, he's a listener in Barbados.

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2:15 Like it's not gonna work. Are you gonna ask me about the movie quote? Yeah, yeah, don't do don't do that. yes, the movie quote. I know, You you need to make yourself a note further down to check. I need to put it under the five story thing. Yeah, I don't know for sure. It's feels like it's a there's a quote from Thor that's very close to that.

2:29 Yeah, it's not a mar it's not in the Marvel universe. But I d okay, then I have no idea 'cause I was like, Well did he did Steven misquote something? Because it's like something along the lines of it doesn't say fold you in half it's like you're gonna need medical attention or something like that. But ~ okay, no no no.

2:41 I don't know. It is Fast and the Furious six. Yeah, did not see that movie. If you don't type a sediment to fold you half, but you know, fold. Duo. I felt like it was it was appropriate. That's great. But Yeah. I still have never seen that movie. Have you seen any of the Fast and Furious movies? I've seen at least I've seen up to Tokyo Adrift, which is three maybe.

2:56 Okay. Three. That's the third one, yeah. There I think there's a thirteen now. ~ and the cars fly, I'm pretty sure, in the latest ones. Anyway, we're gonna get to the iPhone duo reviews because all the videos are out there, and we have thoughts from the people who have had thoughts. But next week, it is non-stop, Jason. Apple has yet another experience, quote unquote. And we didn't talk about the distinction between these two, but I think they have said it is at one PM Eastern in Los Angeles.

3:24 On October 28th, which is next Wednesday, being an experience, I think it means there's no live stream. It's going to be press release drops, and then a bunch of creators have been invited to take hands-on footage and share things on Reels or whatever. And Apple's probably gonna publish some videos on their YouTube channel about what is announced. But the tagline is Pro and Tel.

3:43 Seems like we're gonna be getting this, every all the rumors say the new touch screen MacBook Pro, which I still have trouble wrapping my head around. But I had trouble wrapping my head around a folding iPhone, and now we have that. now. So I don't know. What do you think? Do you touch screen macro pro, you feel pretty sure about it?

3:59 I mean Yeah. I mean I I'm w I'm confused by that potential product. I don't understand 'cause it's gonna have an six in it apparently, which is a dead end. I d I don't there's a lot of things I don't understand about the possibility of this product. And I don't think I'm just being He yeah. ornary, I'm just confused. Like I know a lot of people are like, It'd be cool to have a touch screen at MacBook Pro and it's gonna have an six which is a higher number than an five and I'm like But that's not exactly how it all works.

4:27 Yeah. Some of the s So so I'm just confused. some of the rumors say it'll be ~ five Pro and five Max, same chips. Red. Okay, that would be fine, but we do already have those MacBook Bros. Okay, good. Here's the here's my prediction. ~ I think it's going to be an M6 MacBook Pro baseline. It'll be like the new baseline MacBook Pro, but the M5 Pro and Mac's higher tiers just stay the same.

4:49 And this new touch screen is at a price premium because of the form factor and display, not because of the chip. And it won't be like the ultra. But will the t will the new sc touch screen be coming to the five Pro and Max versions? That doesn't make any sense, I don't think so. I feel like it doesn't Steven.

5:05 make any sense. And this was probably totally inaccurate, but I think that's just what I'm calling it. No, no, no. You're probably totally right, but it does not make any sense. It's absolutely a thing that they would do, but what I don't 'cause they did that with they've done that before. I don't remember which generations.

5:16 Yeah, where they update they ba they update Yeah. The base one. the base one. I don't know if it was the I forget what it was. But yeah, there's like So maybe they'll maybe they'll do an six MacBook Air? ~ now that would be a problem. 'Cause I might update my M4 MacBook air. But it'd be a problem, but it wouldn't probably not have a touch screen.

5:32 So there's just lots No, no. of confusion happening here. It is confusing. i Mac might be updated to the M6 next week, and all the rumors say iPad Mini. Again, like it's Pro Intel. So I think we're gonna see iPad Pro with M6, because the iPad Pro for the last couple generations has been the first device to get the new chip. They got the M5 first, I believe, it got the M4 first.

5:54 And so I think and this is the first year it didn't. You know, the M6 Mac Mini was actually the first device to get the two nanometer process. So I think we're gonna get the iPad Pro with M6, and maybe somehow the iPad mini becomes ~ a part of the iPad Pro lineup because it's always been priced and feature set wise been more on par with that than the Air.

6:14 Like the iPad mini has always been more expensive than the Air. And so I wonder if they might somehow merge that lineup, give it all the M6, maybe not the iPad mini, but hopefully. And then we do that. But we'll see. We'll see. I actually ~ resurrected my iPad mini. Not resurrected, but I actually found it 'cause I had given it to my son, I didn't realize. And so I re commandeered it back.

6:34 And so I'm watching my front door camera from it as we record this episode. But Yeah, I am in the market for an iPad mini because I've got not the S seventeen version, the whatever the other one is, The yeah. ~ and it's getting slow and it the I the thing that's wonderful about an iPad is you can leave it in your bag for four days and when you take it out you should still be able to use it. But that one, that's not true.

6:54 It Right. it'll be dead after thirty two hours. And I will say after using an five iPad Pro for the past year, going to the iPad mini is I've just I didn't even restore from backup. I was just using it as like a brand new setup. You could feel the slowness and also the lack of promotion. yeah. I don't care about Like it's not it's not great.

7:10 the promotion thing, but it should not take fourteen minutes to load Apple News. That. So we'll see. We'll have it'll next week's episode we'll cover all the thing that will be announced. But I've also seen some creators invited to this for the first time. ~ and so it's an interesting crowd being invited to this Pro Intel event.

7:28 Like Federico Fitti is being invited, which you know, he's doing all the local AI stuff and Mac Studios with all the agents on it. So that's curious. I also saw like Christopher Lawley's invited, who he's a big iPad guy. So maybe, you know. iPad Max and seems to make sense. But anyway, iPhone Duo reviews dropped yesterday.

7:49 The embargo lifted, I think, at like 8 a.m. and I saw a bunch of review videos watched out. I've seen every iPhone Doo review video that was available, I think. I actually got to the end of YouTube and YouTube said, You're done. You watched them all. That's it. that's not true. But I did watch a lot a lot of these reviews.

8:08 I want to call out a few specifically and we'll be commenting to them throughout. Joanna Stern did the work as she is wont to do and built a custom device with ~ the help of this gentleman to fold the iPhone Duo nonstop during her week of testing. And she folded the iPhone duo over 32,000 times using this machine. She calls it hingey, and she was testing the hinge to see how durable is this hinge, which would have been my first concern with a foldable phone is like how is this hinge going to fare?

8:43 And I won't spoil the specifics. You should watch her review video. It's a great review overall, but for the hinge test especially, very funny. And ~ yeah, I'm not as worried about the hinge. We'll just say that. Yeah. I mean this is kind of like the people worried that you could bend the iPhone Air and then we found out you absolutely cannot, no matter what. And he's like, Right. Yeah, Jaws like t d t like told people to try it.

9:05 try it. Do whatever you want. Every time I hand it Yeah. Go ahead. to somebody and I'm like, nah, try it. I am a little nervous, but I'm like, I know that they can't. But people are super anxious. They're like, Really? You think I could bend you you tell I can't bend this? And people have this glistening look in their eye, like, I want to try, but also I don't want to destroy the phone.

9:20 And the it's really Right, exactly. hard to convince someone it's gonna be totally okay. I think this is the same kind of thing. Like they I don't think this is the least surprising part. I'm glad Joanna did this. She is Yeah, yeah, yeah. fantastic at coming up with a thing that Yes. feels both mundane and incredibly clever at the same time, right? It's just checking the folding.

9:41 Because no one Yes. else did that. Everyone else just kind of like oot and odd over different things. But this is the least surprising part that Apple would have made sure that the hinge would not be a problem. Right. And John Turnus, he's a hardware guy. Johnny Saruggi's down there. He talked about the hinge for like twenty minutes.

9:57 So also, as you were saying, coming up with that kind of unique ~ way of reviewing a device, I'm gonna make a a call here. If anyone is in Florida and is or knows a carpenter, a woodworker per se, I have an idea for a video that I wanna do soon. And just reach out. Just just email me at the email in the show notes.

10:21 I'm looking for someone ideally in Florida so we could like work on something together. But we kinda it has to be fast, so they have to be kind of available. So I'm just gonna throw that out there. Just throwing that out there. But to be local and available. And yeah, do stuff with wood. Do stuff with wood.

10:33 Well. Do stuff with well. I found someone on Facebook Marketplace who makes alligator wood carvings. And they're actually amazing. But I don't know how how they would fare with a technology product made out of wood. You know what I mean? I don't know if that's the same skill set. I'm not in that, but anyway. ~ I also wanted to call out why do I keep turning off my camera when I mean to share my screen?

10:56 I think Riverside moved these buttons because I did this during Mac Power users too, and I was like no, I did it with Gentui. our episode, which you should check out that episode if you didn't see that, Gentui came on. We talked about the home view. But anyway, ~ MKBHD's review, obviously. Not that he needs a shout-out, but the intro clips that he has of the iPhone Duo.

11:14 I saw on Instagram someone from his team shared that they built a custom rig for one shot in this opening montage of his iPhone Duo review, which is when you see each iPhone duo unfold at different angles. And you kind of see it. This is the shot right here, if you're watching, you kind of see it like layer out.

11:34 They built an entire machine to bend the iPhone duo at those angles precisely so they could film it. Wild. Wild. Team effort. Amazing. If I hear app compatibility one more time, though, I'm gonna lose it. I'm gonna lose it. And I don't That's that's the thing for you. I feel like we don't even need to talk about that.

11:53 Because this feels very like in every review. In every podcast that I've heard talking about the iPhone Duo, one of the main like knocks on the device is that quote unquote apps have not been updated to take advantage of the screen. And so you have black bars on one side, you might have letterboxing. The app might be really small thing in the middle.

12:14 A, I think it's ~ problematic to ha to criticize that major like by default when devote like the phone is not out yet to the public. And a lot of apps were actually being updated. as reviewers were making their review, like both Neil A Patel and Joanna Stern said they had to re or Joanna had to refilm the section about that because apps that she talked about got updated during the week of her review.

12:37 Yeah, like Instagram. Yeah, like Insta yeah, Instagram and threads. And so I don't think that no, I do think this is very much like the original iPad launch when everybody was freaking out that you have to hit the 1x2x button to zoom in an iPhone app and it looked terrible. Yes, it did look terrible and that was a poor experience.

12:55 But also a year later, or even less, like that was a non issue. So I feel like, yes, if you go with the iPhone Duo, you're gonna see some black bars, but I don't think it is a major issue. How do you feel about Well, okay. There are three states. There are apps that have not yet been updated for iOS twenty seven and on the duo they're gonna suck.

13:17 Those are the little mini Yes. apps in the middle of the screen. Those are gonna be super bad. So if you have apps that have if you use an app regularly that has not been updated for iOS twenty seven, you probably do not want to get a duo yet. Because the experience of using it is just not going to be good.

13:31 Then there are apps that have been updated for iOS twenty seven and those apps will appear better if But they will have nothing in the what does they call the sidebar? Like where the control panel stuff is. Yeah. They're just that'll just be black. Okay. But the app will essentially fill it the outside screen and will be better on the inside screen.

13:50 Okay. And then there are apps that have been updated for the iPhone Duo. Now here's the thing. And they talked about this in the VergeCast, which is that most of the current apps that have been updated for the duo feel like AI slap updates. That's like the phrase that they use because they don't Sure. Yeah.

14:08 feel very th thought out and considered. They just sort of fill the screen. Right. And the truth is that is probably how most people are updating their apps. They're just saying, Claude, make this work on a duo. Because can you imagine, Steven, the amount like this is not updating for another size. This is updating for like seven different possible app states and scenarios, which is a v like Yes.

14:29 for my app, contextly, which is not an inherently complicated app. It took me a very long time just to wrestle with what should this do on an iPad which can rotate, right? Yeah. Right, right. Like is it which is an insane level of complexity for an app that has multiple panes and stuff. I haven't even bothered to to update it yet because it is updated for 27, so it won't be the worst case scenario.

14:51 I do want to update it for this, but also how many people that are using this are going to be using my app and so there's a lot of like thought process there because it isn't just Hey Claude, make this look better. It's well, what you did here, is that the way that someone would expect this to perform in this particular situation?

15:10 It is a ton of work. And I think it is a fair critic criticism of the device that it is essentially Apple is just expecting developers to put in a very large amount of work for an iPhone that introduces a lot of complexity for for what? Right. And to your point, like as I was trying to update can do for the duo, the bend state is one of the hardest things because you can open the iPhone duo completely and you have basically an iPad mini.

15:44 You have a seven inch screen, and if your app looks good on an iPad, it'll probably look good on that. But as soon as you start closing that hinge, which a lot of people will probably do just for the heck of it, because it's fun that you can have a phone that looks like a book, you know what I mean? Now you have a gutter in the middle of the duo, and you have to decide do I put content there?

16:03 Do I not? If I don't, does it look like there's just a bunch of blank space? And so you have to make a lot of decisions about that. And I think Meta, ironically, has been the fastest at updating their apps. So Instagram, threads, they look okay. TikTok is one that is who knows when it will be updated.

16:21 But like as you can see, if you look at it on the outside screen, it is a ~ Dark rail on the right side, just a black rail, and then the whole app is off to the left. And this is how I think a lot of apps are going to be, especially on that outer display. Like your bank app is gonna look weird on the iPhone Duo probably for the next year.

16:40 Like like my credit union is not going to update their app anytime soon. So I like it took them like years just to put t like touch ID, face ID. And even after that, it it said like add touch ID, but it was like years of face ID already. But it was biometric, so it just kind of worked. Anyway, so yeah, there's gonna be weird experiences.

17:00 And and I'll in the weird experiences category, there's also things that Apple, I think, has to figure out. And Marquez in his review, he does the dual doom scrolling ~ example where he has TikTok on one side and Instagram reels on the other with the iPhone duo open. And this is a problem that You might have had before, like on your iPhone right now, if you put a video in picture in picture and it's playing in the background like a YouTube video, and then you go to a social media app like Instagram, what happens? Typically, the video will pause and the reels will take over because that's what you're actively using.

17:43 And then if you press play on the picture in picture, the real audio will stop. But the iPhone Duo now introduces something a little new. You know, you could kind of do this with the iPad. But with the iPad, even in windowing mode, there's still an active app on the front. There's always a window that's the active one.

18:02 And with the iPhone Duo, if you have it open and you have two apps side by side, the iPhone Duo sees them both as the frontmost app. And so as Marquez like scrolled, it would like play the audio from TikTok sometimes, and then sometimes it would play it from Instagram. And it was not consistent ~ kind of to what it was doing.

18:21 And so that's something like ~ no one should be scrolling these two apps side by side. Like this is just a funny reel or something funny to put in a video. But that's a behavior that, you know, Apple has to decide what is the iPhone gonna do what what is the iPhone duo gonna do with that situation. Yeah, and it I think it is a fair criticism that they didn't figure that out in advance. Right?

18:44 Sure, sure. 'Cause you like this shouldn't have caught them by surprise. You and Right. I there's no way to consider every possible scenario that people are going to come up with, but this actually doesn't seem that weird. Like it didn't take Marquez very long to figure out this is weird. Right. Right.

18:59 What if we did this? Like and that's exactly what people are gonna going to be doing. And so I don't know. I think I I do think app compati compatibility will improve. Yes. I do think that there are many apps that people use that won't be updated for iOS twenty seven because they aren't really being updated, period. And those are just gonna Right.

19:17 suck on this device. And so you're gonna have to look for a different device. And then there are a lot of developers who are going to have to think about it and really can't start thinking about it until they have one in hand. Right. Right. And so it's it could be a little bit of time before that's the case.

19:33 Who had a time? So I wanna we'll get to like some of the positive aspects in a minute. You know, because I do think Chance Miller at 9 to 5 Mac, I'll link his review down in the show notes, he was very positive about it. Like, and I think a lot of of the reviews had a similar refrain of this is fun. Like this is a fun device. It is different.

19:54 Like this is the first time we've had a very different kind of iPhone in a long time. Many people said the iPhone 10 was kind of the last time this happened. But even then, the iPhone ten was more similar to the iPhone seven than the iPhone Duo is to like the eighteen or seventeen today. Like this is just a whole new paradigm for using an iPhone.

20:14 Yes, foldables have been out there forever, but if you're someone like me who have never owned a foldable, I've You've never owned a Voldable? No. No. I've used them. Like I had I have a friend with a Galaxy Z Fold 7 and I played around with that, but I've never owned a foldable per se. Okay. Gotcha.

20:33 And there was a point in the last couple months where I was like, maybe I need to get a Galaxy Z Fold 8 just to see, like just for comparison. And there were like the Verge compared to the Z Fold 8, but then I was like, but if I am like most Apple users or people in the Apple ecosystem, they likely have never used a foldable phone.

20:54 And so I thought maybe. the perspective will be interesting to say, I've never used a foldable, and now here's what I think about my first one. So I don't know. I was on the fence of of that, but do you feel like cause you have like a pixel fold, I know you've tried foldable phones. Do you feel like having used the Android foldables informs you for the iPhone duo or like how do you feel that colors it?

21:17 So when I've used I've used at least two generations of Samsung folds, maybe three, I can't remember. F including like a fold three. I've also used a flip one of the versions. I can't remember Okay. right now which ones. And then I've also used Pixel Fold, like the two and three maybe, or s several gener whatever whatever the most recent one is included.

21:36 And I like foldable phones. Because I like my phone and I also like the iPad mini a lot. Right, right. And I and it's not exactly the same because like the pixel fold you open up is essentially like four by three or square or whatever. It's like not Yeah, yeah, yeah. anyway, I think it's great. The biggest drawback is I don't like Android on a device and it mostly Right.

21:57 that's not as much a criticism of Android as it is this device is never gonna feel like mine 'cause all my stuff is already in these apps. And it's not just Apple's ecosystem. It's like flighty and you know Fantastica. Do you use Fantastica? Yeah. U Ulysses and Fantastical and all these apps that are just like iOS basically only.

22:15 And so that's really the reason that I'm like, I can't use the Pixel Fold. But I really liked it and I would like to. Apple actually like took it a like further than I feel like just taking a Pixel Fold or whatever and making it run iOS. And in some ways that's what you expect from Apple, because it does not feel like most foldable phones from Android really took Android and considered what should this do on a foldable device.

22:36 And I think Apple has done that. The problem is They have such a large app ecosystem that they need everyone to catch up. And just like the Vision Pro, the question is like, is it going to be worth the effort to catch up? Right, which unlike the Vision Pro, I do think iPhone Duos are gonna be everywhere.

22:54 I saw I think it was an article this morning that there's just huge lines already in at Apple stores waiting for the iPhone Duo because there's some They're scalpers, Steven. There's some scalpers, but I think there's actually some legitimate people that want to buy an iPhone Duo tomorrow on launch day.

23:15 And I do think it's good for Apple because there have not been lines for a new iPhone, I don't think, for a very long time. So that's good. They've generated a lot of excitement. Yeah. Yeah. I just I will be interested in knowing w because I wrote an article, right? They said that the the demand has been nothing short of extraordinary.

23:30 And my question is, compared to what? Right? Compared to what you were expecting. So did you just calculate wrong compared to what you could produce? Right? Did you and there were reports that Apple had to cut its production essentially by like sixty percent because it was just Like they're just really hard to make because Apple has a very high standard.

23:47 So it's like, were you expecting to sell a million of these and you sold ten million? Were you expecting to sell a million of these, you sold two million, but you could only make six hundred thousand because of the you what I mean? It's we just don't know. And so I'm not trying to like poo poo this at all, but I am saying it we should be careful and at the same time, the fact that if people are lining up, that's just a very tangible, visible sign that people are genuinely excited about this. I think Comparing it to the Vision Pro, I've now compared two devices in a row to the Vision Pro.

24:18 Yeah. Is not fair, especially in this. I think the home view is much more likely to be a Vision Pro than the Duo. I don't know that the duo will be a raging success, but I think all all reports so far sh suggest it's sold at least ten times more Vision Pro than the Vision Pro. Yeah. And I've heard from some people in the know that the amount of iPhone duos being produced a day is much lower than any other iPhone because of the challenge of making the device and the you know, the hinge and everything. This is a Apple store Apple Galaxy Macau, and this is forty eight hours ahead of launch and you can kind of see the line.

24:56 ~ this is the Yahoo article down in the show notes. I don't know last this might be the first time I linked to a Yahoo article. ~ but yeah, people lining up. What do people do for 48 hours waiting for this? I don't know. ~ but I one thing I see I saw across the reviews, though, Apple Pencil support is coming in 27.2 for the iPhone Duo.

25:18 And there's been people like sharing some reels. Max Weinbach on X showed, like, here's the Apple Pencil writing on iPhone Duo. You just have to update to 27.2. And all the reviewers. didn't include Apple Pencil talk in their iPhone Duo review. And so I am curious for a certain subset of users, will the Apple Pencil support be the differentiator that makes it worth dealing with some of the stuff? And I have a couple apps that I want to try day one, which I think is today. I have my eye on the on the driveway.

25:51 ~ and that will be the thing. And I also, along with the Apple Pencil support, I think. How people feel about and use iPad is going to play into how they feel about iPhone Duo. Because if you have never liked iPad, but love the iPhone and then Macs and all of that, but if you just don't like iPad or have never found good use cases for iPad, if you're not affectionate for the iPad mini, I don't know if the iPhone Duo is going to speak to that user as much as someone who is in the iPad world and loves using iPads.

26:27 And like I did a whole video a couple months ago like how I use iPad every day. And I really do use my iPad Pro every day, if not just for editing daily podcasts, but also for building shortcuts and when I work whenever I'm not here in the studio. I like using my iPad every day. And if you are not in that camp, I wonder if the iPhone Duo is just less attractive because you don't think about, what if I had an iPad in my pocket?

26:53 You know? See, I disagree a little because ~ I think I was thinking that exact thing. This is why we're an award winning podcast, Jason, because you said this one, That's what distracted me from what I was gonna say. Is but for the other one. my real the real reason though is I think the paradigm of the iPhone Duo is so different from the iPad that if you are buying this because you want to have an iPhone that turns into an iPad, you're actually gonna be really frustrated.

27:16 It doesn't have any of the multitasking, it doesn't have a slide over, which I think it should have slide over for crying out loud. That would be amazing on this phone. Yeah. I mean it does have Like split view. You can put two apps side by side. It is not split view though. It is not the same thing as what we're used to on the iPad.

27:30 How is it different than just putting two apps side by side? I'm just saying the functionality on the iPad is you have a lot of options for how you want to do that. Do you want to have that be like sixty forty? Do you want to have it be half and half? yeah yeah. One third, two third yeah yeah yeah. Do you want to have it too?

27:41 Yeah. There's just a lot of different options and you can tap a button at the top and you can swap things out where so all Right. of the things you were used to, all the gestures you were used to, you have to learn a whole new set of gestures to It's all new. Yeah, yeah, yeah. do this. They didn't just lift I I think it probably was the right choice because I think Apple is precious about this as an iPhone.

27:59 This is not an iPad. And I also Right. think that If you think about it, if you had to error on one side, people will always use this device as an iPhone and then they will open it up and use it as a larger phone screen. Right. It has to always function as an iPhone, right? Right. So if you had to error in one direction, you had to go that direction. It does not have to always function as an iPad.

28:23 That's the extended version of it. And so there are certain constraints that if you made it like an iPad that would sort of break the experience of using an iPhone. So that's probably the right option. They would have to like merge the two things back together and come up. But either way, this is gonna have a separate set of paradigms because everything on it, like when I put an app on the you know well, the weird thing is like if you make an iPhone app and you want to make it on the iPad, it's the same app actually.

28:48 It's just has different views, right? Like you just it just identifies which operating system it's running on and adjusts things accordingly. So it wouldn't be that difficult for it to do both of those things. But it doesn't surprise me that they did it the way they did it. I just think you were saying if you love the iPad, then this might make more sense.

29:07 I actually think if you have zero experience with the iPad, I mean if you hate the iPad, I don't know that you want to do it. Like that's an expensive way to find out. That's what yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. But if you but if you just never most people have never used an iPad, believe it or Well, and most people, even like tech nerds, just don't have uses for the iPad.

29:22 And I'm not saying they should. I just don't think they, aside from reading articles and watching videos, if you don't see the iPad in any sense of productivity or usefulness, then the open iPhone duo just becomes a TikTok player. Which is how so many of the video reviews showed it. They were like, Yeah, you can scroll reels big and you can watch Christopher Nolan's Odyssey as Nolan intended because it's the right aspect ratio.

29:51 And it's like, yeah, it will be good at that, but that's not how I use an iPad. I I do watch videos on iPad, but I use an iPad to edit podcasts and to build shortcuts. And so those are the use cases I did not see reviewers trying, because I just don't think they've ever used an iPad that way or don't care to.

30:10 And this is An interesting juxtaposition because Gruber had his review published last night. He has strong words for the iPhone two O. Yeah, he says he says the outside screen is the worst iPhone they've ever made. He said the outer device is by far the worst iPhone Apple has ever made. It's a miserable fat little thing.

30:31 But the inner device is a splendid, joyful, beautiful tablet with a UI that out iPads the iPad. Now, I feel like the first part of that, while harsh, might be accurate. Although, I don't know. The iPhone 3G was pretty rough. That's why the 3GS and the speed improvements was like a big deal. Worst iPhone Apple has ever made, like that's that's tough. But to say that this will be the best iPad, that this out-iPads the iPad, that I take issue with.

31:06 As an iPad user, like my M5 iPad Pro is pretty sweet. Like, Yeah. I really like that thing. And so to say that the iPhone Duo is gonna out-i pad that, that again, to me is This is coming from someone who doesn't use the iPad except for watching videos and movies. Okay, but honestly you don't think it's gonna be just as good at editing podcasts and making shortcuts? Like the two things you suggested, this device is gonna have zero problem doing.

31:36 It's g 'cause you already Yeah. used to edit iP podcasts on an iPad mini and this yeah. is infinity power more powerful than any iPad mini ever made. Well, in the editing podcast, that's like the first thing I want to try. Because I do think the iPhone Duo might be the best device for that ever that Apple has ever made. But when it comes to like building the shortcuts, that is something where screen real estate and windowing does play a factor.

32:01 And so that begins the separation of what is an iPad versus what is an iPhone Duo open. Because my 13-inch or even an 11-inch iPad Pro with windowing, where I can have shortcuts, I can have Claude. I can have Safari open with the shortcuts community. Like just being able to have those three apps in Windows on the iPad screen makes the iPad a great device for that specific task that the iPhone Duo won't be able to compete with because you just you don't have windowing.

32:28 I can't have three apps open like that. Sure. And and short and that's not nothing. So that will be it. Yeah. Yeah. But Yeah. It's very niche. I was gonna say, I don't know how many people are in your shortcuts community, but that's the entire segment of people who care about the thing you just mentioned.

32:40 And that's great. I'm I have no shade towards any of them. At least five thousand people. We'll just say that. I don't know, I'm just I'm just saying that is not but it's a very small yeah, small piece. There's no one at Apple who thinks of the iPad as that. And there's no one outside of your shortcuts community who thinks of the iPad as that. So when Gruber says that, no, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

32:56 there's zero consideration to having three windows open to create shortcuts. Like just nobody cares. But I also I also think about Nate, our friend Nate, an artist, and people who might use iPad with Procreate for drawing. Again, the iPhone Duo might be an interesting device for on the go, but I'm sure that segment of the use would want a 13-inch iPad to have Sure.

33:18 the screen real estate. So all that to say, like the power of the iPhone Duo with the A twenty will play into things like editing a podcast. But I do think to say it's out iPading the iPad. That feels like a a step too far. But isn't that like, okay. I don't know. I I think I I haven't used one, so I can't specifically argue with Gruber.

33:41 I will say that if you took a if 'cause I've written many times about like MacBook Air. In the MacBook Air, out MacBooks, any other MacBook. That doesn't mean that a 16 inch MacBook Pro isn't better for editing video. It just means that Sure. overall the best form factor you can get in a Mac laptop is a 13 inch.

34:02 MacBook Air because it is just the perfect combination of it's enough power for almost anything that you might want to do. Sure, sure. ~ it is it is small and it's lightweight and it is dependable. I have an M4 MacBook Air. I don't know if I'm ever gonna get rid of it. I'm not even kidding. Like I just love it.

34:19 Yeah. It's dialed in, it's maxed out, it has whatever thirty two gigs of memory and and two Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. terabytes of storage. I'm just gonna keep it forever. And you know what I'm gonna do? Anything I need to run more powerful than that, I'm just gonna run on that Mac mini over there. Sure, sure.

34:32 I get and that's a that's an interesting distinction. We'll have to see. And let me let's get it in hand and let me try and edit a podcast on it. I if it or if it arrives in the next one or two hours and we get it getting a review unit, this audio version of this show will be edited on iPhone Duo and I will report back.

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39:25 Listen, ~ it's true, and it will always be true that this is an award-winning podcast. That's yes. It is for it is forever true. So there's a bunch of weird intricacies about the iPhone duo. And one of them, I think Brian Tong ~ showed this the best in his video. When it comes to having the duo open with the camera, because of the orientation of the physical camera on the device, when you're holding the iPhone duo In portrait open, the camera is in landscape.

39:55 So if you're recording a video or taking a picture, there's huge black bars on the top and bottom of the video. And if you try to rotate the device, it will just have black bars on the other side because the camera is just not oriented with the open version of the duo. And so it is backwards basically of how you would expect.

40:17 If you want to, you know, take a portrait. Photo, you have to hold the duo. If you have it open wide, you have to hold it in landscape physically. That's weird. A lot of the reviews said that underscreen ~ face camera or center stage camera, like don't use don't take it for pictures, don't use pictures. Don't take it, don't use it to take pictures.

40:37 Like it's not a good camera. Use the outside camera. But as Brian Tog is showing in his video, when you want to take a selfie with those back cameras, it is a very awkward experience. Like you have to kind of Claw grip the open iPhone duo to hit the shutter button, unless you hold it with your left hand, but then the like it's a weird motion to like hold the iPhone Duo left side open with that rear facing camera facing you, and hit the camera button because it's like right there on the edge, and that you have to weird claw it, and there's not a good like maybe the volume button's on top, but your arm is now farther in front of you.

41:15 Like he said it was just a weird experience taking selfies with this device. It's doable. But you might have some precarious positions of your hand while you're doing it. Mm-hmm. So This seems weird. I guess I understand why the orientation thing is the way it is. That feels like the kind of thing Apple would have put the effort into engineer in order to not make that be the case.

41:36 Because I get it. It is based on the orientation of the back half of the phone, Rice. right? And so which is all which when it's open is always different than the orientation of the entire device, right? Because it's a half of it. So that's vertical. But I mean, they already solved this on the selfie on the face.

41:52 Time camera, right? And the selfie camera Right. allows you to rec shoot and record in either orientation. Now that camera's not as good. I understand that. So maybe the cost of doing that on a higher mega forty eight megapixel would be hard. Right. The this is a premium, premium, premium device, right? It starts at two thousand dollars.

42:12 This is gonna be the kind of thing that once it gets out there to people is gonna be it's gonna wreck people's brain because they're gonna be like, I don't understand why my phone is so dumb. And it almost seems as though the better option would have been to do it, they don't call it open gate, but it's essentially open gate, right? Like b whatever yeah.

42:31 Yeah, we square resolution. Yeah. And have it automatically adjust accordingly. That feels like it would have been the right the right option, although I don't know how that works on an ultra wide. I guess it could be the same, but you would have needed two of them is my point, right? Right. And supposedly the forty eight megapixel main camera, the iPhone Duo, is a new sensor.

42:49 It is not sharing the sensor. Like people will say it's close to the iPhone 17 E or maybe the iPhone Air. And yes, in numbers-wise, but this is a unique sensor to the iPhone Duo. Like Apple had to make something new for this device. And so with that in mind, I feel like they could have made something new that was then so different that it worked for this.

43:10 Or maybe maybe turn The camera's ninety degrees, so the camera plateau is vertical. Like that's how the iPhone seventeen is. Well, the reason they didn't do that though is because then it would have been super messed up if it was closed. And they Right. If it's closed it would have been yeah. must be assuming that people are mostly going to take pictures with it closed.

43:26 Which I don't actually think is a terrible assumption if you have to make one. Again, Right. this goes back to the bias in favor of the iPhone instead of the iPad. It's like if you have to choose one, you choose the one that you think people will use it the most. And I do think that the likelihood is that most people will take photos with it closed most of the time.

43:46 Think so. And then it does have the the quick take feature or smart take where you can set it up and it will automatically take photos when you pose, still wise. And so maybe it's like planning for that. But some of the other weird quirks is the volume buttons, which I forgot about this since the announcement, but every review talked about the volume buttons are on the top when closed.

44:09 And then depending on how you are orienting the open iPhone duo. They might be on the side or the the other side or the bottom. And it is awkward. Now there is a setting in the iPhone Duo where you can have it be dynamic volume buttons. So it will change which is volume up and volume down based on orientation.

44:31 And that is how some iPads do it. And there had not been a setting on iPad to turn that off. I think on the iPad right now, like the the volume buttons are dynamic no matter what. So this is the first Apple device where they give you a setting to say keep the buttons persistent no matter what the orientation or have them change to be dynamic. And it seemed like a lot of the reviewers were saying you want the dynamic because there's going to be times when the you're holding it open watching a video or reel and you tap the up volume button, but if they're not dynamic, it's actually the bottom and it's just clearly feels like the opposite of what it should be doing.

45:06 Which again, it's a challenge of a device that you can hold basically in any orientation. And you have physical buttons that don't move. You know what I mean? Like it's Right. a natural challenge. Is it are you sure it's the first one? I'm pretty sure that when they switched that on the iPad Pro or the iPad was it the iPad Air originally that had that feature?

45:25 I'm pretty sure that there's a feat there's a isn't a setting in iPad OS for that very thing. Cause I remember Is it? 'Cause I I remember it being okay, I'm going. them switching so that the right Yes. button and if it's up at the top was always going to be increase. Right, you know what I mean? And it they got Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

45:41 it. backwards or something and it wrecked a bunch of people's brains and then there was a feature you could turn you could choose to adjust that so that the the one that's up when it's portrait orientation is always increase. Is volume up. Right. But I don't but by default it's not that Right. Well, I'll have to look to see if that was actually a setting.

45:59 I remember it breaking my brain. ~ and here's this nice little image of YouTube and ~ it looks like threads are Yeah, that's insane. blue sky. You know? So the volume buttons, I would turn on the dynamic volume button stuff. this way it works. Apple is also working on a reachability feature where people were saying if you tr if you want to use iPhone Duo in your left hand, it gets pretty uncomfortable because that side of the iPhone Duo when closed has a sharp corner.

46:28 You know, it's it's in the shape of a D, and if you're right-handed, it's in the great orientation, but if you're left-handed, you're gonna have a sharp corner digging into your palm. So it doesn't seem particularly ~ nice for left-hand users, which Brian Tong apparently discovered he uses his mostly left-handed Yeah. I use mine and was having trouble with it.

46:46 always left. I it's weird people talk right hand, left hand I'm right handed. I do everything with my right hand except Yeah. That for use my iPhone. makes no sense to me. I don't understand that at all. But but Brian Tong does it too, so I don't know I I mean I actually a lot of people. In fact, I feel like you're one of the few people I know that that's not the case.

47:01 But you put it in your left pocket. Because I use it with my left hand. I think that's a chicken and egg thing. I think I think you started that habit and now you don't w which one actually started. I don't think so because I was thinking about like all these people are like left handed, the iPhone duo is gonna be terrible for people who are left handed and then I heard Ben Thompson be like, I'm I don't I don't know if he said he was left handed or not, but he's like I use my iPhone only in my left hand and I like, Yeah, me me too. Like using it in my right hand feels I don't I don't get that.

47:24 weird. Really? I don't get it. Leave us a five star reading and review. Please remind us. Do you use if you're do you use it in your dominant hand or your non dominant hand? And I know Well no but see I don't okay. I don't know if that's Well you know what I mean? I don't know if that's the right question though.

47:38 I think there's a two part question. I thought that's how we phrased it. Okay. Do you use it with your right hand or your left hand and are you right handed or left handed? Leave us a five star rating in review and let us know. ~ very curious. So that is gonna be and then the reachability, because this is a squat iPhone, like I think this is the widest iPhone ever, you know, as far as, you know, from left to the right side of the display.

47:59 And so that's why Apple is working on a reachability feature side to side. You know, reachability right now on the iPhone is from top to bottom because every iPhone has just been tall and taller and taller and taller. but they're working on something to actually go left to right. So that's interesting. We'll see that.

48:15 And I don't know. We have to get it in hand. I want to get I I give mine today. Next episode, we'll talk about personal experience. I'm gonna do a ton of videos on it. But I'm still excited for it. I feel like this is a a fun div it is new and fun. Useful remains to be seen. You know, we'll see how it goes for that.

48:31 And how often, you know, everybody was talking about the cases. I have I actually I bought these and then I think Apple is sending me these as well. But the iPhone duo folio with Kickstand, Allison Johnson at the Verge was like, This case kinda stinks because it has Mm-hmm. like an elastic stretchy part in the middle 'cause it has to be able to fold and unfold. And covering the screen, like I understand protecting it that way, but it will be I don't know, will it be annoying to have to open the phone every time you want to use that screen?

48:59 And ~ yeah, we'll see. And then, you know, the bumper cases and all that kind of stuff. So we're gonna be I'm gonna be testing all the things. We'll be testing all the things. What do you got? What do you got over there? Are you are you I'm check I'm stuck on this button thing. But you can ca you can move on.

49:11 I believe Ha okay. the newer like our our iPad pros and fives don't have it anymore. I think they got rid of it. I feel ~ I thought they did, yeah. I feel like they changed it at some point and so some some older iPads Okay. I think still have it. Which is just a weird thing to have i iPad OS have different settings based on like for the buttons based on whether Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, I'll or not I don't know. So you can move on without me, that's fine.

49:34 just last couple things I'll say the dock icons being smaller than all the other home screen icons looks a little weird because forever on the iPhone, the dock icons are the same size as the rest of the icons. And so Mm-hmm. that's it. There's a different size there. The fact you can only put four icons in the right hand rail feels a little like come on. Let's move.

49:53 It feels like it's an iPhone though, Steven. Move it up to five though. I this is a very different iPhone. Like let's just if they're gonna be smaller But it's but again, it's still an iPhone. Yeah. Okay. So there's and then the last thing is the I Okay. Well hold on, think about it. I don't know well, Yeah.

50:06 we don't know if this is true or not. What's that? Well, I was gonna say if you're using the handoff feature, would you want your s setup to be different? But I guess you could still set it up however you wanted. Yeah. Yeah, you can just Yeah, I don't know. set up. So the handoff feature, this is a great segue. That's actually the next thing I gonna I was gonna mention.

50:22 You're welcome. I had no idea. The a grouber mentioned this and I forgot who else, but if you have handoff, which right now it's just T Mobile, Verizon said it's coming soon, my carrier ATT are being a bum and they're not bringing handoff to it. Verizon's gonna charge ten dollars a month for this feature.

50:41 T Mobile just charging five. But here's the thing. Even if you have the Handoff feature, which to be clear, is like let's say you have your iPhone Duo and your 18 Pro. You pick up your iPhone 18 Pro and you go out the door, your cellular plan is on that phone. And if you go back home, you put down the 18 Pro and you pick up the iPhone Duo, and when you unlock it, now your cellular plan is on that phone.

51:05 So it's supposed to be a seamless switching between phones with the same cellular plan, same number. Cool. One big problem with that is that your Apple Watch. Can still only be paired to a single iPhone. And so you can have handoff, but your Apple Watch, if it's paired with your 18 Pro, but you pick up your duo and leave for the day, your Apple Watch is not connecting to your phone.

51:31 Like it will not connect to your phone, it will not share your phone's cellular connection. And unless you you can have cellular on your watch, but now your watch is either using cellular all day that you're not on a Wi-Fi network directly, and It will still track your health stuff, but you will not see that health stuff on your phone until you go back home to the phone that your watch is paired with, and then it syncs up. And that feels like a miss.

51:58 Like this would have been a great time for Apple to say, you know what? You can attach just like your AirPods, where you can connect them to any device you have, and then all of your devices signed into your iCloud account will just connect to your AirPods automatically. Man, it feels like this would have been a perfect time to say, And your Apple Watch too. So if you pick up your duo or you pick up your 18 Pro, your cellular plan carries over seamlessly, and your Apple Watch will just know what phone to go to because that's the phone that you unlocked most recently or whatever.

52:28 That feels like living that two-phone lifestyle is more complicated than just the cellular handoff. Yeah, because I actually think the cellular handoff is pretty simple. I mean, I don't know anything about how any of this stuff works. But if you just imagine you're standing at a whiteboard and you're like, how do we make this work? You just say both of these eSIMs are active on this line, right? And Right.

52:53 cellular is just only active if you've unlocked it most recently. But they're both connected to cellular all the time. They just are. They're always connected. to the carrier because the carrier has to be able to instantly say this is the phone. So all that's really happening is that the phone that hasn't been most recently unlocked unlocked has no data, which is not a problem because you're not using it.

53:12 So that's fine. Right, right, right. And won't ring, right? Incoming calls will only come to the one that's been unlocked most recently. That actually feels like a fairly easy problem to solve. The Apple Watch is a extremely complicated. We just talked about like the Siri features which use the exclave, the secure exclave to go from Yeah, yeah.

53:28 one device to the other. I don't know that you can switch those things that quickly because of the way that those things are paired. It's just a Bluetooth connection. It's an encrypted Bluetooth connection that's only available between two specific devices. And so you're introducing a whole other level of complexity to that just because I unlocked my phone.

53:46 And I think that they envision that you're going to basically have a primary phone and a not primary phone. So your watches are probably always going to be connected to your primary phone. And the other one is just like your I'm living my best life phone. I don't know. Now I chances are pretty good that if you're just living your best life, you probably want your Apple Watch to be a part of it.

54:05 Right. But I don't know, maybe the conspiracy theorists are right. They just want people to buy more ~ cellular I ~ Apple watches and then it doesn't matter. By the way, I don't know. I d it feels like yeah. sorry, by the way, I had a real big problem with my Apple Watch recently. It was like dying at like six PM and I could not figure out my Apple Watch Ultra Two would just die at like six PM.

54:25 I'm like, what on earth is happening? Steven, what do you think was the problem? Was it cellular was on? You didn't know? All the time and it basically it was paired with my phone but was not connecting Yeah. ~ yeah. to my phone. So it was just running cellular all the time. And an Apple Watch Ultra Two running on cellular all the time does not make it sixty whatever hours. yeah, But it's it's also four years old now.

54:46 Three it does great. I mean it's gonna it it's still at a hundred percent and I've been wearing it for three hours. Okay, well, I've been wearing mine for not twelve hours, probably nine hours. I'm at eighty four percent. But Yeah. You're sleeping most of that time, but yeah. yeah, I know. But but I'll just say the the series twelve ceramic battery life has been fine. Just as a two week follow up, I end the day like around thirty to forty percent.

55:09 It's fine. So I I don't know. I feel like the Apple Watch pairing to the iPhone, Apple could have figured this out, like in some way. Even if it's you have to pair it with both iPhones once to like make the connection, the secure connection. But what is the problem? If like you're saying, let's say you're you have your Apple Watch paired to your iPhone eighteen pro, but you're going to the park and you wanna bring your duo for whatever reason. Well, you can either not have your Apple Watch connected to anything, so you won't get notifications on the watch, you won't be able to use it, send a text message, whatever, or you have to have cellular on that whole time.

55:46 And like you just said, that's gonna kill the watch battery and it'll might die while you're out there. And so that's the issue of Of not being able to at least use, even if it doesn't do the secular secure exclave stuff, like okay, don't do the audio intelligence stuff, at least connect to the iPhone to share the internet connection.

56:05 So your watch has connectivity, gets the notifications, but isn't depending on its own cellular network. You know what I mean? That. Sure, I mean the solution is you just carry both Or just buy two watches, a watch for each phone. You know what mean? Ceramic for the duo. Ultra for the 18 Pro. Wow. Don't do that. No, don't do that.

56:22 All right. Last, last iPhone duo thing. I just wanted to show ~ Austin Mann did a dedicated camera review for the duo. And listen, bottom line, the duo, you're not gonna have the same camera experiences on the 18 Pro. You don't have the telephoto camera. But also the duo camera, pretty good. you know, he's took a bunch of photos, he went to Iceland.

56:44 And ~ yeah, he's watching the Secret Life of Walter. that's a great callback. Secret Life of Walter Mitty watching on the plane to Iceland. Well played. Well played. But the ~ you know, pictures he takes with the iPhone Duo, they're they're beautiful. And so, you know, you'll get good pictures. Sophies might be awkward, you know, you don't have the telephoto, but it's fine, I think, for most people.

57:05 Yeah. And I'll just say your photos won't look like Austin Mann's. I mean Austin Mann could take this brawny that's back here that doesn't even work and get a great photo out of it. He could take a literal paper towel roll and make a better picture Absolutely. than me. But you know, he's Austin me. He's Austin Me.

57:20 And twenty seven dot two, again, that's where Apple Pencil support comes in for the iPhone duo. I want to be talking about that specifically in my videos. So anyway, all that's coming. We'll talk more about the iPhone duo when we actually have it in hand. Not that we had any ~ we were not at a lack for words this week to talk about the iPhone Duo.

57:37 But yeah, we'll also have all the new announcements to talk about next week too. All right. Lightning round. Let's talk about Walmart. They're like, bring on the AI agents. If you want to shop with your AI AI agents, just just go for it. ~ you know, this is where Amazon blocked Muse, so Muse couldn't shop on it. I have had some pretty poor experiences trying to get Muse and other agents to buy things for me.

58:01 But apparently, if you want to buy from Walmart, Walmart's like, bring it on. Let's do it. And they now accept Apple Pay. Kudos Yeah. to Walmart. I mean, I wrote about this too, so you could have just shown my article. That's totally fine. But yeah. Wait, wait, you d wait today? Was it today? ~ was it today? No, it was yesterday.

58:16 It was last night. I wrote about it. it la it was last night. It's fine. Here's the thing think about this real carefully. These are the two largest companies in the world by revenue, right? They're like within three billion dollars of each other, which is kind of insane, right? Although shopping wise, Walmart is bigger because Amazon's numbers include AWS.

58:30 So like whatever. But sure. Amazon is obviously the world's largest online retailer. Walmart is not, right? They about twenty-five percent of the revenue comes from online market online sales. Most of re am ~ Walmart's revenue comes from people walking in the building and buying things and taking them home.

58:48 And likewise, Amazon makes about 70 billion dollars a year from ads that it forces sellers to sell and then forces us to wade through ads for garbage on their site in order to find the Yes. one thing that we're actually looking for. So Amazon cares very much about your eyeballs looking at its website so it can charge money to the sellers to show all of that garbage on its it's the worst experience.

59:13 Amazon is the single website where an agent would be the most useful thing in the whole world because it is I hate it. I hate everything about its website. It's so bad. And Yeah, I think it's warranted, yeah. and ~ Walmart makes like six billion dollars a year from ads, and a lot of that is from Visio, right? With its connected TV advertising stuff.

59:30 ~ yeah, that's true. So the point is. Walmart doesn't have the same problem as Amazon because it's fine if the agents are shopping on your behalf because it doesn't care that much. I mean, it cares a little bit about ads, but what it's Not. basically saying is that is not so much of a business for us yet.

59:45 But this agent agentics shopping thing might be in the future the way so we should just get there first. We should it's like the if someone's going to usurp the iPod, it might as well be the iPhone, right? It's that kind of a mentality, Sure, right. Right. and I think that that makes a lot of sense. And what they're doing, sorry.

1:00:00 Not I know this is lightning round, No, it's good. but I think this is super interesting. Walmart is essentially building the technology to make this even easier. So if you say to ChatGPT, here's a photo of a dorm room. Could you buy me could you find me the futon and the bookshelf and the whatever for my daughter? You can just give that to ChatGPT.

1:00:15 Walmart's basically building an MCP server for Mm. agents, so they don't have to click around the website and try to log in and make transactions. They can just go straight Right. to the shopping platform to do that. And when you do that, it will actually create a profile in your Walmart account for the agent. And you can give permission to the so just like you could have What? Okay.

1:00:36 like you and your wife have separate shopping profiles, you it'll create one for you for the agent and you can be like, you are authorized to spend up to fifty dollars, a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars. You can either give it the permission to make the purchases on its own or require approval when it finally when it gets to that point of making it.

1:00:53 And you'll be able to see a record of the agents purchases separate from your own. They're like just enabling ~ my word. all this. They're building an MCP server, they're creating agentick profiles, and they're just like leaning all the way in. They're like, listen, we we're going to be the preferred way to use agents to shop.

1:01:08 Because the truth is, you can basically get everything you can get on Amazon at Walmart. With the I mean, there's not specific brands necessarily, but like you're Right, right. looking for a new charger, you can get one at Walmart. It's not going to be a problem. And so they're just like, what if we were the place Or people who wanted to do this.

1:01:24 We can experiment with it now. It actually doesn't cost us that much because even if all of our ad revenue disappeared tomorrow, it's less than one percent of our total business. It's like fine. Whereas for Amazon, it's like ten percent of its total business. Big deal. So Mm. anyway. That well honestly, that's super interesting.

1:01:42 You know, Walmart for years has been trying to compete with even just like the two day delivery that Amazon gives you. And like you can pay for the Walmart. Don't you pay for Walmart plus for like We have Walmart Plus, but here sorry, I wasn't gonna say the in Target is actually the same. Buying things online from Walmart and Target is so much better of an experience than buying them from Amazon.

1:02:03 You know why? Because it shows up in two hours. Yeah, it's fast. Why? Because I live four miles away from a Walmart. Now I also Right. live almost the exact same distance from an Amazon place, but they still won't deliver it the same day. It'll just come the next day. So they have leveraged all of their See th Yeah.

1:02:18 stores as distribution centers. Can I do you remember or have you seen the well who's the ~ Kara Swisher's co-host on Pitchfork? The not Pitchfork, the ~ Scott Galloway, pitchfork. Are you talking about Scott Galloway? Okay. Pivot is the name of the podcast, thank you. He had a t what is it? by the way. Isn't it Pivot?

1:02:42 Pivot. I was I don't know why I was thinking pitchfork okay, yeah, pitchfork is like the music thing. Scott Galloway had a talk. This could have been five years ago, called The Four Horsemen. And I will he write he wrote a book. Yeah. He wrote a book. He wrote a book. It's called Four Horsemen. It's right back there.

1:02:59 I didn't you have it? Yeah. So I Yeah. will I will put the talk. This is from eleven years ago. And I remember watching this video where he talked about Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook at the time, before it was Meta. And I have returned to this talk multiple times over the years because it is wild how many things he called correctly.

1:03:27 And one of them was that Amazon would have to get into the physical brick and mortar space. And a few years after this talk, they acquired Whole Foods, which is, you know, their their brick and mortar space. And a bunch of the other things that he talked about in this talk just it was just wild. This is gonna be my top five tech ~ link this week.

1:03:48 For what to watch, because I think it is a it's it was just wild. So w whatever you think about Scott Galloway, like this talk I think is fascinating and you know worth a watch. But Walmart and Target, you know, that two hour shipping, thankfully, I Amazon has a close enough thing to me where I can order a lot of things for three hour delivery.

1:04:07 I can pay like two or three dollars and get it in two or three hours. That is not the case, like you're saying, for most people in the United States. Like most people do not live that close. ~ but Walmart competing on that. Now, plus the agentic thing, I was just complaining to my family the other day.

1:04:22 Anytime I try to buy something on Amazon, I cannot go to my cart without trying to be upselled on bananas. I don't know why they think I'm gonna order a bunch of bananas along with my MagSafe battery every time. But I can like I have to see two additional screens before I get to my cart with like whole food things to buy.

1:04:45 Like, do you want a banana? Do you want eggs? I'm like, I no, I do not. And honestly, the this I'm not a futurist or one whatever, but if Amazon continues to fight the AI agent shopping aspect of the business, I think they could lose because to to some market share to a player like Walmart. Because honestly, if I could just tell an agent, buy me toilet paper and paper towels, and that could be it, and I don't have to think about it after doing that, that's tempting to me.

1:05:16 Because doing that in Amazon, while it's not a ton of friction, I open an app, I search for the thing, I choose the product, you know, I have to look for which one was my previously purchased because I just want to buy the exact same thing. And then say, no, I don't want bananas. If I could offload that and only just give it a prompt that it runs like that is a tempting thing.

1:05:37 And like you're saying, paper towels and toilet paper, I can get it from Walmart or Amazon and it doesn't matter. Yeah. Well, and So curious. I'm curious about that. Amazon is not opposed to agentic shopping. It just wants it's building its own Alexa agentic shopping, which you know is gonna suck. It's just not gonna be good.

1:05:51 There's just because the incentives are different. Yeah, it's not even right, right. The incentives are we have to if we build this thing, we have to figure out a way to get the ads in front of you because that Right. is such a significant part of their business model. It it is bananas that they keep showing you bananas.

1:06:05 Let's just be honest. But Ha ha ha. you already explained why. They bought Whole Foods. Now Right, exactly. The the only thing that's wrong, and I was wrong, the name of the book is actually called The Four, not the Four Horsemen. The Four Horsemen was the lecture. Okay. Yeah. But the problem with that actually is Whole Foods was their effort into getting into pr to groceries, right? You cannot go into a Whole Foods and buy Amazon things.

1:06:27 Right? They don't have Amazon brand charging cables in there. Right. Right, they don't have my magazine battery. It's it's just it's whole yeah, you can't there's not an anchor section in there, right? Like it's it's Whole Foods. And so they have all the Whole Foods stuff. It was their the one product category that they could not store in warehouses and deliver in two days is groceries.

1:06:44 So they needed a grocery store, so they bought Whole Foods. That is not their physical brick and mortar business because they're what I think Scott Galloway is getting into is like they needed to have Amazon store. And every time they've tried, they have not been able to figure it Failed. Failed. out because they are thinking of it as an Amazon product and experience, not as a r physical retail. And I actually think That as Walmart catches up and target to some extent, that it is going to be harder and harder for Amazon.

1:07:12 They s because the single biggest competitive advantage that Wal Amazon has had for right now is its distribution network. But here's the thing, Steven. My wife can order something on Walmart Plus or whatever. And that membership comes with free shipping. Do you know how it gets shipped to us? A guy goes to the store, Like individual carrier, right?

1:07:32 Yeah, just gotta yeah. It's grabs it off the shelf and brings it to my house. like DoorDash, but for your packages. It's delivery, but it's free. Because Right. it is shipping. They call it shipping. And it's like they just go to the store, grab the thing, two hours later it's been delivered to you. And it's like Amazon just can't compete with that.

1:07:48 Which I do see a lot of random people delivering my Amazon packages. So like they have Sure. that aspect of it, but they also have this massive infrastructure that they need I think that's just overflow staff though. to maintain. Yeah, it's overflow. They don't like outsourcing it to DoorDash or whatever, Right, right, right, exactly.

1:07:59 so which actually would be kind of amazing. Amazon should just let DoorDash people into their s warehouses and just let them deliver it within forty minutes. I mean, it is the same people, Sure. In some cases, like to be honest. Like I'm sure these p like I had a you're probably right. I had a friend who like that his side gig was he would do DoorDash and he would do Amazon. And I would like we would be working together and then he would say, like, I'm gonna check what what I'm gonna do tonight.

1:08:19 Maybe I'll do Uber, maybe I'll do DoorDash, maybe I'll deliver some Amazon packages. Like that's just a thing that people do. It isn't the So secret that if you pay for the nine dollar same day delivery from an Apple store, it just comes from a DoorDash driver. I don't know if it's DoorDash, but it is it is a d individual courier.

1:08:33 Yeah, Yeah. it is it is a thing. But anyway, that that's super fascinating. So no, I'm I'm glad we did that. Good, good lightning round topic. That was good. Mm-hmm. ~ Claude Duet, speaking of agents, Claude finally announced their Muse competitor. So you got Meta Muse, you have Chat GPT Dots, and now you have Claude Duet, which I'll be honest, I think the name's great. I like all the music references that Claude and Anthropic does. So maybe that's why I'm partial to them.

1:09:03 No, I think it's pretty good. But anyway, it's a wait list preview now. So it's not open to everybody. I joined the wait list immediately. And this is going to do the things that Muse does. And we're going to talk about in personal tech. I don't know. I've been finding more and more use cases for Muse.

1:09:17 And ~ I'm now interested to try. I mean, if Claude Duet is good, which I imagine it will be, like I'm going to leave Muse to the wayside. Like I don't need it. ~ so I'm curious. We'll see. We'll see what comes out. How do we do in the wait list? Some random person on X posted a link and I joined the wait list.

1:09:34 I don't know. I I would just Google it. Claude Duet wait list. Alright. Because ~ it is it. it's right here. The link is in the video description. Claude.com slash Claude Dash Duet. And so I will I'll. I need to join a waitness, I'll be right back. Yeah, you I just need a YouTube video, not the link. Anyway. It's the just go to that video and the the link is there.

1:09:54 So that's Claude Duet. More soon on that. The meta settlement. If you remember the Cambridge Analytica debacle that Facebook had years ago, well, they had to pay a lot of money. ~ I'm sorry. This is the MetaMuse thing. The MetaMuse hits like 10 million US downloads in 40 days. Super popular. We'll talk about Muse in a second.

1:10:14 but also Meta was ordered to pay twenty five billion dollars for the Cambridge Analytica scandal. And you wrote about this as well. I'm gonna put your links for both Walmart and this in the show notes. Just you didn't I'm sorry, you wrote about the Netflix layoffs. Well, I didn't write about this yet, actually. I'm g I'm going to write yes.

1:10:27 That's right, that's right. Yep. I actually will write about this at some point, Okay. Great. but basically the the moral of the story is story is New Mexico held out when all the other states settled for like less than a billion dollars and they ended up with the twenty five billion dollar settlement.

1:10:40 Sometimes waiting, we I'm moving to New Mexico or whatever they're gonna call it in the future. Whatever you got. And then finally, you this is what you wrote about. Netflix, after laying Yeah. off a thousand employees, reported a record quarter. What was the deal on this, Jason? Yeah, they their best quarter ever in terms of revenue and operating profit.

1:10:57 I guess their net income was down a little bit because they had a quarter where they had a bunch of like non operating income that would count it as I don't even know what that means. I'm not a financial analyst. It just seems weird to do it six days after you lay off a thousand people. But Yeah. basically what they're saying is we think that there'd be a better way to spend our money than helping these people pay their mortgage.

1:11:15 So what we're going to do is invest it in other things instead. And they also just fired their head of content team people because like They're just like, we gotta refocus on these things. And they're the truth is the things that they want to get into are things like live sports, gonna cost them a ton of money.

1:11:30 Like that it's gonna cost them a lot of money to do that. They are doing more ~ like l content licensing deals. I think that there's a story recently that they're just bringing some Disney stuff back to Netflix. I can't even remember what it was, Hmm. but like they just they're like, We could pay these thousand people, or actually we could just buy better shows.

1:11:47 So I think they're gonna buy the better shows. Interesting. They actually put on the verge cast they put Netflix on go ninety scale. They put it little higher on their risk of ~ And it's because and I've said this in the thing and I it's not an original thought, a lot of people have said it's because their number one competitor is YouTube and YouTube pays zero dollars for the content.

1:12:07 Right. So all right. Well I'll link to all of Jason's articles down in the show notes. Personal tech real quick. I just want to give a little Muse update. Still don't install Muse on your Mac. Still don't. Don't do that. Don't. Whatever you do Any update on your side as far as clarity or did they? They stopped talking to me, I guess.

1:12:24 I they did I mean I haven't heard back. Okay. Well there you go. I mean I haven't followed up either, but like they have not responded anymore. So Well that's that's unfortunate. And it well, so still don't install Muse on your Mac because it's gonna do weird things. I'm only using it on the iPhone and iPad app in its little sandbox.

1:12:45 But Jason, I've been finding more and more useful things for it to do. And did I tell you how it I couldn't remember the name of my college intro to Lit professor? And so I asked Muse and it found it. Did I tell you about that? That's terrifying. I th I think I talked about that on Mac Power User, so I'll s I'll save that story for that.

1:13:02 But I've been using it more often to monitor things, like for the signal awards. I had it say, I said, let me know when the winners are announced and let me know if we won. You know, things like that. But then also, the I I posted on all four social media platforms for apps for iPhone Duo. I said, hey developers, if you have an app that's gonna be updated for iPhone Duo, let me because won't, you know, I'm gonna make a video. And hundreds of replies, as you would expect.

1:13:33 And so I was like, man, that's gonna be a lot of work to aggregate. ~ threads is already part of Meta, so it can read all those replies. Blue Sky and Mastodon are open, so it should be able to read those. So I went and I told Muse, I gave Muse the links to my social media posts across all the platforms, and I said, Muse, look at all the replies across all the platforms, and just put together a comprehensive list of all the apps that were mentioned.

1:14:03 and their links that they shared in the posts. And this one it worked for a little while. It took it a couple of hours actually. And it needed me to sign in to a couple of social media platforms. And I wouldn't recommend doing this, but I was like, whatever. Sure. It already has access to all your meta social media play.

1:14:19 It already has access to the minute. I mean, it's meta. Meta already has access to them. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Right. And you know, I use iCloud passwords and one password, and I have unique logins. So I'm like, whatever. You want to log into my blue sky, go for it. And so it logged in so it could read all the replies, because many of those are blocked unless you're actually logged in.

1:14:35 I actually had to like go to the little web browser in the meta conversation and like tap around in this janky screen sharing way. But once I had access, Jason just did it and it spit out a PDF. And if I look at the PDF right here, ~ I'll just share it. I'll just share, I'll screen share this PDF that it put together.

1:14:54 I also told it to de-duplicate the list. So it's like if there's any duplicate apps across the things, like don't do that. Look at this. It just has a list of how many apps is this? 176 apps that it put together across all those mentions, and it put together all the links with the apps that ~ people replied to my posts with. Like That saved me probably several hours of work.

1:15:21 And now I have one place to go and I can just quickly download all these apps when I get my iPhone Duo and choose the ones to to feature and like done. And like, yeah, I don't like Claude may have been able to do that with browser control, but it might have been harder for Claude, because A, it doesn't have access to my meta account, and Threads is going to be ornary about logging in.

1:15:43 And I don't know. I I felt like Muse was the place to go. Now, Claude Duet, when that comes out, I would one hundred percent have tried it there. But using Muse, again, don't put it on your Mac, I mean, Claude would have but this was useful. just done this because it can use your browser. They can literally use your Chrome browser, and if you're already logged in, It's right.

1:16:00 it would have been fine. It would have been fine. And yeah, it probably could have done it. I also I mean that browser would have to be open on a on one of my Macs doing that task in the background, which might have been fine. Yeah. I do that all the time. I d I do it a lot, but I also record a lot of podcasts.

1:16:16 So like there are times where I don't want Claude messing with Brave. You know what I mean? And I don't know if I don't know how long it's gonna take, I'm I like the fact that I can just hand it to Muse. And Muse is doing it on its own browser somewhere else. Sure. And I I know the Claude app now has like a built-in browser, but I'm looking forward to Claude Duet, where it can use some VM in the cloud to do this kind of task.

1:16:38 But use it's useful. Yeah, and that's the reason you don't need to install Muse on your computer is that it already has a computer in the cloud. Right. Exactly. You don't it doesn't need your computer. So I've had some interesting have you still been using Muse at all or Yeah, I mean we we didn't get off on the best foot, Y you have a love hate relationship, so I'm cautious.

1:16:58 or maybe a hate hate. I do have it so here's the pro okay. Here's my problem with Muse. First of all I was like, okay, I'm trying to sell something, a marketplace. Could you just anytime somebody sends me a Facebook message? Because again, Meta already has access to my Facebook mess. I mean, they're encrypted, whatever, fine. But it's Meta. Go ahead.

1:17:17 You can have access to the the garbage that comes to me in my Facebook messages. And just let me know if someone is interested in this thing. And then I'll tell it, respond to that person or whatever. But then it started to like Three hours ago, so-and-so sent you a message, you still haven't responded, and they look like they're ready to pull the trigger.

1:17:35 I don't I don't like the You should I'm like, you're too, you're too zealous. You need to settle down, I don't like that. and then it would say, You should do this. I'm like, stop telling me what to do. I don't need you to Yeah, don't I I'm a I'm a person. I know what to do. I've done this before. I don't need any help.

1:17:48 I just want you to literally do the thing that I asked you to do. And the the thing I originally asked it to do was, well, whatever, send me a brief every morning. Tell me. Every morning, here are five things that happened yesterday that could be worth writing about. And and it would do that. But then it started sending me updates throughout the day.

1:18:05 Hey, post brief, this thing happened. You should know about it and you should consider this and this and this. And I finally had to say, Stop. I don't want you to make Yeah, stop it. Stop it. any I asked you to send me a brief. I never asked you to update me anytime a story happened anywhere in the world that could be tangentially related to technology.

1:18:22 What Right. are you doing? Why do you keep doing this? And It it has such a hard time just being constrained to the goal that you give it. It wants to just do more and more and more. Right. Yeah. Maybe that's helpful. The point is I did not ask it to do that. And it is super annoying and it has made me want to use it less because Yeah.

1:18:42 I I don't guess what? You know what I also don't like when peop when something nags me all the time? I don't like when humans do that. Like no one wants to be nagged by a robot or a person. Yeah, yeah, sure. Sure. That was okay. Yeah. So anyway. I do have to do a brief. I've been trying to get something sold on marketplace.

1:18:58 And to some extent, I hate messages. Like I hate dealing with Yeah, yeah, yeah. that back and forth. So that's it's been helpful. But also I don't trust it to not have someone show up at my house. So I have to still Right. basically babysit it anyway. So I don't know that it's actually more helpful. Yeah. And I've been running into that like yesterday it sent me a message.

1:19:18 Quick one for your iPhone Duo video. Apple pencil support landed early. It's in twenty seven dot two. And then it said, Launch context if you need a should you buy Friday angle, supply is severely constrained. Most pre orders are slipping into January. Like I didn't ask it for any of information. And I already knew any all that information.

1:19:37 But like I I don't like that it's suggesting that kind of stuff. Like Yeah, it's way too eager. Way too eager. It's too it's too eager. So I'm hoping And that is the biggest problem. I'm hoping Claude Duet is more conservative on that side. So that's Muse and Agents. And once Claude Duett comes out, we'll you know we'll talk about that.

1:19:57 One other one I just want to throw in here. I've been enjoying local models with LM Studio. And I've you know have all my shortcuts now that run the local models, and I tried a new model, Gemma, which is Google's open weight model. I it was immediately making my shortcuts fail because it was timing out.

1:20:16 And when you use the get contents of URL action in shortcuts, it has a limited amount of time it'll run before it just stops. And Gemma was stopping that all the time because it has a thinking mode. I didn't realize that. So in LM Studio, I went to my Gemma model and I stopped thinking. I stopped at thinking. I said, Quit thinking, just do it.

1:20:36 Don't think. Don't hit Don't think, just do. Top Gun Maverick. And once I stopped the thinking part, super fast and even better than Quinn when it comes to summarizing articles. And so I'm now on the Gemma local model train and really thinking about trading in my Mac minis for an six Mac mini. So we'll see. We'll see. 'Cause I wanna Wouldn't you get an five Pro?

1:20:59 I don't I don't know. It'd be more expensive. Get an five Pro or an five just get an five Pro. Because that's the But I only option in a yeah, that's the other option, right? Is an M5 Pro. The two nanometer process of the M6 got me like I like that idea. Just to make it a crazy face. And the five Pro is more expensive.

1:21:15 I just all the only thing I wanted to do is I'm gonna screen share in and tell Claude to make a change on some apps. Number one. And number two, run the local model through my shortcuts. But what I'm sorry. Which That's is GPU cores? What, the local model or the Yeah. sure. But it's got two neural engines, Jason. Two neural engines. It doesn't help with the AI processing?

1:21:35 That doesn't have any that doesn't help that at all. No. Not for the running the local models. Apple if you're listening, I need an five Pro maxed out Mac Mini and an six Mac Mini back 'cause I already sent it back. I need those two things so I can do a side by side test. Please and thank you. You don't even need it maxed out. I mean forty eight gigs of memory is enough to run I need it maxed out, Jason. Maxed out.

1:21:56 an most I think four I think Don't send mixed signals. I think forty eight gigs is maxed out, isn't it? What's the most you can put in a Mac min ~ okay it might go up to 64. I don't want to send mixed signals if Apple's listening. I want to maxed out. M5 Pro. Hold on, now I gotta see. Mac Mini. I'm gonna go.

1:22:12 Anyway, ~ that's what I want my Mac Mini to be doing now, so I gotta I gotta get one. M5 Pro starts at $1,700. Higher, you can get up to 64. And I can get a one. 64 gigs, you're right. Okay. And you can get eight terabytes in that thing. I'm not getting eight terabytes. Wow, it would cost more than your I can do one terabyte.

1:22:28 Tesla, but you can get eight terabytes in that thing. They would. Thirty three hundred dollars. See, that's the I don't want the five Pro. No. I I'm good with the six, thirty two gigs of memory, one terabyte SSD. That's sub two grand. And if I trade in three Mac minis, that's like just a few hundred dollars difference.

1:22:45 That's all I'm saying. I'm just saying you're going from twelve cores GPU to twenty core GPO. That's for what you want to do. Truff I'm just telling you. Okay. Okay, I'll think about it. I'll think about it. The good news is you don't have I don't know why I I don't know making an angry face. to upgrade the hard drive, the SSD, for what you're gonna do.

1:22:59 But then I sure but I then I also have like the every time I think about doing this, which has been twelve times in the last two days, because David Sparks has me thinking about it. Since Mac Power uses on Tuesday, because David Sparks traded in all his M2 Ultra no M2 Max Mac Studio for a M6 Mac Mini. Every time I think about it, he That's my bonkers.

1:23:18 you should listen to that episode because he got flacked for that from everybody. Everybody in his community. Was that this last week's? two episodes ago, before the Michael Whalen episode. He talked about how he traded in his M2 Max. Listen to this, Jason. Eight terabyte SSD. Yeah. He traded that in for an M6 Mac mini.

1:23:36 He could have taken just the eight terabyte SSD and someone That's it. would have just it's like when this like stripping copper out of an old abandoned Yeah. house. He could have just sold the SSD for probably forty thousand dollars. He probably could have built an five Ultra. I mean, anyway, you should listen to that.

1:23:51 He got a lot of flack for that. I feel like I did listen to that one. Maybe maybe you did, but he's he's the one that has been convincing me. It was actually a bonus episode in our MPU Pro Max feed when he first talked about it. And then he talked about anyway. The full Sparky. I I have nine minutes left of that episode, so maybe I didn't get to that part.

1:24:07 It might be but it might be the most. Anyway, I've thinking about it since then. But every time I do, I'm like, man, I could have an M6 Mac Mini doing all stuff. I'm also like, I sit at this Mac Studio all day, and it is really nice just to be able to command tab over to Claude and give it a command. I'm like, do I want a separate Mac to do that?

1:24:25 That is the question that I'm thinking. Do I want a separate Mac? Not a problem. Claude'll just you just run you just type into Claude on your on your Mac Studio and it'll run on the Mac Mini. Really? I do ~ my MacBook Air never runs any of that Claude stuff on it. I just I'm using the Claude app on the MacBook Air, but it is controlling Claude usually on this MacBook Pro.

1:24:47 Does it work consistently? 'Cause every time I try to do the remote control for my iPhone with the Claude app it never works well. You have tail scale now, it'll be fine. ~ and you just do the Claude RC command in the conversation or what do you do? Hold on a second. Jason is rummaging around. he's getting the MacBook air.

1:25:03 Pulling out I'm getting the backpack air out. So I can well, because there are three ways you can do that. I'm opening like Okay, so this is the pr this is the thing I've been running into. Yes. Tell me. Tell t help me, Obi-Wan. So Claude You're my only hope. Because I try to do the Claude RC command and it never works well.

1:25:19 So there's the cloud remote control, SSH or local. And I just SSH into the MacBook Pro. And so because I'm using Tailscale, it was easy. Do you know you know what a SSH is, Secure Shell? So it's just gonna Yeah, yeah, yeah. And yes, yeah. doing everything on the MacBook Pro. But the interfaces, it's like I'm using the Cloud app hold on.

1:25:40 If you were using the Cloud app on my MacBook Pro, or in your case, the Mac Mini. Yes. Right. It would be doing things essentially using terminal com command line interface or whatever to code to whatever, whatever. I can use the cloud app on my MacBook Air, but it is doing the same thing running it on the MacBook Pro.

1:25:59 It is not like I'm using the Cloud app on MacBook Air to control the Cloud app on the MacBook Pro. I'm Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. using the Cloud app on the MacBook Air to just do stuff on the MacBook Pro. Does that make sense? Okay. I know I get what you're saying. And this is this dispatch or no? Okay, we'll talk we'll talk about this offline.

1:26:13 No. All right, we'll talk about it. All right, we'll we'll yeah, we'll talk about this because I'm ~ I want to set this up now. ~ so we will we'll follow up. We'll follow maybe this is next week's personal tech. We're gonna talk about iOS twenty seven bugs because Jason he's got a rant ~ in him, I think, ~ about iOS twenty seven.

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