Another Brick in My Backpack - MacBreak Weekly 708

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Andy René and Laurie are here and there's a lot to talk about the new Apple Clips Tim Cook and his video of I don't know the Apple Store in your living room we'll talk about kwibi the new short form app iPhone leaks se and How Amazon Prime got that good deal from Apple. Everything comes next in

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in the package this episode of macbreak weekly is brought to you by zip recruiter zip recruiter know we have to work to stay strong connected and focused to find the right people for the right jobs go to zip recruiter comm slash work together it's time for macbreak weekly the show where we get the latest Apple news Alex Lindsay Apparently there are a lot of people these days who want to livestream conferences, meetings, everything, so Alex has the day off, but we have the other core members of the team, starting with Lauri Gil from imore.com, she hasn't come out yet.

Not in her own right yet, yes, she is still a dime or the leader and she is still there. Renee Richie move on, say it, say it, say whatever you want. I was just going to mention how much help I'm going to need from Alex, my friends and I have been trying to find ways to have concerts at home, you know, where we won't actually leave the house, but we're live streaming and we've been able to figure out a few things on our own pretty good, but I keep thinking, oh man, Alex could. really helps us with that so I think the hard part is getting everyone in sync because the latency, yeah it's really big, definitely figuring out how to stream to a social media service when you're using it when everyone's in separate places to give it I like the group. synchronizing the broadcast is difficult, yes, well, one person has to be the host, the host, yes exactly, we were recommending a site that you can visit called jammer GAA mm, our communicator and it is designed to do exactly that, it is a Jam online musical, yes, I like it, yes, I think. comm maybe not comm it's dotnet sorry Kamm not in it René Richie is in his own house independence week two treating you I'm sure I'm trying Leo I imagine Alex isn't really here, the architect is secretly and the matrix connected to every live stream, that's probably true, yeah, I've been getting distracted just not realizing how much you have to reset from scratch when you no longer have a massive media organization, pedaling as fast as I do.

Could you be growing? You are growing well, although it is good to see the growth of the youtube.com channel slash Renee Ritchie and Annie Anak or are here always independent, they have never been more than correct. I'm no longer trained to work in the office, so Andy is in Boston. Public Radio, but I would also say that he's as much a part of our team as anything else, yeah, we really appreciate that. I seem to have lost control of the switches, so let's follow the whole program, you know, it was difficult to do. my own brand, particularly in a big city like Boston, Massachusetts, which is predominantly Catholic and Irish.

I was just one of them, but I still have John under control, but my keys don't seem to do anything. Let me see if I can set up the macros. no, no, this is even better, it's like the six CD box set with all the music of all time, like oh yeah, that was a documentary that's entertainment, yeah, that was less than three volumes, yeah, that's it What I keep doing. I keep wanting to reorganize my music library, it's getting very, very expensive because I have a separate folder for incomplete CDs, like years ago I copied just a few tracks but forgot to copy the rest and while I'm going through this, I'm really, oh .

Wow, that box, why don't I have it all? And then, because I lost it like the original CD, so let's get off eBay and buy your clips. It's a clip show and there's narration just as I remember it. Britain, not only that, but it's like. all the best musical numbers right and that's really important because remember a lot of these amazing musical numbers came out of really not so great movies and you look at the hole although yeah there's one of my favorite musical sequences of all time came from again, a terrible, terrible movie, but it's how the greatest dance centuries did it and I would say it's the most in film history if you're going to talk about the 50 most popular scenes and movies of this dance sequence. but with him with his dance partner it would be one of the best, but what, yeah, it's not just that, but there's also stuff behind the scenes, it's also like citrus and Gene Kelly like in 1980 talking about the pillow, that was very funny, yes, yes, but. yeah, that's the part, this is the way they do the Apache dance at the nightclub and he's fucking her and she's wearing this no, no, this is, it's, it's, no, this was, it's called just mine . never century, yeah, I think it's one of those biographical musicals where they just say we need an excuse to dance a lot, Catherine and candor, Annette's music, okay, so we'll do the story of can you write the biography of Kander and ebb? and it's basically she's trying to get a prince, who's who, she's scorned and she's trying to get back to them and so they dance, but then they realize it's not going to work, but again I'll find out it's a movie so forgettable that I have forgotten the name of the movie, but I'll try to mention it.

The scene I was talking about was called Girl Hunt Ballet by fans. Yes, it's amazing. Yes. Yes. The first year in Surrey I thought she was the The best thing is that I loved the surgeries Cyd Charisse, she is athletic, she is grateful, she is funny, she had a lot of things, a lot less things together and I also think she was definitely the best stair companion, okay, so it's that from the movie deep in my heart, 1954 Cyd. Charisse with James Mitchell is actually on YouTube and you'll see, you'll see, this is, this is like this, this is like the sales brochure of if we had to if there had to be a marketing campaign to get women to dig in saying that men women maybe you should be researching women here look at our marketing brochure it would be ice cream III even if that product doesn't work for you you would see why that product is so marketable she this was like before - yes she was she was something like Fred Astaire once said that you danced with Charisse, I was saying something like you use a daytime dance anyway, we're not here to talk about Hollywood musicals, although at this point we may soon be talking about Hollywood musicals, however, there are some Apple news.

I saw what Tim Cook tweeted. I thought it was really something. Apple has, what do they say? 20 million face masks, yes, for healthcare workers, these are new, they are being manufactured and so is he. Apple has designed its own flat pack. masks for healthcare workers face shields and he says we can make them at the rate of a million a week let me play Tim's tweet a little bit because if you do this before we get really serious can I just Let's say it looks like it has Quality Apple version 2.0 shelves behind it for your sports memorabilia.

Oh, beautiful, that beautiful blonde cedar and yeah, it's cool, it also has a signed War Eagle Auburn bass basketball behind it, a couple of them that look like you're accusing CEO Tim Cook of stealing things from the

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, asking who built the shelves in all the new stores. He did it himself. Look, it even has that nice lighting built into the rail, yeah, pretty nice, and this video was better than the last one because he didn't like it, he started it and stopped it in a less awkward way, like he was improving his life in the content of social networks every week.

I have to say that while I love it, he has that thing where they start and sit back and that anime, come on, step forward and stop. I guess you can edit them. I guess that was almost an affectation where he wanted vertical video and clips don't support that yet, well, we'll get to the We're supposed to be talking about the store, but hey, while we're at it, right? Do you think this will power the same as the iPhone and the success of the iPhone design was a response to how much Apple engineers hated their current one? like the trio phones and their current Windows phones, don't you think Apple is going to have some awesome new version of FaceTime or a conferencing app based on just like, there's got to be a way we don't have to do that?

Because our users don't have to reach out and touch something to get this, we like that the AI ​​automatically removes this face shield, according to the associate executive director of Kaiser Permanente's Permanente Medical Group in Northern California. preserve valuable personal protective equipment for a longer period of time Smita a yard said it really renews your energy and your spirit so they were very grateful they were very grateful to have it I think it's really cool and it's by the way I want to point out take out the protector thinnest facial Apple has ever made. will get closer, stay safe because we're crying, you know, we're not insensitive, you know what you have to be a little bit of dark humor in the face of all of this, a good look means that I.

I'm always looking at Kovach memes, they just make me feel a little better, which is why I'm re-releasing Tiger King for the eighth time. Apparently there were some tigers at the zoo and at least one tested positive, which is very different from human testing. so don't be upset because the tiger got ahead of you in line. Actually, you know my son, who, as you know, flew from Bali, he had been to Vietnam and you know Thailand and Bali and I finally convinced him and on March 28th. to fly back he flew back through Tokyo arrived in the United States he wasn't tested or temperature or anything they said hey come on kid come in but we've been kidnapping him and we got him an Airbnb and he's going to stay there and he's been there for ten days now starting to have symptoms, so you know, I don't know, I don't know what it could be if it's not coded, he hasn't seen or touched anything or anyone, so I'm a little nervous Call your doctor the guy says we don't do tests we can't do tests we don't have any tests what are we going to tell you what would I say to anyone you know don't leave don't go out now I can't go out at all, I can't go shopping and I can't do nothing, so I'll send food and stuff and he said, and if you have trouble breathing, call us, that's all.

Chris Cuomo has been giving advice. about how he's coping, like staying warm but walking, making sure he takes his meds but doesn't stop breathing, it's good to be a celebrity because you can get a test if you're famous, yes, but the rest of the world is. I'm just saying, yeah, that's why it's so valuable as part of my thinking, it kind of evolved. We can do it half the first time I read someone. I'm on Reddit or I think basically, what it's like day by day, step by step, here's what I'm recovered from now. but this is what I was feeling, this is what I was going through every day and that basically gave me a template to assume that I start.

I start to feel bad tomorrow and I'm not an idiot so I don't want to know exactly what I'm doing. I don't want to leave the house, what will I need to have at home to be able to take care of my weeks-long style of eating, but now I thought: do you have ibuprofen, do you have Gator Raiders or whatever for the dehydration desert? Is it your partner? Is your dorm room clean and tidy enough that you can basically use it as a sick room? So, again, no, no, no, and I don't hope it's not the pedestal.

I don't know what the right word is, I don't expect the worst, but at least be prepared to plan for it when it happens. I think it's sensible and that's what we're all doing now. If I had had it, if I had had foresight, I would have planned to run out of toilet paper and disinfectant, yes. but you would have had to plan, that's the problem, who knew better, knows that next time we will be ready, yes, and plan for the possibility of having psyche. I think one of the most important things, like what you're saying, is planning. not leaving the house the moment you have any kind of symptom, that's what matters most to me because you don't want to spread something, you don't want to run to the store and buy ibuprofen while you have a fever, that's the worst thing you could do, so plan, you know, prepare the bug box and make sure you have something like tissue paper to blow your nose in or things like that, just in that box, so that, if if there's a reason why you end up having to be stuck in your house for 14 or more days and you can't leave the house because you don't want to spend anything, you know under any circumstances, not even to walk, you know? that's where you have to make surehave them, that's why the enemy is below, he's very close, he's at the end of the road, so we can bring him food.

You know, and I said you can get takeout, just have it left on the porch. and all that stuff, so I, you know, it could just be allergies, we're all suffering a little bit from it, I don't know, I hope and cross my fingers, but yeah, just take care of yourselves, take care of yourselves all now. I don't know why it's real . Tim didn't use his emoji in his video. Expel him to the shareholders. What he had. So we just completely handed the responsibility for this over to our corporate overlords and there are a ton of sci-fi shows about how. the corporation takes over and starts with them just making all the masks all the time, it's kind of a timeless cover, yeah this is the time of the big land grab.

I said, this is when you want. Tim's whole thing is logistics. and and and and design take a product from design to manufacturing to market and this is the kind of guy that maybe now I'm not so upset that he and Trump have a good relationship because maybe it's time for him to say yes, here you have some numbers that I want you to call, this is what I want you to tell them and that will result in more and more equipment being made and placed in the right places if I had used clips that I could have.

In fact, Donna's iPad now has support for the iPad cursor, news tickers, eclipses, you know, it's funny because Apple made a big deal of it when they released it and they continue to update it and add new things. I'm just wondering how many people use it, I guess the point of Clips was kind of a video editor for people who made Snapchat and Instagram story videos like that or videos talking about your new face masks, but they still can't like them, so I saw some people on Instagram make really cool videos and I asked them what they used and they said clips but for many similar that's fine for the post you put on your timeline but until it supports 16 bytes not 9 bytes 16, you won't be able to get those Snapchat or tik in full screen. tok videos or insta stories and I think that's where this would really shine you know what I hope I hope joke kwibi open sources it's a remarkable technology have you played so expensive it's outside the US ?

They don't have the free tier. I can't play with it, so you're missing out, paying eight times more for zero. You need to dismantle the game where they shoot contestants in protective gear, of course, with food, make them taste it, and then cook it. but this is what I was talking about. By the way, you have to see a short. He's just a short dad. But this is what I was talking about. They are somewhat remarkable. It's kwibi, which is, of course, Jeffrey Katzenberg. formal investigation and Disney and Meg Whitman, formerly of HP's billion dollar startup, raised a billion dollars to make short videos for the iPhone generation, I guess, but their whole deal and this is what they showed at CES was seeing this. watching it in portrait mode and now seamlessly just switches to what you'd almost never even see happen in widescreen landscape mode, it feels like a feature Instagram or Tik-tok should add, although it doesn't feel like something I should add . pay more than Disney Plus for no video, it didn't, so I think it would be a good feature for Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook or someone else.

I love it. Do you think it's difficult? Is it technically difficult? It does not work. I think there was a really good link. I think Jason Snow linked a story about how the NFL changed their graphics to make sure that if you were watching Portland correctly, you would get all the data and that's what my new YouTube channel is actually. I make sure everything is centered and fits within the 9 bytes 16, since that's what they did with this right, so that's the restriction: you have to remember that everything has to happen in the middle, which is unfortunate since the point of view a composition point of view, but I guess for it to work in both portraits, all those eyeballs look wrong.

Oh, with horizontal tracking, it's right in portrait orientation, by the way, Renee, don't worry, you're not missing out. I was surprised to find out that it was five dollars a month because it's not a lot at a time when five dollars a month can buy you a lot, it's not a lot and when it's a lot, it's a lot of high production values. very, it's the HBO Netflix network, TV auction values, what you like, you know, honestly, I don't think TV plus is worth what it's worth right now. I can't find it, I think there is a program that I watch that I like. so the same is the M Night Shyamalan one, which I can't even remember the name of, oh yeah, servant on duty, you haven't finished it, obviously, I finished the first season, oh you did, because I found the last episode, Well, it was a waste.

Over time, maybe they'll be a little more, you know, do a little more for us, yeah, apparently kwibi z' doesn't own that technology, at least there's a KO tech company that says no, no, we invented that and Quippy is countersuing saying they want a statement from Los Angeles The Los Angeles District Court says they did not infringe Echos technology and demands that Echo withdraw the notice of claimed infringement it had filed in Apple's App Store. They must have solved it because it's in the App Store, right? They said Echo, they had filed a lawsuit. patented its horizontal-to-vertical video technology in 2015 and kwibi did not patent the same technology until 2019, which came after citing a confidential demonstration by echo of the technology to key top executives of kwibi, including some of the so-called inventors of patents and the wisecracking president and founder.

Jeffrey Katzenberg Oh wow, Kwibi sued, but Echo is at the cabin so they're trying to write this is an older story so I don't know what the outcome is. No, this is March 9. Anyway, it's only a month old. so they must have received some kind of injunction, but I don't know, you know. I feel like I told Micah on iOS today. I feel like it's a little condescending for Hollywood to look at YouTube and say how do we get any of that. YouTube throws an eyeball and money and says well we can do better than that and really all they are are clones of existing reality TV shows and the existing, isn't that how a movie like surfing or a comic would come out?

The book came out like Silver Surfer or Dazzler on skates and it was always like three years after you guys thought that was cool, right, it's like that all along, yeah, it feels a little like that, a little condescending, but you know what. that I. I know I wish him the best, it's all about Katzenberg. I think he said it's not about content, it's about platform, so what you want, you want to have, basically it's great to have your own platform that you control with absolute determination and I was trying. I got a note a week or two ago to investigate something that sums up a couple of people in the creative community: We're saying that one of the reasons for short-form video is that it means they are absolutely the ones creating content. it doesn't necessarily have to be within the Union guidelines for long-form content and that's like that, it's not like that when you do all this oh hey, this is all short, important, that's how people consume meat, it's like No, maybe you just don't.

I don't really want to have to, yeah, that's Jeffrey Katzenberg who has spent his entire life being annoyed by paying creators. I think the difference is that YouTube created was created organically, it came from the bottom up and a lot of people did a lot of things. the audience decided what they liked it wasn't Hollywood stars it wasn't in fact a Hollywood style production the durations no one knew what the correct length was in fact I think I've seen evidence that even longer videos are now starting to work better on YouTube than before and so on, so that's Andy's point and I saw that I saw someone previously say that it felt like they made a TV show and then instead of cutting it in the episode, they cut it in every commercial break. to make them shorter, well yeah, I could easily do that, that's exactly right and they would be one show, yeah, that's for the episodic stuff, it's seven minutes and there's, and to watch the next episode, guess what you have to watch

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You won't pay $8 a month and you'll get the commercial-free version. I think it's worth a try. Everyone is doing it. 300,000 downloads in the first week. 90-day free trial. Yes, if they released the new Reno 911 during that time, I'll check it out. Yes Yes. They even have a promo, they have almost the entire cast together and it's still them and it's great, it's just that now they all look 15 years older, yeah, and it's a different story when these people have been like in these same jobs to burn out again . I should note our 15th anniversary coming up in two weeks.

We started right when Reno 9-1-1. Yeah, actually we're going to Kevin Road. We're going to do, you know, the kind of anniversary with Kevin Rose, Robert Heron and Patrick Norton, a special tweet on Sunday April 19, you're all invited and I think we're going to have some cameos, although in this coke-ovid world To stop by here means a Skype call. from some big names, well at least one kind of big name, some stories are easier to understand when you are super bored and stuck at home, yes, an interview with memory on The Sopranos, Adriana drea de Matteo, she is great, I love her, she was on JLo's show the blue-blue show she's doing a Sopranos podcast where she and her friends re-watched Sprouts that HBO is kindly giving away now anyone can watch a ton of the great HBO shows for free free and you can select I think podcast released this week I think we'll put it on the radio show anyway I think I called on the phone, okay, we debated and I lost who had the iPhone, who has the iPhone?

He could still be right. I hope they are just trolling us. You were telling Lorie that it was going to be nine o'clock, just as I remember it. I think I'm so hoping they wouldn't and I thought they would just cut the designation and call it a phone but the rumor now this is just a rumor still true iPhone SE red happy they don't call an iPhone home because that would be so and so is where this information is coming from is this other one from the reader tell them it's the iPhone SE It comes in white, black and red in 50 gigabytes and will be released imminently as soon as last Friday, which unfortunately didn't happen, but imminent could mean which any time after that should be right now, it's Tuesday, right, they do it on Tuesdays, it should be right now.

It should be the overlay drama right now Leo, there's a drama processor who's also been making a lot of rumors lately he said it was going to be on the 15th, which is next week, so those are competing rumors, so all the days he has been asking, in quotes, Siri if it is if it is. was wrong and then having Craig Federighi with no sign of getting your popcorn should throw them all out but we know it's going to be based on the a11 biotic that's on the iPhone we know that well or we know I hope to say this is we're all guessing , we know it's going to be based on the iPhone 8 chassis, but that, but the internals, I want it to be based on the iPhone 11, but you never know when Apple will figure that out, like put in that giant pivot. table in their spreadsheet and they say that actually the iPhone 10 R would be the best option for them, so it will be the body of the iPhone 8, but a search for the iPhone 11 could be a reason why I say 12 is because the new The iPad pro came out with an 8 12 yet so I have like 12 that's the 12 Bionic yeah oh my gosh they're really starting to slide towards the Sony brand well I really love my new Sony. a 55L music player, yes, yes, that's right.

I'm at the point where I would actually do it. I no longer trust my memory for CPUs and Apple. I really have to check it to see if it's okay. I know 12 is higher. number than these other numbers, but what subcomponents and what other processes are there and what that means. It would have been nice if they could have gotten the cadence of the chip to match the cadence of the phone so that the iPhone 11 had an 11, but it didn't and the X means a couple more GPUs in the Z the Z means one more GPU, Since we're talking about the iPad, what's up with the rumor?

And as far as everyone can see, this is the old 2018 iPad, it has the same processor and the rumor is that this little switch was activated to give you extra lanes for jihad. I knew it, you're just bidding like they have better ones producing them, like when you make chips and Intel is famous for this, like an i3 is really simple. like an i5 that came out worse on the assembly line and that's how it was and even now they are based on performance depending on who buys them, but like the original Apple equipment, not the original Mac OS based one but the other one.

Apple TV was using CPUs that only had one core good, so a bunch of CPUs came out that only had one core that was functional. He couldn't put them on the phone, so he put them on the Apple TV and when they ran out. they actually had to start30% cut, that must make a lot of the smaller creators feel, and it must also make all the other content providers feel like they have to go back to the table like I'm still bummed about that, I usually buy my comics digitally on Wednesdays on my Chromebook because I can go to the comiXology store and tap a button and say yes, please buy this now.

It's a shame that if I'm on my iPad I have to swipe out, go into Safari, go to the website, and swipe again, and a lot of that isn't just the money these companies are giving up that hurts. It's also a disservice to users that it's a very, very dumb user experience and there's no analog between Apple tablets and other tablets to compare to, but it's definitely a problem when you compare an Android experience to an iPhone experience. again, I'm sure. that Amazon really likes the fact that as soon as you have someone interested in buying this digital book, especially when you tell them, by the way, it's $2.99 ​​all day today, you want them to press that button right then and there. moment and I don't have to leave to go somewhere, so I hope this turns into Apple reconsidering their idea of ​​a 30% cut for everyone or revealing that they have already been thinking about this.

I recognize that if without the 30% cut that is how that is the money that not only Apple makes is income, but it also supports all the activities that keep not only the app store running but the entire API system and the entire environment. detection, but it's still a big part, so my Thing is, I totally agree. I think 10 years ago when this started, people who were used to the cashier software business and the retailer took fifty-five percent or had to pay for all the website maintenance, they thought 30 percent It was a good deal and you can go back in time and see it, but times change and things evolve and this has stayed really static.

Digital products sorry. Physical products have never had this when you buy something on Amazon. Apple doesn't take 30 percent of your DVD. or your box of cereal, I mean, I've always been completely different, the problem they keep facing is that you can't have multiple intermediary aggregators, so a lot of these services aggregate other people's comics, other people's music, or other people's videos. other people who take like 50% of that and then try to sell them on the App Store, which is Apple adding that everyone else has apps that take 30% from you and then you try to sell them directly to customers and there's not even 30% there to calculate, so they have to do it.

Either they compromise and they both keep 15% or they come up with some other kind of agreement and the current one, which kicks people out, you know, and doesn't allow them to buy anything is just hostile to customers, that doesn't work for anyone, it makes it worse for Apple, while with a customer and worse for the middle person app aggregator, so I really agree with Andy, this has to be resolved and I think it could be resolved in a way that is still sustainable for Apple, the only problem, I think, is Apple. What you have now is that they promised shareholders massive growth in services and the biggest growth driver of services is the App Store and the biggest growth driver of the app store is in-app purchases primarily of these games and the moment Epic saw Amazon, you know they did everything. that everyone thought they would do it and say "hey, why can't we have that deal too?" because Tim is convenient for tonight, they got angry immediately, I know it and in fact they were the ones who said in Android that we are not going to do it. because it is not necessary on Android and if you lose that money, your revenue in the App Store goes down and then you do not meet them, sir, but seriously, then you are not meeting the service objectives that you set, so I believe in a world ideal is a much better deal for everyone.

I'm just wondering how much negotiation and setup it will take and what you think Apple gave up to do this. I mean, that's a really good article about it. and he said it was a win for everyone because Apple gets a percentage from Amazon before, where they didn't get any Amazon that you know has the option to charge through their card system if you're already a customer, but they have the most access to the group of Apple if you are not a customer and customers can buy something in the store, which is a great convenience and ease of use, both times Apple did this previously without TESE and channel; both were traditional cable companies and Apple got the AirPlay in-app integration.

I'm looking at Ben Thompson's article because he is also debating, what are the a3s? What are ways to look at this? Apple won, Amazon won or it was a quid pro quo, it's the first. This time, Amazon is the first time a premium service has gotten this kind of deal, although Apple implies in its statement that oh no, we do this with premium, anyone, many premium providers will name another Apple because there are three, that's all . and two of them are existing cable companies or television distributors, this is the first one that is exaggerated, so what do you think Apple did?

What did Amazon give you? Apple did this, obviously, apples aren't stupid, Anna, or it was him, maybe you. I know this is this, it's the Supreme Court, the fact that the Supreme Court is reviewing the AppStore case soon, does that have anything to do with that? I'm sure that doesn't hurt, especially with this court, they seem xik when you think that You're going to say that they're getting what they get in in-app purchases, they're getting some of the approaches, yeah, because if you can now buy things in the app and if you don't have an Amazon card The file goes to the app right to Apple's in-app purchase, so instead of Amazon having the inconvenience of having to go to the web and Apple not get nothing, you both get a piece of that pie, which is the type of compromise.

I think they will have to deal with everyone and I think the wording says something about that, you can use Beach, you will be charged based on how your current subscription works, so if you use everyone correctly and it also becomes convenient. for new Amazon Prime subscribers who are using their phone to do it because now I can subscribe to Amazon Prime through the app on my phone which means Apple gets 30% of that and then from now until the end of the times or you know they even change their contract every time I rent or buy a movie on Amazon Prime, it doesn't matter where I buy it, now it's 30, well, I don't actually pick it up anywhere because I'm sure that if you buy it on Amazon , Apple doesn't get 30% of that, I think maybe, but definitely on your phone, so Apple would get 30% of that, since it's already linked to the account that's already linked to a song, it's also Apple acknowledging that the world has changed.

I mean, they started putting Apple. TVs and TVs allowed Amazon music in the home module, yeah, so, you know? This has been a bit of a relaxing process, but I'm thinking they didn't make enough money. in in-app purchases, what they lost or maybe they didn't lose anything, just what they lost was that users were inconvenienced and had to go to the web to make their purchases. I think half is still needed. I'm not like me. I know some of the newer 30% features, but I think it's still like half. I think that Amazon in physical goods still takes a lot of the slowness.

If you are an app in the App Store, you get a profit for that 30%. Apple can make a strong case and I'm sure they will in the Supreme Court. No, we're giving them download storage, all kinds of marketing, all kinds of things, but it's rent seeking when you do it with something like Amazon, I mean. with existing Amazon Prime subscribers or inaudible books that's just rent seeking because they're already members, they're already subscribers, you're not, you're not providing any service to audible or Amazon, it's tight B language, like we're converting a new subscriber . for you, which is what they do now at 30% and 15%, there could be something because you're a subscriber or just go ahead and do it and if it's new to you, we'll charge them the first time and after. you know you could migrate them if they sign up, yeah, that's fair, it's like a brokerage fee, maybe that's all that happened, really, it's just you know, let's be reasonable here, I'm sure, I'm sure, like Renee said , there are a lot of factors that go into this that, added together, make sense for them to do this at this particular time and Deu is such a random weapon at this point that they are very, very aggressive in going after monopolies in the industry. technological in the way that the United States may never be or won't be for a couple of years, so it helps to be able to argue that we had rules in place for launching this service, but now we're making sure that we're creating equality of opportunities for all participants, so that wouldn't be the only reason they did this, but this is part of the mathematics that came into play, okay, it's time to not lose, lose our relationship, whose position is our reputation like honey.

The hiring badger didn't say that Wolverine at least has his charm, his charming possibility, so Amazon Prime that this new thing just ruined Amazon Prime on Apple TV for me because, if you use a fire decoder of any kind when you use Amazon when you use Amazon Prime that mixes Prime with not Prime and you always watch this movie I can watch oh I can't watch it on Prime I haven't done it that often it gets very frustrating on Apple TV nothing you couldn't just rent would appear. I mean, anything that wasn't available on Prime would just show up.

Eventually you could download a row of recommendations, but now it's another undifferentiated one. It's all there, yeah, and it's driving like. watch this movie oh I can't yeah that's why I tell people not to use this option. I tell people not to buy Fire TV stuff because it's an Amazon ad it really promotes Amazon it's frustrating but you say the last couple of times I skipped to the main video like well what am I going to watch this weekend ? like who this movie on the album art on the art that says this is for me. I go to CBS all access and click on something but oh no in Canada they sold the rights to that to Global then it takes me to global and says you have to log in with your cable.

I mean, I don't have cable where I click and I go to Amazon and then I click on it and it says oh, but this actually requires a subscription to Stax TV. We're just showing you that okay, that's a dark pattern, that's a dark pattern, right? I think it's a dark pattern, it's for giving, it's a trick to convince you to spend. basically more money and it's not user hostile, it's not user friendly. My son came up with another really annoying thing: he wants to have Logic Pro because he's in quarantine and he loves doing it and I bought Logic Pro and it's shared by the family, but when he goes to the App Store it says buy and you have to go through the whole process before you say oh to buy it, you already own it, that has bothered me for years.

I think that's a dark pattern too, right? Sometimes I lose track of you too, as I will from time to time. I'll end up buying the same movie twice on iTunes because of something insignificant, but most of the time I check it out and it's like, "Oh yeah, sorry, we forgot about you." they just fix that's there, they don't, there's a reason they don't fix that because that's not really a good user, that's always an excuse, damn weak objects, it's not that what the wizard world won't be okay until that the letters NS no longer appear. in front of each system call in the API okay, let's take a little I think we would take a little break at this point Hello, I'm glad you're here, it's fun to be with you if you just said "I'm" here too what I'm glad we're glad you're all here you're not coughing you're not in a scam feeling good you're feeling good I'll give you an oxygen level right now if you want you're using an oximeter yes, that was another one of those things from my change of thinking a few years ago couple of weeks again after reading the experiences of someone who had gone through it, it was part of the idea that understanding was happening.

That is to say, this will not be like the flu, if I get infected, it will be as if it passed. Most likely I will not need medical treatment, no matter how scary these symptoms are, I will be able to overcome them and so on. If I have a pulse oximeter, I'll even be able to assume that I'm like, "Oh my gosh, my breathing is really, really hard. I'm coughing a lot. I'm wondering if this is the point where I really need to worry." the burden of the medical infrastructure coming I will have data that says: know your blood, etc., you still have 98% products, a blood saturation that is the same as every day for the last two weeks.

This is probably just part of what sucks about having this. illness, so yes I did, that's why I bought one again, can you still get them? can you still, can you still find them, you know, there's a hello. I have discovered that there is ahierarchy in which the first place you go and this will be like forever, not only after this crisis, the first place you go is Amazon, because that is the first place where things sell out, then you go to eBay, where there are independent sellers, and a lot of times you have to go from eBay to Etsy because that's also They're independent sellers, but it's like the third place where everyone thinks they look like me.

I bought a couple of masks last week and at that point I knew I wouldn't even bother going anywhere else but myself and Etsy. I was able to buy two new, really good cloth masks and get them three days later, but yeah, I think you have to think a little outside the box these days. I was surprised to discover that I bought mine at my local store. pharmacy because it was the last one left and it was the bottle with Bluetooth and the really cool apps will cost about 30 bucks but at that point I was like I checked my phone like yeah you can still get them but it'll be a couple of weeks okay , I'd rather solve this problem right now, but yeah, you can still get them for like 40 bucks if you look around, especially on eBay, yeah, it's probably nice to have, but you would never use it.

Again, well, let's see, that was also another thing I bought. I bought a blood pressure reader. A blood pressure cuff. That's good. Well, no. I've always had Lee. I give blood regularly and they take my blood pressure and it's abnormally normal, like wow, we have to do this since, given your general level of fitness, Andy, we're starting to suspect that you smuggled the arm from someone else, we forgot to Remove the sticker from the screen, why are you wearing that big coat, huge human size? But that was a similar thing, where there are times when you feel a little dizzy or a little tired, you don't know. why it's very, very easy to say well, I'm going to say I'm not going to self-diagnose, but at least I want to see, well, if my blood pressure was really very low, that would be a problem with my blood pressure. very high that would be a problem at least I know my blood pressure is normal like if you have a digital thermometer because you can say "it's okay, I don't have a fever" or if you feel bad, it's just two points, it's just one.

Fever at a point and a half and it hasn't gone up since the last time. I really think there are all kinds of things we could write about and talk about how a lot of things are going to change after this. I have nothing to do. with Calamity will be realizing that if you have a break, this is something I talked about last week on NPR or by the way, as we grew up and our parents and grandparents grew up knowing that somewhere in the bathroom you have a first time. -aid kit that has band aids, since it's infected, it could have it, it could have like a pair of tweezers, blah blah blah, I think the part that's going to come out of this is knowing that you also had that box of digital stuff about the -Tell diagnostic material, so not necessarily so that you can diagnose yourself, so maybe the medical system copiers in the future will be optimized for you.

Call your provider and they will tell you okay, we have your records here and you have a pulse oximeter. Can give us? give me a reading right now, okay, what does your blood pressure say? Okay, we'd really like you to come because that's not a normal thing and I hope all of that is on a watch one day that I can't wear because I have an Android device, yeah. it's part of the new, the new first aid kit, a blood oximeter, it's also good for exercise, okay, that was a part of the public service announcement for our program, the public service announcement and now a few words from our sponsor, a public benefit corporation, when that happens on our show today. brought to you by zip recruiter zip recruiter is the place to go actually i want to give you a message that they sent us and wanted to pass on to you we are big fans as you know we have always been a zip recruiter we have done a lot of hiring a lot of our staff came to via zip recruiter they wanted you to know that this is a time to not feel overwhelmed, we have to work to keep our loved ones safe and protect our communities, we have to work to stay strong and stay connected to stay focused it's not easy we have we have to work to inspire ourselves to innovate to build new solutions but for all this we have to work we have to work together at zip recruiter we connect employers and people every day but today it is different who we are partnering with first responders government officials the medical community the innovators and the food manufacturing, transportation and distribution industries we want to make sure we're finding the right people for the right jobs that the jobs need right now, so we normally do a quick recruiting commercial here, but they wanted to tell you that. and I just want to say thank you zip recruiter let's work together you are amazing and it's a special url zip recruiter comm slash work together zip recruiter comm slash worked together there are many jobs that need to be filled properly now in this difficult time and zip recruiter is there to help zip recruiter comm slash work together thank you thank you yup recruiter that's really great really great stuff good and Enoch Oh René Richie Laurie Gill everyone is healthy everyone is feeling Well, Andy's blood oxygen level is high, in fact, I have been stealing oxygen from local children.

I have some too. I also have my eye on some Dalmatian puppies I've seen wherever you can bookmark Gurmann's story. Google has acquired a Dublin-based artificial intelligence startup called is it voices. the voices are probably right, vo is like 19 letters because it's in correct Isis Irish, it's to better understand natural language, something Apple could probably lend a hand with. I wouldn't be surprised if I had anything to say about it. vr-12 right, it's where the money is right right now, the next virtual reality, which is interesting, they are a live event that streams augmented reality, virtual reality company, Apple concerts like now, Apple concerts, Apple Theater, you know, sit them all down, they'll all watch their Disney movies.

I can throw popcorn at Lori and VRS is basically wonderful, it makes sense. I mean, if we were talking about it, I should have put this in with the WWDC story, but wouldn't it be interesting if you had some sort of VR-enabled WWDC? going to the event and being there without actually being there probably probably isn't for something like WWDC. You kind of want that for entertainment. WWDC is there for a purpose and you need to do things and that's not the time to experiment. a new way of communication or making everyone buy a visor, that's true, oh yes, us too, there are such wonderful things as the possibilities of virtual reality and augmented reality, augmented reality and augmented reality, it's another opportunity to create another digital divide, we are already facing problems where even if you have low-income households that have broadband, even if that broadband is decent, in many of those households there is only one device that can actually stream things and that It really means that there is a problem for parents who have to work through Stream and children who have to learn through streaming, which is why I love these demos, but I think we should all always be very aware of the very legitimate complaint of that much of what Silicon Valley does is solve problems that digital engineers who make $400,000 a year might have let's see what else apples cut home pod employee discount a beautiful story from Me plus you speculate what a great website I love that website I love the word bar in it it's not the Daily News that's cool 50% It's not unusual for employees and its author, Stephen Warwick, speculates that it could be a sign that perhaps they are abandoning the startup module for a new version .

What do you think? Well, I mean, or they're helping people who took pay cuts from Apple. Didn't they? I think they lowered prices too so maybe that makes it maybe it's just being nice to the employees or being stuck at home and oh they're like you listen to your family you're not working. I'm going to tell you that it's all true, it could be, although you know how to get rid of a lot of stock when you're about to put in something new. You dropped something. Put something on clearance. I expect the shelves to be emptied, so that's totally it. possible, yes, I just don't know, we don't know, as is often the case with Apple, they are a black box, a mysterious organism, they paid a rather hefty $75,000 bounty by mistake to a hacker who discovered a flaw in the zero-day camera in Safari.

It's great to see that this type of bug bounty is working, yes for a while Apple wouldn't do it, they thought we would just increase the price, but the price is already increasing due to rogue states and our own stuff. That worked for them, yeah, yeah, so I think it was smart of Apple to say no, you know what, yeah. Great for these, it's particularly timely because we've seen that intelligence agencies and security experts have noticed serious uptake, like up to one hundred percent in penetration. attempts by companies like Apple in government affairs, NASA, I think it was reporting a two hundred percent increase in phishing emails with fishing videos that were appearing, so yeah, this is a good time to thank you yourself for having thought ahead about ways you can proactively plug security holes, yes, yes.

I guess there's always a new book, day one, by Alex Kantrowitz about how the tech giant has struggled to stay on top and there's a BuzzFeed reporter there and there's an excerpt from it about Apple's information systems and the group of technology they build. their internal technological tools really met each other I suspect I didn't meet many of them many of them come to our studios they are used to coming to our studios exactly our type of nerds there are nerds man we love them guys it's a cold war every day they say it's a huge contractor organization that handles a lot of infrastructure for the company, the entire organization is a Game of Thrones nightmare said a former employee who worked at MT there is a cold war every day said a former employee is not a contractor, It is different Archana Sabapathy, who spent two seasons in the division that Subba owns, the first did not last more than three years, the second, only one day within the divisions, said that contracting companies like us, Pro Infosys in Accenture, struggle constantly to fill positions and develop projects, that's what it sounds like.

Very Apple, like you, bid against each other and we will choose the Darwinian winner. Interesting, no I don't know anything about this, in fact I've never thought about it, but of course. It makes sense that they would have a large infrastructure division. I became aware of Accenture at my previous job because we had some of the systems they were integrating and I've found a lot of respect for some that were wonderful, but a lot of them were exactly like what. will instantly take us to the sale well we're on our booze cruise a lot of people are on Zoom these days and of course you've read all the stories I'm sure by now about how insecure and unprepared it is and I.

I've been telling people if it's a smaller group 32 or less FaceTime views right if they're all iOS yeah what a thorough Apple yeah Ohio asked a group of people about this and as we talked about this before, because I talked about it. You already know this, go away and I did a podcast with Micah Sergeant and I'm more like, clockwise, my thing is that I will do it reluctantly, no, I won't use Facebook and I won't use zoom, but if my family approaches via zoom. or through Facebook, I'm not going to ignore them, especially not with what's going on right now, but I feel like instead of zooming, whatever your group is, if they're all on WhatsApp, if they're all on FaceTime, if they're all on Google . hang up like what your social group already uses most likely has a video chat and instead of switching to zoom and I'm not saying they don't have problems like FaceTime has bugs and bad things and all the various FaceTime products They have their own. set of moral dilemmas you can use what you have with your group you don't have to add new and potentially annoying technologies to your matrix.

I'm going to be the opposite of Renee on this and talk about everyday people and I talked to my friends too because everyone's on zoom now and they don't care, it's a big deal because there's some kind of feeling like I've already sold my soul to the devil , so why not use the comforts that the devil has? as long as Minh and I don't worry too much about it, zum-zum has some privacy and security issues and yes, they sold your data to Facebook, but you know Google has been doing stuff like that all the time and you use Google Maps, so do not do it.

I don't stress too much about it, it's reallylike the issue of privacy and security and encrypted videos and things like that, it's really more about businesses and companies, but families and friends who don't care, who don't care, they just want to. meet up with your friends and make it really convenient and easy to use. They want to have a big group in one room and not have to worry about paying more for it, so you know I just feel it's important to get out. of our technology bubble and remember what our moms are and our best friends and you know, the people who don't use technology, so it's not in the technology what they think and how they feel and we don't want to scare them, we love them. continuing to have those social interactions with people without having to, you know, oh, I guess we can't use Zoom right now because you know someone read a story on the internet about them, you know, or worse, they're scared when they use it.

Yes, yes, and the zoom is so easy, I set it up and it was very easy to do. Jitsi, which is a free open source conferencing solution that you can use there. They are owned by 8x8, but it is an open source project, but you can. I also downloaded and did it. I downloaded and installed the server software. You can join me if you want to twit dot team slash macbreak weekly. I just put a little space here and okay, it's easy, it doesn't require any software installation because it's a web RTC, so it's just a link that you could if you literally typed in your browser twit team slash macbreak weekly.

I'm sure people will in a moment. You would be at the conference right away, so it's very easy. use it, you can put the other one, someone, you can password protect it if you want, do you think we're going to have Zumba now? I don't know, I won't do it. I trust our excellent weekly macbreak in so many friends. I think so. easy easy to set up an alternative but I completely agree with you Laurie, people will just use the default. I tried to get my family to use this and everyone and the kids were fine but my ex wife was struggling so much can we just use it? zoom are like not exactly so now we're getting I probably shouldn't put this on the screen I probably don't have all the PGPs in your email don't get away from you kiss it's an interesting challenge to see how many people we have can come in here none of them have turned on its cameras so I guess we're safe it's growing quickly the funny thing is this is just I'm running out of a box in my home office which was my minecraft servers are running minecraft hello everyone maybe it's the Naked Mac group.

The watchers like to make Mac break up the watcher group and they just decided to all come over to chat, are you guys on, is no one on? I have the microphones off but no one has turned on the cameras, maybe they just don't want to be seen because there are already 20 people, 21 people there, it's a good group, there must be something going on if there are so many people. there and none of them came. I could set it to sort of private, yeah, I mean, there's going to be a couple of people that want to be seen, so there's going to have to be some for us, yeah, interesting, yeah, us.

This is actually a good stress test because I have no idea how many people I can fit in there at once. Any use as a backdrop is going to make a big splash so well and that's another reason why everyone wants you to zoom because everyone has them but they can use zoom backgrounds and I think you can do that with jitsi. You'd have to get a green screen and a switch and stuff like it was hilarious where the guy would get up and walk away like he was... he was sitting down, he was also on his couch and he got up off the desk and walked in the door and then got down from the sofa and approached the desk saying in this way that no one could know whether he was paying attention or not, Siva Vaidhyanathan. he's been posting some fun ones, he's a professor, I think journalism at NYU, look at our noise in Washington, right?

Yeah, one posted, you know the meme where the guys walk with his girlfriend, but he looks over his shoulder at the other woman walking the other way, so she put hers. I see where she put her head. I think his head is on the girl. Yeah, come on, going in that direction, so it looks like it's pretty funny anyway. He's tweeting some fun things. Rats, people are having a lot of fun, so no, I don't. I guess I must have turned on the stranger danger setting, yeah, because Carson says the cameras are on and you guys can see me fine, so yeah, I must be, that's good.

No, I'm not unhappy because you're the only one who focuses on the star, on the talented little guy in the corner, there's a focus on him. I'll have to look in the settings, maybe he's done something to prevent it at least he takes care of all that if I turn on the microphone let me see how it sounds, is everyone there? Hello, yes, they are muted or something. I must have it because I put some security in it so it wouldn't work. Don't go crazy, no, no, Leo, I think you know why they don't talk to you, good old fashioned shooting, I don't know, maybe I did something wrong if only Laurie Andy and I recorded enough to change our screens and do the same.

At the same time, to play on all this stuff anyway, Apple has a leaked memo that Apple sent out that said we're keeping stores closed until early May, right now here we are, April 7th, which even seems a little bit too optimistic, but Yes, I don't know of any rumors that they might have been thinking about opening some key stores just for service now that all the states, but the five that are now have government and now they're basically saying no, they're not going to open. none. stores that are not critical and now that other stores that have been saying that they are critical because they want to stay open or are being slapped and forced to close, I think now I think a lot of different people, individuals and organizations, are starting to understand that this is going to be a long-term thing that we're going to get out of, but it's going to happen, but you can't make any plans for anything in the next two or three months because everything, as the numbers continue to come in and the models continue to change we're not going to knowing when we can reopen the doors and when we finally will the reason we are not going out to eat is not because the restaurants are all closed but because you can't get a reservation at McDonald's for the next five months Leonardo DiCaprio joined to Steve Jobs Widow Laurene Powell Jobs to create a GoFundMe fundraiser to raise money for the hungry during this crisis.

It's called America's Food Fund and thirteen point three million of a goal of fifteen million dollars was raised, I'm not sure how much DiCaprio and Jobs contributed but I imagine it was a good chunk of change so it's great that are working with World Central Kitchen and feeding America, and wow, they've raised a ton. of money up there, yes, that is an incredible world, the same kitchen is Andrés, a wonderful group, yes, they feed so many people during crises like this. Tim Cook is apparently throwing some money in there too, so I complain on Twitter, but luckily there are heroes that I can just throw money at and they had a hard time yeah, yeah, that's right, they're making a difference, that's right, yeah, Apple has doubled its donation from China in the fight against Covid 19 the initial one, let's see what that is, what do you see Matt, do you know Lorie?

What comes to mind is one thousand nine hundred and ninety million masks. Wow, that's great, are they making them? It's funny because most of these pests, I think a lot of them are made in China, right? I think it's confusing, so I know there's an initial push where they literally had some masks and storage and they shipped it fine, but I think at this point now they're just pouring money into whatever factory can make them. I think that's where Now we are with that, it's also effective, they've also donated seven million dollars, so of course, Apple has definitely made it in China and it's important that you know that posted.

Tim Cook posted this on Weibo on Wednesday. They had and also opened all the Apple stores in China. 42 stores open, the only country where Apple stores are opened. Incredible. I'm just going to say that it would be amazing if he made the exact same videos, but some imperfect nuance came out and he was like, yeah, Tim, he just made the Weibo version exactly like Zuckerberg did. I think Mark Zuckerberg gave a whole speech and got brilliant people talking. Surely in Mandarin they should go in there. I'm really excited about this and saved the best for Lastly, I'm talking about avvocato, this is something that has always bothered me about the iOS springboard, it's called the front-end interface.

I really love widgets on Android, I admit they can make your phone look horrible and I understand why Apple doesn't enable them. but according to a leaked screenshot of iOS 14, the beta code release is leaking, everything is leaking, there will be widgets on the home screen in iOS 14, it's believable, that's interesting to me, well, I mean, these are internal builds, I think this is a December build. As the bloggers are joking, every one of them is right now and that means that a lot of things are not disabled as they would be in an external distribution, so there could be a lot of things in there that are being built and tested, but what What's interesting to me is that HTC many years ago said yes, we put widgets on the home screen, so I think it looks cool, but almost no one uses them and almost no one changes them from the default, so we're not.

In fact, I'm sure they're great or not, but if they're not there, a lot of people complain about it and what I really want to know is not when they released them because I sure don't like the iOS home screen. I don't think this is an update it needs, but it does need an update, but when it's released a year later, I'd love to see it and again, maybe Apple could make widgets like no one's seen before. I will leave an outside opportunity. for that, but I just want to look at the usage statistics a year later and see if we are different than many not like nerdy and nerdy Android users, but like the vast majority of Android users who think it looks pretty but never do. they touch The things I'm talking about well as an Android user, Steve, is not that I want screens full of widgets, but that I want my home screen.

I want the full app with screen time that will tell me every time I wake it up at Wake It Up essentially because I can have a sort of touch tone for the day. There are times when I am traveling and I will create a widget screen to have a status dashboard. This is where I should go. Here's my next meeting. here is this here is this here is one could here is my boarding pass for whatever I think it's more that the people who use them use them a lot and the people who don't use them don't have to feel intimidated because they exist Apple is in an interesting way Opera's interesting perspective gives me an interesting position, as that's typically where I think one of the problems with widgets is that every other company creates them, creates APIs for them, creates documentation for them, but then it's up to developers to decide that it makes sense to add what support to their app when Apple decides that this is a really important thing they're going to create, they create an internal budget to market the concept of widgets to developers, so it's more likely that De In fact, we will promote and support them, particularly in this case, as they continue to eliminate all the limitations of the iPad that make it not as good of a thousand dollar computer as a six hundred dollar Windows laptop. have a village if people don't necessarily have the ability to have multiple windows and multiple apps at the same time, maybe all they really want is to have widgets that share the screen and share screen space with apps so they can keep an eye on things or keeping a chat going, things like that, so I'm very interested to see how this would change the atmosphere change within iOS for both the phone and the iPad, whatever the complications were and they had all those things because people it uses a lot of complications, they actually talked about it maybe being a little bit like the watch.

It would be great. I want just a line of text around the edge of the screen, like ants walking around, which would actually use that. Very much if I could insert my screen at about 32 pixels and just be able to throw it with complications to the side, like in the corners of the screen like I can do on the Apple Watch, that would be very interesting, I don't know. I think it would suck at all yeah well I mean if you're going to do it do it with something other than Android just duplicate Android yeah and the only thing I've come to terms with after having an iPhone for so long .

For a long time, I never looked for an app icon again. I scroll down and do a search or know exactly where it is,so a page full of applications no one needs it anymore, so let's find a new way to discover it. Yes that's better to organize that's more efficient for us what is the 720p webcam for Apple laptops the iPad screen launcher is for apps it's time to fix it again you were very happy with it when you created it ten years ago we would have liked For you to see how you have made changes in the last ten years because we believe that there is some movement in that category that you could take as an administrator.

What I would love to see is to make it editable and give me areas to be able to do it if I want. I could have a constant search bar that excites me. On Android, if I want, I can have a layer of complications because they are really useful on the watch. I could have a series of apps suggested by Siri because I often pull down search. I don't have to search because the app I want is based on the time of day, the previous behavior of other apps is like the psychic, we don't talk very well, but it seems to know the type of app I want, so put it in there and then let me . have a double height document or something from the apps that I always want when I go like Messenger or whatever I always want when I go to my phone and then I'll start to be really happy, then I can drag and drop them exactly where they are.

I love Renea. I think you came up with the next column because you think of something and it's that you put something in such a great way that I think Siri should have been called Siri phyto because you can't, you can talk to it, it might understand you, it might respond to you, he may give you something interesting, but what he really does well is jump into your lap when you need a hug or bring you your slippers when he knows it was time to have his slippers this time, that's right, I think the series is a great case of use for now, Tim Cook will be Ohio State's commencement speaker in a virtual ceremony that will be streamed online on May 3, that's cool, yeah, that's cool, that's a great university.

There will be a lot of people at that start. My heart goes out to all those who cannot walk. Also, I said you spent your 4 years and really your entire life building up to this point and yeah, you can't get to that point, but. having Tim Cook as you, you know, sitting in front of his fancy bookshelf and leaning on his screen, I'm sure he'll do something good for it and Apple has been a long-time partner of Ohio State. 65,000 iPads implemented for students over five years old. years and there is an iOS lab where everyone is working on iOS, which is an interesting thing for a university, it is also an interesting opportunity.

I know what I think we have, we've seen what Tim has done with other graduation addresses and things like he's not going to turn it into an Apple press conference or an Apple keynote, but it's an opportunity that CEOs They rarely get an opportunity like this where they are expected to do so. It is very appropriate to talk about how they think and what their philosophies are and what their mood is at a certain time of the year or and it is particularly used in the decade year so I am sure it will keep you focused on the garage college students.

I'm sure he'll have that incredibly intimidating job for anyone. even a CEO: what do you say to a group of 22-year-olds who are about to be unleashed at certain times? That was true, it was true in the '80s and '90s when I was graduating high school in college and it's much more true today, but it will be interesting to hear him speak from the heart and basically create a live blog post. Let's wrap up this adventure because Steve, the coach, Steve Cook, Steve Cook, Steve strives to be the safety host. Now to start a program and today we started a little late.

I apologize to everyone watching live, but I think it would be a good time, Andy, it sounds like you've chosen something specifically for me, specifically for us. Now, actually, I was late. year I decided that you know, it's time for me to learn how to sew and one of the things I was considering buying in February. I make my big windfall by recommending movies and movies and other things on Amazon during Black Friday. Lots of Amazon credits because I'm an affiliate. I never used tech stuff, only for similar things, books and movies like that, and I always treat myself to fun stuff.

I was thinking, I bought a lens with the money I had. But I was thinking of buying a sewing machine, but he got me a copy interested in learning how to sew. It was this wonderful YouTube channel by a woman named Bernadette Banner. She has an incredibly great talent for narrative storytelling. She. is a fashion historian who just sews normal, it's Victorian sewing, but it's not like that, so now this is how I chase the sheep so I can pluck the wool and create this, they are very, very, very traditional techniques, so that on one level if you're not interested in sewing, there's a way that she tells this story about other things that she's doing or what she's studying right now, she has a knack for this kind of thing and it's this list that makes YouTube be so cool.

I have no particular interest in sewing. I sew my own hems as if I had my own pants, like my grandmother taught me, but if that were the case, I had no problem with my hearing from doing this, but after seeing her do it, I did. many hand sewing projects I thought maybe I would like to learn how to sew some things, right? I ordered on Amazon like this the two boxes of nothing but here the flamingo-type thread scissors that have the writers bitten and such and such. Luckily I do have a couple of masks to go out with Bloods like I'm going to put some masks so you can see how fun that could be, but this is it, if you are thinking about hand sewing some things for the first time in your life because you wanted masks, this will be very useful.

It has like a video that deals with three different stitches, like the classic hand sewing ones, which I was practicing with a few days ago, but what I'm saying is that it's the best that YouTube can offer because it's very good at telling a story. and when you work with a great storyteller, particularly one who is a great video storyteller, it almost doesn't matter what the content is, you just enjoy the story as it develops and you get very, very high recognition, and also spend time with she. She has friends and colleagues and this in the sewing community like the ones named Kathy, hey, you know, you click on her channels like, oh wow, she's amazing and now, it's another couple of days, well, I see, I thought you knew that I bought a sewing machine on the road for the weekend.

This is for me. I will not sew by hand or on a sewing machine. I'm going to sew masks in my kitchen. It's nice that you guys are so excited to have. So when I was seven years old, yes, my mother tried to teach me how to sew, but I had no interest in that, so and you wanted to go play football, that's exactly right, but sewing is much more important than football right now. I wish I had done it. learn that's like that so I'm in defense of learning in my defense I didn't want to play football that seems really sweet I'm going to make up for lost time though I'm going to do FaceTime mom and I'm going to say mom, I have a sewing machine, can you teach me how to use them?

You have learned that you are learning to knit or crochet and that you will appear with your needles at the show and I already know it. how to knit for many years I don't do it regularly, but I do know how to crochet chains your mom is a superstar knitter she is your mom you have yes Autocratic cross yes she is very good she is any fabric she is very good with textile things, let's see, I'm going to save Lori's for last, but I'm going to do it with Renae now because he's fully caffeinated, yeah, so this is an arrow press, it's an incredibly inexpensive way to make incredibly good coffee, so Yes You just can't go to Dunkin Donuts, you can't go to Tim Hortons, you know, you can't fix your Starbucks, whatever it is, you know, you can get them pretty cheap, they're like 29 bucks on aerial prints.

I've seen them sometimes for 14 on sale and you basically add a little filter, wet the filter, put it in the little plastic lid, screw it on, put it on top of your cup and fill it with your favorite ground coffee. ground if you're one of those nerds and then you pour boiling water in you wait you wait you stir it in you wait and then you push it down I don't have patience I'm not like Daniel Bader I can't sit there and be all zen about pouring it in and spending like three minutes waiting for it to bloom .

I need my coffee now, but I don't want bad coffee now and the Aeropress allows me to get something that's pretty close to an espresso or if you add then I put hot water on it pretty close to an Americano, very, very quickly, with minimal effort and almost no cleaning, so I've been subsisting on regular coffee. I've been subsisting on a narrow vise and they have a travel version that you can carry. when we travel again, but pressing the basic arrow is like the best deal in the history of coffee. Lisa presses the arrow every damn morning, it seems like we have a dozen hymns and there are about three here at work.

Know? I love the Aeropress. the best way to make coffee, yes, and it's economical, we have all these expensive coffee gadgets, but we always come back to the Aeropress and yes, you walk past the ten thousand dollar espresso machine with your arrow press and you laugh, even though just be a tip. because when we traveled, when we used to travel, she always packed the Aeropress and a bunch of coffee, just a tip, she always gave me a tip. At first she couldn't understand it, she said: can you bring me the coffee? That's because yes. I know it's coming, yeah, I guess the drug smugglers, you know, the marijuana smugglers, they put their drugs in a bunch of coffee to hide the smell from the dogs, so every time that bag finds out why they always search the bag with coffee.

We're going to wrap up our pick for Lori Gill Week, so this week or this month is National Autism Awareness or Acceptance Month, depending on who you are, so I just wanted to remind everyone that, you know, learn a little. about autism, so my nephew is a child on the spectrum and his mother uses Autism Speaks regularly to find resources and learn about programs and has met and become good friends with many people through the resources that come from Autism Speaks. This is a fantastic website that is full of information, so if you have someone in your family who is on the spectrum or you don't know anyone who is not on the spectrum and you don't really understand the disorder, this is a great place to read about it and get more information.

I think one of the things that isn't known as much about autism is that it varies so much that there are some high-functioning autistic people who on the surface seem to be antisocial or something. that, but there's more, many of the people who listen to this show and do this show are on the spectrum. I'm pretty sure and you know there's always been a lot of people in the tech industry, a lot of big names in tech are here or on the spectrum, you're absolutely right and what's important to do is not treat autism as some kind of thing.

What to feel bad about or what to be afraid of or what you don't want to participate in, but you really like to recognize and understand and you can interact with people on the spectrum just like you can interact with everyone else, they are just reading the world in a different way than you and the way they react to things is different from what we see. social standards, so learning about autism so you can better accept it is also just as important as being able to be with someone on the spectrum that you just know when you're at the grocery store and there's a screaming child and yelling at a parent who doesn't seem to be reacting. to that, don't judge, that's right, right, because there could be several reasons why that child could be screaming and one of them could be that he is a child on the spectrum. and that there is nothing you can do to help or prevent that from happening, so being aware and accepting of autism and understanding that the spectrum is huge, not only do you know people who can count the toothpicks that fall on the floor, they have all kinds of different levels at all Rain Man no, exactly yes, so go out and learn about it and Autism Speaks is a really fantastic website for that kind of learning.

You know, I completely agree with you. You know a lot of autistic people, and honestly, I think even the broadest statement is what we consider a quote: the normal brain is not normal, and in fact it is the unusual brains, the brains that think differently, that often change. the world around us, so these are people who should be celebrated and it's not just autism. There are all sorts of weird ways to aid identification and just because they don't match ours or yours doesn't mean they're inferior in any way; In fact, in many ways I think they may have advantages over us as well.

The answer to most human questions is always empathy, yes, but it's not like that, you don't have to judge, you don't have to guess, you don't want to do anything, you justYou have to appreciate that we all have. We all carry a

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has different bricks in it doesn't mean you understand what their load is and what they can and can't do, oh God, why? This person put another brick in my backpack, ladies and gentlemen, which concludes macbreak weekly for this week. Laurie Gill, the amazing Laurie Gill is what's her title now, executive editor.

What she did? What did you think was good? René's replacement How about that? Let's be honest with you. get better, you catch weed and burn sick someday, when the concerts happen again, they will be broadcast, maybe they will be broadcast on the Internet, so is that what you are seeing? That's really it, we're trying to figure things out, let's see what happens. I love all these living beings. The concerts in the hall disappointed me a little because I saw the I Heart one, which is a benefit and a good thing, but it seemed like it was all pre-recorded and I love it, what I really enjoy is the liveliness of what we do and and seeing the news anchors there, you know, Jimmy's and all this, I think this is one of the real benefits that you can get from this, it's this kind of letting our hair down and being real and being live and I'm just enjoying it.

No, and especially because we've been doing it for 15 years. Seeing them finally catch up to Andy Anika. See you at WGBH in Boston. Well, we'll listen to you anyway. When will your next appearance be? Looks like I'm on Fridays for the next few weeks will be announced but check my Twitter account on a knocko I H and a TKO where I usually announce hopefully the day before, sometimes I don't forget until the morning of but you can always stream on wgbh news.org, whatever. the live thing is and also like the last month or month and a half of amazing seconds and of course Renae Ritchie who launched her own company is not dying anymore now on youtube.com slash Renee Ritchie re any rit CH i e how's it going? enjoying life as an independent, like I said, is really scary but also very exciting and I was ping-ponging back and forth between those two states, but now I think I'm comfortably accustomed to a tickle in the middle and these prizes in plane, yeah, how much do you have to say, like you don't think, like, where is the website, where is this social thing, how is it connected to this, why can't I do it, why didn't I have a community tab on my YouTube channel and this morning something comes up that says: Congratulations, you've qualified for a community, yeah, all this exciting stuff, yeah, go to the community tab, it's actually YouTube, it really is its own culture, now it's become a very complicated and interesting social network, yes, it is. and I also want to say that this is the opportunity for anyone who is over 32 to feel really old because, again, the abilities of people who are younger in age and are in their 20s, I'm not blowing smoke here , I'm like this. impressed with the level of the camera work in telling stories how effectively they talk to the camera, how effectively they don't talk to the camera, this is something I've been into on and off for the last 10 years since YouTube became a real thing , but for the longest time I've been trying to figure out how to make videos and I always get stuck in my stupid Generation It takes static for the last three minutes and then I looked like this. it's for 13 13 year olds playing with their 13 year old friend and it's brilliant oh my god but there are some talented people working on YouTube.

I can't get enough, it's great, it's authentic, it's real and it's exactly yes, I think. which I think was that, they grew up thinking of YouTube as something they can play and have fun with instead of I mean, I want this to look like Meet the Press, so I'm going to have to have a new table for here it's like if not you just turn on the camera and have fun and see what happens yeah well like I'm watching something like this person on tick-tock has 40 40 million followers and she's just in her room dancing and like the bathroom was open behind her the bed is not made and it has 30 million views.

I'm like, yeah, okay, but I see I'm going, how, I don't know how, yeah, John Krasinski launches a YouTube channel. million followers in three days or something, it's amazing that the black guy has like a million followers on Polanski's games, but some celebrities have like 3000. I don't know what the difference is between a John Krasinski and a Jack Black and some of those thousands. from other celebrities telling you something tells you something yes, yes, it's like visibility, maybe they used to call it Q, the Q score, yes, ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our exciting and exciting weekly macbreak edition.

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Now I'm sad to say it's time to go back to work or sewing because rest time is over, goodbye.