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MI 75. Una de cal y otra de Fold, powered AI, Beta 2 de 18.5 y VPTe acompañamos de nuevo un martes para darte lo ultimo del iphone Fold, novedades de Gurman en WatchOS 12, la beta 2 de 18.5 y finalizamos con una curiosidad vista en Reddit de Vision Pro o lo que sea...Te esperamos en telegram LO TENEMOS!

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En nuestro Manzanas Enfrentadas de esta semana vamos a debatir sobre los últimos cambios en la política arancelaria en Estados Unidos. Últimamente, no sólo economistas o empresarios viven pendientes de los antojos del señor Trump, el mundo entero se ha resentido. Porque directa o indirectamente estos aranceles van a afectar a todos. Y como este es un podcast de tecnología y de Apple, vamos a debatir sobre lo que puede acontecer en este mundo. Porque a nadie escapa que los precios de muchos productos se van a ver afectados al alza. Por lo que muy probablemente nos llevemos un susto en la nueva generación de iPhone que tendremos en Septiembre.Y como no todo son aranceles o Trump, seguimos con tecnología y cosas que nos gustan más como iOS 19 y WatchOS 12. Como venimos diciendo en nuestros Manzanas Informadas diarios, los cambios en estas nuevas versiones parecen ya confirmados. Nos referimos a cambios en la apariencia de nuestros sistemas operativo los que parecen converger en un estilo “Vision Pro”. Como ya se rumoreó, todos los sistemas van a unificar estilos y van hacia este, con iconos redondeados y transparencias como datos más significativos.Nuestro podcast de final de semana para cumplir con nuestros seguidores y con nuestro compromiso 7 de 7. Lo tenemos! Y si no lo tenemos hoy, lo tendremos mañana o ya lo tuvimos ayer, porque seguimos con nuestro podcast diariamente. Gracias por estar ahí y gracias por leer hasta aquí.

En el ME-RO de esta semana analizamos las novedades esperadas en WatchOS 12 y como no, la principal novedad es Apple Intelligence. Parece que no termina de llegar de pleno al iPhone y más que probablemente se anuncie esta WWDC para nuestros Apple Watch.Un nuevo Round One para nuestros seguidores desde el Sabado a las 6:00, a no ser que seas PriME y que lo estes disfrutando desde su grabación. Lo tenemos!

We're just weeks away from iOS 19, just months from iPhone 17, but already we're looking far ahead to future of the iPhone, the Apple Vision Pro, on the AppleInsider Podcast.Contact your hosts:@williamgallagher_ on Threads@WGallagher on TwitterWilliam's 58keys on YouTubeWilliam Gallagher on email@hillithreads on Threads@Hillitech on TwitterWes on BlueskyWes Hilliard on emailSponsored by:Oracle: Check out Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at oracle.com/appleinsiderMasterClass: take advantage of the new special discount offers on annual memberships at MasterClass.comFast Growing Trees: Visit fast-growing-trees.com/appleinsider to get an additional 15% off plants and trees, even the many already discounted to half priceLinks from the Show:Dodgy report claims Apple Vision Pro 2 arriving by April 2026Apple plans another iPhone X style redesign for the iPhone 20Apple's Home Hub pushed back to 2026 after delayed Siri improvementsThe solution to AI hallucinations is more data for the userLeaker wars escalate, Jon Prosser shows alleged iOS 19 redesignRumor repeats watchOS to get visionOS design elements, makes wild AI claimTrump delays TikTok ban for another 75 daysApple stock bloodbath continues after China applies retaliatory tariffsApple will take a $33 billion hit to its bottom line because of Trump tariffsiPhone 17 Pro predicted to cost over $2000 because of Trump tariffsApple may be able to delay price increases, but not for longApple stocks plummet, as Trump threatens 104% tariff on ChinaHow Apple stockpiled iPhones to avoid tariffs and keep prices low for a whileApple stock hammered for third consecutive market day, falls on news of more tariffsApple could import more iPhones from India due to Trump's tariffsA flood of panic-buying has started in anticipation of major iPhone price increasesApple shares clawing back, after $638 billion in value is destroyedApple stock rocked for fourth day, despite brief signs of recoveryTrump's 104% tariff against imports from China goes liveApple's airlifting imports to beat tariff deadline included MacsApple stock faces another battering as China & EU fight back against U.S. tariffsYour next iPhone might cost more but Apple may bet you won't notice muchTrump's belief that iPhone manufacturing could quickly move to the US is wrongTrade war escalates: Trump hikes China tariffs to 125%, pauses others for 90 daysApple stock finally claws back some losses following mixed Trump tariff messageTrump blinks: Floats suggestion that Apple might get a tariff exemptionSupport the show:Support the show on Patreon or Apple Podcasts to get ad-free episodes every week, access to our private Discord channel, and early release of the show! We would also appreciate a 5-star rating and review in Apple PodcastsMore AppleInsider podcastsTune in to our HomeKit Insider podcast covering the latest news, products, apps and everything HomeKit related. Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or just search for HomeKit Insider wherever you get your podcasts.Subscribe and listen to our

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we catch up on the latest iOS 19 and watchOS 12 rumors, upcoming devices, and more. Detailed new renders from leaker Jon Prosser claim to provide the best look yet at the complete redesign rumored to arrive in ‌iOS 19‌, showing more rounded elements, lighting effects, translucency, and an all-new pill-shaped tab bar with an elongated search bar. This visonOS-style redesign is also now rumored to come to the Apple Watch, and a sketchy report claims that the Apple Watch Ultra 3 will tout exclusive AI features for Genmoji, Siri integration with activity information and sleep tracking, health monitoring, and more. We look at the first iPhone 17 Pro cases, which emphasize just how large the new full-width camera bump is set to be, as well as exclusive camera features rumored for the device. We also discuss the report about the second-generation Vision Pro now being in mass production, the delay of Apple's smart home hub product to 2026, and Sir Jony Ive's work on a smartphone without a screen for OpenAI. (00:00) - New iOS 19 Renders & Leaks  (11:36) - watchOS and Apple Watch Ultra 3 Rumors (17:54) - iPhone 17 Pro Case Leaks & New Video Feature  (25:15) - Vision Pro 2 in Production (27:33) - Smart Home Hub Issues (28:15) - Jony Ive's New Smart Phone with Open AI

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Now that iOS 18.4 is out, we're already into what's coming with iOS 18.5, and further off into the future with a rumored AI update to Apple Health. Plus the first reports of the M6 processor, and the benefits of a smart toothbrush, on the AppleInsider Podcast.Contact your hosts:@williamgallagher_ on Threads@WGallagher on TwitterWilliam's 58keys on YouTubeWilliam Gallagher on email@hillithreads on Threads@Hillitech on TwitterWes on BlueskyWes Hilliard on emailSponsored by:Fast Growing Trees: Visit fast-growing-trees.com/appleinsider to get an additional 15% off plants and trees, even the many already discounted to half priceNotion: Try out the incredible power of Notion AI today! For a limited time, try Notion AI for free when you visit: notion.com/appleinsiderLinks from the Show:Computing would be totally different had Apple not been formed 49 years ago, todayEnjoy April Fool's Day!Touch Grass » Special Edition Drop » dbrandiOS 18.4 lands with more Apple Intelligence, Apple Vision Pro appiPadOS 18.4 released with Apple Intelligence & Mail tweakstvOS 18.4 brings Matter support for vacuums, lossless audio, and more to Apple TVApple Intelligence now available on Apple Vision Pro with visionOS 2.4Apple restarts last developer beta cycle before WWDC with iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5Health app's future AI assistant will tell you how to keep fitApple still wants an iPhone without physical buttons, but it won't happen soonTrump's solution to the TikTok predicament is 'TikTok America'Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs hit every one of Apple's international manufacturing partnersApple CEO Tim Cook makes a cool $24 million in serendipitous stock saleApple shares hammered after Trump tariff announcementHow and where Trump's new tariffs affect AppleWork starts on Apple M6 chip with modems for future MacsSupport the show:Support the show on Patreon or Apple Podcasts to get ad-free episodes every week, access to our private Discord channel, and early release of the show! We would also appreciate a 5-star rating and review in Apple PodcastsMore AppleInsider podcastsTune in to our HomeKit Insider podcast covering the latest news, products, apps and everything HomeKit related. Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or just search for HomeKit Insider wherever you get your podcasts.Subscribe and listen to our AppleInsider Daily podcast for the latest Apple news Monday through Friday. You can find it on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.Those interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at: advertising@appleinsider.com (00:00) - Intro (00:30) - iPad anniversary (09:40) - Happy Birthday, Apple (11:17) - iOS 18.4, macOS, watchOS... (35:54) - iOS 18.5 (36:42) - Doctor AI (48:45) - Solid-State Buttons (51:15) - Controversy Corner (01:07:18) - M6 and beyond ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave he is joined by guest Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet. We kick off the episode welcoming Eric, who brings humor and a red-tailed hawk toy. Eric discusses his IT experience with Apple products, photography, and insights on the Apple Vision Pro, including VisionOS 2.4's performance improvements and Apple Intelligence. Marty desires more control over personal content in the Spatial Gallery app. We explore iOS 18.4 updates, including Mail, RCS, and Apple Intelligence. Marty praises ambient music in Apple Music, while Eric highlights improved photo search. We wrap up by discussing Macstock on July 11-13. The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com  Direct Link to Audio  Links to our Show Give us a review on Apple Podcasts! CLICK HERE we would really appreciate it! Click this link Buy me a Coffee to support the show we would really appreciate it. intouchwithios.com/coffee  Another way to support the show is to become a Patreon member patreon.com/intouchwithios Website: In Touch With iOS YouTube Channel In Touch with iOS Magazine on Flipboard Facebook Page BlueSky Mastodon X Instagram Threads Spoutible Summary We kick off the episode with a warm introduction to our new guest, Eric, who humorously brings along a red-tailed hawk stuffed toy to the mix. We quickly transition into discussing Eric's extensive experience with Apple products. He shares his work in IT, focusing on Macs, as well as his passion for photography, leading us into our first major topic: the Apple Vision Pro. Eric reveals his experiences with the device's recent updates and how they could enhance immersive content sharing. The conversation turns to the latest updates regarding the Vision Pro, as we discuss the newly released Vision OS 2.4. I highlight the significant performance improvements and the debut of Apple Intelligence. Eric shares his thoughts on the Spatial Gallery app, appreciating its consistent high-resolution content, while Marty expresses his desire for more control over personal content within the app rather than being restricted to curated offerings. As we move into the beta testing phase, I share details on iOS 18.4 and its features, including updates to the Mail app, RCS support in Messages, and enhancements in Apple Intelligence. We discuss the struggles related to email categorization and whether new features can enhance user experiences. Each guest contributes their opinions on the changing landscape of Apple's operating systems, insights on beta testing, and feature preferences. Marty shares his excitement about the ambient music feature in Apple Music, which has proven to be beneficial for concentration while working. We lean into a deeper discussion surrounding this recent iOS update, considering how improved notification management can enhance the user experience. Eric reflects on the improved search capabilities within the Photos app and how it has significantly leveled up his photo management. Transitioning to the topic of Apple's potential future developments, we delve into the long-awaited non-invasive glucose monitoring for the Apple Watch. Past research and a multitude of hurdles facing this technology leave us wondering when and if it will ever become a reality. As we share our experiences with various health tracking devices, there's a consensus on the anticipation of groundbreaking advancements in this field. Toward the end of our episode, we chat about upcoming events such as MacStock on July 11-13, where all of us will be present, highlighting the campus community atmosphere and the opportunity for attendee engagement through workshops. We encourage listeners to join us for this event and share a special discount code for tickets. Topics and Links We have a first time guest this week we get to know Eric Bolden. In Touch With Vision Pro this week.  Apple Releases visionOS 2.4 With Apple Intelligence, Spatial Gallery and New iPhone Integration Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro today with visionOS 2.4 Apple Seeds First Betas of visionOS 2.5, tvOS 18.5, and watchOS 11.5  https://developer.apple.com/documentation/visionos-release-notes/visionos-2_5-release-notes Beta this week. iOS 18.4 and all other OS were released to the public. IOS 18.5 beta 1 was also released.  Apple Seeds First Beta of iOS 18.5 to Developers - MacRumors iOS 18.5 makes it easier to get the old Apple Mail design back Everything New in the iOS 18.5 Beta Apple Releases iOS 18.4 With Priority Notifications, Ambient Music, New Emoji and More iOS 18.4 lets you set default iPhone apps in these new categories iOS 18.4 Features: Everything New in iOS 18.4  iOS 18.4's Messages app adds RCS features for lots of new users Apple Releases watchOS 11.4 With Sleep Alarm Update watchOS 11.4 now available with three new features for Apple Watch [U: Back] New Apple Invites 1.1 update now available on App Store Apple Releases tvOS 18.4 iOS 18.4 Bug Seemingly Resurrects Previously Deleted iPhone Apps - MacRumors Apple Updates iWork Apps With New iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4 Features - MacRumors Apple News+ Subscribers Can Now Access Apple News Food iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 Address 50+ Vulnerabilities Apple fixes WebKit zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated' attacks In Touch With Mac this week Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.4 With Mail Categorization and More Save Time Resizing Images on Mac With a Quick Action - MacRumors Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.5 - MacRumors Apple Watch 'Many Years Away' From Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring Dave found this Etsy seller has some amazing Apple posters available. My favorite are the Apple hardware iPhone, IPad, iPhone, Mac, as well as others.You can print them poster size. KOFdesignArt - Etsy  https://www.etsy.com/shop/KOFdesignArt?section_id=41966814 News Visa and American Express Vying to Win Apple Card Deal in 'Fierce' Fight Max rebrands again, and this time it finally succeeds  New Plex Mobile App With Streamlined Interface Rolling Out to Users - MacRumors Announcements Macstock 9 is here for 3 Days on July 11, 12, and 13th, 2025. We have an exclusive coupon code use INTOUCH50 at checkout and save $50..Click here to Register | Macstock Conference & Expo Book your room with a Macstock discount here. Location | Macstock Conference & Expo I hope to see you there! Our Host Dave Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and shares his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and related technologies. Visit the YouTube channel https://youtube.com/intouchwithios follow him on Mastadon @daveg65, and the show @intouchwithios   Our Regular Contributors Jeff Gamet is a podcaster, technology blogger, artist, and author. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's managing editor, and Smile's TextExpander Evangelist. You can find him on Mastadon @jgamet as well as Twitter and Instagram as @jgamet  His YouTube channel https://youtube.com/jgamet Marty Jencius, Ph.D., is a professor of counselor education at Kent State University, where he researches, writes, and trains about using technology in teaching and mental health practice. His podcasts include Vision Pro Files, The Tech Savvy Professor and Circular Firing Squad Podcast. Find him at jencius@mastodon.social  https://thepodtalk.net  About our Guest Eric Bolden is into macOS, plants, sci-fi, food, and is a rural internet supporter. You can connect with him by email at embolden@mac.com, on Mastodon at @eabolden@techhub.social, on his blog, Trending At Work, and as co-host on The Vision ProFiles podcast.

Dans l'actu des nouvelles technologies et de l'accessibilité cette semaine : Du côté des applications et du web Mises à jour des systèmes d'Apple du 31 mars. Mise à jour d'iOS 18.4 / iPadOS 18.4 quoi de neuf pour VoiceOver ? Mise à jour de macOS 15.4, watchOS 11.4 et les autres, quoi de neuf pour VoiceOver ? Avec iOS 18.4, le RCS sur iPhone est disponible chez les principaux opérateurs français. Les robots aspirateurs compatibles sont pris en charge via Matter dans l'application Maison. WhatsApp sur iPhone peut devenir l'application par défaut pour les appels et messages. On peut désormais utiliser Google Maps comme appli de navigation par défaut sur l'iPhone, voici comment. Applie Android Reedy. Intelligent reader. La version 3.0.0 de BrailleBlaster est disponible. Un podcast sur les coulisses de l'accessibilité et la santé chez Apple. Après les cinémas UGC, la chaine Kinepolis France adoptent Greta. Le reste de l'actu Neuralink va implanter la première puce pour rendre la vue dès fin 2025. HandiVision - Une chaine Youtube consacré au jardinage pour les DV. Foire Aux Questions Cette semaine Jean-Pierre nous interroge sur les notifications simultanées sur Apple Watch et iPhone. La page de support d'Apple sur le sujet. Remerciements Cette semaine, nous remercions Christian, Fred, Murielle et Vincent pour leurs infos ou leur dons. Si vous souhaitez vous aussi nous envoyer de l'info ou nous soutenir : Pour nous contactez ou nous envoyez des infos, passez par le formulaire de contact sur le site. Pour faire un don sur PayPal ou en cryptomonaie c'est à l'adresse : oxytude.org/don. Faites vos achats sur Amazon en passant par notre lien affilié oxytude.org/amazon., ça nous aide sans augmenter le prix de vos achats Faites vos achats domotique sur Domadoo, le spécialiste de la maison connectée. oxytude.org/domotique. Pour animer cet épisode Fabrice, Jacques et Philippe.

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- Jetzt wird Europa schlau: iOS 18.4 ist da - Vertrackt: Geldstrafe für Apples App Tracking Transparency - Vollgas: Kommt dieses Jahr noch der M5 fürs iPad Pro? - Umfrage der Woche - Zuschriften unserer Hörer === Anzeige / Sponsorenhinweis === Bock auf Vertrieb? Dann ab mit dir zu FERCHAU! Für den Vertrieb sucht FERCHAU Profis mit Berufserfahrung, die heiß sind auf einen gewaltigen Karrieresprung. Hier kannst du deine Expertise in einem dynamischen Umfeld einbringen, deine Karriere auf das nächste Level katapultieren und gemeinsam mit uns Erfolgsgeschichte schreiben. Bewirb dich noch heute! Mehr Infos unter https://ferchau.com/go/bock-auf-vertrieb === Anzeige / Sponsorenhinweis Ende === Links zur Sendung: - Apple Newsroom (Deutschland): Apple Intelligence Funktionen sind ab sofort auf Deutsch verfügbar - https://www.apple.com/de/newsroom/2025/03/apple-intelligence-features-are-now-available-in-more-languages/ - Mac & i: Automatische Kategorien in Apple Mail stiften Verwirrung - https://www.heise.de/news/Redesign-von-Apple-Mail-Automatische-Kategorien-stiften-Verwirrung-10336489.html - Apple Newsroom (Deutschland): Apple Intelligence kommt heute mit visionOS 2.4 auf die Apple Vision Pro - https://www.apple.com/de/newsroom/2025/03/apple-intelligence-comes-to-apple-vision-pro-today-with-visionos-2-4/ - Mac & i: Apple lässt watchOS 11.4 kurzzeitig wieder verschwinden - https://www.heise.de/news/Update-zurueckgezogen-Apple-laesst-watchOS-11-4-verschwinden-10335618.html - Mac & i: Apples Tracking-Nachfrage in Frankreich - https://www.heise.de/news/Apples-Tracking-Nachfrage-in-iOS-Frankreich-sieht-Wettbewerbsverzerrung-10334656.html - Mac & i: M5-Chip angeblich bald in Mac und iPad - https://www.heise.de/news/M5-Neuer-Apple-Silicon-Chip-bald-in-Mac-und-iPad-10333582.html Kapitelmarken: (00:00:00) Begrüßung (00:16:00) Werbung (00:18:51) Begrüßung (00:23:20) Themen (00:25:03) Jetzt wird Europa schlau: iOS 18.4 ist da (01:08:45) Vertrackt: Geldstrafe für Apples App Tracking Transparency (01:11:36) Vollgas: Kommt dieses Jahr noch der M5 fürs iPad Pro? (01:22:13) Umfrage der Woche (01:25:18) Zuschriften unserer Hörer

Apple Patches Everything Apple released updates for all of its operating systems. Most were released on Monday with WatchOS patches released today on Tuesday. Two already exploited vulnerabilities, which were already patched in the latest iOS and macOS versions, are now patched for older operating systems as well. A total of 145 vulnerabilities were patched. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Patches%20Everything%3A%20March%2031st%202025%20Edition/31816 VMWare Workstation and Fusion update check broken VMWare s automatic update check in its Workstation and Fusion products is currently broken due to a redirect added as part of the Broadcom transition https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/question/certificate-error-is-occured-during-connecting-update-server NIM Postgres Vulnerability NIM Developers using prepared statements to send SQL queries to Postgres may expose themselves to a SQL injection vulnerability. NIM s Postgres library does not appear to use actual prepared statements; instead, it assembles the code and the user data as a string and passes them on to the database. This may lead to a SQL injection vulnerability https://blog.nns.ee/2025/03/28/nim-postgres-vulnerability/

Notas para Apple Podcasts — Episodio 66: iOS 19, Delta multijugador y Apple Intelligence en Europa¿Estará tu iPhone entre los elegidos para iOS 19? ¿Has soñado con jugar a Mario Kart DS online desde tu iPhone? ¿Y qué pasa con las notificaciones que de verdad importan? Hoy te lo contamos todo, con novedades de watchOS, Apple Intelligence y hasta una nueva alarma que suena aunque tu reloj esté en silencio.

Marty, Eric and Daniel look at the latest Vision Pro clone from China, fall detection on Vision Pro, and some news and fun apps for you to explore.No new betaApple Vision Pro today with visionOS 2.4 visionOS 2.4 (22O238) out now. Everything else except for watchOS also updated. watchOS was out briefly, but then pulled.https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/apple-updates-all-its-operating-systems-brings-apple-intelligence-to-vision-pro/Apple Seeds visionOS 2.4 Release Candidate (RC)https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/03/24/apple-seeds-release-candidates-for-ios-184-macos-154Apple Intelligence and new spatial experiences come to Apple Vision Pro today with visionOS 2.4https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-intelligence-comes-to-apple-vision-pro-today-with-visionos-2-4/ Apple releases visionOS 2.4 with Apple Intelligence, Spatial Gallery app, and morehttps://9to5mac.com/2025/03/31/apple-releases-visionos-2-4-with-apple-intelligence-spatial-gallery-app-and-more/ Vision Pro Update Adds Companion App, Improved Guest Demos, and Apple Intelligence Featureshttps://www.roadtovr.com/apple-vision-pro-visionos-2-4-companion-app-guest-demos-intelligence/ Apple is developing the Apple Watch's 'Fall Detection' Feature for future for future Vision Pro, Smartglasses & Contact Lens deviceshttps://www.patentlyapple.com/2025/03/apple-is-developing-the-apple-watchs-fall-detection-feature-for-future-vision-pro-smartglasses-contact-lens-devices.htmlFall Detection could be coming to Vision Pro, Apple Glasses, and smart contact lenseshttps://9to5mac.com/2025/03/31/fall-detection-could-be-coming-to-vision-pro-apple-glasses-and-smart-contact-lenses/#more-995978 4 visionOS 3 features that can turn Vision Pro into an everyday devicehttps://www.macworld.com/article/2635293/4-visionos-3-features-apple-needs-to-get-people-interested-in-vision-pro-again.htmlChina's 'Vivo Vision' Overtly Copies Apple Vision Pro Designhttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/27/vivo-vision-copies-vision-pro/ Vivo Vision vs. Apple Vision Pro: A Side-by-Side Comparisonhttps://www.macobserver.com/tips/round-ups/vivo-vision-vs-apple-vision-pro-a-side-by-side-comparison/ Vivo Vision is the closest Vision Pro clone yet https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/27/vivo-vision-is-the-closest-vision-pro-clone-yet/ Why Every Vision Pro Competitor Looks Like an Apple Clonehttps://www.macobserver.com/tips/round-ups/vision-pro-competitor-apple-clone/ ResMed Kontor Head Strap for Apple Vision Pro review: bring balance to spatial computinghttps://appleinsider.com/articles/25/03/28/resmed-kontor-head-strap-for-apple-vision-pro-review-bring-balance-to-spatial-computing Apple TV+ 'Friday Night Baseball' Returns With New Documentary Series https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/28/apple-tv-friday-night-baseball-returns/ Is the visionOS Inspired Design on iOS 19 Supposed to Boost Apple Vision Pro Sales?https://www.macobserver.com/news/is-the-visionos-inspired-design-on-ios-19-supposed-to-boost-apple-vision-pro-sales/ New Immersive VIP Yankee Stadium Friday https://tv.apple.com/us/show/vip/umc.cmc.e96b9gdwcrlwocbvapiyt6gv3D movies, real or converted from 2D list of movieshttps://realorfake3d.com/NEW APPS WORTH MENTIONINGStarship Drift https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starship-drift/id6742367873?uo=2Mexico Visionhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/mexico-vision/id6476889005 Frost Loop - escape room $1.99https://apps.apple.com/us/app/frost-loop/id6743380283 ThePodTalk.Net

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave is joined by guests,Jill McKinley, Guy Serle, and Marty Jencius. We discuss Apple's Vision Pro updates, including UI improvements and Apple Intelligence features, debating its commercial viability. We review iOS 18.4 and macOS betas, enhanced DJ integration in Apple Music, and Marty's experience with the iPhone 16e C1 modem. Lighter topics include Apple Car interest rates, T-Mobile's MLB.tv offer, and Apple Music Classical updates. We wrap up by highlighting Apple TV+'s new series “The Studio” and promoting the upcoming Macstock conference in July. The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com  Direct Link to Audio  Links to our Show Give us a review on Apple Podcasts! CLICK HERE we would really appreciate it! Click this link Buy me a Coffee to support the show we would really appreciate it. intouchwithios.com/coffee  Another way to support the show is to become a Patreon member patreon.com/intouchwithios Website: In Touch With iOS YouTube Channel In Touch with iOS Magazine on Flipboard Facebook Page BlueSky Mastodon X Instagram Threads Spoutible Summary We dive headfirst into the world of Apple's Vision Pro, unpacking the latest release candidate for version 2.4. The updates promise sharper interfaces and smoother spatial experiences, but we can't help but speculate about those elusive Apple Intelligence features lurking on the horizon. While some are dazzled by the enhancements, others remain unconvinced—sparking a spirited debate over whether Vision Pro can justify its hefty price tag and overcome lukewarm reviews. The question lingers: Can Vision Pro truly redefine spatial computing? Shifting focus, we explore the newest iOS 18.4 and macOS betas, where priority notifications and ambient music control take center stage. Jill tests out the new sketch features, delivering a candid review of their usability and what she hopes to see polished by the final release. Meanwhile, the Apple Music app steps up its game with improved DJ integration, aiming to stake its claim as a heavyweight in the music scene. Marty then takes us on a real-world test drive with the iPhone 16e and its shiny new C1 modem during a conference in Orlando. The connectivity results? Surprising and impressive. We dissect his findings, comparing them to other devices and contemplating what these performance gains mean for Apple's hardware evolution. With WWDC looming on the horizon, we can't help but speculate about the big reveals and potential breakthroughs that could reshape user experiences. Switching gears to lighter fare, we chat about the Apple Car's savings account interest rates and how they stack up against competitors. Nostalgia kicks in when we reminisce about T-Mobile's annual MLB.tv offer, a testament to loyalty perks that keep customers hooked year after year. As we wrap up, we delve into Apple's entertainment ecosystem with updates on Apple Music Classical and the latest Apple TV+ comedy series, “The Studio.” We celebrate Apple's relentless push for innovation across content and subscription services while encouraging listeners to join us at the upcoming Macstock conference this July—a must-attend event for Apple enthusiasts. It's a jam-packed discussion filled with fresh insights, hot takes, and plenty of excitement for what Apple has planned next. Topics and Links In Touch With Vision Pro this week Apple Seeds Release Candidate Versions of visionOS 2.4, tvOS 18.4, and watchOS 11.4  4 visionOS 3 features that can turn Vision Pro into an everyday device Beta this week. iOS 18.4 Release candidate this week.  Apple Seeds iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 Release Candidate With Priority Notifications, Ambient Music and More iOS 18.4 Release Candidate comes bundled with over 50 new changes and features [Video] This sneaky new musiciOS 18.4 Release Candidate comes bundled with over 50 new changes and features [Video] - 9to5Mac feature in iOS 18.4 is actually a hidden gem CarPlay in iOS 18.4 adds three new features that will be here soon iPadOS 18.4: Your iPad's getting four new features soon iOS 18.4 Coming Soon With These New Features for Your iPhone  iOS 18.4's notification upgrade is easily one of Apple's best AI features  watchOS 11.4 Will Make Sure You Don't Miss Alarms In Touch With Mac this week Apple Seeds Second macOS Sequoia 15.4 Release Candidate With Mail Categorization Can't Update to the macOS 15.4 RC? Here's Why Apple Seeds macOS Sequoia 15.4 Release Candidate With Mail Categorization Marty's iPhone 16e C1 Modem experience. Apple announces 'incredible' WWDC 2025 slated for June 9-13 WWDC 2025 Includes In-Person Apple Park Event - Here's How to Attend Sorry, iPhone Mini Fans: Apple Isn't Planning Another Small Phone Apple Music Now Integrated With More DJ Apps AirPods Max With Lightning vs. USB-C Buyer's Guide: All Differences Compared AirPods Max to Gain Lossless Audio and Low-Latency Audio in iOS 18.4 Don't Buy Into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Lossless Audio Apple Now Selling USB-C to 3.5mm Audio Cable Apple's base iPad didn't get AI, and this chart totally explains why News Apple Leadership Reshuffle Continues as Company Appoints New Global Head of Stores Apple names Vanessa Trigub to new role as VP of retail stores Final Cut Pro for Mac Gains Adjustment Clips, Image Playground Integration and More - MacRumors Apple Card Savings Account's Interest Rate Lowered Apple Card Savings still holds strong, here's how its interest rate compares to others WhatsApp Can Now Be Your Default Call and Messaging App on iPhone Hilarious new comedy series 'The Studio' streaming now on Apple TV+ T-Mobile Brings Back Free MLB.TV Subscription Perk Apple Music Classical Updated With Three New Features Announcements Macstock 9 is here for 3 Days on July 11, 12, and 13th, 2025. Super Early bird tickets here save $100. Register | Macstock Conference & Expo Book your room with a Macstock discount here. Location | Macstock Conference & Expo Our Host Dave Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and shares his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and related technologies. Visit the YouTube channel https://youtube.com/intouchwithios follow him on Mastadon @daveg65, and the show @intouchwithios   Our Regular Contributors Jeff Gamet is a podcaster, technology blogger, artist, and author. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's managing editor, and Smile's TextExpander Evangelist. You can find him on Mastadon @jgamet as well as Twitter and Instagram as @jgamet  His YouTube channel https://youtube.com/jgamet Marty Jencius, Ph.D., is a professor of counselor education at Kent State University, where he researches, writes, and trains about using technology in teaching and mental health practice. His podcasts include Vision Pro Files, The Tech Savvy Professor and Circular Firing Squad Podcast. Find him at jencius@mastodon.social  https://thepodtalk.net  About our Guest Guy Serle is the host of the MyMac Podcast and the (hopefully) reconstituted Guy's Daily Drive…which isn't daily, but is done by driving so half accurate. email Guy@mymac.com @MacParrot and @VertShark on Twitter Vertshark.com,  Vertshark on YouTube, Skype +1 Area code  703-828-4677 Jill McKinley works in enterprise software, server administration, and IT. A lifelong tech enthusiast, she started her career with Windows but is now an avid Apple fan. Beyond technology, she shares her insights on nature, faith, and personal growth through her podcasts—Buzz Blossom & Squeak, Start with Small Steps, and The Bible in Small Steps. Watch her content on YouTube at @startwithsmallsteps and follow her on X @schmer

On this week's show, Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC 25, has been officially announced, promising exciting insights into upcoming software and potential technological innovations. In financial news, Apple Card Savings continues its trend of declining interest rates, while the tech giant expands its music experience with a new DJ integration on Apple Music. WatchOS 11.4 introduces a fascinating "silent breakthrough" feature, enhancing the Apple Watch user experience and demonstrating Apple's ongoing commitment to innovative functionality. In media circles, The Atlantic has stirred conversation by releasing controversial "war plan" documentation, while hip-hop icons Redman and Method Man have redefined their professional relationship as merely "Work Buddies". For Apple users looking to personalize their digital experience, a new method has emerged to retrain Siri to recognize individual voice patterns, offering a more tailored interaction with the virtual assistant. Join us as we explore these stories and more!

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The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave is joined by guests, Chuck Joiner, Guy Serle, Marty Jencius. We celebrate a major milestone before diving into the latest Vision Pro updates with guests Marty, Guy, and Chuck. We explore VisionOS 2.4 beta's improved guest mode, enhanced usability, and the immersive Metallica concert experience. The discussion shifts to iOS 18 beta 4,We tackle Mac phishing scams, antivirus debates, and evolving digital threats. The episode also covers Apple TV+'s financial challenges and strategy shifts. We wrap up by previewing the upcoming MacStock conference and the continued value of community and knowledge sharing in the Apple ecosystem. The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com  Direct Link to Audio  Links to our Show Give us a review on Apple Podcasts! CLICK HERE we would really appreciate it! Click this link Buy me a Coffee to support the show we would really appreciate it. intouchwithios.com/coffee  Another way to support the show is to become a Patreon member patreon.com/intouchwithios Website: In Touch With iOS YouTube Channel In Touch with iOS Magazine on Flipboard Facebook Page BlueSky Mastodon X Instagram Threads Spoutible Summary Topics and Links The episode kicks off with a celebratory note, recognizing our 350th episode, before diving into the latest developments surrounding the Vision Pro. Marty, Guy and Chuck join me to discuss the newly released VisionOS 2.4 beta. Our first discussion centers around its updates. Chuck expresses excitement over the improvements in guest mode, allowing users to easily share their devices without the cumbersome setup previously required. Both Guy and Chuck share their experiences with the new changes, where guest settings can now be saved for easier access during shared sessions. The discussion reveals the seamless nature of usability enhancements, showcasing how this beta is more user-friendly than ever before. We transition from the Vision Pro updates to the highly anticipated immersive concert experience with Metallica. Sharing reviews and personal reactions, we marvel at the unique viewing methods available on the Vision Pro, allowing viewers to experience concerts in ways that traditional media cannot replicate. The detailed descriptions and the sense of community, coupled with empathy for each guest, highlight how technology again bridges gaps in enjoyment and sharing experiences. We round out this segment by contemplating the musical genres and artists that could follow suit in leveraging such immersive experiences. As we shift gears, we touch on the substantial release of iOS 18 beta 4 and the improvements that come with it. Both Chuck and Marty discuss CarPlay enhancements and how they have improved user navigation. The episode examines the implications of Apple's strides in AI, which seems to eclipse other elements of the updates. The momentum of AI advancements is palpable, and we delve into discussions about how its inclusion in the iPhone ecosystem reflects Apple's strategic positioning in the technology landscape. The conversation also unveils some darker sides of technology with discussions about phishing attacks targeting Mac users. The panelists offer sound advice on how to remain cautious and discerning when faced with potential scams. They emphasize the importance of user education and vigilance while engaging with technology, particularly as attacks become increasingly sophisticated. Switching to the business side, we engage in stimulating dialogue about antivirus software for Macs and whether they are necessary in this evolving digital age. Chuck, Guy, and Marty share personal anecdotes and insights about what safeguards they employ, revealing the diverse approaches to malware protection in a culture increasingly reliant on digital devices. The episode doesn't shy away from controversies either, as we discuss Apple TV Plus and its reported $1 billion annual loss amidst changing streaming landscapes. Here, the dialogue takes a proactive tone, exploring how Apple could pivot and evolve its strategies, learning from the past to navigate future successes. By examining success metrics like subscriber retention and content creation strategies, we underscore the importance of adaptive growth within Apple's service offerings. Lastly, we herald the upcoming MacStock conference, scheduled for July 11-13. The anticipation is palpable as we discuss what attendees can look forward to experience, from workshops to networking opportunities. The excitement for sharing knowledge, connecting with fellow enthusiasts, and growing within the technological ecosystem rings through as we sign off. In Touch With Vision Pro this week.  Apple releases visionOS 2.4 beta 4 with watchOS 11.4, tvOS 18.4  visionOS 2.4 Beta 3 Release Notes   Hands on: Apple Vision Pro guest mode has massively improved since its first iteration We talked about this last week, Dave gives his review. Apple Vision Pro users can check out a short, immersive Metallica concert film this wee Beta this week. Apple releases iOS 18.4 beta 4 for iPhone and iPad Apple releases visionOS 2.4 beta 4 with watchOS 11.4, tvOS 18.4 Latest iOS 18.4 Beta Lets You Turn Off Privacy-Compromising Search Feature In Touch With Mac this week New Mac phishing attack causes fake freezes to nab your Apple ID password | Macworld Do you need this? Best Mac Antivirus 2025: Top Security Software Compared End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging on iPhone coming in future software update Here's How the iPhone 16e's C1 Modem Stacks Up Against the iPhone 16 Qualcomm Modem Future iPhones might ditch the USB-C port. Good News Report: TV+ Losing $1 Billion Annually as Apple Services Falter Chuck's movie pick on Apple TV+ Watch The Gorge - Apple TV+ Plex Raises Price for Plex Pass, No Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media Amtrak's Redesigned iPhone App Offers Easier Access to Train Status, Tickets, and More Apple Sports App Updated With Support for F1 Racing and More  Announcements Macstock 9 is here for 3 Days on July 11, 12, and 13th, 2025. Super Early bird tickets here save $100 by March 29, 2025. Register | Macstock Conference & Expo Book your room with a Macstock discount here. Location | Macstock Conference & Expo Our Host Dave Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and shares his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and related technologies. Visit the YouTube channel https://youtube.com/intouchwithios follow him on Mastadon @daveg65, and the show @intouchwithios   Our Regular Contributors Jeff Gamet is a podcaster, technology blogger, artist, and author. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's managing editor, and Smile's TextExpander Evangelist. You can find him on Mastadon @jgamet as well as Twitter and Instagram as @jgamet  His YouTube channel https://youtube.com/jgamet Marty Jencius, Ph.D., is a professor of counselor education at Kent State University, where he researches, writes, and trains about using technology in teaching and mental health practice. His podcasts include Vision Pro Files, The Tech Savvy Professor and Circular Firing Squad Podcast. Find him at jencius@mastodon.social  https://thepodtalk.net  About our Guest Chuck Joiner is the host of MacVoices and hosts video podcasts with influential members of the Apple community. Make sure to visit macvoices.com and subscribe to his podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @chuckjoiner and join his MacVoices Facebook group.

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David Ginsburg of In Touch with iOS podcast joins Marty and Eric to talk about Apple Intelligence failures and spatial head-banging with the Metallica concert video on Apple Vision Pro Security UpdatevisionOs 2.3.2 Update for Apple Vision Pro Enhances Security and Fixes Streaming Issueshttps://www.macobserver.com/news/visionos-2-3-2-update-for-apple-vision-pro-enhances-security-and-fixes-streaming-issues visionOS 2.3.2 Now Available, Brings Streaming Playback Fixhttps://www.mactrast.com/2025/03/visionos-2-3-2-now-available-brings-streaming-playback-fix/ This Week BetaVision OS 2.4 beta 4 out today! 2025-03-17 visionOS 2.4 beta 4 (22O5231a)Apple releases visionOS 2.4 beta 4 with watchOS 11.4, tvOS 18.4https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/17/apple-releases-visionos-24-beta-4-plus-watchos-114-tvos-184-more/ Release notes from Applehttps://developer.apple.com/documentation/visionos-release-notes/visionos-2_4-release-notes Summary of What's NewMostly bug fixes across SwiftUI, RealityKit, and Simulator.Refinements to StoreKit APIs, including platform restructuring.Expanded details on Spatial Gallery and libxml2 deprecations.No major new features or breaking changes—mostly stability improvements.APPLE INTELLIGENCECalls for Tim Cook's resignation over Apple Intelligence miss that he has made Apple what it ishttps://appleinsider.com/articles/25/03/14/calls-for-tim-cooks-resignation-over-apple-intelligence-miss-that-he-has-made-apple-what-it-is METALLICAApple Vision Pro users can check out a short, immersive Metallica concert film this weekhttps://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/apple-vision-pro-users-can-check-out-a-short-immersive-metallica-concert-film-this-week-162611039.html Apple and Metallica Bring the M72 World Tour to the Vision Prohttps://www.idropnews.com/news/apple-and-metallic-bring-the-m72-world-tour-to-the-vision-pro/241884/ Apple unveils immersive concert experience with Metallica for Apple Vision Prohttps://macdailynews.com/2025/03/12/apple-unveils-immersive-concert-experience-with-metallica-for-apple-vision-pro/ Immersive Concert Experience With Metallica Coming to Apple Vision Prohttps://www.mactrast.com/2025/03/immersive-concert-experience-with-metallica-coming-to-apple-vision-pro/ Metallica immersive video puts Vision Pro owners front and centerhttps://www.cultofmac.com/news/metallica-immersive-video-vision-pro Apple unveils immersive concert experience with Metallica for Apple Vision Prohttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-unveils-immersive-concert-experience-with-metallica-for-apple-vision-pro/ ApplicationsDavid _ Cisco adds AirPlay & Vision Pro support to Microsoft Teams Roomshttps://appleinsider.com/articles/25/03/17/cisco-adds-airplay-vision-pro-support-to-microsoft-teams-rooms My friend sent me this, Physics teacher uses VisionPro to demonstrate physics exam question and how atoms move in 3D (Using AirDraw)https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1j808dd/my_friend_sent_me_this_physics_teacher_uses/?rdt=49906 MediaCool videos are coming to AVP - Erichttps://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1j8su04/cool_videos_are_coming_to_avp/ NEW APPS WORTH MENTIONINGRunestonehttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/runestone-text-editor/id1548193893Linkeeper https://apps.apple.com/us/app/linkeeper/id6449708232 Lowe's Style Studio https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lowes-style-studio/id6472232397 In Touch With iOShttps://intouchwithios.com/ ThePodTalk.Net

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave he is joined by guests Holden Depardo, Chuck Joiner, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet. The panel discusses Apple's latest updates, starting with Marty's excitement over his new Mac Studio and MacBook Air. They dive into Vision Pro's 2.3.2 update, upcoming features, and immersive concerts from Metallica and U2. Security updates in iOS 18.3.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.3.2 take center stage, along with challenges in Apple account management. The episode wraps up with a debate on John Gruber's criticism of Apple's delayed AI advancements. .The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com  Direct Link to Audio Links to our Show Give us a review on Apple Podcasts! CLICK HERE we would really appreciate it! Click this link Buy me a Coffee to support the show we would really appreciate it. intouchwithios.com/coffee  Another way to support the show is to become a Patreon member patreon.com/intouchwithios Website: In Touch With iOS YouTube Channel In Touch with iOS Magazine on Flipboard Facebook Page BlueSky Mastodon X Instagram Threads Spoutible Summary Topics and Links The episode kicks off with a casual conversation where host Dave expresses gratitude to his guests, sparking a light-hearted exchange about the recent increase in Apple hardware ownership among the panelists. Marty shares his excitement about getting a new Mac Studio and MacBook Air, revealing the nuances of their colors and their overall design impressions. The camaraderie in the discussion highlights not only the latest tech but also the personal experiences associated with it. As the panel transitions into the core of the episode, they cover significant updates regarding the Vision Pro. Dave announces the release of a minor update (version 2.3.2) aimed at improving streaming playback and fixing other bugs. The panel discusses the implications of upcoming updates, including the much-anticipated features and bug fixes expected in the betas. Interesting insights about the guest user mode provide a glimpse into the user experience with the Vision Pro headsets, leading to engaging anecdotes from each host. The conversation then shifts towards an exciting announcement about Metallica's immersive concert experience coming to the Vision Pro, sparking enthusiasm across the panel. Chuck shares his thoughts on the song choices while the group debates the appeal of immersive concerts and how advances in technology are transforming experiences for music fans. There's lively banter as they express their excitement about both Metallica and U2's upcoming immersive projects, highlighting the importance of such experiences for Apple's Vision ecosystem. Next up, the group discusses critical updates across Apple's operating systems, including significant security fixes released in iOS 18.3.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.3.2. The urgency for users to update is emphasized, particularly in light of detected vulnerabilities. Chuck and Holden reflect on their experiences with the iPhone 16e, describing its practicality and discussing its unique features, including battery life and the new C1 modem. Furthermore, the podcast navigates the complexities surrounding Apple account management, with the panel reflecting on the challenges Apple users face regarding account merging, particularly due to restrictions and convoluted processes. There's a collective sense of frustration, humor, and camaraderie as they recount their attempts to navigate Apple's ecosystem, showcasing the everyday challenges faced by loyal Apple users. As the panel transitions into discussing One Password's new features, there's a consensus on the importance of security while using password management tools. The practical implications of location-based password retrieval are also analyzed, with Holden expressing how it can streamline his workflow, particularly in a dual-PC environment. The episode also touches on the broader topics of privacy concerns within the app ecosystem, focusing on location tracking and how companies are handling consumer data. The discussion reveals a deeper understanding of user privacy and the scrutiny tech companies are under. Finally, the episode takes a significant turn as John Gruber's critical comments regarding Apple's delayed Siri features are brought into the mix. The panelists delve into Gruber's observations about Apple's credibility, echoing concerns that their ambitious promises have not materialized on time. With a spirited debate, they reflect on Apple's past successes and current challenges in AI integration, summarizing the emerging sentiment that accountability and transparency are vital for regaining trust with consumers. Marty shows his new MBA Sky Blue In Touch With Vision Pro this week.  Apple Releases visionOS 2.3.2 With Streaming Playback Fix - MacRumors Apple Seeds Third Betas of visionOS 2.4, tvOS 18.4, and watchOS 11.4 visionOS 2.4 Beta 3 Release Notes Metallica Immersive Concert Experience Coming to Apple Vision Pro Apple unveils immersive concert experience with Metallica for Apple Vision Pro Beta this week.  Make Sure to Update: iOS 18.3.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.3.2 Include Important Security Fixes  Apple Releases iOS 18.3.2 With Bug Fixes Apple Releases tvOS 18.3.1 for Third-Generation Apple TV 4K Apple Seeds Third Public Betas of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 iOS 18.4 Adds a Highly-Requested Setting to iPhones — But Not in U.S Apple Upgrades CarPlay in Two Ways iPhone 16e Has a Bluetooth Audio Problem In Touch With Mac this week Mac Studio Still Lacks 'High Power Mode' Offered on Some MacBook Pro and Mac Mini Models Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.3.2 The 10 Best Hidden AirTags Feature LifehackerYou Need Update Firefox Before Friday8 hours ago Dave has the iPhone 16e his review. iPhone 16e review: All the bells, none of the whistles on this battery-heavy device Follow up I'm not convinced this Apple Account tool actually does anything New 1Password Feature Can Display Codes and Logins Based on User's Location How to Identify iPhone Apps That May Contain Location-Tracking Ads News Pocket Casts on the web: now open to everyone New T-Mobile price increase: Here's who's affected John Gruber Says 'Something is Rotten' at Apple Announcements Macstock 9 is here for 3 Days on July 11, 12, and 13th, 2025. Super Early bird tickets here save $100. Register | Macstock Conference & Expo Book your room with a Macstock discount here. Location | Macstock Conference & Expo Our Host Dave Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and shares his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and related technologies. Visit the YouTube channel https://youtube.com/intouchwithios follow him on Mastadon @daveg65, and the show @intouchwithios   Our Regular Contributors Jeff Gamet is a podcaster, technology blogger, artist, and author. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's managing editor, and Smile's TextExpander Evangelist. You can find him on Mastadon @jgamet as well as Twitter and Instagram as @jgamet  His YouTube channel https://youtube.com/jgamet Marty Jencius, Ph.D., is a professor of counselor education at Kent State University, where he researches, writes, and trains about using technology in teaching and mental health practice. His podcasts include Vision Pro Files, The Tech Savvy Professor and Circular Firing Squad Podcast. Find him at jencius@mastodon.social  https://thepodtalk.net  About our Guest Holden DePardo Chuck Joiner is the host of MacVoices and hosts video podcasts with influential members of the Apple community. Make sure to visit macvoices.com and subscribe to his podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @chuckjoiner and join his MacVoices Facebook group.

Head into the world of data management with hosts Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard as they explore essential apps to help you organize and action your data more effectively. From storing manuals to creating databases and automating with shortcuts, this episode provides practical solutions for both personal and professional data needs. DEVONThink - A powerful app for storing and searching documents like manuals, with annotation features and the ability to create links to specific sections of documents Tap Forms - The spiritual successor to Bento, allowing users to create custom forms and databases with various field types and options for viewing and organizing data Airtable - A versatile database service that integrates with automation tools and offers various views (grid, Kanban, calendar) to organize and visualize data Notion - Described as a great "dumping spot" for storing all kinds of information, offering a different approach to data management than Airtable Apple News New iPad Air with M3 Chip - Apple announced the new iPad Air with M3 chip supporting Apple Intelligence, available in 11-inch ($599) and 13-inch ($799) models New Magic Keyboard - Features a 14-key function row and larger trackpad, priced at $269 for 11-inch and $319 for 13-inch models Updated Base iPad - Now includes double the storage capacity and features the A16 chip Feedback CarPlay Directions - Addressed a viewer question about stopping CarPlay from automatically suggesting directions home, with tips on using alternative map apps Procreate App - Acknowledged viewer feedback about Procreate being an excellent graphics app for iPad that deserved mention in a previous episode Shortcuts Corner Smart Bulb Automation - Solved a problem where smart bulbs were turning on too dim when returning home, showing how to properly set up HomeKit automations with specific brightness levels Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Contact iOS Today at iOSToday@twit.tv. Download or subscribe to iOS Today at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Head into the world of data management with hosts Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard as they explore essential apps to help you organize and action your data more effectively. From storing manuals to creating databases and automating with shortcuts, this episode provides practical solutions for both personal and professional data needs. DEVONThink - A powerful app for storing and searching documents like manuals, with annotation features and the ability to create links to specific sections of documents Tap Forms - The spiritual successor to Bento, allowing users to create custom forms and databases with various field types and options for viewing and organizing data Airtable - A versatile database service that integrates with automation tools and offers various views (grid, Kanban, calendar) to organize and visualize data Notion - Described as a great "dumping spot" for storing all kinds of information, offering a different approach to data management than Airtable Apple News New iPad Air with M3 Chip - Apple announced the new iPad Air with M3 chip supporting Apple Intelligence, available in 11-inch ($599) and 13-inch ($799) models New Magic Keyboard - Features a 14-key function row and larger trackpad, priced at $269 for 11-inch and $319 for 13-inch models Updated Base iPad - Now includes double the storage capacity and features the A16 chip Feedback CarPlay Directions - Addressed a viewer question about stopping CarPlay from automatically suggesting directions home, with tips on using alternative map apps Procreate App - Acknowledged viewer feedback about Procreate being an excellent graphics app for iPad that deserved mention in a previous episode Shortcuts Corner Smart Bulb Automation - Solved a problem where smart bulbs were turning on too dim when returning home, showing how to properly set up HomeKit automations with specific brightness levels Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Contact iOS Today at iOSToday@twit.tv. Download or subscribe to iOS Today at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Head into the world of data management with hosts Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard as they explore essential apps to help you organize and action your data more effectively. From storing manuals to creating databases and automating with shortcuts, this episode provides practical solutions for both personal and professional data needs. DEVONThink - A powerful app for storing and searching documents like manuals, with annotation features and the ability to create links to specific sections of documents Tap Forms - The spiritual successor to Bento, allowing users to create custom forms and databases with various field types and options for viewing and organizing data Airtable - A versatile database service that integrates with automation tools and offers various views (grid, Kanban, calendar) to organize and visualize data Notion - Described as a great "dumping spot" for storing all kinds of information, offering a different approach to data management than Airtable Apple News New iPad Air with M3 Chip - Apple announced the new iPad Air with M3 chip supporting Apple Intelligence, available in 11-inch ($599) and 13-inch ($799) models New Magic Keyboard - Features a 14-key function row and larger trackpad, priced at $269 for 11-inch and $319 for 13-inch models Updated Base iPad - Now includes double the storage capacity and features the A16 chip Feedback CarPlay Directions - Addressed a viewer question about stopping CarPlay from automatically suggesting directions home, with tips on using alternative map apps Procreate App - Acknowledged viewer feedback about Procreate being an excellent graphics app for iPad that deserved mention in a previous episode Shortcuts Corner Smart Bulb Automation - Solved a problem where smart bulbs were turning on too dim when returning home, showing how to properly set up HomeKit automations with specific brightness levels Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Contact iOS Today at iOSToday@twit.tv. Download or subscribe to iOS Today at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Head into the world of data management with hosts Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard as they explore essential apps to help you organize and action your data more effectively. From storing manuals to creating databases and automating with shortcuts, this episode provides practical solutions for both personal and professional data needs. DEVONThink - A powerful app for storing and searching documents like manuals, with annotation features and the ability to create links to specific sections of documents Tap Forms - The spiritual successor to Bento, allowing users to create custom forms and databases with various field types and options for viewing and organizing data Airtable - A versatile database service that integrates with automation tools and offers various views (grid, Kanban, calendar) to organize and visualize data Notion - Described as a great "dumping spot" for storing all kinds of information, offering a different approach to data management than Airtable Apple News New iPad Air with M3 Chip - Apple announced the new iPad Air with M3 chip supporting Apple Intelligence, available in 11-inch ($599) and 13-inch ($799) models New Magic Keyboard - Features a 14-key function row and larger trackpad, priced at $269 for 11-inch and $319 for 13-inch models Updated Base iPad - Now includes double the storage capacity and features the A16 chip Feedback CarPlay Directions - Addressed a viewer question about stopping CarPlay from automatically suggesting directions home, with tips on using alternative map apps Procreate App - Acknowledged viewer feedback about Procreate being an excellent graphics app for iPad that deserved mention in a previous episode Shortcuts Corner Smart Bulb Automation - Solved a problem where smart bulbs were turning on too dim when returning home, showing how to properly set up HomeKit automations with specific brightness levels Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Contact iOS Today at iOSToday@twit.tv. Download or subscribe to iOS Today at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Head into the world of data management with hosts Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard as they explore essential apps to help you organize and action your data more effectively. From storing manuals to creating databases and automating with shortcuts, this episode provides practical solutions for both personal and professional data needs. DEVONThink - A powerful app for storing and searching documents like manuals, with annotation features and the ability to create links to specific sections of documents Tap Forms - The spiritual successor to Bento, allowing users to create custom forms and databases with various field types and options for viewing and organizing data Airtable - A versatile database service that integrates with automation tools and offers various views (grid, Kanban, calendar) to organize and visualize data Notion - Described as a great "dumping spot" for storing all kinds of information, offering a different approach to data management than Airtable Apple News New iPad Air with M3 Chip - Apple announced the new iPad Air with M3 chip supporting Apple Intelligence, available in 11-inch ($599) and 13-inch ($799) models New Magic Keyboard - Features a 14-key function row and larger trackpad, priced at $269 for 11-inch and $319 for 13-inch models Updated Base iPad - Now includes double the storage capacity and features the A16 chip Feedback CarPlay Directions - Addressed a viewer question about stopping CarPlay from automatically suggesting directions home, with tips on using alternative map apps Procreate App - Acknowledged viewer feedback about Procreate being an excellent graphics app for iPad that deserved mention in a previous episode Shortcuts Corner Smart Bulb Automation - Solved a problem where smart bulbs were turning on too dim when returning home, showing how to properly set up HomeKit automations with specific brightness levels Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Contact iOS Today at iOSToday@twit.tv. Download or subscribe to iOS Today at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

In this episode, we discuss a blog post by Geoff diving into details to help structure your code base and hopefully prevent future problems.(00:00) - Introduction (10:01) - Support the podcast (21:50) - SetApp - Over 200 mac apps (23:06) - How does this help testing Geoff's blog postSeparation of concernsRobustness principle/Postel's LawBecome a Patreon member and help this Podcast survivehttps://www.patreon.com/compileswift Thanks to our monthly supporters Marko Wiese Adam Wulf bitSpectre Arclite ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave he is joined by guest Chuck Joiner, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet, and Ben Roethig. Dave and the crew kick off this episode with a lively discussion on Apple's latest updates of iPad and Mac, discussing Vision Pro and Vision OS 2.4 beta 2, which introduces Apple Intelligence, writing tools, and Genmoji. They compare ChatGPT to Apple Intelligence and explore the new Spatial Gallery app. Marty shares his experience with the iPhone 16E, and the team dives into iOS. The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com  Direct Link to Audio  Links to our Show Give us a review on Apple Podcasts! CLICK HERE we would really appreciate it! Another way to support the show is to become a Patreon member patreon.com/intouchwithios Website: In Touch With iOS Click this link Buy me a Coffee to support the show we would really appreciate it. intouchwithios.com/coffee  YouTube Channel In Touch with iOS Magazine on Flipboard Facebook Page BlueSky Mastodon X Instagram Threads Spoutible Summary Topics and Links In this episode it features an engaging team, including returning guest Chuck Joyner, the insightful Ben Rathig, and the always entertaining Marty Jensen. Together, they dive deep into the whirlwind of Apple announcements from the past week, while bringing their own unique perspectives to the conversation. The episode kicks off with an enthusiastic greeting, where Dave expresses his excitement for the crew's participation this week, especially welcoming Chuck back and expressing joy over Ben's return after a busy work stint. Marty humorously sets the tone with a relatable anecdote about tedious meetings, before the group transitions to discussing Apple's significant announcements and updates, particularly focusing on Vision Pro and its latest features. A highlight this week is the second beta release of Vision OS 2.4, which introduces Apple Intelligence, writing tools, Genmoji, and more. Dave and the crew delve into firsthand experiences using these emerging features. The conversation flows through various aspects—comparing ChatGPT to Apple Intelligence, and weighing the pros and cons of both regarding user experience. The group collectively mentions the excitement surrounding the new dedicated Spatial Gallery app while also highlighting the need for further improvements. As they navigate through the nitty-gritty of Apple's updates, the discussion effortlessly transitions to iPhone 16E, where Marty shares his delightful experience with this new, more affordable model. He praises its solid performance, camera capabilities, and ergonomics. The group expresses collective thoughts on how the 16E, while aimed at budget-conscious consumers, meets many users' everyday needs, ultimately making it a worthy contender in the smartphone market. In the midst of this richness, the crew engages in thoughtful dialogues about iOS 18.4 beta two updates. Interesting features such as priority notifications and enhancements to the shortcuts app steal the show. Yet, they also critique the absence of Apple Intelligence in lower-end models, prompting a study of how Apple positions its products within the market. Staying true to the audience's needs, the crew explores the recent Mac announcements, including a new iPad Air with an M3 chip, victorious arrivals of new MacBook Air models in delightful colors, and the powerhouse Mac Studio featuring the M4 Max. They debate the implications of these upgrades, with Marty humorously revealing his impulse decision to acquire the Mac Studio, much to the amusement of his friends. Through collaborative discussion, the group reflects on Apple's evolving strategies, assessing where the company stands regarding cutting-edge technology and consumer needs. Last but not least, the episode dives into news bites that capture attention, such as Tapbots' forthcoming release of the Phoenix app for Blue Sky and police in Australia utilizing CarPlay for vehicle recognition. These stories not only provide a fun wrap-up to the episode but also highlight tech's growing intersection with everyday life and law enforcement practices. In Touch With Vision Pro this week.  Apple Seeds Second Betas of visionOS 2.4, tvOS 18.4, and watchOS 11.4 Hands on with Apple Intelligence on Apple Vision Pro Vision Pro Spatial Gallery Launches in visionOS 2.4 Beta 2 Vision Pro App for iPhone Available in iOS 18.4 Beta 2 Marty has the new iPhone 16e. He gives his review of this new iPhone.iFixit Takes Apart iPhone 16e for Closer Look at C1 Modem  Beta this week.  Everything New in iOS 18.4 Beta 2 Apple Seeds Second Public Betas of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 iOS 18.4 Brings RCS Support to Google Fi, Mint Mobile and Other T-Mobile MVNOs iOS 18.4 Adds Apple Intelligence Features to Control Center  iOS 18.4 upgrades the App Store with these two new features New iPads were released this week.  Apple Announces New iPad Air With M3 Chip, Updated Magic Keyboard Apple Announces Redesigned Magic Keyboard for iPad Air M2 iPad Air vs. M3 iPad Air Buyer's Guide  Apple Unveils 11th-Gen iPad With A16 Chip and More Storage Here Are 8 Things to Know About Apple's New iPad With the A16 Chip New Entry-Level iPad With A16 Chip Has More RAM Than iPad 10 Apple's 64GB Era is Over In Touch With Mac this week Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.4 With Mail Categorization Apple Announces New MacBook Air With M4 and 'Sky Blue' Color Option M2 vs. M3 vs. M4 MacBook Air Buyer's Guide: 25+ Differences Compared Apple Announces New Mac Studio With M4 Max and M3 Ultra Chips, Thunderbolt 5, and More A Maxed Out M3 Ultra Mac Studio Will Cost You $14,099 New MacBook Air and Mac Studio Offer Easy Setup With a Nearby iPhone  M3 vs. M4 Chip Buyer's Guide: How Much Better Really Is M4 Apple Discontinues M2 and M3 MacBook Air The Mac's Space Gray era is officially ove Everything Apple Announced This Week - MacRumors News Tapbots Making 'Phoenix' App for Bluesky ChatGPT can now directly edit code in Xcode, VS Code, & more on macOS Police in Australia are using CarPlay in an interesting way Announcements Macstock 9 is here for 3 Days on July 11, 12, and 13th, 2025. Super Early bird tickets here save $100. Register | Macstock Conference & Expo Book your room with a Macstock discount here. Location | Macstock Conference & Expo Our Host Dave Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and shares his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and related technologies. Visit the YouTube channel https://youtube.com/intouchwithios follow him on Mastadon @daveg65, and the show @intouchwithios   Our Regular Contributors Jeff Gamet is a podcaster, technology blogger, artist, and author. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's managing editor, and Smile's TextExpander Evangelist. You can find him on Mastadon @jgamet as well as Twitter and Instagram as @jgamet  His YouTube channel https://youtube.com/jgamet Marty Jencius, Ph.D., is a professor of counselor education at Kent State University, where he researches, writes, and trains about using technology in teaching and mental health practice. His podcasts include Vision Pro Files, The Tech Savvy Professor and Circular Firing Squad Podcast. Find him at jencius@mastodon.social  https://thepodtalk.net  Ben Roethig Former Associate Editor of GeekBeat.TV and host of the Tech Hangout and Deconstruct with Patrice  Mac user since the mid 90s. Tech support specialist. Twitter @benroethig  Website: https://roethigtech.blogspot.com About our Guest Chuck Joiner is the host of MacVoices and hosts video podcasts with influential members of the Apple community. Make sure to visit macvoices.com and subscribe to his podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @chuckjoiner and join his MacVoices Facebook group.

Eric and Marty talk about the just released Spatial Gallery and the Vision Pro iOS app. Apple just released two brand new apps in iOS 18.4 and visionOS 2.4 beta 2https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/03/apple-just-released-two-brand-new-apps-in-ios-18-4-and-visionos-2-4-beta-2/ Apple Seeds Second Betas of visionOS 2.4, tvOS 18.4, and watchOS 11.4https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/03/apple-seeds-visionos-2-4-beta-2/visionOs 2.4 adds support for two more languages, hints at Vision Pro expansionhttps://9to5mac.com/2025/03/03/visionos-2-4-more-languages-vision-pro/ Vision Pro App for iPhone Available in iOS 18.4 Beta 2https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/03/vision-pro-app-ios-18-4-beta-2/Vision Pro Spatial Gallery Launches in visionOS 2.4 Beta 2https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/03/vision-pro-spatial-gallery-launches/ Dassault Systemes reveals Apple Vision Pro apps for product design and manufacturinghttps://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/25/dassault-systemes-reveals-apple-vision-pro-apps-for-product-design-and-manufacturing Dassault Systèmes partners with Apple on industrial 3D software for Vision Prohttps://macdailynews.com/2025/02/26/dassault-systemes-partners-with-apple-on-industrial-3d-software-for-vision-pro/Apple TV+'s Bono documentary doubles as first full-length video for Vision Prohttps://www.cultofmac.com/news/documentary-bono-stories-of-surrender HTC's Viverse Worlds could one day be the YouTube for VR content on Apple Vision Prohttps://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/27/htcs-viverse-worlds-could-one-day-be-the-youtube-for-vr-content-on-apple-vision-pro Is the PSVR 2 Worth Its New, Lower Price?https://lifehacker.com/tech/psvr-2-price-drop Apple TV+ and MLB Announce Return of 'Friday Night Baseball' and Morehttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/03/apple-tv-plus-2025-friday-night-baseball/ NEW APPS WORTH MENTIONINGPinch Basketballhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/pinch-basketball/id6479023090Aegis Core robot uprising https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aegis-core/id6740557443Inspaze - shareable spatial postshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/inspaze/id6473711864TouchDeskhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/touchdesk-desktop-canvas/id6740164313Exploring Marshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/exploring-mars/id6475634958

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave he is joined by guests Mike Potter, Guy Serle, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet. We explore the Vision OS 2.4 beta features, the upcoming immersive Arctic surfing video, and the Bono documentary. Our conversation includes the iOS 18.4 beta, the budget-friendly iPhone 16 E launch, and the impacts of macOS Sequoia 15.4 and Microsoft's Copilot on workflows. We wrap up with Mike's preview of MacStock and much more The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com  Direct Link to Audio  Links to our Show Give us a review on Apple Podcasts! CLICK HERE we would really appreciate it! Click this link Buy me a Coffee to support the show we would really appreciate it. intouchwithios.com/coffee  Another way to support the show is to become a Patreon member patreon.com/intouchwithios Website: In Touch With iOS YouTube Channel In Touch with iOS Magazine on Flipboard Facebook Page BlueSky Mastodon X Instagram Threads Spoutible Summary Topics and Links We kick off the conversation by exploring the newly released Vision OS 2.4 beta for the Vision Pro, highlighting its significant features such as Apple Intelligence capabilities that aim to enhance user experiences through innovative tools like writing assistance, text generation, and contextual communication. As we delve into the upcoming immersive Arctic surfing video available on Apple TV, we examine the intersection of technology and extreme sports, expressing a collective desire for more tranquil content options in the Vision Pro ecosystem. We enthusiastically discuss the globally anticipated documentary featuring Bono, which promises to be the first immersive film streaming on Vision Pro, connecting culture and cutting-edge tech in a groundbreaking way. Transitioning to iOS updates, the recent release of iOS 18.4 beta is met with excitement and cautious anticipation. We dissect new features such as priority notifications, enhanced Apple News offerings focusing on food reviews, and ambient music integration in the control center. Each guest shares their unique experiences with the beta, discussing the implications of these changes on existing technology and everyday usability. We then pivot to the iPhone 16 E's launch, reviewing its features and pricing strategy that cater to those on a budget while still delivering essential performance. The conversation revolves around how this device fits into Apple's broader strategy and its appeal to users with legacy phones looking for an upgrade without breaking the bank. In addition to discussing changes in iOS, we explore the release of macOS Sequoia 15.4 and the installation of Copilot from Microsoft, revealing our thoughts on how these developments will impact workflow and user experience, particularly in professional environments. We touch upon the trajectory of LumaFusion updates and Pixelmator's recent acquisition by Apple, pondering the future of creative applications in Apple's ecosystem. As the episode wraps up, Mike Potter provides an intriguing preview of what's to come at Macstock this year, inviting our listeners to join in on this exciting event. In Touch With Vision Pro this week.  Apple Releases First visionOS 2.4 Beta With Apple Intelligence, Spatial Gallery and More - MacRumors Hands on with Apple Intelligence on Apple Vision Pro Apple Vision Pro Immersive Video 'Arctic Surfing' Available Now Apple Original Films announces new documentary event “Bono: Stories of Surrender”on Vision Pro Beta this week. iOS 18.4 Beta 1 was released this week.  Apple Seeds First Public Betas of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 Apple Says iOS 18.4 Will Be Released in April With These New Features Return to inbox: this new iPhone Mail setting fixes one of the app's most annoying quirks  Apple's iOS 18.4 public beta drops with new features you'll want to try iOS 18.4 Beta Now Unavailable Across Entire iPhone 12 Lineup and More iOS 18.4 Includes a Small But Useful Change for CarPlay Everything New in iOS 18.4 Beta 1 iOS 18.4 Adds Apple Intelligence Priority Notifications Feature iOS 18.4 Adds New Ambient Music Feature Apple News+ Gains Recipes, Restaurant Reviews, and More in iOS 18.4 Apple Releases First Beta of iOS 18.4 With New Vision Pro App Apple Seeds First Betas of tvOS 18.4 and watchOS 11.4    iPhone 16e Review: A capable new entry point to the iPhone 16 line | PCMag 5 products Apple silently scrapped while unveiling the iPhone 16e this week iPhone 16e has five key upgrades to entice iPhone 15 users In Touch With Mac this week Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.4 Microsoft Launches Copilot App for Mac This new Lumafusion feature unlocks even more creativity News Adobe Releases Photoshop App for iPhone  Pixelmator's apps have been updated, two weeks after Apple confirmed owners Announcements Macstock 9 is here for 3 Days on July 11, 12, and 13th, 2025. We would love to see you  get you your tickets here. Register | Macstock Conference & Expo Book your room with a Macstock discount here. Location | Macstock Conference & Expo Our Host Dave Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and shares his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and related technologies. Visit the YouTube channel https://youtube.com/intouchwithios follow him on Mastadon @daveg65, and the show @intouchwithios   Our Regular Contributors Jeff Gamet is a podcaster, technology blogger, artist, and author. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's managing editor, and Smile's TextExpander Evangelist. You can find him on Mastadon @jgamet as well as Twitter and Instagram as @jgamet  His YouTube channel https://youtube.com/jgamet Marty Jencius, Ph.D., is a professor of counselor education at Kent State University, where he researches, writes, and trains about using technology in teaching and mental health practice. His podcasts include Vision Pro Files, The Tech Savvy Professor and Circular Firing Squad Podcast. Find him at jencius@mastodon.social  https://thepodtalk.net  Our Guests   Guy Serle is the host of the MyMac Podcast and the (hopefully) reconstituted Guy's Daily Drive…which isn't daily, but is done by driving so half accurate. email Guy@mymac.com @MacParrot and @VertShark on Twitter Vertshark.com,  Vertshark on YouTube, Skype +1 Area code  703-828-4677   Mike Potter is the organizer of Macstock Conference: and the host of the For Mac Eyes Only Podcast. You can reach him on Mastodon: https://tooting.ninja/@formaceyesonly https://tooting.ninja/@macstockexpo

Bienvenue dans le deux-cent-quatre-vingt-neuvième épisode de CacaoCast! Dans cet épisode, Philippe Casgrain et Philippe Guitard discutent des sujets suivants: Fireside Cocoa - Les impressions de Philippe iPhone 16e - Le moins cher des iPhones? MapleScan - Fait au Canada Alternatives UE - Cherchez-vous une alternative à l'hégémonie américaine? Spices - Créez des vues de débogage en SwiftUI Arm64-to-sim - Pour les frameworks récalcitrants Astuce Finder - Renommer plusieurs fichiers simultanément BusySimulator - Faites semblant d'être occupé Astuce IA - Le mot en F toujours utile Ecoutez cet épisode

Dans l'actu des nouvelles technologies et de l'accessibilité cette semaine : Du côté des applications et du web Premières beta (.)point) 4 des systèmes Apple et arrivée d'Apple Intelligence en français. iOS 18.4, macOS 15.4, watchOS 11.4, tvOS 18.4, visionOS 2.4 and other associated betas are now out!. Toutes les fonctions Apple Intelligence disponibles en français sur iOS 18.4. L'app Mail d'Apple avec la nouvelle interface est en français sur iOS 18.4, et débarque sur iPad et Mac. L'application iOS de La Banque Postale ne permet pas à ses clients aveugles de faire des transferts avec le service Wero. Spotify s'associe à ElevenLabs pour élargir sa bibliothèque de livres audio lus avec l'IA. Talkback 15.2 est de sortie avec une meilleure prise en charge du braille. Microsoft lance une version gratuite et basique d'Office… et avec de la pub ! Lien 2. Safari iOS et iPadOS : il est possible de remplacer Google par ChatGPT comme moteur de recherche. Perplexity a promis à Nico qu'ils allaient faire le boulot pour l'accessibilité de leur application sur iOS. Un portail présentant 2 500 films audiodécrits est mis en ligne. L'émission de M6 “Qui veut être mon associé” a présenté, le 26/02/2025, l'appli very important parking pour lever des fonds, appli très peu accessible avec Voiceover. Le reste de l'actu L'AÉROPORT NANTES ATLANTIQUE SE DOTE DE BALISES SONORES POUR LES PERSONNES aveugles et MALVOYANTES. Une révolution arrive à la Beaujoire pour les supporters déficients visuels. Foire Aux Questions Cette semaine une question de David à propos de la saisie de son identifiant sur le serveur vocal de la CAF depuis un iPhone. Remerciements Cette semaine, nous remercions Cyprinne, Kessiri et Nicolas pour leurs infos ou leur dons. Si vous souhaitez vous aussi nous envoyer de l'info ou nous soutenir : Pour nous contactez ou nous envoyez des infos, passez par le formulaire de contact sur le site. Pour faire un don sur PayPal ou en cryptomonaie c'est à l'adresse : oxytude.org/don. Faites vos achats sur Amazon en passant par notre lien affilié oxytude.org/amazon., ça nous aide sans augmenter le prix de vos achats Pour animer cet épisode Cédric, Fabrice et Philippe.

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Marty and Eric speak about the Apple Intelligence rumors and the AVP, display on the headband, and some fun apps involving hummingbirds, archery, and Reddit.Dbrand's Always-On 'Aperture' Case Protects Your Vision Pro Without Interfering With Sensors and Buttonshttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/07/dbrand-aperture-vision-pro-case/ This new Vision Pro cover is ugly but also kind of awesomehttps://9to5mac.com/2025/02/07/this-new-vision-pro-cover-is-ugly-but-also-kind-of-awesome/ Dbrand's Aperture cover for Apple Vision Pro certainly makes a statementhttps://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/11/dbrands-aperture-cover-for-apple-vision-pro-certainly-makes-a-statementNEWSApple Releases visionOS 2.3.1https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/10/apple-releases-visionos-2-3-1/Apple Releases visionOS 2.3.1 and watchOS 11.3.1https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-releases-visionos-2-3-1-and-watchos-11-3-1Apple's long-promised Apple Intelligence-infused Siri faces delayshttps://macdailynews.com/2025/02/15/apples-long-promised-apple-intelligence-infused-siri-faces-delays/Apple Vision Pro may be about to get its biggest update yet - no new hardware requiredhttps://9to5mac.com/2025/02/15/apple-vision-pro-may-be-about-to-get-its-biggest-update-yet-no-new-hardware-required/Apple Intelligence could arrive on Vision Pro in Aprilhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/02/15/apple-intelligence-could-arrive-on-vision-pro-in-april/Rumor: Apple Intelligence coming to Apple Vision Pro along with more immersive contenthttps://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/15/rumor-apple-intelligence-coming-to-apple-vision-pro-along-with-more-immersive-contentVision Pro's next big update will bring Apple Intelligence supporthttps://www.cultofmac.com/news/vision-pros-next-big-update-bring-apple-intelligence-supportApple Intelligence Is Finally Coming to Apple Vision Pro in Aprilhttps://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-intelligence-is-finally-coming-to-apple-vision-pro-in-april Vision Pro will reportedly get Apple Intelligence as soon as Aprilhttps://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/vision-pro-will-reportedly-get-apple-intelligence-as-soon-as-april-180751381.html Can Apple Vision Pro Scan QR Codes?https://geometricgoods.com/blogs/apple-vision-pro-faq/can-vision-pro-scan-qr-codesApple is considering adding a small display to the Apple Vision Pro headbandhttps://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/11/apple-is-considering-adding-a-small-display-to-the-apple-vision-pro-headbandApple still chasing the AR glasses dream… but fears another flophttps://www.macworld.com/article/2603649/apple-still-chasing-the-ar-glasses-dream-but-fears-another-flop.htmlApple describes a way to make Vision Pro much lighterhttps://9to5mac.com/2025/02/10/apple-describes-a-way-to-make-vision-pro-much-lighter/ Apple Arcade Adding Two New Games in March
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Bundle tickets for AIE Summit NYC have now sold out. You can now sign up for the livestream — where we will be making a big announcement soon. NYC-based readers and Summit attendees should check out the meetups happening around the Summit.2024 was a very challenging year for AI Hardware. After the buzz of CES last January, 2024 was marked by the meteoric rise and even harder fall of AI Wearables companies like Rabbit and Humane, with an assist from a pre-wallpaper-app MKBHD. Even Friend.com, the first to launch in the AI pendant category, and which spurred Rewind AI to rebrand to Limitless and follow in their footsteps, ended up delaying their wearable ship date and launching an experimental website chatbot version. We have been cautiously excited about this category, keeping tabs on most of the top entrants, including Omi and Compass. However, to date the biggest winner still standing from the AI Wearable wars is Bee AI, founded by today's guests Maria and Ethan. Bee is an always on hardware device with beamforming microphones, 7 day battery life and a mute button, that can be worn as a wristwatch or a clip-on pin, backed by an incredible transcription, diarization and very long context memory processing pipeline that helps you to remember your day, your todos, and even perform actions by operating a virtual cloud phone. This is one of the most advanced, production ready, personal AI agents we've ever seen, so we were excited to be their first podcast appearance. We met Bee when we ran the world's first Personal AI meetup in April last year.As a user of Bee (and not an investor! just a friend!) it's genuinely been a joy to use, and we were glad to take advantage of the opportunity to ask hard questions about the privacy and legal/ethical side of things as much as the AI and Hardware engineering side of Bee. We hope you enjoy the episode and tune in next Friday for Bee's first conference talk: Building Perfect Memory.Show Notes* Bee Website* Ethan Sutin, Maria de Lourdes Zollo* Bee @ Personal AI Meetup* Buy Bee with Listener Discount Code!Timestamps* 00:00:00 Introductions and overview of Bee Computer* 00:01:58 Personal context and use cases for Bee* 00:03:02 Origin story of Bee and the founders' background* 00:06:56 Evolution from app to hardware device* 00:09:54 Short-term value proposition for users* 00:12:17 Demo of Bee's functionality* 00:17:54 Hardware form factor considerations* 00:22:22 Privacy concerns and legal considerations* 00:30:57 User adoption and reactions to wearing Bee* 00:35:56 CES experience and hardware manufacturing challenges* 00:41:40 Software pipeline and inference costs* 00:53:38 Technical challenges in real-time processing* 00:57:46 Memory and personal context modeling* 01:02:45 Social aspects and agent-to-agent interactions* 01:04:34 Location sharing and personal data exchange* 01:05:11 Personality analysis capabilities* 01:06:29 Hiring and future of always-on AITranscriptAlessio [00:00:04]: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swyx, founder of SmallAI.swyx [00:00:12]: Hey, and today we are very honored to have in the studio Maria and Ethan from Bee.Maria [00:00:16]: Hi, thank you for having us.swyx [00:00:20]: And you are, I think, the first hardware founders we've had on the podcast. I've been looking to have had a hardware founder, like a wearable hardware, like a wearable hardware founder for a while. I think we're going to have two or three of them this year. And you're the ones that I wear every day. So thank you for making Bee. Thank you for all the feedback and the usage. Yeah, you know, I've been a big fan. You are the speaker gift for the Engineering World's Fair. And let's start from the beginning. What is Bee Computer?Ethan [00:00:52]: Bee Computer is a personal AI system. So you can think of it as AI living alongside you in first person. So it can kind of capture your in real life. So with that understanding can help you in significant ways. You know, the obvious one is memory, but that's that's really just the base kind of use case. So recalling and reflective. I know, Swyx, that you you like the idea of journaling, but you don't but still have some some kind of reflective summary of what you experienced in real life. But it's also about just having like the whole context of a human being and understanding, you know, giving the machine the ability to understand, like, what's going on in your life. Your attitudes, your desires, specifics about your preferences, so that not only can it help you with recall, but then anything that you need it to do, it already knows, like, if you think about like somebody who you've worked with or lived with for a long time, they just know kind of without having to ask you what you would want, it's clear that like, that is the future that personal AI, like, it's just going to be very, you know, the AI is just so much more valuable with personal context.Maria [00:01:58]: I will say that one of the things that we are really passionate is really understanding this. Personal context, because we'll make the AI more useful. Think about like a best friend that know you so well. That's one of the things that we are seeing from the user. They're using from a companion standpoint or professional use cases. There are many ways to use B, but companionship and professional are the ones that we are seeing now more.swyx [00:02:22]: Yeah. It feels so dry to talk about use cases. Yeah. Yeah.Maria [00:02:26]: It's like really like investor question. Like, what kind of use case?Ethan [00:02:28]: We're just like, we've been so broken and trained. But I mean, on the base case, it's just like, don't you want your AI to know everything you've said and like everywhere you've been, like, wouldn't you want that?Maria [00:02:40]: Yeah. And don't stay there and repeat every time, like, oh, this is what I like. You already know that. And you do things for me based on that. That's I think is really cool.swyx [00:02:50]: Great. Do you want to jump into a demo? Do you have any other questions?Alessio [00:02:54]: I want to maybe just cover the origin story. Just how did you two meet? What was the was this the first idea you started working on? Was there something else before?Maria [00:03:02]: I can start. So Ethan and I, we know each other from six years now. He had a company called Squad. And before that was called Olabot and was a personal AI. Yeah, I should. So maybe you should start this one. But yeah, that's how I know Ethan. Like he was pivoting from personal AI to Squad. And there was a co-watching with friends product. I had experience working with TikTok and video content. So I had the pivoting and we launched Squad and was really successful. And at the end. The founders decided to sell that to Twitter, now X. So both of us, we joined X. We launched Twitter Spaces. We launched many other products. And yeah, till then, we basically continue to work together to the start of B.Ethan [00:03:46]: The interesting thing is like this isn't the first attempt at personal AI. In 2016, when I started my first company, it started out as a personal AI company. This is before Transformers, no BERT even like just RNNs. You couldn't really do any convincing dialogue at all. I met Esther, who was my previous co-founder. We both really interested in the idea of like having a machine kind of model or understand a dynamic human. We wanted to make personal AI. This was like more geared towards because we had obviously much limited tools, more geared towards like younger people. So I don't know if you remember in 2016, there was like a brief chatbot boom. It was way premature, but it was when Zuckerberg went up on F8 and yeah, M and like. Yeah. The messenger platform, people like, oh, bots are going to replace apps. It was like for about six months. And then everybody realized, man, these things are terrible and like they're not replacing apps. But it was at that time that we got excited and we're like, we tried to make this like, oh, teach the AI about you. So it was just an app that you kind of chatted with and it would ask you questions and then like give you some feedback.Maria [00:04:53]: But Hugging Face first version was launched at the same time. Yeah, we started it.Ethan [00:04:56]: We started out the same office as Hugging Face because Betaworks was our investor. So they had to think. They had a thing called Bot Camp. Betaworks is like a really cool VC because they invest in out there things. They're like way ahead of everybody else. And like back then it was they had something called Bot Camp. They took six companies and it was us and Hugging Face. And then I think the other four, I'm pretty sure, are dead. But and Hugging Face was the one that really got, you know, I mean, 30% success rate is pretty good. Yeah. But yeah, when we it was, it was like it was just the two founders. Yeah, they were kind of like an AI company in the beginning. It was a chat app for teenagers. A lot of people don't know that Hugging Face was like, hey, friend, how was school? Let's trade selfies. But then, you know, they built the Transformers library, I believe, to help them make their chat app better. And then they open sourced and it was like it blew up. And like they're like, oh, maybe this is the opportunity. And now they're Hugging Face. But anyway, like we were obsessed with it at that time. But then it was clear that there's some people who really love chatting and like answering questions. But it's like a lot of work, like just to kind of manually.Maria [00:06:00]: Yeah.Ethan [00:06:01]: Teach like all these things about you to an AI.Maria [00:06:04]: Yeah, there were some people that were super passionate, for example, teenagers. They really like, for example, to speak about themselves a lot. So they will reply to a lot of questions and speak about them. But most of the people, they don't really want to spend time.Ethan [00:06:18]: And, you know, it's hard to like really bring the value with it. We had like sentence similarity and stuff and could try and do, but it was like it was premature with the technology at the time. And so we pivoted. We went to YC and the long story, but like we pivoted to consumer video and that kind of went really viral and got a lot of usage quickly. And then we ended up selling it to Twitter, worked there and left before Elon, not related to Elon, but left Twitter.swyx [00:06:46]: And then I should mention this is the famous time when well, when when Elon was just came in, this was like Esther was the famous product manager who slept there.Ethan [00:06:56]: My co-founder, my former co-founder, she sleeping bag. She was the sleep where you were. Yeah, yeah, she stayed. We had left by that point.swyx [00:07:03]: She very stayed, she's famous for staying.Ethan [00:07:06]: Yeah, but later, later left or got, I think, laid off, laid off. Yeah, I think the whole product team got laid off. She was a product manager, director. But yeah, like we left before that. And then we're like, oh, my God, things are different now. You know, I think this is we really started working on again right before ChatGPT came out. But we had an app version and we kind of were trying different things around it. And then, you know, ultimately, it was clear that, like, there were some limitations we can go on, like a good question to ask any wearable company is like, why isn't this an app? Yes. Yeah. Because like.Maria [00:07:40]: Because we tried the app at the beginning.Ethan [00:07:43]: Yeah. Like the idea that it could be more of a and B comes from ambient. So like if it was more kind of just around you all the time and less about you having to go open the app and do the effort to, like, enter in data that led us down the path of hardware. Yeah. Because the sensors on this are microphones. So it's capturing and understanding audio. We started actually our first hardware with a vision component, too. And we can talk about why we're not doing that right now. But if you wanted to, like, have a continuous understanding of audio with your phone, it would monopolize your microphone. It would get interrupted by calls and you'd have to remember to turn it on. And like that little bit of friction is actually like a substantial barrier to, like, get your phone. It's like the experience of it just being with you all the time and like living alongside you. And so I think that that's like the key reason it's not an app. And in fact, we do have Apple Watch support. So anybody who has a watch, Apple Watch can use it right away without buying any hardware. Because we worked really hard to make a version for the watch that can run in the background, not super drain your battery. But even with the watch, there's still friction because you have to remember to turn it on and it still gets interrupted if somebody calls you. And you have to remember to. We send a notification, but you still have to go back and turn it on because it's just the way watchOS works.Maria [00:09:04]: One of the things that we are seeing from our Apple Watch users, like I love the Apple Watch integration. One of the things that we are seeing is that people, they start using it from Apple Watch and after a couple of days they buy the B because they just like to wear it.Ethan [00:09:17]: Yeah, we're seeing.Maria [00:09:18]: That's something that like they're learning and it's really cool. Yeah.Ethan [00:09:21]: I mean, I think like fundamentally we like to think that like a personal AI is like the mission. And it's more about like the understanding. Connecting the dots, making use of the data to provide some value. And the hardware is like the ears of the AI. It's not like integrating like the incoming sensor data. And that's really what we focus on. And like the hardware is, you know, if we can do it well and have a great experience on the Apple Watch like that, that's just great. I mean, but there's just some platform restrictions that like existing hardware makes it hard to provide that experience. Yeah.Alessio [00:09:54]: What do people do in like two or three days that then convinces them to buy it? They buy the product. This feels like a product where like after you use it for a while, you have enough data to start to get a lot of insights. But it sounds like maybe there's also like a short term.Maria [00:10:07]: From the Apple Watch users, I believe that because every time that you receive a call after, they need to go back to B and open it again. Or for example, every day they need to charge Apple Watch and reminds them to open the app every day. They feel like, okay, maybe this is too much work. I just want to wear the B and just keep it open and that's it. And I don't need to think about it.Ethan [00:10:27]: I think they see the kind of potential of it just from the watch. Because even if you wear it a day, like we send a summary notification at the end of the day about like just key things that happened to you in your day. And like I didn't even think like I'm not like a journaling type person or like because like, oh, I just live the day. Why do I need to like think about it? But like it's actually pretty sometimes I'm surprised how interesting it is to me just to kind of be like, oh, yeah, that and how it kind of fits together. And I think that's like just something people get immediately with the watch. But they're like, oh, I'd like an easier watch. I'd like a better way to do this.swyx [00:10:58]: It's surprising because I only know about the hardware. But I use the watch as like a backup for when I don't have the hardware. I feel like because now you're beamforming and all that, this is significantly better. Yeah, that's the other thing.Ethan [00:11:11]: We have way more control over like the Apple Watch. You're limited in like you can't set the gain. You can't change the sample rate. There's just very limited framework support for doing anything with audio. Whereas if you control it. Then you can kind of optimize it for your use case. The Apple Watch isn't meant to be kind of recording this. And we can talk when we get to the part about audio, why it's so hard. This is like audio on the hardest level because you don't know it has to work in all environments or you try and make it work as best as it can. Like this environment is very great. We're in a studio. But, you know, afterwards at dinner in a restaurant, it's totally different audio environment. And there's a lot of challenges with that. And having really good source audio helps. But then there's a lot more. But with the machine learning that still is, you know, has to be done to try and account because like you can tune something for one environment or another. But it'll make one good and one bad. And like making something that's flexible enough is really challenging.Alessio [00:12:10]: Do we want to do a demo just to set the stage? And then we kind of talk about.Maria [00:12:14]: Yeah, I think we can go like a walkthrough and the prod.Alessio [00:12:17]: Yeah, sure.swyx [00:12:17]: So I think we said I should. So for listeners, we'll be switching to video. That was superimposed on. And to this video, if you want to see it, go to our YouTube, like and subscribe as always. Yeah.Maria [00:12:31]: And by the bee. Yes.swyx [00:12:33]: And by the bee. While you wait. While you wait. Exactly. It doesn't take long.Maria [00:12:39]: Maybe you should have a discount code just for the listeners. Sure.swyx [00:12:43]: If you want to offer it, I'll take it. All right. Yeah. Well, discount code Swyx. Oh s**t. Okay. Yeah. There you go.Ethan [00:12:49]: An important thing to mention also is that the hardware is meant to work with the phone. And like, I think, you know, if you, if you look at rabbit or, or humane, they're trying to create like a new hardware platform. We think that the phone's just so dominant and it will be until we have the next generation, which is not going to be for five, you know, maybe some Orion type glasses that are cheap enough and like light enough. Like that's going to take a long time before with the phone rather than trying to just like replace it. So in the app, we have a summary of your days, but at the top, it's kind of what's going on now. And that's updating your phone. It's updating continuously. So right now it's saying, I'm discussing, you know, the development of, you know, personal AI, and that's just kind of the ongoing conversation. And then we give you a readable form. That's like little kind of segments of what's the important parts of the conversations. We do speaker identification, which is really important because you don't want your personal AI thinking you said something and attributing it to you when it was just somebody else in the conversation. So you can also teach it other people's voices. So like if some, you know, somebody close to you, so it can start to understand your relationships a little better. And then we do conversation end pointing, which is kind of like a task that didn't even exist before, like, cause nobody needed to do this. But like if you had somebody's whole day, how do you like break it into logical pieces? And so we use like not just voice activity, but other signals to try and split up because conversations are a little fuzzy. They can like lead into one, can start to the next. So also like the semantic content of it. When a conversation ends, we run it through larger models to try and get a better, you know, sense of the actual, what was said and then summarize it, provide key points. What was the general atmosphere and tone of the conversation and potential action items that might've come of that. But then at the end of the day, we give you like a summary of all your day and where you were and just kind of like a step-by-step walkthrough of what happened and what were the key points. That's kind of just like the base capture layer. So like if you just want to get a kind of glimpse or recall or reflect that's there. But really the key is like all of this is now like being influenced on to generate personal context about you. So we generate key items known to be true about you and that you can, you know, there's a human in the loop aspect is like you can, you have visibility. Right. Into that. And you can, you know, I have a lot of facts about technology because that's basically what I talk about all the time. Right. But I do have some hobbies that show up and then like, how do you put use to this context? So I kind of like measure my day now and just like, what is my token output of the day? You know, like, like as a human, how much information do I produce? And it's kind of measured in tokens and it turns out it's like around 200,000 or so a day. But so in the recall case, we have, um. A chat interface, but the key here is on the recall of it. Like, you know, how do you, you know, I probably have 50 million tokens of personal context and like how to make sense of that, make it useful. So I can ask simple, like, uh, recall questions, like details about the trip I was on to Taiwan, where recently we're with our manufacturer and, um, in real time, like it will, you know, it has various capabilities such as searching through your, your memories, but then also being able to search the web or look at my calendar, we have integrations with Gmail and calendars. So like connecting the dots between the in real life and the digital life. And, you know, I just asked it about my Taiwan trip and it kind of gives me the, the breakdown of the details, what happened, the issues we had around, you know, certain manufacturing problems and it, and it goes back and references the conversation so I can, I can go back to the source. Yeah.Maria [00:16:46]: Not just the conversation as well, the integrations. So we have as well Gmail and Google calendar. So if there is something there that was useful to have more context, we can see that.Ethan [00:16:56]: So like, and it can, I never use the word agentic cause it's, it's cringe, but like it can search through, you know, if I, if I'm brainstorming about something that spans across, like search through my conversation, search the email, look at the calendar and then depending on what's needed. Then synthesize, you know, something with all that context.Maria [00:17:18]: I love that you did the Spotify wrapped. That was pretty cool. Yeah.Ethan [00:17:22]: Like one thing I did was just like make a Spotify wrap for my 2024, like of my life. You can do that. Yeah, you can.Maria [00:17:28]: Wait. Yeah. I like those crazy.Ethan [00:17:31]: Make a Spotify wrapped for my life in 2024. Yeah. So it's like surprisingly good. Um, it like kind of like game metrics. So it was like you visited three countries, you shipped, you know, XMini, beta. Devices.Maria [00:17:46]: And that's kind of more personal insights and reflection points. Yeah.swyx [00:17:51]: That's fascinating. So that's the demo.Ethan [00:17:54]: Well, we have, we can show something that's in beta. I don't know if we want to do it. I don't know.Maria [00:17:58]: We want to show something. Do it.Ethan [00:18:00]: And then we can kind of fit. Yeah.Maria [00:18:01]: Yeah.Ethan [00:18:02]: So like the, the, the, the vision is also like, not just about like AI being with you in like just passively understanding you through living your experience, but also then like it proactively suggesting things to you. Yeah. Like at the appropriate time. So like not just pool, but, but kind of, it can step in and suggest things to you. So, you know, one integration we have that, uh, is in beta is with WhatsApp. Maria is asking for a recommendation for an Italian restaurant. Would you like me to look up some highly rated Italian restaurants nearby and send her a suggestion?Maria [00:18:34]: So what I did, I just sent to Ethan a message through WhatsApp in his own personal phone. Yeah.Ethan [00:18:41]: So, so basically. B is like watching all my incoming notifications. And if it meets two criteria, like, is it important enough for me to raise a suggestion to the user? And then is there something I could potentially help with? So this is where the actions come into place. So because Maria is my co-founder and because it was like a restaurant recommendation, something that it could probably help with, it proposed that to me. And then I can, through either the chat and we have another kind of push to talk walkie talkie style button. It's actually a multi-purpose button to like toggle it on or off, but also if you push to hold, you can talk. So I can say, yes, uh, find one and send it to her on WhatsApp is, uh, an Android cloud phone. So it's, uh, going to be able to, you know, that has access to all my accounts. So we're going to abstract this away and the execution environment is not really important, but like we can go into technically why Android is actually a pretty good one right now. But, you know, it's searching for Italian restaurants, you know, and we don't have to watch this. I could be, you know, have my ear AirPods in and in my pocket, you know, it's going to go to WhatsApp, going to find Maria's thread, send her the response and then, and then let us know. Oh my God.Alessio [00:19:56]: But what's the, I mean, an Italian restaurant. Yeah. What did it choose? What did it choose? It's easy to say. Real Italian is hard to play. Exactly.Ethan [00:20:04]: It's easy to say. So I doubt it. I don't know.swyx [00:20:06]: For the record, since you have the Italians, uh, best Italian restaurant in SF.Maria [00:20:09]: Oh my God. I still don't have one. What? No.Ethan [00:20:14]: I don't know. Successfully found and shared.Alessio [00:20:16]: Let's see. Let's see what the AI says. Bottega. Bottega? I think it's Bottega.Maria [00:20:21]: Have you been to Bottega? How is it?Alessio [00:20:24]: It's fine.Maria [00:20:25]: I've been to one called like Norcina, I think it was good.Alessio [00:20:29]: Bottega is on Valencia Street. It's fine. The pizza is not good.Maria [00:20:32]: It's not good.Alessio [00:20:33]: Some of the pastas are good.Maria [00:20:34]: You know, the people I'm sorry to interrupt. Sorry. But there is like this Delfina. Yeah. That here everybody's like, oh, Pizzeria Delfina is amazing. I'm overrated. This is not. I don't know. That's great. That's great.swyx [00:20:46]: The North Beach Cafe. That place you took us with Michele last time. Vega. Oh.Alessio [00:20:52]: The guy at Vega, Giuseppe, he's Italian. Which one is that? It's in Bernal Heights. Ugh. He's nice. He's not nice. I don't know that one. What's the name of the place? Vega. Vega. Vega. Cool. We got the name. Vega. But it's not Vega.Maria [00:21:02]: It's Italian. Whatswyx [00:21:10]: Vega. Vega.swyx [00:21:16]: Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega.Ethan [00:21:29]: Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega.Ethan [00:21:40]: We're going to see a lot of innovation around hardware and stuff, but I think the real core is being able to do something useful with the personal context. You always had the ability to capture everything, right? We've always had recorders, camcorders, body cameras, stuff like that. But what's different now is we can actually make sense and find the important parts in all of that context.swyx [00:22:04]: Yeah. So, and then one last thing, I'm just doing this for you, is you also have an API, which I think I'm the first developer against. Because I had to build my own. We need to hire a developer advocate. Or just hire AI engineers. The point is that you should be able to program your own assistant. And I tried OMI, the former friend, the knockoff friend, and then real friend doesn't have an API. And then Limitless also doesn't have an API. So I think it's very important to own your data. To be able to reprocess your audio, maybe. Although, by default, you do not store audio. And then also just to do any corrections. There's no way that my needs can be fully met by you. So I think the API is very important.Ethan [00:22:47]: Yeah. And I mean, I've always been a consumer of APIs in all my products.swyx [00:22:53]: We are API enjoyers in this house.Ethan [00:22:55]: Yeah. It's very frustrating when you have to go build a scraper. But yeah, it's for sure. Yeah.swyx [00:23:03]: So this whole combination of you have my location, my calendar, my inbox. It really is, for me, the sort of personal API.Alessio [00:23:10]: And is the API just to write into it or to have it take action on external systems?Ethan [00:23:16]: Yeah, we're expanding it. It's right now read-only. In the future, very soon, when the actions are more generally available, it'll be fully supported in the API.Alessio [00:23:27]: Nice. I'll buy one after the episode.Ethan [00:23:30]: The API thing, to me, is the most interesting. Yeah. We do have real-time APIs, so you can even connect a socket and connect it to whatever you want it to take actions with. Yeah. It's too smart for me.Alessio [00:23:43]: Yeah. I think when I look at these apps, and I mean, there's so many of these products, we launch, it's great that I can go on this app and do things. But most of my work and personal life is managed somewhere else. Yeah. So being able to plug into it. Integrate that. It's nice. I have a bunch of more, maybe, human questions. Sure. I think maybe people might have. One, is it good to have instant replay for any argument that you have? I can imagine arguing with my wife about something. And, you know, there's these commercials now where it's basically like two people arguing, and they're like, they can throw a flag, like in football, and have an instant replay of the conversation. I feel like this is similar, where it's almost like people cannot really argue anymore or, like, lie to each other. Because in a world in which everybody adopts this, I don't know if you thought about it. And also, like, how the lies. You know, all of us tell lies, right? How do you distinguish between when I'm, there's going to be sometimes things that contradict each other, because I might say something publicly, and I might think something, really, that I tell someone else. How do you handle that when you think about building a product like this?Maria [00:24:48]: I would say that I like the fact that B is an objective point of view. So I don't care too much about the lies, but I care more about the fact that can help me to understand what happened. Mm-hmm. And the emotions in a really objective way, like, really, like, critical and objective way. And if you think about humans, they have so many emotions. And sometimes something that happened to me, like, I don't know, I would feel, like, really upset about it or really angry or really emotional. But the AI doesn't have those emotions. It can read the conversation, understand what happened, and be objective. And I think the level of support is the one that I really like more. Instead of, like, oh, did this guy tell me a lie? I feel like that's not exactly, like, what I feel. I find it curious for me in terms of opportunity.Alessio [00:25:35]: Is the B going to interject in real time? Say I'm arguing with somebody. The B is like, hey, look, no, you're wrong. What? That person actually said.Ethan [00:25:43]: The proactivity is something we're very interested in. Maybe not for, like, specifically for, like, selling arguments, but more for, like, and I think that a lot of the challenge here is, you know, you need really good reasoning to kind of pull that off. Because you don't want it just constantly interjecting, because that would be super annoying. And you don't want it to miss things that it should be interjecting. So, like, it would be kind of a hard task even for a human to be, like, just come in at the right times when it's appropriate. Like, it would take the, you know, with the personal context, it's going to be a lot better. Because, like, if somebody knows about you, but even still, it requires really good reasoning to, like, not be too much or too little and just right.Maria [00:26:20]: And the second part about, well, like, some things, you know, you say something to somebody else, but after I change my mind, I send something. Like, it's every time I have, like, different type of conversation. And I'm like, oh, I want to know more about you. And I'm like, oh, I want to know more about you. I think that's something that I found really fascinating. One of the things that we are learning is that, indeed, humans, they evolve over time. So, for us, one of the challenges is actually understand, like, is this a real fact? Right. And so far, what we do is we give, you know, to the, we have the human in the loop that can say, like, yes, this is true, this is not. Or they can edit their own fact. For sure, in the future, we want to have all of that automatized inside of the product.Ethan [00:26:57]: But, I mean, I think your question kind of hits on, and I know that we'll talk about privacy, but also just, like, if you have some memory and you want to confirm it with somebody else, that's one thing. But it's for sure going to be true that in the future, like, not even that far into the future, that it's just going to be kind of normalized. And we're kind of in a transitional period now. And I think it's, like, one of the key things that is for us to kind of navigate that and make sure we're, like, thinking of all the consequences. And how to, you know, make the right choices in the way that everything's designed. And so, like, it's more beneficial than it could be harmful. But it's just too valuable for your AI to understand you. And so if it's, like, MetaRay bands or the Google Astra, I think it's just people are going to be more used to it. So people's behaviors and expectations will change. Whether that's, like, you know, something that is going to happen now or in five years, it's probably in that range. And so, like, I think we... We kind of adapt to new technologies all the time. Like, when the Ring cameras came out, that was kind of quite controversial. It's like... But now it's kind of... People just understand that a lot of people have cameras on their doors. And so I think that...Maria [00:28:09]: Yeah, we're in a transitional period for sure.swyx [00:28:12]: I will press on the privacy thing because that is the number one thing that everyone talks about. Obviously, I think in Silicon Valley, people are a little bit more tech-forward, experimental, whatever. But you want to go mainstream. You want to sell to consumers. And we have to worry about this stuff. Baseline question. The hardest version of this is law. There are one-party consent states where this is perfectly legal. Then there are two-party consent states where they're not. What have you come around to this on?Ethan [00:28:38]: Yeah, so the EU is a totally different regulatory environment. But in the U.S., it's basically on a state-by-state level. Like, in Nevada, it's single-party. In California, it's two-party. But it's kind of untested. You know, it's different laws, whether it's a phone call, whether it's in person. In a state like California, it's two-party. Like, anytime you're in public, there's no consent comes into play because the expectation of privacy is that you're in public. But we process the audio and nothing is persisted. And then it's summarized with the speaker identification focusing on the user. Now, it's kind of untested on a legal, and I'm not a lawyer, but does that constitute the same as, like, a recording? So, you know, it's kind of a gray area and untested in law right now. I think that the bigger question is, you know, because, like, if you had your Ray-Ban on and were recording, then you have a video of something that happened. And that's different than kind of having, like, an AI give you a summary that's focused on you that's not really capturing anybody's voice. You know, I think the bigger question is, regardless of the legal status, like, what is the ethical kind of situation with that? Because even in Nevada that we're—or many other U.S. states where you can record. Everything. And you don't have to have consent. Is it still, like, the right thing to do? The way we think about it is, is that, you know, we take a lot of precautions to kind of not capture personal information of people around. Both through the speaker identification, through the pipeline, and then the prompts, and the way we store the information to be kind of really focused on the user. Now, we know that's not going to, like, satisfy a lot of people. But I think if you do try it and wear it again. It's very hard for me to see anything, like, if somebody was wearing a bee around me that I would ever object that it captured about me as, like, a third party to it. And like I said, like, we're in this transitional period where the expectation will just be more normalized. That it's, like, an AI. It's not capturing, you know, a full audio recording of what you said. And it's—everything is fully geared towards helping the person kind of understand their state and providing valuable information to them. Not about, like, logging details about people they encounter.Alessio [00:30:57]: You know, I've had the same question also with the Zoom meeting transcribers thing. I think there's kind of, like, the personal impact that there's a Firefly's AI recorder. Yeah. I just know that it's being recorded. It's not like a—I don't know if I'm going to say anything different. But, like, intrinsically, you kind of feel—because it's not pervasive. And I'm curious, especially, like, in your investor meetings. Do people feel differently? Like, have you had people ask you to, like, turn it off? Like, in a business meeting, to not record? I'm curious if you've run into any of these behaviors.Maria [00:31:29]: You know what's funny? On my end, I wear it all the time. I take my coffee, a blue bottle with it. Or I work with it. Like, obviously, I work on it. So, I wear it all the time. And so far, I don't think anybody asked me to turn it off. I'm not sure if because they were really friendly with me that they know that I'm working on it. But nobody really cared.swyx [00:31:48]: It's because you live in SF.Maria [00:31:49]: Actually, I've been in Italy as well. Uh-huh. And in Italy, it's a super privacy concern. Like, Europe is a super privacy concern. And again, they're nothing. Like, it's—I don't know. Yeah. That, for me, was interesting.Ethan [00:32:01]: I think—yeah, nobody's ever asked me to turn it off, even after giving them full demos and disclosing. I think that some people have said, well, my—you know, in a personal relationship, my partner initially was, like, kind of uncomfortable about it. We heard that from a few users. And that was, like, more in just, like— It's not like a personal relationship situation. And the other big one is people are like, I do like it, but I cannot wear this at work. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Because, like, I think I will get in trouble based on policies or, like, you know, if you're wearing it inside a research lab or something where you're working on things that are kind of sensitive that, like—you know, so we're adding certain features like geofencing, just, like, at this location. It's just never active.swyx [00:32:50]: I mean, I've often actually explained to it the other way, where maybe you only want it at work, so you never take it from work. And it's just a work device, just like your Zoom meeting recorder is a work device.Ethan [00:33:09]: Yeah, professionals have been a big early adopter segment. And you say in San Francisco, but we have out there our daily shipment of over 100. If you go look at the addresses, Texas, I think, is our biggest state, and Florida, just the biggest states. A lot of professionals who talk for, and we didn't go out to build it for that use case, but I think there is a lot of demand for white-collar people who talk for a living. And I think we're just starting to talk with them. I think they just want to be able to improve their performance around, understand what they were doing.Alessio [00:33:47]: How do you think about Gong.io? Some of these, for example, sales training thing, where you put on a sales call and then it coaches you. They're more verticalized versus having more horizontal platform.Ethan [00:33:58]: I am not super familiar with those things, because like I said, it was kind of a surprise to us. But I think that those are interesting. I've seen there's a bunch of them now, right? Yeah. It kind of makes sense. I'm terrible at sales, so I could probably use one. But it's not my job, fundamentally. But yeah, I think maybe it's, you know, we heard also people with restaurants, if they're able to understand, if they're doing well.Maria [00:34:26]: Yeah, but in general, I think a lot of people, they like to have the double check of, did I do this well? Or can you suggest me how I can do better? We had a user that was saying to us that he used for interviews. Yeah, he used job interviews. So he used B and after asked to the B, oh, actually, how do you think my interview went? What I should do better? And I like that. And like, oh, that's actually like a personal coach in a way.Alessio [00:34:50]: Yeah. But I guess the question is like, do you want to build all of those use cases? Or do you see B as more like a platform where somebody is going to build like, you know, the sales coach that connects to B so that you're kind of the data feed into it?Ethan [00:35:02]: I don't think this is like a data feed, more like an understanding kind of engine and like definitely. In the future, having third parties to the API and building out for all the different use cases is something that we want to do. But the like initial case we're trying to do is like build that layer for all that to work. And, you know, we're not trying to build all those verticals because no startup could do that well. But I think that it's really been quite fascinating to see, like, you know, I've done consumer for a long time. Consumer is very hard to predict, like, what's going to be. It's going to be like the thing that's the killer feature. And so, I mean, we really believe that it's the future, but we don't know like what exactly like process it will take to really gain mass adoption.swyx [00:35:50]: The killer consumer feature is whatever Nikita Beer does. Yeah. Social app for teens.Ethan [00:35:56]: Yeah, well, I like Nikita, but, you know, he's good at building bootstrap companies and getting them very viral. And then selling them and then they shut down.swyx [00:36:05]: Okay, so you just came back from CES.Maria [00:36:07]: Yeah, crazy. Yeah, tell us. It was my first time in Vegas and first time CES, both of them were overwhelming.swyx [00:36:15]: First of all, did you feel like you had to do it because you're in consumer hardware?Maria [00:36:19]: Then we decided to be there and to have a lot of partners and media meetings, but we didn't have our own booth. So we decided to just keep that. But we decided to be there and have a presence there, even just us and speak with people. It's very hard to stand out. Yeah, I think, you know, it depends what type of booth you have. I think if you can prepare like a really cool booth.Ethan [00:36:41]: Have you been to CES?Maria [00:36:42]: I think it can be pretty cool.Ethan [00:36:43]: It's massive. It's huge. It's like 80,000, 90,000 people across the Venetian and the convention center. And it's, to me, I always wanted to go just like...Maria [00:36:53]: Yeah, you were the one who was like...swyx [00:36:55]: I thought it was your idea.Ethan [00:36:57]: I always wanted to go just as a, like, just as a fan of...Maria [00:37:01]: Yeah, you wanted to go anyways.Ethan [00:37:02]: Because like, growing up, I think CES like kind of peaked for a while and it was like, oh, I want to go. That's where all the cool, like... gadgets, everything. Yeah, now it's like SmartBitch and like, you know, vacuuming the picks up socks. Exactly.Maria [00:37:13]: There are a lot of cool vacuums. Oh, they love it.swyx [00:37:15]: They love the Roombas, the pick up socks.Maria [00:37:16]: And pet tech. Yeah, yeah. And dog stuff.swyx [00:37:20]: Yeah, there's a lot of like robot stuff. New TVs, new cars that never ship. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking like last year, this time last year was when Rabbit and Humane launched at CES and Rabbit kind of won CES. And now this year, no wearables except for you guys.Ethan [00:37:32]: It's funny because it's obviously it's AI everything. Yeah. Like every single product. Yeah.Maria [00:37:37]: Toothbrush with AI, vacuums with AI. Yeah. Yeah.Ethan [00:37:41]: We like hair blow, literally a hairdryer with AI. We saw.Maria [00:37:45]: Yeah, that was cool.Ethan [00:37:46]: But I think that like, yeah, we didn't, another kind of difference like around our, like we didn't want to do like a big overhypey promised kind of Rabbit launch. Because I mean, they did, hats off to them, like on the presentation and everything, obviously. But like, you know, we want to let the product kind of speak for itself and like get it out there. And I think we were really happy. We got some very good interest from media and some of the partners there. So like it was, I think it was definitely worth going. I would say like if you're in hardware, it's just kind of how you make use of it. Like I think to do it like a big Rabbit style or to have a huge show on there, like you need to plan that six months in advance. And it's very expensive. But like if you, you know, go there, there's everybody's there. All the media is there. There's a lot of some pre-show events that it's just great to talk to people. And the industry also, all the manufacturers, suppliers are there. So we learned about some really cool stuff that we might like. We met with somebody. They have like thermal energy capture. And it's like, oh, could you maybe not need to charge it? Because they have like a thermal that can capture your body heat. And what? Yeah, they're here. They're actually here. And in Palo Alto, they have like a Fitbit thing that you don't have to charge.swyx [00:39:01]: Like on paper, that's the power you can get from that. What's the power draw for this thing?Ethan [00:39:05]: It's more than you could get from the body heat, it turns out. But it's quite small. I don't want to disclose technically. But I think that solar is still, they also have one where it's like this thing could be like the face of it. It's just a solar cell. And like that is more realistic. Or kinetic. Kinetic, apparently, I'm not an expert in this, but they seem to think it wouldn't be enough. Kinetic is quite small, I guess, on the capture.swyx [00:39:33]: Well, I mean, watch. Watchmakers have been powering with kinetic for a long time. Yeah. We don't have to talk about that. I just want to get a sense of CES. Would you do it again? I definitely would not. Okay. You're just a fan of CES. Business point of view doesn't make sense. I happen to be in the conference business, right? So I'm kind of just curious. Yeah.Maria [00:39:49]: So I would say as we did, so without the booth and really like straightforward conversations that were already planned. Three days. That's okay. I think it was okay. Okay. But if you need to invest for a booth that is not. Okay. A good one. Which is how much? I think.Ethan [00:40:06]: 10 by 10 is 5,000. But on top of that, you need to. And then they go like 10 by 10 is like super small. Yeah. And like some companies have, I think would probably be more in like the six figure range to get. And I mean, I think that, yeah, it's very noisy. We heard this, that it's very, very noisy. Like obviously if you're, everything is being launched there and like everything from cars to cell phones are being launched. Yeah. So it's hard to stand out. But like, I think going in with a plan of who you want to talk to, I feel like.Maria [00:40:36]: That was worth it.Ethan [00:40:37]: Worth it. We had a lot of really positive media coverage from it and we got the word out and like, so I think we accomplished what we wanted to do.swyx [00:40:46]: I mean, there's some world in which my conference is kind of the CES of whatever AI becomes. Yeah. I think that.Maria [00:40:52]: Don't do it in Vegas. Don't do it in Vegas. Yeah. Don't do it in Vegas. That's the only thing. I didn't really like Vegas. That's great. Amazing. Those are my favorite ones.Alessio [00:41:02]: You can not fit 90,000 people in SF. That's really duh.Ethan [00:41:05]: You need to do like multiple locations so you can do Moscone and then have one in.swyx [00:41:09]: I mean, that's what Salesforce conferences. Well, GDC is how many? That might be 50,000, right? Okay. Form factor, right? Like my way to introduce this idea was that I was at the launch in Solaris. What was the old name of it? Newton. Newton. Of Tab when Avi first launched it. He was like, I thought through everything. Every form factor, pendant is the thing. And then we got the pendants for this original. The first one was just pendants and I took it off and I forgot to put it back on. So you went through pendants, pin, bracelet now, and maybe there's sort of earphones in the future, but what was your iterations?Maria [00:41:49]: So we had, I believe now three or four iterations. And one of the things that we learned is indeed that people don't like the pendant. In particular, woman, you don't want to have like anything here on the chest because it's maybe you have like other necklace or any other stuff.Ethan [00:42:03]: You just ship a premium one that's gold. Yeah. We're talking some fashion reached out to us.Maria [00:42:11]: Some big fashion. There is something there.swyx [00:42:13]: This is where it helps to have an Italian on the team.Maria [00:42:15]: There is like some big Italian luxury. I can't say anything. So yeah, bracelet actually came from the community because they were like, oh, I don't want to wear anything like as necklace or as a pendant. Like it's. And also like the one that we had, I don't know if you remember, like it was like circle, like it was like this and was like really bulky. Like people didn't like it. And also, I mean, I actually, I don't dislike, like we were running fast when we did that. Like our, our thing was like, we wanted to ship them as soon as possible. So we're not overthinking the form factor or the material. We were just want to be out. But after the community organically, basically all of them were like, well, why you don't just don't do the bracelet? Like he's way better. I will just wear it. And that's it. So that's how we ended up with the bracelet, but it's still modular. So I still want to play around the father is modular and you can, you know, take it off and wear it as a clip or in the future, maybe we will bring back the pendant. But I like the fact that there is some personalization and right now we have two colors, yellow and black. Soon we will have other ones. So yeah, we can play a lot around that.Ethan [00:43:25]: I think the form factor. Like the goal is for it to be not super invasive. Right. And something that's easy. So I think in the future, smaller, thinner, not like apple type obsession with thinness, but it does matter like the, the size and weight. And we would love to have more context because that will help, but to make it work, I think it really needs to have good power consumption, good battery life. And, you know, like with the humane swapping the batteries, I have one, I mean, I'm, I'm, I think we've made, and there's like pretty incredible, some of the engineering they did, but like, it wasn't kind of geared towards solving the problem. It was just, it's too heavy. The swappable batteries is too much to man, like the heat, the thermals is like too much to light interface thing. Yeah. Like that. That's cool. It's cool. It's cool. But it's like, if, if you have your handout here, you want to use your phone, like it's not really solving a problem. Cause you know how to use your phone. It's got a brilliant display. You have to kind of learn how to gesture this low range. Yeah. It's like a resolution laser, but the laser is cool that the fact they got it working in that thing, even though if it did overheat, but like too heavy, too cumbersome, too complicated with the multiple batteries. So something that's power efficient, kind of thin, both in the physical sense and also in the edge compute kind of way so that it can be as unobtrusive as possible. Yeah.Maria [00:44:47]: Users really like, like, I like when they say yes, I like to wear it and forget about it because I don't need to charge it every single day. On the other version, I believe we had like 35 hours or something, which was okay. But people, they just prefer the seven days battery life and-swyx [00:45:03]: Oh, this is seven days? Yeah. Oh, I've been charging every three days.Maria [00:45:07]: Oh, no, you can like keep it like, yeah, it's like almost seven days.swyx [00:45:11]: The other thing that occurs to me, maybe there's an Apple watch strap so that I don't have to double watch. Yeah.Maria [00:45:17]: That's the other one that, yeah, I thought about it. I saw as well the ones that like, you can like put it like back on the phone. Like, you know- Plog. There is a lot.swyx [00:45:27]: So yeah, there's a competitor called Plog. Yeah. It's not really a competitor. They only transcribe, right? Yeah, they only transcribe. But they're very good at it. Yeah.Ethan [00:45:33]: No, they're great. Their hardware is really good too.swyx [00:45:36]: And they just launched the pin too. Yeah.Ethan [00:45:38]: I think that the MagSafe kind of form factor has a lot of advantages, but some disadvantages. You can definitely put a very huge battery on that, you know? And so like the battery life's not, the power consumption's not so much of a concern, but you know, downside the phone's like in your pocket. And so I think that, you know, form factors will continue to evolve, but, and you know, more sensors, less obtrusive and-Maria [00:46:02]: Yeah. We have a new version.Ethan [00:46:04]: Easier to use.Maria [00:46:05]: Okay.swyx [00:46:05]: Looking forward to that. Yeah. I mean, we'll, whenever we launch this, we'll try to show whatever, but I'm sure you're going to keep iterating. Last thing on hardware, and then we'll go on to the software side, because I think that's where you guys are also really, really strong. Vision. You wanted to talk about why no vision? Yeah.Ethan [00:46:20]: I think it comes down to like when you're, when you're a startup, especially in hardware, you're just, you work within the constraints, right? And so like vision is super useful and super interesting. And what we actually started with, there's two issues with vision that make it like not the place we decided to start. One is power consumption. So you know, you kind of have to trade off your power budget, like capturing even at a low frame rate and transmitting the radio is actually the thing that takes up the majority of the power. So. Yeah. So you would really have to have quite a, like unacceptably, like large and heavy battery to do it continuously all day. We have, I think, novel kind of alternative ways that might allow us to do that. And we have some prototypes. The other issue is form factor. So like even with like a wide field of view, if you're wearing something on your chest, it's going, you know, obviously the wrist is not really that much of an option. And if you're wearing it on your chest, it's, it's often gone. You're going to probably be not capturing like the field of view of what's interesting to you. So that leaves you kind of with your head and face. And then anything that goes on, on the face has to look cool. Like I don't know if you remember the spectacles, it was kind of like the first, yeah, but they kind of, they didn't, they were not very successful. And I think one of the reasons is they were, they're so weird looking. Yeah. The camera was so big on the side. And if you look at them at array bands where they're way more successful, they, they look almost indistinguishable from array bands. And they invested a lot into that and they, they have a partnership with Qualcomm to develop custom Silicon. They have a stake in Luxottica now. So like they coming from all the angles, like to make glasses, I think like, you know, I don't know if you know, Brilliant Labs, they're cool company, they make frames, which is kind of like a cool hackable glasses and, and, and like, they're really good, like on hardware, they're really good. But even if you look at the frames, which I would say is like the most advanced kind of startup. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was one that launched at CES, but it's not shipping yet. Like one that you can buy now, it's still not something you'd wear every day and the battery life is super short. So I think just the challenge of doing vision right, like off the bat, like would require quite a bit more resources. And so like audio is such a good entry point and it's also the privacy around audio. If you, if you had images, that's like another huge challenge to overcome. So I think that. Ideally the personal AI would have, you know, all the senses and you know, we'll, we'll get there. Yeah. Okay.swyx [00:48:57]: One last hardware thing. I have to ask this because then we'll move to the software. Were either of you electrical engineering?Ethan [00:49:04]: No, I'm CES. And so I have a, I've taken some EE courses, but I, I had done prior to working on, on the hardware here, like I had done a little bit of like embedded systems, like very little firmware, but we have luckily on the team, somebody with deep experience. Yeah.swyx [00:49:21]: I'm just like, you know, like you have to become hardware people. Yeah.Ethan [00:49:25]: Yeah. I mean, I learned to worry about supply chain power. I think this is like radio.Maria [00:49:30]: There's so many things to learn.Ethan [00:49:32]: I would tell this about hardware, like, and I know it's been said before, but building a prototype and like learning how the electronics work and learning about firmware and developing, this is like, I think fun for a lot of engineers and it's, it's all totally like achievable, especially now, like with, with the tools we have, like stuff you might've been intimidated about. Like, how do I like write this firmware now? With Sonnet, like you can, you can get going and actually see results quickly. But I think going from prototype to actually making something manufactured is a enormous jump. And it's not all about technology, the supply chain, the procurement, the regulations, the cost, the tooling. The thing about software that I'm used to is it's funny that you can make changes all along the way and ship it. But like when you have to buy tooling for an enclosure that's expensive.swyx [00:50:24]: Do you buy your own tooling? You have to.Ethan [00:50:25]: Don't you just subcontract out to someone in China? Oh, no. Do we make the tooling? No, no. You have to have CNC and like a bunch of machines.Maria [00:50:31]: Like nobody makes their own tooling, but like you have to design this design and you submitEthan [00:50:36]: it and then they go four to six weeks later. Yeah. And then if there's a problem with it, well, then you're not, you're not making any, any of your enclosures. And so you have to really plan ahead. And like.swyx [00:50:48]: I just want to leave tips for other hardware founders. Like what resources or websites are most helpful in your sort of manufacturing journey?Ethan [00:50:55]: You know, I think it's different depending on like it's hardware so specialized in different ways.Maria [00:51:00]: I will say that, for example, I should choose a manufacturer company. I speak with other founders and like we can give you like some, you know, some tips of who is good and who is not, or like who's specialized in something versus somebody else. Yeah.Ethan [00:51:15]: Like some people are good in plastics. Some people are good.Maria [00:51:18]: I think like for us, it really helped at the beginning to speak with others and understand. Okay. Like who is around. I work in Shenzhen. I lived almost two years in China. I have an idea about like different hardware manufacturer and all of that. Soon I will go back to Shenzhen to check out. So I think it's good also to go in place and check.Ethan [00:51:40]: Yeah, you have to like once you, if you, so we did some stuff domestically and like if you have that ability. The reason I say ability is very expensive, but like to build out some proof of concepts and do field testing before you take it to a manufacturer, despite what people say, there's really good domestic manufacturing for small quantities at extremely high prices. So we got our first PCB and the assembly done in LA. So there's a lot of good because of the defense industry that can do quick churn. So it's like, we need this board. We need to find out if it's working. We have this deadline we want to start, but you need to go through this. And like if you want to have it done and fabricated in a week, they can do it for a price. But I think, you know, everybody's kind of trending even for prototyping now moving that offshore because in China you can do prototyping and get it within almost the same timeline. But the thing is with manufacturing, like it really helps to go there and kind of establish the relationship. Yeah.Alessio [00:52:38]: My first company was a hardware company and we did our PCBs in China and took a long time. Now things are better. But this was, yeah, I don't know, 10 years ago, something like that. Yeah.Ethan [00:52:47]: I think that like the, and I've heard this too, we didn't run into this problem, but like, you know, if it's something where you don't have the relationship, they don't see you, they don't know you, you know, you might get subcontracted out or like they're not paying attention. But like if you're, you know, you have the relationship and a priority, like, yeah, it's really good. We ended up doing the fabrication assembly in Taiwan for various reasons.Maria [00:53:11]: And I think it really helped the fact that you went there at some point. Yeah.Ethan [00:53:15]: We're really happy with the process and, but I mean the whole process of just Choosing the right people. Choosing the right people, but also just sourcing the bill materials and all of that stuff. Like, I guess like if you have time, it's not that bad, but if you're trying to like really push the speed at that, it's incredibly stressful. Okay. We got to move to the software. Yeah.Alessio [00:53:38]: Yeah. So the hardware, maybe it's hard for people to understand, but what software people can understand is that running. Transcription and summarization, all of these things in real time every day for 24 hours a day. It's not easy. So you mentioned 200,000 tokens for a day. Yeah. How do you make it basically free to run all of this for the consumer?Ethan [00:53:59]: Well, I think that the pipeline and the inference, like people think about all of these tokens, but as you know, the price of tokens is like dramatically dropping. You guys probably have some charts somewhere that you've posted. We do. And like, if you see that trend in like 250,000 input tokens, it's not really that much, right? Like the output.swyx [00:54:21]: You do several layers. You do live. Yeah.Ethan [00:54:23]: Yeah. So the speech to text is like the most challenging part actually, because you know, it requires like real time processing and then like later processing with a larger model. And one thing that is fairly obvious is that like, you don't need to transcribe things that don't have any voice in it. Right? So good voice activity is key, right? Because like the majority of most people's day is not spent with voice activity. Right? So that is the first step to cutting down the amount of compute you have to do. And voice activity is a fairly cheap thing to do. Very, very cheap thing to do. The models that need to summarize, you don't need a Sonnet level kind of model to summarize. You do need a Sonnet level model to like execute things like the agent. And we will be having a subscription for like features like that because it's, you know, although now with the R1, like we'll see, we haven't evaluated it. A deep seek? Yeah. I mean, not that one in particular, but like, you know, they're already there that can kind of perform at that level. I was like, it's going to stay in six months, but like, yeah. So self-hosted models help in the things where you can. So you are self-hosting models. Yes. You are fine tuning your own ASR. Yes. I will say that I see in the future that everything's trending down. Although like, I think there might be an intermediary step with things to become expensive, which is like, we're really interested because like the pipeline is very tedious and like a lot of tuning. Right. Which is brutal because it's just a lot of trial and error. Whereas like, well, wouldn't it be nice if an end to end model could just do all of this and learn it? If we could do transcription with like an LLM, there's so many advantages to that, but it's going to be a larger model and hence like more compute, you know, we're optim

In this episode, Dennis Long demonstrates Eter: Streaming Internet Radio for iOS. Eter is a versatile internet radio application available across all Apple platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. It provides access to over 40,000 global radio stations, encompassing a wide range of genres such as news, sports, and music. citeturn0search8Key Features:Extensive Station Access: Utilizes the publicly available radio-browser.info database to offer a vast selection of free internet radio stations. citeturn0search0Universal Compatibility: Designed for seamless use across various Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. It also supports CarPlay and AirPlay for enhanced listening experiences. citeturn0search8User-Friendly Interface: Features a clean and intuitive design, making it easy to navigate and discover new stations. The app includes a hand-crafted list of recommended stations and allows users to search for others. citeturn0search0Recent Updates: The latest version, Eter 2.3, introduced on February 7, 2025, includes Shazam support for automatic song recognition, enabling users to identify tracks even when stream metadata is unavailable. Additional enhancements include customizable preferences for favorite stations and various bug fixes. citeturn0search0Premium Upgrade:While Eter is free to use, a one-time in-app purchase unlocks premium features, including:Saving favorite stations for quick access.Hiding recommended stations to view only personal favorites.Setting a sleep timer to automatically stop playback after a specified duration.Viewing listening history and opening tracks in Apple Music.Supporting the app's ongoing development.Eter is available for download on the App Store and offers a comprehensive internet radio experience tailored for Apple users.Eter: Streaming Internet Radio on the App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eter-streaming-internet-radio/id1523221566TranscriptDisclaimer: This transcript was generated by Aiko, an AI-powered transcription app. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers' names, voices, or content.Hello everybody, this is Dennis Long and today's demo is of Eater Radio.Eater is spelled E-T-E-R.Eater is free, but to fully unlock it, it costs you $5, actually $4.99.What do you get for that $4.99?The ability to save favorites, the ability to hide recommended stations, the ability to support ongoing development, and the ability to set a sleep timer to drift off quietly to any station your heart desires.What database does this use, you ask?It uses the radio.browser.The radio browser database is what it uses.Okay, so what makes Eater different?That's what we're going to cover today because they've done some interesting things and we'll get into how to do that here in a moment.Alright, so without any further ado, let's go, shall we?At the top left, you have settings at the very top.Okay, so let's start…

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Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard check out the often-overlooked Tips app on Apple devices, showing how it can be a powerful tool for discovering features and learning device functionality. They explore how the app has evolved from basic instructions to become an essential resource for both new and experienced users, complete with interactive demos and deep links to settings. Get Started section contains essential setup checklists for new devices, covering Face ID, Apple account, iCloud backup, and emergency contacts Navigate Your iPhone feature provides interactive tutorials with animations for basic gestures and controls Practice mode lets users try gestures with real-time feedback and haptic responses What's New in iOS section highlights latest features and updates Genius Picks section showcases expert-curated tips, including lesser-known features like Vehicle Motion Cues for reducing motion sickness Complete user guides for iPhone, Apple Watch, HomePod, Apple TV, and AirPods Tips widget can be added to home screen and customized for different Focus modes Search function helps quickly find specific features or solutions Tips can be bookmarked and shared with others Feedback Question about disabling CarPlay navigation prompts to home/work Shortcuts Corner An explanation of how to customize the Apple Health data export based on specific health data types (steps, sleep, blood oxygen, etc.) Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. You can also contribute to iOS Today by sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv.

Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard check out the often-overlooked Tips app on Apple devices, showing how it can be a powerful tool for discovering features and learning device functionality. They explore how the app has evolved from basic instructions to become an essential resource for both new and experienced users, complete with interactive demos and deep links to settings. Get Started section contains essential setup checklists for new devices, covering Face ID, Apple account, iCloud backup, and emergency contacts Navigate Your iPhone feature provides interactive tutorials with animations for basic gestures and controls Practice mode lets users try gestures with real-time feedback and haptic responses What's New in iOS section highlights latest features and updates Genius Picks section showcases expert-curated tips, including lesser-known features like Vehicle Motion Cues for reducing motion sickness Complete user guides for iPhone, Apple Watch, HomePod, Apple TV, and AirPods Tips widget can be added to home screen and customized for different Focus modes Search function helps quickly find specific features or solutions Tips can be bookmarked and shared with others Feedback Question about disabling CarPlay navigation prompts to home/work Shortcuts Corner An explanation of how to customize the Apple Health data export based on specific health data types (steps, sleep, blood oxygen, etc.) Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. You can also contribute to iOS Today by sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv.

Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard check out the often-overlooked Tips app on Apple devices, showing how it can be a powerful tool for discovering features and learning device functionality. They explore how the app has evolved from basic instructions to become an essential resource for both new and experienced users, complete with interactive demos and deep links to settings. Get Started section contains essential setup checklists for new devices, covering Face ID, Apple account, iCloud backup, and emergency contacts Navigate Your iPhone feature provides interactive tutorials with animations for basic gestures and controls Practice mode lets users try gestures with real-time feedback and haptic responses What's New in iOS section highlights latest features and updates Genius Picks section showcases expert-curated tips, including lesser-known features like Vehicle Motion Cues for reducing motion sickness Complete user guides for iPhone, Apple Watch, HomePod, Apple TV, and AirPods Tips widget can be added to home screen and customized for different Focus modes Search function helps quickly find specific features or solutions Tips can be bookmarked and shared with others Feedback Question about disabling CarPlay navigation prompts to home/work Shortcuts Corner An explanation of how to customize the Apple Health data export based on specific health data types (steps, sleep, blood oxygen, etc.) Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. You can also contribute to iOS Today by sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv.

Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard check out the often-overlooked Tips app on Apple devices, showing how it can be a powerful tool for discovering features and learning device functionality. They explore how the app has evolved from basic instructions to become an essential resource for both new and experienced users, complete with interactive demos and deep links to settings. Get Started section contains essential setup checklists for new devices, covering Face ID, Apple account, iCloud backup, and emergency contacts Navigate Your iPhone feature provides interactive tutorials with animations for basic gestures and controls Practice mode lets users try gestures with real-time feedback and haptic responses What's New in iOS section highlights latest features and updates Genius Picks section showcases expert-curated tips, including lesser-known features like Vehicle Motion Cues for reducing motion sickness Complete user guides for iPhone, Apple Watch, HomePod, Apple TV, and AirPods Tips widget can be added to home screen and customized for different Focus modes Search function helps quickly find specific features or solutions Tips can be bookmarked and shared with others Feedback Question about disabling CarPlay navigation prompts to home/work Shortcuts Corner An explanation of how to customize the Apple Health data export based on specific health data types (steps, sleep, blood oxygen, etc.) Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. You can also contribute to iOS Today by sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv.

In this episode of iOS Today, hosts Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard demonstrate how to customize iPhone lock screens, exploring everything from widgets and fonts to Focus mode integration and automation. They also tackle a viewer question about triggering Mac actions from an iPhone using Keyboard Maestro. How to access lock screen customization by long-pressing while unlocked Exploring different lock screen styles including astronomy, emoji, weather, and colour options Customizing widgets in the top date/time area for quick information access Changing time display options including fonts, colors, and number systems Adding up to four small widgets or two rectangular widgets below the clock Customizing bottom controls (formerly just flashlight and camera) with various app shortcuts and actions Integration with Focus modes to automatically change lock screens based on activity Tips for using Always-On Display settings, including hiding wallpaper for better battery awareness How lock screens connect to home screen layouts and Apple Watch faces for a cohesive experience Shortcuts Corner Kenny asks about running a Keyboard Maestro script to eject Time Machine drive remotely. Plus, an adorable pet tax! Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. You can also contribute to iOS Today by sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv.

In this episode of iOS Today, hosts Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard demonstrate how to customize iPhone lock screens, exploring everything from widgets and fonts to Focus mode integration and automation. They also tackle a viewer question about triggering Mac actions from an iPhone using Keyboard Maestro. How to access lock screen customization by long-pressing while unlocked Exploring different lock screen styles including astronomy, emoji, weather, and colour options Customizing widgets in the top date/time area for quick information access Changing time display options including fonts, colors, and number systems Adding up to four small widgets or two rectangular widgets below the clock Customizing bottom controls (formerly just flashlight and camera) with various app shortcuts and actions Integration with Focus modes to automatically change lock screens based on activity Tips for using Always-On Display settings, including hiding wallpaper for better battery awareness How lock screens connect to home screen layouts and Apple Watch faces for a cohesive experience Shortcuts Corner Kenny asks about running a Keyboard Maestro script to eject Time Machine drive remotely. Plus, an adorable pet tax! Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. You can also contribute to iOS Today by sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv.

In this episode of iOS Today, hosts Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard demonstrate how to customize iPhone lock screens, exploring everything from widgets and fonts to Focus mode integration and automation. They also tackle a viewer question about triggering Mac actions from an iPhone using Keyboard Maestro. How to access lock screen customization by long-pressing while unlocked Exploring different lock screen styles including astronomy, emoji, weather, and colour options Customizing widgets in the top date/time area for quick information access Changing time display options including fonts, colors, and number systems Adding up to four small widgets or two rectangular widgets below the clock Customizing bottom controls (formerly just flashlight and camera) with various app shortcuts and actions Integration with Focus modes to automatically change lock screens based on activity Tips for using Always-On Display settings, including hiding wallpaper for better battery awareness How lock screens connect to home screen layouts and Apple Watch faces for a cohesive experience Shortcuts Corner Kenny asks about running a Keyboard Maestro script to eject Time Machine drive remotely. Plus, an adorable pet tax! Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. You can also contribute to iOS Today by sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv.

In this episode of iOS Today, hosts Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard demonstrate how to customize iPhone lock screens, exploring everything from widgets and fonts to Focus mode integration and automation. They also tackle a viewer question about triggering Mac actions from an iPhone using Keyboard Maestro. How to access lock screen customization by long-pressing while unlocked Exploring different lock screen styles including astronomy, emoji, weather, and colour options Customizing widgets in the top date/time area for quick information access Changing time display options including fonts, colors, and number systems Adding up to four small widgets or two rectangular widgets below the clock Customizing bottom controls (formerly just flashlight and camera) with various app shortcuts and actions Integration with Focus modes to automatically change lock screens based on activity Tips for using Always-On Display settings, including hiding wallpaper for better battery awareness How lock screens connect to home screen layouts and Apple Watch faces for a cohesive experience Shortcuts Corner Kenny asks about running a Keyboard Maestro script to eject Time Machine drive remotely. Plus, an adorable pet tax! Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. You can also contribute to iOS Today by sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv.

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