Welcome to In the News for August 15th, 2025.

I am Brett Burney from Appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhoneJD.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning, Jeff.

I am coming to you live from National Harbor.

Well, it's National Harbor, Maryland.

It's actually in D.C.

I am looking at a huge Ferris wheel outside of my window.

I'm in D.C. for the ILTA Conference,

the International Legal Technology Association.

And just ended yesterday.

It's been great, and it's just great to see a lot of old friends talk about legal technology.

Hey, Brett, when you were at ILTA, did anybody mention the letters AI?

Just out of curiosity.

Well, you know, it came up a couple of times.

You couldn't even get in the door without AI slapping you in the face from some sign or flashing screen.

It's been a little nuts, Jeff, I got to tell you.

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I didn't get to see Lit Software, but I got to tell you, I talked to a lot of folks at the ILTA conference.

this past year about Lit Software and the apps like TrialPad and TranscriptPad,

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So anyway, we'll come back and talk a little bit about that.

But we are in the midst of what I call –

it's like Apple anticipation for these next few weeks here, Jeff, right?

I mean, we talked about this a little bit last week,

And we expect and anticipate that maybe in about three weeks or so, we haven't got an official announcement that Apple will have some kind of a keynote address, a presentation of some kind, and hopefully, hopefully announce several products.

And the speculation has already begun.

Indeed.

So, by the way, typically, Apple announces the date for the iPhone introduction in like that last week of August.

That last week, right.

So we're still about two weeks away from the announcement, but from the announcement of the announcement, so to speak, as we discussed before.

I think it's going to be September 9th.

But regardless, we're now getting close enough that not really, you know, well, normally I would say Apple doesn't announce anything new this time of year.

Of course, that did happen this week.

We're going to talk about that in a second with the blood oxygen sensor.

But we're getting close enough that, you know, rumors are coming out.

There was an interesting thing this week of, you know, leaks from Apple itself.

Because if I understand this correctly, when Apple is releasing its beta software, typically, you know, the software is going to have to, you know, have some understanding of what device it's running on.

And Apple usually tries to hide that.

But this week they released something that apparently had revealed some of the specific devices that don't currently exist, which led people to say, oh, OK, so we actually know some things like, you know, a new HomePod, a new Apple TV, you know, stuff like that.

Again, it's still, you know, it sort of crosses between rumor to sort of a self-owned leak, as it were.

But we're getting close enough to sort of get.

So, you know, the speculation and the leaks and you put it all together and the anticipation, of course.

And we have a lot of people talking about what is coming out.

You know, one thing that I thought was interesting was the actually let me start with Joe Rosagnall of Mac Rumors talking about the new Mac.

You know, the biggest the biggest selling device, of course, that Apple has is the iPhone.

everything else pales in comparison. And so I'm always intrigued by the iPhone Pro, not only

because I use that model, you do too, but because this is like, you know, the best selling device,

the top one, this is where Apple is going to put a lot of its efforts to really try to wow us.

So, and they do such a good job every year. You're like, what is next? And so Joe has some,

some theories. I don't know how much of this is him speculating and how much is based on rumors.

I think it's a little bit of both, but you know, the big ones he talks about was an increase in RAM,

which nobody really knows how much RAM you typically have in an iPhone.

But the reason that really matters is more RAM means they can do more on device at once,

which, of course, yes, it means you can have more tabs open in Safari for a lot of people.

But I think the real reason that Apple would spend more money on RAM is so that you could have even more on device.

What are those two letters again?

You guessed it, AI.

So this will be hopefully making that better.

Another one that was interesting to me is they say that, you know, one of the reasons I love my Pro model is because of these cameras on it.

And I love the fact that I can get up to a 5x optical zoom because there are lots of times where I want to take a picture and I want to zoom in a little bit.

Right. And so the rumor is that it's going to go up to an 8x optical zoom.

Oh, boy.

Which I would actually like.

I mean, the more zoom you have, the more you have to hold your camera really still, of course.

But but I would love to have that power.

Android phones, many models have had better zooms for a while now.

So I'm, I think, up to 10X.

And then, of course, you have a solid, I didn't link to this because it has nothing to do with iPhone, Brett, but there was another story this week.

I'm sure you've heard about this.

For years now, Samsung has been sort of fudging a little bit.

Whenever you take a photo that has the moon in it, Samsung instead of, you know, it's hard to photograph the moon because it's so bright against a dark sky, especially with something like an iPhone or an Android.

And so Android, Samsung has had this thing that when you take any picture with the moon, it basically replaces whatever picture you actually took with its AI version of a moon.

So it's like it's not a picture.

It's basically, I mean, it's more sophisticated than this, but it's basically cutting and pasting.

And somebody did a test this week where they had a picture on their computer of a blurry moon.

So like the actual picture on their computer was blurry.

They took a picture with their Samsung phone, and the picture was perfect.

Oh, my goodness.

It's just proven that it's not really reality it's recreating.

But anyway, so Apple is not doing that.

But with a better Zoom, you know, whether you're taking a picture of the moon or something else, that would be nice.

And some other improvements, too.

So I thought that was one thing that was interesting from this week.

Indeed.

Yeah, you mentioned this anti-reflective display.

I don't know if I need that on a phone necessarily.

But, you know, I know that some people do need it and do appreciate that.

So that's interesting there.

I have never purchased an iPad.

And they may actually have it with the Macs now.

Yeah, they do with the nanotexture anti-reflective glass.

But I will tell you, anytime I talk to somebody who spends the extra money, it's usually like an extra hundred bucks or something.

They all rave to me.

And like I've had so many people say that they love it that I have to admit it does make me think, gosh, do I need this?

And, you know, I'm sitting here looking at my iPad right now and I can sort of see the reflection of my overhead lights, you know, on top of me in my office.

It doesn't really bother me.

I suppose if you're outside with the bright sun, it's a bigger deal, but I don't use my iPad outside that much.

And so an iPhone that had a more anti-reflective display, I mean, I'm not opposed to it because people love it so much.

So that would be interesting.

And again, maybe it'll be an option that you have to pay more for.

I don't know.

Interesting.

I remember this guy.

We talked about this.

You remember you posted about this commercial.

Do you remember this?

Oh, yeah.

The guy, the bronze guy.

I'm like, okay, if you're going to be sitting in the sun like this, and to your point, I've heard the same thing from folks that have got that anti-reflective.

I just I feel like I just never needed it.

I don't know if I'm just a traditionalist.

Like I think a screen computer screen should be reflective.

But again, I've never sat in front of an anti-reflective or that nanotexture yet.

So it'll be interesting to see.

Jason Snell had an interesting article this week for Macworld that I linked to the six colors version of it.

But he talks about how historically Apple will come out with a product, you know, and it's just one.

You know, they had just one iPod initially, just one iPhone, just one everything.

And then over time, Apple will sort of branch out and have different versions being sold at the same time, not just improvements to the product, but different lines.

So we currently have like the cheaper iPhone and the more expensive Pro.

We have the smaller iPhone and then the bigger, either the Plus or the Max model.

And so he was talking about how there's different ways that Apple has done this over the years.

And I think what he's alluding to is the rumors that you and I have talked about a couple of times in the past that this year, Apple will have a thinner version of the iPhone.

At the same time, it continues to sell the version that we all know and love.

And that this is paving the way for next year for Apple to have an iPhone that sort of folds open like a book and that you could have something about the same size screen of a mini.

And I'll tell you, earlier this week, I actually looked at a video that was linked to, but I didn't put this in my post, but I think John Gruber linked to it on Daring Fireball.

There's a guy, really smart guy named Dieter Bone that for years worked for The Verge.

And he is now in-house at Google.

but he did a little video talking about these new Samsung Z Fold phones that open up.

And when he was showing it off in his video, I have to admit, I get it.

I'm going to be really intrigued.

If Apple does come up with a folding iPhone, this is not 2025.

This would be 2026.

It's an intriguing product.

So anyway, this is sort of a nice post by Jason because it talks about historically,

we see Apple branch out and, and, and presumably we could see some of that this fall, most notably

with the iPhone, but perhaps with other products as well. Yeah. He talks about the Apple watch in

here a little bit as well. And, um, I mean, he even had this picture down here, which I thought

was interesting. You know, there's so many people that have been clamoring. Well, there's been a,

a group of people that have been clamoring. It's like, we want a round Apple watch as opposed to

sort of like the square that we have. And I don't know that if I need that or not, I kind of like

that screen you know didn't fill it up I mean obviously I still use that that modular you know

watch face for the ultra that I have and I just love it because I love packing as much information

in there and it's so easy to swipe to a less busy face if I need to you know depending on what mood

strikes me at the time but I just thought that that was this is great from hearing about Jason

talking about well you know what they can do with the Apple watch next and that would that will be

interesting round is always you know like you say some people say they really like it and when it

comes to just a traditional watch face with a hand that sweeps round makes perfect sense sure but

when you want to display text or words or complications the square makes more sense um

and you know for me i never really have an analog watch um you know the only time i do it is this

is totally silly because nobody notices but me but sometimes if i'm like more dressed up if i'm

wearing a suit to cord or going to a pants oh yeah you know i will switch from my regular watch face

which has digital numbers over to one that has the analog, because in my mind, I'm a little bit more

fancy. Does anybody in the world notice this but me? I'm sure not. But regardless, but it makes you

feel better. It makes me feel better that I've got my fancy analog. So anyway, but, you know, so I

don't know that I would be interested in a round Apple Watch, but Apple will. And, you know, the

thing that always interests me about the Apple Watch, Brett, Apple had its financial results.

Was it a week or two ago? You know, the results. And one of the things they talk about is how many

people were buying their first iPhone, their first iPad, whatever. On the Apple Watch, you know,

the Apple Watch has been around for a decade now, right? And they said, like something like, I don't

have the number in front of me, but I think it was like 50%, like half of the people buying an Apple

Watch were buying their first one. And I'm like, wow, I see Apple Watches, everybody, you know,

so many people. There's so many people new to the platform. And so if it's, so back to Jason's

article, you know, if a product is mature enough and you can have both one version of it and another

version of it to get more people interested maybe there's some subset of the population that a round

apple watch would get them to come over i still predict that apple's not going to do it but um but

who knows yeah agreed the last one of the last things you pointed to was a potential new apple tv

with i mean i was blown away by this a new chip like an a17 chip like do we need that in apple tv

and the question I think, are you responding to this?

Again, if we really would need it

if we wanna support more of those AI tools

being put into this as well.

Yeah, I have actually been thinking

about this rumor this week, Brett,

because please don't tell anybody,

but I think I can safely say,

okay, everyone listening to this is sworn to secrecy.

My father's birthday's coming up.

He does not listen to this podcast, believe me,

but he needs another Apple TV, okay?

So me and my siblings are gonna get him one.

But we actually thought, Brett,

Like, should we wait for to see if there's a new model?

And I'm like, you know what?

My dad is not going to know the difference between, you know, this supposed new Apple

TV is going to have more, a better processor so it can have Apple intelligence.

My dad is the last person in the world to want AI on his Apple TV.

He just wants to watch, you know, Netflix and Apple TV shows and that sort of stuff.

So, but regardless, so I actually did purchase one, you know, they always say, don't buy an

iPhone just before the new ones come out.

Don't buy an Apple TV.

So I actually, you know, we did buy one this week that we'll be giving to him very soon.

But for the rest of them, if you're listening, nobody tell my dad, don't spoil the secret.

But for other people, if you're thinking about an Apple TV, you know, I would wait because the rumors, and especially this is one of them that was leaked in that leak we talked about a few minutes ago, that it looks like there's a new model number out there.

So I'll be curious to see what Apple, I mean, having, I've never considered my Apple TV box to be slow.

But I guess it would be better to be faster.

And, you know, if a better processor would enable some AI features, you know, maybe you could have like a more intelligent discussion with your Apple TV.

Like, you know, I'm looking for a movie that's like a comedy, but, you know, something in the last couple of years.

And maybe with such, you know, maybe it would do that sort of stuff to make recommendations.

I'm just making that up.

I have no idea what it would do with AI, but we'll see.

I like this little article from Tim Hardwick, E-Link, too, with the whole roundup of the different rumors on here.

The leaks, not just rumors.

This is the leaks.

Yeah, the leaks.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

This is like some of the things that they found and some of the numbering confirmed through code discoveries.

I just, if I could have another life, I would like to be like a code discoverer.

Like just go dig into the code.

I don't know how these guys and gals find time to do all of this.

But, you know, thank you so much for your time and doing it because it gives us some additional fodder to talk about.

You know, and we just mentioned about the watch, Apple Watch and some of the things going on.

But we have, again, you and I have been talking about this for at least two or three weeks, about the watch OS 26, like the new watch OS coming out.

So regardless of what hardware we're going to get, I'm excited about the software that's going to run, even on the older, current Apple Watches that people already have.

This was a great article, I thought, that you linked to and engage it from Amy Skorheim.

She goes through, she's been testing out, like the watch OS 26 preview, right, the beta that she's been working on.

And I just I love the fact that this was a little bit more practical, like she's been using it in her daily life and excited about the wrist, the wrist flick that's coming out.

I'm excited. I mean, she was going through talking a little bit about the workout buddy as well.

She said it's more of a buddy, not a coach. So don't say your expectations too high on that.

But this was a great article. Yeah. The Regency says buddy, not a coach is because the workout buddy feature.

She actually also has used the is it Samsung, you know, whatever the alternative Apple watches.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And she says the Samsung one actually have a true coach in that it will sort of encourage you to do more and give you more intelligent suggestions of like how to how to how to push yourself to the next level.

Whereas the workout buddy, it sort of relies upon you setting your own goals.

You know, this is the type of workout I enjoy doing. This is how long I want to go.

And it's not so much that it's going to encourage you to do more, but it's going to report to you on how you did against what you wanted to do and encourage you.

And, you know, reward you, you know, say you did a great job.

You know, this was your best workout this week because of such and such.

So it's just a different way.

I mean, I still consider that coaching, but it's more of, you know, good job, you know,

clap hands and give you information.

She said it told her you did a great job after a three-minute run.

You know, even after three minutes, it's like it's already said, great job.

And it's like, maybe that is.

Hey, for some people, that could be a great accomplishment.

But it's just, you know, obviously she's a lot more, you know, working out somebody that does this a lot more.

But it's just I thought that was funny.

Like, great job after walking, you know, several steps.

But, hey, that's a good thing, too.

It's very happy, apparently.

She also is like the wrist flick feature, she says, works really well.

And she has a little video sort of showing that off.

I'm actually really looking forward to that.

Another thing that she mentioned in here is smarter replies to text messaging.

And I tell you what, Brett, this is actually one I think I'll, I know I'll like, because

I don't know about you, but oftentimes I will be out and about, or I'm doing something

and my iPhone is maybe in my pocket or maybe somewhere else completely.

And like, I'll get a text message from someone like maybe you, for example, and like, I want

to respond to them, but like, I'm not going to take the time to sit down and find a computer

or my iPhone or whatever.

I just want to do a quick response.

And I love, love my Apple watch for that.

Years ago, I used to love my Apple watch for notifications just to get the message.

But really now I like the notification plus the ability to respond.

And so she says that the newest version, it's more intelligent.

It's not AI, so to speak, but it's like machine learning that it gives you better responses.

We've seen it in the past where if somebody sends you a text and says, what do you want

to have tonight?

Do you want pizza or Chinese?

It will understand, oh, the message gave you two choices.

So I'm going to give you these two responses.

One is pizza.

One is Chinese.

That makes sense.

But it's going to be even more intelligent at understanding what the person said and giving you suggested responses so that you can just look at your watch, see a list of four or five suggested responses and tap one and send it.

I really like that.

You know, the number of times that I respond to a text right now with the word OK, I mean, often that's all you need to say.

But it's because right there on my watch, OK is a watch.

But if there were even better options, that would just be more convenient for me.

It would let me communicate with people and then get back to what I'm doing.

So that's fine.

So anyway, we've talked about some of the other new features like notes and stuff like that.

I was in the grocery store and my wife had sent me a shared note with the grocery list.

And I'm like, if I was running watchOS 26, I could actually see that on my watch.

But instead, I got to take my iPhone out, look at it, put it back in my pocket, go find something.

So anyway, so I'm looking forward to watchOS 26.

I don't plan to get a new Apple Watch this year because I love my Series 10.

And who knows what the next version will have.

But I don't think I'll get new hardware.

but I'm looking forward to getting new software.

Well, I, okay.

So then I'll be the guinea pig on that one.

Cause you know, I'm still running the Apple watch ultra one.

I didn't even upgrade to the two.

And my hope truly is that I, as I have loved this watch,

this ultra watch, uh, it's been my favorite by far for many of the reasons

we've talked about before, but I am so hoping they'll come out with an ultra

three or something along those lines, whatever that higher end.

Yeah, I am.

I am very, very excited about that.

So I'll be happy to be taking the hit on that one as it comes out and running watchOS 26.

Okay, let's not go away from the watch yet because, boy, this was a little bit of a bombshell, a bloody bombshell, if you will.

Okay, it's not that bad.

We have talked about this case that has been going on with Apple and Massimo.

Massimo basically was successful in prohibiting Apple from utilizing the blood oxygen feature on Apple Watches.

And I always get confused.

I think it was available up to the Apple Watch 5 or something like that.

And then there's like dates that are involved over the last several months that whether or not you purchased one before or after.

Anyway, you can do a better job of explaining this.

But it sounds like that some brainiacs at Apple have found a way to kind of get around this.

And they've even gotten approval, I think, from the patent office, right, if I'm not mistaken, to say, yes, you can use or give access to.

It's not really it's a feature.

You can have like a blood oxygen summary or something along those lines as long as you're using it with a phone.

I just thought this was great.

And it sounds like you've already been experimenting with it, too, Jeff.

One of the things that I enjoy about being an appellate lawyer, Brett, is that because I handle appeals, it's all sorts of different things.

So, you know, there are some things like, you know, tort cases, slip and falls and personal

injury cases.

I've been dealing with those on and off, on and off for decades.

But every once in a while, I will take a case to the Louisiana Supreme Court on an issue

like wills and estates or trusts or something like that.

It's not my area of specialty, but you get really deep and you learn it.

And like, this is something new.

One area of law that in my 30 plus years of practicing, I actually have never done is IP

litigation, like patent litigation.

And so when this whole Apple Watch story first came out, one of the first things that I learned

is that there is a court called the U.S. International Trade Commission.

I did not even know that.

And although the word international is it, this is not some international body like the

world court.

This is a U.S. thing that control.

It's a special court for when people have trade disputes for things coming into the United

States.

And so, as you said, years ago, Massimo, which is a company that makes all sorts of products

in the medical field, they had a patent.

They weren't selling a product on it yet.

but they had a patent for a device on your wrist that would check blood oxygen. And so when Apple

came out with the Apple Watch, they sued them in the special court. And to a lot of people's

surprise, because there were questions about the patent, they won. And so suddenly Apple could not

import. And of course, all Apple Watches are made outside the United States. They could not import

into the US and sell a Apple Watch with the blood oxygen. So what Apple did is they didn't change

the physical watch. They just turned off the blood oxygen feature if you're in the United States.

and I remember, you know, talking about my dad, I remember soon after this happened,

my dad wanted a new Apple watch and he actually wanted the blood oxygen feature.

And so I couldn't buy him a new Apple watch.

I had to go and find like on Best Buy somebody that still had a, you know, it was in the inventory.

They had bought it before the ban went into effect.

And so we found one for him that was still had the feature enabled.

But again, those days have gone on.

Those have all flushed through the system.

And so when this first came out, everybody, Brett, you and I talked about the podcast.

everybody thought Apple is going to, you know, they're going to try to win, but eventually they'll just settle, right?

They've got so much money.

And it has been such a surprise to me that for so long, what is it, over a year and a half now, Apple has not settled.

They think they're right, and they are litigating this to the end.

Plus, I saw John Gruber note this week that apparently the patent ends in 2028, which is not that far from now, I suppose.

And so anyway, so for all this time, Apple has not settled.

I'm like, what is this?

And I know, I mean, I mentioned my dad, I know there are people that do not buy a new Apple Watch.

They don't upgrade because they don't want to give up the blood oxygen feature, which I understand.

My wife is in that boat, exactly.

And the idea of giving up something you already have, even if you don't use it a lot, you know, I understand that.

I really do.

So fast forward to yesterday.

What happened yesterday is Apple announced that they have, and I'm surprised it's taken them this long, but they have developed a new feature.

that it still checks your blood oxygen.

It measures it on the Apple Watch, just like before.

But instead of analyzing the data

and displaying the result on the watch,

it takes the data from the watch,

sends it to your iPhone.

And if your iPhone's not nearby,

it just holds onto the data.

And the next time your iPhone's there, it sends it then.

And then it displays in the health app

and the watch the answer.

So it's a little bit more cumbersome

because if you're using the watch

to check your blood oxygen,

it's more convenient to just see the number right there

the watch, but it does totally work. And, um, and Apple asked the court, you know, the special court

would, you know, would this violate the patent? And the court decided, uh, no, you know, the patent

apparently just has to do with processing things on the device. And so, um, as a result, they,

so they said you could do this. And so Apple came out with a new version of the, um, a new version

of the feature yesterday. It's a new version of iOS and it's a new version of, um, of the Apple

watch. And so sure enough, last night I installed it. And for the first time since I, you know,

since last year, or for me, I ran the test and it came out and I was seeing as I, as I look at my

phone. So I did a test yesterday, Brett, and, and, you know, my blood oxygen results. And then I'm

now looking at my, my health app on my iPhone. Okay. I see that as recently as 716 this morning,

actually, what time is it right now? That's yeah. It's not too long ago. It actually

automatically checked my blood oxygen and oh really okay to my um to my iphone and i'm sure

it did it during the night too while i was asleep um so anyway so the feature now works whether you

use your watch and manually go to the blood oxygen app and actually check it or you're just wearing

your watch and it just you know happens to check it throughout the day it will now populate that

data onto your um onto your phone now if you still have an old apple watch model right the one that

The one that had the feature, well, it's going to continue to work the same as always.

You're fine.

And then, of course, if Apple wins this lawsuit or, you know, when the patent expires in a few years, I'm sure we'll go back to the old days of everything's happening on the watch.

But for now, you know, I think the feature, I don't really need this feature.

I guess I have it again.

But for people that it really makes a difference to, you know, whether it's your wife, Brett, or somebody else.

Yes, yes.

Now, Apple's going to have new watches coming out, presumably in a few weeks, as we just discussed.

And now they'll be able to advertise, oh yeah, this has a blood oxygen sensor on it.

And there are some people that have probably put off buying a new Apple watch that once

they see this, they'll be, oh, you know, regardless of the technical distinction and how it works,

it could result in more sales for Apple.

So I'm glad they found a way to do the workaround.

I'm surprised it's taken this long, but I guess they had to make it and test it and

get the court to approve it and everything else.

But here we go.

My wife has been diagnosed with sleep apnea or at least some aspect of it.

She's gotten much better with it now and doesn't even need the CPAP machine.

But I know that that's one of the reasons she wanted to keep and continue to check that.

There's other better tests and stuff.

You know, Apple would be the first to tell you, like, don't rely on this, you know, instead of going through the other actual tests that you might need to go to.

But she just likes to be able to gauge that every day and be able to see that.

And so she is still I believe she still does have an Apple Watch 5.

That's the model because that was one of the ones that was not affected by the ban.

I thought that Gruber does a good job here of talking about it, you know, from the technical aspect.

He goes, what today's workaround does is process and display the blood oxygen sensor on your watch's paired iPhone rather than on the Apple Watch itself.

You were just talking about that, Jeff.

But I just I like that.

It's like there's no processing of the sensor data on the actual watch and no display of the results on the watch.

Now, again, my hope is that that will change.

But I am just so I'm so thrilled. And I just kind of like this little workaround here truly is what it is.

It's like Apple says, well, oh, yeah, this is still important for our customers.

We're going to try to put our minds together and come up with some way that we can still at least provide some of this information without, you know,

with without contradicting, you know, the issues and are going against the ruling of the court and everything.

And I just thought it was so great that they actually went to the court and got approval because that's even stronger.

right the fact that they could do it without having anybody else to question whether it's

massimo or anybody else one thing i particularly like about this too if you're going to do something

different i think this way of doing it makes sense because i mean you just pointed out that

the blood oxygen built into the watch is not going to be as accurate as like a more precise thing

that you like you put it with your finger and stuff like that but yeah exactly the thing that's always

good about health data with the watch is that even if from a precision standpoint it's not quite as

perfect as a dedicated device. It does it in the background and it does it over time and it shows

you trends. And, you know, everyone will tell you that when it comes to any sort of health data

or any sort of data at all, really, you know, trends are so much more important than specific

data points. And so the idea that like for now, the last couple of hours and for now on for weeks

and months and years of time, I'm going to get these trends of blood oxygen, these trends of

heartbeat, these trends of, you know, everything else that is, that's where you actually start to

see something insightful. You mentioned the sleep apnea issue. The Apple Watch, I mean, the, yeah,

the Apple Watch has been able to measure sleep apnea for a little while now. And one of the things

that's really nice about it is that when it does these tests, you know, it will measure your

breathing. And is it the most precise thing? Of course not. But for whatever it is, when you have

that over time, you can actually see, you know, over, over months, how are my breathing disturbances

doing? And so you can sort of see, you know, gosh, if I look at the last six months, I see that

going up, I might need to do something. Or if I see they're going down, you know, yay for me,

I'm doing something good. And that's where it's the most important. And so that's why I'm really

glad that this feature and so many more are there. Not that, you know, another one is temperature.

The new versions of the Apple Watch will take your temperature and Apple won't, that doesn't even

want to tell you what the specific temperature is because it knows that it's not that accurate.

But, but they do recognize that for trends, you know, whether you're, you know, tracking your cycle,

You know, if you menstruate or other things, you know, whether or not you're getting sick, as you look at things over time, it is accurate enough to give that good information.

So anyway, so that's why, yes, it's a little bit less convenient to have to look at your phone.

But what really matters is it can now run in the background, update your health app.

You know, good job on Apple.

Can I just ask real quick, because I didn't get a chance to update these like you did today, but you say it can do it automatically.

And it looks like the Gruber is reporting you can manually initiate a blood oxygen reading, right?

Okay, so you can still do that.

I assume there's like the app in – okay, there's an app in the watch and you can go in.

The app has always been there.

Yeah, the app was there before.

Right, right.

It's just if I was to tap on it before yesterday, it wouldn't work.

But now if I tap on it and I say start, so here we go, and it's counting down from 15 seconds.

Okay.

And I keep in my – in 15 seconds, we will reveal the exciting result of whether or not I am alive or not.

So are you putting your finger on the digital crown?

No, no, no.

That's the ECG feature.

ECG, okay, because we're talking about that.

I waited 15 seconds, and it now tells me recording complete.

So what's my answer?

I don't know.

Who knows?

How am I doing?

But now if I jump over.

You've got to go to your phone.

I look under my phone, and it says 98%, which, as I understand it correctly, I think you're

Hey, bravo.

Above 95, I think is what you want.

Right.

So that's how you do it.

You can manually do it, and then it's now updated my trends, my data on the phone.

So you can do it manually, and that's great.

And people want to do that sometimes.

You just want to check your ECG.

You just want to check your blood oxygen, your heart rate, whatever.

But what's more valuable to me is that it's going to do it at random times, whenever it

does it in the background.

Bravo, Apple.

I'm just glad.

I'm glad that there's at least what I hope is a temporary workaround, and then that we

He will continue to have this capability built in and available to all.

I just, you know, the more sensors and the more trends that we can start tracking, Jeff,

I just, I, that's why I continue to be so enamored with the Apple Watch.

Like it.

But let's go from the watch to a car for a little bit.

Great little article here from Stephen Hackett.

CarPlay's messages app for iOS 26 is bad.

I have to tell you, okay, do not text and drive, folks.

This is not what we are supporting here.

But in fact, I would say when I was reading this, Jeff,

the only way that I interact with messages when I'm driving in CarPlay

is when it pops up on the message.

Typically, I've got the map up, right?

And so it'll say, you know, my wife has texted you, and so I tap on it.

And I think it does a pretty good job of, like, reading the message to me.

And then it says, do you want to reply or not?

And typically I say no, or maybe I do and dictate a message.

I don't know that I've ever gone into the messages app in CarPlay, actually.

But now I know why, because like Stephen said, graphic here, it looks horrible.

Like I don't want to go into the messages app.

I don't really think that I would go into the messages app.

But I just I hope that Apple is going to improve this based on what Stephen has written about here.

Yeah, and same for me.

In fact, just this morning, Brett, when I was driving to work, I sent you a text to tell you I was on my way in.

and we could start recording soon.

But again, I did not look at my CarPlay screen for that.

I just held it on my button.

I said, hey, you know who sent a message?

Actually, I didn't say the hey part

because I held on the button.

I just said, send a message to Brett.

And I did so.

But so there is a new interface in iOS 26 for CarPlay.

It shows, I don't think that we have this right now

in the Messages app.

It will show, you know how in your Messages app,

you can pin the favorite people to the top of your display

or groups of people.

And so it will show that in CarPlay.

233 yeah but um and so but what he's what he doesn't like is that you know first of all there

because it's nine people it's it's going long ways across your carplay screen as opposed to the

so like he's like somebody that i think of as being my lower left is no longer there yeah it's

not there but what he also doesn't like is that the way it truncates the name so that if it's a

really short name like you know tim cook or something it'll display it but if it's a longer

name with more letters it's sort of it's some of the name and then dot dot dot again i don't know

that that's a huge thing, but I will say this, that we are now close enough to the end of the

beta cycle that for most things, Apple is getting close to being done of interface improvements.

So I think it's legitimate for him to now say, Hey, we're in mid August and he doesn't still

think this feature looks very good. You know, I agree with him on some of these, maybe not so

much on other ones, you know, this is like as, as the last chance for Apple to do something about it,

or they're not going to do it until, you know, maybe later. So, so, but it was interesting to

feature looks like because i actually had not seen any of these screenshots yet he he is so detail

oriented he even says the the messages label at the top is slightly off center and i didn't even

notice it until i actually saw his well now that now that he said it i can't not see it but you

cannot see that now yeah but that's good i appreciate that steve i just i always appreciate

you know people going in but i mean this this theoretically should be a fairly easy um uh fix

there but i mean even again just thinking about this i know if i needed to text somebody that um

i i don't know that i would go into the messages app in carplay typically jeff i mean that is one

of the where the places where uh she who shall not be named does work pretty good for me i and

if i'm in the car i will say right uh you know text text jeff and then i would give dictate the

message like i would never interact with the messages app i don't know in carplay i don't

even know that it needs to be there so much, but I mean, I guess it does. So you can go back and see

some of the history and things like that. But that is one of the areas where I do use Siri quite a

bit is that if I'm, if I want to listen to music, that's how I'll interact it with. And it's in

CarPlay, or if I'm doing a message to somebody, or frankly, even making a phone call, I would say,

Hey, call mom, you know, on speakerphone or something like that. And it'll, it'll work with

that, but interesting stuff, um, on there. Let's say thank you to our sponsor lit software. We've

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And the reason that that's so important, because a lot of the folks here at Ilticon are not lawyers specifically, but they're the IT professionals that support the lawyers, right?

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Lit Software does a great job of providing you a list of licenses that you can manage on the back end and you can assign to different individuals.

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let software um you know piggybacking on that for us but uh it is great and it is good to get some

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somebody in a courtroom using it. And then they come back to you as the lit support professional,

the IT professional. And they're like, Hey, what is this app? I want to, I want to test it out. So

it'd be good to get some information about that. Thank you, lit software. Let's do a quick in the

show. We have, uh, I actually, I just, I think I'm on the, the third episode of the foundation.

what a season three right or no two we're in yeah i think it's three i'm enjoying it i i don't have

a lot of time to watch it but i've been enjoying that you've also been watching chief of war which

uh i i keep seeing the ads for that now because i'm watching the foundation on apple tv and uh

platonic is another one that's coming out with the seth rogan he was just in another uh uh series

wasn't he he's all over the place on apple tv apparently yeah the studio thank you yeah yeah

And in fact, his co-star in Platonic, whose name is, I'm blanking out on what her name is.

She was on another show on Apple TV Plus 2 that took place in the 1980s.

Oh, I'm blanking out on all these names right now.

But so these are two Apple TV Plus veterans.

Yeah, the Chief of War, we mentioned it last week.

Okay, Rose Byrne is her name.

Thank you, of course.

Yeah, Rose Byrne, yeah.

It is a legitimately good show.

I mean, you can tell that Apple spent a ton of money on this because it looks beautiful.

You know, it's one of these things like, you know, when there is a war scene taking place

in, you know, ancient, you know, the 1800s, whatever it was in Hawaii.

Right, right.

You know, there are so many warriors on the screen.

And I don't know if they're real people or computer generated, whatever it is.

But, you know, it looks beautiful.

Not to mention the whole thing's filmed in Hawaii.

So it's beautiful vistas and stuff like that.

It is a beautiful show.

It's an exciting show.

um i think it's it's probably the my favorite thing that i've seen jason momoa in i mean i know that

he's he's been popular for a lot of things i i watched one of the you talk about veterans one of

the very first shows on apple tv plus was a show called c s e and it was a fictional world in which

just everybody was blind except for one or two people um i i enjoyed that show i never actually

watched the last season of it because it was good but it didn't i still think one of these days i

may go back and finish it up, but it was okay. But Jason Momoa started in that. He was actually

very, he was very good in it. It's just the show itself. It was fine, but it wasn't my favorite

show of all time. This one, however, this is really good. I'm really enjoying it.

Okay. Yeah. I want to see this. Yeah. Ryan Christopher of nine to five max says that,

you know, Apple has a lot of, you know, acclaim for, you know, Ted Lasso and severance and things

like that. But he's saying that some of the best shows are on right now, you know, not only the one

that you mentioned with foundation, which is fantastic, but chief of war. And then again,

platonic he says he really likes platonic i haven't i think the season started last friday i

haven't started it yet but i definitely plan to do so maybe this weekend um because i really enjoyed

the first season um you know that the premise of the show is two people that are not romantically

evolved but they're just good friends man and wife you know can you have you know a a good strong

relationship of you know love in the platonic sense not in not in the romantic sense between

two people that really care each other and and you know our best friends and um in fact it was

I think we maybe talked about last week, there was an article in the New York Times that it's a husband-wife team that came up with the idea of the show.

But it's really good, and it's really funny, and I'm looking forward to the new season.

And it's getting great.

The point of Ryan's article is that it's been greeting really good reviews.

So Seth Rogen is one of those interesting actors that some people love him and some people don't like him as much because he has a very distinctive style to him, right?

Right.

But, you know, you cannot deny that the studio was a fantastic show.

And Platonic was a really good show, too, and now a good season.

So, you know, he has produced some really good work on Apple TV+.

So anyway, that's some of the things that I'll be watching this weekend.

I'm just glad that Jason Momoa apparently filmed Chief of War while he still had a beard.

I don't know if you saw this story, but I'm a big Dune fan.

I love the first two Dune.

If you remember, Jason Momoa was in the first Dune, and he was clean shaven.

And somehow I saw a headlighter somewhere where he was just talking about that there's only one person, which is the director for Dune, Villeneuve, I think.

He's like, that's the only person he would actually shave for because they're doing a Dune 3 apparently coming up, and I just was interested in that story.

Last but not least, I love this little blurb that you put down here.

talk about a walk down a long walk down memory lane here Jeff this is great uh bulletin board

systems bbs boy this is like some of us I didn't spend a whole lot of time on bbs it's just the way

that where I was living in in my history but I know a lot of folks did like you had your commodore 64

this was a very cool uh little documentary just I only got to watch about the first 10 minutes of

this, but just a very, very early days of the folks that were trying to communicate on computers.

You know, we take this for granted so much today, but they were just experimenting and trying all

kinds of different ways to be able to like, I think one of the gentlemen talked about how you

could put a message on a board. And then if you waited a couple of months, somebody else might put

another message on the board. And it was just so exciting to be able to see people communicating

You know, as opposed to mail or something like this. So thanks for sharing this. This is the I forget the name of the documentary. I guess BBS. The documentary is what it's is what it's called here. Just some really, really cool stuff.

And the reason we're talking about it is because of the news this week that America Online AOL is turning off its dial up access to which everybody reacted the same way. They still have dial up access. I mean, seriously.

But apparently AOL doesn't release the numbers, but there are some percentage of people that are still, they don't have broadband, they don't have anything.

And so they're using a modem with the traditional modem sounds that we can all hear in our head to connect through AOL to get to the internet.

Boy, that's a slow way to communicate and to download stuff.

But some people are still using it, but I guess not enough.

And so AOL is turning itself off next month.

And so it did meet.

So there's an interesting article in the New York Times, I think, too, was interesting talking about the service.

There was an interesting article by Roman Loyola and Macworld where he talks about, you know, way back in the 80s, there's actually a connection between Apple and AOL.

Because just to truncate it, you know, there was originally a service called Quantum Computer Services that had one of the first online.

You know, the BBSs were traditionally local, although you could dial up long distance, get another one.

But then you had some of these early nationwide or I guess worldwide services, CompuServe and stuff like that.

And one of them that I remember using in the 1980s was called Q-Link and it was from QuantumLink.

I think it was only for people that had a Commodore 64.

But like you said, Brett, it was like this whole idea of a message board, things that today, I guess, Reddit is the current really iteration of this or Discord.

But back then that was all new.

And the idea that I could post a message and I could find somebody in a different part of the world that was also interested in the same topic and that they would respond, that was pretty interesting, you know, that and then use that groups afterwards.

And so Roman describes that how Apple got together with with quantum services because they wanted to have a system for Apple communications.

And so they worked together with them on developing something.

And then eventually Apple decided to get out of that business.

And, you know, who knows what could have been?

Of course, Apple did come out with eWorld in the 90s.

That was its own thing.

But when it sort of went off, then the service that was Q-Link that Apple was no longer involved

in, it sort of morphed into and changed its name to America Online.

And then, you know, as we all know, there was a time in the late 90s where, you know,

early, maybe even early 2000s, where America Online was so huge.

I mean, just that was so many people used AOL.

So it's interesting that the service was still around in some limited form.

And it did lead me to go back to think about modems and bulletin board systems and stuff.

You know, I was reminded that the documentary talks about how so many BBSs were just run by hobbyists, which would mean that the BBS might be up, it might be down, you know.

And I did the same thing.

When I started to use computers in the 80s, one of the really nice things that my parents did is they got a second phone line for the upstairs of the house so that I could have my, you know, my computer could communicate over the phone, which is the only way to communicate with other people at the time.

You know, whenever I wanted, I wouldn't have to say, Mom, you know, let me know when you're off the phone because I want to use the computer.

And she had no idea what that meant.

So once I had my dedicated phone line, it meant that I could just leave my Commodore 64 on.

And if I wasn't using it, somebody else could dial that number and connect to the BBS that I was running, you know, for a short time there.

So anyway, it's just fun to sort of go back a memory lane.

And so many things that were started in the 80s, you know, of course, once the Internet came out, you know, that really made all this irrelevant.

But so if you were, you know, using computers in the 1980s, some of this BBS stuff may have memories.

Great video.

And if not, then you may look at all of this stuff and think it is as bizarre as someone talking about the transition from horse and buggies to automobiles as, oh my goodness, this is so ancient.

But I thought it was fun to walk down memory lane.

That's awesome.

That's awesome.

In the know.

In the know.

My tip today, I want to remind everybody about low power mode.

And this came up for me in two instances, Jeff, one on the Apple Watch and one on the phone.

So a couple of weeks ago, I did a hike.

It was a 20-mile hike called the Mammoth March, and I did it with some friends, and it was fantastic.

But I've done these before, and if I am using my Apple Watch to track my steps,

because I get like about 30-something thousand steps that day,

it'll peter out after maybe several hours because it's constantly like I've got the AllTrails app running.

It's constantly like reading stuff.

Like it is just in the mode where it's running its battery down more significantly than if I'm just having a normal day.

On the Apple Watch, you can turn on the low power mode.

And I've gotten to the point where I do this now at the beginning of the March of the hike.

So that way I know that it's going to last for the entire day.

And it does. And it does great.

Now, there's a couple of things that it doesn't do on the watch.

Like I have to make, sometimes I have to tap it in order to wake it up or, um, you know,

it's, it's, it's not going to be as responsive when you go into low power mode.

And some of the times that if you're in normal mode, but for what I was doing, when you're

kind of doing that, I don't need that much information and it does all my tracking just

fine.

And that's been great.

So I use low power mode on that.

And you just go into the control center on the Apple watch and you can tap into the low

power mode down there.

I believe it's in the control center.

Let me just make sure that that's where I have it.

I actually, I might have to go into the settings app to get into that.

Oh, no, we talked about this before.

If you tap and hold, I think, on the battery.

Yeah, it goes.

If you tap and hold in the control center on the battery percentage on your Apple Watch,

you can see a low power mode button that's there.

Oh, yeah, I see it.

In there.

And that's good.

The second area of use low power mode is on the iPhone.

So as I've mentioned, I've been in the conference.

Well, as you go through the conference, you know, you're doing a lot of walking throughout and you're listening.

And it's like I don't always have access to a place where I could where I could charge my phone.

And it just seems to run down a little bit more because I'm interacting with people or I'm checking my mail or I'm checking the app, you know, for the next session that I'm going to go to that kind of a thing.

And so I've gotten to the point where I will turn on low power mode on my phone.

Now, again, if you go, here's a support article from Apple that tells you, you know, the 5G typically is turned off, except for video streaming.

The auto lock defaults to 30 seconds.

The display brightness is reduced.

The display refresh rate is reduced.

None of these things were a showstopper for me.

It's not like I'm using the phone, you know, in a normal way.

It's just I want it to last throughout the entire day because usually you start early in the morning.

You've got receptions and everything at night.

I just wanted to make sure that it was going to last that long.

And once you turn it on, and I've got it now in the control center, so I have that little button in the control center, so I just swipe down on my phone and I tap low power mode.

And then your battery icon turns yellow, by the way.

A lot of people get confused to that because sometimes people will accidentally turn on low power mode and they're like, why is my battery yellow instead of white or green or something like that?

Well, that would be why.

That's your low power mode that's turned on there.

This will actually try to turn on automatically if your phone ever gets down to 20%.

Usually you'll see a little message that pops up and says, do you want to turn on low power mode?

But if you don't want to wait until 20%, I typically don't.

I want it to last a little bit longer.

Then I would just go in and manually turn that on.

And again, I added that badge in my control center.

The only thing that I found that I didn't like about low power mode on the iPhone

is that your iCloud photos temporarily pauses the sync.

So what I'm doing sometimes is I'm posting

or I'm taking pictures of slides

and I'm taking notes on an iPad or a computer

and I want it to sync those photos from my iPhone

over to my computer.

Well, I have to go in and manually say,

sync these in my iCloud photos

because I'm on low power mode.

It's not doing it automatically.

But that's not a bad thing.

Oh, and the last thing quickly,

because I have in a 15 Pro,

My screen stays on all the time, right?

And I like that.

We've talked about that before.

I can glance down on my phone right now.

I see the time and I see if there's any messages or anything.

But if you turn on low power mode, that does not happen.

The screen goes black unless you tap it or you turn it on.

And again, I was okay with that because I'm usually in a session.

I don't need to see all of the information.

But just so that you know, that's a couple of things that's happened with low power mode.

And I know there's all kinds of things you can do.

Some people say that it helps your battery life, you know, from overall, like, you know, it keeps your battery lasting longer.

I don't really care about that.

I just want it to last throughout the day.

When I know that I've got something all day long that I'm not going to have access to power, then I just go in and I tap on low power mode.

And even with some of these concessions here, I don't feel like that it's that bad.

I don't do it all the time, but, you know, in these couple of situations, I just wanted to remind people about the low power mode for the Apple Watch and the iPhone.

My daughter often lives in low power mode for her iPhone.

Oh, my goodness.

I mean, I guess it's because she's got an older phone and the battery and she has, you know, no opportunity to charge it during the day easily.

I almost never use low power mode on my iPhone and I almost never intentionally trigger it on my Apple Watch, but I do use it.

And the times that I use it is, as you mentioned earlier, if your device gets to a certain level, I think on the Apple Watch it's either 10% or 20%.

But like I will sometimes have days where I'm using my Apple watch more extensively than other days.

You know, maybe I'm out and about using the cellular feature because my iPhone's not near me.

I'm doing workouts that always puts a lot of strain on it.

And so there will be times where it is near the end of the day, you know, at night and my Apple watch dips below that number.

And it will tell me, do you want to put on low power mode?

And I'm like, yeah, because I'm not going to be doing anything intensive with the Apple watch for the next hour or two.

but I do want it to last until, you know, I get into my bedroom and I can charge up a little bit

before I go to sleep. Cause I tend to watch where my Apple watch when I sleep. And so it's very

helpful for me when that comes on, because it's going to, like you say, it's just going to remind

you more power. So, so that's when I use the feature. I like it. Good, good suggestion.

My tip of the week this week is an app that I reviewed this week on the phone called cassette.

and um i uh i'm mentioning it today it's for i want to mention it for a different reason than

the reason i wrote about it when when i wrote the review this week first of all it's always nice to

have like a brand new iphone app you know come out that's interesting because you know it seems like

the iphone's been around we don't always see new things but this is a nice new app and as a reminder

if you didn't see my review this is an app uh it's from a developer in new zealand uh devin davies i

believe his name is and he had this app called cassette and the thing that jumps out at you and

the thing that I harped on in the review is nostalgia.

We're talking a lot about nostalgia today, Brett, you know, AOL and PBS and stuff like

that.

And so the look of this app has the look of an old VHS or VHSC cassette tape, which we

used to use for home movies.

And so it allows you to show videos that are in your camera roll, but it does so it has

like what is like an imaginary cassette tape of the year, you know, 1998 or whatever.

And then like you tap on that and it puts it, you know, it has an animation where it puts it into the VCR and plays the video.

So it's just sort of cute the way it displays it.

But what I want to focus on today is not the nostalgia, but the usefulness of the app.

Because you may say, can't I just open up my Photos app and tap on the tab for videos and then see all the videos that are in my camera roll and watch them that way?

And you can.

But when you do that, there's a couple, I mean, one of the main things, and apparently

the main reason that this app was developed is that somebody had the idea of, he's like,

I don't like the fact that I'm in the Photos app and I play a video.

And first I need to manually pick the video and find it and then play it.

And then when it's done, it just stops.

He's like, what I want to do is go from one video to the next one, to the next one, to

the next one.

And he's like, you know, what this reminds me of was the old days where you watched home

movies, somebody would put that VHS cassette tape into their video camera and they might record a

few minutes of someone's birthday. And then the next thing that you have, it's a few minutes of

Halloween and then it's Thanksgiving and then it's Christmas. And we would just continue to record

those same things on the cassette tape. And so when you watched them, you would just have the

serendipity of going from one event to another one, to another one. And so they said, wouldn't it be

fun if we could have an iPhone and iPad app that will play a video? Because sometimes the videos we

report or just little snippets of just like somebody blowing out the candles and then

automatically go to the next video and the next video in time.

And so that's what this, so even forget, even if you forget the fact that it has this very

fun, nostalgic interface, that is a interesting functional feature, whether you want to look

at it on your phone or on your iPad, or you can also Apple play this to Apple, not Apple,

you know, when you share it to your TV, so you can have your Apple TV, thank you, AirPlay,

You can airplay it to your Apple TV.

If you just want to have some videos, go one after another after another on your Apple TV.

You can do that.

And then so that's one useful feature of this app.

And then another feature that I like is, you know, I love in the Photos app, the memories

feature.

I brag about all the time.

It's like one of the best things Apple has ever created.

I love the idea of the serendipitiveness of it.

It just shows me something that I didn't even know I want to see, whether it's a photo or

a video.

I love that. And this app taps into that too, because when you first open up the app,

there is a big button on it that just basically asks if you want to go into, what is the actual

button? I'm opening the app right now. It says at the very bottom, take me somewhere. And I just

hit take me somewhere. And I see right now it has randomly chosen the year 2027. And here is,

oh, well, look at this. I'm looking at a video of my son when we had a beach vacation in 2027

and he is talking to the camera.

And then when this video is over,

it'll go and play the next one.

And in fact, if I want to manually do it,

you know how like on a TikTok or Instagram or anything,

you just sort of swipe up and you just go to the next one.

And I'm doing the same thing on my phone.

So I'm swiping.

Oh, nice.

And so now I'm looking at this

and now I'm looking at this one

and now I'm looking at this one.

And, you know, it's just sort of going in order

as I swipe, you know, now I'm in September

and now I'm going on into October.

And so it's just, it's a nice way.

So there, yes, it's a fun app.

Yes, it will bring back memories of VHS cassette tapes

to the extent that you're old enough

to have memories of that.

But even if that doesn't matter to you,

if you take videos

and you just want a new way to experience them,

this is a cool app.

And the thing is,

most of the features I've talked about are free.

If you pay, and I encourage you to pay

because we should encourage this developer.

If you pay like eight bucks,

which I instantly did.

Yeah, $7.99, you said.

It gives you the ability to actually go

and select a specific one.

Like, oh gosh, I want to, you know,

you can scroll through your years and I'm looking at the year 2007 and I want to scroll through and

it's got them organized by month. And I, Oh yeah, June of 2007, we had that, that family vacation.

And I want to start playing that one and then go next and then go next. You have to pay for it to

get access to that feature. But if you just want the rant, you know, the play, play me a random

cool video. I don't think you have to pay for that. Just download the app and do it. So I really

encourage if you take videos with your iPhone or your iPad, I really encourage you to download this

app and check it out. And if you want to encourage the developer and get access to all the features,

pay the eight bucks. It's worth it. Very cool. That's so cool. Very cool. Nostalgia from Mad Men.

Was that the scene that you were going to link to?

In the Mad Men show, which is just one of the all-time best shows, there was that scene where

Don Draper is doing a pitch to Kodak for the carousel. And the people at Kodak, they come

into the ad agency and they say, oh, we have the circle. We want to advertise the circle.

And Don Draper's like, no, no, no, it's not. No, it's a carousel. It's going to take you through

your memories of life. And it's just one of those all time best scenes that you can watch. I love

watching it again on YouTube. And I'm like, oh, this was just mad men at its greatest. I love

that scene. So Devin Davies is the new Don Draper. I like it. It's good.

Putting that in.

I'm going to download this today.

This looks so cool, Jeff.

I appreciate you sharing that.

And you got a great review on here, by the way,

and I'll make sure that we put that in the show notes as well.

All right.

More speculation and anticipation next week.

As always, as we get ready for Apple to somehow make some kind of announcement.

Thanks, as always, Jeff.

We'll talk with you next week.

Thanks, Brett.

Bye-bye, everybody.