Welcome to In the News for October the 3rd, 2025.

I am Brett Burney from appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhone JD.

You know, you said it's the third day of October,

but in some ways I feel like it's the first day of October,

first day of fall.

And I say that because I walked outside this morning,

Brett, in New Orleans, it's 71 degrees.

It's cool.

Like, I feel like we don't have least change colors

down here in the South in New Orleans.

But if we did, I feel like I would be looking and seeing orange and yellow and red leaves.

It's just it's got that nice, crisp feel to it.

So I like it.

Maybe you're seeing orange iPhones instead.

Pumpkin spice latte phone.

Well, that was a couple of weeks ago.

We'll come back to those products, although we've talked a lot about them already.

But I was thrilled to see another announcement from Apple today.

I know they've been working.

I mean, we've been talking about AI as an artificial intelligence.

but also Apple intelligence is the way that they're coming at it.

But today you just had a brief mention about the Apple foundation model.

It's not like Apple is like, you know, sleeping on their laurels here.

It's like they're continuing to push forward.

But they released this foundation model.

And I see here it unlocks new app experiences powered by Apple intelligence.

And then you linked also to another interesting app here, Locally AI.

And I just thought that this was really interesting the way you started off your post today.

There's just so much interesting happening in the world of AI.

You know, the one that we just hit the news this week, I think it's now it's near the top of the app store, is this new app called Sora, S-O-R-A from OpenAI.

Have you seen this one that, you know, you upload your image and it makes, you know, you can say, hey, I want to have me, you know, I don't know, riding a boat or, you know, climbing a mountain.

And it creates these videos that are, you know, it's a little uncanny valley, but they're still incredibly realistic.

But like, I love the people are doing interesting things with AI.

And, you know, I know that Apple sometimes gets a bad rap because it doesn't have a lot of the whiz bang flash features that, you know, some of its competitors do in the technology space.

But I do like Apple's approach to AI in this respect that, you know, Apple knows that everybody's got these incredible supercomputers in their hands, the iPhones primarily.

And especially with the brand new iPhones that, you know, the iPhones that came out a couple of weeks ago are really made for AI in that the iPhone Pro especially can run cooler for the reasons we've discussed, because the unibody design and the thermal thing with the water vapor chamber.

And I absolutely noticed that it makes a huge difference.

Plus, they have more RAM on them as well.

So, like, these things are really made to do local AI.

And so Apple has this local foundation model that's built into iOS 26.

It's already there on your phone if you have iOS 26.

And it's basically like a large language model right there on your phone.

And so you can use it for anything.

And so the press release that Apple released this week is talking about how third-party apps can use it.

So like if it used to be that I have, I'm developing an app and if I wanted to have AI in it, well, I, the app developer, I'm going to have to pay for a license from, you know, Claude or OpenAI, ChatGPT, one of those sorts of things to use it.

But now they don't have to pay for anything, which means they don't have to pass that cost on to the user.

They can just tap into the LLM that's there on the phone.

And it's not quite as powerful at this point.

It's going to get better over time, of course.

But it can do, you know, if you just want to have, like if you have a calendar app and you just want to be able to have an AI that understands the events in someone's calendar so it can help to plan something or to answer historical questions about things you did in the past, you know, having a local AI to do that makes so much sense because it's, you know, unlike just a simple find feature that looks for text, the AI can actually understand concepts and things and can make the app more personal.

All this does is it makes your app act more like it's your friend.

I mean, it can talk to you.

It understands what you're saying.

It can speak things to you in ways that make sense.

It can understand concepts.

And so I love it.

And the list of apps that Apple has in this press release, none of these to me are like the name brand apps.

They're small ones.

But these are just some independent developers who are starting out, and it will get better over time.

And so anyway, if you want to see it yourself, even if you don't use one of these apps,

The app that I recommended people to check out here is called Locally AI, which I believe

has been around for a little while.

And, you know, what the app does is it downloads, traditionally, it would download an AI from,

you know, Gemini has like the Google Gemini open source version of their AI thing.

You can download it.

But because of the Apple Foundation model being built in iOS 26, you can download this app,

which is like a five second download.

It just uses the LLM that's already right there in iOS 26.

And you can ask it questions.

And because it's all local, it's completely private, which is the big advantage of these

other third parties using it is there's no issue of like things that you say are being

sucked up by Google and Google's learning who you are and all that sort of stuff.

Right.

Completely private.

It's incredibly fast because it's all right there on device.

And it just works.

I mean, you can just ask it questions.

It's the same way people love the chat GPT app.

I don't use it this way.

You and I've talked about this before that, you know, some people just have these conversations

with the chat GPT app and that's fine if you, if you want to do that.

But you could do the same thing here.

You could either type to it or you can talk to it and it can talk its responses back to

you if you'd rather hear it than see it.

But if you just like type or talk and just see the responses, it is so fast.

I mean, just as an example, I was playing around with it this morning and my son and

I have been watching and rewatching in some cases, all the Mission Impossible movies and Paramount Plus.

And so I just I just asked it, you know, you know, what was the best Mission Impossible movie?

And it says, oh, well, you know, critics usually think this is the best one.

But people also like this one because it was really funny.

And I'm like, OK, if we really enjoy the Mission Impossible movies, what are some other movies that are similar?

And like instantly it gives me a list of seven different movies.

And it's the ones that you might expect and some that you might not think about, you know, James Bond and stuff like that.

And it's just like, but again, it's not that what it gave me was the most insanely useful

thing.

It's just that it works quickly.

It's fast.

It's on device.

Nothing has gone on to the cloud.

I could be completely off the grid and all this stuff would still work.

And so it gets me excited for the future.

And this is what I really want is not necessarily the locally AI app, although that's a fun

thing to play with.

It's free.

Check it out.

But I want more third-party apps to take advantage of this tool that Apple has given them because

the end result is a year from now, six months from now, we will just have these apps that are

more personal. They are more working with us. It's really cool stuff. I was just telling you right

before we started recording, my experience over the weekend, I was down visiting my mother and

I had a rental car. Well, it turns out the least expensive rental car was an electric car. It was

like a volvo c40 or something i had never driven or had an electric car but jeff i have to tell you

there's a different level of stress when you're driving around and you see it's almost like your

iphone battery like when it starts getting down to 30 you start getting a little nervous like where

can i find a plug and i gotta tell you that was almost the same experience that i had because i'm

out in kind of rural central texas and i'm just like uh i don't know where i can find a plug to

plug in and if i do how much is going to cost do i have to have a certain kind of plug because you

know there's a tesla adapter and there's there is a regular and this is all stuff that i did not know

jeff so what i was doing when i was driving is i opened up chat gpt and sure enough there was like

almost i call it like an interaction button i mean you can type into it just like you were saying

or you can like dictate what you want to type as if you were doing like a Google search.

Or as many people know already, you could just jump into this mode that lets you just have a conversation.

And it was as if I had an expert sitting in the passenger seat, Jeff, that had spent years of their life focused on electric vehicles

and were able to answer any question that I had about what app that I can use, where's my map, how much is it generally going to cost,

What kind of an adapter should I need?

I didn't know any of this, and I could have been potentially stranded,

except by the time I got to the Buc-ee's in Texas, where they actually had a charging spot,

I knew everything I needed to know.

I knew exactly where to park.

I knew which ones.

There was a Tesla kind, and if they didn't have the right adapter, I could go over to the Mercedes-Benz kind,

and I was able to do that.

I had a general idea of what it was going to cost.

To me, that was just amazing.

But here's the point that I'm getting to.

That was on ChatGPT, just a regular app.

In fact, I'm still just using the free version of that.

And I had to be connected to the internet in order for that to work.

There was a couple of times where I wasn't connected.

And so I was sitting there waiting for the answer.

And it was just simply because it was having to access this large language model that's

stored in the cloud in these mega data centers, right?

And so the fact that that's the angle I came at this morning from what you were talking

about is you're right.

If we could have almost you could call it a small language model, you know, it's like a small model that can get downloaded.

And in fact, on this locally, as you mentioned, you can download the Lama model from Meta, the Gemma Gemma Gemma from Google.

You can get the deep seek model. Or when you open the app, you can say, no, I just want to use the Apple Foundation model, which, again, is not going to be as anywhere near as comprehensive as what you could find if you went to open AIs, chat GPT, paying for it in the professional level.

But you don't necessarily need all of that all the time.

Yeah.

And again, just like to your point, it's just going to get better.

It's just somebody said this a while back, you know, today is the worst that Gen AI is going to ever be.

Right?

Every day it's just going to continue to get better.

Good point.

And these apps and this capability on the device, meaning that any of my inquiries that I was doing about electric vehicles isn't going to go back up to the cloud and get stored and, you know, and get used for training.

It's just now everything's going to stay locally on the device.

So that was just a long-winded way of saying how excited I am about this because just seeing that power and being able to hold that power in the palm of my hand and access it there without having to worry about am I connected to the internet or not, it's pretty amazing.

Yeah, and it's just these little things of AI that excite me.

And again, I know there's the big AI features and those get all the news, but I perhaps am more interested in just sort of supplementing things, just making everything a little bit better.

We're not trying to go to the moon with these, the things that excite me is just incorporating

it in there, making things just work a little bit better.

And this is what this type of AI, local, on-device, private, part of the operating system is just,

it's fantastic for.

So I'm excited about it.

The last thing quickly I want to ask about this, because you mentioned this, and I think

this is where Apple was addressing some of this, is that now apps could literally have

access to some of the general information, your personal information on the phone.

In other words, you know, was it Bella Ramsey, you know, when she had that commercial, right?

And it was like, well, Apple intelligence, the promise was that it was going to be able to access your calendar to say, who was that that you met with two months ago having lunch or something?

And it could access that information.

But Apple cut that off, right?

Because we didn't want to give ChatGPT or other cloud models or anything else access to that personal information.

But now with this foundation model, you just barely mentioned this.

Now apps like this smart gym here, or there's one that's stoic, a journaling app, for example, they can access maybe your health information or your calendar information.

And you have that promise of privacy on the iPhone for that.

Yeah, it's not quite what we saw in the famous Bella Ramsey commercial that had to be pulled back.

And the rumor is that Apple, you know, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, who's Mr. Rumor, has been talking about how Apple has like its next version of Siri in development that might be coming out next spring.

That is going to presumably get us some of what Apple told us we're going to get a long time ago and is still and it works.

And so, you know, these apps still can't quite get there.

But you're right.

They can access some of it.

You know, a workout app can access some of your workout stuff and use it with Apple intelligence and stuff like that.

And, you know, it reminds me of the feature I was talking about recently that we now have the workout buddy feature.

And I have been noticing that like as I'm just, you know, on the treadmill and stuff like that.

You know, I like that workout buddy will talk to me and say all sorts of interesting things.

You know, it's a good start to your son.

I mean, I know it's nothing all that extraordinary for the app to know that today happens to be Sunday that I'm on the treadmill.

But, you know, it just says, oh, today's Sunday.

You're starting off your week really well.

You know, here's some interesting thing.

You know, this is the longest that you've gone or this is the your heart per minute is different today.

You know, it just has all these different little insights that it just sort of when it has access to all that sort of stuff, it can sort of come up with something interesting.

None of it is revolutionary, but it all enhances the overall experience.

And I like it.

Good way to put it.

All right.

Well, I didn't mean to spend that much time on it, but it is interesting how it almost feels like that Apple is kind of doing an in run, maybe around like a traditional AI approach, which is what everybody thinks that they should be doing.

And it's almost like surreptitiously, they are providing components and tools to be able to access AI, whether it's artificial or Apple intelligence.

Anyway, that was just pretty interesting.

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Well, let's move into a few other things.

As we just keep seeing these little stories bubble up about, of course, the new devices.

We've been talking about the new iOS 26, which I'm still getting used to.

I'm mostly liking it on everything.

But this is a great article you link to from Tim Hardwick at Mac Rumors.

26 hidden iOS tricks to change how you use your phone.

There were some good ones in here.

Some years when we have the big update to the fall, there are not as many new features.

and some years there's a ton of them.

And this is one of those years

that there's a ton of them.

And of course you have the big features

that you can't ignore like liquid glass,

but there are all of these little back,

little tiny features that make life better.

You know, any one of these

could be future tips of the week for us.

But so I've been really enjoying people

that compile a whole bunch of them.

And this is a good example of a whole bunch of them.

And, you know, some of these we talked about before,

like, you know, selecting part of a text

and a text messages instead of other ones.

And another one that, you know,

he talks about here is all the features

that you can use for reducing unwanted interruptions in the messages app.

And just to pause on that one, I have now been using that.

How long was iOS 26?

Been out two weeks now or something.

And I will tell you, it's really working for me.

Like I, it was so annoying when I'm sitting there doing something.

Cause when I get a text message, I, I usually pay attention to it no matter what I'm doing,

because sometimes it's something important from my wife or you or something else.

But so there's nothing more annoying than looking down and it's this unsolicited,

you know, political text message that I could care less about or or or maybe it's a vendor that I

actually do care about. But it's like, come on, I don't want you interrupting my workflow right now.

And so nowadays, all of those things are they're just they're just gone in the background. And so

I will just sit there and, you know, at some day, some point in the day, I'll look at the messages

app and I look at the top right where they have the three lines and then it'll have like a little

indication on it that there's some messages in there. So then I just look and I tap on unknown

senders and then I'll see, oh, okay, here are the things that I got from the unknown senders. And,

you know, none of them are important and some of them are totally spam and I'll, and I'll,

you know, delete it and say report spam on it, but it just reducing those interruptions. Oh,

I like them. And then the other one about the telephone thing, I've been using that too. Like

I've gotten to the point that if you call me and I don't know who you are, if you're not my book,

I don't even want my, I don't, I don't want to hear from you, you know, and, and the phone helps

with that. And so those are some really nice features. So Jeff, can I ask real quick on that

screen messages. I'm the same way. I loved it. In fact, just, I think it was yesterday or two days

ago, I went in and I did the exact same thing. I went into like the unknown in my messages and I

just did like the delete and block, you know, report spam, that kind of a thing. Now, what I

like about it also is that it doesn't show a notification on my iPhone screen. When I get one

of those messages, it just kind of writes it in the background. However, I I've noticed that I'm

just wondering, I do see the notification on my Apple watch. Now it doesn't like come up and tell

If I scroll down on my watch and I look at the list of notifications, I see it listed in there.

You haven't had that at all?

I haven't noticed it one way or the other, so that's interesting.

And now that you've said that, I'm going to look out for that.

Because you're right.

You would think that they should sync together and the Apple Watch ought to only.

Right.

I didn't know if I had a setting or something in there because, again, it doesn't come on my watch face as if it's a new notification.

But if I swipe down and I look at all the notifications on my Apple Watch face that I had missed, then I see it in there, even though it's not on the notifications on my phone.

And I know that I have mirror iPhone, right?

That's one of the options in the Apple Watch app that you can do on that.

Okay, I just wanted to check on that because I am loving that too because I do not want to be interrupted.

And just like you, I never know who's text messaging, whether it's family or friends or colleagues or whatever else.

And I always want to make sure that I look at it if there's something that I need to see.

But I have just really been enjoying that.

But then those notifications, which is like something doesn't look right.

But maybe that's just getting all fleshed out on there.

Yeah.

Okay.

So what are the other ones?

I'll mention also the very last one on this list, which is, you know, the feature that

he calls it is stop maps from tracking your visited places.

And my spin on this would be the opposite.

Start.

Perhaps, you know, this is the default.

It's turned on.

And I mean, what he's suggesting is, you know, let me talk about the feature is and what

he's talking about.

The feature is that the Maps app now takes place, now takes note of places that you go to.

And so in the future, if you like, what was the restaurant that I went to, or what was that thing?

Because Maps knows it because you were there, it will allow you to sort of, it's almost like, you know, have access to like a journal, not a journal because you're not writing about it, but just the fact that you went there and when you went there and stuff like that.

I consider that a useful feature.

And because of Apple's approach to privacy, I have no problem with that.

It's going to be private.

It's on device.

You know, Apple is not learning that I just that I like to go to restaurant A, B, Z and selling that information to third parties.

I have no concern about that. So I am fine with it.

Now, the feature, his spin on it here is that if you're not thrilled with that idea, even though it's private, it's on device, you can turn it off.

And he tells you how to turn it off. And so, I mean, obviously to each their own.

If that's not something that you like, I know a lot of people like I just don't want my device knowing all that stuff.

Well, that's totally fine. So it's good to know that the feature is there, because if for some reason it doesn't float your boat,

go ahead and turn it off. But I do like that it's there. And because it's brand new, I, you know,

it's only been two weeks of data for me, but I do look forward to, you know, a year from now,

being able to go back and say, Oh yeah, what was that place that we went to? What was that store

that we went to on Magazine Street or whatever, and having that information. So, so I think it's

pretty cool. There were two in here that I did immediately. One was, I think it was like send

photos in messages. There's a setting that instead, oh, here it is, send photos faster.

So you can send low quality photo previews as if you're sending a picture in messages.

And I went and did this. You can go to the settings and the apps and messages and you can

turn that on because if you're, they said, if you're traveling with limited cellular data or

using a meter data connection, the recipient only gets a compressed preview version, but they can

still download the high resolution image if they wanted to and i like that because we tend to send

caught a number of messages and i feel like that that was just a really cool um aspect uh on there

are you looking yeah it looks like it's it's yeah i was looking on my phone because it looks like

it's off by default so i haven't turned it on yet um yeah so i was gonna try that that's that's what

i saw on this list i'm like wow i didn't know about didn't know about that and i wanted to try that

And then one other quickly, I just wanted to, I had already found, where was it here?

Oh, save physical card details in wallet.

So I'm a big fan of the Apple wallet.

I know you are as well.

And I have a lot of my credit cards in the Apple wallet.

So I can select the ones that I want.

But you can get in and you can just get like some, you could in the past just get some basic details about the card.

Like you obviously, in fact, you can't, sometimes you couldn't even see the number unless you did the face ID.

But now you could put in information such as the expiration date and the security codes in there because typically you didn't store that information, right?

Apple Wallet had it on the back end and it was encrypted and locked and everything.

But in some cases, I keep everything in 1Password.

And so I haven't moved everything into the Apple Wallet because I can go to my 1Password and I know that's where I can find like the expiration date or something in there.

But I did see this, and for one or two of the cards that I know I use quite often, or I want to be able to access that information, you can now go in and you can add some of those physical card details in Wallet.

And typically when we say that, it's that CVV code, right, that three numbers a lot of times you have to do with expiration date, because that's an easy way for you to look it up if somebody's asking for that information on there.

This tip caught my eye as well, Brett, for the same reason.

I have been doing this for years with 1Password.

If you use one password or some other password manager, I highly encourage you to put all of your credit card details in there for a number of reasons.

First of all, it means it can automatically enter it for you on a website and save you a lot of time, which is nice.

It's a private place to store it there.

But I mean, the number of times that I have had to have my credit card information for some reason and I didn't have instant access to my card.

Maybe I wasn't I didn't have my wallet with me or something like that.

It's like, oh, I don't care if I have my wallet with me.

I have my info right here.

My phone's so ridiculously useful.

So I love that feature in general.

If you don't happen to have a password manager, and you should, but if for some reason you

don't or you're using Apple's whatever, then definitely take advantage of this feature

for the wallet, just because the idea is you want to have this at your fingertips.

So it's there when you need it.

It's just that for me, I've been doing this for years with one password.

Apple wallet just continues to get so useful.

I mean, again, it's like the only way that I get my boarding passes.

There was something else that I just added.

Like, you know, you have all of your membership cards in there.

But the other thing, I don't think you reported on this, but I saw a couple of stories this week that we are potentially getting closer to Apple Wallet being able to incorporate U.S. passports in there.

So that not only can we add, you know, we've talked a lot about how a driver's license can be added or IDs can be added from certain states.

But U.S. passports, once that starts getting in there, that's pretty good.

Although I don't know how much people will trust it because even though I have my ID from Ohio in the Apple wallet, the three or four times that I've tried to use it that way, usually at the TSA checkpoint, they're just like, uh, no.

Like, they don't even know what I'm talking about.

So what do I have to do?

I have to get out that silly physical card again and show them.

And it's just like, come on, man, I'm trying to be a tech nerd here.

But, you know, I don't know.

It's just I saw that some people were reporting on that today and just continues to get interesting on that.

You know, you talk about TSA checkpoints. There's a feature that for me in Louisiana, we have a separate app called LA Wallet, but there's this thing called Share MDL with TSA. It's a way that like if you're, you know, if you want to just use your phone for TSA, you can like, you get like this little QR code that you can hold up and stuff like that. I've only used it once, but my wife has used it a couple of times and said that it works well.

just to have oh yeah yeah she's used successfully i can't remember if it works in every airport or

whatever but um anyway it's there's options that are out there to look into if you're a frequent

traveler good list here we'll make sure we have it in the show notes but that's not all as soon as 26

came out uh we had a slight ever so slight upgrade to 26.0.1 these are very small upgrades uh updates

but very important ones typically for security i don't know if this was like all of that i think

these were mostly bug updates, right? I don't know necessarily security, but just little fixes for

Wi-Fi, it says, cellular and camera issues on iPhone 17 models. Yeah, all the testing that Apple

does with iOS 26 over the summer, and yet when they release it to the wild and they go to millions

and millions of users instantly, you know, then they're going to discover things that weren't

discovered before. And a lot of these, like you say, were connectivity issues, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi,

cellular, you know, things that would sort of lose connections and stuff like that.

And so they're just little bit patches.

You know, I always rush and install the new update the second that it's available because

that's just me.

But if I was a more prudent person, what I would probably do is wait, you know, whenever

iOS 26 comes out, wait for 26.0.1 or maybe even wait to 26.1 whenever that comes out,

because by then some of the showstopper bugs are gone.

Again, for me, they haven't been showstoppers.

They've been minor bugs.

But if you had a little bit of issues in there, then, you know, now we have 26.0.1 to fix a few of them.

And we'll obviously have other updates coming soon as they fix things.

I was just talking to somebody yesterday who had not upgraded to 26.

And that's okay for all the reasons you just said.

However, if you are still running iOS 18, Apple did release 18.7.1.

So, in other words, these are important updates that if you're still not on 26, for all the reasons that Jeff just said,

it still is necessary to go and do an update because, again, these are things that would apply no matter necessarily what iOS that you might be running right now.

And it's worth mentioning that too, Brett, because if you have your iPhone and you go to update it and you go into the settings to update,

so by default, what it will do at first is offer to update you just to the new version of iOS 18.

You need to sort of go to the bottom of the screen and say, oh, no, no, no, I actually want to make the big update all the way to 26.

Because if you're not paying attention, you might think that you're updating, and you are updating,

but you're updating just the bug fixes to the last version of the OS.

Exactly.

Yeah, great point.

Now, the last few weeks, we've talked a whole lot about the new iPhones,

the new Apple Watch.

We don't have to spend a lot of time on this,

but a couple of articles that you linked to I thought were really good.

Now that this is a story from Julie Clover at Mac Rumors,

two weeks with the iPhone Air, is the ultra-thin worth the compromises?

I think generally she says yes,

Or she actually has a video here from Dan Barbera at MacRumors.

Great video, by the way.

But they just go through talking about what their experiences have been over the last two weeks using an iPhone Air.

Now that it's been out there and people have been using it, I have been fascinated.

The things that I've been reading, like this article and the things I've been listening to and like podcasts and stuff like that.

And it's really interesting.

I mean, a lot of people I have heard say, you know, I love the iPhone Air.

It's my favorite iPhone ever.

It's so thin.

It's so light.

It feels like the future.

It does everything I need and the features that it doesn't have or things that I don't

really care about.

And that's a totally legitimate opinion.

And then I see people and I think maybe Julie leans a little not to, you know, say what her

opinion is, but I think I feel like she has some of this comes through an article of saying

that, you know, it definitely has some real compromises.

And, you know, you may decide that given how expensive it is, you know, you might as well

pay a little bit more and get a lot more features, even though it's a bigger package.

or a little bit less and get the incredible because the iPhone 17 reviews have just been fantastic this year.

It's the entry level phone, but it has so many fantastic features that used to require the pro.

And so, you know, it's it's it's going to it's a polarizing device that for some people is just perfect.

And for other people, it's not worth it. And I think that's great.

I love that we have a rich enough ecosystem that that's the case.

You know, you think of the iPhone Air and it replaces the spot in the iPhone lineup.

You know, last year we had the, you know, the entry level phone and then the plus version

of it with the bigger screen and then the two models of the Pro.

And so that regular phone with the bigger screen, we don't know because Apple doesn't

reveal this information, but the sense for it, the anecdotal reports is that that wasn't

a very popular device because people like, if you're going to get a bigger screen, just

go ahead and get the Pro.

And so it wasn't a big seller.

And so Apple, that's no longer part of Apple's lineup.

And now instead they have the Air.

And I mean, it's the same idea.

It's that in-between device that for some people is going to be too many compromises, but for

other people it's going to be just right.

And I'm glad that Apple is offering the choice.

I'm glad that they have decided to release the iPhone Air to the world so that people

have that choice.

And I think that it's something that's going to be even more and more people are going

to be walking into Apple stores over the next six months, 12 months, and seeing this device

and say, wow, this feels great.

This is what I want.

And they're just going to get it.

Yeah, it's just picking it up is the biggest seller.

It's like, go pick it up and you'll see why.

You also linked to another article from David Sparks at MaxSparky.com.

Just always very nice and succinct.

Some thoughts from David as to why Apple has even released the iPhone Air.

He looks at it from a little bit more of an existential kind of an approach here, but I love his thoughts on this.

I agree with his conclusions.

I mean, it's somewhat, you know, first of all, if you just want something really thin and light, this is the perfect phone for you.

And that's one reason.

But then he also says, and I totally agree with this, it gives Apple the opportunity to experiment with this new design that they will improve over time.

I mean, we always remember, you know, that one of the, you know, we've had the original iPhone, which is so iconic.

We had the iPhone 4, which was a big leap forward.

The iPhone 5 made it taller.

The iPhone 10, which was the first iPhone to not have a button on it and have that big screen.

And, you know, Apple comes up with these new I mean, in some ways, the iPhone looks the same as it always has if you just from sort of a 10,000 foot level.

But there have been big changes.

And this is one of them.

And so this iPhone Air, even if the iPhone Air is not for you, you should be happy that iPhone that Apple came out with it because it lets them experiment with this and see what they can do.

And then, of course, the last thing he said is what everybody said is everybody thinks that Apple is coming out with a folding version of the iPhone next year.

In fact, there was a story this week that somebody at Samsung had announced that they have a contract with a big American manufacturer that they're not going to name who it is.

We're like, yeah, it's probably Apple to come up with a screen for a folding iPhone.

And so there's, you know, people really expect that a year from now we're going to have a phone that sort of opens up like a book.

And so and to do that, you have to have something that's much thinner.

So everything that Apple is learning about the iPhone Air are making it thin.

And so and I will tell you, Brett, you know, even though the iPhone Air does not appeal to me because of the compromises, if slash when Apple comes out with a folding iPhone and I have a choice between a folding iPhone that can turn into something that's, you know, either the size of an iPhone or maybe more like the size of an iPad mini or the iPhone Pro.

It's going to be a tough decision for me.

Yeah, it's going to be tough.

So we'll see.

That's a year from now.

We don't have that today, but I'm going to be watching that product introduction with a lot of attention because I don't know which one I would prefer.

Both you and I did get the iPhone 17 Pro.

I got the normal Pro.

You got the Max Pro.

But one of the things that you continue to talk about is the camera capabilities on here.

And I thought this was a good article.

This is John Voorhees in Max Stories.

but he links to this story from lux which is a company that makes apps right i think is what their

main thing but you know we talked about what is austin man when he goes and gets the new iphone

and he does all these these these uh shots this story the pictures coming out of this story i'll

have to uh what yeah here is this they're they're testing here just incredible pictures and i mean

they put it through the ringer like in all kinds of places on here and just continues to impress me

I mean, not just me as a normal non-professional photographer who barely knows anything about f-stops and everything, but to impress professional photographers like the way that apparently the iPhone 17 Pro is doing is a pretty big feat.

Yeah.

So Lux makes apps like Halide is probably the most famous.

And Halide is an app that you would use instead of the built-in camera app.

And the people at Halide, they totally understand digital photography.

And so their app will use, of course, it uses the Apple lenses that are on the iPhone, but they will, you know, tap into features that maybe Apple is not even offering.

And sometimes Halide will have a feature that a year or two later will actually come to the built-in camera app, but they sort of figure it out first.

And then all sorts of, you know, filters and things like that to do it.

So like they go deep.

They really understand what the hardware can do.

And so when they go in there and they look at the hardware and, you know, for example, they say that the 2X camera, they say is really good because they point out that with the regular camera, just the 1X camera, which also uses 2X, you know, they point out in here that it is a 48 megapixel camera, but you don't actually get normally 48 megapixel pictures.

Apple takes the 48 megapixels and comes up with the best 24 megapixel image for you.

And so and you end up getting a better picture that way.

So when you go to the 2X mode, you're just using like the middle part of it.

But because it's such a high quality camera that 40 megapixels like it, you know, they

say it is fair to call this an optical 2X, even though some people may say because you're

cropping it, it should be sort of digital, but it's really not digital.

It really is optical.

And then they were especially impressed in this post with the 4X camera, which of course

could then become an 8X camera.

And, you know, they point out that the quality of it is really good.

And they point out something that I noted this when I was in, when I wrote my review, when

you and I talked about it, I said the same thing.

8X is a significant enough telephoto zoom that it truly gives you different pictures.

And they give examples here where like you have one picture where you're way in the back

and then another picture where you're really, really zoomed in.

And it's just completely different.

And it's, it's from, you know, that's a perfect one that you're showing right there because

you can see the little box on the left.

It's a tiny, tiny little part of it.

You can't even see a bird in that one.

And then there is a bird and it captured it.

The first picture and the second picture are just literally completely different pictures

that tell completely different stories.

And, you know, and sometimes when you just focus in on like one of their other pictures

is like focusing on like a little, one little part of a bridge or something.

It's like, that is just, it's a different.

And, and I, you know, I wish I had the photographer's eyes.

I don't have it.

But sometimes I'll look at these award-winning pictures and I'm like, gosh, like this person

was standing in the same place that I could stand.

And yet they see something.

They see this little detail that comes out with this just moving, incredible picture.

And so you have the ability with the 8X camera because it is a very impressive zoom, but

also because it's a very high quality as well.

So I enjoyed reading this post because these people really, really know what they're talking

about.

And it makes me more excited about the technology that I've got right here in my hand.

I like this first sentence here on the section.

They're talking about the 8X.

The overall experience of shooting a lens this long should not be this good.

Like, they're professional photographers.

They know exactly what they're talking about.

And it's that Apple is using both its very best hardware stabilization on this camera

and software stabilization as seen in features like action mode.

Just really incredible.

I'll make sure we have a link to the pictures here so you can look at them as well.

last week we talked quite a bit about the airpods pro 3 because again i still i've been telling

people the new iphone is great the new apple watch is great but the new airpods pro 3 it blows me

away like i just used them on on flights this this weekend and so much better noise cancellation

like i found myself having to pull out my airpod more often to hear like the steward the the flight

attendant or the pilot because normally I could hear that through and I couldn't this time. Anyway,

great stuff. However, these are not the only ear pods that Apple makes. We've talked about the

Beats and apparently what is this? This is the app, the Power Beats Fit. The update came out and

Julie Clover and again, Dan Barbera does a good review of them as well. Yeah. The Power Beats line

is great if you know you want the apple technology but airpod pros are just not for you um and i a

lot of people do as much as i hear so many glowing reviews like yours and mine of the airpods pro 3

uh some podcasts i was listening to this week the person saying you know what i'm going to go back

to my airpod pro 2 because because of the shape of my ear these new tips just don't work for me and

that's you know that's the thing everybody's different um and i've said this before my wife

was one of these people too the airpods pro 2 just did not work for her ears so she ended up getting

the Powerbeats Pro, which is the air, it's the fits in your ear, but then it has a thing that

sort of goes around your ear. So it really stays on. And if you're a person that you just can't get

an earbud to fit in your ear, that is a one good solution. So this is a different type of solution

also from Beats called the Powerbeats Fit. And the way that it works, as you can see when you're

zooming in is it's like an earbud and it's got like a little wing tip on it that sort of goes out.

And so that little wing tip, it doesn't go around your ear like the Powerbeats Pro 2,

but it sort of it fills up a little bit more of the space in your ear just to sort of keep it

held in there yeah and i have tried this in the past a long time ago i remember that you know it

was either airpods or airpods pro it was one of these third-party things that you sort of attach

to it and it sort of fills it up and it's the same idea of it and i i understand it i mean even

though i never stuck with these i was like i i see why someone would want to have this design

because it keeps it more secure.

And especially if you are vigorously working out,

shaking your head, you know,

you want it to be as secure as possible.

And both models of the Beats, the Power Beats can do it.

So this is the new one.

So the Power Beats Fit is a new line.

I don't think they had something called Power Beats Fit

before this line.

And it also has active noise cancellation

and a lot of the other features that you would expect

and, you know, good battery life and stuff like that.

So it's just another option that's out there

from Apple under the Beats brand.

and for some people, this is just going to be the cat's pajamas.

So you got to see what's right for you.

It's also a better price.

It's only $200 here, which is $50 less than the AirPods Pro 3.

Let's just quickly talk about the Apple Watch.

This is a great review, Apple Watch Ultra 3 from Apple Insider.

This is Wesley Hilliard.

I just thought it was great.

In fact, the first few things that I read in here that I completely agreed with,

Apple Watch Ultra 3 is the first true update to the line in two years.

So even if you're on an Apple Watch Ultra 2, you could consider an upgrade.

But boy, I would be on the fence if you have it too.

I upgraded from an Ultra 1 to this Ultra 3.

Very happy.

Extremely happy, I would say.

But you asked me this last week, I think, too.

I don't know that I can tell you that it was a must upgrade.

I'm thrilled that I did it.

But it's not, you know, there's not so much difference here.

Like it's just almost small iterative updates on here.

But it's good enough.

And again, I don't regret it.

I love the Apple Watch Ultra 3.

I've been using it now.

I mean, just the fact that I've got the wrist flick and I can do the tap-tap and all the other things.

The screen is fantastic as always.

Probably a little bit better.

Like you said, I can see it's brighter, so I can see it, you know, even in direct sunlight.

I'm not sitting there thinking about it.

I'm just glad that I can see the time when I need to see the time, whether I'm in direct sunlight or not.

Like, I don't sit there and think, oh, well, I'm so glad I can see this now.

I don't think about it that way as much.

And that's not a bad thing necessarily.

It's just, you know, to me, this isn't as much of an impact as, of course, the AirPods Pro 3 have been for me.

And, you know, you talked about that last week.

You talked about it a little bit this morning when you said that of all the new products this year, the one that excites you the most is the AirPods Pro, not this one.

and uh wesley hilliard who i just want to mention wesley does fantastic reviews i've been so impressed

with him as a writer but he this is a very balanced review because he really does say

and i don't mean balanced in that it was forced to be i mean like his conclusion is really on point

with you um uh you know there are definite pros and there are some definite cons and he he points

about it and so if if you're trying to decide if this is what if the ultra three is good for you

you should absolutely read this review a lot of it parrots what you've said brett but um you know

and he points out that, of course, if you're looking for that, you know, you're going to be

climbing mountains and doing all the scuba diving. Well, of course you want that, you know, that,

that, that's, that's goes without saying, but if you're not in that category, you know, if, if,

if the only, you know, rising altitudes that you do is, is working in an office building like me,

he's like, you know, think of the Apple watch ultra just as like sort of a, of a, of a more

advanced version of the Apple watch and then decide, are those extra features something that

you want because you know he points out a pro is the battery life which is amazing i think it's

funny he says that the battery life is so expensive it's almost too much battery life it's like nobody

even needs this much battery life and he has a good point of it but yes i agree and it's worth

saying because like if you're gonna if you charge your apple watch every night like i do and if you

maybe give it a little bit of a charge where you're taking a shower in the morning and stuff like that

for me it's totally enough but um but if that's not you if you really want the extra well then

that's the pro and the other things and you know if you need satellite if you want the brighter it's

good. But he also points out that the experience does not differ that much from prior models,

which is the same thing that you just said that, you know, you don't have to feel like,

you know, maybe save your money. If you're on the fence, this review might actually convince you

that what you have now is actually good enough. And so that's the thing. It's just, you're going

to have to decide what is right for you. Now, if you have a really old model, if you've never used

an Apple Watch Ultra and all of the cool features it has, well, then sure, this is the one to get.

If you have an Apple Watch version one, like you did, Brett, you know, you got to sort of think

about it. I do not. I love getting a new iPhone every year. I love it. But I certainly don't get

a new Apple Watch every year or even a couple of years because I don't think there's a reason for

it. Every year to year improvement is good, but incremental. Now, if you have an Apple Watch that's

five years or more old, well, then, yeah, you're going to love any of the new models, whether it's

the 11 or the ultra three or any of them. So good, really good.

One thing here, when I read this, I was like, yeah, I, I, I,

I completely agree.

I am a little jealous of the curved corners of your Apple watch 10.

And I love that feature. Yeah.

I know because you know, if, if, if you're doing the high altitude,

you know, hiking Mount Everest,

then I understand why the Apple watch ultra is more on the boxy or even I

to say like sharp corners up there.

I know that they did that for several reasons, but I got to tell you, I'm not doing that,

you know, for the vast majority of the time, I'm wearing dress shirts, right?

Where my cop goes over the watch.

And I have to tell you, it sometimes gets jammed up.

And he says the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and the Watch Series 11 have near identical displays,

but the glass covers are shaped slightly differently.

He goes, I think I prefer the curved glass of the series models, but the Ultra does seem

to provide legibility advantages by being perfectly flat.

Completely agree.

I mean, in other words, I read that and I was like, yeah, like that hurts a little because

that I would love to have the same size of the screen, which apparently I could if I

got a series 11, but it probably wouldn't jam up my cuff as much on my jacket or my

shirt because it has that curve on the corners there.

Slight little issue there.

But when I read that to your point, he just really is good about pointing out some of the

things that irked me as well. I'll give you another example that's along the exact same lines.

He speaks eloquently. He likes the fact that the digital crown on the ultra has that sort of

protective cover to it. So that like if something hits it and he speaks of that as if it's a really

good thing. When I used the ultra for a little while last year, I hated that feature, Brett. I

did not like it because I felt like I could not spin the digital crown as easily. And I love

spinning the digital crown it's it's useful that it feels sort of fun and so and in fact i'm curious

you've been an ultra user for a while but you used prior models before do you like wesley do you prefer

that it has protection or do you not like that it's a little bit harder to spin or it's just a

little more what's your viewpoint on that i guess honestly because i you know i've been doing this

for so many years i i don't even think about it like i there's no i don't put on the normal watch

but i have to tell you i do like it i think because i can rest my my my finger on it and

there's enough like apple did a very good job like when i spin i'm just spinning the top portion of

the i hear you yeah i hear what you're doing i i never like put my thumb and finger and try to

spin it like that i'm just me either yeah with the finger okay so yeah again i probably just

because i've been using the ultra for so long now i don't really have a a basis of comparison on that

but i i don't mind it i kind of like it i like that it's there because i just feel like

It potentially will keep more gunk out of it, you know,

but even though I still have to run it underwater every once in a while.

But, yeah, it's been fine for me on that.

We talked about Apple doing a few other things.

I saw several stories just the last two or three days.

They might be coming out with more.

The M5 processor, we talked about some of the rumors

when they did the announcement in September for the iPhone,

and we got the new Apple Watches, we got the iPhones,

And of course, we've got the AirPods Pro 3.

And there was no one more thing.

There wasn't anything else.

Even though we had talked about the potentials could be.

Well, now we've got some rumors, some leaks that we could have new processors with maybe new iPads, new MacBooks.

Interesting.

I mean, I will break this news.

Right now, Apple sells an iPad with an M4 processor.

I predict that they will have a new one with an M5.

And I will also predict they will one day have an M6.

You heard it here first.

There you go.

I mean, it's like we all know this is coming.

So it's just a question of when the big, you know, we've always known the M5 was going

to come.

You know, Apple had the new processor in the iPhone and they're going to have something

new for their computers and the iPads.

It's just a question of when Apple will often come out with these like a new iPad, for example.

It would make sense to come.

Sometimes they do it in the spring, but sometimes they try to do it for the for the Christmas,

Hanukkah, you know, holiday buying season.

And so it would make perfect sense to me to see new iPads with an M5 processor this month, October, maybe next month.

And the leak is, you know, somebody, this Russian YouTuber claims to have gotten models.

And, you know, I think they make these in Vietnam.

And so somehow maybe he got somebody at the factory at Vietnam to give him one.

And, you know, who knows? Is it real? Is it not real?

People debate over whether it really is what it is, what he says it is.

But, you know, it would not surprise me if this is true, that there's going to be a new version of the iPad that looks very similar to the current iPad Pro, but it has an M5 processor instead of an M4.

It makes perfect sense.

Apple will have a new version of its MacBook Pro that has an M5 instead of an M4.

Makes sense.

That one might not be until next year, but it makes perfect sense that that's in development.

And they even say that there is a new version of a Vision Pro, which I've been using for a long time.

I think my Vision Pro has an M2 processor, if I remember correctly, and that it might go up to an M5.

So, but all of these leaks and rumors is that it would be, the design would be the same of

these things as what we have now.

It would just have a faster processor.

You know, when it comes to the Vision Pro, the picture that you're seeing is Apple has

to apply to the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, to, you know, have the radios and

stuff inside of devices.

And when Apple and other technology companies provide this to the FCC, it's supposed to be

under wraps and secret.

Every once in a blue moon, the federal government doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

And I'm not going to get into political reasons of why that might be especially true this year.

But somebody if it appears that somebody at the FCC, you know, took a whole bunch of things that were supposed to be private.

And they, you know, unfortunately put it in the public folder and people on the Internet found it.

And so, you know, now just because this has been given to the FCC, that doesn't mean it's coming out tomorrow.

This might not come out until next year, but it does look like Apple is working on this.

So anyway, on one sense, it's not news at all that Apple will update its products.

But on the other sense, with all the leaks that have been coming out this year, it makes

me think that some of these things we'll probably see before the end of the year.

And of course, you know, Brett, there's other things we expect, not expect, but that could

come from Apple before the end of the year.

We've long talked about like some sort of a home pop at the screen, a new version of

an Apple TV.

You know, eventually those things will be updated.

Will it be calendar year 2025?

Will it be 2026?

Who knows?

But it wouldn't surprise me if Apple has some more things up their sleeve before the end of this year.

Here's my prediction.

When Apple does come out with the iPad Pro that runs the new M5 processor,

it will probably do a good job running apps from Lit Software.

We want to thank Lit Software for sponsoring the show today.

We've talked about them quite a bit.

And everybody knows we're pretty big fans of the Lit Software apps.

It is a whole suite, hence the name the Lit Suite, which includes Trial Pad, Transcript Pad, Doc Review Pad, and the brand new Timeline Pad.

There's also Exhibits Pad.

That's a very interesting kind of a niche app there, which is really cool, and I've heard Tara and Ian talk about it quite a bit.

But the Timeline Pad is just beautiful in the way that it can create some timelines.

Trial pad, you might consider by the name for trial presentation.

Transcript pad for annotating or designating transcripts and doing some beautiful reports off of that.

And the doc review pad is for reviewing documents and applying maybe Bates numbers and stuff if you have to do production.

This is an entire suite.

It's an annual cost that goes every year, obviously, tied to your iCloud account.

And that is great if you just wanted to get your own copy of these apps.

But Lit Software also offers an enterprise option on there as well.

And so, Jeff, I know you know other attorneys at different firms where you can purchase.

I think you have to have 10 licenses.

You need 10, at least 10.

You start with that.

And what's great about it is that then that company, the organization, the law firm,

they can then distribute those licenses for the different apps to the different individuals

of you having, you know, it'll be tied to your cloud account, but lit software does a great job

of making sure that you can move those licenses around so that everybody in the firm that needs

a copy of these can get access to it. Yeah. You know, some people are solo attorneys,

they do everything themselves, but some people are, I think fortunate enough to work in a team

because that's certainly what I prefer. I myself work for a large law firm that's got hundreds of

attorneys and it is so nice to be able to use these lit software apps and work with other people

that have them too, because you can share like, you know, the transcripts in a case and, you know,

One person can highlight and it's more than highlighting.

Obviously, TranscriptPad goes way beyond that because you're coding for issues.

And then you can share that with the team members.

And rather than having like a single iPad that you would pass around with the LitSuite Enterprise Program, you can roll out at least 10 or more licenses firm wide.

And so that way everyone on the team for a case can have access to and use the case file and the depositions and putting together the trial exhibits and stuff like that.

So that when you have that one lead attorney or maybe the two different attorneys, because many times in the trials that I watch because I'm an appellate attorney, I'm often sitting there in the courtroom watching the trial team do their work.

You know, you'll have like your lead trial attorney that does the openings and closings.

But, you know, another trial attorney will like handle certain witnesses and you want to be able to have multiple people that are using iPads.

So at the enterprise program, it can be their personal iPad or it can be an iPad that's owned by the firm.

And you can even switch licenses like, you know, for six months, it's going to be John that uses the LitSuite license.

And then later on, it's going to be somebody else.

And so then you can just, you know, seamlessly use all of the features.

And I also mentioned that, you know, gosh, I'm just such a big fan of this company.

And it's so fortunate to have them as a sponsor because they update these apps all the time.

They're always adding new features.

You know, we talked about this rumor of an M5 iPad.

You know what that's going to make a difference for is there's this feature in Transcript Pad

where you can put a video that you get from the videographer for a deposition.

And it will use the AI to like process the video and match it up with the transcript.

And that's one of those few features, you know, usually everything on my iPad is really fast.

But that is one of those things that's so intense that I noticed when I moved up to the M4 iPad, those sorts of things would just work faster because, you know, transcript pad can just totally take advantage of the processor.

And I have no doubt that should there be an M5 version of the iPad, you know, I'm sure

this app's going to be even faster and better because they're just always taking advantage

of their technology, plugging into Apple stuff.

So this is just such a fantastic thing.

I will say that, you know, you're showing the Lit Software website right now, which was

recently updated.

And one of the things that they have is like they list some people that use it, you know,

some law firms and some companies.

And I'm not going to reveal client names because that's confidential.

But I will tell you, Brett, between you and me, that there is a company that's listed on this page.

I'm not going to say who they are, that they are one of my clients.

And they were in my office a while back.

And they were talking to a big group of outside counsel.

And they were talking about tools that they encourage us to use.

And one of the people from the company is like, gosh, you know what y'all should really use is trial paid a transcript pad.

I'm like, you're speaking to the choir.

Like, of course.

I'm so thrilled to have my client tell me I should be using this.

I'm like, I should be telling you how awesome this software is.

So anyway, it's great stuff.

Oh, that's fantastic.

I highly encourage you to check it out.

And by the way, I just quickly say there is a seven-day free trial.

So we tell this all the time to folks, Jeff, go and try it out.

Like in seven days, if you can plan, just set aside 30 minutes or something like that once you get access to them.

They're fully functional and operational, so you have a chance to try them all out.

Great support resources on litsoftware.com.

I still sometimes, even when people ask me questions, Jeff, I'll go to like the YouTube videos that that puts up on here because they just help to remind me and they've got a great little fact and stuff that you can go into.

You can get those questions answered on there.

In fact, I pulled this up here, by the way, for the enterprise program, if you log on for multiple years, like two or three years, there is a little bit of a discount that you can get on that.

So you can ask Lit Software about that as well.

In fact, you can email hello at litsoftware.com.

Hello at litsoftware.com.

And if you inquire about the Lit Suite and let them know that you heard about it from the In the News podcast, you'll get an additional license for free.

So if you get 10 licenses, you can get 11.

And that 11th license will be free.

So just send an email, hello at litsoftware.com.

Let them know that you heard Brett and Jeff talk about it a little bit, probably too much just because you can tell we're big fans of this.

But let them know that you heard us talking about it and ask your questions.

They're always happy to answer.

We know Tara and Ian very well, and they're happy to answer questions that you have about all of this as well.

And by the way, the last thing I would quickly say is we keep talking about this in the context of an iPad.

But because of the way that Apple allows the coding to go between iPad and the Mac, a lot of this will run on the Mac as well.

And I find that to be really exciting because you can put a case, for example, in your iCloud Drive.

And if you do it just right and you just want to make sure you've got everything, you know, all the I's dotted, you can then open up the case on your iPad and your Mac and just be able to share some of that information.

If you're in front of your Mac, you can be doing it there versus on your iPad.

It does not work on Windows, but I just wanted to throw that out because if you have a Mac and you have an iPad, you've got some additional capabilities.

You actually get all of that software, and that's all included in the LitSuite as well.

Just wanted to leave that.

Yeah, I don't want this ad read to go too long, but I'll mention I've done that before because, like, if I'm working here in my office, I've got my Windows PC and my iPad right next to me.

But sometimes if I'm working at home at night, I don't have my iPad.

It's downstairs and my briefcase, whatever, in my bag.

But I'm there at my Mac, and, like, I'm working on a motion, and I want to quickly see what a witness said in a deposition.

That's fine because my Mac has a transcript pad on it and I can open it up, look at the testimony, you know, copy the quote.

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There's one more app that I wanted to point out here, Jeff, that I know you have been a big fan of for a long time as well.

They are not sponsors, but we can just quickly let people know.

Good notes.

Good notes.

It's like one of the one things that the LitSuite can't do, but you use GoodNotes along with all of the LitSuite apps.

I know because of the way that you've done, you've shared some of your workflows before, but the GoodNotes app you have been using for a very long time.

They just got gooder on doing some of this stuff here.

So GoodNotes is the app that I use for taking handwritten notes in meetings, in court, you know, just keeping case file thoughts on and stuff like that.

and there was a big change to the app in the last couple of weeks.

And this post does a good job of describing it.

I think it's an improvement.

I'm still trying to kick the tires on it and see what I think.

First of all, they have new subscription plans

and whatever you had before has been moved to a new model.

And I'm not going to, I haven't gotten deep enough to know it,

but suffice it to say there are new plans that are out there.

Second of all, they have some new features in it

that I'm just sort of starting to wrap my head around.

One that they are highly promoting is this whiteboarding feature

so that you can have an infinite canvas

if you need more space up, down, left, right.

I personally don't use that much,

but if you're into things like mind mapping

and stuff like that,

then this is something that you would like

because you never know what direction

you're going to want to have your notes go out into.

Or even OneNote.

I do that in OneNote a lot.

Sure, sure, sure.

Many apps do that.

Another feature that they've added,

it's like sort of a new version of the app that is,

I mean, I say that this is the app

that you use for handwritten text with your Apple Pencil,

but they have recognized that sometimes

you want to just take notes by typing

and you might maybe have a keyboard attached to your iPad.

And so they have a new mode within GoodNotes

that is made for text

and it's made for like an outlining.

It almost reminds me of like some of the Omni apps,

stuff like that.

I have just started to play around with it.

I don't know if it's for me because I,

I mean, I guess sometimes I do take typed notes

and sometimes I just use the built-in notes app

for that to be very simple.

You know, they have like built-in headers

and stuff like that so that you can organize things

and move around things in an outline.

I think it's ideal for a student

or someone taking notes in a class.

And so that's why they added this feature.

Again, I looked at it and I'm like,

for now, I don't know that it's for me,

but if that does appeal to you,

it's a brand new part of the app

that really changes things.

I do sometimes have, in fact,

I frequently have typewritten notes,

but within my good notes.

So I'm like, I'm taking handwritten notes

and there'll be one part of it in the middle

that I will like copy and paste something

from like a statute or a case.

And so I do have text with the notes,

but this is different.

This is a completely different sort of notebook

that would be text-based.

So anyway, suffice it to say,

there's a lot that's new.

And as with any change,

sometimes it's like,

oh, do I like the change or not?

You know, but it's,

so they've done some changes here.

And this article does a good job

of running through what's different.

Let's do a quick in the vision segment.

You mentioned in the vision pro

and who knows,

maybe in a few weeks,

We'll see sort of an update.

But both Jason Snell and Dan Morin over at Six Colors gave sort of their perspectives on, I guess, the state of the Vision OS.

Quick comments here from you on Jason Snell and Dan Morin's comments here.

Yeah, I mean, I think everything, just about everything Jason says is what I agree with.

Vision OS 26, it's a nice step forward.

I really love what they have done with widgets that can stay in one place.

And I have totally gotten to the point where, you know, in my house, I'm typically wearing

my Vision Pro either in my living room or in the room that my TV is in.

I just sit in that couch.

I don't turn the TV on.

I watch something in my Vision Pro instead.

And when I do that, like I have like a clock on the wall and I've got like another little

widget that has my battery life.

And it's so, I mean, you can see an example in this picture here that Jason's got one

above his door.

It's gotten to the point that, and I know this is silly, but like sometimes I'm walking around my house, Brett, and I want to know what time it is.

And I'll glance to the wall to see the clock.

I'm like, oh, no, that clock is not in the real world.

That is just in my imaginary world.

That's great.

My vision, you know, and so then I have to, you know, goodness, I have to look at my watch.

How horrible is that?

But it's just it's so convincing and it works so well.

So there's all these new features.

So if you happen to have a Vision Pro, it's a nice review.

The Vision has been in the news this week because there have been rumors and I don't want to give them too much credit.

So who knows? Again, Mark Gurman talking about what Apple's coming out with next.

Are they focusing on a new version of the Vision Pro that's going to be radically different, like maybe a Vision as opposed to Vision Pro?

Or is Apple focusing on something that's more like glasses that would just superimpose things on top of the real world?

We'll see what comes out.

I mean, clearly Apple is working on that.

And the part of Jason's review that I really agree with is that Apple, I mean, they have

a million things they can do to make this operating system better.

And so every time they have updates, it's like the early days of the iPhone.

There was so much to add, cut and paste, something like that.

They were still in those early days.

And all of these building blocks that they're adding are going to mean that whenever they

do come up with something that's for the masses, it's going to be so much better because they've

already done the work.

They've had, you know, real world experience.

so that's that and that's and that sort of ties right into dan morin's review because dan morin

doesn't own a vision pro but he has one on loan for apple for like six months and so he's been

using it for a while and he talks about like if you want to get work done with the vision pro

there are some barriers you know you can do it but like one of the big barriers that he points out is

some third-party apps support it and that's fantastic but others don't like you know if

you use dropbox if that's part of your practice there is no native dropbox app now can you go to

the Dropbox website? Sure. But that's cumbersome. I mean, nobody would use Dropbox on an iPad

if you had to use the website every time you wanted to access your documents. And so that's

cumbersome. And we need more. We have some Microsoft apps. We don't have others that we need.

So I hope it will get better. But he also points out in the review that one thing that works really

well, really well, is when you take a compute like a Mac and you or an iPad and you have the screen

displayed in that mode in the vision pro so suddenly it's this huge mega screen and you know

i can totally see a future world where and again this is not the near future but you know it doesn't

matter how many monitors you have on your desk at your office maybe you have just one monitor maybe

you have no monitors but instead you take your glasses and you put them on and suddenly you have

huge monitors that you can move around and make as big or as tall or as short as you want you know

I have no doubt that that day is coming and the things that Apple is doing with the Vision Pro and the Vision OS are moving us there.

It's just a question of when.

Let's go to the in the show segment.

Just real quick.

If you like peanuts, you're in luck.

Did I read, like, I think the peanuts cartoon is 75 years old this year or something like that now?

75th anniversary, yeah.

Oh, there it is.

75th anniversary.

I think you said in your post today, because I learned this from you, once you realized that there was a Peanuts screensaver for your Apple TV, you didn't change it.

Same in this household.

I mean, we enjoy it.

In fact, I sit there and watch because I'm like, what's not going to do next?

And how is he going to fly?

And what is Snoopy going to be sleeping on next?

I mean, it's just so whimsical.

I love having it on there.

Isn't it amazing, Brett, how many new ones they have?

Like almost every week there's a new one there.

It's new.

It's something new.

It's great.

They are not just repeating the same one.

But just this week I saw one where all the characters are sort of sitting on a hill looking out the distance.

I'm like, I haven't seen this one before.

And what's really cool about it is, you know, Peanuts.

I grew up with Peanuts.

Many of us did.

The Christmas special, the Halloween special, things that were so standard.

And, of course, those come out every year.

And, you know, I'm jealous that I now have, you know, bratty teenagers.

I no longer have the cute little kids that want to watch the peanut shows with me.

But Apple is still there was a there was this long period of time where we did not have a lot of new Peanuts content.

And then, you know, five years ago, Apple teamed up with them.

And, you know, we have new shows and everything else.

I wish I had more little kids around me to watch them with me.

But what I do have is my screensaver.

So I'm appreciate it that way.

And so I think Apple has been a really good steward for the streaming version of the Peanuts universe.

And I am thrilled that they've extended it for another five years.

I hope they continue to extend it forever because it's fantastic content for children.

It's delightful content for adults.

I want more peanut stuff and I'm happy that they are in the Apple system.

Not just that, even the Apple watch.

I mean, that Snoopy Apple watch face is still pretty amazing too.

I'm looking at it right now.

There you go.

There you go.

You've got it on right now.

I don't have it on all the time, but when I do, it just makes me smile.

It's fine.

It's great.

Well, if you like the Schmigadoon series, it's coming to Broadway, which to me just makes sense because I felt like watching the show, it came from Broadway.

Now it's going to go back to Broadway.

I don't know how that's working, but I'm still pretty happy with it.

I enjoyed the series when it came out.

I did.

The sequel, I think I only watched maybe one or two episodes, but the first little season I thought was great.

First season was great.

Second season was almost as good, perhaps not as good.

It's frustrating to me that they've written season three.

They've got all the songs done it, but Apple canceled it.

So, you know, it's not there.

But it came to, I want to say it was Washington, D.C.

They did like a stage version of Schmigadoon.

And I mean, it's produced by Lorne Michaels and stuff from SNL.

And it got some good reviews.

And so now they're coming to Broadway.

And this is the second time this has happened because there's this other show that used to be on TV many years ago called Smash, which was a TV show about making a Broadway show.

I thought it was really good.

I enjoyed it.

I thought it had good songs.

And then Smash has come full circle.

And I think it's on Broadway or about to come on Broadway or something.

And so this is the same way.

So on Broadway in 2026, you'll be able to see a version of Schmigadoon that has, you know, songs from the show.

Plus, I think there's one or two originals in there.

And again, I thought Schmigadoon was great.

I'm sure that being on Broadway, they're going to get top notch, incredible performers to do it.

And so I don't know if I'll be watching a show in Broadway in the next six months or so, but if I am, I might check it out.

And the last little video that you included in your post was, I mean, it's only maybe three minutes long, but it's all of the new shows.

I think it's 30 seconds long, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, even shorter.

Apple TV+, all the new shows, some of the things coming, which I just thought was great because, man, they pack a lot into that little video there.

But always excited to kind of see what fall is going to bring for some of the shows that we've been following for a long time.

Yeah, and there's lots of good stuff coming out.

Something from Emma Thompson.

Today is that movie, The Lost Bus, which is based on a real story that has actually been getting some pretty good initial reviews.

So that might be a movie that I sit down and watch.

And then next week, this one called The Last Frontier.

I think that's going to be a good show.

I haven't seen reviews of it yet, but from the previews, like this could be a really cool sort of action adventure.

you know, prison break sort of thing where prisoners are on a plane that escape.

And it looks like it could be really good.

Well, let's go to in the know.

And because it's a great segue for me because I was just flying United Airlines coming back

from Chicago last night.

And I noticed on the little screen on the front, on the seat back there, they were advertising

Apple TV plus shows.

And I'm like, well, I guess I have to, you know, make sure that you have a subscription

to be able to watch it.

But no, if you get on a United flight, Apple TV Plus content is available for free in the seatback screens.

Now, I've noticed, and probably many of you, if you travel, you also will.

That could depend on actually maybe the actual plane that you're on.

Some of them aren't as good and some of the smaller screens.

But if you get more of a modern-day screen, it's great.

I mean, you could sit there, and you don't have to log in.

You don't have to have a subscription.

But you could watch some of these shows.

I don't think they have everything in there,

but they've got like, you know,

the Ted Lasso and Slow Horses.

I mean, all the Severance, Shrinking,

you know, most of the series

that we keep talking about

that have gotten sort of the most rave reviews

are all available.

So the next time you fly United,

just know, hey,

if you don't have an Apple TV Plus subscription,

just get on a plane, you know,

get a flight across the country

and you'll be happy watching Severance

or Silo or Ted Lasso on the way.

I like that.

That's a good tip.

My tip is, you know, Apple is always improving the Messages app.

And there are some things they add to it that do nothing for me.

For example, I know there's a feature that you can have like a picture as a background

and a messages discussion, whatever.

That doesn't do anything for me.

But one of the changes that came to Messages over the years is this tap backs feature.

And I got to tell you, I use it all the time.

All the time.

All the time.

Because and especially if like if, you know, you don't want to respond to somebody, but

you don't want to ignore them.

So you just want to give them like a little, just a thumbs up or a happy face.

I love that you can now use not just the built-in five or six that they used to have, but you can use any emoji for it.

So like if the appropriate response to a tap back is a picture of a slice of pepperoni pizza, you can do that, you know, whatever you want.

But my one little tip is that for a while, the way that I had been doing tap backs, and this does still work, is if you're looking at like a little message bubble and you hold your finger down on it for a second or two.

Then tap and hold.

Then the pop-up menu comes up and it has the tap backs at the top.

And then it has other things that you have underneath it, you know, other options and

stuff like that.

But another way that you can do it.

And once I saw this, I'm like, oh, I'm doing this all the time is double tap, double tap

on a specific message.

And when you do that, it just brings up the tap back menu, not everything else, just the

tap back menu.

And so I, since I use tap back all the time, this is now the fastest way to do it.

You have a message and you just want to give a quick little reaction.

Just tap, tap.

And then you can choose one of the built-in ones.

Or if you want to select something from the full list of emoji, you can do it.

So it's a little bit faster.

And it makes me love the tap back feature, which I already loved even more.

And again, I don't think that this double tap feature is new.

I think maybe it was even before iOS 26.

But it was only in the last few weeks.

I saw somebody mention it on Mastodon.

And I'm like, oh, wow, that's cool.

And now I'm using it all the time.

So that's my tip.

I've always tapped and hold, tapped and held.

I've never done the tap.

And for some reason, I think the double tap is easier for me.

Yeah, that's the thing.

Sometimes sometimes I move, you know, my my finger moves around or something like that.

And then it's like, but tap, tap.

I can do that much quicker.

Oh, thank you, sir.

That is brilliant.

I like that.

Well, good show today.

Thanks, as always, for talking.

We also want to say thanks to our sponsor, Lit Software.

You can go to litsoftware.com to find out more or just send an email to hello at litsoftware.com.

Let them know that you heard Brett and Jeff talk about the Lit Suite apps for your iPad and Mac.

More stuff to talk about over this next week.

Maybe new products by next week.

I don't know if it will happen that quick, but it could.

We can hope.

Whatever, regardless of what happens, we'll talk with you next week, Jeff.

Thanks, Brett.

Bye-bye, everybody.