Welcome to In the News for October the 24th, 2025.

I am Brett Burney from appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhoneJD.

Hello, Brett.

Hello, Jeff.

Always good to talk with you.

I was going to say it's just been kind of another week with a little bit of news.

I think that's pretty much about accurate.

A few things that we're going to jump into quickly.

First, we want to say thanks to our sponsor for this week, Lit Software.

You've heard us talk about these iPad apps, which are fantastic.

Jeff and I have been using them for a long time, and we'll talk about a very specific

one that I don't know that a lot of people actually know about, Jeff.

So we'll get into that here in a little bit.

But first, we talked about last week, I remember specifically, new products from Apple.

Although it sounds a little more exciting than it actually was.

Although, at least for me, I'll speak for myself.

Maybe you were a little bit more excited.

It was pretty much the same MacBook Pro, the same iPad Pro, and the same Vision Pro, just with an updated processor.

But other than that, not a whole lot of difference there.

A few little things, I know, but still, I always want a little bit more.

This first story that we're talking about right now from Jason Snow, I think it sets the theme for all three of these products.

Okay, good.

And it's because of, I mean, I think it all can be summed up in like a chart there, one or two charts that he has there,

where he shows that over time, if you look, I mean, let's go back in time.

When the M1 came out a number of years ago, it was such a big deal that Apple was making

its own processor, you know, big change from Intel.

But it changed so much because it meant that Apple could decide when the new processors

come out instead of worrying about somebody else's schedule so they could time other things.

And it also meant that they could custom make the processors to just the things that they

need.

And the M1 Plus, on top of perhaps most importantly, it was a huge step forward in efficiency,

speed, and everything else.

So when people upgraded from Intel to M1, people are like, oh, my goodness, this is incredible.

But then since then, Apple has released, I think, just about every year, a new one.

We're now at the M5 that just came out this year.

And you could argue it's boring because every year they're just a little bit faster.

But the thing is, that's exactly what you want, right?

You want it to be a little bit better every year because the reality is that whether we're talking about the iPhone or the iPad or the Mac or the Vision Pro, whatever it is, you're not going to get a new model every single year.

I do get an IQ every year, but most people, you know, think most things like an iPad or

a computer.

But what you want is whenever you, whenever you, you know, step off of the, uh, the escalator

of, you know, increases, you want to be happy with what you get.

And then when you're ready to step on it again, you want to say, oh my goodness, look how far

we have come since I was last there.

And so as this chart shows, if you, um, if you get an M5 today, um, and you had an M1

before, just in terms of the objective, uh, measures of CPU speed and stuff like that,

It's about twice as fast.

Twice as fast is more than big enough for you to say, wow, everything is so much speedier

and responsive and very nice.

Now, if you just compare it to last year's model, the M4 to M5, it's just a incremental

increase.

It's not going to make a difference.

And we'll talk about this in a second in the context of specific products.

But to some degree, it's not the whiz-bang introductions.

We all love the idea when Apple introduces the iPhone or introduces the Apple Watch or

something that's brand new that we've never seen before. Those are always the exciting things,

but it's these incremental changes that you really want because you want to be able to look back.

And when you, when you decide to get back on the buying cycle, it's like, wow, this has improved

so much more from what I was before. So that's what I thought was interesting about this article

from Jason is that with some objective numbers, he sort of sets the tone for all of the specific

reviews. Because what we should say is last week, we talked about Apple's new devices this week,

They were in the hands of reviewers.

So we saw hands-on reviews and they officially went on sale, I think on Wednesday for, I think

all three of them.

So like you can now walk into an Apple store subject to how many they have at stock and

you can purchase these new three devices, which just to be clear are the new iPad, the new

Vision Pro and the new version of the low end version of the MacBook Pro, the MacBook Pro

M5.

Perchance, I am not being fair enough to Apple because I felt like it was a little boring,

But I am sort of overflying the idea that, you know what, every year they are coming out with a new processor.

And I am not giving that enough highlight on that because you and I both remember the days when there would be new processors from Intel or AMD or even back in the day, you know, from IBM.

And it would just take forever for those, it seemed like, those cycles to come around.

And even when it was a new processor, it was very odd, awkward numbers, and it wasn't really that much of a bump on any of that.

Like, we never really got excited about this.

And I'm almost now five years into these chips.

The fact that, A, a company that is not a processor company is putting out these incredible processes that are basically blowing everything else away, that in and of itself is an amazing story.

And you're right.

I don't want to oversee that and not pay enough attention because it is incredible that they are coming out.

It's just to your point, it's just like if you had it in four, it's like, okay, come on, man.

I want just a little bit more excitement.

I'm used to this, but you're absolutely right.

The fact that we're continuing to see these improvements on these chips is really incredible.

And again, I feel like Apple is so good at doing this.

Maybe they're not emphasizing it enough.

I mean, I know that they do, but I don't think from a public standpoint, do people really truly understand, again, this revolution that's happening here.

And then, you know, you know, go ahead if you wanted to say something else.

Yeah, just one last thing on that, which is that I do remember what you refer to those Intel days where Intel would announce a new processor.

And then often there would be some random Windows manufacturer that would have it in day one.

And then if you're a Mac purchaser, you'd be like, well, you know, that sounds like the latest, greatest things.

When are we going to see that in the Mac?

When are we going to see it?

Or the flip side of the same thing is Apple in those old days would announce a new Mac,

but the processor it was using was a processor that had been out for like 10 months.

And so it's like, oh, okay, well, that part of it's not exciting.

And so I do think it's just sort of it's PR, but I do like it.

I think it's nice that it comes out in conjunction with new products.

But the last thing I will say is just to remind you, it's not just a little bit faster over a year.

Yes, the CPU is faster.

Yes, the GPU is faster.

But because Apple designs the processors, they can put the special sauce that they want.

And it seems like every year they emphasize some little thing.

And this one, and we mentioned this a little bit last week, this week, and Jason points

out in this review that the thing that Apple added to the M5 processor is just a little

more of the neural processing engine so that for certain AI tasks, it is quite twice as

fast.

Now, again, we're still in the infancy of AI on device, but Apple has this view of the

world where a lot of AI stuff will be done locally on your device as opposed to in the

cloud, which has advantages of privacy and security. And so I like the fact that they've done this on

the M5 and they'll do more in the M6 because we are going to get to a point. It's not this year.

It's not even next year, but we're going to get to a point in a few years where I think a real

competitive advantage of an Apple product, whether we're talking about a Mac or an iPhone or an iPad

versus a competitor, is that the Apple product can do AI in a day when AI means more than it is today

on device. And the improvements that they made this year to the M5, and I'm sure they'll do more

the M6, it's going to come to the point that it's not just that it's a fast processor,

but it's that it's a dedicated processor, some portion of it.

So anyway, so that's the M5 in general.

Okay, so you were about to move on to one of the specific devices.

Which one do you want to do first?

Let's do a specific device.

It's from Jason Snell here, again, complete with the Star Trek communicator next to it

here as he goes through.

This was a nice, short, concise review.

I enjoyed it.

Do you know the reason he has the Star Trek communicator there?

I think it was at the very end here where he's talking about, you know,

the product of the future or it feels like the future or something like that.

Yeah.

There was an old, I'm not a big Trekkie, but there's an old Star Trek episode where

they allow a computer to basically run things instead of a person.

And the computer's name is the M5.

So that's a sort of her preferences, you know, the M5.

Ah, no, I did not pick up on that.

Okay.

Well done.

Very good.

So his iPad review is, again, good, but boring because everything that we just talked about,

about the M5 change.

This is really it for the iPad.

It's just a little bit better.

Everything about the M4 iPad,

which I'm holding right here,

and I love, love, love this device.

It's just a little bit better

because of the M5 processor.

And there's only one other real change

that they made,

which is for the lower end models of the iPad,

they increased the RAM.

I think they increased it, not doubled.

I think it went from 8 to 12

or something like that.

But there's a little bit more RAM

and a little bit more RAM

means you can have more windows open.

You know, it's just a little bit,

you know, a little bit better,

a little more breathing room.

And so those two subtle changes make it good.

And again, so that's why nobody would upgrade from last year's iPad to this year's iPad.

But if you've been waiting and now it's time, you know what it reminds me of, Brett?

It reminds me of buying new cars because I've been thinking about cars lately.

Some manufacturers, for example, I currently drive a Honda Accord.

Honda updates, like they do major updates every five years where it's a new design and a lot of big changes.

But from year to year, they'll have like a little bit better things.

And it might be something as simple as, you know, better cup holders, whatever it is.

But so the idea is that when you walk into the showroom, you like the idea of getting

this year's Honda Accord or this year's whatever kind of car it is.

And you want it to be a little different from what was available last year.

But the real thing that you're looking at is I'm upgrading from my car that I had three,

four, five, six, you know, however my prior car is.

And so you're going to be taking advantage of those major five-year designs just because

that's when you jump into it.

And it's the same thing here with the iPad.

If you're still using an Intel iPad, well, then, oh, my God, this is going to be good.

This is going to be so much better than before.

And even if you're using something like the M1, the M1 iPad Pro was really, really nice because I still use it.

Yeah.

M1 was such a big step forward.

We've now been far enough between the M1 and the M5 that if you decided, and you, Brett, or anyone listening to this, decided to upgrade from an M1 to an M5 after four iterations, that's going to be, like I said, that's twice as much.

That's twice as fast.

So you're going to, like, if you decide it's time for you to get a new iPad for whatever reasons, you're going to really appreciate that speed increase.

So, you know, that's it.

I mean, it's just a little bit better.

So if it's time for you to get the iPad, iPad M5.

So everything that we predicted would be the case is exactly what these reviews are showing.

Apparently, this was Star Trek episode season two, episode 24.

Kirk and a subskeleton crew are ordered to test out an advanced artificially intelligent control system.

The M5 multitronic system, which could potentially render them all redundant.

Which is a little funny because the feature of the M5 processor is that it has better AI.

And if there's anything in computers that's going to make all of us redundant, it's the AIs, I suppose.

When did they say that one aired? March of 1968.

Here, I'm trying to let me close out of it.

March 8th of 1968 is when it first aired.

There you go, 1968.

And they were thinking about the M5 back then.

Apple, you're just repeating Star Trek.

I love it.

Let's squeeze in and in the vision segment here

because we talked about the iPad Pro

and you had a couple of stories about the Vision Pro

with probably one of my most favorite headlines

from Gizmodo.

With all love to you, Jeff,

Apple Vision Pro review, the crown of the dorks.

This is Kyle Barr at Gizmodo was pointing out

that when you wear a good review, you look like a dork. And of course it's true. Any device that

these wears in your head, you sort of look a little, you know, the one thing that has not to

put the vision pro and the meta Ray-Bans in the same category, but at least the thing that,

because they're completely different devices, but the thing that the Ray-Bans have going for them

is it sort of looks like regular glasses. They're a little chunky. So they look like chunky glasses,

but some people wear chunky glasses. So that one you can wear in real life if you're wearing a

vision pro, but again, no, one's going to walk around with some exceptions of people, you know,

trying to get clicks on YouTube, no one's going to walk around the streets wearing a Vision Pro.

And in fact, if anybody's at my house, if I'm watching a movie with somebody else, I'm not,

I'm only wearing the Vision Pro when I'm by myself. But regardless, when I do wear it,

you look a little silly. That is just it. So this review and a couple other ones have looked at the

Vision Pro M5. And of course, part of it is what we just described. It's just a tiny bit better than

the M4, than the M2, excuse me, the M2 version, which is the prior version because of the better

processor. But a couple of things that it has better, and the one thing I wanted to focus on,

And this was fascinating to me personally.

When Apple announced this new M5 version of the Vision Pro, they said that there is even

better screen resolution.

And I'm like, how is that possible?

Because it's the same.

I mean, one of the most amazing parts of the Vision Pro are these incredibly tiny and incredibly

powerful Sony displays, one for each eye, that are just, you know, you could not have

the Vision Pro.

Much like, you know, the, by the way, yesterday was the 24th anniversary of the original iPod.

I don't know if you celebrated yesterday, if you had a party.

I did.

I did.

Yes, indeed.

The iPod 24 years ago was invented because Apple realized that there was somebody in China,

whoever it was, Japan, that was making these super tiny hard drives.

And they're like, what could we do with a super tiny hard drive?

And the iPod was invented.

The iPod.

The same thing.

A thousand songs in your pocket, Jeff.

A thousand songs in your pocket.

I watched the little thing where Steve Jobs pulled it out of his pocket.

Thousand songs in your pocket.

Great tagline.

Okay, continue, please.

Yeah, no, the Vision Pro is the same way.

The Vision Pro could not exist but for one specific piece of hardware,

which are these very high-quality Sony displays.

So when I saw that this new Vision Pro has even more resolution,

I'm like, well, did they change the display?

No.

And what they did is I think it's technically fascinating.

And it's a word that I don't think I knew before,

although it's been around for a while, called a foveated vision.

And what that means is that, and this is a word that's been around in VR for a while.

If you are wearing glasses, some sort of goggles that are going to simulate the world around you,

you don't need, you want to have high quality, right?

The higher quality, the better.

And that's why the Vision Pro is better than the very low end of the devices that Meta sells.

But you actually don't need to render the 4K, you know, super high quality in the entire

field of view.

And the reason for that is the way that your eyes work, if you're looking in a direction,

that's what your eyes are paying attention to.

And everything around you, something that we would call peripheral vision, even in your

normal eyes, you're not really focusing on it.

And so it would be a waste of processor cycles for a computer to render all of that in the

exact same high quality.

All that they need to do is render the part right here in the center that you're looking at.

And as your eyes move up, down, left, right, of course, whatever sort of device you're wearing has to keep up with you.

And the Vision Pro, even with its M2 processor, was fast enough to keep up to you.

But the thing that they do with the M5 is with that extra processing power, they say that it's about 10% better.

And what that means is that the shape of the foveated area is about 10% wider.

And so it's not the thing that you're directly looking at, but it's the part in your peripheral

vision, which is just a little bit more crisp that you, it's like you notice it, but you

don't really notice it.

It's one of those sorts of things.

And so as the reviewers have found the place where this makes the most difference, and to

be fair, it's only a subtle difference, but it is a nice difference is one of my favorite

uses of my vision pro is if I connect it to my, my Mac or even my iPad, but especially

my Mac, and you basically have a virtual monitor.

So like I could never afford a huge monitor that's, you know, I don't know, four feet high, four feet tall, but I can have a virtual one in my Vision Pro.

And when you have that, the monitor looks really great.

But you can sort of, you notice a little bit more that just to sort of the edge of your vision, it's not quite as crisp.

Because when you have a monitor that's so big that, you know, it's your entire field of view.

I can sort of half see that that window that's off to my side is maybe not quite as vision, as in focus.

Now, as soon as I look at it, it is in focus.

But because you have just a little bit bigger of the foveated area, thanks to the M5 processor,

it makes that virtual monitor look a little bit more realistic, which I guess is an improvement.

Now, on the other hand, if I'm wearing my Vision Pro here in my office and I'm looking

around, the fact that those law books on my bookshelf to my left might be a little bit

more in focus, I'm not going to notice that difference.

I mean, theoretically, it's a little bit more in focus, but I'm not noticing it.

So I just thought that was an interesting use of the processor.

Now, there's other things for the Vision Pro, too, that are better.

Things are a little bit faster.

So if you're doing AI, for example, you know those persona things, which, of course, we did most memorably the first day I had my Vision Pro and we recorded that way and we had my avatar.

You can render an avatar faster because that's using machine learning and AI.

But does it matter that it takes me five seconds to render my avatar instead of eight seconds, especially for something you just do once?

No, it doesn't.

So, I mean, that's why, of course, it's nicer.

And, you know, if you're going to buy a Vision Pro, of course, it's nicer to get the M5 version than the M2 version.

But it's not a big difference.

So and then the last thing I'll say about these reviews is it has the new thing that goes over your head, the new dual mid band.

The dual mid band.

Yes.

If it's OK with you, I'm actually going to postpone us talking about it because I have actually ordered one of these.

And I'm not going to have it for a few weeks.

So let's put this off.

Let me get it and let me use it for a little bit.

And maybe in like late November, I will tell you, if you go to buy one today, because I

just tried yesterday, I said, what would happen if I bought one today?

And the soonest that it would be in my local Apple store in New Orleans is in December.

They had a very small stock.

The one that I ordered like seconds after Apple announced all of this stuff, it's coming out.

Now, they are available in some stores.

I've seen a few people on the internet say that they walked into their local Apple store

and at least some of them were in stock, but most of them are out of stock.

So if you're trying to decide, don't wait on me if you're trying to decide.

But I will have more to say about that new band in the future.

Let me just say that.

But there was a new band.

Because there wasn't just a whole lot to review, although you pointed out some good things.

And even this Ghost Moto review, he does talk about there's a slight increase in the battery life.

So there are some little touches in here that are interesting.

But most reviews I have found have focused on this dual nip band because that is, I guess, like a new kind of a product-ish kind of a thing.

And this is a good picture here, right?

On the right side, this is what it comes with.

It's just the one knit band that goes around the back of your head.

That's what the M2 version came with, right?

Yes.

Exactly.

That's what you have.

And then this is the dual knit band now to where it has the back of the head, but it also over the top of the head, which I feel like some people, I don't think Apple, but there was some third-party manufacturers, right, that were making something similar to this, maybe?

I don't know.

I use one.

Okay.

I have one made by Belkin.

Okay.

That's what I thought.

Okay.

Yeah.

And I've tried a couple of them over the years, just because you're always seeing, is there a way you can make it fit, make it more comfortable?

And there's a couple of products that I've purchased.

The one that I've ended up sticking with is a Belkin one.

And that Belkin product that I bought about a year ago, I presume that I will prefer this.

We'll see when I try it.

I presume that it will become completely replaced by this, but we shall see.

I'm actually pretty interested to hear what you think about it.

I mean, again, it's just a bad.

I feel like it's not that big of a deal.

But I do remember, what's the gentleman's name here at Gizmodo?

I mean, he was talking about the fact that it doesn't sit as heavy on your bridge, the bridge of your nose, because it does have that extra band on there.

So anyway, and then it has that clicky click, almost like a digital crown, but for the Division Pro band, and people were talking about that, that adjusts both the over the head and the behind the head.

So anyway, I'm just like you said, I'm a little interested in how that's going to go.

And there's a third thing that it has too, which is the back of the band now has weights in it.

And you would say, why would you want it to be heavier?

But the reason that you want that is because it counterbalances, as I've read.

Exactly.

If you have more weight in the back, it makes it on your forehead so that there's less weight in the front.

So again, we'll see.

The initial reviews I've seen have been some people have said, wow, this is nice.

This is a big improvement.

And other people have read said, for me, for the reviewer, the prior solo net band was just fine.

And I don't really think I need this, but that just is, this is, it's like, we're talking

about AirPods.

Everybody is different, right?

Everyone has a different head shape.

Everyone has, you know, different size, you know, or, you know, so there's not going to

ever be one thing that's better for everybody.

But, but I'm sure Apple has had the time to think, well, what's going to be the best for

the most people.

And they apparently think this is a good idea because the original Vision Pro came with

two different bands, the solo knit that went around the back of your head.

And then something they called the dual strap, which was not nearly as nice.

It was just a strap that went on the top of your head and the back of your head.

Apple no longer is shipping either one of those.

Now, when you get a new Vision Pro, all you get is this new one.

So Apple seems to think this is better for everybody.

We'll see.

One product that did not get a new M5 chip was the Apple Watch Ultra.

Okay, to be fair, this was a new product that did come out

maybe almost a month ago now.

And I think, you know, the Apple Watch has an S version of the microprocessor, the S10.

But I like this story from Ryan Christoffel at 9to5Mac.

He loves the Apple Watch Ultra 3, but not because of anything of the actual physical design.

It happens to be probably one of my most favorite aspects of the Apple Watch Ultra,

the modular Ultra Watch face, which I still use.

and I've tried different ones,

but I keep coming back to this one.

I love it.

It is such a great,

he's showing in the picture

that you're showing in the screen right now,

you know, where he has the time in the middle,

that 425, it's actually nice.

He's wasting space.

That's the thing.

You can actually use one thing that's really big

if you like to have the time really big,

or you could have two things,

one at the top, one at the bottom.

So how do you use yours?

Do you have two things in that space or one?

You can't really see it,

but I have the time,

which takes about a half of the,

from what the picture shows in his.

And then I actually have the flighty complication.

So from the flighty app.

And so I have that in the middle.

Now I've seen some people will put like their calendar on there,

or some people will put like your vitals.

You can track your vitals on that.

But I'm like, I saw this picture.

I completely agree with Ryan on the fact that this modular ultra face is

fantastic. But then I'm like, wait a minute, you,

you are denying yourself yet a seventh complication that you could have on

your watch face. Why would you do that?

Like use all the space that you can.

I think it's funny that you have, I mean, you travel so much, Brett.

In fact, as we're talking right now, you're in what, the state of North Carolina.

I think you're always traveling.

So if I traveled as much as you did, I would definitely want the flighty app there.

But this modular ultra watch face, not only do you have either one or two complications

in the center, but you have three at the top and three at the bottom.

So what did you said?

Seven, that one, two, three, four, six, seven.

It's actually, I guess, eight.

Well, there is eight because there is the one that's around the watch face.

You said that already, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's, there's, there's tons of complications there, but, um, I loved it.

I mean, it was, I, I, I love Kevin.

Yeah.

You wrote about this too.

Yeah.

I mean, when I, when I, when I reviewed the Apple watch ultra two, I'm like, I love this

watch face.

And then when I upgraded to the, um, or side graded, depending upon what you want to say

it to the series 10 a year ago, I was like, I totally missed that ultra watch face.

And the one thing that I did was I took a picture of that ultra watch face, which you're showing

right there.

And then, you know how you can take a picture of something and then you can show a picture

your apple watch is i showed here it is a picture of the watch face on my series 10 and i'm like it

looks fine to me why doesn't apple release you're just willingness to happen um and uh and that's

the thing apple has made the decision that you know they're going to have it a teaser that if you want

to have this really that's crazy you know complication rich watch face you got to get the

ultra even though there's no tactical reason they could not make it for the series 10 series 11

series nine so um uh or series 10 11 specifically so anyway i made i i still have a dream i have a

dream that one day once apple once upon a time update the watch os and say you know what we are

now letting you use the modular ultra webs or give it a different name to call it call it the modular

almost ultra i don't care but i want something similar to the modular ultra watch face for my

series 10 now i i didn't look this up but i think there's like three or four faces that have the

modular in it am i not mistaken like there is a modular watch face there's a modular something

else and this is the modular ultra or the ultra modular like it's a little confusing when you're

looking at that so if you go and if you don't have a uh an apple watch ultra and you do find the

modular face it is possible that's in like the face gallery that they have on the on the watch

app um but it's not the same it's not the it's not the modular ultra watch face which just so i'm

But to your point, I don't know, like at least in the Apple Watch 10 and the 11, Jeff, like there's no there's really not good reason other than the fact they put ultra in the name.

And like you said, they could easily change that.

That's a little crazy.

So we also talked about the new iPhones that have come out.

Both Jeff and I have the iPhone Pro.

Jeff has the Max.

I have the regular Pro.

And I got to tell you, Jeff, you know, this is sort of the anecdotal evidence.

As I travel or as I talk to and come in contact with people, I have seen a number of iPhone 17 Pros in the world.

But I got to tell you, the only place that I've seen an iPhone Air is in the Apple store.

I don't know anybody that actually has an iPhone Air.

Now, you didn't. There were several stories this past week on this.

I don't I don't know that you linked to one.

But there is some rumors or some bellyaching that Apple is maybe cutting back on some of the production of the iPhone Air.

I still we've talked about this quite and we don't have to rehash everything because I do believe it was a fantastic step forward for Apple to put out the iPhone Air.

But I haven't seen a whole lot, at least in the wild, at least yet.

Yeah, let me, first of all, the reason I did not link to those stories is because I tried to exercise a certain degree of editorial, you know, common sense when I link to stories.

Good.

And I think that those stories are missing the point.

And let me put it this way.

Many of the stories you're referring to, first of all, they are predictions of how many iPhone errors Apple is making.

Nobody knows.

Nobody knows.

Except for Apple.

You're right.

These are third parties.

These are leaks based upon some, you know, somebody's cousin, Joe, works at some processor

and based on what they're hearing from China or Taiwan, they think there's less.

Second of all, even if the rumor is correct, even if at an individual plant, they are saying,

you know what?

Last week we made, you know, 100 and this week we're going to make 50.

They might be saying, hey, they're cutting back or maybe they're cutting back from 100

to 10.

They might say, hey, they're cutting back.

They must be abandoning.

But that's not true.

So what Apple has done, Apple, this goes back to the 1990s.

In the 1990s, one of the problems that Apple had is that Apple would make their Macintosh

computers and they would make a whole bunch of them with a whole bunch of SKUs.

They would make too many.

They would sit in warehouses.

It was a disaster.

One of the big things that Apple did in the 90s, of course, they hired Steve Jobs.

But another thing that they did in the 90s is they hired Tim Cook.

And Tim Cook had been working at Compaq.

The thing that he was perfect, really skilled at, was just-in-time processing.

the idea that you only make as many computers as you need at any one time.

And it allowed Apple to be a lot more financially responsible.

20 years later, 30 years, you know, Apple's still doing that today,

where they only make exactly the number of iPhones, iPads,

whatever that they think they're going to need.

And they have such a good relationship with their suppliers

that they can ramp it up almost on a day-to-day basis.

We want you to turn it up and make a few more.

I want you to turn it down.

So what I think is going on is that even if the rumors are true,

And I don't necessarily know that they are because you can't know for sure.

Only Apple knows for sure.

But even if they are true, I just think that this is just Apple dialing it down because

they don't need as many.

They have enough for now.

Yeah.

And it makes perfect sense for the reasons we've discussed that the people that are going

to rush out to buy something on day one are more likely to be power users and they're more

likely to get the iPhone grow.

Great point.

Whereas I think the iPhone Air is going to become more popular as we get closer to the

holiday buying season.

People that aren't necessarily trying to buy the latest speeds and feeds, they just want

to start something good.

And they look at the air and like, oh, I like this.

This is nice.

Or over the course of the year.

So I think Apple is going to continue to turn the dial of manufacturing up and down and up

and down.

Now, don't get me wrong.

I still don't think the iPhone air is going to be the best seller because I think more

people are going to want either something cheaper, which is the 17 or even the 16, you

know, what is it?

The S now, whatever they're calling those cheaper versions, or they're going to want

to have the high end version.

And so that's why I don't think it's a coincidence that you, when you're traveling around, you know, anecdotally, you're probably seeing those orange iPhones, which you know that they're the brand new ones because they didn't have them before.

But you're not really seeing the air as much, or maybe you are and you're not noticing it because somebody has it in a case, although that's a synonym.

That's true.

So anyway, so that's my take on those stories.

But that is a perfect lead.

But it's a perfect lead into this story because what Oliver is saying here based on his report is that he had a demo unit of an Apple of an iPhone air from Apple.

I think it was a demo at least, or maybe he bought it.

But he decided to say, I want to take it when traveling, which is a great thing, as you're alluding to, because if you're traveling, it's really nice to have something thin and light, which is what the iPhone Air is all about.

But he says the danger is that if you're traveling, the two biggest compromises of the iPhone Air, which, of course, are a little bit less battery life and only having a single camera, so you can't take the Zoom, the telephoto images, are they a big deal?

That was the question he asked himself.

And this is just one person's report, but from his anecdotal experience, he's like, you know what?

It did have less battery life, but it was enough to basically get through a day or maybe I'd have to top it off.

So he was basically fine.

And he said, you know what?

Yeah, I would have enjoyed a telephoto camera because you could take some real cool pictures.

But the one camera that it has is still the latest and greatest Apple camera.

And for the pictures he was taking, he's like, I took some perfectly good pictures.

And so if you're the sort of person that you just want to take, you know, some simple, nice pictures.

And of course, it's got the selfie camera, too.

So if that's important to you, it's got the latest and greatest selfie camera.

So it's just, you know, it goes to show you that if having, you know, the three cameras

versus one camera is not a big deal and just good enough battery life, you know, if you

fall in that category, then the Air has a lot of advantages.

So again, whether people buy the Air, that's another thing.

But I thought the take that he has in this article, I think this is what matters the most.

This is what you should be considering when you consider an iPhone Air.

yeah this is this is a good review and like you said i mean i think these pictures are perfectly

acceptable you know it comes down to the fact if you're on vacation is it you know it's better just

to have one picture for the memory or no pictures like you know okay this is perfectly acceptable

this is just fine yeah i did enjoy this because it did kind of put that real life perspective

um on the iphone air and i'm glad that you linked to that instead let's take a moment to thank our

sponsor Lit Software. You've heard Jeff and I talk about Lit Software several times, I'm sure,

already because they have a fantastic suite of apps for not just for the iPad, because usually

that's how they started out was just for the iPad. But because of the way that Apple now allows the

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And that can be amazing because a lot of times, especially when I'm working with folks on some of

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and they're getting ready to make some changes. So they want some changes and I can even do that on

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to do that. Even though many times I like to make sure that they have their own local copy

of these case files many times when you're, you know, going into trial. So we've talked about trial

pad for trial presentation, talked about transcript pad for transcripts and deposition transcripts,

Doc Review Pad, which is an app that allows you to, if you do any litigation, you collect documents and you can put bait stamps on them.

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And brand new is the Timeline Pad.

We've talked about that just a little bit, obviously, for making timelines.

But one app, Jeff, that we don't talk a whole lot about because it's a very niche little app, but so very interesting is called Exhibits Pad.

And it's been around for a while.

It's just a lot of people haven't used it.

Yeah. So Exhibits Pad is an app that I am incredibly excited about. And yet I haven't yet had a chance to use it. And let me tell you why. There's a very specific reason why, because I am primarily an appellate attorney, which means sometimes clients come to me when the trial is over. And I'm like, what can you do to get us out of this mess? And I love helping with them, which means that I've had nothing to do with the trial.

Other times clients, the smarter clients will hire me to say, we're going to go to trial

next month.

We have got a trial team that's gotten ready for trial, but we know this case is going up

in appeal one way or the other.

We want you to be helping us in the trial room and stuff like that to preserve things

for appeal.

And so by that point, they've already made decisions of how they're doing trials.

Another part of my life as an attorney is I do do a lot of work where I actually do get

the cases from day one, but those cases tend to settle and they very rarely will ever go

to trial.

And so my trial experience has all been with an appellate lawyer.

But let me tell you what this exhibits for. If you are a trial attorney or you're working with a trial team and you're getting ready for trial, you know how in big cases you have the binders that you give to jurors, because the idea is that both sides agree beforehand.

Here's what the exhibits are going to be. You get all the objections worked on beforehand so that, you know, this is the set of everybody's exhibits, the plaintiff exhibits, the defendant exhibits.

If there's third parties in the case and you have one big binder that you give the jury. And so and I've been in these trials before.

So then when you sit there in trial and you have an exhibit, you know, sometimes you'll have a display so that the jurors can look up at the TV screen and they can see the exhibit.

But you'll also often have a binder and you'll say, OK, we're talking about exhibit 46.

And so people will turn the big, big, heavy binder to exhibit 46.

And that way they can look at it. They can see it.

Oftentimes, in most depending upon your jurisdiction, they're allowed to take their own personal notes in there, although there's limits about what depending on your jurisdiction, whether they can take those notes into the jury room and stuff.

but it gives them a chance to look at it in their own speed because it may be on the big screen and

the attorneys are pointing out something, but maybe the juror is at that time or, or, or doing a little

break, the jurors sort of looking at another part of the document. So of course it's useful to have

a jury binder. The problem is jury binders are big and they're heavy and they're bulky and they're,

you know, pain and stuff like that. Um, and so what the smart folks at Lid Software did,

and this makes sense because the people at the company, you know, started their life as trial

consultants. They said, what if we took that big binder and replaced it with an iPad, which makes

perfect sense because this is what I do in my life, right? Way back when I used to have, I still have

a stack on my desk here from a deposition to all these pages and stuff like that. And like, it's

nobody wants to deal with us. What I do is this is useless. This is going in the trash can for my

position because I have everything is right here on my nice, thin and light iPad, right? And so why

not do the same thing for juries? And so the idea is that you get a bunch of iPads, which I know

there's an expense there, but you can buy them once and then use them for multiple trials.

You agree with the other side, just like you do with your binder, but you agree, we're going to

give them all their own iPads to use during trial and all the exhibits are there, which means that

not only can they look at the documents, but like they can look at the videos there, a picture,

like what you're showing right there. They can sort of zoom in and see it bigger or smaller

versus like a display that, you know, depending upon their vision, they may not be able to see

the display very well, but if it's right there in their hand, they can totally see the exhibit

And that's the whole point, right?

You want them to look at the product that the plaintiff put his hand in and got the hand

injured and whether or not that was a knowing and foreseeable.

And he's, you know, all these are the things you want them to look at.

And so ExhibitPad is the exhibits are in their hands and there's all these things you can

do on it.

Like they take advantage of some Apple technology so that you can make it that the jurors have

to stay in that app.

They can't jump out of the app and start browsing the internet or checking their email or something

like that.

And so they stay there.

And then there's tools like the jurors can like make it bigger or smaller.

They can annotate on it if you allow that, you know, to circle things, to make notes for themselves.

So this is ExhibitPad.

And I think it's great.

I'm so I really look forward to the day when someone lets me be involved in getting the case ready for trial because I really want to use this app.

Now, it's been out for a little while.

Why are we talking about it today?

Well, first of all, because they're sponsoring us.

But there's another reason, too.

The app was just updated like a week ago.

And the new version of the app behind the scenes, this note, you don't need to know this, but you know, the new thing for writing iPhone apps is you use Apple's latest and greatest authoring environment, which is called Swift UI.

And it allows, you know, everything can be smoother and better.

But since they were doing that, since they rewrote the app from ground one, it meant that they could sort of do some new features, right?

Because you're redoing it.

And what they've done is they've improved like the home screen and the interface, things like what used to be just an icon now has a word.

And you're like, well, why does that matter?

Because remember, you're putting this in the hands of jurors.

These are not technically sophisticated people.

You want it to be as simple and as understandable as possible for them.

And this new version looks like it's even better so that the jurors going to every no matter

what the level of, you know, technical competence of your juror, anyone can figure out, you know,

if you tap this word, you know, exhibit, you're going to see the exhibit sort of thing.

So that's an improvement.

They've also made it easier to put stuff on it like this is.

and I've seen other litigation support systems use this too,

is like, let's say like you have a folder of documents

and you have subfolders, right?

You can put all of that into a zip file

and then just transfer that zip file to exhibits pad

and it will keep that folder structure.

So I would imagine you might have like folder one

is the plaintiff's exhibits

and then the subfolders and subdocuments.

And then another folder is the defense exhibits.

Or if you have multiple defendants,

different folders for each defendant

or multiple plaintiffs.

And so it's just even easier to get that over there.

What are some other things?

You know, exhibit types are now color-coded to the main view, so you can more just easily

distinguish between the evidence.

You can do rotate individual pages or entire documents because you might, you know, different

things there.

Right.

You know, all these little just lifetime improvements.

But the idea is that it's an overall better app.

So anyway, for an app that I have not used before, you can see how enthusiastic about

it.

I'm very excited about it.

I can't wait to use it myself.

If anyone out there is a trial attorney or involved with the trial team, you know, you

know, when you have the case where that big binder is just going to be a pain to deal with.

And so think about whether this is a solution.

Of course, you're going to work with opposing counsel in the court on this.

But again, you're doing that anyway when you work with binders, with trial binders.

So I just think it's a great solution.

I can't wait to use it myself.

And I'm going to be, you know, one of these days, Brad, I'll have my report to you as

now I've got one of these days.

But so few of my cases go to trial because everything I'm doing with this is post-trial.

So one of these days I'll use it.

But thank you to Lit Software.

Exhibits Pad is a really great idea.

Great idea.

I'll just quickly say, I said this is a niche product.

I mean, first of all, this is only going to be for if you're in a jury trial, if you have a jury trial.

If you even go to the part where the jury has to deliberate, right?

That's typically like they're taking it back into the room with them.

I mean, you as an attorney have to be comfortable convincing the judge who typically oversees the jury.

They're responsible for them and making sure that the judge is comfortable with doing this because, you know, it's just something a little bit new.

But I will tell you quickly to underscore a point that you that you mentioned a little bit earlier.

Every time I've talked to a judge or a jurist that actually used this, they were so thrilled with it, Jeff, because just like you said, those binders are so heavy.

I mean, we're not just talking about one binder. Typically, there's like three binders or multiple binders.

And it's like you have the colored tabs.

You can go to a different section, but you can't search across the binder.

Like people were like, remember, I remember that one document, you know, he said something.

Where do you go?

Like, you don't know.

It would take a long time.

You can just jump into one of these exhibits.

You can do some search for words.

I mean, you know, you get the idea just from a pure, like feasibility, practicability standpoint.

It's just amazing.

Everybody that I've talked to that has used it has just been enamored with it because it's

So much better, so less time consuming than, you know, having to do it all manually.

So I just wanted to emphasize that component up there.

I love talking about the technology side of it, but just the idea that it's so much easier from something that typically is so laborious and bulky.

It's just really cool.

Exhibits Pad.

So you can go to LitSoftware.com.

You can look a little bit more about it.

You can email LitSoftware, hello at LitSoftware.com.

Just let them know that you heard Jeff and I talking about Exhibits Pad.

Because I will say before you use it, and again, as an attorney, it is important, it is critical to make sure that you are comfortable with it.

It won't take a long time.

You can put it on any iPad.

And just like you said, Jeff, the iPad can be locked down.

Like all of the questions and concerns that you're going to come up with, I promise you they've already thought through them.

And it's just a matter of asking those right questions.

You can send an email to them, hello at litsoftware.com.

And thank you, Lit Software, for sponsoring us today.

I am sure that Lit Software is going to be ready for iOS 26.1 when it comes out.

This was a nice little Mac Rumors article that you pointed to where Joe Rosignol was going through some of the new features that are coming in iOS 26.1.

I don't know if he gave a date.

When is someone in November?

Yeah, first half of November is what he's guessing here.

But I'm pretty excited about some of these additional features here.

Yeah, I think the one that he led with is the liquid gas interface.

And I understand why he did, because I know that some people think that liquid glass is just too glassy.

It's too see-through.

And so for some people, the ability to change it so that instead of being see-through, it's more tinted behind it is going to be important.

So if that's important to you, you can now have a toggle on it.

I'm actually mostly fine with liquid glass.

Yes, there are some times where just because of the way that something's below it and something's atop it.

Yeah, it gets in the way.

It's fine.

It's fine.

But some of the other ones I think were good.

One is the ability to turn off.

There's a feature that on an iPhone and an iPad that, you know, if you swipe from right,

from the right side to the left side, it will bring up the camera app, right?

On the lock screen.

Like if it's closed and on the lock screen, right.

I'm now looking at you through my camera.

I actually don't mind that on my iPhone, but on my iPad, it's a pain in the butt for me

because number one, I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever take a picture with my iPad

almost in ever, but I certainly never do it from the lock screen for goodness sakes.

What does happen, though, is I pick up my iPad and I guess I swiped it by mistake when the lock screen's on.

And the next thing you know, I'm looking at – I'm taking pictures of the office around me.

I'm like, I don't want to be taking pictures of the office around me.

I want to be using my iPad.

So there's a toggle switch.

You can turn that off.

And I'm like, thank goodness.

I cannot wait to use that one.

And similarly, there's another one of these fixing an annoyance.

In the new version of iOS 26, when an alarm goes off, like to wake you up in the morning if you have an alarm set,

there's a button there that you can press to turn off the alarm,

but you can actually press it by accident or, you know,

sometimes you're trying to press that and you press snooze.

And so they have an option now that you can, you know how the,

the original iPhones way back when you would swipe to unlock, you know,

back in 2007, 2008.

So that, that swipe to unlock is now back in the form of use this to turn

off the alarm.

I also like it because I think you need to be just a little bit more awake to

swipe, to turn off and to tap a button.

So maybe you can ensure that you're actually awake before your alarm.

They just built that in.

Yeah.

So there's other little features too.

I mean, I have to go through all of them,

but it's just the little improvements of life

that they are bringing to make it a little bit better.

And this is what we'd expect.

I mean, 26.1,

some of these are things that they've discovered

late in the beta cycle

that they weren't quite ready to do in 26.

And others are things that they had planned to do

from the beginning.

Like for example, in AirPods Live,

they're adding some additional languages,

Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Chinese.

I'm sure they wanted to do that from day one.

they just knew it wasn't going to be ready for September.

And so they're like, okay, we're going to have a few languages in September.

I think they have what, like French, Spanish, German, so like that.

And then a couple of them, like we're still working on them.

We're going to have those ready for 26.1.

So again, he predicts November.

That's probably right.

That sounds like it's, I think that's about when Apple usually comes out with the 0.1s

is usually around November every year.

So I think that's a pretty good guess.

You mentioned the liquid glass toggle.

Well, you had an interesting story today about the actual glass and how it came to the iPhone as what's generally commonly known as Gorilla Glass.

And I mean, I remember when we first started talking about the idea of an iPhone with the screen that won't be scratched as much.

Just a little bit of interesting backroom discussions, maybe we'll call it, where Steve Jobs was talking to, I guess, the CEO then of Corning Glass, I believe is where this came from.

And I feel like it's a little bit of some arm twisting going on here.

But hey, it worked out in the end, right?

Corning is an interesting company.

Corning has been around for, you know, forever.

In fact, I'm reminding myself as I'm looking at my iPad right now, I have been to, I guess

it's Corning, New York is the name of the city.

That's exactly right.

I've been there many times.

It's headquartered and they have a cool Corning Museum of Glass.

We went there.

They sure do.

Gosh, maybe almost 10 years ago when my kids were younger and they have all sorts of neat

things.

But you think of glass, you know, think of like Corningware that you might use and, you

know, it's just glass.

But actually, they do some incredible high tech stuff, like apparently.

Right.

And there's a whole exhibit to this when you go to the Corning Museum of Glass that they

sort of invented or were pioneers in the idea of fiber optics.

And one of the things that in this interview, Wendell Weeks, who's the current CEO, talks

about is that when he was sort of coming into power, I guess, 20 years ago, whatever, they

Corning was losing money on fiber optic cables and like a significant money, like he described

There was one point when their stock price went from like $100 a share to $1 a share,

which is a pretty big change just because of not enough sales of this high-tech fiber optics.

But of course, they had the insight to say, you know what?

We actually think there's a future in fiber optics.

And of course, there is.

I mean, you can get incredible amounts of data you can send.

And so now like 30% of Corning's revenue comes not from the Corningware in your kitchen,

but from the fiber optics that they make.

So that's sort of interesting.

But the reason that in the Apple world we're talking about it is when the iPhone was first developed, this has been reported that the initial iPhone, when they made the first prototypes of it, had a plastic screen, which makes sense because you think if you drop something, plastic would be more durable.

That's certainly what the iPods used, right?

And then they were looking at some prototypes with glass.

And according to the reports that I've read, Steve Jobs was the one that made the decision.

He was like, you know what?

I think we need to use glass, not plastic.

and it was made interesting at such the last minute that all the people in production was like whoa

whoa whoa stop the presses we got to do this glass but the reason this worked is because he went to

the president of corning and said you know we're and of course the number of iphones made way back

when in 2007 is a drop in the bucket to what it is today but he told him he's like we want to use

something a super strong version of glass what do you have and corning said you know what we have

this thing called Gorilla Glass that we had made years ago, but we haven't really found a good use

for it yet. It's basically just a super strong glass. Like, why would you need this super,

super strong glass? And Steve Jobs was like, I have a need for it because I want to be able to

have someone drop an iPhone and not have it shatter to a million pieces. And he said, well,

let's use that for the iPhone, which of course, nobody had an iPhone yet. I mean, nobody knew what

the iPhone was, but he told him and he says, can you make this for us? And the CEO, Wendell Weeks,

said to Steve Jobs, I'd be happy to do it, but like, I can't make enough. I can't make the number

that you need. And Steve Jobs turned to him and said, yeah, you can. And so the story that he

shares here is he's like, no, no, no, I really can't. He's like, oh yeah, you can, you can do it.

And he's like, do you want to be the idiot? And you know, typical Steve Jobs sort of berating

somebody to do something. Like, you know, the CEO is like, if we put up our money towards this,

what if it's not going to work? He's like, you need to do it. You need to do it. So as he shares

the story he's like thank goodness that i let steve jobs you know berate me into doing this because

corning did do it and they of course it was a huge success and you know corning has been making

gorilla glass um for all these years in fact they weren't the exclusive person making them but just

recently i think um now they're going to make 100 of the iphone gorilla glass and so i don't know

how this compares to the 30 of corning's business that the fiber optic cables is but a huge portion

I'm sure, of Corning's revenue comes from iPhones because every, I mean, how many iPhones

are in the world? A bajillion of them. And they've got this, this Gorilla Glass on them,

not just the front, but they, many of them, some, some have them in different places too.

And I think Apple may even use Gorilla Glass and other technology too. So the Corning Apple

relationship is just such a successful relationship. So anyway, this was the story. I've told some of

the details. There's even more in the story if you read it, but I thought it was fun to have someone

who he's still the CEO today,

but he has these memories of working with Steve Jobs

at a time that nobody even knew

what the iPhone was all about.

And it's a fun, fun story.

I think my favorite is Steve Jobs,

in his brilliant way,

pinpointed exactly what Wendell Weeks was thinking.

Steve was like, you're afraid

because you don't want to look bad if this fails.

And then Steve Jobs, I think in here, he says,

but you are taking this away from all your employees.

Like, this could be amazing.

Like, just stop thinking about yourself and think about the company.

And, you know, whatever it took, I guess, it worked.

And it was, you know, it's been amazing.

Great story.

Once upon a time, there were some apps that I really liked.

One was called Pixelmator.

One was called Photomator.

I was very excited.

I forget how long ago it was when Apple announced that they were going to purchase or acquire these apps.

And I kind of forgot about them, to be honest with you, until I saw Joe Rosensteel's story in Six Colors that you linked to.

That's like, yeah, what happened to those apps?

I don't know.

I don't know where they are anymore.

The theme of the story is that Apple has a number of apps that it seems like they haven't been updating them very much.

Like, for example, you know, we talked about Apple getting rid of the Clips app last week, but the iMovie app hasn't really seen any major new features.

Now, again, I don't use iMovie anymore and I'll use Final Cut Pro.

But he's like, what happened to the updates?

And the same is true.

I think it was 10 months ago that Apple purchased Pixelmator and Photomator.

And what new features?

They've had almost none.

There was some silly thing that they added with AI or something.

But they clearly bought the company for a reason.

It's not like they were trying to put a competitor out of business.

They don't care.

So Apple, and it might just be that they wanted to hire the smart people that work in the companies

to work on their Photos app.

But I have to assume that Apple had some plan for the app.

And we just haven't seen it yet.

Now, again, I hope that I wake up tomorrow and now we have Photomator Plus or Photomator

Next version or whatever it is.

So I because I this is still the app that I use on my iPad when I want to really intense

editing, simple editing I use because I do a lot of photo editing on my iPad, simple

edits.

The built in photos app is perfectly fine.

But if I want to do something a little bit more sophisticated, like when I scan a bunch

of images and I have to do, you know, there's more things you need to do to sort of improve

them. I use the Photometer app on my iPad. It works great. And you can still buy it. You can

still pay for it. But like, I don't understand why Apple hasn't done something cool with it.

I realize I'm being impatient and Joe sort of acknowledges that in his article to me.

Let's just say it this way. I will be very upset if a year from now, this time in 2026,

Apple still hasn't done something. But my hope is that they have something planned.

Maybe we'll hear about it at WWDC next year. You know, I know it takes Apple's time to do things.

You know, Apple bought the workflows app and didn't do anything when they, and then eventually

they came up with shortcuts, which, you know, has been so fantastic on the iPhone and iPad.

That's true.

That's true.

I hope that they have something good planned for that acquisition.

I just don't know what it is.

And I don't know when it's going to come out.

And a bunch of us are just sitting over here saying, what's the story?

What's going on?

Yeah.

And we can't get a good answer either.

I mean, it's like, like Apple's going to share much of anything, but anyway, I'm just glad

that I remembered.

just like, oh, yeah, what did happen to those apps? Hopefully something will come along soon.

Probably like most people, I've got a number of furniture items in my house from Ikea.

Who doesn't like going to Ikea? You get furniture and Swedish meatballs at the same time.

But now they're also making furniture for your iPhone. I just thought this was,

do they call this the iPhone bed? This is part of the phone sleep collection and modeled after

an actual Ikea bed. How cute is this? I have to say, thanks for linking to this. I feel like my

life is better because I know that there's a little bed for my iPhone now. It's a tiny little bed that

you put your iPhone in and you tuck it under the covers, the place to keep your iPhone at night.

And what their spin on this is that you also use a companion Ikea app and you press a button on the

app when you put your iPhone to bed. And their spin is that if your iPhone stays in bed for a full

seven hours, that means that you have gone to bed without using your iPhone all night. So you

yourself sleep. Yeah. I think that there's like a thing that if you use it for seven days in a row

and we monitor that your iPhone got sleep for seven days in a row, you get like an Ikea coupon

or something like that. Now, just first of all, this is a marketing stunt. Second of all, I think

this is only available in one country like right now, like the UAE or something like that.

The United Arab Emirates. That's right. They make, you know, who knows, they may expand it

elsewhere, or maybe this is just a marketing fund. But the idea of a bed for your iPhone that allows

it to sleep is actually sort of funny. So it's a cute video, if nothing else. If we have any

listeners that are heading to the United Arab Emirates, please pick up one of these phone beds

for me and Jeff. We would be very thankful and grateful for that. I appreciate it. Wow. Thanks,

Ikea, for something I didn't know that I needed. In the know. In the know. I thought we were talking

about the iOS 26.1 coming out, here is an interesting, I'll call it a tip because it was

a small change that they made in iOS 26 that I knew was coming, but I hadn't changed it until

this morning. And this is now I can change the snooze duration of my alarm clock. So just like

we were talking about that a lot of people may use their iPhones for their alarm clock. And I

certainly do. In fact, I use an anchor standby mode for my iPhone. That's what I use by my bedside.

And I love it. I've been using my iPhone for a long time because I actually use it in conjunction

with my sleep schedule. You don't have to set a sleep schedule, but I do. I've always liked it.

You are. You can just set an alarm on your own, you know, if you want to do it manually, sort of.

But for so many years, the snooze duration has always been nine minutes and you couldn't change it.

And I just thought that that was ridiculous.

Well, now you can go in and you can select any alarm if you have iOS 26 and you can change the snooze duration.

I think it goes from like five minutes up to 15, something like that.

It's not like you can do it, you know, customize it all the way.

But you can go in, tap on any of the alarms, and then you get several options there.

Like you can change the sound of it.

But you can go in and change the snooze duration.

A small tip, but it can be pretty helpful.

I think I changed mine to like six minutes

because nine minutes to me was always so long.

Sometimes I would lay in bed and I'm like,

okay, I know the snooze is gonna go off.

When's it gonna go off?

When's it gonna go off?

And that was like, that was more anxious for me.

So I just put it down to six minutes

and I might experiment a little bit more

and see what it's like.

But that's my little tip for the day.

Yeah, that's a good tip.

I haven't changed mine yet,

but I knew that this was coming out

and I do need to, I wanna think about it.

So I just, one of these many, many features

in iOS 26 that I know still learning, but it's a good, good tip. My tip of the week is a category

of products with a specific recommendation. The category of products are three in one MagSafe

chargers. And we've talked about this before, Brett, because as you said, you have one.

I did a review about, it was two years ago, October of 2023, when Apple released the operating system

that allowed you to have standby mode. And so let me talk about what these products are,

What these products, the one I have at my desk here is one of them called the Anchor.

And the idea is that you can charge an iPhone because you can put the iPhone and it connects to the front of it through MagSafe.

Right.

You can also charge your AirPods.

And this one is right behind it.

And then this one happens to have a little drawer on the side that you can pull out and you can charge your Apple Watch.

Right.

So you're charging three devices at once.

When MagSafe was first announced, I will admit that I was wrong because I didn't understand the point of it.

Because I'm like, why do you want to do wireless charging, which is slower, when you can plug in a cord and you can charge faster and it's not that big of a difference?

But what I did not understand is that even though wireless charging is slower than charging from a cord, in many cases, it's actually fast enough.

Because if you're just going to have an iPhone sitting on it for a while while you're working at your desk, the fact that it charges in 20 minutes versus an hour, who cares?

Because it's going to sit there for four hours or eight hours or whatever.

So that's one thing that I missed originally.

Second of all, standby mode is so fantastic because it means that your iPhone is valuable to you, even if you're not using it.

So I'm sitting here working at my desk and I've got my little anchor three in one charger there.

And I'm looking at my computer screen.

I'm looking at my iPad screen, but I just glance.

I just glance at my iPhone screen and I can see the time, which is what I normally have.

And as an attorney that, you know, I've got meetings and, you know, it's almost such, you know, I've got a 1030 meeting.

How far is it?

Also, I bill by the hour so I can sort of glance, you know, when did I start working on this?

When did I finish?

So I can keep track of my time.

It's really useful for me, even more than just having my watch to just glance and see that

clock.

So, but of course, standby mode is more than just a clock.

It can also be pictures and can be widgets, which sometimes I do widgets and stuff too.

So I love standby mode and having a charger for your iPhone, better yet a three in one

where you can charge everything at once is just so useful.

So this is a category of product that I'm very much in favor of.

I've been using it for two years.

You use it too.

Same.

Yep.

So what I reviewed this week was Ugreen, which is a company that makes accessories for Apple

products and others, they sent me a review unit. And sometimes people send me stuff and I'm like,

whatever, I'm not going to even review this because it's not worth anything. But this one,

I'm like, actually, this one looks pretty cool. And so I've been using it for about a month now.

And it's really, really nice. So first of all, it is yet another three-in-one charger.

So it charges your iPhone, your AirPods, and your Apple Watch. What I like about it is,

first of all, it uses the latest and greatest. This one's not actually technically MagSafe because

MagSafe is an Apple trademark, but what they use is Qi2, which Apple donated MagSafe to an open

body. So Qi2 and MagSafe are the same thing, right? And it uses the fastest version of Qi2,

which can charge, I forget what the speed is, 25 Watts. So in other words, it's still not as fast

as plugging in an iPhone, but it's so close that, you know, whatever it for practical purposes,

it's, you know, it's going to be fine. So it charges it very quickly, but what's nice about

this Ugreen device is that it's sort of, I don't have it with me. It's sitting at my house right

now because I had it in my luggage recently when I was traveling. It folds down. And when it folds

down, it's really compact and small. It's almost like the size of a battery charger or something

like that. But then when you fold it up, you can decide, it goes up to like, I think 70 degrees.

It props up your iPhone. And so you can have your iPhone propped up and you can either have your

iPhone in portrait mode or if you want to turn it and have it. And it holds it in place.

It holds it in place because of the magnets. And you want it in landscape mode often because that's

when you get to use standby, right?

It's in landscape mode.

Plus you can charge your iPhone.

And what I love about it is it's so small for travel.

So like over the past couple of weeks,

I've had to travel across Louisiana

to go to like hearings in different parts of the state.

So like I was in Lake Charles or I was in Alexandria.

I would drive up the night before, stay in a hotel.

I have my hearing first thing in the morning.

So when I'm in the hotel at night,

I want to charge my iPhone and my AirPods and my Apple Watch.

But I also like being able to use that standby mode

because I have the time on it.

So it's a nice big clock that I can see as I'm going to sleep and stuff like that.

And it's usually better than whatever the hotel has in there.

And this travels thing is so nice for a long time.

I know you do it too.

I've been taking this anchor one when I travel.

I know it's really heavy and the square, it's sort of an awkward size to fit.

It is hard to pack.

This Ugreen device is perfect for travel.

It's a nice size.

It's very compact.

It's light.

It's light.

And yet it's heavy enough that it's not going to topple over when your iPhone's part.

That's what I want to know.

Right.

Okay, good.

And I also like it because it uses USB-C.

One of the devices that I use at home is made by a company called 12 South, and it's a very nice stand.

And I like the 12 South stand because it's a little bit bigger.

But it uses like their proprietary thing in the back of it.

And what's annoying about that is that it means it's not as flexible as USB-C.

Whereas the Anker device that I have and this Ugreen one, they both use USB-C cords.

So everybody has a USB-C cord.

Oh, much nicer.

So that's very useful.

You just need a USB-C that supports power delivery.

So anyway, everything about this Ugreen, it checks all the boxes.

It's great for travel.

It's great when you're not traveling.

It's the fastest type of charging you can do.

It charges three devices at once.

It uses USB-C.

And so I'm like, gosh, it's plus on top of everything.

It's on sale right now.

I think it's normally $130 and it's $100 on Amazon.

So if you don't yet have a three-in-one charger, they are great.

I've got one at my office.

I've got one at home.

Lately, I've been using this Ugreen one.

The one I've had at home is next to my bed,

but I've now been using it at my home computer.

Anytime you're gonna be sitting in one place for a while

or sleeping in one place on a bed,

it's nice to have your iPhone in a specific spot.

You know where it is.

You can glance at it.

You can see standby.

And these three-in-one chargers are great.

So I strongly recommend this category.

Now, look, there are other three-in-one chargers out there.

And if you find one that's better for you,

great, go for it.

But I will tell you,

this Ugreen is definitely one that you should consider

if you're gonna purchase one of these.

It's also makes a great gift for somebody for the holidays.

I'm just, I'm very, I love the category.

I love the specific products.

So that's my tip of the week is use a three-in-one charger if you don't.

And if you currently have a three-in-one charger, so you know how valuable they are.

And if you want something specifically for travel, this is a really good one.

Ugreen is well-known as well.

Like it would be something that I would definitely trust on this.

And yeah, I like this.

I just like the idea because I do, I travel with that Lanker.

brick basically and that is almost like a literal brick it's very heavy which i like because it

doesn't topple over but just hearing you say this i'm gonna have to make a a purchase on this that's

great i'm glad that they sent it to you it's called ugreen three-in-one foldable mag flow

wireless charger i like the flow like the idea of charging on the flow and it is on sale now for

looks like just a hundred dollars just under a hundred dollars normally 140 so that's great stuff

well we want to say thanks again to our sponsor today lit software you can reach out to them

hello at litsoftware.com and uh wow well we'll see what happens next week lots of good stuff i'm

gonna have to go make a purchase right now uh thanks to you jeff uh and uh always spending my

money and so we'll talk with you next week thanks brett bye-bye everybody