Welcome to In the News for May 1st, 2026.

It's May Day today.

I am Brett Burney from AppsinLaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhoneJD.

Hey, Brett, how's it going?

Good morning.

A new month.

A new month.

May.

It's May 1st.

I always like it when we do record on the first of the month.

And we're about, what, now a week and a half, two weeks out from the news

that Tim Cook is going to be moving on from the CEO position at Apple, moving up to what they call

him now, the executive chairman or executive CEO, something like that. Basically, he's just going to

be going, I think somebody said, you know, upstairs. But I feel like we are still seeing some people

that are, you know, going through this news and thinking about it. You linked first to David

Sparks, our friend David Sparks over at MaxSparky.com. And I always like it. He just has a

couple of quick hits here with his thoughts about the new CEO, John Ternus, stepping in.

David calls him a product guy, and he sounds like he's pretty excited about that.

Yeah. One of the things that Tim Cook brought to Apple was his operational expertise. When he came

in in the 1990s, Apple had all sorts of problems. And part of it was because their product roadmap

wasn't put together. There was a lot that, you know, it was on the brink of bankruptcy. But one

of the big things that he did was just made the ship run on time. I mean, things like, you know,

all these, a huge problem that Apple had was all this inventory they would have. And, you know,

people that were managers of divisions would order a whole lot of Macs just to meet their sales

targets for the quarter. But then they would just sit there in the warehouse unused. And then, you

know, computers, nobody wants computers after they've, you know, no longer the latest, greatest

things. It was a huge problem. And he shifted, he moved them to this sort of just in time

that computers were being made and parts were coming in. Everything was coming just as it was

working. And for that reason and other reasons, it really changed the company. So then he took that

mindset into the CEO position. And one thing that, I mean, I'm sure there will be many business books

written in the future about Tim Cook and there already have been, but he ran a good ship and that

was fantastic for Apple. It was necessary when he was the CAO and then it became part of the reason

that Apple stock went up so ridiculously high in their profitability. And that's great. That's all

great. But Tim Cook was not, I mean, technically he has an engineering degree, but he was not a

product guy. You know, that's not the side of the company he came up from. And John Ternus did.

And so David sparks his speculation. And I think it could be true is, you know, you're going to,

whenever you're the boss, you're going to bring to your position, your background, right? That's

just the nature of it. And so the fact that John Ternus has been involved in making the hardware

at Apple in so many different ways for 25 years now, I do think that that is going to have an

influence on, you know, the buck stops with him. He's going to make the big decisions. And hopefully

it's the right decisions. I mean, we shall see. I hope that he's a good boss. We will all figure

that out. But for those of us that are, you know, I'm not an Apple stockholder. You don't have any

stock in Apple, do you? Yeah. I'm not a stockholder, so I don't really care about the stock price,

but I do care about its products.

And so that's what I want.

So, you know, we'll see how much difference it makes.

But I think that David has an interesting thesis here

that maybe this will really help Apple's products

be as good as they can be

because somebody is going to be in charge

that's especially tuned to that.

We'll see.

Going along with what you said there,

we talked a little bit last time, last week,

about how services has become such a huge component

of Apple today with iCloud, Apple Fitness, Apple TV,

Plus, I mean, all of the services now, we have seen that kind of change.

And that came under Tim Cook's rule, as it were.

And I'm just trying to fit that in.

Like, does that work with maybe sort of his engineering background?

And, you know, what you were talking about, just kind of smoothing through the, I guess, the product lineup, if you will, or just making things run on time, I guess, from an efficiency standpoint.

That's all, regardless of it, I mean, it's become such a big part of Apple, and that was under Tim Cook's rule.

Do you think that under John Ternus, and this is sort of what David's getting to, that services won't be as focused on as much?

I can't see how it can't be, right?

I mean, Ternus is very smart.

He's going to have people running that.

But maybe he doesn't care as much about that.

I don't know.

I don't know, John.

And so I can't imagine that it would be something that would wane a little bit.

But if he's more on the product side, to David's points here, I guess it remains to be seen.

Like how well can the services exist under that?

Because I feel like Ternus, if I were somebody like that, I'd be more excited about like, hey, we've got glasses coming out.

Maybe we'll bring the car back.

I mean, he's more excited about the product side aspects of it and maybe not so much on the services.

Yeah, that'll be interesting to see.

I mean, he has talked a lot about Apple TV specifically.

And, you know, the behind the scenes, if you believe the rumors, the people that have talked

to him, you know, he's a real huge fan of Apple TV.

Now, don't get me wrong.

Apple TV is the most publicly prominent aspect of Apple services.

But in terms of finances that it brings to the company, it's obviously a tiny part of

it.

Apple likes to talk about Apple TV because people love Apple TV shows.

But, you know, Apple makes most of the services menu revenue from from other aspects like,

the App Store and people doing subscriptions and the AppleCare and stuff.

Having said that, he said that he's very interested in Apple TV and he wants to really promote

that and bring Apple even more, not that they'll necessarily take on Netflix for prominence,

but to improve it.

And so that is an aspect of services that I've heard people talk about.

We'll see how he does with the rest.

I will say this though.

I mean, I do like the Apple services because they work for me, but I do know that from the

standpoint of the company, it is good for the health of Apple that if they happen to have,

you know, nowadays, every time they come out with an iPhone, people just buy them, you know,

canned over fist. But if they were to have a period of time where they would have issues

with the products right now, for example, we know that memory is ridiculously expensive,

which means that I suspect that this fall and next year, Apple's products that use RAM,

which they all do, are going to be more expensive with a solid state, you know, memory and stuff.

So that could affect, you know, there could be a scenario in which maybe the products are not quite as good for a period of time.

But now they've got that services.

It's not just like everything's sitting on top of the products.

They've got product and services.

And as long as services revenues continues to run.

So maybe the key part for services was just sort of getting to where we are now.

And maybe what we really want for services is just to keep that going.

And so maybe we don't need John Ternus to be revolutionary in the services front.

But we shall see.

It'll be interesting to see.

But you're right.

I mean, again, just because he doesn't come from that part of the company doesn't mean he doesn't understand it.

He doesn't come from the software part of the company either.

And he certainly needs to understand the software part to be a good CEO.

But I think that's just more of a subtle thing.

It's just going to be that he's going to be a little bit more sensitive to the pros and cons of hardware decisions.

And, you know, I choose to be an optimist until he shows us otherwise.

And I'm hoping that it means that as great as Apple is right now in so many fronts, it becomes even better over the last five, 10 years in the areas that matter the most to me, which is having cool products.

Another executive move.

I know we mentioned it last week.

I don't know how much that we talked about.

Johnny Seroji.

A couple of the stories that I saw last week, I know it was maybe just a sentence or a little quick paragraph of like, oh, yeah, Johnny Seroji is going to be moving up.

And a couple of people kind of flagged that as this is pretty big news in and of itself.

And today you link to Jason Snell at Macworld kind of saying a lot of the same thing, even with the rumors.

What it was a couple of weeks ago that Mark Gurman said that Johnny Seregi was maybe thinking about leaving Apple.

Keep this guy happy. I mean, I think somebody Jason mentions in here that, you know, he's in his 60s,

maybe even thinking about this could be his last career move.

But, oh, my goodness, I think we overlook the revolution that Johnny Surugi has kind of sort of led with Apple and this Apple Silicon chips.

Yeah.

I mean, I think it's appropriate to talk about personalities when we talk about the CEO, because that's the person that runs the ships.

You know, once you get below there, I mean, we know that there are very important people that were vice presidents at Apple, you know, Johnny Ive over the years and people like that.

So I don't mean to downplay it, but, you know, there's so many team, you know, Apple is not

just single person.

It's about team as a person.

So with that caveat, I will say that it does seem that Johnny Sruji has been a very, very

important part of Apple's success.

He was the one that originally was working for another company that was making the processors

that Apple was a company in Israel.

I'm forgetting the name of it.

But they had basically the processors that Apple purchased and it became what we now have

the chips that are in the iPhones and now even the Macs and stuff like that.

What's interesting is that for so long, you know, you think back over history, Apple was

using, you know, all sorts of different chips over time and they were using Motorola chips.

They were using Intel chips.

And they were always at the, you know, they were relying upon other companies like most

recently Intel, for example, to come up with the next best chip.

And when Apple designed its own chips, which they did once they bought PA Semi, that was

of his company, if I remember correctly, and started designing these chips, it first of all,

it gave them the ability to make sure that the chip did exactly what we need for an iPhone,

exactly what we need for an iPad, exactly what we need for Mac. And that just makes sense. And

that's great. But what's always interesting to me about Apple's chip production is not only do they

have more custom built chips because they do it themselves, but their chips have been best in

class. I mean, they have been just cleaning the floor with Intel chips and other chips, even AMD,

You know, for so many years now, why is that?

I mean, Intel in particular is such an amazing company with a great history.

Why haven't their chips, and some of them are getting better now, but it's been so many

years now and Apple's the best chips.

And so when you buy the iPhone, one of the reasons the iPhone is going to be better than

Android besides the software and the fit and finish and the hardware.

But one of the reasons is that the chip is just better than what the Qualcomm stuff that

they used in the Android phones.

And likewise for Macs, the chip is just better, which means that it can run faster and use less battery.

So you have more battery life, which is so important if you're using especially a laptop.

It really is fantastic what has been done.

And, you know, whether all the credit goes to Johnny Surugi or he's just the top of a big pyramid, the bottom, you know, he's still the top of that of that part of Apple.

And it's been incredibly successful.

So, you know, you got to give him credit for that.

And, you know, the more salacious story that was in, you know, the end of last year, I think

what was or whatever months ago was that Johnny Surugi and John Ternus were peers at Apple.

And then, of course, John Ternus got, you know, he was tapped to become the next CEO,

which is the person that's on the same level as you.

You know, now now they're your boss.

And that is a little awkward.

And so perhaps for that reason, I don't know if he was actually going to leave Apple or

if that was just something that was floated to for rumor purposes.

But, you know, he was promoted to the chief position.

Apple doesn't have that many C-suite positions.

They have over time had positions like, I mean, gosh, many years ago, they used to have,

what was her name?

Ellen Hancock was the chief software architect or chief software officer at Apple.

You know, they have had times in the past.

There was somebody else in the past, too, that had cheap.

But, you know, there are not a lot of C-suite positions.

So to create a C-suite position, he's now what is it?

The chief hardware officer, I think is his title now.

That's right.

which means he's not only in charge of all the chips like he did,

but he's also going to be in charge of basically everything that John Ternus is doing,

you know, designing hardware.

Hopefully he has this skill set to do that.

I think he'll do well.

It's certainly a nice feather in his cap to get that.

And he's got more power.

So, yeah, he's he's he's still going to be under the person that was formerly on the same level as him,

John Ternus, but he will have a lot more power.

And I presume more money, too, to the extent that matters to these people.

I'm sure they make tons of money anyway.

But so, I mean, and like you say, he's in his early 60s.

And so you got to think that, you know, however many years he decides to work at Apple, you know, five years, who knows, 10 years, he will have, you know, as high as a position for the extent that makes a difference.

Second only to CEO.

So I'm glad that he's going to stay at Apple because he has such an incredible track history.

Not that I necessarily expected him to jump ships and go to, you know, Intel or something like that.

But but hopefully they keep him happy because he's done a lot of great things for Apple.

And I think that the premise of David, I think the premise of Jason Snell's story was important that, you know, this is, you know, we're talking about John Ternus.

We're talking about Tim Cook.

But let's talk about Johnny Cerugio a little bit, too, because he's done some really incredible things to the company that have resulted in products that work so much better for you and me.

Yeah.

Well, every time I think, keep him happy.

Because every time I think about what he has done and led, I think all the way back to, I was the early, I want to say 2008.

I remember Steve Jobs on stage talking about their moving from the IBM processors to the Intel processors.

And I just always thought at that time.

It was the Motorola to Intel, not IBM.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.

Yeah, thank you.

But I just always thought maybe it was even earlier.

I'm talking about the Macs is what I'm talking about.

The processor is there, Jeff, not even with the phones, but with the idea like that probably made Steve Jobs so mad because, you know, Apple has always been the company that owns both the hardware and the software.

But there's pieces of the hardware that they don't own.

And I just even thinking back all of those years that surely this must have been something on on the pegboard to like it would be great at Apple if we could do our own chips.

I mean, and process maybe they weren't.

I don't know, but I just had to think like that was a dream way early on.

I agree.

That's just sort of where the Apple was going.

And the fact that you have somebody like Johnny Seroji, I mean, there's plenty of people on

the team that I'm sure could kind of, you know, take up the candle and keep going with

it, with what he has put in place.

But just the fact that he made it happen and realized that again, I just, I feel like we

don't understand as much what, what that means for this company.

And if, you know, Johnny Sorocci was the one that kind of, you know, led that in and, and, you know, Tim Cook and other executives let him do that and encouraged him, that is, that's, that's such a big deal.

And it's going to continue to be a big deal in that.

So, yeah.

You can imagine an alternate universe where all of those chips, as great as they were for mobile products, weren't good enough for Macs, right?

I mean, that would be, that would make sense, right?

That's how it is on the, on the Android and Windows side of the world.

And yet they managed to make these great chips that are not only powerful enough for our iPhone, but they're powerful enough for even the highest N max.

You got to say, that's impressive.

That's impressive.

Incredible.

Incredible.

All right.

Well, let's talk about John Ternus and the product side because we had some news this past week.

Sorry, Jeff.

The Vision Pro is getting killed off.

The rumors of the Vision Pro death are highly exaggerated.

But so anyway, this was just kind of an interesting technology journalist, you know, brouhaha that was happening at the back end.

Julie Clover at MacRumors published his story.

Apple has given up on the Vision Pro after the M5 refresh flop.

Interesting story.

I think when I last looked at here, there was almost 700 comments on this story.

And then Jason Snell or Dan Warren replied to it.

you know, all kinds of people, even John Gruber just kind of raked the story over the coals.

What do you make of this, my friend? I mean, I kind of imagine just because you're a fan of

the Vision Pro. And again, not so much because of the Vision Pro, but because of what it can do in

the future is the way I continue to think of it. Yeah. So let me begin by saying Julie Clover,

fantastic reporter. We talk about her articles all the time. Absolutely. And, you know, Mac Rumors,

as the name implies, you know, will often get rumors and they will decide what rumors to post.

And somebody, some little birdie apparently told her that Apple was giving up on the Vision Pro.

And I'm just like, this can't be true. And the premise of the article was, you know,

they had the original Vision Pro that had the M2 processor, speaking of those Apple processors,

and it was updated last year to replace the M2 with the M5. Now, why did they do that? I think

they probably did it just because, you know, all Apple products get refreshes over time, right? You

And they probably didn't have as many M2 chips around anyway, you know, so we're making the M5s now.

Let's start putting the M5s in there.

And yes, the Vision Pro with the M5 has some slight advantages.

It can do a couple things that the older version that I own can't do just because it has a faster processor.

But for anyone to have as their premise, oh, well, the M5 Vision Pro, that was going to save the product.

And if that wasn't, you know, the best thing since sliced bread, then that's like, come on.

Nobody thought that.

It was just a minor product refresh just to sort of keep it.

Nobody, I just completely can't believe this premise that because that thing did not sell like gangbusters, it doomed the product.

Having said that, I will say this, although perhaps the way the article is written of the Vision Pro being dead, I think is absolutely wrong.

And we'll talk about the people that have given other reasons for that.

But there might be a sliver of truth to it in this.

The Vision Pro, I love my Vision Pro.

It's fantastic.

But as I've said since day one, it's too expensive because it's such an early product.

I mean, Apple, including John Ternus, has talked about how the Vision Pro seems like a product from the future that somebody went into a time machine and brought it back so that we can see something that's five years ahead of its time, 10 years ahead of its time.

I was wearing my Vision Pro last night.

Every time I put it on, I feel that way.

I'm like, how am I using something?

Shouldn't I be in Epcot or something right now?

You're looking at something from the future.

But because it's so futuristic, it's expensive.

By the time you get, it's $3,500.

By the time you put in your glasses, if you have custom lenses like I do, you're at $4,000.

That is a lot of money.

That is a lot of money.

In the future, I think this product will exist and it will be cheaper.

It needs to be a $1,000 product.

Once it's a $1,000 product, similar in price to an iPhone, maybe $1,500, then people will

start to get them more.

And that day will come.

So when I say that there might be a kernel of truth to Julie Clover stories, maybe what she has been hearing is that Apple is not developing a next generation of, quote, Apple Vision Pro.

Because maybe they're developing something else that's going to be called just the Apple Vision.

Or maybe it's going to be just the glasses, which I think is actually going to be a secondary product.

I think they're going to have a Vision Pro type product.

And then they're going to have a secondary glasses type product, which competes more directly with the Meta Ray-Ban based upon the rumors we're hearing.

yes it's like based on the rumors we might hear about that as soon as this year or next year so

that could be coming soon so maybe that's all that she's actually hearing but if anyone thinks that

like spatial computing is something that's going away i mean john gruber's take was so because he

actually has you know people that little birdies that talk to him with an apple he's like you know

there's a point a funny part in this article that i didn't quote but he's like you know if the apple

vision pro is going away that's certainly news to all the people who work at apple on the apple

vision pro because i was like they're still working there and and as horace daydew pointed out they're

hiring people, hiring executives and stuff.

So I really think that Apple is absolutely,

no, are they gonna, is it gonna be new versions?

Absolutely.

I mean, the iMac was what saved Apple under Steve Jobs,

but a big, huge iMac with a CRT screen

and a see-through blue cover,

that doesn't mean that the future of the Mac

was gonna be other things that look like the iMac.

It's, you know, you always develop

and you have new products coming out in the future.

And so the same is true here.

And I can't wait to find out what that's gonna be.

And I don't know when Apple will come out

product that truly replaces the Vision Pro, I don't know that that will be this year. My guess

is that they're going to come out with their version of glasses either this year or next year.

And then maybe another year after that, they'll come up with something that's a true successor to

the Vision Pro. So anyway, but it's definitely interesting stuff. I do think that it's the

future. I also think that we're still not there yet. But think of that first iPod and how far

it came over the years. Think of that first iPhone, which had the edge network and was so slow and had

all the other problems. And there was no app store compared to where the iPhone is, you know, so many

years later, everything develops and gets better over time. I think that the Vision Pro will as

well. This, this is not like the Apple car that they put all this money into it and they decided

we're pulling the plug on this thing. I really don't think that, at least I hope that she's wrong.

So, but you know, when I read her article and it caused such a visceral reaction for me,

It made me feel like this can't be right.

No, this can't be right.

And then, of course, all these other articles I've seen this week of people saying, you know, with all due respect, Ms. Clover, this is wrong.

Well, I had similar thoughts.

Like maybe the vision pro proper, the way it looks right now, the way that it's set up, the bulkiness of it, the way that the lenses, like the way that it looks right now, maybe that's going to go away.

either because it's going to be in glasses, but, or, or it's going to,

it's going to kind of transition into something that's going to be a little bit

more streamlined. And you've been saying this from the very beginning, you know,

maybe we should say, we've been saying the vision pro is the future.

Maybe in a more general sense,

we should say that spatial computing is going to be the future, right?

Until we had the vision pro, you know,

we had things like what the Oculus and some of these others, you know, that just,

I mean, they were cool, I guess. And some people use them,

but I always heard people that would get it and they would use it for two months

then never pick it up again. You have continued to use your vision pro now for, you know, the last

two, three years that you've had it. And most other people that I know, although I think Julie

even mentions that they've had an unusually high percentage of returns here. I don't know, maybe

that's because people get it, you know, and they return it within 14 days or something like that,

because they just want to play with it. But it's this idea that spatial computing is not going away.

So maybe it's not going to look like this, but it's just going to transition into something

that's even better. I mean, we know Apple's been working on this for years, right? And this was

just the first kind of prototype, if you will, just to be able to show the world what is possible with

spatial computing, because that's not going to go away. So I had similar thoughts when I was reading

this too. And, you know, frankly, I believe that in the fall, John Ternus's, you know,

you know, the first item that I think is on the board is probably going to be some kind of glasses.

I don't think we'll hear about that this summer, but I feel like as John Turnison, the product guy, if he wants to kind of come in with a bang, that's probably what we're going to hear about.

At least I hope so.

I'm excited to hear about that.

So anyway, interesting take on this.

I'm glad that you brought it up.

I'll mention one more thing before we move on from this topic.

I just want to do – this is not as much of a shout-out to a specific app as it is to enthusiasm for a category.

I mentioned at the front of my post today that there was an app that came out this week from a company called Blue Frog.

Blue Frog, I say company, it's a club and one I'd never heard of.

Apparently, it's a suburb of Vancouver up in Canada.

And they have all sorts of – it's a small music club and they've got live artists there.

And for apparently like 15 years now, they've been releasing high-quality YouTube videos of these artists performing all sorts of different genres, you know, blues, jazz, rock, everything like that.

So they've been big into we want to record people and get them out there.

And if you look at their YouTube page, they just have, you know, years and years and years of all these intimate performances by these amazing artists, some of whom are up and coming.

They released an app this week called Blue Frog for the Vision Pro.

And what it is is they have one of these brand new Blackmagic Unicine cameras, you know, right here in the front row.

In fact, you can see a preview of it there.

And so imagine like you're in the front row of a studio, of a club, and you could not be any closer to the artist.

And because it's an immersive experience, you can look up, you can look down, you can look at the lead singer, you can turn to your left and you can look at the person playing piano or look to the right to the guy playing horns or whatever.

And it really does, you know, watching a video of an artist is great, but having an immersive experience with an artist is just truly amazing.

And there have been other examples of this, both released by Apple and third party.

What stood out to me about this app this week, because I was playing with it last night is, first of all, the quality is amazing.

And like some of these artists I'd never heard of before.

And suddenly I'm just sitting there and listening to these people.

And I feel like I have this amazing front row ticket to a blues club.

I'm thinking about music a lot right now because Jazz Fest is going on in New Orleans.

That's right.

Live music is definitely on my brain.

By the way, you and your wife love New Orleans, Brett.

Y'all got to get down here for Jazz Fest.

I have always wanted to put it in your calendar for a few years.

Mardi Gras is one thing, but Jazz Fest, that's okay.

Y'all got to get down here.

Everybody listen to this.

You know, you and your spouses need to come to New Orleans for Jazz Fest.

I love Jazz Fest.

Anyway, what I love about this app is that is an example of something, because I said

this when the camera was first announced last year.

And now that it's widely available, I know it's expensive, $30,000.

But like what Blue Frog is doing, so many music venues subject to getting the rights

to it could do the same thing.

And it gives you the ability to just be sitting there on your couch and you can get this amazing

experience that's so much better than watching something on TV where it's just, you know,

limited to the four corners.

You feel like you are actually there.

You feel like it's 3D, of course, but it's immersive.

And it's just amazing.

And music is perfect for this because music is something that we are used to sitting there

and experiencing a concert and it's fantastic sound and you look around everywhere.

But of course, there are other experiences too besides music, even things music adjacent,

like a theater show or something like that, or other sorts of productions where you can

imagine a situation where it makes sense to stay in one place or maybe one or two places

and then watch something.

Sports is another one too.

Now that this camera is out there,

I said this a year ago,

I was looking to see more and more examples

of people just being able to share

these immersive experiences.

I'm never going to go to Vancouver, Canada,

to the Blue Frog to watch any of these artists, right?

But now I can do them from my,

and I look forward to a day when, you know,

it's not just one or two people doing it,

where we have dozens and eventually hundreds of people

using these cameras to record experiences,

to preserve them for the future.

and also to allow people to be like they're there.

And this is, and again, immersive video is only one aspect of what I love about the Vision Pro.

It's also great for productivity and a bunch of other things.

And games.

And games, of course.

But it's certainly a cool aspect of it.

So I just want to say bravo to Blue Frog, and I look forward to more of this.

The games when you're referring to, as I've talked in the past about this retrocade app, which makes you feel like an arcade.

The update this week is the original version of it, you could be like in this 1980s arcade in America that looks exactly like the arcades that I used to go to when I was a kid.

And so now they have one that's in Japan.

So it's just a different environment.

And it's fun because it's got like, you know, Japanese posters in the wall.

There's like a train that goes by.

So like you're sitting there playing.

Last night I played Tetris for a little bit.

And so you're playing your video game.

And like you can sort of see this train through the windows and you can listen to it.

You can hear the rain.

It's an incredible immersive environment.

another example of immersive environments where you totally feel like you're there.

And again, you know, playing games like Tetris and Pac-Man and Dig Dug, you can do those a

million different ways on your computer, on your iPhone, whatever.

But there is something special about standing in front of a full size arcade machine in an

arcade that adds to the experience.

And, you know, I'm probably not going to play Frogger as much on my iPhone, but I do.

I do still play Frogger every once in a while in retro K just because I feel like it transports me back to the 1980s.

Just real quick, if you remember, we were at Tech Show about a month ago, a couple months ago, that the Chicago Comic Con was happening at the same time.

I will never forget.

I was able to stay.

And one, I mean, it was a huge expo hall, but one company had brought in all of these cabinet, arcade cabinets.

And I thought about you when I was walking around because I think I sent you a picture or a little video.

You did, yeah.

I hadn't stood in front of like a Qbert arcade cabinet in so long.

And to your point, it was so cool just to like, you know, so many memories came flooding back.

But it was just neat to say there.

But I thought about that like, okay, you know, I'm not always at a place where I can go to an old time 80s arcade.

But the Retrocade app for the Vision Pro that you've talked about before, I just, I thought about that.

I thought that was, that was really cool.

And then lastly, I just, you know, again, the death of the Apple Vision Pro is greatly exaggerated because you had another story today about how eye doctors are using the Apple Vision Pro to perform cataract surgeries.

And I know we talked about doctors using the Vision Pro for invasive surgeries, you know, not just the cataracts.

But I mean, it's just there's so many uses that we have seen for the Apple Vision Pro.

And again, we keep saying the product, but now I'm starting to think a little bit bigger,

like it's just the uses for spatial computing.

And the Apple Vision Pro is just the best tool to be able to use that right now.

Yeah.

And this one, I read the article that was an Apple Insider.

What I did not read was it linked to the actual like, you know, medical article where the doctor

was talking about it because it's probably a little over my head.

But I apologize if I have some of these details wrong.

But I think what was impressive about this is not only is he wearing the Vision Pro while he's doing the surgery.

And we've heard about this before for other surgeons, that they can see a lot more, you know, all the windows and screens that they need are right there where they need them.

But if I understand correctly, what he did here is he was able at the same time that he was doing the operation, he was able to allow other doctors around the world, if I understand correctly, that I guess they would also wear a Vision Pro and they could see it live as well.

And so that they could actually, you know, and I'm not sure if they were helping him or if it was just training other people.

I apologize that I don't read all the details, but that was an aspect of it.

It's not just that he could have access to more information as the doctor, which, of course, you want your surgeon to have access to all the information they want, for goodness sakes.

But he could even collaborate with others in a way that would otherwise be impossible because, you know, much like, you know, the immersive experience makes me feel like I'm at the blue frog.

It makes me feel like I'm in the 80s.

It was, you know, here we go.

The collaborative potential.

Yeah, this is the quote right here.

You could bring the world's best surgeon into any operating room at any hour from anywhere

on the planet.

That is really interesting.

That's really interesting.

You know, think of how many times that like, you know, you have some bizarre medical condition

and you might get better or worse treatment just because of where you're located in the

country.

I mean, the fact that I in New Orleans don't have this top medical doctor that's only in Dallas or Houston or something or New York, you know, that would sort of suck if like I could live if just the right doctor was helping me out.

They're not going to come see you.

Yeah, they're not going to come see me.

And of course, it means that, you know, those really great and knowledgeable doctors might get a little too busy if they have to do all over the world.

You know, there's a lot to work out and details on this.

But you can understand the potential here.

So that's incredible.

Okay, so we'll see where the Vision Pro goes.

I mean, again, with John Ternus now going to be at the helm,

it's going to be just interesting to see how that's going to pivot.

But again, I feel like even from the beginning, Jeff,

we knew that the Vision Pro wasn't going to stay in its current state.

You have always talked about the fact that it's going to go to glasses.

It's going to change in some aspects.

So, yeah, just interesting to continue to watch that.

Speaking of watching, let's go to the Apple Watch.

David Pogue.

I'm starting to enjoy his Substack column.

I think he only started it a few months ago or something like that.

But he's already been putting some really great stuff out here.

I think I first saw it when he had some additional information about what either the book that he was writing, right?

About his book, right, yeah.

Or I think when he went to the computing museum, that kind of a thing.

But this was fun.

I feel like I want to reread this and then go through all of the comments because he says, what do you do with the Apple Watch?

First of all, his column is fantastic because he goes through all the things that he uses the Apple Watch for.

And I got one or two little ideas like, oh, yeah, because you and I always sort of love these these these list of tips or or functions that we may just not have thought of again.

Or we knew that it was there, but we hadn't been using it, that kind of a thing.

And then he invited everybody that were his readers.

Tell me what you're doing with the Apple Watch.

And he was he's been responding to a bunch of them in here, too.

I just want to go through and reread a lot of this stuff, but it's a great read just from that standpoint.

Yeah.

I mean, the article, if you just want to get, you know, he uses the Apple Watch quite a bit.

And so it's nice to read just as a look, you know, think of tips for yourself, what you can do.

And he talks about a lot of the things that I do all the time, you know, from notifications to health things, to managing alarms, to the camera remote.

You know, many things that have been previous tips of the week for us.

Right.

But it's a nice, you know, he spent, this is a long post.

All of his posts on his sub stack have been really long, which is great.

And so he has a lot of details in there about what he does.

Now, I will say that, and I mentioned this in my link, what surprised me is he revealed that he doesn't have a passcode on his Apple Watch.

And he says the reason I didn't, I forgot that you could even have that turned off.

And he says the reason that he doesn't like it is he wants to be able to pick up his Apple Watch, throw it on his arm, and then get, you know, I mean, start working.

He doesn't want to have to think about typing in the passcode, which I guess I understand.

You have a passcode on yours, right?

You must.

Of course I do, yes.

When you don't use a passcode, you can't use certain features of the Apple Watch.

Like, for example, you can't, you know, most notably used Apple Pay.

And there's other things too that you can't use if you don't have the, so I'm a little

surprised that he doesn't.

And I guess there's also, in theory, a security issue too.

Like, I don't know if a bad guy is going to break into your house at night to wear your

Apple Watch.

But if they did, they could like get into your text messages, I suppose, if you didn't have a password and stuff like that.

So that was interesting to me that he revealed he doesn't.

Again, I understand it.

Don't get it.

Every once in a blue moon, I will put on my Apple Watch in the morning and an hour later I'll realize, oh, wait, I never typed the passcode in.

Yeah.

And then I have to do that.

Another thing that you can't do is if you use your Apple Watch to automatically unlock your phone or your computer, you can only do that if you've got a passcode on it.

So anyway, I just thought it was interesting that David Pogue, who is a really geeky person, and yet even he has decided not to have a passcode.

I just can't fathom not having like if you have the option to put a passcode on, why would you not?

And, you know, I just so I never even thought about that because here's the reason why it's just part of like when I do put the Apple Watch on, it takes what, two seconds to tap mine in.

Right. And then it's good for the rest of the time as long as I have it on.

In other words, like I don't ever have to reenter the password for anything, you know, because it just works with the phone, if that makes sense.

And so I could imagine I could see an argument if you had to retype in the passcode throughout the day for certain things.

But I never do. But I know that when I take it off, somebody just can't pick it up and it's unlocked, that kind of a thing.

Does that make sense? So anyway, I just I like the way that it works.

he may have actually responded to a couple of people in the comments i just read through oh i

haven't read the comments okay oh yeah you got to go through because people i just saw one or two

things for example um he may have already replied to that that somebody said uh that you can either

use i think you can unlock it with your mac like with touch id or anyway one of the ways that you

could unlock it a different way but one of the things quickly that i just saw which is what i'm

saying i want to go through and read this is that he was complaining that he couldn't put more

complications on his watch face. And somebody just said, well, I just set up a second watch face

with all the other complications that I couldn't put on my main watch face. And you just swipe to

the side to go to that second watch face. You know, like I knew I could switch watch faces so quickly,

but you could just see David replies to almost all of these. And he's like, that's fantastic.

Like that's life changing. Thank you. That was great. So yeah, that's what I'm saying. I want to

go through and reread this because there's so many good little tips, additional tips that people were

putting into the comments in here too so that's good great stuff you had also mentioned just real

quick the uh john vore is the pedometer plus plus plus plus plus app it's pedometer plus plus eight

and john vore is over at max stories uh i thought just did a quick nice write-up about pedometer

plus plus i still don't use this app as much because i just think of it as um i've already

got my step count built into the apple watch but i know a lot of people i think john is one of them

that says that the Pedometer Plus Plus app

is a little bit better

or maybe a little bit more focused

that you can get or customizable.

The app's been around for an incredibly long time.

The developer, David Smith,

is now much more popular for his,

what's called Widget Smith,

the app that he came up with.

That's so that people use to customize their iPhone

and stuff like that.

But this is one of his apps too.

And it's a beautiful interface.

Yeah, I have used it.

I've had it over the years.

I paid for it.

I don't think I paid for the premium version of it,

which is really good if you,

well, you might enjoy it, Brett,

because I know you do a lot of hiking.

It's now has like a built-in map that's supposed to be better than what Apple has.

I know that when you hike, you use – what's the name of the third?

All Trails?

Is that what you use?

All Trails.

Is that on your watch?

They used to have – it was.

So that's an interesting thing, and I just thought about that as you were saying it.

They used to have the map on the watch, and I loved it.

But then they made some changes to the interface, and I think the map is still there on the Apple Watch.

But it's not – like I want this picture right here that's showing.

That's what I want.

I want sort of the, you know, the top down overview of where I'm going just so that I

can know that I'm still on the trail that I'm supposed to check it out.

Yeah, you should check it out.

I'm going to now.

Because, you know, I mean, I don't hike like you do, but I would imagine that if you're

in the process of hiking, you don't necessarily want to take the time to take your iPhone

out of your backpack or your pocket and look at it.

But just being able to glance at your watch to check something out for like the map could

be more useful.

So I encourage you to check it out.

You have to pay.

I don't know if he has a monthly or just an annual to get all these features, but it's

a nice app.

So I mean, if walking is important to you, and again, I don't think you have to pay for

the premium version to get access to a lot of the other features.

So, but it's a beautiful interface.

So once I saw the post this week, I'm like, you know what?

I need to, I've had the app for a long time, but I'm going to sort of pay attention to

a little bit more.

Yeah.

You know, I was talking about Jazz Fest earlier.

I was actually looking at my step count last week because my steps go up substantially

whenever I go to Jazz Fest every year because I'm constantly walking all over the Fairbanks

in New Orleans and stuff like that.

The best way for me to go over 10,000 steps in a day is to go to a huge outdoor musical concert.

From the Apple Watch to the AirTag.

Talk about a very successful hardware product.

Goodness gracious.

Quick story here from Rajat Saini at the Mac Observer.

Apple AirTag turns five, five years old.

And I think he even says it in here that it's the most popular tracker item that people are using these days, and for good reason.

Yeah, happy birthday to the AirTag five years later.

We use them all the time.

It's great that we can track our luggage and a million other things.

It just gives me a lot more security to have the AirTag.

And that's a segue into the other article that Glenn Fleishman posted this week.

I don't know if he knew that it was going to be the anniversary, but he talks about third-party devices.

I mean, the AirTag's great, but it is great that you can actually purchase items from other companies and they will still work with the Find My app and the Find My network.

In fact, I'm curious, Brett, I didn't tell you I was going to ask you this question, but I'm curious to know what non-Apple Find My devices you currently use.

And I'll tell you for myself, I have used a couple of them over the years.

The one that I use consistently every day is in my wallet.

It's not my back pocket right now, but in my wallet, I have the Eufy card.

And what I like about the Eufy one is that it's flat.

So it's all the advantage of an AirTag, but it's perfectly flat.

So it's like the size of like two or three credit cards.

And so I keep it in my wallet.

And just in case I happen to lose my wallet or I happen to leave it behind, I like knowing that I have a tracker in my wallet.

Or, I mean, because it has that flat design, you know, you may decide that for my briefcase or for something else that it just it's more convenient to have something flat as a tracker in it, as opposed to the AirTag.

Not that the AirTag is huge, but that is the only one.

Again, I've tried many of them over the years, but I think that that's the only Find My compatible device that I'm currently using regularly.

Any that you are using?

The only one that I have that's not an AirTag, because I see one, two, three, four, five items that have AirTags right now that I'm tracking.

My family has their own with their own AirTags.

But the plug bug, the 12 South plug bug.

That's right.

You talked about that.

The other day, it's on here, which is good.

Some people would think, well, why do you need to find my, you know, for, you know, a plug adapter, an electrical adapter?

But I just like to know, like if I forgot it somewhere, I think I told you when we were at a tech show that I had left it in a room and I just walked out because it was plugged in under a table in this conference room.

Right. That was where the plug was. It was under the table. And so I had unplugged my USB-C cable from my laptop, I think is what I was using.

And then I just, you know, the cord just dropped to the ground. So I didn't see the plug plug.

But when I walked out of that room, it alerted me like I'm leaving that behind.

And so, yeah, it is good to kind of have that reminder in that aspect.

And that's, you know, in the Find My app now, that's under items, right?

You have three areas on the Find My app.

You have people, right?

So that's typically people that are associated with an iPhone that they have.

Then you have devices.

So that's my iPhone, my iPad, my AirPods, my Apple Watch.

All of those devices are now in there, including my Apple Pencil Pro.

That's also can be tracked in there now.

And then you have an items tab on there.

And that's where you would have these additional items, right,

that are not necessarily a person or a device.

And, you know, speaking of Glenn Fleischman,

I don't know if we mentioned this last time,

but he created this website, Find Your Tag.

It's where he's basically tracking all of these devices.

And so you can go on and you can search for any of these devices.

And it's just kind of a nice thing.

I mean, I think it's brilliant because, number one, yes,

you can go in and look for other devices that are not AirTags on here.

but he has an Amazon link on there as well.

And so you can just buy it.

I mean, it's just brilliant that it is a functional site

so you can look up all kinds of devices here.

But, you know, I'm sure he gets a little bit of a cut.

I hope that he does for being an Amazon associate on there.

So that's brilliant on there.

But it's great.

Like you can, I can go in here

and I can look up a plug bug, for example,

and then it finds all of the plug bug options on here.

So if you're looking for something like for a bike,

you know, or a camera,

or I'm sure you have your wallet trackers, right?

All of those are available in here as well.

So in addition to this excellent article that he wrote here about other items that are compatible with Find My, he had this findyourtag.net, and you can go in and look around for all of these devices.

Can I just mention one of them that he featured in his article, and I'm sure he has his website too that I did not know about.

He said that Sateki, and I've purchased Sateki products before, they have a $50 eyeglasses case that has Find My built in.

And I'm like, oh, that's interesting because every once in a while, especially, you know, if it's for your secondary pair of glasses, you know, where are my glasses? Gosh, I haven't used them in a couple of weeks. I could see that being useful. So good idea.

I honed in on that one too. I'm like, Oh man, that's, that's perfect. Like I need that. Cause

for me, it's a lot. I have prescription sunglasses, but I've got two or three pairs around,

but I can't remember if I left it in the car or is it in my briefcase. And so being able to track

that when I saw that too, I had to say the same reaction. It was like, Oh, that's cool. I need

that. And sure enough, you know, I'm going to get that. Yeah. I'm going to get that. Um, this fall,

I'm just assuming when Apple comes up with the Apple glasses and I start wearing Apple glasses

every day then i'll take this pair and i'll put them in the techie because i'm not going to wear

them very often but you know that's that's that's when i'll buy one of those so anyway

joanna stern is back we loved joanna stern so many times when she was at the wall street journal as

the technology correspondent um she left i think maybe what a couple months ago or so and um i don't

know if we all knew exactly where she was going to land but she has started up her own site

thenewthings.com. And I'm just, I was just smiling to know that she's going to be back

and hopefully doing some fun videos. I think she is, right? But in this case,

she's also doing a blog post. And this is a fun post, fix iPhone auto correct plies.

I know that this has been a, this has bubbled up in a few headlines is that the autocorrect

or the keyboard, frankly, on the iPhone isn't working as well for people specifically that

are typing a little too fast.

And so I just appreciated Joanna's perspective on this.

Yeah, I linked to this for two reasons today.

One reason is the topic of the post.

I know that there are some people that wish autocorrect were better.

I mean, believe me, I have mistakes all the time when I type on my iPhone, but I'm not

sure I can necessarily blame autocorrect for them or if it's just me and my big clumsy thumbs.

You never know.

Regardless, I mean, if it gets better, that's true.

And as she points out in the article, and we mentioned this a few weeks ago, when one of the recent updates to iOS 26 is Apple did improve some of the issues that people have and they were typing too fast.

So that was number one reason I linked to this because she has a good premise.

But I will admit that the number two reason I linked to it was I was like, hey, good for you, Joanna.

You've got your own site now.

So it was just sort of put it on my radar screen to start to pay attention to it.

And it looks like she's going to be doing a lot of the same things that she had been doing for the Wall Street Journal, which means a weekly newsletter.

One of the things, because, of course, I'm old.

One of the things I love about her newsletter that she used to have at the Wall Street Journal and that she now has through her own website is it looks like every week in her newsletter, which is also reproduced on the website, they will have people writing in to talk about some old technology item that they miss using and that they still have.

Oh, yeah.

And I used to love it because people would say, you know, here's my old, you know, handheld whatever from the 1990s or whatever.

And I'll have a picture of it.

And like, this is what I loved about it.

And I noticed that she's doing that now, too.

So this is – in fact, if you scroll down a little bit, I'm trying to remember.

What was it?

I forget the one that's in the current post that she linked to.

It was – it's go further down under the prompt thing.

Something similar.

Here we go.

Here it is.

She's linking to a Sony Client, which was funny.

I remember when the Palm was a big deal.

And then the Palm allowed third parties to come out with their own version of the Palm.

Sony was one of those companies that had their own version of Palm devices.

And the Palm Clio was interesting because they were trying to do some interesting things with it.

Like it had like a keyboard in it and stuff.

So they were trying to come up with something that would be different from what Palm itself would come out with.

You know, what is it from?

2003.

So gosh, time flies.

This seems like ancient technology and it might as well be 1983 now.

But it's so for someone like me that's been interested in tech for a long time, I enjoy this aspect of what she used to be doing at The Wall Street Journal and now will be doing through her own site.

And this is from Casey Neistat, who's a big YouTuber.

And he's actually like, that's a camera right there, I think.

Right.

And the little hinge from between the keyboard and the screen.

OK, I remember this device when it came out.

I never owned one, but I remember reading about it.

Yeah.

And he says that it does run Palm OS because Palm had utility, but not much beyond that.

So Sony took that.

So it's there.

It's Sony's hardware, but Palm running Palm OS.

Okay, that's just, that's hilarious.

I like that.

Welcome back, Joanna.

We're excited to see you back.

Here's another hardware device.

How about a telescope for your iPhone?

Well, actually, this is the Dwarf Mini.

It is a telescope device that can connect to your iPhone.

I'm assuming Bluetooth or something along those lines.

I just thought it was kind of neat that you linked to this today.

Interesting device.

But some of these pictures that what Ed Hardy from Cult of Mac posted in here are pretty interesting that this little thing can do.

Yeah, I don't know how it compares to like a huge telescope that somebody might have because it's very small.

But this also means it's portable.

You can fold it up and put it into a very big pocket.

And it's nice because it's not, as I understand it, it's not a static telescope.

It will actually, you know, turn and pan and tilt, which means that, you know, as a star moves through the sky, I presume that this is how it works, that it can continue to follow it, which is a feature that is on some of the more high-end telescopes, but not the less expensive telescopes.

Again, I don't know how the optical quality compares, but he has some interesting posts here.

And the fun thing of it is it hooks to your iPhone, and then you can, you know, take a picture of, you know, the moon or some stars or something like that.

And it also has a feature.

Like I know my son is into astrophotography.

And so I know enough that to get the really good pictures, what you do is you don't take a single picture.

You take like hundreds of pictures and you layer them together.

And then that allows you to get the detail that you can actually see, you know, fancy star systems and galaxies and stuff like that.

So it looks like a fun application.

And, hey, you know, right now we're all thinking about space a little bit more because of the recent Artemis mission.

So this looks like it could be a fun thing for you or maybe for, you know, a child that's interested in the stars.

It's a couple hundred dollars.

I forget how much it costs, but it looks interesting.

So he he says at the bottom here, bonus feature.

You can use it for bird watching as well.

Sample shots of birds from 200 feet away.

OK, that's great.

This must be the week of hardware devices because you had an excellent review today or this week about the Rode Wireless Pro, which you can actually see in action from our video that you recorded at the ABA Tech Show a couple of months ago.

We actually used them.

There we are.

And we've got it pinned to our shirt.

I'm so glad that you were able to bring these, Jeff, because it was really cool for you to walk around and not just for you and I to record on them.

but you were recording a bunch of attendees at the conference as well.

Yeah, it worked really well.

You know, it was either a year or two years ago that you and I were at TechShow,

and we also recorded an episode of the podcast, and the audio was subpar.

And that disappointed me because it's like, you know, even if you have video,

if the audio, especially for people that just listen to the audio podcast,

that was a disappointment.

And so coming into TechShow this year, I knew how busy you were going to be

since you were the co-chair running the show.

Like, you weren't going to have time to re-record things.

We had to do it once and have it be good.

And so I borrowed this from my, the tech folks at my firm had one of these that we use for

some marketing videos and some client videos.

And, but this thing is really nice.

I mean, it's a few hundred dollars.

It's not cheap, but the quality, I mean, you know, cause you wore one.

I mean, you just, you just connect it to your shirt and then, and then that's it.

And you can connect an external lavalier if you want, but frankly, the, the microphone

that it has on it was really good.

When you and I recorded the podcast, we were in a quiet room, which was great, but we also

used it when you and I, you used it as well, when you and I were at dinner at that Italian restaurant

we were in in Chicago. And even though there was all the noise of a restaurant and you can hear the

background noise in an appropriate way, just to add to the ambiance, but you had no difficulty

hearing people speak as you were passing it around. And then also while you were busy doing all of

your co-chair stuff, I was walking around the exposition floor. And whenever I would come across

someone who was interesting, I would say, hey, you have like 30 seconds to record a little video.

And so I put together in the podcast that we released like a bunch of videos from some really cool people.

And again, those were difficult audio environments, but the quality was really good.

And best of all, it's so tiny.

It's tiny.

It's small.

You stick it in a case and it recharges just like the AirPods.

It's a really, really nice device.

And I will say Rode has a couple different levels of these things.

The one that I have is the Pro level, which is more expensive.

They have a less expensive version as well, which again, I haven't tried.

So I haven't linked to it.

I think it's like $150 or $120 as opposed to these, which are a couple hundred dollars.

But like if you and because it comes with both in the receiver and then also two microphones,

it's perfect for interviews.

So like if you are an attorney or anyone else that you're going to be out there, you want

to do a video, you know that your iPhone is going to take amazing video quality, but you

want the audio to be really good as well.

This is a really nice solution.

And especially if you work for an organization like I do, like a law firm, you know, you could justify the cost of a few hundred dollars and then all of your different people, whenever they need it, you know, whether it's attorneys or business people or marketing people, they could just borrow it and use it.

So I was really impressed by it.

And I presume that you were too.

I mean, you used it too.

It worked pretty well.

Yeah.

And did you mention this?

Like it comes in this case, right?

And you can charge the case.

And so when you put the devices or the microphone,

there are little squares.

If you're not looking at the video here,

if you put that back into the case,

it charges that automatically.

I think you said similar to how your AirPods work.

And I just think that's brilliant.

Like you got to keep the case charged,

but then you don't have to worry about charging each individual

microphone.

It just is all it's done,

you know,

right there within the case.

And I think that's,

that's a really nice design too.

Yeah.

Really,

really nice.

Very good.

For our ending video,

let's just say we believe Jeff.

it's coming back uh even though ted lasso was never supposed to come back right i mean i thought

was it jason right i think that he said that it was not he wasn't going to do any more ted lasso

but we're back now we kind of knew this i mean this has been rumored for a while but it's nice

to see the trailer is out now and it's funny yeah yeah the big news this week is we have a trailer

and we have a date august august 5th so right at the end of the summer yeah as you said you know

Ted Lasso was originally a three season arc and then Jason Sudeikis was, was done with it.

And then, uh, but you know, I think Apple, uh, as Jason Snell remarked in one of his podcasts,

Apple backed up the truck of money on his front lawn and said, please take our money and record

more. And, uh, I don't think it's any spoiler cause it's, it's all over the trailer and

everything else all over the news to say that the, the, the shtick is that unlike the original

three seasons where he was the coach of the, of the soccer team, the football team in England,

And now he's going to be coming in as the coach of the women's soccer team, which is so timely because women's soccer is so popular right now.

And that also gives it a different twist, you know, so it's not going to be more of the same thing.

It's going to be a little different.

There's going to be a lot of the actors that we know and love from the original series are going to be there.

But some new faces as well.

I think I saw maybe Sandra Bernhardt or some other people.

So it's going to be it's good.

I suspect it's going to be funny.

And just by looking at the trailer or the teaser trailer, as it were, I just found myself

chucking again.

I love Ted Lasso.

It's just such a feel good show.

And when it came out, I know partially it's because it was, if I remember correctly, it

was during the pandemic.

You know, we all needed a good laugh.

We all needed it.

It was the medicine that we needed at that time.

So I'm very excited that it's coming back in August.

And I presume, I mean, who knows, but I hope and presume that this will be like another

two or three season arc, just like before.

So maybe the fact that we have a season four means that we'll also have a season five and a season six.

You know, fingers crossed.

Well, if anybody has trucks of money, that would be Apple.

So you can back it up for Ted Lasso.

Let's do it ASAP PP.

That was, if you got to watch the video, you can understand what ASAP pretty please.

I just love it.

So good.

In the know, I got a quick tip for you today.

If you remember when you are playing something on your phone, right?

And on the lock screen, let's say if you're playing Apple Music or you're playing Spotify, then you can see the play controls on your lock screen.

I do this all the time. I have music playing all the time.

And typically I have it playing from my iPhone, either to, you know, just on its own or into my AirPods or onto a Bluetooth speaker.

And you have play and then you can have you can go to the next song, that kind of a thing.

And it has a slider there for where in the place that, you know, if you wanted to like

zip forward a little bit in the song, I hardly ever do that.

But if you remember, Jeff, back in the day, you also had a little volume slider under the

bottom of that.

So today, though, we typically don't by default have that volume slider.

Like Apple took that out, I think it was iOS 18 or right before iOS 18.

And I never thought about it until I saw a story that came out telling me that I could add it back.

And now that I've added it back, I can't be without it.

And you can add the volume slider in.

Now, this doesn't make a lot of sense, maybe, unless you're looking at the picture here.

But again, if you're playing something, because, you know, why would you need a volume slider on the lock screen?

Because you can just reach out and, you know, use the buttons to volume up and volume down.

But I like this volume slider just because I can place my finger on it and I can be a little bit more precise and specific exactly where I want the volume to be.

So if, like me, you want that turned back on, it's a little hidden now.

You got to go into settings and go into accessibility.

Then under hearing and accessibility, you tap audio and visual.

And then there's a switch now that you can turn on.

Always show volume control.

And if you do that, then like me, now when you play from your iPhone, you will have a little volume control that will be underneath the little play button on there.

And to me, I just like having that back on.

Again, I didn't really pay attention to it, but now that I have it there, I'm like, oh, yeah, I remembered having that on there.

I just like to make sure that you put that back in.

So if you would like to have it turned on as well or try it, I think it's off by default now, certainly since we have iOS 26.

But you can go and turn that back on through the accessibility settings.

Yeah, mine's turned on.

I don't remember when I turned it on, but I must have read.

Oh, so you've already had it.

And did it.

Okay.

Yeah.

And I agree.

I mean, it's like you say, it can be a little bit more precise.

Plus, it allows you to, like, at a glance, see, you know, I want to make this louder.

Oh, I can actually see.

I'm already at, you know, almost the loudest it can be.

You can just sort of see visually because of where you are on the slider.

so um yeah no that's a very great tip i like it um my tip of the week grows out of a complaint

okay so let me give you my complaint okay i have and i know that you have them too i use eufy cams

at my home outside of my home to sort of you know see what's going on in the front yard the backyard

the side yard everything else and you know i have a little bit of a love-hate relationship with the

eufies but most of them they've worked for me i mean the bottom line is they have there are times

that they don't record and i'm like what happened it's frustrating but um but for the most part

they're good and believe me what what's what's one of the things i like about them is that i did not

need to string up um power all over the outside of my house that they are wireless now become and

the power they have a built-in power i guess what i wireless same thing um now the downside is it

does mean that i need to recharge them from time to time and although the ones that i use are the

s3 which have um solar panels on top of them yeah and for me one of my cameras gets enough sunlight

that I still need to take it down and charge it every once in a while, but it does okay.

I remember you mentioned that before.

But my other ones are underneath the, what is it called?

The eave of my back of my house and my front porch.

So they get no sun there.

So I still need to take them down and charge them every once in a while.

And so it's a little bit of a pain, but overall I'm happy with them.

And I know that Eufy has a future version of which I'll come to in a second,

but let me tell you my gripe.

Here's my gripe.

Okay.

You know, the Eufy will give me a notification if I have this turned on.

if it records motion.

So like nobody's at home

and somebody's in my backyard.

I want to know that, right?

And you can either have it turned on

that like taps your wrist

or I actually have that turned off.

But what I do have turned on is it will,

even though it won't technically interrupt me,

it will just show a little picture.

And so I can, in fact,

I can glance down right here.

I can see somebody is walking

in across my front yard.

You know, again, that doesn't matter

that somebody's walking,

not in my front yard,

like in the sidewalk in front of my house.

I don't need that to interrupt my day,

but I can see that guy's picture.

Hello, how are you doing?

But if it was something that concerned me

I, what would you do? You would tap it. I would open up the Eufy app and I would watch the videos

like, you know, who is this person in my backyard when there should be nobody there? Here's the

problem. The Eufy records videos and it stores them in its Eufy base so that you can go back in

time and look at them in the future. However, however, if you are watching live through a video

camera, it, it can only do one. It can't walk and chew gum at the same time. It can either record

videos to the home base, or it can show you the video that you're watching live. And so here's

the problem. Something happens and I'm watching it live on my phone. And I'm like, oh my goodness,

this person has no business being in my backyard. I'm not going to have a video recording of that

automatically because the simple fact that I'm watching it live means it's not automatically

recording to the home base. Now here, so that's, that's what frustrates me. And it frustrates me

because there are other video cameras like the ring video camera, which for my understanding,

from my online research, it actually does both.

It will show live and record at the same time.

So you have to worry about that.

So here is my solution.

If you use the Eufy cameras,

as soon as you start watching a live video

on your Eufy camera,

there is a record button at the bottom left.

Immediately tap it.

It won't start recording until you tap that.

But as soon as you tap it,

it will then record everything

that's being streamed to your iPhone or iPad

or whatever you're looking on.

And then when you're done,

it will say, do you want to save this?

You can save it to your photos reel.

Now, that means it's not on the base station.

So it's not going to be part of all of your other recordings.

But at least you will have that recording so that in the horrible situation where it's the burglar at your house, you know, you can you can have that and you can, you know, give it to the police or whatever you need to do or whatever are the reasons that you're recording.

So my tip is anytime you are looking at your live video in the Eufy app, remember to tap record.

And if it turns out it's nothing, if it's just, you know, a bird in front of the camera or whatever it is, or a squirrel, well, that's fine.

You don't have to keep that recording unless you want the recording of the squirrel.

Maybe you want to hold on to that.

It's a cute squirrel.

But if you don't remember to hit – and the thing is oftentimes when you are in this situation that I just described, you're on alert.

You're a little alert, you know, concerned.

And so it's not going to necessarily occur to you, hey, I should be hitting record.

So that is my tip to do that.

Now, I will also mention, since we're talking about the Eufy cams, the one that I use, and

I think this is what you have too, is the Eufy cam S3 Pro.

Yes, that's exactly right.

I will just mention that there is a newer version that they're selling, which is more expensive.

They still sell the S3 Pro, but they also sell one called the S4.

And the big thing that the S4 has is in addition to having a wide angle lens, which is what

the S3 has, it has a second camera underneath it.

And that second camera is called a PTZ camera, which means pan, tilt and zoom.

And so unlike the wide angle lens, which is 4K, that's a 2K camera.

But what it does is the idea and it records and it has both the same time.

And so the idea is like if somebody is walking across your yard from left to right, you'll get the big wide angle view, which will hopefully capture most of it.

But then you'll get this pan and tilt camera that will follow them even when they go outside of the of the range of the because it actually mechanically moves around.

And so that's one of the advantages of the S4.

The other advantage of the S4 is it has a solar panel, an even bigger solar panel built into the top of it.

And it's supposed to get like, I don't know, twice or three times.

It's more solar.

So maybe the problems that I have with my current S3, the one that gets sun but not quite enough to charge it all the time, I don't know if this better solar panel does it.

Now, the flip side is that better solar panel is controlling two different cameras instead of one.

So I guess it needs more power.

But yeah, what you were just showing on the website, that's a good example of that video

of the person walking across the yard and picks it up.

Now, the last thing I'll say about this is, although I love the Euphys because they're

cordless, you do get better quality with any video camera if it's plugged in, any security

camera, because then it can record 24-7, right?

So that's the ideal.

So if it's convenient for you to have something plugged in all the time, you can either plug

it in through um usbc power or eufy also makes another class of devices that it's it's one of

the s4s it's it has something called um uh poe which is a phrase that's been around for a long

time it means power over in the ethernet and what it means is instead of running like an actual power

cord you know like an extension cord you can just have a simple ethernet ethernet cord like a cat5

or cat6 cable which are which are a lot smaller like they're the size of like a phone cord and

And that will not only transmit the data over the Ethernet, just like a computer would, but POE, the P is for power.

It will also send power.

And so if it's convenient for you to run an Ethernet cord to outside of your house, wherever your security cameras are located, then you can get the advantages of always power.

You don't need to worry about the solar panel.

And it can be recording 24-7 and it's much better.

So, I mean, I would love if my security cameras were 24-7, but it's a fine compromise that they start recording when they sense motion.

and then they don't record and they don't sense motion.

They do still take still pictures like every five minutes, I think.

So I could still like, if I wanted to look like over the course of a 24 hour period,

like a sort of a stop motion, I can sort of see, you know, at what point in the day did

that car park, you know, in front of my house and at what point did it leave?

It's just not live video 24 seven.

So anyway, a lot of discussions about the UV cameras.

Overall, I'm happy with them.

They do have some problems, but this video one was something that annoyed me until I

figured out the quote unquote fix.

We have become a big believer here at the Bernie household.

I mean, I think we've only had them maybe for about a year.

So I have the two S3s and then we have a doorbell Yuffie as well.

And they're just fantastic, Jeff.

I mean, especially when I'm traveling, right?

And I mean, I get notified if a delivery is being made or, you know, if a fox is running

across the driveway or something like that.

And it's just nice to have it.

I'll tell you another quick thing that I really enjoy.

not just as it takes the pictures,

but because you have multiple cameras,

I forget what they call it,

but you can go into the app

and it will give you kind of a seamless timeline.

Like here's a person with this camera,

stitching together, exactly.

Like it'll show, here's a person with this camera

and then they went to this camera

and then this camera will show it.

And I just like the fact

that it automatically puts all of that together.

I didn't think about that recording thing.

So I'm glad that you brought that up.

Although I don't know that I have

as serious of a use for it

because one of my favorite things

traveling is if I see the kids uh taking the dog out for a walk is that I'll become the voice of

God because you can you can talk through the camera and I scare the bejesus out of them every

time and it's like I need to record that so I can save that and show but they don't they don't

appreciate it as much but they do the whole family loves the UP cameras and I'm so glad that you

started using them because I don't think if it wasn't for you that this is what I would have

invested in. But now I'm on the hike to upgrade more. I can't get off and I want this S4 now.

This looks so cool. I like it. Yeah. Well, I'm glad that you have better security at your house

when you're traveling. And I'm also glad that you can perform your constitutional duty as a dad

to annoy your children at appropriate times, because that is something I think we are required

to do. Very important. Very important. All right. Great tip there in the UFYL. We should be talking

about the euphies a little bit more i mean again just the fact that i hadn't invested in it and

for a long time because i just always thought well cameras it's like it's so big and bulky you got to

run wires and everything but these work fantastic just with the solar like it's all wireless they're

just right outside here and it's just really nice with the with the uh you know they're not home kit

compatible right i remember i asked you about this but that euphie app works really great like i don't

miss the fact that it doesn't automatically, you know, work within the HomeKit.

Yes, some devices are HomeKit compatible, but you, which means you can use HomeKit secure

video, but the quality of the video decreases.

And in my mind, it's not worth having that feature.

I will add, I mean, although I've been happy overall with the UFIs, I will mention that

I do have some experience with Ring because my dad has Ring at his house and my dad passed

away recently.

And so, you know, I'm monitoring the house, you know, as the executive of a state right

now.

And so I do use the Ring app sometimes as well.

And actually, I will just say, for people out there that are listening to us talk about

you feeling like, I use Ring.

I know that Ring works really well, too.

It's got some great features.

In fact, Ring has some automatic AI type stuff of like giving you descriptions of what's

going on that's actually really good.

So I have, and I know there are issues, there are a lot of product differences and company

philosophy differences between Ring and Eufy.

Eufy is a little bit more focused on individual privacy and security, and Ring perhaps is not.

But I will just say, I do recognize Ring also has some really good products, and that's good, too.

I just don't have as much experience with them as I do UFI.

And there are other competitors out there, too.

To your point, I mean, doesn't Ring require a subscription or something?

Or maybe you can use it without one.

It does.

Ring requires, you know, I pay every month for my dad's subscription.

I didn't like that.

Now, to be honest, I haven't done a whole lot of research in it.

But I just, I got to say, I'm just very, very happy with UFI.

I mean, even then, in the app, they'll throw some ads up and stuff like that.

But it just, I feel like I can make my way through that

and it's not as intrusive.

But yeah, I just, like you said,

there are some differences in the way

that they approach the market as it were.

Great stuff.

Thanks, Jeff.

This is fun to tell.

I love all the little hardware things

we were able to talk about today.

And I'm sure there's gonna be more

as we keep going through.

So we'll talk with you next week.

Thanks, Brett.

Bye-bye, everybody.