Welcome to In the News for June 26, 2026. I am Brett Burney from AppsinLaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhone JD. Brett, today we are recording our 250th podcast.

250. Yeah. And at the same time, my law firm, Adams and Reese, is celebrating its 75th year.

And so we get together every year, all the partners just to sort of plan and camaraderie,

etc but this year as you can see behind me we are at the beautiful broadmoor in colorado springs

colorado so there's mountains it's eye elevation and lakes and it is it looks like you're in italy

like you've got like i mean that looks amazing there i mean in fact my we had a meal last night

at an italian restaurant here which was it was as good as being in italy there you go anyway so i

figured i would come outside so that you know you could at least see some mountains if i get to see

them you should get to see them too what is it a month ago you recorded from the beach in alabama

i believe or mississippi uh um and now you're in colorado springs or you could be in florence

italy it looks amazing this is gonna be now a habit for you like recording from out and i'm

like bring it on you've got your host set up i don't know i think you posted a picture of it a

week or so yeah and it's the same thing like i'm using the iphone's camera the back camera the nice

camera to look at me so my iphone is connected to zoom and i've got this thing called the road mic

which i've talked about and i've reviewed on iphone jd and to give like a little bit better quality

audio and then you're coming in through my ears so yeah it's a great that's great and we'll just

wave at the joggers and the walkers behind you like what is this guy doing there's some ducks

and geese and there's actually a deer or two walking around the property so if you see a deer

behind me say hello he's a very tame deer so let's get to the news because breaking news as of

I think everything of this just landed yesterday, if I'm not mistaken.

Maybe people have been talking about this.

But Apple's got much more expensive yesterday.

And obviously, I'm talking about Apple products.

Now, to set this up, Jeff, I remember we talked about, was it last week or two weeks ago?

There was a story, I think, in the Wall Street Journal.

Somebody interviewed Tim Cook, and he said, due to the advancements, mostly in AI,

He didn't put all the blame at the feet of AI, but mostly it is with supply chains, with processing chips, with RAM that specifically he said the iPhone prices were going to go up.

And I just assumed, okay, well, that's going to be, you know, for the fall, right?

We'll see that in September with the iPhone 18.

But I did not see this coming yesterday.

It's not just the iPhone going up.

He actually didn't mention what Apple device it would be.

We all assumed it was just because of the nature of the announcement and because we know that all of this AI stuff that's coming in iOS 27 is going to require more memory.

We're like the iPhones, the iPads are going to require.

So I just assumed that that's what he was talking about and that was going to happen this fall.

But go ahead with what you were saying.

Well, it happened much sooner than this fall.

Yesterday, it wasn't just the iPhone.

So to your point, we made the assumption just because I think everybody, like you said, the way that the interview came out, that's what everybody was just sort of guessing at.

But yesterday, even Apple acknowledged in their press release that they know this is, quote, not welcome news.

They knew this was not going to land well, but they increased prices on everything starting immediately.

Yeah. As Tim Cook mentioned last week and then Apple reiterated this week, the memory price increases are completely unprecedented. And for many months now, Apple has just been swallowing it, but they just decided enough is enough. And they raised prices everywhere. I mean, the only two things, as I mentioned, that did not get the price increases were the iPhone and the Apple Watch.

And as I mentioned in my post today, my personal theory on that is that they're just waiting for the new products to be announced this fall.

Of course.

But, I mean, at the same time, they could have done the opposite.

They could have raised the iPhone price now.

And so that way, when the new iPhone comes out this fall, it would be the exact same price as what it was replacing.

I don't know why.

And, again, maybe the –

Isn't that David Sparks' idea?

That was David Sparks' theory for the Apple TV.

On the Apple TV.

Okay, that's right.

You linked to that, right.

Because that Apple TV price increase, how much was that?

It was a lot.

Let's see. I have to find the list here. I mean, it's bad. $70. It went from $129 to $199. The base model Apple TV. Yes, it is.

If you consider that as a percentage, and I think the John Gruber did all the percentages, that's a huge percentage increase. And especially because the Apple TV, look, I love my Apple TV, but it is much more expensive than the competing products from, you know, Amazon Firesticks and Roku and stuff like that.

And so it's already a premium product, and now it's very much a premium product.

At the same time, my guess is most people already have an Apple TV, and so hopefully there will not be many consumers that are affected by this.

And I hope that David Sparks is right, that Apple has some new tricks to put into the Apple TV, and we'll see that this fall.

And I guess it will be easier to stomach the price change.

theory right davis theory is that they went ahead and did increase the price on apple tv if i'm

correct right so that when they release a new apple tv that they can quote keep the price the same

right as they always do because at the end after they make a product announcement it's like and

we're going to keep the price at the way you know the price uh the price level that we've always

kept it at so he says that they are sort of pre-upping the price on that because i think in

one of these other links that you link to is dan barbara which is an it was an excellent video that

he did he pointed out that there's a price increase on these apple tvs but jeff these apple tvs are

from like three four years ago right they're from 2022 so all of the ram and the processors are

already in those i mean obviously maybe they're making some more right now but the point is is

that they probably already have some of that ram and processors that's an odd place ready to go

so it's like that doesn't make sense on some of these angles that is definitely an odd one of the

entire bunch. I will tell you on the flip side, I mean, a lot of these pricing crises, the Macintosh,

the MacBooks, iPads, I mean, just within the past week, I've had two people, one of my law partners

and somebody I went to college with reach out to me. Both of them saying the same thing, that they

were getting new devices for one person. She was getting something for her daughter going to college

and somebody else was getting something for somebody in their family. You know, this is a time where a

lot of people are buying Apple devices. And, you know, you and me, you and I know that, you know,

some things like iPhones are coming out in the fall. So it may not be the best time to buy them

traditionally. But when people need a new iPad, or if you need to get a MacBook for your son or

daughter to go to college in two months, this is the time to get them. And like, people are, I'm

sure kicking themselves if they had only purchased it last week, they could have saved $100.

Two days ago.

Even just two days ago, it's definitely unfortunate if you fall into that little hole there.

So are we correct?

And I think I've got to pull up the Apple press release, the official announcement.

Are they mostly saying that – I mean I don't want to say blame, but I guess they're blaming it on the fact that everything has gone up.

And it may not just be AI.

I get it in the data centers and everything.

I actually think it is mostly AI.

Right. Because they're talking about RAM and processing so much memory that, you know, the people that make those, they just don't have enough of them.

So, of course, they're going to raise the price of them.

And Apple is one of the few companies that typically locks into these long term contracts.

Exactly.

But maybe those contracts are coming to an end or maybe they have clauses that say that, you know, we'll keep the price steady unless the unless the market price rises by a certain percent.

Who knows what the clauses are?

But and again, it's not just Apple.

as I noted today, all sorts of computer manufacturers, Xboxes, you know, everyone across

the board is raising prices because everything nowadays uses memory, right? I mean, that's just

the nature of electronics nowadays. Correct. Yeah. You linked to this other story from The Verge.

It's a bad time to want a new computer. Apple, Microsoft, and Valve announced some difficult

price hikes this week, a sign that this is our new reality. And it is. Now, just quickly going

back to the apple announcement i think if it was maybe just microsoft or just some of these others

or maybe you know they've already been making some of these announcements so i've already heard them

but we're talking about tim cook here probably one of the most foremost experts on general technology

um uh you know uh channels supply chains he's been doing he even says i think he made a comment i'm

This is the most craziest price differences I've seen in 40 years of doing this.

That's what he has been focused on.

Again, for one of the most successful technology companies, if it was from somebody else, I would probably not sit up and listen or pay attention as much.

But because it comes from Tim Cook with such an amazing reputation for what he's been doing in this area, when he says something like that, Jeff, I pay attention to that.

I had not thought about that angle.

You're right.

I mean, long before he was the CEO of Apple, he was the COO and he was in charge of the supply chain.

And in fact, that was one of the things that saved Apple is that when he came to Apple shortly after Steve Jobs, you know, they got into that just in time that instead of having big warehouses of products that were unsold, they would be making things just as they were being sold to reduce inventory.

And part of the reason that Apple was so profitable and able to return from the brink of bankruptcy was because of Tim Cook.

So you're right. I mean, he's obviously wearing his CEO hat when he speaks right now. But this is a topic. I mean, you have to think that some of the smartest possible people to address this issue at Apple have been addressing it. And they've decided they need to raise prices.

You know, the one thing that I don't want to say frustrates me because it hasn't happened yet, but I guess concerns me is, you know, what goes up must come down.

Eventually, memory prices will come down.

The question for me is going to be, let's say two years from now, there's more supply, memory prices come down.

Does Apple keep all these prices there?

Does that become the new normal or do they decrease prices?

Traditionally, Apple does not drop prices.

You know, that's why the MacBook Neo was such a big deal because it was it was a new product.

It wasn't dropping the price on something, but it was a new price point.

So we might have to just get used to this, which is a shame.

Well, let's we'll come back to the Neo in just a moment.

How about just a quick rundown on this?

We've already mentioned some of this.

The Apple TV goes up seventy dollars.

The base level and these are all base level prices, I might add.

Most of the time I don't recommend most people would buy a base level.

Sometimes it's fine, but the point that I'm saying is a lot of times I tell people, well, you should upgrade this.

You're going to be just a little more RAM.

That's going to cost you.

The base level iPad nothing went up $100.

The iPad mini went up $100.

And the iPad Air, $150.

Which is the model that I usually recommend to people, the iPad Air.

Correct.

So it went up from $599 to $749.

Again, base level starting price.

the iPad Pro $200 it goes up from $999 to $1199 then the MacBooks MacBook Air went up $200 the

MacBook Pros $300 is what you're going to be starting that's again from $1699 to $1999 and

again I would recommend to folks like you don't get the base level I think the base level comes

maybe with eight RAM now, maybe 16.

I'm not really sure on the pro, but you're again, jumping up the IMAX, $200.

If you wanted to go high in the Mac studio M three ultra that jumped up $1,300, Jeff,

that's insane.

Now, again, that's, that's for very high end people that are doing this.

Not a most of the people that are going to be listening to this, but because it started

at $4,000. It is now starting at $5,300, which is crazy. And then this is the closest thing to your

heart. I'm sure Jeff, the vision pro already crazy at 3,500 goes up $200 to $3,700 now starting price.

I guess you could say that the percentage change increase was pretty small because the

vision pro was already so expensive. Maybe that's a silver lining. Maybe. Okay. Two more quick things

here on this um you mentioned the macbook neo this just got released two months ago two and a half

months ago and one of the biggest features of the macbook neo the biggest feature was the fact that

it's so affordable it was 599 a mac at 599 a mac i should say a mac laptop at 599 because you know

the old the old uh mac minis would come in at some amazing prices now that's increased a hundred

dollars how are you marketing this great article you linked to from oliver haslam and apple insider

why the macbook neo got a price hike and why it really shouldn't have the biggest feature for the

macbook neo was that it was so affordable and yet apple raised at a hundred dollars that to me sounds

a little crazy it um there had to have been a lot of late night conversations about this because on

the one hand like you say that was the feature i mean it's like saying an iphone has three cameras

It's a feature of the iPhone. You don't just take one off. The feature of the MacBook Neo was that it was such a great value.

Yeah, yeah.

So I could imagine there was a strong argument for Apple just to eat that.

On the other hand, I could see people saying that if Apple didn't increase that price, people would be wondering, well, why did you increase the low-end iPad or something else?

And so I guess there's a fairness aspect to it, but it is one of them, you know, much like there's a specific story for the Apple TV that we're speculating about.

There's a specific story for the MacBook Neo, and I do think it's different from the other products with the price increases.

It's interesting.

It would have been nice if they had kept the prices, wouldn't it?

Yeah.

But we already know that that's a very narrow margin price.

I mean, I'm sure that one of the things that went into the calculation is Apple must know what the competitors are to the MacBook Neo from companies like I don't even, you know, whoever the PC companies are.

And I'm sure they looked at it and said, you know what, they're raising their prices.

So it's OK for us to go up $100.

It is a shame, though.

It is a shame.

All right.

Last point on this.

when I was watching this video, this is a story you link to from Hartley Charlton at Mac Rumors,

but they have an excellent video in here from Dan Barbera, which I think he does a fantastic job of

kind of walking through everything. So at the end of this video though, Jeff, he also mentions,

not only did the new products get a price hike, Apple increased the refurbished products for the

price hike. And at first I'm thinking that is insane. First of all, if you're blaming the price

increases on memory and processors these are refurbished products it's not like you're making

these anymore you don't already made more now what you just said though a few a couple of minutes ago

is the fairness aspect and i think dan does a good job of talking about that here that if they

increase the prices of the new products but they didn't increase the price of the refurbished

products people would would kind of say like well you know that it's like how can that be fair you

In other words, he said that Apple just was going to raise it across the board.

Now, I don't know that I fully agree with that.

I feel like they're just using that as an excuse because if it really was just the processes and the RAM,

there should be no need to increase the price on refurbished Apple products,

which, by the way, are typically a very, very good deal.

And I recommend Apple refurbished products a whole lot.

But the fact that they increase prices on that, I just, I don't know.

I call a little bit of BS on that just because I feel like, come on, like you, I, the MacBook

Neo was bad enough, but the refurbished prices, I just don't know why you had to do that.

Yeah.

I mean, I guess they figured it's the market value, but you're right.

I mean, that's another one that you could make an argument either way.

I will mention just to sort of underscore what you say, Apple refurbished products are

fantastic because sometimes it's just a product that hasn't even been used.

Somebody just returns it and Apple can't sell it as new.

And even the ones that have had something due to them, Apple tests them with all of their very rigorous techniques to make sure that they're in good shape.

So although I would be very wary of buying a refurbished product from anyone else, like Amazon sells them, for example, because I think those are just used products.

But from Apple, they don't have a lot.

And sometimes they won't have the particular model that you want.

But if you know that you want something and they have a refurbished model, you can often save yourself some money.

And so I guess right now, if you're looking at buying an iPad or whatever, and the iPad now costs $150 more, you might consider going to the refurbished store because even though those prices have changed because they are lower prices, you might be able to pay what you would have paid two days ago to get the refurbished.

But you get the refurbished instead of the new.

So I guess it's an option.

That's an interesting option.

Okay.

It's the new reality.

I mean, I think to your point, you were saying earlier, if somebody needs an iPad or a MacBook Pro, you know, for their kid for school, you're going to pay it, right?

You're going to bite your tongue and you're going to pay it because that is the reality.

And again, it's not just Apple.

I think you made a fair point about that.

It's across the board for all kinds of like even Xboxes are a little bit more as well.

Let's move on and talk about some of the more fun things maybe in what's coming with iOS 27.

You know, we talked about WWDC now is three weeks in our rearview mirror.

I didn't really think of it this way, but a great article from Hartley Charlton again in Mac Rumors, that there are going to be at least five new apps coming with the updates on iOS 27 and the iPhone.

The first one that he mentions here, the Siri AI app, that was published.

I mean, people talked about that even, right, in the announcement.

But there's some other cool ones here that I'm excited about.

Just before you go on to the other question, let me just say, the reason it makes sense for Siri AI to have its own app is because with this new Siri, you'll be able to go back and continue a conversation, which is always good with an AI because the AI knows the history.

And so you need to have a place to go back to.

So it was sort of a requirement to have an app.

True, true.

Yeah, and it looks nice.

I mean, that's what I do now with Claude and ChatGPT on my iPhone.

I go in and I like to revisit some of my conversations on there.

But yeah, so we knew that was coming out.

Apple TV remote app, an all new Find My app on the Apple Watch.

I mean, these are pretty good.

Yeah, the Apple TV remote one is interesting because I often use my iPhone to control my

Apple TV.

Maybe I can't find the remote or it's just not close by and I'm too lazy to walk across

the room and pick it up.

And so what I do now, I'm sure you do the same thing, Brett, is I have the remote in

my control panel so I can swipe down and bring it up.

But now it will be a dedicated app.

So I guess that's useful.

Okay, now here's my speculation.

Okay, my speculation, and I've heard others speculate the same thing, so it's not original thought.

We all hope that Apple is coming out with new home technology.

Of course, a new Apple TV, maybe even some new home hub with a video.

And so maybe in this new world that's going to come out this year, next year, it will make more sense to have a dedicated Apple TV app to control video on.

It could be an Apple TV or it could be a HomePod.

So again, I have no proof for this.

This is just my theory.

But maybe that's why it made sense to have that app.

Who knows?

Who knows?

Interesting.

Interesting.

One other one on here that I thought was neat is they're calling it Past Designer.

Oh, there's a link here.

I don't know if there's any additional information on here.

This is cool because it basically allows, I guess, individuals, but developers and businesses can create their own passes for Apple Wallet, which I love.

Like if I got, you know, like Eventbrite is good about this, right?

If you've got to go and attend a concert or you're going to go to some kind of a meetup or something, you can actually add the pass like a QR code into your Apple Wallet.

And I love that when I go to an event of some kind.

And in addition, I've used other apps that are not from Apple to create passes.

My example is I used my library had physical cards, right?

And I was like, I didn't want to carry the physical library card.

So I used an app.

I can't remember the name of it now to generate a QR code in my Apple wallet.

So I could just pull it up in my Apple wallet when I went to the library, if that makes sense.

And it sounds like that's going to be similar to what pass designer is going to allow people to do now.

And I think that's just fantastic.

Yeah, passes are so nice.

I mean, we've all been using for years.

I have a little side story if you've got like 30 seconds.

We've all used for years that you can have your airline ticket in the Apple wallet.

Oh, yeah.

You know that you do so much more airline travel than I do.

But when I traveled here to Colorado in the New Orleans airport, they had something new.

I'm curious if it was new to me, at least.

I'm curious if you ever used it.

It's called touchless.

Is it touchless?

You know, faceless.

I forget the name of it.

But basically, I walked up to TSA and it's just here at this line.

I didn't have to take out my driver's license.

I didn't have to show him my ticket.

Nothing.

The camera just looked at my face and said, okay, we know who you are.

We know where you're going.

Go right ahead.

It took like a second.

Okay, I know, big brother, big brother.

But it was very convenient.

I mean, I just stood there for a second.

I didn't have to fumble with like, you know, holding things and putting something down to pull out your iPhone.

I just walk right in.

And my wife was telling me that there's some airports.

I think she said Boston are even experimenting with a system where you don't even stop.

It just sees who you are as you're walking through the hallway and just text you in.

And I know there's big brother surveillance aspects of it, but it is convenient.

So convenient.

So, you know, I have this theory quickly that we know how all of this is going to end up from when it comes about AI and technology.

So the movie I think of because of science fiction, like we know sci-fi movies, if you are a fan like I am, the movie I think of when you talk about things like this, Jeff, is Minority Report, which is a Steven Spielberg, right?

With Tom Cruise.

Now, the premise of the movie is one thing in the story.

I get it.

But so often in science fiction movies, you're probably the same way, Jeff.

I look around at all the little things.

I remember when Steven Spielberg had this movie, he actually invited futurists to Hollywood.

And they talked about, like, what is it going to look like?

And one of the things was when you walk around in a store or a mall or an airport or wherever you're going, there's just so many cameras, which there already are, right, that are just looking at you that can determine who you are as it goes.

And when you talk about that story, that to me is just the reality of what's going to happen.

Anyway, we're getting off the past designer here a little bit.

But that's where it's going.

I mean, to the point where, you know, in addition to what you're saying is that I have both my digital driver's license from Ohio in my Apple wallet.

And what did Apple call it here?

I think it's just called digital ID.

So at the very top of my wallet, I have my digital ID, which is basically it says passport verified.

So we've talked about this several times because if I go to an airport that actually has the machine that can read that and scan it, I don't have to have anything.

To your point, I have to pull anything out.

I don't have to do it all.

So anyway, it's interesting stuff on there.

Okay, we got away from the sort of the new apps, but that's going to be pretty exciting.

Talking about the new versions of iOS 27 and even macOS, which has been called Golden Gate.

I thought this was a neat story from Dan Morin that linked to another interesting blog post,

showing us the differences with icons, the way they look today, and the way they're going to look

with Golden Gate. Now, this is more for the Mac, but I think some of this will bleed over

into how the icons look like on the iPhone as well. I actually think it's both Mac and iPhone.

Originally, the basic Apple guy talked about Mac, but I think I've seen it confirmed elsewhere,

maybe even in Dan's article, that this is also true on the beta for the iPhone. And thus, I

presume the iPad as well. And they're very subtle changes. I'm glad you're subtle for anybody

watching the video version, or if you're listening to audio, you should go click on the link.

Because if you just look at the icon, just look at the new icon, you might not notice the change.

But then when you compare the old to the new, the new one is, I'm going to see what adjectives you

use i consider them a little crisper a little brighter a little bit more vivid um it's like

they've got the chrome applied to them or something like that so how would you describe the difference

the only thing i would say is i can tell that the newer ones are a little bit less glassy right

because that was the whole thing with liquid glass when it came out they had this reflection where

here this one shows a little bit better i think if you look at this now this is from the mac we

We don't have, I think they call this the launcher on the Mac side.

We don't have that on the iPhone side.

But you can immediately see these little squares here, how they have like the shine, because that was sort of the liquid glass effect on there.

And it has like a shadow a little bit behind it.

And they kind of took that off.

They tweaked that just a little bit.

I like CRISPR.

I think that's a good way to describe.

And, you know, it's part of an overall change.

I mean, things go through this in life.

You know, you have an extreme.

Sure, sure.

Last year, the liquid glass was stark, right?

I mean, it was a very noticeable change.

And this year, in a number of different ways, Apple is dialing it down and also giving you a setting where you can choose to dial it down yourself.

And I think it's good.

I mean, some people hate liquid glass.

I'm okay with it.

It was something interesting.

Me too.

I actually think that where we're going to go this fall, looking at these pictures of what I'm going to have in the future, I think I like this better.

So, like, I think it's finding a good middle ground.

It's got the liquid glass, but it's not quite as liquidy.

I like it.

I like it.

I think I remember during the keynote that Apple sort of subtly acknowledged the fact that, yeah, they're tweaking liquid glass a little bit.

They know that there was some folks that, you know, had some strong opinions on that.

So I feel like this is just sort of a nice, you know, subtle evolution.

And, hey, if it looks if it looks a little bit better, a couple of these I can see they really did make some changes on there.

But most of them are just going to be subtle enough that I think most people are just not even going to subconsciously understand it or know that it's there.

They're just going to be like, well, that looks really good on there, which is which is fine.

Let's keep talking about some of the changes coming to iOS 27.

Our friend Steve Embry, who we've actually had as a guest on the podcast before, we have had had a great article, Apple Intelligence, a new sheriff in town for legal AI.

So Steve Embry, as a former lawyer now, I would mostly consider him to be a journalist, a technology journalist.

And he's just great at what he does writing. This is in, I believe it's above the law. And he wrote an article, he reached out to me and you, Jeff, to say, hey, can you give a couple of quotes on what's going on with the new Siri? Because he watched the keynote as well. And he talked about it, at least from the lens of what a legal practitioner would be taken away from this. And I just thought it was great.

I feel like the premise of his piece here is it's going to be more accessible.

And plus, it's better than it was going to be from two years ago.

The way that I look at it is in this world of AI, we have the consumer AI, like the ChatGPT app, which is incredibly powerful, but also doesn't have the security that you might want because they might train on what you put in there.

And so when I say you, I mean, if you're just being a person, if you're just like trying to pick products to buy in Amazon, it might be fine.

On the other hand, if you're a business, especially a business where security is paramount, like being a lawyer, you need to have security.

And that's why lawyers have been looking at some of these specialized AI systems that are made for lawyers.

You know, Thomson Reuters has it, Lexus, Harvey, Clio.

All these companies have their very security conscious systems for lawyers, and it's going to handle all of your documents and all of your pleadings and your contracts and the core work.

But then there's this other aspect of, you know, I just use my iPhone.

Yes, I use it for my law practice, but it's part of my everyday life, too.

And these AI features, I think it's going to fill the gap because I would have them turned off if I was at all concerned.

Like if suddenly Apple said that everything that's in your mail on your iPhone, we're going to send it up to the cloud.

We're going to give it to Google.

I would be like, no, no, no, no.

I can't do that.

It would violate all my attorney client privilege.

But because Apple values privacy so much, it means that the iPhone and the iPad and the other products in the Mac, they are going to be a fantastic complement.

I'm not going to use Siri AI on my iPhone to analyze a, you know, 20,000 page appellate record.

That's not what it's made for.

But I will use it to say, you know, hey, you know, I'm going to this meeting, you know, what floor do I go to?

What's the address?

Or what was so-and-so talking about?

Or something, you know, those easy little things, much like if you had like this little, you know, real world assistant, a person that knew like a secretary, someone that knew your calendar.

and you might just ask them a question and they're like, oh yeah, that's such and such.

Siri will be able to do that and do it in a private way, which is why I think it's going

to be useful for everybody, but especially nice for attorneys.

And it's only a couple of months away.

I'm so excited.

And I think that last part is the key there because the fact that I want to be able to

ask and make queries against like my calendar or maybe even my contacts, like the person

I might be going to visit, they want me to keep it confidential that this is my client,

you know, kind of a thing, right? And so the idea that I can still query something on my iPhone,

but have that confidence level that it will remain private, that's the key. Even though as

Stephen talks about here, Apple is not a legal technology provider. So why should we trust it?

To your point about, you know, having something like Harvey or Clio, but the fact that it does

access still some very personal information and some of that can become, there's like some overlap

there between the confidentiality stuff. So yeah, good, good, good points on that.

Let's stay with security just for a little bit because you had another story today from the Wirecutter New York Times for iPhone security settings that you should turn on right now.

I kind of just skimmed this article, Jeff, but some of this I know we have talked about many, many times in the past, you and I, with setting up multi-factor authentication, making sure you've got your face ID on there, even to the extent of making sure there's two-factor authentication for your iCloud account.

In addition to that, right?

So if somebody gets into your phone,

you want to make sure that they can't easily access your iCloud account

and make some of those changes.

We've covered some pretty scary stories in the past on there.

But this is a good article, not too long.

I'll make sure that it's linked in the show notes for people to read through it.

One that jumped out at me, Brett,

is to decide what notifications you want to have appear on the face of your iPhone.

Because there's the idea that, you know, if it's an email

and if it shows a preview of the email,

and that's a confidential email and your phone is just sitting there on a table, somebody looking

over your shoulder or walking by might see that. And, um, you know, goodness gracious, if it was

something truly confidential that they learned, that would be a breach of the confidentiality.

Um, I personally don't have my emails show up on the face of my iPhone for that very reason.

I do have tech show up because for me personally, I never really text work stuff. I text, I text

friends and family members. And so, you know, if somebody walks by and happens to see that my,

my daughter has a question about, can I borrow the car tonight or something like that? That's,

that's nothing that's fine, but it's a good point that you should think about what is going to show

up on the face of your iPhone, because that is a potential security leak, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. The only thing I was just going to say is in mail, I I'm kind of the same way. I don't have

a lot of my mail messages show up in notifications.

But since I have multiple mail accounts,

for like one or two more personal mail accounts,

I will turn it on if that makes sense, right?

So you can even customize it that much.

That's what I was looking at here

when you were talking on there.

But yeah, good practices on there.

I'm gonna call him our good friend, Glenn Fleischman,

even though I don't know if either of us have met him.

I just feel like I would have a nice cup of coffee with him.

Glenn Fleischman wrote about how to download maps.

He writes for Six Colors now, which is great.

And I thought this was just some good stories about when he was driving with his young kids and they went off the main road.

And most of us would think, OK, well, the GPS map will just reroute, right?

You just it's going to reroute. It's not a problem.

but before and you and I remember these days when we were young Jeff before you had GPS to reroute

you you actually had to open up an atlas or a paper map and you had to stop pull off the side

of the road and figure out where you were how did we make that turn how do we backtrack

just good stuff like this and you would think we've got it covered today except there are times

when you may not have a good sell signal or even if you do you may still want to have that confidence

level that you can access the map even without cellular. And that's what Glenn goes into here,

how to download maps or even just sections of maps, right? So if you know you're going,

he's got an example here, Berlin, you can download the entire Berlin city map so that you can still

access it even if you're not connected to Wi-Fi or have cellular. And you can do this both in Apple

Maps and in Google Maps. Yeah, it's an excellent tip. And if you're going to travel someplace,

that you might not have good internet

because it's international travel

or you're in the middle of nowhere

that the cell phone signal might not be very good.

It's a really, really good tip.

It's one of those things that you want to remember

to do before your trip

because once you're there, it's too late.

So like put it on your to-do list,

put on your packing list, so to speak.

That's a great point.

That's a great point.

And it will tell you,

and he says in here, I think somewhere

that it does take some room on your phone,

not a lot, but it could be anywhere from 200,

Like this one here for Seattle is 250 megabytes.

Not that big.

Could be 500 megabytes.

Could be a gig.

So just know that sometimes that you might want to go and take it off.

I do this fairly regularly because, you know, sometimes I go and hiking in sort of remote

areas.

And I think he talked about one of his kids was doing the same thing and it actually didn't

end up working for him or her.

But if I go hiking somewhere that's a little bit remote, I may still have a signal, but

there could be a stretch here or there where I don't.

but I still want to see the map. So I'll do this.

I'll go in and I'll zoom into a section of the map that I want.

And I would say, download this map just so that I know I can access it offline.

Great little tip on there as well. In the show,

you, as you have said, just were traveling.

And apparently while you were on the plane,

you had your vision pro with you, my friend, and you enjoyed a movie.

And I can't remember. I couldn't tell if you did ultra HD, HDR, high frame rate or whatever it was.

I had it all. But it sounds like you enjoyed watching Avatar Fire and Ash.

Yeah, I only started the movie, but I had a very long flight. I had some downtime. I did some work on the plane.

But, you know, you get to the point where you've done all your emails, everything's caught up and I'm just sitting there.

And I decided to bring my Vision Pro with me. I don't always bring it with my travel.

But I tell you, the point of the link today is the Reddit thread that I linked to talked about how there are some movies that they have incredible, incredible, very high quality versions.

Most of them are in the Disney Plus.

Disney does a fantastic job.

They do a good job.

And this one happened to be a 3D movie as well.

But they just look fantastic.

They're going to look fantastic on your home TV.

But on a Vision Pro, which you have these incredible OLED screens that are so close to your eye, it's unbelievable.

So I thought it was just an interesting juxtaposition.

Watching a movie on a plane traditionally is one of the worst experiences, right?

Because you're like looking at your little iPhone or your computer screen or maybe the thing on the back of the headrest in front of you that might not even work.

If it works.

If it works.

And yet here I am.

I've got my Vision Pro on.

So, of course, I look a little geeky.

You know, too bad.

And I've got this huge screen as if I'm in an IMAX theater.

Right.

It is so crisp.

I'm so jealous.

And colorful.

Because I don't even like watching 3D movies in a theater because you have to wear those polarized glasses and stuff.

Right, right.

It was the most amazing image of a movie I've ever seen in my entire life, and I'm watching it on a plane.

Now, the quality of the movie, I'm only a little bit into it, you know, whatever.

Some people love the Avatar movies.

I think they're fine.

You're just in it for the immersive.

I'm just in it because I want a feast for the eyes.

I want something beautiful and colorful and bright.

And I was thinking about this week because not that it's the same thing,

but one of the things in the news in the last week is that Snap came out with their Snap.

Is it called the Spectacles?

It's sort of their version of the Ray-Ban glasses.

And in fact, Meta recently came out with new versions of their glasses too.

This entire field is continuing to develop.

And as we say every time, the Apple Vision Pro is a peek into the future.

It's the technology that everybody will have access to in five or ten years.

I'm just getting a preview for it today.

So cool stuff.

It's just thinking about the future of movies and enjoying movies when you stream them.

Cool stuff.

I feel like I'm going to come to regret not buying a Vision Pro two days ago because now it'll be $200 more.

Another Reddit thread that you linked to all the Apple TV releases from January till June 2026.

What a nice little list here that it's like, oh, yeah, I want to watch that.

I did that one.

That was great.

I want to watch that.

I want to watch that.

Good stuff.

Yeah, so many good ones.

I just finished watching Widow's Bay.

I think we talked about that last week.

That was so amazing.

Oh, yeah, it was good.

And the other ones I listed in my post today, Tehran, Hijack, Shrinking, Shrinking.

Oh, so good.

Harrison Ford's amazing.

For All Mankind.

I'm Loving Star City.

Margot's Got Money Troubles.

There's so many good ones.

And there's a bunch on that list that I haven't even watched yet.

The quality on Apple TV is just amazing.

Have you started Star City yet?

Have you started that one?

I have started that one.

That was really good.

Yeah, it's good.

And my son and I are watching it.

It's fantastic.

One that I haven't started yet is called Cape Fear, which is based on an old movie.

And I wasn't sure if I was going to watch it or not.

And then just the other day, I saw on Facebook, one of my friends from college posted that her daughter, who is a young actress.

I forget how old she is, probably like around 20 years old.

She's actually in the series.

And I'm like, oh, well, good for you.

Like you're on a show on Apple TV.

So maybe I'll have to watch it to see Piper in the show.

But anyway.

I am already excited because from a week from today, Silo Season 3 is getting ready to be released.

Now, we could take this opportunity to say we're actually not going to record next Friday.

First of all, because it's July 3rd.

Second of all, because I'm actually going to be flying back from an international hiking trip.

on um the the fifth and i've already got in my packing list jeff that that's what i'm doing on

the flight home as i am watching silo season three i hope they release several uh episodes at the same

time they probably won't release them all but i am so excited like maybe i'll just watch season one

and two again so that's in july 3rd so it's not even on this list here but it's it's uh that's

that's gonna be good i'm excited uh for that one now we just talked about glenn fleischman at six

colors. Six colors, of course, the brainchild of Jason Snell and Dan Warren, right? I think they

went in together on doing this together. We have linked many, many, many, many times to Six Colors,

but often we also have linked to Jason Snell's columns in Macworld because Jason Snell has been

writing for Macworld for 30 years now. I thought that was a nice little tribute that you put in

your post today, Jeff. And as you can see on the screen here, this more color column is now coming

to an end. Jason Snow writes his last column on Macworld. And I would say that I'm going to miss

other than the fact that I so enjoy his six colors. Like he just, I feel like he's got a little bit

more editorial personal freedom at six colors.com. And so it's like, okay, this is sad. And it's

nice. It's an end of an era as he talks about, but it was great to read this. He has even a picture

here, doesn't he? Of when, yeah, in 2001, he's sitting in, uh, I guess this has had to be the

Moscone center, right? It was San Francisco. This is the iPod launch in 2001. And there he is.

It's great. Yeah. It's definitely a transition for him. The article is also interesting because

use that as an opportunity to talk about transitions, to talk about the era of Steve Jobs at Apple,

the era of Tim Cook, and now we're starting the era of John Ternus. So it's almost like

an appropriate time for him to move on from Macworld. Jason used to be the editor-in-chief

of Macworld for many years. Back in the days when Macworld was like an actual physical magazine,

when it was really at its heyday. Nowadays, Macworld is a little bit of a ghost of its

former self it's just an online presence and stuff like that but um and i hate that it's one of the

websites that's horrible about pop-ups i'm gonna say it's pretty much an ad generator now

i mean there's good stuff i don't want to take anything away from all the people that we

we follow glory days of mac world yeah so but it's a good it's worth reading yeah uh jason says

i've only spoken to tim cook one time and that was in this wwdc uh two months two weeks ago

Because Tim Cook sat down right in front of me at the company's tech talk, and he said hello.

But he says, in contrast, I've talked to CEO, incoming CEO, John Ternus, a lot.

Jason said he is different from Cook in so many ways, and that's a good thing.

I just, that gives me warm feelings.

Just because, first of all, it's Jason Snell saying something like this.

And Jason is not going to back down from saying, you know, what needs to be said or what's on his mind.

And just the fact that he says that so nicely and bluntly makes me feel good and hopeful for the future on there.

Okay, before we end, here's a couple more things on the Apple Watch.

First of all, you linked to a great story in Engadget, 10 underrated Apple Watch features that you can set up in minutes.

Again, a lot of these I felt like we have talked about in the past, but it's always fun to see a list of tips.

Yeah, nothing new to me, but I always enjoy looking at these.

It's things like, you know, the double tip with your finger and, you know, using your

Apple Watch as a remote for your camera.

So you set up your camera and then you can get in the picture with your friends and family.

Again, we've talked about all of this before, but I always enjoy reading a good list of tips.

So yeah, looking at to see if anything jumps out of you.

Good stuff on there.

Okay.

And then the last little Apple Watch story is a video that you link to called Apple at

play World Surf League. This is only like a two minute video, but so interesting. I'd never thought

about using an Apple watch this way. Now, I don't think that you've watched the video yet. Did you

say? I started it, but you talk about it. You know it better than I do. So most of the time when I

think about an Apple watch, it's because, you know, in a sport, it's going to be tracking your steps,

right? Or it's watching your heart rate, or it's doing something to monitor on the health side.

And all of that is still incredibly important.

But if you watch this story, what was so interesting, this is about surf leagues, right?

So these are professional surfers that are out.

And I don't think it's just the surf, like they're doing tricks or stuff.

So as they paddle out to be ready to catch the wave, as it were, I never thought about this because you probably can't tell I'm not much of a surfer.

But those surfers out there in the water have to listen to announcements that come from the beach.

Well, that's a long way.

Like there's a big megaphone and everything, and they have to like pay attention to where it's going.

So what they did, this gentleman that's featured here in the video, made sure that the Apple Watch was a way that they could get messages.

So they show how he sets it up.

It's not really tracking.

I'm sure the Apple Watch is also tracking things at the same time.

But basically, it's sending announcements to the surfers that are way out in the water

so they don't have to try to listen for all the announcements.

You know, there's noise and waves crashing and all kinds of stuff like that.

So if it's their time to start or if they've got, you know, five minutes left for their

tricks or whatever that they're doing, I don't know too much about that.

But it shows up on their Apple Watch.

So instead of having to pay attention so hard, they just now get all of these messages and

this information on their Apple Watch.

And as the surfers out there, you can just, when you watch the video, you'll see, they just think it's amazing.

Like, this is great.

They love having access to this information on their wrist.

So I just like that little bit of a twist there with the Apple Watch.

Whereas, yes, for most sports, it's tracking things.

But in this case, it's really a communication tool.

And they show in the video that the people on the beach are tapping an iPad to, like, send a message.

Or, like, here's, you know, start or stop.

Or you've got this much time left.

You know, or here's the score.

your recent score, that kind of a stuff.

Just really cool little application for that.

Yeah.

You know, the Apple Watch is not as sophisticated as the iPhone or the Mac or the iPad, but there

are just so many ways that it's just so useful.

And I just love the Apple Watch.

What a great product.

I know.

I know.

Continue to enjoy it so much.

In the know.

In the know.

Here may be the most important website that you're going to see today, Jeff.

Okay.

Okay.

I found this the other day.

This is called, well, I don't even know if it's called anything.

I call it splitting your firewood.

So this is it.

Here's my tag for pulling it into in the news.

It works just great on an iPad.

So if you have this log, you can actually move it around because, you know, if you split firewood, you got to know, you got to hit the seam, right?

And then you just click to split it right down the middle.

there. So now I want to go here. I'm going to split it there. I'll turn this around. I can split it

there. And when you get small enough, wait, wait, wait for it, Jeff. When I click all of this,

you can see it all falls on the ground. One of the worst things about splitting firewood is having

to pick it up once it's done. Watch this. Boom. It stacked it all right over to the side for me.

Wow.

Yeah, bravo.

So worth it there.

Okay, that's my site for the day.

Screen.toys.

I guess I should say.

If you go to screen.toys, by the way, I don't know if you've seen this.

I feel like I've seen this road trip before.

This one's even better.

Screen.toys.

You just click and drag to drop some cars as you drive past the cows on there.

Okay, this is very important stuff, Jeff, and I just wanted to make sure that you –

I would love for you to also on the plane ride back, go to screen.toys on your Vision Pro and tell me if it's even better on that.

There you go.

Well, what a wonderful public service announcement.

Thank you for your service, Mr. Vernon.

Anytime.

You and I have been talking for the last few months about Apple Watch tips.

We talked about it just a few minutes ago.

And one of the things we talked about a few months ago was how useful it is that you can just put your Apple Watch close to your mouth and say one or two words.

And you don't have to say the hey.

You don't have to say the S-I-R-I word.

It's just what you want and do it.

And ever since you and I talked about this, I think I first discovered it from a post from David Pogue we were talking about a couple months ago.

But I'm just using it so much.

I mean, like the one I did not too long ago was the flashlight.

I just put my Apple Watch close to my mouth, just say the word flashlight, and it turns it into a flashlight.

And I'm walking around my house at night, and it's dark.

One of the folks that we know, in fact, he sat and had dinner with us when we were at ABA Tech Show in Chicago.

Yeah.

Warland's attorney, Jim Neesit.

He said, I was listening to the podcast, and I heard you all talk about it.

And he said that one that he found that he really likes is that you can raise your Apple Watch, and you can just say to start a workout.

And he said it works with, you know, running workouts, a walk.

He said it works with yoga.

And I'm like, oh, that's a great tip too.

So like, you know, sometimes I'll get in the treadmill and I just want to start.

So just, you know, do it, start, you know, say the magic words.

And it's a very quick way.

You don't have to like be fiddly with pressing the buttons and everything else.

So it's, you know, yet another example of these really useful things that you can do

just by putting your Apple Watch close to your mouth, saying a few words,

and it instantly starts it.

this one for starting a workout. I love these tips. If anyone has other things that are discovered,

I would love to hear about them because it just makes it so much more efficient,

so much more useful. I'm such a big fan. So thank you, Jim, for sending in that tip. I love it. I

love it. I feel so embarrassed that I haven't been using this more. It's like, come on, of all people,

we should know this. But since we talked about this a few weeks ago, whenever it was,

I've been doing it. Like, that's how I start a timer as opposed to pulling it up,

That was awesome.

I'm tapping the timer and scrolling up and finding the amount of time that I want.

But I didn't even think about this.

When I begin a workout, I go to my Apple Watch.

I tap workout.

I say outdoor run.

So I have to tap that one.

And then I have it apparently to where it doesn't start automatically.

So I have to swipe to the right and hit the start button to start the workout.

So thank you, Jim.

I'm going to try this because I can just now lift or raise to speak, I think is what officially what Apple calls it,

that I can say, start this workout

and it should start immediately

as opposed to me having to tap.

You know, it saves me like three or four taps.

I like that.

I think that's great.

That is, that's really neat.

I appreciate that.

Well, my friend, I know you are busy

and you've got to go around to Colorado Springs

and otherwise known as Colorado Springs, Italy.

Have a good day.

Safe travels for all the things that you do.

We will not talk next week

because next week will be July 3rd.

Obviously, the 4th of July is a big holiday in the United States, so we're going to take off for that.

So we'll talk with you in two weeks, Jeff.

See you in two weeks, Brett. Bye-bye, everybody.