1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks at be. 3 00:00:13,533 --> 00:00:15,813 Speaker 2: Time to catch up with our text. But Paul Stenhouse 4 00:00:16,053 --> 00:00:18,053 Speaker 2: is here with us this morning for the first time 5 00:00:18,493 --> 00:00:19,893 Speaker 2: and the new year killed of Paul. 6 00:00:20,413 --> 00:00:21,413 Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning. 7 00:00:21,733 --> 00:00:26,413 Speaker 2: So Siri and Google have signed a deal. Siri, of course, 8 00:00:26,613 --> 00:00:29,573 Speaker 2: is the voice assistant that has been plagued by problems 9 00:00:29,613 --> 00:00:32,573 Speaker 2: for Rapple over the last couple of years. Apple came out, 10 00:00:32,693 --> 00:00:35,453 Speaker 2: Let's just remind us as they came out and they said, 11 00:00:35,493 --> 00:00:37,933 Speaker 2: Siri using AI is going to be doing all of 12 00:00:37,933 --> 00:00:40,373 Speaker 2: these amazing things. So for example, you're going to be 13 00:00:40,413 --> 00:00:42,413 Speaker 2: able to say to Siri, Hey, Siri, has my mum's 14 00:00:42,493 --> 00:00:45,053 Speaker 2: flight landed yet? And Sirih's going to be so smart 15 00:00:45,253 --> 00:00:47,093 Speaker 2: that Sirih's going to go through your email, see an 16 00:00:47,133 --> 00:00:49,293 Speaker 2: email from your mum saying this is the flight I'm 17 00:00:49,293 --> 00:00:51,093 Speaker 2: going to be catching to visit you sometime soon. It's 18 00:00:51,093 --> 00:00:53,213 Speaker 2: then going to cross check that with the information at 19 00:00:53,213 --> 00:00:55,373 Speaker 2: your local airport to work out whether or not that 20 00:00:55,413 --> 00:00:56,933 Speaker 2: flight has arrived, and it's going to come back to 21 00:00:56,973 --> 00:00:59,693 Speaker 2: you with an answer and a mere second. And yet 22 00:01:00,133 --> 00:01:00,893 Speaker 2: it couldn't do that. 23 00:01:01,733 --> 00:01:03,613 Speaker 3: No, they got on stage and said this. 24 00:01:04,293 --> 00:01:06,773 Speaker 2: You know, there was a disaster, a true who is 25 00:01:06,813 --> 00:01:10,293 Speaker 2: a them, and and one that Apple usually wouldn't The 26 00:01:10,333 --> 00:01:13,853 Speaker 2: Apple of Old would never have made no. I. 27 00:01:13,853 --> 00:01:18,213 Speaker 3: I can only imagine that there was so much pressure 28 00:01:18,253 --> 00:01:20,613 Speaker 3: on them to make sure that they were in the 29 00:01:20,653 --> 00:01:24,213 Speaker 3: AI conversation that they just had to rush it. Because 30 00:01:24,213 --> 00:01:25,933 Speaker 3: they did. I think they couched it and said, you know, 31 00:01:26,013 --> 00:01:28,213 Speaker 3: these features are coming soon and this is just a preview. 32 00:01:28,253 --> 00:01:29,693 Speaker 3: And you know, I'm sure they had all sorts of 33 00:01:29,773 --> 00:01:32,533 Speaker 3: legales around like some of it, you know, so forward 34 00:01:32,573 --> 00:01:35,853 Speaker 3: looking statements and blah blah blah blah blah. But it just, 35 00:01:36,333 --> 00:01:39,213 Speaker 3: you know, they went so big with this Apple Intelligence AI, 36 00:01:39,293 --> 00:01:41,333 Speaker 3: which I just thought was so good. But they went 37 00:01:41,453 --> 00:01:44,173 Speaker 3: so big with it, and you say, it just it 38 00:01:44,293 --> 00:01:47,253 Speaker 3: hasn't happened, and they don't have Seemingly they don't have 39 00:01:47,333 --> 00:01:50,573 Speaker 3: the talent in house. They started to work with open AI, 40 00:01:50,733 --> 00:01:52,813 Speaker 3: and they've got an open AI partnerships with other chet 41 00:01:52,853 --> 00:01:56,013 Speaker 3: GPT folks, and so that's kind of built into Apple 42 00:01:56,093 --> 00:01:57,853 Speaker 3: and Surrey kind of at the moment. But it's all 43 00:01:57,853 --> 00:02:02,293 Speaker 3: a bit mashed together. Yeah, and so now they are 44 00:02:02,333 --> 00:02:06,093 Speaker 3: going to spend the word is a billion dollars a year. 45 00:02:06,693 --> 00:02:10,173 Speaker 3: Apple is just going to outsource serry basically the Gemini, 46 00:02:10,973 --> 00:02:14,533 Speaker 3: which is the Google assistant technology. Now they're going to 47 00:02:14,613 --> 00:02:17,053 Speaker 3: get something special. They're going to get a special Gemini 48 00:02:17,133 --> 00:02:20,493 Speaker 3: for for Apple. It's going to be able to run 49 00:02:20,573 --> 00:02:23,453 Speaker 3: locally on Apple devices where it can, and it's also 50 00:02:23,493 --> 00:02:25,853 Speaker 3: then going to run in Apple's private cloud. So the 51 00:02:25,893 --> 00:02:28,493 Speaker 3: Apple the Apple data is not going to go over 52 00:02:28,573 --> 00:02:30,653 Speaker 3: to Google. Right, It's going to be this you know, 53 00:02:31,573 --> 00:02:36,733 Speaker 3: siloed kind of piece. But it's an interesting money merry 54 00:02:36,733 --> 00:02:40,693 Speaker 3: go around Jack, because so in this deal, Apple will 55 00:02:40,733 --> 00:02:45,613 Speaker 3: be giving money to Google for Gemini, but Google gives 56 00:02:45,653 --> 00:02:49,653 Speaker 3: money to Apple to be their preferred search partner, right, 57 00:02:49,693 --> 00:02:52,173 Speaker 3: and they pay apparently like a billion dollars a year 58 00:02:52,213 --> 00:02:54,893 Speaker 3: for that too. So yeah, just it might just net out. 59 00:02:55,013 --> 00:02:56,613 Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, you do this and we'll do that. 60 00:02:56,693 --> 00:02:59,613 Speaker 2: Yeah you scratchratch yours? Yeah right yeah yeah. 61 00:02:59,653 --> 00:03:04,133 Speaker 3: So I don't know how that works, but I will 62 00:03:04,133 --> 00:03:05,853 Speaker 3: be interested to see if they ever get to that 63 00:03:06,013 --> 00:03:09,013 Speaker 3: kind of dream that they sold, because that is I mean, 64 00:03:09,053 --> 00:03:13,373 Speaker 3: that is true Apple intelligence. That's true artificial intelligence. If 65 00:03:13,373 --> 00:03:16,373 Speaker 3: it can figure out with the context of my mum, 66 00:03:16,693 --> 00:03:19,693 Speaker 3: my friend, my whatever you said, when does my friend's 67 00:03:19,733 --> 00:03:21,453 Speaker 3: flight come in and it can figure out that it's 68 00:03:21,493 --> 00:03:24,813 Speaker 3: someone you know, It can figure out if someone's flying, 69 00:03:25,213 --> 00:03:27,413 Speaker 3: did they send you the details. If it can get 70 00:03:27,453 --> 00:03:31,293 Speaker 3: to all of that stuff, that will be incredible. Yeah, 71 00:03:31,333 --> 00:03:33,133 Speaker 3: I guess we're just waiting and seeing Eli. 72 00:03:33,293 --> 00:03:33,693 Speaker 1: At the moment. 73 00:03:33,733 --> 00:03:37,213 Speaker 2: It's pretty annoying. I use it just for texting sometimes 74 00:03:37,213 --> 00:03:39,373 Speaker 2: and oh my god, it's like, oh wow, it's really 75 00:03:39,493 --> 00:03:40,973 Speaker 2: quite limited, you know. 76 00:03:41,533 --> 00:03:43,773 Speaker 3: Sah, you can only really sit an alarm for me, 77 00:03:43,813 --> 00:03:45,093 Speaker 3: and sometimes she doesn't even do that. 78 00:03:45,333 --> 00:03:48,533 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, frustrating. Anyway, Hey, Ika made a bit of 79 00:03:48,533 --> 00:03:50,973 Speaker 2: a splash that this year's consumer Electronics Show. 80 00:03:51,653 --> 00:03:54,293 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always at the very beginning of the year 81 00:03:54,533 --> 00:03:58,973 Speaker 3: in Vegas, ces as it's known, and it's really about 82 00:04:00,053 --> 00:04:02,813 Speaker 3: there's all sorts go there, right, consumer electronics is pretty broad, 83 00:04:02,813 --> 00:04:05,853 Speaker 3: but it's usually about kind of physical things. So there's 84 00:04:05,893 --> 00:04:08,893 Speaker 3: like Sam Sun goes and shows off their staff and 85 00:04:08,933 --> 00:04:10,853 Speaker 3: blah blah blah blahvor and kind of has a booth 86 00:04:10,893 --> 00:04:13,373 Speaker 3: and literally hundreds of thousands of people go to this 87 00:04:13,413 --> 00:04:16,933 Speaker 3: thing to check out the latest weirs. And Ikea was 88 00:04:16,973 --> 00:04:20,853 Speaker 3: there this year and they were showing off their latest 89 00:04:21,093 --> 00:04:24,933 Speaker 3: smart gadgets. They've been slowly getting into the smart home market. 90 00:04:25,893 --> 00:04:28,893 Speaker 3: And let me say, they have a really really impressive 91 00:04:28,973 --> 00:04:34,773 Speaker 3: array of smart things across all of it. What's cool 92 00:04:34,853 --> 00:04:37,573 Speaker 3: is that they're using this new standard which is called Matter, 93 00:04:37,613 --> 00:04:40,173 Speaker 3: which allows kind of all the different home systems to 94 00:04:40,213 --> 00:04:42,093 Speaker 3: talk together, kind of like we've got Wi Fi, we've 95 00:04:42,093 --> 00:04:45,213 Speaker 3: got Bluetooth Matters, kind of like one of these protocols. 96 00:04:45,853 --> 00:04:48,293 Speaker 3: But they've launched a whole ton of smart bulbs and 97 00:04:48,293 --> 00:04:50,533 Speaker 3: all sorts of different shapes and sizes, and they do 98 00:04:50,613 --> 00:04:55,133 Speaker 3: the variations on white, they do the full color. They've 99 00:04:55,173 --> 00:04:58,733 Speaker 3: got buttons and switches and plugs. But even this year 100 00:04:58,893 --> 00:05:00,853 Speaker 3: going to be rolling out and these are still to come. 101 00:05:02,493 --> 00:05:05,173 Speaker 3: Some quite sharp looking premium. 102 00:05:04,693 --> 00:05:07,093 Speaker 2: Speakers yet look like B. 103 00:05:07,133 --> 00:05:10,253 Speaker 3: And O the circular and they're on it. They can 104 00:05:10,293 --> 00:05:11,973 Speaker 3: be on a stand, but they can also be mounted 105 00:05:12,013 --> 00:05:15,613 Speaker 3: to the wall. They look pretty, they look like very 106 00:05:15,653 --> 00:05:18,373 Speaker 3: high end. Ike's knocked it out of the park with 107 00:05:18,453 --> 00:05:20,493 Speaker 3: that one. And they're also going to be doing a 108 00:05:20,613 --> 00:05:22,773 Speaker 3: seriously cheap Bluetooth speaker. So don't know how much it 109 00:05:22,773 --> 00:05:24,853 Speaker 3: would retail for in New Zealand, but in the US 110 00:05:24,893 --> 00:05:27,533 Speaker 3: it's expected to be ten dollars, and the reviews say 111 00:05:27,573 --> 00:05:31,613 Speaker 3: that it doesn't actually sound half bad. Yeah. So they've 112 00:05:31,613 --> 00:05:34,173 Speaker 3: got a whole bunch of switches and plugs and all 113 00:05:34,213 --> 00:05:35,853 Speaker 3: sorts of fun things. So if you do want to 114 00:05:35,853 --> 00:05:38,013 Speaker 3: start dabbling in the in the smart home market, it 115 00:05:38,133 --> 00:05:40,533 Speaker 3: used to be really expensive if you'd go down the 116 00:05:40,533 --> 00:05:44,293 Speaker 3: Phillips Hugh bowlb line. Holy molyah those are expensive. But 117 00:05:44,373 --> 00:05:46,453 Speaker 3: the Ikea stuff might be one to check out. 118 00:05:46,533 --> 00:05:48,573 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, very good, I thank you, Paul. Catch up 119 00:05:48,613 --> 00:05:51,533 Speaker 2: with you, Gamory. So now texpert Paul Stenhouse there. 120 00:05:52,013 --> 00:05:55,133 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live 121 00:05:55,213 --> 00:05:58,053 Speaker 1: to news talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or 122 00:05:58,133 --> 00:06:00,013 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.