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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from news Talks at B Look.

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Speaker 2: I make no bones about it. I am a little

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Speaker 2: bit of an Apple yuppie. I think that's what you

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Speaker 2: call me. Yeah, I'm a bit of an Apple yuppy, right.

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Speaker 2: I was hooked to Apple products at a bit of

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Speaker 2: a critical time. Traveling across the US as a one

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Speaker 2: man TV news making band, I often found myself in

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Speaker 2: seat thirty two B of a cut price red Eye flight,

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Speaker 2: totally dependent on a laptop with sufficient grunt to edit

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Speaker 2: HD video for hours at a time, and sufficient durability

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Speaker 2: so that when it got knocked about in the overhead locker,

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Speaker 2: the casing around my laptop would remain in one piece.

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Speaker 2: So Apple it was. And the way these companies work

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Speaker 2: is that the moment you rely on them for one thing,

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Speaker 2: they're very good at getting their claws out and squarelasing

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Speaker 2: you ever closer. So I went from being an Apple

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Speaker 2: MacBook user to being an iPhone user, to being an

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Speaker 2: iPad user, to being an AirPod user to being an

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Speaker 2: iCloud subscriber too. I'm more or less trapped within the system. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: I'm locked into paying Apple every month until I leave

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Speaker 2: this mortal world. But finally I think I'm drawing the line.

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Speaker 2: So Apple, alongside its new phones, has just released its

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Speaker 2: latest Apple Watch, and it's finally caught up to much

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Speaker 2: of these smart device competition by giving users a daily

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Speaker 2: sleep score. So the idea is that you wear your

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Speaker 2: watch to bed and with its little senses and whatever technology,

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Speaker 2: it measures your heart rate and your blood oxygen saturation,

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Speaker 2: and your temperature, your movement. It records what time you

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Speaker 2: go down, It records the number of disturbances you have,

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Speaker 2: your various sleep cycles, and how much time you ultimately

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Speaker 2: spend between the show sheets, and then one to one

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Speaker 2: hundred it gives you a score. Of course, you can

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Speaker 2: be smart scored on all manner of things in life

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Speaker 2: these days. So you can get a smart toothbrush, for example,

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Speaker 2: that'll connect to an app on your phone and give

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Speaker 2: you personalized feedback on your brushing technique. Breezed over a

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Speaker 2: lower molar too quickly, did you, Well, I'm sorry to

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Speaker 2: say that's going to affect your score. You can get

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Speaker 2: a smart razor that'll do the same thing. Pushed a

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Speaker 2: bit hard on a tricky chin, dimple stiff cheese that

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Speaker 2: will affect your score. You can buy a smart water

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Speaker 2: bottle that will score your hydration. You can be scored

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Speaker 2: on your light exposure. You can be scored on your posture. Apparently,

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Speaker 2: if you're really curious, there is even a market in

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Speaker 2: devices that will score individual sexual well being. Just maybe

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Speaker 2: don't google limit work. But to me, at least, there

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Speaker 2: is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the sleep

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Speaker 2: score concept. If I'm having a bad night's sleep, if

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Speaker 2: something's keeping me up, few things are guaranteed to make

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Speaker 2: it worse than knowing I'm being assessed. I just know

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Speaker 2: that I'd get anxious. I would stress out even more.

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Speaker 2: I would toss and turn and flip my pillow back

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Speaker 2: and forth, and for what, just to read a number

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Speaker 2: in the morning that tells me what I already know.

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Speaker 2: The thing is, I don't need a smart watch or

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Speaker 2: a special ring. I don't need a wearable to know

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Speaker 2: that I've had a bad night's sleep. I know because

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Speaker 2: I feel bad. So I should have gone to bed earlier,

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Speaker 2: or shouldn't have had that late afternoon coffee. I should

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Speaker 2: have turned off those other screens and devices before getting

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Speaker 2: between the sheets, thank you. But instead of looking up

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Speaker 2: a score, I'll just turn to a mirror and see

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