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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: Twenty three to two eleven on News Talks, they'd be

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Speaker 2: well befourteen o'clock this morning, Kevin Milne was expressing his

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Speaker 2: befuddlement with a bitcoin eightym that he happened to come across.

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Speaker 2: If anyone knows how to use a bitcoin eightym, I'm

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Speaker 2: figuring it'll be our textbot Paul Stenhouse. Paul, have you

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Speaker 2: ever come across one of these before?

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Speaker 3: No, but there are some places I've been to where

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Speaker 3: you can you can choose to pay at the cash

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Speaker 3: register using bitcoin, right, And it was a really great

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Speaker 3: story with someone you know, this is now years ago,

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Speaker 3: probably ten years ago, paid for a pizza, yes, in bitcoin,

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Speaker 3: and that pizza today is now worth like.

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Speaker 2: Like the bitcoin that he used to pay dollars. No,

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Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's literally like tens of

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Speaker 2: millions of dollars.

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Speaker 3: It may even be yeah, yea yeah crazy. I mean

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Speaker 3: they were worth they were absolutely worthless, like it was

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Speaker 3: just and of course now they're not.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, okay, so you see a few of

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Speaker 2: these ATMs around the place and maybe and buy a

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Speaker 2: pizza and stuff. But well, Kevin, I mean, he just

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Speaker 2: didn't have any of the kind of various apps and

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Speaker 2: things that you need in order to get it. And

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Speaker 2: also I don't I mean, he didn't own any bitcoin.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure he wasterrible be enthusiastic about investing, but

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Speaker 2: maybe maybe he will be. I suppose you could argue, though,

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Speaker 2: that cryptocurrencies have kind of failed in them largely failed

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Speaker 2: at least to this point, if they were looking to

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Speaker 2: replace normal currencies.

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Speaker 3: We don't.

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Speaker 2: We people generally don't use cryptocurrencies for buying stuff. They

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Speaker 2: generally use them for speculative purposes or even the furious purposes.

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Speaker 3: And some there was exactly the word I was going

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Speaker 3: to use, and Kevin, being the upstanding yes, of course,

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Speaker 3: obviously does not.

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Speaker 2: It's never needed to lorn to hundreds of millions of

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Speaker 2: dollars necessarily.

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Speaker 3: But the problem is is people just see them You're right, though, right,

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Speaker 3: there is this there is this real promise. And if

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Speaker 3: you listen to the people who are big into crypto,

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Speaker 3: they're like, it's gonna you know, money is going to

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Speaker 3: cross borders, international borders. We're not going to need But

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Speaker 3: the problem is is it's just at the moment, it's

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Speaker 3: full of scam artists. You've got people like you, you know,

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Speaker 3: the Donald Trump coin or the Milania coin. It's like

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Speaker 3: you just pump it up, you hype it up.

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Speaker 2: And then you sell it and crashes. Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: so Apple Intelligence was built as this kind of revolution

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Speaker 2: for people in the Apple sphere, people with iPhones.

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Speaker 3: And talk about pumping things up.

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Speaker 2: Yea, I was going to say. And one of the

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Speaker 2: big changes they were promising. So they launched a new

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Speaker 2: phone last year, i think their iPhone sixteen, right, and

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Speaker 2: they said Apple Intelligence is coming, but they did this

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Speaker 2: weird thing. They were like, Apple Intelligence is coming in

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Speaker 2: a few months and Siri, Yeah, and Siri, the Apple

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Speaker 2: Voice Assistant is going to be really amazing. It's going

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Speaker 2: to do things you never thought were possible. How's that going?

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Speaker 3: Not well, quite simply. And it's kind of made me

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Speaker 3: think back to some of those really bad Apple launches,

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Speaker 3: like they try to launch iCloud. I still don't touch

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Speaker 3: iCloud because it was such a disaster launched. Yeah, Apple Maps.

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Speaker 3: I'm very rare open Apple Maps because do you remember

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Speaker 3: that was just it was sending people down roads and

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Speaker 3: roads didn't exist or roads were underwater. It took Apple

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Speaker 3: ten years basically to kind of like reget, you know,

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Speaker 3: to refresh their image and their brand around Apple Maps

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Speaker 3: to be something people actually want to use. And unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: this Apple Intelligence, which I've said to you, I think

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Speaker 3: is the most genius AI branding around Apple Intelligence. Love it,

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Speaker 3: it just hasn't delivered. And they really talked about the

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Speaker 3: Siri that we were kind of promised back when Surrey launched.

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Speaker 3: You know, a Siri that knows things that are going on.

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Speaker 3: It knows who your mum is, It knows that your

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Speaker 3: mum's on a flight. You can ask it, you know,

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Speaker 3: when when should I be going to the airport, and

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Speaker 3: it's going to say, well, actually, your mum's flight's delayed

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Speaker 3: by thirty minutes. You know. It was kind of like

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Speaker 3: that real Jetson's kind of future peace, and they just

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Speaker 3: they seemingly can't do it. And Apple has now had

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Speaker 3: to admit that it's going to take longer than we thought.

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Speaker 3: This is their statement, it's going to take us longer

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Speaker 3: than we thought to deliver on these feet, and we

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Speaker 3: anticipate rolling them out in the coming year. I think Jack,

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Speaker 3: they were so caught up in this AI hype because

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Speaker 3: I mean it's been it's been a hype cycle, right

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Speaker 3: that they pushed this out or they said that it

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Speaker 3: was coming, it was not ready. It still isn't ready,

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Speaker 3: and now they're having to deal with the consequences of that.

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Speaker 3: So probably they talked about it last year, so last summer.

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Speaker 3: So what ninelish months.

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Speaker 2: I mean it is is there. I'm not just asking

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Speaker 2: you to put your your kind of bush lawyer hat

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Speaker 2: on here. Is there a false advertising kind of law

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Speaker 2: so that it could be taken Because I was considering,

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Speaker 2: you know, I need to upgrade my phone. I thought,

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Speaker 2: can I hang on one more year? And I remember

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Speaker 2: looking at all the promos and they talked it up

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Speaker 2: so much.

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Speaker 3: There's a billboard right by the subway and it's got it.

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Speaker 3: It's this massive thing. It was, you know, partnered up

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Speaker 3: with one of the carriers. It's like, you know, get

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Speaker 3: the latest iPhone sixteen on Verizon now with Apple Intelligence.

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Speaker 3: And I remember looking at it just before I you know,

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Speaker 3: before they came up with this and thinking to myself,

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Speaker 3: it hasn't delivered, it hasn't come, it hasn't launched, And

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Speaker 3: I was thinking exactly that same thing. I wouldn't be surprised.

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Speaker 3: I think they've couched it. I mean they have delivered

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Speaker 3: on some of the features. So you can now get

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Speaker 3: your email summaries, your message summaries, your notification summaries that's

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Speaker 3: powered by Apple Intelligence. Yeah, you can create a memoji

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Speaker 3: that's powered by Apple Intelligence. So they probably have delivered.

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Speaker 3: I use that with loose terms on Apple Intelligence. But

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Speaker 3: the promise that they or.

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Speaker 2: They made on Suria big stuff, the.

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Speaker 3: Cool stuff about Sirih. I mean, I personally think that

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Speaker 3: Apple Intelligence has made my Suri dumber than it's ever been. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean I used to love when Sirih used to say,

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Speaker 3: you have one alarms set and it's like, really one alarms,

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Speaker 3: one alarms, And now it doesn't even recognize my voice.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know. I don't know if Apple Intelligence

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Speaker 3: is very intelligent at all.

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Speaker 1: Idea.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thanks Paul, appreciate your time. Paul Stenhouse had text Bit.

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Speaker 2: They're seventeen to eleven.

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