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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello again, everyone,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Bullette and

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Speaker 1: I am an editor here at how stuff works dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Sitting in cross from me, as he always does, is

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Speaker 1: senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Come get some Okay, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure where are you going with that Army of Darkness?

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Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, I've only seen parts of that movie.

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Speaker 1: It's a good one. So we've had a lot of requests,

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Speaker 1: and I mean a lot of requests for us to

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Speaker 1: cover a couple of different topics. And uh, we already

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Speaker 1: talked once about the iPhone four, So now we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about the operating system that exists on top

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Speaker 1: of the iPhone four I O S four. Actually it

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Speaker 1: also works on some, but not all, of Apple's other

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Speaker 1: devices as well, right, um, Actually, and it doesn't work

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Speaker 1: the same way on all of Apple's other devices, which

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Speaker 1: makes it kind of complicated. But let's let's start into that.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the iOS thing that's new, right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: it used to be the iPhone OS right, But of

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Speaker 1: course it also operated the i iPod Touch and um

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Speaker 1: just recently of course, with the launch of the iPad UH,

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Speaker 1: it is the operating system for that device as well,

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Speaker 1: So I guess they decided that they should make it

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Speaker 1: the iOS and UH, which is glad they haven't gone

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Speaker 1: back to using the version of its old, old, old,

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Speaker 1: pre Macintosh operating system Apple sauce. Yeah, it's also the

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Speaker 1: fact that they've changed the name to iOS. I mean,

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Speaker 1: first of all, to me, that just makes sense because,

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Speaker 1: multiple devices, not just the iPhone. Yes, so to call

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Speaker 1: it also has raised some room mers that perhaps this

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Speaker 1: it this way. The Google Chrome operating system that will

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Speaker 1: not really intended to be a main operating system either,

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Speaker 1: And yet it is also more sophisticated than the Android

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Speaker 1: once type operating system. Right, so let's talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about IO S four and what what makes it special. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And we we just kind of touched on one. Multitasking. Yes,

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Speaker 1: is limited multitasking. It is not on you know, you

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Speaker 1: I adjust these to incorporate these new features uh, because

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Speaker 1: you know it'll it's just one of those things where

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Speaker 1: um uh you know, you could just not touch them

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Speaker 1: and the apps will still work just fine. It's just

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Speaker 1: they won't be as robust as some of the new

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Speaker 1: stuff that's taking advantage of these these new capabilities, right right, Well,

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Speaker 1: they That's one of the big stories that's probably not

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Speaker 1: as interesting to the mainstream consumer is that Apple has

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Speaker 1: released a number of new A p I s UM,

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Speaker 1: which are programming interfaces for the UH for developers to use,

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Speaker 1: and it basically gives them a lot of UH technology

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Speaker 1: they can use to access functionality and the operating system

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Speaker 1: that they wouldn't have before. One that is going to

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Speaker 1: matter more I think to the to the consumer is

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Speaker 1: i ads UM, which is their advertising platform UM. And

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Speaker 1: what that's gonna do is probably for most people, going

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Speaker 1: to reduce the cost of some of the software some

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Speaker 1: of the applications, maybe offered now for free or for

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Speaker 1: less than they would have beforehand, because it's going to

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Speaker 1: be um, it's going to offer the developer a source

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Speaker 1: of incremental revenue. It's kind of given them an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to make a little bit more money than they would

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Speaker 1: have otherwise because they're gonna have advertising along with the

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Speaker 1: game or the other application that they're running. Um. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure a lot of people are going to find that

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Speaker 1: irritating to have advertising mixed in with that. And I've

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Speaker 1: seen on some of the discussion boards about it. I've

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Speaker 1: seen Android fans uh laughing about it, and I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: they shouldn't laugh too hard because Google is all about advertising. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's I think once this becomes the mainstream thing and Google,

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Speaker 1: we know the Google is interested in that too, because

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Speaker 1: Google snapped up a few mobile advertising companies already. So

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Speaker 1: it's from have from under Apple's nose. Yeah. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: and I'm an Android fan, don't get me wrong, but

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Speaker 1: I have no I have no illusions about where we're headed.

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Speaker 1: Oh I And I don't think it's limited either to

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Speaker 1: those two platforms. I think that's it's going to become

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Speaker 1: more common, although it will also give people an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to access more applications then they would they might necessarily

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Speaker 1: have been willing to pay for. You know, now that

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Speaker 1: it's going to be subsidized, at least partially with advertising,

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, it'll just sort of open the

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Speaker 1: doors a little bit more, and we'll also foster more

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Speaker 1: development if developers feel like they can make some more well.

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Speaker 1: And and it's also opening up new problems for Apple

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Speaker 1: and that in the sense that this is this specifically

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Speaker 1: relates back to the iPhone four, but uh, the whole

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Speaker 1: geolocation aspect where you can target ads based on someone's location.

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Speaker 1: So let's say that that our friend Bob over there

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Speaker 1: who likes that app so much. Let's say he also

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Speaker 1: happens to have a particular shoe store and he wants

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Speaker 1: to advertise to iPhone users who are living in the

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Speaker 1: general area of where his store is. Um, because the

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Speaker 1: way iOS four works and the way the iPhone four works,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that Apple is constantly keeping track of

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Speaker 1: where you are, that's a pretty big deal. You could

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Speaker 1: theoretically purchase targeted ads to people within that area who

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Speaker 1: are Apple customers, which sounds great for business owners, but

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Speaker 1: for iPhone users It's kind of scary because now you're thinking,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, what do you mean that Apple is

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Speaker 1: tracking me wherever I go? There's no way to turn

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Speaker 1: this stuff off so that Apple doesn't know where I am.

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Speaker 1: And that's actually become a pretty big uh issue within

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Speaker 1: the whole technology sector right now. Is the fact that

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Speaker 1: is Apple is what Apple is that policy even legal

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Speaker 1: for Apple to to follow it where they are essentially

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Speaker 1: keeping track of you through geolocation data on your iPhone device,

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Speaker 1: your iPhone four, let's be specific. UM. But you know

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Speaker 1: that's that's unfolding as we record this. In fact, by

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Speaker 1: the time this podcast goes live, I'm sure there'll be

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Speaker 1: more information about it, and we may end up doing

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Speaker 1: a more thorough podcast, not just about the iPhone four,

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Speaker 1: because Apple is not the only company that's looking into this. Again,

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Speaker 1: Google has very similar issues. UM. We might actually have

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Speaker 1: to do another, yet another privacy podcast, but we'll talk

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Speaker 1: more about privacy and geolocation, which is a much more

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Speaker 1: specific topic than say Facebook privacy. UM and UH. I've

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Speaker 1: I've seen some seeing some basic reviews of iOS four

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Speaker 1: UM and some more through ones like the harsh Technico.

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Speaker 1: When I mentioned earlier, UM and for the most part,

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Speaker 1: people seem to be pretty pleased. I would say that

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Speaker 1: most people say that it's been a very very good

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Speaker 1: evolutionary step. It's not necessarily revolutionary, and that some of

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Speaker 1: the advancements like multitasking probably don't go quite as far

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Speaker 1: as some would like them to go. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got to remember that Apple's balancing out not just

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Speaker 1: the functions, but the experience and especially battery life. They

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Speaker 1: want to make sure that, you know, they don't sacrifice

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Speaker 1: battery life just so that you can run more applications

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Speaker 1: in the background. Um well, that's that's one of the

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Speaker 1: things that people, uh, you know, to cry about Apple

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Speaker 1: is how it's a closed system and Apple does keep

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Speaker 1: quite a bit of control over the advices, but they

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Speaker 1: can also, um use that to improve their the experiences

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Speaker 1: that their customers. They may not always use that to

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Speaker 1: improve my experiences. They might be using it for other reasons,

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Speaker 1: but right, but in this in this case at least,

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Speaker 1: Apple has said that its intention is to maximize battery

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Speaker 1: life and to keep it from being a problem for people.

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Speaker 1: And um, you know, well, speaking as someone who owns

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Speaker 1: a phone, that the battery does rarely less longer than

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Speaker 1: a full day's use. In fact, usually I have to

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Speaker 1: charge it at least once throughout the day in order

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Speaker 1: to maintain that use through for the whole day. I

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Speaker 1: can certainly appreciate the notion that they want to extend

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Speaker 1: battery life as long as possible. To be fair, though,

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Speaker 1: how long have you had that? That HTCG one coming

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Speaker 1: up on two years? So, yeah, which is about when,

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Speaker 1: in my experience, the lifetime of a phone battery starts

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Speaker 1: to go down to even on day one. So so

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Speaker 1: the thing about it is that the more features you

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Speaker 1: turn on, the faster and drains the battery. No surprise,

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Speaker 1: there SOPs turned on. Yeah, GPS and WiFi and three

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Speaker 1: G and all that kind of stuff. That's exactly why

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Speaker 1: Apple wants to be able to control that experience to

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Speaker 1: all a certain lope level. Good lord, I need I

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Speaker 1: almost got all the way through without completely stumbling over myself. Well,

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Speaker 1: one problem that our tech Stuff listeners have had with

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Speaker 1: iOS forum on certain devices, on certain devices is a

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Speaker 1: likelihood that you won't be able to listen to tech stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that actually, or any health Stuff Works podcast for

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Speaker 1: that matter. And it's not It's not limited to just

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Speaker 1: the how stuff works podcasts either I've seen from the

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Speaker 1: research I have done online. It's not all podcasts from

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Speaker 1: the iTunes store. It looks like certain podcasts, and apparently

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Speaker 1: it clears up if you actually download the podcast to

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Speaker 1: your computer and then sink them. It looks like it's

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Speaker 1: a sinking issue. Like if you're trying to get the

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Speaker 1: podcast directly to your device without sinking your your device

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Speaker 1: to your computer, then you run into the problem. But

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Speaker 1: if you download it to the computer first and then

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Speaker 1: sink it seems to work fine. Yeah. Um, and by

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Speaker 1: the time this podcast goes live, that may not even

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Speaker 1: be an issue anymore. Yeah, but it's it's pretty strange

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Speaker 1: and I don't know why. Um, somebody thought we actually

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Speaker 1: changed the format and nope, it's an MP three yea,

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Speaker 1: the same as so same as it ever was, same

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Speaker 1: as everyone. I wonder why it's only unsumming on on

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Speaker 1: others one of those things. We're still taking a look

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Speaker 1: at it. Well. That wraps up our discussion on iOS four.

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