1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: Get in text with technology with text stuff from dot com. 2 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: Hey everyone, and welcome to tex Stuff. I am Jonathan 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: Strickland and I'm Lauren voc Obam. And you know what, 4 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry guys in our last episode we left 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: you halfway through two thousand thirteen, But don't worry. We're 6 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: back and we're here to pick you up and carry 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: you the rest of the way, because otherwise, how would 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: you ever know what would have happened in the past 9 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: six months of your life? Right? I mean clearly you 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: were sitting on the edge of your seat. How is 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: two thousand thir taking It turned out? Well, June follow me, 12 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: Yes it did, So we're picking up in June two thirteen. Uh, 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: this is the first story we have is one that 14 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: amused me because I was very curious to see how 15 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: it would play out. And I'm still perplexed. Um, and 16 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: we're talking about the my Space relaunch. So my Space 17 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: obviously a huge social media platform back in the day. Yeah, 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: I think as of what would that have been like 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: two thousand Yeah, Like you know, there was a time 20 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: where everyone was on my Space. Facebook had just started 21 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: as yeah, and and Facebook was just for college students 22 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: when it first started, I couldn't. By that time, I 23 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: was out of college, so I was not I was 24 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 1: not admitted into Facebook. I didn't fit that that criterionographic. Yeah, 25 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: so I was, but I was on my Space, and 26 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: I remember seeing Facebook opening up to the public and 27 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:33,559 Speaker 1: thinking this upstart social platforms. Never, why are they even trying? 28 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: My Space already dominates the space. But then over time, 29 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: you know, I got a little tired of everyone turning 30 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: their profile pages into sparkly unicorns that play music at 31 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 1: you no matter what you try to do. That was 32 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: the best part of my Space. Yeah, when it became 33 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: Geo City's part two. So anyway, long story short, they 34 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: decided to uh, new owners came in and bought up 35 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: the company. They rebranded, they relaunched, They had a twenty 36 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: million all our ad campaign. Yeah, and it's really more 37 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: about I mean, it was always a big place for 38 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: music discovery, but now that's almost all it's about. And 39 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: it's just about music discovery. But I don't know that 40 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: that many people care about it. I think it was 41 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: a little it was too little, too late. You had 42 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: already lost a great deal of your audience, and the 43 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: ones who remain are are die hards, but you're not really. 44 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: I don't think that my space is attracting new audience 45 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: the way they need to. I think that I think 46 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: that young bands are probably going to something like Tumbler 47 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: or SoundCloud or making their own um, their own blog 48 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: to launch that where you can get all that stuff 49 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: and or or a little bit on Facebook. Still. Yeah, yeah, 50 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: so that's a that was a tough one. Also, in June, 51 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: that's when we first learned about Google's Project Loon. We 52 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: talked about, right, those are those um kind of internet 53 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: weather balloons. Yeah, balloons that provide WiFi to remote locations 54 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: and they float in the stratsphere to do it. Yeah. 55 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 1: We did a whole episode on that on November twenty 56 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 1: called The Louns at Google. If you would like to 57 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: go check that out. Yeah. My favorite part of that 58 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: story is the Australian couple who were one of the 59 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: early early alpha testers, who were approached by the Google 60 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: men in black. Can we put this on your house? 61 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: We can't tell you what it is or what it 62 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: does or how long it will be there, And they said, okay, 63 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: apparently it's very laid back on the outback. So uh, 64 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: then we've got another big story. This is really we 65 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,079 Speaker 1: joked last last in the last episode about the biggest 66 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: story of the year being Gift or Jeff. This I 67 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: think is truly the biggest story of the year. Would 68 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: be hard to say it's not. Absolutely. The ramifications of 69 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,119 Speaker 1: this one are are huge. We are, of course, talking 70 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: about the story that was first broken by The Guardian 71 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: and the Washington Post that coordinated together to reveal that 72 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: the n s A was having a surveillance program that 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: stretched across the Internet and was incredibly deep, to the 74 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: point where it was it was farming out information from 75 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: major providers like Google. It was you know, essentially tapping 76 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: into that stream and seeing all the stuff that was 77 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: going through UM in an attempt, at least from the 78 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: NSA's point of view, to stop foreign threats against the 79 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: United States. The idea of being that this was really 80 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: only supposed to apply to communications between agents of foreign nations, 81 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: whether that is a citizen who's working on the United 82 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: States is and working on behalf of a foreign nation, 83 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: or some person of uh, you know, some somewhat a 84 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: foreigner who was working on behalf of a nation. UM. However, 85 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: because of the way the Internet works and the way 86 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 1: that data centers work. We it's really a quite widespread 87 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: surveillance program. And not only that, but they have a 88 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: very low threshold of certainty that they felt they needed 89 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: to hit in order for them to identify someone as 90 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: a foreign agent. In other words, you know, like if 91 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: they felt fift sure that someone was a foreign agent, 92 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: they would go ahead of start, which yeah, they they 93 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: instructed their their operators to go a little more than 94 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: a coin flip. And on top of that, there were 95 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: some stories about n s A employees abusing the system, 96 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: people who are using it to spy on like ex 97 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: girlfriends or ex boyfriends, or people who were using it 98 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: for other means, where you know, clearly this is not 99 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,119 Speaker 1: a foreign agent. This is people being people. And even 100 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: this is a good example of how even if your 101 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: system was designed to do a specific thing really well, 102 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: it's really only as good as the people who are 103 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: using it. So even if we were to take the 104 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: n s A at their word that everything was on 105 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: the up and up and everything is legal, and that's 106 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: questionable to according to your point of view. I mean, 107 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: the whole thing was approved by a secret court whose 108 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 1: findings are under under a court order, so that you 109 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: can't see them, you know, we we aren't allowed to 110 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 1: actually look in on the process, but we're told that 111 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: the process works. It's a complicated and frankly terrified ing story, 112 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: and it's one that's played out over the entire year 113 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: since then. Yeah, and and especially I mean, you know, 114 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: it's the fact that we learned about all of this 115 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 1: from a former n s A contractor, Edward Snowden, kind 116 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: of proves the point of of the system is only 117 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: as good its operators. Yes, because Snowdon was not like 118 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: an n Essay spy. Snowdon was someone who worked on 119 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 1: the system side of it, saw stuff that he felt 120 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: the public need to. Yeah, he's he was like, this 121 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: is not right, and I don't know how to act 122 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: on this other than to hand this information over to 123 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,679 Speaker 1: the press. And so that's what Snowton did. And of course, 124 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 1: depending upon how you view Snowden, you may think that 125 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: he's a trader or you may think he's a hero. 126 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: He's currently living in temporary asylum in Russia because he's 127 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: essentially in exile. If he were to come back to 128 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: the United States, he would immediately be arrested. So, yeah, 129 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 1: complicated story, that's still playing out, and it's it's got 130 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: a lot of ramifications outside of just this story. It's 131 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: it's raised awareness about everything from online privacy to what 132 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 1: is our expectation for uh for our government looking in 133 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: on not just US, but other countries, other countries of 134 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: course looking at the United States saying even if all 135 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: of your citizens are cool with this, we're totally not 136 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: cool with this. Yeah, and especially since you know they're 137 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: they're they're monitoring so much information from so many people 138 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: that that use services that either porth to America are 139 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: owned by American companies that that normal citizens in many 140 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: other countries are being affected by this as well. So, yeah, big, 141 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: big story. Yeah, we we did. We did a two 142 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: part about prison, which is that that main program that 143 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: the n s A is running. Those episodes ran on 144 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: July first. Excellent, so go check those out if you 145 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: want to hear more about this story. Next, we have 146 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: a little more lighthearted story. That was when the Uyah 147 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: console launched on Amazon for it sold out basically immediately. 148 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: Uh So, this was the console that had a Kickstarter 149 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: campaign in two thousand twelve and was overwhell mainly successful. 150 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: This was one of those stories like the Pebbles smartwatch 151 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: that just you know, it just skyrocket and it really 152 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: hit a nerve. However, from the at least the initial 153 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: reviews of the system, a lot of people felt that um, 154 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: it had a lot of potential but didn't live up 155 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: to it yet it was a little bit half banked. 156 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: So it may it may turn out that in the 157 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: long run it turns into a console that people but 158 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: are consider one of the beloved consoles. But right now, 159 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of those earlier reviews were pretty harsh. 160 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: I remember even seeing an unboxing video where a person 161 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: unboxed and showed it off to the camera and then 162 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: immediately put it in a garbage can. Yeah, which I 163 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: thought was you know that, come on, stay classy. But 164 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: still you get the wa wait, we're on the internet. 165 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 1: I do you know how the internet works? What's the 166 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: what's the internet? I'm still on the arpanet and no 167 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: one talks to me. I think I've isolated your problem. 168 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: Let's move on to July, shall we. Yes? Um that's 169 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: when the director of Microsoft's Xbox program, Don Matric, left 170 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: the company to become the new CEO of Zenga. Yeah, 171 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: which was one of those things that caused a lot 172 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: of analysts to say, wait what because because because Xbox, 173 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: you know, one like arguably at that point in the year, 174 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 1: the largest gaming company. Yeah, I mean Xbox had been 175 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: selling like crazy. Some people would argue that the Xbox 176 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: division was the one division in Microsoft that really was 177 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: doing a great job. And then Matric leaves that to 178 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: go help Zinga, which had was a company that was 179 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 1: known to be in a kind of weird spiral continual 180 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: weird state of flux and Zinca of course, being that 181 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: mobile gaming app company, um, that that has done things 182 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: like Farmville and Words Friends, Yeah, stuff that is on 183 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: mobile platforms and also on on social media platforms. And uh, 184 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: I mean Zinga's old CEO actually essentially fired himself and 185 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: then hired Metric, So that was an interesting story. And 186 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: then uh, you know Xbox got a new director. Yeah, 187 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: that would be Julie Larson Green. She is officially the 188 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: executive vice President of Devices and Studios, which means that 189 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: she's in charge of all Xbox hardware, devices, games, music, 190 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 1: and entertainment. Um. This was scene is a pretty good 191 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: choice by most people because she, I mean she she 192 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: got her start at Microsoft overseeing the development of Visual 193 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: c plus plus. She helped create the ribbon for Office 194 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: two thousands. She's the previous co leader of Windows. She 195 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: led the planning on Windows seven. Um, so she had 196 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: some chops, some serious chops. Let me guess what the 197 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: problem was. She was a she. She was a she 198 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: and some really sexist gamers and she, I mean, she 199 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: happens to be like more or less like symmetrical in 200 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: her face, and so therefore a lot of really sexist 201 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: gamers were like that pretty lady can't possibly be a 202 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: gamer or know enough about games to do stuff and things. 203 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: And to be fair, she's she's self professed like not 204 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: huge into gaming. But I don't think we're not talking 205 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: about the business side of things. It's it's not like 206 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: the president of the Xbox division is the person who 207 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 1: decides which games get made and which ones don't. This 208 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: is someone who's got a vision for the overall consoles direction. 209 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: And also, I would like to posit that if in 210 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: fact we chose Xbox is president by like the person 211 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: who got the best gamer score. Uh yeah, it would 212 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: be terrible. These would be these companies would be in shambles. 213 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: So come on, guys, all right, at any rate. So 214 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: Also in July, Google unveiled Chrome Cast, which is a 215 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: cute little dongle that can connect to a television's h 216 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: d M I port and over WiFi. It can pick 217 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: up signals from your laptop or mobile device and stream 218 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: from the content on your computer or a mobile device 219 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: to the television. So, in other words, if you don't 220 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: have something like a game console or some other set 221 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: top box that brings in web content, or you've got 222 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: one but it's really limited, like it only brings in 223 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 1: web con tip from very specific sources, this would give 224 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: you more flexibility. I actually own one of these, and uh, 225 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: and I've got a lot of different options when it 226 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: comes to getting web content on my TV because I'm 227 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this. I like technology, 228 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: so but I got one of these, and it turns 229 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: out that I love this because if you want to 230 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: look for something specific on let's say YouTube, Let's say, 231 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: as you want to you want to look at a 232 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: YouTube video on your large screen, UM, this would be 233 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: a way of being able to do a search very quickly, 234 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: whereas a lot of the different consoles and set top 235 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: boxes out there have very clunky search features. If you're 236 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: not using something that has voice command where you can say, 237 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: look for that funny video where the cat falls asleep, 238 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: then you're gonna have some trouble. But if you're able 239 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: to go to your laptop and just do a quick 240 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: search by typing out a few keywords and then casting it, 241 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: you know, streaming it from your computer to the TV, 242 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: it makes it much simpler. And it's also a super 243 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: relatively speaking, a super cheap device. Yeah, it retails for 244 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: like thirty five bucks. I think thirty five bucks. I 245 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: was on a waiting list because by the time I 246 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: ordered it, it it already I had been announced and then 247 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: initially sold out. But even on the waiting list, I 248 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 1: think I had to wait maybe two weeks and then 249 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 1: I got mine and that was when it first came out. 250 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: So speaking of waiting lists, though, hey, oh yeah, this 251 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: is a story that fills me with joy. And this 252 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 1: one was not perhaps one of the largest stories of 253 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: the year, but but it is very, very close to 254 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: Jonathan's heart if you've listened to that. I can't remember 255 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: what episode it was where I totally lost it on 256 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 1: this particular story. I do remember doing that, and whether 257 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: we edited most of that out or not. But but 258 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: in in July, best Buy began stalking Pebble smart watches, 259 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: um uh, slightly before all of the Kickstarter backers of 260 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: of the Pedal Project had received their own right, I 261 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: was not a Kickstarter project backer, so I was not 262 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: expecting pre order. Yeah I was. I was a pre order, 263 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: But yeah, I I like to think that when you 264 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: pre order, I'm gonna have the same brand. I'm not 265 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. You pre 266 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: ordered a special color and they had not manufactured that 267 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: color yet, that the ones available best Buy were only 268 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: the black. That's true. And I got the I got 269 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: the very style. Only that on the back of it 270 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: it says Kickstarter Edition. And I was not a Kickstarter backer, 271 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: and yet I got a Kickstarter edition watch, so I 272 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: cannot really complain. Also, I love that watch. I'm not 273 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: wearing it right now. I accidentally left it at home. 274 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: I had that he usually is I usually do wear it. Um. 275 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: I love it. It is one of my favorite gadgets 276 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: that I've picked up in the last couple of years. 277 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: And it's you know, people say, well, the Pebble smart 278 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: watch is kind of limited what it can do, which 279 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: is true. But what it does do, it does really 280 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: well and I like the things that it does do. So, um, 281 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: I've really had If you ever watch any of my 282 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: forward thinking videos, anyone I shot after the I got 283 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: that watch, you'll see that watch on my wrist. So 284 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: but yes, there was a moment where I was I 285 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: was curssing pebble. Uh. Next, we have a story that 286 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: developed and we also covered this in an episode of 287 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: tech Stuff. This was a special episode of tech Stuff 288 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: that Lauren you you you weren't there. Yeah, I was 289 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: out at one of my two best friends got married 290 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: two weekends in a row in October, So I missed 291 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: a little bit of things due to insanity and travel plans. 292 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: And Ben Bolan was kind enough to step in and 293 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: do this episode with Jonathan about Elon Musk's hyper loop yep, 294 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: and Elon Musk, of course, founder of Tesla Motors, founder 295 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: of SpaceX. Everyone has acknowledged that this dude is really 296 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: smart and really good at the business, and so he 297 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: had been teasing for a while that he had this 298 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: this cool idea for a new kind of transportation system, 299 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: and eventually he leaked that it was going to be 300 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: called the hyper loop, or that His concept was called 301 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: hyper loop, right, not that it was going to be 302 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: called because we're not really positive that this is going 303 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: to come to fruition ever. Yeah, no one has any 304 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: plans of actually building this. In fact, even Musk was 305 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: saying like it would be great if someone took this on, 306 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: suggesting that he himself was not going to be that person. 307 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: And to be fair, Musk has a lot on his plate. 308 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: So anyway, little bit busy with you know, to Tesla 309 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: motors and space. Little things like getting people into space 310 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: and getting electric super fast cars on the road does 311 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: take a lot of time. What what would not take 312 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: a lot of time if Hyperlooper built would be a 313 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles, which would be 314 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: only thirty five minutes in duration. Right, Uh, yeah, these 315 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: this is a electromagnetic train kind of thing. And yeah, 316 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: each each car is its own little capsule. It would 317 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: float on a cushion of air. Those electromagnetic motors would 318 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: provide the push that would allow it to go around 319 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: this loop track between San Francisco and l A and 320 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: um and supposedly you would travel at at a top 321 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: be that would be faster than what most commercial jets 322 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: travel at Uh. You know, it remains to be seeing 323 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 1: whether this is even feasible because no one has an 324 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: actual example of this to show that it truly would 325 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: work efficiently. If you listen to the hyper loop episode 326 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: we did, you will, Yeah, that one, that one published 327 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: on NOVEM. You're looking for it, so just go back 328 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: and check that one out. Let's move on to August. 329 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: Big story. We only have one story for August, but 330 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: it's a big one. Yeah. That was when Microsoft CEO 331 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: Steve Balmber announced that he was going to step down. Yeah, 332 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: which you know, some people had been calling for for 333 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: Balmer to step down for a couple of years. Developers, developers, developers. 334 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: I think the developers liked them, but I'm not sure 335 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 1: that anyone else did. Um No, I'm not. That's being unfair, 336 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: but there were there have been people who have said 337 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 1: that Microsoft suffers from a lack of true leadership. I 338 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: was never one of those people. I thought that Balmber 339 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 1: certainly was a powerful leader, but I didn't I wasn't 340 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 1: always sure that his vision of Microsoft was something that 341 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: aligned with what a lot of us the rank and file, 342 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: would consider, you know, really to be memorable or or relevant. 343 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: Now he was trying to to to straddle that line 344 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 1: between enterprise and consumers, and that's tough to do. That 345 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: is very tough to do. I also think that he 346 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: just has some a little bit of like charisma within 347 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: the press issues going on, where he kind of frequently 348 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 1: doesn't come off I think as well as he wants to, 349 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 1: or he could. He certainly comes off as enthusiastic, yes, 350 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: but perhaps not as a suave or like Steve Jobs 351 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: could come out and in just a super cool kind 352 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: of way for for geeks, super cool for geeks. Okay, 353 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: we're talking about a niche audience here, but in a 354 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: super cool kind of way, really drum up your excitement 355 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: for something. Uh, and Balmer could come out and you'd 356 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 1: be afraid he'd throw a chair at you. But but 357 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: you know, to be fair to Balmer, I mean, he 358 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: really obviously loves Yeah, so he um and his responses 359 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: in the wake of the announcement, it seemed to me 360 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: that it didn't sound like it was entirely his decision 361 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: to step down. It seemed to be like he was 362 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: someone who, you know, was really passionate about this company 363 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: and doesn't necessarily have a vision for what comes next. 364 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 1: For him UM, and the question of who will be 365 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 1: Microsoft's next CEO remains unanswered as of the recording of 366 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: this podcast. We are recording on December twelve, so it 367 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: is possible that before the end of the year that 368 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,640 Speaker 1: that decision has been made. But right now they're looking 369 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: at a couple of different candidates, Um, some of whom 370 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,959 Speaker 1: are people who are known to be great leaders but 371 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: have no experience in the computer or software industries. Yeah, 372 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 1: we're going to talk a little bit about that, I 373 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: think and predictions episode. Yeah. So, anyway, that was that 374 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: was a big story for August and we have gotten 375 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: through a Q three, so we want to hit SHU four. 376 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: But before we do that, let's take a quick break 377 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 1: to thank our sponsor. You know, try to remember the 378 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: kind of September when grass was green and grain was yellow. 379 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: We're talking September. I'm quoting from the Fantastics. If you 380 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: recognize that, you are awesome. So September, that's traditionally when 381 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: a company that rhymes with schmapple comes out and uh 382 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 1: and and whips the crowd into a rabid fervor of 383 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 1: joy and consumption. Right. Yeah, and they did tuberculosis consumption. 384 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: They certainly. I hope not. I've forgotten that from my iPhone. 385 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 1: There's no app for that. I no, No, that's that's 386 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: when they unveiled the iPhone five C and five S. 387 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: And it's funny because one of your predictions was all 388 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 1: about the US and you were and one of my 389 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: predictions was kind of about this. I think either way, 390 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: one of us predicted this and we were around the money. 391 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 1: I think I think that was you. I want to 392 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: I want to say that you said that there was 393 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: going to be a new iPhone and that you were 394 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: the one who called it iPhone five. Say it was 395 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: a tag team victory. Excellent. Now now it all comes 396 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: back to me, high fives. Um. So the five S 397 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: was the slightly more hardware update update. Yeah, faster processor, 398 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: better screen, biometric fingerprints, scanner, some all a little cool 399 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: bells and whistles were added to that one. The five 400 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: C was basically just a cheaper version of the of 401 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: the five of the original five. Get it in a 402 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: different color than wide or black, in in multiple kind 403 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: of awful colors. Stupid color. I don't know. I'm sure 404 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: there are people out there who accessorize everything, and you've 405 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: got you know, your gorgeous phone. That's a gorgeous color. 406 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: I'm a simple I just want a black phone. It's 407 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: it's for me personally, that's what That's what cases are for. 408 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: But I can certainly understand the cheaper part being a 409 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: big draw. Yeah. Sure. September was also the month when 410 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: Blockbuster Incorporated declared bankruptcy, which followed Blockbuster UK. They had 411 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: declared bankruptcy back in January, but in the United States 412 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 1: the main company didn't declare until September. Yeah. By November 413 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: they would have closed all of their US brick and 414 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: mortar stores, right right that they announced that they would 415 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 1: do that by January. Yeah, So no longer will you 416 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 1: walk into a neighborhood Blockbuster and look at the multiple 417 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 1: copies of Parent Trapped two and say, yeah, I just 418 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: don't know what to watch. Now you can do that 419 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: from the convenience of a red box, yes, or streaming 420 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: or streaming. So, in fact, Blockbuster still does have a 421 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: streaming service. Although I've read some pretty critical reviews of 422 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: that cular service, I have not used it, so I 423 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: am I'm not sure what the quality is because I've 424 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: never personally used it. It's in partnership with Dish though, 425 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: which is you know, big enough that I think, you know, 426 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: it certainly has the potential to live on Dish essentially 427 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: bought Blockbuster um and has decided to shut down all 428 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: the retail because it just looks like that's you know, 429 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 1: that's that's in the past. It everything seems to be 430 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: moving toward online distribution, which is not a big surprise 431 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: to anyone who's been paying attention to the last few years. 432 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: Oh sure. And also, I mean even for for offline distribution, 433 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 1: I think that just when you're competing with a company 434 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: like red Box that has these you know, I mean 435 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: basically zero footprint machines instead of large retail spaces that 436 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 1: you have to build out and and and pay, you know, 437 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: even if you're competing against like Netflix's DVD service, which 438 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: a lot of us forget about but still exists. So yeah, 439 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: it's a tough story for them. That brings us into October, right. 440 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: That's more Apple news Maple Yep, that's when they So 441 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: they had already updated their iPhones, but that's not good 442 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 1: enough for Apple. They have to update lots of stuff. 443 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: They updated their iPad line. They introduced the iPad air, 444 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: which is I will admit a gloriously beautiful looking device. 445 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: Apple is pretty good at that. I don't own one. 446 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 1: I don't think I'll be buying one anytime soon, but 447 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,640 Speaker 1: I can certainly see the appeal of it. Yeah. Um. 448 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: They also introduced a new MacBook Pro YEP, a couple 449 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: of different models of that, and they introduced they had 450 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: already announced the new operating system, but this is when 451 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: they actually were launching Mavericks, which was that was a 452 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: big departure, right, Yeah, well a it's not named after 453 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: a big cat, um, so that was that was weird there. 454 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 1: But but also that it would be a free download 455 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: for current Mac os owners. Yeah, so it wasn't something 456 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 1: where you'd have to go and purchase this operating system update. 457 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: You could download it for free, which is a new model. 458 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: Is essentially kind of sends a message saying that Apple 459 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: is getting into more and more of the hardware side 460 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,719 Speaker 1: of thing as their main revenue generation point and not 461 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: the operating system side. Also, I think it was a 462 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: huge bite of the thumb in the face of Microsoft 463 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: and all of their all of their Windows eight problems. Yes, 464 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: Apple was the montague to Microsoft's capulet, and they did 465 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: bite their thumb at them. Uh yes, yes, sah, yes, indeed. Um, yeah, 466 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: that was a that was a big story actually because again, 467 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: you know, Microsoft, we didn't really cover it in this 468 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: in this uh look back a but Microsoft didn't have 469 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 1: a whole of success with Windows eight. And yeah, that's 470 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 1: kind of why we don't have to have a bullet 471 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: in here because nothing happened with it. Yeah, just it 472 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: was one of those things where people who liked it 473 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: really liked it, but there weren't that many people. A 474 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: lot of people just didn't try it. So it could 475 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: be that the potential audience is huge, but the actual 476 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: audience is pretty small. So you know, offering up your 477 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 1: os for free was again thumbing the nose or biting 478 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: the thumbs somewhere. That hand is somewhere in front of 479 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: the face and things are not polite. Thumbs are involved. 480 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 1: Also in October, that's when um, Jeff Bezos, the CEO 481 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 1: of course of Amazon, officially took over as the owner 482 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: of the Washington Post newspaper, which was a big shake 483 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: up in the in the newspaper industry. Oh yeah, well, 484 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: I mean the paper had been owned by the same 485 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: the same family, um, the Graham family for eighty years. Yeah, 486 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: that's a long time. So he paid a cool two 487 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: fifty million for that, which some people had suggested was 488 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: actually too much, saying that you know, print is on 489 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: the way out. Sure, but you know, I think that 490 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: it's interesting, um for for Amazon to absorb that kind 491 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 1: of news service, especially when you compare them to uh 492 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: to to say, the Apple family of of of iTunes 493 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 1: news distribution like that. Um. But for for more of 494 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: the crazy things that um, Amazon and Bezos do, we 495 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: did a two part series on on them that aired 496 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: February of this year. Yep, so of course that pre 497 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: dates this particular story. But and also I should point 498 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 1: out that, uh, I believe it's Bezos who owns Washington 499 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: Post and it's separate from Amazon entirely, which well, I 500 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: don't know how long that will last or exactly. I 501 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 1: wonder if Bezos is just positioning himself to be the 502 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: next Hearst newspaper bar and if he builds a castle, 503 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: and then if he buys a sled, just watch out. 504 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying, no spoilers, but watch out other 505 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: things to kind of watch out for a mysterious barge 506 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: off the coast of San Francisco. Gosh. I remember hearing 507 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,199 Speaker 1: this story and I was immediately enthralled the idea that 508 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: there was a barge and no one was really sure 509 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 1: why it was there, and it had canisters aren't that 510 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: made it four stories tall? And it was off Treasure 511 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,879 Speaker 1: Island off the coast of San Francisco. And I'm like, 512 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: is this is this a pirate story that's happening? I mean, 513 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,719 Speaker 1: you know, granted it's not a Spanish War galleon or anything, 514 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 1: but still, and turned out, uh well, eventually people figured 515 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: out that was connected to Google, although Google was being 516 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 1: very sly and not saying anything about it. And then 517 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: the question was, well, what is it? Some people thought 518 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: that perhaps it was gonna be one of those floating 519 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: data centers that Google had created a patent four years ago, 520 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: where the idea would be that you would use the 521 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 1: ocean water to help keep the data center cool and 522 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,639 Speaker 1: you and harness even the power of the tides to 523 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: to get power for your data center, and that maybe 524 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 1: this was going to be the first one. And other 525 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: people are saying, no, it's just gonna be a giant 526 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: floating mall for really rich people to buy their Google 527 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: glass and as it turns out it looks like it's 528 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: a really giant mall for really rich people to buy 529 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: their Google Glass and other Google x projects. So assuming 530 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: that Google can pull together all of the correct regulation 531 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: kind of kind of paperwork, yeah, it might be open sometime. Yeah. 532 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: It turns out that a lot of different entities began 533 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: to say, you know, Google, We're gonna need a little 534 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: proof that you can operate this safely and within the 535 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: laws of the United States. So the Coast Guard got interested, 536 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: among other entities. So there's gonna be some price, some 537 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: forms to fill out before this ever opens. Um. I 538 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: am curious to find out if only like the super 539 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: Google stuff is ever sold there. Like you can buy 540 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: Google Glass and an autonomous car and that's it, and 541 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: you have to drive that car back over. It's like 542 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: bang bang um. Also in October, the the Affordable Care 543 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: Acts website went into um healthcare dot gov. Yeah, this 544 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: was one of those things that now it had garnered 545 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: a lot of criticism before it even launched. Uh. Well, 546 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: first of all, there's a political side of it, huge 547 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: political controversy and lots of back and forth and many 548 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: many many months of lots of tiresome arguments on that 549 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 1: are still going on. But even apart from all the 550 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: political arguments, there were some people who they divorced themselves 551 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: from the whole political side. They just said, you announced 552 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: us back, you know, in the spring of and you 553 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: plan on launching it in the fall of That's not 554 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: enough time to design and quality do do q A 555 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: testing for a major operation like this website that millions 556 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: of people are going to be trying to access potentially 557 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: at the same time, right, and uh so, there were 558 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: a lot of critics who were saying, like, you really, 559 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: this this, this deadline is far too ambitious. Don't you 560 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,719 Speaker 1: want to actually have that or But but they went 561 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,959 Speaker 1: ahead and tried to launch it, and sure enough, there 562 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: were technical problems early early on. The site suffered some 563 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: for a couple of months. Really, I mean, I I 564 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: kind of just heard within recent weeks that they put 565 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: out a redesign early in December, I want to say, 566 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: and and I've heard that people have been having more 567 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: success with that. There's still some technical problems that pop up, 568 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: but it was it was one of those things that 569 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: it certainly didn't help the debate, you know, people pointed 570 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 1: to the to that as being another another talking point 571 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: in time, they got into an argument about the Affordable 572 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: Care Act. Uh, it does seem like it is working 573 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: better now than it was before, although you know, your 574 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: mileage may vary on any given day. So but still 575 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: that's one of the stories that we had to cover. 576 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: So that brings us into November. Now we're getting into 577 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: the recent past for for us, because pretty soon we're 578 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: gonna be talking about the future because there's one one, 579 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: one item on our list that has not yet happened. 580 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: But anyway, as of the recording of this podcast, anyway, 581 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: so November that's when, uh, well big big news for 582 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,479 Speaker 1: people who like to fly right right, the f a 583 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: A announced that they were going to relax restrictions um 584 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: almost immediately after we published an episode about their restrictions 585 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: on using electronics during flight. I'd like to think that 586 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: we caused them to really examine their policies and question 587 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 1: whether or not they were actually useful. I think that 588 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: had to have been at Jonathan. I think that we're 589 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: doing really important work. My ego demands that that's the truth. Anyway, 590 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: But so so at this point, you can, well, okay, 591 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: it depend on any given airline providers regulations most airlines 592 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: are going to probably fall right in line with it quickly, 593 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: because no one wants to be the airline the one 594 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: airline that doesn't allow their customers to do that, and 595 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: then everyone's like, well, I'm just gonna go fly on 596 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: this other one from now on. Yeah. But but so 597 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: for it's already rolling out in many airlines, and for 598 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: the most part, you can use electronic devices as long 599 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: as it's not using a cellular phone signal. Right, Um, 600 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: while you know, I mean from you know, the moment 601 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: that you are seated until the moment that you land 602 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: ready to get off the plane, so you can just 603 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: keep that, don't need to shut it down during takeoff 604 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: and landing, and keep that creative. Was it a creative 605 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: labs uh MP three player that weighs four hundred pounds 606 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: going the entire time? I do have one of those somewhere. 607 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: But yeah, you still you still cannot use cell phone signals. Um, 608 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: although that's also up for debate. Now that's up for debate. UM. 609 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 1: It's It's also part of the problem is that it's 610 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: uh that's tied up in the Federal Communications Commissions. So 611 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: it's not just it's also the FCC much more complicated. Yeah. 612 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: Um and and again yes, we we did a full 613 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: episode on that on September if you would like to 614 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: listen to exactly why we thought that they should do 615 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: what they announced that they were going to do. Yeah, 616 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: which clearly happened afterwards. Because we're talking November now, so 617 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: I mean correlation, causation, same thing, right, all right, moving on. 618 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 1: Also in November, a certain company held its initial public 619 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: offering or I p O. Yeah, Twitter, Yeah, big, big, 620 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,400 Speaker 1: crazy news is it's kind of in the footsteps of 621 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 1: Facebook's about a year previous I p O sort of 622 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 1: kind of. Um. They their IPO launched with an offer 623 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,959 Speaker 1: of twenty six dollars per share. Yeah, that was the 624 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 1: offer price that was before went on on actually the market, 625 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: but they said the offer price was gonna be twenty 626 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: six dollars per share. As it turns out, once the 627 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: market actually opened, the opening price, which is not the 628 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: same the offer price head was a little higher. Yeah. 629 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: I had jumped all the way to uh forty five 630 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 1: dollars and ten cents, and the peak that day was 631 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 1: fifty dollars and nine cents per share. However, that's not 632 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: what it closed at. It settled back down at Yeah, 633 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 1: so that means that it was actually by the end 634 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 1: of the day a little lower than what it was 635 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: when it first started, which meant that if you bought 636 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: it at the very beginning of the day and you 637 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: were holding onto it at the end of the day, 638 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 1: you technically lost cents. But share per share per share 639 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,839 Speaker 1: right now importantly. Um. You know however, uh no, I mean, 640 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: that's that's great for you know, for for for a 641 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 1: company that is still way behind say Facebook in users. 642 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: It doesn't have a billion users, certainly not um but 643 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: but you know, that's that's great. I was excited for him, 644 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 1: and it's It's interesting because this is one of those 645 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: I remember I was doing research for this podcast, and 646 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: uh and I pulled up information about Twitter and the 647 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,520 Speaker 1: i p O and what reactions were to it, and 648 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,439 Speaker 1: two results back to back, where one was a person 649 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: who wrote about how the Twitter i p O was 650 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: a huge success for Twitter, and the other one was 651 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 1: that Twitter i PO was a huge failure for Twitter. 652 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,799 Speaker 1: And thought, oh, finance, no wonder, I don't understand you. 653 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,959 Speaker 1: You're like quantum mechanics. It's in super position. It's both 654 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,319 Speaker 1: failing and succeeding at the same time, I think it's 655 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,320 Speaker 1: one of those time will tell kind of stories. And 656 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: it's still it's still early. We'll still find out another 657 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,840 Speaker 1: another thing currently in weird financial development. Um, the value 658 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,839 Speaker 1: of bitcoins did did some crazy things this year. At 659 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, they were pretty cheap, like 660 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 1: twelve to thirteen bucks, yeah, right around you know, right 661 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: at the very top end of twelve dollars, a low 662 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 1: in the thirteen dollars depending upon the day you were 663 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 1: looking at it. But yeah, throughout the year the value changed, uh, 664 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 1: significantly all the way to the point on November twenty nine, 665 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,399 Speaker 1: the currency hit it's all time high so far as 666 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,759 Speaker 1: of the recording of this podcast of one thousand, two 667 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 1: hundred forty two dollars per coin, which is a ten thousand, 668 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 1: more than ten percent increase in value. Uh. It's since 669 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 1: then dropped down to a little bit below a thousand dollars, 670 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:15,280 Speaker 1: it's sixty or something. Yeah, But um, I mean, oh see, 671 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 1: this is why I say it's not I can't think 672 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,440 Speaker 1: of it as a currency because investment. Yeah, because you can't, like, 673 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,879 Speaker 1: how would I price something so that you could buy 674 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,919 Speaker 1: it with bitcoin? Knowing that the next day I could 675 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 1: have potentially lost out on thousands of dollars, or that 676 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,840 Speaker 1: your your buyer could have lost out on thousands of 677 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,839 Speaker 1: dollars if they were buying, you know, a key chain 678 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: from you. Then suddenly that key chain is worth yea, 679 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: like like I paid what I thought was going to 680 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,880 Speaker 1: be three dollars for this key chain, but now it 681 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,839 Speaker 1: turns out I paid three thousand dollars for this key chain. Yeah, 682 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,839 Speaker 1: I mean it's it's that's why I say it's hard 683 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,879 Speaker 1: to call it a real currency because the volatility means 684 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,839 Speaker 1: that you cannot have a stable economy. You can't as 685 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 1: a vendor, it's very dangerous for you to create any 686 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: price for your items unless those are dynamically priced so 687 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,360 Speaker 1: that they reflect whatever the current value of bitcoin is, 688 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: which means anytime anyone visits your store, the prices are 689 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,840 Speaker 1: going to look very different day to day. So it 690 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 1: makes it really hard to have a stable economy. Absolutely, 691 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,200 Speaker 1: And I am not a finance person, but that's that 692 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,719 Speaker 1: just seems it seems like logic that brings us up 693 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,680 Speaker 1: to December. Yeah, and I think that we only have 694 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:30,840 Speaker 1: one bullet point. Technically we have to add yes, So 695 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,160 Speaker 1: anarchy is this first there's the the biggest, the other 696 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,759 Speaker 1: big announcement that Jeff Bezos was involved in where he 697 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: went on sixty minutes um right before Cyber Monday, he 698 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: went on sixty minutes and talked about his plans to 699 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: launch Amazon Prime Air launch. I like what you did there, Laurence. 700 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,480 Speaker 1: I didn't mean to what you did. Well, I'll remember 701 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:56,840 Speaker 1: this day, Okay. So anyway, so Amazon Prime Air is 702 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,959 Speaker 1: a drone delivery service, or will hypothetically be a drone 703 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Speaker 1: delivery service, assuming that many things and including technology, pricing, 704 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,200 Speaker 1: and regulations all fall into place, right, and it would 705 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 1: it would all that's like a pun too. It would 706 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,600 Speaker 1: end up taking off four to five years if the 707 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:17,600 Speaker 1: idea fly. But it may turn out that, you know 708 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,680 Speaker 1: something that maybe one or multiple factors caused this idea 709 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: to drop like a stone and not glide on by. 710 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,440 Speaker 1: I'm I'm running out, I'm running out. So yeah, Amazon 711 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 1: Prime Air, if it happens, that means that, you know, 712 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 1: we might have robots delivering our our our stuff. Are 713 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,000 Speaker 1: are our stuff under five pounds? Yeah? If we live 714 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,120 Speaker 1: within ten miles of a fulfillment center, and I'm guessing 715 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,520 Speaker 1: there's going to be potentially a hefty delivery fee. I 716 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,280 Speaker 1: would certainly guess that personally, Yeah, yeah, I would. I've 717 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,239 Speaker 1: seen people say like, is this going to put people 718 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,759 Speaker 1: of a job. My guess is that to make this 719 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,759 Speaker 1: make economic sense, there would have to be an additional 720 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 1: delivery fee if you had to have something within half 721 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,840 Speaker 1: an hour, which would mean that a lot of people 722 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: would opt out of it and say, you know what, 723 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,160 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna wait for it to get to meet 724 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: through regular means. I would suspect that it would be 725 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:14,680 Speaker 1: pricing on on par at least with overnight delivery pricing. Yeah, 726 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,520 Speaker 1: but at least Yeah. So here's my final bullet, the 727 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 1: one that does not appear on your notes. Technically, the 728 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,759 Speaker 1: reason why it doesn't appear on your notes is I 729 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,399 Speaker 1: added it at the last minute. And also today, as 730 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,000 Speaker 1: we said, is December twelve when we're recording this. Yeah, this, 731 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,840 Speaker 1: this news refers to something that should happen on the thirteenth, 732 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,840 Speaker 1: So by the time you, dear listener, are listening to 733 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 1: this episode, it will have already happened, unless it didn't. 734 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,719 Speaker 1: And uh that is that the Steam operating system is 735 00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 1: supposed to be available starting tomorrow, December Friday. I'll be 736 00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,120 Speaker 1: right back. Uh that uh, you know, so assuming that 737 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,080 Speaker 1: that all goes well, we're going to have this new 738 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 1: operating system on the market, which potentially could end up 739 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,719 Speaker 1: being down the line a real competitor against some of 740 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,760 Speaker 1: the next generation consoles that have just come out current generation. 741 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 1: I keep saying next generation now they're current, but Xbox 742 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,640 Speaker 1: one and PS four, oh and also Nintendo. We you, 743 00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:16,800 Speaker 1: I don't know, we keep forgetting about that. Everybody else anyway, 744 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 1: So if that in fact happened or did not happen, 745 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: we don't know yet, So you guys should write us 746 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,560 Speaker 1: and let us know. Actually we're gonna go ahead and 747 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,719 Speaker 1: wrap up this whole conversation. So yeah, yeah, I mean, 748 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,839 Speaker 1: you know, overall, I I hope that this has been 749 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,520 Speaker 1: an enjoyable look back at twenty. It's always fun to remember, 750 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,840 Speaker 1: like like their stories here, they're like, oh, yeah, that 751 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,359 Speaker 1: did happen to happen, and you know, just it's weird 752 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 1: for perspective purposes of of how quickly some things went 753 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,200 Speaker 1: out or failed to go out. And yeah, yeah, this 754 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: also marks a full year of you podcasting on tech stuff. 755 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,319 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, how does that feel? That feels very strange? 756 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,319 Speaker 1: Ye yep. So I hope, I hope that that you 757 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: have enjoyed my learning curve. Y'all, Well, it certainly didn't 758 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,120 Speaker 1: take you very long to get the grasp of it, 759 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,200 Speaker 1: so so I think the listeners agree with me. And 760 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,480 Speaker 1: if you don't keep it to yourself yet, so and 761 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,080 Speaker 1: so's all right. But for the rest of you guys 762 00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,879 Speaker 1: who want to chime in with constructive things to say, 763 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,920 Speaker 1: like suggestions for future episodes. Maybe there's something about fourteen 764 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 1: that really has you excited and that's something you want 765 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,440 Speaker 1: us to talk about, Or maybe there's something that happened 766 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,839 Speaker 1: in ten fourteen and you're like, I wanted to hear 767 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,440 Speaker 1: a podcast about that. We've been known to do those 768 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,759 Speaker 1: kind of things. Write us and let us know our 769 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,200 Speaker 1: email addresses tex stuff at Discovery dot com, or drop 770 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,640 Speaker 1: us a line on Facebook, Twitter or Tumbler. You can 771 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,880 Speaker 1: find us there. Our handle is text stuff hs W 772 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,480 Speaker 1: and Laren and I will talk to you again in 773 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:48,520 Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen. 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