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8th, 2020. 24

2:01

in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. From Studio

2:03

Animal House, I'm Sarah Lane. In Salt Lake

2:05

City, I'm Scott Johnson. And

2:07

I'm the show's producer, Roger Cenk. It

2:09

is a lovely Wednesday. It is

2:12

the day after an Annapple announcement. An

2:14

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2:17

If you're in Annapolis and watch the Apple announcement,

2:19

give yourself a high five. Please send us an

2:22

email. feedback at

2:24

dailytechnewsshow.com Let's

2:26

start with the quick hits. Reuters

2:29

sources say the U.S. Department of Justice

2:32

is considering whether it will file

2:34

charges of misleading investors about the

2:36

self-driving capabilities of Tesla. It's

2:39

also considering whether wire fraud was committed

2:42

because of interstate communications to

2:44

consumers about capabilities. Like

2:46

any probe, it may not result in any charges.

2:49

Microsoft has closed a number of

2:51

game studios under Bethesda and made

2:53

some job cuts at the company

2:55

as well. Microsoft will also move

2:58

Roadhouse Studios into ZeniMax Online Studios

3:00

and close Alpha Dog games. There

3:03

will also be a game that

3:05

will no longer receive updates or

3:07

new downloadable content, but will remain

3:09

online to play. And that is

3:11

Redfall. At

3:13

Apple's iPad event on Tuesday that

3:16

included a refresh line of the iPad Air and

3:18

new iPad Pros, Apple didn't

3:20

note that it's actually removed the

3:22

ultra-wide camera from the rear camera module

3:24

together on the Pro. 9to5Mac also notes

3:26

that with the performance jump of the

3:29

10-core CPU found inside the new M4

3:31

chip, highly touted by Apple, only

3:35

that only arrives in that form on the

3:37

1 and 2 terabyte iPad Pro models, which of

3:39

course are the most expensive. Lower

3:42

storage iPads get an M4 chip, all

3:44

the same, with a 9-core CPU,

3:47

10-core GPU, and 8 gigs

3:49

of RAM rather than 16. People

3:52

have been very upset about Reddit and all

3:54

the moves it made around moderators and how

3:56

it was all just related to their

3:58

stock IPO. So there were a

4:01

lot of eyeballs on Reddit's first earnings

4:03

report since it publicly issued that

4:06

stock in March. And here is

4:08

the bad news. Revenue

4:10

is up 48% over the previous year. Ad

4:14

revenue was a big driver of that, up 39%.

4:19

And it reported 82.7 million

4:21

daily active users beating expectations.

4:24

Tom, I am so sorry for your loss. I

4:26

know. I know. These actually

4:28

seem like good numbers now that I'm

4:30

looking at. Yeah, weird. Oh, yeah. No,

4:34

no, these are good numbers. Sorry,

4:37

everybody. Google

4:40

DeepMind has unveiled AlphaFold3, the

4:42

newest version of the transformative

4:44

machine learning model. AlphaFold

4:46

first debuted back in 2018 as

4:49

a model at predicting protein structure from

4:51

the sequence of amino acids that make

4:53

up those structures. AlphaFold3 is

4:56

a more accurate version of

4:58

this. It can now predict

5:00

interactions with other biomolecules as

5:02

a research tool. It also

5:04

allows multiple molecules to be

5:06

stimulated at once. So a

5:08

strand of DNA, some DNA

5:10

binding molecules, even some ions. Throw

5:12

those in there. Google DeepMind

5:14

is offering AlphaFold server a

5:17

free, fully hosted web app making the model

5:19

available for non-commercial use. But

5:22

okay, we saved a bunch of months

5:24

of research, sometimes years, with folding at

5:26

all. Now we're saving weeks to months

5:28

by saying what these folded molecules combined

5:31

with. What about the grad assistants?

5:34

What are they going to do now? Wow,

5:36

what's up? What's just, you're going to

5:38

go party at your local thing? They're going to

5:41

go party. Exactly.

5:44

The U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed to

5:46

the Financial Times that it has revoked

5:49

a few, or in their

5:51

words, certain export licenses for

5:54

hardware that was mostly being used

5:56

by Huawei. That

5:58

directly affects the bottom of the world. Mind you, both

6:01

Intel and Qualcomm, both of which

6:03

have been selling these semiconductors to

6:05

While Way and while Way has

6:07

been using using them in laptops

6:09

and fonts While I already have

6:11

restrictions on by Us technology that's

6:13

been in place since twenty nineteen,

6:15

but it with the higher and

6:17

stuff ah, some Us lawmakers continue

6:19

to say it conducts espionage around

6:22

the world. Although why Way has

6:24

repeatedly denied that it doesn't It.

6:27

As. A result of the revoked

6:29

licenses. Intel said in a statement wednesday

6:31

that it now expects it's second. Quarter

6:33

Revenue. Looking. Forward to fall

6:35

below the midpoint of its previously guided

6:38

at twelve Point Five billion Two, Thirteen

6:40

Point Five billion rains. Not saying it's

6:42

going below that, Rand's the same. It's

6:44

gonna be lower than the midpoint of

6:46

that range which tends to make the

6:49

street not happy. And to also said

6:51

it continues to accept revenue and earnings

6:53

per share to grow in Twenty Twenty

6:55

Four from a year earlier. So until

6:57

saying we're not, you know we're still

7:00

on the up and up. But this

7:02

is going to give us. A

7:04

hit so to speak. Lot of companies

7:07

have. Continue to benefit from a

7:09

global market says Scott. Thoughts.

7:11

On this kind of trade more

7:13

that we've been, we've been seen.

7:16

Going on between us and while a

7:18

sense of twenty nineteen really on a

7:20

large scale effect seen a lot of

7:23

other companies on the nice reminder that

7:25

none of this happens in a vacuum

7:27

when when you know you shut down.

7:30

Trade Routes or I guess there's been with saying

7:32

that when shutdown troops. Are

7:34

in certain countries and territories. Basically

7:37

saying. And. That includes any

7:39

kind of subcontracting game or to do with. No.

7:42

In our country and in those companies have

7:44

to make a bet. They have to do

7:46

a little bit of wagering on how to

7:49

the go, so I'm sure. That.

7:51

Just didn't blindside until. they

7:54

were already kind of not doing great in

7:56

general as far as growth goes but for

7:58

them or i think they are in full

8:00

awareness mode when it comes to this sort

8:03

of stuff as is everybody over there. You

8:05

hear about this with different services and different

8:07

web providers and you hear about it with

8:09

video game companies. They all just don't quite

8:11

know what's gonna happen from one side or

8:13

the other. One day China might ban a whole thing and

8:16

you're like well that's our whole business model what do we

8:18

do now? And on the

8:20

other hand a European Union or US you

8:24

know law changes and suddenly you're you're dealing with

8:26

something else and you lose a bunch of sales

8:28

as a result. Yeah suddenly your app with 170

8:30

million users is gonna be banned in a year.

8:33

Yeah right just talking about that. That's

8:35

exactly there's a good that's maybe the

8:38

biggest most notable example these days but

8:42

it's it's interesting to think though there's a

8:44

lot of trickle-down aspect to this so you

8:46

know Intel is obviously not the company being

8:49

targeted here but they are providing

8:51

content or you know chips and

8:53

hardware to said company so

8:56

what do they do now? Well hopefully they have

8:58

a backup plan. Well yeah the fact that there's

9:00

a range the 12.5 to 13.5 billion and they're

9:02

now saying we're gonna hit the midpoint means

9:07

they factored this in. They

9:09

didn't give an exact number they gave

9:11

a range because the range accounted for

9:13

it's possible that these licenses to sell

9:15

to China which are mostly going to

9:17

Huawei go away and if they

9:19

do then it's gonna be at the bottom end

9:21

of that range and the licenses are going away

9:24

so Intel's like guess what don't be surprised don't

9:26

be shocked it's going to the bottom at range. It's

9:29

not as bad for Qualcomm as it is

9:31

for Intel simply because Intel is already in

9:33

a shakier spot. They have other issues going

9:35

on. If you have a robust business that's

9:38

doing well which Qualcomm basically does this

9:40

isn't great but it's not gonna

9:42

shake you as much as if you're in the

9:45

headache. Yes exactly

9:47

exactly whereas Intel is scrambling

9:49

it's like okay here's another thing we're gonna

9:51

do but you know

9:53

to give the wider picture here if you're

9:55

wondering about like well wait a minute why is the US

9:57

hurting its own companies it's that

10:00

doing it to hurt its own companies,

10:02

it is trying to slow down China's

10:04

advance with artificial intelligence. That is the

10:06

big scare that the United States has,

10:08

is that China will get

10:10

ahead with large language models and other

10:13

tools like it, and

10:15

they're doing everything, all of this,

10:17

banning TikTok, restricting chips.

10:19

It's all meant to slow down

10:21

China's progress towards AI, in my

10:23

opinion. And a lot of people

10:25

also share that opinion. And

10:28

so what they're doing here is saying

10:30

Huawei was starting to bounce back. Huawei

10:32

was starting to make money. Huawei also

10:34

is one of the companies that could

10:37

advance China's interests in artificial intelligence research.

10:40

We are no longer going to allow these

10:42

licenses. We allowed them because we knew it

10:44

would hurt Intel and Qualcomm and others

10:46

to disallow them. But at this point,

10:48

it looks like the US has made

10:51

the choice of we'd rather hurt Intel

10:53

and Qualcomm a little bit in order

10:55

to hurt Huawei enough that we can

10:57

slow down the amount of resources they

11:00

have to develop artificial intelligence. Yeah,

11:02

I think that's true. And also, everybody

11:05

in that supply chain is motivated to sell

11:08

things and make money. And when these kind

11:10

of channels go away, my guess

11:12

is it'll get filled with something else. But also,

11:15

it seems like if Huawei

11:18

needs chips, they're going to

11:20

find chips. This idea that shutting down certain

11:22

manufacturers of chips is going to stop them

11:24

from getting what they need seems a little

11:26

crazy. It'll slow them down. Right? It'll slow

11:28

them down. It'll make it more costly. So

11:31

that's the idea, right? Yeah. But I don't

11:33

know if it's actually... Like how much of

11:35

a slowdown is it to AI development? That's

11:38

negligible to me. Again, you're just throwing...

11:40

It's like throwing logs. They'll drive over

11:43

the logs, but they won't be able

11:45

to go as fast. That's

11:47

a good point. That's a metaphor

11:49

everyone can identify. I

11:52

mean, I threw over some logs over

11:54

the weekend, and it didn't slow me

11:56

down. There you go. Yeah. Let's

11:59

talk about... Some some PC parts

12:01

that are positive for everybody micron is

12:04

shipping some upgradeable memory modules called

12:06

LP cam 2 They

12:09

cost around 330 bucks and you

12:11

can find them inside the new Lenovo

12:14

ThinkPad P1 gen 7 now What's

12:17

exciting about these besides their catchy name?

12:20

they are less than half the size of upgradable

12:23

dims the so dims that you use

12:25

to upgrade RAM right now and They

12:29

have more power Right now

12:31

if you want power efficiency you

12:33

want LPDDR memory You need to

12:35

solder that memory to the motherboard

12:37

because of low voltage You will

12:39

have signal loss if you don't

12:41

do that. So if you want

12:43

the best power efficient memory You

12:47

don't have upgradeability LP

12:49

cam 2 sockets are near the CPU

12:52

There are some other interface designs that

12:54

mean you can still get the low

12:57

voltage power efficiency and use LPDDR5X

13:01

But also be upgradable So

13:04

the big advantage of LP cam 2 is I

13:06

don't have to have it soldered to my

13:08

motherboard so I can have power Efficient good

13:11

RAM and replace it that means I

13:13

don't have to buy all the RAM I think I'll ever

13:15

need when I buy the machine I can buy what I

13:17

can afford and know I can upgrade it later Dell

13:20

developed this as a standard Samsung

13:23

and ADTA are among folks backing it

13:25

So even though we only have Lenovo

13:28

and Micron shipping products right now It

13:31

looks possible that this could become

13:33

more widespread And

13:35

for those who know what it what it that it matters

13:37

It also supports a doodle channel with one card or whereas

13:39

with so dims you got to have two So

13:42

it is going to allow you to get

13:45

a more powerful laptop That's thinner because it's

13:47

half the size of the so dims, but

13:49

also upgradable. Yeah, that's a big boon

13:52

for Listen the gaming

13:54

space those other applications obviously but in the gaming

13:56

space there's a lot of sense in

13:58

this because People are looking for. For more

14:00

portable, powerful solutions, it's not like he

14:02

couldn't get a gaming laptop in the

14:04

past that wasn't powerful quote unquote, but

14:07

a lot of energy and every device

14:09

that exactly you sacrifice out of credibility.

14:11

This is a clear path for people

14:13

to have the device longer and to

14:15

have a better upgrade path, so I'm

14:17

not. Personally, I think this is. Is.

14:19

Great And it feels like I'm. And.

14:22

Enough Wealth and Erasing is narrowly it's been around

14:24

for bit these the specs and these ideas and

14:27

the open source of Dell did. But.

14:30

To see it you know latch on is going to be

14:32

a good thing because you know for both gamers and I

14:35

think his power users and general people need a much power

14:37

on the go. With less

14:39

battery usage and in all the other benefits to

14:41

this and and upgrade path in the future like

14:43

why would you if I wouldn't get excited about

14:45

this year. And. Says can add

14:47

further that the trend of a

14:49

laptop being a form factor choice

14:52

rather than. Up a spec

14:54

choice. In other words, you could get

14:56

the desktop or the laptop. It just

14:58

depends on whether you want to carry

15:00

one around or night's ah, percentage Chances

15:03

y'all think Apple ever goes to Lp

15:05

camp to. In. Their devices

15:07

and I'd date. I think the answer is

15:09

well they make their on so accounts and

15:11

forget it than I do it. But are

15:14

they have their if it's opens? If it's

15:16

based on a standard and open standard they

15:18

could. Quote. Unquote forget and do

15:20

their own thing, but there are no.

15:23

Was eyeing the ram into the chip

15:25

so he had chances are almost there.

15:27

Guy out on the other want anything

15:29

to do with this, but ah, for

15:31

everybody else unless you're like I love

15:33

my soldering iron Author has argued ads

15:35

and yeah, This sounds like it

15:38

just gives you more toys off

15:40

the bat. Ah, makes things more

15:42

portable. and yeah, If you want

15:45

me know if it's a rig am

15:47

a as of a certain facts. Ah

15:49

and you never were able to have that

15:51

in a small ever seen before Then this

15:53

is. all going in the right us now

15:55

raymond says they they can but they'll slap

15:58

a premium price on it for apple branded

16:00

L Not

16:02

not impossible. I

16:04

do though. It did make me realize like you won't

16:07

see it in Wow,

16:09

I mean it's still Apple Silicon. I was like, maybe

16:11

you would see it in in an Apple Pro in

16:14

a macro Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No,

16:16

we the back pros shipping yet with

16:18

the with silicon. I can't remember if

16:20

they're not yet No, okay

16:23

when they do I'd be very

16:25

curious about the pro Yep, there may

16:27

not be I've got a studio now

16:29

and that thing is making

16:32

me I'll never buy a pro I don't need

16:34

it. This thing is so fast So maybe they'll

16:36

just focus on that but the

16:38

other thing I was gonna say from a

16:40

sort of gamers perspective You know

16:42

Ram isn't always the thing we think of though when we think

16:44

of upgrades a lot of times We're already at kind of overkill

16:46

levels of Ram Maybe not

16:48

notebook so much but in desktops for sure

16:51

Where more upgrade ability would be nice

16:53

would be things like GPUs and larger

16:56

SSDs, which is usually possible but GPUs

16:59

in particular on notebooks are

17:01

notoriously Burned on

17:03

there and you cannot replace it and or upgrade it

17:06

So I'd like to see more of this sort of

17:08

thinking but applied to those other points

17:10

those other vectors of upgrade Well, and there's

17:12

a great backstory here of Dell developing this

17:14

and then saying, you know what? This should

17:17

be a standard we they could have

17:19

gate-kicked kept it And and they

17:21

were the first to put out an LP cam

17:23

module at all before LP cam to in a

17:26

desktop But they made it a standard

17:28

so that others could also put it

17:30

out there and I would assume

17:32

you're gonna see it in Dell Laptops, you're gonna see it

17:34

in Samsung products. You're gonna

17:36

see other makers like ADTA not

17:39

just micron So yeah, I I

17:42

think I think this is gonna be good for the

17:44

Windows Machine world. Yep.

17:46

I can't wait for the benchmarks. Let's

17:48

get going with it All right, that

17:50

one was one that I know folks

17:53

saw on our subreddit and we're like talking about What

17:55

else would you like to hear us talk about on

17:58

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20:11

bad, what we were excited about, what we

20:13

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20:15

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20:17

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20:19

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20:22

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20:24

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20:26

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20:28

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20:38

Scott, I know as a working artist

20:40

who already loves the Apple

20:42

Pencil, you have, how did

20:44

you love the Pencil, and also

20:47

uses Apple products as creation devices. What

20:49

stood out to you from Apple's announcements

20:51

yesterday because it did seem very

20:53

creator-focused? Yeah, I think so too, and I

20:56

actually really, I took heart in that because,

20:58

you know, one of the things a lot

21:00

of us who have converted to iPad Pro

21:03

and Pencil and other app combinations

21:05

for digital illustration over

21:07

previous methods, part of

21:09

the reason we did that is because it seemed

21:12

like Apple was really leaning into supporting that kind

21:15

of user. And this is, in

21:18

my opinion, yesterday was great news on that front. I

21:20

think this is them saying, yep, we

21:22

know we got a ton of artists using this thing, and

21:25

maybe even more than we thought they were

21:27

gonna, so some of these features are specific

21:30

to them, and some of these improvements are

21:32

very specifically improvements for those folks. So

21:34

I saw the overall thing to be

21:37

pretty positive from that perspective. If

21:39

you're somebody who is just like, well, I just need a

21:41

tablet to browse while I'm watching TV, these

21:44

pros are not for you. You don't need them. Although

21:47

much more affordable iPads in the iPad

21:49

lineup are in there. They have 2.0

21:53

pencil use cases. They're as powerful now

21:55

as my current pro is, So

21:58

you could do a lot of damage. In the

22:00

art world with just even one of those. I'm.

22:03

Up for pro users make him and center

22:05

are giving a lot more color depth to

22:07

work with when you're talking oled screens. And

22:10

into rehab more color accuracy where indo able

22:12

to apply color profiles to our color separations

22:15

in a way that we can I borrow

22:17

more than having to. Test it in

22:19

other ways. It's not that

22:21

it was bad before the screen currently are really

22:23

nice. This is it. a step forward in that

22:25

regard. The.

22:28

The bill. Lot of people are a tenant,

22:31

not moaning but talking the usual talk about

22:33

how well it's kind of expensive and prohibited

22:35

for people to get into. It's ah, the

22:37

Thirteen and for example of the pro starting

22:39

at Twelve Ninety Nine and the new pencil

22:41

or pro starting at One Twenty Nine. I

22:44

guess is starts and stops on twenty nine. There's no

22:46

agree have been funny. But

22:48

there are so Beijing do with the

22:51

I Pad. But a way it is

22:53

expensive. It's about two hundred bucks more

22:55

than the previous model was at those

22:58

meals at the higher spec or that

23:00

and respect and. I'm you might

23:02

look at and golf tees was eternity. Price me

23:04

out. But if you are working digital artist and

23:06

you are in this ecosystem and by that I

23:09

just mean you know you're using procreate, are using.

23:12

Various other you know apps on it and

23:14

you're producing your work there. Then.

23:16

This is actually really inexpensive. Still

23:18

a solution from Way Com or

23:21

any other quality. Digital.

23:23

Tablet Maker. you're somewhere in the range

23:25

of in all three Four thousand dollars

23:27

for those devices for the ones you're

23:29

in one A way that is not

23:31

to say that there are plenty of

23:33

less expensive items, including. Mail.

23:35

Stuff in the I pad lineup. For. People

23:37

who just don't need. The

23:39

top and cutting edge. Now I love my have

23:42

had problems for really since the first model and

23:44

I am getting one of these new ones.

23:46

This the have skipped a couple of upgrades because

23:48

they were very incremental. does the big one. in

23:51

my opinion and i'm so we can a

23:53

half or so i'll have the i pad

23:55

and pencil and i'll be able to talk

23:57

more about it on the show To

24:01

give just a couple of other notes about this,

24:04

you can say all the, like Tim Cook can talk all

24:06

day about how great the pencil improvements are, squeeze

24:09

it to get a menu. I

24:12

thought that looked cool, at least in the demo.

24:14

It does look cool. There's no doubt about it. And I think

24:17

I'm going to be able to use that in some context. But

24:20

what people really, really want out

24:22

of iterating this pencil is lower

24:24

and lower latency. But it's already kind

24:26

of top in class, best latency in

24:28

class. And they're claiming even less latency

24:30

now. That's a big deal. People

24:33

really want to hear that. But the other

24:35

big selling point is a thing that the

24:37

pencil, you need the pencil for to take

24:39

advantage of. I guess if

24:41

you just want no glare, it's good for you too.

24:43

But this nano texture screen

24:46

that you can upgrade to when you buy the thing. Yeah, it's

24:48

an option. It's an option. You have

24:50

to pay for it. It does two things. One eliminates

24:52

a ton of glare. And if you're looking at from

24:55

different angles and stuff, that's one thing. But

24:57

the thing I'm caring the most about

24:59

is it's going to replicate the feel

25:01

and texture of something more

25:03

akin to paper or illustration board. That's

25:07

a big deal for me.

25:09

Now when I get it, it may be less impressive

25:12

or maybe it'll be smoother than I

25:14

think. And not for touch with your

25:16

finger, but for the pencil, right? For

25:18

the pencil specifically. Yeah, something that feels

25:20

more like not glass, but the thing

25:22

that's, you know, it has that crunchy

25:24

paper feel. Yeah, because

25:26

right now you're using

25:28

a plastic tipped pen, you

25:32

know, really well made sturdy one, but you're using

25:34

that against glass. And a lot of people buy these

25:36

layers. You can get a stick on layer that

25:38

essentially does the same thing, gives a little bit of

25:40

texture and it means you just have more drag. Problem

25:43

with those is you sometimes wear the

25:45

nibs down faster because there's a lot more friction going

25:47

on. It sounds like they've thought of

25:49

that here. I don't know how much friction that's going to

25:51

provide. These are all questions we're going to have to mess

25:53

with it to answer. But that all again,

25:55

leads me down the path of

25:57

Apple cares about artists. money

26:00

in that banana stand.

26:02

They sell a lot of devices to a

26:04

lot of artists and I think they know

26:06

it. That just fits with Apple's whole vibe.

26:09

They're here supporting the artist, man.

26:11

It's just a big hippie love in with that

26:13

stuff and I'm happy about it. Now how apps,

26:16

big popular apps like Procreate and

26:19

what's called Studio or even the Creative

26:23

Cloud apps from Adobe, how these will benefit

26:25

from all of this? It's

26:27

hard to say. I'm sure it'll implement features. Certainly it's

26:29

more powerful, can handle more layers, like all that stuff

26:31

I expect to see be

26:33

really cool. Like

26:35

I said, when I get mine, one

26:37

of the first things I'm going to do

26:40

is come on here and tell you if I was

26:42

right or wrong. It was interesting

26:44

to see Procreate included in the announcement.

26:46

I think it was the only third party

26:48

voice we heard from in this particular one.

26:50

Yeah, and it makes sense. They have

26:53

become the thing. They are it on

26:56

that platform and they

26:58

are beloved by the artists who use it. They

27:01

are very... That's imitating, right? Procreate?

27:03

Correct. Procreate is all about drawing

27:05

and illustration and painting and inks

27:07

and pencils. It is an artist

27:10

tool top to bottom. If you're going to use

27:12

Photoshop, great. You could use it for that stuff,

27:14

but that's also for photo retouching and regular

27:17

Photoshop stuff. This thing is for artists

27:20

and everybody I know and their dog is using

27:22

this thing and it's still

27:24

very inexpensive. I think it's 19 bucks is

27:26

all. You never pay a subscription. You just get

27:28

it. It works flawlessly. Everything I make is on

27:30

that thing. I'm really excited

27:34

to see how this goes. I may eat a

27:36

little crow at the end and go, it's

27:38

all right. It's not worth

27:40

$1,300 plus. I don't know, but

27:42

at this stage, I'm actually pretty stoked about

27:45

it. Well, this is exciting. We

27:48

have a different kind of artist weighing in on the

27:51

iPad in the mailbag. Indeed.

27:53

Ryan wrote in saying regarding the

27:55

weight difference on the iPad Pro,

27:58

I can say confidently that in daily

28:00

use, the weight matters. We were talking about

28:02

this yesterday, like, was it

28:04

really that, you know, heavy before Ryan

28:06

says as a DJ who works in

28:08

more production, heavy private events, I'm all

28:10

always making sure there's backups to things.

28:13

My backpack on event days has two

28:15

laptops and iPad Pro pull up an

28:17

assortment of small tools, adapters, accessories, every

28:19

pound that can get shaved off of

28:21

device weight makes it that much easier

28:24

to lug around. I have to say

28:26

says Ryan, I wasn't in the market

28:28

for a faster, more powerful, lighter, etc.

28:30

iPad Pro at the moment, my 12.9 inch

28:33

original M1 iPad Pro is still

28:35

serving my needs quite well. However,

28:37

what won me over was that

28:40

anti-glare design of the new screen.

28:42

I find myself working outside nearly every

28:45

weekend for wedding ceremonies, trying to read

28:47

notes and remote control audio devices using

28:49

an iPad on a sunny day is a

28:51

challenge. I may have to pick up one of

28:53

the new ones to see how much improvement there is

28:55

working outdoors. There you go.

28:58

Artistry. There you go. Yeah.

29:01

And then we also got an email

29:03

from Andy who says as a South

29:05

African living in Australia, I was interested

29:07

to hear about Amazon finally launching in

29:09

South Africa. Thanks for always keeping me

29:12

informed. You're welcome, Andy. Regarding

29:14

the lack of Amazon Prime, when Amazon

29:16

launched in Australia in 2018, they

29:19

were also missing a Prime

29:21

offering that only arrived about

29:24

nine months later. I guess

29:26

that's the expected gestation period.

29:28

To this day, Prime in Australia is

29:31

still missing many of the benefits

29:33

that the USA gets. So I'd

29:35

expect a slow rollout in South

29:37

Africa too. While there are competing

29:39

services in South Africa, none of

29:41

them are of Amazon's quality. The

29:43

launch of Amazon will hopefully mean

29:45

those competitors will have to up

29:47

their game. This very much happened

29:49

in Australia online retail here was

29:51

pretty dire before Amazon launched, but

29:54

the competition has definitely delivered improvements.

29:57

Oh, Andy, thank you so much for,

29:59

for. giving us a

30:01

you know on the ground in

30:04

two different continents. Yeah right.

30:06

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