Macworld Podcast: The 12 months in Apple {hardware}

On this episode, we have a look again on the main Apple {hardware} releases. What made an impression? What was a disappointment? Tune in and discover out extra!

That is episode 964 with Michael Simon, Jason Cross,  and Roman Loyola.  

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Roman Loyola (00:00.548)
whereas recording however…

Jason Cross (00:00.824)
Let me be certain that I’ve acquired it. Okay, I’m good.

Michael Simon (00:05.23)
All proper.

Unscripted, unfiltered, unafraid, welcome to the Macworld Podcast. My title is Michael Simon and I’m joined for the final episode of the 12 months by Jason Cross.

Jason Cross (00:18.008)
Good morning.

Michael Simon (00:19.284)
And our producer, Roman Loyal.

Roman Loyola (00:21.636)
Ahoy there.

Michael Simon (00:23.694)
maintain on, Roman. Did I miss? Did I replace this?

Jason Cross (00:25.207)
You

Roman Loyola (00:26.384)
I used to be attempting to get some vitality up.

Jason Cross (00:28.182)
I do know, hey.

Roman Loyola (00:29.978)
Hey, welcome to the podcast. Final one.

Michael Simon (00:33.706)
Uh, so we simply recorded one like 10 minutes in the past and was like, it was like an hour and a half and now now we have a second one, however we’re pretending prefer it’s the top of the 12 months and now we have numerous vitality. That is episode quantity 964. That’s proper. Together with the one we simply recorded. All proper. Episode quantity 964. And should you listened to final week’s present, you recognize what this one is. We’re going to speak about {hardware}, all of the

Roman Loyola (00:36.752)
That’s I imply.

Roman Loyola (00:48.452)
Sure. That’s appropriate. Sure.

Michael Simon (01:00.014)
stuff Apple launched on the {hardware} facet final 12 months, final 12 months, final week we talked about software program. Every little thing, yeah, software program and companies. So every little thing Apple, every little thing Apple launched on the {hardware} facet of what we like, what we didn’t like, what it means, all that different stuff. Then we’re going to have a year-end model of the worst factor that occurred this week, this week in Apple historical past and our reader mailbag. We’re going to zip via the present as a result of the final one was like, was like three days lengthy. So this was going to be fast.

Jason Cross (01:06.904)
Software program and Companies.

Michael Simon (01:29.848)
We’re not going to spend a lot time on the brand new iPhone, Talking of reader mailbag, which I simply mentioned earlier than I interrupted myself, you’ll be able to contact us via Blue Sky, Fb, threads, seek for Macworld, search for the Blue Mouse brand, ship an e mail to podcast.macworld.com, remark underneath video, inform us what you consider what Apple did this 12 months. Inform us what you need Apple to do subsequent 12 months, no matter you need. We are going to get, take a look at these and we’ll get to them subsequent 12 months if…

First present will likely be on January seventh, eighth. We don’t have a present till January. Wow, now we have like three or 4 weeks of no reveals.

Jason Cross (02:06.904)
Ha

Michael Simon (02:08.846)
okay. Roman, overlook three minutes. Give me a minute and a half to speak about. so, that is our final present earlier than, 2026. So, completely happy holidays, Merry Christmas, completely happy new 12 months, completely happy Hanukkah, completely happy no matter you rejoice. actual fast, we’re off between Christmas and new years. Are you guys, doing something enjoyable?

Both of you recognize? Roman says no.

Jason Cross (02:34.86)
Nothing particular this 12 months. My spouse and I normally journey for Christmas. We both go to her household or my household, each of that are a thousand, 2,000 miles from right here. However this 12 months we’re staying right here.

Michael Simon (02:39.832)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (02:45.186)
Yeah. The place does, the place does her, her household dwell? know you go to New Orleans. Is that her household or your loved ones?

Jason Cross (02:50.04)
Kansas Metropolis, Kansas Metropolis, her, her mother and pop dwell in the midst of nowhere, Kansas, however her sisters, he has two sisters and so they’re each married and so they each dwell in Kansas Metropolis and we stick with them and her mother and father come up. So Kansas Metropolis.

Michael Simon (02:56.056)
Okay.

Michael Simon (03:04.654)
Do you ever see a terrorist who to journey is Kelsey strolling round? Roman, you mentioned, no, you’re not doing something.

Jason Cross (03:07.904)
Yeah, on a regular basis. They stroll via the burbs of Kansas Metropolis like always.

Roman Loyola (03:17.744)
No, we had an enormous factor final 12 months. So this 12 months we’re staying house. yeah. Within the curiosity of holding this brief, no, nothing.

Michael Simon (03:25.518)
Alright, effectively quiet. I, I…

Michael Simon (03:30.506)
Yeah, I don’t do a lot both. We host Christmas. My mother and father and brother come up for a few days. After which my mother and father come again for New Yr’s and we spend New Yr’s Eve and New Yr’s Day. I hate like New Yr’s. I don’t occasion or drink or something. So my New Yr’s Eve may be very quiet. I watch regardless of the ball drop present that my mother and father need to watch is and that’s about it. We don’t do a lot.

Jason Cross (03:57.624)
We now have a reasonably chill New Yr’s as effectively. Normally, generally we will go over to our buddy’s home or one thing, however no, the times of big large events are behind us.

Michael Simon (04:06.862)
Kinda, yeah. Like, we’re all too previous for that stuff. There was a time. It ain’t now.

Jason Cross (04:12.726)
And it’s not about staying up late as a result of I’m up previous midnight each evening. Like that’s simply, it’s simply my life.

Michael Simon (04:16.149)
Certain.

Michael Simon (04:21.522)
All good. That was fairly brief, Roman, proper? All proper, so yeah, final present earlier than the break, we’re speaking about Apple {hardware}. And a variety of, it’s type of like software program was a much bigger deal this 12 months than the {hardware} was. Liquid glass, I feel there wasn’t like a ton of, so that they launched a variety of stuff. Principally every little thing however a brand new iMac, Mac mini perhaps, iPad mini, the mini stuff.

Jason Cross (04:25.496)
You

Michael Simon (04:51.384)
They didn’t do. However so that they up to date every little thing, however there wasn’t something like that was like monumental. Like they didn’t have like a groundbreaking new something this 12 months. Proper? Let’s not miss one thing.

Jason Cross (05:02.052)
I wouldn’t say groundbreaking. I feel the iPhone is in the midst of like a 3, two or three 12 months shakeup. simply began this 12 months and we’ll get to that once we get to the iPhone stuff, however there’s some important shakeup beginning with the iPhone that can proceed subsequent 12 months and the 12 months after. however yeah, there have been a variety of chip and chip, merchandise this 12 months, you recognize,

Michael Simon (05:10.285)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (05:26.286)
There have been.

Jason Cross (05:29.26)
whether or not it’s iPhones, iPads, Mac Studios, MacBook Execs, a variety of stuff was identical to, effectively, if it acquired a brand new processor and the processor’s nice, however it didn’t get fancy new shows or cameras or the rest.

Michael Simon (05:46.412)
We acquired the three new generations. Roman, perhaps I’m mistaken, however is that this the primary time we ever acquired? So we acquired the M3 Extremely within the Mac Studio. We acquired the M4. perhaps we acquired that final 12 months. we did. Overlook it. My factor is mistaken. Proper. Proper. However we already had the chip. Yeah. So we acquired the M3 Extremely, we acquired the M5 later this 12 months.

Jason Cross (05:56.151)
Mm-hmm.

Roman Loyola (06:03.504)
It’s complicated as a result of the M4 MacBook Air turns into comes out, however the M4 comes out proper.

Jason Cross (06:11.65)
Mm-hmm.

Michael Simon (06:16.142)
The iPad Air has an M3, like there’s an entire bunch of generations happening. The Mac Professional nonetheless has an M2 Extremely, which is simply loopy. That’s $6,000 and also you’re getting a chip from like three years in the past. However yeah, there wasn’t, Jason mentioned just like the iPhone apart, this was most likely essentially the most meaningfully up to date 12 months for the iPhone shortly.

Jason Cross (06:36.536)
Sure.

Michael Simon (06:43.192)
However like Macs had been like, okay, you recognize, the MacBook Air acquired the M4. Okay. I imply, it’s nice. You recognize, they acquired 100 greenback worth reduce, was good. Every little thing has 16 gigs of RAM now, which is sweet. Like all that, you recognize, it’s all good things. Like I’m not saying Apple didn’t give us attention-grabbing and, or not attention-grabbing, however it didn’t give us like viable merchandise. It’s identical to on the, on the thrilling entrance. It type of wasn’t there this 12 months, which is ok.

Jason Cross (07:10.38)
Yeah. And there’s some, some stuff that was type of rumored that not essentially tremendous thrilling, however simply didn’t get, we by no means acquired our house pad mini. imply, house pod mini too. we by no means acquired the brand new air tags, you recognize, these, issues had been like rumored to drop proper on the finish of the 12 months.

Michael Simon (07:14.413)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (07:18.38)
Proper. I’m pied mini. Proper? Proper.

Michael Simon (07:26.112)
Apple TV 4K like that hasn’t been up to date in a few years. That was a part of that.

Jason Cross (07:29.538)
Yep. I’m unsure it must be, however you’re proper. It’s a part of that group of like, yeah, certain. Earlier than the top of the 12 months, they’re going to drop these items. And to be honest, like they did this with the AirPods Max. They only slid into it. All of us thought we weren’t going to get it. Then like late December, they’re like, guess what, you guys? And so it’s attainable that.

Michael Simon (07:35.693)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (07:46.488)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (07:50.882)
That might be one thing if we acquired an air tag subsequent week.

Jason Cross (07:53.644)
Yeah, that will be one thing, however bizarre.

Michael Simon (07:56.472)
Effectively, truly it could be final week at this level. wait, wait, maintain on. Roman, what are you posting this? So it could have been final week if we acquired it, however we recorded this on the sixteenth. I don’t assume Apple’s ever launched something this late into December. I could be mistaken.

Jason Cross (07:58.776)
We had been sooner or later.

Jason Cross (08:11.372)
Simply AirPods baggage.

Michael Simon (08:13.282)
That was when? was just like the fifth or the eighth or one thing. I don’t assume it was this fairly this late.

Jason Cross (08:21.24)
I’m going to lookup December fifteenth. It was the fifteenth. Yeah. wait. I introduced on the eighth after which delivery on the fifteenth. So, so that they, they, that they had introduced it by now. So, however that was additionally a brand new product. would announce air tags too. They might simply be like, it could go up on the location with a splashy factor says like now longer vary and yada yada.

Michael Simon (08:21.528)
However it was in December. wow. So it was yesterday. Yeah, yeah. Okay. In order that was late. Yeah, yeah.

Michael Simon (08:38.837)
Proper.

Michael Simon (08:43.296)
It appears unusual that of all of the merchandise, AirTag, by all accounts, they’re executed. They’re able to go. There’s a brand new mannequin someplace and so they simply haven’t shipped it. don’t know. I imply…

Jason Cross (08:57.878)
And it’s, it’s the one which has the least. is sensible to attend for the HomePod mini as a result of they’ve acquired the massive new Siri factor are available and perhaps they’re going to dump all of the stuff that works on Siri. Like then, even when it’s able to go and it’s be wonderful, they’re going to, however the air tags have none of that. The air tags are simply, it’s simply going to be like longer vary, extra tamper resistant speaker. Prefer it’s not, I don’t even know that they’re going to provide it a reputation.

Michael Simon (09:05.335)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (09:18.636)
Proper. It’ll look the identical. You’ll nonetheless want a case to place them on a key chain. Proper. Yeah.

Jason Cross (09:24.854)
Like they’ll put parentheses second technology the place they must on a help doc, however it’ll simply be like the brand new air tags and so they’ll simply be air tags and also you’ll simply purchase your tags and so they’ll be higher now. So yeah.

Michael Simon (09:35.07)
AirTag is, that’s just like the unsung hero of Apple’s lineup. Like they’re 20 bucks for essentially the most half. You will get a pack of 4 for like 80 bucks on Amazon on a regular basis. And so they’re actually frigging good. like, so my son has a graphing calculator. He’s in, he’s in ninth grade math and you recognize, they’re costly. So I purchased him a case. I popped an AirTag in there and he’ll know if he forgets it when he goes to class. It’s improbable.

Jason Cross (09:44.13)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (10:03.64)
They’re like, they’re so good. It pops up in your telephone. you you, you, you need, acquired, it’s acquired gotten that notification one million occasions. Like all my keys are behind or my, you recognize, Apple stuff has a built-in. So like, you overlook your iPhone someplace, it’ll let you know it’s, it’s good things. The air tag is, is improbable. They need to make it work with, perhaps they do. They don’t work with their Android, proper? There’s, there’s no app for that. Like, such as you want, you want a iPhone.

Jason Cross (10:27.672)
They don’t, appropriate, there’s no, they don’t work correctly with Android. have safe, they work along with Google on safety stuff in order that like if somebody’s acquired an error in Android, they’ll nonetheless get that warning that an air tag’s following them. Like, so if someone crops an air tag on you and also you’ve acquired an Android telephone, you’ll nonetheless get warned. They’ve that, however you’ll be able to’t, there’s no solution to like observe your personal air tag or something.

Michael Simon (10:36.44)
Proper.

Michael Simon (10:44.014)
The monitoring stuff.

Jason Cross (10:57.324)
They did make it work with third occasion stuff, Discover My, they opened Discover My to 3rd occasion stuff. And there’s now all of those like nice like playing cards you might put in a pockets, like card formed issues and stuff like that. Different type elements than the little fats disk. That’s tremendous useful, proper? And there are a variety of these on the market now which might be like 30 bucks or one thing. yeah, it’s simply as, and people are nice. These are killer.

Michael Simon (11:00.654)
Positive by you.

Michael Simon (11:14.062)
Proper.

Michael Simon (11:20.142)
Mm-hmm.

Michael Simon (11:23.746)
Yeah. So I don’t know if we’d like a second gen, we didn’t get one, however AirTag nonetheless, you recognize, like the worth of Apple’s lineup.

Jason Cross (11:28.811)
Yeah, I-

It’s imagined to do a handful of issues that I’m glad about just like the precision discovering, that means the extremely wideband discovering may have an extended vary. That’s wonderful. No matter you get shut sufficient with the Bluetooth after which it takes over. does want the speaker must be tougher to disable and they’re doing that. So if the rumors are true after which it wants higher reporting about how a lot battery life is left and that’s the opposite factor it’s imagined to be doing. Like proper now it type of don’t know.

It’s simply it has battery after which it tells you it’s dying and then you definitely’re like, however may you’ve got warned me once I was at 20 %? May I see the battery life degree? They’re supposed to deal with a few of that. In order that’ll be large. However yeah, these are good little issues.

Michael Simon (12:02.284)
Proper. It tells you when it. Yeah, proper. Yeah.

Michael Simon (12:17.762)
Yeah, Roman, you, we, we fully derailed the present like instantly. Like that is imagined to be wanting like we’re, we, turned, began to do an air tag preview. That is what occurs once we do two reveals in a row. Like we’re now, we’re all off script right here. all proper. So let’s take a look at what they did. So we acquired, we acquired three iPads that had been iPad air with an three and that was it. iPad with an a 16 and that was it.

Jason Cross (12:26.072)
Yeah, as a substitute of discuss. It’s effectively. However it’s it’s not a 2025 {hardware}, that’s for certain. All proper.

Roman Loyola (12:27.492)
Effectively, air tags are {hardware}. They only aren’t this 12 months’s {hardware}.

Roman Loyola (12:37.445)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (12:47.412)
and the iPad Professional only recently with an M5 and principally that’s it. Like they’re wonderful. Costs didn’t enhance or something. So, you recognize, it’s all good, however there’s not a lot in the way in which of like options aside from the brand new processors. And, know, we’ve been via this earlier than. Like iPads don’t annual processor updates. simply, they only don’t. The variations between an M2 and an M3 and an iPad Air is educational. Such as you’re by no means going to really feel the distinction in.

That efficiency, I don’t assume.

Jason Cross (13:20.342)
Not for that product. No. I imply, the M5 was a surprisingly good bounce from the M4 and it issues within the Mac. They up to date the Imaginative and prescient Professional with it. they did that and so they did a strap that additionally goes on the highest of your head. They don’t even name it the rest. It’s simply nonetheless the Imaginative and prescient Professional. It’s not like Imaginative and prescient Professional 1.1.

Michael Simon (13:25.974)
Yeah. Yeah. Within the Mac. Yeah.

Jason Cross (13:46.296)
So yeah, a variety of chip and ship stuff. The chips are wonderful. The merchandise are wonderful. I feel all the thrill was within the iPhone this 12 months and AirPods. AirPods Professional 3, imply, which was…

Michael Simon (13:57.612)
AirBuds Professional 3, however they had been wonderful. We didn’t get the brand new chip that we thought we had been going to get within the AirBuds Professional. You recognize, the silicon suggestions are good and stuff, however it wasn’t actually the replace that we thought it was going to be. Yeah, proper. It’s okay. It was like every little thing else. was okay. Like there’s nothing mistaken with it. It’s nonetheless 250 and so they’re higher.

Jason Cross (14:12.492)
Yeah, foam infused silicone suggestions and true.

Jason Cross (14:23.766)
No, it’s an enchancment.

Michael Simon (14:27.256)
however it’s not the leap that we thought AirPods Professional 3 had been gonna deliver.

Jason Cross (14:35.874)
However it will get attention-grabbing once we begin going via the iPhone. Okay, effectively we’ll begin.

Michael Simon (14:38.19)
All proper. So let’s get to it. Trigger that’s it. Like that, that’s, that’s the, that’s the massive, the massive occasion was the, there was solely two occasions this 12 months, WWDC and the iPhone occasion. So the iPhone occasion was like the massive present.

Jason Cross (14:43.18)
Yeah, let’s.

Jason Cross (14:47.906)
Effectively, so.

that within the spring we acquired iPhone 16e proper which was an enormous change they jumped they stopped they stopped doing SEs that they’re solely gonna launch each two three no matter years they went to a numbered launch that’s the identical as the present technology as a result of 16 was a present technology on the time and presumably as a result of they’re going to do that yearly proper so we’re gonna get a 17e and an 18e and we’re gonna get each spring an e of the present quantity we assume

Michael Simon (14:52.782)
proper.

Michael Simon (15:19.19)
We should always. I imply, we don’t know but as a result of there hasn’t been a second one, however we predict so, yeah.

Jason Cross (15:20.418)
We should always.

Proper, proper. That might be the purpose of doing this. It was an enormous enchancment from the SE line, proper? And it was the primary one with their very own modem. They launched the C1, which turned out to be simply wonderful, which is about the perfect factor you might say about Apple moving into with a 5G modem as a result of it’s actually exhausting to make one. And so for them to launch one and type of no person seen, apart from folks like us who like actually check it, like all people else is rather like, yeah.

Michael Simon (15:37.538)
Yeah. Which is what you need. Yeah.

Jason Cross (15:52.728)
It’s a telephone and it really works. In order that they did that and it’s wonderful. No one’s going like, it’s too sluggish. Oh, I’m dropping calls. Massive success for Apple. [iPhone] 16e we thought it was fairly good on the time. Looking back now, I’d by no means get one when the [iPhone] 17 is so good.

Michael Simon (16:14.85)
That’s effectively, that’s a part of it. So it’s, it’s The 16e is $599 proper? Proper. it has a notch, to not, not the dynamic Island. It has an OLED show. It’s, what’s the dimensions? Six level one, six level one inches. and it has an A 17 chip. it’s, it’s, it’s final 12 months’s inside stuff, however just one digital camera. And a few years in the past, display tech.

Jason Cross (16:19.776)
Proper. Yep.

Michael Simon (16:44.782)
has Face ID, prefer it’s an enormous enchancment over the [iPhone] SE. It’s additionally $200 greater than the, or $180 greater than the SE. And.

Jason Cross (16:54.712)
however it’s nonetheless $200 cheaper than the most affordable common iPhone, you recognize.

Michael Simon (16:57.55)
That’s proper. However as Jason says, they unveiled the 17 and it acquired a ton of upgrades. the 16e is in a bizarre place.

Jason Cross (17:04.631)
Yeah, so.

Jason Cross (17:08.438)
Yeah. So skipping ahead to September, they modified up the iPhone lineup fairly significantly. There’s no 17 plus and so they changed it with this iPhone air that has no quantity, which makes us all marvel what the heck goes to go on with it. yeah, which, which we will speak about that in a second, however the 17 acquired every little thing it has been lacking for, for therefore a few years. Prefer it acquired

Michael Simon (17:22.894)
Proper. Proper. If every little thing, yeah.

Michael Simon (17:32.3)
Proper. Like actually every little thing.

Jason Cross (17:35.448)
Proper. It promotion. It acquired at all times on. It’s acquired the dynamic island. It acquired a brighter display. It’s the a 19 is kind of a bit higher than the a 18 was longer battery life. And so they launched to all of the iPhones. Proper? Yeah. The selfie cam that they placed on all of the iPhone 17 like line and the iPhone air is that this large 18 megapixel sq. pixel sq. sensor factor that does horizontal or vertical with out turning your factor and

Michael Simon (17:47.768)
Higher selfie cam, higher cameras, know?

Jason Cross (18:04.312)
stabilization. It’s like an precise and the standard that it shoots is best. Prefer it’s a lastly an enormous improve to the selfie cam in iPhones this 12 months. So all of that within the 799 mannequin, I’d not suggest the 599 mannequin to anybody who simply doesn’t actually can’t afford the iPhone 17. I’d inform anyone it’s effectively price $200.

Michael Simon (18:11.662)
Nice.

Michael Simon (18:26.22)
Yeah, I don’t disagree.

Yeah, if it was $499, I feel so. Yeah. However like Apple is vulnerable to do, the primary technology, priced a bit of. In order that they did this with the iPad a few years in the past. In the event you bear in mind, it got here out, it was $449. And we had been like, it’s $50 an excessive amount of. It’s actually good and blah, However it’s like $449, the Air is simply $599. After which they reduce the worth by 100 bucks and it’s nice.

Jason Cross (18:33.933)
yeah. Now you’re in an entire different rage. Yeah.

Jason Cross (18:56.439)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (18:59.566)
So if they arrive out in March and reduce the worth of the 17E to 499, hastily it’s an amazing telephone once more.

Jason Cross (19:10.878)
Or if it’s nonetheless 599, however they do a few of these different enhancements, prefer it’s acquired a greater show, dynamic islands, in the event that they do a few of these different issues, it’ll most likely have the selfie cam, however I don’t count on it’ll have any of the opposite stuff but.

Michael Simon (19:20.28)
Certain.

Michael Simon (19:25.378)
I feel it’ll nonetheless have a digital camera as a substitute of two.

Jason Cross (19:28.79)
Yeah, one digital camera. It’ll have.

Michael Simon (19:30.06)
Yeah, I don’t assume it’s going to get promotion. I’d be very shocked. Yeah.

Jason Cross (19:34.434)
Most likely no promotion, most likely no at all times on, most likely no, it most likely may have the brand new selfie cam.

Truly, and perhaps most likely the brand new selfie cam in Dynamic Island, as a result of I don’t assume the brand new selfie cams, that entire module suits up in that place.

Michael Simon (19:43.881)
I feel so. I feel it most likely will.

Michael Simon (19:53.038)
Yeah. Yeah. We’ve heard rumors that it’s going to get the dynamic island, however so the, the, the, the 16 E was one thing that we had been, we had heard about for a very long time. The SC was available on the market for 3 years or three years. So like we had been ready for it and we acquired it and it’s every little thing we wished, besides the worth is just a bit bit too excessive. 599 is just a bit bit, a bit of bit too excessive. And you recognize, proper.

Jason Cross (20:11.085)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (20:14.648)
Proper. didn’t appear that unhealthy then, however then the 17 got here out and the worth on the 17. Additionally, they doubled the storage to 256 on the 17. They did every little thing and so they stored it at 799 and it’s the runaway hit of the 12 months. It’s like the perfect iPhone in a very long time. After which Professional and Professional Max, that are as anticipated. imply, it’s a professional model of the chip. It’s the higher cameras. Apart from that, it’s,

Michael Simon (20:22.306)
Yeah, yeah, every little thing, proper?

Proper. Yeah.

Michael Simon (20:38.882)
I do.

Jason Cross (20:42.764)
It’s the higher cameras, it’s the professional model of the chip.

Michael Simon (20:43.34)
It’s a considerably new design with that factor. The little factor under the cab or no matter you name it.

Jason Cross (20:50.168)
There’s a bit of space within the the again. the the the digital camera bump is now extensive. It’s like all of the width. The plateau.

Michael Simon (20:55.15)
The, the fitting, the massive digital camera buns after which the smaller. Yeah. Proper. After which the smaller factor under it. It’s, it’s all proper. I don’t Roman has the, has the professional. are you, effectively, Jason, you do too, however Roman, what do you consider the, you, oh, you’ve got the, proper. You may have the air and the opposite one, Roman, what do you consider the, uh, just like the design now that you simply’ve had it for a few months.

Jason Cross (21:07.809)
I don’t.

Jason Cross (21:12.011)
of the air within the rig.

Roman Loyola (21:19.888)
The design’s wonderful. I’m not an enormous fan of the large plateau, however I feel it’s.

Michael Simon (21:24.736)
Okay. You’d moderately have a sq. one within the nook like I did earlier than.

Roman Loyola (21:30.48)
I don’t know what I moderately have as a result of I don’t just like the sq. both. I simply really feel like there’s a design hurdle that may’t be overcome there. The plateau is type of higher as a result of if you put your telephone down, it’s, you recognize, a minimum of it’s on an excellent or not a, yeah, it doesn’t wobble. So I like that higher, however I nonetheless don’t prefer it total. However generally, the design, you recognize,

Michael Simon (21:33.006)
Okay.

Jason Cross (21:36.28)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (21:40.652)
Yeah, I agree.

Jason Cross (21:50.2)
It doesn’t wobble fairly a lot.

Michael Simon (21:50.2)
a way. It was a bit of bit.

Roman Loyola (21:58.832)
I just like the orange and every little thing.

Jason Cross (22:01.794)
yeah. Cosmic orange was an enormous hit. and, and Roman talked about this again once we had our iPhone present, like how a lot he, I imply, the cameras are nice. The battery life is superb. Prefer it’s, it’s, that’s what execs at all times had been. Proper. So the massive, the massive enchancment was within the 17 after which the air was an enormous change this 12 months. We, we, it’s been type of panned for being too costly with too many compromises.

Michael Simon (22:02.157)
Yeah.

Roman Loyola (22:11.63)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (22:31.288)
However it’s the primary time they actually did one thing new with the iPhone in like 5 – 6 years. Like an iPhone 16 and an iPhone 12 look just about the identical.

Michael Simon (22:36.108)
It’s been some time, yeah.

Michael Simon (22:42.102)
And even just like the mini and the plus, we’re simply smaller and bigger variations of the variations on a beam, if you’ll.

Jason Cross (22:47.66)
Proper. Yeah. To have an iPhone the place they mentioned, like, it actually pushed the thinness, like, tremendous far, after which they completely modified the body, and it’s weirdly tremendous robust. Like, they made this skinny factor, and it’s the strongest iPhone they make.

Michael Simon (23:07.054)
Which they, needed to do it as a result of folks had been like already saying that it was going to, Oh, there’s no approach that this factor’s not going to bend. So I used to be like, effectively, screw you. We’re going to make it so you can’t bend it it doesn’t matter what you do. Proper.

Jason Cross (23:11.959)
Proper.

Proper. Proper. It’s tougher to bend than the common iPhones. it’s, you recognize, however it’s a thousand bucks. It solely has one digital camera. The battery life’s worse. It has the, it has the a 19 professional, however of a model of it, that’s no quicker than the common eight 19. Prefer it doesn’t actually, why’d they do this? Like, I don’t know. so it could be an amazing,

Michael Simon (23:36.109)
Mm-hmm.

Jason Cross (23:42.84)
$800 telephone. It will be nice should you had been selecting between Oh, do I desire a second digital camera and it’s fatter and it has longer battery life or do I need to quit these issues to have or not it’s skinnier? If that was the selection, it could be superb. However it’s that and it’s $200 extra. And in order that was Oh, I do know you adore it.

Michael Simon (23:58.774)
I’ve acquired on report. So I’ve the air. Yeah. I purchased it. Like I fortunately like I didn’t, it’s not a overview unit. I paid the thousand bucks for it. Yeah. I adore it. And it’s a type of issues the place if that’s what you’re on the lookout for in a telephone, like I choose up my son’s 17 or I feel my spouse has, I feel it’s 16 professional and it’s like, I it’s so thick and it’s so cumbersome.

Jason Cross (24:28.312)
the professional for certain. The professional is much more. Yeah.

Michael Simon (24:28.962)
And it sounds ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. Prefer it sounds absurd as a result of it’s like, effectively, who cares? We’ve been saying that for years. Who cares how skinny it’s? I’m telling you proper now, man, it issues. Like the way in which I’m in a position to maintain it. And a part of it’s as a result of it’s additionally a bit of bit smaller than the, than the, than the professional. It’s like, type of like, has that like in between dimension display. It’s six, six and a half. Proper. The max. Yeah. Proper.

Jason Cross (24:50.486)
It’s smaller than the Max. It’s greater than the Professional and the common, and it’s smaller than Max. That’s the Goldilocks dimension. I like the dimensions of it, as a result of I discover the Professional Max to be too large.

Michael Simon (24:59.862)
Yeah. And so they, they positioned the digital camera bump or the plateau on the high the place prefer it doesn’t ever hit your hand. So it feels such as you’re utilizing a particularly skinny telephone and like the way in which I’m in a position to make use of it with, with one hand, the way in which I’m in a position to maintain it with out it. Like, you recognize, I had the professional, I had the plus the plus was type of cumbersome and the professional earlier than that, prefer it was, it was heavy. So like, it’s type of like hits all of the marks for me.

I’d purchase it once more in a second for a thousand bucks.

Jason Cross (25:32.052)
I went, I had, I had the overview unit and I used it for till final week. I used, I caught with it till final week. Final week, I moved every little thing over to a daily iPhone 17. And every single day, I adore it extra. actually each single day, I’m like, I’m so glad I can take a photograph up near this little piece of textual content I’m attempting to take a photograph of.

Michael Simon (25:47.064)
Mm-hmm.

Good.

Michael Simon (25:57.89)
Proper. That’s the one factor I miss is the macro stuff.

Jason Cross (26:01.848)
It’s simply as gentle. It’s simply as one deal with and that’s partly as a result of it’s smaller. And I do love the marginally bigger dimension of the Air extra, however every little thing else in regards to the common iPhone 17, now that it has promotion and at all times on and the brighter display and all of the issues, like each single day, I’m identical to, if these had been the identical worth, I’d nonetheless select this one. And I’d undoubtedly not pay $200 extra for the Air.

Michael Simon (26:07.126)
Just a little bit.

Michael Simon (26:28.854)
Proper. Would you pay $200 for it? like if that was 9, eight 99 and the air was seven 99, let’s simply say I’m like an alternate universe. Would you continue to, would you continue to pay? Yeah. Yeah.

Jason Cross (26:36.136)
if it was swapped, would I pay extra for this? That’s an excellent query. That’s an excellent query. It’d be an attention-grabbing alternative in the event that they had been the identical worth. I don’t know that I’d pay extra for the common iPhone 17. Yeah, I don’t know. That’s a troublesome one. However it’s acquired the sound is best. I watch a video and I’m like, proper. It’s supposed not imagined to sound like that.

Michael Simon (26:56.746)
Yeah, I’ll provide you with that too. I didn’t assume when folks had been complaining in regards to the lack of a stereo speaker, like I actually mentioned, like, cares? It’s a telephone. No, it truly does matter. the air, the three issues that do, I received’t say bug me, however they do, I do discover on the air is the stereo speaker, the shortage of a second lens, notably for macro pictures. And I do generally must cost it.

Jason Cross (27:10.604)
Yeah, you hear it each time.

Michael Simon (27:27.308)
like sooner or later throughout the day, like a variety of the occasions, like if I exploit it for something aside from like a traditional day, I’m going to must plug it in. And it’s not an enormous deal. Like I’ve them in my automobile. I acquired one on my desk. They’re like, they plugs in every single place, however I do must do it. Whereas I’m certain Jason, don’t.

Jason Cross (27:42.626)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (27:47.458)
After not on the common 17, I haven’t even checked out a charger. It’s humorous how lengthy the battery life lasts. I’m so used to utilizing the professionals and the bigger telephones as a result of these had been my day by day drivers for some time. So going again to the small telephone, it’s been a few years and so they’ve improved the battery life rather a lot within the final couple of years. so, yeah, don’t even get…

Michael Simon (27:52.718)
You

Michael Simon (28:08.43)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (28:14.07)
I’m one these individuals who once I get to love 25 % I’m like, my telephone’s nearly lifeless. yeah, and I’m working and I don’t even get to that. The air I by no means, I by no means acquired to that time the place every single day I or like I needed to cost it within the afternoon, like I, however it was proper there. On the finish of the day, it was at all times like proper about to die. And I sat and I’d take a look at it going like, effectively, in a 12 months, this isn’t going to make it via the day. Like when this factor will get

Michael Simon (28:17.923)
Hahaha.

Michael Simon (28:24.781)
Okay.

Michael Simon (28:39.852)
Effectively, yeah, there’s that too. proper.

Jason Cross (28:41.462)
When this battery degrades 5%, I will likely be charging this factor each single day, even once I simply doom scroll on social media all day like this.

Michael Simon (28:49.838)
So mine’s at 63 % proper now, which is fairly good. So it’s 3.30 the place I’m. However I even have been recording this rattling podcast for 4 hours. So I haven’t touched it since like 11 o’clock. So let me take a look at my, assuming I’ve, it’s 100%. Jeez, it higher be. I’m simply curious to see the battery well being. Prefer it’s gotta be, proper?

Jason Cross (28:54.85)
That’s fairly good.

Hahaha

Jason Cross (29:14.42)
if it says something, if it was, yeah, could be bizarre.

Michael Simon (29:19.662)
Yeah, yeah, it’s 100. I used to be simply curious to see if it degraded in any respect. Yeah, I most likely received’t have it lengthy sufficient as a result of I do improve yearly. So I’ll commerce it in and so they’ll give me $600 or no matter. However I adore it. And I don’t care if I’m the one one who does.

Jason Cross (29:29.846)
Yeah, yearly we’re getting a brand new one.

Jason Cross (29:39.8)
What’s attention-grabbing to me in regards to the iPhone shakeup is that that is the beginning of a few three 12 months course of the place they lastly after it’s acquired to be six or seven years now actually change the iPhone lineup. as a substitute of small, large, most likely we get, we’ve acquired this air, we’ll most likely get an air to subsequent 12 months. We’re not going to get an iPhone 18 subsequent 12 months. That’s going to get ran into the spring of 2027. We’re going to get the folding iPhone.

Michael Simon (29:46.958)
Nice.

Michael Simon (29:54.018)
That’s what they’re saying, yeah.

Jason Cross (30:08.586)
Later in 2027, the place we get this twentieth anniversary iPhone that’s all glass, it’s all the way in which to the sting and just like the, the dynamic islands virtually gone, or perhaps it’s gone. Like there, there are large adjustments to not simply what the lineup is, however after they launch issues and every little thing. And it’s taking, it’s going to take them from iPhone air to late 2027 to get via that. However we’ve form of kicked off this.

Michael Simon (30:24.899)
Mm-hmm.

Michael Simon (30:28.749)
Proper.

Jason Cross (30:37.752)
evolution of iPhone. That’s type of cool to me as a result of for 12 months after 12 months, it’s been like, effectively, the chips quicker, the battery lasts longer, the digital camera’s higher. And that’s what you get. There’s been all these different little issues like quicker wi-fi charging or what I put just like the an iPhone at 11 and an iPhone 16 are the identical.

Michael Simon (30:48.472)
Proper. Yeah, I imply.

Michael Simon (30:57.442)
Yeah, basically, yeah. This may very well be the final 12 months the place we get 4 fashions within the fall. They’re saying subsequent 12 months, simply the professional and perhaps the professional, however perhaps the error, you recognize, like we’re not completely certain, however it’s undoubtedly going to look totally different subsequent 12 months.

Jason Cross (31:04.61)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (31:11.734)
Yeah, it’s going to look totally different. It may very well be 4 as a result of it could be the second air, which I feel going to name it air to air second technology. What are you going to do? However like an up to date air.

Michael Simon (31:19.5)
Yeah, that’s proper. And perhaps nothing, if it’s promoting as poorly as folks say, perhaps they only scrap it and so they say, you recognize what, it’s simply not, it’s not price it to us. We’ll simply promote this one for an additional 12 months. If anyone needs it, they’ll purchase it. We’ll reduce the worth by 100 bucks and see if anybody buys it.

Jason Cross (31:26.956)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (31:36.674)
But when they will enhance the battery life a bit of and add a second digital camera, which can also be rumors, then perhaps it’s nice to get, I don’t know. So Air, Professional, Professional Max, and the folding telephone. So 4, however 4 very totally different telephones, proper, than what we’re used to. After which two telephones within the spring, know, the entire line-up’s getting shaken up. It’s fairly neat. And it began this 12 months, yeah.

Michael Simon (31:40.462)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (31:50.87)
Certain. Yeah. Yep.

Michael Simon (32:00.354)
Yeah. Roman on the Mac entrance. Is there something like? I don’t know. I don’t know what my query is, however I’m thrown it to you.

Roman Loyola (32:13.346)
It’s been fairly, effectively, I feel that’s indicative of the 12 months that the Mac had. It was fairly quiet. I imply, the one actual noise was that the M3 Extremely got here out. That type of shocked everybody as a result of it got here out similtaneously the M4 Max. they determined to make the Mac Studio high-end, the M3 Extremely, not an M4 Extremely. In order that type of threw everybody off. However you recognize, the MacBooks,

Jason Cross (32:14.066)
Ha ha ha

Roman Loyola (32:43.152)
We solely acquired one new MacBook Professional this 12 months, the M4. We acquired the M4 or M5 after which the M4 MacBook Air again in March, I feel. Yeah. That was principally it. It’s been fairly quiet.

Michael Simon (32:46.413)
Mm-hmm.

M5. Yeah.

Jason Cross (32:50.646)
We acquired the M5, sorry.

Michael Simon (32:55.212)
Yep.

Jason Cross (33:01.112)
there was that rumor about them making a form of purpose-built, cheap MacBook that initially was rumored to return by the top of the 12 months, however then that rumor type of mentioned, it’s going to be early subsequent 12 months. That’s actually essentially the most thrilling factor happening in Mac land proper now could be that like, it’s not simply going to be a MacBook Air that they promote cheaper. Like a reduce down Mac would air. It’s going to have a, its personal shell, its personal physique, you recognize, and it’s going to be made to be cheaper and it’s going to have an A collection processor.

Michael Simon (33:07.285)
Proper.

Michael Simon (33:17.059)
Yeah.

Roman Loyola (33:17.828)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (33:29.804)
Man, all that’s very thrilling and it missed the window for 2025.

Michael Simon (33:35.458)
Proper. Yeah, we didn’t hear any like credible reviews within the sense that like, effectively, Mark Gurman is the one that’s most, I suppose, dependable so far as that stuff goes. However there have been reviews that mentioned like, perhaps it’s coming this 12 months. I’m not satisfied we’re getting it in any respect. We’ll see. Like, I hope so. I actually do hope so. However it’s simply all…

Jason Cross (33:54.138)
okay.

Roman Loyola (33:59.184)
Save that for the subsequent podcast.

Michael Simon (34:00.984)
Yeah, you’re proper. We maintain veering into 2026 territory. Sure, I do know. Significantly once I get like, as we began, prefer it wasn’t actually an thrilling {hardware} 12 months. What’s your favourite Mac of the 12 months, Roman? Do you’ve got?

Jason Cross (34:01.321)
Yeah, yep.

subsequent 12 months. It’s exhausting to not look forward and be enthusiastic about what’s coming.

Roman Loyola (34:09.582)
Proper, proper, as a result of this 12 months was type of quiet.

Roman Loyola (34:19.28)
Those I examined, effectively, I’ve been utilizing the M5 MacBook Professional. It’s a pleasant machine. The velocity’s quick. The one factor that I feel you guys are type of sliding is the 40 watt dynamic energy adapter with 60 watt max.

Michael Simon (34:20.298)
Of those you examined I suppose.

Michael Simon (34:37.582)
How did I do know you had been gonna throw a curveball there?

Roman Loyola (34:40.272)
Effectively, that’s how quiet it has been by way of {hardware}.

Jason Cross (34:41.688)
That’s true, it’s a recreation changer.

Jason Cross (34:48.044)
Yeah. I imply, yep.

Michael Simon (34:49.326)
Uh, Jason, do you say that plug in it’s it type of doesn’t actually do something. Only a plug.

Jason Cross (34:54.936)
It’s principally a 60 watt energy adapter that actually solely ensures that you simply’ll get 40. It will provide you with 60 till it will get too sizzling or the gadget. Each gadget is dynamic. All of the plugs will sync to the gadget. So the gadget is like, can’t take it this a lot wattage and so they’ll step it down. It will get actually technical like they use a distinct factor that

Michael Simon (34:58.636)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (35:07.426)
However don’t all plugs do this?

kinda.

Jason Cross (35:24.17)
steps down in finer increments and extra often and all that different stuff. But in addition if the plug itself will get too sizzling, it’ll step right down to 40. That’s why they name it 40 with 60 watt max. However it’ll keep at 60 watts for a minimum of quarter-hour. And normally no matter you’re charging will step down the wattage earlier than that anyway. It’ll use decrease voltage by then. So it’s principally a 60 watt energy.

Michael Simon (35:51.832)
Proper.

Jason Cross (35:54.008)
plug. It’s it’s it’s wonderful. It’s nice little tight. It’s very compact. It’s cool. However I type of nonetheless love the little twin charger that Apple makes. And one million one million different firms make these little twin chargers however

Michael Simon (36:05.366)
Yeah, that’s the perfect one.

Michael Simon (36:09.58)
Yeah. The 35, it’s solely 35 Watts. proper? 45 Watts. The twin one. Yeah. assume it’s 35. However yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s actually good for like an iPad and iPhone and a Mac guide air or one thing. It’s nice. Apple watch. Did we speak about Apple watch but? Yeah.

Jason Cross (36:14.944)
What? Apple twin one? Yeah, one thing like $235.40.

Roman Loyola (36:18.724)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (36:22.786)
Yeah. There’s the I used to be gonna say it’s been such a sluggish 12 months. We simply omitted Apple Watch as a result of Apple Watch collection 11 is similar factor because the collection 10. Like what’s totally different? Like after which Extremely three, you recognize, these had been the states you bought area black, proper? That was it. That was it. All proper. You’re proper.

Michael Simon (36:30.786)
Meh.

Principally,

Michael Simon (36:43.982)
Not even. Like I feel that they had that final 12 months.

The Extremely 3 acquired satellite tv for pc networking, which, you recognize, okay, it’s good, I suppose, and it acquired higher battery life. It has like 40 one thing hours of battery now. However the Black Titanium was, I feel that that was the 2, the replace for the 2.

Jason Cross (36:53.665)
Proper.

Yeah.

Jason Cross (37:09.312)
You’re proper, I feel that was an replace for the 2.

Michael Simon (37:11.234)
However yeah, like as Jason mentioned, nothing, I imply, they’re good. The Apple watches are nice. Like we do that rather a lot once we discuss in regards to the Apple watch. And I don’t know what Apple may actually do to make it like radically totally different or higher. I’ll let you know what’s spectacular is that we’re 12 generations in and the bands nonetheless work on each mannequin. Like that’s cool.

Jason Cross (37:20.056)
Yeah, skip a 12 months.

Michael Simon (37:37.986)
However the watch is nice. Like, there’s not a ton that would change.

Jason Cross (37:38.136)
I really feel like that’s.

Jason Cross (37:42.04)
I really feel like that’s what they’d must do to make it an attention-grabbing change is change the form incompatible bands like make a spherical one and the bands with a distinct set of bands and also you’re going to maintain them for 10 years this different band design or one thing like that. You can also make bands which might be smarter. They’ve like some communication if you hyperlink them in however then you need to that’s difficult to do with the water resistance and stuff however like you recognize there’s some stuff that doubtlessly may very well be executed however

Michael Simon (38:06.125)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (38:12.214)
I imply, the one factor that everyone needs is multi day battery life identical to, let the let the battery final for 4 days like

Michael Simon (38:16.674)
Yeah. And so they’re shut. The Extremely, the Extremely can do multi-day, however it’s large. And the Sequence 11 now they acquired as much as, they rated for twenty-four hours. So it’s a minimum of a full day. And relying in your use, so you’ll be able to most likely get it to most of a second day. However yeah, it’s going to take some battery, one thing breakthrough, effectivity chip breakthrough to actually get to love.

Jason Cross (38:22.583)
Yeah, it’s.

Jason Cross (38:42.23)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (38:44.482)
Like realistically, you want it to final like three days. So you’ll be able to take it out on a Friday, come again Sunday evening and never have to fret about it.

Jason Cross (38:51.244)
Yeah, should you go on an in a single day journey and also you forgot your watch charger, it’s going to be wonderful. Like that’s what you need. yeah, show tech, the show makes use of rather a lot. The chip makes use of rather a lot. They’re getting there on the chip. can simply, they will simply cease making it quicker. Simply use all these new chip manufacturing applied sciences to make it.

Michael Simon (38:54.444)
Proper.

Michael Simon (38:57.973)
Precisely.

Michael Simon (39:04.844)
Yeah, in fact.

Michael Simon (39:11.758)
Yeah, the chip this 12 months’s chip primarily based on, truly Apple mentioned it itself. Prefer it’s the identical as final 12 months. Normally they provide it a brand new title, however it’s the identical chip this 12 months. They really mentioned, know what? It’s nonetheless the S10. We’re not going to mislead you. It’s the identical chip. they, um, the, we we did get a brand new se, se three, which is basically good. It acquired an at all times on show, just like the iPhone 17. That was just like the theme of the 12 months, uh, including issues that had been lacking.

Jason Cross (39:19.416)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (39:26.22)
You

Michael Simon (39:39.406)
So it gave you bought the at all times on show that you simply didn’t have. Um, it has 5g now it has the S 10 chip and for 250 bucks and generally 200 on Amazon, it’s a very, actually good entry degree or perhaps not even entry degree. It’s only a actually good smartwatch for that worth for any worth. Yeah, it’s good. Even should you pay 250 for it, it’s wonderful.

Jason Cross (39:56.557)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (40:00.138)
Prefer it’s lacking the EKG or ECG and blood oxygen, proper? Is that it? Basically, like that’s the primary. So yeah, I get an SE for most individuals. However it was a sluggish 12 months for that. So it was type of sluggish 12 months for Apple {hardware} within the sense that we’ve acquired a variety of stuff.

Michael Simon (40:05.954)
Sure. Yeah. These two issues.

Michael Simon (40:14.988)
Yeah, for certain.

Michael Simon (40:23.626)
It was, we acquired a variety of stuff, however I used to be going via it, making ready for the present and I used to be like, like there’s nothing like.

we may maintain up and say, we acquired this factor. Like final 12 months we acquired Imaginative and prescient Professional, or the 12 months earlier than we acquired, I don’t know, one thing. However it was quiet.

Jason Cross (40:35.392)
outdoors of the…

Jason Cross (40:42.296)
Outdoors of the attention-grabbing iPhone developments, it was a really Chip It and Ship It type of 12 months. After which I feel that’s as a result of that they had plans for issues that had been very reliant on new Siri. And after they determined to punt on new Siri and it wasn’t even going to make it within the fall, every little thing was there’s a variety of stuff that’s nearly able to go. You recognize, and it’s all very new Siri dependent.

Michael Simon (41:08.366)
Proper. Yeah, effectively, our subsequent present will likely be proper when the brand new 12 months occurs and we’ll speak about 2026. but subsequent 12 months may very well be, and we are saying this rather a lot, however this one, like perhaps, prefer it seems to be like there’s gonna be a ton of recent stuff, like new, new stuff, not identical to a M5 MacBook Air.

Jason Cross (41:18.648)
We are saying this rather a lot.

Jason Cross (41:23.168)
I imply, we glance.

We actually mentioned firstly of this 12 months, this 12 months goes to be large as a result of there’s the brand new Siri and there’s all this house stuff that’s going to work on the brand new Siri. After which it acquired delayed. So, you by no means know. However yeah, there’s a variety of stuff coming. There’s a variety of stuff proper now type of like pegged for subsequent 12 months. That’s very attention-grabbing.

Michael Simon (41:29.422)
Most likely.

Michael Simon (41:34.05)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (41:38.988)
Proper, you by no means know.

Michael Simon (41:47.136)
Yeah. All proper. Good. I’m going to cease proper there as a result of that was an excellent little wrap up as a result of we’re to speak for an additional quarter-hour. In any other case. All proper. Worst factor that occurred this 12 months. I don’t assume now we have any like parameters right here, however you recognize, apple associated, I suppose.

Jason Cross (41:51.831)
You

Jason Cross (42:04.856)
yeah, we usually do just like the worst factor that occurred this week. Effectively, not usually once we do that phase. And because it’s the 12 months finish wrap up, we’re going to go for the entire 12 months. And, I need to hear what Romans is Roman. was the worst factor this 12 months? Is it that, is it that Ok popped?

Michael Simon (42:07.458)
Proper. We do it, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. All proper. Roman, you begin. Is it going to be Ok-pop once more? Was it so unhealthy it acquired each reveals?

Roman Loyola (42:21.904)
Yeah, I mentioned mine final week. effectively, I feel it’s fairly apparent. It’s the truth that Apple didn’t actually make any progress in AI this 12 months, as a result of it helped. And like Jason simply mentioned, it’s type of prefer it’s holding every little thing else again.

Michael Simon (42:38.668)
Yeah, actually zero progress. We’re precisely the place we had been this time final 12 months with Apple intelligence.

Roman Loyola (42:40.367)
Yeah.

Roman Loyola (42:43.802)
Yeah. We’ve gone over it 100 occasions earlier than, so I don’t must dive in deep in on that.

Jason Cross (42:46.252)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (42:49.26)
We now have. However no, it’s essential to maintain bringing it up as a result of it’s. For one, it’s for a corporation of Apple’s dimension and stature, it’s notable. However it’s additionally like all the world, Google, Samsung, OpenAI, like X has Grok, like AIs in all places, besides actually in your iPhone.

Roman Loyola (43:02.864)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (43:09.64)
I, that was my worst factor was form of the, the, the form of iOS 18.4 debacle as a result of they introduced these new issues and it actually wasn’t, it wasn’t that they ever promised Siri was going to be a wise chat bot like chat GPT and Gemini and stuff had been, however they introduced these different options that sounded actually superb. Like it could construct private context about you in order that it may provide you with perceive what you do all of the

Michael Simon (43:31.459)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (43:37.484)
day and provide you with solutions that associated to you. It will be capable to perceive what’s in your display. So you’d simply be utilizing your telephone and it and ask it one thing and it could perceive, that is what’s on the display. They’re speaking about this. Proper. After which the third was that we’re going to have this huge app intents for developer, like all these developer hooks in order that firms can construct apps the place Siri may do stuff throughout the apps within the background for you, like work inside different apps.

it very restricted the way it does it now I can queue up songs and your Spotify and stuff, however it may well’t can’t do way more. And it and it’s not solely such as you mentioned, they did advertisements and stuff. After which after which like March rolled round and all people’s like, the place’s the beta? The place is it? The place’s this factor? And Apple principally needed to admit, such as you mentioned, formally, however not like

Michael Simon (44:21.08)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (44:34.168)
press releases and stuff. did it like interviews and every little thing that like, it’s not going to occur. We couldn’t make it work. It’s principally made Siri have two brains working on the identical time that weren’t working. We’re going all the way in which again and we’re constructing one Siri primarily based on a brand new massive language mannequin. And we later discovered that they’re working with outdoors firms and so they did a bake off with all of the anthropic Google and all this different stuff. And we’re, lastly going to hopefully get it this subsequent spring. However Roman mentioned it that

that put a delay on every kind of merchandise and stuff that that Apple was supposedly engaged on. And we’ve seen hints within the code and all this different stuff for all these like good house merchandise and this new house hub and all this different stuff. And all of it acquired delayed by a minimum of a 12 months. And an Apple was already approach behind everybody. So woof.

Michael Simon (45:07.426)
Yep.

Michael Simon (45:29.784)
To play satan’s advocate barely, had they shipped Siri and any of those new merchandise and it didn’t work, that will have been far worse. So a minimum of that they had the foresight to say, all proper, we will’t, this isn’t ok as a result of I don’t assume they recovered from that. In the event that they do that and perhaps the house pad comes with it and so they have this entire push for look how nice Siri is and it’s not, I feel that’s worse.

Jason Cross (45:38.2)
yeah. True.

Jason Cross (45:56.984)
It undoubtedly can’t be one other Apple Maps scenario, proper? So yeah, hoping it will get there, hoping they present all people, like we wish it to be good.

Michael Simon (46:01.24)
Yeah. Yeah.

Michael Simon (46:08.844)
Yeah. Yeah. And within the meantime, chat GPT is best and Gemini is best and everyone seems to be getting higher whereas we’re ready for Siri. I imply, we’ll see Apple has to know. Like all people’s watching them. They’re not silly. Tim Prepare dinner’s not silly. So, it acquired about three months to shine this factor. It seems to be like March, April, and we’ll see. We’ll see.

All proper. My worst factor is totally totally different than all that stuff. Um, I’m going to select the imaginative and prescient professional as a result of so the imaginative and prescient professional got here out a 12 months and a half or is introduced a 12 months and a half in the past. Uh, no, was truly, no, that was two and a half years in the past. Yeah. Uh, got here out final February, had an entire kind factor, you recognize, like, pay attention, it’s a brand new Apple product. was 3,500 bucks and so they, that they had a demo factor within the shops and so they invited you to return attempt it.

Jason Cross (46:52.344)
Do it. Yeah.

Michael Simon (47:05.878)
I don’t know what number of they bought, however I assume that many. then like nothing, like they type of eliminated them from shops for essentially the most half. They didn’t actually advertise. They didn’t actually do a lot with it. then this, so September or October, they launched the de facto second technology mannequin that has a quicker chip and a greater head strap, which you can too purchase individually. So it did nothing to it in any respect. The M5, there’s nobody who

was not gonna purchase a Imaginative and prescient Professional. Didn’t say, like the rationale why I’m not shopping for it’s as a result of the chip is just too sluggish. And the headstrap is completely lengthy overdue and the least it may do to make this factor wearable for greater than like a half hour. However the worst factor about it, in order that’s unhealthy sufficient. We had been ready for the brand new, a less expensive mannequin that hasn’t come but. Perhaps a worth reduce, we didn’t get that. However the worst factor is that should you purchased a Imaginative and prescient Professional,

Jason Cross (47:52.876)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (48:06.632)
One, there’s no path to an improve until you pay 3,500 bucks. There’s no trade-in. There’s no nothing. And that’s loopy as a result of the individuals who purchased that factor are Apple’s most loyal clients. And so they principally mentioned, sorry, you’re out of luck. You desire a new one, you bought to spend 3,500 bucks. So I needed to assume they’re going to promote exactly none of those as a result of…

Jason Cross (48:13.036)
Yeah, nothing.

Michael Simon (48:34.048)
I don’t know anybody who would improve the primary technology to get this one as a result of it’s not good. Perhaps they’ll promote straps. Folks will purchase the brand new head strap. I simply don’t perceive why, why trouble.

Jason Cross (48:42.882)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (48:47.056)
There’s a number of form of enterprise purposes the place after they purchase one, they’ll purchase this one as a result of it’s what’s there, however they’d have purchased the primary gen as a result of it’s what’s Apple’s doing a reasonably first rate job of constructing underneath the hood expertise for Imaginative and prescient OS. They’re doing an excellent job of constructing all of the stuff that goes on in Imaginative and prescient OS to make VR and AR apps, blended actuality experiences and stuff.

Michael Simon (48:52.898)
Yeah, okay. Proper. Proper.

Michael Simon (49:06.488)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (49:16.354)
They’re not doing an amazing job.

Michael Simon (49:16.706)
Just like the frameworks and stuff, the inspiration. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Proper.

Jason Cross (49:19.66)
The frameworks, the core expertise, the attention monitoring, all these items which might be very, very exhausting, very, very behind the scenes. They’re not constructing an amazing OS on high of it. It’s okay, however it’s, you recognize, and so they’re not constructing nice apps on high of these. The one factor that’s actually nice are 3D video experiences, which you’ll be able to’t do for very lengthy.

Michael Simon (49:33.038)
Nice. Nice.

Michael Simon (49:44.206)
just some and much between,

Jason Cross (49:45.912)
They’re few and much between. They’re actually, actually slick. can solely accomplish that a lot of these. They’re actually attempting to work to get type of the dwell sports activities factor the place you could be like your court docket facet at an NBA recreation, however they must improve some arenas and stuff to make that occur. As a result of it takes a variety of bandwidth and particular cameras and all this different type of stuff to do it dwell. They’ve executed a few of these issues the place it’s not dwell. And that’s all cool. It’s all coming. It’s all essential work that will likely be.

Michael Simon (49:59.084)
Yeah, proper.

Jason Cross (50:15.714)
taken benefit of after they get the extra mass market cheaper product out. However God, we haven’t heard something about that. We don’t know when it’s coming. It’s one other like, effectively, perhaps subsequent 12 months type of factor. Perhaps not. Yep. So yeah, the entire imaginative and prescient OS and spatial computing factor is caught in limbo. And I feel there’s identical to an amazing quantity of actually

Michael Simon (50:27.438)
Perhaps not. Perhaps 2027 at this level.

Jason Cross (50:42.434)
exhausting work happening behind the scenes. However from the buyer facet, it’s in a horrible place for Apple, proper?

Michael Simon (50:47.928)
Yeah. And we mentioned when it got here out, it’s type of like a proof of idea, like they don’t count on to promote, however now we’re two years into it and so they’ve launched principally the identical factor that they launched two years in the past. It’s like, what are we doing right here? It’s, it’s outrageously costly and I don’t assume it’s overpriced. I simply assume it’s costly as a result of it’s so chopping age and it’s does, you recognize, the, the eight Ok and I attempt like, there’s a variety of excessive priced

costly expertise inside it and like technically superior. However nobody’s going to purchase it. Nobody. Or as Jason says, perhaps like some enterprise that wants it for some utility, however not common folks.

Jason Cross (51:29.922)
Yeah, there’s some like slender enterprise issues, however yeah, not common folks. that’s a troublesome factor for Apple to count on from Apple, particularly after the massive deal they made about it.

Michael Simon (51:38.072)
Like they might have a minimum of.

Yeah, like they might have mentioned, Vigin Professional is 24.99. Preserve the primary one round and reduce the worth by a thousand bucks. Perhaps they’d promote a number of. As an alternative they launched the identical worth for a, and so they can’t even, you’ll be able to’t even improve your previous one. So irritating. All proper. Roman, this week in Apple historical past.

Jason Cross (51:53.624)
I don’t know.

Jason Cross (52:01.496)
irritating. Sure.

Michael Simon (52:08.504)
You’re muted,

Roman Loyola (52:11.792)
Sorry. Yeah.

Michael Simon (52:12.428)
See, that occurs on a regular basis. Like in your Zoom name yesterday, that most likely occurred, however we do it too.

Roman Loyola (52:18.0)
Oh yeah. On December twentieth, 1996, most likely one of the essential dates in Apple historical past, Apple introduced that it could purchase Subsequent Software program for $400 million. And you recognize.

Michael Simon (52:35.118)
Do you bear in mind, so December twentieth, that’s like your 12 months is winding down in like tech journalist land. That’s a reasonably monumental announcement that occurred 5 days earlier than Christmas. Do you bear in mind like what you had been doing, the place you had been working or had been you working?

Roman Loyola (52:40.772)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Roman Loyola (52:49.904)
I don’t bear in mind what I used to be doing that day as a result of yeah, as a result of 1990, was it? 1997 was, was that the 12 months? Oh, I can’t bear in mind now. Was 1997, the next Mack world the 12 months that the place like Steve Jobs took the stage after which Invoice Gates got here on and da da da and all that stuff? assume, yeah, trigger that.

Michael Simon (53:15.63)
Perhaps. I don’t know.

Roman Loyola (53:19.342)
So I don’t bear in mind one other, effectively, I’m attempting to jog my reminiscence, however I can’t bear in mind the place I used to be or what was occurring when that announcement was being made. I used to be working for Mac Person Journal on the time, so I’ve no reminiscence.

Michael Simon (53:34.254)
Steve Jobs’ Invoice Gates was August 1997. So this should’ve been 1996, yeah.

Roman Loyola (53:38.296)
Okay, so was the next 12 months. Yeah, so it was the next 12 months. I do not forget that, however I don’t bear in mind this announcement particularly. Yeah.

Jason Cross (53:38.53)
Yeah. Yeah.

Michael Simon (53:46.758)
All proper. Perhaps Jason, know, did, was it a shock or did folks know when it simply was like a press launch that formulate, finalized it formalitized it. Formalitized that what I’m on the lookout for. It’s been 4 hours of this folks.

Jason Cross (53:58.508)
Formalized it formalized I truthfully like so round that 12 months. I used to be working for PC gaming magazines and stuff like I actually wasn’t being attentive to the entire the entire jobless jobless period the entire job Steve Jobs free space of like I used to be not concerned in Apple stuff like in any respect at the moment. They killed off my beloved Apple 2 GS line.

Michael Simon (54:28.493)
haha

Jason Cross (54:29.328)
and went with Max and Max had been like simply black and white. They weren’t even grey scale. They had been simply black and white at first after which they began doing all these fashions and stuff. So I wasn’t paying that a lot consideration. I get the, I appear to recollect it was type of a coup. Like that jobs is coming again, that they’re not simply shopping for subsequent, however they’re shopping for subsequent and so they’re type of doing it with a purpose to get jobs.

Michael Simon (54:35.95)
Yeah.

Roman Loyola (54:56.367)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (54:56.472)
Mm-hmm.

Jason Cross (54:56.498)
and the opposite Apple engineers and stuff that he took with him to go do subsequent, One thing like that.

Roman Loyola (55:03.588)
Yeah.

Roman Loyola (55:07.12)
I previous to the announcement, and I bear in mind there have been rumblings of it, however the factor I principally bear in mind was that Gil Amelio was the CEO, and all people was like, my God, Apple must do one thing, do one thing. We’re crashing and burning, as a result of earlier than Gil Amelio, was Michael Spindler. Yeah, and there have been a pair CEOs.

Michael Simon (55:16.738)
Proper.

Jason Cross (55:20.856)
you

Michael Simon (55:33.037)
Yeah, I feel so.

Roman Loyola (55:36.964)
You recognize, there was simply this free fall and I principally bear in mind 1996 being, I higher work on my resume as a result of I don’t know if this journal is gonna be round for the subsequent 12 months as a result of Apple simply isn’t, you recognize, they weren’t doing effectively. After which there have been rumblings about it, however I don’t know if folks had been relying on, I don’t bear in mind if folks thought it was truly gonna occur or not. I can’t bear in mind.

Michael Simon (55:46.584)
Hahaha.

Jason Cross (55:46.924)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (55:50.168)
Yeah, yeah.

Roman Loyola (56:08.272)
So, however yeah.

Michael Simon (56:08.526)
Okay. Effectively, it’s most likely essentially the most pivotal second in not simply Apple, like tech, like tech historical past was Steve Jobs. imply, take into consideration all of the issues that wouldn’t have occurred if that didn’t, if that deal wasn’t made and Steve Jobs doesn’t come again to Apple at that second. It’s loopy to consider like how that impacted the form of the tech panorama for many years to return. It’s loopy.

Roman Loyola (56:19.279)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (56:20.172)
It was an enormous.

Jason Cross (56:26.468)
yeah.

Jason Cross (56:38.156)
Yeah, completely.

Roman Loyola (56:40.336)
Effectively, and I feel there was nonetheless even some, even after they introduced that acquisition, there was nonetheless some doubt as as to whether to avoid wasting Apple as a result of, you recognize, subsequent was this area of interest firm. Folks had been like, how is that this going to translate? What does this all imply? you recognize.

Michael Simon (56:48.022)
I’m certain there was, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Michael Simon (56:57.836)
I imply, Steve Jobs didn’t develop into like Steve Jobs till the iMac and the iPhone and the iPod. Like he was clearly effectively revered and had executed the Mac and you recognize, was the man at Apple. However as you mentioned, Dext was, know, it was there. I imply, nobody actually paid a lot consideration to it. And he wasn’t seen as just like the visionary laptop man till 5, 10 years later.

Roman Loyola (57:01.424)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (57:08.277)
yeah.

Roman Loyola (57:21.84)
Proper.

Yeah, I feel.

Jason Cross (57:24.492)
imply, should you consider the Steve jobs, film, the, not the, not the, not the Kutcher one, the opposite, the opposite one. should you consider that, yeah, no, the, the, the maths fastbender one, that should you consider that film, the subsequent was just about.

Michael Simon (57:33.102)
The Ashton Kutcher one.

Roman Loyola (57:38.288)
That’s a Noah Wiley one.

Michael Fassbender.

Michael Simon (57:43.98)
Yeah, that’s higher. Yeah.

Jason Cross (57:51.468)
The corporate existed to get acquired by Apple and get him again. Like after they kicked him out, he hatched a plan.

Roman Loyola (57:55.408)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (58:02.722)
What bugs me about these two films is the Ashton Kutcher one. Like he truly type of seems to be like Steve Jobs and acts like Steve Jobs, however the film sucks. And the opposite film that he seems to be, Quick Man, it seems to be nothing like Steve Jobs nor does he act prefer it, however the film’s actually good. So I’ve a tough time to parse these two. Yeah.

Jason Cross (58:10.658)
Sure.

Nothing. It’s a very, yeah, it’s a lot better writing.

Roman Loyola (58:21.84)
Yeah, so, you recognize, ultimately, know, Steve Jobs finally ends up wanting like this savior and this, and he, you recognize, and in some ways he was. I don’t imply that in like a, I don’t know, I suppose a spiritual approach or one thing like that, a deity approach, however you recognize, he was a enterprise savior for Apple. However yeah, these two years prior was actually shaky and actually, I feel it’s exhausting to, that type of will get misplaced on this entire factor.

Michael Simon (58:31.661)
Sure.

Jason Cross (58:35.778)
Ha

Michael Simon (58:35.854)
You

Michael Simon (58:39.554)
Yeah.

Roman Loyola (58:51.376)
was that Apple was actually in unhealthy form. And it’s type of exhausting to explain how unhealthy a form it was. It was.

Michael Simon (58:58.902)
The one factor I knew about Apple at the moment was that Simpson’s joke with Nelson writes on his Newton to beat up Martin and it interprets to eat up Martha or one thing. That was my solely reference to Apple. And it wasn’t till the iMac that prefer it put it on my math and God is aware of what number of different folks just like the iMac was the factor that

Roman Loyola (59:11.504)
Proper.

Jason Cross (59:12.6)
Roman Loyola (59:19.439)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (59:25.582)
And Johnny, I’ve had rather a lot to do with that, in fact, however Steve Jobs had the imaginative and prescient to deliver it to market.

Roman Loyola (59:30.128)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (59:30.988)
We talked rather a lot about earlier this episode about how Apple had a variety of Chip It and Chip It merchandise this 12 months. like think about if Apple had 4 years of that, like simply extra creating increasingly more merchandise for increasingly more extra worth segments which might be simply the identical factor, however identical to a bit of bit higher with a brand new chip. And that’s type of the place Apple is at. And that’s after they purchased Nex and Nex got here again. That’s what their roadmap was.

Michael Simon (59:37.624)
Yeah.

Jason Cross (01:00:00.022)
Like they didn’t have a struggle. This isn’t doing effectively. Let’s shake issues up. Like now that it actually wasn’t the plan. So it was jobs that got here again and mentioned, we acquired approach too many merchandise. We’re every little thing mistaken. We’re not, you recognize, simplified double down on some slender issues. It actually labored. yeah, it was, they, they actually wanted that. And so they went via a number of CEOs in just some years. Simply.

Michael Simon (01:00:21.858)
Yeah. And you recognize, he…

Roman Loyola (01:00:25.413)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (01:00:25.518)
Yeah. And, you recognize, it was chipping and delivery for computer systems that no person had been shopping for for one. And, you recognize, you’ll be able to say like Steve Jobs had this imaginative and prescient. additionally had carte blanche to do no matter he wished since you simply mentioned the corporate was principally bankrupt. So he needed to swing for the fences and, you recognize, he did, and he did a, you recognize, a ridiculously good job doing it.

Jason Cross (01:00:30.178)
Nice. Yeah.

Michael Simon (01:00:50.478)
All proper, Roman, the final reader mailbag of 2025.

Roman Loyola (01:00:52.688)
I’ll be again.

So we had been simply speaking about legacy and final episode we had been speaking about, or not final episode, the episode earlier than final episode, I feel. Yeah. We talked about among the administration adjustments that had been occurring at Apple and the subject of Tim Prepare dinner’s legacy type of got here up.

Michael Simon (01:01:06.753)
I…

I feel it was June was the final time earlier than we began recording at present.

Jason Cross (01:01:19.288)
Mm.

Michael Simon (01:01:23.843)
Mm-hmm.

Roman Loyola (01:01:25.078)
and folks have loads of ideas on this. I prefer to say that earlier than, I preface this by saying that folks are usually damaging on the web by way of posting feedback, in case you didn’t know, in case you didn’t discover that. with that in thoughts, Johnny 5 underscore, sure, please don’t take it personally, Tim.

Michael Simon (01:01:40.728)
yeah? I had it.

Jason Cross (01:01:42.616)
I hadn’t seen that, yeah.

Michael Simon (01:01:48.568)
I apologize to Tim Prepare dinner earlier than we begin this phase.

Roman Loyola (01:01:55.152)
however johnny5 underscore 75 on TikTok mentioned, he’s already at a reasonably low observe with iOS 26. Pattyist energy on TikTok mentioned, releasing the visible professional flop, fumbling AI, releasing a meh OS reskin and capitulating and inflicting the fascist, that’s his legacy.

Michael Simon (01:02:20.75)
I imply, that’s all occurred within the final like three months.

Roman Loyola (01:02:24.503)
Yeah, yeah.

Jason Cross (01:02:25.4)
That was form of our level was that like, and there’s all these folks leaving, that is the turning level. both ends, his story both ends with that repute or it ends with a revitalization of Apple. The following 12 months actually type of writes how Tim Prepare dinner’s story ends.

Roman Loyola (01:02:28.772)
recency biased.

Roman Loyola (01:02:40.666)
Yeah.

Roman Loyola (01:02:47.152)
Hen Fried Steak 40, I by no means thought in my profession I’d be like saying, you recognize, I at all times thought I’d be saying precise title. Hen Fried Steak 40 on TikTok mentioned, Tim Apple ought to have been changed years in the past. He might have stored the earnings coming brief time period, however long run, he did a lot harm to the model. And Peter Wendelin on Fb mentioned, yeah.

Jason Cross (01:02:54.264)
Hen Fried Steak 40.

Michael Simon (01:02:57.486)
You

Michael Simon (01:03:15.028)
assertion. Hen fried steak for you.

Jason Cross (01:03:18.092)
I do know.

Roman Loyola (01:03:20.57)
Peter Wendlin on Fb mentioned, if you wish to know what Tim Prepare dinner’s legacy is, it’s continued progress and stability, nothing extra. That’s true, and there’s nothing mistaken with that.

Michael Simon (01:03:29.058)
I imply, that’s true.

Jason Cross (01:03:30.264)
That’s proper. imply.

Michael Simon (01:03:32.332)
You recognize, relies on what sort of Apple you need.

Roman Loyola (01:03:35.704)
Proper, that’s true.

Jason Cross (01:03:36.472)
He actually did construct Apple from the corporate that was this underdog. Prefer it’s fashionable because it was, it wasn’t large. was the underdog. It was large, however it was.

Michael Simon (01:03:43.855)
Yeah, proper. It was large. It was fairly large. It wasn’t this large by any stretch, it was just like the iPhone was rolling. The iPad was rolling. Like they had been doing fairly wonderful in 2011, I feel it was.

Jason Cross (01:03:57.4)
iPhone was rolling like like 10 million models a 12 months 15 million models a 12 months like they self they promote 70 million iPhones 1 / 4 now prefer it’s you recognize, so he 10x to the corporate like and he constructed it from the corporate that was at all times the underdog to the IBM that they had been at all times actually will get like the massive canine of tech that even when they’re not the richest firm, I imply in movies rolling an AI cash like

Michael Simon (01:04:01.262)
Yeah, OK. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Michael Simon (01:04:06.486)
Proper now I do know.

Michael Simon (01:04:16.696)
Nice. Nice.

Jason Cross (01:04:25.97)
Among the many richest, a multi-trillion greenback firm that’s undoubtedly essentially the most influential.

Michael Simon (01:04:28.696)
Yeah.

Michael Simon (01:04:35.032)
Sure.

Jason Cross (01:04:35.884)
Like no matter, may say extra Home windows laptops are bought, however folks do what Apple does with the MacBook. Everybody follows Apple.

Michael Simon (01:04:48.78)
Yeah. Yeah. That remark that mentioned, you recognize, listed off all of the issues. I do know one earlier than that about all of the issues that his legacy is his legacy is that this, know, they’re to announce their earnings in a few month and a half. And I assure you they’ll break. It’ll be the best quarter they’ve ever had ever. It’ll be like $120 billion or one thing in income. I assure you now. So when does that.

Roman Loyola (01:04:53.392)
hen fried steak.

Roman Loyola (01:04:58.287)
Patty has energy,

Jason Cross (01:05:13.132)
Yeah, most likely. Yep.

Michael Simon (01:05:18.444)
Now going to the one after hen fries, the short-term legacy. Like when does the short-term earnings finish? As a result of I do agree with that in a way. In some unspecified time in the future that progress goes to succeed in a cliff as a result of as we simply talked about for the final hour, a variety of Apple is in cruise management and never all that cruise management is not off course. And also you your steering is a bit of…

Jason Cross (01:05:21.889)
You

Michael Simon (01:05:48.415)
Not rather a lot, however a bit of bit. And does Tim Prepare dinner stick round lengthy sufficient to steer it again? Or does he simply say, know what? I did what I used to be instructed to do. I did what I promised I’d do and I’m executed.

Jason Cross (01:05:49.72)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Jason Cross (01:06:00.586)
yeah.

Do we’d like someone else? Do we’d like, as we talked about Steve Jobs, do we’d like someone else to return in and say, though they’re in a really totally different place, such as you mentioned, they’re wildly worthwhile now, however do we’d like someone else to return in and shake issues up with a purpose to proceed to develop or get into new areas? Folks don’t give Tim Prepare dinner credit score for increasing the areas wherein, not simply their profitability or dimension, however like Apple watches Tim Prepare dinner, AirPods is Tim Prepare dinner.

Michael Simon (01:06:25.015)
certain.

Jason Cross (01:06:32.556)
These are massively these merchandise. Certain. I’m simply saying simply merchandise just like the AirPods is a Fortune 500 firm by itself. Simply AirPods. Like, and that’s a Tim Prepare dinner factor like that. So yeah.

Michael Simon (01:06:34.286)
in addition to privateness and accessibility and all of the issues that they do, sure.

Michael Simon (01:06:43.672)
Yeah, completely. Yeah.

Jason Cross (01:06:53.792)
It’ll be attention-grabbing. Such as you mentioned, we’re in a world proper now the place there’s simply a variety of chip and chip it. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see what occurs once we recover from this AI hump. If we do and get into the opposite merchandise that we maintain listening to they’re engaged on, you recognize, I’m that factor that just like the robotic lamp with a persona factor that we confirmed off and it received’t be a lamp. It’ll be a display, however like, man, I need that. That’s an entire new product. That’s an entire new style of factor. Proper.

Michael Simon (01:07:02.818)
Mm-hmm.

Michael Simon (01:07:17.794)
Yeah, certain. For certain. Yeah.

Jason Cross (01:07:22.69)
So we’ll see, we’ll see what they get to market out of this.

Michael Simon (01:07:28.14)
Proper. You recognize, simply to place yet another interval on this, like Steve Jobs did a variety of nice issues. We simply talked about subsequent and coming again. The final good thing he did was to advertise Tim Prepare dinner to CEO as a result of he knew attempting to interchange him was an not possible factor. He’s not going to search out somebody that had the identical charisma, the identical imaginative and prescient, however Apple was on this

presidents, like Jason mentioned, you recognize, they weren’t, they weren’t, they weren’t an enormous firm, however that they had, they definitely had been wanting up and Tim Prepare dinner was the proper man to deliver him to this degree. And now perhaps we’d like somebody that’s extra like Steve Jobs and might see a imaginative and prescient and will take some dangers, perhaps a big gamble or two and, actually take Apple into the subsequent, you recognize, no matter 25 years.

Jason Cross (01:08:12.204)
Mm-hmm.

Jason Cross (01:08:20.062)
Yeah, one may argue the imaginative and prescient professional was their try at a big gamble that was the fully mistaken solution to go about it. Proper? That’s Yeah.

Michael Simon (01:08:24.75)
It’s too, yeah, it’s simply too costly. imply, they must, they need to’ve identified they’re not going to promote a lot of them. It may have been the best factor ever made. Like that’s simply an excessive amount of. The iPhone was 600 bucks and folks mentioned it wasn’t going to promote. imply, you recognize, that’s a ton of cash, even in 2025 cash. That’s rather a lot.

Jason Cross (01:08:31.479)
Proper.

Jason Cross (01:08:37.88)
Proper.

Michael Simon (01:08:44.686)
All proper. That’s it folks. 2025 is completed. We’re closing the door. uh, Roman I screwed up. I I screwed up my quantity. Uh, that is quantity 964. Um, yeah. Joyful holidays. Merry Christmas. Joyful Hanukkah. Joyful no matter you rejoice. Uh, new 12 months, completely happy new 12 months. All these issues. Thanks, Jason.

Jason Cross (01:08:54.134)
Have an amazing vacation. We’ll see you in a number of weeks.

Jason Cross (01:09:09.548)
Thanks, Mike.

Michael Simon (01:09:10.676)
And thanks, And thanks. I’m sorry, Roman. I didn’t provide you with an opportunity to say something. And thanks, expensive listeners, for tuning in. This was a enjoyable 12 months. We rebooted the podcast. Issues are a bit of totally different. This was enjoyable. You may subscribe to the Macro Podcast to hearken to us all all through 2026 within the podcast app on Spotify, on YouTube, on the Macro Podcast channel, or via some other podcast app.

Roman Loyola (01:09:15.15)
Okay.

I’ll simply wave.

Michael Simon (01:09:39.424)
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Jason Cross (01:09:59.736)
You

Michael Simon (01:10:10.03)
I screwed it up one final time earlier than the 12 months was up. Be part of us subsequent 12 months within the, All proper, proper, maintain on. I’m gonna rewind and begin this entire factor. Be part of us within the subsequent episode of the Macro Podcast subsequent 12 months as we’re speaking in regards to the newest on the earth of Apple. See you subsequent time.