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The Apple Leak: 20 New Devices and Smart Home Innovations · SpeakSmart English

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  Speaker 1: So picture spending like ten million dollars on a state
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  Speaker 1: of the art security system for your house. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: know you have biometric scanners, reinforced seal doors, motion sensors
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  Speaker 1: in literally every room. It works basically exactly. But then
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  Speaker 1: as you are locking up for the night, you accidentally
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  Speaker 1: tape the architectural blueprints right on the front door. Oh no, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: complete with the location of every hidden safe and blind spot,
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  Speaker 1: just sitting there for anyone walking by to read. That
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  Speaker 1: is rough it is, and that is precisely what we
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  Speaker 1: are looking at today with one of the most secretive
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  Speaker 1: companies on Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is the perfect analogy for the situation.
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  Speaker 1: Right, We're talking about over twenty unreleased devices, a complete
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  Speaker 1: hardware roadmap for the next couple of years, and it
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  Speaker 1: was just accidentally left sitting in plain sight within the
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  Speaker 1: software update code for MICS twenty six point seven.
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  Speaker 2: What's fascinating here is that this is actually a structural
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  Speaker 2: inevitability of modern tech development.
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  Speaker 1: Really, how so well.
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  Speaker 2: We expect these hardware companies to be these impenetras vaults,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but software updates have increasingly become their achilles heel.
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  Speaker 1: Because the software has to be ready before the hardware
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely long before a physical device like say a new
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  Speaker 2: headset or a smart speaker ever, hits a manufacturing line.
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  Speaker 2: The operating system needs to know how to communicate.
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  Speaker 1: With it, right, The code has to exist.
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  Speaker 2: First, exactly, the software engineers have to build the foundational support.
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  Speaker 2: They need those digital hooks to recognize these unreleased components.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I see.
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  Speaker 2: So they are forced to put these hardware identifiers into
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  Speaker 2: the public code incredibly early.
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  Speaker 1: It is unavoidable. I am struggling to understand why a
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  Speaker 1: company with literally unlimited resources would use actual identifiers, though
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  Speaker 1: it seems counterintuitive, I know, right, Like, couldn't they just
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  Speaker 1: use random strings of gibberish or dummy code until the
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  Speaker 1: day before the launch? Why leave a readable map for
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  Speaker 1: data miners to find?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it comes down to the sheer complexity of the
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  Speaker 2: dependencies in a modern operating system. Cannot just use a
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  Speaker 2: blank variable when thousands of different software frameworks are involved.
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  Speaker 2: You have audio routing, power management, Bluetooth protocols, and they
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  Speaker 2: all need to interact with that specific piece of hardware.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, so it is deeply integrated, very deeply.
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  Speaker 2: If you mask it too heavily. The internal teams who
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  Speaker 2: are pesting the software across all these different departments, they
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  Speaker 2: end up breaking.
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  Speaker 1: The build because the system doesn't know what it is
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  Speaker 1: actually talking to exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The hardware teams want total silence, obviously, but the software
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  Speaker 2: teams need to lay the groundwork in.
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  Speaker 1: Reality, and that reality requires specific functional code.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and if you know how to read the structure
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  Speaker 2: of that code, the breadcrumbs are always there.
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  Speaker 1: In tracing those breadcrumbs takes us somewhere completely unexpected. It
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  Speaker 1: really does, because when you look at this leaked roadmap,
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  Speaker 1: the vanguard isn't a new phone, it isn't a laptop.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it is not. The code points directly into the
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  Speaker 1: living room. There's this aggressive, unified push to take over
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  Speaker 1: the smart home. Just huge. Yeah, we are seeing references
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  Speaker 1: to an Apple home hub with two distinct variants. They're
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  Speaker 1: labeled J four ninety and J four nine.
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  Speaker 2: One, And that represents a massive strategic shift for them.
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  Speaker 1: Because they've sort of ignored it until now.
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  Speaker 2: Historically, yes, their approach to the home has been very fragmented.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a speaker here, a TV box there, right,
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  Speaker 2: But there was no centralized nervous system tying.
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  Speaker 1: It all together. Okay, let's unpack this though, because aren't
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  Speaker 1: they incredibly late to this part? Prety extremely We have
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  Speaker 1: seen competitors dominating kitchen counters and bedside tables with smart
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  Speaker 1: displays for over half a decade now, oh, at least
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  Speaker 1: half a decade. So the leak details that J four
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  Speaker 1: nine one is a wall mounted screen and J four
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  Speaker 1: ninety is a stand mounted version, which is apparently expected
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  Speaker 1: to be significantly more expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Right, possibly with that robotic stand.
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  Speaker 1: Sold exactly, So, is the strategy here simply to release
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  Speaker 1: a prettier digital photo frame or is there an actual
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  Speaker 1: mechanical reason they waited this long?
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  Speaker 2: It is definitely not about being a photo frame. If
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  Speaker 2: we look at the underlying mechanics of the smart home
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  Speaker 2: market right now, it is completely defined by protocol friction.
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  Speaker 1: Protocol friction. What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you buy a smart plug from one brand, you
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  Speaker 2: buy a thermostat from another, and a camera from a third.
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  Speaker 1: All and they all have their own separate.
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  Speaker 2: Apps exactly, they require different apps. They constantly drop off
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  Speaker 2: the network, and they rarely trigger each other reliably.
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  Speaker 1: It is a mess, it really is. I have to
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  Speaker 1: reset my smart lights like once a week.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So the reason they waited is to leverage their
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  Speaker 2: proprietary closed ecosystem to bypass that friction entirely.
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  Speaker 1: I see.
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  Speaker 2: By creating a dedicated powered hub, especially that J four
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  Speaker 2: ninety model on the motorized stand, they are essentially building
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  Speaker 2: a local.
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  Speaker 1: Server for your house. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they want this screen to process your voice commands locally.
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  Speaker 2: They want it to route your spatial audio and manage
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  Speaker 2: heavy video feeds without bouncing every single request up to
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  Speaker 2: a cloud server.
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  Speaker 1: So it is much faster and more secure exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But doing that requires serious silicon, which is why they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't just throw a cheap tablet on a speaker base
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  Speaker 2: five years ago. They had to wait for their chips
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  Speaker 2: to get powerful enough.
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  Speaker 1: That reliance on local processing makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the sheer volume of accessories launching
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  Speaker 1: alongside this hub, it is a massive Yeah. The code
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  Speaker 1: doesn't just show the screens. It outlines a completely coordinated deployment,
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  Speaker 1: which is very unlike them. Usually they stagger things, right,
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  Speaker 1: but we are seeing a new TV remote which is
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  Speaker 1: apparently finished and just waiting for a software update to
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  Speaker 1: actually launch alongside the new hardware, right, it's just sitting
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  Speaker 1: there in the code. And then there is a home
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  Speaker 1: Pod Mini two labeled B five twenty five, and the
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  Speaker 1: leak even has the color palette. Oh the colors are great, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: rose pink, silver, space gray, and starlight. But the hardware
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  Speaker 1: that actually changes the equation is categorized as J two
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine. Yes, this is the really interesting one. The
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  Speaker 1: source notes this is a multi sensor device that recognizes
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  Speaker 1: alarms and records video.
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  Speaker 2: So basically a proprietary security camera.
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  Speaker 1: Perfectly integrated into that new hub right exactly. And it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't stop there. There are two completely unidentified smart home
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  Speaker 1: accessories just floating in the code is one seventy two
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  Speaker 1: and one seventy.
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  Speaker 2: Three, probably environmental sensors of some kind, temperature, humidity, maybe motion.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So instead of slowly releasing these over five years,
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  Speaker 1: they're dropping an entire fleet at once.
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  Speaker 2: What's fascinating here is that this is a classic ecosystem
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  Speaker 2: trap in the best sense of the word. For their
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  Speaker 2: bottom line, how do you mean when you enter a
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  Speaker 2: mature market late, you cannot sell a single hub and
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  Speaker 2: tell consumers, hey, trust us, the accessories will.
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  Speaker 1: Come because people will just stick with what they already have, right,
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  Speaker 1: you have to offer an immediate turn key solution. Oh
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  Speaker 1: so you just replace everything all at once. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: If they drop the hub, the new home pod minis,
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  Speaker 2: the J two twenty nine cameras, and those mysterious one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy two and one hundred and seventy three
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  Speaker 2: sensors on the exact same day, they instantly transform a
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  Speaker 2: fragmented house into.
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  Speaker 1: A unified environment. That is wild.
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  Speaker 2: They want the consumer to walk into a store by
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  Speaker 2: the entire setup in one transaction and completely box out
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  Speaker 2: all third party competitors.
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  Speaker 1: And it just works out of the box, right.
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  Speaker 2: It is designed so that the camera talks perfectly to
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  Speaker 2: the hub, which routes the audio perfectly to the speakers,
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  Speaker 2: all verified by the sensors.
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  Speaker 1: No friction. Okay. But if the goal is to map
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  Speaker 1: and control the environment inside the house with all these sensors,
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  Speaker 1: what happens when we leave the house? That is the
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  Speaker 1: next logical step. Yeah, because the code shifts heavily from
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  Speaker 1: environmental hardware to wearables. Yeah, you know tech we wear
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  Speaker 1: on our bodies to interact with our environment. Ambient technology. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: There's a massive push toward ambient tech starting with a
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  Speaker 1: headset designated as N one o nine. Ah, Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: N one o nine. Based on the documentation, this is
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  Speaker 1: basically a light version of their current ultra premium Vision Pro.
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  Speaker 2: Which is a necessary correction based on market realities honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Because the original was just too expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, given its prohibitive pricing and weight, the original headset
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  Speaker 2: functioned more as a public developer kit than an actual
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  Speaker 2: consumer appliance.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Not a lot of regular people are buying a
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  Speaker 1: three thousand dollars headset exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It proved the underlying eye tracting and spatial interface concepts,
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  Speaker 2: which was important, but it was structurally incapable of reaching
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  Speaker 2: a mass audience.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you take a headset that complex and
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  Speaker 1: make it light without completely ruining the experience? Like, where
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  Speaker 1: do they actually cut the costs?
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  Speaker 2: You have to look at the bill of materials. The
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  Speaker 2: primary cost drivers in the original are those ultra high
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  Speaker 2: resolution microOLED.
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  Speaker 1: Displays Okay, the screens inside.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and also the external screen that shows the user's
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  Speaker 2: eyes to the outside world. Plus the machined aluminum and glass.
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  Speaker 1: Chassis which makes it really heavy, very heavy.
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  Speaker 2: So to commercialize the N one oh nine they have
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  Speaker 2: to sacrifice some of those premium materials.
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  Speaker 1: They will likely.
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  Speaker 2: Use high grade plastics to reduce the weight.
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  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: But more importantly, there will probably lower the internal display
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  Speaker 2: resolutions slightly and completely remove that external eye display.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, so no more seeing the person's eyes through
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  Speaker 1: the glass.
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  Speaker 2: Right, which was a huge engineering challenge and very expensive.
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  Speaker 2: The processing power will remain high so the apps run smoothly,
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  Speaker 2: but the physical delivery mechanism becomes cheaper.
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  Speaker 1: So it's about accessibility exactly.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a device designed to push the boundaries
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  Speaker 2: of physics anymore. It is the device designed to actually
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  Speaker 2: get augmented reality onto the faces of regular consumers so.
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  Speaker 1: The software ecosystem can finally become profitable.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, they need a user base to sell apps to
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  Speaker 2: even with.
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  Speaker 1: Those compromises, though, a headset still isolates you, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But the next wearable on this list is something people
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  Speaker 1: already wear all day, every day, the earbuds. Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: leak details a plan for air pods equipped with dual cameras.
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  Speaker 1: This is truly science fiction stuff. It is air pods
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  Speaker 1: with actual visual inputs designed to record and remember what
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  Speaker 1: the user is seeing in real time, specifically to give
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  Speaker 1: serie visual context.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a fundamental paradigm shift for artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: On the timeframe for this is listed as twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Right, because right now, a voice assistant is completely blind.
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  Speaker 1: It only knows.
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  Speaker 2: What you explicitly dictate to it or what text it
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  Speaker 2: can scrape from your emails.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it has no context of your physical surroundings.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, by putting dual cameras in the earbuds, you are
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  Speaker 2: suddenly giving the AI spatial awareness and object recognition.
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  Speaker 1: I have to pause you there, because honestly, the logistics
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  Speaker 1: of this sound like a total nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the engineering challenges are immense, Right, How.
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  Speaker 1: Do you run real time video analysis on a device
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  Speaker 1: that is roughly the size of a kiddie bean without
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  Speaker 1: the battery dying in ten minutes or the earbud physically
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  Speaker 1: burning the user's ear from all that processor.
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  Speaker 2: Heat, That thermal and power constraint is exactly why the
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  Speaker 2: code points to a twenty twenty seven release, despite some
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  Speaker 2: other industry rumors of an earlier launch.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so they just literally cannot do it. Yet.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot be raw uncompressed video from two cameras continuously
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  Speaker 2: to a phone via Bluetooth, the bandwidth simply doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 1: It would just choke the connection completely.
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  Speaker 2: So the AirPods themselves need an incredibly advanced, highly efficient
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  Speaker 2: chip to process that video locally.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so the earbud does the thinking sort of.
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  Speaker 2: It compresses the relevant data into tiny semantic descriptions, like
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  Speaker 2: instead of sending a video frame, it just sends a
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  Speaker 2: text string saying user is looking at a red car.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that is wild.
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  Speaker 2: And it only sends that tiny text data to the
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  Speaker 2: phone's AI model.
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  Speaker 1: But achieving that level of local.
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  Speaker 2: Video processing on a micro battery requires a massive leap
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  Speaker 2: in silicon efficiency, which they.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly haven't perfected yet hence twenty twenty seven exactly. And
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  Speaker 1: even when they do perfect the hardware in twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: the source material points out a major geographical bottleneck, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the localization issue. Yeah. It specifically highlights Poland as an
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  Speaker 1: example of a market that will likely have to wait
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  Speaker 1: far longer to add, actually use these visual AI features,
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  Speaker 1: even if they can buy the new camera equipped AirPods
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  Speaker 1: on launch day in the store. Right, you might have
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  Speaker 1: the hardware, but the software is locked. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: the hardware is completely outpacing the software's ability to cross borders.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it comes down to how these large language models
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  Speaker 2: are actually trained and regulated. Okay, how so understanding visual
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  Speaker 2: context like if you are looking at a menu or
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  Speaker 2: reading a street sign, that requires the AI to process
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  Speaker 2: regional languages and local cultural contexts instantaneously, So.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just translating text. It has to understand what
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  Speaker 1: it is seeing in that specific country.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Furthermore, massive server infrastructure is required in these regions
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  Speaker 2: to support the data load.
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  Speaker 1: Because it can't all bounce back to California exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The latency would be terrible. And this is all while
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  Speaker 2: navigating very strict localized privacy laws regarding continuous camera recording.
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  Speaker 1: Oh right, the privacy aspect is huge.
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  Speaker 2: The physical cameras might be ready to ship globally, but
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  Speaker 2: the low vocalized AI models required to make sense of
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  Speaker 2: that footage lags significantly behind, depending entirely on the country.
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  Speaker 1: That makes total sense. Now, while they are taking their
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  Speaker 1: time with the camera pods, they're simultaneously flooding the traditional
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  Speaker 1: audio market. They really are. The leak outlines the upcoming
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  Speaker 1: AirPods Pro fourth generation, which is interestingly labeled version one
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  Speaker 1: point four up from the current one point three an
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  Speaker 1: incremental bump. Yeah, and there is an unknown air Pods
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  Speaker 1: model designated three four five. Plus they are pushing two
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  Speaker 1: brand new Beats models B five eighteen and B fifty two.
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  Speaker 1: That is a lot of audio hardware, right, Why saturate
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  Speaker 1: their own market with so many overlapping products, especially using
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  Speaker 1: the Beats brand to do it? I noticed they seem
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  Speaker 1: to be using Beats to fill in the gaps as
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  Speaker 1: the standard Airpod's lineup becomes super saturated.
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  Speaker 2: That is exactly what they are doing. Beats basically operates
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  Speaker 2: as their structural shock absorber.
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  Speaker 1: Shock absorber, how do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the standard AirPods lineup has to maintain a very
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  Speaker 2: specific brand identity to be pristine, seamless and broadly appealing
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  Speaker 2: to everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Right, the classic white plastic look exactly. They cannot take
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  Speaker 1: wild design risks with it.
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  Speaker 2: But by keeping Beats active and constantly updating models like
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  Speaker 2: that B five eighteen, they have this built in experimental playground.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. I see.
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  Speaker 2: They can test aggressive price points, They can try different
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  Speaker 2: form factors for extreme sports, or push wild color ways
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  Speaker 2: without ever diluting their core aesthetic.
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  Speaker 1: That is brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, it allows them to capture the budget conscious consumer
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  Speaker 2: and the niche athlete, while still funneling all that revenue
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  Speaker 2: back into the exact same parent company.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, So all of this ambient tech, the smart
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  Speaker 1: home servers, the visual AI processing we just talked about,
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  Speaker 1: it all requires massive computational.
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  Speaker 2: Muscle, tremendous amounts of processing power, yes, which.
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  Speaker 1: Naturally brings us to the core computing devices that fund
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  Speaker 1: this entire R and D operation. Yeah, right, the iPads
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  Speaker 1: and the max y cash cows exactly. But going through
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: this section of the leak, the hardware choices are just bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: We're seeing what looks like severe refreshed fatigue.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the law of diminishing returns is hitting their silicon
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  Speaker 2: development really hard right now.
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  Speaker 1: Case in point, what the source actually calls the iPad
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  Speaker 1: Mini Paradox, specifically models J five ten and J five
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  Speaker 1: to eleven. This one is so frustrating. Right on paper,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like an absolute powerhouse. It has Wi Fi
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  Speaker 1: and cellular options and ol ed screen for perfect contrast,
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  Speaker 1: and it is powered by the blazing fast A nineteen
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  Speaker 1: pro chip. It sounds perfect, but there is a glaring
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  Speaker 1: mechanical flaw. It is locked at a sixty hertz refresh rate.
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  Speaker 1: The commentary actually likened it to an iPhone seventeen E.
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  Speaker 2: Which is just well, it is a tragedy of engineering.
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  Speaker 1: Here is where it gets really interesting for me, because
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  Speaker 1: it is like dropping a Ferrari engine, the A nineteen
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  Speaker 1: pro chip into a car with the bicycle tires. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the sixty hearts display. That is exactly what it is like. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: how does a sixty hert screen actually bottleneck and chip
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  Speaker 1: that powerful?
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  Speaker 2: It creates a massive dissonance in the user experience.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, in what way?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the A nineteen proach is rendering the graphical interface
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  Speaker 2: at over one hundred frames per second. Say you are
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  Speaker 2: looking at a complex three D model or even just
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  Speaker 2: fast scrolling a heavy web page.
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  Speaker 1: Right, the processor is flying.
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  Speaker 2: The processor is doing this instantly, But a sixty hertz
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  Speaker 2: display physically cannot draw those frames fast enough. It can
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  Speaker 2: only update the pixels sixty times a second maximum.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so they are at or sync.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, So the processor literally has to wait or frames
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  Speaker 2: just get dropped entirely. You end up with motion blur
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  Speaker 2: or these tiny microstutters.
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  Speaker 1: Even though the brain of the device is incredibly fast.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you have an engine capable of supersonic speeds, but
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  Speaker 2: the wheels can only spin at sixty miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: So why do it? Why spend the money to build
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  Speaker 1: this incredible processor and then intentionally cripple the display artificial
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: market segmentation just to force up cells.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, the technology and the supply chain for one hundred
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: and twenty hertz olead panels are completely mature and relatively
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: inexpensive right.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Now, so they could easily afford to put it in.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: There, absolutely, But if they put one hundred and twenty
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: hurtz skis green on the iPad Mini, the day to
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: day visual experience becomes completely indistinguishable from the iPad Pro.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, and Pro costs twice as much.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Exactly, they are deliberately withholding cheap, readily available technology to
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: force consumers who actually care about smooth scrolling to just
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: give up and buy the higher margin device. Wow, they
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: are protecting the Pro tier at the expense of the
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Mini's hardware harmony.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: That protective strategy bleeds right into the MacBook lineup too,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: but honestly in a much more chaotic way.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: The max section of this leak is wild.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: It is so the forty nine MacBook Pro is getting
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: a standard M six bump.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: That is expected, right, business as usual.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: But then the bombshell drops. The leak reveals that the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: M six Pro and the M six Max chips are
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: entirely canceled gone. They are completely skipping a generation for
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the high end laptops, moving straight to the M seven
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Pro and Max next year for the JO four line,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: which is unprecedented for them. Right. Why would a tech
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: giant with arguably the best silicon design team in the
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: entire world hit a wall like this and skip a.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Generation Because they're finally bumping up against the physical limits
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: of semiconductor manufacturing, the actual physics of it. Yes, when
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: we talk about these chips, we are dealing with a
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: three nanimeter node process, okay, which is tiny beyond tiny.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: That means the transistors are so microscopically small that they
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: are battling quantum tunneling.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Wait, quantum tunneling. What does that mean?
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It literally means electrons are jumping across physical barriers where
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: they shouldn't just because the gaps are so incredibly small.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that sounds dangerous for a computer.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: It causes errors and a lot of heat. To make
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: an M six pro significantly faster than an M five Pro.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: They have to pack even more transistors into that tiny space,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: which generates an immense amount of heat, so it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Is essentially a thermal issue. They just can't cool it
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: down inside a thin laptop chassis.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: It is a combination of thermals and yield.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Rates, the field rates being how many chips actually work right.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: When the manufacturing partner bakes these silicon wafers, a certain
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: percentage of the chips are always defective. Okay, as the
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: manufacturing process gets smaller and more complex, that defect rate
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: goes way up, so.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: They throw away a lot of expensive silicon.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Exactly, it is highly likely that the yield rates for
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: a theoretical M six pro were just too low to
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: be financially viable, and on top of that, the performance
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: sleep probably wasn't high enough to justify the crazy heat output.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Well, that makes a lot of sense.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: By canceling it and pushing all those resources to the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: M seven architecture, they buy their engineer's time to design
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a much more efficient core layout rather than just brute
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: forcing a chip that runs way too hot and costs
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: too much to manufacture.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Well, they are definitely trying to distract from that silicon
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: delay with some crazy new form factors. Oh, definitely, because
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the code reveals models K one fourteen C, K fourteen S,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: one sixteen C and one sixteen S the big ones. Yes,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: these are the long rumored touchscreen MacBook Ultras. Finally, I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: know they have resisted putting touch screens on laptops for
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: over a decade. It costs only claiming it ruins the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: ergonomics gorilla arm they used to call it. Right now
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: they are doing it, but the source notes a massive caveat.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: These brand new, cutting edge refresh designs will actually run
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: on older M five Pro and M five Max chips,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: which is so ironic. It is we're getting a futuristic
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: chassis powered by last year's brain.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: What's fascinating here is that it is a really delicate
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: balancing act of engineering resources. How so re engineering a
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: MacBook to support a touch layer changes the entire physical
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: weight distribution of the device.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, because the screen is heavier, Exactly.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: You have to completely redesign the hinge mechanics so the
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: screen doesn't wobble every time you poke it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, that would be incredibly annoying.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Right, And you have to rewrite the core mac os
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: interface to accept larger touch targets, and you have to
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: reconfigure the battery layout to balance the new top heavyweight.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: That sounds incredibly expensive.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: It is that chassis redesign consumes an astronomical amount of
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: R and D money and.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Time, so they use older to offset that.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Huge cost exactly to get the product out the door
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and maintain their profit margins. On a completely new hardware line,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: they lock in a proven older silicon architecture that they
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: can manufacture reliably and cheaply.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: The irony, of course, is that the consumer is going
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: to pay a massive premium. The price for an ultratier
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: will certainly.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Go up, not down right, It's going to be so expensive.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: And you'll be paying that premium while technically buying last
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: generation processors. They are calculating that the sheer novelty of
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: finally touching a MAX screen will completely overshadow the slightly
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: older silicon inside.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: That is a bold bet, real quick. Just rounding out
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of the computing section, there is a small note about
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the desktop line. The IMACA right models J three three
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and J thirty four. They are getting an M six refresh,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: but the source explicitly points out that the iMac remains
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a very slow seller compared to MacBooks and iPads. It
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: really has dropped off. It feels like the desktop has
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: just become a legacy appliance, you know, while all the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: aggressive innovation is happening on battery power.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: That is exactly it. The desktop no longer dictates the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: broader strategic.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Roadmap, just kind of there.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: It exists to serve very specific enterprise or creative workflows, sure,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: but it is no longer the center of the consumer
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: digital ecosystem.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Which naturally brings us to the device that absolutely funds
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: this entire ecosystem, the big one, the iPhone. If you
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: want to see how this company is truly restructuring its future,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you just have to look at how they are manipulating
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the iPhone release cycle.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: This is the most crucial part of the leak.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Because, according to this code, the traditional September event where
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: they drop the entire lineup all at once, yeah, that
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: is dead gone completely. They are completely fracturing the release schedule.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: If we connect this to the bigger picture from a
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: business perspective, this is the most revealing strategic shift we
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: have seen in years.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's walk through it. The roadmap shows a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: radical split release strategy. In the fall event, they will
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: exclusively launch the premium tier. We are talking the iPhone
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: eighteen Pro, the eighteen Pro Max, and a new model
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: dubbed the iPhone Ultra only the highest margins exactly. Then
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: they are holding back the entire standard tier for a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: separate spring event. Right. That is where we will see
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the base iPhone eighteen, the iPhone eighteen E, and a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: mysterious R two device covering model numbers V sixty three,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: V sixty four, V sixty eight, V sixty seven and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: sixty two, And just to note, an E model is
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: expected to appear regardless of whatever else changes in that lineup.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Good to know. But if you are a consumer who
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: usually upgrades your phone during the holiday season, this completely
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: changes your math, doesn't it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: It corners the consumer entirely, it really does. Why do
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: they want to do that, because for the past decade
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a major problem for their profit margins has been internal cannibalization.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: People buying the cheaper phone instead of the expensive one.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Precisely, a customer walks into a retail store in October,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: they look at the brand new Pro model and then
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: they look at the brand new base model sitting.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Right next to it, right, and they compare them.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: They realize the base model is perfectly fine for just
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: texting and taking photos, and they save themselves three or
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: four hundred dollars.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Which hurts the company's bottom line.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Exactly, So, by splitting the release, the company removes that
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: choice entirely during the most critical shopping season of the year.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, if you want a new iPhone in the
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter, maybe for a holiday gift, or you just
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: want the newest thing, your only options are the most expensive,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: highest margin devices they make.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: It is an absolute masterclass and financial engineer, it really is.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: They basically forced the early adopters and the holiday shoppers
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: straight into the premium tier. And then what happens in
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the spring well.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Spring is traditionally a dead zone for tech retail sales
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: just naturally slumped.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Right, Everyone already bought their stuff in December. Yeah, exactly.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: But by injecting the base iPhone eighteen, the Budget eighteen E,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: and this new R two device into that exact spring window,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: they create a massive artificial revenue sp.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Because everyone who couldn't afford the pro is finally upgrading.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, they capture the price conscious upgraders and completely smooth
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: out their revenue graph across the entire fiscal year.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, but isn't that a massive risk. It is a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: huge gamble because the source material also briefly pivots to
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: mention some upcoming reviews for the Google Pixel eleven and
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the Pixel eleven Pro Excel right the competition exactly. It
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: is a stark reminder to the listener that while this
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: company's meticulously manipulating its twenty twenty six and twenty twenty
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: seven release schedules, the rest of the industry isn't just
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: standing still. They are advancing rapidly in AI and computational photography.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: That is the risk.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: A split release cycle assumes absolute, unshakable brand loyalty.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Which is hard to guarantee.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: It assumes that a customer who only has the budget
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: for a base model will willingly wait six months for
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the spring event rather than simply walking into a carrier
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: store in November and buying a flagship Pixel or Galaxy
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: device right then and there, right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Because their current phone might be broken or they just
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: want something new. Exactly.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: It is a profound test of their market dominance. They
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: are gambling that the pull of eye message and their
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: unified ecosystem is so strong that consumers will literally delay
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: their natural purchasing habits rather than switch brands.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: It's just a breathtaking flex of power when you really
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: think about.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: It, unmatched arrogance or confidence, depending on how you look
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: at it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Honestly, when you step back and look at the sheer
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: scope of this roadmap, it is overwhelming.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: It covers almost every aspect of daily life.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It really does. We started with this multi million dollar
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: security system left wy open via macOS code. We looked
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: at how they are dropping a completely coordinated fleet of
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: hubs and cameras to just brute force their way into
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the living.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Room by passing all the protocol friction right.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: We examine the massive engineering hurdles of putting visual AI
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: into air pods and the regional bottlenecks of rolling that
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: out the Poland example. We unpacked the refresh fatigue of
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: sixty herz iPads and skipped MacBook processors.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Dealing with those thermal realities.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And we finally arrived this complete manipulation of consumer buying
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: abits with the fractured iPhone release cycle.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: It is a masterclass and ecosystem lock in truly, But
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: you know, mapping out this level of hardware integration, where
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: every device is constantly communicating, processing visual data locally, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: tracking environmental metrics, it leads to a critical long term
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: consequence for the hardware itself, something we really need to
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: think about. What do you mean, Well, if Apple's twenty
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: twenty seven roadmap includes smart home cameras that map our
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: living rooms and air pods with dual cameras that literally record.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Everything we see.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Ye, If the only way to process all that real
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: time visual AI privately is to run it entirely on local,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: highly secure internal processors, then the hardware enclosures are going
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: to become completely impenetrable.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: To ensure that local AI data cannot be tampered with
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: or extracted by a bad actor, the logic boards, the storage,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: and the sensors will have to be cryptographically paired and
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: physically sealed in ways we have never seen.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Before so no one could ever open them up.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Right, So, at what point does the ecosystem become a panopticon?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Are we unknowingly trading our right to ever, repair, modify,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: or upgrade our own devices for the sake of having
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: this hyper secure local visual AI. That is because if
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the ecosystem requires total hardware lockdown to guarantee our privacy,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the era of fixing your own technology is permanently over.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Are we buying ultimate convenience at the cost of an
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: unrecorded life?
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: That is a fascinating and honestly somewhat terrifying angle to
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: consider as these devices move from leaked code into our
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: actual homes over the next two years. I want to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: explicitly thank all of our listeners for staying with us
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: until the very end of this massive roadmap breakdown. If
• 28:47
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• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you all a fond farewell until next time.