Episode 172 May 7, 2024

Apple Event 5/7/24

iPad Air -

Camera to side

Center stage

Spacial audio more base

M2 processor

Pencil hover

Up to tb storage

$599 & $799

Order today, ships next week

iPad Pro-

Ultimate iPad experience

New design thinnest Apple product ever!!!

Silver, space black

OLED Display double panel (tandem OLED)

XDR display

“Ultra retina xdr”

Nano textured glass option for glare

M4 processor

  • 2nd gen 3nm tech

  • Next gen cpu 4-6 (10 core)

  • Next gen 10 gpu (10 core)

  • 4x speed of M2

  • Neural engine improved

  • 4x faster than iPad w/M2

Pro Apps

Shaper 3D

Z brush

Final Cut 2 & Logic Pro 2

Live multicam 4 cameras

Final Cut camera app links to Final Cut

Logic Pro 2 session players AI instruments

Chroma glow simulator for tube amps

Team splitter creates accompaniment from vocal

12mp camera 4k video

Better scanner

Front camera on side & Face ID

New Magic Keyboard

Aluminum palm rest

Larger track pad

Haptic feedback

New Apple Pencil Pro

Squeeze

Double tap

Haptic engine

Orientation sensor (gyroscope) “barrel roll”

“Find my” if you loose it

Magnetic charge (Pencil 2 discontinued)

Procreate support

Procreate Dreams animation/drawing app

Works with iPad Air as well

Thinnest Apple product ever!!!

$999 $1299 iPad starting prices

$249 $399 keyboards

$129 pencil pro

Order today, ship next week

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 171 April 29, 2024

Apple plans “Let Loose” special event for May 7th, speculation of new iPads and Pencil; Vision Pro production order down: iPhone market share in china down 6%; M4 Mac Studio, the ultimate Mac; Apple Arcades growing importance; GPU aren’t really for graphics any more; Apple neural engine is a specialized gpu, purpose built; DARPA RACER; Memory and Storage may converge at Phase Change Memory; QDEL may be thew the new OLED before Micro LED rules the world; and WAY too much political talk.

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 170 April 22, 2024

Apple AI on device, and acquisitions, Tesla drops cost of self driving system and you can rent it, Taylor Swift has new album, iPad Air in short supply, Can an LLM fit on a device, finewoven is a flop and going away, but leather won’t come back. iPhone 17 may shrink screen, Apple is in running for NBA broadcasts.

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 168 April 2, 2024

Apple ramps up iPad production for May? Launch. DBRX claims to have most powerful OpenSource AI, Trump joins Bloomberg top 500 richest people and then looses $1b in value the next day, Phil Schiller explains apples position on App Store controls, Vision Pro - Jack got a demo! Vision Pro gets some new content but not nearly enough, Apple launches web based swift tutorial, Apples ReALM can beat GPT-4? And Space Station debris falls through Florida roof.

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 167 March 27, 2024

Let’s go bowling! Drone food, eminent domain and the family farm, Nuclear Battery is a thing, Apple announces WWDC date and plan to talk about AI, is the Apple Vision Pro the new newton, DOJ sues apple but should they, Vision Pro pencil, more DOJ talk, Tim Cook in China, Apples Apps store took a punch and the other tech companies are lining up to take a swing, CarPlay is apples toe hold on cars, WeChat on Vision Pro is a big deal, and iOS 17.4.1 take 2?

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Episode 166 March 18, 2024

Air Pods Pro to add hearing aid functionality, Maybe new iPads tomorrow, Get mom a phone, Chevron leaving CA? And now they sell E85, Types of Oil and we can’t use it all, Lithium in Nevada, Folding iPhones, Tim Cook statement leads to $490 million settlement, its tough being CEO, Vision Pro App Store on the web now.

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!