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2:37This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, June 25th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand. Today, Apple announced big price increases on much of its lineup, but thankfully, not all of it. Not all of it. Lean in. Wait a minute. Tell me more. Oh, we will. But you've got to wait for it. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Wayne Fettdell. We're going to start with what you need to know with Big Story. See, you didn't even have to wait that long. It was just like a couple of seconds. But, you know, it keeps you tied into the news. Apple announced its price increases.

3:13several of its Macs, iPads, home devices. I mean, the list is long. The MacBook Neo, just a couple of examples that I pulled out. $100 more expensive than at launch. The Neo didn't come out that long ago, and now it's jumping up to$700. The MacBook Pro up to$300, or sorry, up$300 to$2 ,000 is one example. The iPad Air jumping$150 to$750. Vision Pro, You know, if you already thought, oh, Vision Pro, like, that sounds like a cool device, but it's already kind of a luxury purchase. Well, you're going to have to pay$200 more for that. That's now$3 ,700,$3 ,700 for that headset. Like I said, a huge list of the price hikes.

4:02One of the devices that you won't find on the list, though, oh, you were waiting for it. It is the iPhone. Yes, Apple decided to spare the iPhone a price increase, somehow saved it from that, which I'm sure we have thoughts on that. We can talk about that. Also saved from the increase. You won't find AirPods on there. You won't find the Apple Watch on there. So a few things, you know, that you get at the same old price, at least for now. An Apple spokesperson told Reuters that the company, quote, could no longer shield customers from the impacts of the memory market pinch. and that it has never seen a component price move this fast.

4:41And in fact, just last week, Tim Cook had told the Wall Street Journal that the memory situation had become unsustainable. He said, quote, I've never seen anything like it in any area in over 40 years. So that quote's getting a lot of play right now. This news, I mean, it's kind of a big deal because this feels in some ways pretty uncharacteristic for a company like Apple to do this and in such sweeping fashion. Yeah. I mean, I think we can take it on Tim Cook's word that we talked about this, I think, last week, that this truly probably is something very, very different. And we've talked about price hikes or products dying in various podcasts this week and last week and for a while.

5:22Yeah, it is interesting, though, that they managed to save the iPhone. And I feel like this is something that one could look up very easily, and I did not. But that the iPhone, since smartphones feel like much more, not quite a commodity, but pretty dang close, especially the iPhone itself, as well as the kind of close association we have with iPhones and AirPods and Apple Watch being like people's everyday carry. And I think the Apple Watch being so innately tied to an iPhone experience, like to an iPhone, like both technically and also as an experience. I don't know if that's maybe just where they figured they could shield people, or do you think maybe it was some kind of resiliency in the smartphone, like in their iPhone supply chain, as opposed to maybe bigger ticket purchases like the MacBooks?

6:04And especially the MacBook Neo, since it's relatively new, a new model. I'm not sure which it is. Yeah. I mean, it's impossible to know exactly why. I don't think we're getting any information as far as why those particular things were shielded. But I guess when I think of price increases and everything and a company like Apple that already is kind of seen as somewhat of a luxury brand, depending on your perspective, right? We're not used to seeing Apple immediately kind of be along with everyone else in this regard. I think some people might look at Apple and think like, oh, well, they've got buckets of money.

6:40They can just shoulder the cost of these increases and keep customer goodwill high and everything. And I think that works for a brand like Apple to a point. At a certain point, it's just bad business when everything is skyrocketing the way it is right now for them to shoulder the cost of that. Is that different because of something like the iPhone that is such an important, if not one of the most important devices that Apple sells right now? And maybe they just don't want to disrupt that momentum. They don't want to disrupt that stability. And so they're willing to kind of shoulder the cost on some of their devices, a.k.a.

7:18their most important device. And the other things that maybe you already pay a premium for, those get hikes. Does it really hurt them to raise the price of the Apple Vision Pro a couple hundred dollars when people probably aren't rushing out to buy it to begin with from what I understand about it? It's already a super luxury device. So they're not – yeah, it's a good question. I wish I knew the answer. That's a really good point though too. And I think that something that's interesting that came to mind is that especially here in the U.S. and I presume also in Europe and other Western countries where – in particular, like countries where the iPhone is vastly – like by a large margin or the dominant smartphone as opposed to us Android people over here.

8:03that the continued usage of iPhone by smartphone users is pretty resilient to price increases. I was thinking actually of Japan, and I forgot when this was. We covered this two, three years ago, where they actually did start switching to Android because of price increases. And of course, if you've paid a little bit of attention, you understand that kind of like their economic situation is a little bit weird right now. And so they did have a significant switchover and the dominant or the dominant – I don't like saying that. It's like some kind of tug – but it's like a tug of war, right, between Android and iOS.

8:40It's a little more lively, a little more dynamic in other countries. But I think you're right in that Apple, for many good reasons and as a complement to them, have built up Goodwill. And in countries like the U.S., and I presume probably like Germany and other places where it's just got a really good foothold that they'll be able to hold on to it. And especially holding on to the prices on the iPhone will just kind of keep that entrenched kind of like customer base regardless. But yeah, it's really interesting. That's a really good point on the Vision Pro too. Like I guess if you can afford$3 ,500 Vision Pro, it's not too much of a jump to go$3 ,700.

9:17Totally, yeah. I'd be kind of curious since the MacBook Neo is relatively new and like a lot of other manufacturers are already putting out competitors or maybe already plan to have competitors, whether that affects like uptick of the or uptake of the MacBook Neo. But I don't know. Also, like, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's a good question. I mean, we have also in recent weeks talked about plenty of PC and laptop makers doing something similar and doing something similar on recently announced hardware. So it's not outside of the realm of what others in the industry are doing in that regard. So yeah, it is really interesting.

9:57MacRumors says that the average price when they did all the math and everything of increase across the board was around$246 if they averaged it all out. Between 15 % to 20 % hikes on all of these devices. And like I said, the list is long. So go take a look at the list. if you you've probably been hearing people say for a little while now if you're going to buy this hardware now's the time because soon it's going to be a lot more expensive soon as now so probably the best day to have bought any of this stuff was yesterday and i'm sorry you've lost your opportunity to save some you know 250 or whatever a lot of this stuff oh my gosh but true yeah what a world we live in well you know what us here at utns would not be in this world without you, the listener.

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13:59All right, there is so much more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs, and maybe you can help make sense of this story because I spent far too long trying to understand it. Yeah, buckle up here because it's happening, y 'all. Google announced that it's rolling out external billing in the Play Store starting next Tuesday, June 30th in the U.S., U.K., and Europe. So Android developers like myself, or rather people that actually publish their own apps, will then be able to route users to alternative payment systems for the apps that are distributed through Google Play. So there's a lot of changing numbers and percents on this.

14:33The new policy will set a 10 % fee on the first$1 million in annual earnings across all billing methods, including Google Play billing, down from the previous 30 % for the Play Store. That 10 % fee does include auto-renewing subscriptions. So for a publisher, after they earn that first million dollars, that fee is no longer flat and will no longer be a flat 10%. Google splits pricing based on, confusingly, whether the user installed the app before or after the new billing policy went into effect in that market. So presumably, like, between the US, UK and Europe, it's a little, like, kind of like different segments, maybe, question mark.

15:15Well, after paying that first$1 million, the fee is no longer flat. Google splits pricing based on whether the user installed the app before or after the new billing policy went into effect in that market. Google takes a lower cut of new installs than existing installs. Also, after the first million, developers that use Google Play's billing system pay a 5 % billing fee in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Economic Area with fees for other markets to be announced later. Yes, this is all very confusing. It's confusing to hear it. It's also confusing to read it. I read through like 10 times, and I was trying to kind of write this up and make any sort of sense of it.

15:54And I was at the end of it, I was like, God, if this is, I mean, do developers have a better understanding of what this all means? Because they're kind of steeped in this world of billing and understanding kind of the way things were versus the way things are going? Or is it obscure purposefully so? I don't know. It's so weird to me. I can't understand it. It's always been obscure. So I think it's safe to say. It's always been obscure. Yeah. I mean, it always has been a little bit hand wavy. and I I don't I wish I had numbers on this but I I can I feel very safe in assuming that there are not a lot of if you take the raw number of apps in the app store and thus you know the raw number of developers publishers pushing stuff on google play for example I bet that the number of apps that that have one million dollars in annual earnings is quite low as a percent so you're probably talking about your most successful apps you're talking about your big publishers big companies that have maybe companion apps.

16:48So I feel like if anything, I wouldn't say this is like a top, top, there's probably a top 10%. I don't know what the actual percentage is, but it's a top something percent problem where you would actually notice this. I think if a regular developer got$1 million into annual earnings, they'd be pretty stunk and stoked. But I will say that, of course, people like Epic, who started all this, all of this term and drawing, probably do notice. And I think for those of us that maybe live or live in kind of like a bigger world, that someone is keeping track of this and someone does care and that someone will will figure this out.

17:24I think for for most of us, especially independent developers, this is probably something that they deal with it if if they're lucky enough to have it come up. It is really confusing. It always has been. um but i suppose at least now i won't say it's more transparent because man does it still feel difficult to understand and i feel like things that are transparent should be inherently easy to understand but i think the fees are lower at least now it's possible it is it is possible i do think it's really interesting how they split the brand new install like first time install first time update versus previously installed because i feel like that i and i i again i don't know the numbers to speculate on whether this is reasonable a little sneaky not sneaky is a little bit rude but you know a little bit strategic let's say i and i i'm kind of curious why that matters unless it's just purely from a simplicity standpoint of maybe once someone is i don't know maybe once a device counts towards something because the way that the google play store seems to work yeah it seems to it seems like you know just like you have that like list of apps where regardless of whether that app is installed or not, Google Play knows what apps you've installed ever.

18:35I wonder if there's something about the bookkeeping for that that makes this part easier in the most generous sense as opposed to there's something about the numbers maybe or the income of existing versus new installs. Maybe there's some kind of conversion thing with users. Anyway, converting from free to paid or just converting people to installing your app. I don't know. A lot to think about there. It is just confusing. And I, yeah, no idea. Well, you are a developer. I am not a developer. I'm happy to know that my confusion wasn't just because I'm done with developer-y stuff. I was just looking at the numbers like, oh, boy, this has got to be confusing for a reason.

19:15Very interesting. Well, after tech stocks fell earlier in the week, Micron has reported its chip sales beat analysts' estimates by almost$5 a share in earnings. If you don't follow finances, basically that means it's making lots and lots of money selling chips. Big surprise. More boatloads of that money than people even might have thought it would. What we care about here is less the money that it made, but the fact that the demand for chips has not slowed, it has in fact increased. Meaning the AI boom that's driving chip sales showed signs of accelerating, not slowing down at this point. Another point of data to assess the AI market came from research firm Exponential View, which estimated that global AI sales, excluding China, passed estimates of$21 billion in Q1 to reach$25 billion.

20:10That's enough that the AI industry as a whole can justifiably be called profitable, barely. Still, the depreciation on equipment, mostly data centers, eats up around two-thirds of the cost, leaving those margins pretty thin. Now, the risk is that depreciation happens faster than expected, and some already say it's being underestimated. Depreciation basically means that you have a bunch of old GPUs that have to be replaced, among other things. The other risk is users moving to cheaper or open source models or a price war that's driving down revenues. And the best you can say with confidence about the industry right now is that so far, so good.

20:57Things continue to be good if you're in this realm. I am, by the way, born and raised in Boise, Idaho. I don't live there anymore, but I'm from Boise, Idaho. Anytime I see Micron, I have a soft spot in my heart because Micron is a company that was based and founded in Boise. So I'm always like, oh, okay. Hadn't thought about them for so long. But boy, this is a huge turnaround moment or a huge kind of opportunity moment, I guess, for Micron. They are just killing it right now. I guess less heartwarming but also interesting are just like a lot of companies pivoting like the story. I forgot if we covered it or not.

21:35Like the Allbirds. Allbirds. Yeah, Albert's. Yeah, going from shoes to data centers. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, but I think Micron is a – I will go with you on positive feelings there that this is an opportunity. It does feel like everybody's got like literally like that plate – not literally, but plate spinning. And that right now everyone's doing a pretty good job at keeping all the plates spinning. It does feel that tenuous though. Again, not really an economics person or a business person, but it does feel a little bit tenuous, especially. And the depreciation has been actually brought up to me, or I've read articles quite a bit about that.

22:11So I'm kind of curious, especially since this is, again, like all new. This whole environment is just so new to all of us. I feel like those of us that do know more about business and economics and especially history could probably do better. But I'm really curious what, again, we don't know what it's going to look like a year or two years from now. But I guess it's good that right now things are balanced so far. So, okay. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah. And go Micron. Yeah. We'll see. I mean, I think the so far so good, you know, that is really, that's really the big question, not just for this side of the industry, but for everyone, you know, all the progress and kind of movements that are happening with all the companies in the kind of the world of this LLM space and modern AI and everything.

23:02Yeah. That's kind of what everybody is kind of looking at is, okay, things are going well for them right now? Does it continue? Is there an actual bubble of some way, shape, or form? I feel like I'm hearing that term a lot less these days, but I think it's just kind of right underneath the layer right there all along. So yeah, we'll certainly find out. Well, a few stories kicking around that have to do with AI and jobs that we can kind of talk about here real quick. First, a new bipartisan nonprofit called Raise Us, or is it Raise US? There's no dots between the U and the S, so it's hard to say, but it's all caps.

23:40So anyways, I think it's Raise Us. It's founded by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb with pilots in Arkansas, Maryland, Utah, and Connecticut. What is it? Well, the goal is to help workers navigate AI-driven disruption through state-level education, through training, through employer partnerships. and some of those and there's a whole list of partners Amazon Microsoft Anthropic OpenAI Foundation IBM AMD Cisco the list goes on but really what it's all about is retraining it's about apprenticeships programs for what a recent Boston Consulting Group study projects could be as many as 25 million jobs displaced in the U.S.

24:29in the next five years because of everything happening in AI. And so this is kind of like a lot of the big companies that are creating the things that would lead to that displacement if and when it happens. Also kind of being a part of this nonprofit to retrain people on how to use the kind of modern technology, essentially. Yeah, I mean, I have to applaud the spirit of the initiative because, of course, we need to do something because we're, I mean, I know it's hard to say now with the numbers about the true impact of AI. We're still all kind of like trying to figure it out. And it's hard to kind of really correlate or attribute like all these various factors.

25:15But I do believe that, I mean, it seems obvious that there will be more job displacement and that obviously retraining. and helping people find new areas in places with high disruption, high displacement is important. I'm kind of curious what kind of education and training and what areas will, I guess, hold the jobs once they're displaced. I think of this segment, I think it was on last week, tonight, ages ago, about re-education programs for coal miners. I think it was coal miners and they were sending them to IT. They were training to be IT people, which now, yikes, since it feels like that industry is one of the places where displacement is happening.

25:57So I'm really curious. I think generally this is the idea is fantastic. And I guess it's good to see the companies that are involved in displacement putting a hand in this. But I'm really curious about where they see navigating people as a safe place in the, not even in the short term, but the mid to long term, because it just feels so disruptive right now. It's like, what is the safe space? It's hard to know where that target is on the dartboard to shoot for. Well, then you've got China. This is the other part of this story. China, on the other hand, betting on a wave of humanoid robots to offset a steep drop in its workforce because the working age population is shrinking.

26:37Financial Times analysis cited UN-linked projections that China's labor force could fall from around 1 billion people today to about 300 million by 2100. 2100? Is that what we call it? 2100? I don't know. That seems like a long ways away, but it's actually probably not. Embodied artificial intelligence, so robotics, now sits at the center of this strategy. President Xi Jinping and other senior officials are showing it as a core national priority. This is all from the Financial Times article that I pulled this from. Not only that, they're backing it with a long-term new productive forces investment.

27:21It's a push that's worth around$1 trillion renminbi as they drive larger-scale, large-scale deployment of robots across factories, across logistics and services. And I don't know. They're very two – like these two stories are related, but they're kind of different. One is filling in the missing workforce. The other is like retraining the existing workforce for new skills, but also filling in what would be missing or whatever. It's just two different angles. And what came to mind for me is like, you know, over here, we're retraining. Over there, they're talking about robotics to infill. And this like idea that I've noticed a couple of times in my lifetime where some of these like Asian countries and the technologies that they have there are a big deal there takes a while for that particular thing to catch on overseas in like, let's say, the U.S.

28:21market, but then eventually they do. And I wonder if this is the thing. Do we have these humanoid robotics in our future? We just don't realize it yet. Yeah, and I think it's so interesting also that the goals, I forget, I don't have a source for this, but that especially on the U.S. side, especially the big companies, there seems to be this burbling about AGI and kind of like the ultimate goal of a lot of U.S.-based companies is AGI for whatever purposes or means. Whereas, again, I don't know if it's cultural or like cultural and socioeconomic in Asia that there is this, you know, and like I think population decline in places like South Korea, Japan, and kind of like aging workforces like in China drive like different goals.

29:03And I think, what did we cover last week or two weeks ago about China putting in protections like labor protection? So almost the opposite. Like, again, and as you're saying, like here we're focusing on retraining, whereas I believe we reported that China is working on protections against displacement. I think that's what we reported. So it is really interesting to see these different. And yeah, like totally like it's just like everything else. I think because of the alternate focuses, yeah, maybe they will be working on, you know, these infills. And then however it turns out in the next 10, 20, 30 years, will we over here be like, oh, oh, yeah, that was that's those those are good ideas.

29:39I mean, I don't really know. All I ever see are, yeah, like the interesting are these AI videos of Chinese robotics, which I can never tell whether they're AI or not anymore. But that's kind of like a generative AI problem, not a China problem. But yeah, it's really fascinating to see like these two hemispheres and how we're all going about this current like generative AI, LL, AI-centric world differently. It's interesting. It shows how complicated it really is. Oh, my Lord. Yes. Well, if you have feedback about anything that gets brought up on the show, please get in touch with us, even on the socials.

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32:34Qualcomm unveiled its Dragonfly data center chip lineup at its investor day, signing Meta as its first major CPU customer for the Dragonfly C1000, which is expected to ship in 2028. The lineup will also include China-specific AI accelerators designed to stay within U.S. export control thresholds. All right. Well, Cloudflare, along with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, announced they are co-developing a privacy-preserving protocol called Private Access Control Tokens, or PACT. They would replace CAPTCHAs with anonymous tokens that could prove a visitor is human without tracking them. hmm god i got stuck on a captcha the other day and i swear i was doing it for 10 minutes i was like why and i i just figured like it was broken it was never going to work and then it finally did like it literally took me 10 minutes to to pass all the oh why why was it so important i don't know i want to sit i i don't i don't want to keep clicking on motorcycles in this picture please thank you very much i'm gonna move on to my life i can't tell if that's a bicycle but clearly you You know better than I do.

33:40Security researcher Scott Helm launched a site called WhyNoPassKeys.com that names and shames, finger wags, popular websites that still don't support passkeys. So Instagram, Netflix, Spotify, just to name a few. All right. Well, according to the elect, Apple's foldable iPhone Ultra is still on track to begin mass production at the end of July and is still targeting a September launch. despite reports of hinge noise and higher than expected defect rates during durability testing. I bet they nail it, though. Yeah, honestly, yes. It's Apple. Yeah, might be a little more expensive than you were imagining, though.

34:21You know, see our big story today. Facebook is reimagining its creator studio as a standalone AI companion app that helps creators with personalized performance recommendations, also AI drafting comment replies in the creator's own tone. I don't know how I feel about that. And a daily priorities feed. It's being tested with select creators now. All right. Well, Amazon's Zoox showed off an updated version of its autonomous Robotaxi designed for large-scale production with improved visibility, two-way audio on the doors, and more comfortable seating. The company says it can ramp up to 100 vehicles a week at its Hayward, California facility.

35:01Zoox! I wanted to ride one of those last time I was in Vegas. I didn't get a chance to, but I wanted to. It's interesting looking. Gadzooks. Gadzooks. Anthropic accused Alibaba's Quinn AI lab of using roughly 25 ,000 fraudulent accounts, it says, and 28.8 million model exchanges to distill. They were doing distillation of capabilities from Claude. They sent a letter to U.S. senators and White House officials about it. Oh, man. Well, thanks to R.W. Nash in the subreddit for this one. Google is splitting its web and app activity settings into separate controls for search history, personalization, and Google Play.

35:39Okay, and finally, Xbox Insiders, testing support for longer game tags, up to 15 characters. Also, the ability to stream games via Xbox Cloud Gaming while a game downloads in the background. Also, updated game hubs for Xbox 360 titles. And we end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspectives from you. And today that you is Jesse, who has thoughts about the new Google Home speaker that I talked about yesterday. Yeah. So Jesse writes, regarding the non-removable Google Home speaker cable, as the owner of House Rabbits, who has learned several expensive lessons, I am in favor of standard replaceable power cords for everything.

36:20Yep. Yep. I mean, I wasn't thinking of rabbits necessarily yesterday when I was talking about why is this not replaceable. But the general theme is there, you know, like replaceable means that the cable goes bad. It's easy to swap one in and you're good to go. But if it doesn't, if you don't have that, you're kind of screwed. Yeah, I was watching over, I was watching DUTs yesterday. And when you were talking about the speaker and you mentioned the unremovable cable, I think my husband was listening to, we both went, oh, oh. Oh, and I looking at I suppose like part of it is also designed because it does have that really lovely.

36:57It's you know, it's a cute little bubble sitting in this little glowing ring. So I think I understand from a design perspective, but these hopefully these things will be living in our houses for a very, very long time, which I also suppose implies that it should be repairable, replaceable or at least little parts of it. Not the whole thing. But yes. No, I'm with you, Jesse. Yes, please. Yes, please. All right. Well, what are you thinking about? Do you have some insight into a story, especially involving House Rabbits? I really enjoyed that one. Thank you, Jesse. Well, share it with us. House Rabbits or not, feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com.

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