Apple Splitting up iPhone 18 Releases?

9 May 2025 · 1 h 12 min

Ask about this episode

Ask anything about it. ChatGPT or Claude reads this page and answers with the times it was said.

Connect VO and ask about every podcast you hear, including the moments you saved. Add to ChatGPT · Add to Claude

In short

Episode Notes: Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast - "Apple Splitting up iPhone 18 Releases?"

Episode Summary In this episode of the Waveform podcast, Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), Andrew Manganelli, and David Imel discuss potential changes in Apple's iPhone release strategy, updates in Google’s Material 3 Expressive design, details surrounding the Epic vs. Apple court case, and their excitement for upcoming tech events like Google I/O and Apple WWDC.

---

Key Discussions

  1. Apple's Potential Staggered iPhone Releases
  2. Rumor Overview:
  3. There is speculation that Apple might only release the Pro versions of the iPhone 18 in 2026 and stagger the regular models' release.
  4. The Pro models, known for their higher sales, would launch first, followed by the more budget-friendly options.
  5. Implications:
  6. This change could mean regular iPhones would feature older chips compared to the Pro models.
  7. Discussion on whether this makes sense from a marketing and sales perspective.
  1. Google's Material 3 Expressive Leak
  2. UI Design Evolution:
  3. Material 3 Expressive builds upon the previous Material U design and aims to enhance user experience by introducing more vibrant and layered designs.
  4. The new design focuses on more intuitive navigation, particularly using visual elements like rounded edges and localized app windows.
  5. Discussion Highlights:
  6. Opinions on whether the new design successfully balances aesthetics with usability.
  7. Concerns about whether changes might confuse users rather than enhance their experience.
  1. Epic vs. Apple Court Case Update
  2. Background:
  3. Epic Games sued Apple over App Store policies, particularly focusing on the 30% commission fee on in-app purchases.
  4. Recent Developments:
  5. A significant ruling was made that allows developers to guide users towards cheaper purchases outside of the App Store.
  6. Apple’s attempt to maintain control was criticized by the judge for being user-hostile, demonstrating internal communications about making the user experience more difficult when navigating away from the App Store.
  7. Implications for Developers:
  8. Developers can now bypass Apple’s commission on web purchases, which could lead to a shift in how apps monetize.
  1. Anticipation for Upcoming Tech Events
  2. Google I/O vs. Apple WWDC:
  3. The hosts debate which event they are more excited about, highlighting the significance of new software updates and features expected at both.
  4. Google I/O is expected to feature advancements in AI and Android updates, while WWDC may reveal updates to Apple’s operating systems and possible new hardware.

---

Key Takeaways

  • Apple’s Strategy Shift: Staggering releases could reflect a shift in marketing strategy, potentially prioritizing higher-end models.
  • Material Design: The evolution of Google’s Material Design continues to blend aesthetics with functionality, but user intuitiveness remains a critical concern.
  • Significant Legal Precedents: The Epic Games vs. Apple case has set a precedent for how app developers can monetize their apps, potentially changing the landscape of app sales.
  • Tech Event Excitement: Anticipation for new features and updates remains high, with both Google and Apple expected to unveil significant advancements.

---

Additional Links

  • [The Information - Apple iPhone releases](https://www.theinformation.com)
  • [9to5Google - Material 3 Expressive leak](https://9to5google.com)
  • [Android Authority - Google building its own DeX](https://www.androidauthority.com)

---

Social Media Links

  • [Waveform Podcast on Threads](https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast)
  • [Marques Brownlee on Threads](https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd)
  • [Andrew Manganelli on Threads](https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli)
  • [David Imel on Threads](https://www.threads.net/@davidimel)

Join the [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/mkbhd) for more discussions!

---

This episode of the Waveform podcast combines insights into major tech news while fostering engaging debates about the future of Apple and Google. Tune in next week for more tech discussions!

Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.

Hear the part that matters, and keep it.Open this episode in VO. Double tap your headphones to save a moment as you listen.
Get VO free

Transcript

Automatic transcript. May contain errors.

0:27Adobe Acrobat Studio, so brand new. Rinse takes your laundry and hand delivers it to your door, expertly cleaned and folded, so you could take the time once spent folding and sorting and waiting to finally pursue a whole new version of you, like tea time you. Mmm. Or this tea time you. Or even this tea time you. So did you hear about Dave? Or even tea time, tea time, tea time you. Mmm. So update on Dave. It's up to you. We'll take the laundry. Rinse. It's time to be great. My friends and I thought that the color mahogany was funny. Wait, wait, wait. It is funny. Why? It's a subjectively hilarious color.

1:08We used to just walk around and go, mahogany, mahogany.

1:22Yo, what is up, people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the Waveform Podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marquez. I'm Andrew. And I'm David. This week, we do have a lot of stuff. We've got a doozy. We've got, let's see, Android features. A bunch of new stuff got leaked. Apple might stagger the iPhone release, which is kind of interesting based on the other rumors that we'll talk about. Arguably the biggest update to the Apple third-party App Store fiasco and lawsuit. But first, we, the producers of said podcast, have to remove a point from Marques. Because as the people of the internet have correctly pointed out oh shoot the iPhone 6 that we gave a point to Marquez to last week in trivia Actually came out in 2015 not 2014.

2:09So we're taking the point away Sorry, I don't like how cheerful this is. I like the music how happy you guys are to take this one away from me You say you like the music but this is the same music that would have played during that Spotify thing We were talking about where you have was it no no, but I was very similar But I'm using that forever now. That felt very Diddy Kong Racing. Yeah. You know, other game shows, if they mess up, you just keep the money. We're not other game shows. When the bank messes up, they come after you. Other game shows don't have hundreds of comments begging to take the point away.

2:41So they keep us honest, and that's why you should subscribe so you can make sure we don't get any extra points. Yeah. If you'd like to see me continue to be devastated by trivia, make sure you hit that red button. cash a 90 000 check and it wasn't real the bank will destroy you that's fair enough sounds like a personal problem all right let's get into it first thing is apple might i don't know where this came from it's sort of an out of the blue rumor but apple might only release the pro iphones in 2026 yes and then stagger the regular iphones to be released months later yeah i don't know the information i don't understand this one i don't understand why they would do that because typically the standard iPhones use the same chip as the previous year's iPhones.

3:25So they would be even older and more out of date. Do you find any merit in this? I think maybe they would get rid of that fact and they would start using the good chips again, but just not the pro version and the regular version instead. Because the pro phone, the big pro phone, the most expensive one in the United States, is always the one that sells the most in the United States. It is. So it kind of makes sense. I mean, they're planning on releasing two new iPhone models in the next two years. So at this point, we're going to have the Air, and we're also going to have a Fold. Can I get like, can we make an example of how this would play out in 2026?

4:01So last year we had, in 2024, the iPhone was the 16, 16 Plus, 16 Pro, 16 Pro Max. Then we got the 16E at the beginning of 2025. So now the end of 2025 would still be... This is normal, besides the Air. still be normal this year so this is starting 17 17 pro 17 plus 17 air air yeah great so then in 2026 we would get the iphone 18 pro and 18 pro max and those are the premium iphones and then six months later we would get the iphone 18 air 18 and 18 plus no no no no so the report says that in fall of 2026 we get the pro the foldable which is the hot dog style okay right and then you also get the air and then it's six months later that you're gonna get the regular models and the e so the regular gets pushed to e launch which is usually like q2-ish yeah the following year yeah so kind of like the a series in pixel right so i'm not totally sure how they're doing this chip wise whether or not they're just going to give all the iphones the good chip again except not the pro version so like one less gpu core but it does kind of make sense to release all the pro versions at the same time because those are the most hot selling ones anyway and if you have three kind of pro-ish iphones like you it depends on if you consider the air or pro phone the air is at least the one that a lot of people want to buy yeah it's premium so allegedly allegedly allegedly so i think this makes a lot of sense um but it is interesting to think of the regular iphone getting kind of delegated towards the more budget side of the world you know yeah yeah fascinating i mean i i never had a problem with all the iphones coming out at the same time but i also would find it interesting to have different release cycles than we usually do uh there's also a little more information about the foldable from the information article uh they say it would potentially have a 5.7 inch screen while closed and a just under eight inch screen while open and Ming-Chi Kuo has previously suggested it would be around 4.5 to 4.8 millimeters thick open and use Face ID instead of Touch ID.

6:19As a tech review channel, music to my ears. Yeah, as a content creator, that's just more three videos. We don't have three weeks to do four iPhones videos about four iPhones. Because if the air comes out, then there still is. There's still three levels. Actually, there's more levels. I know, but we'll get six months. no no no no the fold the pro and the air come out at the same time okay which actually means because normally we just get pro models and regular models we get three then and that's basically three reviews yeah yeah that's three reviews and then six months later we get instead of just the e we have the regular and the it's actually two separate times that's almost twice as much work i take it back apple what have you done okay but considering our waveform iphone episodes usually do pretty well.

7:06I'll take an extra. It's more new hardware to talk about, which is interesting. Can I tell you guys something about that? Go for it. We had our monthly meeting the other day and I put all the stats into AI and said, hey, give me some recommendations as to what we should do. Did it tell you to eat rocks? It literally told me to just talk about iPhones. It was like, it seems like the iPhone episodes do great. You guys should focus more on iPhones. This is a fact. If you are a tech channel on YouTube and looking to start out the lowest common denominator, like the easiest way to get the most views the fastest is to just talk about Apple all the time.

7:38Because people, especially in English speaking countries, talk about Apple a lot, care about Apple a lot, click on Apple a lot. It's the same as I want to do a car video. What company am I going to talk about? Obviously Tesla. I want to make that clear though, that the reason it gets views is because people are interested in it. I also think an interesting point to that is I think people who dislike Apple will hate watch things where Apple fans don't really give a damn about other stuff and don't hate watch other things. Yeah, I think that's a real dynamic. You're saying if you hate, you're saying there's more people who hate Apple and actively watch Apple videos to hate rather than the other way around.

8:19We were just talking about this with something else the other day. I think it was with Tesla. Yeah, it was with Tesla. We actually, yeah, the similar analytics note where if you are a car channel and you are looking at your analytics and you've noticed, wow, everything that i do with tesla in the title seems to do like way more numbers you'll notice that uh people don't look at uh evs as tesla alternatives and watch those more instead they hate watch the tesla video and then leave are we sure that that's not just like the the vocal minority though there's actually a majority of people who are interested in the car that watch it but I think that's also I think it's a it's both same with Apple right yeah I think part of it is like and why I wanted to say that was there it's so easy to say x person just does this for views but like right those views means it's people interested in that video which means there are just people interested like that's you can still be interested like views has such this negative connotation and yeah YouTube which doesn't always translate as yeah only doing it for like money or whatever but i also think there are because it's also easier to do that in both of these senses tesla and apple it's easier to point at one thing where if you're on the other side the tesla side or the apple side you're not going to go to every google samsung huawei one plus like all of them or you're on tesla not going to be going to every chevy right toyota video and be mean yeah it's also a reason why i think people like me use the most well-followed companies products as like reference points for other things so sometimes people talk about like wow you always seem to talk about apple or you always seem to reference an apple product when a lot of times that's just the thing that most people watching are already familiar with and it's giving context for other things so if i can tell you that a a phone looks a certain maybe a photo from the camera looks a certain way compared to the iphone when you've already seen a lot of iphone photos it helps you understand that yeah or if i talk about specs similar stuff yeah so it's just that big pillar in the middle of the stuff happening in this world.

10:25Speaking of talking about only Apple, is that what you're going to do? That was literally my transition. I'm sorry! I was waiting to do it for about five minutes. Well, same. I was like, I have to let people talk and then I can do it. Well, speaking of how we only talk about Apple... Speaking of how we only talk about Apple, we're going to talk about Google. We'll talk about Apple again later, but... I think that worked better in your heads. No. I think so, too. I thought it was funny. We'll talk plenty about Apple later. Ellis and I both thought it was funny. Google accidentally leaked Material 3 Expressive, which is definitely a name for a UI.

10:59Material 3 Expressive. If you remember, we had Material U last time around, which was with the Pixel 6. It started with Material Design, which was a long time ago. Material Design was this way of basically adding sort of layered interaction systems to design elements, as in you're stacking like paper sheets. So if you see the hamburger menu that isn't a lot of Google apps where things will layer over each other, that was material design. They updated over time. Material U was material design, but it was weirder in a lot of ways. Matching colors, different ways to make your UI more expressive, which is ironic because now this new version of material design is called Material 3 Expressive.

11:43Google did a bunch of tests where they conducted many different research studies they say 46 and they dialed in a new system that they say is both beautiful and highly usable it's actually very funny because you there's a bunch of info on all of the research that they did and they have all these graphs and one of the graphs that was it was like people that think that things stand apart and are cool are cool the graphs are like pretty much like hey here's how this vibes with people and it's like the number one way to kill a vibe is to put it in percentage points inside of a graph yeah it's just like it's cool coolness attributes 98 say it stands apart 87 say it's defiant like this is yeah 98 original it is really i would love to send reason to remember the name i would want to like be a fly on the wall and have tim read through this and see what he thinks because it's really hard to quantify design right if that makes sense totally so yeah you want it to be energetic but what does that mean from what i understand material 3 expressive is like an evolution of material you where material you was weird shapes this is both weird shapes and weird fonts um but another part of it that i find actually quite interesting is if you look at the design schemas you have an app like say gmail so like there's this screenshot of gmail here and they basically separate the app into multiple different little windows so everything is kind of like localized into its own space they round off all the edges they get rid of sort of that super flat design where you can't tell like where the where it ends and where it begins and i think that it looks pretty cool um whether or not you think it's cool is up to you i think this looks really good i i agree the separation of things makes it easier to find everything i don't know why the send button needs to be 50 larger than all the other buttons i just take up space yeah but besides that i do i do think this way of uh separating things in these like floating menus makes the the navigation way easier yeah and they also like the fonts are way different there's different layered stuff um you guys should check out this article and then look at some of these visuals if you get a chance they are they are very colorful very uh there's a lot of frills and and shapes and floating things and ui is generally shuffled quite a bit yeah lots of interesting aspect ratios and that it's just very different yeah i my only want is that it's still intuitive like if they're if you're going to move things around, at least keep them in places that it makes sense for them to be.

14:26I actually don't mind in this like Gmail screenshot that the send button is big because that's the biggest thing you're going to use. I'm going to use most often the keyboard is the same size. Like my attachment buttons are a little bit more easy to find. Reachability is another concern. Like put things near the bottom of our ever increasingly larger phone screens. Yeah. So it makes sense. It's just, yeah, very, I don't know how, what do you mean by, what does this graph say? A 30 % jump in rebelliousness. what that send button's rebellious marquez what does that mean i don't know how do you make a ui rebellious so yeah that's the story there's a button that says i'm gonna sue google imagine in photoshop there's like a rebelliousness slider and you just slide it up and make it more send button turns into a hammer yeah what is what is happening there yeah i do like the way it looks better though in this gmail concept because it does like to your point mark has about it remaining intuitive i feel like that is intuitive because like the to and from portions of it you know you're sending an email you know like that's somewhere else you don't need to constantly see that as you're typing out the email so i like that they like push that away you have the send button you have the attach button all of that what it really feels like is that they're just making everything as random as physically possible which i will take you know that sounds pretty rebellious maybe that is what rebellious means 30 more but i'm interested how you create a design scheme that is inherently like random because obviously there's going to be a system in place.

15:53But yeah, I don't know. Something else that I find very funny on one of the graphs that they shared is that they took a bunch of data from different age groups and just as people get older, they hate expressive things more and more. It's like ages 18 to 24%, 87 % of that demographic prefers expressive, 25 to 34, 81, 35 to 44, 65, 45 to 54, 62 55 to 64, 52 You just said a lot of numbers You can just basically think of it as as you get older you get more boring and more angry What's the word? Can confirm My back hurts Is this them just trying to like tailor the experience to get back the youths?

16:37That's something for sure It's fun to make fun of the like vibe graphs at the bottom but like this does look good i i can't wait to see it for real because all these leaks are just like light purple and i want to see a couple other colors but yeah overall 15 of my diet is cholula if i made everything cholula colored my life would be a better place yeah um i i really wonder if they're going to call it material three expressive i bet they will they should just call it material you too material three material yeah it's basically that isn't it because material three is material you it is now it's like material they should just call it material us dot i oh yeah material material i material u s material i am u s us oh like big u little s like the s that they used on the iphones yeah yeah you know what else reminded me the how colorful everything is and how expressive and vibey it all is is further and further from the minimal phones we keep seeing like the minimal phone is just white text black background box that's true and this phone is like every button will be a little different yeah yeah for some reason all these remind me of like spotify wrapped oh yeah like they're just like scrolling through the like little slideshow they give you it's like what if your whole phone was spotify wrapped let's go it's a little chaotic that's what the kids want i see it that has some w riz okay um so that's a there's a very good 9to5Google article that we'll link in the show notes about that so you should go check it out.

18:15One last story that's definitely about Apple. Google's desktop mode is finally coming. And it's just like Dex.

18:28And I was going to let Adam talk about it but I feel like that's exactly what he wanted to say. Michelle Roman from Android Authority posted this first look at Google's own desktop mode which adds a taskbar at the bottom for pinned in recent apps and also allows you to launch apps that you can resize and snap just like you can do in Windows and Mac OS, which is quite cool. It is probably not going to launch with this new version of Android, but probably the one down the line because it's still in very early stages. But you will be able to drag and drop content from one app to another as long as the apps support it, which I find very cool.

19:03Yeah. I was going to say, can I be the village idiot here for a second? Let's go. Haven't we talked about this like eight times already? Oh, yeah, baby. And is it still the same thing that's almost here? Well, yes, first of all. Second of all, last time that we spoke about this, it was just them discovering it at all. Like, oh, this exists. That's crazy. And like my phone right now, I have the Pixel 9 Pro. You could plug it into a screen and get like a very basic kind of desktop thing. This is them now updating that and making it way more usable. in the video there's a video there on their on their youtube channel on the site it looks like chrome os which is i'm sure how it's supposed to look yeah i mean i would prefer if they just use this instead of chrome os you know yeah just drag because it's everything that's on your phone already too so your messages and all that stuff but it's like you can drag android apps next to each other you can have chrome next to whatever random app you were going to copy and paste into whatever like it's it's functional because it's got the stuff that's already on your phone but also then it's a Chrome OS computer when you plug it into this shell screen.

20:08It's cool. How close are we to getting back to Project Linda? The Razer laptop where you stick your phone inside of it and it's just a screen and a keyboard to run off your phone. I think the idea of this is kind of that you can plug it into like any Windows computer and it'll turn into this. Like you can boot it into this. It would be sweet if my laptop was just a place to slide my phone into and then have a workspace. for at least a decade. Linda, everyone thought it was cool, but it was just a Razer CES product that never would see the light of day. And the problem was that it would only work with the phone that was exactly the shape.

20:42But why not just use a laptop? Because it costs... The shell would cost like a couple hundred bucks. Yeah, the shell would be cheaper, and it would... I've done actually a similar progression around my own house, which is I had a computer upstairs and I had a computer in the basement, and I've slowly started getting rid of computers and I just take my laptop and I plug it into the monitor instead. And it's, obviously you can just have another computer, but if you just want to keep all of your stuff on one computer and then move it around and it sort of adapts to the form factor of the space you're in, that idea is appealing to people.

21:17And if you can do it all from a phone, then you only have your phone in your pocket and that can expand to be laptop size, desktop size, TV size, whatever. That's like a nice idea. Never forget your files again. Yeah. You always know a computer. Except you can't do any video editing or, you know. I don't know, bro. There's some light stuff, I guess. It's interesting because I feel like Apple's kind of doing the exact opposite thing, right? There with the iPhone mirroring where it's like, oh, you want to use your phone on your computer. Just open it as a little window. Yeah. You know? Which is quite cool.

21:49Yeah, it is super cool. If you're able to do this wirelessly, that would be amazing. No way. There's no way. There is a way. There's no way. I mean, they already do that with the iPhone mirroring. They already have that wirelessly. No, that, yeah, yeah, totally. So, I mean, if you could just say, I'm mirroring the phone, but also it's changing the UI up a little bit. There's no way. I'll see it when I see live transcription over video. But I think I'm about to be proven big time wrong about that. So let's maybe hold on. I gotta pull that clip up. Yeah, also, I can't ignore the like slight, well, we've always talked about this, the fact that Apple makes a device in each of these categories and wants to sell you multiple things versus Google doesn't make as many of those things.

22:36They don't make a desktop computer. I mean, they make a lot of software, but they don't want to also sell you a laptop. Yeah. Google sells Chrome, right? At least for now. so their big idea was that chrome is your internet computer and like as long as you're logged into your chrome account you've got your computer anywhere that was their whole big idea with chrome os and why they were trying to put like a chrome os thing in every room of your house uh now if they have to sell chrome that is messed up a lot uh but yeah that is kind of the opposite of apple where they're just like we need to sell you more hardware google doesn't have a lot of hardware to sell you and the hardware that they do sell with chrome os is just to get you on google services.

23:16So it's quite different. What I wanted to say doesn't connect as well, but you mentioned this is my fault. You mentioned how they're trying to sell you all these different things. Well, later in the episode, we're going to talk about why iPadOS might be getting a little closer to one of those. True. Whoa, what a tease. Way later in the episode.

23:42Welcome back to another episode. What was so funny? It just cut off really early. are like a little early. It's so hot in here. All right. Material this, material that, whatever. Today's question is, Aero, Metro, and Fluent are three iterations of which tech company's design language? Yes. What is it? Aero, Metro, and Fluent. You know. I know. You know. Andrew knows. You remember. We got it. Pepperidge Farm remembers. Andrew doesn't remember. Those who know. I'm already thinking about the points I'm going to get at the end of the episode. And I'm already thinking about the points we're going to take away from you in the next episode.

24:28The answers, of course, will be at the end like usual. We'll be thinking about it. We'll be right back.

24:45Support for this show comes from Shopify. When you're starting a new business, there's so much to do. Sometimes it can feel like you're playing in a Super Bowl, but you're the only one on your team. Shopify says they can help. Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world, offering tools to help your one-man band play like a champion. Shopify says they can help your business grow with sales, design, marketing, and more. Can't design a website? No problem. Shopify offers beautiful, ready-to-use templates that fit your brand's style. Need extra support? Their AI-powered commerce tools can assist with everyday tasks like enhancing product photos, writing product descriptions, or generating discount codes.

25:20And if you get stuck, Shopify is always around to share advice with their award-winning 24-7 customer support. If you're ready to sell, you're ready for Shopify. You can turn your big business idea into with Shopify on your side. You can sign up for your$1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com slash waveform. So just go to shopify.com slash waveform, shopify.com slash waveform.

26:10Now you can do that. Do that with the all-new Acrobat. It's time to do your best work with the all-new Adobe Acrobat Studio. Not all journalism is the same. Take The Guardian. Our coverage has something unique. Fierce independence. Nobody owns us or tells us what we can and can't say. So we're free to report the whole picture. We connect what's happening in Washington to the rest of the globe. Expose corruption wherever we find it. And give fresh perspective on everything. from wellness and soccer to culture, the climate, and more. Read, watch, and listen to The Guardian for free at theguardian.com.

26:47Welcome back to the podcast that only talks about Apple and the Nintendo Switch 2. In 2020, I had to get it in there at some point. It's a good transcript, yeah. You guys might remember that in 2021, Epic, the company that makes Fortnite, sued Apple with this absolutely epic video that they dropped as soon as Fortnite got kicked off the App Store. Basically what happened is that Epic had a system in Fortnite that would allow you to go buy the Fortnite bucks somewhere else for cheaper. They knew it was against the rules. Fortnite bucks. V-Bucks. V-Bucks. V-Bucks. They knew it was against the rules.

27:26Apple kicked them off the App Store. They immediately dropped a lawsuit and this 1980 Fortnite video. Banger video. Do you remember this? It was so good. Yeah. It was a whole PR stunt. It was a whole PR stunt. They had it ready. They were doing this on purpose. Apple walked right into it. They did. They did walk right into it. So Epic sued them, and it was a pretty long lawsuit that took a while to resolve, but it did resolve. And Apple actually won most of the case, which was quite ironic because Epic also sued Google, and Google lost the case. And it was for almost the same thing. So it was kind of dumb.

28:00but part of the case that they did not win was that the judge decided that there needed to be anti-steering laws in place which is to say apple is not allowed to not let developers tell people you can go get this cheaper somewhere else this whole problem stems from the fact that apple takes a 30 tax on all digital purchases through the app store and all microtransactions inside of apps. Right, which is a digital picture as well. Yeah. So anytime you buy an app, and then anytime you buy anything in the app. Right, yeah. Famously Kindle Books too. You could not buy Kindle Books. Because it was a digital asset, which is ironic because if you bought a real book on Amazon, it would not be subjected to that tax.

28:43But if you bought a Kindle book, it would be subjected to that tax. So there were circumstances where physical books were cheaper than eBooks because of this. Especially at your local independent bookstore. Yes, yes. Okay, so the part that Epic won was that the judge said that they couldn't stop developers from telling people, oh, you can go get this cheaper somewhere else or go to this link so that you can go onto the web. If you remember correctly, Apple implemented this fairly quickly, but they did it in the most malicious compliance way possible. they created this extremely complex thing for developers where they were like okay well technically you can allow people to like go off of the app store into the web but they added all of these pop-ups that were like are you sure you want to go to the web we can't control what happens there commit crimes do it yes uh so yeah it was it was it was very scary and apple basically had a very bad faith interpretation of that ruling so what happened next was that apple the case kept going and apple basically got caught doing a bunch of malicious compliancy things that the judge decided was like not not fitting into the law that she had like told them to do right so there was this injunction that came down a few days ago and it was basically saying like Like, oh, you didn't listen to anything I said.

30:15You just created all these bad faith interpretations of my ruling. And now I'm going to screw you over because you screwed me over. You didn't learn your lesson from this. Now I need to teach you a lesson. Yeah. Yeah. So there were all of these. Yeah, pretty much. A lot of internal messages that Apple had sent to one another within the company got released. And a lot of stuff that was in that was them repeatedly choosing the most user hostile options possible to try to steer people away from doing anything off of the App Store. For example, Apple had to allow buttons, links, or other calls to action, which they interpreted as one or the other instead of all of them.

31:01So the ruling said buttons, links, or other calls to action. And Apple was like, oh, so we can do a button, a link, or another call to action instead of all of them. So they created all these mock-ups. That is the most lawyer thing. They created all these mock-ups that showed different options where it was like, okay, we could do this, we could do this. Or we could make it really, really hard for the user to be able to use this thing. and there's these messages from uh people within apple where they're saying like oh make it scarier make it harder for the user they literally said scarier and uh they were sending mock-ups to each other and just making them more and more convoluted and there's messages from people within apple being like oh keep going make it even worse no it was literally oh keep going this also like i think to our audience getting a little warning that says are you sure you want to go there we can't control it like we've all been there we've all done that we click it immediately you've been on the internet yeah like our parents if my mom saw that she would probably call me and be like i think i have a virus on my phone yeah without even clicking the button sorry mom i know you're listening to this but like no 100 yeah like that's terrifying for 90 of phone users yeah those dialogue boxes are designed to stop you from doing it it's kind of the same thing as like when you first well maybe this is just something i do a lot but when you first get an android phone and you have never sideloaded anything you have to go into chrome settings and be like allow me to install things yes from not the play store so that every time i go to install something like i sideload it it doesn't pop up the dialogue box and go okay just so you know this is not from the app store are you sure you want to do this and i go yes so yeah yeah it's designed to stop you you know how apple already makes it hard for you to like open a youtube video because like open in safari and it's that little dialogue box they like showed that as an option for going out of the app store.

32:51They're like, no, we need to make it way worse. So they made a full page thing that said, are you sure you want to continue? With like a bunch of scary text that didn't make any sense, that just kind of freaked people out. They also on that window listed the developer name instead of the app name. So it's like, Apple cannot control this anymore. It's actually in the hands of developer name, which most people do not know who the developer of the app that they're using is. Or worse, it's like an indie developer who just goes by their real name. And then you're like, who's this guy? The developer, like John Appleseed is going to be in control of your data now.

33:28It's all this stuff. There are even messages from a user experience manager at Apple who said that the phrasing sounds scary, so execs will love it. Wow. Yeah. And then the judge is reading all this like, y 'all didn't learn anything. Yeah. Apple actually argued that scary did not mean something that would scare people, but that it was an industry term that meant raising awareness or caution. Duh. That's, Apple's got those good lawyers. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Not good enough. Yeah, for real. Because what, David, would you like to share what the judge said, the quote? Oh, at the end of the injunction?

34:12Yeah. Like the Tim Cook chose poorly? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I have the exact, thing here it was something along the lines of like you know we gave apple the choice of how to handle this and he goes and and cook chose poorly yeah there were a bunch of bangers in that injunction um okay so also the judge had originally said that apple could charge a fee for apps that were linked outside the app store but it needed to provide evidence that the company had a good reason to charge those numbers because she found that 30 wasn't actually based on anything right It's kind of just that random industry number that both Apple and Google decided on, and that became the number.

Read the full transcript

34:51So they were a bunch of conversations internally about what they should charge. Phil Schiller actually recommended that they didn't take any commission, which is quite surprising. But a lot of people were arguing, and Tim Cook eventually was like, no, we're going to do 27%. 27 %? Yeah. Okay. So they still take a cut if you get linked to an app outside the app store or a product outside the app store and then you have to back pay Apple that money. Wow. Yeah. So in the new ruling, the judge was still very annoyed and said that they just came up with the 27 % number out of nowhere, which was true.

35:28Yep. They also restricted developers from doing things like keeping users logged in. So every single time they would use a link, they couldn't use dynamic links. they just had to use regular web links so if you wanted to like go to the epic store or whatever you'd have to log into your epic account every time you wanted to buy vbucks or like yeah every time you want to buy vbucks which as someone who's spent way too much money on skins and other games it's pretty often yeah so like every time for that gojo drop yeah like that's a lot and to sign in every single time with probably in a really long password that you've changed a million times because your friends are trying to hack you for your sweet Fortnite skins.

36:08Gotta stay protected out there. Yeah. Okay, so what happens now? Apple now has to give developers zero restrictions when using buttons and links in their app to let users make purchases over the web. Because previously, when they would put that link in the app or button, as they defined it as, even though it was like a regular little web link, they couldn't put it in the standard area where you buy things in the app. They had to put it somewhere else, which is insane. like that's an insane rule they can't do that anymore uh they cannot take any commission for purchases made over the web which is hilarious because the judge said you can you just have to like give me a justified number like you have to justify that number and come up with reasons why that number makes sense and because they just pulled it out of a hat now she's saying you can't take any commission anymore they had a great reason made them a ton of money yeah uh exactly Value generated was incredible.

37:03Yeah. This means that tons of apps are going to start including links to sign up for their subscriptions or have microtransactions through their website so that Apple can't take that amount. Because now, if you're an app developer, you can have in the app, you know, buy this thing, but then Apple takes 30%. But now you can also have go to our store, it opens it in Safari or whatever your default web browser is, and you can pay through there. And Apple can't take any of that money now. Yeah. And they're going to tell you, hey, it's going to be cheaper. if you go this way. It's going to incentivize people.

37:33If they say this is 25 % cheaper, the developer makes 5 % more than they normally would and they don't have to pay Apple, people are generally going to go with that option. Yeah. Which is kind of nuts. Like this is a very big thing to change for the App Store. It was also found that Apple's executive VP of finance lied under oath about what that percentage was because he had said that they came up with the number over a bunch of different, like they came up with all this reasoning and it was at the last minute. And they actually had just come up with it earlier and were like, no, we're just going to take 27%.

38:07So she referred the California court to prosecute him potentially, which is kind of insane. Yeah. So there was a lot of drama that was going down here. Okay, wait, I have a question. Yeah. So you're saying that they now have links that developers can put it in their apps that will like open up on Safari, right? To do a thing. Yeah. So in the app, can't they also incentivize developers to put like a pay with Apple Pay option? Yeah. So would that still have the 30 %? Yeah. As long as the payment is not leaving the app. If your payment is made within the app, Apple takes 30%. Sheesh. Yeah. But if you go to like a website, then it's different.

38:49I'm assuming these apps are also going to like go really hard into the like, please go buy over here. You will spend way less money. 100%. That's what I would assume. We've already seen a bunch of developers do this. Spotify has already done this. Patreon is doing that this week. Fortnite, like Epic is doing it this week. They're putting Fortnite back in the app store. Yeah, they're putting it back on the app store. In the next week. They're putting it back on. That's the news. Why didn't we do that? Well, no, that's what all this like boils. Like they won. Yeah. Because the whole reason they got kicked off the app store was because they did this.

39:21And now because they legally have to allow this, they're not violating anything anymore. So they have to allow them back on the app store. which is crazy. So the future of this is going to be very interesting because if Apple can no longer take 30 % on every purchase anymore because it is to the user's benefit to be able to go onto the web and buy something for cheaper, Apple services revenue off of the App Store is going to drop significantly, and that's like a huge portion of their revenue. Yeah. So, yeah. That's one of the, I mean, it hits somewhere it hurts. That's a big deal for Apple. very interesting does this make the app store less appealing to new developers i mean why i feel like it makes it makes it more appealing more appealing because you can use it as a platform for visibility but then also send people out to get from your website yeah it also it makes apple have to actually like make it worth buying things within the app right there like Are there actual things they're doing for these developers to make it easier to pay inside the app versus going to website?

40:30Because there are people who will pay a little bit of a premium to make a one-tap payment or something like that. But if you're charging these crazy fees, I'm always going to take the extra five minutes to save 30 % on my Galaxy Fortnite scan. Right. Yeah, a comment that I saw online was that these indie developers and smaller developers, you could say whether or not Epic is indie or not. But they're effectively subsidizing a bank app, for example. Chase Bank pays$100 a year for that developer fee, and that is all they pay to Apple to host the Chase app. And Chase gets so much more value from hosting the Chase app than a small indie developer does, who every time they have any sort of subscription or any microtransaction, Apple takes 30 % of that.

41:14That is insane. And so now it's sort of like evening the playing field so that everyone sort of has the same opportunity. because Chase is the same way. Like any bank is the same way. You sign up for the bank on a web browser or whatever. You go to a bank, you do that. You sign in through the app and it's just a portal. And that's what's going to be the case for pretty much all apps now. So yeah, big, big change. Apple is of course going to appeal this, but the judge did say there will not be another bite at the Apple as her last sentence in the injunction. Is this judge a rapper? Yeah. This sounds like a Netflix drama kind of with some of the lines they're dropping.

41:53She was really mad. She was really mad. One thing I find really interesting about all of this is like, man, Fortnite's really been around for a while. The fact that this is still like a big thing where they're bringing it back and this started in 2021 when Fortnite was already huge. I mean, they have Sabrina Carpenter now. I was talking about this the other night with my friend because I hopped on Fortnite for like the first time actually no the second time ever and he was telling me about all the new like updates that they did and all the new collabs and i was like is this the best game ever like it is insane how big this game is and how every season people are so hyped to play this game still dota 2 my like a word i know i don't know about that besides you besides you i think you could argue right off the the bat and current games that are very popular have been for a long time is like minecraft's pretty up there also more than fortnight yeah it was there it's been around longer huh not yet oh that's not yet but they have had concerts in fortnight does that can is that considered a movie it's close i'm just thinking about like you know the pantheon of like media minecraft's probably 1a and fortnight 1b i think at this point it's i mean i don't I don't know.

43:11Fortnite probably makes way more money than Minecraft. I'm totally guessing on that because of how many crazy microtransactions there are in that game with skins and stuff like that. Man, you just keep thinking Fortnite's gonna die and it's still chugging. I mean, it is crazy. A lot of developers will release a game and then they maybe do one or two seasons and they're like, we're gonna stop supporting this now. Or here's the new version. Whereas Epic is just like, yep, new things coming out every few weeks. Forever. But it's easy for them because they can just do all these collaborations, right?

43:42Now they have Star Wars coming out. I mean, they're killing it. Game out. That's why I jumped on. Oh, you did? I got the Luke Skywalker skin, baby. The fact that they can grab someone who's played the game one time to just jump on. And I bet that was like a$30 skin. $22.99. Bro, you literally played one time, jumped on, spent$22. I think I spent like$8.99 real life money on the V-Books or whatever. I don't know. They got me more or less is what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. So there's been a lot of tech antitrust stuff going on recently. There's a big story about how Google might have to sell Chrome.

44:18Nobody knows who's going to buy that if that happens. The ad tech business for Google might get broken up and have to be sold off. There's a lot of crazy stuff. It seems to be the theme of 2025 along with tariffs. Well, a lot of this stuff started in like 2021. We're just getting like real things we're almost seeing. It's like some actual action towards it. Okay, last little thing in this section before we go to trivia. There is a new hard drive art thingy out that I want. Here are my 100 bullet points and this is pretty hard drive. Yeah. There is a company called Buffalo that is bringing back this hard drive design from 1998.

44:59It's called the Skeleton Hard Disk. And it basically shows the disk spinning on the inside. It's very pretty. it's kind of an accessory for your desktop with a little window that can show it spinning and you can see the little the the disc needle moving around yeah and there's software that makes it so that you can just make the disc needle move in different ways and there's one where it moves like a constantly right yeah there's one where it moves like a metronome so what it it's like a standing up hard disk it looks like a wireless phone charger kind of yeah it's black and gold it looks really nice I have two huge gripes and one I think I hope I'm wrong about this is an actual hard drive disc right like a spinning hard drive disc we're still using 4 terabytes you're not going to store anything you care about on this some people do I got a spinner at home I'm not going to buy a new one today I bought one new one 3 weeks ago some people do let's talk about transfer speeds with the micro USB this thing comes with.

46:08Hey. That's USB-C. That's micro USB? That's micro USB. It's not just micro USB. Micro B. Oh, micro. Oh, no. It's micro B, yeah. Okay, but look. This is$700. Counterpoint. Jesus. Counterpoint, if it's permanently on my desk, I don't really care what cable it's using. I do. So you're not going to store stuff on it? Well, yeah, I would. I probably would. Unless I used it as a metronome the whole time. that seems like you wouldn't want to uh actively break down your hard drive for the art of it and also store things you care about on it seems like a one or the other like image storage that i only have to access every now and then you know time machine time machine it's four terabytes i don't know that's what mine's for yeah nostalgia hits people in funny ways you know i'm not nostalgia for micro me neither or hard drives to be but it's so pretty i'm a little nostalgic for hard drives come on not using them i had their core drive nightmares and i was i was so happy i was right in the like age where we were growing up with ssds for the first time where people would buy like a 60 gig ssd to put the os on and store everything else on the hard drive because ssds were so expensive yeah you couldn't put everything on an ssd yeah ssds are so much better than a I was like, I gotta have something on an SSD.

47:27You put your OS on the SSD so it boots really fast. But like a hard drive, an SSD, I like plug in an external one and it's not working. And I'm like, is this fine? Why is it not connecting? Where a hard drive, I know when that's not working because it's like. This is true. I just feel like there's, I don't know, hard drives. I don't lust for old hard drive tech anymore. I love moving on old hard drives. I agree it's designed well. It kind of looks like an album. like a yeah like a showcase for an album or something that's cool this looks like a mag safe charger that's it that you would put your phone onto with a clear thing yeah it's three pounds it's four terabytes and if you've got six hundred ninety five dollars burning a hole in your pocket you too could own one of these drives and plug it in via micro usbb yeah the micro b part is the one that's it's micro but it has the extra little little prong yeah it's so bad that's like the S5 came with that but you can just plug a regular micro also in?

48:28It just makes it faster if you do. Okay, counterpoint. Wait, to his or to mine? To all of y 'all. What? Interesting. There is a very similar product that exists that if you just want the aesthetics of this and nothing more, it is made by the company that makes those terrible headphones. Sorry. It is made by the company that makes those cool headphones. It's made by the company that makes the headphones that David likes. Yeah. from cam 5 yeah they make a cd player i believe it's called the cp2 oh yeah um yeah the cp2 you cannot convince me to buy a cd player i am in the market for a cd player and this seems like the one that i want but yeah if you want this but instead of a hard drive it's a cd it's right there i want the headphones and i don't want a cd player and you want a cd player but on the headphones why don't we just buy the bundle and split it wait there's a bundle there probably isn't but I might email them and ask them.

49:19Yeah, it's like a thousand bucks. No. I mean, maybe. Also, you need to, this hard drive, you need to enter in a drawing. Because there's only 50 units. Oh, there's 50? 50 units priced at 100 ,000 yen. I thought there was 500. So around 700. Available for purchase starting in June via lottery. That makes it even more like you want it more. It's probably because they could only find 50 micro B cables. All they need to do is have me open up my suitcase full of cables, and I've got 50 microbe cables for them right there. That's wild. Well, trivia.

50:01It's funny because nostalgia, it'll hit me. It'll be like something that I cared about as a kid, and I'll be like, this is beautiful. I love it. I want one. Like the Zune HD, yes, please. I need it. Bring it back. What if it's a hard drive that looks like the Zune HD? Then I would love it. But then as soon as it's something that I don't care about, I'm like, this is dumb. like why would anyone want this wow i would use an htc thunderbolt again if it was just like better that was actually the worst one or sorry not thunderbolt might be one m8 oh i love that phone or m7 one of the play version or the regular yeah the thunderbolt was horrible the thunderbolt burned a hand burned my hand it was like the first 5g 4g smartphone yeah and i remember having it and it died before the end of the school day yeah think about how fast your phone has to die.

50:45That was so long ago because you were in school. Yeah, I remember in fifth grade I'd be in like seventh period biology and be like, my phone's gonna die and I don't have a way to charge it and that would be a problem. You didn't have your microbeam. And they'd be like, eh, it has its downsides. Your phone could die. Yeah, I was trying to do Skype and one other thing at the same time and it overheated and burned my hand. Rest in peace, Skype. I know, rest in peace, officially, Skype. That's true. Wait, what? Teams. We never even got live translation. maybe Skype had to die for live translation to run you know what I'm saying okay trivia

51:24Matias Duarte is a Chilean American computer interface designer that worked on webOS the hip top and then Google picked him up obviously to work on you know what a god the first version of Android that he himself worked on was what? If it's what I think it is, that's going to be really funny. Hint, this version of Android debuted on the Motorola Zoom tablet. Zoom with an X. It is what I thought. I love that tablet. These two questions, the amount that these two understand is like 98%. The amount I understand is literally less than one. If you guess at an Android version, you will probably get it.

52:06You should be able to say the name instead of the number, too. that might help i'll take both but sure i'll give you an extra point if you get both okay name and number i review i mean i reviewed it so i have no excuse not to know it but yeah this is i'm between two because of reasons that i can't say i'm writing it down now so that i don't what about the last one the last question the first question i'm just gonna cover it up you know if you're between two answers and you're you know choosing which one and you're going back and forth you could be saying that you're switching between those switching between two it is a switch you know it's funny i thought that that joke got unfunny faster than the audience did you know we're making i think i know every day we gotta go we gotta go to break this is this is plummeting okay all right we'll see you soon switch two

53:08Thank you.

53:38See price estimates and read reviews all on the app. Download today. From Pushkin Industries, I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and Heavyweight is back. The new season is bigger than ever. Bigger hopes. I keep waiting for this moment. When he says, Mom, I get it. I'm sorry. Bigger dreams. Tom Hanks wants to meet with you. This is a real chance. And bigger heartbreaks. I thought it would be my movie moment. And maybe he would even whisper in my ear, I've always been in love with you. Check out new episodes of Heavyweight on Apple Podcasts.

54:22What do walking 10 ,000 steps every day, eating five servings of fruits and veggies, and getting eight hours of sleep have in common? They're all healthy choices. But do all healthier choices really pay off? With prescription plans from CVS Caremark, they do. Their plan designs give your members more choice, which gives your members more ways to get on, stay on, and manage their meds. And that helps your business control your costs, because healthier members are better for business. Go to cmk.co.access to learn more about helping your members stay adherent. That's cmk.co.access. SS.

55:04All right, welcome back. For our last little bit, I wanted to ask our fellow hosts what they think will be more exciting this year. Google I.O. or WWDC? I.O. Well, wait, can we count the little pre-Android event the week before I.O.? You can dig that in, sure. I vote that because DubDub's just going to be what DubDub was last year because they're still releasing the same thing. they just re-announced apple intelligence they just replay the same thing yeah 20 uh 24 crossed out yeah 2025 yeah but but we are getting new uis for both of these things yeah because remember they're getting the the very like vision os style of ui stuff glass and then also the new android version is also supposed to be really classy but that's also going to have material three expressive gemini 2.5 research both could be interesting i guess the question is so okay we can do our little preview of each of them coming up io is coming up first then wwdc is coming up in later in the summer in june google io happens every year it's google's developer conference where they talk about all the new stuff happening on the software front but this year they've separated out the Android part of it, which is usually the part I'm most interested in, because we suspect there is going to be a lot of AI, Gemini, etc.

56:30in the main IO. But I'm looping them both together because I think they're both interesting. And I do expect a good amount of new software stuff like we talked about with Android, with the new UI, with Material 3, expressive etc it could be fun to watch wwdc we actually have uh some some leaks or at least some themes to expect according to mark german which i also think are interesting there's three main bullet points uh he writes redesigned and more cohesive operating systems which is what you mentioned with like vision os and the glass uh new apple intelligence capabilities which to me But we didn't get the old ones either.

57:13Are you adding to the list or what's happening here? And then lastly, major enhancements to the iPad's OS. It just turns into Mac OS. Now every year we have this discussion. The iPad gets more powerful. It gets a better chip. It does slightly more stuff, but it's never... We make the same video every year. Yeah, we do. Some YouTuber goes, can it be my computer? And then they use it for a week and they go, actually, it's kind of good at some stuff and kind of not that good, but Apple intentionally makes it a little confusing. so when i see major enhancements to the ipad's os it's kind of like reading tesla roadster i go oh really this time it's for real huh and i i don't want to get my hopes up too high but marquez this time will be different this time actually this year's got a pretty good shot at it be no really yeah no i i don't know what to expect by major enhancements because i feel like it could just be a different way of organizing the windows that apple already does or it could be a dramatic thing that we're not expecting the two rumors i read are a new menu bar and a new way of doing stage manager both of them seem to be specifically when you connect them to the magic keyboard which make them feel more like a mac sure yeah but can i move my mouse around freely or will it still snap magnetically to random icons i haven't used it's probably gonna snap snap yeah well you can move it freely between icons but then when you move near an icon it snaps to the icon so like does common touch points yeah yeah which is actually i thought it worked pretty well i thought it was pretty good actually yeah yeah it's you know like it i didn't like it it's weird you guys need aim assist it's not that we need it it's just that it felt good there are certain small touch points like in the corners or on like small items you normally touch with your finger where it would be frustrating if you missed.

59:02So they just make sure you don't miss. So if you were going to click like a blank space next to an icon, that wouldn't have done anything. So they just snap you to the thing you were going to. So like when you're using the touchpad? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. So you had a little glowing white circle for a cursor. I don't know why, but it did work. I want to try. I want to like want to go test this. Sorry. I do want to try. I think it works pretty well. Yeah. I like that. That sounds disgusting. I noticed it didn't work. I just want to know if I can move it however I want. I just want to know if I have free will on my...

59:29You have free will. It's right between free will and determinism. It's like right below it. You just, you can't press the pixels next to the icon. But why would you want to? You have free will, but I know best. Yeah. You can't drive off the side of the road, but why would you want to? It's like lane assist. It's lane assist. It's aim assist. It literally is aim assist on your desktop. Cars have lane assist, so you feel yourself like, you know, getting too close to the other line. Right, that's true. It like bounces you back to the middle. I hate that. And on one hand, oh no, I don't have free will.

1:00:01But on the other hand, there's families over there that I need to not crash into. So it's like keeping you doing what you want to do. You know? Cool. Bumper bowling? I don't know. Bumper bowling? It's a thing you can do. Wow. If you want to. But yeah, we'll see. This is all like stuff TBD this summer. And I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high. I also, I mean, we've talked, we've had the Glass iOS discussion before. I'm not really sure exactly what that looks like, but it could happen. I'm excited for the mini IO for Google that's all about Android stuff. The Android show, as they call it.

1:00:37What is it going to be about? Material 3 Express powered by Gemini Nano. It's going to be the version of Android that you see on the next Pixel and only the next Pixel. Yeah. Basically. Until two months after that. And then it's on all the Pixels. Yeah. Then it comes to Google Photos. but it will never be on any Android phone. Like, I've accepted that I, like, we just got this One UI 8 update on our Samsung phones. Seven. Seven. Sorry, One UI 7. I just downloaded it today. Just got it this morning. I got, very little changed, but, you know, there's some new stuff. It looks pretty different. Wait, am I coming from, is this One UI 8?

1:01:13Are you talking about this? No, seven. This? Seven. The, like, how now you, yeah, the notifications and the, Okay, so I've been on this for a while. Oh, you have, yeah. I just got it this morning. I hate that my app drawer is not pages. It's one singular sliding drawer now. I hate that. I guess I was on the beta for a while. That's why. I'm actually kind of liking. I know a lot of people are mad at the swipe from the right for quick settings, swipe from the left. That's cool. A little dynamic island, actually. Two swipes this time. But if you just swipe down from anywhere on the phone, then it's your notifications.

1:01:46Yep. So I think it's very specific to go to your settings top right. When do we start talking about this? I don't remember exactly. Android. Anyway, I'm excited because for the last two months, we have had to talk about some sort of court case. And now for the next essentially four weeks, we have straight next week is mini IO. The week after is IO. The week after that is probably all the leaks for DubDub and then DubDub. It is the next month of bangers. I'm excited. Yeah. We've been in a little lull this year and I think we're finally going to get back to popping off. Everything's going to pop off.

1:02:18We might go four whole episodes without saying the word tariff or court. Or switch. I don't know about that. Well, I'll keep track because I highly doubt that. Pump the brakes, Marques. We were in a lull, now we're going to be in an LMAO. You know what I mean? Yes. I get it. Can I propose? I know it's like a bunch of, wait, you think I'm too young for LMFAO? Is that weird? Yes, actually, the way you responded to that, I do think. You think, not look, I was a fan of LMFAO both before and after they started party rocking. Excuse me, apologized for party rocking. Okay. Let's move forward. What were you going to say, Alex?

1:02:57I want to propose a over-under bet. Okay. Specifically for IO. Okay. Not mini IO. Okay. Grandpa IO. Okay. Which is over-under how many things. You know, I'm realizing I gamble so little. I don't even know if I'm doing over-under right, actually. Let's play the outro. Well, you just got to parlay the money line in there. Yeah. So parlay this money line, fools. My puts. How many things will Google advertise that you can now do as a podcast or understand as a podcast? So how many times do they say the word podcast? How many times do they say the word podcast? Do you not want to do this? How many times will they turn something that's not a podcast into a podcast?

1:03:37One. Seven. I don't know if we'll specifically see the podcast thing. I do think they're going to turn everything into something different with an LLL. I actually find the podcast thing occasionally useful where you can just drop in a URL and go give me a podcast about this. And it's - You use that? I have used it. I don't use it very often, but it is a thing that's impressive that it can do. But I don't think, I think on stage, they're going to spend a lot of time showing people, developers, users, how they can either save time or do more effective deep research or whatever using these AI tools that they have.

1:04:15And they're going to be everywhere. They're going to be next to your calendar, next to your Gmail, next to your docs, next to everything they do. It's just going to be Gemini, all the things. And maybe you can also have them turn your Gmail inbox into a podcast or something. All right. I'm setting the podcast. I'm setting the split at two. So, Marquez, you have under. You're taking the under. Let's set it at one and a half. One and a half. So, I'm taking the under. Okay. I'm going the over. Over. Over. Yeah. I think it's going to be two. Really? Broadcast stuff. Okay. I think they're going to be like, it's the feature that I see people talk about the most on the internet.

1:04:48They've been talking about Notebook LM. There's a whole app coming out for Notebook LM very soon. And it's probably just going to launch at I.O. at this point. And whenever I see people talk about Notebook LM, I do see people, especially on Discord, talk about like really cool things they've done with Notebook LM. but most of the stuff I see is just like yo do you not want to like read this entire recipe on how to make this soup just turn it into three chefs having a podcast where they talk about how to make this soup yeah right it is kind of cheesy after a while but if you're that type of learner some people are visual learners and they have a tool for that some people are auditory learners some people are podcast learners then they do that I'm gonna turn our YouTube comments into a podcast and that's how I'm gonna gauge feedback from every episode Yeah, they're gonna drive off the road three AI creators like having a riff about the podcast comment section Wait, actually I kind of want it What this podcast right now was geminate generated by notebook.

1:05:50Um, it was going out supposed to be self-aware So let's stay away from that time Adam, what do you do? What do you have free will all of our comments are bots anyway, so it doesn't matter? No, no, no, no, no. They're lovely, lovely people with red blood in their veins. Yeah, they're all doing the dishes. You think an AI can do the dishes? All it can do is make a podcast about doing the dishes. Yeah. It is funny because some of those Notebook LM podcasts have inside jokes and will joke about things the exact same way we are. And it kind of feels like we're inside of one of those podcasts right now.

1:06:19Where do you think they learned it from? It's true. Now that I think about it, I don't remember coming into this room or leaving it. no yeah you're definitely in a notebook lm podcast right now i don't think lms can feel the humidity that is in this room right now what if life is just one big podcast damn that's deep damn what's that show what's that the truman show what is that the truman show yeah yeah that's a podcast kind of feels like that sometimes as a podcast this is season 30 of my podcast we're going off the rails which means which means it's time you know what it's time for trivia podcast not yet no that was really good yeah guys guys guys you guys think you're so smart well if you're so smart god it is really sticky it's so hot in here Did you see my answer?

1:07:20Oh, well. It's okay, Andrew. I have a very special question just for you. Okay. Since you saw his answers. But for David and Marquez. Yes. Aero, Metro, and Fluent are three iterations of what tech companies design language? I was not going to get this. So seeing the answer does not matter. Well, Andrew, good for you. This was actually the second question I wrote because I didn't like the first one. Okay. So you can answer. Oh, okay. What was the first generation of the iPhone to have a pro model? Well, I want to answer that one too. No.

1:08:05I already know that as well. Pro? Yeah. Pro. I think I know. I haven't decided. Everyone can answer that question. I don't know. There's no rules. It's 90 % humidity in here. There's no rules. Then I'm going to copy Marques' answer. No, that's it. No, that is one of the rules. What's up? Welcome to my podcast about the rules of a trivia game that I made up. That was my notebook LLM voice impression. 10, 11. All right. David. Microsoft. Correct. iPhone 11 Pro. Also correct. I guess we're all answering. I just wrote 11 because you said. That's what I was looking for, baby. Yeah. I wrote Microsoft as well.

1:08:42All right. So two points for David and Marquez. One point for Andrew. Wait, wait. Mark has put 12. Wait, are we including that? Mark has put 12? Mark has put 12. Wow. You just assumed you got it right. Oh, man. I wish I got that. We'll wait till next week to take that point away from you. Did I just black out in the booth? I was like, oh, I put 11. Great. I should have put 11. Oh, my God. Cementing my lead. That is so sad. I thought that was an Andrew question, and now I just lost a point. That'll be erasing. Dang. quick update on the score after that big flounder fumble by marquez marquez was 21 andrew with 12 david with 25 21 you know it's bigger than 21 25 was it all right matthias duarte chilean american interface designer worked on a bunch of bangers like webOS and Hiptop, also at Google, worked on Android.

1:09:43What was the first version of Android that he worked on? That debuted on? That debuted on the Motorola Zoom tablet. So fun fact, the Motorola Zoom, it's spelled with an X, and it's actually pronounced Motorola Egg Zoom because it was released the same year that King Tut's sarcophagus was unearthed. Wait, Art. What? No, that's real, bro. That's real. I'm not making this up. Excellent. I didn't make up any of that. What does King Tut have to do with exhum? Exhumed. Like they exhumed the tomb. What does that mean? It means to unearth. Oh, okay. The more you know. Flip him and read. What do we got?

1:10:215.0 Honeycomb. Yeah, Honeycomb, but not five. Oh. What? What'd you say? Wait, then. Well. Don't worry. I'll explain. Andrew, what'd you say? I wrote six. Wrong. Okay. Marquez. It's Honeycomb. Correct. The number, when we think about the number. Was it 4.1? H-I. 4.0 is ice cream sandwich. Yeah. Was it 4.1? So H would be 3.2 maybe. It's 3. I'll give it to you. Or 3. All the 3s. Yeah. All the 3s are honeycomb. All the 4s are ice cream sandwich. Wait. So what's this? 5 was. No, no, no. Like what is this as a correct or incorrect answer? Because he got honeycomb. Yeah. But not 5.0. So could I just write 7 answers and if one of them.

1:11:02I told you to just guess. You did technically guess twice and you got one wrong. Yeah. That's two guesses. So if one's wrong and one's else. Remember I said I'd give one point for the version number and one point for the name. You did? Yeah. Wait, do I get two points? Yeah, you got two points for that. Wait, why? You didn't write it down. We didn't put the version. I didn't know that. Wait, you didn't put the version? No. Marques! Did you say that? I said that. No. If I had heard that, I would have written it down. 15 minutes earlier. I'll take both, but I'll give you an extra point if you get both.

1:11:34All right. I think we need it. Wait, wait, wait. Thanks for coming to this episode of the Notebook LLM podcast. Just kidding. Hey, well, thanks for listening to this episode. We hope it satisfied your prompt. Let us know if you want to have another discussion and just put in another prompt and we'll make another podcast about it. The prompt section is down there. It's disguised as a comment section, but it's just a prompt for the next LLM podcast. catch you guys next week peace we're from produced by Adam Molina and Ellis Rovin we're partnered with Vox Media Podcast Network and our traditional music was created by Vain Still bingo let's go

1:12:27now the word sanctiki is the meaning for one word that has that means two different things anyway this is how so there's a god the backstory is the lamest lore ever but there is youtube channels that are just pronunciation guides okay so if you're an english or uh english speaking second language you would find one of these channels and you'd find a hard to pronounce word and you go oh that's how you pronounce synecdoche so it would be a very official looking thumbnail like this and you click on it and then this is sign a kind of dody you in the future.

1:13:58Adobe Acrobat Studio. Adobe Acrobat Studio.

From the publisher

This week, Marques, Andrew, and David start things off by talking about how Apple might be switching up iPhone releases! They also talk about the new changes coming to Google devices with the Material 3 Expressive leak and also some Android desktop-mode improvements that were found. After that, David gives us a breakdown on the Epic vs Apple court case. They close it out debating whether they're more excited for Google I/O in May or Apple WWDC later in the summer.

Links:

The Information - ⁠Apple iPhone releases

9to5Google - Material 3 Expressive leak

Android Authority - Google building its own DeX

Music provided by Epidemic Sound

Shop the merch:

https://shop.mkbhd.com

Socials:

Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast

Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd

Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli

David: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel

Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17

Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin

TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast

Join the Discord:

https://discord.gg/mkbhd

Music by 20syl:

https://bit.ly/2S53xlC

Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More from Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

All 214 episodes
Apple Splitting up iPhone 18 Releases?Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast · 1 h 12 min
Listen in VO