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32:48which when it changed to pay for play was very funny because many brands got impersonated by people and caused uh markets to dip and that was really funny um it was it was quite it was i'm not disagreeing uh so now blue sky after a long period of time has started rolling out their own form of verification which looks practically exactly the same um they did say that they had gone through many many iterations of different things like different colors and different shapes but they landed on the blue check mark because it matches their brand identity and they said they tested things like green but that it looked horrible and uh did not really relate to the blue sky brand like at all so for a little back backstory here blue sky wanted the actual form of verification that was going to work on blue sky to just be domain name verification if you don't know on blue sky there's a thing where if you own your own website you can basically go into the dns settings of your website and say blue sky please use my website as my handle which is the verifying portion of it so then when people see your handle they can see davidwell.com and convict.com and they know that you are the person that is posting because you own the website right clearly that's not super scalable for you know everybody on the internet because not a super high percentage of people even have their own website um also no one has their own website well technically you're leasing it from the iana or whatever but well yeah but i just mean like we're not the normal people that would have our own yeah very few people have their own website my mom does not have a right i think it's also in general just scrolling through the app harder to tell because like display name still is bigger and bolder and easier to see something near there versus the handle part of it right is more obvious right the handle is kind of there so they decided okay we're officially going to roll this out now the way that they are doing it is number one blue sky themselves which is blue sky the company which is not same as the same as blue sky the public benefit company which makes the at protocol because blue sky the company makes blue sky the app i know it's confusing they are basically verifying important people that they deem important so that they can make sure that they don't get uh spoofed right i haven't been hit it up yet so yeah yeah i was just looking at my uh following page the onion has a verified check right now the verge has a verified check on my page right now yeah uh there's a journalist i follow a tech reporter for new york times she has a check yeah i do not have a check i don't think i've been impersonated yet are you mkbhd uh yeah yeah can you prove it no yeah Well, so there's a couple of ways that they're going about this.

35:40One, Blue Sky, the company is just verifying people, but they're also rolling out something called trusted verifiers. And the idea of this is like, okay, if you're the New York Times, and you have a lot of reporters, and generally, when they start verifying people, this is the same thing they did on Twitter, they start with journalists and politicians. because those are the two people that the two types of people that spread news the most the fastest they uh twitter was also very dominated by journalists and politicians uh before it even got big so what this does is they basically give an organization like the new york times the ability to verify people on their team so they say okay we verify the new york times the new york times verifies their journalists that sort of allows uh them to verify people much quicker and so that's what they're doing right now um they surprisingly got a lot of pushback on this a lot of people on on blizzcat were not too happy about this uh many people said it creates a caste system of popularity of lords and peasants of lords and peasants which is what elon said he had to get rid of when he made it pay for play why can't we all just figure out the big problem on all social media is lords and peasants yeah how will we solve it yeah so okay i i talked to blue sky a little bit last night about this because i was like interested in how this worked technically the verification system is on protocol it is on the at protocol so that means that if you start up another blue sky like application that uses the at protocol you can choose whether or not you want to show the verification, you know, on your app or not.

37:20Cool. So part of the differentiating factor of an app that uses the AT protocol could be that they don't want to show verified badges. If people really are that against it, they can just use something else. It is cool that it's like built into the protocol. Yeah. It was interesting. Like Twitter used to have, they haven't said whether or not people with verified badges get like boosted algorithm reach. I don't think they do. I would hope so. One of the main complaints I'm seeing here is just there is like, please don't only put like verified stuff at the top of replies yeah that because then then it feels like really only catered for sure like twitter i got really lucky in 2013 because someone randomly impersonated me and i put in like a a complaint that was like this person's impersonating me and then twitter verified me and in like 2013 that was like a big deal so everything i ever posted had like much bigger reach because that was the case when you were verified on twitter way back then uh but that's not the case here i don't think so i don't know i don't really see it as that big of a deal um but people don't want there to be a cast system i guess yeah i think it makes sense on any social network where people are spreading information slash news and representing themselves to have some sort of verification system yeah i i think a lot of people are literally reacting to the fact that it looks so much like the twitter one that they hate.

38:43It looks exactly like it. Which is a blue check mark. Whatever, I get it. But yeah, I think it's important to have this system and the fact that it's built into the protocol is a good thing. So yeah, I think it's a win. I feel like the blue check mark has just outgrown Twitter. Like now it's also on Meta. It's like everywhere. The hashtag started on Twitter, but now it's everywhere. And the problem is that it doesn't mean anything anymore because even Meta, it's just you pay for it. That's it. On Twitter and Meta, you pay for it. YouTube has it also. But you don't pay for that. No, you don't pay for that.

39:12I'm still confused with the music badges, though. I feel like I see people with music badges so much more in comments lately. I see that a lot, too. And I don't know what that means. I think it just means you're like a verified artist on YouTube. Yeah. That uploads to YouTube music. Yeah. Or something like that. Yeah. I think it's fine. I think it's fine. I think it's... Yeah, don't make it pay to win. Yeah. The one thing right now is like you can't request to be verified, and they're just kind of going through the people that they think are worth verifying. So I think it's pretty much, at least in this initial wave, just going to be politicians and journalists because they're verifying all the publications and the publications verify their journalists.

39:52Hank Green's verified. Yeah. Yeah, well. He's Hank Green, though. He's like one of the biggest accounts on Blue Sky. So that would make sense. Yeah. In other news. Yeah. We have the official pre-order date for Nintendo Switch 2 in the US. Oh, boy. And if you were listening to this on Friday. It already passed. You probably didn't get a Nintendo Switch 2 if this is news to you because it is Thursday the 24th. Yeah. Big thing about this, pricing$449. There are some price increases on a bunch of different accessories ranging from$5 to$10. I think Joy-Cons and Pro controllers are both$5 more expensive.

40:29Some of the cameras are more expensive. So, yeah, your little bundle you buy when you buy one is going to be pretty pricey. Yeah, but they didn't raise the price of the console, which is good. I also read that most GameStops are claiming they're expecting around 100 consoles, which is... That's a lot. That's a lot. Yeah, yeah. That really feels like a lot. I think I read somewhere on Twitter that eight years ago, they were getting between like five and 30 consoles a store. There's also half as many GameStops as there used to be. That's true. So that could be part of the reason. Your local GameStop may have a line.

41:04it's like 11 a.m in store but still like Walmart Target are all doing some sort of pre-orders on the 24th yeah so it's midnight ET on the 24th in the United States was it I thought yeah midnight ET GameStop is different but the other ones yeah yeah yeah well yeah it's tonight at midnight which is kind of crazy and speaking of GameStop they actually do have some pretty sick trade-in deals uh you can get 125 for an original switch which considering they originally only costed 300 and that was eight years ago is a pretty good trade-in i would say i think it's awesome because we're all complaining about the price if you trade one in you're getting it for about the same price as this as the switch one 325 instead yeah yeah that's fair if it's good you do need to bring in the original hdmi cord it said which i thought was very funny and might pass a lot of people up which i don't know if i have there is that is hilarious wait so you need the original hdmi i don't know it just listed the stuff because it needs like the console the dock the power cord the which also could be a usbc cord yeah if you lost there's no way joy cons the original hdmi cable i think i do i mean some people probably just plugged it in once and never unplugged it so they probably still have it oh okay yeah i guess if that's the one you're using then maybe that's the cable i have a way longer cable it's like 15 feet yeah like i had a cable already so i definitely i don't know what i did with that cable yeah uh you can also get 175 for switch oled trade-ins i have an oled but i'm probably not going to trade it uh you can get a hundred dollars for switch light trade-ins i was just going to ask are you guys going to pre-order i literally go back and forth every single day dude i'm hit it by minute i bet at some point tomorrow i will look at one of the pre-orders and if it's available i'll have a very hard time not doing it mostly because fomo right there yeah yeah i think i'm in the i'm in the same boat where i'm not gonna try really hard to pre-order but if i happen to stumble on one that's available if you happen to go to bestbuy.com or the gamestop that's what happened to me when i bought my switch oled because they were literally impossible to find for like weeks and i randomly went on bestbuy.com and i was like one available near you and i was like huh so i put in my cart for pickup and i showed up to best buy and the guy's like oh my god how did you get this like when he was like checking me out he's like how did you manage to did you use like a an app to and i was like are you a botter it was just on the internet my guy it was just there yeah another interesting note is that nintendo had to issue a supply constraint warning in japan because it got 2.2 million applications for pre-orders for the switch 2 for reference it sold 360 000 in japan in the first month when the switch one came out so this is about six times that demand which is absolutely insane uh and it basically said that a significant number of people will not get it on june 5th yeah this is the so they just kind of you just fill out a form there's no this isn't people who like put down five bucks or anything this is the like red no no this is like registering interest through the my nintendo store to pre-order oh well that's something yeah wow um Andrew I had a question for you about this that you might know more than me about doubt it but let's go my question is like immediately after the announcement video you were able to sign up for pre-ordering it through the my Nintendo store thing but it was sign up for interest and then there was that whole thing where like you could if you had 50 hours of play time and you had one year of Nintendo Switch Online you would be able to pre-order Yeah, I thought there was like a sign up for the pre preorder.

44:50Like it almost feels like the like Capital One early ticket thing. Yeah, what was going to happen was that you were going to be able to those people are going to be able to preorder a day before everybody else on my Nintendo store. And then they stopped preorders in the US altogether and push them to tomorrow. So my question is, is that whole thing just that's the last I heard of it. I haven't seen anything about that. I'm not like, you know, refreshing every day, but I have not heard anything about that. Because I haven't gotten anything in my email that's like pre-ordered. No, I didn't see anything on the Switch subreddit.

45:22I very well could have missed it. I like every couple of days go on there and just kind of skim through everything to see what's going on. But yeah, I don't know if they ever got to do anything with that because of all the delays. Interesting, interesting. And then you had one more thing here. We have a couple more. Well, you've got more. If you're interested in trading in, I was just reading that I thought was interesting. If you have like the OG Switch 1, apparently they're super popular in the modding community because they're like the only one you can mod. Oh, yeah. I saw people on there selling them for like a few hundred bucks.

45:53Oh, wow. So if you need a different way to make some money for Switch 2, that could be a way. I think like the modding thing only works if you hadn't like updated the software past a certain amount. Could be. I'm not totally sure. I just thought it was. What if I just used the money to short GameStop instead? Guaranteed. This is not financial advice. All right. But speaking of financial advice, Google could probably use some. I know, it's terrible. I'm available Google. We got an antitrust update in the U.S. versus Google case. And what is that? So we all know that the judge found Google to be a monopoly.

46:32Yeah. And they're in the process of figuring out how the U.S. government is going to fix it. So the judge during this trial said they're asking for three different things. One is to prevent Google from striking deals for prime search engine placement. Reference to how Google pays Apple$20 billion annually. Amazon has their own search engine. I missed it. No, you just said prime search engine placement. Oh, you very much confused me. I was like, wait, what? But yeah, I mean, we've talked about how much Google pays Apple to be that. They want Google to divest Chrome. The judge said it's the starting point of 35 % of all user queries and has over 4 billion users.

47:16And then they also would like to require Google to license its search data to competitors that would want it. So obviously they still make money through that, through the licensing fee, but obviously Google wants that information for themselves. Monetarily, it's more important to them because they get to do things other people don't get to do. even though they could make a ton of money off of it yeah um so google's pushing back uh to almost everything they said above however they did kind of agree with parts of the um striking deals and not being like a a exclusive default search engine which is but the doj is like cool you can kind of agree with us on that but you already have created such a like impossible lead over through these like monopolistic tactics that like i think we need to do this a little more to make up for an insurmountable yeah this is the place that you're in right now this is the interesting part to me which is always like okay google's established this lead and whatever you think about how they got the lead whatever now they are like the search engine that people choose and google still continues to pay apple 20 billion dollars a year to be the default search engine in safari what if they didn't would what would apple do i think the concern is that apple would just turn on their own search engine they've had ready for a very long time i think i think that's a possibility but i don't know that like it's google really think that that's what's going to happen i don't i just don't know that people would well google would iphone users be cool with oh i just like typed in the search box to google something and it's just all this other search engine came up for some reason i don't think they'd care really i really don't i think there would be a lot of memes if it was bing tomorrow like how many people would just be like why i guess bing to be fair looks a lot like google i think i think bing has a lot of negative connotations for everybody at this point so i kind of feel like maybe they'd change it from that i think the biggest thing is if we're talking just like average person who has a phone how many of them would know how to change the defaults yeah they might literally be stuck in whatever that and that's hundreds of millions of people and i just don't think a lot of people care i don't know because a lot of people still buy microsoft computers and and they open up edge to download chrome there's also a lot of people who have microsoft computers and and just use edge because it's there and bing is the default and they have no idea but chrome is the most popular browser yeah it is not the default on any computer other than chromebooks where it is the so people do seek out Chrome and seek out Google.

49:56That is true. So I just feel like if Google stopped paying Apple tomorrow, obviously Apple could spin up a search engine and would have to announce it and explain it at some point and they could launch it and do a whole thing. But I just wonder, would people... Well... I think it would... My point is I think it would continue to be Google for quite a while. Sure, but I think it's also... The fact that Google's paying them$20 billion a year proves how important that defaultness is. Google is an ads business. So why would they want to not pay$20 billion to find out? I'd rather just pay$20 billion.

50:29That's how important it is. They're tossing$20 billion a year. How much has a$20 billion been negotiated where it was like, give us$100 billion, and Google's like, no, we'll give you$20 billion. Yeah. Okay. All right. There's also, I think it's more important for them to show more revenue than it is for them to show more profits, necessarily. And if they're getting more and more revenue because more and more people are using Google search, if that dropped by even 20%, all of a sudden Google searches dropped by 20 % looks terrible in their stock tanks. It's just a lot of nuanced stuff. How much would it drop?

51:04That's the question. I think by a lot, honestly. My mom would not go to Google.com on her iPhone. But if they open up search on the iPhone after Google stops paying, what does Apple do? Do they just leave it at Google? Who knows? I think they just leave it at Google. They default it to something with the options of doing it in the settings, which most people never find. Or they take money from someone else. I don't know. I do think that Apple has an incentive to keep it on Google because Google is still the best experience right now. Yeah, by far. Compared to Bing. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like they clearly are willing to do something else, though, because they're getting paid to do it.

51:42Yeah. I bet Apple has a fully-fledged, really good product that is just ready to go. That's gotta be... That they just don't think would make more than$20 billion. And then therefore, let's just take the money from Google. And they don't want to get into the complexities of running an ads business. With privacy way more at the forefront in their eyes. Because that's what a search engine is. It's an ads business. So we think Apple has the ability to launch a full-fledged search product tomorrow. Yes. But doesn't do it now because taking$20 billion from Google and just keeping it at Google is fine.

52:17I think that to them, that's less complicated than like getting into the advertising business. And they could do it and they could make it probably make a lot of money. But in the like you said, like the security stuff and the data privacy. I feel like if the government just told Apple, you can no longer have Google be the default. They would just make like a super private browser. I don't think it would be. We're not dealing with this at all. I don't think they would tell them Google can't be the default. It would be Google can't pay you to be the exclusive. Either way, I just mean like Apple, I don't think would want to be bothered with any of this.

52:51Well, also think about the antitrust potential of Apple having their own browser that is the default. Because they would definitely come after Apple and be like, you can't do that. Well, not if they're not doing any kind of like advertising monopolistic things. Yeah, right now. They wouldn't do an advertising business. Yeah, Android phones, Chrome is the default. Google is the default search engine. Yeah. And that obviously is a big point of contention with Chrome. but let's say Safari is the default and Apple Search is the default search engine and they're not the biggest search provider so they can't really have a monopoly argument yet.

53:26Is that fine for now, I guess? It seems like that'd be fine. I just don't, I don't know. It seems hard to believe that Apple could launch a new business today that is that massive. That has threatens their biggest competitor but doesn't do it. Well, you know, the US broke up Microsoft because they were monopolizing search engines with the Internet Explorer. I could totally see Tim Cook getting on stage and being like, you know, never explaining the Google Chrome thing, but just being like, we have this new browser, super private, on your phone, doesn't go anywhere. And they're just like, we're just not gonna deal with this.

53:59Just search engine. It could be the same browser, but just like the search engine. We've built a search engine. Just to like get around all this. It could be under, I almost picture it being under Apple intelligence of being like, yeah, we've got Siri. So if you want to search for stuff, there's Siri search. Yeah. And it's super private and no one can sell you ads based on what you search, et cetera, et cetera. Wouldn't want any of those guys collecting data on you, would you? Exactly. Use Safari. True. The rest of this is pretty much about data. Satya Nadella testified during this. I don't know why.

54:28I think that's so funny that he's like, the only way to build a great search engine is with unobtainable amounts of search data. And Google's made sure no one else has that besides themselves, which no shit. The CEO of Microsoft is like, yes, please let me buy that data. Yeah. And then what's also funny is kind of related to Microsoft is I hate it. During the trial, the head of product from OpenAI mentioned that they would be interested in purchasing Chrome if it were to go on sale, which now is very funny because is their boss not in the room with them? Who makes Bing? Satya's like, you'd what?

55:02You would what? It'd be a shame if something happened to our investment. I just thought that was so funny. And also, please, God, no, OpenAI don't buy Chrome. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Speaking of antitrust suits. Another one. Let's keep the good times going. DJ Khaled. Apple and Meta just got hit with really big DMA antitrust fines. If you remember, the European Union basically went after Apple and Meta and were basically like, you cannot do these things. The big thing for Apple was third party app stores was a major thing where Apple eventually complied. but they did so in the most malicious compliance way possible to the point where it basically penalized you a ton if you were willing to put your app on a third-party app store in the european union uh and made it like worse for most people so uh the eu is not happy about that malicious compliance and they find apple 570 million dollars for violating the the uh dma which is crazy and it says that has 60 days to basically remedy this so that's that's not too good for apple we'll see what happens there they're probably going to have to get rid of all of that jargon and just fully open it up without any consequences it'll be interesting to see if apple actually complies with that the EU is actually also not happy with meta for a very similar reason it was charging facebook and instagram users to either pay a subscription fee to like get rid of all of the ads that were being shown there or they could use their personal data um to kind of like have ad supported versions on the platform and meta solution was to in the eu was to allow free users to see fewer unskippable full screen ads uh but the eu is not too happy about that either so both of them got hit with huge fines apple's fine was 570 million meta's fine was about half that but they could basically be continue they could continue to get fined fairly regularly unless they fix these issues within 60 days it's crazy to think 570 million is a gigantic fine yet we just talked about them paying about 30 times that a year to google it just doesn't feel like such a fine that's crazy yeah so i mean most of these companies will take the fines if it means they're making more money by doing the thing they're not supposed to do that's just generally how it works because the fines are just not big enough to actually be real deterrence uh this seems quite a bit bigger 570 million that they have to pay right now they're gonna appeal it obviously but that seems like a a bigger deterrence than they usually get hit with so we'll see how that plays out this is like when you see like a ferrari parked in like a do not park thing and it just has like four tickets on a dash like yeah they don't care i don't care it's more convenient for me to be parked illegally yeah wow um and then last little thing about companies giving large sums of money to other companies uh it came out that google pays an enormous amount of money to samsung to have gemini pre-installed on its phones this does not shock me at all yeah yeah they seem to be very close partners in a lot of ways yeah so yeah yeah i mean at the pixel event they literally showed gemini on the galaxy s24 ultra at google i o they regularly demo exclusive features on samsung phones yeah they'll probably do it again this year we knew that they had a very close partnership but it seems like it's been getting closer and closer and now we have uh actual evidence that they've been paying them a lot of money so apparently google has been paying Samsung an enormous amount of money since January monthly to have Gemini pre-installed on Samsung's phone.

58:51So that would probably be around the announcement of the S25 series. It also gives Samsung a percentage of revenue earned from advertisers in the Gemini app. I have never seen an ad in the Gemini app. Me neither. So I'm not really sure what that means. It could be a future thing. It could be a future thing. But the judge actually ruled that this violates antitrust law and is hearing testimony to figure out what Google will have to do to remedy the behavior. So Google's not in the best situation right now. This coming out in the middle of this antitrust thing happening feels like the start of the search engine.

59:27They're just doing it with AI instead. Yeah. You know what I just thought of? What? OpenAI has been working on this search product. Maybe if Google wasn't paying... Careful, Marques, careful. Maybe if Google buys... If Google wasn't paying Samsung, Samsung would just switch it to OpenAI's product. It says they had offers from OpenAI and Microsoft as well. Yeah, so maybe in a world today where Google stops paying Apple to be the default search engine in Safari, OpenAI is like, yeah, I want that deal. I want to be the search. What you know is funny is Safari kind of got dumber when they added, not Safari, Siri, sorry.

1:00:04Siri kind of got dumber when they added the OpenAI integration. ChatGPT, yeah. ChatGPT integration. There's been multiple cases that people post online of like hey siri what day of the week is it and it'll be like do you want me to ask chat gpt for that yeah it's it's literally the big speed april fools video we did where it's like it can't answer it i'm literally gonna ask someone else yeah we were ahead of our time with that joke we were yeah so my i just want to say my chat gpt experience lately it's few and far between and it has been miserable every time really every time it's like hey can you do this thing and i'll do it do it do it and then i'll be like can you do one more that's against our policy why is it against your policy for this reason cool do it without that reason that is against our policy perfect example i was like trying to explain to tim a thumbnail i wanted to make and it was just this idea of typing on a keyboard and the keys are flying all over the place okay so it did a pretty good job at creating that and then i said can you make this in look like a youtube thumbnail and it throws the youtube logo on and some text that looks terrible i said can you please take that off and change the text to this and then first it says you've run out of requests for today because i don't have pro please come back in 24 hours that was friday i come back monday i ask it to remove it it says uh you've run out of requests and it's had to do that three times i said that was three days ago i'm past the time limit is it you're right and then it and then it said let me try to do that generating image and it said this is against our policy so i said why and they said there was a logo involved in it and they can't do anything with logos so i said you put the logo in in fact i'm asking you to take it out i said whoa you're right i did i did put that in and you are just asking to put that take it out what should i let me get a get on with that and then it says generate an image says that is against our policy and then i just gave up i'm like not doing this so yeah that was my last chat gp experience wow it's terrible that sounds horrible if only you had a samsung phone that you could just if only i had image playground yeah then you make a cartoon all right uh yeah okay well we we will take another quick break we do have of course our trademarked have we trademarked no our trade i mean just kidding we don't look our patent pending final segment uh last of the month called crown or clown and clown crown and clown so uh we're gonna get to that after the break but of course we should do one more round of trivia

1:02:38okay trivia trivia question two twitter announced a public verification system in what year asterisk it was discontinued that same year because they received too many requests public oh but when did they launch it the public one oh like how you can request it publicly just being able to request or like oh is that where there's like a verified account you had to like, what happened? I think it was in the setting. They got too many people requesting and they were like, we don't have that many employees. In the settings, there was like a form you could fill out. Yeah. Oh, wow. I didn't know about that.

1:03:14I was verified after it shut down somehow. Oh, really? Yeah, because there was still a this person's impersonating me form and I filled that out and they were like, oh, we're just going to verify it. I got verified like two weeks before they made it paid. And I was like, well, there goes that. oh really and then everyone's like look at this lose check that's funny and then you had to pay to put it oh no I did not pay they just removed it oh yeah yeah alright alright well we'll think about it answers at the end we'll be right back

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1:05:20The pumpkin spice latte is back at Starbucks. Crafted with our signature espresso and real pumpkin sauce. Then topped with whipped cream, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The PSL. Get it while it's hot. Or iced. Only at Starbucks. Welcome back. we are doing crown and clown and I think I'll go first because I have the two most boring ones can we remind the I was going to say the users I guess I will at the end of every month we do a crown which is something we thought was the best thing that happened this month and a clown which is something we thought was the dumbest thing that happened this month we try really hard to keep it within the month we'll see how we go we need to be a little more streamlined of this and we're working on it, which probably means we won't be.

1:06:08Nice. One hour later. I will pitch, I think the crown of April is the Nintendo Switch 2. That's what I was going to say. It's really hard not to say it. As much as people gave it crap for pricing and there's been some delays, I still really think they delivered on the majority of the things. My argument is... It's the thing I'm the most excited about. Have they? Because it's not even out yet. What if it's just a break? I mean, we will see. Announced. it's always been for june it actually hasn't been delayed on delivering yet yeah yet no no i know but i mean like what if we get it and it sucks well okay they could still screw up the because they said they fixed the stick drift but it's not hall effect so i don't know if i fully believe them on that but a lot of the other things were good minus pricing and some of the game card keys but also like and i didn't know this apparently a lot of xbox and playstation games have been doing this for a long time without the physical key it's just a download code inside the box so this is a better version of that i totally agree because you can sell them and trade them and whatever later so i think they did a good job digital foundry did a very in-depth uh thing about the switch to that they put out two days ago and i would recommend going to look at that they have a bunch of videos and also write-ups about it that is a long article it's super in-depth and they have a bunch of they have videos for like every portion of it is it generally it's generally quite positive yeah they're saying the performance is like way better than they expected and yeah so interesting it's generally very positive all right david what's your crown well it was supposed to be switched to i mean it still can be switched to because we have to agree anyway yeah we have to agree so you could just double up if you want i'm not saying it's good because i don't know because i've never even touched it that's what i'm saying but i do think only one person in this room has touched it i have touched it thanks for clarifying what other positive things have happened this month.

1:08:02Nothing. Literally nothing. I have something. Yeah, Mark, what's yours? Okay, well, I have two. One of them is not really a thing. One of them was a Volvo EX90, which we reviewed this month, but it didn't come out this month, so it's probably not going to win. Okay. But I just find something else. Nice car. In the month of April, scientists at Zhejiang University and the University of Cambridge built much, much smaller individual pixels on an LED display. Record-breaking amount, actually. They achieved the smallest pixels ever at 90 nanometers wide. You would know about this. And it's hard to explain how small 90 nanometers is, but they've been working on this over and over again and shrinking down and down the pixels over and over.

1:08:50But this 90 nanometer wide pixel achieved a pixel density of 127 ,000 pixels per inch, which is pretty sick. Virus-sized pixels. it makes oil paintings look pixelated is how they described it now obviously there's a lot there's a lot of challenges that come from having pixels that small from running drivers driving it brightness to whatever all these other things um but i just want to emphasize how small those individual pixels are if a human hair was a skyscraper a 90 nanometer object would be a single floor tile. Floor tile, not floor? Like thickness? Floor tile, yeah. Is the floor tile standing up?

1:09:34Human hair, sideways, skyscraper. What length of human hair? That's a great question. The width of a human hair. The width of a human hair is a skyscraper. Holy crap. Another way of looking at it, if a red blood cell were a soccer ball, a single pixel would be a grain of sand. Wow. That one seems not as crazy. Yeah. But red blood cells are so crazy. You have to know how small a red blood cells are. Right, because I see blood, but I don't know how big this individual cells are. Red blood cells are pretty small compared to a single hair. Thanks. A pool, yeah, I don't know. So anyway, yeah, 127 ,000 pixel per inch display is my crown of the month.

1:10:12Hold on. I just want to say, you guys said it can't be the Switch 2 because I haven't seen it yet, and then you bring out this science-breaking lab-only. You can see it. No, no, I'm saying you guys said it to me. no no no I don't think that's a I don't think the rule has to be you have to have seen it because we've had previous crowns that are things we haven't seen I'm I agree yeah I never said you had to have seen I said I had to be out this is a lab yeah it's out yeah it includes one of them exists just one I see your point Andrew and I'm choosing to ignore it somehow someone can get us access to making a video on that though that would be just saying I'm pretty sure we would do that microscopes yeah electron microscopes i'll drop a link in the in the slack so you guys can probably because it's pretty that's how those work the ultimate problems speaking of slack i'm gonna tell you what ellis's crown is for the month he discovered that there are now hdr emojis in this isn't this is this is not a crown my friend he thinks it's a crown it is not hdr emojis it It looks horrible.

1:11:17If you're scrolling through on Slack, you'll see a regular emoji, and then you'll see a very bright spot on your screen, which is the other one. It looks broken. Can you post it? Yeah, I'm going to put it in Slack. Yeah, can you please post it? It's in the waveform. It just looks broken. Jesus. It's like glowing on yours. I think it's because I'm in dark mode on Slack. Yeah. You're scrolling. I feel like I'm blinking and seeing it in my vision. It's definitely an SDR on my computer, which I'm happy about. Wow. Is Ellis saying that he likes scrolling through Instagram under his blanket and just getting blinded randomly in the middle of the room?

1:11:55Is this his crown? This is his crown. That's what I said. That's what I said. He thinks this is awesome. Okay, well, I don't. I think this should be eligible for the clown. Does he have a clown separately? His clown is... It's going to be something amazing. No. It's basically Apple getting dinged for the removing the Apple intelligence coming soon part. That's a clown? He said that's his clown. That's a good thing. They had it up in the first place. Interesting. I asked Gemini what are the best things that happen in consumer technology in April 2025 and it said the Apple M4 chip launched. It did not launch this month.

1:12:35The Bard upgrade? Bard upgrade? That might be April three years ago. Gemini literally called itself its old... You're asking Gemini, which is what Bard was. And it said, the Bard AI platform received an update integrating the more advanced Gemini 2.0 model. AI travel planning. Wow, this is horrible. None of these are true. Sick. I love AI. At this point for Crown, we're reduced to the Switch 2. Or the groundbreaking new technology. The 127 ,000 pixel per inch display or the HDR emoji. Imagine the HDR emoji on... On that display? Whew! Crisp. Crisp. Cooked. Eyes cooked. Eyes cooked. Vectors. What about the Beats cables?

1:13:24That was one of those mid-things that happened that we forgot about within 30 seconds of it happening. But I thought you said it was the biggest story of the year. Oh, I did say that, didn't I? I was lying. Damn. I thought you were serious. I mean, it's hard to vote against. I feel like every time I just give up on my answer. It is a pretty cool screen. I have a question. All those pictures look like they were green pixels only. Can the pixels change colors? Don't worry about it. If it's green only. What do you mean green only? I don't know. Are they green? How about... Yeah. Oh, okay. Never mind.

1:14:02David was looking at something else. What about Sam Altman potentially buying his own company? Clown. You already said yours. Yours is the Switch. Yeah, it's the Switch 2. Okay. I think it's the Switch 2. Come on. It's probably the Switch 2. It's the most talked about thing this month. Which doesn't necessarily mean it's the test. That isn't negative. There was a lot of negative stuff about it, but I think some of it was blown out of proportion. Yeah. And some of it's totally reasonable criticism. All right, I'll fold. I'll go Switch 2. Let's go. Let's go. What is the clown then? The clown. Tariffs.

1:14:36Reciperable tariffs. they came out the same day actually and the clown came out the same that's a good point I was gonna go blue origin PR stunt nevermind I lose actually I think that's it I think that's it that was my clown what about um 23andMe selling their data going bankrupt has it happened yet or did it get sold that was not a clown yet I know but remember last month we were like April clown it's like the buyer could be horrible but yeah they haven't sold yet okay cool perfect yeah so yeah i think blue origin is the best one i think adam's got one but it's a hard one to top okay so my clown then is something that i just realized yesterday which is that my phone number has been tied up in iMessage for like two months now since i switched to the pixel so you've missed a thousand messages ellis texted me and on slack he's like yo i texted you and i'm like no you didn't and then i saw it pop up on the messages app in my computer and then when i opened that up there was like 30 missed messages and i was like how is this still a problem how are we still dealing with this this is along the lines of that tech question i had maybe two or three weeks ago which is like the rcs thing not working on my phone yeah which i think on the iphone you have to turn off yeah i did you do i didn't do it on my laptop which is a separate thing and that's why it all went to my laptop why i still carry two phones did you figure it out i haven't figured it out but it has gradually started working with more and more threads.

1:16:05I've seen a lot of suggestions of similar issues. I know you said you tried some of them, but there were people, some of them were like, you had to like sign out and then like restart your phone and then all this. No, I went through the comments. I tried basically everything everyone was suggesting and nothing was working. And then a couple of days later, I tried an RCS message to someone I usually RCS message and it worked. And I was like, oh, oh, RCS. And then I tried another thread and it's like SMS. Adam, that's crazy because like Ellis and Brandon must also have had their iMessage things like mess up because they never respond to me either.

1:16:42So Brandon was one of the people that I had gotten a message from him like three weeks ago. And then I had to reply like, sorry, can you resend all this? Because it's stuck on my computer now. Damn. Very annoying. I didn't text you, so. Yeah, you never text me. I just tried Telegramming. Yeah, which is terrible. Clown. That's the clown. That's the true clown. That's the world-wide clown. David's still using Telegram. I have these problems that you were both having, you know? All I do is get a bunch of fake spam messages every day. I like it that way. Are we in agreement? Crown is switched to clown is Blue Origin.

1:17:19Yeah. I think that's how it'll... Yeah, that's April 2025 right there. That's it, yeah. Yeah. There's April. Oh, that's pretty... We should do a year-long calendar. The end of the year, yeah. At the end of the year, that's a calendar, and it has the crown and clown. from every month. We'll collect them all. Yeah. Gotta collect them all. June is probably also gonna be Switch 2. Switch 2, 2? Switch 2, 2. The Switching. We'll see how June goes. Either way, hey, that's been it. We should do the trivia questions. Oh, yeah. Trivia, dude. Okay, let me run through this. Wait for it. You did not wait for it.

1:17:52127 ,000 pixels per inch. That's crazy. Per inch? Insane. Okay. The sphere in Las Vegas is about to about to shutter imagine this here in las vegas at 127 000 ppi yeah in hdr no it would it would look the space would look like this slack hdr looks like an hdr emoji from a plane it also has emojis on it on the sphere that's exactly that's what it is it's an hdr emoji i was in a hotel in vegas a couple months ago and i opened my windows in the morning and it was just the giant emoji staring back at me. That's dope. All right. So these are all Google services grabbed from the Google graveyard. Which one of these was an app that was used to find group activities with others who share your interests?

1:18:44And it lasted 11 months. And it lasted 11 months. A, Grasshopper. B, Streams. C, Poly. Or D, Shoelace.

1:18:56What is it? a grasshopper no no what's the question again oh which of these was an app that was used to find group activities with others who share your interests i'm so mad that i changed my answer which means the first one was definitely right whenever i do that i just crossed it out so that the world knows that i actually thought the right answer nice okay okay we have different answers here all right uh i don't know the answer so i can guess i said uh grasshopper grasshopper yeah incorrect that's what i had at first andrew and i both put shoe you both put shoelace well i put d was that shoelace yeah it was okay yeah because you go you gotta lace up your shoes to go do an activity well is that why you thought that's why i thought it right it's to find new activities so i'm gonna go do my activity with my friend i sort of remember this launching because it was only a couple years ago right um 20 wait let me find it one second also what was that 2020 it shut down yeah yeah okay also what was option a grasshopper grasshopper what was b streams what was c poly yeah okay what was d grasshopper is a thing in google he said they're all not anymore they were all things but now they're all dead oh well at least i got the point all right question two yeah nothing about this shoelace app screams google at all really yeah it looks like it was made in Canva.

1:20:17It does. No, it literally does. That's the worst thing you can say. It looks like you made this in Canva. This episode is sponsored by Canva. That would be really funny. They probably did make it in Canva. Oh, God. Okay. Twitter announced the public verification system in what year? Public verification. The PV. And then they got flooded with requests and they shut it down that same year. My pen is like not working at all but here just do this yeah here right over it i'll give you an extra point if you get the month oh okay good all right flip them and read what do we got i am once again guessing okay oh i went way later than both of you oh we'll go in order i guess june 2012 12.

1:21:14Incorrect. Are we just closest here? Sure. Sure. Let's do closest Delta. Okay. I did March 2014. March 2014? Yeah. Nope. Wow. I did June 2021. June 2021. What? Wrong one. Incorrect. I think you were thinking of Elon's verification. When did he buy it? 2021. Was it 2021? Or was it 2022? I thought it was very close before he bought it is when they added that form that was like, I am blank, blank, blank, blank. That was a long time before that. That's when they brought it back. This is the first time. Oh, yeah. The correct answer was July 2016. So David gets the point. Let's go. 2016. Wow, that's late.

1:22:02That is late. I knew I was thinking of the second one. I thought I got verified in 2015. you probably got verified before the public request cool quick update on the score Marquez 18, Andrew 9, David 21 David you can legally drink now let's go you're older than the oldest YouTube video that's right or not older the day this show is live I'll be 10 years older oh yeah everyone say happy birthday to David happy birthday If you made it this far into the episode. If you made it this far, then you know when David's birthday is. Officially dust. Drop your comments below. In between all the which language do you prefer the dub to be comments.

1:22:45We appreciate both of those. Say happy birthday in a different language. Do it. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Feliz cumpleaños. Yeah. But yeah, we'll be back, of course, in May. That's the next month. May. Wow. Is that true? May, we already know. What about April 30th? Oh, wait, but they'll not see us until May. Until May. They won't see us till May. So we'll see you in May. It's going to be May, etc., etc. Appreciate y 'all. Thanks for subscribing. Thanks for watching. Thanks for commenting. Catch y 'all in the next episode. Peace. Waveformers produced by Adam Molina and Ellis Roffin. We're partnered with Vox Media Podcast Network.

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