Apple Admits DEFEAT - WAN Show Mar 29, 2019 #Helpful Post

hmm welcome to the window everyone

euskal eyeful drinking Bob Walden I was

trying to go drink before going going

light happened before I was quite ready

because see the little green square goes

on in the corn you know what I'm still

thirsty one second all right

good start sorry I was just well I did

the other live stream earlier today

where we answered the question once and

for all why there are so many people

working here

well we answered the question what

exactly it is that they do but we

actually did not answer why it is that

we need so many of them maybe that'll be

part two yeah next time that you just

don't know what to do on a Friday yeah

next time Linus isn't sure what to

stream owner for okay so hold on a

second in my defense I actually have

plenty of ideas for what to stream on a

Friday okay would you like to hear them

sure yeah idea number one first

impressions of the huawei P 30 Pro what

are they that wouldn't that have been

interesting yeah I can't tell you

because that's not what we did today

idea number two first impressions of the

Nubia alpha the wraparound flexible

display Smart Watch would you like to

know what they are it's large and looks

really weird well no I mean don't you

want to know my first impressions having

actually used it sure yeah I'm sorry I

can't tell you that's not what we stream

up um I had another we're still good

yeah I had another idea there's these

like double capacity dims that are

pretty cool and there's rebuilding the

red camera but that I need like four or

five hours for I think yeah that's

anyway well so the problem was just

actually that I didn't have enough I

didn't have enough time and space to set

up the camera that I needed in order to

do any of those other ones so I went

with like more like a QA so a lot of

people have actually asked me that over

the years and I lied I actually do

intend to give my first impressions of

the p30 Pro and the Nubia alpha here on

the show that's actually kind of a great

summary of my first impressions of the

Nubia alpha hold on a second there you

go ladies and gentlemen that is a dead

battery indicator

so I charged this this morning when I

got to the office

oh yeah it's pretty rough doesn't have a

camera yeah heck yeah Oh weird it's not

very good it's like potato camera like

iPhone 5 maybe that's higher than I was

expecting you to say maybe maybe maybe

like 4s I don't know well well I will

I'll do some more actual comparisons

later but yeah I'm actually it's one of

those things where normally I don't

really cover smartwatches anymore but I

feel like this thing is so utterly

unique that it is worth doing a full

dedicated video on because there's a lot

of stuff about it that is super bad like

really bad I mean I got less than 6

hours of my no over 6 hours less than 7

hours of battery life out of it today

that's not acceptable like it has asleep

it has like sleep health functions

yeah honestly though it makes no sense

this is this is actually this is

something I almost feel like I should do

a rant about like the state of wearables

right now the number of them that have

sleep tracker functionality but only

lasts for a single day on battery when

am i when am i collecting this data my

watch is on the charger

obviously this is an income unless I nap

a lot it's not getting any meaningful

sleep data from me like I actually found

out to my surprise that the galaxy watch

which I hate which is the reason I

haven't reviewed it cuz it just like I

couldn't find anything good to say about

it the galaxy watch surprised me when I

did have an app when I was on vacation I

woke up and it was like your sleep was

73 percent efficient and I was like oh

cool

that one actually makes more sense than

this one because it actually does last

for a few days on battery but my thing

is that if you don't last for prove me

wrong okay get ready okay if it doesn't

last for a full week on battery there's

not much point in it lasting more than

one day oh hundred percent yeah

you're supposed to prove me get the

segment deeds I want Luke back firstly

Oh like I know Luke I know what you're

trying to say but if you're going for

two days who cares you still need to

worry about it every single time this

was actually the biggest problem that I

had with the pixel buds really because

you stole those for a little while yeah

I stole them and then I liked them and

then I found out that I hated them and

gave them back so that was because like

I always just ended up in this really

weird situation where I'd be doing

something and they would just die and

I'd be like this is terrible but like

they last long enough that like I don't

remember to plug it in every single

night cuz that's dumb they last like

four days maybe but they died soon

enough that you regularly run into

issues of it just dying on you so if it

was like weakly maybe I could remember

to do it like over the weekend or like

once every four days you can like toss

it on and be like okay yeah it's getting

a bit low but no so I actually have the

exact same issue I've been I've been

trying to join the 21st century and this

is Sennheiser's momentum something

around there I forget what the model

number is let me actually let me look

this up for you guys well I think it's

momentum Wireless it's a nice case

they're called momentum true Wireless so

they're cold yeah yeah here they are so

I'm gonna go ahead and fire this up this

is the center oh no no this is the

Sennheiser momentum true Wireless they

come in a nice little case I've got got

it right here they it's a charging case

just like you know most wireless

earphones they're actually very

comfortable like they're quick to put in

they are truly Wireless there's no

tether that goes between them or

anything like that they stay in really

really well for me like I could do this

forever I'd get uncomfortable and

nauseated before they would come out of

my ears they sound good there's there's

actually a lot to like here but I don't

know if mine are defective see that's

that's one thing

because I'll find that I'll just not

touch them for a little while

and I'll come back to them and like it's

completely dead like there's no

indicator whatsoever so I'm just I'm

finding that as someone who uses

earphones a lot but not every waking

moment of every day I am also in this

really awkward in-between where like I

need them often enough and they're not

available for me that it's really

annoying but I don't need them all the

time so I don't constantly have my

finger on the pulse where's my battery

life at do I need to charge these things

up yeah and like honestly they charge up

really fast and the pixel buds do too

yeah like if you've got adapter cable

and battery bank handy which like 99% of

the time I do like that's fine but my

conference call starts in three minutes

and I don't have time for this right now

or it's like it might take like 10

minutes to get a pretty good charge but

like I want to clean the kitchen and

have like a podcast going and the

kitchens cleaned by the time that

they're charged so I don't know maybe

it's possible that we're just idiots I

don't think so I just went out and

bought like three pairs of pixel

headphones they're types II just plug

them in yep good to go I just leave them

everywhere so that was another problem

that I had like you have the wireless

headphones and you just forget them

somewhere right so back to my complaint

about the galaxy I was saying that if it

doesn't last for I would say a week is

the magic number if it doesn't last for

a week there's really not much point in

it lasting more than one robust day like

one no matter what you do to it day

because it's going to have to be part of

your daily routine to charge them versus

part of your before I go to work on

Monday routine is that kind of does that

kind of make sense yeah with that said I

can I can actually talk about some of

the others

so notifications are a hot mess the

overall functionality of it is just kind

of weird like the I wish I could show

you guys except it's dead

but like this much of the screen like

the part that actually really faces the

user like a traditional watch has your

watch information and then down at the

bottom here is your 6th most or 9 6 or 9

most recently used applications or

functions ok which is fine it's kind of

like a like a alt tab you know like your

last things or like recents your recents

button on your android phone and then up

at the top is all your toggles for like

bluetooth oh okay no Barlet but why are

those there all the time well I was also

wondering that that about the apps like

it's like on the tape watch you just

swipe down and you get all the toggles

yeah yes wipe to the left and get all

the apps right so this is just there

just there all the time so they just

it's kind of like they had more screen

real estate but they didn't have a clear

idea of what to do with it and that's

the impression that I'm getting from it

right now with that said the screen is

like it's surprisingly it looks

surprisingly good for how bendable it is

you can hold up and it feels ok like

here if you feel it it feels a little

bit plasticky but also reasonably glassy

like it's not bad it's clearly not the

same technology that they'd be using in

the Galaxy fold like there's a limit to

how far you can go here oh and look it

fire it up okay let's see if I can get

you guys a little bit of a tour of it

here and then I can talk about the P

actually we should roll the intro or

something also luke sick alex is here

today hi here we go guys like the very

brief tour you're missing it because

nice it takes a little while to boot up

yep it doesn't have integration with

like third-party music apps as far as I

can tell what I've only tried Google

Play Music so far I'm gonna try Spotify

as well just to make just as a sanity

check so

did it die it died blow is moving up

whatever ah that's like the main thing

that I like about a SmartWatch is just

switching the song because like I'll be

doing things all the time with my hands

and then you can just kind of like going

with your nose and change the song see

that right there is what I miss about

the pebble honestly I actually found my

old pebble time and I put it I hot-glued

a magnet to the back of it and then I

hot-glued another magnet to my motorbike

and then I just put it on there

cuz you can have more than one

SmartWatch connected to your phone at a

time so while I'm riding with my gloves

on I can change the track that's smart

you cannot do that what's like any

modern SmartWatch it drives me nuts

tactile buttons have a place and that

place is your wrist like the whole point

of a SmartWatch is that my hands are

occupied or full or covered or somehow

unable to like this is here look this is

how much time I'm trying to save that's

that's what you're up against Smart

Watch if you're not more efficient than

that the game is over and that's one of

my biggest problems with the galaxy

watch is I'll get a notification it must

be a power saving thing because it does

get multiple days of battery and they

must have done that somehow even with an

always-on display it gets more than two

days which is amazing but it must be

like a power saving thing because I'll

get a notification on my phone will be

like oh there's my watch notification

okay I've been having that issue too

like I have the tick wash and it was

like the same time until like maybe two

weeks ago and then it's a several second

delay and I just haven't worn it since

because that's what you're up against

like this phone okay is locked I can

have it up and unlocked in that amount

of time if you're not faster and more

convenient you have no place on my wrist

and especially the ones that don't have

an always-on clock now

you're not even faster and more

convenient to check the top yeah this

one's a little thick I I think it looks

cool i we had this debate you know what

I'm gonna roll the intro roll the intro

we can debate whether it looks cool one

moment please

we'll respond sir by the LPG store

and displays magnet mounted metal art

and of course private Internet access

okay now we've got some haters got some

haters over there in the YouTube chat so

I'm gonna go over to floatplane chat

which is my safe space what are they

sayin I'm gonna see what floatplane chat

saying I actually I'm just loading it up

now so I'm gonna miss out on anything

they said before but why don't you go

first

explain to me why this thing is not cool

and you know what I'm gonna do is I'm

gonna go up I'm gonna I'm gonna adjust

the can I'm gonna give them a better

look at it while you love you talk us

through one second so I guess first of

all does it have an always-on display so

first of all any watch that doesn't have

always-on display looks stupid it's just

like this dead thing on your arm that is

it has no utility as a watch and just

should not be there so second of all the

screen it kind of looks like is it

vision that has the stupid goggles like

that yeah I do hate vision vision is the

worst character and he should just he

was the worst part of everything that

he's ever been in so there you go and I

was really happy because then I just

didn't have to worry we can talk about

him and his work crappy plot Avenger

later laughing but anyway it's okay so I

should clarify that on the normal watch

face there's not really much purpose for

it but when you're reading a message for

example you can you have so much more

display available to you like display

for days but why well so you can read

more at a time without scrolling so you

can read a longer message I guess so

yeah and you can do so see I would make

the argument that it would look a lot

dumber

if you had a big round display versus a

wraparound display yeah but like those

are two really dumb things so I don't

know I can't really put into words why I

think it's ugly cuz like ultimately

beauty is in the eye of the beholder can

we just make a straw poll is it ugly

no no yes you know what's going to

happen if we straw poll it don't you

know okay then just drop all it Oh weird

is the wrong title yes do you know take

it to the people you guys see what they

think

this kind of looks I don't know it just

looks wrong it looks like a watch that

got ran over by a car okay

all right well I will I'm gonna make my

counter-argument here and if you'd

really like yes we can also John Oh

wants me to pimp the merch we'll get to

it John release sales team is like

getting too big for their britches and

they run the place these days

does it look okay does it look cool

that's gonna be the question yes no and

improve spam prevention okay all right

I'm gonna post it to floatplane first

and then we'll follow up with YouTube

here I'm gonna vote I'm voting YES and

you're gonna have to go vote for

yourself if you want to vote for oh wow

there's I am CAPTCHA not going to even

bother voting I have so much confidence

in the people just telling you that it's

horrid remember to these are like

high-tech people I know but like okay

thank you thank you people I miss this

screen you know what if only 27 percent

of people think something's cool I would

make the argument that that's pretty

cool this is 27% of a segment that

already is way more likely to be on your

side yes and no they always cite again

me you know that the audience and maybe

he'll raise issue all you always talk

like oh these companies they have to

really go in there and like fix their

image and you're here everyone is voting

against you - okay so is it that I do a

poor job of maintaining my image or is

it that I do a great job of building up

the in I consider that a victory how

because this is this is something

groundbreaking okay look if you take the

average person watching a tech stream

okay and you show them one of those

outfits off of like a Paris fashion

runway right do you think 30 percent of

people are gonna like it do you think

they're all gonna be wearing some

derivative of it okay what about okay

well take this instead concept this

shirt this shirt also this shirt do you

think they've rooted to vote on that

that's seventy percent of people would

say no it's bad no but this would you

suggest people go out and get it okay

now hold on to be clear the question

isn't whether people should go by this

or not the answer to that is 100% clear

no they shouldn't this is nowhere near

ready for primetime I just think that

there's a lot of potential here and I

think it looks cool looks cool in like a

nerdy what okay fine here's where we can

validate your credibility here a little

bit okay do you think calculator watches

are cool yes yes I do I am okay then

you're actually fairly credible you're

wearing one yes I am wearing one right

now no way okay

I swear to you this was not staged I had

no idea why are you wearing a calculator

watch because it's really thin that's

like the main selling point it's nice

and thin sure can go right over it

you could wear anything that would be

thin I don't know I think they're kind

of cool

and so like that's what you're up

against your butt up against someone

that really likes calculator watches

that's telling you that your tech watch

looks dumb hold on a second let's take

it a little more mainstream let's go out

to let's go out to the YouTube audience

and see what they think of it okay I'm

gonna post it in the YouTube guys hit me

it help me out here all right please

help me out is is the Nubia Alpha cool

does it look cool not is it cool it's

not cool it's a bad time but okay I

don't like this okay come on YouTube

come on YouTube it's holding pretty

steady actually I'm surprised it is

holding pretty steady here at 70 30 oh

they're probably no one's to the spam

rejection yet I still think there's room

for it to be a commercial success even

if only thirty percent of people think

it's cool because my other argument for

how many people need to think something

is cool in order for it to be cool is

like high school if you had 30 percent

of your class on board with anything

would that probably be not a not a like

a simple majority but the largest of the

factions majority what would that be

like that the mode or the yeah the mode

I'm pretty sure that if 30 percent of

high schoolers we're wearing that you

would have teen pregnancy just plummet

it always comes back to whether you're

getting laid with you doesn't it alright

fine why don't we jump into an actual

news talk now that I have been summarily

defeated Apple is canceled or not as

canceled is canceled I was gonna say is

canceling or has canceled I'm gonna go

with has canceled its official Apple has

canceled air power were you even

following this kind of I had forgotten

about it

I had honestly completely forgotten

about it I was like oh that sounds

pretty cool and then I completely forgot

about it so for those of you who forgot

about Apple air power basically it was a

three device charging pad that had three

spots on it so you could charge your ear

pods your Apple watch and your iPhone so

it was like the accessory for people who

must have every Apple accessory and

basically they said after much effort so

this is their senior vice president Dan

Ricci oh I tried

after much effort we've concluded air

power will not achieve our high

standards we have canceled the product

we apologize to those customers who are

looking forward to this launch we

continue to believe that the future is

Wireless and are committed to push the

wireless experience forward all right so

this was way back in at the iPhone 10 s

launch know at the iPhone 10 launch I

think in September 2017 yeah and then

they removed it from their website in

September 2018 during the 10 s launch

and we don't actually presently know

exactly what was causing problems but

there is some speculation that because

it was it used a trio of charging coils

utilized a series of cooperative flux

generators to charge the device after

locating it on the pad and software and

this might have led to complications in

design and manufacture I also saw some

speculation that it was regularly

regulatory issues that were making it

difficult to get approval for it so like

maybe there were concerns about just how

much wireless power was going on I mean

you put too many flux generators in you

know one room and you might have you

know was probably really inefficient

point 21 gigawatts something yeah that

is it that is it that is an interesting

factor because like it's pretty

inefficient anyway when you have

everything lined up yeah and if you're

just putting everything there like willy

nilly and then using software it's

probably really inefficient that's

actually interesting that makes a ton of

sense so if they would have had too much

waste heat because when you're charging

three devices and of course no one's

gonna be content with

wireless charging anymore yeah so that

iPhone 10s or like 10s max that's on

there somewhere people are gonna expect

at least like 8 to 10 watt charging off

that thing mm-hmm

yeah that could potentially lead to a

ton of waste heat and it could be

failure issues so basically it sounds

like they did the math and they just

couldn't make it make sense all right

I mean I'm sure we're gonna see some

kind of wireless power in the future

there's certainly other options but

bummer

well guess there's one topic that I want

to discuss oh okay I don't have anything

else we just used it as it's too bad

okay so here's the thing people often

assume that we're somehow very anti

Apple because our thumbnails are often

like that ball something won't you want

to know why people click it Tech linked

tech linked was where we learned that

just putting something about Apple in

the thumbnail basically means that you

have effectively like increased your

potential audience by at least 30% so of

the five most watched episodes of tech

linked ha no one's buying iPhones I'm

almost sad for Apple Apple's getting

desperate and Apple's big fu to China of

the top five and the other one is EA

killing Playstations which was going to

be very popular and so it's just it's

one of those bizarre things where it's

like I don't know why it works

I don't truly I truly don't understand

why people care as much as they do about

everything that Apple does like their

their recent services news event did you

watch it

nope me neither but I did definitely

read some some recent yep and it was

just it was such a nothing burger we're

launching a video streaming service

okay yet another bloody thing to have

yet another monthly subscription for I'm

excited about this

why is Netflix really not keeping up and

if they aren't is Amazon Prime really

not filling the void

what about is YouTube all the many

hundreds of thousands of hours of

YouTube content that get created every

day it's probably millions by this point

but like you can oh you have crave TV Oh

crave TV alright um crave TVs horrible

yeah anyway oh and then there's HBO like

I'm just kind of looking at it going is

there actually a shortage of video

streaming services Disney has theirs

coming so like and then a game pass for

like mobile games the problem with

mobile games is not that they cost money

the problem with mobile games is that

you have to pay to win and also just the

interface is normally kind of bad well

yeah there's that too of course but like

but I'm looking at this going what

mobile games are people actually maybe

I'm missing something on that one please

please let me know let me feel like part

of it might just be playing mobile games

like when's the last time that you've

played a mobile game um I played a bunch

of head ball a little while back they

reached out about sponsoring a video and

I was just like let's see if this is any

good like I hadn't even heard of it

before and I was like let's just see if

this is any good and I sunk like

probably 30 or 40 hours into it in the

next few weeks until I was just like I

and uninstall clearly I cannot have this

yeah I don't remember the last time that

I played a mobile game does the switch

count probably no this which is not a

mobile game the switches Nintendo so

like yeah totally different

I played bike race like five years ago

okay so maybe you're just the wrong

maybe you're just not the target

audience for this then yeah like is that

a fair thing to say that is pretty fair

yeah I don't know so

if you had played a mobile game recently

though one thing I can say is you'd be

blown away by the way that you're just

bombarded with like please buy the

optional items please buy more playtime

please get skins get skins get skins oh

there's a special offer on skins like it

it really does feel exactly like that

like it's like it's all over your field

of vision and it's like uncomfortable

and you're like please move away like

you want it to lift up your hands and be

like push my my hands away and but but

no it's just it's there it's in your

face and so if there was some way for

them to fix that aspect of mobile gaming

sure yeah that's nice yeah I could get

into that and if maybe if that's their

long-term plan is to encourage game

developers to move away from these

pay2win models by making their games

more lucrative to have people just plain

normally through this service then you

know what maybe maybe that is a huge

deal we should all be that excited it

just doesn't really sound like that

right now actually just speaking of

horrible monetization I have to give

apex legends just mad props for how like

non-invasive it is in your face cuz I

played pub G recently and was just like

oh my god this is horrible and I paid

for this and basically every other

free-to-play game that I've ever played

has been horrible and you just kind of

ignore it but a FX legends got it

and I hope that everyone else just kind

of follows there or or or maybe they're

just gonna wait play the waiting game

and it'll just creep its way in creep

its way in cuz here's the thing well but

it's already there it can make its way

it can become more intrusive yeah

because here's the thing if they're

looking at it going okay we're making 1

billion dollars a month or whatever like

the kinds of numbers these these

free-to-play games - it's just

incredible to me so we're doing like you

know a billion dollars a month on you

know 3 billion impressions you know

where they three million times like

putting it in front of you if we do six

billion impressions we could make

two billion dollars a month you don't

think that'll be tempting at some point

true yeah now that I say that pub G had

none of that at launch and now it's just

because the thing is like at a certain

point the there's there's almost no

drawback to selling out because the

developers of pub G have now made so

much money that nothing else they ever

do ever matters at least at the very top

of the food chain that is true if they

never succeed again it doesn't matter

they already won the game they can

literally go out and buy a new Ferrari

every week for the rest of their lives

if that's what makes them happy and just

crush the old one in a crushinator and

that's how they get their jollies thank

you so fun they can actually no it

wouldn't

oh yeah I would never do that I think

you know the thing like those supercar

companies they're very protective of

their brand I think they would start

refusing to sell you cars mm-hmm if you

made a habit of publicly destroying them

it would also just be so bad now that's

the kind of thing that would be

interesting to find out for sure very

expensive to find out for sure like how

many how many Ferraris can you buy

before they stop selling them to you

like what are you doing with Ferraris

probably one last Lambo I think you get

away with like a lot more yeah well I

know that deadmau5 had a bunch of issues

with Ferrari like they didn't even want

him to put his stupid yank at skin on it

or something like that I was like really

like you're idiots but that I think that

was just that dealer wasn't it I don't

think that was actually Ferrari HQ I

don't know I don't know people get

people get really wrapped up in brands

in a way that I find very confusing spin

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sure we had some other topics you had

something you wanted to talk about yes

hit me so people get mad at us when we

flame things that are fundamentally

pretty good and so I just kind of wanted

to cuz we both had videos in like the

past week where this happened yeah yeah

actually you know what's really funny is

I actually had some notes for myself to

address that I think in in an upcoming

video huh not a not a dedicated release

so like yeah I'll talk about it all now

but I think I was gonna talk about it in

my in my Huawei P 30 pro video actually

yeah go ahead though go please well

we're just thinking like what was yours

though the HP x 360 the spectre x360

yeah yeah cuz like I'd probably give

that if we like gave things scores which

i think is a terrible idea

yeah like 87% probably me yeah that's an

a really 87% yeah it's not quite a 90

with that with that motion blur on the

display

I was thinking of the 13-inch but okay

what about the other one because that

display was unacceptable it has other

display options I don't know okay fine

so the shell yeah okay but the potential

machine that you could buy you'd say

it's an a Loa yeah okay my god and we

basically yeah we completely destroyed

it you know the whole thing our poor HP

rep said I'm sorry you hated it

yeah so much even though look at I I

wouldn't say that I hated it it's pretty

good it's just worse than everything

else right and then my recent one that

you're probably thinking of I think is

the s10 yes that right so my issue with

the s10 was not that it was a terrible

phone and at no point did I say it was a

terrible phone in fact if you wait till

the end and we know that a great large

percentage of you don't if you were to

wait to the end you would hear that the

conclusion is it's superfast Hardware on

Samsung's best software experience ever

and if you buy it you'll be pretty happy

with it the reason that I went to town

on it was that the problem that I had

with it the hole punch display was

completely avoidable and is done there

was just no reason to do that and the

funny thing about it for mine was that

in particular I got accused of being

paid off by Apple or Huawei to criticize

the Samsung S 10 plus when in fact the

phone that I compared it to most was the

note 9 my daily driver that I don't hide

that I'm actually a samsung daily carry

user I and that Samsung tried to release

an upgrade to my phone and I didn't

upgrade to it because I don't like it

better that's what happened and so it

was I did get one thing wrong in the

video so I mistakenly referred to the

depth sensor on the front as an

additional camera it's actually a depth

sensor oops

we have

a weird relationship with Samsung where

because we're Canadian we don't really

deal with the same PR reps and agencies

and we don't deal directly with

Samsung's main office for North America

which is in the u.s. so we can actually

get a device but it's often later than

anyone else gets it and we don't get the

same level of briefing materials that

other people do occasionally I miss

things that's something that there's no

excuse because it was covered by

third-party media before but it's just

like okay sorry I tried and the other

thing too was that I came out

criticizing the ultrasonic fingerprint

sensor I'm I'm still critical of it do I

have no this is my note 9 in my pocket

with debrand skin now grip rather so the

other thing was the fingerprint sensor

so just as just for a sanity check today

as I was working on my PC Pro review I

pulled out the s10 Plus that I used for

my review and I did acknowledge in the

video since this thing I did acknowledge

in the video that with the software

update it got a lot better but I pulled

it out and I just played this game I

played the game where I unlock both of

them side by side and it's gonna help

him prove it I'm gonna see if that so a

couple things I'm not hating on it it's

better than having it on the back of the

phone that's for darn sure

that's something I was always against

what I'm saying is that it's not as good

as other options in the market

furthermore I never said I had trouble

when my hands were wet I said it was

inconsistent when my skin was dry

well I guess that's kind of the problem

with like ultrabooks and phones like

there's a bunch of them and they're all

very good so if you're like taking a

laptop and going head-to-head with like

the Microsoft Surface laptop yeah and

the MacBook Pro you have to be as good

as those and if it's just something like

even if the trackpad wasn't bad on the

HP the screen was wobbly enough that I

still would have just hated it and that

that's enough when you're going up

against like the MacBook Pro and the

surface laptop if the screen just

wobbles a bit while you type no no you

don't want it if you're a few hundred

dollars cheaper then there's a lot more

room for for me to say okay but you save

a bunch of money I mean that's where

someone like oneplus comes in and a ton

of points honestly they're not cheap

anymore they're not a flagship killer

anymore

but what they are is significantly

cheaper than a Samsung if you're samsung

and you're releasing literally the most

expensive phone on the market every once

in a while with your Note series and

your S series it's just a higher

standard they're just there just isn't

room for you to have a fundamental

problem like a wobbly display and in the

case of the HP laptops they were very

expensive

they were priced comparably to machines

that didn't have the problems so here's

the thing if it was a score absolutely

we could give it an A we could give

everything in a quite frankly between a

companies the size of Dell and HP rarely

engineer something that is C - and I'm

not saying it doesn't happen I'm just

trying to think of the last thing that

we had in here that wouldn't have gotten

an A but when it comes to whether or not

to buy it's a fairly binary choice you

either do buy or don't buy and sometimes

we can make an argument for a certain

customer to buy and a certain other

customer not to buy like in the case of

something like a Quadro graphics card if

you're a gamer

to buy if you're a professional you know

Salt Lake works user the Alienware

area51 app sure that thing is awesome I

recommend it to people with lots of

money and that need a desktop

replacement there

it's a qualified yes to buy but if

you're in the awkward situation where

there's someone who does everything you

do well a little better than you at the

same price or lower then that becomes a

not to buy for anyone and so it ends up

getting well it ends up getting beat up

a little bit and hopefully they do

better next time

it ends up getting just nitpicked yeah

and I guess we'll get mad about that

because it's like it's not a big issue

yeah and I've seen a lot of comments

lately like you guys are spoiled you

just hate everything but it's not it's

not about that our job is to hate

everything not hate it but but tell you

the things that we did notice that are

not as good as something else like our

entire job is to make it so that you buy

the right thing instead of the wrong

thing and I mean honestly here's here's

a question for you is the role of the

technology reviewer dying the

traditional role of helping people make

the correct decision before they buy is

that fading away would you like me to

make my argument a little bit further

before you answer yes yeah so 1020 years

ago it was pretty commonplace at the

local electronics boutique your Radio

Shack mm-hmm for certain big-ticket

items to basically be buy once don't

return yes so later on with the advent

of your big box stores it did get easier

to return items but speaking from

personal experience if you do it too

much the staff do get to know who you

are they you know avoid you when you

walk in the door look there was a thing

once where we did Eyefinity with TVs at

NCIX

and because we didn't want to open up

our own TVs they actually sent me to the

local future shop to buy three TVs and

then back to the local future shop to

return them and I was like well I want

to do this video so I guess that's what

I'm doing today

anyway anyway anyway so thanks to online

retail and very generous return policies

we've actually had issues so some of the

some of the phones that we've put on our

eBay store for example not some of every

hey Tyler she's still here

I've Tyler told me a little while ago

that every single phone that we had ever

listed got returned not because it was

broken or anything just because people

were test driving them and so thanks to

online purchasing now everyone has

access to a product the whole concept of

going to a store to see something that's

another thing at a store you're less

likely to have to return it because

theoretically you can try it right there

in person but with online everyone has

access to every product and with these

generous return policies you can just

take things for a test drive for a

couple of weeks and send them back do

you really need me to tell you if it's

any good you can find out for yourself

if you're shameless enough to just buy

things and return them until you're

happy I know that a prime probably

bought like six phones at one point when

he was upgrading ten Oh until eventually

deciding on what that what does he what

does he care you know Nexus or something

I don't know whatever like Nexus that

doesn't make any sense

Pixley there's no way he landed with a

pixel three I'm curious I'm curious now

anyway so with that with all that

background information is there as the

role of the technology reviewer changing

and/or dying no because with that HP

like the spectre x360 someone would have

bought it and they would have been like

this is really great and they would have

enjoyed using it and they wouldn't have

unless they also had like the XPS 13 and

the surface laptop if they'd already had

those and returned them then they'd see

that it's not great but if they just buy

it they

like this is fantastic yay okay that's a

pretty good argument

no.9 yeah okay okay I can see that I

also saw a comment on here we go on

YouTube where someone said okay that's a

fair point but it's actually a lot more

work to buy something shiet for yourself

switching phones all the time is a real

hassle it's actually one of the reasons

I've done very few phone reviews over

the last six months I just got like

really tired it's a pain in the butt I

hate it but anyway yeah I can see that

but if it's something that you care

enough about then I think that it's

probably worth the time investment to

make sure you get the right one and I

guess maybe that's something where I've

noticed that a lot there's a lot more

tech press attention on more mainstream

products from people who might not care

enough to like passionately you know

look into every aspect of something in

those two weeks like someone who has

that kind of time to even spend on it

within the return window you know maybe

maybe among more mainstream categories

those people are fewer and further

between further farther between so it's

it's like the the motherboards and stuff

where where those people don't need

reviews as much and then maybe in mobile

they still do need them I don't know

like I'm speculating at this point but

yeah I don't know I think I think

there's certainly a case to be made that

these days it basically comes down to

you can kind of get access to anything

to try it in in North America anyway

there are certainly parts of the world

where it's much more difficult and the

role of the technology reviewer is more

like to be like a trusted adviser and

maybe less critical should we be less

critical

should we strawpoll it sure yeah why not

let's draw pull it I don't know but I

don't know I would much rather spend

like an evening watching 20 phone

reviews than dealing with getting a

phone like it takes more time to just

set up your phone than to watch the

reviews for all the flagships

and also like I find a lot of the time I

just don't care

like I switched to the iPhone 10's a

little while ago from the pixel and was

just like okay it sort of annoyed me I

probably would have slightly destroyed

it in the review but at the same time

it's fine after a week yup whatever I

don't care yeah I I get accused a lot of

being a fanboy of Android or iOS at this

point honestly if the iPhone had a

headphone jack I would still use it

interchangeably we'll get to that in a

moment I would still use it

interchangeably with an Android flagship

like it makes very little difference to

me I just really do prefer wired

headphones for the reasons we talked

about earlier on the show like for me if

it comes down to I just don't really

even care I'm actually gonna give the

p30 pro a really positive review though

huh nice do you wanna know why why not

because the camera is hands-down the

best there's still some work to do on

the colorscience

and there's like there's a thing the

Excel mark is not the be-all and end-all

yeah because for me a camera phone or a

phone camera camera phone haha it used

to be a thing because there were phones

without cameras so for me a phone camera

is really down to capture the moment

yeah quickly because if I really wanted

you know the best possible footage of it

I'd go get the red that I literally so

this is about making sure I don't miss

something

and for me what this does so well is

because of that zoom lens it means that

if I get yeah oh man it automatically

switched to portrait mode no no no no no

okay he's moving around a lot so because

of that zoom lens if I get a bad seat

case moving around if I could have gotta

see that the kids like recital or

something I can now capture a moment

that I otherwise wouldn't be able to and

that's a huge difference maker for me

even if I have run into some situations

where

I I did find that I would have rather

had a pixel three or or an iPhone as

that is what swayed me back to the pixel

from the iPhone was just right I found

the camera wasn't as consistently using

8nr though right

tennis tennis really okay I was like I

found that if I just like took it and

like took a picture of a mountain it

would be the same if not better yeah but

if I'm just like whipping it up my

pocket and it's like someone walking I

could use like and the pixel gets it

more often and a creepy well no that is

a creepy way to put it like it really is

you know if like dennis is like falling

down the stairs i'm work likely to

capture that okay fair enough

so let's go ahead and show the

floatplane results here while i go ahead

and post our post our straw poll in

YouTube and then maybe Nick can sorry

Nick

I I've been ignoring you okay so I'm

posting that there I'm bringing the

results up here so overwhelmingly plain

says we should not be less critical

you should not okay Nick what can I do

for you all the YouTube results come in

I wonder so where the bundle is oh yeah

I was a little curious yeah it's dead

sorry it's dead oh we can't do the

bundle with the with the store right now

store and apps okay so there's no bundle

for now

so that's but there's a discount code

ten orders in ten minutes that's like

one order per minute Wow I'm not

ignoring you I'm just not talking to you

have a great weekend see ya oh wow it's

like quarter after six are you in the

carpool today no oh okay well at least

I'm not keeping more than one person

after hours then so the YouTube audience

is pretty much on the same page yeah

okay so what is crushing we're gonna

keep being critical so I don't know

where these outliers that are

slamming us for being mean to things

that they like are coming from maybe

they don't watch man show are these just

like the drive-by non-subscribed people

like I don't look at actually had a bit

of a theory about this okay kind of a

Bruin okay share it with me sure because

on floatplane people that do like bad

comments get flamed like they I've never

seen a community where people that like

typing first get absolutely destroyed

like they do on float planes okay yeah

and it's the same with just like general

questions like stuff will go through

where people will be very critical of us

and they will get a lot of up votes but

if people are like critical in a like

kind of dickish way they will get

downloaded just because they're being a

jerk

yeah well that's one of the things that

really does stand out about floatplane

is it's a much more constructive comment

session and so I'm thinking like on

YouTube you pretty much only see the

ones that are voted up mm-hmm and so

even if like four out of five people see

that and they're like that's dumb and

would have downloaded it they can't so

then it just goes up and then people are

still commenting so that gives it more

exposure and that more people are

hitting like that like one in five

people so even though it's like the

third top comment yeah and YouTube is

also lunch could disagree with this much

greater sampling sample size so even if

only 1% of people feel that way yeah

that's still 10,000 people and that's

probably how like extraordinaire Olli

dumb comments right rise to the top even

when like the second and third reply are

like no clearly like they said in the

video why they are doing this or

something like that right what you are

just wrong um

oh speaking of things that are just that

are very negative negative comments if

you ever thought to yourself I'm gonna

post this in floatplane first so you

guys get the first crack at this if you

ever thought to yourself you know what I

would love to attend is a roast of one

Linus g Sebastian

it's empty oh right the sponsor for the

roast yeah that's right if you've ever

wanted to attend a roast of me now is

your chance for about 80 people in the

Vancouver area if you can be here next

Friday Friday right yeah next Friday you

will be able to attend in the evening

the roast of yours truly we have

confirmed celebrity guests J's $0.02

Kyle from what's he call himself now a

bit wet yeah Kyle from Big Oil sorry

Carla from loyal from ya wild Lyle from

Kyle from Lyle from so we've got Kyle

from bit wit and then we've also got

Steve from gamers nexus who are gonna be

part of the dais we've also got some of

our own staff here at LMG who will be

roasting me it's gonna be fun and we

also your wife she will be returning as

well

so guys don't buy a ticket if you can't

actually make it we made them cheap

because we don't this is not a

money-making endeavor it's sponsored by

madrenas they're making this whole thing

possible so it's promoting the LTTE

Lambeau roast they're the coffee roast

so it's a roast of me promoting the

roast and so we wanted we wanted it to

be affordable but we also made it cost

something because we don't want people

buying tickets and not showing up

because that's really really pointless

so I'm gonna go ahead and post this over

on YouTube now the p-block there you go

so good luck I hope to see you guys

there it should be a fun it should be a

fun evening empty seats I blame you guys

that's ridiculous

don't buy a seat if you're not going to

be there but yeah we really hope it's

gonna be a lot of fun we are planning to

livestream it so if you guys do want to

watch the livestream make sure you are

subscribed to ltte over on floatplane

that's where it's going to be there is a

strong possibility that there will be

things in the livestream that will not

make it to the final YouTube release

because like I don't know about some of

the other people but I think Jay is

planning to kind of wing it

so see how that goes yeah

and that'll be a floatplane exclusive

stream by the way I've heard some like

jokes about him too leading up that are

like kind of savage so so yet for those

of you not familiar with the concept of

a roast it's not all going to be

targeted at me necessarily like some of

the some of the dais members can

actually Dyess die stays I don't know

whatever some of the Roasters can roast

each other and stuff I get a chance to

roast them back so it's gonna be it's

gonna be solid fun apparently it's sold

out lol so hopefully we'll see you guys

there we should have made it more

expensive actually I really hope that

people didn't just buy it because it was

only ten bucks and then resell it not

show up well I don't care if they resell

it I just want the seat filled okay yeah

that's the most important thing all

right

well we had actually a couple of other

really good topics so this is

unfortunate oh actually we have to do an

LTI X update okay so like office depot

tricks customers into $300 tech support

with their fake virus scanner it was

actually through support com they were

the ones that were well they

collaborated and the FTC announced that

they have to pay a total of 35 million

in settlements so you got some yeah so

that's good because fake tech support is

a real scam that's really stupid and

basically was a thing where if you check

boxes that was like I think that I might

have a virus it would tell you 100

percent of the time that you have a

virus and then it would recommend up to

a 300 dollar virus removal service for

you at Office Depot so that's really

brutal as found happen on machines that

had fresh installs of Windows yep and no

access to the Internet yeah and they

would get like all the viruses you have

all of them

and apparently staff were even briefed

to make sure that people with new

machines like didn't run it because it

would tell them that they had viruses or

that like once you've run their virus

removal software and not

run their checking if you have viruses

software because it will tell you that

you have irises also Fido is going to

start charging ten dollars for customer

support that could have been done

without calling into customer support it

seems wrong doesn't apply to like asking

about your account bill or how to

complete a transaction through

self-serve and there are exceptions

including for customers and special

needs but basically they're saying look

supporting you costs money so you're

gonna pay for it

it just sounds like you're like a big

ole fu 10 man like Nan's there and she

doesn't know how to go on the self-serve

so she like Kohl's is like hey how could

how do I do this and they're like we can

tell you for a price so well it will

impact quick transactions such as making

a one-time payment or resetting a

voicemail password

and while users can still call in use

live chat or social media services to

make these quick changes they are

generally faster to complete through

fidos website or their interactive voice

systems so they want people to use that

so that they don't have to pay call

center employees cool boy

Rogers other brand chatter launched a

similar feel ass tweak where customers

are charged five dollars when they

complete select transactions or

interactions over the phone with a rep

where two or more self-serve options

exist now okay I have a sort of

controversial take on this mm-hmm

in certain cases I actually do support

service fees for completely unnecessary

bullcrap

if you go to the real human teller to

take out $40 you can kiss my ass because

I have real things to do that actually

require a human you can go use the ABN

please I don't mind them charging

someone three bucks to talk to a human

to deposit cash in their bank account

that's stupid

how does it really annoy me customer

support for something that you already

pay like Canadian Wireless fees are not

cheap that you're already paying through

the nose for and they're healthfully

profitable thankfully these are all

public companies so we

can see if they're just scraping by and

they're not to me this is this is just a

cash grab also the real takeaway here is

you just shouldn't use Rogers in the

first place

share another bad what are your

alternatives tell us and to be clear I

use a ton of Teleservices that doesn't

mean that I haven't had some no

variances your alternatives are Bell

okay ant Ellis yeah i'm both of them

have just way better coverage that's the

only reason just don't get Rogers

because their coverage is garbage

it's like passable here in Nova Scotia

I was yeah but that's cuz they're from

here yeah but like in Nova Scotia it's

it's bad like when I was there it was

like pretty much the entire time it was

just no powers it's just pointless and

in Newfoundland I think they have three

towers for all of Newfoundland right so

like you're it's just not a phone it's

like it's like a brick you might as well

have like a Chinese SIM all right we've

got one more update for you guys LTX

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Cohen razors showing up oh yeah so they

weren't gonna come now they are

Dreamhack is adding a hundred more BYOC

tickets to go on sale later in April the

exact date and time will be communicated

on social media and on LAN show

apparently before that date so stay

tuned guys BYOC sold out like the

weekend we launched tickets and so

another hundred tickets we know is not

going to be enough so if you want one

freaking be there on your f5 key also in

other news this guy is walking to LTX

from where Mexico from Mexico so yeah

apparently there will be daily updates

but there's like there's a Pacific Crest

National Scenic Trail that goes all the

way from Mexico to Canada and you can

walk it and

he is and I thought that was pretty cool

here's his 10 good luck with that

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thanks for tuning in to the LAN show

I'll see you again next week same

bat-time same bat-channel

so long oh yeah that's pretty sweet

before the job sometimes as long as he

showers before the show then we're good

kitties

I'm really excited

all right