you know the funny thing about the W show today is that we were supposed to
start on time in fact I've been in here
for over an hour doing my test call with
our special guest today doing my uh what
I don't know whatever else it is that I do to prepare for the show but um you
know it's funny because it feels like
sometimes the more ahead of schedule you
are the more time you'll waste thinking
ah it's okay I got lots of time no big
deal everything's fine and then it's 4:30 and you're like oh yeah I forgot to
record the the intro where I intro the
topics of the show today and I forgot to oh you know actually check and make sure
that your special guest Paul from Paul's Hardware formerly New Egg TV is actually
using the microphone that he's actually going to use for the uh the the guest
segment because right now we just have a
super D duper silent guest over there who has two microphones one on his desk
and one on his face and then actually
another one on his table he has many microphones none of which appear to
actually do anything for the moment so we're going to go through the super D
duper special call out topics today first up is Apple's event the uh the
so-called October 2014 event that
happened yesterday and included all the most amazing unbelievable magical
revolutionary technologies that you can possibly imagine so basically smaller
thinner better battery life more powerful but basically the same stuff um
then also Google announces the nexuses 6 and nine which are I'll let you guess
which one's a phone and which one's a tablet we don't know because nexuses are
just they're like this
weird I whatever I lost the word the
point is we've get we're getting a phone and a tablet and they're going to be
good and um one thing that's kind of missing particularly on the phone side
is usually with an Nexus device it's all about the sort of the cheap bang for the
buckess and that doesn't seem to be happening this time also in the news
this week Ubisoft just keeps on digging
don't they a redditor actually member of the PC Master R subreddit um had a
present at his school and uh wow yeah a couple
of Ubisoft representatives there said some stuff that is going to light the
internet on fire yet again it's like Ubisoft wants to burn down the whole
internet and that's the objective here um finally Netflix raises prices on 4K
streams that was a bit of a copout topic I didn't try that hard to find another
one that was amazing because we are going to have a lot to talk about this
week regardless at least I'll talk and
Paul will listen because I don't think he can talk yet Paul you got that
working over
there let's just roll the
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hear you now wow it's amazing how changing the volume mixer works over
there so um twitch chat please feel free let me know if Paul is an appropriate
volume because he's going to be with us pretty much for the rest of the show I
feel like I kind of owe him one after we kicked him off of the guest segment a
few weeks back after pretty unceremoniously after like what six
minutes or something like that well I think I can understand from a viewer's
perspective if it's affecting the quality of the stream you got to you got
to you know sometimes you got to make some sacrifices yeah and I'm definitely going
to sacrifice you before me so there's that but uh no no you can see this week
no problems so now we're going to have Windows Task Manager replacing Paul
instead of instead of having Paul we'll just have the task manager showing off
how our CPU usage is now in the 35 to
60% range where last time we had Paul on
his presence was so powerful that he
over overloaded my system actually I've
upgraded it now so well K Kyle was here too he might have affected that well
we'll see what kind of effect Kyle has because he's going to be joining us in a
little bit correct that is true yes uh he should be appearing at my door at any
moment so I'll have to jump up and and get him really quick um he said he was
on his way maybe 10 minutes so fantastic all right well why don't we jump right
into our first topic here today then oh you know what I just realized I'm not
sure if they're going to be able to hear you when I switch to screen sharing on
my computer here but uh we'll do we'll do our best with it so this was
originally posted on the Forum by Lord Kitty and the source is a uh a Reddit
post in the PC Master Ray subreddit here
so I'm just going to go ahead I'm going to add the uh the formerly of New Egg TV
crew to uh when we discuss these things
there you go I'll just check you guys up in the corner there and basically there
was a presentation at a member of the PC
Master race subreddit school where some Ubisoft folks came in
in this case it was a game architect an online programmer and an HR
representative and they gave this presentation and then there was some
time for open Q&A and
so this uh this redditor started to Source questions from the subreddit and
started to ask some well you know some of those questions that we've all got
like what's happening to 60fps and why
exactly is this happening so when he asked about the industry moving away
from 60 frames per second the game architect blamed settling for 30 FPS on
limitations which is uh not in line with
that whole cinematic line that we've
been getting from you know PR Representatives is it Paul not not quite
exactly but I I think the main my first
takea away from this story is is it's fantastic that Reddit has like fingers
or tendrils spread out so you know so
much that anywhere there happens to be a discussion like this going on there's
going to be somebody there like immediately posting it to Reddit that's just that's just good to know because I
I think Reddit is a is a Force for good for the most
part for the most depends which which subreddits you they're a force I would
call them chaotic neutral but maybe leaning towards good definitely chaotic
well we're getting off topic here but that depends on your view of mankind
entirely doesn't it okay we we'll come back to that but the main the main point
here I think is is that there should never be a limitation on software simply
as a result of one company feeling that they can either make more money for it
from it or or reduce a competing
platform's ability to perform by comparison and and there's absolutely no
reason for it people people do PC gaming because they know they can build a
system and they can get performance that's in line with what you know the
type of system that they build and the amount of money they invest and a company artificially making a limitation
just so people can't argue that oh well
on PC at least I can get 60 frames per second or 120 frames per second um it's
just not right like fundamentally brings us to sort of the next thing the game
architect said and that was that um sort of there it was implied and this is the
other problem with Reddit sometimes is a redditor and and you know I love the
anonymity of the internet as much as anyone so I have a LoveHate relationship
with it i r can be anyone and so when they say that the guy at the
presentation implied something well that's the interpretation of that
particular person unless there were you know 50 people in the audience that all
100% agree that that's exactly what happened but anyway this post says that
they implied that they're being pressured by the console makers to limit
games to 30fps and it was
also when asked about Watchdogs the programmer mentioned that just before
they release a game they have to send a copy to the console manufacturers who
have the final say on what to keep and what to throw away before the game is
made why should console manufacturers have any say in what does or does not go
into the PC version of a game like that's that's that's the problem right there
that like they shouldn't have to Greenlight what people can do on a like
does does Sony have to go and and approve what can go in the Microsoft
version of the game or vice versa I I don't think so now that would be a good
one be an interesting conversation to like be a fly on thewall for
probably so basically basically that's
it and then the redditor also posted that at the end of this whole
conversation about the you know the negative response to locking Assassin's
Creed Unity to 30fps um you know he commented on the console
limitations the choice between graphical Fidelity and smoothness um and also said
eyes can't see past 24 FPS anyway and then apparently gave a wink so I I I
don't know what's going on at Ubisoft but it really feels like they have a
civil war over there right now between the people internally who feel like they
should be building the best thing that they can and the people internally
probably more along the Bean Counter lines um who feel they should do
whatever is going to make them the best most amount of money whether that is
through a partnership with a cons maker or whether that is through selling more
copies of the console version and making sure that the console buyer is appeased
because that's an angle that I think a lot of people aren't considering
everyone kind of goes oh well they're in bed with Sony and they're in bed with
Microsoft to limit the PC version and we
saw that with Watchdogs Ubisoft can deny it all we want all they want but pretty
much we know that's what happened but something that they're probably not
considering is that console maker aside
the console gamer is not going to want
to see like when there's when there are subtle differences and image quality you
know how the console PC you know flame War comment
thing that happens anytime any of this crap comes up the console gamers are
going to try to say oh well it doesn't look that different what if it did look
that different how would they feel about their purchase how would they feel about
buying more games for that console because not every console player is
going to instantly turn into a PC Gamer if they feel disenfranchised about
console gaming well it definitely makes the PC gaming argument a lot more
compelling if that's the case but I mean the other thing about this this most
recent generation of consoles that came out is they are not nearly as
overpowered compared to like PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 when they came out so
that also to me says that whereas
earlier versions of the consoles they took a pretty big loss on selling the
hardware every time it is probably less of that because the hardware they're
using in there is really not as expensive so that also provides a more
compelling reason to deter people from going into PC gaming and buying the
consoles is because they're not I I I mean I can't say this for sure but I
would assume that they're not necessarily taking as much of a loss on
the console Hardware as as they used to no no definitely not um I've got another
interesting point here that's kind of hidden in the notes on this topic but I
thought it was I thought it was an interesting point of discussion so
Assassin's Creed Unity is going to have 8 hours of DLC before the game is even
close to release bringing the total cost if you want to go for like a season's
pass pre-order to $90 if you want to count all the content
created before release as release
content even though you actually have to pay extra for some of it and I think we
should we should probably do a Twitter Blitz on this but do you think given
that a game was going to cost you
$59.99 actually you know what we should go back and find some find some old
games what was the release price of Starcraft 1 like Paul do you remember
Starcraft 1 I believe was probably 40
that that's that's when I think the the most you could charge for a PC game even
a AAA title was 40 bucks I it might have
been as low as but I'm I'm going to go with
40 cuz I seem to remember buying games
like cartridge games back on sness like
pretty old games for 50 and sometimes
sometimes even more like what did what did Final Fantasy 6 cost at lunch six I
didn't play but seven was 50 bucks definitely okay so if in 1994 so we're
talking 20 years ago I think was around the time Final Fantasy 6 came out if
we're talking 20 years ago something was 50 bucks should it be $60 today I mean
let's find an inflation calculator guys I want you to start blitzing at me with
this is $90 completely
unreasonable if you can get a slightly
reduced experience for 60 when we factor in inflation you think the increased
price might be reasonable due to the better game Fidelity increased mechanics
uh maybe not better game Fidelity CU I think that is that opens up a whole can
of worms but I would say the increas inreased cost of making a game and the
increase in okay and general inflation you might need to go get that here one
second all right so I'm going to use I'm going to use a uh an inflation
calculator here I'm going to go 1994 something that cost 50 bucks and
we're going to calculate it so apparently according to at least the
Bank of Canada inflation calculator here something that was 50 bucks in 1994
should be 7322 and then when we factor in how much
more a game costs to make these days is
it unreasonable for them to ask for 90 bucks for it all right let's start going
to the Twitter boards here because I'm very interested to hear what you guys
have to say what a warm
welcome hey everyone uh you're you're actually not you're not live right now
Kyle but he has no headset on so he doesn't he doesn't know these things all
right I'm trying to reload here all right Alan hon says that's the last draw
I'm boycot upis soft uh PC games should never be locked at 30 FPS and $90 is
ridiculous Owens says I paid $89.99 for
Warcraft 3 in 2000 and some SN games
were $79.99 all right special edition
versions Frank says yeah I didn't think Warcraft 3 was that expensive I think I
paid 60 for it but then I got like a
battle chest that had like all the versions together that that they
released like yeah but then if you if you you treat an expansion pack like um
like DLC which it basically is I mean that's pretty much exactly the same
concept then maybe $90 for a game and a
couple expansion packs is equivalent to $90 plus a couple of DLCs no maybe but
in the past I think they would have gone the route with the game they release at
launch is pretty much what they've worked on up till then and then they
work on like more stuff so if the stuff's already available then maybe it
should just been integrated into the game from the get-go rather than trying
to immediately have like a an upsell for people so if they kept it secret for you
then you would feel better about it like if they if they kind of like kept it on
a you know a thumb drive somewhere so that no one knew about it and then
brought it out two weeks after the game comes out then it's okay I mean I don't
really see the difference personally uh from I mean you run a
business do you tell everything about your business publicly I mean there
there even though it is sort of an ignorance as Bliss kind of thing there
is something to be said if they hadn't talked about this and maybe had given it
even two weeks or a month then maybe they could have done it but the reason
they're probably talking about it now is because they want to have this stuff in
time for the holiday season Q4 all that good stuff so that's basically it
they're just capitalizing on the hype train because let's face it more people
are going to buy Deluxe editions and
extra DLC when the game is all over every intern internet Banner everywhere
and in everyone's face versus if they wait 3 to 4 weeks and try to get that
$30 upsell at that point so yeah I guess
I see why they're doing it but I can also see why it's kind of it's kind of
it's kind of lame I mean Hardware makers we see this kind of thing all the
time it's not like NVIDIA is not already working on GTX 1080 and 1180 they're
already working on them but they're not going to tell us about all that crap now
because they still want to sell us some 980s and they still want us to feel somewhat okay about buying 980s when
there's something that much better coming down the pipe so so you think
they could just be decent it would be more decent of them to just not tell us
then I think I I think people wouldn't
be having this argument over whether or not it's it's a thing to be done for a
large video game maker I
mean Assassin's Creed is is is huge so
obviously it's extremely profitable it just I think I think the point at which
people start to get upset is the point at which they feel that the decision is
being made much much more for the monetary reasons than it is for giving
Gamers like the best time they could have or the most amount of content that
they could give them right all right let's go through some uh let's go
through some tweets here and welcome to the show Kyle thank you hello sorry I'm
late all right we're getting some pretty good tweets from people here action 52
for the nest was $199.99 in
1991 iron hawk says it's all about the money they're announcing the DLC for
hyping the game even more you know what that's a very good point because
something that works really well for
selling more of something is just this
just talking about it even us talking about this DLC right now is creating
more exposure for Assassin's Creed Unity For Better or For Worse that's why we
get that AC money right that's right that's why I get so much money from
Ubisoft for my uh like my digging
references they love me uh Brad's culio I find it funny that
AAA titles are so expensive whereas Indie Games actual good games are so
cheap okay Brad's Coolio I'm going to have to disagree with you you can't
generalize that way there are AAA titles that aren't that expensive I tomb Tomb
Raider 2013 was on midweek Madness for what was it like $10 or something this
week it's a great game yes it's a little bit older but that's how life works if
you want the you know if you want to watch the latest movie then you go to it
in the theater if you want to watch the oldest movie then you like find it in a
value bin that's that's how it works and
in saying indie games are actual good games yes there are good indie games but
I think to say that every indie game is good is is ridiculous or to generalize
that of terrible indie games too there's a lot of just horrible indie games and
if we count the indie games that get funded on services like like Kickstarter
and don't get made then there's some really abysmal Indie Games those are
those are like actionable Indie Games in
my opinion apparently Tomb Raider was $3.99 so there you go you can get Tomb
Raider 2013 for $4 you should prob go buy is that the one that came with the
life-size lar Craft Doll no kind of
creepy which one did you buy well for 400 bucks you they better throw
something no $4 oh
$4 would you want a life-size Laura C
okay tell me something we should do okay we should probably do a straw pole here
um would you buy a life siiz Laura coft doll no no it's not would you buy
because I have to assume that everyone on this stream would probably buy it
what I want to know is would you prefer
original Tomb Raider Laura Croft Tomb Raider 2013 Laura Croft or Angelina
jooli Laura coft in the Box could we get
old school Laura coft with the graphics in detail of current day no you have to
pick one a which Tomb Raider current day
lcraft cuz she's a real woman excellent choice Kyle I I agree
that's my reasoning so Angelina Jolie Lara Croft is not a real
woman oh was that an option was Angelina Jolie an option you weren't even
listening all you heard was Lura Croft comes in the box and you're like boom
yeah I didn't know this was such an open open topic uh just feel like I feel like
she'd be kind of high maintenance wait so so if I if I pick
the the current gen video game lcraft is that mean I could control her just like
in the game no because I would have no control over Angel no let's say they
come with their respective
personalities what okay I'd say I'd say
current Jen um is this current Jen Laura Croft because she seems like a down toe
chick you know is this really the topic of the straw pole that you're creating
yeah yeah yeah yeah it's just taking me a little while cuz I'm not signed into twitch chat for some reason I'm not sure
what's going on here I see stop it twitch what are you
doing log me in please thank
you stop being broken would appreciate
that very much I think I think this is where you and I have to start dancing
and just distract the the viewers while while lonus figures this out that would
actually be incredibly helpful right about now um come on do you have any props
here what can we I have a wine opener
why are we talking about props first we're talking about blowup dolls now
we're talking about props there's a SE clamp over there wait I don't even want
to know what you could do with a C clamp all
right so let's take a couple more tweets about this whole Ubisoft thing and then
um wow 46 New notifications man you guys
you guys hit me so fast on Twitter these days I don't think game should be
restricted in any way where's Luke by the way what happened to Luke did he
finally quit you don't know where oh well you've been in Hawai I've been I've been of with reality notw
that Luke has been in Europe he in Europe oh sweet Luke has been in most of
Europe from from what I can tell just like Demitri is he in Dimitri like are
they are they dating they actually met because when you go to Europe and
there's somebody else in Europe you meet that you meet them in Europe that's what you do that is how Europe works I think
Daniel Hoff over there better be careful with ideas like that uh he just tweeted
imagine if blizzard did DLC with wow where if you want access to a particular
instance you pay a small incremental amount for it wow well they effectively
have a much better deal going with a monthly subscription that's true but
they could do both I don't think people would go for that that's but they don't
have to that's the thing about DLC is that nobody has to buy it well there's
plenty of like uh uh frill you
know vanity items and stuff and wow that you can buy like in the store and stuff
like that I never bought any of them but I I will say that my wife did from time
to time she got the star Pony your your
wife is very vain all those did you ever have a star Pony Dy items no I never had
a star Pony all right what else we got for tweets here got people asking where
they can buy a Gigabyte GTX 980 I don't
know the internet um a Graves says I
think increasing the price of AAA titles is not ridiculous but might Stu start
scaring off buyers I mean that's the thing that's scary here is for all the
vocal minority that's complaining about this there's going to going to be lots
of people who don't care and then there's going to be the people who are actually buying it and I guarantee you
that if it was affecting sales in some kind of negative way so if it was
actually scaring off buyers Mr Graves I guarantee you Ubisoft wouldn't be doing
it so there you go wow kimchi Manu Mandu
says I don't mind the 30 FPS I lock most of my games at 30 or 60 so I don't
really mind not many PC Gamers that do
that I sometimes do 60 it depends on the
game though really that's one of the benefits
of PC gaming is that you don't have to conform to 30fps you're not locked in
yeah V I was doing I was doing adaptive vsync for a while um on games that
supported it I I I didn't mind it I thought it was a I mean when you have a
monitor that can't do more than 60 HZ anyway I I felt like there wasn't much
benefit to going beyond that here's a tweet from rsmith 17 you aren't taking
into account that games sell many more copies now than did and this offsets the
inflation okay you can make that
argument but the price of an item is has never been dictated by the cost of it
the price of an item is dictated by What It's Worth to the buyer and then it kind
of scales with the market from there so
if if it's if it was worth $60 or $50 or
$80 or some of these older games people are Tweeting or even more if it was
worth that to the buyer then then it's probably still worth that relative
amount of income to the buyer now
so yeah the fact that they're selling more copies of it means that they're
going to make more money but it doesn't mean that
the that theost gone down yeah it doesn't mean the value goes down per per
user it doesn't really work that way I mean they're businesses they're they are
trying to make money whether we sort of like this or not and you know what Indie
developers are businesses they if they
make money they're not going to be sad you watch indie game the movie you think the Super Meat Boy guy is like sad that
his game sells lots of copies and he makes shedloads of money I mean yeah
they do it out of passion sure but that doesn't mean they don't want to make money and they're not going to try to
make money but about notch I'm sorry what about notch what
what about notch he's made more money than like probably everyone in the town
I'm in Combined but he is also taking a
step that will potentially make him a lot less money right but he has lots of
money already so he's reached he's reached a point of of of Mone where
where it doesn't really make a difference anymore it kind of feels like
that all right so why don't we move on to our next topic here which is fast
charging batteries with a 20year lifetime this was posted by meev on the
Forum and the original article is from engadget.com I'm just going to go ahead
and pop that up for you guys to enjoy
but this looks freaking promising
apparently the technology is not super expensive to produce and we could be
looking at batteries that can charge up to 70% and these would be new lithium
ion batteries up to 70% in 2
minutes that's ridiculous yeah I mean
wow I mean okay s here question question for you guys and you can debate amongst
yourselves but what's more important to you long battery life or fast charging
with the same battery life we have today uh uh I'll go for long battery life
because I'm pretty good about plugging in my phone every night if my phone can
last all day with heavy use then it's going to get a full charge every night
so uh yeah that would be it for me fast charging is nice but at the end of the
day you still need something to charge it with I would prefer just having a
self-contained battery that lasts as long as it does regardless of where I am
or if I have an AC power outlet near me I guess it's a lifestyle thing too
though because if you're if you go to work where you have an outlet next to
you like you work at a desk then fast charging is great you just give it a zap
whenever you need it however if you go to work where you're on the go all day
and you're moving around and you're using your phone a lot then I guess longer battery life is more useful but
either way this will enable potentially
devices with larger batteries to also be charged much more quickly so if we had
you know I I usually assume when some research comes out and they talk about
what percentage they can charge in X number of minutes um for like a phone I
usually assume they're talking about an iPhone so we can say somewhere in the 1,800 to 2100 milliamp hour range so if
you had a tablet let's say a 6,000 milliamp battery or 5,000 oh no they
don't go up to that high do they what are they usually like 4,000 to 6,000
somewhere in that range I think three to five I've seen yeah okay well whatever
so the point is we could maybe charge that to 70% in 10 minutes or 5 minutes
or 6 minutes or whatever the case may be so pretty darn exciting so they're using
titanium dioxide nanot tubes for the anode rather than graphite which speeds
up the battery's chemical reactions offering 10,000 charging Cycles rather
than the usual 500 so would that be something that's more important to you
than the fast charging the fact that now you can get 20 times longer life out of
it especially now that so many devices don't have removable batteries when you
first when I first was looking at this story earlier I I was very excited
initially because I'm always happy when I see Battery Technology improvements
because I think that's just something that's lagged behind so so badly um but
my my secondary reaction was I hope it doesn't have like some sort of negative
impact you know I hope each one of these that they create doesn't you know kill
10 baby seals or something like that um so yeah that that's that's a pretty big
factor for me at this point um when it
goes into especially for technology is going to be the environmental impact it
might have as well so uh think of the children Factor think of the children
yes of the seals our future but yeah I mean if you have something and it's
going to last 10,000 Char charging Cycles rather than 500 it should last a
lot longer hopefully maybe the device could last longer um I mean another
discussion is is is if we're reaching a point of capability with the technology
and the speed where devices might start lasting longer rather than being
replaced in one or two years um so yeah
timing for this could be perfect then yeah so you get a device that you know
isn't really getting that much faster every generation so you don't really
feel the need to replace it so often I mean something like this could be great
for your Project Ara phone so you could you know buy yourself a a quick charge
module versus the standard battery module and make that thing last freaking
forever I mean once you have a portable device that can do you know say 4K
resolution on a handheld display and have 48 hours of battery life and you
know apart from gam playay what really stress thing to you do with the phone so
as long as it's not physically wearing out um or bending then it should be able
to last a reasonable amount of time question for
you is do we really even need 4k on a
mobile display I mean have you have you used the LG
G3 no I haven't uh I I don't really
think so I think it's Overkill I think the retina displays and the small
devices are pretty pretty absurd um a
lot of the time I mean it's it's a pixel
race it's a pixel race for smartphones I feel and I wish there was more of a
pixel race for for PC monitors um
because you know like the Nexus 6 is coming out and it's got a 2560 by 1440
screen and most people that have monitors are still running 1080 which is
I I I find that ridiculous that a 5 and a half inch screen or a 6inch screen
whatever has a higher resolution than the monitor that you're using every day
for work or for gaming whatnot when the funniest thing about it is you know what
I've been using the iPhone 6 for over a week now and it never occurred to me for
even a second that the screen was low res because it really really doesn't
matter like relatively low res it's still retina or whatever but it's it's
not as high res as the 1 M8 that I was using right before it so yeah it's it's
just funny you mention that not only can I not tell the difference between 1440p
and 1080 but I couldn't even tell the difference stepping down to uh whatever
this is cuz it's not 1080 I mean there's definitely something
we said for getting up to that point where you know 1080 and Beyond because
Steve's Steve's Windows phone that he has he was shown to me and that was my
first thing I noticed about was like oh this has like an 800x 600 display on it
or something which is why it cost like 60 bucks but yeah I mean once you once
you get to a certain amount of pixel density I think it's really doesn't
matter for a handheld device all right so speaking of handheld
devices why don't we uh why don't we jump into Android 5.0 Lollipop the Nexus
9 and the Nexus 6 so guys uh start
hitting us on Twitter so it's oh I can't really point over there very well here
we go Linus tech on Twitter want to start hearing from you guys about
Android 5.0 Lollipop Nexus 9 and Nexus 6
what are your thoughts we will go through some of those but first let's
sort of briefly run through exactly what's going on here so um Android 5.0
is coming in the next few months for the Nexus 5 710 and Google Play edition
devices as well as the upcoming 6 and9 so we now have nexus's 5 6 7 9 10
hm wow all at the same time amazing what happened to eight that's all I've ever
wanted was an 8 in Google device yeah it would be great I would rate it eight out
of eight mate dear S I think my wife has one of
those um all right so the Nexus player
streaming media device is also getting it it's biggest new feature is material
design it overhauls almost all of the gooey this is the biggest Android
changed since Ice Cream Sandwich back in
2011 it has new refined animations a new color palette revamped multitasking
voice controls and also brings 5,000 new
apis for developers to tap into and lets multiple devices and various form
factors work together better there's improved syncing options new
notification settings and controls improved battery saving something that I
would be really happy to see because being back on iOS again has actually
been super duper nice because particularly when the phone is Idle the
power management is just so much better
uh multiple user accounts something I I guess we should have seen coming I mean
as someone with a family I'm not necessarily going to buy my 5-year-old a
phone but I also don't want him running a mock on my OS doing all my things when
uh it would be better if he just had his own playground um and some third parties
have added stuff like this already so we've got you know HTC has a kid mode if
I recall correctly and I think Samsung does as well so now you can get it
without subjecting yourself to uh to touch whiz or using sense um
what else is there in here multiple user accounts yeah so that's basically it now
we can get into the hardware of the phone so Paul want to run us through the
Nexus 6 maybe give us your thoughts uh
yeah so this is this is something that we were discussing a little bit before the show started but I'm I'm looking for
a new phone soon actually I have a new contract starting and when I saw the
Nexus 6 I was oh sorry Kyle it's okay there you go I want to I want to be I
want to read it too when I saw the Nexus 6 uh I was like oh like I want to get a
new phone I I don't care really which phone I get at this point but I want it
to be a new one um so it gave me some
consideration but yeah 5.96 in 2560 X
1440 uh panel which we were just talking about not a huge difference but hey it's
it's a nice screen I'm sure 13 megapixel camera um I like the 4K recording that's
I I've been using my phone at times to to do random video recording here and
there and being able to record at 4K that's that's pretty nice uh 2 megapixel
front-facing camera um for this for the
Selfies I think it's got an f-stop of two as well so it's got a pretty wide
aperture which means uh you know you can get some good low lighting uh
performance as well as that nice defocused background go for a more cinematic feel do you think more
cinematic oh you've got to be kidding me so so you're worded
effects on selfies really of course it's
it's trending it's trending right now what can I say I mean look at look at
the filters that they have on on Instagram you know that that's one of
the popular ones where they put the depth of field you know you blur everything except the subject take your
social media to the next level lus I'm very excited about that indulge 32 all
right 30 3,220 Mah hour battery is
something that's is yeah whatever that's
been my biggest complaint recently my phone batter is really really sucking
lately in the last six months of its existence um so so yeah hopefully the
larger battery combined with the uh the lollipop features of uh particularly
saving power when it's like right about to shut off that's what I hate my phone
battery runs out and then I plug it in and then I have to like wait like if I'm
going to bed and I use my phone as an alarm and the battery dies and I go to
plug it in I have to like wait for five plus minutes to get enough charge to
turn it on so that my alarm will go off that's that's an annoyance that's
happened to me several times you know what's funny is um yeah I mean this is
this looks like this looks like um Google catching up to what other guys
were already doing like Samsung had that high endurance mode or whatever they
were calling it where your phone could last for like multiple days on a few per
charge cuz it just like didn't do basically anything it was like two color
display and all that kind of stuff and it's funny that you mentioned that with
your phone because I don't know about other manufacturers but HTC actually
reserves enough battery to wake itself up to have an alarm go off even if it
dies in the middle of the night so you might want to find find a manufacturer
whose phone does that I do love HTC pH
or there have been many HTC phones that I've enjoyed in the past uh my wife has
the one and she she's really enjoyed it and she uses she uses it to play audio
books so thoughts on the $649 99
unlocked price point though I was disappointed that was that's steep yeah
so um I mean it's too early to say now too but I mean there was also a rumor
the day I think the day of the the launch of these when they you know when
they first started discussing them publicly that uh I think AT&T had posted
the pre-order or something accidentally for the Nexus 6 and it was like 50 bucks
on contract and I I'm starting to think like that
might have been just a mistake and probably not actually going to be what
what what they're going to charge for it cuz 650 with contract is still probably
seems to me like a one1 to $200 upfront
investment they're going to ask especially when it's brand
new yeah yeah I'm I'm pretty disappointed I mean I don't know that
this has been confirmed or anything but I would suspect based on that the fact
that there's not much actual spec difference now between the Nexus 5 and
the Nexus 6 we're going to see those two devices coexist
in addition to that I mean even Apple
has finally acknowledged that there isn't just one size fits all for phone
physical sizes so for for when when I
first heard that the Nexus 6 was going to be a 6in device or whatever it is 5.9
I think when I first heard that it was going to be a 6in class device I kind of
went what are they high I mean yeah I know that the note series does great and
I know that Samsung basically created
the the hype around this fablet category that is that is doing incredibly well
with even Apple jumping on board but to
for that to be their only device cuz that's what we've seen from Google in
the past there's the Nexus device and
then there's Google Play editions of like other stuff um but it looks I I
think just for the first time we're going to get the Nexus 5 to just kind of
continue forever or at least for quite a while and then the Nexus 6 is going to
be in addition to that so I think the fact that it's priced higher makes more
sense that way because if they're still going to offer a a value option and the
Nexus 5 is still a great device then they don't have to worry so much about
making the Nexus 6 so competitively priced and I got to wonder if there's
pressure on them from the handset makers because it was a few months ago but we
we saw a report that I think Apple and Samsung were the only profitable handset
divisions within their respective companies so you know guys like HTC who
are not doing very well LG's mobile division has been doing better but even
then I still don't think it's like an exceptional Money Maker for them maybe
you know Google jumping in and kind of going yay phones should be commodity
cheap like super cheap um was upsetting their
Partners I mean is is it something where
you think if they get enough investment in the platform that is similar to like
how how consoles are sold that they might be able to
provide more of an incentive to manufacturers to selling selling the
devices for cheaper like could that be a uh a business tactic that they could
could use to take on Apple and their kind of what they they then could
position as like overpriced devices no I don't think so because
the it's in no one's on from on the business side of thing it's things it's
in no one's best interest to lower the ASP of a category the only time you're
going to lower your average sell price is to try to nickel and dime a
competitor so for Google why do they care because they've already got the
Lion Share of the mobile market with apple in a like decisively in second now
and Microsoft just barely even a player and
blackberry barlier than that so it's not
like if they make high-end devices cheaper they're likely to sell more
Android devices in general or gain more market share and the way Google's making
their money is through the data mining that they're doing as well as through
Google Play store purchases which maybe they could buy slightly higher end games
for their phones but let's face it people who are going to buy a you know
$49 device off of a Chinese website are probably not buying $9 apps anyway so
that customer is of no benefit to Google
if just because they there no additional benefit to Google Just because they have
higher end phone Hardware Kyle
I think uh so so do you think cuz cuz the Nexus 5 was not anywhere near the
the retail price of of the Nexus 6 it's like 300 bucks isn't it yeah so I if if
that's such a wide Gap going from five to six but the specs aren't really that
much different are you assuming that Google's going to be releasing some kind
of lower end more affordable price point
option in the future is that do you think that's their strategy behind such
a such a high price for for the Nexus 6 no I think it'll just still be the Nexus
5 I think they're just not going to not going to have it go away or they're going to leave it for now and see how it
goes um let's go to Twitter cuz I kind
of said that I would I would listen to people on Twitter about this so here we
go Ernie considering Shield tablet can you suggest comparable tablets in terms
of value and features not really if you want the features a Shield tablet has
then you're kind of stuck with The Shield tablet ireena says thinking of
getting a new phone next to six is not going to be it because it's too
expensive and too big Amir says it's too
big Max size for me is 5 in lollipop
tried too hard with material design it's overdone interesting uh Phantom fish
says I honestly think it looks similar to iOS bottom swipe up Graphics respond
to messages from taskbar Etc Micah I have a Nexus 7 but I don't have a
SmartPhone I think the Nexus 6 is too big if I were to buy it I could just use
the seven and that's a good point where the the line is blurred I mean Google's
last gen tablet device is now similar to
the size of their current gen phone
device um oh yeah we should probably very briefly go through what the Nexus 9
is so it's 8.9 in 20 48x 1536 IPS
display that's a 4x3 aspect ratio for those of you who didn't pick up on that
um so so interesting acknowledging that apple is right about that very
interesting um 8 megapixel rear camera 1.6 megapixel front camera dual front
facing speakers Tegra K1 uh assumed to
be the 2.5 GHz dual core model though not confirmed 64-bit processor with 16
or 32 gigs of storage aluminum construction and going to be made by HTC
pricing looks a little bit more reasonable here 3.99 for 16 gig 42479
for 32 gig and 599 for 32 gig with LTE
but again not Nexus aggressive I mean
that was the whole thing with the Nexus 7 is if I recall correctly that thing
launched at what $199.99 was the original Nexus 7 price
generation one I believe so yeah one one might have been 250 cuz that was the
whole concept bringing the Google you
know stock Android experience to the masses that was what made them so
appealing well now yeah we get a couple more inches but is that really worth the
couple hundred dollar extra we're paying
hard to say Nexus 9 versus Shield tablet
oh Shield tablet for sure for me if you're a gamer you got to go for the
Shield tablet it has the quad core
um it has the stylus build quality is not metal but
solid and it has gam stream if you're going to game on it at all then having
having game stream from your GeForce PC is a pretty pretty good thing to
have all right Jonah the boss the price is not
reasonable got it um Oliver says so is this Android
Silver but maybe they kept the Nexus name yeah there were rumors about
Android Silver maybe silver means not cheap anymore but basically the same
thing kimchi love Nexus for the low price point after I heard the price my
heart sank down to the ground Phantom fish I think we saw this
tweet before uh NEX Nexus 5 is Max size
for my largest hands Nexus 6 is too
big wow there's not a whole lot of positivity about this on Twitter here is
there there I think I think people were too like people enjoyed the price of the
Nexus 5 so much like they were just really expecting oh they're going to
come out with another phone and it's going to be available and I'm going to be able to buy it with no contract for
three or 400 bucks of all the Nexus devices really I mean I bought my second
generation Nexus 7 for 220 bucks and it
wasn't even on sale and if you think about it the Nexus 6 is is basically
just like a Nexus Nexus 7 except it's a phone and it's 1 in smaller but people
who are getting the Nexus will virtually have no reason at all to
buy a Nexus 7 tablet especially when
third of price if I recall correctly so
so on the phone side we might keep Nexus 5 around for quite a while but on the
tablet side it looks like the entry level Nexus tablet is going to be 400
bucks Oliver says looking forward to 60fps
animations not looking forward to apps that don't support material design
inconsistency in apps is EU that is a very good point Nexus 6 is most
definitely Flagship but what about makes it more expensive than the Nexus 9
tablet that's a that's an interesting that's an interesting
point that it can fit in your pocket barely no that it's that the that the
price is so much more than the Nexus 9 tablet in spite of like what are what
are the hardware differences here exactly I guess uh there's less right
actually I have to do math to figure that the pixel density isn't as high
there's definitely less pixel density and less it's a lower overall resolution
on the Nexus 9 so the the the the display itself could be a pretty decent
Factor yeah but the funny thing about that is if you've ever shopped for
replacement displays for a phone I bought one for a Droid DNA not that long
ago they're not expensive like even
buying them on eBay as an end user so there's basically like negligible sales
volume and you have to pay shipping and so like I think I got it for like 70 or
80 bucks shipped to me so I'm sure
Google isn't paying that much for a display for a 5-in device regardless of
pixel density cuz the Droid DNA was a pretty high-end display at the time that
was one of the first 1080p phones we need to have I iix it do a tear down of
this and list the bomb cost of all of the uh all the components yeah I'd be
interested to see if we're getting more more if we're getting closer to Apple
like margins on the Nexus 6
Google's profiting are the cameras the same I feel like uh 13 megap yeah the
camera's nicer 13 megapixel 8
megapixel yeah better camera slightly
slightly higher pixel count uh it's it's
an AMOLED display so battery life should be pretty strong like there there's
stuff going that's good for it but I guess it all adds up but yeah it's still
a huge gap to fill all right so let's move on to our
next uh next topic this was posted by bogus on the Forum and the source is
Goodwin Proctor and this is actually pretty funny if you if you have the kind
of sense of humor where you get amused by things that are super sad so goodwi
Proctor publishes a guide book on litigating with non-practicing entities
also known as patent
trolls so there's there's some notes Here a dramatic surge in patent cases
filed by npes has captured the attention
of corporate America as well as state and federal legisl s both private and
public sectors fuel ongoing calls for new laws designed to mitigate or
eliminate the perceived costs and inefficiencies of patent trol litigation
so in their in their whole guide to how to deal with this there were some
interesting little nuggets one of which was that it appears to be actually more
profitable to patent troll than to deliver products and well not
necessarily to deliver products you're going to make a lot of money if you make a good product product you sell a lot of
them but to be a company that actually makes products and try to sue companies
that infringe your patents so apparently since 2010 patent trolling has been more
profitable than actually delivering a product or service to Market uh
non-practicing entities tend to be more successful in court than practicing
entities and it's getting to the point where legitimate businesses might start
doing it as well so the stats published by Goodwin Proctor um say that so
between 2010 and 2013 the median gain
from a patent suit by trolls is 8 1.2 million the median gain for legitimate
businesses was 22 million so that was in
2013 uh US Dollars this is like saying me and Paul
Paul and I could make more money as drug dealers than running an honest YouTube
channel well we probably could but the problem here is they're doing this under
within the bounds of the law yeah and on the backs of the actual YouTube channels
some relaxed morals you'd have to have to no this this
like there's certain types of things
that people do that make that like I really really hate and despise and think
is like kind of the lowest like how do you live with yourself as a person if
you do this or like work for a company
that does this like I don't know I have to have some kind of of like moral like
okayness with the job that I'm doing I have to have some sort of like
investment in like okay you know I'm I'm at least on some level like benefiting
Society or producing something that's of value but like this type of crap I just
I despise like it's it's really really
terrible greed is a monster in all of us
yes well put Kyle dramatic beer drinking drink beer
now so this is this is this is actually
this is great so Michael strap a partner at Goodwin and one of the gu's authors
explained uh why the the damage is awarded to trolls are disproportionately
high so there's an economic model for of
patent trolling that includes building up like a a legal War chest by squeezing
settlements from dozens of smaller companies then suing a big fish like a
Google or an apple or something like that so the patent trolls all are more
capable of absorbing a loss in the in these litigations because they've got
their War chest and they don't have
actual you know physical inventory that
is going going to cost them money if all of a sudden they can't sell it because
you know someone sued them over over a patent infringement for example um the
trolls victories in the small suits can be used as evidence in their suit
against the big fish something that a big fish going after someone who's
infringing a patent won't necessarily have because they might not be chasing
down every Tom Dick and Harry and then patent trolls normally try to settle
outside of court and the big fish will usually just take a big loss up front
rather than the guaranteed legal fees to defend themselves and the threat of an
even higher fee if the court does find in favor of the
troll unbelievable I mean I'm not I'm
not a legal expert I think that much should be obvious but something has to
be done you can't have legitimate companies that are innovating and
investing in Technologies like Apple and Google and Microsoft being sued by
people who aren't actually making anything every time they turn around and
I think it's also because like this type of activity is it's not very tangible
you know it's like there's legal talk with involved with it and that sort of
thing so it's difficult for people to grasp at first like how it even works
but like I mean equate it to to like
cheating in a video game like an Aimbot something like that that's that's what
it equates with I mean much worse than that obviously because there's a lot
more money at stake but like think of the hatred that people direct towards
cheaters online at video games and then like transfer that over to real life
please and yeah imagine if they were cheating you out of8 and a half million
dollars on average yeah like damn it that guy stole my head
shot poverty bot oh God poty
B that's terrible this is something to be pissed off this is and is this you
know has there not been that much backlash against the sort of you know
this is more of a recent crime against humanity speak can't do anything about
it that's the problem is the way the laws are set up now is you you can't you
can't do anything so what are you supposed to
do nothing I mean there's uh yeah I I don't
have I don't have any good actionable like suggestions for people to take to
fix this that's that's probably the the biggest problem I mean this this was one
thing when we we were working for New Egg that I always appreciated about them
was that they their legal team will actually go after some people they've
won several cases against some pretty large patent trolls thatp can I think
there was a patent for like um One Click
one click checkout or something like that that basically said screw off we're
going to yeah there's a one click checkout thing there's like the shopping
cart patent like somebody try to be oh any online retailer who has a virtual
shopping cart like we have a patent on that so they all owe us money but New
Egg like fought him and and and took him down and that sort of thing but I mean
that's still just that's like a few there's like a few wins that they have
and the the amount of this that goes on
by comparison I think is is massive and I mean just that's what this article is
about that it's obviously insanely profitable and the snowballing effect
that has is insanely profitable profitable things like this where people
are making that much money they can then offer that money to people who are smart
who can like figure out ways to do it better like that's been the problem in
the states for quite a long time is a lot of like the smartest people and the
smartest graduates from schools are not going into like science the science
sector and that sort of thing they're going into Finance to like learn ways to
gain them Wall Street better and that sort of thing it kind of sucks anyway
sorry to go off topic speaking of uh money being important uh let's go ahead
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um they can't keep their passport in stock I don't know if this is more to do
with the fact that they didn't produce enough of them or more to do with that
they uh it's a really great amazing
square device with a keyboard on it that people really really want to buy but uh
there you go they sold 200,000 passports
within 2 days of launch and stock was apparently completely wiped out after 6
hours of sales Amazon alerted purchasers by email that their passport had an
expected delivery date of October 17th to 20th with shop Blackberry quoting
October 29th as the delivery date so
things are looking up maybe for the Blackberry brand as they saw an
operating loss of only 207 Million last quarter below analyst expectations um
they expected a loss of 16 cents per share and only ended up losing 2 cents
per share after exclusions so I haven't tried the
passport I feel like I I kind of I was
very dismissive of it when I first heard about it but
um would love to hear what you guys think about the passport actually uh
we're going to do a straw pull for this one rather than a Twitter Blitz just
because I that way we can have something up while we move on to the next topic we
don't actually have a ton of time left which is sort of unfortunate but
um conversation going on Blackberry
Passport yay neay
those are going to be the options cuz I don't have a whole lot of time to create this
poll all right it's an important one it is an important one I really want to
know what people think of stuff like this like what the heck is this
thing I realize now that I haven't actually shown a picture of it on screen
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I think you need to kick someone yeah I know right I should kick that lonus Tech
Guy what a jerk imposta all right here it
is what what uh is is this BlackBerry
still running their own their own operating system uh yes but apparently
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just install Android apps oh co so they're not nearly as Limited in terms
of app support right there it is all right line of screen share boom
Blackberry Passport got your full keyboard also got
a nice large touchcreen um looks like a very you know a
productivity friendly more Square aspect
ratio so I can see what people like about it um I'm just just not sure if
it's uh if it's the right thing for me
necessarily all right so let's move on to the next topic here
um wow there's a lot of topics that I haven't even touched yet we're just
going to have to go through these pretty fast Facebook's next phone might be built by Samsung there's been a few
meetings between top brass at both companies and the failure of the HTC
First which was the first Facebook phone um is not stopping them from planning a
new phone necessarily and I don't think we're going to see like a like a
Facebook only phone or anything like that but it's more likely to be
something with some Facebook features integrated into it I mean Samsung's one
of the few Android handset makers that is still really sticking with their own
skin on top of Android that is really quite different from how Android is
supposed to work LG actually as well I guess they still have quite a few
differences but um I could see Samsung potentially working in more Facebook
integration not sure how beneficial that would necessarily be to users but hey
whatever it's touch wi so it wouldn't be the first time um YouTube ads linking to
malicious sites this was posted on the Forum by rainfall within and it's from
the Trend Micro blog that we got this information basically these ads were
appearing in videos with up to 11 million views and they don't take you
directly to malicious sites but rather first through advertising sites so the
exploit exploit used in this attack was the Sweet Orange exploit kit which uses
certain vulnerabilities in Java Flash and ie and the final payload of the
attack are variants of the cter malware family which is known for ransomware
attack so there have been 113,000 victims with 95% of them being from the
US mind you there was a patch for this attack in May 2013 so if you keep your
Windows up to date you're probably okay now we've got something that I'm sure
Paul and Kyle are going to want to weigh in Bethesda to officially support
60fps with The Evil Within on PC this is
posted by spoy on the Forum and the original article is from PC Gamer and it
sounds like great news on the surface I
mean we get some console commands for things like God mode which is cool no
clip which is cool but by 30 FPS they
mean they're unlocking it from the previously rumored 30 frames per second
lock to 60 FPS only so you may run the
game at 30 FPS or 60 FPS but not more
FPS and they are saying that there's going to be potentially some glitches in
the game at 60 frames per second at launch but that they will fix them and
anything else you can set whatever
resolution you want but it's going to be glitchy and they're not going to fix
it well kids can I get a 60 is better
than 30 but it's still not ideal for for
for gamers that have 144 Herz or 120 HZ
refresh rate monitors I mean I I think they're still going to be disappointed
you're going to appease some of the population but uh for the majority it
just seems like they're trying to cover up their their mistake or or
whatnot so is it like trying I feel like
I'm trying to look a gift horse in the mouth here because it's nice that they I
mean no no actually never mind I'm changing my mind right now screw that
because we should not be like oh well it was nice of them to at least give 60
they should have given 60 at the beginning without without having to come
out and be like oh well we'll maybe give you 60 but we're not really going to actually put any effort into it or
support it or anything like that this is this is half asked and uh and and and
and we expect your full next time Bethesda I have a negative opinion of it
that's what I've decided yes okay I'm not I'm not
impressed
all right well there's a couple things I need to mention here really briefly first of all we got our poll results for
the Blackberry Passport with the overwhelming majority saying me or nay
and 17% saying yay which is interesting
because 17% of the smartphone market would still be a very viable business
for Blackberry also amount also I
realized that I never showed the picture of the extra item from 54 so once again
I have screwed up a 5 for integration that is the Henley that you get don't
worry it doesn't have a crazy pattern on it it's just made from a ribbed material
actually looks quite nice so there you go I screwed up all the things once
again go team
lonus this is why this is why you need slick so but yeah because normally I can
kind of do these things while he while he handles a topic on his own but I
don't trust you guys that much yeah all right for good reason well I did have a
half hour to look over all the topics so oh yeah back to The Evil Within there
are other problems too you can change the aspect ratio but some gameplay
prompts appear in the Cinematic black
bars that are going to only be there if you're running in the correct cinematic
aspect ratio so you just won't see those
things if you change the aspect ratio and no that will not be fixed either
apparently if they were really serious about like wanting to give people a
better experience of that higher frame rate they would just make it all open
source so that the modders could go in who were really passionate about it fix
all those issues and make it run at 60 HZ or 60 frames per second or even
Beyond you don't even have to make it open source for that you just have to
just have to enable modders yeah allow some mods to go in there um okay so of
oops sorry wrong thing uh so of course there was a big Apple event this week um
and I guess I'll have to do a very quick summary cuz quite frankly there wasn't
that much of Interest I mean Apple pay is coming Monday which is really cool
they've got hundreds of banks signed up they've got lots of merchants signed up
um I mean for me personally the time Savings of whipping out my phone and
trying it first and then realizing that you know half the time plus it's not
going to work and needing to take out my card anyway is very limited but the
Privacy improvements do look pretty impressive so Apple basically stores any
of your card information in that isolated Nonet work connected chip
that's right on the phone the same place they keep your fingerprint information
and they share none of this info with the retailer which is which is very very
cool so you don't have to worry about your you know ID being seen by someone
as you hand it to them you don't have to worry about um your credit card number
being more easy being easier to steal I
mean actually there was a leak there was a leak this week wasn't there another
retailer lost a bunch of credit cards what another one I think so I I didn't
catch that yeah CH are right whatever it
happens from time to time so the retailer thems wouldn't even need your
credit card information in order to process your payment which is very cool
and it's coming also we get a retina 5K
27in iMac that's super thin comes with mobile 290 gpus and a 295 whatever that
is I'm not 100% sure what that is but don't get too wrapped up in how great a
mobile 290 sounds because that's actually a pit Karen GPU so it's very
similar to a 7 870 actually not really
that special in terms of performance this is not a mobile 290 to a regular
290 is not what a mobile you know GTX
980 is to a desktop gtx980 AMD hasn't
gotten there yet um so 5K 5120 by 2880
res it's got Thunderbolt 2 SSD is not standard still for some reason it's got
the latest core i7s and that all sounds pretty good if you're one of those
people who is into all-in On's than having something that just functions as
a display and then something that you connect to it because that is more
modular which is good um the the new
iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 are coming so
they've sold 225 million iPads evidently since they started selling them which is
unbelievable that's like eight times the
number of people in Canada altogether it's a lot of iPads yeah yeah that's a
lot of iPads this this is starting from the very first iPad ever
so and I think that's something like over four times what Samsung has sold
total in spite of them having so many models of tablets so it's very very
impressive and then did you did you happen to hear about the uh the the
Microsoft Surface Fiasco the deal they signed with the NFL they okay that I
thought that was yeah with all the commentators calling them iPads on air
even though yeah I mean the iPad is so
to the average person it that's just what a tablet is iPad right exactly kex
and it's it's funny because in the tech Bas we don't think about that because
obviously an iPad's an iPad and other tablets other tablet but no to regular
people they just don't give two craps in an iPad's a tablet got to love regular
people so the new iPad Air 2 is 18% thinner the screen is less reflective
it's got an a8x so which actually has 50% more transistors than the A8 that we
find in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus very interesting not sure uh necessarily
exactly where those transistors went but performance should be pretty darn
impressive it's got a better camera so you can be a pad hole walk around take
pictures and Now features Touch ID which I guess is good um also the the uh Mac
Mini got an update with the latest Intel CPUs with Intel Iris Graphics two
Thunderbolt two ports PCI Express storage and AC Wireless oh yeah the
wireless on the new iPad is apparently faster too so I guess that's cool so the
one the one thing about this whole Apple event that is kind of irritating me is
since since the new version of the operating system is called Yos I feel
like they've been co-opting images of Yos and using them for Apple branding
and it pisses me off Mother Nature is going to sue apple
as the ultimate irony who's going to go and be like no half doome is a
registered trademark of Yos and and apple and apparently now also an apple
like I don't want I don't want half doome to be used to sell Apple products
apple is reportedly suing mother nature for the usage of half doome it's it's
marketing branded okay sorry okay sorry oh yeah I
guess I didn't really talk about um the new OS 10 at all I guess I just don't
care heyo
cheers well it's not it's not that I don't care because it's bad I just don't
care because I didn't use the old one so all these new amazing differences mean
nothing to me because I don't have any frustrations with the old one or
anything that I like about the old one it just is what it is speaking of things
that are what they are augmented reality might not be necessarily what we thought
it was going to be I mean I think that Google Glass looked very augmented
reality from the beginning like we were kind of thinking we were going to be wearing glasses or goggles or whatever
else but there's this is a rumor right now but Google and Others May invest
five Milli $500 million into augmented
reality company magic leap who isn't going to be putting a lens in front of
your eyes but rather is planning to basically beam the image into your eyes
allegedly solving the need for higher resolution in that Solutions like Oculus
Rift with the with a headset are going to have so the vision would be to have
the product display an image into the eye so that instead of having to pull
out a phone you would just see things in
the world around you that I mean it's
funny they're calling it cinematic reality because they think augmented
reality is a bit of a an undersells the technology a little bit because of how
realistic it is but I mean this is what it is here's an
elephant an augmented reality elephant in the hand of someone you can call it
whatever you want but it's still augmented reality uh looks incredibly
cool and gaming with a technology like this where you don't even have to wear a
headset and you just see stuff that isn't
there wow so I'm I'm getting this image in my
head of like kind of like in The Matrix you know when he wakes up and there's
just the rows and rows of people you know they're all all in their little
pods like something like that with all these people and and these little
devices in front of them just beaming images like directly into their brain
but but really what this has inspired me to do is developed my own device kind of
based on this same technology which is going to be a food delivery system that
puts a tube down your throat and just puts the food directly into your stomach
that way you don't have to worry about the whole chewing and swallowing thing I
you could partner with um partner with the guys that make soilent exactly yeah
Luke's been has is Luke like does Luke look paler or anything like that or is
he like becoming more and more stronger than he has ever been since he seems he
seems all right he's not entirely on soilent though he does he does eat it
for you know most of his nutritional stuff but he still eats um but mostly
just because eating is kind of nice and things taste good and soilent doesn't
taste that great I'm glad you've been feeding him yeah well I don't feed him
he has to feed himself oh okay I just
watch because it's so it's liquid right so the there's just these visuals I have
of lonus feeding Luke with like a big baby bottle or
something right that could be a t-shirt that's worst image that's ever been in
anyone's head during this show happy to have brought it to all of your
fans thank you that's what I'm here for
you guys will never be on my show again get up all right so um Skype kick I
guess would be how we pronounced this Qik this was originally posted by good bites on the Forum the article is from
the verge.com and this is supposed to be
a an attempt to take over mobile video
messaging so it this actually started out as just a video consumption platform
but oh I just realized I'm not actually screen sharing with you guys so there
you go they they're showing it running on Windows phone as if that matters iOS
and Android unless that HTC1 M8 is a
Windows phone version of the HTC 1 M8
which it probably isn't because I don't think anyone ever actually bought one of those um although I'd love to be proven
wrong you know it's amazing how many people are hating on me for my
negativity about the Windows Phone HTC1
M8 in my review and yet I have never seen one I've never heard any report of
anyone owning it ever and people misinterpreted a lot of what I said I
didn't say Windows 8 phone is a platform
for nobody what I said was this is a device for nobody a high-end truly
high-end Premium cost device that run runs Windows phone because the people
who buy high-end devices are going to have needs for their mobile devices that
go beyond what Windows phone can do because the app ecosystem is so immature
speaking of which I'm still super upset that the NFC chip in here only does
Apple pay and doesn't do other stuff anyway it started as a video streaming
service was available on mobile devices before YouTube so this is kind of an old
platform it's all done through your mobile phone number no account sign up
is necessary it's been being pitched as an alternative to text messaging and can
easily switch between the front and rear cameras while recording there's no
preview or processing and it has a 42c
max recording you can send to one person or a group and if your friend doesn't
have kick They will receive an SMS with instructions on how to download it it so
you can pre-record up to 12 messages for use when you're in a rush so just
pre-recorded like hey I can't talk right now I don't know why people would want
that instead of an SMS but sure whatever and the messages disappear after two
weeks if they aren't deleted like practically speaking to me
this this seems like something that might be a competitor for like Vine or
something like that but like no because it's messaging not broadcast it's more
like like like Snapchat it's more like a competitor to Snapchat except can have
videos of penises instead of pictures of them like is that what we're doing you
can do video with Snapchat too that was a benefit that I hadn't considered but I
mean beautiful the beautiful thing about a text message is when I get a text
message I can glance at my phone without unlocking without doing anything and it
can appear on one or two lines and I can immediately know what was said and it's
faster than watching a short video of somebody being like hey man I'll call
you later or something like that like well that's a stupid reason to to send a
video to someone just to tell them that you'll call them later but pred like
messages like hey I'm in class right now like that's the kind of thing people use
that stuff for so but the pre-recorded stuff is useless it's all garbage it's
short message service it's supposed to be like a quick communication a quick
interaction with someone and this feels this feels like a step backwards this
feels like video voicemail all right exactly one one
application I could see this in is like let's say you're in a in a place that
you've never been before and you're meeting someone there for the first time
you could send them a message and say hey I'm here waiting for you
picture of you yeah but the picture is is only goes so far if you're in a
location they need to see visually where you are 360 degree view you can actually
give them a panoramic shot of where you are meet me in this location so they can
recognize it when they walk up to the place so you could send them a panoramic
picture so you can send them a panoramic picture or video you could send them
three pictures fail Kyle fail no put a
filter on it l Kyle's put a filter on Kyle has already invested in quick I
think which is why he's really uh I am the first investor in quick is it quick
or kick I don't care if it's a q I feel
like it should be but there's no U no you're right it's okay the U is not
silent cuz it's not there it's not proper like use of Q anyway this is cool
this was posted by ra r bullon on the Forum and it's the Carl iiss VR1 so we
know about Samsung's VR headset for the note and we know about uh Google
cardboard which is obviously not going to be the greatest solution ever because
it's like going to fall apart and stuff but this is the VR1 which is a more
flexible one so you basically just buy like a like a tray so here's what one of
the really I can't Mouse over this without this stupid thing well whatever
so you guys will have to Envision my mouse over there so you buy a tray that
your phone slips into anything from 4.7 to 5.2 in and then you can use your
phone as a as VR so that's cool I guess
moving right along uh PewDiePie may be starting his own YouTube Network so this
was an interview with um pulse 2.com and
then he was also on the cover of Icon magazine. this was posted by Tech
dreamer on the Forum and actually generated a lot of discussion um he
makes an estimated 4 million per year in ad sales so that's gross um and that was
last year I'm can assure you it's a lot more this year plans to leave Maker
Studios in December to create his own network thinks other networks have been
managed in such an incredibly poor way that it silly and would like to help
other YouTubers and say what you want about pewes you know how you might like
or dislike his content or whatever the guy's smart and uh maybe I should join
his Network how how do you know he's smart
how do you know he's not just incredibly lucky and remotely attractive for a
YouTube personality anyone anyone at the top of any field is smart guarantee
it I I I don't know oom had some some
Fame there for octom oom yeah but that's not the
top of a field that's a 15 minutes of fame I'm talking someone who her own in
a sustained repeated manner beat
everyone else who competes at something I've seen some actors who who wouldn't
line up with that but what does PewDiePie do that no one else can do I
mean hold on a second okay remember some
actors that are dumb sure but but I said at the top of a field PewDiePie is the
number one YouTuber Point me at the number one of anything where the
person's an idiot you can't do it are you still on a network or at this point
lanis uh yeah I'm I'm with twitch right now but I'm actually probably switching
on YouTube on Twitch TV I'm still going
to stay partnered with twitch I'm still going to do all my streaming on Twitch but on YouTube I'll potentially be
moving over to um wow I feel bad for not
remembering Maker Studios oh okay isn't that isn't that where PewDiePie
PewDiePie is leaving PewDiePie is leaving that no I think that might be why I have Maker Studios in my head I'm
going to have to look it up now when's the lonus network coming and when can I
join and do you feel like you have some big shoes to feel and sure yes I'll join
your network replacing PewDiePie on studos
network sorry I feel I feel bad full
screen full screen sorry not maker I've talked to every Network at some point
iny we're on full screen full screen yeah full screen's awesome yeah yeah so
I um so I might be joining full screen
okay I I I like full screen I don't have a problem with
them all right so let's go ahead and uh see if we've got any more oh yeah
Netflix raises the price for 4K video streaming this was posted by Tech
dreamer on the Forum and this is actually the second price hike we've
seen from net Netflix in like what a year so and that was after for a long
time the pricing being very very stable so if you signed up for a 4K enabled
account already you get to keep your current subscription price until August
12th 2016 but for new subscribers the monthly price for 4K will be 12 bucks so
you can enjoy 4K content like Breaking Bad House of Cards and the Smurfs on
your 4K TV that you also probably don't own yet um although 4K doesn't work on
all TVs you need to have a supported TV so once again early adopters for any new
video standard get the old kick in the teeth way to go you spent way too much
on something that not only didn't work when you bought it but isn't even going
to work at the time that it was supposed to work that's why you go with an htpc
it's pretty normal but uh yeah this was
one of those stories where I was like okay I mean I think the people right now
who have the capability to watch Netflix in 4k aren't really probably going to be
too pissed off by three extra dollars a month um I would hope that once it
becomes a little bit more mainstream maybe they'll do like a discount plan or something knock it down to 10 I'll sign
up for 10 all right so uh next up we've got the
happening snapsaved images leaked so 500
Megs of images were leaked according to snapsaved snapav.com is a website that
allows users to save Snapchat messages and it was compromised their database
was immediately deleted when the hack was discovered but there are concerns
that many of the leaked images could be classified as child
porn so
yeah that's a that's a messy situation I
guess that's all there is to really say about that although one Pirate Bay user
complained that so far from what I've seen the vast majority are just black
screens with text overlaid or just a normal selfie that would be my initial
response to be like man the pictures aren't even that good Nexus player is
coming so this was posted by laws on the Forum the original source is Google's
own page about it so let's go check that thing out oo Nexus player so um you know
OU yeah good idea but probably ahead of
your time a little bit there and the pag is lo a bit slowly so sorry about that
but at any rate the Nexus player is coming it's going to come with a remote
and a controller the remote has voice search comes with apps such as Netflix
and Ted there's a full list uh on the on
the Google page for it that I would love to show you except that it's not loading right now and it has free online
multiplayer from Google Play games so
the thing that all consoles should always have forever because it's just
baffling to me that you have to pay to subscribe to a multiplayer server when
you already bought the game and you already have your internet connection um
it's got a 1.8 GHz quad core Intel Atom Processor 802.11 AC 2x2 mimo so that's a
pretty good Wireless solution HDMI out and it'll cost $100 and the controller
will cost 40 bucks and um one thing
though that's missing and it better have a good Wireless solution because it does not have a wired network connection
that's a bit of a killer for me oh damn
yeah I I I personally have to pee I'll be right back thank you thank you thank
you Kyle we should end the show while he's gone so that I don't have to talk
about where people can go watch Kyle make videos that's all right yeah we'll
leave we'll leave his plugs out of it so so this is like I don't know this is
like the upgrade to the chomecast I guess it's it's Android based it's it's
got a better processor and you can actually play games on it and it's only
100 bucks yeah it looks that way how many Android so you do you you've been
using your shield and everything to play games like you know uh like do you
actually play any Android platform games
or no they're all rubbish yeah so I
guess that would be my issue would be sure you can play Android games but I
don't play any Android games so the draw
really isn't there for me but I mean I don't know for $100 this is a tough sell
for me I'd rather spend I think shield shield portable is down to what 200
bucks now yeah yeah I'd rather have one of those and run it in console mode for
sure you'd have a lot more flexibility with the what you could play on it
that's that's for damn sure yep so original article here is from New York
Times and that is that uh HBO is to
start their own Standalone streaming service come
2015 which is um I I guess pretty cool
uh actually very cool because now you won't have to have a cable subscription
in order to get access to HBO
programming um so this intensifies their growing
rivalry with Netflix hpo is trying to cater to the new generation that doesn't
have any interest in cable subscriptions I have only had one when my cable
provider offered it to me for free I watched hockey games that was it 10
million homes in the US have no cable or satellite subscription but do have
internet half of those are subscribed to a streaming surface uh surface service
so uh CEO of HBO says it's time to remove all barriers to those who want
HBO Allin there are 80 million homes in the US that do not have HBO and we will
use all means at our disposal to go after them so there you go so there's
there's that popular web comic I think it was from the oatmeal where somebody
was like I want to watch games Game of Thrones but I want to do it legit stop
cracking here sorry but I want to do it legitimately and then this the whole
comic was about them trying to legitimately watch Game of Thrones and then eventually giving up and and and
pirating it this is my only my only issue here that this is going to make
that argument lot more difficult anyone who Pirates Game of Thrones regularly
now no excuse they they they have much less of an excuse and that's really but
but no this this uh to me signals the beginning of the end of of cable TV and
the world yeah I I don't understand why it still needs to exist Kyle used a
little bit more hyperbole there but just just a bit of embellishment I guess all
right we've got a few more rapid fire topics but I got to go through these
incredibly quickly because we've completely run out of time Amazon to
open a physical store in New York it could act as a way to highlight products
like Fire TV um this is a breakthrough
it's a revolutionary uh thing that Amazon has done here yeah opening a
store maybe New Egg will follow suit and then maybe ncx will open a retail oh
wait no they've already got them okay they have them they they're called the hybrid Center we're like the hipsters of
the tech industry yeah all right Corsair RGB keyboards allegedly only producing
512 colors it is advertised as
supporting 8 bit color giving 16.8 million total color combinations however
has been found to support only three bit color giving 512 combinations um to
people who are sort of blown away by this all I really have to say
is Corsair is doing what they had to do
here I think I I don't think it's right I don't think it's right for anyone to
advertise 16.8 million RGB Lighting in a
product when it's obviously not actually
16.8 million color combinations but like
let's take H the cable's trapped under
something here let's take this mouse for example this is a Logitech mouse
Logitech is a big company a good company good
people that LED lighting is advertised at 16.8 million there's no way there's
no way in hell that it produces 16.8 million colors if you guys have ever had
an RGB product drag the color wheel around you know take two yellows that
are similar and see if you can actually see the difference in the LED there is
no difference because it does doesn't actually do it it's never actually done
it and if anything Corsair's transitions
much more smoothly in my experience than the Black Widow ultimate chroma anyway
and a lot more smoothly than a lot of other RGB products I've seen so I really
wonder how many colors most RGB products
out there actually support like I said still wrong shame on you Corsair
but there you go according to the Forum users the issue is that is either the
they are constrained to the USB protocol that only supports three bits per
Channel or because the three Panasonic a32 1881 LED Matrix ic's they use to
control the keyboard are only able to give individual LEDs three bits of
control per channel so there you go I don't think there's been an official
statement from Corsair but um yeah future Mark launches the world's
first 4K Benchmark this was posted by Tech Fanboy on the Forum and it's the
source is from kit guru.net fir strike Ultra renders the fire strike Benchmark
in 4k you need at least 3 G vram to run the Benchmark and the leaderboards are
live there's a JBL special edition of the OnePlus One and earphones but I
don't really like talking about OnePlus One cuz I think that they're one plus
one um it is what it is 1 plus
two that equals two it's the answer to
the equation Apple patents flexible device
display input method so the device would react to bending using that as an input
method very cool and assus stck mechan mechanical keyboards with blue black
brown and red key switches are either
available now or coming soon I actually haven't seen if they're on sale yet this
was posted by quas oh yeah and the Apple patent thing
was from Tech dreamer uh this was posted by ques on the Forum and this is the
stricks tactic Pro there we
go really how how is ASUS and Corsair
are going to be buddy buddy now that ASUS has like mice and keyboards and
headsets and headsets and I think they had cases at one point
didn't they uh they have like I know they have like server cases they sell
like you know kind of barebone server systems and stuff I'm not sure if they
have like mainstream consumer gamer cases or anything like that but I on
this would be surprised if they did well at any rate it's a gaming keyboard it's
mechanical it's got some macro keys on the left pricing looks reasonable it's
got n key rollover and uh it's got three more
macro keys under the space bar a position that I personally really really
like for them because whenever you're not jumping you might as well be
macroing something and more maybe more than one thing and I think that's pretty
much it for my topic so I guess the the
the rest here is you know what actually maybe do you mind do you guys mind if we
end the show and then we come back immediately for a quick Afterparty maybe
you guys can update me on how things are going now that you're free from the
shackles that bound you of course yeah let's do that so Afterparty we'll be
back in like a couple seconds here
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