1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 All right, Alex, what's the greatest disappointment of the last 10 years in tech? 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,480 In my opinion, it is virtual reality. I just looked it up, actually. 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:12,400 Oculus Rift came out on August 1st, 2012, and it's basically not improved since then. 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,240 Like, there's slightly higher resolutions, but after that first, like, well, like, 5 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:20,000 three years, would you say? Everyone was super hyped. There were games coming out, 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,600 and it was getting implemented into different things. And now just nothing happens. It's so 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:28,320 disappointing because, like, I have a VR headset. You can use it for, like, two or three hours, 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:33,600 and then you kind of had the experience. It's so immersive that you should be able to just 9 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,240 do incredible things in it, but it kind of ends up just being a really lonely experience, 10 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:39,840 where you're just kind of in your room being like... 11 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:46,400 Ain't that fact, though. Yeah, and then, like, you throw up when something, like, the framerate drops. It's terrible. 12 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,760 You don't think the metaverse or anything is gonna affect it at all? 13 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:54,400 Good God, I think the metaverse is one of the stupidest ideas in many, many years. 14 00:00:54,400 --> 00:01:00,480 It's just, like, VRChat already exists, and, like, VRChat has its place, and people can go on there. 15 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:05,040 But also, like, in a lot of ways, it's one of the worst things on the internet. So 16 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:12,480 Zuckerberg is just trying to take, like, what is already just a really strange spot and move 17 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:17,520 into business. I don't think it's gonna work. I'm sad. VR's cool and boring. 18 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:22,960 I'm gonna go ahead and say Ethereum. I still think it's a good product. I believe in the project. 19 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,520 I think all the people who kind of have these 20 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,400 utopian dreams of what crypto could be, I think Ethereum is probably the project that's gonna 21 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:36,000 deliver them. The thing that's disappointing is the timeline. They keep, they just today, I think, 22 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,680 said on Twitter that it's gonna be delayed another three months. 23 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:44,800 June was already delayed forever. Now it's gonna be, like, Q3. It just sucks. 24 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:50,400 And it has real implications because a lot of the NFT stuff, which I don't do, but many people do, 25 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,280 happens on Ethereum and it's really bad for the environment. So Ethereum switching from 26 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,840 proof of work to proof of stake, thereby not making so many greenhouse gases, 27 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:04,640 was gonna be a big deal and have a big impact and make, and probably would have affected the 28 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:10,480 adoption of NFTs because you would no longer have that they're so bad for the environment argument. 29 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:16,160 So it just sucks that they're taking so long, but, you know, it's kind of like a Blizzard game. 30 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:21,360 It's like, it'll be ready when it's ready and hopefully they're working on it because it's 31 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,760 going to be awesome like Diablo II, not like Diablo III. And the longer they take, the greater 32 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,560 the risk there is that another blockchain like Solana or something will take its place. And 33 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,640 that's a huge risk to investors. A lot of these investors are like institutional at this point 34 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:39,600 as well. Gas prices are just so high and they happen for so long that it's really an existential 35 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,760 risk to the whole project. It would just be a pity if the developers didn't get it together in time 36 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:48,960 and they lost that user base that will move to another project. And once they have momentum, 37 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,680 it's hard to switch, right? Like, why do we all use Instagram and Facebook? It's because we all 38 00:02:53,680 --> 00:03:00,080 use Instagram and Facebook, even if Google Plus was better in some ways, right? But 39 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,640 there's network effects. Anyways, I hope they figured out. Oh, the studio display, the Apple 40 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:11,120 Studio display. I saw Anthony like open it and tug on the cord and I saw Linus get really angry 41 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:16,320 and I saw how it works fine, but it's not great. And then the Samsung one came out and it can do 42 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:27,440 like way more. First off, uh, you're wrong. But, uh, I just tried the Samsung webcam, worst webcam. 43 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,720 Yeah, isn't it like 1080p? It's like that's what you need. I did not look like that in Zoom. 44 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,680 And the frame rate was horrible. Maybe you have a bad internet connection. Oh, 45 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,760 it's true that Ethernet is not working on the Mac Studio right now for some reason. 46 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:49,360 Well, there you go. But people use Wi-Fi. Yeah. Still, like a 5k screen is really nice. 47 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,880 Sure, a 5k screen, but it's got a processor in it and it doesn't do anything. It's just a screen. 48 00:03:54,880 --> 00:04:00,000 The biggest disappointment of the last 10 years. Yeah, and you can't change the power cord. It's 49 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:07,440 just there and you can't use it like in any other location other than close to a power source. 50 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,760 Don't forget the price. And the price. Listen. And you can't adjust it. The stands, 51 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:16,800 you have to pay $400 if you want it to go up. Like, well, you can get a face amount and then 52 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:25,760 it's only like $100. Where any other monitor would just come with it? Listen, the Apple Studio 53 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:32,400 display is disappointing. Yes. But my biggest disappointment is not the Apple Studio display. 54 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:41,040 It's the iOS 7 redesign. Yes. That's fair. I hate flat design. So I guess for everybody on 55 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,520 Flowplain, if they don't remember, like what happened in the iOS 7? Basically, they took iOS 56 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:52,160 and they took a big eraser and then let some children use InDesign. Wow. And the children were 57 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:57,760 like bright colors. Whoa. Let's make a gradient. I never, you can make a gradient. There's some 58 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:08,160 strong opinions. It's flat design is the worst thing happened to software. I can see that. 59 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,280 Probably the essential phone. Essential phone. I bought an essential phone really early because 60 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:18,960 I love the ceramic, the heaviness, the squareness, the notch was new, foreign, exotic, beautiful. 61 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,640 They never use the Pogo pins for other than the bad 360 camera and then they abandoned it and 62 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,440 died. Biggest disappointment. What's a good experience like at least using it or? Oh yeah. 63 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,200 Think of the phone itself. I would buy one today if I could because it's just like beautiful, heavy. 64 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:41,040 Like the UI was super simple back in the day for like just base Android. But it's old. The camera 65 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:47,200 was bad then so it's horrendous now. Just get an iPhone. Fair enough. Yeah. Aren't they making 66 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:52,160 a comeback or something like that? No. They tried. They teased a bar phone. So it was like a candy 67 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:57,200 bar phone. They were seeing renders of and then that died and they went under. 68 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,480 But I think the essential brand is still kicking around. They're doing something. 69 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,960 Like I think it's a software or something. Bring it back. Hashtag bring back essential. 70 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:12,880 Okay. So the 3DS. You know the toggleable 3D mode? Oh my goodness. It will hurt your brain if you 71 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:19,360 turn it on. It is by far the worst thing ever and I was so hyped for it. Like the Mario coin game. 72 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:24,560 Did you ever play it? I didn't have a 3DS but I played on a couple of my friends and it was 73 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:30,640 terrible. Yeah. It's just awful. That's definitely the biggest disappointment. I would say so far 74 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:37,120 the continual rejection of no USB-C on an iPhone would be number one as I'm stirring into one right 75 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:42,960 now. It'd be so nice to use everything that's going on right here. The moment mount, plugging in, 76 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,720 everything. And I think that's really sucks because I am one of those people who get 77 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,080 razed on every day for being a green bubble boy. And I kind of hate it but it's just like it's 78 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:57,120 whatever right now. But at the same time, I kind of wish I could join in on it. The second thing 79 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:03,200 I think was a huge disappointment was the fact that nothing came out from the Dyson car project. 80 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:09,040 This one is very niche. No one really knows unless you do know about this. What was the Dyson car 81 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,880 project? So the Dyson car project was that Sir James Dyson was thinking, oh, you know what? 82 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:18,720 We need to rethink what goes into a car. And he said that Dyson was going to build an EV. 83 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:25,840 This would have been insane because the torque alone from the motors in the hair dryer, all of 84 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:31,120 the air wraps, the vacuums, everything so far Dyson has made, even like the air sonics you put 85 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:38,080 your hands in at the mall, the motors themselves would give up so much torque that they could have 86 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:43,600 provided even just the motors themselves to brands like Honda in GM with their partnership. 87 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,760 They didn't have to make the car entirely. I mean, like for instance, Sony's car is going to be 88 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:54,400 partnered with Honda now, but now Honda's partnered with GM. So then I guess the Sony car is now GM. 89 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:00,880 So at the end of the day, it's just like, they had everything right there. They even had a 90 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:06,800 concept and then stuff like, for instance, not having wiper blades, the EV6, the Ioniq 5, 91 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:13,680 the Nukia Niro, the BZ4X, the Sotera, they don't have rear wiper blades, but they could have used 92 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:24,160 the tech from the Dyson project, which used their hand dryer tech. So it blows it right up and over 93 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:31,520 with minimal power draw because it's Dyson and good results. Even that alone, just in the spoiler, 94 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:38,400 would have been sweet, but unfortunately, none of that was partnered or pushed out or anything. 95 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,640 It just died. And I think that is the biggest disappointment because we could have had so 96 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:47,040 many more innovations in the car world so far. Hey, remember when Blackberry tried to make a 97 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:52,320 comeback? Yeah. Okay, remember how bad it was? Oh, yeah. Okay, so they had those weird phones that 98 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:57,840 slid and then they had that tablet and virtually all of them got returned to the best buy I worked 99 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:03,280 out. And then on Boxing Day, they tried to give them away for basically nothing. Hey, Johnny, 100 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,880 you remember the Blackberry tablet? Oh, that thing's terrible. Yeah, remember that thing? It was 101 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,320 terrible. I don't even remember what it was called, the play something, play one, something? I don't 102 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:16,320 know. Anyway, that was terrible. And then the worst part is that now Blackberry develops the 103 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:23,360 operating system for like Fords. So like, yeah, if you want to get really excited about like, 104 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:28,720 like an infotainment system, don't don't buy a Ford when parents ate it. So but anyway, yeah, 105 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,240 all those phones, especially that square one, they made a phone that was like a big square. 106 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,840 It had like a like a fixed keyboard, just like an old Blackberry on it. It was terrible and ran 107 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:42,000 Android. You think they'll ever make a comeback in hardware or? I hope not. I hope they're just 108 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,880 a software company. Remember VBM though, that was tight. Definitely the newest generation of consoles. 109 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:55,600 I'm not going to include like Nintendo on it because Nintendo's kind of been on their own schedule since like the Wii U where they're just like, let's just drop this weird Fisher Price 110 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,640 toy controller. And I'm a proud Wii U owner. Thank you. So I can say that, just dozens of us. 111 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:09,200 But like this most recent console generation has been so slow to roll out. And that's just been 112 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:13,280 it's been painful because one of the most exciting things that they were touting was these like 113 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:18,800 incredible hardware increases and the like that we were supposed to expect these massive graphical 114 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:24,320 improvements. And then everything's still targeting prior consoles, which is like, yeah, okay, that's 115 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:28,560 that's good for people that don't want to buy the new consoles. And like it's also kind of partly 116 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:33,360 due to the pandemic that this whole thing was such a slow roll out because there was stock issues 117 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:40,240 with so many things. But like outside of like Ratchet and Clank and maybe the Demon's Souls 118 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,480 remake, there's just been nothing that has seemed remotely impressive from a technical standpoint. 119 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:50,000 And whereas it used to be like every single time there was a new console, it was like mind 120 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:55,200 blowing. Like I remember seeing like Motor Storm on PS3 and just being like blown away by that. 121 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:01,920 And then I just every single time I look at new console stuff, it's like whatever, like even 122 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,120 like a new God of War Ragnarok that's still gonna target the PS4. Why? 123 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:12,640 Battlefield 2042. Yeah, kill it dead. I'm a tech guy. So I get a little boner for graphics, you know. 124 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:17,600 That's fair. But I guess it's tough like for a lot of these developers, like there's only so many 125 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:22,880 like exactly. So it doesn't make especially with how expensive games have have become like just to 126 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:28,560 produce. Yeah. So they can't afford to be like, we're just going to target a small niche. Like you 127 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:33,680 used to do like crisis. When crisis came out, they're like, we're not going to run on everything. 128 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:38,800 And that's okay. And like, now you just can't afford to not run on everything. Maybe they can 129 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:43,120 change. And maybe things will get really exciting. But for right now, I just don't care about the new 130 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:49,760 consoles. So there was a smart wallet that came came out, I think was 2016 on Indiegogo. And 131 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:54,080 literally ended up happening is like, you know, it was had a theft detection camera, it had a GPS 132 00:11:54,080 --> 00:12:01,040 tracker, it had, let's see, hot spot. And you could literally just do about anything with it, 133 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:06,480 even said flash flash memory could put here like extra photos on it, you name it. It was literally 134 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:12,240 like the biggest hype at the time. So fast, fast forward to 2022, six years later, I'm still waiting 135 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:17,760 to see one. And I backed up at the time as well. It was like, you know, huge hype was generated. 136 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:22,240 And apparently none of the backers are actually getting their product, which is sad to say, 137 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,960 but I don't think I'm ever ever going to see the product again.