WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.520 All right, Alex, what's the greatest disappointment of the last 10 years in tech? 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:06.480 In my opinion, it is virtual reality. I just looked it up, actually. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:12.400 Oculus Rift came out on August 1st, 2012, and it's basically not improved since then. 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:16.240 Like, there's slightly higher resolutions, but after that first, like, well, like, 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:20.000 three years, would you say? Everyone was super hyped. There were games coming out, 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.600 and it was getting implemented into different things. And now just nothing happens. It's so 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, 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 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, 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:39.840 where you're just kind of in your room being like... 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. 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:49.760 You don't think the metaverse or anything is gonna affect it at all? 00:00:49.760 --> 00:00:54.400 Good God, I think the metaverse is one of the stupidest ideas in many, many years. 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. 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 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 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. 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. 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:25.520 I think all the people who kind of have these 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 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, 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:39.680 said on Twitter that it's gonna be delayed another three months. 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:44.800 June was already delayed forever. Now it's gonna be, like, Q3. It just sucks. 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, 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.280 happens on Ethereum and it's really bad for the environment. So Ethereum switching from 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:59.840 proof of work to proof of stake, thereby not making so many greenhouse gases, 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 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. 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. 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 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 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:30.560 the risk there is that another blockchain like Solana or something will take its place. And 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 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 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 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, 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 00:02:53.680 --> 00:03:00.080 use Instagram and Facebook, even if Google Plus was better in some ways, right? But 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.640 there's network effects. Anyways, I hope they figured out. Oh, the studio display, the Apple 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 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 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. 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. 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.680 And the frame rate was horrible. Maybe you have a bad internet connection. Oh, 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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, 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 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 00:04:25.760 --> 00:04:32.400 display is disappointing. Yes. But my biggest disappointment is not the Apple Studio display. 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 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 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 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 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. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.280 Probably the essential phone. Essential phone. I bought an essential phone really early because 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:18.960 I love the ceramic, the heaviness, the squareness, the notch was new, foreign, exotic, beautiful. 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 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:29.440 died. Biggest disappointment. What's a good experience like at least using it or? Oh yeah. 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. 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 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 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 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:57.200 bar phone. They were seeing renders of and then that died and they went under. 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:02.480 But I think the essential brand is still kicking around. They're doing something. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.960 Like I think it's a software or something. Bring it back. Hashtag bring back essential. 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 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. 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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. 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 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? 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. 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 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 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 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:43.600 provided even just the motors themselves to brands like Honda in GM with their partnership. 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 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. 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 00:08:00.880 --> 00:08:06.800 concept and then stuff like, for instance, not having wiper blades, the EV6, the Ioniq 5, 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 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 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, 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:38.400 would have been sweet, but unfortunately, none of that was partnered or pushed out or anything. 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 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 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 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 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, 00:09:03.280 --> 00:09:06.880 you remember the Blackberry tablet? Oh, that thing's terrible. Yeah, remember that thing? It was 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 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:16.320 know. Anyway, that was terrible. And then the worst part is that now Blackberry develops the 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, 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, 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. 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 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 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.880 a software company. Remember VBM though, that was tight. Definitely the newest generation of consoles. 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 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. 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 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 00:10:13.280 --> 00:10:18.800 incredible hardware increases and the like that we were supposed to expect these massive graphical 00:10:18.800 --> 00:10:24.320 improvements. And then everything's still targeting prior consoles, which is like, yeah, okay, that's 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 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 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 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:44.480 remake, there's just been nothing that has seemed remotely impressive from a technical standpoint. 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 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. 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 00:11:01.920 --> 00:11:05.120 like a new God of War Ragnarok that's still gonna target the PS4. Why? 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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. 00:12:17.760 --> 00:12:22.240 And apparently none of the backers are actually getting their product, which is sad to say, 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.960 but I don't think I'm ever ever going to see the product again.