Does anyone else hear a crazy screeching sound in the podcast at 3:40 or is it just me? For what it’s worth, I’m listening to the podcast via Overcast, if that means anything.
Yes! I came here to ask the same thing, I’m on PocketCasts.
I do not recall hearing a crazy screeching sound. I’m a More Power Users listener, on Castro.
AirPods Pro are the one Apple product that I will likely upgrade to the next generation, even though I’m perfectly happy with the current version. I’m happy to skip a few generations with every other Apple product. But the AirPods Pro are so great that I feel like even an incremental improvement would be worth the relatively small expenditure.
On the subject of Bluetooth hearing aids: I was having a conversation with two people the other day. While I was talking, one of the men picked up his phone, which was on a table in front of him, glanced at it, put the phone down and started speaking. At first I thought he was responding to what I was saying, and then I realized he was not. But who was he talking to, then? There was no audio coming from the phone, and he was not wearing earphones of any kind.
He was, of course, wearing a Bluetooth hearing aid connected to his phone.
From where I sat, this looked like a superpower. The hearing aid was invisible to me. My friend seems to have no detectable hearing impairment when using the hearing aid. And yet he can also be in instantaneous communication on his phone, which I, as a person with normal hearing, cannot do. Brilliant!
If I have my AirPods in my ears before starting a conversation with another person, I leave the AirPods in place. I can hear what the other person is saying perfectly well. This most often comes up when walking the dog and I see someone I want to talk with. I shut off whatever audio I’ve been listening to before the conversation begins and behave like a normal, courteous person in a conversation. I have never noticed that anybody thinks this is rude.
I was thinking a few days ago that a few new task managers are hitting the market, and I was hoping you and the folks from MacStories would look at the state of task management today. My wish has been answered!
I was all in on Obsidian for a couple of years but switched back to DevonThink in mid-October, and I’m glad I did. I realized I’m not much of a note-linker — I like the hierarchical organization you get with folders. DevonThink has more powerful native folder support (DT calls them “groups”) than Obsidian. Also, my research includes many Microsoft Office documents, web apps, PDFs and email messages, and DT integrates those better than Obsidian does.
One great feature of DevonThink is that a document can live in multiple groups through a feature DT calls “replicants.” Indeed, groups and tags are the same in DevonThink, just presented differently. Groups are a kind of tag that acts like a folder.
Relatively inexpensive smart glasses like the Meta Ray Bans seem more likely to catch on than the expensive Vision Pro. The Ray Bans do very little but do what they do well, whereas the Vision Pro seems to do too much and do a lackluster job at everything.
Someone on the social internet commented recently that they don’t think Tim Cook loves computers — he loves selling. I would have said Cook loves building and running the global supply chain, which was his job before he became CEO. But it’s the same principle. Cook doesn’t love technology; he loves running a global business empire. He’d be just as happy running Amazon.
If that is the case, then Cook is a more successful version of John Sculley, and the Vision Pro (and Apple Intelligence, too) are Cook’s Newton — non-technologists’ ideas for what futuristic technology looks like. Also, like Sculley with the Newton, maybe Cook is getting it right, but he’s 20 years ahead of what the technology can deliver.
Yep. I heard it on Apple Podcasts.
Yes, I heard it too on Apple Podcasts
I agree. The Vision Pro is impressive technology but it just doesn’t interest me. OTOH glasses that can give me information like Google has been demonstrating with their project astra does. I would hope that Apple has something similar ready to go in the next year or two, but if not . . .