Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast - Quarantine Updates, 480p YouTube, & Apple Purchases the Dark Sky App

Episode Date: April 3, 2020

In this episode, we begin by taking a look at how quarantine is affecting our everyday lives and how tech is helping us stay sane during it all. Next, we discuss how YouTube and other streaming platforms are downscaling videos to 480p and what that means for people who like that sweet, sweet HD video. Then, we talk about Apple purchasing the amazing Dark Sky weather app and proceeding to announce that they're removing it from Android devices. Finally, we wrap up the episode with our regularly-scheduled listener Q & A! Enjoy, and stay safe out there everyone! Links: https://twitter.com/wvfrm https://twitter.com/mkbhd https://twitter.com/andymanganelli https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/picturesofmac/ Orrin Coley COVID 100 Challenge: https://bit.ly/3bOcsfo Gus Johnson Mousetrap Blackjack: https://bit.ly/2R2fe92 The Verge Safe Delivery: https://bit.ly/344cn4R Some Good News John Krasinski: https://bit.ly/39y38eg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We're your hosts. I'm Marques Brownlee. And I'm Andrew Manganielli. And today we are full on completely separate and quarantined as we should be. Yeah, this is a lot different not looking at you. True. I've talked to you over like VOIP or whatever before, but once that intro came in, now I'm like, this is really weird.

Yeah, it's usually we're face-to-face or at least at the same table talking. Now it's a truly audio-only experience, both for the listeners and for us. But obviously, with everything going on, it makes sense. The mics might sound a little different also because they are different microphones. I am in the studio uh right now so i am we're on a call but i'm recording into a blue yeti uh what is the model number of this i bet i could check the model number real quick so i'm uh i'm recording on i'm in the studio but with a blue yeti x

this black usb microphone i'm almost kind of in the same setup but do you have like a like a podcast setup with a mic at home uh definitely not like we have set up at at work but i streamed for a little bit it didn't go too well but i still have a decent like computer setup here so i i'm using a samsung g-track pro uh it seems like it's a really great usb mic it's also usb though and i mean i guess coming from this you these are much cheaper microphones than what we use at the office so oh yeah if everyone thinks this sounds good here's a budget podcast setup yeah for sure yeah i mean it's not the it's not the greatest thing in the world but it'll definitely work for now so what have you been what have you been keeping busy with?

Because I know social distancing is a responsible thing to do, so you're limited to walking the dog and maybe going into the woods or something. So the only thing I've gone out for is to the grocery store, I think once in the last three weeks. Same. Just because eventually we ran out of food. I think once in like the last three weeks, um, just cause eventually we ran out of food.

Uh, Trader Joe's also shout out to them, did a fantastic job at everybody keeping like a safe distance. They only let so many people in, they sanitized all the carts and everything. So that made me feel like really, really good about going out. Um,

other than that, I mean, number one, I watched all of tiger King, is incredible and i hope you've watched i keep hearing about it i keep hearing about i haven't watched it but there's uh there's a lot of memes out there this you have to watch it because of the memes there's this like i'll never financially recover from this meme that's come from it and it's amazing and I feel like it would fit into our channel very, very well. Let's see.

Mac goes on a walk like every single day. He's benefiting the most out of this for sure. If you want to follow pictures of Mac on Instagram, I will be posting a lot there because I'm very bored. I'm picturing him walking like by himself, no leash, just outside chilling. He's not. not i don't trust him that much there's not a lot of people outside though it's kind of eerie um but we've we've discovered every neighboring neighborhood around us at this point i think nice let's see i think i've i think you've been doing this as well but i've just been working out a ton because i'm bored and i can't go climbing and i want to do something to like kind of stay in shape but also i just have so much time

yeah i was trying to hit i was trying to do 30 days in a row i haven't quite gotten to do that but i'm on a pretty good streak too yeah that's that's good i found this uh one of these climbers that i followed named oran coley out of Europe. He's started this COVID 100 challenge that is insane. They do 100 pull-ups, 100 crunches, 100 push-ups, and 100 squats and try and see how fast they can do it. I think he's down to like nine minutes. It's insane. I'm doing a half version of it,

and I'm getting at like 15 minutes, and I'm dead after it. So that's my like my way of judging myself of how far I've come in this. And then other than that, cooking, a lot of cooking, a lot of video games. And I'm trying to learn how to play the harmonica. But that's driving Claire crazy. That's like some apocalypse like last man on earth type of thing just in a corner of an empty room playing harmonica exactly out in the middle of the woods with my lean-to

shelter and nice but yeah yeah one of the things so i've been we've i've gone into the studio and we we have this sort of slow moving process of moving all this stuff from the studio spaces we have into the the new space and i'm going to send you a picture right now of yeah i want to progress that i've made so the this is i'm going to send you a picture of the current studio on its way out and i want i want your reaction to it i texted it you. I'm excited to see this. So like I've been moving Studio C and I did one day where I felt so good about it. I was like, yeah, Marquez is going to like be so pumped. He doesn't have to do all this moving by himself again.

And he's going to see this. And now like this is all happening and I just feel useless here. But let's see. Oh my goodness. So like the carpeting tile from basically half the studio is completely gone you some how did you manage to get that like uh what do you call it like tv stand i guess from behind the couch okay i just said just sent you. You've like literally,

you've gotten the heaviest things out of there. I've gotten everything so far that I believe I can fit through the door without disassembling. So I sent you two more photos of how I've done it. And one of them is downstairs with all the new floor set up and then one of them is in the elevator. So the next desk is the perfect maximum width that i can roll it through any of the doors and it supports a ton

of weight so basically any of the furniture that is in some dimension narrow enough to fit through the door i will lift it up i should do like a vlog or like a time lapse of this or something yeah i'm super interested because this is like not just lifting it up onto a little cart. That's like, it's like four feet off the ground that you have to get. Onto the desk, yeah. Yeah. So I lift it up on one side at a time. I'll put one side on one side of the desk and then I'll lift up the other side, put the other side on the desk and like balance it out, get it somehow in the middle.

put the other side on the desk and like balance it out get it somehow in the middle and then wheel the desk through all the doors into the elevator downstairs into the new space and then set it up so so far i've done like four couches a couple chairs some desks some two two ottomans is that what they're called a bunch of furniture basically that I've gotten to fit through the door I'm probably gonna have to get some help to move the bigger like wardrobe stuff but yeah it's going pretty it's going pretty okay so far I think it's worth probably a video of like the process maybe that's what I'll do for quarantine content yeah man that's that's impressive I feel way less accomplished by what I did with Studio C after looking at this stuff. But I feel so bad. Like, this is how you started in this space is that you had to move all this stuff by yourself.

I think you had a little help back then. But, like, now you finally had a full team behind you. And we were going to all just tackle this. And now you're sitting there doing it by yourself again. Well, the fun part will be when you guys get to come in and like a month or two whenever that happens and like you'll just come into like a new studio and it'll be it'll be all set up yeah it's gonna be great for us but yeah the exact opposite but i get i get a sense of satisfaction from setting things up though

there's this weird like when i get a new phone and i get to like set everything up again i don't do the auto setup i like do a lot of it manually and i feel like it's a little bit parallel i get to i get to build the studio exactly how i want it that's yeah all right well then then this seems uh like some a great thing to be doing while i'm pretty good we're all real bored yeah um all right what do we have next on the agenda here oh i've had i've had way too much time on my hands here obviously um that all these like little things that annoy me now that usually like so now something annoys you but you're in the middle of the day and you're busy so you just kind of forget about it and you deal with it. Oh, it's like a shower thought. Yeah, kind of.

You never have time to see what's wrong with it or how to fix it or whatever. But now when you're sitting at home all day, you've got a million things that just make you mad. And you have plenty of time to think about them. So I started jotting down all the tech things that just annoy me. And I thought, what's better than to just like let it all out there i've only i've gotten three things down right now but i will continue to add to this list because i have a feeling we're going to be doing this for a little while longer um all right do you do you have cable at home i do yeah do do you ever go to like the on-demand section of it and go through past a TV show you might have missed

or see what movies are on demand and stuff like that? I've seen them, yeah. Or even just you can watch old episodes of TV shows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what cable company you use, but the UI from Verizon is literally the slowest UI I've ever used in my life. Oh, yeah. I don't know how it's always.

There's always a couple of things in life and tech that you can count on being slow and laggy, even if they're brand new. One of them is the TV remote and just the UI of like the Fios like on-demand menu. Exactly, yeah. And the other one is for some, always the in-car navigation stuff. That's what I was going to compare it to, actually. It's like, how have those two things... Car manufacturers and cable companies are making so much money. I don't understand how they're not up-to-date in stuff like this.

The amount of times I try and type in a TV show on like Verizon's On Demand and I click the button and it doesn't move. So I click it again and then it registers two clicks. And I, it's just like sitting here at home now is just infuriating to think about. Honestly, the answer probably is they're too big and not enough people care.

And if some random new company came along and that was their thing is like we made a super fast cable box ui it wouldn't be enough to get people to switch it's sad that that can be could be like an actual selling points like our ui feels like it's from the year 2000 not from the year 1990 1990. I would buy that. I would go to that cable company instantly. All right. I also have, have you ever had on Twitter, when you start searching somebody in it, and like halfway through typing the name out, you see them pop up on the drop down menu, and then you go to click it, but then as you stop typing, it adds two more hashtags above

that, and the thing you tried to click moves down. And then you click on the wrong thing. This, yes. And this also used to be actually a really annoying problem in Android. I don't know if you remember the old share sheet in Android, where if you go, so this, they changed it, I think, two generations ago. But if you go to share something you hit the share button it would pop up this menu where it would open up a bunch of apps for you to share it to and then right as

you're about to hit the icon for the app you're going to share it to it would bump it down by like two lines as it filled in your contact list with like your common contacts and then it would be too you'd tap like the wrong contact instead of what you wanted to actually share it to. And this was like a, not unspoken, but this was a very common problem people had with Android. And then they finally fixed it. Now it's great. Okay. Uh, I feel like Twitter has still not fixed that. I've noticed it plenty of times before, but now it's just like one of those things where I have a platform to complain about and too much time to think about how mad it makes me and last reddit i still i don't know how long new reddit started ago

because i use old reddit all the time but every once in a while it tries to sneak in that like hey here's the new reddit layout it's still the worst it's still awful i will never use it if they ever go to just new reddit i'll probably just quit reddit layout it's still the worst it's still awful i will never use it if they ever go to just new reddit i'll probably just quit reddit altogether but i don't know it was like i finally gave it a good chance because i'm not doing anything i'm sitting at home so new reddit pops up i go find an article start reading the comments and like one minute into it i was like i can't deal with this i will never use new reddit i think that is from how much you've used old reddit probably because i i know i i've used reddit not that much but i i use it on my phone more often and there's an app for it so i didn't

really use it on the desktop so i i think for my use the new new Reddit is fine, which probably is cringy to you, but I have no problem with it, but I can tell it's very different. There's just something about how simple it used to be. It's just a bunch of text and lines, and there's a couple little plugins you could add into your browser, and it would make a couple little things a little nicer.

And then they just tried to redo it all themselves. And now it reminds me of Dig, which is hilarious because Dig and Reddit used to be like super rivals. And the day Dig went down, all of them came over to Reddit and it was this huge ordeal. But yeah, I don't know. All right. So that's enough of me complaining.

It actually felt really good to get that all off my chest. Yeah, slowly, one by one, those new companies will pop up. We'll get a new Twitter UI, we'll get old Reddit coming back, and we'll get a new on-demand cable box menu. But we should do a little recap because we haven't done that of the stuff since the last podcast episode. There's been some videos. And I wasn't there to deal with any of this during it. So I'm equally as excited in what the behind the scenes of this stuff was. Yeah, okay. So we can start with the MacBook Air. Okay. The MacBook Air is new.

It's refreshed for 2020. It's got the new keyboard. It's got the new 10th gen Intel chips, doubles the base storage and drops the price to $999. In my opinion, this is, I mean, it already was the default Mac to recommend, but it's so easy to recommend now. If someone was looking for a new laptop, this being like the standard. The MacBook Air is back.

Would you say this is like the perfect, hey Marques, my kid's going off to college this year and they really want a Mac because that's what everybody wants when they go to college. Which one should I get? Yeah, really it is because especially a lot of the changes they made to it, as I said in the video, I was really looking forward to a 14-inch MacBook Pro or like a refreshed smaller MacBook Pro with like all these same changes. But I look forward to a computer like that because I have like a little bit more that I want to do with it. You know, some photo editing once in a while. Yeah. Maybe occasionally chopping a 1080p video,

you know, stuff like that happens sometimes for me. But generally, the MacBook Air can do, if you run macOS, if you could run a Mac and you have the budget for it, yeah, this is like the do-it-all casual browser, you know, a couple of apps here and there, like iMessage. Like this is the Mac that does what you want. Easiest recommendation for sure. I feel like I always also recommend Apple or like Mac products for laptops for college students, because being able to take it to an Apple store to get it like fixed or whatever is the easiest thing possible. And I always say like sometimes it's worth paying that little bit extra for somebody who's not like a tech head to have that ease of mind to knowing that they can just bring it in to an Apple genius bar or whatever. Now, all that being said, where the hell is the 14-inch MacBook Pro? This is the computer that I would, for me, this would be my default. I know the MacBook Pro is easy to recommend to anyone. And for me, I am using the MacBook Pro daily right now,

and it's been great, and I don't have any problem with it. But when you do start to do some of that heavier stuff, you can tell it's thermally, just because it's a little bit thinner, a little bit constrained. And of course, there's half the USB-C ports. You only get two on the MacBook Air instead of four. And there's just a couple little things. I'm not the biggest trackpad or the biggest magic touch bar, whatever they call it. I'm not the biggest Touch Bar fan, but it's there. I actually do prefer the buttons on the MacBook Air. But just make the MacBook Pro. Just make it.

Because you can't recommend right now the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the old butterfly keys and the older chips. It's just not a good buy. But they are still selling it. So if you were thinking about buying a macbook pro a 13 inch macbook pro right now don't is is the psa and uh wait for the new one or grab a higher end macbook air cool so then next we had well let's just go to ipad pro because this was the other one that was uh getting lot of attention. But it's got attention for interesting reasons.

We knew an iPad refresh was coming and we got it. This was the A12Z Bionic and a little bit extra RAM and a LiDAR camera and an ultrawide on the back. But that's basically it. And all of the attention really came from the added trackpad support and the new Magic Keyboard accessory with a trackpad built in. Last episode, I think. So now that it's out, I have reviewed the iPad Pro. And, you know, it is what we thought it was.

It's a minor bump. It's a spec refresh. It is not worth upgrading to if you already have the last gen iPad air. But yeah, we're still keeping an eye out for the new magic trackpad. I will say one, one fact check from the video, I was wondering and I asked Apple if they all have six gigs of RAM instead of just the one terabyte 12.9 inch that they sent me. And they didn't want to say so they just said, that's something customers will find out now to me that means nah we didn't put it in all of them um but it turns out it seems

like they all have six gigs of ram now so fun fact i think uh if you get any of the specs like such an apple thing to do to like have something to answer that's good and to still not answer it. Yeah, why would they not just say we bumped up the RAM? That's also a notorious Apple thing. They've never really said how much RAM is in their devices. I ran Geekbench and I saw 5.52 gigs of RAM, so I just sort of assumed like, okay, nice, 6 gigs of RAM here. Maybe it is 6 gigs, maybe it is 5.8, whatever it is.

But Apple never puts that about the iPad. Why? nice six gigs of ram here maybe it is six gigs maybe it is 5.8 whatever it is but apple never puts that about the ipad why i don't know they know people are gonna find out i i mean are they just trying to not get into the like the spec debate of everything and that's the only thing i can think of they're like a brand who are themselves and they're not comparing themselves with a million other specs because that's they're optimized differently. So it is different. I mean, on one hand, you could say they don't want to get into this spec war with tablets or comparing themselves.

But on the other hand, all they ever talk about is how it's more powerful than a PC and how they have the new A12Z Bionic. And if you go to the Apple apple site that's all they want to talk to you about is the new retina display i mean why not toss in hey there's more ram i think the normal the average person will understand more ram is good i think they can say that yeah i guess i don't know then there's also like you see these tablets set up at walmart where they're a little like uh spec sheet list is completely wrong and it says it has 250 gigs of RAM, or 250 gigs of memory,

and so maybe they just don't want to get totally screwed over by Walmart or Target messing it up. Yeah, I guess that is true. I also don't know if that's the same customer, like the person who's going to Walmart to get a $400 tablet to shop on versus the person who's dropping $800 to get like a $400 tablet to shop on versus the person who's dropping 800 900 1200 bucks for an iPad Pro to like edit videos and on their Apple

Pencil like I think I think that would have been a no-brainer to just say by the way we increased RAM by 25 40 percent whatever it is I don know. That's something we'll never really understand about Apple, I guess. But yeah, iPad Pro review is out there. It was a lot of fun. A lot of this is like, just to zoom out a little bit, shooting videos by myself is sort of a little more of an old school feel.

I guess there's the third person shots and the rolling shots and all that. They're all really fun, but when it comes down to it, I'm, I'm still just reviewing a device and I'm pointing the camera at the device and myself. So it is also kind of a, kind of, you know, a throwback to be making videos with just a couple of angles and just talking straight about the device. How does that feel?

Like, what does it feel like to be doing it like you did? When did I start? Three and a half years ago. So it's been a while since you've made a video, made a group of videos, at least completely by yourself. Right. Yeah, I think it's, I mean, it's fun. It is a challenge because there are certain things I want to show where, like,

I'm taking a photo and I want to show, like, the back of the phone as I take a photo or show like that I am taking photos and I can't really get those angles. So I can I can still tell pretty much the same story visually with the couple of angles I'm confined to. But it also sort of brings out the new, I just bumped the mic, but it brings out the new, slightly more creative, fun, just product photography, shooting videos of products angle that I've enjoyed like forever. Like that's 10 years old for me and I'm still going to love doing that. So that part's still fun. But yeah, I don't know. It's definitely quiet. It's quiet.

Yeah, right. I'm sure. That makes me jealous that the building is probably so quiet. I saw one shot from the next video we'll talk about, which is P40 Pro, where you're up on the roof. You saw the elevator shot? Well, that was also confusing, but there was one kind of over the edge and there was one car in the parking lot out front. And if people are worried that Marquez is going to the office and there's like a lot of people, that parking lot is filled by eight o'clock every morning. So the fact that you're in there in the middle of the day and there's one car means nobody is going to the office right now. Yeah, it's a very quiet building and I just straight up don't have to interact with other humans but the other thing yeah like if you saw in that that p40 pro video which we can talk about

um there was a shot where I was walking towards the elevator getting a shot and then the elevator opened that was I guess sort of a small flex if you understand this building which is I took the elevator up to the roof. The roof opens up. There's no one up here. I'm shooting on the roof for like, you know, 25 minutes, whatever, getting a couple of shots of the phone. And then I go back, roll over to the elevator to call it to go back down. And it's waiting for me still on the roof. No one has taken the elevator. So yeah, I yeah i just uh i got one shot quick as i was walking over to the elevator door opening because uh it was just chilling waiting for me i was trying to figure that out when i was watching it whether somebody just didn't get off or rode the elevator

up and then was going down i don't know but that's funny yeah we've never been on the roof and it's come right away yeah um so the that video so that was huawei p40 pro uh impressions and and basically a first look so huawei unveiled well you probably saw three new phones uh there's a p40 there's a p40 pro and there's a p40 pro plus uh not my favorite name but there you go. And these are again, uh, kind of like the find X two pro. These are like spec heavy, like pretty great, obviously flagships and a lot of cameras going on. Um, but they are also not as relevant to the U S market because there is no Google support and there's no Android. I mean, there's no a Store and they have the Huawei app gallery and they've made their replacements basically

by now. But yeah, it's not something most people in the US are going to be buying. Yeah, no. I feel like we'll get hate for that, but that's just how it is. I mean, if you ask someone, just ask anyone really, what phones do you see

in stores? What phone would you consider buying? And they're going to go straight from Apple to Samsung to Motorola to maybe there's an LG or Sony or HTC, but even OnePlus shows up. But I don't think they even know they can import a Huawei phone. Also, yeah, they did have one spec that I was particularly impressed by, which is they have 40-watt wired charging and 40-watt wireless charging, which is, that's insane.

For perspective, the iPhone used to come with a 5-watt slow charger. Now it comes with, I think it's an 18-watt fast charger in the box. And that's fast in air quotes. Now you have like the 30 and 35 watt, uh, dash charging from one plus, and now you have 40 watt charging, but 40 watt wireless charging. Um, that's nuts. I'm really excited. We're like, I'm glad it was a bigger company doing it because if we saw one of these small companies pulling that off, it'd be like, that's nuts i'm really excited we're like i'm glad it was a bigger company doing it because

if we saw one of these small companies pulling that off it'd be like that's dangerous yeah i don't know if i trust that yeah that's yeah it's one of those things uh also a quick fact correction i said that the the p40 pro would have 40 watt wireless only the p40 pro plus will have 40 watt wireless charging the p40 pro has 27 watt wireless but they messed up their spec sheet when they gave it to us but yeah that uh that is some serious wireless charging horsepower and that is kind of funny yeah if you saw like i don't know if you saw like a budget phone if you saw like a real me phone and they said 40 watt wireless charging you'd be like whoa wait a second i don't know what's the catch yeah i'm not doing what's the catch um yeah so that that was the p40 pro uh an interesting phone to get hands on

the hardware is really cool but i don't see uh i don't see that being super um influential here but then we get to the last video which is i don't always do a what's on my phone or what's on my tech video but i did for 2020 what's on my phone for the galaxy s20 ultra people ask for it every single day like pretty consistently every day people i'm sure the day after you posted that asked for an updated version that's just how quickly it comes up yeah Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot. I don't know. I've done, I think maybe three years in a row or since 2017, at least of like what's on my tech. But the thing is, once you've done it that many times, you sort of get into a rhythm and I have a very similar setup each time, especially for what's on my phone. You know, I've got my like row of eight apps, 10 apps at the bottom and I

have my messenger and I'm, what do you expect's instagram it's twitter it's the same couple of things usually but it's a couple small changes but for this video uh for galaxy s20 ultra i did more of like a how i alter the setup for the phone uh video so that's more of like you know you can get a phone out the box and just like set up your apps and start using it. But once you get in beyond that, there's a bunch of settings you can tweak and things you can change and default behaviors you can adjust that will all make it either faster or faster for you or just more predictable the way you want it. I wouldn't necessarily make this type of video for a non-Samsung phone.

Yeah, exactly. Like if my daily driver was the OnePlus 7T, I wouldn't have nearly as much to change about the default behavior because I use the default launcher pretty much as is out the box and I don't have to disable the Bixby button and I don't have to do all these other things

that I tend to find more predictable about those ROMs. So, yeah, it was just sort of a brief look into what I do and what's on my phone format. Yeah. So specifically, if you are listening to this and you have a Samsung phone and you want a couple of neat tips and tricks, it's probably a video to go check out. That's for you. That video is for you. Do you have any tricks? I mean, you're still, what's your daily right now? Pixel 4? Pixel 4, yeah.

Do you find you have any pro tips? Like you speed up the animations, or you do anything wacky we might not expect, or you sort of closer to stock? Just charge it all the time because it's going to die if you don't. Fair. Pro tip.

Pro tip. Have a wireless charger at every one of your desks and next to your bed that's yeah i was gonna say are you you're more of a wireless charger at this point because you came from a note yeah note is what started me there and then like wireless charging seems so gimmicky i've definitely said this before but the minute you have a charging pad like at the main places you are which to me is i have a desk at home i have a desk at the office and i have my nightstand at home when you have somewhere like a wireless charger in those three places you'll never want to plug a phone in ever again yeah

i think this was uh this is the one thing hold on let me pull something up but that actually kind of comes back to one plus which i was talking about because that that sort of was one of the last phones that i use on a heavy basis that didn't have wireless charging like i have a wireless charger at my desk i have a wireless charger at home actually a pixel stand at home uh but i kept switching back and forth between phones with wires and phones without, uh, phone, sorry, with wireless charging and without. So I also have a cable sticking out next to the wireless charger, both at my desk and at home.

Uh, but the one plus eight or the eight pro, whichever it is, is rumored to have wireless charging finally this year, uh, which I think would, would yeah i think that would complete like the flagship uh lineup of like they all just have wireless charging now there's no reason not to sort of get invested and maybe have one at your desk and just always be topped up yeah that that would potentially sway me to find like i've loved one plus i think their phones are great and i've debated going to one for a long time but for some reason that that wireless charging i'm so deep into it so if that's true have you have you seen the the specs that they've like you know how they

always tease oh okay well they've i mean they every year tease like a one or two or three specs before the phone comes out. I'll read the specs that they have confirmed to you and you can tell me if this is, I mean, they're all obviously going to be pretty good and standard, but let's see. They've said 120 hertz. They said that like way back in January.

They've also confirmed Snapdragon 865, UFS 3.0 storage, and LPDDR5 RAM. Nice. I mean, OnePlus is never one that I would ever be worried about specs-wise because they're always, that's their thing. That's their shtick.

Yeah, specs for money. I think the question is going to be what models do they introduce because there's a rumor of a OnePlus 8 or like a standard OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro. So they're stratifying a little bit. So that'll be interesting to see. But yeah, a lot of rumors coming up about those phones. But I think, yeah, we kind of hit the four video projects from last podcast episode. Yeah, I think we did.

Do you want to give any quick quarantine content we're not going to go super deep like last week but we usually do content we liked so quick oh quick shout out anything uh let me let me go to my sub box real quick i bet this all right while you look i'm going to shout shout mine out real quick um gus johnson we've talked about him before he had a video called mousetrap blackjack it was like all lowercase not clickbait i saw it i was like gus is usually funny but he's usually funny in his like two minute videos are the best and this was like 15 minutes long and i clicked on it just to see because i was confused how he would put a mousetrap in blackjack and it was

the greatest video i think i've ever seen by him. I think I've watched it four times since then. My wife loved it. It was hilarious and made no sense, but it was perfect. Just go watch it. We'll put it in the show notes. Nice. I think you saw it too, right? I haven't watched it yet, but I will now.

You should watch it. It's so funny for no reason at all, but it is so good. You should watch it. It's so funny for no reason at all, but it is so good. I will toss in just Peter McKinnon's channel right now. He's on like a rampage of, he's uploaded I think every single day or just about that for maybe two weeks running now,

which is awesome. And he's obviously doing all this creative stuff, moving into his new studio, photography challenges, green screen edits, paying artists to edit his photos, all this stuff in the midst of it. So Peter McKinnon absolutely crushing quarantine content right now. So just check out his channel if you're interested in any of what I just said.

Cool. Well, I'll put that in the show notes, but I'm pretty sure every single person listening to this is a sub to Peter already. Yeah. But check it out. And then there was one other quick thing. There's just a really good Verge article about how to safely order takeout and delivery. And I think the most important part of it was how all these delivery places are doing contactless drop-off where you're paying on your phone, everything.

Delivery drivers are just dropping it off. But apparently, since people aren't seeing the delivery drivers, no one's tipping anymore. So if you're ordering delivery, just tip everyone out there. It's not a great job, and they kind of rely on your tips. They're the reason you're eating tip in the app tip in the app if you can because obviously cash isn't the best thing to leave floating outside in the wind all that yeah well they and they talk about that also just you're handling cash and then giving it

to someone who doesn't know if you are sick or not so true also i'm at we're at the point where max starting to think it's dinner time so if you hear any noises in the background, he's literally like paws up on my chair begging for food right now. That's adorable. Okay, wow. So let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk through some more newsworthy stuff that we didn't quite cover in videos. Be right back. Cool. BetMGM, authorized gaming partner of the NBA, has your back all season long. From tip-off to the final buzzer, you're always taken care of with a sportsbook born in Vegas.

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The podcast continues, and I think we should just jump right into the apocalypse. The news, the headlines go like this youtube is reducing its video quality to ease the strain on the network for the next month now that is technically true um but really all that's happening is so for the next month YouTube is reducing worldwide. It started in Europe but now worldwide. The default video quality is going to be standard definition 480p for everything

for the next month just to reduce like there's just straight up more people online right now. Netflix had to do this. I'm pretty sure a lot of these these Zooms and all that. I think Amazon and Apple were also kind of trying it out there in Europe and looking to come worldwide. So now that that strain has actually taken a toll on them, they've decided to, yeah, you can still watch in HD. As of right now, as we record this, you can clearly just go

back and check the 1080p or the 1440 or the 4k box if you want um but they've just reduced the standard to 480p to take the strain off of all the people they were defaulting to 1080p just for a month yeah it feels like it's really not that bad like it's one of those things where all of us read it and we're like no everything's gonna crumble how am i gonna watch anything like but like 80 people are not gonna notice this this even happens they probably could do this normally and then just no one would even blink an eye except for us pretty much i actually yeah i actually noticed i well yeah because i watched everyone yeah all of us and everyone listening to this there's like the tech

heads out there there's the the film people out there they're gonna notice but like when you think about the average person that's far far below average that would notice it yeah i was watching i watch videos on my phone like almost like the same way every day. So like, I'll notice if something's different about it, if there's a YouTube app update or whatever. And I was like, frustratingly having to select a 1080p when it was like defaulting. I was like, my phone is like, this would only happen if I didn't have a 1080p screen. Like, why, why wouldn't it default to 1080? And then I realized, oh, I remember. It's because YouTube's defaulting to 480p right now. That's actually interesting because I haven't even noticed it's done that, but that's because I've been home. I've always just cast it to my TV now. I don't think I've watched a video on my phone

in like three weeks at this point because I just put it on the TV downstairs or I'm at my computer and I just watch it on the computer. I think that still will default to the lower quality, but you may just not notice it as easily. Huh. Because when you're prompt, you're casting it. Now I'm losing my mind. Do I not even?

Well, it's like I'm sending it to the Samsung YouTube app, I guess, because it's not through an actual Chromecast. So I don't, yeah, I don't know. Everything's looked fine. Am I just really bad at this now? I'm an average person, I guess. Hand me your nerd card. Yeah, I don't know. Don't ever come back into work. I don't know, man. No, yeah, that's just the fact of it. But I think that also sort of highlights that YouTube and, you know, everyone watches netflix and everyone's got their shows that they like but the the quarantine content hashtag thing if you go look through that like there are people legitimately just like embracing it like youtubers and

personalities online are sort of filling in the gaps of like keeping you company while we're all sort of in this together we can watch videos and and distract ourselves from the chaos in the world just for a little bit every day just from watching videos that's kind of why i love how many how much peter mckinnon is doing and how much yeah tons of other creators are doing right now especially in this time even some of the big time people like it's really cool seeing john oliver stephenbert, Seth Meyers, like all their late night shows are doing it from like their home. I think Stephen Colbert did it from his like hot tub the other day. Yeah.

How do they all have such. I think some of them are doing it in like iPhones or I don't. It's that weird thing. They all have such photogenic homes. Well, I mean, they all have money. Well, John Oliver's isn't just like a white room. He always jokes about it being that he lives in a void but i mean stephen colbert i think lives in montclair which is just like a

beautiful area um if you know montclair new jersey it's a very very uh nice area um yeah but like it's just interesting to see what they're recording on and i i think some of them have done it from iph, haven't they? Didn't Conan do it from an iPhone? I think so. And that's probably honestly the best way to get them to do what they want to do as easily as possible. Yeah. And I think John Krasinski's thing that he did with that new Good News show, which I also think we should link below.

That'll be my quarantine content recommendation recommendation okay watch the the good news show um and yeah i'm pretty sure i can't i don't think he ever said it but i think i'm pretty sure i can tell by the footage that that is also shot on an iphone so there you go i mean think about when we talked back to your they wanted 720p for your new year's eve thing like tvs aren't really shooting or broadcasting that high of quality. So an iPhone's probably good for little stuff like that. Yeah, and in the off chance, if you were still somehow wondering if you could start a channel with YouTube

with just an iPhone or just your smartphone camera, yeah, you definitely can. And now might be the best time to actually just look into that yeah that's something i was thinking about earlier like all these people who have thought about wanting to start a youtube channel but they work a nine to five and they have to come home and make dinner and they're exhausted like i know you're still all working remote at home but there's probably some some good time you have right now to to give it a shot to that and uh final cut pro final cut pro

is still doing that 90 day free trial are they really three months so they extended the final cut pro uh free trial from 30 days to 90 days oh wow uh so if you were just thinking of trying to see if you can edit in final cut pro you have three months to see if that works um so if you hadn't you know decided to start a channel or just make videos, you can actually get super into that. Yeah. 90 days is a pretty solid amount of time to learn at least the basics and get some decent videos out there. I mean, I came from Premiere and I'm going to say it took me like two weeks of editing to get like my keyboard shortcuts down and i was fluent in a month

so if you're coming from another operating system or another uh nle then that's not going to take very long if you've never edited video ever it it still should be plenty of time so there are plenty plenty of tutorials online and you can get going pretty quick i think once you learn how to like import everything and get the right settings down it's really not that bad yep chop chop cool okay i have some other some other heartbreaking news yeah um this one i if you watch the what's on my phone video you'll see the dark sky app was my weather app of choice it has been for i think at least three years maybe four uh it's this hyper local app where you open it up and it'll tell you exactly to the minute

when it's going to rain, when it's going to drizzle, when the radar shows it's going to snow and sunset. It's like a temperature gauge. Everything in this app is pretty sweet. It's well-designed. I love it. The news came that apple bought dark sky so the the whole company the developers of the app and they put out this blog post on their website dark sky uh and we'll link that in the show notes but essentially they're saying we want to reach as

many people as possible and we're on apple's side now and we're killing the Android app. Oh, man, they're killing the Android app? What? Apple buys up this great app. Obviously the development behind it's been excellent and yeah, it's just going to be, I think by the end, yeah, by July 1st

2020, they'll be shutting down the Android app, which is so sad. The other questions a lot of people have had about it are about the API, because not every weather app can get all their own data, right? So if you look at AccuWeather, they have their sources for things, for temperatures and for wind speeds and all that stuff. And if you want to make a weather app today, you can plug into AccuWeather's API and get all of the AccuWeather information,

but in your own UI, in your own app that you made. Same way if you want to make a map inside of your app, you can use the Google Maps API. You don't have to build your own map and go drive around getting street view from a car. So APIs, just as a general rule, are super helpful. So Dark Sky has an API. And they say on their site the API will continue to function through the end of 2021.

And then it'll be subject to Apple's privacy policy. And that's a little bit less certain. It seems like the API may also stop working. Which I think is... They're not accepting new applications for it. Yeah, so that sucks just as much as the app going away because hyperlocal weather is awesome. And there's other hyperlocal weather APIs and there's other good apps.

A lot of people have tweeted at me the carrot app, which is pretty solid and the weather underground app. Carrot like the vegetable? Yeah, I think just like the vegetable. They have a pretty sassy Twitter account that was trying to get my attention. So all right, I'm down. It's not the prettiest app. And I think I tweeted like, why has it got to be so ugly? And they were like, don't worry, I'm down. It's not the prettiest app, and I think I tweeted,

like, why has it got to be so ugly? And they were like, don't worry, human meatbag. Redesign is coming. So, you know, there's going to be alternatives, but I was just such a fan of Dark Skies, so I'm kind of sad to see it go. Yeah, that's a... What's your water app of choice?

That's... Oh, man, I feel like people are not gonna be happy with this so literally whenever i want to see what the weather is all i do is on the like the google search button i just type in weather carney every time every time and i just it's got like a slider in like the google search and i can go through do you ever do that you just use your weather app uh i haven't done that in a while i think i do that like just randomly for fun sometimes but like if you ever hear like oh you know seven to nine inches of snow coming on thursday true like you would want like all right i want to keep up to date on like what exactly is going on what's the prediction when does it start in the morning or the afternoon like all this stuff i'm always in the weather app for it so i'm trying to see if i even have a weather app now what oh you should just download

dark sky right now so you can go through this pain of it disappearing with me no no i have used dark sky in the past actually i don't know why i don't have it now but yeah that's just how i've always done it you know i'm kind of a flows with the flows with the breeze kind of i ride the wave man oh my god well you know what we're we got to find a new i mean i also have accu weather on my phone and i feel like they've been pretty good about predictions it's not the same like hyper hyper local thing uh that dark sky did and what i mean i guess i should explain what that means yeah i'm i'm kind of i mean i can kind of guess what it means but but if you could so like yeah accu weather does like what you would expect with like the uh and it does hyper local too but basically the typical

weather forecast is like 8 p.m 9 p.m 10 p.m what's the temperature at each of these times is it going to rain 40 at 8 p.m 70 at 9 p.m 100 at 10pm. What's the temperature at each of these times? Is it going to rain 40% at 8pm, 70% at 9pm, 100% at 10pm? All right, it's going to be raining by 9 or 10pm. Hyperlocal weather is essentially crowdsourced. And, and again, the API collects a whole bunch of stuff, but it'll tell you like, based on where it's raining for some other people. Yeah, rain's going to start in 17 minutes. Oh, wow. And it'll have like a countdown, like 16, 15, 14,

and it'll keep updating. So it'll tell you like if you're about to leave the house in three minutes, hey, it's going to start raining in seven minutes. And so you'll know like can I make it to the car and all this stuff. All that is super useful uh so uh it's kind of a bummer that i'm gonna have to be on the hunt for a better weather app now man this this

is a really good advertisement for dark sky which sucks because now i want to download it but i refuse to do that if i'm gonna lose two months download it right now and go through the pain it's it's the only way we can appreciate it. Send it off well, yeah. It's in memoriam, whatever. Yeah. You also brought this up in the notes. It's such a weird thing to say.

We want to provide the world with the best information possible and then to cut it off for the biggest market in the world. It's weird he says that. I can only assume that the like weird he says that i i can only assume that the next line he says is um we want to do that in a way that respects your privacy so it kind of feels like we don't trust we only trust apple's privacy apple already firing shots yeah right like it feels like a shot fired and that if i read that, it makes me feel a little better, but it still seems like there's a way you can respect privacy and still be on

a platform that doesn't alienate half of, this is another thing I wrote in the notes. You can, uh, instead of taking it away from half the smartphone world, but isn't it crazy to say half the smartphone world when it's one company versus like 10 companies but we still always consider just app ios versus android true isn't that like weird it's weird to think about

that one company is so big and and has such a market share i'm sure the market share is not 50 50 but like it's got to be pretty close and it's crazy that one company controls potentially half of the, the smartphones. Yeah. I mean, I installed, um,

I installed this, I have dark sky on my iPhone too. It's been on like my iPhone's home screen set up also for years. So, uh, yeah, I guess that's just, uh,

just some more sad news. Very sad. Yeah. We'll check carrot out bring bring the sass on um i think i have one more it's not even like a news story but i'm sure we all heard that gamestop was like making all of its employees try and come in during all of this and deeming them essential because we all know how essential it is to buy a physical copy of a video game i can't believe people still do that really i'm sure there's some argument like well

do you really own the game if you don't download it but whatever i think they eventually came to their senses and sent everyone home but now apparently they're bringing everyone back in which is just absurd to me so i don't know how you feel about this because I'm sure you haven't been to a GameStop in forever. But like, yeah, I don't know why. If any of you still go to GameStop, if this isn't the reason to just completely never even think about them ever again,

I don't really know what is. It physically made me mad to know that they're forcing people to come in right now it's crazy yeah that's weird i can't in what world do they think like oh yeah this will go over well keeping game stops open in a world where everything else is ideally not staying open for the safety of their customers and their employees come on the only thing i can think of is like hey people are home all the time they probably want to play a bunch of video games and animal crossing just came out and that's huge

but like man even if even if this wasn't going on i feel like no one goes to gamestop anyways they're probably just dying and they understand that this could probably put them under but yeah i guess that's sorry if there's some huge gamestop fanboys out there i don't think there are but it just seems it seems dangerous to me and just just dumb yeah no we should all definitely still be practicing our social distancing yeah taking it easy doing what we can being responsible and uh weathering through it together yeah we'll get through it one day. We will.

So I guess let's take one more quick break, and then we'll come back to do, I asked on Twitter what people wanted to know. People staying at home should have the most creative questions possible. That's what I'm hoping. I'm expecting real big things out of the Q&A after the break. So yes, let's take a quick break and come back for that. This is an ad from BetterHelp. This holiday season, do something for a special person in your life.

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simply the best questions we've ever had on Waveform. So I'm really excited for this. We tweeted asking what you guys wanted to know. We can talk tech. We can talk quarantine. By the way, during the break, I think I've decided the next video is going to be a vlog-ish style,

just putting together the new studio space and maybe showing a little bit of the process. Just needed a global pandemic for you to finally vlog something i guess that's what it took huh so uh i guess we can just dive right into people's questions see what we're talking about here uh all right i have one right off the bat um now see i guess you have to think about this not as a reviewer because it's if you had to stop using one of these five brands for the rest of your life which one would you kick out apple samsung google one plus tesla interesting yeah kick one of those brands out um my instinct right now is samsung wait say those

say the five again yeah it was apple google samsung google one plus tesla so if it's apple Apple, Samsung, Google, OnePlus, Tesla. So if it's Apple, that means I have to relearn video editing on some other... I could just go to Premiere, but I feel like right now I'm really, really locked in with Final Cut Pro. So I'm going to have to keep Apple, right? You go to Google and there's like every Google service I use. So YouTube... Yeah, and just like Google Search. Yeah, Google Search, Gmail, Calendar. I refuse. So YouTube. I mean, I think it's, yeah, and just like Google search. Yeah, Google search, Gmail, calendar. I refuse to use Bing. Yeah, there's no way we're getting, I think Google

is locked for everyone. Yeah. Samsung for me, I really don't use that much Samsung stuff. Like my phone is a Galaxy S20 Ultra for a while. But other than that, I'm trying to think like, do I have a, do I have a Samsung TV that I couldn't get? I don't know. Samsung's not really that locked. They don't have much of an ecosystem here. Then you said OnePlus. I could also get rid of OnePlus, but I happen to really like their phones. So I think they're on the same tier as Samsung. And then Tesla, I would keep my Tesla. Yeah. So given that choice, I put Samsung. I think Samsung is the one I would boot first, maybe OnePlus right after.

But yeah, interesting. That is actually kind of creative. There we go. Okay. It's a good question, I think. I mean, obviously you couldn't actually do them if you want to keep being a reviewer, but outside of making videos.

Mine's different though because like okay google google we all agreed can't do it but then after that i don't use apple i have a samsung tv and i love it but i also understand that lg tvs are like incredible as well yeah in their own right so like i could swap samsung stuff for lg i don't use OnePlus I mean Apple and OnePlus are both things to me I guess I use uh an iMac at work and I do really enjoy it Apple and OnePlus are both things are like I know they make really good stuff and I know in the future I will use one of their products and actually same with Tesla like Tesla is a car that I'm looking forward to getting at some point in my life. It doesn't work right now. I think if I had to not pick one, it'd probably be a Samsung or OnePlus probably.

Like Samsung helps me better now. You got me really hyped thinking OnePlus might finally do wireless charging. So like that might edge out samsung right now and just get an lg tv i do love my samsung tv by the way but i think they're the ones who they have enough alternatives to all of their different products i think you could could ditch that one yeah okay no more b, though, which would be real tough. So sad. Yeah.

Ooh. Here's one, but we have to remember. Let me ask you this, and we'll see if we can remember together. Okay. This one's from Joe. When you were brainstorming, what names didn't make the cut for the podcast? Oh. We spent a long, long time coming up with what you thought.

Yeah, I mean, we were looking at a bunch of other names of video and audio editing words. Just like audio vocab in general. Yeah, I don't know if i can think of another specific one that we didn't use yeah i think what like finally brought us it's actually kind of interesting

and and for anyone out there wondering why the twitter handle is wvfrm and why the podcast name is waveform spelled out completely is i think the reason we landed on waveform was one because it was an an audio term but two we typed it out almost like a radio like wvfrm and it's the same amount of letters as mkbhd so when you put them on top of each other they they fit and it looked really yeah it looked real nice um the reason we eventually went with regular waveform is just seo purposes and and stuff like that it's much harder to to search for being like it's waveform wvfrm it's like an extra little thing you have to search for and we weren't sure if that was a good idea or not so yeah so maybe you didn't get any names out of that but there's a little fun story as to why our twitter handle which our twitter handle we got like the minute we

wanted to do that and then the podcast didn't come out for like another six or seven months uh someone asked just is there a tesla model s raven review in upcoming if not why not change that um the truth is there's a lot of autofocus videos that i would love to do right now but as a person in isolation that is very difficult so uh the answer to why not change that is responsibility but maybe later in the year we'll get back to that we started getting a couple shots for a potential one yeah we did we shot we have about half of tesla video shot of a bunch of like uh auto park and auto summon and a bunch of these smart summon features one of them which includes brandon running in front of my car as it's driving with no one in

shooting yeah so we have that but like tying it all together with the rest might be kind of tough. That's just one you can't shoot by yourself. That's way too hard. It's so hard to shoot that. Yeah, maybe we'll complete that in a couple weeks. Oh, okay, so someone also asked, what is happening in the world of Ultimate Frisbee? Right now, it's kind of along the same lines as every other sport um obviously when you think

about what frisbee is it's a bunch of people all in one place all tossing around the same piece of plastic and then going home uh so yeah and plastic being one of the like materials that it the virus lasts on the longest yeah so not ideal and we were about to get started with the aodl season which was a spectator sport obviously um so that was suspended uh until further notice we don't know if there's going to be a season or if there's going to be a part of a season or what's going to happen there um then there was the college season which slowly got gobbled up. It was just first like pre regionals tournaments canceled. Then it was regionals and then nationals. So the whole season's pretty much gone, uh, which is sad for seniors and people who were, you know, on their last hurrah or maybe making a

championship move this year. Um, and then there's the club season, which is typically a summer thing as well. Um, again, we don't know enough about the future to say whether that's happening yet or not, but it's safe to say right now, nobody's practicing. Nobody, everyone's just working out in their basements, like, like, you know, the rest of us and hoping for the best. Yeah. I think like the first big club tournament is usually like end of June, possibly like Boston invite for us is the first one, which is usually end of June, possibly. Boston Invite for us is the first one, which is usually the last weekend of June.

It's not something they quite have to worry so much about yet because that's just the start of the season. It ends all the way in October. But we'll see what happens. Yeah. I mean, the Olympics was this summer, and that finally was moved to next year. And by the end of June, teams usually have a roster set, so that means they've been doing tryouts since the start of May.

And right now, that doesn't look like it's in the cards, but I think it'll just be kind of shortened. Has the NBA ever had lockout half seasons? The NHL has. Yeah, they've had a couple actually some some some due to a lockout uh player lockout strikes and some due to world wars oh geez okay yeah so i guess it'll be club might be something like that it's what do we think is going to happen with like nba and nhl playoffs i know everyone actually this is kind of cool that like

all of them are simulating games on like like video games and and they're doing like post-game interviews and stuff about how their player played in the i know the devil's goalie had like a uh a game where he blocked like 101 shots so they like did a post-game interview with him with like a regular beat reporter and his kids like crawling over him at his house and they're asking him about, you know, it was his best performance ever and how he felt about it. I find it's funny that they can do stuff like that now

to still entertain the fans a little bit. But do you think playoffs and finals are going to happen? What's going to... It's really tough to say. That's the weird position the nba is in right now um and to give them credit the the commissioner adam uh what's adam silver what's his name i have no idea he's done an incredibly good job of being proactive and obviously they were like one of the first major leagues to shut down um but yeah they're they're actively like thinking about wow do we just go straight to playoffs or depending on how

long this lasts do we shorten from like seven game series to five game series uh they i think they just want to find a way to crown a winner i think that's really the goal. So NBA playoffs start like mid-April, like around the 20th, right? Yeah. Yeah. That doesn't seem like it's going to happen. So I have no idea how they would finish a regular season. I don't know how close. Are there any teams like in the NBA that are like really close to playoff spots

since like a couple points difference? Yeah, it's always top eight from each conference goes the playoffs and like there was there was a team in the ninth spot with the easiest schedule and the team in the eighth spot had the hardest schedule so the momentum and they just got their rookie zion back so like they're probably going to make a run for the playoffs but who knows so there's some tough spots there but yeah that's i am not envious of the the the NBA's position to like decide all this stuff. It's going to be crazy.

It's going to be rough no matter what. But yeah, that's what's happening in the ultimate world. Yeah. Oh, someone said, what do you think about the news that Apple's doing an event right around the same date to mess with OnePlus? Didn't this happen last year? Either last year or the year before there were two events on the same exact date i think it was apple and oneplus i it definitely was oneplus yeah and it

was like a game of chicken and then eventually oneplus moved and their reasoning was well we'd like you to be able to go to both so we moved so you can go to both instead of just like, we don't want to get overshadowed, obviously. Wow. Yeah, I think that's Apple is rumored to have an event on the 15th. And right now, OnePlus is having an event on the 14th. So right now they don't have to move, but that's pretty, pretty brutal. It's close.

Yeah. Here's one that I know the answer to, but I, i i feel like i want to i want to say something about it i'm assuming you haven't played the new animal crossing game right i haven't yeah i haven't either it's it's something that doesn't really strike me as something i'm interested in but i super appreciate all the people who are sending us like tweets and stuff on uh the subreddit of like you can recreate the merch and stuff and like so your character can wear in the game and people have like posters on their their walls with the mkbhd logo and people are wearing jordans and everything like they do some really creative

stuff in there so so i like seeing all the uh the like the merchandise and stuff you guys recreate in there it's cool to see yeah i think i saw someone with the matt black everything shirt yeah i've seen that i've seen that i've seen like core logo um there's a bunch i know ken ken and rich from the tl or well from austin and john's channels they like show they're wearing like jordan and supreme stuff and their characters and it's it's so cool it's amazing well like i said it doesn't seem like a game that i would be super into um but it's really cool how people are like actually it's kind of a perfect game like here's a game where you can do all the stuff you would kind of do in real life except now you're trapped in a house so you can do all of

it on a video game instead oh okay i see there's another one asking about pixel 4a but i'm actually going to twist it as to just what's going to happen with that phone because as you may or may not know google io was canceled canceled like they were going to do uh they were going to do online only and a bunch of online sessions and live streaming, but that's still an event. It's a production that requires people coming in for it. That eventually canceled I.O. completely. Now, last year, Google I.O. is where the 3A was announced, and that turned out to be their hit phone of the year. So what happens to 4A?

Do they just silently announce it, kind of like this macbook air did i wonder if they'll do some sort of like separate live stream announcement just for that not like the whole io that needs like 10 different presenters and everything maybe they'll just do like a small indoor stage kind of one or two person setup to announce it that that would make the most sense i feel like yeah i think i think i kind of this has been a theme of like canceling major events um while we had an event for their phone which is crazy but i feel like you could do just live stream events for like here to the next couple months one plus is doing a live stream event for their phone. Doubt there's going to be a lot of people there.

I think they're just going to live stream a recorded video basically to announce it. Maybe Google would do that for the 4A. Who knows? Yeah, they've got to do something. Some sort of video, someone needs to be talking, whether it's just one person or I don't know. It might be pretty primitive, but it'll,

I'm sure they'll do something for it. Yeah. Okay. There's another one. I'll ask this to you. How has the use of technology impacted the way your family and you communicate or even with friends? I mean, like we're all seeing these zoom hangouts and Zoom, Zoom, Zoom is just like, it's everything. So we don't use Zoom for everything because it's a time limit on it unless you have the, so whenever we hang out with any friends that are teachers, one of them usually has one and they can use their full blown one, which is nice. But a lot of Zoom or video hangouts, a lot of Jackbox. If you don't know what Jackbox is, it's a fantastic game where one person can share the screen and everyone can just play it on their phones.

So we do that a lot. I actually think one of their games called Drawful, which is very fun, is free on Steam right now. So highly suggest that to anyone who's trying to find a game that's easy to play over video chat stuff. But yeah, a lot of that and then other than that i use technology every day i'm just using it way way more now i'm sitting on my computer all the time i'm casting stuff while i work out or just watching tv or netflix and tiger king obviously i was gonna say that there's just a lot more like video calling to just in general like i've had briefings which are video calls instead of meetings um which has actually been great and then i've had yeah just like when you have to we try to catch up with people

you can either call them on the phone or like a zoom call like i've i bet zoom's maybe more strained now or just growing more now than they ever have in the existence of their company like they're they're everywhere now so yeah just spent a lot more of that it also sorry i forgot about this i feel like it also is just going to make everyone realize that why are all webcams so terrible on laptops like there's nobody like i just use my laptop webcam because i don't feel like grabbing the webcam off my computer to like come in to use it for that just to be a little higher quality but like everyone's webcam is so bad actually the only time i actually pulled my other one out is we had some friends uh we've talked to them for a while

they wanted to teach us how to make homemade pasta and we're like all right now we've got the time so i like set up the nice webcam on my uh microphone arm and had it like so i could talk to them but then when i needed to make sure i was doing something right i would bend it down to the uh the cutting board where i was trying to make the pasta so it actually came out really really good so uh I doubt Bree and Katie are listening to this but they did a great job teaching see this is the this is the beginning of a revolution where everyone realizes how awesome it is to do stuff online instead of in person yeah all right I mean we'll see I have been thinking you streamed with

Austin the other day right yeah we did a quick live stream on his YouTube channel. That was pretty cool. I was watching it. I was sending in dumb messages to try and get you guys. I saw your super chats. Those are great super chats. Man, if we stay quarantined long enough, I think we're going to have to find out

how to do some sort of team live stream. I've had a couple ideas, actually. Have you ever heard of, I think I've talked to you guys about it's called uh keep talking and no one explodes oh uh no it's a it's a really fun game where basically like we would all be on some sort of voice chat and one person has this like bomb in front of them on the screen and everybody else has this like manual on how to disarm all the different aspects of the bomb so one person has to can see the bomb but no one else can so they have to describe to everyone what it's like so i thought

it would be kind of fun if we we live streams like you me me, Vin, Brandon, some of us, you know, we take turns switching between who has the bomb and who has to read the directions or something like that. I'm trying to think of a game we can all play that might be fun. That could be solid. Yeah.

Oh, okay. All right, here's a, maybe we can wrap up on this one. With Huawei's Porsche line and McLaren's one plus collab which smartphone manufacturer should partner with tesla for maybe like a roadster collab and what would that look like wow that is actually a pretty interesting creative question is it bad that my my first impression is it's gonna look terrible because

all of the supercar collabs look awful generally the mclaren one looked better yeah they get they get pretty wild with the design i think the porsche even the porsche like huawei stuff is hit or miss some of it looks kind of tacky uh the cases they make for all of them are terrible oh yeah they get really carried away with the leather stitching and all that fun stuff maybe something i guess when you go with tesla you kind of have to either emphasize battery or speed so to me like the rog phone is coming to mind like biggest battery in a phone not what i was expecting you to say interesting i mean they're both sort of like over the top techie right yeah biggest

battery fastest phone that's like the that's the roadster in a phone right there yeah that makes sense it's not the best looking so then let's let's take this off of that and go to what car company would you pair up with google and what car company would you pair up with apple and samsung yeah were you were you thinking i would do one of those for the roadster for tesla i was trying to figure out a reason to pick one of those i was not thinking you were going to go asus um so now now i'm wondering like what i mean if if we're getting to the point where asus is partnering with a car company, I think we're at the point where Google, Samsung, Apple probably is too. Probably, yeah.

So, okay. I mean, the thing about, I was going to go like something like a Prius for the Toyota, but I guess you need like a supercar. So you got to go really, you got to pick another supercar. If you want to make fun of a phone company, you can pick a Prius. Let me go with, so if you're apple apple's probably easiest place to start because you go clean design specs don't matter but user experience does you probably go with like a super high-end luxury like a like a maybach or like a bentley or something yeah okay because then because you know obviously you're gonna pay extra for the status symbol like yeah yeah so there it is bentley edition iphone 12 all right now you talking about that

got me thinking towards samsung which is like the opposite it's like super flashy what's flashy and not clean and i'm instantly oh lamborghini already did it with Oppo, though. Oh, yeah. There's a Lamborghini edition Oppo Find X. So maybe Ferrari for Samsung, which is just like, I feel like, wow, car people are going to hate me for this stuff that I say because I have no idea what I'm talking about. I love this. Ferrari feels like a little cleaned up version of Lamborghini. a little cleaned up version of Lamborghini. Lamborghini is like super aggressive,

like sharp lines, like overly video game-ish where Ferrari still has a little bit of its old, like oldness. Yeah, thank you. Heritage coming out behind it, but still looks aggressive and really sharp and powerful. So I would go Samsung there.

I think that's fair. Now Google. Now what is Google? Now Google is good at the thing that most people don't appreciate much, which is software. Most people don't realize how really important it is to be good at software. They're great at it. So, how about I have an idea. Let's see what you think of this.

Okay. And let's put, what if the Pixel was like the Acura NSX? Like, it's a great car to drive every day. It like feels like a car all the time, but it is just not actually keeping up with Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren. Yeah. And no matter how much you lower the price, you still wouldn't buy one if you could buy the other one.

Like you could make the NSX as low of a price as you want and you're still if you have lamborghini money you're not getting an nsx yeah yeah that might be accurate i love like my pixel a lot and i love the nsx i think it's a really cool car i guess that's perfect then there we go yeah nsx so uh acura edition pixel 5 look for it in your in your local your store is so boring that's gonna sell a lot trust me uh all right we'll end it at that a lot of fun i i think we might we'll get in this rhythm apologies if there's any like you know interruptions or talking over each other obviously this is the first time we're doing a remote podcast instead of being on the same setup. I think there is just a little tiny latency.

So when both of us talk at the same time, there's a couple times where both of us then stop for the other. And it was a little strange not seeing each other. Actually, I wonder if we did a video call in this just to make it. I don't know. We'll mess around with it.

But if this comes out really good, it was pretty easy. So maybe we'll do a couple bonus episodes too. Yeah, I like it. All right. Well, thanks for listening. Hopefully you guys are off staying safe, staying inside, staying responsible. And we'll catch you guys in the next one. Waveform was brought to you with Studio 71 and our intro outro music was created by Cameron Barlow.