I'm sorry but, yes we should be encouraging people who try new things. But Humane deserves nothing but hate. They're not making anything new, they're taking parts out of existing tech and making something that's functionally worse in every way to other existing devices. It's a shallow cash grab from inexperienced tech enthusiasts and nothing more. It's not solving a problem instead bringing in its own drawbacks for everything. The only company I see that deserves (or at least used to deserve) praise for making new tech using existing technology is Nintendo. They have released console after console with what seamed like gimmicks from a distance but have reshaped the gaming industry again and again.
@wailau5983 virtual boy was just too much a jump for what tech was available at the time lol. Don't remember what channel I watched recently where they stated Nintendo could have made a better system, but they chosen to do the system like they did to keep costs down and in doing so hopefully get more sales. Either way the virtual boy would be doomed.
I agree. I see Matt's point, but when you truly think about it and I argued the same when VR headsets were first coming out ( before it was sold to Facebook lol). Most new technologies when initially released are going to be seen as gimmicks because people love to put entertainment in the forefront of their lives. In other cases they may just like to add a little convince that to others seem pointless. The way Smosh made fun of the Apple watch originally is how I see devices like the Humane pin or rabbit ( or should have if they actually did the devices as an accessory as opposed to an individual device). I can see case uses for them once the tech matures enough ( real time translation sorta, quick inquiries, etc), but they are too gimmicky right now for any such real world case. For VR I can see a case like how Apple advertised their vision pro ( had it actual developer support and worked like it should) where a person can just take their headset and a laptop and have a virtual office space anywhere. Multiple monitors without the hassle of having to lug around actual monitors and the added benefit of privacy since only you can see the screens. Sadly from Mutahar's ( SomeOrdinaryGamers) review out of the box the Apple Vision Pro does not support having multiple monitors like that.
@@TheCommanderTaco VR never had and couldn't have an existing alternative though. It was always a new idea where you couldn't replicate it on an existing device, whether it's better, the same or slightly limited. And it's actually interesting that you mention VR because when it was getting reintroduced into the tech world, many companies had different ideas on how to make it work at different levels. Google cardboard and Galaxy VR with mobile VR, Oculus and Vive with PC VR etc. With something like the new AI pins and whatnot, they bring in nothing new. They're just coasting off niche cases where you could need a limited device. In which case, why did society suddenly decide that limiting yourself would be better than self control? You don't ask your local supermarket to remove all junk food when you're on a diet, neither do you have your friend do your shopping for you so you don't get any junk food. You just suck it up and worry about your health. By that logic, just use the phone for the reason you pulled it out instead of subconsciously hitting the social media app on your home screen that you yourself set the shortcut for. I also wouldn't compare these pins to smartwatches. Smartwatches have a very niche use case. Not needing to take out your phone for every small task like changing a song or seeing if the notification you got is important or can wait. As someone who sometimes rides in loaded buses, it's useful and no other tech can mimic it until we get AR glasses.
Technology is not a destination, it’s a means to an end. Technology is a tool, not entertainment. Am a nerd just a much as the next person, however companies create a technology and then try to figure out a way to market it… it should be the other way around. Figure out what people want/need and built around that.
I never had a VR headset, so I bought the Meta Quest 3 around the Vision Pro launch and I loved it for a couple weeks. The level of friction and lack of use case made it a once-in-a-while product for me. Meta updated the headset and now the headset at least can switch from hands to controllers faster now. And I can read my phone with passthrough. And on the topic of smartphones. I was thinking about investing in a Galaxy Fold 5 but I knew the folding gimmick was gonna be cool the 5 seconds I take it out of the box. So I just got another iPhone bc it was just reliable. The thing I learned about tech is, gimmicks are cool but not often game-changers. I'm at the point where I can do everything I need in a browser and the machine I use is second-thought. And if I need an account for everything, I might as well use the desktop version. Even in my music, I use open-source software that I can download off the browser and combine that with Logic or GarageBand. They don't need powerful hardware. I use a M1 Air for my production.
I got a Quest 2 when the Quest 3 came out, I love it but my issue has been it requires sooo much play space, I have a kid and I have gotten a dog since I got the head set and just don't have the room to dedicate to this device even though its a bunch of fun to play with
Normalization was always going to happen, we have just gotten way too used to massive jumps that we've forgotten and take for granted incremental and realistic jumps in technology. I don't need gimmicks, ffs just give me proper iteration instead of every damn phone or Windows OS trying to reinvent their UI. I crave boring at this point.
I've learned that if you still want to find cool weird tech that's experimental to make even the most mundane things more tolerable, you look to Japan lol. Japan also still does the really cool looking plastics on a lot of consumer products like tech or toys. Like take Beyblades for example: US versions every beyblade is a generic colored plastic and some cheap paint jobs, Japanese beyblades will do tinted metals, speckled transparents plastics and sticker sheets to add a lot more detail to look like the ones from the anime just because they feel like it.
@@Scoobawoo yeah I know, I held on to my 950 XL for as long as possible. Apologies for the long rant this topic has triggered about how much I miss Nokia and Windows Phone, and I understand if you don't reading the whole thing, and much gratitude if you do. Apart from the lack of apps I feel that Microsoft charging a licence to OEMs as opposed to Android and the preferential treatment they gave Nokia played a big roll in the platform failing. The things I loved about the Windows Phone were as much to do with Nokia's hardware design as the OS. The minimalist icons, the UI colour accents, glance-able live tiles info, the context menu being at the bottom of the screen instead of the top (in WP 8.1), the centralised People Hub with Facebook and Twitter integration, it was all just so good. I was disappointed when they shifted the context menu to the hamburger menu for WP 10 to mimic Android/iOS to appeal to developers, but even then I preferred the UI of WP 10 over other OS. The continuum feature of Windows 10 (like dex these days) while very limited was such a great idea, I actually used it a lot when traveling because the supported apps like Photos and Mail app and file explorer along with the ability to attach external storage let me get a lot of things done due to the desktop like scalable UI of the apps, like photos back up and storage management along with OneDrive. It all even functioned as a media centre in some regards as I could watch movies or listen to music locally, especially since mouse and keyboard support was quite robust. Microsoft had this vision for apps developed natively for "Windows 10" could work for both desktop/laptop and Windows Phone 10 with dynamic scaling of the UI that could adapt to adapt to both PC and mobile screen sizes, and the apps that were made using these capabilities actually worked extremely well on PC, phone and continuum (like the windows photos app, email, edge etc) Except for Samsung, almost no other Android phones had this PC like external UI (independent from the phone UI), most phones even lacking the USB 3.1 video output support via USB C, and in general other things like having a great display with good sunlight legibility, the "glance" feature, always on display, Nokia maps (one of the leaders in navigation at the time) were all sorely missed when I had to switch over to Android. Being a smartphone camera enthusiast I absolutely loved what Nokia had brought to the table - the clever UI with "pro" (manual) controls, the ability to capture true 20 megapixel images with great detail (on phones that had the 20 MP sensor) and dynamic HDR + flash that could be adjusted in post are very much missed even today. It baffles me that no one has brought the adjustable HDR/flash feature to current phones! The "high res" full resolution images on most current phones (except Apple and Samsung) don't come close to the 20MP images from the Lumia 950XL put out, and these high res modes don't even support HDR capture which the 950 XL was able to. Nokia phones even had the smart cam feature that allowed picking different faces for multiple people in group shots (like the modern version of the feature that Pixel phones now have), clicking "action" shots that stacked multiple images that allowed selecting the best shot in post, or even doing the multiple frames in one was really cool. Oh and the "living images" (the feature that records a short video along with the picture that captured the moment) with the option to select and export a different picture from that video was insane at the time. Even just being able to export images from a video (any video, not just those taken on the phone) is something I use even today on laptop and Google photos. As a side tangent to this long ass essay I am writing, niche features like capturing cinemagraphs, the Nokia "refocus" camera app, the ability to see all my captured pictures on Nokia maps by location and date (a feature also present in Google photos) were all very delightful to play around with. Lastly, the photo editing and windows photos app being able to save all steps of the edits and having the option to undo/reset the image and the OneDrive experience with having the photos sync up with my windows laptop was my first (and rather great) experience with showcasing the potential that cloud storage has to offer.
I am looking to replace my aging iP12 mini, but really no phone offers any real added value to that 4 year old phone - in fact the opposite with less pocketable size.
Yeah, lots of bosses/managers/owners are excited for AI for a number of reasons, they seem to forget that a lot of that stuff isn't exciting to most regular people, or the job loss inherent to those things.
@@ruekurei88 I don't know if you've heard of Thor from Pirate software. He has a great insight on this. AI is going to create more jobs than it kills. What you should always be focusing on no matter the situation is learning things. That way, no matter what the job market looks like, you'll have a space to fit into. Society is never going to freeze because you finally got comfortable in a state of it. Do you realize how many jobs the internet killed, or electricity killed?
@@hamzasultan96 What possible jobs could you forsee being created JUST because of AI? Every AI-bro makes this claim, but can't seem to back it up with anything definitive other than "well other industry changes did it".
Tech companies and consumers have to accept that not every product will have mass appeal. In a world of boringly conservative Apples, be a PC that has been doing some shape-shifting lately with handhelds, headless units, folding laptops, dual screen laptops, etc. Not everything has to converge in 3 to 5 configurations of the same cr4p. More choices is always better. You don't have to buy a Galaxy Fold if you're too "basic" for it. But it's nice to have for real power users (and not just M-chip buttlickers). Same goes with SD or Ally over the Switch or Piss5.
Your comment sounds a little salty towards Apple. I have to tell you, ARM architecture was THE best decision Apple ever made for its primary audience. It's sad that they had to sell overheating Intels for several years to get these people used to the idea that legacy chips and OSs are bad and should be left behind but hey, if the people believe it, who am I to judge? Macs having ARM chips just creates a solid border between legacy devices and Apple computers. Where most of the Apple computers will now be used by the most simplest of users who have money to throw away for good looking tech they can do their homework on or watch videos or do their job on. This will also have the small scale benefit of reducing demand for legacy hardware. And finally thanks to the BS Windows is doing, a lot of developers will have to switch over to ARM or Linux. Both of which would be better for the consumer, we either get efficient devices if they go for ARM or we leave behind predatory things like kernel level anti cheat if they choose Linux.
I was thinking this the whole video. For him to describe exactly what vr/ar could give him and then asked about a cheaper better Vision Pro just to say "no"?? Dude doesn't know what he wants.
I love tech, and I like Austin, but he is major wrong on the AI thing. The AI dependency seems like a great idea at first, yeah cool that it can "do the little things" as he puts it, but as history has shown time and time again, big companies and even governments will find ways to exploit it. Either it will be heavily monitored behind the scenes and invade privacy, or it will come at a cost of some sort of subscription. Not to mention that a lot of places still don't have good connection to 4g or 5g or whatever, and with AI (at least at this point and the forseeable future) only being relevant when connected to the internet that can cause problems. Also cost of entry to this type of stuff is massive. At it's cheapest it's at least a couple hundred bucks for the bare minimum, but if you truly want an experience where the AI does the work for you, you will need to either retrofit old appliances and the house itself, or buy new appliances that will talk to the AI device so it can help out. For instance, like Matt was saying about the fridge, if I have an older fridge (which I do) AI would be worthless in assisting me with anything in it because it can't see the contents. Yes I can buy a new fridge that can talk to the AI but at that point I have now bought 2 devices just so I don't have to open the fridge door.
I think the issue is that many companies don't have the proper incentives to innovate new tech. They are more concerned with their bottom line and ensuring that they can make money that they aren't really taking huge chances on new tech like they used to. I think this why when a company does actually innovate something new, they charge an arm and a leg for it, because they have to make the gamble worth it to them.
As a proud Playdate owner, i wish more tech was weirder. My Z Flip5 is very cool to use as a closed phone, and more phones need to just try stuff. I do not think I'll ever use an AI assistant as i don't have enough stuff happening to make it necessary.
We don’t really have unlimited knowledge at hand in the smart phone but we should . When you google something there should be an engine that brings you the facts without any bias. That’s not what we have and that’s why so many people live in an echo chamber.
Stone cold take: tech enthusiasts are in the wrong for wanting tech to be exciting. It's a case of putting the cart before the horse. Tech needs to do something and the novelty is just a byproduct.
I think there point is just that we don't see the same excitement we used to see back in the day. I mean it makes sense considering how ingrained such tech is in our daily lives that for the most part it doesn't feel like tech has taken as much a leap anymore. It's a guilty pleasure of mine to look up on TH-cam some old videos on tech. How excited people were when HD TV's first came out " it's like looking outside a window". You don't truly get news stations covering tech much anymore and now instead have to rely on specific outlets to get such news. As those specific outlets ( rightfully so) usually consist of people who are tech enthusiasts or very knowledgeable they sometimes don't convey the level of excitement expected either lol.
Do you understand the concept of what an enthusiast is??? It really seems like you don't. An enthusiast would want the weird stuff. Non enthusiasts don't care at all about looks or features if it works.
Early years of Android, every new version was something huge, and brought all kinds of new things. And each new generation of phones was a huge jump. Now, everything is so maxed out, you can hold onto a phone for years and not really have a problem. Recently replaced my Note 9 with a Oneplus 12, and I'm sure I'll get another 4-5 years out of this before the battery drops too much life.
The most recent exciting tech for me has been in cycling. The Garmin Varia Radar with all the recent alternatives and the advancements to Cycle Computers(Garmin 1040 Solar, or the Hammerhead Karoo) are all really cool and interesting. And you also have componants that are using 3D printing, like 3D printed Saddles or 3D printed titanium parts. Generic computer tech(laptops, phones, desktops) is becoming pretty stale with some interesting, but not really exciting, things. VR was really interesting to me at the start, but Facebooks push for the metaverse has really dulled that enthusiasm for me, as well as the very slow output of really good VR games.
Tech generally follows a path of least resistance. Like they mentioned about the laptop form factor, it’s got to a point where it’s good and convenient for most applications. I think the only way for us to go in the future is to deviate away from smart phones and tablets and such. I think the Vision Pro and meta quest 3 are still light years away from the end goal but eventually a something integrated into the senses. Glasses/ contacts and an audio device is probably the next big jump imo.
The reality is as tech gets better people become more lazy and dumb. Grades plummeting humans need creativity struggle work and activity to thrive complacency breeds ingnorance..................
1:15 I am surprised at the lower smartphone market penetration in Nigeria and India. Those are MASSIVE countries with e-payments everywhere. I suppose the rural areas account for that?
As much as I appreciate Austin’s enthusiasm (really do, it’s the kind of attitude that makes tech TH-cam fun to watch) I simply can’t agree with his takes regarding AI. A lot of the things he mentioned were already being actively developed for several years, and I don’t need these features to be repackaged to sell me this industry-wide AI craze
The other half is due to poor oversight all the small company's that could create there own thing have been gobbled up or shut down by big tech and gov . Most Americans are struggling to get by let alone a startup today .
the problem is, tech is at a point that ceos really don't like. tech is at a point where they need to start making things cheaper, which is going, but way slower than it could. like, a 1000$ pc now and a 1000$ pc then is vastly different performance wise. but what we need is tech being so cheap that you don't have to think about buying a new piece. oh this is the new fruit phone. it's 300$. it's equally as good as the last one. that kind of stuff.
You know what excites me about tech, and I know Im in the minority here? Gimmicks. I left Google Pixel phones for a Nothing Phone(2) squarely because OMG IT HAS LIGHTS AND ITS CLEAR. Now I use the glyphs all the time. Their headphones were the same. If its a gimmick I think is cool, thats what excites me. Even if its a single use thing, if its something I know Im going to use, its exciting.
I think we have reached a point in tech where no matter what you get today (except for budget android phones), you’re good. Like, there isn’t really anything that outperforms the other, everything is essentially on the same playing field. I think we, as consumers, and the tech developers, should take some years to appreciate what we currently have, let some of this technology age for a bit before we start coming up with new stuff. Because yes, AI on the iPhone sounds interesting, unfortunately, if you aren’t the iPhone 15 and up, you’re locked out of it, so why promote AI for the iPhone if it’s only going to be locked to a certain device requirement?
i also think companies have figured out its better to cheap off on the product and advertise the crap out of it rather than make cool phone and less advertising. I like the clear plastic design. Maybe its also doing adult stuff only goes so far, i dont need the latest phone for that
I love my Surface Duo. The hinge was amazing. Was awesome to be able to run two different apps at the same time. Is also superior for using my phone as an ebook.
everything new is expensive and everything a few years older is good enough & much cheaper. or if you paid a lot for something like a phone or laptop in 2020, chances are it's still working well & there are no real meaningful reasons to upgrade your tech
My S21 Ultra is still good and no matter how many emails and texts I get from Verizon asking me to upgrade, I'm not going to. I considered the folding phone but the price and inferior camera to my current phone made me say pass. This broken economy doesn't make me want to spend either.
Not all tech is boring. I have a 7800X3D+4090 (which power I can actually utilize and enjoy), while I use a 4+ year old cheap (USD250) Android phone that does all that I need it to do.
All tech is now is gimmicks... AR/VR is the future & once more developers take notice & show that it's a ubiquitous & necessary thing we need, not another tablet or high powered PC. A.I. is the killer app that will get baked in & it's up to us to train it to do what we need it to do.
I think Matt is asking the right question, like where are we with creating actual "NEW" tech....like all the talk bout the a.i. at the end just was meh. Like why would I need an a.i. to run my phone or anything...im sure it has functions but what, so we can be lazier? But where's the real innovation? I've said this to others before but where the new exciting "blah" that never existed but now is gonna be the hotness? That's something that would be exciting. We can joke and mock that hey, we don't have flying cars or actual hoverboards on a consumer level like the movie but why not? Where's that cool stuff and when can that be tech to talk about. I'm glad there's companies trying to do interesting niche things but it'd be nice if there was bigger companies will to make those leaps and maybe fund those ideas too instead of staying comfortable with essentially remakes all the time
I still believe that when AI takes off in the mobile space, it's going to be a smart watch with a foward facing camera that homes info back to phone to process. It fixes a lot of problems with current mobile AI products. 1. you have a screen (watch screen) 2. doesn't require a seperate cellular signal (homes back to phone) 3. not reliant on in hardware computation, so better battery life as pushes workload to phone 4. already can have basic functionality like texting and talking to it 5. all the companies capable of having a custom SOC with an AI portion on the CPU already is in the smart watch business.
Last thing I got excited for was Apple Silicon. I knew other companies were going to have to step their game up and jump on the ARM efficiency bandwagon and now we're getting what look to be like good competitors in that space with Snapdragon X Elite, Windows 11 for ARM is getting some effort finally, and Apple's MacBooks are better than they've ever been. So that's pretty exciting for anyone who spends a lot of time working on a laptop and needed that balance of solid power and battery life. Also, the fact that solid Mini PC's are cheap as dirt now is amazing. You can pick up an N100 Mini PC (or multiple) and build a solid home server for crazy cheap. I definitely get excited for more and more smart devices being available for Home Assistant to continue automating everything in my home. There is definitely cool stuff happening in Tech. But yeah, it isn't exactly like.. say the early 2010s when it felt like everything was advancing at the speed of light as far as things like smartphones that would become esssential to everyday life.
While tech is semi-boring rn , its like the new iPad. YES its thinner, is that cool? Yeah that's defiantly neat, but there hasn't been any piece of tech to change how we work drastically or fully transform the form factor of SOME tech product we all use I HOPE the next apple vision is cheaper so i can edit footage on my mac that's the DREAM (and if yall want an editor intern lol hey)
You would think it's boring if you have had every device in the world. People want phones because they need phones. They don't need a special gimmick every time a phone is released. When I use my phone I call, text, and watch TH-cam.
samsung dex and desktop mode popping up on a lot of devices with 9th generation arm SOCs solves a few shortcomings. I watched this video with a asus zenscreen go connected to my galaxy S22 with a logi m240 Bluetooth mouse. no keyboard!
I personally don’t see how Matt can’t be excited about the Vision Pro. It’s literally a new take on how we can experience the world around us through our tech?
People who want a cut down phone experience just get a smartwatch with data. You can text, call, get navigation, etc: but you can't scroll mindless apps. I can go a full day without my phone unless I need to video call.
Android devices have a distinct problem with long term support. Most devices will get two years of OS upgrades and security updates, after that you're on your own. %99 of users won't be willing to risk replacing the stock OS with something like LineageOS. But I believe that all Android devices should get LTS of at least 5 years.
The more we give to AI, the less privacy and control we have. Imagine a world where a company looking to make money from your data controls the software that influences your decisions, monitors your habits and reports back to its creators and possibly some government departments.
Same category, same experience of others: bought quest 3, loved it, not using it… but different mentality. Quest 3 / Vision Pro are amazing devices, totally worth then price for quest… not so much with vision for now.
Tech within phones have plateaued for a few years now. AI within phones and foldable devices have been a few of the last innovative ideas. Can it improve.....yes, but what would that be?!?
I feel like all these "Apple engineers" Humane brags about were probably fired for incompetence. What I really want to see is the CEOs personal AI pin usage. If it's so useful, how does he use it?
And the thing is the technology, especially cell phones, the sheep buy them every year, wow you might have a better battery or a better camera, but it’s not a substantial upgrade and technology to justify the cost of paying almost or even over 1000 bucks for a phone it’s not worth it anymore these days. An apple is the worst for it. Like look at the new M4 iPad Pro not worth the price at all. I literally have an M2 iPad Pro 11 inch and I got it on sale for $699 in Canada even I thought that was expensive, but I did pay for it because it was a solid price to me. But $1000 for a tablet no
I mean do you even want tech in a new form? Are we not trying to move towards the idea that one thing can do everything, as such phone, pc, vr can be the same. And you could say apple is trying something like this
Best Example of boring Technology: Smartphones! Except for the Camera-Module, the Display, the Software, the Hardware and the Backcover, they ALL have the same Shape/Design!! Back in the 90s/00s there was a real "Design-War" between Nokia, Siemens, Motorola, Alcatel, Ericson, NEC, Sharp, Sagem and Co. NO Cell-Phone was the same, THAT was diversity!!
Certain aspects feel a bit boring... but others I could do with a whole lot more boring than we're seeing. I mean, OpenAI, as Sam Altman acknowledged in his stupid tweet, is literally trying to make the movie "her" a thing???!!! Why???
The problem with AI, is it is inherently creepy. Sure it could automate a ton of things, but it's also going to be reporting on all those things back to it's parent company who'll sell that on to all kinds of other companies. Even models that run in-device will still "phone home" and report everything. You're giving permission to be constantly spied upon and much like Siri and Google assistant it has to be constantly listening to you and even watching you potentially via cameras in order to work. That is bloody creepy! We wouldn't allow government to do that, why on Earth would we (or should we) let for-profit corporations to do it?! We're literally handing over privacy and potentially freedoms for the sake of "convenience".
These are the same kind of corporations who have turned actually owning things into "you'll subscribe to everything, we can take it away at any time, you'll own nothing and be happy". And people supporting AI development are perfectly happy to let THOSE kinds of people and corporations have even more control over our lives, dictate more about it and allow them into every aspect of our lives on a far more personal and intrusive level. Really??!! Oh you don't like the idea of China having your data and knowing things about you, but you're perfectly happy allowing some faceless corporations and some billionaires have the same thing. Okay then.
Smartphones feel like they are close to the point as cars, where we shouldn’t expect many changes year over year. With how much phones cost, I would rather mine focus on doing the fundamentals really well.
Great show guys. I admire and appreciate Austin's optimism on the future of tech. But I'm with Matt on the reality of how tech is marketed to us these days. AI is super gimmicky right now and with generative AI, were are as a human species going to lose that part of us that makes us creative and our problem solving abilities will surely diminish.
11:00 AI that's actually going to run on your local device is such a stupid thing to say, outside of a few break throughs that require super computers/distributed computing actually innovative and useful AI is being exposed as just smoke and mirrors, and its being put on everything new washer and driers have stopped marketing its sensor wash/dry technology as "AI". Its straight non-sense, I say this as a software developer where every company I have worked in the last 10 years has started or already had some "AI" initiative that just turned into a half baked version of a product that we already sold that has a much much longer cycle time. There are some really cool ML things that you can do on your local machine, but there is currently no consumer electronics, and nothing really in the works that is going to make the current "AI" future a reality, adding AI processors to smart phones and consumer/business class CPUs is at best going to take away actual useful resources that the average person could use, and at worst constitute some form of grey area of deceptive marketing that is legal. What is being pushed as "AI" to consumers is anything but, and its just bananas that we as a society have let it get this far. *EDIT* Austin's examples are crazy at 11:40 *EDIT* 13:10 "Imagine your AI is a little dude in there" this software, its not conscious, its not concept of reality they are just machines that are pretty good at "learning" and due to the incredibly narrow and simplistic nature of what they are designed to do they can do some individual tasks unimaginably fast. The thing that everyone doesn't understand is that in order for something to become generally intelligent it must become exponentially more complex, and as complexity increases the time it takes to process any data becomes exponentially longer chimpanzees can memorize patterns and sets that contain up to 20 complex objects in around 0.5-1 second (for the average chimpanzee) where as a human being needs 30 seconds to a few minutes if they are capable of it at all, the reason is that human mind is far more complex and is capable of far more things than a chimpanzee's mind, as we continue to make ever more complex models the shear amount of processing power will go up not down. The reason that generative AI is being commercialized over older more capable models is because generative AI is the chimpanzee of the ML world, its not as complex, it has far fewer layers and is less capable of high complexity but its fantastic at memorizing and repeating patterns. If we are actually going to be seeing true virtual assistants that are better than our existing chat bots they are going to become progressively slower and clunkier as their models are increasingly bloated to handle more complex and nuanced situations. Phones, laptops and even desktop computers are just not capable of running "AI" algos that aren't set to a narrow scope, and they certainly won't be able to do people's day to day busy work through their phone
Tech is getting boring because it has gotten too good. No joke, I think something like nuralink where you are directly connected to the computer is the next real leap. *I don't want a computer in my brain* BUT there's not much left.
Stupid Microsoft should've released the Surface Duo 3 and the Neo. I mean those were really cool form factors, and I'd have liked to get the latest versions.
I dont know. Maybe it is because cpus today are simple iterations of the same technology of 10 years ago? No, i got it. Its because videocards are the same as from 10 years ago, but with twice cuzao cores, with an added gimmick that halted the industry? No inovation.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but it isn't that smartphones are boring it is simply that smartphones are being too saturated with the same brands. Chinese smartphone manufacturers, to me, are what make smartphones interesting right now. With multiple companies able to make foldable that are better than the samsung variant, but the only reason why they aren't able to be sold here in Europe or in the United States is because of Political reasons and Consumer stigma surrounding Chinese products.
What i think in terms of tech we already are at the peck in the year 2019 of tech however their are new styles but its all the same thing but with minor upgrades or different shapes but the new trend is ai which in my opinion could make a brake through in the perfect tech we already have
I’m just gonna say this obviously they’re gonna use this as a way to monitor everything you do so be prepared for the IRS to be far more involved in the money you make
I'm sorry but, yes we should be encouraging people who try new things. But Humane deserves nothing but hate. They're not making anything new, they're taking parts out of existing tech and making something that's functionally worse in every way to other existing devices. It's a shallow cash grab from inexperienced tech enthusiasts and nothing more. It's not solving a problem instead bringing in its own drawbacks for everything. The only company I see that deserves (or at least used to deserve) praise for making new tech using existing technology is Nintendo. They have released console after console with what seamed like gimmicks from a distance but have reshaped the gaming industry again and again.
Bro yapping too much 😂
Cough…..Virtual Boy……cough 😂
@wailau5983 virtual boy was just too much a jump for what tech was available at the time lol. Don't remember what channel I watched recently where they stated Nintendo could have made a better system, but they chosen to do the system like they did to keep costs down and in doing so hopefully get more sales. Either way the virtual boy would be doomed.
I agree. I see Matt's point, but when you truly think about it and I argued the same when VR headsets were first coming out ( before it was sold to Facebook lol). Most new technologies when initially released are going to be seen as gimmicks because people love to put entertainment in the forefront of their lives. In other cases they may just like to add a little convince that to others seem pointless.
The way Smosh made fun of the Apple watch originally is how I see devices like the Humane pin or rabbit ( or should have if they actually did the devices as an accessory as opposed to an individual device). I can see case uses for them once the tech matures enough ( real time translation sorta, quick inquiries, etc), but they are too gimmicky right now for any such real world case.
For VR I can see a case like how Apple advertised their vision pro ( had it actual developer support and worked like it should) where a person can just take their headset and a laptop and have a virtual office space anywhere. Multiple monitors without the hassle of having to lug around actual monitors and the added benefit of privacy since only you can see the screens. Sadly from Mutahar's ( SomeOrdinaryGamers) review out of the box the Apple Vision Pro does not support having multiple monitors like that.
@@TheCommanderTaco VR never had and couldn't have an existing alternative though. It was always a new idea where you couldn't replicate it on an existing device, whether it's better, the same or slightly limited. And it's actually interesting that you mention VR because when it was getting reintroduced into the tech world, many companies had different ideas on how to make it work at different levels. Google cardboard and Galaxy VR with mobile VR, Oculus and Vive with PC VR etc.
With something like the new AI pins and whatnot, they bring in nothing new. They're just coasting off niche cases where you could need a limited device. In which case, why did society suddenly decide that limiting yourself would be better than self control? You don't ask your local supermarket to remove all junk food when you're on a diet, neither do you have your friend do your shopping for you so you don't get any junk food. You just suck it up and worry about your health. By that logic, just use the phone for the reason you pulled it out instead of subconsciously hitting the social media app on your home screen that you yourself set the shortcut for.
I also wouldn't compare these pins to smartwatches. Smartwatches have a very niche use case. Not needing to take out your phone for every small task like changing a song or seeing if the notification you got is important or can wait. As someone who sometimes rides in loaded buses, it's useful and no other tech can mimic it until we get AR glasses.
Technology is not a destination, it’s a means to an end. Technology is a tool, not entertainment. Am a nerd just a much as the next person, however companies create a technology and then try to figure out a way to market it… it should be the other way around. Figure out what people want/need and built around that.
I'm with Matt. Nothing has really changed. That is why I am still running with my S21 although I probably will upgrade with the S25.
I’m still using the s21 ultra. I have literally felt no reason to upgrade. Still works great.
That phone is only 3 years old.
I never had a VR headset, so I bought the Meta Quest 3 around the Vision Pro launch and I loved it for a couple weeks. The level of friction and lack of use case made it a once-in-a-while product for me. Meta updated the headset and now the headset at least can switch from hands to controllers faster now. And I can read my phone with passthrough.
And on the topic of smartphones. I was thinking about investing in a Galaxy Fold 5 but I knew the folding gimmick was gonna be cool the 5 seconds I take it out of the box. So I just got another iPhone bc it was just reliable.
The thing I learned about tech is, gimmicks are cool but not often game-changers. I'm at the point where I can do everything I need in a browser and the machine I use is second-thought. And if I need an account for everything, I might as well use the desktop version.
Even in my music, I use open-source software that I can download off the browser and combine that with Logic or GarageBand. They don't need powerful hardware. I use a M1 Air for my production.
I got a Quest 2 when the Quest 3 came out, I love it but my issue has been it requires sooo much play space, I have a kid and I have gotten a dog since I got the head set and just don't have the room to dedicate to this device even though its a bunch of fun to play with
Normalization was always going to happen, we have just gotten way too used to massive jumps that we've forgotten and take for granted incremental and realistic jumps in technology. I don't need gimmicks, ffs just give me proper iteration instead of every damn phone or Windows OS trying to reinvent their UI. I crave boring at this point.
I've learned that if you still want to find cool weird tech that's experimental to make even the most mundane things more tolerable, you look to Japan lol. Japan also still does the really cool looking plastics on a lot of consumer products like tech or toys. Like take Beyblades for example: US versions every beyblade is a generic colored plastic and some cheap paint jobs, Japanese beyblades will do tinted metals, speckled transparents plastics and sticker sheets to add a lot more detail to look like the ones from the anime just because they feel like it.
In North America, we had 3DSs with a galaxy or a Pokemon in front. In Japan, they had 3DSs with big tiddy anime waifus.
I really wish Windows Phone had succeeded. Just the separate UI and good stuff it had going would have been a pleasant alternative.
no app developers wanted to reinvent their apps to work with windows phone. thats mainly why it failed
@@Scoobawoo yeah I know, I held on to my 950 XL for as long as possible.
Apologies for the long rant this topic has triggered about how much I miss Nokia and Windows Phone, and I understand if you don't reading the whole thing, and much gratitude if you do.
Apart from the lack of apps I feel that Microsoft charging a licence to OEMs as opposed to Android and the preferential treatment they gave Nokia played a big roll in the platform failing. The things I loved about the Windows Phone were as much to do with Nokia's hardware design as the OS.
The minimalist icons, the UI colour accents, glance-able live tiles info, the context menu being at the bottom of the screen instead of the top (in WP 8.1), the centralised People Hub with Facebook and Twitter integration, it was all just so good.
I was disappointed when they shifted the context menu to the hamburger menu for WP 10 to mimic Android/iOS to appeal to developers, but even then I preferred the UI of WP 10 over other OS.
The continuum feature of Windows 10 (like dex these days) while very limited was such a great idea, I actually used it a lot when traveling because the supported apps like Photos and Mail app and file explorer along with the ability to attach external storage let me get a lot of things done due to the desktop like scalable UI of the apps, like photos back up and storage management along with OneDrive. It all even functioned as a media centre in some regards as I could watch movies or listen to music locally, especially since mouse and keyboard support was quite robust.
Microsoft had this vision for apps developed natively for "Windows 10" could work for both desktop/laptop and Windows Phone 10 with dynamic scaling of the UI that could adapt to adapt to both PC and mobile screen sizes, and the apps that were made using these capabilities actually worked extremely well on PC, phone and continuum (like the windows photos app, email, edge etc)
Except for Samsung, almost no other Android phones had this PC like external UI (independent from the phone UI), most phones even lacking the USB 3.1 video output support via USB C, and in general other things like having a great display with good sunlight legibility, the "glance" feature, always on display, Nokia maps (one of the leaders in navigation at the time) were all sorely missed when I had to switch over to Android.
Being a smartphone camera enthusiast I absolutely loved what Nokia had brought to the table - the clever UI with "pro" (manual) controls, the ability to capture true 20 megapixel images with great detail (on phones that had the 20 MP sensor) and dynamic HDR + flash that could be adjusted in post are very much missed even today. It baffles me that no one has brought the adjustable HDR/flash feature to current phones!
The "high res" full resolution images on most current phones (except Apple and Samsung) don't come close to the 20MP images from the Lumia 950XL put out, and these high res modes don't even support HDR capture which the 950 XL was able to.
Nokia phones even had the smart cam feature that allowed picking different faces for multiple people in group shots (like the modern version of the feature that Pixel phones now have), clicking "action" shots that stacked multiple images that allowed selecting the best shot in post, or even doing the multiple frames in one was really cool. Oh and the "living images" (the feature that records a short video along with the picture that captured the moment) with the option to select and export a different picture from that video was insane at the time.
Even just being able to export images from a video (any video, not just those taken on the phone) is something I use even today on laptop and Google photos.
As a side tangent to this long ass essay I am writing, niche features like capturing cinemagraphs, the Nokia "refocus" camera app, the ability to see all my captured pictures on Nokia maps by location and date (a feature also present in Google photos) were all very delightful to play around with.
Lastly, the photo editing and windows photos app being able to save all steps of the edits and having the option to undo/reset the image and the OneDrive experience with having the photos sync up with my windows laptop was my first (and rather great) experience with showcasing the potential that cloud storage has to offer.
The release time of the This Is videos has timed up with my lunch for months and I'm so ready to eat
I am looking to replace my aging iP12 mini, but really no phone offers any real added value to that 4 year old phone - in fact the opposite with less pocketable size.
12:17 "Aren't you excited about our editors losing their jobs?"
Yeah, lots of bosses/managers/owners are excited for AI for a number of reasons, they seem to forget that a lot of that stuff isn't exciting to most regular people, or the job loss inherent to those things.
@@ruekurei88 I don't know if you've heard of Thor from Pirate software. He has a great insight on this. AI is going to create more jobs than it kills. What you should always be focusing on no matter the situation is learning things. That way, no matter what the job market looks like, you'll have a space to fit into. Society is never going to freeze because you finally got comfortable in a state of it. Do you realize how many jobs the internet killed, or electricity killed?
@@hamzasultan96 What possible jobs could you forsee being created JUST because of AI? Every AI-bro makes this claim, but can't seem to back it up with anything definitive other than "well other industry changes did it".
Tech companies and consumers have to accept that not every product will have mass appeal.
In a world of boringly conservative Apples, be a PC that has been doing some shape-shifting lately with handhelds, headless units, folding laptops, dual screen laptops, etc.
Not everything has to converge in 3 to 5 configurations of the same cr4p. More choices is always better. You don't have to buy a Galaxy Fold if you're too "basic" for it. But it's nice to have for real power users (and not just M-chip buttlickers). Same goes with SD or Ally over the Switch or Piss5.
Your comment sounds a little salty towards Apple. I have to tell you, ARM architecture was THE best decision Apple ever made for its primary audience. It's sad that they had to sell overheating Intels for several years to get these people used to the idea that legacy chips and OSs are bad and should be left behind but hey, if the people believe it, who am I to judge? Macs having ARM chips just creates a solid border between legacy devices and Apple computers. Where most of the Apple computers will now be used by the most simplest of users who have money to throw away for good looking tech they can do their homework on or watch videos or do their job on. This will also have the small scale benefit of reducing demand for legacy hardware. And finally thanks to the BS Windows is doing, a lot of developers will have to switch over to ARM or Linux. Both of which would be better for the consumer, we either get efficient devices if they go for ARM or we leave behind predatory things like kernel level anti cheat if they choose Linux.
I think they try to break the record of how many ads can be on a video, shit
VR is exactly the kind of exciting thing Matt is talking about. It's a brand new form factor that can do things phones can't do.
I was thinking this the whole video. For him to describe exactly what vr/ar could give him and then asked about a cheaper better Vision Pro just to say "no"?? Dude doesn't know what he wants.
I love tech, and I like Austin, but he is major wrong on the AI thing. The AI dependency seems like a great idea at first, yeah cool that it can "do the little things" as he puts it, but as history has shown time and time again, big companies and even governments will find ways to exploit it. Either it will be heavily monitored behind the scenes and invade privacy, or it will come at a cost of some sort of subscription. Not to mention that a lot of places still don't have good connection to 4g or 5g or whatever, and with AI (at least at this point and the forseeable future) only being relevant when connected to the internet that can cause problems. Also cost of entry to this type of stuff is massive. At it's cheapest it's at least a couple hundred bucks for the bare minimum, but if you truly want an experience where the AI does the work for you, you will need to either retrofit old appliances and the house itself, or buy new appliances that will talk to the AI device so it can help out. For instance, like Matt was saying about the fridge, if I have an older fridge (which I do) AI would be worthless in assisting me with anything in it because it can't see the contents. Yes I can buy a new fridge that can talk to the AI but at that point I have now bought 2 devices just so I don't have to open the fridge door.
RIP Surface Duo line.
Literally the best thing that has come out in a long time. They really needed to make a 3rd one. It would've been hitting it's stride by then.
I think the issue is that many companies don't have the proper incentives to innovate new tech. They are more concerned with their bottom line and ensuring that they can make money that they aren't really taking huge chances on new tech like they used to. I think this why when a company does actually innovate something new, they charge an arm and a leg for it, because they have to make the gamble worth it to them.
As a proud Playdate owner, i wish more tech was weirder. My Z Flip5 is very cool to use as a closed phone, and more phones need to just try stuff.
I do not think I'll ever use an AI assistant as i don't have enough stuff happening to make it necessary.
We don’t really have unlimited knowledge at hand in the smart phone but we should . When you google something there should be an engine that brings you the facts without any bias. That’s not what we have and that’s why so many people live in an echo chamber.
Stone cold take: tech enthusiasts are in the wrong for wanting tech to be exciting. It's a case of putting the cart before the horse. Tech needs to do something and the novelty is just a byproduct.
And that’s the bottom line
Well said 🤟
I think there point is just that we don't see the same excitement we used to see back in the day. I mean it makes sense considering how ingrained such tech is in our daily lives that for the most part it doesn't feel like tech has taken as much a leap anymore.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine to look up on TH-cam some old videos on tech. How excited people were when HD TV's first came out " it's like looking outside a window". You don't truly get news stations covering tech much anymore and now instead have to rely on specific outlets to get such news. As those specific outlets ( rightfully so) usually consist of people who are tech enthusiasts or very knowledgeable they sometimes don't convey the level of excitement expected either lol.
why would they be enthusiasts then if they don't want it to be exciting 😄
Do you understand the concept of what an enthusiast is??? It really seems like you don't. An enthusiast would want the weird stuff. Non enthusiasts don't care at all about looks or features if it works.
One big problem with Siri and other Apple products as they are just a reiteration and a rehash of somebody else's technology
Early years of Android, every new version was something huge, and brought all kinds of new things. And each new generation of phones was a huge jump. Now, everything is so maxed out, you can hold onto a phone for years and not really have a problem. Recently replaced my Note 9 with a Oneplus 12, and I'm sure I'll get another 4-5 years out of this before the battery drops too much life.
Okay no if Squarespace sold demon spells, I would absolutely be a customer. Count me in. Gemme some
The most recent exciting tech for me has been in cycling. The Garmin Varia Radar with all the recent alternatives and the advancements to Cycle Computers(Garmin 1040 Solar, or the Hammerhead Karoo) are all really cool and interesting. And you also have componants that are using 3D printing, like 3D printed Saddles or 3D printed titanium parts.
Generic computer tech(laptops, phones, desktops) is becoming pretty stale with some interesting, but not really exciting, things. VR was really interesting to me at the start, but Facebooks push for the metaverse has really dulled that enthusiasm for me, as well as the very slow output of really good VR games.
I just want a modern flagship with a slide out landscape keyboard 😂
Tech generally follows a path of least resistance. Like they mentioned about the laptop form factor, it’s got to a point where it’s good and convenient for most applications. I think the only way for us to go in the future is to deviate away from smart phones and tablets and such. I think the Vision Pro and meta quest 3 are still light years away from the end goal but eventually a something integrated into the senses. Glasses/ contacts and an audio device is probably the next big jump imo.
The reality is as tech gets better people become more lazy and dumb. Grades plummeting humans need creativity struggle work and activity to thrive complacency breeds ingnorance..................
We are gearing up for a ton of change in the next 5 years. There was definitely a plateau from 2020-2023.
1:15 I am surprised at the lower smartphone market penetration in Nigeria and India. Those are MASSIVE countries with e-payments everywhere. I suppose the rural areas account for that?
As much as I appreciate Austin’s enthusiasm (really do, it’s the kind of attitude that makes tech TH-cam fun to watch) I simply can’t agree with his takes regarding AI. A lot of the things he mentioned were already being actively developed for several years, and I don’t need these features to be repackaged to sell me this industry-wide AI craze
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 15 is essentially the same phone.
If you break it down that far, all smartphones are essentially the same.
The other half is due to poor oversight all the small company's that could create there own thing have been gobbled up or shut down by big tech and gov . Most Americans are struggling to get by let alone a startup today .
the problem is, tech is at a point that ceos really don't like. tech is at a point where they need to start making things cheaper, which is going, but way slower than it could. like, a 1000$ pc now and a 1000$ pc then is vastly different performance wise. but what we need is tech being so cheap that you don't have to think about buying a new piece. oh this is the new fruit phone. it's 300$. it's equally as good as the last one. that kind of stuff.
You know what excites me about tech, and I know Im in the minority here? Gimmicks. I left Google Pixel phones for a Nothing Phone(2) squarely because OMG IT HAS LIGHTS AND ITS CLEAR. Now I use the glyphs all the time. Their headphones were the same. If its a gimmick I think is cool, thats what excites me. Even if its a single use thing, if its something I know Im going to use, its exciting.
I think we have reached a point in tech where no matter what you get today (except for budget android phones), you’re good. Like, there isn’t really anything that outperforms the other, everything is essentially on the same playing field. I think we, as consumers, and the tech developers, should take some years to appreciate what we currently have, let some of this technology age for a bit before we start coming up with new stuff. Because yes, AI on the iPhone sounds interesting, unfortunately, if you aren’t the iPhone 15 and up, you’re locked out of it, so why promote AI for the iPhone if it’s only going to be locked to a certain device requirement?
i also think companies have figured out its better to cheap off on the product and advertise the crap out of it rather than make cool phone and less advertising. I like the clear plastic design. Maybe its also doing adult stuff only goes so far, i dont need the latest phone for that
I love my Surface Duo. The hinge was amazing. Was awesome to be able to run two different apps at the same time. Is also superior for using my phone as an ebook.
everything new is expensive and everything a few years older is good enough & much cheaper. or if you paid a lot for something like a phone or laptop in 2020, chances are it's still working well & there are no real meaningful reasons to upgrade your tech
My S21 Ultra is still good and no matter how many emails and texts I get from Verizon asking me to upgrade, I'm not going to. I considered the folding phone but the price and inferior camera to my current phone made me say pass. This broken economy doesn't make me want to spend either.
Not all tech is boring. I have a 7800X3D+4090 (which power I can actually utilize and enjoy), while I use a 4+ year old cheap (USD250) Android phone that does all that I need it to do.
I like to imagine my ai as a dude who loves lynard skinner and he's hammered drunk
3:00 surprised Austin didn't find a way to praise the Switch Lite there
All tech is now is gimmicks...
AR/VR is the future & once more developers take notice & show that it's a ubiquitous & necessary thing we need, not another tablet or high powered PC.
A.I. is the killer app that will get baked in & it's up to us to train it to do what we need it to do.
A little dude part reminds me of when people were posting theories of the iPhone 10 being foldable, transparent and whatever else
The mid-roll ad at 5minutes in was an ad for BackMarket which is a little too on the nose for this video
Matt's intro back on top form! That'd kill my throat to do all the time lol
I think Matt is asking the right question, like where are we with creating actual "NEW" tech....like all the talk bout the a.i. at the end just was meh. Like why would I need an a.i. to run my phone or anything...im sure it has functions but what, so we can be lazier? But where's the real innovation? I've said this to others before but where the new exciting "blah" that never existed but now is gonna be the hotness? That's something that would be exciting. We can joke and mock that hey, we don't have flying cars or actual hoverboards on a consumer level like the movie but why not? Where's that cool stuff and when can that be tech to talk about. I'm glad there's companies trying to do interesting niche things but it'd be nice if there was bigger companies will to make those leaps and maybe fund those ideas too instead of staying comfortable with essentially remakes all the time
I still believe that when AI takes off in the mobile space, it's going to be a smart watch with a foward facing camera that homes info back to phone to process. It fixes a lot of problems with current mobile AI products.
1. you have a screen (watch screen) 2. doesn't require a seperate cellular signal (homes back to phone) 3. not reliant on in hardware computation, so better battery life as pushes workload to phone 4. already can have basic functionality like texting and talking to it 5. all the companies capable of having a custom SOC with an AI portion on the CPU already is in the smart watch business.
Last thing I got excited for was Apple Silicon. I knew other companies were going to have to step their game up and jump on the ARM efficiency bandwagon and now we're getting what look to be like good competitors in that space with Snapdragon X Elite, Windows 11 for ARM is getting some effort finally, and Apple's MacBooks are better than they've ever been. So that's pretty exciting for anyone who spends a lot of time working on a laptop and needed that balance of solid power and battery life.
Also, the fact that solid Mini PC's are cheap as dirt now is amazing. You can pick up an N100 Mini PC (or multiple) and build a solid home server for crazy cheap.
I definitely get excited for more and more smart devices being available for Home Assistant to continue automating everything in my home.
There is definitely cool stuff happening in Tech. But yeah, it isn't exactly like.. say the early 2010s when it felt like everything was advancing at the speed of light as far as things like smartphones that would become esssential to everyday life.
While tech is semi-boring rn , its like the new iPad. YES its thinner, is that cool? Yeah that's defiantly neat, but there hasn't been any piece of tech to change how we work drastically or fully transform the form factor of SOME tech product we all use
I HOPE the next apple vision is cheaper so i can edit footage on my mac that's the DREAM
(and if yall want an editor intern lol hey)
Surface Neo would have rocked this world! Sadly it was not to be.
I love how Austin is admitting blaintly that alot if not most of the things in the 90's are inspired by the 80's😂😂
You would think it's boring if you have had every device in the world. People want phones because they need phones. They don't need a special gimmick every time a phone is released. When I use my phone I call, text, and watch TH-cam.
Apples declining sales because every phone is the same says other wise
I wish these segments were like 1 to 2 hours long!
samsung dex and desktop mode popping up on a lot of devices with 9th generation arm SOCs solves a few shortcomings. I watched this video with a asus zenscreen go connected to my galaxy S22 with a logi m240 Bluetooth mouse. no keyboard!
I don’t mind Ai being helpful, but I do mind if it replaces jobs that were previously being done by people.
One good example is the asus rog phone 8 typically gaming phones used to have a unique style but the rog phone 8 just feels so generic to me
I personally don’t see how Matt can’t be excited about the Vision Pro. It’s literally a new take on how we can experience the world around us through our tech?
Because there's 0 use case for people who don't have Apple devices or even then have a real reason to use it
I loved my LG Wing I was super sad soon as I bought it LG went under and it had Zero support
Folks have to smoke more weed - nothing is boring on weed. "Whoa...the internet is on my phone...that's INSANE MAN!"
People who want a cut down phone experience just get a smartwatch with data. You can text, call, get navigation, etc: but you can't scroll mindless apps. I can go a full day without my phone unless I need to video call.
I already have AI running locally on my device, it's Ollama and webui on wsl 2 (ubuntu) on windows 11
Android devices have a distinct problem with long term support. Most devices will get two years of OS upgrades and security updates, after that you're on your own. %99 of users won't be willing to risk replacing the stock OS with something like LineageOS. But I believe that all Android devices should get LTS of at least 5 years.
The more we give to AI, the less privacy and control we have. Imagine a world where a company looking to make money from your data controls the software that influences your decisions, monitors your habits and reports back to its creators and possibly some government departments.
Same category, same experience of others: bought quest 3, loved it, not using it… but different mentality. Quest 3 / Vision Pro are amazing devices, totally worth then price for quest… not so much with vision for now.
Tech within phones have plateaued for a few years now. AI within phones and foldable devices have been a few of the last innovative ideas. Can it improve.....yes, but what would that be?!?
I feel like all these "Apple engineers" Humane brags about were probably fired for incompetence.
What I really want to see is the CEOs personal AI pin usage. If it's so useful, how does he use it?
MATT RIGHT ON TARGET ⚡
PC Gaming Handhelds has been new & exciting!
I wish these videos were longer
And the thing is the technology, especially cell phones, the sheep buy them every year, wow you might have a better battery or a better camera, but it’s not a substantial upgrade and technology to justify the cost of paying almost or even over 1000 bucks for a phone it’s not worth it anymore these days. An apple is the worst for it. Like look at the new M4 iPad Pro not worth the price at all. I literally have an M2 iPad Pro 11 inch and I got it on sale for $699 in Canada even I thought that was expensive, but I did pay for it because it was a solid price to me. But $1000 for a tablet no
I mean do you even want tech in a new form? Are we not trying to move towards the idea that one thing can do everything, as such phone, pc, vr can be the same. And you could say apple is trying something like this
Austin let the vision pro go! It's not that good and I know you aren't using it anymore lol!
Best Example of boring Technology: Smartphones!
Except for the Camera-Module, the Display, the Software, the Hardware and the Backcover, they ALL have the same Shape/Design!!
Back in the 90s/00s there was a real "Design-War" between Nokia, Siemens, Motorola, Alcatel, Ericson, NEC, Sharp, Sagem and Co.
NO Cell-Phone was the same, THAT was diversity!!
Also, I don't want my phone complaining to me about my health and acting like a wife. 😫
Certain aspects feel a bit boring... but others I could do with a whole lot more boring than we're seeing. I mean, OpenAI, as Sam Altman acknowledged in his stupid tweet, is literally trying to make the movie "her" a thing???!!! Why???
The coolest stuff to come out recently is medical. Not tech
Yes the surface duo was amazing. At least the hardware and separate screens. App support was horrid
Oh, everything is iterative nowadays. Why the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached!
I think you’ll find Austin that a Chinese company called Royole invented the first folding smartphone.
Mat got that root beer, then there's Austin with that stupid can of Lacroix -_- (PUT ME IN A VID PLS PLS PLS PLS IT"D BE FUNNY)
The problem with AI, is it is inherently creepy. Sure it could automate a ton of things, but it's also going to be reporting on all those things back to it's parent company who'll sell that on to all kinds of other companies. Even models that run in-device will still "phone home" and report everything. You're giving permission to be constantly spied upon and much like Siri and Google assistant it has to be constantly listening to you and even watching you potentially via cameras in order to work. That is bloody creepy! We wouldn't allow government to do that, why on Earth would we (or should we) let for-profit corporations to do it?! We're literally handing over privacy and potentially freedoms for the sake of "convenience".
These are the same kind of corporations who have turned actually owning things into "you'll subscribe to everything, we can take it away at any time, you'll own nothing and be happy". And people supporting AI development are perfectly happy to let THOSE kinds of people and corporations have even more control over our lives, dictate more about it and allow them into every aspect of our lives on a far more personal and intrusive level. Really??!! Oh you don't like the idea of China having your data and knowing things about you, but you're perfectly happy allowing some faceless corporations and some billionaires have the same thing. Okay then.
hello and welcome to my monitor, mat is correct, Austin stay awesome
Smartphones feel like they are close to the point as cars, where we shouldn’t expect many changes year over year. With how much phones cost, I would rather mine focus on doing the fundamentals really well.
This is an excellent topic
Great show guys. I admire and appreciate Austin's optimism on the future of tech. But I'm with Matt on the reality of how tech is marketed to us these days. AI is super gimmicky right now and with generative AI, were are as a human species going to lose that part of us that makes us creative and our problem solving abilities will surely diminish.
Can it be more of a difference between the two of them? Austin has seltzer water and then the other guy has mug root beer! 😂
11:00 AI that's actually going to run on your local device is such a stupid thing to say, outside of a few break throughs that require super computers/distributed computing actually innovative and useful AI is being exposed as just smoke and mirrors, and its being put on everything new washer and driers have stopped marketing its sensor wash/dry technology as "AI". Its straight non-sense, I say this as a software developer where every company I have worked in the last 10 years has started or already had some "AI" initiative that just turned into a half baked version of a product that we already sold that has a much much longer cycle time.
There are some really cool ML things that you can do on your local machine, but there is currently no consumer electronics, and nothing really in the works that is going to make the current "AI" future a reality, adding AI processors to smart phones and consumer/business class CPUs is at best going to take away actual useful resources that the average person could use, and at worst constitute some form of grey area of deceptive marketing that is legal.
What is being pushed as "AI" to consumers is anything but, and its just bananas that we as a society have let it get this far.
*EDIT* Austin's examples are crazy at 11:40
*EDIT* 13:10 "Imagine your AI is a little dude in there" this software, its not conscious, its not concept of reality they are just machines that are pretty good at "learning" and due to the incredibly narrow and simplistic nature of what they are designed to do they can do some individual tasks unimaginably fast. The thing that everyone doesn't understand is that in order for something to become generally intelligent it must become exponentially more complex, and as complexity increases the time it takes to process any data becomes exponentially longer chimpanzees can memorize patterns and sets that contain up to 20 complex objects in around 0.5-1 second (for the average chimpanzee) where as a human being needs 30 seconds to a few minutes if they are capable of it at all, the reason is that human mind is far more complex and is capable of far more things than a chimpanzee's mind, as we continue to make ever more complex models the shear amount of processing power will go up not down. The reason that generative AI is being commercialized over older more capable models is because generative AI is the chimpanzee of the ML world, its not as complex, it has far fewer layers and is less capable of high complexity but its fantastic at memorizing and repeating patterns. If we are actually going to be seeing true virtual assistants that are better than our existing chat bots they are going to become progressively slower and clunkier as their models are increasingly bloated to handle more complex and nuanced situations. Phones, laptops and even desktop computers are just not capable of running "AI" algos that aren't set to a narrow scope, and they certainly won't be able to do people's day to day busy work through their phone
Apple Vision Pro truly excited me and im still excited.
Tech is getting boring because it has gotten too good. No joke, I think something like nuralink where you are directly connected to the computer is the next real leap. *I don't want a computer in my brain* BUT there's not much left.
We need medabots with AI to make technology exciting again
Stupid Microsoft should've released the Surface Duo 3 and the Neo. I mean those were really cool form factors, and I'd have liked to get the latest versions.
I dont know. Maybe it is because cpus today are simple iterations of the same technology of 10 years ago? No, i got it. Its because videocards are the same as from 10 years ago, but with twice cuzao cores, with an added gimmick that halted the industry? No inovation.
Once AI becomes AI and not just a statistical prediction model, I'll be a little more excited about integrating it into tech that's actually useful.
I think in the future 5-10 years will be docking our phones as we do a switch or a steam deck pc final form is ur phone
This might be an unpopular opinion, but it isn't that smartphones are boring it is simply that smartphones are being too saturated with the same brands.
Chinese smartphone manufacturers, to me, are what make smartphones interesting right now. With multiple companies able to make foldable that are better than the samsung variant, but the only reason why they aren't able to be sold here in Europe or in the United States is because of Political reasons and Consumer stigma surrounding Chinese products.
AI is legit 3D tv's for 2024!
What i think in terms of tech we already are at the peck in the year 2019 of tech however their are new styles but its all the same thing but with minor upgrades or different shapes but the new trend is ai which in my opinion could make a brake through in the perfect tech we already have
RIP the editors.....
At what point is Kinsey going to get a spot at the desk???
I’m just gonna say this obviously they’re gonna use this as a way to monitor everything you do so be prepared for the IRS to be far more involved in the money you make