Generation TECH

Will Apple charge for AI; Buildings that store energy in gravity batteries; The M4 Mac mini could be much smaller; 3D video for cheap; Disney+ releasers movies in 3D for Vision Pro; Apple Maps on the web now support Firefox; and more! Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Tempest Weather update and the wrath of Debbie!; Apple Intelligence is rolling out just fine; Stocks are looking shaky and Berkshire Hathaway is selling; Intel valuation have nosedived; Is CO2 the real culprit; Nvidia chips are banned from export but aren’t they made overseas; Apple used Googles Tensor TPU to train Apple Intelligence; Meta is paying big to use celebrity voices in its AI plans; Int...

Tempest Weather; Crowdstrike, Yikes! Lex.games ; Apple exploring quad level memory; Samsung may second source image sensors; Rumor says they will use home developed modems in some phones in 2025; Apple Maps is now available in beta, online; Marc Benioff; Apple Intelegence (AI) won’t ship with initial versions of new OS’s; SearchGPT may threaten Google, but so does Apples relationship with Open AI;...

TinyPod watch holder; Vision Pro might have a reason not exist; AppleTV+ gets nominations; iOS 18 will phase in features like every year; Steve Jobs talk in 1983; Companies who sell phone software know everything about you; iPadOS files app gets an upgrade; online state magazine; Largest IT outage in history; Political news; Tim Cook gave Trump a Mac Pro; Apple says they didn’t use You Tube withou...

Trump shooting; iPhone 16 rumors; ChatGPT security again; Cameras in airPods; Apple Mac sales surge but remain small compared to PC’s; PrePrime day Mac Deals; The Unofficial Mac Weblog is back and its a rip off site; Best Buy and Amazon discounting Apple Products; ITs our 4th anniversary for Generation Tech! Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generat...

Mate Rimac is making a robot taxi too; Allstate is quietly buying your driving data; Apple is changing the Vision Pro Demo to use your photos; Apples AI features could be BIG; Apple is working to streamline its production lines; Final Cut Pro for iPad version 2 is out with new capabilities, but not background transcoding; Apple working on a Home accessory identified in beta code; ChatGPT app on Ma...

Summer ramblings odds and ends, and a nuclear letter.

WWDC topics and more. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

A meandering conversation the week before WWDC and some Microsoft discussion thrown in. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Update on M4 iPads, iFixIt tear down, It’s the Keyboard stupid!, Apple’s 100 best albums ever?, accessibility day and new features, iPadOS handicaps the iPads, Frankenstein Mac, and a Manifesto. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Our iPads are in hand. Jack shares his buying experience and Todd contrasts his. Thoughts on screens, speed and more speed. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Apple Event 5/7/24 iPad iPad Air - Camera to side Center stage Spacial audio more base M2 processor Pencil hover Up to tb storage $599 & $799 Order today, ships next week iPad Pro Ultimate iPad experience New design thinner Silver, space black OLED Display double panel (tandem OLED) XDR display “Ultra retina xdr” Nano textured glass option for glare M4 processor 2nd gen 3nm tech Next gen cpu 4...

Apple plans “Let Loose” special event for May 7th, speculation of new iPads and Pencil; Vision Pro production order down: iPhone market share in china down 6%; M4 Mac Studio, the ultimate Mac; Apple Arcades growing importance; GPU aren’t really for graphics any more; Apple neural engine is a specialized gpu, purpose built; DARPA RACER; Memory and Storage may converge at Phase Change Memory; QDEL m...

Apple AI on device, and acquisitions, Tesla drops cost of self driving system and you can rent it, Taylor Swift has new album, iPad Air in short supply, Can an LLM fit on a device, finewoven is a flop and going away, but leather won’t come back. iPhone 17 may shrink screen, Apple is in running for NBA broadcasts. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three ge...

An abridged episode due to technical difficulties. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly) MONDAYS!

Apple ramps up iPad production for May? Launch. DBRX claims to have most powerful OpenSource AI, Trump joins Bloomberg top 500 richest people and then looses $1b in value the next day, Phil Schiller explains apples position on App Store controls, Vision Pro - Jack got a demo! Vision Pro gets some new content but not nearly enough, Apple launches web based swift tutorial, Apples ReALM can beat GPT-...

Let’s go bowling! Drone food, eminent domain and the family farm, Nuclear Battery is a thing, Apple announces WWDC date and plan to talk about AI, is the Apple Vision Pro the new newton, DOJ sues apple but should they, Vision Pro pencil, more DOJ talk, Tim Cook in China, Apples Apps store took a punch and the other tech companies are lining up to take a swing, CarPlay is apples toe hold on cars, W...

Air Pods Pro to add hearing aid functionality, Maybe new iPads tomorrow, Get mom a phone, Chevron leaving CA? And now they sell E85, Types of Oil and we can’t use it all, Lithium in Nevada, Folding iPhones, Tim Cook statement leads to $490 million settlement, its tough being CEO, Vision Pro App Store on the web now. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three...

Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly)

Apple ends car development; Tesla introduces v12 of full self driving to wide acclaim (within tesla fandom); Apple in AI or ML; Nvidia H100 Tensor core; Googles goofy AI; Sound Revv bone conduction headphones; Is there a helium shortage? and we solve the worlds problems. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (most...

MacOS virus/back door is out there, update regularly; Apple engineer took secrets to China and was sentenced in abstentia; MLB app on Apple TV will give you four games at once; Zuckerberg isn’t crazy, he’s just selling a product; Space Perspective wants to put you in a balloon; Intuitive machines landed on the moon… sideways; Apple has rolled out PQ3 (Post Quantum) encryption; Conversations on tec...

Apple TV+ adds immersive video to lineup in Vision OS app; Apple Vision Pro not designed for average consumer (yet); Mark Zuckerberg is lying to himself; MLB TV has a deal with apple; AVP sell “like Crazy”; What can you connect to the USB-C port on your iPhone; AVP is hard to share, and designed that way; Apple AI is coming, but you won’t see it. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subje...

Google will be replaced by AI; Biden AI is out there; Vision Pro in the enterprise; Uses for Vision Pro; Immersive is the key word; Jack planning to book a demo; Vision Pro is a super up iPad?; Apple AI, they have purchased 32 small AI companies; NFL, PGA, and NBA all join MLB in native Vision Pro apps; Developers can buy USB C direct connect adapter to Vision Pro; The year of the dragon Conversat...

Hewlett Packard is just bad; You too can win the lottery; Microsoft is all in on the Apple Vision Pro, but other big tech companies are not so sure; Apple Vision Pro is my name! Wrenches versus Screw drivers; Todd got a demo; This thing has been in the works for years. Conversations on technology and tech adjacent subjects with two and sometime three generations of tech nerds. New shows on (mostly...

Scalpers buying Apple Vision Pro; Apple is buying up TSMC production capability again; Apple services revenue is growing fast; X working to protect Taylor Swift and others; Apple 15 inch MacBook Air for $999; NSA has bought stolen data on the black market; Meta Ray Ban glasses replace phones? (No they don’t); Todd is booking an Apple Vision Pro Demo; AI images are everywhere (Pope Puffy Coat); Sam...