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Now let's talk about Apple Watch
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because I think the winner of the show was the Series 9
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since it's practically an Apple Watch Ultra now, like they made it a really good watch
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to the point where there's very little difference now between the Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra
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in my opinion. But let's talk about, I think so, they're practically the same in many, in many
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in many ways. So let's talk about Apple Watch Series 9, and then I'll jump in here and talk about Apple Watch Ultra
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and how it's essentially the same thing now. But let's talk about 9 first, Louis
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Yeah, so Series 9 comes with a faster S9 chip. Apple says it's gonna boost the performance
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make Siri more usable. Yeah, that was funny, right? Hey, maybe it'll, maybe it will work
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Maybe it will actually work this time. Actually, what will happen is, instead of getting it wrong
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when it sends it to the server, it will get it, just get it wrong on the neural engine. So it'll just take less time to get it wrong
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More speedy, inaccurate actions. And also, you know, one of the, I hate to call it a highlight
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because it's borders upon parody, but this new double tap feature, right, or gesture
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where you just tap your two fingers in midair, like, you know, some kind of weird gang sign
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I thought that was pretty cool. I have really mixed emotions about it
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I mean, like, on the one hand, yeah, okay, I can use that to turn off a timer when my, you know
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I'm cooking or something, and I've got my hands in some raw chicken
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Okay, that's cool. Yeah, that sounds cool. Maybe it's going to be great. I don't know
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It's, watching them talk about it made me, I don't know, I had this weird
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like, I can't tell if this is cool or just ridiculous. And I don't know what it's going to be like
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to see people walking around going like this in the air. You know, I mean, and my favorite thing
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somebody on Twitter is like, how do Italian people do this? You know, with the, like, anyway, let's see
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So the other big thing in this is this ultra wideband chip, the second generation, not the U2 chip
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just the second generation ultra wideband chip. But the real, I think the real boost here is that S9
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which, you know, basically powers all these things, or at least that's what they say. It's, this was amazing, 5.6 billion transistors
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60% more than Series 8, and a GPU that's 30% faster. You know, this is the first, like, real performance boost
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that this thing has gotten in, what, four years? I can't remember exactly how many, it's been a while
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And it actually sounds like it's a much better chip. I mean, honestly, I haven't had that many problems
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with performance on my Apple Watch, but it does enable things like on-device Siri
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which they say is going to be great. And frankly, I, you know
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I notice a lag with Siri sometimes, you know? I think it'll be interesting to see if that actually works
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You know, if I say, hey, unlock my door, and it just does it rather than taking, like
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anywhere from five seconds to 30 seconds. This is another thing, I don't know how important this is
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but they said, since it's on-device, it's more secure, now you can do things like enter health data
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or ask it, you know, hey, how fat am I today? Or how fast is my heart rate
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Or you say, you know, I just, you know, I just weighed myself and I weighed this amount
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So, you know, they're steadily, as always, making this thing a little bit more helpful
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That double tap gesture I was talking about, so you can use that, basically it does
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it's like touching, you know, the active button or whatever in whatever app you're using, right
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So if it's, if you've got an alarm going off, I guess it's like maybe tapping the snooze
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on your morning wake-up call. Which could be dangerous, to be honest. Right
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Maybe you can just silence it that way. What if you just learned to, like, in your sleep just end it
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Totally possible. This chip also has, you know, a more powerful neural engine, all this stuff
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I mean, it really sounds like they beefed up this processor a whole lot
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They said that, and I don't, maybe you can explain exactly what this means
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but it says, because a neural engine can run a more advanced transformer model
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dictation on Series 9 is up to 25% more accurate than on Series 8
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The whole transformer model thing, I've read about this, I've brushed up against it. I'm not exactly sure what that means
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or why it's named after a Michael Bay movie. Do you know what transformer models are
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Yeah, that's what they call machine learning features now. Why do they call it that
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I know, it's a very confusing name. It's like the technical computer science term
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that they use instead of calling it AI. All right, okay. Well, I actually, since it's capitalized and everything
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and all the press releases, I always thought that they, you know, were trying to do an Apple thing
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where like, oh, it's Apple transformer. So you're saying that's widely used across the industry
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Not widely used in marketing terms, but widely used amongst like, you know
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programmers who actually work on this sort of thing. People who know this stuff, okay, fair enough. It's weird that they capitalize it
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because it's not a trademark. Yeah, okay. Let's see. You know what
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I think I made a mistake in my article. I thought that they said that there's a new optical sensor
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but I don't think there is. I think it's the same old optical sensor for the heart rate, but they're saying that that, you know, the S9
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I think there actually is a new one. I'm not sure. I've got to dig in deeper
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I've been, I rewatched the segment on it, and it just, the part that I interpreted as a new sensor
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it was just saying it uses the sensor and the chip, you know, the S9 chip and the neural engine
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works with the sensor to enable this double tap feature, which a lot of people are talking like
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well, hey, isn't this double tap feature just like the, what's it called? Assistive touch that already exists on Apple Watch
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you know, as a accessibility feature. Supposedly this is going to be limited to Series 9
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and the new Ultra 2 because it needs this chip to function perfectly, right
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But I think that maybe you can kind of mock up your own
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if you're stuck on one of those old Apple Watches, if you really must have the double tap gesture
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I mean, it does seem like it would be useful, to be honest with you. I feel like I would actually use it
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Griffin's going to have to do a how-to, how to fake double tap on your old Apple Watch
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And by old, I mean a week old. I double checked the press release
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and I see no mention of a new heart sensor, but I thought I remembered hearing that too
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So yeah, I think it was rumored to be happening. And I think that the way that they, you know
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they just, I mean, we all know, they cram so much information in these things
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I know for sure that what they said in the thing, because I double checked it
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it says it works with the optical sensor. It did not say it works with a new optical sensor
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So yeah, I could be, I might have to actually post a correction on my post
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It's kind of embarrassing. That's unbelievable. Anyway. You need to flog yourself
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I'm going to fire myself. Well, look, I don't know if you brought this up, but did you mention the display
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Oh yeah, yeah. That's like one of the biggest components of this. Okay, yeah
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A 2000 nit display, double the brightness of Series 8, which is going to be great when you're outdoors
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That's also the same, the same brightness as the current Apple, or I guess the previous Apple Watch Ultra
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Yeah, that old Apple Watch. This old crappy one. If you have one of those garbage Ultra One
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Which actually, I mean, when you're outside with the Ultra, you can see the screen so well
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So that's a huge feature to be able to actually see your display in bright sunlight
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That, and this is the same, it's probably the same display as the one
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in the Apple Watch One. Sorry, go ahead. And so when I get the Apple Watch Ultra
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I'm going to look at it outdoors, and it's just going to like laser my eyes out, right
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I'm going to be like, blah! The new one? Because the new one's 3000 nits
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I know. That's 50% more nits. Oh man, I don't know if I can resist that many nits
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to be honest with you. The other thing that they were talking about is that the Series 9 screen can go down to only one nit
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One nit. That is going to be awesome in movie theaters for all those people who don't know about theater mode
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who leave their watches on. Yeah, right. And also just leaving your
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hold on, I just wanted to add just real quick, like also if you wear your watch to bed
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and you don't want to put it in sleep mode, I hate sleep mode. It's so stupid. Like sleep mode should just dim the watch
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that you can still see it, but it's still always on, as opposed to what it does now, where it churns off the watch
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essentially you have to like tap it. No, you have to press like the button
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don't you, to activate? Press and hold. That's so dumb. I mean, when you're asleep
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the last thing you want to do is press and hold a button to see what time it is. So now I put my watch in theater mode
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so I can just tap the screen, but it would be really useful to have it
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to have the ability for it to get really dim, so you could still see it at night, but not be bright enough that it wakes you up
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Did you get one of the bands that are going to kill the earth? They are, Earth Killers
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I don't know if it told me if it was a green band. I can't remember
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Yeah, that was, you know, I don't even want to talk about the environment. I guess we should talk about it at least briefly
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They're saying this is like the first carbon neutral Apple product, right
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Certain ones of these, yeah, you know, depending on what band you get. I'm guessing like
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if you get like the Ocean Band, no way, because that's made of something plastic-y
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Oh my goodness. We have a whole segment for this coming up
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I mean, like this whole move away from leather, I think is just totally bizarre
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