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I missed it? No, you just said prime search engine placement. Oh, you very much confused me. I was like, wait, what? I thought maybe. But yeah, I mean, we've talked about how much Google pays Apple.

What is up, people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the Waveform Podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marques. I'm Andrew. And I'm Nintendo Switch 2. And we're going to keep this big going. I don't really know how long we're going to keep doing this. We might as well. It's early in the SEO, so, you know, that might work. Thanks, Transcript. No, in today's episode, we got some updates. Actually, it's a lot of updates to things. Blue Sky, Apple Intelligence, what else? Switch 2 pre-orders are on the list. Multiple antitrust lawsuits, because those are going to keep getting updated.

So the tech world, so tech moves fast and lots of updates happen, so we're going to keep covering them. It's great. Yeah. Hey, but yeah, if that sounds interesting to you, make sure you get subscribed to the Waveform podcast here on YouTube because it turns out a lot of people see these in their homepage and they do watch them and enjoy them, but then they don't subscribe and it would be cool if you did.

But if you don't like us, don't subscribe. That's very important. Because it'll be really annoying if we pop up making a Nintendo Switch 2 joke in your feed every week and you don't like us. Yeah. No, it's okay. And we make a lot of inside jokes. We do make a lot of... You gotta subscribe to figure out what the inside jokes are.

It's true. One day we should do like just a big episode where we just explain all the inside jokes and that's it. I bet we could. Just reference that episode if you want to know what we're talking about. As a footnote every time we make the joke. But we have two small things first. The first one is within like a couple of hours of last episode, somebody on our subreddit made the

crank prototype that you have to wind in to watch YouTube videos. Which was crazy. Pretty insane. I didn't see it working, but I'm gonna take their word for it. They just actually... They only posted pictures. Right. I'm going to throw it out there. If you could post a video, that would be awesome. I would like to see that. But...

It is not lost on us that we have an audience big enough that literally within 12 hours, someone made a stupid joke that we made in a game. It was so awesome. That's crazy to see and really cool. Please do not bring any of the others to life. Please. Force Marquez to pick people up on the street. Please do not do that. And watch that horrible, listen to that horrible song on Spotify. You don't need it. There was a comment that was just like,

How dare you for playing that that long? I was like, I can't think. I can't think. But the second thing is actually a question that I have for you guys listening and watching, especially here on YouTube.

So a little backstory. For the last couple of almost actually probably more than a year, last couple months, we've been working on both doing transcripts for every MKBHD video and more recently dubs in multiple languages for MKBHD videos in an attempt to make them more accessible to people in different regions who don't speak English. Mm-hmm.

You may know a lot of people who watch our videos mostly live in English-speaking regions and watch videos in English. But if you live in a Spanish-speaking country, you might not watch these videos unless you have captions or maybe a dub in Spanish. And so it kind of unlocks availability of these videos.

So we've been experimenting with it and trying a bunch of different things. We found something that works pretty well for captions. The dubs are interesting because we've experimented both with humans who speak both languages, both English and, say, Spanish, doing a direct translation, but they don't really sound like me.

They also take a long time. They also take much longer and obviously are pretty pricey. But then there's also AI dubs, which are a machine that sounds like me, but isn't necessarily a perfect representation. You know how Google translates a little off sometimes, but it actually does a voice dub of something that sounds like me in that other language, which is really interesting. It's faster, it's cheaper, but it's not as accurate. Yeah.

We've been playing with this a lot in different videos, different timing, different sorts of things. And the question that I have for you guys is specifically in our number two most popular country, which, pop quiz, is? India. Is India. A lot of people in India speak multiple languages or do speak English or speak Hindi or sometimes switch back and forth between the two. And some of them watch videos in English or Hindi. I don't know if you've watched tech YouTube in India. Sometimes they switch back and forth as well.

And the latest video, which was a Light Phone 3 review, we uploaded it at the same time with dubs in my voice in Spanish and Hindi. I thought you learned Hindi. No, yeah, I didn't learn Hindi. This was actually a dub. And...

And interestingly, Spanish, mostly positive feedback, people watching the videos in Spanish-speaking regions, what happens on YouTube is they detect that you're in a Spanish-speaking region and automatically play the video with the Spanish language. And a lot of people I saw on Twitter were very excited, like, oh, wow, I can watch the video basically in English on this channel, or in Spanish on this channel. And...

I saw mixed feedback from India because a lot of people in India, like I said, watch videos in English. And so when they opened the new video, it defaulted to the audio track of the Hindi dub when they actually are pretty used to watching videos in English. And so some people were saying, oh, wow, this is Hindi. I like this better. I'll watch this. A lot of people were like, no, I don't like this. I'd rather watch in English like I usually do. And so I had a small sample size. This is why I'm opening it up to the waveform commenting audience. What

What if you live in India and watch YouTube videos, what do you prefer? Do you prefer defaulting to English or defaulting to Hindi? You can dive into the settings and change it on a per video basis. But I'm curious what your default is and what you watch on YouTube. I can see that's I think the biggest issue we have here is that it

defaults based on region because we've already shown that India is our number two most watched country. So they clearly are enjoying it in English. We wanted to do Hindi so it might branch out to some more people. But it defaulting if you are already a subscriber and used to it.

That's probably annoying to now check it off every time. I think that's why it hit. So like in a lot of countries that are not on our top countries list, they're not on the list because most people don't watch videos in English in those places. So if you just pick a random country that doesn't speak English and then give them a dub, that might boost the amount of people who enjoy the videos in that country. But in like US or...

a bunch of places here that speak English, they don't want to dub in a language they're not used to. So that's kind of why it feels like we're seeing that level of feedback. Yeah. Our other question is the difference between a human-created dub or an AI dub. It's not even really the price that's our issue. It's that I think a human one usually takes about five days, four to five days, where we can get an AI one in less than 24 hours and sometimes upload at the same time. So we're not sure if like,

We've been testing both of where does it, is it a good benefit for us? Because is five days after the release kind of too late? - Most of the time. - To put the demo on? - Yeah, it's a great point because most, if you look at the curve of an upload, it's like this. And usually after five days, it's there. And everyone's watched it who's gonna watch it. Like tech videos have a really short shelf life a lot of times.

Evergreen videos, maybe people watch it longer down the road. That's cool. But yeah, I do think we got some feedback about the dub, the AI dub, not being as accurate. Oh, for sure. Which was our... And I can't fact check that because I don't speak the other languages. So TV... It's definitely a pickle we're in, but we'd love to hear some feedback on a larger audience than just Twitter, I guess. So that's why we're posing it to you all. But...

next thing speaking of youtube audiences ha i got that one good uh we're recording this on wednesday which is the day of the anniversary of the 20th year since the first upload to youtube i could have phrased that was the longest 20th anniversary of the first youtube video rewind this is the 20th anniversary of the first youtube upload yeah there you go there you go me at the zoo by jod yeah 2005. yeah the thing about those elephants is they have really long

Do you remember the script for this video? Yeah, I watched it this morning. Oh, is that what he said? It's also like 20 seconds long. Could have been trivia. It's chaptered off now, too. What? Yeah, really? I noticed that this morning. I was like, these chapters are flying by because it's 19 seconds. It's funny. Wait, it's chaptered, but they're just all called intro. Intro, the cool thing, end. Okay.

- That's pretty funny. - Do they just test half their features on this video? - No, I think he logs back in. - Oh, he logs back in. - Yeah, he's notoriously changed the description of the video multiple times and pinned comments because he was a founder of YouTube, so when he adds something there, it's like the founder of YouTube just said something as he changed the description of the video. - Did you see that on the video, there's a little birthday cake? - Yeah.

Just for today. It might be gone by the time you listen to this podcast, but I thought that was pretty cool. That video can almost drink just one more year. That's in the US. It can drink basically anywhere else. It can already enlist in the army. That it can too. I have some interesting numbers I'd like to share with you guys. 47. That are pretty crazy.

So, number one. That's a pretty crazy number. Number one is this was the first video uploaded to YouTube. It was 2005. Since then, over 20 trillion videos have been uploaded to YouTube. Hey, Adam from the future here. So, I'm editing this episode and it turns out that YouTube actually updated their blog to say 20 billion YouTube videos, not 20 trillion YouTube videos as we say here. Okay, back to the episode. If I had a nickel. Okay.

You'd be pretty wealthy, my friend. I don't know if you understand. You could pay off the U.S. national debt. Like the amount of storage space. Yeah. The amount of content. Yeah. 20 trillion. Not 1 trillion. Yeah. 20 trillion. I would like to know how much storage YouTube is currently actively hosting. 20 trillion? Would you? 20 trillion. Yes. Would you like to know that? Yes. Because it would probably blow your mind. That's why I would like to know. Oh.

I would really like to know. The crazy thing is 20 years, 20 trillion. So obviously we've gotten like a lot of videos per year. Yeah, there was exponential growth though. On YouTube, fittingly on their 20th birthday, they found that there are roughly 20 million new videos uploaded every day.

20 million new videos. Careful, Andrew. ChatGPT is notoriously not great at math. Wait, this is really easy, though. Sorry. It'd be $1 trillion. It's 20 trillion nickels because... Oh, you did? I had to use ChatGPT. Because a nickel is a 20th of a... That is correct, yeah. You'd have $1 trillion. $1 trillion.

But yeah, 20 million videos uploaded every day. And YouTube users upload, or sorry, YouTube users average over 100 million comments every single day. 100 million? 100 million comments. And I'm sure there's a graph somewhere of like 99% of the videos have zero comments and 1% of the videos have all the comments. Yeah.

Thanks to the waveform listeners for that. That's crazy 47 of those are useful comments. Yeah, that's where that number came So you said you said 20 million a day? 20 million videos get uploaded a day how many comments per day and a hundred million comments are posted on YouTube every day and 999 million of those for waveform comments you mean 99 million and

because there's 100 million total we just we broke the scale i'm sorry math is hard um the last thing is they discovered that creators you know can you can heart a video you can like a video you can pin it sorry a comment you can heart a comment creators hearted 10 million comments every single day

Wow. There's a lot. That's crazy. There's a lot of heart and engagement going on. You know what's an interesting thing about YouTube? The like feature. I don't like that the like feature automatically adds it to a like videos playlist. Same. Yeah, because sometimes I'm just like, I'm supporting my friend. Like I was looking through my liked videos on YouTube today. And mostly I just like videos that my friends upload just to give them a boost. But I don't actually like the videos that I like, which is actually...

of me. Do you have playlists? Have you made your own playlists? No. That's what I do. My liked playlist is just me trying to support people that I like and then I make the disc golf workout, whatever documentary playlist and then just save them to those instead. Interesting. But if you use YouTube music, I believe... No one does that? Well,

wow well if you like something like a song it also still saves on your likes playlist or even shorts i've liked shorts and it saves in my liked videos that's why that's a total throwaway playlist in my eyes yeah and it gives you an amazon ad to buy them what the shorts oh my god backwards pockets where would we be without dude i was running with the did i show you them that's

That might have been the deepest inside joke we've had in a while. I would like to see them later. I will bring them in next week. Yeah, they're backwards. I have a bizarro backwards twist. I want to do trivia. It's not for your trivia. It's for I have trivia for you guys. Just curious if you know the answers. Obviously, I know the YouTube trivia, but

If you haven't already read the blog post, we'll see what you guys think. You remember when the first ever YouTube video hit a billion views? Yeah. You remember which one that is, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which one is that? It was Gangnam Style. That's what I thought it was. Correct. Okay. There are now how many videos in the billion view club? One billion. On YouTube. Closest delta? Closest delta. Yeah. 20. No, I'm going with 100. 1,000. 20, 100, 1,000? Yeah.

100 is the closest. There are 300 music videos. 300 music videos. They're all music videos? I think there's a few more random kids videos that are also in the Billionaire Music Club. Oh, I would assume they're all kids videos. But 300 music videos. And the fastest, which took 88 days, was which one? To a Billion? Justin Bieber. Fastest to a Billion? Justin Bieber.

It was that Justin Bieber song. Despacito? It's not kids videos. It's not Despacito. It's not Gangnam Style. It's not Baby Shark. It's not Baby Shark. Baby by Justin Bieber, right? It's not Baby. Baby was the first to a million dislikes or something else. It was one of the most disliked videos ever. Until YouTube rewinds, yes.

Joke's on you guys, though. It's still a view. I'll give you some hints. I'll give you the countdown of the four, three, and two. Okay. Four is Rosé by Bruno Mars, 105 Days. I don't even know that song. Oh, that song is a banger. Three is Mijente by Willie William and J Balvin, 103 Days. That's a good one.

Then there's a tie at two. Ed Sheeran, Shape of You, and Despacito tied at 97 days. What? And this one beat them all in just 88 days, getting a billion views. Was it recent? I feel like in the past year, maybe? No. It's not in the last year. Is it old? Yeah.

You all know the song. Reviewing every iPhone. So it's a song. Yeah, it's a music video. It's a song. Happy birthday. Can you give us the genre? It's pop. I will tell you. Is it pop with a letter in front of it? No. It's not K-pop. K-pop. My last hint is that the artist name kind of sounds like a tech company. Bruno Mars. Jay-Z.

I'm just assuming Pitbull's part of it somehow. Pitbull. He's probably solo. Solo video. Man, this is a lot. Solo artist. Can you play the first note? She is the only one in the video. Ariana Grande? No. Can you play the first note? Give it away. The first note? 100%. I mean, we're not getting it. It seems like we're not getting it. I want to hear just the first note. Just the first note. Okay, we'll give it away right now.

This isn't like Friday, is it? No. This is Adele. Oh. Hello? Oh yeah. That's the fastest to a billion views? Yeah. Really? You know how I know that? You didn't. Sorry. You did not know that. You know how I know that that is true? After hearing that it is true? Yeah. I can verify.

My economics professor played the music video for us as we walked in, and he said, this song is a banger, guys. I just had to let you know this. Wow. The only teacher who has ever played a music video for me in class. 88 days. And now has 3 billion views. You know what? There were like 100 of us in that class, so it actually has 3,100,000 views. But it only got one view from the economics professor. Nice. And he probably watched it a few times.

Definitely. Wow, that's crazy. So yeah, there's your random trivia from Marquez of the day. Are we down to keep going semi off the rails here? Because I have a question. We're already so far gone, we might as well.

Because it's the 20th year of the first upload, I wanted everyone here to pick their favorite video on YouTube and say it out loud here. It can be, you know, funny, educational, anything. Just one you really enjoy for whatever reason.

Do you want to go first? Yeah. Okay, so this is really, really hard, obviously. It is super hard. But one that really sticks out in my head pretty strongly is the Vsauce video that's called Do Chairs Exist? I feel like we've vaguely talked about this before. I think I've mentioned this video before. I really like this video. I think it goes, I think it's like 40% too long. Okay.

Not right for Vsauce. 1.5x speed fixes that. I actually recently hit 3. 3x? New PR. I can only do it on my phone, but I've been doing everything at 3 recently. Except for Hank videos. Because he already talks fast. Can you watch Philip DeFranco videos?

I have not watched one since like 2015. Yeah, you wouldn't survive long. 3X would just be like a fire hose of information. Yeah. I will say, so in the spirit of this YouTube thing, I think that's one of my favorite videos. My...

Most influential channel for me was a channel called nerd writer one Which was like the original video essay guy on YouTube before they became the og before the category became popular very nice You looks pretty excited this morning when you're about I thought of two one of them to me is the the goofy murder trail I

But that's just a video that I laugh every time I watch it. I had never seen it until I started working here. I think I've watched it at least 10 times. What about the Evanescence Goofy cover? I've watched that. But I'll recommend another one that I think most people haven't seen, which is

About 10 years ago, and I shared this on Twitter when it went up, there's a video that got recommended to me called Nobody Tells Us to Beginners. And it is a purely motion graphics video, which is basically just walking through an Ira Glass quote. Yeah. But it is about how when you're starting up as a creator of any kind, there's always a gap between your skill level and your taste and what you believe is good. Yeah.

And the more you work and close that gap, the better your taste gets and you're always chasing that. And nobody tells that to beginners, so you just, as a beginner, assume you will never reach the level of your taste. But if you zoom out enough, you actually have passed your previous best. Anyway, it's a minute and a half long. It's very inspiring. We'll link it below. I rewatch it probably at least once a year. It's a banger. That quote is great.

He did a, Ira Glass did an interview recently on that podcast that started from the ashes of Reply All. Hyperfixed? No, the other one. Oh, the PJ Vo. He's done a couple. Is it on Search Engine? Search Engine, yeah. He did a podcast called

Is it okay to just work all the time? And it's basically just an interview with Ira Glass, but it is a very inspiring, very interesting interview. I think you should listen to it. I'm going to download it right now for my flight. Do it. What's it called? It's called Is it okay to just work all the time? And the podcast is called Search Engine. This Reddit posted that. It just says, a podcaster interviewing another podcaster about making a podcast. Yeah.

It's crazy how Reply All ended and birthed two awesome podcasts. Yeah. It's like a neutron star. Yeah. He has a really good... Sorry. Nerd. Irograss Glass has a really good quote in that where he's like, he's like,

why would I put out anything unless it was incredible? There's enough mid-shit on the internet already. Damn. Hell yeah, brother. Let's go. Anyway. Andrew, what's yours? I'm kind of between two, but I'll only say one to not make this go on too long. There's this 25-minute documentary called Remain Seated, Please, and it's just a story about these people

two friends who loved this ride at epcot disney so much called horizon which was like this old ride that showed you like what the future looked like and then they started finding ways to like get out of the car and walk around the back of like the sets and like on the sets and they videotaped it with like an old vhs and then they uploaded it like way later um

And it's just like really fascinating about them just like being these like full grown adults, just like walking around this set of this like

futuristic ride and they had to like duck behind so when the cars came by and like people were actually watching it um they spent like years doing it and oh wow just like this it's this 25 minute documentary where you learn almost nothing but keeps you entertained the entire time so you don't need to be like super you watch 3x yeah it'd be like seven minutes long then but uh

Yeah, I think it's one of my favorite videos on YouTube. That's a good one. I'm going to play Ellis' next because he's out sick today, but he did send in a video. What is up, pod people? As you know, I'm sick, but couldn't miss out on this opportunity to drop my favorite YouTube videos out there.

a lot of my favorite videos are these really long sort of video essay things that require a lot of context to explain like the defunct land disney channel theme video or uh the john boyce dave steve video that's a good one john boyce my favorite youtube video that i feel like needs no context is uh it's called nightclub for deer i do like i hope you enjoy it you're good you're good

Yeah, come on. All the deer. Come on through. All the deer. All the deer at one time. Come on. All the deer. More deer. Give me more. More deer. Come on. More. Give me some more. Even more deer. Come on. Come on. Wait a minute.

Are deer just funny? Because two of the videos I thought of for this was the one where they're recording deer out her window and her husband sneezes and she's like, thanks, Ron. He's like, I'm not allowed to sneeze. And then there's the other one where the guy's dog chases all the deer. Fenton? Yeah, the Fenton video. Have you ever seen it? I'm not allowed to sneeze. Fenton! Fenton, no! Jesus Christ, Fenton! I'm going to need all of these links because I don't know what they're talking about. No.

Where's this dog? That's a lot of deer. Dude, that dog saw an opportunity and he took it, dude. He's hurting them.

He was like, this is what I was born to do, man. Gotta do it. Somebody gotta do it. He's literally hoarding them like sheep. I think this has to be... I changed my answer. Jesus Christ. Fenton.

Thanks, Ron. Those are quality. Shout out to YouTube, the purest form of social media. Do you have another one? I'm crying. That was so funny. Yeah, I think mine is probably... Do you guys know Tiny Desk and PR Tiny Desk? Yeah. My favorite one is the Mac Miller one because Mac Miller did a Tiny Desk

before passing and he played a couple of like my favorite songs and it's just a beautiful performance overall so a lot of times I'll just play that in the background while I'm like cleaning the house or doing things and great performance highly recommend it he's got Thundercat on bass it's like it's it's pretty epic

But yeah, that one's mine. Hell yeah. How far into the pod are we already? Because we haven't touched a single news story. We're celebrating YouTube. Yeah. We are like 30-ish minutes in. Oh my God. Okay. Okay. Almost all of these are updates, so we can like... We can speed run them after the break. How about that? Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah. It's a long break, but yeah, let's do it. Yeah, after what break? All right. We've got to take a quick break. But before we do that... Before we go, ready? We do have more trivia.

Trivia! Dude! Yeah. Okay, so Ellis is out sick again, but I have an Ellis-style question because of it. Oh no. These are all real Google services that I grabbed from the Google Graveyard. Oh no. Which one of these was an app that was used to find group activities with others who share your interests? A. Grasshopper B. Streams C. Polly or D. Shoelace

man they'd just be taking whatever whatever t-bow tubu you want to hint scuba it was 11 months old when when they discontinued it wow it's definitely not poly i know that let's let it get to the end of the year wow yeah okay well we'll think about that and answers will be at the end like usual we'll be right back

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All right, welcome back. We got a couple more updates to speed run through as we mentioned. First update, which is just kind of a random but funny headline, which is Apple was forced to drop the available now. Not quite forced, recommended. They were recommended to and smartly complied. The National Advertising Division recommended that Apple remove the available now claim from the Apple Intelligence website.

i think that's fair yeah i think that's super fair half available now but also most it's a bunch of different things whatever apple defines apple intelligence however they want some of it is available now some of it is not and so they were recommended to modify or discontinue the claim they said they disagreed but they but they went yeah the only part of apple intelligence that i consider truly available now is genmoji

And the writing modification thing just crashes my phone every time I even open it. So I just really, you know, it's just bad for everybody. Image Playground.

- I forgot that would exist. - Taking up storage on my phone. I would like to forget about it. - Yeah. - So that's all. - Just kind of a funny random-- - Just one more thing. Right before WWW, we'll probably see Apple Intelligence completely-- - It's been over 10 months since they announced Apple Intelligence and all the Siri updates and stuff. - Oh yeah. - They also shuffled the leadership that's handling Apple Intelligence very recently because they're just like, oh God.

It's like they brought in a bunch of the Vision Pro team, right? I think that's what Markerman said. Yeah. Because regardless of your stance on the Vision Pro, at least it's a product that is out. It does exist. It does exist. It is available now. It is available now. So, yeah. Shout out to available now. That's why they brought it in. But speaking of things on the internet. Nice. Is it? You could do better. Apple Intelligence website. I could do better. Yeah.

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Yeah, that's what the Fediverse updates, David. Yeah, okay, so Blue Sky has added verified check marks. Have they actually rolled it out? I thought it was only for certain organizations. Well, that's how it's working in general. If you remember how verified badges used to work on Twitter before verified badges across the internet just became pay-for-play, it

It used to be on Twitter that you could apply for verification. People at Twitter would decide, is it important that your account is verified so that people know that you are the real person that is posting from this account and someone is not just impersonating you? Which when it changed to pay for play was very funny because many brands got impersonated by people and caused markets to dip. And that was really funny.

It was. It was quite a while. It was. I'm not disagreeing with you. So now Blue Sky, after a long period of time, has started rolling out their own form of verification, which looks practically exactly the same. They did say that they had gone through many, many iterations of different things like different colors and different shapes, but they landed on the

the blue checkmark because it matches their brand identity and they said they tested things like green but that it looked horrible and did not really relate to the blue sky brand like at all

So for a little back backstory here, Blue Sky wanted the actual form of verification that was going to work on Blue Sky to just be domain name verification. If you don't know, on Blue Sky, there's a thing where if you own your own website, you can basically go into the DNS settings of your website and say, Blue Sky, please use my website as my handle, which is the verifying portion of it.

So then when people see your handle, they can see DavidMell.com and Kavijit.com, and they know that you're the person that is posting because you own the website. Clearly, that's not super scalable for everybody on the internet because not a super high percentage of people even have their own website. No one has their own website. Well, technically, you're leasing it from...

the IANA or whatever. Well, yeah, but I just mean we're not the normal people that would have our own website. Yeah, very few people have their own website. My mom does not have a website. I think it's also, in general, just scrolling through the app, harder to tell. Because display name still is bigger and bolder and easier to see. Something near there versus the handle part of it is more obvious. Right, the handle is kind of there. So they decided, okay, we're officially going to roll this out. Now, the way that they are doing it is, number one, Blue Sky themselves, which is

Blue Sky, the company, which is not the same as Blue Sky, the public benefit company, which makes the AT Protocol, because Blue Sky, the company, makes Blue Sky, the app. I know, it's confusing.

They are basically verifying important people that they deem important so that they can make sure that they don't get spoofed, right? Having been hit up yet. Yeah. Flaw in the system. I was just looking at my following page. The Onion has a verified check right now. The Verge has a verified check on my page right now. Yeah. There's a journalist I follow, a tech reporter from New York Times. She has a check.

Yeah, I do not have a check. I don't think I've been impersonated yet. Are you MKBHD? Uh, yeah. Yeah, you prove it. No. Yeah Well, so there's a couple of ways that they're going about this one blue sky the company is just verifying people but they're also rolling out something called trusted verifiers and the idea of this is like, okay if you're the New York Times and

and you have a lot of reporters. And generally, when they start verifying people, this is the same thing they did on Twitter, they start with journalists and politicians.

Because those are the two types of people that spread news the most, the fastest. Twitter was also very dominated by journalists and politicians before it even got big. So what this does is they basically give an organization like the New York Times the ability to verify people on their team. So they say, okay, we verify the New York Times, the New York Times verifies their journalists. That sort of allows...

them to verify people much quicker. And so that's what they're doing right now. They surprisingly got a lot of pushback on this. A lot of people on BlizzCat were not too happy about this. Many people said it creates a caste system of popularity and

Of lords and peasants. Of lords and peasants, which is what Elon said he wanted to get rid of when he made it pay for play. Why can't we all just figure out the big problem on all social media is lords and peasants? Yeah. How will we solve it? Yeah. So, okay. I talked to Blue Sky a little bit last night about this because I was interested in how this worked. Technically, the verification system is on protocol. It is on the AT protocol.

So that means that if you start up another Blue Sky-like application that uses the AT protocol, you can choose whether or not you want to show the verification on your app or not. So part of the differentiating factor of an app that uses the AT protocol could be that they don't want to show verified badges. If people really are that against it, they can just use something else. It is cool that it's built into the protocol. Yeah.

It was interesting. Like Twitter used to have, they haven't said whether or not people with verified badges get like boosted algorithm reach. I don't think they do. One of the main complaints I'm seeing here is just, there's like, please don't only put like verified stuff at the top of replies. Yeah. That cause then, then it feels like really only catered for sure. Like Twitter. I got really lucky in 2013 because someone randomly impersonated me and I put in like a, a, a,

complaint that was like this person's impersonating me and then Twitter verified me and in like 2013 that was like a big deal so everything I ever posted had like much bigger reach because that was the case when you were verified on Twitter way back then but that's not the case here I don't think so I don't know I don't really see it as that big of a deal but people don't want there to be a

cast system, I guess. Yeah, I think it makes sense on any social network where people are spreading information slash news and representing themselves to have some sort of verification system. I think a lot of people are literally reacting to the fact that it looks so much like the Twitter one that they hate. It looks exactly like it. Which is a blue check mark. Whatever, I get it. But yeah, I think...

It's important to have this system and the fact that it's supposed to be the protocol is a good thing. So, yeah, I think it's a win. I feel like the blue checkmark has just outgrown Twitter. Like now it's also on meta. It's like hashtag. The hashtag started on Twitter, but now it's everywhere, you know? And the problem is that it doesn't mean anything anymore because even meta, it's just you pay for it. That's it. On Twitter and meta, you pay for it.

YouTube has it also. But you don't pay for that. No, you don't pay for that. I'm still confused with the music badges, though. I feel like I see people with music badges so much more in comments lately. I see that a lot, too. And I don't know what that means. I think it just means you're like a verified artist on YouTube that uploads to YouTube music or something like that. Yeah, I think it's fine. I think it's fine. I think it's...

yeah don't make it pay to win yeah um the one thing right now is like you can't you can't request to be verified and they are just kind of going through the people that they think are worth verifying so i think it's pretty much at least in this initial wave just going to be politicians and journalists because they're verifying all the publications of the publications volified verify their journalists hank green's verified yeah

Yeah, well, he's hand green though. He's like one of the biggest accounts on blue skies. So that would make sense.

In other news, we have the official pre-order date for the Nintendo Switch 2 in the US. And if you were listening to this on Friday, you probably didn't get a Nintendo Switch 2 if this is news to you because it is Thursday the 24th. Big thing about this, pricing $449. There are some price increases on a bunch of different accessories ranging from $5 to $10. I think

Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers are both $5 more expensive. Some of the cameras are more expensive. So yeah, your little bundle you buy when you buy one is going to be

Pretty pricey. Yeah, but they didn't raise the price of the console, which is good. I also read that most GameStops are claiming they're expecting around 100 consoles, which is... That's a lot. That's a lot. Yeah, yeah. That really feels like a lot. I think I read somewhere on Twitter that eight years ago, they were getting between like five and 30 consoles a store. There's also half as many GameStops as there used to be. That's true. So that could be part of the reason. Your local GameStop may have a line. It might.

it's like 11 a.m in store yeah and then but still like walmart target are all doing some sort of pre-orders on the 24th yeah so it's midnight et on the 24th in the united states um was it i thought yeah midnight et game stop is different okay but the other ones yeah yeah yeah okay uh well

yeah it's tonight at midnight which is kind of crazy uh and speaking of gamestop they actually do have some pretty sick trade-in deals uh you can get 125 for an original switch which considering they originally only costed 300 and that was eight years ago is a pretty good trade-in i would say i think it's awesome because we're all complaining about the price if you trade one in

You're getting it for about the same price as the Switch 1. $325 instead. Yeah, that's fair. If it's good. You do need to bring in the original HDMI cord, which I thought was very funny and might mess a lot of people up. Which I don't know if I have. That is hilarious. Wait, so you need the original HDMI cord? I don't know. It just listed the stuff because it needs the console, the dock,

the power cord, which also could be a USB-C cord if you lost the original Joy-Cons. There's no way anyone has the original HDMI cable. I think I do. I mean, some people probably just plugged it in once and never unplugged it, so they probably still have it. Oh, okay. Yeah, I guess if that's the one you're using, then maybe that's the cable. I have a way longer cable. It's like 15 feet long. Yeah, like I had a cable already, so I definitely, I don't know what I did with that cable. Yeah.

You can also get $175 for Switch OLED trade-ins. I have an OLED, but I'm probably not going to trade it. You can get $100 for Switch Lite trade-ins. I was just going to ask, are you guys going to pre-order?

I literally go back and forth every single day, dude. Minute by minute. I bet at some point tomorrow I will look at one of the pre-orders and if it's available, I'll have a very hard time not doing it mostly because FOMO right there. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm in the same boat where I'm not going to try really hard to pre-order, but if I happen to...

stumble on one that's available if you happen to go to bestbuy.com or GameStop. That's what happened to me when I bought my Switch OLED because they were literally impossible to find for like weeks and I randomly went on bestbuy.com and I was like, what available near you?

And I was like, huh. So I put it in my cart for pickup and I showed up to Best Buy and the guy's like, oh my God, how did you get this? Like when he was like checking me out, he's like, how did you manage to, did you use like an app to the, and I was like, are you a botter? It was just on the internet, my guy. It was just there. Yeah. Another interesting note is that Nintendo had to issue a supply constraint warning in Japan because it got 2.2 million applications for pre-orders for the Switch 2 and

For reference, it sold 360,000 in Japan in the first month when the Switch 1 came out. So this is about six times that demand, which is absolutely insane. And it basically said that a significant number of people will not get it on June 5th.

Yeah, this is the so they just kind of you just fill out a form There's no this isn't people who like put down five bucks or anything. This is the like red no no This is like registering interest through the my Nintendo store to pre-order. Oh, well, that's something yeah Wow And write a question for you about this that you might know more than me about doubt it, but let's go my question is like immediately after the Announcement video you were able to sign up for

pre-ordering it through the My Nintendo Store thing. But it was sign up for interest. And then there was that whole thing where you could if you had 50 hours of play time and you had one year of Nintendo Switch Online

you would be able to pre-order. Yeah, I thought there was like a sign up for the pre-pre-order. Like it almost feels like the like Capital One early ticket thing. Yeah, what was going to happen was that you were going to be able to, those people are going to be able to pre-order a day before everybody else on my Nintendo store. And then they stopped pre-orders in the US altogether and pushed them to tomorrow. So my question is, is that whole thing just gone? That's the last I heard of it. I haven't seen anything about that. I'm not like...

you know refreshing every day but i have not heard anything about that because i haven't gotten anything in my email that's like pre-ordered no i didn't see anything on the switch subreddit i very well could have missed it i like every couple days go on there and just kind of skim through everything to see what's going on but uh yeah i don't know if they ever got to do anything with that because of all the delays interesting interesting uh and then you had one more thing here

We have a couple more. If you're interested in trading in, I was just reading that I thought it was interesting. If you have the OG Switch One, apparently they're super popular in the modding community because they're the only one you can mod. I saw people on there selling them for a few hundred bucks. If you need a different way to make some money for Switch Two, that could be a way. I think the modding thing only works if you hadn't updated the software past a certain date.

Could be. I'm not totally sure. I just thought it was. What if I just used the money to short GameStop instead? Guaranteed. This is not financial advice. All right. But speaking of financial advice...

Google could probably use some. I don't know. It's terrible. I'm available, Google. We got an antitrust update in the US versus Google case. And what is that? So we all know that the judge found Google to be a monopoly. And they're in the process of figuring out how the US government's going to fix it. So the judge during this trial said they're asking for three different things. One is to prevent Google from striking deals for prime search engine placement.

how Google pays Apple $20 billion annually. Amazon has their own search engine. I missed it. No, you just said prime search engine placement. Oh, you very much confused me. I was like, wait, what? I thought maybe. But yeah, I mean, we've talked about how much Google pays Apple to be that. They want Google to divest Chrome. The judge

Judge said it's the starting point of 35% of all user queries and has over 4 billion users. And then they also would like to require Google to license its search data to competitors that would want it. So obviously they still make money through that, through the licensing fee, but obviously Google wants that information for themselves monetarily,

It's more important to them because they get to do things other people don't get to do, even though they could make a ton of money off of it. Yeah. So Google's pushing back to almost everything they said above. However, they did kind of agree with parts of the...

striking deals and not being like a exclusive default search engine which is but the DOJ is like cool you can kind of agree with us on that but you already have created such like impossible lead over through these like monopolistic tactics that like I think we need to do this a little more to make up for

An insurmountable. Yeah. This is the place that you're in right now. This is the interesting part to me, which is always like, OK, Google's established this lead and whatever you think about how they got the lead or whatever. Now they are like the search engine that people choose. And Google still continues to pay Apple 20 billion dollars a year to be the default search engine in Safari. What if they didn't?

What would Apple do? I think the concern is that Apple would just...

turn on their own search engine that they've had ready for a very long time. I think that's a possibility, but I don't know that... Like, does Google really think that that's what's going to happen? I just don't know that people would... Would iPhone users be cool with, oh, I just typed in the search box to Google something and this other search engine came up for some reason? I don't think they'd care. Really? I really don't. I think there would be a lot of memes. If it was Bing tomorrow, like how many...

people would just be like, why? I guess Bing, to be fair, looks a lot like Google. I think Bing has a lot of negative connotations for everybody at this point. So I kind of feel like maybe they'd change it from that. I think the biggest thing is if we're talking just like

average person who has a phone, how many of them would know how to change the defaults? Yeah. They might literally be stuck in whatever that... And that's hundreds of millions of people. And I just don't think a lot of people care. I don't know because a lot of people still buy Microsoft computers and they open up Edge to download Chrome. There's also a lot of people who have Microsoft computers and...

And just use Edge because it's there and Bing is the default and they have no idea. But Chrome is the most popular browser. Yeah, it is. It's not the default on any computer other than Chromebooks where it is the OS. So people do like seek out Chrome and seek out Google. That is true. So I just feel like if Google stopped paying Apple tomorrow,

Obviously, Apple could spin up a search engine and would have to announce it and explain it at some point and they could launch and do a whole thing. But I just wonder, like, would people... Well... It would... I think it would... My point is, I think it would continue to be Google for quite a while. Sure, but I think it's also the fact that Google's paying them $20 billion a year proves how important that defaultness is. Well, it's more so like... Google's an ads business. Yeah. So, like, why would they want to not pay $20 billion to find out? You know, like...

I'd rather just pay 20 billion. That's how important it is. Yeah. Yeah. How much has that 20 billion been negotiated where it was like, give us 100 billion. And Google's like, no, we'll give you 20 billion. Yeah. Okay. All right. There's also, I think it's, it's more important for them to show more revenue than it is for them to show more profits necessarily. And if they're getting,

more and more revenue because more and more people are using Google search. If that dropped by even 20%, all of a sudden, like Google searches drop by 20% looks terrible in their stock tanks. It's just a lot of nuanced stuff. - How much would it drop? That's the question. - I think by a lot, honestly. My mom would not go to google.com on her iPhone. - But if they open up search on the iPhone after Google stops paying, what does Apple do? Do they just leave it at Google?

Who knows? They defaulted to something with the options of doing it in the settings, which most people never find. Or they take money from someone else. I don't know. I do think that Apple has an incentive to keep it on Google because Google is still the best experience right now compared to Bing. Yeah. I feel like they clearly are willing to do something else, though, because they're getting paid to do it. Yeah.

I bet Apple has a fully-fledged, really good product that is just ready to go. That's got to be... That they just don't think would make more than $20 billion. And they don't want to get into the complexities of running an ads business. With privacy way more at the forefront. Because that's what a search engine is. It's an ads business. So we think...

So we think Apple has the ability to launch a full-fledged search product tomorrow. Yes. But doesn't do it now because taking $20 billion from Google and just keeping it at Google is fine. I think that to them that's less complicated than like getting into the advertising business. And they could do it and they could make it probably make a lot of money, but it...

the like you said like the security stuff and the the data privacy i feel like if the government just told apple you can no longer have google be the default they would just make like a super private browser i don't think it would be we're not dealing with this at all i don't think they would tell them google can't be the default it would be google can't pay you to be the exclusive either way i just mean like apple i don't think would want to be bothered with any of this well also think about the antitrust potential of apple having their own browser that is the default

Because they would definitely come after Apple and be like you can't do that well not if they're not doing any kind of like Advertising monopolistic things yeah right now and what I do in advertising business Yeah, Android phones Chrome is the default Google's a default search engine yeah, and that obviously is a big point of contention with Chrome, but let's say Safari is the default and Apple search is the default search engine and they're not

the biggest search provider, so they can't really have a monopoly argument yet. Is that fine for now, I guess? It seems like that would be fine. I just don't know. It seems hard to believe that Apple could launch a new business today that is that massive, that threatens their biggest competitor but doesn't do it.

Well, you know, the U.S. broke up Microsoft because they were monopolizing search engines with Internet Explorer. I could totally see Tim Cook getting on stage and being like, you know, never explaining the Google Chrome thing, but just being like, we have this new browser, super private, on your phone, doesn't go anywhere. And they're just like, we're just not going to deal with this. Just search engine. It can be the same browser, but just like the search engine. We've built a search engine. Yeah.

Just to get around all this. I almost picture it being under Apple intelligence of being like, yeah, we've got Siri. So if you want to search for stuff, there's Siri search. And it's super private and no one can sell you ads based on what you search, etc., etc. Wouldn't want any of those guys collecting data on you, would you? Exactly. Use Safari. True. The rest of this is pretty much about data. Satya Nadella testified during this.

I don't know why I think that's so funny that he's like, the only way to build a great search engine is with unobtainable amounts of search data. And Google's made sure no one else has that besides themselves, which no shit. The CEO of Microsoft is like, yes, please let me buy that data. And then what's also funny is kind of related to Microsoft is I hate it. During the trial, the head of product from open AI mentioned that they would be interested in purchasing Chrome if it were to go on sale. Um,

Which now is very funny because is their boss not in the room with them? Who makes Bing? Satya's like, you'd what? You'd what? It'd be a shame if something happened to our investment. I just thought that was so funny. And also, please, God, no. OpenAI, don't buy Chrome. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. Speaking of antitrust suits. Another one. Let's keep the good times going. Apple and Meta just got hit with really big DMA antitrust fines. If you remember, the European Union basically went after Apple and Meta and were basically like, you cannot do these things. The big thing for Apple was third party app stores was a major thing.

Where Apple eventually complied, but they did so in the most malicious compliance way possible to the point where it basically penalized you a ton if you were willing to put your app on a third party app store in the European Union and made it like worse for most people.

So the EU is not happy about that malicious compliance, and they fined Apple $570 million for violating the DMA, which is crazy. And it says that it has 60 days to basically remedy this.

So that's not too good for Apple. We'll see what happens there. They're probably going to have to get rid of all of that jargon and just fully open it up without any consequences. It'll be interesting to see if Apple actually complies with that.

The EU is actually also not happy with Meta for a very similar reason. It was charging Facebook and Instagram users to either pay a subscription fee to get rid of all of the ads that were being shown there, or they could use their personal data to have ad-supported versions on the platform. And Meta solution in the EU was to allow free users to see fewer unskippable full-screen ads. But the EU is not too happy about that either.

So both of them got hit with huge fines. Apple's fine was 570 million. Meta's fine was about half that, but they could basically be continued...

They could continue to get fined fairly regularly unless they fix these issues within 60 days. It's crazy to think $570 million is a gigantic fine, yet we just talked about them paying about 30 times that a year to Google. $20 billion to Google. Yeah, it doesn't feel like such a big fine. That's crazy. Yeah. So, I mean, most of these companies will take the fines if it means they're making more money by doing the thing they're not supposed to do.

That's just generally how it works because the fines are just not big enough to actually be real deterrence. This seems quite a bit bigger. $570 million that they have to pay right now. They're going to appeal it, obviously.

But that seems like a bigger deterrence than they usually get hit with. So we'll see how that plays out. - This is like when you see a Ferrari parked in a do not park thing and it just has four tickets on a dash. - Yeah, they don't care. - I don't care. It's more convenient for me to be parked illegally. - Yeah, wow. - And then last little thing about companies giving large sums of money to other companies.

It came out that Google pays an enormous amount of money to Samsung to have Gemini pre-installed on its phones. This does not shock me at all. Yeah. Yeah. They seem to be very...

Close partners in a lot of ways. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. I mean at the pixel event They literally showed Gemini on the galaxy s24 ultra Google I/o they regularly demo exclusive features. It may be on on Samsung phone. Yeah, they'll probably do it again this year We knew that they had a very close partnership, but it seems like it's been getting closer and closer and now we have Actual evidence that they've been paying them a lot of money. So I

Apparently, Google has been paying Samsung an enormous amount of money since January monthly to have Gemini pre-installed on Samsung's phone. So that would probably be around the announcement of the S25 series. It also gives Samsung a percentage of revenue earned from advertisers in the Gemini app.

I have never seen an ad in the Gemini app. Me neither. So I'm not really sure what that means yet. It could be a future thing. It could be a future thing. But the judge actually ruled that this violates antitrust law and is hearing testimony to figure out what Google will have to do to remedy the behavior. So Google's not in the best situation right now. This coming out in the middle of this antitrust thing happening feels like the start of the search engine thing.

Yeah, you know what I just thought of? What? OpenAI has been working on this search product. Maybe if Google wasn't paying Samsung, Samsung would just switch it to OpenAI's product. This says they had offers from OpenAI and Microsoft as well. Yeah, so maybe in a world today where Google stops paying Apple to be the default search engine in Safari, OpenAI is like...

I want that deal. I want to be the search. We know it's funny is like Safari kind of got dumber when they added not Safari. Siri, sorry. Siri kind of got dumber when they added the OpenAI integration. ChatGPT. ChatGPT integration. There's been like multiple cases that people post online of like, hey Siri, what day of the week is

is it and it'll be like do you want me to ask chat gbt for that yeah it's it's literally the big speed april fool's video we did where it's like it can't answer it i'm literally gonna ask someone else yeah we were ahead of our time with that joke we were yeah so i guess

sorry my i just want to say my chat gpt experience lately it's few and far between and it has been miserable every time really every time it's like hey can you do this thing and i'll do it do it do it and then i'll be like can you do one more that's against our policy why is it against your policy for this reason cool do it without that reason that is against our policy perfect example i was like trying to explain to tim a thumbnail i wanted to make

And it was just this idea of typing on a keyboard and the keys are flying all over the place. So it did a pretty good job at creating that. And then I said, can you make this look like a YouTube thumbnail? And it throws the YouTube logo on and some text that looks terrible. I said, can you please take that off and change the text to this? And then first it says, you've run out of requests for today because I don't have pro. Please come back in 24 hours. That was Friday. I come back Monday.

I ask it to remove it. It says, you've run out of requests. And it's had to do that three times. I said, that was three days ago. I'm past the time limit. It said, you're right. And then it said, let me try to do that generating image. And it said, this is against our policy. So I said, why?

And they said there was a logo involved in it and they can't do anything with logos. So I said, you put the logo in. In fact, I'm asking you to take it out. He said, whoa, you're right. I did put that in and you are just asking to put that, take it out. What should I, let me get on with that. And then it says generate an image. It says that is against our policy. And then I just gave up. I'm like not doing this anymore. So yeah, that was my last ChatGP experience. Wow. It's terrible. That sounds horrible.

If only you had a Samsung phone that you could just... If only I had image playground. Yeah. Then you can make a cartoon. All right. Yeah. Okay. Well, we will take another quick break. We do have, of course, our trademarked

Have we trademarked it? No. I mean, just kidding. Don't look. Our patent pending final segment last of the month called Crown or Clown. And Clown. Crown and Clown. So we're going to get to that after the break. But of course, we should do one more round of trivia. Okay. Trivia. Trivia. Question two. Twitter announced a public verification system. In what year?

asterisk it was discontinued that same year because they received too many requests oh but when did they launch it the public one oh like how you can request it publicly just being able to request or like oh is that where there's like a verified account you had to like

What happened? I think it was in the settings. They got too many people requesting and they were like, we don't have that many employees. In the settings, there was like a form you could fill out. Yeah. Oh, wow. I didn't know about that. I was verified after it shut down somehow. Oh, nice. Oh, really? Yeah, because there was still a, this person's impersonating me form and I filled that out and they were like, oh, we're just going to verify it. I got verified like two weeks before they made it paid.

And I was like, well, there goes that. Oh, really? And then everyone was like, look at this loser. That's funny. And then you had to pay to put it. Oh, no, I did not pay. They just removed it. All right. All right. Well, we'll think about it. Answers at the end. We'll be right back. Support for this show comes from Nordstrom.

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Welcome back. We are doing Crown and Clown, and I think I'll go first because I have the two most boring ones. Can we remind the, I was going to say the users, the listeners, the viewers, what the game is. Yeah, I guess I will, but at the end of every month, we do a crown, which is something we thought was the best thing that happened this month, and a clown, which is something we thought was the dumbest thing that happened this month. We try really hard to keep it within the month. We'll see how we go. We need to...

be a little more streamlined of this and we're working on it which probably means we won't be but nice one hour later i will pitch i think the crown of april is the nintendo switch that's what i was gonna say it's really hard not to say it as much as people gave it crap for pricing and there's been some delays i still really think they delivered on the majority of the things yeah my argument is it's the thing i'm the most excited about have they because it's not even out yet

What if it's just a brick? I mean, we will see. Announced. It's always been for June. It actually hasn't been delayed on delivering yet. Yeah. Yet. No, no, I know. But I mean, like, what if we get it and it sucks? Well, okay. They could still screw up the, because they said they fixed the stick drift, but it's not Hall Effect. So I don't know if I fully believe them on that.

But a lot of the other things were good, minus pricing and some of the game card keys. But also, like, and I didn't know this, apparently a lot of Xbox and PlayStation games have been doing this for a long time without the physical key. It's just a download code inside the box. So this is a better version of that. I totally agree, because you can sell them and trade them and whatever later. So...

I think they did a good job. Digital Foundry did a very in-depth thing about the Switch 2 that they put out two days ago, and I would recommend going to look at that. They have a bunch of videos and also write-ups about it. Wow, that is a long article. It's super in-depth, and they have videos for every portion of it. Is it generally positive? It's generally quite positive. Yeah, they're saying the performance is way better than they expected, and...

So it's generally very positive. All right, David, what's your crown? Well, it was supposed to be Switch 2. I mean, it still can be Switch 2 because we have to agree anyway. Yeah, we have to agree. So you could just double up if you want. I'm not saying it's good because I don't know because I've never even touched it. That's what I'm saying. But I do think it is. Only one person in this room has touched it.

i have touched it thanks for clarifying what other positive things have happened this month nothing literally nothing i have something yeah what's yours okay well i have two one of them is not really a thing one of them was a volvo ex90 which we reviewed this month but uh it's not it didn't come out this month so it's probably not gonna win okay um but i just find something else nice car

In the month of April, scientists at Zhejiang University and the University of Cambridge built much, much smaller individual pixels on an LED display.

Record-breaking amount actually they achieved the smallest pixels ever at 90 nanometers wide you would know about this and it's hard to Explain how small 90 nanometers is but they've been working on this over and over again and shrinking down and down the pixels over and over But this 90 nanometer wide pixel achieved a pixel density of a hundred and twenty seven thousand pixels per inch Which is pretty sick

Virus-sized pixels. Obviously, virus-sized pixels. It makes oil paintings look pixelated is how they described it. Now, obviously, there's a lot of challenges that come from having pixels that small, from drivers to brightness to whatever, all these other things. But I just want to emphasize how small those individual pixels are. If a human hair was a skyscraper,

A 90 nanometer object would be a single floor tile. Floor tile, not floor? Like thickness? Floor tile, yeah. But like, is the floor tile standing up or is it? Human hair, sideways, skyscraper. Well, what length of human hair? That's a great question. The width of human hair. The width of human hair is a skyscraper. Holy crap. Another way of looking at it, if a red blood cell were a soccer ball, a single pixel would be a grain of sand.

That one seems not as crazy. Yeah. But red blood cells are so crazy. You have to know how small a red blood cell is. Right, because I see blood, but I don't know how big this individual cell is. Red blood cells are pretty small compared to a single hair. Thanks. A pool... Yeah, I don't know. So anyway, yeah, 127,000 pixel per inch display is my crown of the month. Hold on. I just want to say...

You guys said it can't be the Switch 2 because I haven't seen it yet, and then you bring out this science-breaking lab only. You can see it. No, no, I'm saying you guys said it to me. No, no, no. I don't think the rule has to be you have to have seen it. Because we've had previous crowns that are things we haven't seen. I agree. Yeah. I never said you had to have seen it. I said it had to be out. This is in a lab. Yeah, it's in a lab. It's out? Yeah, it includes... One of them exists. Okay.

I see your point, Andrew, and I'm choosing to ignore it. Somehow someone can get us access to making a video on that, though. That would be sick. Just saying. I'm pretty sure we would do that. Microscopes. Yeah, electron microscopes. I'll drop a link in the Slack so you guys can look at this thing because it's pretty... That's how those work, right? Speaking of Slack, I'm going to tell you what Ellis' crown is for the month.

He discovered that there are now HDR emojis in Slack. This is not a crown, my friend. He thinks it's a crown. It is not. HDR emojis. It looks horrible. If you're scrolling through on Slack, you'll see a regular emoji, and then you'll see a very bright spot on your screen, which is the other one. Oh, my God.

It looks broken. Can you post it? Yeah, I'm gonna put it in Slack. It's in the waveform. It just looks broken. Jesus. It's like glowing on yours. I think it's because I'm in dark mode on Slack. Yeah. You're scrolling. I feel like I'm blinking and seeing it in my vision. It's definitely an SDR on my computer, which I'm happy about. Wow.

Is Ellis saying that he likes scrolling through Instagram under his blanket and just getting blinded randomly in the middle of the night? Is this his crown? This is his crown. That's what I said. That's what I said. He thinks this is awesome. Okay, well, I don't. I think this should be eligible for the clown. Does he have a clown separately? His clown is... It's going to be something amazing. No.

It's basically Apple getting dinged for removing the Apple intelligence coming soon part. That's a clown? He said that's his clown. That's a good thing. Well, that they had it up in the first place. Interesting. I asked Gemini what are the best things that happen in consumer technology in April 2025, and it said the Apple M4 chip launched, which it did not launch this month. The Bard upgrade? Bard upgrade?

That might be April of three years ago. Gemini literally called itself its old. You're asking Gemini, which is what Bard was. And it said, yeah, the Bard AI platform received an update integrating the more advanced Gemini 2.0 model. AI travel planning. Wow, this is horrible. None of these are true. Sick. So I love AI. At this point for Crown, we're reduced to the Switch 2.

or the ground breaking 127 000 pixel per inch display or the hdr emoji imagine the hdr emoji on on that display crisp crisp cooked eyes cooked eyes vectors what about the beats cables

That was one of those mid things that happened that we forgot about within 30 seconds of it happening. But I thought you said it was the biggest story of the year. Oh, I did say that, didn't I? I was lying. Damn. I thought you were serious. I mean, it's hard to vote against. I feel like every time I just give up on my answer, but how about it is a pretty cool screen. I have a question. Okay. All those pictures look like they were green pixels only. Can the pixels change colors?

Don't worry about it. If it's green only. What do you mean green only? I don't know. Are they green? How about... Yeah. Oh, okay. Never mind. David was looking at something else. What about Sam Altman potentially buying his own company? Clown. You already said yours. Yours is the Switch 2. Yeah, it's the Switch 2. Okay. I think it's the Switch 2. Come on. It's probably the Switch 2. It's the most talked about thing this month.

Which doesn't necessarily mean it's the best. That isn't negative. There was a lot of negative stuff about it, but I think some of it was blown out of proportion. And some of it's totally reasonable criticism. Alright, I'll fold. I'll go switch too. Let's go. What is the clown then? The clown...

Tariffs. Reciprocal tariffs. They came out the same day, actually. And the clown came out the same day. That's a good point. I was going to go blue origin PR stunt. Oh, yes. Never mind. I lose. Actually, I think that's it. I think that's it. That was my clown. What about...

23andMe selling their data. They sold it? Going bankrupt. Has it happened yet? Oh, did it get sold? That was last month. I know, but remember last month we were like, April clown. It's like the buyer could be horrible. Yeah, they haven't sold yet. Okay, cool, perfect. I think Blue Origin is the best one. I think...

Adam's got one, but it's a hard one to top. Okay, so my clown then is something that I just realized yesterday, which is that my phone number has been tied up in iMessage for like two months now since I switched to the Pixel. So you've missed a thousand messages? Ellis texted me and on Slack he's like, yo, I texted you. And I'm like, no, you didn't. And then I saw it pop up on the messages app in my computer and

And then when I opened that up, there was like 30 missed messages. And I was like, how is this still a problem? How are we still dealing with this? This is along the lines of that tech question I had maybe two or three weeks ago, which is like the RCS thing not working on my phone. Yeah. Which I think on the iPhone you have to turn off. Yeah, I did. You do. I didn't do it on my laptop, which is a separate thing. And that's why it all went to my laptop. This is why I still carry two phones. Did you figure it out? I haven't figured it out, but it has gradually started working with more and more threads.

I've seen a lot of suggestions of similar issues. I know you said you tried some of them, but there were people, some of them were like, Oh, I tried to, you had to like sign out and then like restart your phone and then all this. Yep. No, I, I went through the comments. I tried basically everything everyone was suggesting and nothing was working. And then a couple of days later I tried an RCS message to someone. I usually RCS message and it worked and I was like, Oh,

Oh, RCS. And then I tried another thread and it's like SMS. Adam, that's crazy because like Ellis and Brandon must also have had their iMessage things like mess up because they never respond to me either. So Brandon was one of the people that I had gotten a message from him like three weeks ago.

And then I had to reply like, sorry, can you resend all this? Because it's stuck on my computer now. Damn. Very annoying. I didn't text you, so. Yeah. You never text me. I just try to telegram you. Yeah, which is terrible. Clown.

That's the clown. That's the true clown. That's the worldwide clown. David's still using Telegram. I have these problems that you are both having, you know? All I do is get a bunch of fake spam messages every day. I like it that way. Are we in agreement? Crown is switched to clown is Blue Origin? Yeah. I think that's how it'll... Yeah, that's April 2025 right there. That's it, yeah. Yeah. There's April... Oh!

That's pretty... We should do a year-long calendar. The end of the year. At the end of the year, that's a calendar and it has the... Crown and clown from every month. We'll collect them all. Yeah. Gotta collect them all. June is probably also gonna be Switch 2. Switch 2 2? Switch 2 2. The switchening.

We'll see how June goes. Either way, hey, that's been it. We should do the trivia questions. Oh, yeah. Trivia, dude. Okay, let's run the wait for it. You did not wait for it. 127,000 pixels per inch. That's crazy. That's insane.

Okay. The sphere in Las Vegas is about to shudder. Imagine the sphere in Las Vegas at 127,000 PPI. Yeah. In HDR. No. It would look, the space would look like this slack HDR. The sphere in Las Vegas looks like an HDR emoji from a plane. Let's see this one.

The rest of the city is kind of dim and there's just a blasting one in the middle. It also has emojis on it, on the sphere. That's exactly, that's what it is. It's an HDR emoji. I was in a hotel in Vegas a couple months ago and I opened my windows in the morning and it was just the giant emojis staring back at me. All right. So these are all Google services grabbed from the Google graveyard. Which one of these was an app that was used to find group activities with others who share your interests?

And it lasted 11 months. And it lasted 11 months. A, grasshopper. B, streams. C, poly. Or D, shoelace. What is it? A, grasshopper. No, no. What's the question again? Oh, which of these was an app that was used to find group activities with others who share your interests? I'm so mad that I changed my answer, which means the first one was definitely right. Ssss.

Whenever I do that, I just cross it out so that the world knows that I actually thought the right answer. Nice. Okay. Okay, we have different answers here. All right. Who wants to go first? I don't know the answer, so I can guess. I said grasshopper. Grasshopper? Yeah. Incorrect. That's what I had at first. Andrew and I both put shoelace. You both put shoelace. Well, I put D. Was that shoelace? Yeah. It was. Okay. Yeah, because you got to lace up your shoes to go do an activity.

Well, is that why you thought that's why I thought it's right. It's to find new activities. So I'm going to go do my activity with my friend. I sort of remember this launching because it was only a couple of years ago. Right. Twenty. Wait, let me find it. One second. Also, what was that? Twenty twenty. It shut down. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Also, what was option a grasshopper grasshopper? What was B?

Streams. What was C? Poly. Yeah, okay. What was D? Grasshopper is a thing in Google. He said they're all things. Not anymore. They were all things, but now they're all dead. Oh, well. At least I got the point. All right, question two. Yeah. Nothing about this shoelace app.

screams google at all really yeah it looks like it was made in um canva yes it does no it literally does the worst thing you can say yeah it looks like you made this episode sponsored by kim they probably did make it in camera oh god okay twitter announced the public verification system in what year

The public verification. The PV. And then they got flooded with requests and they shut it down that same year. My pen is like not working at all, but here, just do this. Yeah, here, I'll write over it. I'll give you an extra point if you get the month. Ooh. All right, flip them and read. What do we got? I am once again guessing. Okay. Oh, I went way later than both of you. We'll go in order. I guess June 2012.

incorrect are we just closest here uh sure sure let's do closest delta okay i did march 2014 march 2014 yeah nope wow i did june 2021 june 2021

- Wrong one. - Incorrect. - I think you were thinking of Elon's verification. - When did he buy it? - 2021. - Was it 2021? - Or was it 2022? - I thought it was very close before he bought it is when they added that form that was like, I am blank, blank, blank, blank. - That was a long time before that. - That's when they brought it back. - This is the first time they did it. - Oh, yeah. - Then I was thinking that. - The correct answer was July.

2016, so David gets the point. - Let's go! - 2016, wow, that's late. That is late. - I knew I was thinking of the second one. - I thought I got verified in 2015.

You probably got verified before the public request was open. Cool. Yep. All right. That was it. Quick update on the score. Marquez, 18. Andrew, 9. David, 21. David, you can legally drink now. Let's go. I'm older than you two. You're older than the oldest YouTube video. That's right. That's right. Or not older. Also. You have more points. Yeah, the day this goes live, I'll be 10 years older than you. Oh, yeah. Everyone say happy birthday to David. Woo. Happy birthday.

If you made it this far into the episode. Then you know when David's birthday is. Officially dust. Drop your comments below. In between all the which language do you prefer the dub to be comments. We appreciate both of those. It's a happy birthday in a different language. Do it. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Feliz cumpleaños. Yeah. But yeah, we'll be back, of course, in May. That's the next month. May. Wow. Is that true? May, we already know. What about April 30th?

Oh, wait, but they'll not see us until May. Until May. They won't see us until May. May 2nd. May 3rd. So we'll see you in May. It's going to be May, et cetera, et cetera. Appreciate y'all. Thanks for subscribing. Thanks for watching. Thanks for commenting. Catch y'all in the next episode. Peace. Waveform was produced by Adam Malina and Ellis Ruffin. We're partnered with Vox Media Podcast Network. And our intro outro music was created by Vain Sil. Bingo. All right. The Human Torch was denied a Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order.

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