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Hey, what's up people of the internet? What you are about to watch is not recorded in the normal waveform studio or at a normal time or place. It's recorded on a stage in front of a live audience in Austin, Texas at South by Southwest on the Vox stage. First live show ever. First live show we've ever done. It was fun. We tried to involve the audience in some parts of it. We also had some tech news to talk about.
Just kind of playing with the format, having some fun with it. This is, we'll be right back to your regularly scheduled programming on Friday, but we figured we'd share this as well so you guys could hear it and enjoy. The trivia question goes crazy. It's a good time. So yeah, I think without any further ado, throw it to South by Southwest versions of ourselves. Take it away. Thank you.
I didn't do that on purpose. Here we are. Okay.
What is up people of the internet? Welcome to another episode, technically, of the Waveform Podcast. So we're your hosts. I'm Marques. I'm Andrew. And I'm David. And this is the first time that we are recording an episode of this podcast live in front of people. It's usually edited and trimmed and nice and clean, but we figured this would be fun and we love all the people here at South By, so we're going to do this.
We actually want to involve you guys a little bit in this episode recording, so we're going to ask two things. I want to make sure I get this perfectly right. So first, we are going to ask for questions in the second half, so if you guys want to start brainstorming of any questions you want to ask us about tech, about YouTube, about being a creator, about any of the stories that we've talked about, start thinking about that.
Two, I see a lot of you guys have your phones. This is perfect. Go ahead and open up the web browser and we're going to ask you to fill out a quick survey and that will be part of the trivia for this episode. So we're going to trivia quiz ourselves on what you guys answer. So if you can go to waveformsurvey.com. So you actually have to spell out waveform, which is...
Spelled over there. waveformsurvey.com. I'll give you 15 seconds real quick to fill it out. It should be pretty quick. It should be pretty quick. It's just basic questions. Do you have a case on your phone right now? What are the priorities you have in buying a phone? Stuff like that.
But yeah, that's basically it. Yeah. Thank you all for coming. This is kind of awesome. We're usually trapped in a little tiny room with the best sound at the office and this is far, far different. Yeah, because it's freezing here. I am just really sticky. It's just very humid. This is Texas. We usually record in the Northeast.
So everyone's busy typing away. Make sure to answer the questions real quick. Just the first thing that comes to mind, you see the question, you answer, make it honest. Second half of the show, we'll quiz ourselves on what you guys answered. So it'll be fun.
But yeah, for those of you unfamiliar with Waveform, typically we are just talking tech. So the stories of the hour, the gadgets, we talk YouTube, we talk creator stuff, all sorts of that ecosystem. And lucky for us, there's always news and always stuff happening. So one of the things that I feel like we do want to chat about is...
Apple intelligence is delayed again. Yeah. I think it's funny because we always talk about how news gets released on Thursday or Friday. It takes us a week to cover it. So being here today, I think this got released before we hit our plane yesterday. Yeah. And, uh,
Yeah, some news with Apple intelligence, you know, the iPhone 16 was built from the ground up for Apple intelligence. Right. Totally. Yeah. So we've always had this quote that we say, and you might have heard this before, to never buy a piece of tech based on the promise of future software updates.
And then we had iPhone 16 come out, and we reviewed it, and one of the biggest features of it, because there wasn't that much different, was this promise of this future software update that was Apple Intelligence. And it did start to come out, to be fair. We have writing tools. We have, I mean...
Image Playgrounds. There's not a ton of stuff in it. Can I get a casual show of hands? Does anybody use Apple intelligence features on an iPhone or an iOS device? We've got about maybe 80, 100 people here and I see 25 hands. That's interesting. And then the rest of you just don't use it at all.
Or they're waiting for Siri to be good. Yeah. So I think the interesting thing about this story is the one thing that is delayed is maybe the most useful part of Apple intelligence, which is an upgraded Siri. So I use Gemini on my phone a lot. I actually find the voice assistant pretty useful. Do you guys use Google Assistant, aka Gemini, or Siri, or any of these? I've started to use the live Gemini a little bit more. I kind of love live Gemini. It is surprisingly good, except for this morning it was not good.
What did you ask it this morning? Something about wire transferring. Not in a weird way. I'm like a creep, you know, like I'm stealing people's money kind of way. Like an innocent question. Yeah. I don't use it at all. I still just use my regular assistant to, you know, turn on the lights, turn off the lights. I think Gemini is low-key incredibly impressive. So Gemini Live specifically, which is, it's just a conversation with the assistant and it can take over and see anything that's on your phone.
And if you want, it's multimodal and you can let it see your camera feed. And so I can literally open it up right now and point it at the camera. I can point it at this audience and ask it, what do you see? And it will describe what it sees. Hopefully. Which is maybe not super useful right now because I know what I see, but let's see. Let's see what happens. Good noise. So what do you see right now? Okay. I see a large crowd of people in what looks like a conference hall. Are you here for a specific event? Yeah, this is South by Southwest. What should we do for these people?
That's so cool that you're at South by Southwest. Thanks, man. There are tons of things to do there, from film and music festivals to tons of different interactive media events. What are you hoping to experience while you're there? I want to entertain the crowd we're looking at right now.
Well, if you want to entertain the crowd, you can start by telling a joke or a funny story. That's right. You can also try doing some magic tricks or juggling. You can juggle. Can you juggle live on the pod? I didn't bring anything to juggle. But I genuinely use this feature a lot. I pointed it at a YouTube video and asked it, like, are there other things from this creator I should know about? Just random stuff just to see if it would work. And it almost always, like, works surprisingly well. Yeah. So I find it...
Very, very useful, potentially even underrated. And then the Siri thing is supposed to be at least more able to like punch in and do things on your phone and dive into apps and change settings and things like that. And that's the useful thing I've been waiting for. And that's the thing that's delayed. So now Apple intelligence kind of has this weak reputation where like nobody...
uses it or cares about it that much. Yeah, the news said that they are going to release it by the end of the year, I believe. Or within a year, they said. They made an official announcement. They said they've been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. It is going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features, and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year.
I was honestly surprised that they even gave a date. But they did the classic Apple thing of three quarters of it is just saying what they already announced and then a little bit of like, and maybe you'll get the thing that we told you we would get. Okay, so taking action for you within and across your apps.
I think that part could be cool. That's like the Rabbit R1 killer whole thing. Taking action. That's the whole thing. Because if you don't have as many APIs on all these apps anymore, because they're all closing down their APIs, if you can just have your assistant do stuff for you. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm so tempted to ask one of the questions that we didn't put in the survey. Should I ask it? Call me an idiot. I'm scared of what it is. No, I want to try it. I just want to ask it. Okay, so AI assistants being able to take action is kind of a cool idea, right? Maybe if you even had like a piece of hardware that's dedicated to an AI assistant that can take action for you and it's just always available. Maybe it's like attached to you or something. Maybe it's like magnetically. What if I had like a projector? Yeah.
And like, yeah, that would be kind of interesting. Did anybody here buy a humane pin is what I'm trying to ask. One hand. We got one. One hand. Did we make, you said what? Oh, you also returned it. You returned it? Yeah, same. Good for you. Same. Yeah. That's interesting. I think my bet was going to be like three or four. Yeah. At least you don't work at HP now, so. Yeah.
No, but the idea is cool though still. So AI assistance taking action for you. I think Siri has this enormously high ceiling and potential for people who don't really use AI that much to use AI and get real value out of it and understand that it's useful and beneficial and that would be cool. And that's the thing that's delayed. That's why it's sad news. Can I take a little mini poll? Yeah. Does anyone here use Genmoji?
- We got, oh, oh, oh, okay. - Seven or eight hands. - Cool. - I think I've proven a point. - I've used Genmoji once and it was while I was making my video explaining what it is.
If you've noticed, they've changed all of the billboards in Manhattan that used to say, "Hello Apple Intelligence" to "Genmoji it." Wow. So the writing tools just get no love. The writing tools are... The iPhone 16 is now the Genmoji phone. That's right. There we go. So we were kind of expecting this in iOS 18.4, which now the developer beta is out. Which now supports RCS on Google Fi.
You're expecting a clap there, I think. Come on, let's go. Yes! Yes! Thank you, Ellis. Thank you, Ellis. I think, you know, with getting this announcement, is it safe to say...
We're not getting it even in iOS 18 and potentially iOS 19. That's a big question. I mean, it would be a big move if they just dropped it in iOS 19 in June. A big move? Yeah, I mean, it would be funny. It would be funny if DubDub just re-announced everything that they announced at last DubDub. Oh, yeah.
I agree. Yeah, so WW is going to be summer, right? So the summer is when we get... June. It's not even that far away. Yeah, June. Yeah, it's not that far away. And so we'll get a bunch of iOS updates and we'll get maybe some early betas and maybe we'll see some previews of how that stuff's going to work.
Are we even excited for it anymore? Yeah, didn't we see that already? Yeah, we've seen almost everything we're expecting to come out. Yeah, unless it just comes out at WW. Yeah, yeah. I don't think so. Gurman, though, even went so far to say that people within the Apple AI division believe work towards Siri might need to be scrapped and rebuilt completely.
because of how poorly it's been working. That's bad. That's not a great look. It takes some time to make things. Which they're finding out right now. Yeah. And if it's going to take that much time to remake, I guess you learn from it, right? Yeah. Well, yeah, but... I guess my question to you all is, do we see the new series features in 2025? Yeah, I think so. Here's why I'm optimistic. Because we have seen others try to do things like this. I remember doing a...
AI assistant battle where we had Google Assistant back when it was called that versus Siri, which wasn't that good back then either, versus Bixby on Samsung phones versus Alexa. But the thing about Bixby, because this was something Samsung was building into their phones, was it already had a specific ability to dig into apps on your Samsung phone. Right.
and flip switches and set options for you and things like that. So I could ask it to turn the flashlight on or set an alarm, but I could also ask it to go into an app and change a setting. That was Bixby's highlight in 2019 or whenever that video came out. So I don't see why that would be that difficult for Apple. They obviously build and control iOS and can make this easy for developers. I don't see why it shouldn't take that long. We are not developers, so we do not know how hard that actually is. We just like to pretend for a little bit. But my non-developer brain saw it.
Bixby do this five years ago? Yeah. I mean, they acquired Siri a very long time ago. So the question becomes, did they ever completely rebuild it from the ground up? Or did they just build on top of really old code? And maybe that's the problem. Yeah, unclear. It's cool animation, though. That is true. That is true. They use it in all the advertising. Yes. If you had to take a guess of how they address this at DubDub, do you think we're just going to get the...
of everything? Do you think they're just going to ignore that they're that delayed on it? How do you see that coming? Are they going to air power it? We just never hear about it ever again. Well, that's Apple's public-facing trend is they never publicly announce that something is delayed or not coming out anymore. Which is why it was surprising that this happened. Yeah. Well, this though is a statement to a source. This is a statement to a paper.
Yeah. They wouldn't go on their website or in an event and go, all right, so this thing we told you about, it's delayed. They just don't tend to do that. So what they will do, I think, is reannounce what's already out. Genmoji is so useful. Oh my God, Image Playground, it's so great. And then if there's more stuff coming, they'll tell us that more stuff is coming, like the series stuff. That's what I think they're going to do. Yeah. Yeah. I think it'll be a fun dub dub either way. We'll see. It'll be a funny one. We'll see. All right, it's time for a real quick break. When we get back, we're going to dig into Dig. Dig.
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Cool. All right. And did you all do the migration to Reddit in the process? Okay, cool. I was on Reddit and I remember the like great dig migration. It was kind of like the dig refugees on Reddit. It was back when Reddit was fun, which it has not been lately. Yeah. But within the last week, we got an announcement that dig is being updated and... Purchased. Purchased.
They purchased it. We actually looked, Adam and I this morning looked back. So the Dignation podcast has come back. They, about six months ago, started redoing it. I think the previous episode before that was 13 years ago. So it's been a while. One of the first things they said in the opening was, if you go to Digg right now, it's a 503. And he said to camera, Kevin Rose said to camera, if you own Digg, please contact me. I would like to buy it, relaunch it, and we can crush Reddit, which I thought was a very upfront and...
Cool move, I guess. Yeah, big goal. Isn't Reddit a top 10 website on Planet Earth? Oh, yeah. Top five. Top three. Okay. Bold claim. Number one. Number one. I actually think it is top five. It is top three, for sure. I actually think Google and YouTube and then probably some meta thing and then probably Reddit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Top five. I'm going to do a, for those of you who don't know about Digg, I'm going to do a very quick TLDR about what it was. Catch us up. Yeah, it was a previous competitor to Reddit, kind of like front pages of the internet that relies on community votes to see, you know, what is the most happening story these days. Rather than upvotes and downvotes, they had Diggs and Berries. I realized when I said this to Adam this morning, Berry, B-U-R-Y, not the fruit. Oh.
So that was your way of going up or down. When you're digging, aren't you like going, you're burying something, right? No. I'm with you. I've never thought of it. You're not digging up. I thought the same thing. I thought the same thing. Yeah.
Sorry, I just... That's okay. They should have thought about that before they named the platform. Maybe that's why it went away. So back then there was certainly this kind of sibling rivalry between if you were on Reddit or if you were on Digg. I know you were on Reddit. I started Reddit in 2011, and I just kept telling people about it constantly. They just didn't care.
But they care now. They do. Well, so I was a trendsetter. You were. You're always a trendsetter. Thank you. Thank you very much. But it wasn't just between users that kind of had this rivalry. There's actually an email in 2005 of Alexis Ohanian emailing Steve Huffman saying, meet the enemy with a link to dig. So they clearly were competitors in this this
community aggregated news site. And it was a fun time back then. But Digg had a bunch of issues, a main one being power users. So back then, if you were a very frequent user of the site, essentially your votes counted for more. And then you could be in a group of power users and essentially sell links aggregated to the top. And what Digg did to combat that is
They created, I think it was Dig4Po back then, which made a bunch of changes, really disregarded the community, and everyone left. Never good. It's never good when you're trying to make a whole bunch of money on something on a community-based website, it feels like. So everyone kind of moved to Reddit. I remember being on Reddit back then and being like, Reddit won.
We did it, which is really lame to say out loud in front of a bunch of people right now. We did it. But within the last week or two, Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, he is collaborating with Alexis Ohanian, former co-founder of Reddit, who left in 2020, and now they're launching the new Digg. So this is like Magic and Bird coming together to launch a... Who? Bird? Sorry for that. A bird? Do you want to do an analogy? Yeah.
It will come back to you on the... It's like... No. Okay. I think that wouldn't have worked. I put you on the spot. Somebody understood that, right? Okay, thank you. Magic? Sorry. Old rivals coming together to launch something new today. Is he not dead? So, Magic? Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, big rivals back in the day would be like crazy if they collaborated on something. That's kind of my equivalent. Like if they were on a... They were on different teams. This is basketball. Basketball. It's a sport. Sorry. Sorry.
And then they were enemies. Yeah. Yeah, that's the thing. Why were they enemies? Different teams. Okay. What about the, like, that new kid that everyone's into? Michael Jordan. No, the trade thing that you guys are trying to explain? Oh, this is new. Yeah, sorry. I'm back in, like, old school basketball, but that is also basketball. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah. All right. Sorry, Andrew. Can you continue? No, no, no. Don't worry. That's okay. That's the waveform podcast. That's how it goes. We are...
We usually cut that. I'll try and wrap this. So there's not a whole bunch of stuff that they've released so far, minus Kevin Rose saying, I want to take out Reddit directly. But it does seem like they're launching a new one. They're also doing a Dignation Live podcast at South By. Tonight, I think. Is it tonight? I think it's tonight at 6. So if any of you are interested in that, that sounds like a pretty cool time. I have a question.
Please. Do you think that Dig rebooting has a chance at actually taking down Reddit? Because I know nostalgia is big. Yes. And that nostalgia is very powerful and that I think a lot of people who remember Dig and really liked Dig would give it a chance. But...
is there a chance that all the normal casual people who just browse Reddit would give Digg a chance? No. Really? I think it's going to be sort of similar to Twitter Blue Sky. I think we're just going to get all these smaller communities that start growing and I think there will be a growing Digg community but I don't think it's going to be a mass migration event like happened when Digg died and Reddit was born.
I do agree with that. I do think there's a little more to it right now in the sense that the general frustration on Reddit within the last year or two since taking away third-party apps, really messing up a lot of moderation tools, they've said that they're really focused on
bringing moderation tools to moderators on the new dig. Of course, they're saying they're using AI. So that's always like a fun red flag of like what kind of AI are you using? But I think the reason being, I, I've never been on dig before, but as a res, I,
I really don't want to call myself a Redditor. You can say it. So as someone who uses Reddit sometimes, I'm excited for Dig just because of how much I feel like they've messed it up in the last year or two. Yeah, it feels like they saw a lot of opportunity with things that Reddit did wrong, and they put those things all on a whiteboard, and they said, if we do that, then people will switch to our thing. Agreed. And then we eat Reddit's lunch. Maybe that's the way they thought about it. Does the narwhal bacon. Oh my goodness.
That's a Reddit. 2011 was a really cringe time. There was a lot of cringe stuff out there. Early internet days. Including me. Look, I'm rooting for competition. That's how I'll put it. Like Reddit is huge. Competition hopefully makes Reddit do more good things for moderators, for communities, for third party apps and users.
But we'll just have to wait for time to tell. Yeah, I think the reason Reddit won't do that is because it's not good for market share. Okay, but... Investor. Remember when Blue Sky blew up and then all of a sudden Threads was like, here's like 30 new features that we have had ready but just never released until we had competition. Competition. So maybe, maybe, maybe, companies compete. That's true. We win. Not monopolies. It's huge. Big. Yeah. I'm interested, is there anyone who's on Reddit that has been frustrated with it that would...
You know, we don't know much about Dig, but would you be interested in moving to Dig? I guess you can go to both of them, so it doesn't really matter, but...
Damn. Anyone? Cool, okay, so never mind. Digg is screwed, nothing is going to happen. Well, the other thing about these sites is they are so dependent on community, kind of like social networks, so they kind of require at least some mass migration event to have a bunch of users, to have a bunch of content, to have a bunch of stuff to do and to sort through and to follow, et cetera. So even if you're one of a small number of people who is interested in Digg, Digg doesn't exist without a whole bunch of people there. So...
That's a barrier that I see, but at least they're here, they're doing stuff. - Yeah, I'll be interested to see what they say tonight. South by feels like a place to announce things and I wouldn't be surprised if they do that. - What are we announcing? - Good question. Our first live event happened 20 minutes ago. That didn't do very well. Cool, I have, let's move on. I have one more quick question before we get to audience Q&A, which hopefully there's some people interested in asking questions. - Yeah.
This is our first time at South By. We've been to plenty of other tech events. I know both of you, I've never done Mobile World Congress, but you guys have. And we've done CES and we've done kind of everything. And I think, you know, if you're watching the video, you don't get the general vibe about what's going on at those events. So I want to pose a question of...
What is the coolest, most unique, or weirdest thing you've ever witnessed at a tech convention? It can be someone trying to sell you something. It can be a piece of tech that looked really cool, but when you got closer to it, it wasn't quite as cool. Or it could be one of the coolest things you've ever seen and you wonder where it went. I have a thing that came to mind that's probably not where you were thinking, but it works for me. I've only been to Mobile World Congress once. This year, by the way, was really interesting. A lot of stuff happened there. But it's in Barcelona. It's every year.
the one year that I went, I had no clue what I was doing. I was in Airbnb several miles away from the convention center and I saw the taxi line, which was hours long, and I decided, what if I just walk back to my Airbnb? And so I just walked with all my camera gear through the streets of Barcelona back. Oh, no. No, it was, and it
Nothing happened. Oh, good. And it was great. It was cool. I saw all sorts of architecture and all sorts of parts and I had some good food and it was a good time. And that was the coolest part of that mobile world congress for me. So you walked? Yeah, that I saw. I saw a new city and it was like a cool experience and it had nothing to do with any of the tech at the show. We are really bad at experiencing new cities because like we flew in. Oh my God.
When we landed at 6 last night, our plane is at 5 today. So we're really bad at experiencing. And Austin's a really awesome city. I wish we were here a little longer. Speak for yourself, man. Yeah, you're staying, but do you have a fun experience? Oh, man. I like the ping pong robots at CES. They're there every single year.
I feel like the first year they were there, it was like the biggest hype. There was a huge line and it was really hard to get there. And now since then, they're just still running off of that hype. Didn't you play one? I got to play the ping pong robot the first year it was there. And they had this like roped off area around it and they had someone doing a demo. And so I got up there and I started playing against it. And I was, you know, kind of holding a rally for a while. And then I hit one kind of fast, you know, and I beat it. Ooh.
And I was like, wow, I beat the ping pong robot. And they were like, cool, great. Yeah, so we can change the difficulty level here. That was on baby mode. Yeah. So and then immediately it was incredible. So yeah, it's one of the coolest things there actually. Yeah. Yeah. I have one small one, maybe a second funny story if we have time. But
We were looking at, it was a BMW experience in one of their new, like, autonomous, I think it was like an i3. It was a smaller hatchback. Yeah. And it was kind of on the floor at the BMW booth with a wire around it. But they were nice enough to let us go in and film it with a bunch of people around. So Marques sits in the back seat to get a shot.
And he goes to scoot over to the other seat and all the BMW employees are like, no, no, hold on. That middle seat is actually cardboard underneath. And if you scoot across it, it will collapse. You'll fall into there. And so we had to walk around. But that's just like on video, all of this stuff looks really cool. A lot of the stuff at these events are like held together with twist ties and chewing gum. Many of the things at many of these events are not real. Yeah.
That's kind of the sad part about it. Especially with cars. Do you remember when the Hummer EV came to our office? And they were like, it can melt if you leave it outside. In the sun too long, the interior functions might melt on the dashboard. Yeah. That's kind of the state of...
This isn't a news thing that we have, but that's kind of the state of a lot of early E views right now. Like I just saw a video from a fellow YouTuber, good friend, Zach Jerry Rig, everything on the Telo truck. I watched it on the plane on the way. Yeah. Super cool concept. It's like this small footprint electric truck with four seats and a five foot bed in the footprint of a Mini Cooper.
I was like, oh, that seems really cool. I had a reasonable range, 1,100-pound towing, or I think it's 7,000-pound towing, 1,700-pound cargo capacity. It was like, oh, this is a really cool thing. I'm very inspired. I go to their site. They're like, this isn't out yet. And this is kind of the one that they've built that works. But you can reserve it. But you can put your $150 down and reserve it. And it's like, I've seen this a lot of times. I've been Zach in this situation. I did a video about the Faraday Future at CES 2014.
15? I don't even know how long ago that was. 2017, because that's the one you hired me. Yeah, 2017. And that never came out. But we got a really cool working car in person. And it turns out it's really, really easy to build one. And then you can roll it around CES or South by Southwest, wherever you want. And then it's really, really hard to build 100,000 of them.
And so that's been my new philosophy, like when Tesla rolls out this robo van and they're like, "Trust me." The robo van you mean? Yeah. I look skeptical because I've seen this pony show before, but we'll see. We'll see. I want these things to come out. It's just really hard to trust when I only see one. Well, unless that Trello Mini Cooper thing has a twerking AI dog on the dashboard, I don't want it. That's a deep cut. That's a Mini Cooper reference. Yeah.
Well, hey, look, that's about all the news that we have. So I think what we should do is we should introduce... Ellis is over here. And Adam? Where'd Adam go? Adam's back there. They're waving their hands and they have microphones in their hands. Can you hear me now? Ellis. Yeah. So if anyone has a question... Does anyone have questions? Who's near... Adam, I think this is a you. I'm glad there's questions. You've got the talkative side. This is a you problem, Adam. I see someone coming over. Oh, scurry.
Scary, scary. We're going to try and get as many questions as possible. Hello, my name is Tree Wendell. I'm from Ohio University. This is also my first time at South by Southwest. I'm very excited to see you guys here. My question for you is if you had unlimited resources to invent or create a ground piecing piece of tech, no matter how futuristic or unrealistic, what would it be and why? Crumple phone. Thanks, Ellis. Wow, unlimited resources is huge. I have a really quick one if you guys want to think of it.
I just had a child. She's like 14 months old. Every piece of baby tech is absolute garbage. I would completely reinvent baby tech, make it actually high def. I would make the apps actually useful. Or maybe just, you know, maybe we don't need apps for it. Maybe the white noise machine just needs an on and off switch. But I think there's an untapped market there because everything I seem to do as a tech person hurts my soul.
I like that answer a lot. That also doesn't require unlimited resources. It seems like it does. There's a lot of babies out there. Dang. I never thought about that. Do you think there are as many babies as there are non-babies? No. I don't think so. There's a lot of babies, though. There's a lot. All right. We've got one over here. Wait. They didn't have an answer. I want to hear an answer.
One of the smart cases. Unlimited resources. Yeah. My brain weirdly went straight to like, could we do humane over again? Oh my gosh. Really? Yeah, because I mean, they essentially take unlimited resources. So I would want to create a good AI that has a personal understanding of everything in my phone, even though that's kind of impossible, and then can be super useful for me. Yeah.
So a humane pin that actually connects to your phone and you don't need a separate phone number for? Yeah. Like an accessory. I can't believe they didn't think of that. I'm going to maybe do one of my senior projects in college that I got an A-plus on, by the way. So it's a good idea. Are you pitching this right now? We are at a place where I can do this. Okay, so imagine this, right? So it's an ISP.
but for people's homes, okay? And it's called Wi-Fi. This is already all built out. It's called Wi-Fi. So it's Wi-Fi, obviously. But it was right after the Google Home, no, the Google Wi-Fi first came out, where they were like, oh, mesh networks, we're going to do mesh networks. So imagine you have a node in your home, but it's like two gigahertz. It's like it goes super far, right? Right.
And it goes to the street, but it can also ping off of other people's homes. Okay? So the whole idea is like we give everyone in the world free internet, but then you have like local ads that are running from like local businesses if you don't pay for the internet. But then if you're at home, you get to say, I don't use my bandwidth from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., so I'm going to give 85% of my bandwidth to the community, and then you get money off of your payment, right?
every month, the more bandwidth you give out. Great pitch. So it's a pitch. Comcast stole this idea from me. Comcast did steal this idea. You have to be a Comcast customer in order to use the internet. And I think that everybody should have it, not just Comcast. Man of the people? Man of the people. Well, there's the answer. That does require unlimited resources. Thank you for the question. Yeah.
Hi, my name is Darius. I love the recent video called "Are Foldables Cooked?" Great title. In the US, foldables really haven't gone mainstream. Do you think that Apple releasing a foldable will change that considering the premium they'll probably charge? Or do you think this might be another Vision Pro moment? I'm a little biased because I've owned like five foldables and I just purchased the Opal Find N. I'm so jealous.
Really good question. Thank you. That's a part of the video I left out of the video, actually, which is the Apple factor. So just to catch people up who haven't watched it, foldables, really, really cool tech. But they're kind of stagnating a little bit in this way where it feels like the tech has gotten super good, but then people just aren't switching to them yet. And
Short answer, yes. I think Apple jumping in with a foldable will reinvigorate all of the competition, all of the attention, all of the eyeballs, and will make that interesting again. But the premium that you mentioned is also real. So...
these foldables versus this foldable. - Hot dog versus hamburger. - These all have this massive premium and I think that's a huge barrier, but this one, which I think might be more likely for Apple to try, we've seen those for $699 for Motorola, $999 for Samsung, and I think this could be in a not so Vision Pro price category that I think could get a lot of people interested. And I think that's the moment Apple jumps in is when they can make that and it's reasonable for people to consider.
Good question. It's like a section of the video that probably fell out of my head and into yours. I like that. I've also started to see a lot of hamburger foldables in New York City.
It's the flip. The flip is Hamburg. Because Hamburg, you put the top, the square. The patty would fit better in that. Yeah, exactly. So this all works great for an audio medium. It's our specialty. I'll just do that. Okay, so yeah. I've seen a lot of them on the subway. The category's growing, and that's even on like...
you know, non-Apple phones, which in the United States is a very low number. So I think if they release that and it's in that $1,000 category, I think that will be a bigger super cycle than Apple intelligence. Totally. Would Apple do that?
Because right now a 16 Pro Max is $1,200. Would they release one with a folding screen that's less expensive than their... Less features. I think it has to be the most premium. It still doesn't matter as much though. The Pro Max is the most popular iPhone in the United States because everyone gets a carrier plan and it's like $3 more a month. They'll do it. Everyone will buy it. Cool. Next question right here.
Hey, how's it going guys? I've been following you guys for a long time. Appreciate you guys. Thank you very much. Do you think Apple will ever come out with a touchscreen device like a Mac or even the studio display? Because sometimes you're trying to edit and stuff like that and it sucks to not be able to just go there. What's the matte screen called? Nanotexture. Nanotexture would hate that. No, they have a nanotexture iPad.
- Is it the same as the screens? Your screen, you accidentally touch it once. My Pro Display XDR is the messiest thing on my desk. - I have a lot of thoughts on this. My general philosophy is if they could have, they would have done it already. They could have. They would have done it already if they wanted to. They don't want to. Apple has enough overlapping products that if they gave something like a MacBook Air, for example, a touchscreen,
then iPad Pro with a keyboard would be cannibalized a little bit. They kind of have to keep these things separate enough that a Mac with a touchscreen, as much as we all think it makes intuitive sense, and there are tons of other touchscreen laptops out there, Apple won't do it because in Apple's universe, that's not good for their other stuff. I think it's way more likely that they add a feature on the iPad that allows you to use it as a drawing tablet mirroring onto your display than it is they release an actual touchscreen Mac.
They have these ads all the time where they show somebody who has an iPad and they plug it into a studio display. Yeah. Like, it's a real person that they think exists. That they think exists. They think is the key word there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, no. Sorry, I unfortunately don't think so either. All right, next question over on this side.
Hi guys, my name is Yarian, long time viewer, great to see you in person. My question is about your use of AI. So you've shared a lot of sort of personally useful uses of AI, but in the running of your businesses of the YouTube channel, the podcast, what are uses of AI that are saving you a lot of time or just making your business way more efficient?
Hellas has a name. Hellas wants to answer this really bad. So as of last week, I became a vibe coder. I'm officially writing tons of code and don't know what any of it means. And Claude did something crazy for me last week where I'm building a website and a web builder that's really cheap and doesn't support tables. Oops. Oops.
and I needed a table to build a table in it. So I'm building it in HTML, CSS style, like no idea what I'm doing. And my idea was like, oh, I'll use Google Sheets. That'll maintain the table, and then I'll download the HTML, throw it in the embed. Google Sheets, when you download HTML of a table, puts all this formatting in it. Ew, gross, disgusting. And I don't know how to code, so I don't know how to get rid of that formatting. And I was like, Claude, what do I do?
And Claude wrote me a web app that automatically removes all the styling. It was like, I got you, bro. So that's what I'm using AI for. I'm vibing my way through code. And yeah. That's actually very legit. Is this an industry term, vibe coder? It's a Twitter term.
Same difference? It is now. I have another use of AI that we kind of dig into a little bit. And I mean, so we make YouTube videos and there are endless analytics that we can dive into on YouTube because there's a whole spectrum of YouTubers, those who check studio every day, those who just kind of make the video and then it's just vibes.
I'm in the numbers. I'm very curious about things like retention and things that we can optimize. And there are AI tools now that will look at past videos we've made, other outliers from other channels, and things that have worked well on the platform in the past and suggest versions of that that could work for us.
And video making decisions for me have always been a combination of what I think people would watch and what I'm interested in. So I'm sorting through that AI generated stuff to figure out what sort of overlaps between them. And it's been surprisingly helpful. The most useful use for me is when I'm doing research on something that has like one total source on the Internet and it's from a forum from 50 years ago.
And just asking it a question that I like. I can take the time to read a math book and dissect how it works, or I can have it tell me in baby talk how it works. And then, oh, that makes a little more sense. And then I read the math book, and then it's a lot easier to understand.
50 years ago is not an exaggeration. When we were doing the ICANN episode, we were pulling sources from Usenet posts that had been archived, which were from the early 80s. Yeah, not quite 50 years. That was 50 years ago.
It was 40-something. Feel old yet? Feel old yet? I don't really use AI at all currently, but Adam did use it the other day. We were thinking of a name for a segment in the podcast where we say the best thing and the worst thing of the month in tech, and it came up with the idea crown and clown, which I thought was actually super creative. I could have done that. I don't know. That's why I don't use AI. I have David. That's right. You can't spell David without...
AI and a few other letters. Next question over here. I never thought about that. That's pretty good. Hi, everyone. My name is Yuri Benedikt, and I would like to ask about the podcast. Your YouTube production quality and storytelling is top tier. And I would like to know how do you translate what you learn doing YouTube video into your podcast? How does one make a great podcast like that? We... Yeah. I remember... So...
when we pitched the pod, when I pitched the podcast to Marquez, um, everyone on YouTube was kind of doing it. And I really wanted to make sure that we did it in my eyes, like correctly. So I, we went audio first because in our eyes, and we're still very bad at this, but we wanted to be able to describe things to audio listeners. And we thought we needed to go through the audio version first. Um, so we did that. And I do think we learned a lot as you know, now that we're on video, we've probably gone back a few steps. Um,
But that was our main goal of doing that. And then since then, in typical MKBHD fashion, we're shooting in the most unnecessarily high definition and have way too many people working on it. But I think we've been... Not way too many people. Sorry, Adam and Ellis. I think we're crazy efficient in terms of how I hear a lot of other podcasts. And I think keeping it close has let us do that and let us really...
grow the show organically and get to test new things and see it directly in the numbers? Yeah. I think when you are building other YouTube videos, you probably just develop strategies and kind of concept. It's kind of like making a normal YouTube video in a lot of ways. Because I've talked to people who do podcasts and they've only ever done a podcast and not done YouTube videos.
And they're like, "Oh yeah, we record for three hours "and we get 25 minutes of useful content." We record for like two and we do like an hour and a half show, which I think is a pretty good hit rate. - Closer to three. - Is this the guy who has to edit it every week? - And in general, I think a lot of the production quality stuff that you see on the main channel
it became the expectation for the main channel. So I think what was interesting was this sort of just chat show format became a void that we opened and the podcast was a perfect way to fill that. It's still high production for a podcast, but we have these stories and these incredible big pieces that we do on the MKBHD channel and then we can kind of just chat and it's a different way of doing the same thing. Waveform was originally pitched as
I would come into the office and Marques and I would be, hey, did you see this? Hey, did you see that? And we would talk and realize we're like an hour and a half into our day and we haven't actually done any work. And we're like, we should record this. Our conversations are so cool. We should just record that. Everyone wants to hear us. Total ego move on that one. But I think because of that, it's just conversation. We're all friends. And I think it's worked out really well from that. Even though everyone tells us we interrupt each other all the time. Sorry.
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Cool, I saw one in the front row. Can you remind me? Thank you very much. First of all, I love your videos. I've been watching since I've been in elementary school. My name is Sarvesh. Feel old yet? Feel old yet? How old are you? I'm 19.
I am ancient. Go ahead. Returning to dust. My name is Sarvesh. I'm from the University of Tulsa and also the founder of Aura Patch and Glauke AI. As a 19-year-old in med tech, I wanted to ask you, how can we integrate healthcare into our mobile technology that we have currently? Big question. That's like the big next frontier of what all these companies are trying to do. So if you watch enough Apple keynotes...
There is a heavy emphasis on like, you have these devices on you all the time, and we're in your pockets already. So we might as well be collecting and creating as much useful information for you as possible from that.
And that works in the ecosystem of Apple and the stuff that they do. So that makes it difficult for those outside to create something that you also carry on in person every day and also gives you useful information. So it's kind of these two worlds of health care on your person, the stuff that you already have and the stuff that you might also want to add.
I do think Apple does a pretty good job. I mean, they have great stories every keynote about like the Apple Watch saved me because it alerted me of this thing I didn't know I had and I was in the woods and a bear attacked me. That was in someone's house that the bear came in. Yeah, crazy stories. That was the weirdest one I've ever seen. But they're real stories. And so this advantage of them being able to do as much as possible with the sensors and the things on your person is inspiring.
but the other side of that coin is they make it really hard for others to plug in. I've seen a good amount of things that plug into Apple Health. The 8sleep has all the plugs to Apple Health, so I get a watch notification that tells me about how my mattress thinks that I slept, which is crazy to say out loud. What a world we live in. Long story short, there's a lot of data being collected, and I'm pretty happy about a lot of the value I've gotten out of that.
Yeah, I think that's pretty above my head. I know nothing about med tech or anything. I don't think I have a specific answer for that. I mean, I'm a very health anxious person. So if there were things that could help with that anxiety, I would love it. Yeah, I mean, especially in the United States where health care is a bazillion dollars, it's very clear that the next kind of frontier there is preventative health.
And I think that's what all these companies are trying to get into. It's like, can we actually just try to keep you healthier throughout your life? Can we alert your doctor of early symptoms so that you don't actually have to go to the hospital and then go into bankruptcy? That'd be great. That'd be great. And if you haven't watched our Dr. Mike interview, it's really good. And he has a lot of opinions as a medical professional as well. For anyone out there, it's a great episode.
Yeah. We have approximately six minutes before we want to do our trivia, so if we want to do some kind of rapid fire questions. Okay, yeah, right over here. Or quick ones, or if you want to point them at somebody. Hi, my name is Tashaul, I'm from UT Dallas. This is my first time at South by Southwest, so it's pretty cool to see you guys in person.
So yesterday I attended a talk by the CDO of D-Wave. So they're invested in quantum computing. So right now everyone's talking about AI and I just,
It kind of reminded me a few years ago, nobody really understood AI, but now everybody somehow understands AI. And I feel that we're on the frontier of quantum computing, especially with what Microsoft did, like, I think a couple of weeks ago. So just based off that, like, what's your opinion of quantum computing? And do you see it being relevant in the next five years? I'll leave this to you two. I have one really overarching thought, which is that the branding is terrible.
So I did a video where I got to actually see a quantum computer and learn essentially everything I could possibly dream with with Cleo Abram. And I went to IBM and we got to see all this cool stuff. The stats are incredible. The super low temperatures in the thing are incredible. Just the hardware is amazing. And at the end of that, I came away thinking, wow, these things are super, super cool, but I still can't explain it to anyone.
And I think AI, in its branding, is artificial intelligence. I think to my parents, I could say, hey, this is another intelligent thing that can help you with stuff. That's super easy. Quantum computing has never had an easy, at least to me, explanation of why it's super helpful, even though the advancements are incredible. And this huge stuff Microsoft was doing, I don't know if you saw that, they started giving people tours of their quantum computer. They're setting new records with the amount of qubits in theirs. But
how do I tell people who aren't going to use that technology how useful it's going to be? Really, really hard. So AI seems like it's the most connected to us. It's in our pockets. It's everywhere. But quantum computing has a branding problem. The big question, too, is when is it actually going to be released for scientists or people to actually use? Because I feel like quantum computing has been five years away for 50 years. I remember reading Wired magazine when I was six years old, and they were like, no.
Next year's the year. We're going to change everything. Everything's going to be better. And I know that there are huge advancements being made in this field. And they're like, we're getting up to these insanely high qubit numbers that we didn't have before. But yeah, like Marques, tell me what that's actually useful for. And then also, is it like real or is it? I guess a lot of it is because it's very research. It's not very consumer facing. That was part of what we talked about in the video is like, it doesn't really touch the end consumer. Like,
With AI, I keep bringing it back, but people use AI. With the research and with all the stuff that quantum computers are good at, every time they pass this milestone qubit number, there's some new thing that they've unlocked that they've been able to do more simulations or be able to compute more things. And that's just for the researchers that are doing that type of stuff. And it's not consumer-facing. Last two. Ellis, do you have one? Do we have time? We're doing it? Yeah, do two more. You're on. Let's go.
- Hey, I'm Pulkit, I work at a privacy tech startup based out of New York called Cloaked. I had a question on AI hardware. What do you think is the final format of AI hardware on body that would win out? Would it have to eventually be baked into a smartwatch or a smartphone, or do you think there's space for a Rabbit R1 or a human AI or a Meta Ray-Ban to eventually win out as well? - Can I just, are you recording on your glasses right now? - I think glasses is the answer, and I think you're the exact reason why that makes sense.
Yeah, yeah. I think there are so many cool ideas of things that seem like naturally they could work. Glasses are obviously one of them. The pin, I'm not against the idea, like a little simple garment that you hopefully can charge up. Like that stuff could be cool, but they are so up against the limit of how much data they can get from your phone. The smartphone is...
so good that they have all the data and they are not letting anyone else touch that much data. So if you're going to make something that lives on someone's body and collects information and is useful to you, it has to do that independent of the smartphone. And that is so hard. So I think the glasses are the... Well, it can be connected and just be... No, yeah, it can be connected, but the information that the smartphone has, it's not given up to you.
So the glasses stand the best chance, I think. Half the people in front of me have glasses on. It's like very natural to have glasses.
But it is a serious challenge. Yeah, I think the absolute best way to drive adoption of a new technology is to integrate it into an existing piece of hardware that people already use. So AI, for example, on smartwatches, on earbuds, on your phone, they can all sort of interact with each other. Everyone wears, well, a lot of people wear watches. Most people use earbuds.
And so just integrating that technology into these existing devices that everyone's using every day already, and then it's like, oh, there's an additional thing you can do with it. A lot easier than saying, like, oh, throw your phone in the trash and stick a pin on your chest, man. Everyone loves that, you know. Yeah, tough sell. Yeah, tough sell. Tag us in that video. Last question. Wait, Adam, we got to get this guy up here that has his hand up. He can be second. He can be last question. Yeah. Adam can do his, and then we'll do one more. Do we have time?
We'll just do it real quick. I'm Cody from Austin, Texas. You spend most of your time reviewing other people's products, but I'm wondering if you had unlimited resources, what kind of technology or product would you want to create and why? Crumple phone. Crumple phone.
A couple phone would be sick. I get asked all the time if I would like to make a smartphone, and the answer is always like, well, I mean, that's an insanely competitive market, and I don't have that kind of time. But if I had unlimited resources, I think I would want to make my own ideal phone for myself, which is an exciting idea, but it's really hard.
Yeah, we did that question earlier. Kind of, yeah. And nobody would want to buy anything from me anyways, so. Yeah. I just said an ISP that doesn't suck, basically. Who was this guy right here? There's one more right up front. Over here. I see you. I'm coming. Right here. And then we're going to do trivia. Let's get it.
Thanks from London anyone watch out anyways, so thank you for the last question Yeah, you spoke about a lot about AI and stuff and I just wanted to know for YouTube itself Do you feel like it's gonna help the creativity because I want to enter that field just graduate So just yeah, do you think it's gonna boost creativity or kind of just make the content really similar? So yeah, just a quick one both. Yeah, so I think
The trend since I've started making videos online has been that the barrier for entry has gotten lower and lower and lower. So it's easier and easier for anyone with an internet connection to make something, which is awesome. That's exciting. It's made the masses of like tons of YouTube videos being able to come out super, super cool. What's also happened is the ceiling has gotten higher and higher.
And that means that the production value, the amazing stuff you get to see people doing full time has gotten more and more amazing. I'm going to a panel right after this where we're talking about should YouTube creators win traditional awards like Oscars? Like that's how high the ceiling has gotten. And I think AI has been pushing it in both directions. So I think the floor getting lower is like anyone with an internet connection can generate a cool script, can fact check it, can make can come up with super cool ideas and can start making a YouTube video just like that.
And I think using AI as a tool to brainstorm and think of new unique ways to do things and come up with ideas that have never been done before and then how to execute on them and using all these tools to try to make something that's never been made is raising the ceiling more and more. So I think it's both. I'm hopefully using AI to do the
that one. But I understand that everyone wants to make YouTube videos and I think that that's going to be something we see a lot more of with AI too. Yeah, I think it's a combination of there's a lot of AI slop being thrown on YouTube right now, which is really destroying a lot of the stuff on there. But at the same time, it also makes it so you stand out more if you're actually a good human that is making human content instead of the slop content. So if you're used to seeing slop and then you see something that's actually pretty good, it looks even better.
So, there's that too. Yeah, I think it's time. Okay, so the last part of what we're going to do here with our final few minutes is we had you all fill out that survey at the beginning. And if you have watched Waveform, you know we like to have a little bit of trivia on the show. So what we're going to do is have Ellis...
pull up the answers to your trivia questions. I have the answers. And I don't think we have the whiteboards. The one thing we brought for this trip was our whiteboards and we did not bring them on stage. We forgot the whiteboards. What? Cool, we will just say our answers out loud. We'll say our answers at the same time? We'll each say our answers and then Ellis will be the judge of who wins the trivia point, who knows this audience the best. Okay, we gotta speed through these. We're running out of time, so get ready, boys. Adam, hit it. Adam, hit it.
That's right, everybody. Welcome to Trivia. All right. We asked everyone in this room, do you have a case on your phone? David, what percent, Price is Right rules, of people in this room have a case on their phone? Price is Right rules? Price is Right rules. 81. Fantastic. Andrew? 95. 95. Marquez? 74.
Marques gets it. It was 80. I'm sorry, David. Oh my God. I was 81. Question number two. What is the number one feature people in this room look for when buying a smartphone between performance, camera, battery, build quality, and the display? I'm going to go camera. Camera. Battery. You're all wrong. It was performance. What? They're all good.
You can buy any phone. All right, question number three. What was the worst piece of tech released in 2024? I'm going to do as many of these as we've got time for. The humane pin. The humane pin. The humane pin. Marques? Somebody, yeah, it's the humane pin. It's the humane pin by far. But notable answers include Apple intelligence and someone put blue sky. Didn't like that. Wow. Let's go. All right. Wait, wait, someone. Wow. Rude. Final question, guys. Yeah.
Who had the worst takes on Waveform in 2024? Oh, no. David didn't know this was a question. Andrew. Andrew? I'll say Andrew. Andrew? I think they said it was me. Nope. The answer is me. You're all haters and I love it. Were there any other questions? That was way faster than I expected. Do you think more people in here do video or audio?
Oh, listen to the podcast video or audio? Yeah. Can you just tell us the answer? No, I want to guess. I want to guess. I want to guess. I think that more people in here do video. Video. I'll go. Oh, wasn't there a third option of I don't listen to waveform and I'm not sure why I'm here right now? And a shocking number of you have never heard of waveform. I don't know if that was like a joke or. I think there's a QR code to subscribe on the side. Yeah. Just saying. No, it's not there anymore. They're all here for today explained, which is coming up next. That's why they're here. I'll go audio.
The answer was video. Let's go. I'll be real. I was not keeping track of who got points. So we're going to need to review the tape. But as of this season, David is still crushing. And I will crash and burn in the extravaganza for sure. Yes. We have four minutes. Is there like one more? We have four minutes. We have four minutes. Is there one more question? Because we cannot go over. There's a lot more. I'm really sorry for everyone else. Let's go through some speed questions. Speed. Yeah. All right. How do you
You had your hand up earlier and I missed you. How y'all doing? Alfredo from San Diego. I have a really fast question. So I'm a long-term SE user, rode the SE wave. Ayo. Touch ID love, hate the notch. Where do I go next? Because... I'm sorry to say that...
Yeah, Touch ID is gone. It's going to be gone. And so you might as well go 16E, which is a crazy recommendation. But look, so if you have it depends on your budget. I could ask you a thousand questions. But I think in general, now that Touch ID has gone the wayside and like Face ID is a thing, you can helpfully go with almost any of the newest three iPhones. The breaker was no 0.5 selfie. So yeah, that's tough. So 16, 15. Are you opposed to Android?
I kind of figured that. Buy another used SE. Just go forever. Cool. Another one real quick? Yeah. Yeah.
Hey, JT in Austin. So Marcus, going back to your first Tesla Model S, when you did videos, you had an anecdote of being at an intersection, car coming up to you from back and you felt your Tesla was moving a little bit, nudging. And so there's other consumers at the time, it seemed like that was kind of a thing that Teslas were able to do. Going back then and what you know now, do you feel like that was a feature that it was doing or is just that?
Well, that was a long time ago. I don't remember exactly if I know. So I'm a fan of the car having sensors and being able to intervene when it detects something happening. And it has done that in multiple directions and multiple times over the course of my ownership of those cars. So I'm generally a fan of that. I don't recall the exact incident that you're referencing, but it's good that that car has helped me a few times. One more. Yeah, really fast. All right. I'm so sorry, everybody. We've got 55 seconds.
Alright, thank you. My name is Jack. I study mechanical engineering in Germany and I use ChatGPT for almost everything when working on my car or learning from math or physics or anything. And I just think I submit so much data and we're all talking about getting AI on the phone and I just think when it's in the app and maybe on my internet browser, in my photos and in my WhatsApp and everything, what is your take on this whole data privacy thing? You know what I mean?
Isn't that at least a bit concerning? We're always talking about getting more AI, more on the phone, on the glasses, on the pin. I just think about, yeah, maybe data privacy might be a thing, yeah?
I just, yeah, that's my take. We have 10 seconds to answer. So like, yes. My high level take is that there is constantly a question that these companies and all of us are asking about the direct trade-off between how much data you have to give up and the convenience that you get back from it. And the more they push that envelope of, well, you have to give up more data, but you get more convenience. Okay, you have to give up more data, but you get more features and convenience.
people tend to take the convenience with it. So yes, data privacy is a concern. And for a lot of people in this room, they don't want that trade off anymore. But I've seen it get pushed really, really far and we get really cool features out of it. So I think those companies are going to keep pushing it and keep trying to offer more things in exchange for our data. Cool. We are over time now. And before we get physically kicked off of the stage, thank you all for coming. Seriously, this is super fun. We appreciate it.
All right. That was it. That was a lot of fun. Thanks again for the people who were there, for submitting all the answers to the survey, and for everyone who gave us ideas on what to do. We thought it turned out pretty good. But there is one thing that we didn't get to do on stage, which is, Andrew, you didn't get to read us out. I didn't read out live. A little sad. But huge thanks to the Vox Media team who set all of that up and let us do our first live show live.
Totally no issues at all. It was awesome. Smooth sailing and Slido actually helped us with the survey thing that went really smoothly to definitely recommend that for a live show like that. And, um, other than that waveform was produced by Adam Molina and Ellis Roven. We're partnered with Vox Media Podcast Network and our intro outro music was created by Vane Silver.
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