The Apple Studio Display: A Review of its Features and Design

I have to admit that I was initially disappointed with the price of the Apple Studio Display, which starts at $1,600 for the standard model. However, after using it for some time now, I'm glad we have it over the option of nothing or a giant piece of plastic made by LG. The display itself is impressive, but I do think that if Apple had charged less for it, they could have marketed it as a $1,300 display. Maybe even a $1,400 display.

The stand that comes with the Studio Display is an interesting design. It's height-adjustable, which is convenient, but I don't need it because my desk isn't adjustable. However, I did consider getting a high stand from 12 South to match my other Apple products, including my MacBook Pro and the iPad Mini. The stand costs $400, which is a significant amount of money for an aluminum piece that provides some storage underneath. Despite this, I think it's worth it because it puts the display at a great height, making it easy to use.

One feature that I was initially excited about was the ability to adjust the height of the display. However, after using it for a while, I realized that it wasn't necessary for me. The current height is fine, and I've gotten used to it. Having a high stand would have been nice, but at $400, it's not a deal-breaker. On the other hand, the storage underneath the display is limited. There's no USB-C hub or any other ports that I can use for my other devices.

I did consider getting the "Pro" version of the display, which costs $170 more than the standard model. However, after reading reviews and looking at images of it, I'm not convinced that it's worth the extra money. The Pro version has multiple slots that you can put the foot of your iMac or Studio display in, allowing for different heights to be achieved. While this sounds convenient, I'm not sure if it's necessary for most users.

In conclusion, the Apple Studio Display is a great device that offers excellent image quality and design. However, its price may be a bit steep for some users. The stand that comes with it is convenient, but the storage underneath is limited. If you're in the market for a new display, I would recommend checking out the "Pro" version to see if it's worth the extra money.

Apple Logo: A Brief History

The Apple logo has undergone several changes over the years, and its evolution is an interesting story. According to William, who shared this information on our podcast, the original Apple logo featured a picture of Sir Isaac Newton under an apple tree. However, this was later changed due to trademark issues with Newton's image.

One of the most iconic logos in Apple history is the "Bite" logo, which was used from 1977 to 1994. This logo featured a silhouette of Sir Isaac Newton biting into an apple, and it became synonymous with the brand. The Bite logo was later replaced by the "Apple" logo that we know today.

In recent years, Apple has been returning to its roots and incorporating more retro elements into its branding. For example, the Apple Watch Series 7 features a design that is reminiscent of older Apple products. This has led some fans to speculate about the potential for future logos that will pay homage to the brand's past.

The Future of the Apple Studio Display

In conclusion, the Apple Studio Display is a great device that offers excellent image quality and design. However, its price may be a bit steep for some users. The stand that comes with it is convenient, but the storage underneath is limited. If you're in the market for a new display, I would recommend checking out the "Pro" version to see if it's worth the extra money.

Storage Options

One of the features that I was initially excited about was the ability to use external SSDs with the Studio Display. However, after using it for a while, I realized that there isn't much storage available underneath the display. The only option is to store cables or other small devices, but there's no way to expand the storage.

I did consider getting an external hard drive to connect to my Mac, but I didn't need one because of the cable management system. For example, I can run a power cable from my iPad Mini to the Studio Display and use the short cable that comes with it to connect to my external Hub.

Tips and Tricks

One thing that I've found useful is to mount the display at an angle using a 12 South stand. This allows me to position the display in portrait mode, which is great for watching videos or browsing the web. The stand also provides some cable management options, such as a small cable tie that can be used to secure cables.

I've also found it useful to store my PlayStation Dual Shock controller underneath the display when I'm not using it. This keeps the area around the display clear and makes it easier to navigate. However, this is just one use case, and I'm sure there are other ways to use the storage underneath the Studio Display.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to the Apple Insider podcast this is your host Steven roblas and today we're going to talk about apple w a Best Picture Oscar Apple has finally allowed developers to link out of their app to their own websites and they might be launching Hardware subscriptions plus we're going to talk even more about the studio display this episode is brought to you by our friends at Collide and the reason why we're going to talk about the studio display is because my friend Wes hillard's on the show this week what's going on Wes uh pretty good Stephen don't worry I am not talking to you through the studio display yeah before we actually started recording uh you were like why am I so echoey it's like well that three mic aray from the studio display not the same as a good USB microphone we'll just say that but I want to hear your thoughts on the studio display we'll get to that towards the end of the show for sure but there's a lot of news we want to cover especially I mean Apple being the first streaming service ever to win a Best Picture Oscar so we'll get to that I want to give a few fstar review shoutouts so many of you you guys kill it every week giving five-star r and reviews and apple podcasts from all over the world too some new countries this week we got from the Netherlands Miguel T who's from the USA but is a overnight truck driver and in his review he said that he listens to this show at 1:00 a.m. like right after it hits the RSS feeds he's in his truck listening to it in the middle of the night so Miguel thanks for your review Jacob K from Great Britain cabil Z from USA JBC from Haiti a listeners down in Haiti which is awesome it's the dark here from Estonia I think that's a new country today too webn nois from Great Britain Steph DL from Canada I know we got several listeners from Canada what's up basic apple guy ad Paul R and club los from USA Bas andj buddy from USA who's been a Mac User for over 35 years and enjoys the show and then Stefan from Belgium man people from all over the world where do you know where Estonia is Wes that that's by like Finland right that's uh in Europe I believe that's as far as I can get you okay okay let me pull up Apple Maps here let's see Estonia oh yeah yeah yeah I was right it's right it's right next to Finland but you are also correct northern part of Europe the northeastern part of Europe it borders lvia and then across that little uh straight is Finland wow yeah I hear Estonia and think that'd be a place where you'd shoot vampire movies or something that's the kind of vibe I get yeah van Hing probably shot there or something all right well I wanted to hit this right at the top because last weekend it was the Oscars not going to talk about the things that everyone is actually talking about what I want to talk about is Kota which was the Apple TV plus original won the Oscar for best picture and the reason why this is kind of a unique event is Apple TV plus is the first streaming service who was actually won the best picture Oscar meaning it's beaten Netflix Netflix has plenty of original movies that comes out all the time but they had not won a Best Picture Oscar yet so kind of a big moment for that Kota also won for best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay you could call Apple's best picture win a slap to the face to Netflix if you yes what was interesting though is after it came out you know the Twitter sphere has lots of thoughts on things and some said that well Apple just acquired the rights to Kota after it already debuted at Sundance the implication being that like apple wasn't really involved quote unquote in the production of it so maybe it's not truly an Apple TV plus original and I saw you kind of tweeting some thoughts and you know this is one of those things where it's not like Craig federi is sitting in the director's chair for Apple TV plus original content or like Tim Cook you know they're obviously overseeing what content I'm sure gets on the service but there's not as much maybe direct involvement with the svps and CEO of Apple in this content so I think it's kind of weird line to try and draw and say like well because they acquired it it's not really an Apple TV plus original so I don't know tell me what you felt about that Netflix the power of the dog I believe that's the movie that they were nominated for uh guess what guys they bought that movie too they didn't make it they pay for the production they bought it after the fact so um pretty much everything is like that in Hollywood uh these distribution rights it's it's a whole different thing but I don't think it diminishes what happened here because Apple chose to pay that obscene amount of money uh what is it $25 million for Koda for distribution rights not only did they pay the rights to you know distribute in the United States they went and retroactively paid all of these European Studios that already paid to distribute across Europe and and paid them more money to get the rights back so Apple could be the global owner of the rights to distribute this uh this movie wow uh because they felt it was that important that a they own it uh totally and universally and B they really believed in the story Tim Cook's been very vocal about how he likes the representation of this movie and I don't know there's just a lot of those weird I think a lot of people are this is like their first visit to Hollywood and just haven't seen how these things work um you do a movie podcast so I'd say you're very familiar with a lot of these kinds of things like the fact that Kota is based on a French movie um of of a similar plotline I think actually the exact same plotline uh and I've seen people even comparing the two and there's a reason why this movie is getting so much you know Awards and and attention versus like the French movie which took the same plot and told it in a very different way and just not as well done and uh you know it can all just go to the quality of the production the acting and just the fact that Not only was there decast me members but deaf people participating in the production of the film you know crew members and whatnot so right it's just overall a very different film for Hollywood and I think that's why it deserves the attention it's getting yeah and like you said it was Apple's decision to purchase rights they did not have to do that and so that alone is a sense of involvement I guess the question is is if this went through Sundance as per a normal indie film I don't know fubo TV bought the rights to distribute kot would have gotten the same attention I don't think so because right Apple not only bought that movie and the distribution rights but they poured money into advertising the amount of money that went into advertising this is probably nothing compared to what they paid 25 million but it adds up you know I I I would love to see that that sheet but they've been advertising this everywhere that they can get attention on it um even like PlayStation is advertising Apple TV plus and Kota along with it like it it's it's crazy so I I don't I don't see this as oh Apple just paid their way to the Oscars because if you believe that then that's that's a pretty cynical take for what is already a pretty broken system for the Academy Awards but right and I will say there was an interesting article uh it just went out right before we started recording I'll put a link in the show notes but a Business Insider I believe it is got some sources that actually started talking about Apple and their I guess inexperience in the entertainment world and how they're kind of frustrated some producers and directors and I just think it goes to show like this is a whole new world not not to make a Disney reference but this is a whole new world for Apple to be in movies and TVs and they cited examples of you know Apple typically when it does hardware and software releases don't tease anything they don't Market anything until it's ready to launch and so that secrecy that Apple typically uses for its products actually doesn't work in the entertainment world you actually need to tease things way out there sometimes it could be too much like the morbius movie notoriously everyone's like tired of seeing this trailer let's just have the movie come out so you know there's a balance there but also things like Apple's lawyers are not as familiar with entertainment law as they might be for technology and those kinds of things especially internationally so it's interesting Growing Pains that apple is experiencing getting into the entertainment industry but clearly they're doing a good job I'm just not sure I see that side of it for example killers of the flower Moon I believe is what it's called a sces film that's been in production for 20 years or so which is usually how long it takes to make a movie um you're familiar Apple acquired the rights to that and announced it and was very proud of it for TV plus was even a thing like like that was one of their announced we're doing this thing with Martin soresi uh as part of our Apple TV plus lineup still hasn't even got a trailer doesn't even have a title card for that film so just one of those things Apple's been pretty open about this business they announce uh they talk to uh that Hollywood Reporter anytime they hire somebody like all this stuff gets out I don't think Apple's afraid of being open and uh paying some money to to advertise ahead of time luck that Sky Dan movie was teased last year with as with Jane Fonda and we're only just now seeing glimpses of the animation in Motion in a Sizzle reel Apple showed earlier this year and that movie doesn't come out until August so I I don't see where this business like these complaints are coming from unless it's just John Ham complaining that he's not in the movie but but that's hilarious because it was an Apple TV plus commercial right right him I will say so Apple TV plus was announced the service March 25 2019 which was just 3 years ago almost to the day the night of the Oscars this year so 3 years from not even having a streaming service to winning the Oscar for Best Picture is Quite a feat three Awards in total yeah three three Oscars yeah I'm not I'm not aware of what other services have got like I'm sure Amazon and Netflix have some sort of Academy Award under their belt but yeah best picture being the first for Apple is is wild the idea that Apple that anyone's still like Hollywood like apple doesn't understand Hollywood is wild to me too because if you hear anyone who's like directed or or participated in any Apple TV plus programming they just I don't I don't know if they're paid to do this maybe but they they just love apple on set if you ever listen to uh Rob mhany he he does the Always Sunny podcast you know he he he makes Mythic quests anytime he talks about Apple it's just man they they just let you do whatever you want and you pitch them something and you're like I don't know about this I'm not sure and they're just like yeah go for it and if you pay attention to like M night shamalan he's talked about making servant like the creative freedom that people have on this platform is actually drawing more talent in I think and uh I think that story is being lost to some people that's a good point all right well I wanted to do some followup we had talked about the captive Network stuff in iOS 15.4 and tvos 15.4 and I had several people send me images of actually what it looks like to connect your Apple TV running the latest tvos two captive networks Maguire and Daniel on Twitter and then there were others too I'm sorry for didn't save all of them the way Apple TV does it is actually if you try to connect it to something like a hotel Wi-Fi network the Apple TV will throw up a screen that says continue on iPhone or iPad and then you finish the process on the iPhone so it's not like a web browser slides up on the Apple TV or you even finish the process on Apple TV it just connects to the iPhone much like you would confirm a payment for something or entering a password you can do that so anyway I thought that was cool thanks for those screenshots and follow up on how that actually works and yeah bring your Apple TV to a hotel now and you can connect it to the captive Network I think the genius of this is of of course it's handoff of course yeah of course of course and I don't know why it took so long to get to this point but I guess someone was just sitting in the in the room and it just hit them like a brick like wait what if we just use the iPhone to sign into these things like yeah duh like let's implemented move on I I don't I don't see if this this being a complicated feature at all it's just no one thought of it till now it's kind of crazy yeah and and I'll mention this here there's been several interviews with Apple exec in different news outlets and apple executive Vivic BWI I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly but he actually did an interview talking about continuity and universal control now and how basically all the continuity features that have been building over the years from handoff to continuity specifically to now universal control and airdrop that it's just kind of been a natural progression through all those things and universal control like when you first see it it's a little mind-blowing but when you think at all the technologies that Apple has set up over the years to make this possible it's like yeah it makes sense and then I don't know if you've seen this but there was a Tik Tok that went viral and then everybody shared it on Twitter of this girl basically taking three fingers she has an image up on her iPhone and she grabs the with the three fingers on the image kind of pinches in with the three fingers then puts her hand over to her iPad another device and takes the three fingers and pinches out on the screen and the image just appears there when you just see it on video it literally looks like magic but what it's doing is one of the Apple continuity features is universal clipboard and with three fingers you can copy and paste and so that's what it's doing it's copying the image from one device pasting it on the second device but because it's implemented in that way this gesture-based kind of invisible to the user what it's doing it really does look like magic and a bunch of people freaked out at it yeah iOS uh I believe that was 13 introduced a few three finger gestures uh including I I believe copy paste uh undo you can tap with three fingers to undo that stuff all just flew overhead I think everyone just forgot about it immediately because uh the people who care um know how to long press to get copy and paste I think that was implemented as a uh sorry we removed 3D touch but here you go kind of thing right it's it's always fun for me when I see someone especially like you know social media someone who has no no business in Tech discovering a feature from 5 10 years ago it's like wow I didn't know I could do this it's like yeah this is why I have a job and uh finding finding these things and telling people about it it's just half the fun like I just love the reaction people get it's like wow this is crazy I can't believe this works and it's like yep I been doing this since like 201 uh5 guys it's it it works I promise yeah and this was I had a viral tweet last week because I posted a short video about selecting items in a list like if you're in the iPhone mail app and you have a list of emails typically if you want to select a multiple you tap the edit button then you either tap the little circles or you can drag with one finger after you click the edit button but you can actually not tap edit at all and just take two fingers and swipe downward on the screen across the items you want to select and you can select multiple in a row very quickly and it actually works in Apple notes you can select multiple notes it works in shortcuts it works in a bunch of places even like text message conversations and it just blew up and it was something like I posted it cuz I didn't even know that that was a gesture that existed and apparently many other didn't know either I don't even know when that was introduced I believe that was last year if not last year two years ago but I think it was last year yeah it's just one of those you won't Discover it until you uh accidentally do it just because so few apps are going to have that enabled um a lot of people build their custom systems into these apps and never Implement Apple so Apple turns it on and it's automatically enabled for any app using like their list and select system but yeah it's it's one of those odd ones that you have to be in a very specific situation to run into so I wanted to highlight we had an article kind of rounding up all the different rumors about the iPhone 14 pro but the reason why I really think you should go look at this article is because our render artist Apple tomorrow has new renders of what we believe the iPhone 14 pro will look like and these renders are pretty nice looking I will say these are very nice renders very crispy very crispy I I was going to say crispy they are crispy they are fire all the the modern vernacular of when something is very cool but the actual rumors of the iPhone 14 pro that we have in case you've missed some a16 bionic of course the next chip the rumor is that maybe only the pr line will get the 16 and the regular iPhone 14 will get the a15 we'll see this fall that it might have a 48 megapixel camera that would be a big upgrade because the iPhone still currently has just 12 megapixel cameras the pill and hole punch front-facing camera on the front and face ID rather than a notch it would go to a pill and hole punch again you could see the renders for what that would look like possibly 8K video recording which again the last time the video resolution was upgraded different levels of slow-mo have been added over the past years but I think 4K was introduced with the iPhone 6s and so it's been a while for 4K video so this would be 8K possibly on the 14 pro a titanium rather than steel and aluminum body has been rumored and we're probably not going to see touch ID under the screen for a while there was some rumors about that but Ming quo then says like no that's not coming for a long time so those are at least the renders that we know of right now but it looks very nice the renders that Apple smart put together it's all I want to say if you pay attention to these things I I usually end up writing this stuff I I keep track of all these rumors and it's it's wild to see how much this has changed uh my the last time I wrote a Roundup article on iPhone 14 was in December it came out on Christmas Eve actually and just from then to now about 3 months uh completely different phones um mostly because those first renders were based on John prer um original like pre- iPhone 13 renders and uh sure I they they were cool but there was no way they were ever going to happen given physics and stuff it's just wild to think how much difference there is but once I I think it's all happened this month even um CAD drawings for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 pro started popping up and it shows a very similar device to what we already have basically iPhone 13s uh and iPhone 13 Pros almost exactly the same with slightly different dimensions but that camera bump is enormous and yes Ming quo says uh that camera bump being larger on the Pro Models is to house that larger 48 megapixel pixel sensor which makes a lot of sense but don't think you're going to be going out here taking 48 megapixel photos I mean what does that even mean if you pay attention to photography at all the megapixel count and an image that's like the size you can make it it's not it's not about quality it's literally about how big it is so like a 40 megap 48 megapixel image you could blow up to the size of a tapestry and hang on your wall and still not get any like pixelation in the image and that's that's it's fine and dandy but most people are going to be viewing these on monitors or phones maybe a TV but even then uh that's way over kill for what you're going to need um I think 48 megapixels does equival uh is the equivalent of an 8K video uh like you said right but no one using this camera on a regular basis is going to be taking that kind of image not only because the technology is not there yet to capture 48 megapixel images at a good light and detail uh it would be very dark you'd have to be on the surface the sun to capture enough uh light to actually get a good quality image right right um which is which we know this because uh Samsung has a 108 megapixel sensor in one of their phones or at least they did I don't know if they reccon that they tend to do that a lot that 108 megapixel shooter only shot what 12 megapixel photos they just divided it by nine this would use a technique called pixel bending I know we've talked about it on the show before where basically it uses four pixels to shoot a 12 megapixel photo just much much better much brighter much more detail cuz there's four pixels doing the work of one and uh I think that'll be very interesting on top of that that goes to video too no one's going to record akk video no one in the right mind anyway I I mean the only reason why anyone in today should be recording 8K is because they intend to use after effects to create panning and zooming and they're going to export it in 4k or even HD um so that that comes in handy right imagine shooting an 8K and giving yourself a 8X Zoom within the video for panning and zooming that would be cool but again You' have to be very bright conditions for that to even work properly so I'm sure Apple will give Pro users the pro reses uh format and the pro raw for photos to let them shoot 48 megapixel or 8K video but is not going to be the default setting but at all and most people will be very happy with it yeah and we're going to get some very nice 4K video out of these cameras oh for sure but man 8K Pro res you know I'm thinking I have a 512 GB iPhone and if I flip my camera into prores video it tells me I can record like 15 minutes so if you did 8K Pro res I'm not sure if it is literally double or if it is somehow more but there would be like maybe 3 minutes of footage you know to record 8K yeah there's there's compression involved there I don't I don't think it would what I mean to say is I don't think it would be in a prores format it's just given that we have those toggles now for pro res and pro raw I think Apple would give the ability to record at those resolutions maybe I I'm not so sure though because at that point it would be too lossy and I I think the image would be too dark the video would be too dark and apple may just pull the plug on that entirely that third party apps maybe like filmic Pro and haly might have access to that system because that is physically what the sensor is and apple tends to let photo photography apps go nuts so those apps could probably take advantage but again the video files are going to be big and the quality is going to drop off off a cliff so right don't get mad when Apple says 48 megap camera sensor 12 megapixel photos because those are going to be some beautiful four uh 12 megapixel photos oh absolutely all well Mark Gman in his power on newsletter that comes out every Sunday he had a couple things that he stated last weekend first is that the iPad Pro is slated to be upgraded this fall and it should be an M2 iPad Pro which again will be very curious what the first device is to sport the M2 I vote probably the MacBook Air in a redesign the M2 iPad Pro should be coming out this fall and the big rumor you know this is really the only feature that I've really heard even being rumored not really much else besides the M2 but mag safe charging some kind of wireless charging for the iPad and it would then have to have a glass back as opposed to the aluminum back of the current iPad Pro and I still find this rumor weird I mean mag safe charging is notoriously much slower than hardwired charging and also to think you know the iPad Pro at least my use and I know a lot of people really love using it with the magic keyboard unless there's a major redesign of the magic keyboard I don't understand why mag safe charging on the back of the iPad which would be covered by the keyboard would be beneficial and you know the SMART connector kind of already offers a wireless is way to charge because you can plug a USBC cable into the magic keyboard port and charge the iPad and it charges quote unquote wirelessly through that smart connector so I'm not sure why or what the selling point would be for specifically a magsafe puck or some kind of magsafe charging on the iPad body specifically what do you think first of all I'm going to tell you something Stephen I can predict the future uh oh here here here shortly I I won't give you an exact date but probably sometime in June we'll probably get a report from German saying mysteriously the uh M2 iPad Pro is delayed till spring 2023 um just because calling it out okay okay you it's not coming this fall and the nomenclature around these rumors it's it depends on the person they don't know what these things are going to be called they don't know the now names they don't know what Apple marketing is going to do with this he's calling it mag safe likely because he saw a some sort of image or device that looks like it's magnetic and provides power like and none of these guys are perfect it's probably just SMART connector 2.0 Apple might want to just include mag safe branding with everything sure and a better SMART connector with better power inputs and stuff might be called magsafe I I don't see like or this could be the laptop version of Mag safe and we could get a uh 100 wat power in to the iPad Pro on the side you know next to the USBC or Thunderbolt Port sure I don't think any of these are are the case though I it's still going to be one Thunderbolt port on the side the SMART connector magic keyboard combo is all going to be similar but I think what this might equate to is a better SMART connector with maybe some uh more data passed through maybe that magic keyboard uh 2.0 will have data where you can hook a SSD to the uh magic keyboard and get data to the iPad I I'm not sure though it's it's all very tricky but yes I I I'm not seeing this as a traditional iPhone mag safe bare minimum this is probably Laptop Mag safe or a rebranding of the SMART connector yeah it would be nice to have data pass through cuz like right now if you either put a flash drive or try to connect any kind of USBC device to the magic keyboard iPad can't read it you know that Port is only for charging right now very slow charging too yeah very slow charging so it would be an an additional feature I also think one of the things many people have asked for and maybe Apple will finally do it is to move the FaceTime front-facing camera to the horizontal long side of the iPad Pro so when it's sitting in a magic keyboard it is actually oriented straight on to the user instead of being on the side where it is now on the smaller Edge of the iPad Pro and if that's the case and apple finally changes the orientation of the device to by default be horizontal then some kind of SMART connector or mag saave connector that moves to the bottom or the opposite side of that long Edge uh where the FaceTime camera would be basically would be on the bottom Edge then it makes sense they could Rebrand it they would move it and then the orientation would be like what everyone is hoping for and if you need evidence that right now Apple believes port portrait mode is the default of the iPad just look at how the logo is oriented and you will see on the back of the iPad it's oriented in portrait mode ironically on the magic keyboard it's oriented horizontally the logo especially I'm just curious as to how they would implement this because there's several questions uh what happens to the speaker grills I guess the speakers could stay in the same place the grills could be in the same spot yeah would the Thunderbolt Port stay on the side would it move to the long side I don't I don't want to hold the iPad and portrait and be covering a uh Thunderbolt Port that would be odd there there's so many ways that they could do this uh looking at Windows history and the the horrible thousands of uh convertibles that they've released I could see them moving a SMART connector like cuz the SMART connector used to be on the side of the iPad I could see them returning it to the side but then you lose the floating uh keyboard thingy I I I'm sure right that will stay on the back I just I wonder if they're ready to break compatibility with that $330 uh keyboard yeah that is true there's just so many questions in the air here I I'm not sure that we're ready for a complete redesign a lot of these rumors really just like to aim for the moon German could be seeing something from 2025 but his sources tell him you know I'm sure like this is expected to be in this device but again it all comes down to delays manufacturing processes Apple's testing this is LG able to make you know glass the way that they want to to to meet these standards and a glass-backed iPad yeah yeah that's scary the durability would take a hit for for sure I will say I did an interview with Fernando Silva friend of the show he's got a YouTube channel and we did an interview about our wishes for the future iPad OS one of the things I hope for is Final Cut on iPad I think there is a chance we'll see that but if they did bring Final Cut to the iPad what would be incredible and this is something Apple's probably never going to do but to put an SD card slot on the iPad so you could actually import footage and edit it all in that one tablet and not need any kind of dongle or Hub I doubt Apple would ever do that but I'm just going to put it out there in the ether it' be nice to have Stephen I'm going to say something controversial the iPad Pro is fine we're good I know I know the hardware just I I get it we all want some magical hologram that Iron Man uses right but just leave it alone and focus on that software focus on iPad OS just take a break let let those guys go have a sandwich or something tell them we're good Thunderbolt is plenty this display is beautiful mini LED is great the shape the size the everything is good there just stop it and give us really powerful huge crazy iPad OS update because yeah yeah that's that's where our limitations are I I get Hardware is exciting it's what you see it's what you hold uh and this is actually I can't believe uh I'm even thinking this but it's starting to age uh the iPad Pro as it is has existed since 2018 my God that was three years ago four four years ago what year is it Stephen even uh it's 2022 that was four years ago what is math anyway uh four years ago uh I can feel the gray coming in to my hair yeah yeah so yes the iPad Pro is showing a little bit of age but yeah age compared to what I mean this thing is aging like a a fine one let call me a fanboy it's a great device there's nothing else out there that looks like it except for I guess Samsung has tablets um I I wouldn't call them tablets uh more paper weights but you know sui sure sure Apple come on yeah WWDC iPad OS 16 where we at let's go um I agree I agree this episode is brought to you by Collide listen typically when a company tries to make their devices secure and private the devices used by their employees they lock them down they remove features or remove access to certain things and that can be frustrating to the employees trying to use their phone computer or tablet device well Collide approaches security and privacy differently Collide actually sends employees important timely and relevant 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payment plan for Max you can sign up for that if you're a business and also the iPhone upgrade plan is kind of like that I've been doing the iPhone upgrade plan for years I pay monthly and every year I get a new iPhone I mail the old one back and I get a new one so there's kind of a subscription service I'm curious what the difference would be I don't know if it would be like there's no more $100 fee when you upgrade because right now in the iPhone upgrade program you do have to pay like H hundred something dollars when you get the new phone and then it's the recurring monthly payment and then you can't do that with iPad right now although you can do Apple card payments which is not the same cuz you're just paying off the purchase price I guess a subscription would be you just ongoing get a new iPad every couple years so I would be curious this is just a rebranding I mean yeah if if you lease a car that's a subscription it's a very expensive subscription but I mean at the end of the day you're paying a recurring fee to keep something or use something right it's all semantics at that point I I don't think this is anything to get super excited about I'm sure the pundits and the stock trading industry side of things are all very excited it's like ooh look another way to recurring Revenue you recurring revenue and it's like well but don't they already get that if anything the only reason why I could understand this existing and apple promoting it or pushing it really hard is it's a way to get people who would otherwise not even think about upgrading upgrade every year just because it's a part of what they're paying for and they get it anyway and if and if anyone can do it make it seamless they just wake up one day in September and there's an iPhone sitting on their doorstep that that would kind of be scary but Apple could do it and I I could see them playing that game cuz Stephen segue I just wanted to bring this up I know it's on in our notes but today I wrote an article yes about Twitter users waking up to find oh yeah that their iPhone 6 no longer has access to the Twitter app Stephen the iPhone 6 the super cycle the iPhone to forbearer to everything we know and love today is no longer supportive by Twitter because they run iOS 13 and Twitter has moved on to iOS 14 is this Doom for apple apple is doomed the iPhone 6 came out 2014 so that was 8 years ago 8 years eight years is a good run that's almost a decade of compatibility but listen if you have an iPhone 6 and you're mad about this tweet at me oh wait a minute well they can use Safari stepen uh that's true that's true just log into Safari you could tweet from there I I just I if there are any listeners who have an iPhone 6 let us know that that would be awesome I would like to know it's I understand that these are the hand-me-downs you know a 14y old doesn't need an iPhone uh 13 or whatever yeah my son would disagree but go ahead yeah right the uh gray markets are very very big you know uh which is the the used Market basically like selling eBay yeah selling these things used the unless you're buying one for 20 bucks I wouldn't buy an iPhone 6 today I mean the I can't even remember what processor is in there I I'm won't bother looking but it's old enough that you'd have to say yeah it can turn on and last at least a couple hours on battery life and unless you've replace the battery recently Apple sells really good devices that last a while and I'm sure this thing does great browsing the web and scrolling Facebook but that's and if and for some people that's all they need a advice for so I understand these continuing to live on but you can pretty much walk into a Verizon and they'll throw iPhone Sees at you for free uh so true I would encourage anyone stuck on anything prior to iPhone 8 even at least just consider the iPhone SE because that thing is not expensive and yes I understand some people just you know affordances is different you know income is different but at the end of the day once you trade in a phone and uh throw a couple subsidaries at it like that you're maybe $10 a month added to your phone plan just to get that modern iPhone experience yeah so I one last word on the subscription thing I do think it'll be interesting if Apple adds Apple watch to a subscription tied to the phone like right now the iPhone upgrade plan is just for the iPhone I think they could reach a whole new level of users to say add $5 to this monthly cost or less and get a brand new Apple watch with your brand new iPhone here's all the health benefits and here's what you can do with it that that might be a big selling feature so I'm curious what they did I wonder what this means for the green aspect of this you know everyone's upgrading more often uh Apple watch throw in an Apple Watch throw in some airpods you know uh get some get some new airpods are people just tossing these things in the garbage now like I I just wonder I I'm sure there'll be a lot of discussion around the green efforts of this and what Apple's doing with these old devices cuz if their goal really how beneficial is it to everyone that everyone on Earth buy the new iPhone the day it comes out what happens to all those old devices and what's what's the plan to do cuz as Apple pushes more and more people to upgrade at least every two years even which is still way faster than the average I'm sure the average is at least 3 to 4 years what happens to all these old devices I mean if Apple sold a record-breaking still to this day difficult to match super cycle of iPhone 6s what where are all those devices are they door stops somewhere are they you know yeah I mean I think gr market like what you're saying maybe through third parties like Best Buy I will say apple has its refurbished site also which listener if you're not familiar with this I point a lot of people to this site and you can even access this in the Apple Store app like on your iPhone if you go to Mac or iPhone or iPad and you scroll all the way down to the bottom there is is a refurbished area and you can get like a refurbished iPhone 11 Pro for $769 which is like $230 off the brand new price so you know they don't have like 10s and 10 and earlier phones I'm sure those are available through like again like gry Market eBay stuff like that third party sellers but Apple does keep that refurbished site at least somewhat active you know you see products come in and come out a lot so I'll put a link to that if you weren't aware listeners and you want to get a modernish iPhone but for slightly less than newer I'll put you know you know check out their refer store all right we got to jam through cuz I want to hear your your thoughts on the studio display right right just announce as we're recording the Apple Business Essentials program is now available to all us users so Apple Business Essentials is that program that's competing with mobile device managers like J or kanji where you can actually manage Apple devices for your small business directly with apple Services some of the benefits here is you can actually deploy iCloud storage to accounts as a part of your business through Business Essentials and it still integrates with things like if you want to continue using some of those thirdparty mobile device services and also there was a small update to iOS 15 iPad OS TV and all of that 15.4.1 has released with some bug fixes and again support for the Apple Business Essentials so you can check out those updates on your device right now I do want to mention the other Apple exec interview this was in tech crunch Matthew panzino had this interview with a couple of Apple execs and I just want to point out a couple quotes Tom Boger who's the vice president of mac and iPad product marketing actually stated the Mac Studio is a compl completely new product line he said which is rare they don't add lines to the Mac very often which I think it's interesting to hear that clarification this is not replacing a Mac this is not in the same vein of a Mac like this is a quote unquote new Mac product line according to Apple and then Xander saurin who's the director of product marketing actually said he clarified what modular meant you know because Apple mentioned that the Mac Studio was a modular computer and everyone was kind of up in arms it's like well you can't replace the SSD you can't swap out Ram how is this module mod and he clarified that for them modular means that you can use it with whatever display you want and that the chips in the Mac Studio are you know optional you can get the M1 Max or the M1 Ultra considering that modular I mean I don't I wouldn't consider the MacBook Pro modular but you can get with an M1 Pro or M1 Max so that seems a little strange as a clarification but modular basically meaning bring your own display if you remember the marketing behind uh Mac Mini it was bring your own uh keyboard and mouse and display I think this this works to some sense yeah it's awesome Antics Pros are not going to be happy with this if you own a Mac Pro it's like you know Mac Studio is not modular but I I can see what they're going for here it rather than every you know two years uh having to replace a $5,000 iMac Pro uh rest in peace you just rip out the guts and put in a new Mac Studio for you know half the price and keep that same display same keyboard same all the stuff without paying the premium for Apple's newest xdr 120 HZ refresh rate whatnot so makes sense but yeah it is kind of a stretch of the word exactly so also Apple TV plus the baseball live MLB games on Friday nights is starting April 8th Apple announced that that will be the first Friday night you can catch two games on Apple TV plus it's the New York Mets and Washington Nationals at 7:00 p.m. Eastern then the Astros and Angels at 9:30 so I'm going to be you know I don't typically watch a lot of baseball but I'm want to check out what it's like to watch live sports because notoriously some of those apps like I I've seen NBA TV and I've seen like other live streaming sports apps and it can be pretty clunky so curious how Apple TV plus incorporates that into the app and how easy it is to get to those games yeah that that's the one with the bat and the bases right that's Cricket you're thinking of cricket actually yeah no I I really enjoy baseball I actually like playing baseball it's the one where you you don't have to run as much um because the the bases aren't that far apart no I I really enjoy watching baseball live you know grab a beer and a hot dog and you know maybe sweat a little bit go out in the stands get covered in some dirt it's fun yeah yeah I've never been a fan of watching it on TV I'll check this out to see if Apple's doing something weird I'm sure it's just hey it's a baseball program but there's an Apple logo somewhere but I don't know something interesting I'm I'm interested in seeing if they break out into other sports in the future but certainly uh new uh and fancy so check it out also wanted to highlight Andrew O'Hara had our iPad Air review and after the last episode there were several listeners that reached out and was asking about the supposed creaking or the build quality of the new iPad Air there were some YouTube reviews that showed like you could almost hear a creaking in the case of the new iPad Air and I double checked with Andrew personally in the slack and he said he did not feel like the build quality was an issue he did not hear any creaking so I'll put a link to his review and he's got the video review as well but didn't seem to be a concern and again it seems like it's the iPad that is for most people again that price point at $600 starting it's a little confusing with the iPad Pro but you we talked about that on previous show you didn't get an iPad Air did you no I I I don't I use the iPad Mini as my secondary iPad now so no need for that it's a great device I love the size but but yep I don't need three iPads exactly don't tempt me Frodo please stop spending $500 on devices only to test the structural Integrity by bending and and hammering it just use the thing I mean sure maybe it's a little creaky but what stress are you putting it under to even find out I don't understand yeah I don't know so this was kind of big news the court case that actually decided Apple has to allow developers to link to their website or service from inside their app Apple is finally rolling out this ability where quote unquote reader apps which is a strange nomenclature But it includes apps like Netflix and Spotify video type apps that those apps will now be able to have a button in their app that says sign up here or sign up there and so apple is just starting to roll it out developers will have to apply for an entitlement to put that in their app and The Verge actually had a screenshot I'll put this as the chapter artwork if you're listening you can look at the image in your podcast player now but it is going to be a several step process when you as the user click a button that says go sign up on the website there's going to be a big screen like a warning screen that shows up and it's like you're leaving Apple's ecosystem and you'll have to agree that you understand that and then it will load the website after that so it's great that developers can finally do that link to their own website so so people can actually sign up you know this would have saved the whole hey debacle a year or so ago from being a thing yeah it'll be interesting to see what apples do that I'm sure Netflix will be one of the first so if you want to see what that looks like check that probably in a couple weeks yeah I'll still just try to sign up in whatever way I can with apple I mean if I have to have an Netflix account and go out and and sign up sure I'll do that and uh I think the reader thing comes from Amazon the whole buying books within the uh Amazon Kindle app I think that's where this comes from because of course the only app being about reading is uh barely even a part of this cuz Netflix Spotify all of that the place where you go to read obviously so right exactly all right and right before we get to the studio display so apple is working on additional financial services that it is bringing inhouse things like Payment Processing credit checks and things like that where it's using thirdparty services for those kind of financial aspects they might be trying to bring those inhouse possible motivations would be apple card expansion especially internationally Apple card right now is only available in the US but could also mean that some of the payment processing that Apple pay goes through and other credit card processing might actually come in-house into so this is very early we don't have a lot of details on it but interesting that apple is really working to bring those in house and curious what that will mean for the future yeah I'm not sure what this means I don't think Apple's going to become a bank but at the same time no like do they really want to get into the business of processing these services or or contacting credit bureaus to get credit scores and stuff I think Apple's fine putting these out to Goldman Sachs and such this might just be for the international thing I think this ties to them buying the that service in Europe I forgotten what it is already but um like I think all that ties together I think this might be reading into it just a little bit too much I don't think Apple's going to suddenly turn on a switch and say we're a bank now and come get a loan for your next iMac I don't think that's how this works yeah so you have the studio display you've been working on it now for a couple weeks as we record we've talked about it there's been lots of thoughts out there so I just want to know Wes what do you personally feel about the new studio display I think a lot of the complaints Echo um something like the airpods max if it's not for you um generally speaking especially in the tech world people are going to react uh emotionally in a way that that justifies their purchase or not purchase and I think that's where a lot of this controversy comes from is people just they want to justify them not getting it even though they're probably part of the crowd that's complained about Apple not making a quote unquote affordable monitor for the last few years but given that it's been what four five years I can't remember uh since Apple stopped got out of the display business altogether those LG monitors came along and they were fine not ultra fine as the pance goes but right the studio display I love it it's everything I wanted uh long story short I moved over from an LG Ultra gear gaming monitor which was the only thing below um $1,000 that matched some of Apple specs like P3 color gamut and such but it promised HDR which basically it lied cuz HDR 400 is an awful standard HDR in general is an awful standard um unless you have to look for that Dolby Vision thing thatle promotes a lot because that's actually policed uh versus HDR is just basically throwing in a couple things in there and it's HDR even if the screen goes dark when you turn it on the studio display is just it's color accurate it's great uh it's simple you just plug in that Thunderbolt cable that's what I've been looking for uh I I have a LG ultra fine 24in the original model and uh been trying to replicate that experience since with a bigger better display and it just doesn't exist and um everyone complaining you know it's not great for the value but isn't value determined by availability in the marketplace and if apples is the only one in the market offering these specs these abilities they can charge whatever they want for it and I know that's terrible that sucks for us but at the same time they're only charging $1,600 for what could otherwise be they could they could have made this thing $22,000 now and I agree with a lot of the sentiment like this could have been a $1,300 display maybe a $1,400 display I get it the stand cost $400 to get a height adjustable stand and apple probably over engineered this a bit and charged a little bit too much but at the end of the day this is what we got and I'm glad we have it over the option of nothing or an giant piece of plastic made by LG so that's that's how I feel about it and you got the like standard model not the height adjustable correct yes uh bare bare minimum specs across the board don't need uh Nano texture and I didn't really care about having height adjustability do you find that the height works for you did I mean is your desk adjustable or did you have to adjust just anything or was it fine just out of the box um I probably would have used it uh on the desk it does seem a little low uh at that point um my desk isn't adjustable but before I even got the monitor just because I knew these things would probably sell out um I bought the high stand from 12 South cuz uh I I already used the curve stand for my laptop so I figured oh they match why not let's if this thing is not adjustable I've had IMAX before I know what height that is so I might as well just go ahead and buy and it pretty much puts it at a great spot maybe not a little too high but I've gotten used to it and I I quite like it yeah and having that highight adjustability would be nice but at the same time it's it's not a deal breaker uh $400 for a high adjustable stand versus this like $60 piece of aluminum I stick underneath it you know so yeah it's save some money and you get a little storage too right isn't there like a little storage area I have no idea what I would put in there it doesn't even fit like SSD you put it you put external SSD in there yeah so right now um I have my cable for cuz I have my iPad Mini for universal control uh underneath the monitor which is another reason why I wanted it higher up so I could have my iPad Mini under it uh in portrait orientation which is great uh I I've run a power cable to it uh underneath the highrise and done some cable management taping the cable underneath and the SSD I normally connect to a thunderbolt uh to to my external Hub I've connected to one of the ports on the Monitor and use the short cable for that so yes there is an SSD sitting in there otherwise the storage is wasted I wish something I could do here to make it slightly because it almost fits a PlayStation dual shock controller but it doesn't that that would that would have been like the one thing I would have actually put in there so now the the high you have the highrise or the highrise Pro uh not the thing that looks like a wooden box uh the aluminum one uh the cuz the box has like some weird adjustable thing and the the foot sits inside of the stand this is just a piece of a curved aluminum so gotcha yeah cuz the high-rise Pro is is more expensive it's $170 still cheap than the $400 height adjustable but it actually has multiple slots that you put the foot of the either iMac or Studio display in and it can be different heights so you basically get four or five different heights possible from that one little box plus then get storage yeah I wasn't a fan of how that one looked uh it reminded me a bit of uh where you would store um index cards or floppy discs in 1997 um sure so just yeah I stuck with the aluminum gotcha well very cool well we'll put a link to the the highrise too in case our listeners are interested and just wanted to mention real quick before we go there was an awesome story about the Apple logo and its history William had the article from the original original logo which you haven't if you haven't seen that please go look at the chapter artwork right now because I'll make that the chapter art but he goes through the whole history of the logo I thought it was pretty cool interesting and kind of how Apple has been returning to its six colors Roots recently but let us know what you thought about anything from the podcast you can tweet at Wesson myself our Twitter handles are in the show notes also thank you for those F star ratings and reviews you can keep those coming and don't forget you can support the show you get an adree version and Early Access either directly in apple podcast lots of you do it there or at patreon.com inssider thanks for tuning in we'll catch you next timewelcome to the Apple Insider podcast this is your host Steven roblas and today we're going to talk about apple w a Best Picture Oscar Apple has finally allowed developers to link out of their app to their own websites and they might be launching Hardware subscriptions plus we're going to talk even more about the studio display this episode is brought to you by our friends at Collide and the reason why we're going to talk about the studio display is because my friend Wes hillard's on the show this week what's going on Wes uh pretty good Stephen don't worry I am not talking to you through the studio display yeah before we actually started recording uh you were like why am I so echoey it's like well that three mic aray from the studio display not the same as a good USB microphone we'll just say that but I want to hear your thoughts on the studio display we'll get to that towards the end of the show for sure but there's a lot of news we want to cover especially I mean Apple being the first streaming service ever to win a Best Picture Oscar so we'll get to that I want to give a few fstar review shoutouts so many of you you guys kill it every week giving five-star r and reviews and apple podcasts from all over the world too some new countries this week we got from the Netherlands Miguel T who's from the USA but is a overnight truck driver and in his review he said that he listens to this show at 1:00 a.m. like right after it hits the RSS feeds he's in his truck listening to it in the middle of the night so Miguel thanks for your review Jacob K from Great Britain cabil Z from USA JBC from Haiti a listeners down in Haiti which is awesome it's the dark here from Estonia I think that's a new country today too webn nois from Great Britain Steph DL from Canada I know we got several listeners from Canada what's up basic apple guy ad Paul R and club los from USA Bas andj buddy from USA who's been a Mac User for over 35 years and enjoys the show and then Stefan from Belgium man people from all over the world where do you know where Estonia is Wes that that's by like Finland right that's uh in Europe I believe that's as far as I can get you okay okay let me pull up Apple Maps here let's see Estonia oh yeah yeah yeah I was right it's right it's right next to Finland but you are also correct northern part of Europe the northeastern part of Europe it borders lvia and then across that little uh straight is Finland wow yeah I hear Estonia and think that'd be a place where you'd shoot vampire movies or something that's the kind of vibe I get yeah van Hing probably shot there or something all right well I wanted to hit this right at the top because last weekend it was the Oscars not going to talk about the things that everyone is actually talking about what I want to talk about is Kota which was the Apple TV plus original won the Oscar for best picture and the reason why this is kind of a unique event is Apple TV plus is the first streaming service who was actually won the best picture Oscar meaning it's beaten Netflix Netflix has plenty of original movies that comes out all the time but they had not won a Best Picture Oscar yet so kind of a big moment for that Kota also won for best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay you could call Apple's best picture win a slap to the face to Netflix if you yes what was interesting though is after it came out you know the Twitter sphere has lots of thoughts on things and some said that well Apple just acquired the rights to Kota after it already debuted at Sundance the implication being that like apple wasn't really involved quote unquote in the production of it so maybe it's not truly an Apple TV plus original and I saw you kind of tweeting some thoughts and you know this is one of those things where it's not like Craig federi is sitting in the director's chair for Apple TV plus original content or like Tim Cook you know they're obviously overseeing what content I'm sure gets on the service but there's not as much maybe direct involvement with the svps and CEO of Apple in this content so I think it's kind of weird line to try and draw and say like well because they acquired it it's not really an Apple TV plus original so I don't know tell me what you felt about that Netflix the power of the dog I believe that's the movie that they were nominated for uh guess what guys they bought that movie too they didn't make it they pay for the production they bought it after the fact so um pretty much everything is like that in Hollywood uh these distribution rights it's it's a whole different thing but I don't think it diminishes what happened here because Apple chose to pay that obscene amount of money uh what is it $25 million for Koda for distribution rights not only did they pay the rights to you know distribute in the United States they went and retroactively paid all of these European Studios that already paid to distribute across Europe and and paid them more money to get the rights back so Apple could be the global owner of the rights to distribute this uh this movie wow uh because they felt it was that important that a they own it uh totally and universally and B they really believed in the story Tim Cook's been very vocal about how he likes the representation of this movie and I don't know there's just a lot of those weird I think a lot of people are this is like their first visit to Hollywood and just haven't seen how these things work um you do a movie podcast so I'd say you're very familiar with a lot of these kinds of things like the fact that Kota is based on a French movie um of of a similar plotline I think actually the exact same plotline uh and I've seen people even comparing the two and there's a reason why this movie is getting so much you know Awards and and attention versus like the French movie which took the same plot and told it in a very different way and just not as well done and uh you know it can all just go to the quality of the production the acting and just the fact that Not only was there decast me members but deaf people participating in the production of the film you know crew members and whatnot so right it's just overall a very different film for Hollywood and I think that's why it deserves the attention it's getting yeah and like you said it was Apple's decision to purchase rights they did not have to do that and so that alone is a sense of involvement I guess the question is is if this went through Sundance as per a normal indie film I don't know fubo TV bought the rights to distribute kot would have gotten the same attention I don't think so because right Apple not only bought that movie and the distribution rights but they poured money into advertising the amount of money that went into advertising this is probably nothing compared to what they paid 25 million but it adds up you know I I I would love to see that that sheet but they've been advertising this everywhere that they can get attention on it um even like PlayStation is advertising Apple TV plus and Kota along with it like it it's it's crazy so I I don't I don't see this as oh Apple just paid their way to the Oscars because if you believe that then that's that's a pretty cynical take for what is already a pretty broken system for the Academy Awards but right and I will say there was an interesting article uh it just went out right before we started recording I'll put a link in the show notes but a Business Insider I believe it is got some sources that actually started talking about Apple and their I guess inexperience in the entertainment world and how they're kind of frustrated some producers and directors and I just think it goes to show like this is a whole new world not not to make a Disney reference but this is a whole new world for Apple to be in movies and TVs and they cited examples of you know Apple typically when it does hardware and software releases don't tease anything they don't Market anything until it's ready to launch and so that secrecy that Apple typically uses for its products actually doesn't work in the entertainment world you actually need to tease things way out there sometimes it could be too much like the morbius movie notoriously everyone's like tired of seeing this trailer let's just have the movie come out so you know there's a balance there but also things like Apple's lawyers are not as familiar with entertainment law as they might be for technology and those kinds of things especially internationally so it's interesting Growing Pains that apple is experiencing getting into the entertainment industry but clearly they're doing a good job I'm just not sure I see that side of it for example killers of the flower Moon I believe is what it's called a sces film that's been in production for 20 years or so which is usually how long it takes to make a movie um you're familiar Apple acquired the rights to that and announced it and was very proud of it for TV plus was even a thing like like that was one of their announced we're doing this thing with Martin soresi uh as part of our Apple TV plus lineup still hasn't even got a trailer doesn't even have a title card for that film so just one of those things Apple's been pretty open about this business they announce uh they talk to uh that Hollywood Reporter anytime they hire somebody like all this stuff gets out I don't think Apple's afraid of being open and uh paying some money to to advertise ahead of time luck that Sky Dan movie was teased last year with as with Jane Fonda and we're only just now seeing glimpses of the animation in Motion in a Sizzle reel Apple showed earlier this year and that movie doesn't come out until August so I I don't see where this business like these complaints are coming from unless it's just John Ham complaining that he's not in the movie but but that's hilarious because it was an Apple TV plus commercial right right him I will say so Apple TV plus was announced the service March 25 2019 which was just 3 years ago almost to the day the night of the Oscars this year so 3 years from not even having a streaming service to winning the Oscar for Best Picture is Quite a feat three Awards in total yeah three three Oscars yeah I'm not I'm not aware of what other services have got like I'm sure Amazon and Netflix have some sort of Academy Award under their belt but yeah best picture being the first for Apple is is wild the idea that Apple that anyone's still like Hollywood like apple doesn't understand Hollywood is wild to me too because if you hear anyone who's like directed or or participated in any Apple TV plus programming they just I don't I don't know if they're paid to do this maybe but they they just love apple on set if you ever listen to uh Rob mhany he he does the Always Sunny podcast you know he he he makes Mythic quests anytime he talks about Apple it's just man they they just let you do whatever you want and you pitch them something and you're like I don't know about this I'm not sure and they're just like yeah go for it and if you pay attention to like M night shamalan he's talked about making servant like the creative freedom that people have on this platform is actually drawing more talent in I think and uh I think that story is being lost to some people that's a good point all right well I wanted to do some followup we had talked about the captive Network stuff in iOS 15.4 and tvos 15.4 and I had several people send me images of actually what it looks like to connect your Apple TV running the latest tvos two captive networks Maguire and Daniel on Twitter and then there were others too I'm sorry for didn't save all of them the way Apple TV does it is actually if you try to connect it to something like a hotel Wi-Fi network the Apple TV will throw up a screen that says continue on iPhone or iPad and then you finish the process on the iPhone so it's not like a web browser slides up on the Apple TV or you even finish the process on Apple TV it just connects to the iPhone much like you would confirm a payment for something or entering a password you can do that so anyway I thought that was cool thanks for those screenshots and follow up on how that actually works and yeah bring your Apple TV to a hotel now and you can connect it to the captive Network I think the genius of this is of of course it's handoff of course yeah of course of course and I don't know why it took so long to get to this point but I guess someone was just sitting in the in the room and it just hit them like a brick like wait what if we just use the iPhone to sign into these things like yeah duh like let's implemented move on I I don't I don't see if this this being a complicated feature at all it's just no one thought of it till now it's kind of crazy yeah and and I'll mention this here there's been several interviews with Apple exec in different news outlets and apple executive Vivic BWI I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly but he actually did an interview talking about continuity and universal control now and how basically all the continuity features that have been building over the years from handoff to continuity specifically to now universal control and airdrop that it's just kind of been a natural progression through all those things and universal control like when you first see it it's a little mind-blowing but when you think at all the technologies that Apple has set up over the years to make this possible it's like yeah it makes sense and then I don't know if you've seen this but there was a Tik Tok that went viral and then everybody shared it on Twitter of this girl basically taking three fingers she has an image up on her iPhone and she grabs the with the three fingers on the image kind of pinches in with the three fingers then puts her hand over to her iPad another device and takes the three fingers and pinches out on the screen and the image just appears there when you just see it on video it literally looks like magic but what it's doing is one of the Apple continuity features is universal clipboard and with three fingers you can copy and paste and so that's what it's doing it's copying the image from one device pasting it on the second device but because it's implemented in that way this gesture-based kind of invisible to the user what it's doing it really does look like magic and a bunch of people freaked out at it yeah iOS uh I believe that was 13 introduced a few three finger gestures uh including I I believe copy paste uh undo you can tap with three fingers to undo that stuff all just flew overhead I think everyone just forgot about it immediately because uh the people who care um know how to long press to get copy and paste I think that was implemented as a uh sorry we removed 3D touch but here you go kind of thing right it's it's always fun for me when I see someone especially like you know social media someone who has no no business in Tech discovering a feature from 5 10 years ago it's like wow I didn't know I could do this it's like yeah this is why I have a job and uh finding finding these things and telling people about it it's just half the fun like I just love the reaction people get it's like wow this is crazy I can't believe this works and it's like yep I been doing this since like 201 uh5 guys it's it it works I promise yeah and this was I had a viral tweet last week because I posted a short video about selecting items in a list like if you're in the iPhone mail app and you have a list of emails typically if you want to select a multiple you tap the edit button then you either tap the little circles or you can drag with one finger after you click the edit button but you can actually not tap edit at all and just take two fingers and swipe downward on the screen across the items you want to select and you can select multiple in a row very quickly and it actually works in Apple notes you can select multiple notes it works in shortcuts it works in a bunch of places even like text message conversations and it just blew up and it was something like I posted it cuz I didn't even know that that was a gesture that existed and apparently many other didn't know either I don't even know when that was introduced I believe that was last year if not last year two years ago but I think it was last year yeah it's just one of those you won't Discover it until you uh accidentally do it just because so few apps are going to have that enabled um a lot of people build their custom systems into these apps and never Implement Apple so Apple turns it on and it's automatically enabled for any app using like their list and select system but yeah it's it's one of those odd ones that you have to be in a very specific situation to run into so I wanted to highlight we had an article kind of rounding up all the different rumors about the iPhone 14 pro but the reason why I really think you should go look at this article is because our render artist Apple tomorrow has new renders of what we believe the iPhone 14 pro will look like and these renders are pretty nice looking I will say these are very nice renders very crispy very crispy I I was going to say crispy they are crispy they are fire all the the modern vernacular of when something is very cool but the actual rumors of the iPhone 14 pro that we have in case you've missed some a16 bionic of course the next chip the rumor is that maybe only the pr line will get the 16 and the regular iPhone 14 will get the a15 we'll see this fall that it might have a 48 megapixel camera that would be a big upgrade because the iPhone still currently has just 12 megapixel cameras the pill and hole punch front-facing camera on the front and face ID rather than a notch it would go to a pill and hole punch again you could see the renders for what that would look like possibly 8K video recording which again the last time the video resolution was upgraded different levels of slow-mo have been added over the past years but I think 4K was introduced with the iPhone 6s and so it's been a while for 4K video so this would be 8K possibly on the 14 pro a titanium rather than steel and aluminum body has been rumored and we're probably not going to see touch ID under the screen for a while there was some rumors about that but Ming quo then says like no that's not coming for a long time so those are at least the renders that we know of right now but it looks very nice the renders that Apple smart put together it's all I want to say if you pay attention to these things I I usually end up writing this stuff I I keep track of all these rumors and it's it's wild to see how much this has changed uh my the last time I wrote a Roundup article on iPhone 14 was in December it came out on Christmas Eve actually and just from then to now about 3 months uh completely different phones um mostly because those first renders were based on John prer um original like pre- iPhone 13 renders and uh sure I they they were cool but there was no way they were ever going to happen given physics and stuff it's just wild to think how much difference there is but once I I think it's all happened this month even um CAD drawings for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 pro started popping up and it shows a very similar device to what we already have basically iPhone 13s uh and iPhone 13 Pros almost exactly the same with slightly different dimensions but that camera bump is enormous and yes Ming quo says uh that camera bump being larger on the Pro Models is to house that larger 48 megapixel pixel sensor which makes a lot of sense but don't think you're going to be going out here taking 48 megapixel photos I mean what does that even mean if you pay attention to photography at all the megapixel count and an image that's like the size you can make it it's not it's not about quality it's literally about how big it is so like a 40 megap 48 megapixel image you could blow up to the size of a tapestry and hang on your wall and still not get any like pixelation in the image and that's that's it's fine and dandy but most people are going to be viewing these on monitors or phones maybe a TV but even then uh that's way over kill for what you're going to need um I think 48 megapixels does equival uh is the equivalent of an 8K video uh like you said right but no one using this camera on a regular basis is going to be taking that kind of image not only because the technology is not there yet to capture 48 megapixel images at a good light and detail uh it would be very dark you'd have to be on the surface the sun to capture enough uh light to actually get a good quality image right right um which is which we know this because uh Samsung has a 108 megapixel sensor in one of their phones or at least they did I don't know if they reccon that they tend to do that a lot that 108 megapixel shooter only shot what 12 megapixel photos they just divided it by nine this would use a technique called pixel bending I know we've talked about it on the show before where basically it uses four pixels to shoot a 12 megapixel photo just much much better much brighter much more detail cuz there's four pixels doing the work of one and uh I think that'll be very interesting on top of that that goes to video too no one's going to record akk video no one in the right mind anyway I I mean the only reason why anyone in today should be recording 8K is because they intend to use after effects to create panning and zooming and they're going to export it in 4k or even HD um so that that comes in handy right imagine shooting an 8K and giving yourself a 8X Zoom within the video for panning and zooming that would be cool but again You' have to be very bright conditions for that to even work properly so I'm sure Apple will give Pro users the pro reses uh format and the pro raw for photos to let them shoot 48 megapixel or 8K video but is not going to be the default setting but at all and most people will be very happy with it yeah and we're going to get some very nice 4K video out of these cameras oh for sure but man 8K Pro res you know I'm thinking I have a 512 GB iPhone and if I flip my camera into prores video it tells me I can record like 15 minutes so if you did 8K Pro res I'm not sure if it is literally double or if it is somehow more but there would be like maybe 3 minutes of footage you know to record 8K yeah there's there's compression involved there I don't I don't think it would what I mean to say is I don't think it would be in a prores format it's just given that we have those toggles now for pro res and pro raw I think Apple would give the ability to record at those resolutions maybe I I'm not so sure though because at that point it would be too lossy and I I think the image would be too dark the video would be too dark and apple may just pull the plug on that entirely that third party apps maybe like filmic Pro and haly might have access to that system because that is physically what the sensor is and apple tends to let photo photography apps go nuts so those apps could probably take advantage but again the video files are going to be big and the quality is going to drop off off a cliff so right don't get mad when Apple says 48 megap camera sensor 12 megapixel photos because those are going to be some beautiful four uh 12 megapixel photos oh absolutely all well Mark Gman in his power on newsletter that comes out every Sunday he had a couple things that he stated last weekend first is that the iPad Pro is slated to be upgraded this fall and it should be an M2 iPad Pro which again will be very curious what the first device is to sport the M2 I vote probably the MacBook Air in a redesign the M2 iPad Pro should be coming out this fall and the big rumor you know this is really the only feature that I've really heard even being rumored not really much else besides the M2 but mag safe charging some kind of wireless charging for the iPad and it would then have to have a glass back as opposed to the aluminum back of the current iPad Pro and I still find this rumor weird I mean mag safe charging is notoriously much slower than hardwired charging and also to think you know the iPad Pro at least my use and I know a lot of people really love using it with the magic keyboard unless there's a major redesign of the magic keyboard I don't understand why mag safe charging on the back of the iPad which would be covered by the keyboard would be beneficial and you know the SMART connector kind of already offers a wireless is way to charge because you can plug a USBC cable into the magic keyboard port and charge the iPad and it charges quote unquote wirelessly through that smart connector so I'm not sure why or what the selling point would be for specifically a magsafe puck or some kind of magsafe charging on the iPad body specifically what do you think first of all I'm going to tell you something Stephen I can predict the future uh oh here here here shortly I I won't give you an exact date but probably sometime in June we'll probably get a report from German saying mysteriously the uh M2 iPad Pro is delayed till spring 2023 um just because calling it out okay okay you it's not coming this fall and the nomenclature around these rumors it's it depends on the person they don't know what these things are going to be called they don't know the now names they don't know what Apple marketing is going to do with this he's calling it mag safe likely because he saw a some sort of image or device that looks like it's magnetic and provides power like and none of these guys are perfect it's probably just SMART connector 2.0 Apple might want to just include mag safe branding with everything sure and a better SMART connector with better power inputs and stuff might be called magsafe I I don't see like or this could be the laptop version of Mag safe and we could get a uh 100 wat power in to the iPad Pro on the side you know next to the USBC or Thunderbolt Port sure I don't think any of these are are the case though I it's still going to be one Thunderbolt port on the side the SMART connector magic keyboard combo is all going to be similar but I think what this might equate to is a better SMART connector with maybe some uh more data passed through maybe that magic keyboard uh 2.0 will have data where you can hook a SSD to the uh magic keyboard and get data to the iPad I I'm not sure though it's it's all very tricky but yes I I I'm not seeing this as a traditional iPhone mag safe bare minimum this is probably Laptop Mag safe or a rebranding of the SMART connector yeah it would be nice to have data pass through cuz like right now if you either put a flash drive or try to connect any kind of USBC device to the magic keyboard iPad can't read it you know that Port is only for charging right now very slow charging too yeah very slow charging so it would be an an additional feature I also think one of the things many people have asked for and maybe Apple will finally do it is to move the FaceTime front-facing camera to the horizontal long side of the iPad Pro so when it's sitting in a magic keyboard it is actually oriented straight on to the user instead of being on the side where it is now on the smaller Edge of the iPad Pro and if that's the case and apple finally changes the orientation of the device to by default be horizontal then some kind of SMART connector or mag saave connector that moves to the bottom or the opposite side of that long Edge uh where the FaceTime camera would be basically would be on the bottom Edge then it makes sense they could Rebrand it they would move it and then the orientation would be like what everyone is hoping for and if you need evidence that right now Apple believes port portrait mode is the default of the iPad just look at how the logo is oriented and you will see on the back of the iPad it's oriented in portrait mode ironically on the magic keyboard it's oriented horizontally the logo especially I'm just curious as to how they would implement this because there's several questions uh what happens to the speaker grills I guess the speakers could stay in the same place the grills could be in the same spot yeah would the Thunderbolt Port stay on the side would it move to the long side I don't I don't want to hold the iPad and portrait and be covering a uh Thunderbolt Port that would be odd there there's so many ways that they could do this uh looking at Windows history and the the horrible thousands of uh convertibles that they've released I could see them moving a SMART connector like cuz the SMART connector used to be on the side of the iPad I could see them returning it to the side but then you lose the floating uh keyboard thingy I I I'm sure right that will stay on the back I just I wonder if they're ready to break compatibility with that $330 uh keyboard yeah that is true there's just so many questions in the air here I I'm not sure that we're ready for a complete redesign a lot of these rumors really just like to aim for the moon German could be seeing something from 2025 but his sources tell him you know I'm sure like this is expected to be in this device but again it all comes down to delays manufacturing processes Apple's testing this is LG able to make you know glass the way that they want to to to meet these standards and a glass-backed iPad yeah yeah that's scary the durability would take a hit for for sure I will say I did an interview with Fernando Silva friend of the show he's got a YouTube channel and we did an interview about our wishes for the future iPad OS one of the things I hope for is Final Cut on iPad I think there is a chance we'll see that but if they did bring Final Cut to the iPad what would be incredible and this is something Apple's probably never going to do but to put an SD card slot on the iPad so you could actually import footage and edit it all in that one tablet and not need any kind of dongle or Hub I doubt Apple would ever do that but I'm just going to put it out there in the ether it' be nice to have Stephen I'm going to say something controversial the iPad Pro is fine we're good I know I know the hardware just I I get it we all want some magical hologram that Iron Man uses right but just leave it alone and focus on that software focus on iPad OS just take a break let let those guys go have a sandwich or something tell them we're good Thunderbolt is plenty this display is beautiful mini LED is great the shape the size the everything is good there just stop it and give us really powerful huge crazy iPad OS update because yeah yeah that's that's where our limitations are I I get Hardware is exciting it's what you see it's what you hold uh and this is actually I can't believe uh I'm even thinking this but it's starting to age uh the iPad Pro as it is has existed since 2018 my God that was three years ago four four years ago what year is it Stephen even uh it's 2022 that was four years ago what is math anyway uh four years ago uh I can feel the gray coming in to my hair yeah yeah so yes the iPad Pro is showing a little bit of age but yeah age compared to what I mean this thing is aging like a a fine one let call me a fanboy it's a great device there's nothing else out there that looks like it except for I guess Samsung has tablets um I I wouldn't call them tablets uh more paper weights but you know sui sure sure Apple come on yeah WWDC iPad OS 16 where we at let's go um I agree I agree this episode is brought to you by Collide listen typically when a company tries to make their devices secure and private the devices used 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their bundle of software services that they might roll Hardware into those kinds of bundles and you could subscribe to get constant upgrades to your devices I found this interesting because a apple kind of has some of these Services already set up if you're a business you can actually do a subscription type uh payment plan for Max you can sign up for that if you're a business and also the iPhone upgrade plan is kind of like that I've been doing the iPhone upgrade plan for years I pay monthly and every year I get a new iPhone I mail the old one back and I get a new one so there's kind of a subscription service I'm curious what the difference would be I don't know if it would be like there's no more $100 fee when you upgrade because right now in the iPhone upgrade program you do have to pay like H hundred something dollars when you get the new phone and then it's the recurring monthly payment and then you can't do that with iPad right now although you can do Apple card payments which is not the same cuz you're just paying off the purchase price I guess a subscription would be you just ongoing get a new iPad every couple years so I would be curious this is just a rebranding I mean yeah if if you lease a car that's a subscription it's a very expensive subscription but I mean at the end of the day you're paying a recurring fee to keep something or use something right it's all semantics at that point I I don't think this is anything to get super excited about I'm sure the pundits and the stock trading industry side of things are all very excited it's like ooh look another way to recurring Revenue you recurring revenue and it's like well but don't they already get that if anything the only reason why I could understand this existing and apple promoting it or pushing it really hard is it's a way to get people who would otherwise not even think about upgrading upgrade every year just because it's a part of what they're paying for and they get it anyway and if and if anyone can do it make it seamless they just wake up one day in September and there's an iPhone sitting on their doorstep that that would kind of be scary but Apple could do it and I I could see them playing that game cuz Stephen segue I just wanted to bring this up I know it's on in our notes but today I wrote an article yes about Twitter users waking up to find oh yeah that their iPhone 6 no longer has access to the Twitter app Stephen the iPhone 6 the super cycle the iPhone to forbearer to everything we know and love today is no longer supportive by Twitter because they run iOS 13 and Twitter has moved on to iOS 14 is this Doom for apple apple is doomed the iPhone 6 came out 2014 so that was 8 years ago 8 years eight years is a good run that's almost a decade of compatibility but listen if you have an iPhone 6 and you're mad about this tweet at me oh wait a minute well they can use Safari stepen uh that's true that's true just log into Safari you could tweet from there I I just I if there are any listeners who have an iPhone 6 let us know that that would be awesome I would like to know it's I understand that these are the hand-me-downs you know a 14y old doesn't need an iPhone uh 13 or whatever yeah my son would disagree but go ahead yeah right the uh gray markets are very very big you know uh which is the the used Market basically like selling eBay yeah selling these things used the unless you're buying one for 20 bucks I wouldn't buy an iPhone 6 today I mean the I can't even remember what processor is in there I I'm won't bother looking but it's old enough that you'd have to say yeah it can turn on and last at least a couple hours on battery life and unless you've replace the battery recently Apple sells really good devices that last a while and I'm sure this thing does great browsing the web and scrolling Facebook but that's and if and for some people that's all they need a advice for so I understand these continuing to live on but you can pretty much walk into a Verizon and they'll throw iPhone Sees at you for free uh so true I would encourage anyone stuck on anything prior to iPhone 8 even at least just consider the iPhone SE because that thing is not expensive and yes I understand some people just you know affordances is different you know income is different but at the end of the day once you trade in a phone and uh throw a couple subsidaries at it like that you're maybe $10 a month added to your phone plan just to get that modern iPhone experience yeah so I one last word on the subscription thing I do think it'll be interesting if Apple adds Apple watch to a subscription tied to the phone like right now the iPhone upgrade plan is just for the iPhone I think they could reach a whole new level of users to say add $5 to this monthly cost or less and get a brand new Apple watch with your brand new iPhone here's all the health benefits and here's what you can do with it that that might be a big selling feature so I'm curious what they did I wonder what this means for the green aspect of this you know everyone's upgrading more often uh Apple watch throw in an Apple Watch throw in some airpods you know uh get some get some new airpods are people just tossing these things in the garbage now like I I just wonder I I'm sure there'll be a lot of discussion around the green efforts of this and what Apple's doing with these old devices cuz if their goal really how beneficial is it to everyone that everyone on Earth buy the new iPhone the day it comes out what happens to all those old devices and what's what's the plan to do cuz as Apple pushes more and more people to upgrade at least every two years even which is still way faster than the average I'm sure the average is at least 3 to 4 years what happens to all these old devices I mean if Apple sold a record-breaking still to this day difficult to match super cycle of iPhone 6s what where are all those devices are they door stops somewhere are they you know yeah I mean I think gr market like what you're saying maybe through third parties like Best Buy I will say apple has its refurbished site also which listener if you're not familiar with this I point a lot of people to this site and you can even access this in the Apple Store app like on your iPhone if you go to Mac or iPhone or iPad and you scroll all the way down to the bottom there is is a refurbished area and you can get like a refurbished iPhone 11 Pro for $769 which is like $230 off the brand new price so you know they don't have like 10s and 10 and earlier phones I'm sure those are available through like again like gry Market eBay stuff like that third party sellers but Apple does keep that refurbished site at least somewhat active you know you see products come in and come out a lot so I'll put a link to that if you weren't aware listeners and you want to get a modernish iPhone but for slightly less than newer I'll put you know you know check out their refer store all right we got to jam through cuz I want to hear your your thoughts on the studio display right right just announce as we're recording the Apple Business Essentials program is now available to all us users so Apple Business Essentials is that program that's competing with mobile device managers like J or kanji where you can actually manage Apple devices for your small business directly with apple Services some of the benefits here is you can actually deploy iCloud storage to accounts as a part of your business through Business Essentials and it still integrates with things like if you want to continue using some of those thirdparty mobile device services and also there was a small update to iOS 15 iPad OS TV and all of that 15.4.1 has released with some bug fixes and again support for the Apple Business Essentials so you can check out those updates on your device right now I do want to mention the other Apple exec interview this was in tech crunch Matthew panzino had this interview with a couple of Apple execs and I just want to point out a couple quotes Tom Boger who's the vice president of mac and iPad product marketing actually stated the Mac Studio is a compl completely new product line he said which is rare they don't add lines to the Mac very often which I think it's interesting to hear that clarification this is not replacing a Mac this is not in the same vein of a Mac like this is a quote unquote new Mac product line according to Apple and then Xander saurin who's the director of product marketing actually said he clarified what modular meant you know because Apple mentioned that the Mac Studio was a modular computer and everyone was kind of up in arms it's like well you can't replace the SSD you can't swap out Ram how is this module mod and he clarified that for them modular means that you can use it with whatever display you want and that the chips in the Mac Studio are you know optional you can get the M1 Max or the M1 Ultra considering that modular I mean I don't I wouldn't consider the MacBook Pro modular but you can get with an M1 Pro or M1 Max so that seems a little strange as a clarification but modular basically meaning bring your own display if you remember the marketing behind uh Mac Mini it was bring your own uh keyboard and mouse and display I think this this works to some sense yeah it's awesome Antics Pros are not going to be happy with this if you own a Mac Pro it's like you know Mac Studio is not modular but I I can see what they're going for here it rather than every you know two years uh having to replace a $5,000 iMac Pro uh rest in peace you just rip out the guts and put in a new Mac Studio for you know half the price and keep that same display same keyboard same all the stuff without paying the premium for Apple's newest xdr 120 HZ refresh rate whatnot so makes sense but yeah it is kind of a stretch of the word exactly so also Apple TV plus the baseball live MLB games on Friday nights is starting April 8th Apple announced that that will be the first Friday night you can catch two games on Apple TV plus it's the New York Mets and Washington Nationals at 7:00 p.m. Eastern then the Astros and Angels at 9:30 so I'm going to be you know I don't typically watch a lot of baseball but I'm want to check out what it's like to watch live sports because notoriously some of those apps like I I've seen NBA TV and I've seen like other live streaming sports apps and it can be pretty clunky so curious how Apple TV plus incorporates that into the app and how easy it is to get to those games yeah that that's the one with the bat and the bases right that's Cricket you're thinking of cricket actually yeah no I I really enjoy baseball I actually like playing baseball it's the one where you you don't have to run as much um because the the bases aren't that far apart no I I really enjoy watching baseball live you know grab a beer and a hot dog and you know maybe sweat a little bit go out in the stands get covered in some dirt it's fun yeah yeah I've never been a fan of watching it on TV I'll check this out to see if Apple's doing something weird I'm sure it's just hey it's a baseball program but there's an Apple logo somewhere but I don't know something interesting I'm I'm interested in seeing if they break out into other sports in the future but certainly uh new uh and fancy so check it out also wanted to highlight Andrew O'Hara had our iPad Air review and after the last episode there were several listeners that reached out and was asking about the supposed creaking or the build quality of the new iPad Air there were some YouTube reviews that showed like you could almost hear a creaking in the case of the new iPad Air and I double checked with Andrew personally in the slack and he said he did not feel like the build quality was an issue he did not hear any creaking so I'll put a link to his review and he's got the video review as well but didn't seem to be a concern and again it seems like it's the iPad that is for most people again that price point at $600 starting it's a little confusing with the iPad Pro but you we talked about that on previous show you didn't get an iPad Air did you no I I I don't I use the iPad Mini as my secondary iPad now so no need for that it's a great device I love the size but but yep I don't need three iPads exactly don't tempt me Frodo please stop spending $500 on devices only to test the structural Integrity by bending and and hammering it just use the thing I mean sure maybe it's a little creaky but what stress are you putting it under to even find out I don't understand yeah I don't know so this was kind of big news the court case that actually decided Apple has to allow developers to link to their website or service from inside their app Apple is finally rolling out this ability where quote unquote reader apps which is a strange nomenclature But it includes apps like Netflix and Spotify video type apps that those apps will now be able to have a button in their app that says sign up here or sign up there and so apple is just starting to roll it out developers will have to apply for an entitlement to put that in their app and The Verge actually had a screenshot I'll put this as the chapter artwork if you're listening you can look at the image in your podcast player now but it is going to be a several step process when you as the user click a button that says go sign up on the website there's going to be a big screen like a warning screen that shows up and it's like you're leaving Apple's ecosystem and you'll have to agree that you understand that and then it will load the website after that so it's great that developers can finally do that link to their own website so so people can actually sign up you know this would have saved the whole hey debacle a year or so ago from being a thing yeah it'll be interesting to see what apples do that I'm sure Netflix will be one of the first so if you want to see what that looks like check that probably in a couple weeks yeah I'll still just try to sign up in whatever way I can with apple I mean if I have to have an Netflix account and go out and and sign up sure I'll do that and uh I think the reader thing comes from Amazon the whole buying books within the uh Amazon Kindle app I think that's where this comes from because of course the only app being about reading is uh barely even a part of this cuz Netflix Spotify all of that the place where you go to read obviously so right exactly all right and right before we get to the studio display so apple is working on additional financial services that it is bringing inhouse things like Payment Processing credit checks and things like that where it's using thirdparty services for those kind of financial aspects they might be trying to bring those inhouse possible motivations would be apple card expansion especially internationally Apple card right now is only available in the US but could also mean that some of the payment processing that Apple pay goes through and other credit card processing might actually come in-house into so this is very early we don't have a lot of details on it but interesting that apple is really working to bring those in house and curious what that will mean for the future yeah I'm not sure what this means I don't think Apple's going to become a bank but at the same time no like do they really want to get into the business of processing these services or or contacting credit bureaus to get credit scores and stuff I think Apple's fine putting these out to Goldman Sachs and such this might just be for the international thing I think this ties to them buying the that service in Europe I forgotten what it is already but um like I think all that ties together I think this might be reading into it just a little bit too much I don't think Apple's going to suddenly turn on a switch and say we're a bank now and come get a loan for your next iMac I don't think that's how this works yeah so you have the studio display you've been working on it now for a couple weeks as we record we've talked about it there's been lots of thoughts out there so I just want to know Wes what do you personally feel about the new studio display I think a lot of the complaints Echo um something like the airpods max if it's not for you um generally speaking especially in the tech world people are going to react uh emotionally in a way that that justifies their purchase or not purchase and I think that's where a lot of this controversy comes from is people just they want to justify them not getting it even though they're probably part of the crowd that's complained about Apple not making a quote unquote affordable monitor for the last few years but given that it's been what four five years I can't remember uh since Apple stopped got out of the display business altogether those LG monitors came along and they were fine not ultra fine as the pance goes but right the studio display I love it it's everything I wanted uh long story short I moved over from an LG Ultra gear gaming monitor which was the only thing below um $1,000 that matched some of Apple specs like P3 color gamut and such but it promised HDR which basically it lied cuz HDR 400 is an awful standard HDR in general is an awful standard um unless you have to look for that Dolby Vision thing thatle promotes a lot because that's actually policed uh versus HDR is just basically throwing in a couple things in there and it's HDR even if the screen goes dark when you turn it on the studio display is just it's color accurate it's great uh it's simple you just plug in that Thunderbolt cable that's what I've been looking for uh I I have a LG ultra fine 24in the original model and uh been trying to replicate that experience since with a bigger better display and it just doesn't exist and um everyone complaining you know it's not great for the value but isn't value determined by availability in the marketplace and if apples is the only one in the market offering these specs these abilities they can charge whatever they want for it and I know that's terrible that sucks for us but at the same time they're only charging $1,600 for what could otherwise be they could they could have made this thing $22,000 now and I agree with a lot of the sentiment like this could have been a $1,300 display maybe a $1,400 display I get it the stand cost $400 to get a height adjustable stand and apple probably over engineered this a bit and charged a little bit too much but at the end of the day this is what we got and I'm glad we have it over the option of nothing or an giant piece of plastic made by LG so that's that's how I feel about it and you got the like standard model not the height adjustable correct yes uh bare bare minimum specs across the board don't need uh Nano texture and I didn't really care about having height adjustability do you find that the height works for you did I mean is your desk adjustable or did you have to adjust just anything or was it fine just out of the box um I probably would have used it uh on the desk it does seem a little low uh at that point um my desk isn't adjustable but before I even got the monitor just because I knew these things would probably sell out um I bought the high stand from 12 South cuz uh I I already used the curve stand for my laptop so I figured oh they match why not let's if this thing is not adjustable I've had IMAX before I know what height that is so I might as well just go ahead and buy and it pretty much puts it at a great spot maybe not a little too high but I've gotten used to it and I I quite like it yeah and having that highight adjustability would be nice but at the same time it's it's not a deal breaker uh $400 for a high adjustable stand versus this like $60 piece of aluminum I stick underneath it you know so yeah it's save some money and you get a little storage too right isn't there like a little storage area I have no idea what I would put in there it doesn't even fit like SSD you put it you put external SSD in there yeah so right now um I have my cable for cuz I have my iPad Mini for universal control uh underneath the monitor which is another reason why I wanted it higher up so I could have my iPad Mini under it uh in portrait orientation which is great uh I I've run a power cable to it uh underneath the highrise and done some cable management taping the cable underneath and the SSD I normally connect to a thunderbolt uh to to my external Hub I've connected to one of the ports on the Monitor and use the short cable for that so yes there is an SSD sitting in there otherwise the storage is wasted I wish something I could do here to make it slightly because it almost fits a PlayStation dual shock controller but it doesn't that that would that would have been like the one thing I would have actually put in there so now the the high you have the highrise or the highrise Pro uh not the thing that looks like a wooden box uh the aluminum one uh the cuz the box has like some weird adjustable thing and the the foot sits inside of the stand this is just a piece of a curved aluminum so gotcha yeah cuz the high-rise Pro is is more expensive it's $170 still cheap than the $400 height adjustable but it actually has multiple slots that you put the foot of the either iMac or Studio display in and it can be different heights so you basically get four or five different heights possible from that one little box plus then get storage yeah I wasn't a fan of how that one looked uh it reminded me a bit of uh where you would store um index cards or floppy discs in 1997 um sure so just yeah I stuck with the aluminum gotcha well very cool well we'll put a link to the the highrise too in case our listeners are interested and just wanted to mention real quick before we go there was an awesome story about the Apple logo and its history William had the article from the original original logo which you haven't if you haven't seen that please go look at the chapter artwork right now because I'll make that the chapter art but he goes through the whole history of the logo I thought it was pretty cool interesting and kind of how Apple has been returning to its six colors Roots recently but let us know what you thought about anything from the podcast you can tweet at Wesson myself our Twitter handles are in the show notes also thank you for those F star ratings and reviews you can keep those coming and don't forget you can support the show you get an adree version and Early Access either directly in apple podcast lots of you do it there or at patreon.com inssider thanks for tuning in we'll catch you next time\n"