Casey Liss

Why don't we just put an A-series chip in there and put our own OS on it? And the answer was, because you're not very good at that. And, yeah, the Mac Studio was a little bit flaky. But, you know, my wife's got a Mac Studio that's right behind me, and whatever flakiness there was in the beginning... She has had no complaints on it, and it has never done anything weird.

That said, I still fear the possible flakiness of an A-series powered XDR replacement, because this XDR has just worked like a dumb peripheral, which is exactly what you want it to do. I don't even want to know there's anything computery inside it, especially since this thing does not have a power button, which Apple is still obsessed with, right?

That said, I still fear the possible flakiness of an A-series powered XDR replacement, because this XDR has just worked like a dumb peripheral, which is exactly what you want it to do. I don't even want to know there's anything computery inside it, especially since this thing does not have a power button, which Apple is still obsessed with, right?

So if there was something wrong with it, power cycling would be a pain, but thankfully I've pretty much never had to do that. So I think my, you know, I'm happy with Macs. They are the way it is. Talk about if you're waiting for a mouse keyboard, like I said, or monitors to be revised, don't hold your breath.

So if there was something wrong with it, power cycling would be a pain, but thankfully I've pretty much never had to do that. So I think my, you know, I'm happy with Macs. They are the way it is. Talk about if you're waiting for a mouse keyboard, like I said, or monitors to be revised, don't hold your breath.

There's been rumors of new monitors for Macs for years and years, but it seems like maybe those projects are started internally and then scrubbed and started again and then scrubbed and started again and then scrubbed and just go around and around until one of them actually escapes the company and lets you buy it. And that hasn't happened for a while.

There's been rumors of new monitors for Macs for years and years, but it seems like maybe those projects are started internally and then scrubbed and started again and then scrubbed and started again and then scrubbed and just go around and around until one of them actually escapes the company and lets you buy it. And that hasn't happened for a while.

There are rumors about it, but like the Apple TV is kind of reaching the point where,

There are rumors about it, but like the Apple TV is kind of reaching the point where,

uh kind of reaching a fork in the road uh because i as far as i'm aware there there aren't really many television viewing based standards and technology that apple tv does not yet support that it would be useful for to support people might say 8k and you know the ps5 pro supposedly supports 8k but so does the ps5 technically anyway if if there's a use case for 8k potentially next generation consoles might be the use case but they've said that before um

uh kind of reaching a fork in the road uh because i as far as i'm aware there there aren't really many television viewing based standards and technology that apple tv does not yet support that it would be useful for to support people might say 8k and you know the ps5 pro supposedly supports 8k but so does the ps5 technically anyway if if there's a use case for 8k potentially next generation consoles might be the use case but they've said that before um

But other than that, it's like there's that quick thing about media switching along a blackout thing, stuff like that. There's not a lot of stuff that you say, I need some more hardware on this Apple TV to do video watching. Then there's gaming, which, of course, you need unlimited power forever and ever. Does Apple want to turn Apple TV into more of a gaming thing or make their own controller?

But other than that, it's like there's that quick thing about media switching along a blackout thing, stuff like that. There's not a lot of stuff that you say, I need some more hardware on this Apple TV to do video watching. Then there's gaming, which, of course, you need unlimited power forever and ever. Does Apple want to turn Apple TV into more of a gaming thing or make their own controller?

Are they going to ship it? Are they going to upgrade? Like that's kind of the decision point because Apple is kind of close to saying for the purposes of watching video content, there's no reason for the Apple TV to get any more powerful. For the purposes of playing games, there's infinity reason for the Apple TV to get more powerful. Which way do we go with this product? I'm with Casey.

Are they going to ship it? Are they going to upgrade? Like that's kind of the decision point because Apple is kind of close to saying for the purposes of watching video content, there's no reason for the Apple TV to get any more powerful. For the purposes of playing games, there's infinity reason for the Apple TV to get more powerful. Which way do we go with this product? I'm with Casey.

Whenever a new Apple TV comes out, I buy it just blindly for the same reason he does, because I just rotate them through my thing. And historically, there has been a benefit, especially when they went 4K and they got a little bit faster or whatever. And I do occasionally play games on Apple TV, although let me just take an aside to complain.

Whenever a new Apple TV comes out, I buy it just blindly for the same reason he does, because I just rotate them through my thing. And historically, there has been a benefit, especially when they went 4K and they got a little bit faster or whatever. And I do occasionally play games on Apple TV, although let me just take an aside to complain.

My son was home from school for break and wanted to play Journey. I'm like, great, that's out for Apple TV. Guess what? It's not out for Apple TV anymore. It was briefly out for Apple TV, I think. Maybe I have a false memory of it or whatever, but it definitely is not out for Apple TV now. You can play it on the iPad. You can play it on iOS.

My son was home from school for break and wanted to play Journey. I'm like, great, that's out for Apple TV. Guess what? It's not out for Apple TV anymore. It was briefly out for Apple TV, I think. Maybe I have a false memory of it or whatever, but it definitely is not out for Apple TV now. You can play it on the iPad. You can play it on iOS.

You can play it on lots of different platforms that you cannot play it on Apple TV. I think it used to be an Apple Arcade, and maybe it was like a time-limited thing, but it's super annoying when that happens. So... Anyway, it'll be interesting to see if the next Apple TV comes out.