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Chris Berube

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So these two things are not interoperable.

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And tractors are kind of the tip of the iceberg here because this kind of thing can happen with all of our smart devices.

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And Corey brought up this example to me, which is printers.

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This is why I like Corey.

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He paints some word pictures.

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He puts a little mustard on the fastball.

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And by the way, I did, I looked this up.

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This is a bit of an exaggeration.

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Like the Kentucky Derby winning semen is very expensive.

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It's worth a lot of money, but printer is expensive too, right?

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It costs like thousands of dollars a gallon, which is so much money.

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I mean, shitty is the right word for it.

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I mean, it's, it's awful.

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Yeah, it's really shitty, and it's also a big problem with powered wheelchairs.

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You have smart fridges.

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You have ventilators.

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One more example is about the device you are probably listening to this on right now.

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So let's say you have an iPhone.

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I'm sure you've experienced some version of this as someone who owns an iPhone.

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If you need to repair an iPhone, there's lots of cases where you cannot get a third-party replacement part.