624: Do Less Math in Computers
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So I need to issue an apology.
Okay.
I'd like to apologize to AirPods Pro Adaptive Noise Cancellation Mode. A few months ago, we were talking about the AirPods Pro noise-canceling modes, and I had said I had tried the adaptive mode for a little while, and I didn't like it, and I switched back, and I disabled it from my cycling when you hold down the stem because it blocked out too much street noise when I was walking around Manhattan, and I didn't like it.
I don't entirely agree with you, but I never got to the point that I wanted it removed from my cycle of options. But I find I very rarely choose Adaptive. Typically, I'm either doing transparency or full-on cancellation.
And I'm pretty sure the way we talked about it was because I got the AirPods 4 and I was asking you guys about the different modes that they do because I didn't know which modes and what they were good for. I think at least at that point, you reiterated your opinion that you didn't like Adaptive.
Yeah. And we got a couple of notes from listeners basically saying, try it again. It's really good. And I tried it again for like, you know, a couple of days and I hated it and I went back. Well, in the meantime... I tried it again, like another time, and I just left it on. And I realized over the last week or so that I have just left it on for like months now. And it's fine. I don't really think about it anymore. I don't really change modes anymore, almost ever. And so I actually have come around that the new version or the current version of adaptive noise cancellation mode is indeed good enough to use as my main mode almost all the time. I've almost never switched it. Since the most recent try, I almost never switch it to any other mode now.
It just adjusts, and it's fine. So, yeah. Sorry, adaptive mode. I was wrong about you, and you've won me over.
We released a new ATP member special. So this is, if you recall, is one of the perks of being an ATP member, which you can join by going to atp.fm slash join. Once a month, we try really hard. We've been pretty consistent so far. Once a month, we do some sort of bonus content that is... not really canon, I guess you could say. It's just usually way off in a different world, so to speak, in this case, kind of literally. And sometimes we do what we call ATP Movie Club. And this month we returned to ATP Movie Club and did Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. John, can you tell me why and how we landed on this particular topic?
Marco made a comment on an earlier episode that anyone listening would have thought was Marco making a reference to a famous scene in a Star Trek movie. But it turns out Marco has never seen any Star Trek movies or any Star Trek anything. And I said, oh, well, then we have to do that as a member special. We have to show him the movie that he was unknowingly referencing and that Casey and I were making jokes about. And that's exactly what we did. There's no other reason than that. And it was fun. So check it out. Star Trek for the voyage home.
It did not go the way I expected, and it is definitely worth checking out. And we will remind you, like I said, ATP.FM slash join. You can do the Syracuse approach, which is wrong, and join for a month and then cancel your membership, which is very easy to do. And you can slurp up all the member specials during that month, and then you can walk away and listen to them all. Or you can do the right thing, which is join and just let it ride. You can join us for a month, a year, however long as you feel, and just enjoy all of the member specials and the bootleg and the ad-free shows and so on and so forth. And overtime. And overtime. Thank you. I almost forgot. So atp.fm slash join. John, we talked about the Honda Prologue and how it had been outselling equivalent GM vehicles that are based on the same platform. Why do you think that is?
A lot of people wrote it, including Matt Rigby, to tell us that they think it's because Honda has a CarPlay and the GM cars do not. I'm not sure how much of a factor that is. I still feel like the Honda brand is the bigger factor, but that is a factor. The GM ones don't have CarPlay because GM wants that subscription revenue and does not want to have CarPlay. So, yeah, throw that in the mix.
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