Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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G'day, g'day. Great to have you company on the AFTM podcast once again. I'm here to take your calls. If you've got tech questions, happy to talk about them. Happy to try and solve your problems or create new ones. That's something I can also do by just making you spend money. I'm happy to vicariously spend your money for you. Very, very easy to do that. Don't you worry. I can pull that one off.
But yes, we have a bunch of calls to get to today, as well as we're going to talk Vodafone's regional coverage. It's been over a year since they launched that extra coverage, thanks to the kind of mobile network sharing operations they have with Optus. But has it had any impact? Is it noticeable to them? They've done a survey to look at that, which is...
Which is fascinating, so I want to unpack that a little bit and, of course, take your calls. We've got people on the line who want to talk everything from iPhones to CarPlay and warranty issues with other devices, so we'll get to those. I'm off to London next week, but there will be a show next week, the week after. I'll be at Apple's WWDC. So apologies, no show.
And hopefully we'll get back into the swing of things after that as we get into mid-June. I mean, this year is absolutely prancing away. It's wild, isn't it, how far into the year we are? Speaking of prancing, you might have seen this morning at 6.10 a.m. the embargo dropped on the all-electric Ferrari Luce.
This is the car I went and saw the kind of underpinnings of in Maranello last year with Ferrari.
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Chapter 2: Should I upgrade my smartphone or stick with my current one?
And today they have shown the car. There's no price, although some journos are already saying it's like a million bucks, which is... I think insane. That's my first. If it's a million dollars, it's insane. The Porsche Taycan is several hundred thousand dollars, as should this thing be, because it's a Ferrari. But calm down on the million bucks, folks. Let's call it...
Four or five hundred thousand, but a million? Hard to justify. But this thing is an engineering marvel. And it's more fascinating to me to see what actual Ferrari nutjobs are saying about it, like legit Ferrari fans. I'll talk about the car in a minute. But there's a guy in New Zealand who I think is, he's either in, he either has car dealerships or property or both called Grant Baker.
His Instagram is Grant K Baker. He owns a lot of Ferraris and he's very proud of them and good on him. But he's posted a photo array of it and asked the question and like it's hilarious to see the responses from people. I can even see a former CEO of Ferrari Australia laughing at him in the comments. So it's pretty wild. And there's people there that go like, if you buy that, I will defriend you.
Is this April the 1st? Looks like Ferrari's best Porsche ad ever. That is not a Ferrari ad. it looks Chinese Ferrari shouldn't be making appliances but the most important one to Grant K Baker on Instagram who is a multi-squillionaire multi-Ferrari owner who would be so he's one of those people that would be invited to see and buy any car The best of all Ferraris. You can't just turn up and buy.
You have to be invited to buy them. The best of the best of the best Ferraris, even more so. So someone said to him in the comments, more the question, would you buy one? And he wrote, not impossible. Now, that same person then replied, you've proved that you'll buy anything they sell just to stay on their list.
And then he's just being smashed in the comments, calling him a Ferrari shill, et cetera. But I think these people have lost the perception of the market here. Ferrari's not building this car to have someone who would normally buy a 480 or whatever the modern Ferrari sports car is buy this. No, no, no, no. This is the potential daily driver Ferrari, although at a million bucks, it's insane.
This is the car that says Ferrari, but says modern electric Ferrari. This is the car that a Ferrari, and I guarantee you when the reviews come out, it's going to be staggering. There's a couple of things about this car that we know already and there's more that we can perceive. But the number one perception I have is this will feel like a Ferrari. This will handle like a Ferrari.
This will handle beautifully on the road because of its center of gravity. It'll be unbelievable. And it won't sound like a Ferrari, but it will sound unlike anything ever before. And that could be a game changer for the industry. So it's going to be fascinating.
to see how it's genuinely received overall um i don't mind the look of it i'll be honest with you i think it's a pretty stylish looking thing it's different no doubt so johnny ive and mark newson decide designed it but here's what i like about the interior we saw some leaks of the releases of the interior the rear seats of the interior look like they're from the 70s and i love it
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Chapter 3: How can I choose between different smartphone brands?
So less dropouts, better speeds, much higher levels of satisfaction within our customer base. So yeah, it's definitely benefiting our customers. And this report that we undertook was really about trying to understand, okay, we know that our customers are benefiting, but what are the broader economic impacts into the regions and social impacts as well for our customers, but also for the regions?
And can you put a dollar value on that? Because surveys and studies are great, but being able to quantify the impact of better connectivity for people or better competition is an important thing for you as a business, but also for an industry.
Yeah, it is. And the idea of this report is it really starts to quantify what those impacts are. And at a customer level, you know, we know customers who've switched from other providers to Vodafone have saved on average $182 a year. So at a customer level, they're getting really good value.
And we know also that for our existing customers who are already with us, that actually the improved connectivity and the utility they get from that has added additional value to their business. to them as well. All up, that has been sized by Deloitte at $341 million annual value of the expanded network for Vodafone customers nationwide. And that contributes in many ways.
It contributes to the economy. There's about $80 million contribution to GDP just in productivity gains alone from the higher speeds that they're getting out there with the rollout of 5G to the regions as well.
And you can kind of simplify to the impact for individuals because things like just the daily commute for some people is made better because they can use their phone in a more effective way.
Yeah, it flows through in many ways. I mean, there's basic things like enjoying your commute, being able to stay connected in your commute, the safety in regions, people worried about breakdowns, it's about staying connected with families. Then there's all of the essential services.
We've seen increases in customers accessing government services, increasing use of telehealth, increasing use of online education. And they're all in the kind of consumer space, but for businesses as well, it's absolutely critical. And you see, you know, businesses rely on communications to run.
And so through the survey, we came across a lot of customers who, you know, it's been absolutely transformational for them to be able to have improved connectivity for their teams out on the road and with their customers. Yeah.
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