Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Adam, what was the results of last week's poll? You don't want to know. I don't know how to quantify all of this. I have an idea. Ask Gemini, based on the comments, what it thinks we should do.
Sorry, Google Gemini was like, you need to fix the chapters. Guys, we do this every week.
We add chapters every week. Dude, I have told you to fix chapters. Yeah, what is up, people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the Waveform Podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marques. I'm Andrew. I'm David. And this episode, we've got two of the biggest stories, probably at least on your feed, but maybe of the past couple months, which are the Fitbit Air and the Ferrari Luce. Oh!
both very much waveform topics uh plus we got a bunch of other stuff motorola hijacking affiliate links a professional soccer match shot on iphone uh for audio listeners i did air quotes and uh disco morphism yeah it's alive you spotify listeners already know what we're talking about there
But first, if you didn't already see our bonus episode on Tuesday this week, we had a fun conversation with Joanna Stern, just two New Jersey tech reporters chopping it up. That's what I like to see. So if you haven't already seen that, definitely go check it out. If you have and you're not subscribed, what are you doing? Get subscribed. Make sure you're on board.
Wouldn't have missed it if you were.
Exactly. But first... Did they even test this?
I have a quick one. That's what I like to hear.
Okay.
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Chapter 2: What are the key features of the Fitbit Air?
The bottom 40% is all the coach information.
I think that could be, or at least an option to be a separate tab. I would probably just want to see my workouts and quickly go into them, but I could see some benefit of still contacting the coach and asking questions and having a chat log. I use it all the time. I like it. I just wish I wasn't writing the main page. Yeah, the main page feed of... It yapping all the time feels insane.
One of the biggest problems I have with the Gemini integration as the coach, though, is that it feels like the coach, like the Gemini coach doesn't, it has access to the data that it collects, but it doesn't always look at it. So, for example, at like 5 p.m., it was like, are you still going to hit your 10 a.m. workout? Of which I had already done. You know, it didn't have that information.
It asked me if I was going to go on a long walk when I'd already gone on a long walk. It like randomly set a random number of calories that I'd eaten that was not the amount of calories that I ingested into the app. Yeah.
and there are all these metrics that you can look at in the app and you can see the data is right there but Gemini doesn't seem to pull that data all the time it does it like randomly and sometimes but it doesn't do it like correctly every time and then sometimes it just hallucinates information does fit had an instance where it has the information on what his bedtime was and then 20 minutes after his bedtime was sending him tips on how to get better sleep that night for a better recovery it's like I'm asleep already
This is past the bedtime that's listed inside of the app that you're pulling from.
Yeah. And then, I don't know, it just, so multiple times throughout the day, the Gemini coach will give you little summaries of things that you've done. Notifies you. Yeah. Yeah. But it is so, it happens so much. Like I went on a 19 minute walk to the coffee shop and, And it was like that 19 minute walk was so great, David. I didn't set a walk or anything. It just automatically created a summary.
And it was like, you slowed down around minute 10. Did you hit a red light? And I'm like, I went I walked to the cafe. I do not see why I need a summary of this or why you need me to explain myself. You know, it's just it's very strange. I think there's a middle ground.
All these features with the Coach are very beginner-focused, I think, where a lot of people see all this data, but they don't know how to interpret it. A lot of people look at the Apple Health app, which is full of data, tons and tons of information that's being gathered by your Apple Watch.
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Chapter 3: What bugs are associated with the Google Health app?
It's actually close to a deal breaker for me that the live HIIT workout does not show you what heart rate zone you're in.
Yes.
I think so many people, especially now, target heart rate zones during workouts, especially cardio workouts. Wait, even on the phone? The phone doesn't show the graph. It does show a heart rate, but it doesn't show zones or anything. And then this is so niche, but I use my watch so often to find my phone when I misplace it.
So if there's some sort of a gesture that could make my phone ring, that would be awesome. That didn't go off by accident all the time. That would be the biggest issue and probably why that will never happen. But I'm a fan.
While we're wishing, give me Google Pay. While we're adding things, how about a screen? I just want to know the time. I just want to look and see the time.
I've gone past the, I'm fine with it not having time.
OK, cool. No time. Random one last question. Do you think Apple should make a screenless fitness tracker? Yes. Alongside the Apple Watch. Dude, if they made like a thin one, because Fitbit used to make like a thin sort of like stylish one. I think if Apple did, that would be game over.
Initially, this is why I've been going so hard down this road was because I wanted Apple specifically to make one because I loved using the Apple Watch and Apple Health and everything. But I didn't like wearing an Apple Watch. So I wanted just another little band, like the Nike Fuel band from back in the day.
I think if you really want to cook whoop, like they have all the bones to make the ideal, like privacy focused, your data never leaves the device. You don't have to have a screen, but it's connected to your phone, obviously, because it's an Apple fitness tracker. So probably will tell you when you have notifications. But it'll also be the sleek one, the cool one. It'll be lightweight.
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Chapter 4: What are the key design influences of the Ferrari Luce?
Mangano.
So I think Ferrari is thinking about all of this new, new, new and is just leaning fully on new, new, new, different, nothing old at all. That's how he ended up here.
Marcus, I have an idea seed to plant in your brain. Please. Because I and me saying this out loud will guarantee I will never be invited to a single Ferrari thing for the rest of my life.
I think I'm already banned too.
I don't think this is entirely new. Because when I see the design of the car, it makes me think of a bunch of the late 60s and entire all through the 70s Lambos. Like if you're familiar with like the Lambo Miura and Lambo.
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Chapter 5: How does the Ferrari Luce compare to other electric vehicles?
Those are so angular though. No, no. Look up the Lamborghini Harama is what it's called, the J. Harambe?
Yeah.
Or like the Lamborghini Urraco or like the 70s really smooth ones before you get to the angular Countach. To me, if you combine, like, the Miura, the Harama, and the Rocco, and then take, like, a Dodge Daytona EV and throw that in there, it, like, becomes the Luce.
I see what you're saying. I just... This is so much more of, like... I described it in my short as, like, if a BYD ate a Ferrari. And at first you laugh because, like, why would anyone spend $600,000 on a BYD? But...
Chapter 6: What unique technologies are featured in the Ferrari Luce?
they make the best electric cars in the world right now. They sell a lot of cars. And if you're going to compete in who's going to make the best electric car, Okay, I drove it. I can't talk about me driving it yet, but I think it's pretty clear they're targeting this being one of the best driving electric cars. It's not the best straight-line speed because it's not the lightest. You have Plaid.
You have Lucid Air Sapphire. But, I mean, they took me to a track to drive it, so that should say something about how they aim for positioning of this car. It's still a driving experience.
Chapter 7: What are the controversies surrounding the Ferrari Luce's design?
It's still a Ferrari drive. So it is like the sportiest, most luxurious version of the BYD.
Can I... You might not know the answer to this question, and I might be kind of wrong, but in general, to buy a Ferrari, you have to have owned Ferraris already, right?
No. So that is definitely a common thing that people talk about online. It's to buy certain premium Ferraris.
Because when the whole argument is like, no one who owns Ferraris is going to want this... If they're the only ones who can buy it, it feels like it. It feels like to me, though, as someone who's like, if you like all the things that Ferrari makes right now, you probably don't like this. Yep.
But also like if you're the kind of person who's really looking forward to buy a Ferrari because you want to have like the Ferrari clout that's involved with it. This also is not that. So I'm very confused that who is the person that's buying this? Yeah, it's not cheap.
It's not cheap. $500,000.
I think it makes so much more sense to just buy a really sick, nice sports car like a Ferrari or a Lamborghini and then also buy like a Lucid. Yeah. Or a three bedroom house instead.
I do think they somewhere along the line ended up at this being the most dailyable, most practical, most comfortable Ferrari. And no one was asking for that. Yeah, no one. But that is technically what this is. So there it is. I wish I had a jet ski that could fit six people.
Yeah, that's how it feels.
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