Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Catch you guys next week in April. Peace.
Chapter 2: What are the hosts' thoughts on the Super Mario Galaxy movie?
Did you guys hear that the Super Mario Galaxy movie is bad?
Yeah. Really?
Yeah. Yeah, because it's preying on your nostalgia. It's not good. The first one was good. Yeah, yeah. Are you excited for Backyard Baseball? Of course. BYB.
Is it out yet? We weren't recording.
April Fool's. My stomach actually dropped because I was like, I have a flight. Don't do this to me. Yo, 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. And I'm David. And it's April. Finally. We finally got to April.
I never have to hear Tarch again.
That's maybe not true.
I hope it is.
We'll see in about 12 months. But as of the day of recording, it's actually April Fool's Day, so happy April Fool's Day to those who celebrate. We actually dropped videos today that I thought were really fun. You can go back and watch them, and they still have actually some value outside of April Fool's Day. I'll put it that way. But in today's episode, we have a eulogy for a deceased product.
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Chapter 3: What product eulogy is mentioned in today's episode?
Anyway, does anybody have a... Did they even test this for this week?
Oh, boy, do I. They do. So... Recently, I have been trying to get into my PayPal account because I haven't used it in so long that the last time I used it, I had a different phone number. So I go to log in. It's over. Yeah, it's a wrap. And they're like, hey, we just sent you a code, a six digit code. And I'm like, to what? Like, I don't have that number anymore.
So fast forward three days and multiple customer service reps later, they were finally able to get me to PayPal. reset my password with my email after but it makes no sense because the whole time I call they have you like first with the little AI robot thing verify who you are not only with the phone number but with your last four the social so I should be able to just change my
phone number right from there with the ai like just let me do it they know it's me but they refuse to do it to the point that they had to do like a crazy reset on their side so that i couldn't log in for 24 hours or attempt to log in or they would think it was a security thing and then after 24 hours i had to call back and get someone else on the phone and then they could be like oh yeah now we can do like a hard reset on your password i say all this to say
Phone number two factor is stupid. There are apps for this. We've solved this problem. Stop being lazy. PayPal's one of the biggest companies and they're still using phone number two factor. And it was just so frustrating, so annoying.
Adam famously made a video on Android Authority.
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Chapter 4: What are the top five apps of all time according to the hosts?
Don't trigger me, David. A long time ago called that we should get rid of phone numbers and people are very angry.
People made great points as to why we should.
You should not have gotten rid of your phone number and none of this would have ever happened. That's fair. Well, if you just use pass keys, this would not be a problem.
Use Authenticator app. PSA. PSA. Then you'll never have to test that process in your life. Alrighty. Okay, so this week, we made two different shorts so far. And I say so far because it might keep going. But the idea was kind of fun. It was to take the same photo on every single iPhone generation that's ever been made. 1 through 17.
Okay.
Just shout out Jono real quick. This was his idea. He was basically like, we've done these every Apple phone, every Google phone. The short version of the shorts version of this is take a photo with everyone and just let's see how it goes. That's really cool. Like in ascending order.
Yeah, because they talk, you know, these companies talk about the smartphones camera so much that you'd assume there'd be like a huge difference year to year of a lot of these things. You take all these, and by the way, it's kind of a hilarious process of taking 17 straight photos with all these different phones.
We have to fire them all up, get them all set up, make sure they're all in their default settings, sit still for 15 minutes while we get every single one perfectly lined up, take all 17 photos. But then throwing them all in the timeline and seeing them back to back, in broad daylight, you might have watched that first short,
Not a lot of difference, especially year to year with a lot of these iPhones. Didn't shock me because in broad daylight, that's like the perfect best case scenario. I think it starts to break down around like the iPhone 4S. But when you watch the low light one, that is much more that exposed a lot more of the differences between these sensor sizes.
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Chapter 5: What benefits do chapters bring to podcast navigation?
Yeah, like why why wouldn't you do that? I Found out recently that it really really helps to add chapters because then Google search can index the chapters So that when you some someone ask a question on Google search it'll bring you to the exact spot because it knows what the chapter was about huge and It's helpful.
And yet you still have to just put timestamps in the description and then it breaks 85% of the time. Talk about breaks a lot. We do it every week. Every week on this podcast. Every week.
Chapter 6: What are the honorable mentions for top apps?
And what is the number one tweet getting sent to us? Chapters? Why are there no chapters?
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Chapter 7: How does Google Opinion Rewards work?
Educate them. So there it is. That's my list. Okay. I have two honorable mentions. Number one of the honorable mentions, Google Opinion Rewards. Mm.
Oh. OK.
And that's a good one. Deep cut.
All time. This is a deep cut. That was really awesome.
If you don't know what Google Opinion Rewards is, it's been around since 2010. It's freaking amazing. It came out very soon after Android came out.
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Chapter 8: What are the top five apps mentioned in the podcast?
It will periodically, based on your search data, based on other things, location data, whatever, send you a little survey. And it's usually one to, sometimes it can be up to 12 questions. Weirdly enough, it pays you money, which is cool. Weirdly enough, it pays you based on the amount of questions you answered. So if you just lie to it, it'll keep giving you more questions. Don't do that.
I don't do that. But the only app that I have a subscription for on my phone that isn't part of a family bundle or something is the Pokemon Trading Card Game app. And Google Pen Room Awards pays for my subscription for that, which is pretty awesome. That's the only app you have a subscription for. That isn't part of a family plan. So I have a Google family plan. YouTube.
That has the YouTube premium in it. Spotify? I don't have Spotify. I have YouTube Music, which is part of the family plan. Oh, I see. And then I have the Apple One family plan, which also comes with Apple Music, that kind of stuff. But we talked about this in the car at South By or something. I only have one subscription that isn't part of other stuff. I'm terrified of subscriptions.
Anyway, honorable mention, if you're not using Google Opinion Rewards, you should be using it because it gives you at least one like every couple of days. Sometimes it gives you like five. Yeah. Most people forgot it was still around. Other thing, if you have multiple phones, you can set it up on the same account with multiple phones and it'll serve you like multiple. It's crazy.
I mean, I don't do that. Are you actually scamming? Bitcoin farming? No, I don't do that. But anyway, it's great. Okay. Honorable mention number two, Telegram. I know, okay, the stickers and the emoji are all animated. It's so awesome. It's so amazing. Telegram is cross-platform. It's got a desktop app. Yeah, you can get your porn bots anywhere. It's amazing. Well, I pay, oh, I, oh.
We didn't even get one app further.
No, I realize I do have another subscription. It's Telegram Premium. Because it's like $20 a year, but it completely removes the porn apps, porn bots. It makes it usable, basically. Yeah, it makes it usable. Because there is a feature in Telegram Premium where you can charge people to message you if they're not in your contacts already. Wow. Yeah. So it's like, you can spam me, but you got to pay.
Wow. Which is pretty cool. No one has ever paid me. Okay, now we're on to the actual apps, and this might be a top five, like, in order of actual best. You made me pick a five. I didn't. Andrew did. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Okay, number five, Libby.
I had that on mine, too. You can use it. No, I took it off. It's fine.
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