Chapter 1: What updates are shared at the beginning of the episode?
apple has always charged this much for ram like like now we're sort of like in an area where now we're insane already it's like it's like i was looking it up like now like sticks of ram cost about as much as the actual ram upgrades for apple or dude like you try doubling the ram in a macbook it's like that'll cost you another mac 800 no
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. So this week in January, we've got a Xiaomi 17 Ultra in the house. We'll talk about that. We also might talk about why your smartphone might cost more, maybe.
We also have some stuff to talk about with something called the Fuji X-Half, which I'm told is a total bust. We'll verify that.
We've talked about it on this podcast before. Well, we'll see.
Obviously, not. And I also want to explain something to you guys in tech terms that I think would be really interesting to try to explain. But first.
I have a but first. Of course. Did anyone see there was a best podcast award at the Golden Globes this year? No.
Are you serious? Yeah, there was.
Golden Globes website, by the way, is very bad. It's very broken.
I'm not surprised.
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Chapter 2: How does the Xiaomi 17 Ultra compare to other smartphones?
You as the audience can help us, but this is our plea.
You're supposed to apply. I think it's on you.
We can apply?
I think you're supposed to apply.
My bad. We're applying next year.
Yeah. First of all, these shows are always like I'll be doing something on a Sunday night or whatever, and I'll get a news notification and be like, the Emmys are about to start. And I'm like, I don't care at all. Sorry. But that happened with the Golden Globes, and then I was made aware of the new podcast category.
It would be so funny to see all the tables of celebrities and then just us twiddling our thumbs waiting to win Best Podcast.
Who else was nominated for Best Podcast for Golden Globes? Was it actually Good Podcast or was it just celebrities who were at the Golden Globes who also happened to have a podcast?
It's mostly that. Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper, The Mel Robbins Podcast with Mel Robbins.
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Chapter 3: Why might your next smartphone cost more?
So I'm giving Apple the credit now because if, you know, you see a lot of companies go, all right, it's a subscription. Adobe. Well, you basically don't own the software. You constantly have to pay for it. And Apple has had a pretty rare thing for a long time with apps like Final Cut Pro where you buy it once, it's on all your computers, infinite updates forever. That's amazing. And they're not
like shelving that, like that's staying around. So if you don't need Motion, Compressor, Keynote, all these other apps, if you just need Final Cut Pro and Pixelmator like me, you can just buy one app and get infinite updates forever, and that's still a thing. So I'm happy about that. It's infinite updates for the one time they update it every five years.
Yeah, they update Final Cut with every OS basically with like one or two features. One or two features. I think the magic mask thing was the last significant thing. Yeah, magnetic mask they added was the last like impressive thing they added to Final Cut Pro.
Totally, totally. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff in DaVinci Resolve that I think they really could compete with. Yeah. I don't know. Apple really needs to get this going. Their services game they have been trying to beef up because they are terrified of the world where the iPhone is not their main money driver anymore. So they've been doing a good job in general of beefing this up.
And I think it makes sense for them to like want recurring revenue, especially since these apps, you know, $300 permanently one time. Honestly, like, it feels crazy that we are even able to buy software once anymore. Like, that seems magical that you can buy Final Cut one time for $300.
It's a lost art.
It is a lost art. Yeah. But this does make it a lot more affordable, and generally I'm, like, very against monthly subscription stuff. But I think the really interesting thing is that students, if you have an EDU account or you're a student, it's $3 a month or $30 a year. That's a huge discount.
Very cheap. I feel like the student discount is usually, like, 10% off or something. Yeah. This is... A massive deal.
There's some good ones. This is also awesome because if you're going to school and potentially doing this, maybe you do it for a year and then you're like, oh, I'm going to go into this professionally. I should buy the one-time thing because I'm going to be using this for a really long time.
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Chapter 4: What is the story behind the Fuji X-Half camera giveaway?
But somebody watching this as a calculator and they can find the total value of all the software and how many months it would take. 17 years. It's probably a pretty good amount of time. Yeah. As long as they don't jack up the prices every year like every subscription service. Dave, I hope they keep it this way because Final Cut's been the same price for forever. Yeah.
For reference, the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription is $25 per month for a student. So it's probably eight times the price of the Apple one.
And the regular one. To be fair, though, like Apple does not really have competitors to every Adobe app in terms of quality and professionalism. Yeah. You just, like, Pixelmator is Pixelmator, and it's really good for what it is, and they bought it.
Motion is not After Effects.
Motion is horrible, yeah. Motion is not After Effects. Motion is not After Effects. A lot of these are very, very, like, a lot of people use Logic Pro, so there's that. But many of these are not true competitors to Adobe's App Suite.
Logic Pro's a...
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Chapter 5: How does the Fuji X-Half camera perform in real-world use?
a weird one because it's like I use it for almost everything here, but there's definitely a lot of professional work that it does not have the features that are required. That being said, it's the only app on here that Adobe like does not like audition.
Yeah.
Yeah. You're using audition. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Final Cut is is is kind of in a similar place. Like it's really good for what I use it for. We use it a lot here at the studio. But there is an Adobe equivalent. I mean, Premiere is Premiere, and After Effects is in a totally different league from Motion, so you could be swayed to the more expensive one if you need After Effects.
But yeah, I kind of wonder what kind of person uses a bunch of these apps. Like, I only use two of them, me personally. I use Final Cut and Pixelmator. Yeah. Somewhere out there, there's a creative professional who also uses Logic and Motion for some reason. I don't know about that. And Keynote.
Does anyone use Motion?
Shout out to that creator.
Well, that's the funny thing is like doesn't Keynote and don't all of those apps like Keynote and what is it? Numbers. Those come pre-installed on your computer.
Yeah. I guess you get the like.
So you just get the AI-ification versions. We don't even know what that's going to look like yet.
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Chapter 6: What new features are introduced in Apple Creator Studio?
You could rewind it. You could save it and watch it later. It was incredible. And the people who had it could not stop talking about it. This week on Version History, a new chat show about old technology. We talk about the history of TiVo and how it is that a company whose products actually no one ever really had or used became one of the most iconic stories in tech.
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All right, welcome back. We got to talk about why your next smartphone, well, according to some people, will cost more. I was going to say might cost more, but... Will definitely cost more. And I'm saying it that way because we're mainly basing this on a Carl Pay tweet. He posted this really long tweet, which, I mean, OK, we could have kind of figured this out by context clues.
But we know that memory is getting more and more expensive and smartphones use memory. So maybe your next smartphone is more expensive. But Carl's tweet is much more definitively like, look. Smartphones forever have relied on prices going down for these things. So every year you can expect a spec bump and the price doesn't have to go up. But this year, 2026, that's not true.
Memory has gone up so much in price that it is impossible for your next phone to cost the same amount for the same specs. And so, yes, if you haven't already heard, memory shortage, like this is, have you tried to build a PC lately? Dude, it's really hard to get RAM memory. It's all super expensive.
Every tech trend just really screws people who want to build a cool PC. I feel like crypto is like, you want a GPU? Suck it.
I ordered a little NAS enclosure thing because, again, I was trying to do the photo stuff. And just buying storage. Yep. I'm like, holy crap, this shit is like four times as expensive as it was like six months ago.
It's all happening. In fact, in his tweet, he has his numbers. And credit to Carl, he's always super transparent about component pricing. That's like the one thing that I can say. The one thing that he's transparent about. He's always very transparent about that. That we know of. Yeah, he says brands face a simple choice, raise prices by 30% or more in some cases or downgrade specs.
Something that cost $20 a year ago could exceed $100 by year end for top tier models.
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Chapter 7: How are subscription models impacting tech products?
We had a lot of fun with the Luka trade because that was a huge one.
Luka, I know that guy.
This is the young trade because it seems quite a bit different than the Luka trade, and I would like to understand it better.
Okay, unless you might have to help me with this one in tech terms.
The Luka one was the guy who was the best, and they traded him for nothing, right? That's what happened?
They traded him for someone who was really good but has horrible knees and is old, right?
Who literally just had a season-ending injury like last week. Okay, this trade, the news is that a player named Trey Young, who was on the Atlanta Hawks, he's their point guard for a long time since he was drafted to the Hawks, or traded to the Hawks on draft night. Yeah. He's been on that team for a long time. He's been their point guard. The face of the team. Yeah. Yeah.
He was traded for CJ McCollum and Corey Crispert. Two people. Two for one.
Now, before I kind of mention something about CJ, because I thought he was really good. He is good. He is good. Yeah. Okay. But I wouldn't... I'm rolling this on the fact that I have a friend who apparently went to college with him and thought he was really cool. Yeah. And I've heard a lot about him as someone... who's probably under the level of NBA talent that I should know.
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