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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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I have exactly one smart outlet and every year around the holidays, the Christmas tree goes in that one and it turns on a certain hour, turns off at a certain hour. Oh, nice. Why don't you use that for other things? Like what? Like lamps that you don't want to put a smart bulb in. Lamps. I don't really use lamps. What? I don't think I... I'm sorry.
Wait, what?
I don't think I have any lamps. What's the meme of like, I don't like the big lights, I just like the little lights? You don't have a single lamp in your house? What? No. What? How? I think... 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. I'm David. Still got that Knicks jersey on. Still. Very nice.
Never taking it off. I've been a fan for 15 days. It must be good luck. Today's episode, we got Google's releases, including Android 17. We got to talk about that. Also, multiple AR slash XR glasses have come out. Multiple tech bans have happened. And also, new Matter updates. So we got a whole bunch of stuff to talk about. It matters. It does matter.
Just in case you're wondering if this episode's a little late, it might be because the Knicks won the NBA Finals. Woo! Adam is a big Knicks fan. Wait, the Knicks won the NBA Finals? Adam's going to the parade. We're also recording this late because Marquez was just in Rome and flew back like an hour ago. I just landed. He landed an hour ago. An hour ago. So we're starting late.
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Chapter 2: What are the new features of the Google Home Speaker?
One I think is more niche, and one I know happens to everyone, but it's really fast, which would you rather like? The one that happens to everyone, I think. Okay, so have you ever noticed on YouTube web, when you go to the search bar and you hover over the X, the highlighting circle is breaking over pretty much every line in the UI possible?
Hmm.
This is terrible. Tim would freak out if he saw this, but I checked in multiple browsers. It's happening in all of them, for all the ones I tested. How did no one on the YouTube UI team see this? Have you seen the Fitbit app? They fixed it, and it's still not centered. I saw someone say they fixed it, but all they fixed was the two different dark modes.
The dark mode thing they fixed, which was a big deal. Which should be really easy. But the text is still not correctly aligned. Because they put Cal under the one number, which just absolutely decimates the lining, which you'd think anyone could fix. I don't know, man. I feel like Google, yeah, their software can be a little... YouTube updates the UI every couple months with subtle things.
I think mobile just got this update that doesn't show subscribers anymore. And it shows views instead of subscribers.
Yeah.
And I know that they always claim to be doing lots of small volume tests. They'll do a test that's like half a percent of people on the site will see this. And if it goes over well, then we'll show it to 1%, and then 1.5%. Somehow these things make it all the way to the end. And then we go, wait, what? That's... But those are at least on purpose changes that suck.
This is just a straight up UI, like one of the most clicked places on the homepage. Actually, that's a good question. Do people actually, I don't usually click the X. I've never clicked the X in my life. Really? Yeah, I've never noticed. No, I click it all the time.
I click it all the time because, one, if you notice that whatever you search, no matter how long you stay in the browser, the thing stays in the search box all the time, even if you click through a million videos. So I like clearing that out. Yeah. Clicking that X is... In case someone stands over your shoulder and sees the embarrassing thing you just did.
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Chapter 3: How does the Google Home Premium subscription work?
70. 70. 72, I think. I do... The spec prototypes, we haven't used these new ones. I do think I remember the resolution being so much better than the Orions, but I would pick Field of View over resolution any day because it... When I was wearing them, it just kept getting cut off. Like whole parts of the screen was just gone. I remember playing a golf game with them.
And the whole idea of the golf game is like it overlays the golf hole and the world over your real world. But I would look down at the club and the ball. And then I would look up at the target. And I couldn't see them both at the same time. And then when I'd swing the club, I can't see the club anymore. So I only see the ball. And it was very like segmenting.
It just took me out of the immersion because of... how compact the field of view is. It cut off really fast. And then they're claiming it can show 60 million colors and go from clear to tinted. Yeah. Okay. Now who wants to talk about what they look like? They look... Prada. Well, okay. There's two things about them that I think are weird. One is the size.
Obviously, you're fitting a ton of compute in them, and to their credit, they have jammed a ton of compute in these things. But they have these really big, thick arms, big, thick rims, and even over behind the ear, there's extra weight sort of counterbalancing everything. So 130 grams is pretty heavy for something you're going to wear on your face that's supposed to feel clear.
If it's a VR headset, maybe you're expecting heavy, but the glasses are kind of heavy. The other thing, though, is every single one of these pictures I've seen, pictures and videos, I can't see quite through to his eyes very well. I don't know if it's the wave guides or something about the glass that they're using, but it doesn't feel like I'm looking at someone wearing glasses.
It feels like I'm looking at someone who's wearing, I mean, they might as well just be wearing a headset. I'm not making real eye contact. You know what I mean? This is from the pictures I'm seeing. Maybe there's just a ton of lights in the room. There's video, too, and it cracks me up every time I see him turn his head around and smile. I'm just... Yeah, they look like fogged over or something.
So those are the two things that I noticed that would turn me off from giving a chance. And obviously these are still super early and the devil's advocate for these is, well, at some point they're going to be really good and then we'll all want these because they'll be really nice. And this is just the early adopter version. to which I say, yes, this is the really, really early adopter.
From a company that doesn't really have any usable applications for day-to-day use. That's what seems very confusing to me about this is that Evans positions them as a wearable computer to do what exactly?
In Snapchat, like Snapchat's UI and AR and whatever, they don't have like applications like Apple has with the Vision, not even Apple has with the Vision Pro, which Apple doesn't really have that many applications for the Vision Pro, but at least you can use Safari and you can use messages. Got a YouTube app now. There's a YouTube app now. You can watch movies.
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Chapter 4: What are the key features of the new Google Home Speaker?
I could make an AI swap all that. If I just get Google AI Pro. Yeah, just tell Gemini Spark to do it. Then we're good. Anyway, they cost $99, which is the same price as the HomePod Mini. So I think that's kind of the market they're going after. If you'll remember, the Google Nest Hub Mini, they used to just throw it through your window when you weren't looking. So...
Chapter 5: How does Android 17 improve user experience?
This one, it seems like they think people might actually spend money on. They do look very nice. It is. The original Google Home was $129, right?
Yes.
I still have one that's kicking. But yeah, these could be... $99 feels expensive. The Nest Hub Mini was like 30 bucks, but it was competing with the Echo Dot, which was also 30 bucks. And the sound quality was terrible. It'd be in like cereal boxes. If these were 70, yeah. No, it really would.
Every time you would buy any contract of internet, whatever, it's like $100 of Google. And I would just be like...
And a Google Home Mini.
Four Google Home Minis.
During this time, I moved so many times, like three or four times, and every time I set up a new internet, they would just send me another one.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the UK social media legislation?
Dude. So I had like four. Black Friday, literally anything you bought came with a Google Home Mini. With the receipts printed on it.
Yeah.
Yeah, so anyway. One lamp, four Google Home Minis, all trying to turn it on.
Huh? Huh?
Huh?
Anyway, so it got announced today. If you're listening to this, it was two days ago on Wednesday. But they said during the Made by Google event last October it would be out in spring. Technically, it is still spring. If you're listening to this for two more days, it comes out on the 25th, which is technically the summer.
So it's up to you whether or not you think that they actually made that margin or not.
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Chapter 7: How does the Anthropic vs. U.S. government situation unfold?
And how much that means to you. And how much that means to you. We're just trying to keep them accountable over here. So, yeah, we should be getting review units pretty soon, so we'll be able to let you guys know what's up. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. If you were curious, HomePod's still crap. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of Google. Speaking of Google. Can I jump in here? Yeah.
Google Android 17 is out, and it is the greatest Android release of all time.
Oh, wow.
I'm calling it now.
Oh.
Wow.
At a glance, it's f***ed.
gone I removed it this morning and the weight off my shoulders is freeing I am a free man for those who don't know everything is right in the world at a glance is sayonara so this was the widget that was permanently on every pixels homepage for the past
decade or so how long has that been pretty long it's been feels like a day at least four or five years yeah and you could just did anything crazy happen any fireworks show up or you just like removed it and it just went away and that was it I was like looking through all the changes and then I forgot like, wait, the first thing I was excited about this beta as a go was at a glance.
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