Siracusa Says

Marco
Like I’ll make it really easy for people to try it with no pressure, and then after a month, if they’re still using it, then I can get paid.

John
How long is the one-month free trial?

Marco
What? ([laughs])

John
How long is the one-month free trial?

Marco
What do you mean? It’s a month.

John
Date math. Date math.

Casey
There it is.

Marco
That’s up to Apple. I g- ([laughs]) That, that’s whatever they do in App Store Connect.

John
That, that’s what I’m… That’s my question. Oh, what does Apple do? Like, so if you, you know, because if you did this yourself, and well, people will complain no matter what, they would say, “I bought it in a month where there’s not that many days, and I bought it on the 31st, but then my subscription ended on the 28th of the next month.”

Marco
([laughs])

John
“Not fair.”

John
I was reflecting on my Wi-Fi 7 situation, which is I ain’t got it. ([laughs]) I mean, I have Wi-Fi 7, like I think, I think my iPhone 16 Pro has it. I have a– I have– My wife has an iPhone 17 Pro that I believe has it. Uh, as I’ve complained about on past episodes, all– I think Apple’s Macs still do not support Wi-Fi 7, which is crappy.

John
But the bottom line is in my house, my Wi-Fi setup was purchased before Wi-Fi 7 existed, so it’s Wi-Fi 6. I forget which variant of Wi-Fi 6, but it doesn’t… It’s not Wi-Fi 7 at all. And I’ve been thinking about like, well, you know, every- ([chuckles]) Kieran Healy just posted about this on Mastodon. Like everything in my house networking wise works fine. No one complains that they’re not getting enough bandwidth. No one complains they’re not getting enough signal. Everything I do on my network works. Video never stutters. My downloads go fast. Like I don’t have any complaints.

John
And yet the number seven is in fact one bigger than the number six

Marco
Do you buy enough Macs to qualify as a buying pattern?

John
Yeah, I do.

Marco
([laughs])

John
I mean, if you go over from 1984 till now, it, you know-

Marco
([laughs])

John
… it definitely counts as a pattern.

Marco
([laughs])

Casey
Oh, my word

John
And the pattern is I keep them for a long time.

Marco
That’s the pattern. ([laughs])

John
Kids with photos, man. Like, I guess it’s just, I don’t know, there’s, uh, I think Retina has done this. Like, I think people our age are so… I mean, it’s empathy for the machine. We’re so in tune for the idea that there is a pixel grid, and there are pixels, and there’s such a thing as native res and not native res, ’cause that really was a fun, that was so important and visible back when pixels were the size of boulders, right?

Casey
([laughs])

John
Now, pixels are essentially invisible to kids and have been their whole lives, so they don’t think in that terms. But we can look at a screen and then go, “Uh, that’s not native res.” Like, we can, you can see it, just a little bit of the blur, a little bit of the fringing. You can see it, and it’s invisible to them because pixels have never been part of their lives. But pixels are definitely a part of my life, and it is very upsetting to me how children deal with them.

Casey
([laughs]) Do you feel better, John?

John
Not really.

John
One, and we think we’ve mentioned this snarkily on previous shows, is there’s various rumors and, uh, supposed tales from the inside saying, uh, recently, you know, as a year ago or a year and a half ago, uh, important Apple executives who are often named, uh, saw ChatGPT and that made them realize Siri sucks. And that’s depressing to say.

Casey
How did you not know?

John
That’s what it took. ([laughs]) Yeah. That’s what it took for you to realize Siri sucks?

John
Forget about the card slots. Just view the Mac Pro case as a thing that can cool something that’s too hot to fit in a Mac Studio. But Apple has never made that, despite all the rumors and the attempts, and they were gonna make it, and then they weren’t. And remember a long time ago, the rumor was like it’s not on the roadmap anywhere until at least after the M7 or something, so tune in in a few years to see if that thing ever comes true.

John
But that was a thing that we mentioned in the show ages ago. But that’s what this case is for. Yes, it has card slots, but it’s, but it’s like it can cool something hot that won’t fit in your small cases. And Apple’s like, “We have nothing. We have nothing that hot.”

John
We could get something that hot. It would do more work. It would be more powerful. It would be faster because the faster you go and the more transistors you put on there, the more heat you generate. And it’s like, “Oh, we can’t handle all that heat. It won’t fit in a laptop. It won’t fit a Mac Mini. It won’t fit in a Mac Studio.” It’ll fit in this case. Those huge fans are begging for something to blow on.

Casey
Continuing on from the newsroom, Cook will continue in his role as CEO through the summer as he works closely with Turnus on a smooth transition. As executive chairman, Cook will assist with certain aspects of the company, including what? Including engaging with policy makers around the world-

John
Oh.

Casey
As the prophecy foretold.

John
This is the thing I didn’t want to be true. It was so clear that it was going to be, but I really wished it was… I want him to go to an island. I want him to retire from public life and, uh, live a, a wonderful life with his billions, and give to charity, and whatever it is that he wants to do. But no, that’s not what’s going to happen for the reasons Marco just cited. Uh, that’s, that’s not, that’s not what he wants to do. It’s not good for the company’s stability. He will continue on as chairman. And what will he do as chairman? He will continue to eat poop from our president and other world leaders

Casey The top of this chart, which is what DRAM is estimated to be at the end of 2027, 900% ([laughs])

Marco
([laughs])

Casey
above what it was in 2023. Now, again, that’s an estimate, but holy jamolies, not great.

John
This is one of those charts where you’re like, “Please do look at the Y-axis.” It is rooted at zero, and you’re like, “Yeah, but these graphs always exaggerate stuff. Yeah, it looks like they go up a lot, but I bet it’s like poi- it’s zero, and then the top of the thing is 0.01.” No.

Casey
Nope.

John
The top is 900. ([laughs])

Marco
([laughs])

John
It’s… percent. It’s, it’s a terrible, terrible, scary graph.

Casey
I think we’ve said many times that John is far and away the person, even when he had a jobby job, far and away the person that puts the most effort into our internal show notes that we run the show off of. And you can tell that, it’s sometimes abundantly obvious that this is the case, because I’m going to talk now, starting now, about macOS 27, and you look at the time that it takes for this chapter or these chapters, and-

John
There’s just lots of images, first of all.

Casey
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

John
And second of all, I still, I still bristle when you characterize me having, doing far and away most of the effort, blah blah blah. Just say I do it all.

Casey
([laughs])

John
Just, just say I… I know occasionally you’ll put in an item, I know occasionally Marco puts in an item, but honestly, just say I do it all.

Marco
Yeah, you… I mean-

Casey
I saw that-

Marco
Yeah, we both know that

Casey
… I saw that going a totally different direction. I saw you being like, “No, you know-

John
No, no

Casey
… Casey does this and Marco does that,“ meaning, like, broadly for the whole show. But ([laughs]) John, cheesy peasy.

John
Just because Tim Cook has selected him doesn’t mean the person he’s selecting agrees with everything Tim Cook does and will do exactly what Tim Cook did. I mean, Steve Jobs picked Tim Cook and they were very different CEOs. So our expectation, our hope is that John Ternus will be different than Tim Cook in the same way that Tim Cook was different than Steve Jobs.

John
Now, he could be worse, could be better, could be worse. But like we’re hopeful because the things we hear are good. You know, like we we want to be hopeful. But the real point is, I think we’ve all basically resigned ourselves to the fact that nothing about what we dislike about what Tim Cook is doing is ever going to change until he leaves. So he has to leave.

John
So if you want to think of it this way, you can say, it’s not so much that we’re excited about John Ternus coming, it’s we’re excited about Tim Cook leaving. And we feel like anything’s got to be like, it’s the only chance we have for improvement. And I think it’s a little bit of both. Because again, we have very little info on John Ternus. So that is, we’ve said that before, like we don’t actually know he’s been in, he’s been in presentations for years. We see him on stage talking, but like he’s more of a cipher. We don’t have, he doesn’t have a track record that we know of other than he was in charge of hardware and hardware is great. Right.

John
But I’m, I’m personally optimistic, mostly because a transition, a departure, a change in leadership is the best opportunity for things to potentially get better. And I’m currently choosing to believe that they won’t get worse. We’ll see.