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@atpfm Thanks for answering my question. Great chat. My kid starts college in September. She’s used an iPad Pro in school (we call school school. I hear you guys call university school?) since 2018. I just got her a Neo. She feels way more productive now, although she still carries both.

I look at the 2 computers and see one has a hi-res touch screen and an M4 SoC, while the other has less. The OS is the difference. The Mac is the software part of the computer.

Jason Apr 23

@atpfm Mac hardware represents just under 8% of Apple’s revenue. It will probably be overtaken by AirPods soon.

My question is this. Which Apple CEO will remove the Mac from their lineup? Will it be John Ternus? He could be CEO until 2040. Do we think Mac will exist in hardware form then? Will it be the next CEO after Ternus?

If the best selling Mac of all time is basically an iPhone in a bigger chassis, why not sell macOS as an app for iPhone users and save on manufacturing costs? #askatp

Jason Apr 22

Samsung started as a food export company. I believe it was fish that was their first main revenue stream. I’m just thinking about people 100 years ago listening to @atpfm where they describe how the CEO doesn’t understand anything about fish, and the storage of them.

Apple isn’t a computer company anymore. It’s a $ multi-trillion conglomerate. I’m not sure any future CEO will be opinionated about the Mac, because it’s not the company’s future.

In my opinion.

Jason Apr 13

@atpfm When Marco was doing his long walks while wearing two fitness watches, was there any difference in the measurements? For example, does the heart rate monitoring look the same? Are there differences in the estimated calories used up? What about distance? I know both have GPS tracking, but did they both record the same distance.

Jason Apr 12

The new transcript feature in the Overcast podcast app is fantastic. It was already a great app because of Smart Speed. It removes silence from sentences at seemingly imperceptible amounts, but somehow saves you hours over time. The fact the creator of the app bought 48 Macs to transcribe every podcast, so that we get it for free in the app, shows how much he loves the app, and us, as users, benefit from this love.

Thanks Marco.

Jason Apr 12

@marcoarment I’ve just viewed my first transcript today and it’s fantastic. Thank you so much for this feature!

I can see how this will help the app become much more intelligent about what it is playing, but for now, it’s already delivered. I’m not telling you if I was listening to a podcast about ancient human species or one about the President of the United States.

Jason Mar 27

@atpfm On the Neo’s 8GB of RAM: I’m not sure the issue will be macOS 30. I think that when the Siri team announce that they have a local model which makes Siri amazingly helpful, and then realise it doesn’t fit on the best-selling Apple laptop of all time, which the Neo is bound to be, there might be long conversations about how that gets marketed.

Jason Mar 20

@marcoarment I subscribed to Overcast years ago. A year or so ago I switched to Apple Podcasts and then came back to Overcast. I don’t remember doing this but somewhere along the line I must have stopped my premium subscription. I absolutely will remedy that because I completely respect your transcription work.

Here’s my bug report: I have never seen an ad in Overcast. On any screen, including playback. Which is why I thought I still had premium.

Jason Mar 20

@caseyliss Transcribe the movies.

Jason Mar 19

@caseyliss I’ll admit that I haven’t watched F1 since Schumacher was winning titles, so I don’t really have a right to question Lewis Hamilton being “arguably the greatest of all time”.

But also, I do feel like somebody needs to say “*cough, Ayrton Senna” and it may as well be me.