In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• Crowdstrike/Microsoft outage
  • Battlestar Galactica (2004) reboot may have gotten it right 😉
  • The role of the European Commission 2009 Microsoft agreement
• Celebrating legacy tech: Long point pencil sharpener
• Pet tech
  • Enabot Ebo Air robot
  • Weok Heartbeat Dog Toy
• Health Tracking: What do you use it for? Is perhaps all it’s good for is a baseline?

In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• Copilot + PC reduced AI focus
• ChatGPT for Mac app
• Google One VPN is gone. Welcome to the lesser VPN by Google
• June Pixel Feature drop finally appeared on June 25. The 13 month old Pixel 7a doesn’t get any of the new interesting features
• Aug. 13 Google Hardware Event (surprise!)
• Google Workspace Labs Gemini AI features to try/test
  • • Google Vid is not what I thought it would be
• Jon: Why is mobile device contactless payment apparently not often used in the US despite POS availability?

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Jon Westfall and I are joined by guest panelist Sven Johannsen who gives his first impressions of the new Microsoft Surface Pro Copilot + PC (Snapdragon X Elite). There’s also a video segment of this portion of the podcast on YouTube.

Jon Westfall and I are joined by guest panelist Sven Johannsen who gives his first impressions of the new Microsoft Surface Pro Copilot + PC (Snapdragon X Elite). There’s also a video segment of this portion of the podcast on YouTube.

We also discussed the 50% sale of Affinity’s suite of graphics products which (somewhat) competes with Adobe’s products, the passing of VPN by Google One, and Jon’s continuing experience with the new Magic Keyboard for the M4 based iPad Pro.

In this MobileViews 516 video segment, Jon Westfall and I discuss Sven Johannsen’s first impressions of the new Microsoft Surface Pro (Snapdragon X Elite) Copilot PC. We discussed his tests with peripherals. (printers, hub, storage) and software. I was especially impressed with the Surface’s built-in microphone array when switched to it from his Beats ear buds’ mic at around the 20 minute mark (chapter mark in the video). He also tested switching from the Surface’s built-in front-facing camera to a Google Pixel 8’s camera using Microsoft PhoneLink (chapter mark in the video).

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In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I are joined by frequent guest panelists Sven Johannsen, Frank McPherson, and Don Sorcinelli. The focus of our discussion were the announcements made during Apple’s 2024 World Wide Developer Conference.

• Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
• Apple: What’s new in device management

We also discussed:

• The Copilot + PCs scheduled for release on June 18
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon  Elite allegedly running slower than an iPhone 12 (released in 2020)
• “fabric“: An open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular framework for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere.

Available via Apple iTunes.
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In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• My recent visit to the HTDC Entrepreneur’s Sandbox, courtesy of Cindy Matsuki, to continue testing an Insta360 X4 camera
• Testing the AISpeech 4K webcam, and its microphone, for this podcast
• Microsoft switching gears for the Copilot + PC by making the new Recall feature opt-in
• Pre-WWDC discussion
• Jon’s rant: Sonos
• Todd’s rant/concern: The “AI Divide”

Available via Apple iTunes.
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In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I catch up on announcements from the recent Apple, Google, and Microsoft events. We also discuss:

• The announcement of the Acer SpatialLabs Eyes stereo camera
• First AI hallucinations. Now, AI Ghost Voices?
• Looking forward to Apple WWDC next week
• Jon’s recent Apple Store repair adventure
• Jon’s rant: Why is Apple & Google Maps’ GPS routing still so bad (compared to the Google owned Waze maps)?

The Adobe Podcast Enhance tool does a great job of cleaning up the podcasts I’ve recorded in some challenging environments – such as restaurants. I’m planning to record some outdoor walk-and-talk tech vlogs was hoping to avoid using wireless lav mics when recording with an Insta360 X4. So, I’ve been testing recording under a variety of ambient sound conditions. The wind tunnel-like Hawaii State Capitol, however, pushed this AI service’s beyond its capability. In this A-B example, you can hear the original recording with my voice sounding faint and distant in windy conditions in the first section. The second section lets you hear the same clip processed by Adobe Podcast Enhance. It appears to have interpreted the wind sounds as human voices and tried to “enhance its speech” leading to what I’m calling “AI Ghost Voices”. It looks like I need to plan to use wireless lav mics after all 🙂

Available via Apple iTunes.
MobileViews YouTube Podcasts channel
MobileViews Podcast on Audible.com