I don't know how many years in a row now you've been graciously appearing on this show

sometime shortly after the iPhone event and there are reviews and everything and this year you

kindly reached out but we had the dilemma, like what do we do about the Apple

Intelligence stuff, which I went ahead and reviewed and per verge, review totally reasonable guidelines you reviewed what's in the box.

Yeah and then after I published my review and gave my full thoughts on Apple Intelligence as it exists today.

Then a week ago in the developer beta now it's in public beta but in 18.1 I was like

oh to hell with it just come on the show.

Right?

Yeah, I mean, I read what you wrote and your take seems to be, there's nothing here worth talking

about yet.

And I have played with this stuff.

I mean, it's not Voldemort, like we can go look at it.

That's, the rule isn't so hard and fast.

It's just, we won't tell people whether to buy something based on

unshipping software which I think is reasonable and I agree with you I think right

now the features that are coming are on the whole, like not a lot, right?

It's like summaries and some writing tool.

It's stuff people have played with in apps, basically,

but now in the operating system.

And for me, it often, sometimes I come up with ideas and the idea sticks and I'm like oh that's pretty good and then all the way through writing a review I get it. I came up with my lead angle to compare adding a dedicated hardware button for the

camera to the old green yellow hardware buttons for phones that the iPhone never

had and a strong idea loosely held I was like who

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