Apple HULK SMASHES the Competition - WAN Show April 23, 2021

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

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Timestamps (Courtesy of Dylan Richards)

[OVERVIEW]

00:00:16 | Topic #1: Apple 4/20 Event [00:02:08]

--:--:-- | Topic #2: Tile Seeks to Reinforce Ongoing Antitrust Charges against Apple over AirTags [00:35:50]

00:01:12 | Non-News Topic #1: Linus Brings Go-Karts Home for His Kids [00:48:21]

00:01:24 | Non-News Topic #2: Linus May Be Building a PC with an NBA Star [00:54:39]

--:--:-- | Topic #3: Canada Computers Employee Says Company Is Refusing to Sell Its "Substantial Stock" of GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs, Despite Backorders [01:00:59]

00:00:55 | Topic #4: Microsoft Project xCloud Beta for iOS and PC [01:08:39]

00:01:38 | [INTRO]

00:02:08 | Topic #1: Apple 4/20 Event

00:02:47 | 12.9" Apple iPad Pro (5th Gen) with M1 SoC

00:05:40 | Linus and Luke Try to Identify the Use Cases for Tablets

00:07:42 | Linus Tries to Compel Luke to Use an iPad Pro

00:08:02 | Linus Tries to Compel Luke to Buy an iPad Pro

00:16:31 | 23.5" Apple iMac (Mid 2021) with M1 SoC

00:27:22 | Linus Discusses the Lack of Upgradability with M1 Silicon Products

00:31:04 | Linus Has a Big Surprise for Live WAN Show Viewers

00:31:10 | Luke Gets a Call

00:31:34 | Linus Is Given the All-Clear

00:31:43 | Verified Actual Gamers Live WAN Show Drop

00:34:42 | Apple TV 4K (6th Gen) with A12 Bionic

00:35:47 | Apple iPhone 12 and 12 Mini Now Available in Purple

00:35:50 | Topic #2: Tile Seeks to Reinforce Ongoing Antitrust Charges against Apple over AirTags

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00:48:21 | Non-News Topic #1: Linus Brings Go-Karts Home for His Kids

00:48:36 | Ninebot Gokart PRO

00:49:55 | Linus Shares a Video from His Phone ft. His Daughter

00:51:59 | Linus Asks the Community for Ideas on Content with the Gokart PRO

00:53:01 | YouTube Viewers Suggest a Review Akin to a Car Review

00:54:39 | Non-News Topic #2: Linus May Be Building a PC with an NBA Star

00:58:57 | A Note to Linus from Luke to Buy Titanfall 2 on Steam ($10 EA Sale)

01:00:59 | Topic #3: Canada Computers Employee Says Company Is Refusing to Sell Its "Substantial Stock" of GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs, Despite Backorders

01:03:37 | Linus's Hot Take

01:04:08 | Luke Nails It

01:04:24 | NCIX Did a Lot of Things Wrong, but It Honored FIFO

01:05:26 | Canada Computers Won't Fulfill Backorders because It Wants People to Buy Entire Systems Instead

01:06:14 | Anthony's Hot Take

01:06:30 | NVIDIA's Terrible RTX 3060 Launch Is a Major Reason Why We Have the Verified Actual Gamers Program

01:07:22 | Linus Invited NVIDIA to Join the Verified Actual Gamers Program, but They Declined

01:07:36 | Upcoming Verified Actual Gamers Drop ft. 270 Radeon RX 6800 XT GPUs

01:08:39 | Topic #4: Microsoft Project xCloud Beta for iOS and PC

01:09:06 | Xbox Series S|X Are Getting AMD FidelityFX

01:09:18 | Microsoft Has Removed Xbox LIVE Gold Subscription Requirement for Multi-Player in Free-to-Play Games

01:09:54 | [SUPER CHATS]

01:10:27 | Luke's "Mooostache"

01:12:48 | Angry Mom Sells "RTX 2060" on Craigslist for MSRP; Turns Out It's an RTX 3060

01:16:34 | [OUTRO]

Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up ladies and gentlemen welcome to the WAN show we've got a fantastic show for
0:12.0	you guys today with obviously the big headline topic being Apple's event this week they went
0:19.0	and they I mean it's like their entire corporate strategy is put in M1 in it they went they
0:24.6	put M1 chips in topic being what is that stop please ah well terrible sorry about that they put
0:30.8	an M1 in pretty much everything and we're going to talk through what that means not just for their
0:37.5	products but also for you know potentially the environment we did a little video this week on
0:44.1	product repairability and right to repair and putting M1s and things definitely has an impact on
0:50.2	that we're also going to talk about the no we're not going to talk about that ah yes the project
0:55.5	X cloud beta that rolled out on iOS and PC that makes project X cloud an even more compelling option
1:02.6	than it was already for those of you out there who are still struggling to get a graphics card
1:09.8	and what else we got Luke we have some some non news topics as well talking about how Linus
1:16.5	brought go carts home for his kids which sounds amazing I'm gonna tell you all about them there's
1:21.0	no cool you gotta come over and try them sometime anyway and and that Linus might be building a PC
1:27.0	with a basketball star yes oh I am so excited to talk about that okay yeah we're gonna have a
1:35.5	great show for you guys today and let's go ahead roll that into
1:38.2	and the show is brought to you today by private internet access Ridge Wallet and see Sonic
2:08.2	why don't we jump right into our first topic of the day and that is of course apples fall for
2:15.0	20 events now I think that um what do you want to start with Luke do you want to start with
2:20.9	their tile competitor the air tags tracker or the I think the tile competitor thing is almost
2:29.1	it's it's own topic entirely due to the the friction that they're having with what is the
2:35.9	even other brand tile yes the friction they're having with tile so maybe let's leave that off
2:42.0	and do the slew of m1 products all right so man this iPad pro now Luke have you ever owned a
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