Hello, welcome to the Appensider podcast. I'm William Gallagher. Our sponsors are fast-growing trees and factor.

And I would like to start, please, by saying thank you to everyone who asked about my finances after the last week when I admitted that I was now impoverished because I just bought a new Mac studio.

I would like to reassure you that everything is fine.

And in fact, it's more than fine because right moments before we started recording,

I was checking my email.

An Apple Intelligence's summarizing feature tells me that Amazon has now sent me a royalty payment of $100 trillion.

Where's Hilliard? Why am I even talking to you?

Why am I not off somewhere already?

I've definitely gotten a few of these money ones where if there is any dollar amount anywhere,

it just attaches a dollar sign to a number and it becomes the new money.

And it seems here you've got a transaction number that became money somehow.

Exactly right.

If you don't happen to get royalty checks from Kindle,

and I get, you know, three and four dollars at a time, get me.

They have this weird system where they will notify your payment is coming,

but they will never say what it's going to be, but they do give it a nice, very long transaction number. And yes, Apple Intelligence saw that, figured that's what I'm worth and put it on.

Yeah. Which seems, you know, not unfair. Yeah, I mean, I still find these summaries useful, but it is one of those

things where you really have to pay attention. I mean, I hope you weren't taken in thinking that

you were suddenly a trillionaire. Well, I said some rude things to Apple inside of the Writers' Guild,

all the charities I worked for, and I have spent a while now phoning them all back grovelling but

you know that that's just a normal kind of weekday thing isn't it yeah really one thing I like

I mean I don't like this but I do yeah admitted I do like it a bit a few weeks ago we were

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