Welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. This is your host, Steven Robles, and joining me today,

a very special guest. I was going to say his full name, but he has informed me that it is much

like Bono and Shares. It's just one name, OEM, founded the website back in 2001, Giga OEM,

and he's appeared in many publications in New Yorker Fast Company, Wired,

and on many TV news and radio shows now, Adventure Partner and Maritus at True. So OEM,

thanks for joining me today. Nice to be here. Thank you for having me. It's been an interesting

journey so far this life and whatever it's brought me. Because when you started, Giga OEM,

on your website, I believe it treats it as a technology blog. You were kind of just writing about

consumer technology and what was coming out at the time, right? Well, I think back in early

during the early days of the internet, like the 90s post-netscape, Ikea, people might have

forgotten there was a company called About.com, and I used to publish a web page on it, like a side

web page on it, essentially writing about all the cool infrastructure technologies involved in

the internet, whether it was chips and routers and switches. The kind of stuff no one cared about,

back then, they still don't care about it, even now. But I did, I would have certain, like a little

bit of gossip from my day job, and like which could not go into there. And so it, I decided that it

was easier to do an email as an email, and as a, the website was just a normal, you know, it was

like part of a big company. So I ended up turning that into a small email newsletter, and that

was like had about 500 people reading it. In 2000 or so, I had discovered Blogger the tool.

Yes. Wow, this is just easier to publish it on the web. So I kind of took the newsletter away,

and published, started publishing on the web, but it wasn't really a blog per se, it was more like,

like it had like all the links to my articles, and occasionally I would write like something special,

but it wasn't like the blog as we came to know what blogging was, but in 2001 is when it actually

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