Quarantine Updates, 480p YouTube, & Apple Purchases the Dark Sky App

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

Marques Brownlee

News, Hobbies, Technology, Tech News, Leisure

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we begin by taking a look at how quarantine is affecting our everyday lives and how tech is helping us stay sane during it all. Next, we discuss how YouTube and other streaming platforms are downscaling videos to 480p and what that means for people who like that sweet, sweet HD video. Then, we talk about Apple purchasing the amazing Dark Sky weather app and proceeding to announce that they're removing it from Android devices. Finally, we wrap up the episode with our regularly-scheduled listener Q & A! Enjoy, and stay safe out there everyone! Links: https://twitter.com/wvfrm https://twitter.com/mkbhd https://twitter.com/andymanganelli https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/picturesofmac/ Orrin Coley COVID 100 Challenge: https://bit.ly/3bOcsfo Gus Johnson Mousetrap Blackjack: https://bit.ly/2R2fe92 The Verge Safe Delivery: https://bit.ly/344cn4R Some Good News John Krasinski: https://bit.ly/39y38eg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from Unisys. Unisys is a global technology
0:05.5	solutions company dedicated to helping people and organizations reach their
0:09.7	next breakthrough. They offer tools to help you run your business more
0:13.0	efficiently like systems integration, consulting services, application
0:17.4	management and device management software. Plus, Unisys applies specialized
0:22.0	expertise to strengthen and transform teams and processes. To learn more,
0:27.2	visit Unisys.com. That's a UNISYS.com Unisys. Keep breaking through.
0:49.5	All right, welcome back to another episode of Wayform. We're your host,
0:52.3	I'm Mark Hes Brownley and I'm Andrew Manganelli. Today, we are full on
0:57.4	a completely separate and quarantined as we should be. Yeah, this is a lot
1:03.2	different not looking at you. I've talked to you over like VOIP or whatever
1:09.0	before, but once that intro came in, now I'm like, this is really weird.
1:14.2	Yeah, it's usually we're face to face or at least at the same table talking.
1:17.4	Now it's a truly audio only experience both for the listeners and for us.
1:22.6	But obviously, with everything going on, it makes sense. The mics might sound a
1:25.5	little different also because they are different microphones. I am in the studio
1:30.8	right now. So I am, we're on a call, but I'm recording into a blue Yeti.
1:37.7	What is the model number of this? I bet I could check the model number real quick.
1:41.8	So I'm recording on, I'm in the studio, but with a blue Yeti X,
1:45.7	this black USB microphone, I'm almost kind of in the same setup, but do you have
1:50.5	like a podcast setup with a mic at home? Definitely not. Like we have setup at work,
1:56.0	but I streamed for a little bit. It didn't go too well, but I still have a decent like
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