Mayo, welcome back to the show.

Hello.

How is your trip? You've been gone for... You were off three episodes, no, two episodes, basically. Yeah. It was good, it was good, yeah. Had a good time in Japan. Saw the sites, did the business. Kind of annoyingly, Apple did about 10 million things while I was away. Yeah. I think if you had extended your trip by one more week, we probably would have gotten, like, the new Mac Pro.

That's what I think if you had extended your trip by one more week, we probably would have gotten like the new Mac Pro.

And that's what they felt like they were doing, just clearing the decks all while you were gone, which selfishly made for an exciting couple weeks for me.

And it was nice having Zach on the show to talk about everything.

But for you, you were kind of watching from afar.

And I was getting occasional, occasional, like, eye message updates with your takes and everything,

but not the same as the happy hour soliloquies. Well, anyway, we're back. And we didn't miss

any of the series stuff because they still haven't shipped in it. That is true. That is true.

That was what I was most worried about. Yeah. I mean, the series stuff because they still haven't shipped in it. That is true. That's true. That was what I was most worried about. Yeah. Because I mean, the product stuff's cool, but that's the thing that's been overhang of for so long. But no, we're still waiting on that. Well, 26.4 came out on, what, Tuesday? So theoretically, 26.5 is coming soon. Like, maybe today, maybe next week. maybe that'll have some of the series stuff. Maybe. I don't know, though. Seems like iOS 27 is going to be the launching point

for most of that at this point. But first this week, I don't remember if we talked about it on the

show, but Sebastian DeWith, who is one of the co-founders of Lux Optics, which is the company behind Howlide and a handful of other apps like Kino, the photo and video camera apps for iPhone.

He departed Lux in December to join Apple, to join Apple's human interface design team.

At the time, the kind of the hope, the theory was that he was joining because, or he was a hire by Stephen LeMay, who took over from Allen Dye as Apple's vice president of human interface design. While that very much could be the case, it's actually kind of messy, I think. So a report from the information this week

kind of outlined that in December, there was a, the start of like a disagreement between

Sebastian DeWith and then Ben Sandowski, the other co-founder of Howlide. And now Sandowski is suing

DeWith alleging misuse of over $150,000 of corporate funds, so $150,000 of Lux Optics

money.

DeWith's lawyer, for his part, says that he raised concerns with Sandofsky about financial

irregularities at Lux and had requested access to its financial records and payments. Sondowski

resisted those requests and DeWith still hasn't gotten any of that information, but Sondovsky says

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