Satya regrets killing Windows Phone now!

hey happy Friday this we learned that basically every chip maker from quac to Nvidia AMD to mediatech they're all making arm-based chips for Windows Canon basically reinvented lenses and Saka Adela decided that maybe killing Windows phone was a mistake welcome to the fire check [Music] out this video was sponsored by insta 360 where you can get 15% off and a free tripod with my link more about this at the end of the video okay I decided to put the brief back to the front of the video again based on popular request and this week we are starting with apple the company has joined basically everyone in making their own round of price hikes Apple TV plus has gone from $6.99 to $9.99 while Apple arcade Apple news plus and the Apple One bundle are all going up in prize too boo meanwhile the company this week also announced an event called scary fast around Halloween where they will most likely feature the M3 series of chips and talking of chips quac had its big Hawaii event and while we're going to discuss their computer chips a bit later they also brought out their new Snapdragon 8 gen 3 for Flagship Android phones too this one has a really unusual OnePlus 5+2 CPU core structure meaning an unusual array of five medium powered cores it is built on tsmc's n4p process and it might have fixed audio dropouts with earbuds 2 as it can now keep your earbuds playing music across a Wi-Fi as well not just Bluetooth nice the eth 3 has some unusually big gains in terms of both CPU and GPU performance this year eating into Apple's lead and Qualcomm claims that it's now the market leader in AI performance so now you can locally run models like stable diffusion right on your phone really impressive meanwhile the first phone with the brand new Snapdragon 8 gen 3 chip the xiaomi 14 and 14 pro have already launched in China which is unusually early as well in last practical news Motorola showed off a funky new prototype which can be used like a normal phone all flat and nice or it can be wrapped around your wrist or it can even be popped up into different standing modes definitely not a real product but kind of fun and then in case you hate that your art is used to train AI there are now new tools called night shade and glaze which carefully and somehow invisibly make changes to the pixels in art to confuse AI so you can for example make them confuse hats with cakes pretty wild and then in sad news this week while we were told that risk 5 is going to be the future of chips the most influential risk 5 company called sci5 just laid off a bunch of employees and reduced their product portfolio too that is not a great sign and finally for the brief the state of California has taken GM Cru driverless cars off the road calling the vehicles a risk to the public and saying that the company had quote misrepresented the safety of their technology after it apparently quote withheld footage from an ongoing investigation ouch not a good look okay from my first story of the week apparently everyone is making arm-based CPUs for Windows now including Qualcomm Nvidia AMD mediatech and more so qualcom is the most concrete one as they have just announced their new Snapdragon X Elite chips this week these have 12 new Orion CPU cores that Qualcomm designed itself the cores are running at 3.8 GHz and two of them can even boost up to 4.3 GHz the chip only has high performance CPU cores and the whole thing is fapped on a tsmc 4 nanometer note qualum showed off a ton of performance benchmarks to claim that they will basically beat everyone on the chip Market from Apple's M2 series to even many hardcore Desktop Intel and AMD chips these claims include the CPU being up to two times faster than the competition at significantly less power as well versus Intel's x86 13th gen mobile platform and they include beating Apple's M2 series even on single threaded performance and even on power efficiency of course these are all super cherry-picked examples and all the chip vendors will have a next generation of chips coming out before the Snapdragon chips actually launch but still the Snapdragon stuff actually looks pretty promising this time around and beside the CPU and the GPU the chip also has the usual 5G Wi-Fi 7 and other typical qualum features that you'd expect and a huge focus on AI this year where they claim to be ahead of everyone else but then beside just qualum a big report this week also suggested that Nvidia will make arm-based CPUs for Windows PCS 2o and that so will AMD meaning that big red will make both arm and x86 chips and just a few months ago mediatech also confirmed that they too are making windows chips and that theirs can even be paired with an Nvidia graphics card and if you're wondering this whole Rush is because Microsoft's exclusivity deal with qualcom is likely expiring in 2024 so there should be space for real competition now Nvidia already makes Tegra chips for mobile devices and also arm CPUs for servers so this definitely makes sense for them but I wouldn't be surprised if even Samsung and Huawei wouldn't give this thing a shot together with a new wave of AI Hardware in chips I actually think we're looking at a pretty unprecedented time for the PC form factor and I'll have a whole dedicated video about this on my tech outar channel in the next couple of days okay and for my second story of the week the world of cameras and in particular lenses might just be shaken up completely by a new technology called meta lenses and in particular by Canon okay you know how a lens is basically a piece of curved glass that focuses light because of its shape well a metal lens can do the same basic light bending but it is a thin and flat material the trick is that the surface of this material is covered by an array of titanium dioxide nanofins and these are arranged so that they each shape the light waves that hit them so they all end up going where they need to it is the same idea that we have behind the traditional curved Optics but that nanometer size this is pretty insane and it means that a lens could be less than a fraction of a piece of paper in thickness I mean that's crazy a flat lens that is also thinner than a piece of paper is insane apparently the optical characteristics of this metal lens is not the same as of a regular lens apparently there's no depth of field effect but still just imagine all the implications you could get rid of the smartphone camera bump or you could have digital cameras with basically no lens sticking out in the front or a million different industrial applications Etc scientists have been trying to make this technology work for years and we've gotten to the point where the lenses can now be made in semiconductor Fabs unsurprisingly Samsung has been looking into the technology and has filed a bunch of patents already but the current news is that Canon claims they're getting close to commercializing it at Canon Expo 2023 B yet Canon's implementation is made using Nano imprint lithography which is the exact technology that we talked about just last week apparently Canon typically shows things at this Expo that are relatively close to hitting the market so here's the hoping that a I understood all these technical documentations correctly and that be that the hype is indeed real fingers crossed it could be a revolution okay and for my third story of the week asan nadela became the third Microsoft CEO to claim that giving up on Windows phone was a mistake and if I'm counting correctly that's three out of three now so although Microsoft this week reported incredible earnings yet again driven mainly by its Cloud business like it has been almost every quarter since Satya took over the big man himself also said that he actually regretted the phone situation quote the decision I think a lot of people talk about and one of the most difficult decisions I made when I became CEO was our exit of what I'll call the mobile phone as defined then in retrospect I think there could have been ways that we could have made it work by perhaps Reinventing the category of computing between PCS tablets and phones that matches Bill Gates saying that his greatest mistake ever was Microsoft losing to Android and Google saying back in 2019 and of course poor old Steve Balmer who said that quote I regret there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do around Windows Vista that we weren't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone well I agree with Gates and Balmer but even as somebody who was a pretty big fan of Windows 10 mobile and as somebody who was daily driving a Lumia phone for like a year or two I actually think that killing off Windows 10 mobile was probably the right call Microsoft absolutely should have prioritized the hell out of Windows Phone way earlier and I think even the idea that they had with Windows 10 mobile where you could run the exact same universal windows platform app across the desktop the phone and even Xbox was a fantastic one if they made that app framework at least 5 years earlier when the PC was still much more important and when iPhone and Android were way less dominant then I think there's a pretty good chance that many of us would still be running around with Windows phones now but it's pretty clear to me now in retrospect that when Satya took over it was already way too late and killing this off was probably the right move okay and to finish up let me show you something super cool wait no this looks terrible this is the webcam of my MacBook Air let's try this again okay that's better and not only does this camera look way better than the previous one it can even follow me around physically and if I want that to stop I can just do this gesture and now it doesn't pretty cool and all of this fancy footage is shot on this tiny webcam how cool is that this is the insta 360 link and it is a completely motorized webcam with built-in AI tracking and a massive half in 4k sensor which is way way way bigger than anything you have in your laptop or even in most other dedicated webcams the footage looks so good without even trying that Tristan and I ended up recording our whole podcast on these and it's also my go-to camera for recording interviews or doing cods where I need to look really really good it's plug-and-play with a single USBC cable and with a fantastic companion app where you can turn all the textures and other features on and off you can save preset positions here if you always want to return to a certain setting and even the microphones on it are pretty great you're listening to the built-in microphones of the insta 360 link right now without any processing in a pretty echoey room I think they sound pretty great especially for a webcam and so especially if your computer doesn't have any microphones at all maybe you have a desktop PC or something like that then these will do double duty oh and when you don't use it it actually goes to sleep like this how cute is that now there are a ton of advanced features like wideboard mode where it magically snaps to focus on a wideboard or desk View mode where it magically corrects for something that you ask it to film on your desk but I personally just use all this fancy Tech to keep myself in frame for my calls and it works absolutely great for that there's also a tripod that you can use to prop up your camera on your own and with my link in the description you can get both the tripod for free as well as a 15% discount if you order before the end of the year so check them out level up your video calls and see you in the next video

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Length: 11min 8sec (668 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 27 2023