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In this final podcast of 2023, Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall look back at 2023 and forward to 2024.

Todd’s 2023 tech picks

• Google Pixel Tablet
• Adobe Podcast Enhance
• GenAI/LLM
• Thermal label printers – Thanks to Jon for recommending this tech
• Various wireless lav mics tested for recording in-person, in-the-field, podcasts

Jon’s 2023 tech picks

• Apple Watch Ultra 2: Great battery life, doesn’t look too crazy big, and fast.
• Ai
• rpods Pro 2 with iOS 17: Adaptive noise cancellation and conversational awareness is amazing.
• Withings BodyScan Smart Scale

Looking to 2024: Good & bad

• Streaming services consolidating and adding fees
• Apple
  • Jon’s planned iPad Mini Experiment
  • iPad mini 7?
  • Vision Pro alternatives that work with iPhone 15 Pro spatial videos?

Dedicated to Pepper…

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In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• Amazon Your Books (beta)
  Can I see all of my Amazon books in one place? Yes—introducing Your Books
• Microsoft Insider Blog
• Viewing Apple Spatial Video without a Vision Pro?
  Zappar ZapBox
  Zapbox is the world’s most affordable smartphone-powered mixed reality headset and the first to support viewing spatial video created on the iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max.
• What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report
• Integrating Google Gemini with R
• Jon’s Christmas GIft to the world – his Meme collection
• Jon’s new Anker 633 Power Bank experience
• Jon’s 10th year co-hosting the MobileViews podcast! He first appeared on MobileViews Podcast 69 in December 2013

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In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

• iPhone 15 Pro Max “dead” display scare
• Trying a vertical mouse for the first time
• Google Gemini in Google Bard
• CNBC: Google faces controversy over edited Gemini AI demo video
• Google NotebookLM with Gemini generally available
• Who can affort Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30 per month? UC Today: Is Microsoft Copilot Free? The Complete Guide to Copilot Pricing
• Biopic about singer Edith Piaf will use AI to recreate her speaking voice
• Todd’s musing of the day: Will people stop using question marks when writing because AI chatbots do not require them?
• Jon’s tip: Cast Apple Preview edit to an iPad or iPhone for touch editing

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In this podcast I speak with Google Customer Engineering Manager Steve Lujan and Google Enterprise Architect Daniel Liu about real-world applications of Google’s various established AI products/services such as Document AI, Vision AI, and Contact Center AI. They also discuss the Google Gemini general model AI that launched just a day before this podcast was recorded (launch date = Dec. 6, 2023).

Note: During the podcast I (Todd) said that Google Bard was reporting that Gemini was not available for me yet. However, after post-processing the audio for this podcast, I tried again and was told:

Google Gemini is already available for Google Bard!

As of December 7, 2023, you can access a specifically tuned version of Gemini Pro within Bard.

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Jon Westfall and I are joined by frequent guest panelists Steven Hughes and Sven Johannsen for this podcast. Note that (roughly) the first half of the podcast was recorded using Adobe Podcast Studio beta. We encountered a technical issue at that point and switched to using Microsoft Teams and Rouge Amoeba Audio Hijack to record the second half.

• YouTube now able to ingest audio-only podcasts using RSS. The MobileViews Podcast is now available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@ToddOgasawara/podcasts
• Surprised that Apple offered AppleCare+ warranty extensions
• Todd Has been using a sub-$100 Android tablet. The experience is a good one if you manage expectations.
• Todd received notice that he has access to Google NotebookLM but this does not appear to be availablle for his use
• Todd’s rant: Amazon turning off the Comixology app on December 4 forcing users to use the less comicbook friendly Kindle app.
  Amazon is killing off its Comixology app in true supervillain fashion

  Note: I was fortunate to have been able to invite and host Comixology co-founder David Steinberger at the 2010 ThinkMobile conference (see photo here). Amazon bought Comixology in April 2014.

  

• Adam Savage CT scan of USB-C cable why Apples Cable costs $130

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