Speaker
Andrew Manganelli
Appearances over time
4 episodes
Episodes
4
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
BMW pushed a Spider-Man branded pop-up ad to all cars running its OS made after 2020, confirmed as a paid brand partnership running July 27–August 10.
The new Snap AR Spectacles retail at $2,195 — the same ballpark as an Apple Vision Pro — targeting consumers despite being heavy and having a limited app ecosystem.
In 2023, BMW's Senior VP of Connected Company Development explicitly said he didn't see selling the car screen for commercials as appropriate, calling it a private space.
The Steam Machine launches at $1,049 for the 512GB model without a controller, rising to $1,128 with the controller bundle.
The new Snap Spectacles have a 51-degree field of view, up only 5 degrees from the previous generation's 46 degrees, compared to Meta Orions' 70 degrees.
The 2TB Steam Machine bundle with controller tops out at $1,428 — more than the PS5 Pro and about double what enthusiasts expected.
Snap Spectacles offer only 4 hours of battery life standalone, with 20 hours total including the case, undermining Evan Spiegel's pitch of replacing 7-hour screen sessions.
The M3 Ultra Mac Studio saw a $1,300 price increase, one of the largest absolute dollar increases in the Apple lineup.
Apple says cross-device copy-paste for Windows is significant engineering work, expected to complete by fall 2027 and reach full release around 2028, likely EU-only.
The PS5, a roughly 6-year-old console now priced around $650, reportedly outperforms the $1,049 Steam Machine in many game benchmarks.
Android 17 finally removes the 'At a Glance' widget that has dominated Pixel home screens for 4–5 years, freeing up prime screen real estate.
Android 17's new Bubble Bar allows up to 4 apps to float simultaneously above other content, with physics-based animations, especially useful on foldables.
Apple Vision Pro only went up $200 despite a sweeping price increase across products, likely due to low sales volume.
The UK proposes banning children under 16 from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, claiming it will go further than any other country in restricting children's online time.
Andrew found the Garmin Circa to be approximately twice the price of the Fitbit Air, yet judged to have worse tracking, a larger form factor, and an inferior app.
There's a spectrum from full VR headsets to ultra-light camera glasses — and companies that land in the middle are doomed. Snap is trying to pitch Spectacles as wearable everyday glasses while they look like a tiny VR headset, and no amount of clever marketing can bridge that gap.
Matter 1.6's new Joint Fabric feature promises that any smart device will just automatically appear on every platform. No more Velcroing protocols together. The catch: every company still has to support it. The guys have heard this promise before.
The new $99 Google Home Speaker is the first Gemini-native smart speaker. You can chain commands like 'dim the kitchen lights, play relaxing music, set a 20-minute timer' and it actually understands. But the $10/month Google Home Premium subscription — and how it ladders into the $20 AI Pro plan — is where the real strategy lives.
Google AI Pro is $20/month and comes with Google Home Premium, Google Health Premium, Gemini Pro, and 5TB of Drive storage. David's theory: the standalone $10 subscriptions aren't really meant to sell — they're just there to make the $20 bundle look irresistible.
The 2027 Porsche Taycan adds 8 simulated gear stages with fake sound effects to make EV driving feel like a gas car. Marques sees it as a transitional desperation move — not because it's bad, but because it's a sign EVs still aren't selling themselves on their actual merits.
Claude Mythos 5 was banned by the US government days after launch, forced offline because the administration didn't want any foreign nationals — including Anthropic's own employees — accessing it. The deepest irony: Amazon AWS researchers reportedly tipped off the government, despite Amazon being a major Anthropic investor.
Android stopped public dessert names at Q (Android 10), but internal codenames kept going — and stopped following alphabetical order. Android 17's codename is 'Cinnamon Bun' because Google reset to a new letter cycle. The hosts' spelling attempts were heroic.
While Snap grabs headlines, XREAL's Android XR glasses do 70-degree field of view, micro OLED displays, and sub-90-gram weight — and run the full Play Store. Marques's favorite trick: soft-body-locking a YouTube video in the corner of your vision so you can do dishes and watch Waveform simultaneously.
Evan Spiegel pitched Snap Spectacles as the antidote to 7-hour-a-day screen addiction — while wearing two giant opaque screens glued to his face during a CNBC interview. The interviewer couldn't even make eye contact with him. And the glasses only last 4 hours anyway.
Android 17 removes 'At a Glance' after half a decade, brings a physics-based Bubble Bar for 4 floating apps, separates Wi-Fi and mobile data toggles, adds temporary location access, and upgrades the screen recorder. Andrew called it the greatest Android release of all time — and meant it.
The UK plans to ban children under 16 from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X. The hosts largely support protecting kids — but banning YouTube specifically could backfire: without an account, kids get unfiltered recommendations with zero parental restrictions. And it would have blocked the Backrooms director from learning filmmaking at 17.
The $25,000 Slate truck is real, Marques drove it, and it's genuinely zippy — all-electric torque in a stripped-bare shell. The catch: there are no speakers, no power windows, and no paint, but the modular add-on system means you only pay for what you actually need.
Andrew's 'Spirit Airlines of EVs' analogy nails why the Slate Truck divides opinion: the base price is seductively cheap until you add back everything you actually need. It's not a flaw in the concept — it's exactly how Spirit makes money.
Marques has seen Faraday Future, the Aptera, the Tello truck, and others reach the 'you can drive it' stage and still never ship. The Slate's factory isn't finished and Q4 delivery is the target — but 'paperware until shipped' is the rule.
Snap jammed Vision-Pro-level compute into 130-gram glasses with no tether — that's genuinely impressive. But at 130g versus Ray-Ban Meta's 50g, a 51-degree field of view, and frames so heavy Evan Spiegel's slide down his head on live TV, they're stuck in an awkward middle ground: too bulky to wear all day, not capable enough to replace a computer.
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- Technology 84%
- Business 8%
- Leisure 8%
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