Episode Summary
00:00:00 | Intro
00:00:30 | News
- Net Neutrality defeated again
- Apple relents to Pros, tells us that they will make a new Mac Pro, eventually
- Android apps on Chromebooks
- Blockchain being used in many unconventional areas
- Turkeys
- Bitcoin!
- Amazon-Google feud coming to a head
- Amazon buys Whole Foods
- CyanogenMod became LineageOS
- Project Treble in Android 8 has the potential to radically improve the update cycle of third-party devices, and make it much easier to create custom ROMs
- Android Go
- That Eclipse
- ARKit, ARCore
- Apple admits that it lowers the clock speed on phones that have older batteries to avoid having them shut down under heavy load
- KRACK Attack
00:58:52 | Products
- Ryzen
- First major release from AMD since the let down of Bulldozer years ago, and the price + performance specs really shine through the lineup, and it drove reactions from Intel
- Hold The Light Still | Control Structure #127 - YouTube
- Nintendo Switch
- It’s cool and fun
- It’s amazing how well Nintendo treats its fans and customers…
- Second Opinion #27: Nintendo Switch Review › The Nexus
- Xbox One X & PS4 Pro
- They are bumps in performance, I guess.
- Samsung Galaxy S8
- Likely the best all around phone of the year
- Second Opinion #24: Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus Review › The Nexus
- Google Pixel 2/2 XL
- Best Android photos from these phones...
- The worst screen available in a premium flagship product of the year in the larger model
- Second Opinion #31: Pixel 2 Review › The Nexus
- iPhone X
- The best looking iPhone
- Big week, Notch?
- Second Opinion #33: iPhone X Review › The Nexus
- Apple Watch Series 3
- Apple TV 4K
- iMac Pro
- Highest end model is $14,000, entry level $5000, probably a good deal for that performance + screen
- iPad Pro 10.5”
- 144 Hz display
- It’s nice, but another iPad, nothing really to write home about
- New Google Homes
- A cheaper and almost just as capable product
- A mess of early hardware difficulties, but definitely swept under the rug by now
- Google Assistant on third-party smart speakers
- More Amazon Echo things
- Look: a thing for fashion, I guess
- Show: a boxy echo with a huge screen, fairly large price for not much additional functionality
- Spot: a smaller screen echo, could be useful, but limited to the Amazon
- Various refreshes
- Tesla Model 3
- AirPods (late December 2016)
- Praise the AirPods
- Second Opinion #15: AirPods Review › The Nexus
01:45:58 | State of the Nexus
- First full year of episodes being on YouTube
- The Nexus - YouTube
- Some shows (Second Opinion) do well because their metadata is searchable and have broader appeal
- The rate of converting first-time listeners who stumbled across a review into subscribers has been incredibly low
- Shows like PodKit and Control Structure that pull titles from something funny said in the episode are much less searchable
- Should You Be Publishing Your Podcast on YouTube? – Ian R Buck – Medium
- The Extra Dimension and Second Opinion have consistent schedules now, which has done wonders for download numbers
- The Extra Dimension is broadcast on Frogtown Community Radio, which is exciting!
- Putting in timestamps for each segment of the episodes
- Difficult to know how many listeners get utility out of it
- Useful for putting YouTube ad breaks and radio reads in reasonable places
- Future
- CMSv3
- Enthusiastic About Everything
- Robots Will Steal Your Job audiobook
- Short promotionals to put at the ends of episodes
- More crossovers/teamups with other podcasters
