670: Scratch Your Own Itch

Tech bag or brand recommendations, Apple's most overlooked feature, the app we'd vibe code for ourselves, and our thoughts on the leaked AirPods with cameras for Visual Intelligence.

OpenAI's hardware plans, our folding phone thoughts, smart lock experiences, and the future of the iPad.

Our favorite ways to share data between devices, what we'd like to see iOS on next after PontoonPlay, whether Private Relay concerns us, and any "dead" media formats we still enjoy.

Ted Lasso's return and Apple TV recommendations, a year of Apple Journal on Mac, our tech cleaning and maintenance habits, and old technologies we've fired up just to learn or relive.

How much waterproofing matters in our tech and our riskiest water moments, the last time we changed our minds about a technology, how we buy our phones and thoughts on upgrade programs, and the recent tech purchases we feel guilty about.

Apple's public betas, how we read for pleasure, whether we have multicolored smart lighting, and digital disaster preparedness.

Physical vs. digital media and how we organize it, our system for the digital "deal with it later" pile, what we do with old hardware, and iPhone ergonomics.

Apple's price hikes and our buying plans, our beta OS strategies, dealing with subscriptions, and Meta's new glasses fees.

Our thoughts on Valve's Steam Machine pricing, the third-party camera apps we actually use, whether we wait for tech sales before buying, and if being the "tech person" inspires others or just makes them defer to us.

Snap's latest smart glasses, whether we've tried Apple's new Shortcuts creation feature, AI-powered pets, and who wants a dumb phone?