we need to talk | apple and meta.

Holy smokes, Apple and Meta. We've got

to talk about both of them. First, we

got to talk about Apple increasing

production of the standard model iPhone

by 30% because apparently people are

going eight over the iPhone 17 right

now. We need to talk about this. Then we

need to talk about the Meta display

glasses. So, we're going to talk about

my experience with the Metas and we'll

keep it short. We'll do a little we'll

call it like a me Kevin check check or

or something like that. Uh first thing

that I want to shout out uh are two

recommendations. Number one, I highly

encourage you not to use black Sharpie

on your AirPod cases. Uh it's a bad

idea. It smears like crazy and it's not

good. Second thing that is a great idea

to have, uh I recommend you get one of

these little trays. You can get them on

Amazon for your AirPods. They're so nice

because they give your AirPods a place

to chill

and on your desk and so it's like

they're always in the same spot. Uh, and

you could charge with these as well. I

got it off Amazon. It's got a little

USBC charger on the back, but I have I

have four AirPods on my desk right now.

Uh, you know, I'm not going to carry all

of them here, but they all link to

different computers or Macs or PCs or

whatever. So, I use them for streaming

and different purposes and keeping them

all organized. Those little plastic

stands have been helpful. Great little

hack. Find it on Amazon. Just look up

like an iPod stand or something. I don't

have a link for you. Sorry. Okay. So,

first things first, a lot of people have

been like, Kevin, you made a review when

the iPhone reveal happened. Uh,

and and you know, you kind of left us

hanging a little bit. Like, are you

going to get the new iPhone? And here's

the thing. every single year when the

new phones come out, you know, the

software just ends up slowing down the

old models, it happens every time. I

don't know what it is, but the uh Apple

Watch, for example, before they released

the Apple Watch Ultra, what happened was

they were they started releasing some

beta software updates. And I used to go

from not having to charge this, but once

every other day, even with running to

having to charge this two to three times

a day. I've been I had I had this fully

charged last night. I'm already half

dead and it's 11:00 in the morning here.

Half dead and I haven't even gone on a

run yet. I go on a run with this thing

at half battery, I'll be down at 10%.

And it'll be dead by by 2 or 3:00, which

is really annoying because I always like

to go on a run in the afternoon and then

all of a sudden I have to take it off

and charge. I never used to have to do

that. So, I know that maybe that's my

speculation, but it just seems to be

very common. Now, as far as the actual

data on the iPhone, right, we know that

the iPhone 17 Pro, biggest battery ever,

that's their pitch. Uh the new orange

color is pretty sick. They they've got

the six core GPU in it, new thermal

design. Uh they say it's a 40% better

sustained performance over the 16 Pro.

Um, interesting because I've definitely

seen mine crashing multiple times. My

iPhone 16 has crashed a lot. Uh, and the

way I'll find it crashing is usually

when I go on a run and I'm running, uh,

the, you know, the fitness app on my my

watch, which sinking over here

obviously. Uh, but then I'll run the

journal app and then I'll have other

like news or video apps or whatever up.

And sometimes I'm dictating, I'm

switching to different apps, I'm

switching to mail. Like all these

processes are running and I will

probably every two or three days crash

this to where I'll just get black screen

of death, they call it. I'll get the pin

wheel and it just gets overloaded, goes

to the lock screen, shuts all the apps

off, and I got to restart it all. Pain

in the butt. So it doesn't surprise me

that they are pitching better sustained

performance because I think they are

hitting people who were like in my

situation where they're like yes we're

definitely getting to a point where

there are sustainabil like there are

issues with performance. Uh they also

say that the new phone is 3x better

scratch resistant to the front and back

and 4x better or more resistant to

cracks on the back of the phone.

This is the iPhone 16.

It is shockingly bad at crack

resistance. This has fallen from seated

height onto tile floor maybe three times

and that's the damage that I've gotten

over time just like from here. You know,

it's what 2 feet or whatever and it just

it just cracks it. Um so I generally

don't have a case but I got a case

because I'm just tired of honestly

scratching my hand on all the missing

glass back here. I have Apple Care, so

I'll get it fixed before I trade it in.

But I uh I hate the process of going

through the Apple Care repairs because I

have to reset everything up. I'm like,

I'll just wait for, you know, the next

phone to come out. So, uh they say that

the new phone is going to have the best

battery ever.

Uh I'm curious to see that. And they

also say that less glare in the new Pro

model of the phone. Uh I do notice when

I'm out on a run that the 16 can be hard

to see at times. Now, that's the 17 Pro.

The 17 normal does also though have the

faster A19 chip and 3000 nits of

brightness, which is the highest outdoor

brightness yet on a normal model. So,

maybe there's enthusiasm about people

wanting to go out. Maybe there's just

enthusiasm about more battery life.

Maybe people are frustrated that there's

so much going on inside these phones now

and so many like apps are using more and

more power that we just want that latest

and greatest efficiency. Uh, and so

therefore,

uh, this just arrived. What do you know?

The iPhone 17. So, here it is. I got the

orange one. I also got the uh, green

case so I could make it look like Halo

Master Chief. So, pretty exciting. Uh

I'm sure I'll be dropping this from a

twoft height and drop testing

uh the uh the height of it. But uh yeah,

let's uh let's go for it together. And

then we'll also get to the meta glasses

uh part and the display part in just a

moment. I also talk to you about the

sport glasses which I think are really

cool. Uh and I'll explain where I think

some of these could be useful. But Apple

reportedly having to now increase

production of the uh standard model by

30% on the 17. It's also a sign that the

consumer is still spending. Consumers

still blowing money and it's actually a

great thing because it's what you want.

You don't want people losing their jobs

in this economy. You don't want people

cutting back spending. You want to see

continuous spending and and continue

continuous desire of um

hey, we've got money, household wealth

is up, let's spend money on the latest

and greatest stuff. So, even if we have

an extra 20% battery life, which is all

you're really getting with this, right?

When you actually calculate the battery

size difference, they're really only

pitching best case scenario an extra

maybe 18% battery life. And then you ask

yourself like, is it really worth

upgrading spending $800 for the net

difference between what I could trade

this in for, maybe $799, and what this

costs, like $1,500? Is that $7, $800

difference with taxes really worth 18%

more in battery life? Uh, and the answer

to me is yeah, because like this is the

core of my business when I'm out and

about, you know, at the end of the day

is when I do a lot of my real estate

work or the second half of the day, I

need that battery power. I need that

production. I hate it when stuff

crashes. If I'm filming a video and it

crashes and then I can't get a video

out, it's it's a revenue difference.

Wow, that actually looks really good.

That is very nice. Now, I'm I'm not so

sure how I feel about,

you know, this how they went with this.

This is going to take a while to get

used to. This feels weird. You know,

you've got sort of the aluminum here,

but then this is almost like plasticky

over here. Almost like it has a wallet

already on it, but it doesn't. You know,

like the Mag Safe ones. Uh, but I have

to say that that does look pretty good.

Uh, so what do I got in the actual box

here? I got the uh phone with a screen

cover here. I'll set that down for a

moment. We've got uh USBC cable. I'm

actually surprised they still give us

USBC cables. Uh so that's cute. The

little braided cable. I like it. Little

iPhone

manual or what is this? This is iPhone.

That's This is You no longer need a

physical SIM. Literally a whole little

sheet here on you no longer need a

physical SIM. Yes. Yes, we know e sims

are great. I've got four of them. All

right. So, uh there it is. Wow. Um I

have to say even the buttons. Look at

that. Even the buttons have the color.

That's quite nice, honestly. I mean,

that's a it's a statement of a color,

but you know me, I'm not afraid to make

a statement. Uh, so that's impressive.

Let's go ahead and give that a

That's always quite satisfying.

Wow. I have to say

that contrast is nice between the black

screen there and then the orange.

That's really nice. And you know me, I

mean, everybody already calls me orange.

Uh, too much running in the sun.

Very. It's a seamless edge, too. Is the

other one I don't like. How it comes

around the corner is a seamless edge.

Hold on a sec. I guess. Yeah. No. See,

this one doesn't look or feel like a

seamless edge.

No, this is the 16.

Let's look up. You can kind of see where

like even like dirt kind of catches onto

here, onto the edge inside the case,

right? because you don't have that

seamless edge. It's sort of like glass

and then the titanium frame or whatever.

Uh whereas if you look at the 17,

look at that edge.

Uh

that's quite nice.

It's it's it seems seamless.

Uh so I like that a lot. Man, that

little line right there from the iPhone

4 reminds me of antenna gate.

And I realized miss my fingers aren't

exactly the cleanest. Yesterday I was uh

I got pretty dirty uh installing the uh

Cybert truck rack, which is another

little heck check, if you will. But uh

spoiler alert, I'm building out the uh

uh the Cybert truck to be this like

property management monster. And uh it's

pretty exciting because um

well, let's just put it this way. We've

got uh we've got a lot of enthusiasm

around uh you know what we're doing with

real estate and property management and

house hack. Uh it's so I'll pull up a

photo of it, but I've got a great shot

of the the rack just minutes after we

tightened the final bolt on it. Uh and

it's great because it's it's exciting.

Now, the top of the Cybert truck is is

flat. Uh, take a look at this.

So, I can put a lot of cool things up on

there, but there's a little shot of the

uh the Cybert truck. And then, of

course, if you didn't see it earlier,

this was uh this was me enlisting Max uh

helping me finish tightening some of the

uh the components of the rack. But

anyway, so uh a little bit of Apple

news, which is really exciting, but then

we also have to talk about the glasses.

So, I uh while my first glasses from

Meta broke uh and Meta's actually saying

they're going to replace them, which is

really exciting. Shout out to them. I

also have a Meta banner for what it's

worth. 30. If you want $30 off the Meta

glasses, use meet.com/a

sponsor. But when my first pair of

glasses broke, I decided I wanted a

second pair of the Meta glasses. This

photo I took, by the way, the reason

it's a weird angle here is is because

it's my POV. It's like through my eyes,

right? And I actually love that about uh

the Meta Glasses is that I get to see my

children uh again through the angle of

of my eyes of what I saw. Like I'll show

you another example here. Uh I was

flying the children around which I

always do this um

with uh with the babies. We'll do uh

we'll call it airplane. Uh and then

little babies they want to fly. So I

grab the children and I hold them like

an airplane and I fly them around and

then you know we mess with them. So

here's an example of what that looks

like. So this is an example. This is

filmed on the meta glasses mind you.

Right. So, the kids want to tickle the

other kids, Max and Jack. And uh I'll

I'll run them around and you know,

Lauren and and the boys will will tickle

the babies. But I want you to see

specifically Summer's reaction when it's

her turn. So, when I go here, I'm going

to put this baby down and I'm going to

grab the other baby. Watch this. Watch

Summer Summer's reaction. I ask her,

"Are you ready?" And just look at that

smile that she gives. You ready? Yeah.

It's It's the cutest thing ever. I got

the volume silenced on this cuz there's

a lot of screaming and noise here. But I

love this like getting these these

angles of the children. Even even blurry

shots with the meta glasses like this uh

when you're you're like moving or

whatever and you're getting that angle

of what it's like seeing that child's

face. These are priceless memories. And

to me, you can't really get some of

these shots without these glasses.

That's why I've become such a fan of

this. Uh, you know, here you could see,

you know, seeing the little kiddos all

playing together or Jack playing with

the kiddos. Uh, it's awesome. So, uh,

you know, or or like the the kid kissing

you. You know, you can't get this

as well unless you're wearing glasses.

Watch this. Kisses.

It's so cute.

[Laughter]

Very happy children. Uh anyway, uh and

and there's Ella totally passed out.

So like,

oh, she actually I think cues up the

idea to fly. I think that's what

happened here. Uh, and then she wants to

fly and then all the other kids want to

fly, too. So, you'll be able to see that

uh right here. You guys see them? We'll

queue up over there. Oh. Anyway, uh the

meta glasses. So, I got these after I

broke my first set of meta glasses

because we um I took them uh to a water

park uh and apparently they're not lazy

riverproof. They are water resistant,

but and I didn't like submerge them in

water, but just splashing was enough to

break the first ones. So, be careful.

They will break in the water. Uh, I

bought a backup pair. So, I have the

Ray-B band Metas, but then I also now

have the uh Oakley ones and I uh I

particularly like uh the Oakley ones.

These are prescription as well. Uh these

are shiny black as opposed to my others

which are matte black. Uh and these are

just great. So, I now have, you know,

two pairs plus uh well, yeah. No, I now

have two pairs. I have the Raybands

Metas and the Oakley. I don't see much

of a difference between them, but but I

really like them. You know, cool case,

obviously, charging case that comes with

them, but the glasses are just

phenomenal and I'm a really big fan of

the technology here and I think a lot of

companies are going to get into making

these glasses, whether it's Microsoft,

Apple or otherwise. And so, this led a

lot of people to ask, "Okay, Kevin,

well, what's what's your take on the uh

you know, meta display glasses?" Well,

as you know, I'm already basically a

massive shill for these glasses. And I

was watching not only the meta display,

uh, you know, showing that they were

doing, but also, uh, some review videos

on YouTube here of these glasses. And I

have to say, I'm exceptionally excited

about some of this. Uh, now here's an

example where MKBHD provides, you know,

some insight into, you know, the apps in

here. One downside I see in this is I

personally don't care so much in the

United States about using WhatsApp. It

seems to be more of a an international

style app. Uh and I don't really care

about Instagram on here. Like I want my

iPhone text messages on here and my blue

messages on here. Maybe one day that'll

sync through. Uh I do like that you now

get the point of view of the actual

camera so that you could see what's in

your field of view. Previously when you

go to take pictures with the or with the

meta glasses, you don't really know are

you getting everything in frame that you

want. You're kind of guessing. Uh and

this solves that and providing these

this idea that you know messages or map

like maps a little gimmicky. I I don't

know that I really need this. I guess it

could be useful if I'm traveling

somewhere. But what I really liked was

in Mark Zuck's demonstration him

basically saying, you know, showcasing

how text messages can pop up and how,

you know, Mr. Who's the Boss did a good

video where he showed other people don't

actually see what's on your screen. So

you could choose from album art, choose

pictures, change the volume by just

rotating your hand in the air, see text

messages from people right in the air.

or MKBHD says that's very intuitive. You

could do it very rapidly. I'm a big fan

of this. I absolutely love this uh

notifications, you know, maybe you could

see like tweets or breaking news come up

over time in the future. Uh you could

see uh important messages pop up uh

immediately in front of your visuals.

I'm a huge fan of this. So, these

display glasses at $799. I booked a demo

for them. uh you can't buy them yet

because they're not out yet. And I know

a lot of people are dumping on uh

Facebook here because they had a failed

sort of live demo. This is just the part

where the face call didn't work.

Uh uh oh, I'm on mute. I could send a

voice clip,

but I've got this neural vent and it's

silent. And

>> so with his wrist right here, he could

type. So, this senses the impulses in

your wrist to see what you're doing.

>> Oh, and you know, a lot of the time

you're around other people. So, it's um

good to just be able to type without

anyone seeing and

>> want to join. Like, that's awesome.

That's really cool how they can do that.

It's like I try to type on my watch

sometimes and it's really frustrating.

This is really cool. And I feel like

Apple should really catch up uh and get

into this glasses game because I

actually have hanging.

You can see them right there. Maybe

I have these.

There we go.

The uh Apple Pro Vision or Apple Vision

Pro, whatever. I can never remember

which way it is. But um

they're too heavy, you know, so they're

not they're not enjoyable to regularly

wear. The Meta glasses,

I can wear them all the time. I can wear

them building my Cybertruck rack. I can

wear them when I'm doing real estate.

When I go, what I do now is I always

wear the meta glasses when I look at

real estate and I turn the video

recording on. I walk through the

property and then without fail 2 hours

later if I want to go write an offer I'm

like oh I wonder how old the uh the

furnace was. I look back at my phone my

Metaglass has already autosynced the

video and I could look back and go oh

there's me opening the furnace closet

and there's a video of all of it

seamlessly right there from my point of

view. It's so great the technology like

every company is going to end up making

these and people are clowning on meta

because you know I guess uh when they

issued a command uh to you know go live

or whatever it it dosed themselves

because too many devices picked up on

that command and it led to some latency

issue with the live video demo that they

were going to do because they were going

to show how you could do a live video

call where the other person sees your

point of view and you're you could see

them which is cool. like it's like

FaceTime inside your glasses. I think

it's awesome. So, I'm a big fan of this.

But in addition to this, uh Facebook

also dropped uh or Meta dropped the um

uh action glasses. I think that's what

they call them. Uh Oakley Meta AI

performance glasses. That's what it was.

So, I'm going to tell you the three

purposes I see in this. And I'm also

going to tell you how you should like in

a productive way set this up. In my

opinion, you should have one pair of

meta glasses in your car. Like,

especially if you're a prescription

glasses guy like me, you have one in

your car so it's always there for you

when you're ready to drive, but it's

also always with you. So, you know, you

go to an event, you want to, you know,

you go to a house or whatever, you

always have your glasses with you. You

should have one like probably on your

desk. So, you know, when you're around

or you're going to go on a walk or

whatever else, you have one. So, that's

sort of my setup. One in the car, one

ready to go with me if I'm going to pack

a bag to go on a trip or whatever. This

is interesting. These sport glasses, I

think, are brilliant for people who are

road bikers or skiers because they're

larger. Now, the problem with these is

they don't do prescription. I'm okay

with that for skiing though because with

skiing, the biggest issue that I have

with skiing is it's cold in my eyes when

I go skiing and uh it it you know it

makes my eyes water, especially when

you're going faster

and I want some eye protection in case I

hit like a branch or something, but I

don't necessarily always want full

goggles. And so having these with now I

think they're coming they come with even

more microphones to where apparently you

could audio record while moving 30 m

hour without picking up wind noise is

insane. Like that is really cool

technology. So I think for um skiers and

bikers maybe even runners although you

don't necessarily want some crazy tan

lines. Uh, these are really cool, just

not for prescription purposes, which

again is okay because I don't need my

prescription glasses to ski

uh because it it doesn't make much of a

difference to me. But this could be

really cool for those purposes. So, a

big fan of the meta glasses here. Meta

AI I'm not a big fan of. I think is

mostly trash. So, I'm I think you know

latency heavy and not that great. But in

terms of practically what we're seeing

with the evolution of these glasses from

the display glasses to these sport

glasses to the basic ones you can get

off the shelf right now and remember get

$30 off with meke.com/meta.

Uh this technology is great. It is

evolving exactly the way it should and I

couldn't be more excited about all of

this. So, yeah, I'm going to get uh the

smart glasses and and I'll let you know

what I think of them. Uh and uh I think

I'm I think the new watch is also

showing up today. So, we'll have the

watch, this orange phone to set up and

some glasses here. Well, I'll let you

know how the tech is, but there there

are some things that I, you know, I I'll

be frank with you like some things are

worth buying and some things aren't. the

meta glasses, especially if you have

children.

I think it is a fatal mistake not to

have them. And I know some people are

like, "But Kevin, I don't want Facebook

in my life or seeing my children or

whatever." I get that. You could turn

off like upload to Meta, which I did.

You could also I don't know that you

could fully disconnect the account

though. Uh, you can turn off the like,

hey, meta AI features and stuff like

that, but there's probably still, you

know, some ability for them to capture

your data. So, I get that. Uh, I'm way

less private than I probably should be.

So, you know, maybe that's just me being

too blasze about it all, but uh I have

to say I'm very very impressed with uh

the way things are going with technology

and I'm very very excited about it and I

can't wait for more competition to come

out whether it's from Warby Parker,

Warby Parker or Apple or Microsoft or

OpenAI or I don't really care who it is.

Uh, you got to have these glasses.

Prescription all like I keep trying to

convince Lauren to get them and uh she

won't do it, but uh it'll just be a

matter of time. So, somebody says, "I

kind of want those for snowboarding." I

think they'd be great for snowboarding.

Somebody says Brett James crashed his

Cirrus SR22 yesterday. Who's uh Brett

James? Uh and that sounds terrible. I'm

really sad to hear that. Uh, somebody

says everybody

will uh wear and we live in a next level

stupid society.

I don't know where where all this come.

Uh, then you have

though what what else here? Because meta

keeping all the they probably are. So

anyway, um, yeah, that's my take my

that's my tech take knows about this.

We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes.

>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you.

>> Kevin Praath there, financial analyst

and YouTuber. Meet Kevin. Always great

to get your take.