[Music] [Music] [Music] thank you thank you so I've been on the internet for a long time and most of it at least where I hang out pretty reasonable which is great but you know there are some tucked away in the corners every once in a while that do have some pretty controversial opinions things that they actually believe in some hot takes that are guaranteed to ruffle some feathers but sometimes there is some truth to them so today I've gathered some of the hottest takes from around the internet
from you guys and we're gonna see they're actually good takes or not also I need to thank Jimmy hyrueller for the concept for this video if you haven't already seen his channel he does a lot of basketball videos including reacting to NBA hot takes they're incredible so if you somehow if you're interested in basketball and somehow haven't seen this channel already I'll link it below but uh let's get into some tech hot takes so here's a hot take Tesla cyber truck will outsell the Ford F-150 by 202
6 and this well this is a hot one so the Cyber truck the Cyber truck is one of the most hyped vehicles in a long time as long as I've been alive certainly the most hyped EV you know the numbers speak for themselves but now they're actually being spotted around the roads around Tesla headquarters and it seems like they're finishing up details of manufacturing and design and they may be about to finally go into production with this thing now the hot take is that it'll outsell the F-150 in three ye
ars because the F-150 as you may already know is very popular but the thing is I don't know if you thought about this is you're typing it I don't know if you realize how popular the F-150 actually is the Ford F-150 has been America's best-selling truck for 46 years in a row actually it's been the number one most popular vehicle for 41 years straight last year Ford sold one of these trucks every 49 seconds and it typically totals anywhere from 600 000 to just under a million of these things every
single calendar year so yeah the Cyber truck very hyped and there are allegedly somewhere in the neighborhood of one and a half million pre-orders which is crazy for a vehicle that's not even out yet that only a handful of people have even seen with their eyes but a couple of things first of all those pre-orders are 100 deposits I know that because I'm one of them I think they're actually hundred dollar refundable deposits the point being one and a half million pre-orders does not not equal one
and a half million sales it's just it's just that many people have reserved their spot in line and some fraction of them will convert to orders but it won't be a hundred percent and Tesla knows that but then number two you can't just build them all at once you have to ramp up into production we've seen this with other models before so you know they'll start off small a couple dozen one week then a hundred the next week then 500 the next week and they'll have to ramp up it'll take a while to get
through the first million easily well over a year like at this very moment Tesla doesn't even have the capacity to make a million model threes let alone a million of something they've never made before so you know we could we could be optimistic about the manufacturing process but it is it's going to be tough to get to a million of these things sold and dethroning the King by 2026. so I love the optimism about that cyber truck possibly being one of the most disruptive vehicles ever maybe could
happen but it's going to take a little more time than that bad take all right here's another one that Apple Maps is now better than Google Maps and this is this is a interesting take do you remember when Apple Maps first came out like all the the horror stories the articles that all came out how bad it was there were entire towns missing there were places that were just in the wrong spot it was getting people lost driving them into water it was it was missing a ton of features it was so bad that
Tim Cook the CEO had to issue an apology but a lot of things have changed since then basically I mean having a good maps app requires a lot of mapping data so they've been plugging away at that since that launch of course all the street view data the correct location data businesses public transportation different actual routes real-time traffic all that stuff they've improved dramatically at all of that plus they've actually started adding some genuinely cool features on top of it I can actual
ly vouch that if you look at Google Street View and apple map Street View in the same location nine times out of ten the Apple Maps one is actually higher quality and smoother and looks better it's easier to navigate I also think Apple Maps is generally better designed it's just a little better looking than Google Maps and as of the latest IOS 17 beta it's actually finally getting one of the biggest features that was missing which is downloading maps for offline finally I'm not ready to say that
Apple Maps is better than Google Maps yet I mean espe actually because first of all it's multi-platform it's just so much more available and then the decades-long Head Start that Google's had in mapping and gathering information in the most obscure parts of the world like it's going to take some time for Apple to continue to catch up with that but I will say that it's at least caught up to Google Maps they're on the same level they're actually competitors which is good because now they compete
to try to get better and for certain people in some places sometimes it's just as good if not better than Google Maps there I said it I said it it's a good take the Magic Mouse is the best Mouse for the Mac you know y'all are really pushing this one I let's just ignore the take for a second and just talk about them how does the Magic Mouse exist like how is this the best mouse that Apple the world's richest three trillion dollar company could come up with well over billions of dollars of researc
h and development dollars and the best designers in the world and all the testing and optimizations and strategy on the planet this is the best mouse that they could come up with seriously sorry I should I should be more objective here what makes a good Mouse zoom out a little bit good design good performance good features good price the best Mouse cannot have a fatal flaw in more than one of these fundamental categories and we all know about the fact that the only way to charge it is a lightnin
g port and they put that port at the bottom of the mouse so you literally can't even use it while you're waiting for it to charge it might only happen once a month but that's more than it should ever happen but on top of that it's also terrible ergonomically I mean there's a reason why all the other best mice in the world have an arch to rest your hand but look older is a smart guy I don't think he's trolling this is not a completely empty take the reason why people genuinely feel this way about
the Magic Mouse is because Apple has done to this accessory what they've done to every other accessory that they possibly can in their Universe which is making it impossible to make a better one than the apple one like you literally cannot make a better smart watch for the iPhone because you'll never get as much access to the data and the integration that Apple gives its own watch you can literally never make headphones that pair more fluidly and switch more easily than Apple's own airpods and
the Magic Mouse well the Magic Mouse has smooth scrolling literally the best and only good feature about the Magic Mouse is that it has really smooth scrolling end gestures so you can scroll up and down with one finger and it just flows with the inertia of a touch screen like you can toss web pages and apps around and catch them with this smooth scrolling you can two finger swipe between spaces you can zoom in and out of things it's just so smooth just like a mouse should be and every single oth
er Mouse for Mac Scrolls in jittery chunks basically because they literally have to just pick an integer for how many lines they want to scroll with every unit scrolled on the scroll wheel it's just night and day difference there's just no way for it to be as smooth now this is also true about the magic Trackpad which is actually why I literally use one on my desk alongside a good Mouse and I know plenty of people who just use a trackpad and no mouse at all so if you list if you really listen to
people who defend the Magic Mouse you'll typically hear something along the lines of well except for insert giant flaw here it's a great Mouse and except for comfortableness it's it's amazing except for the whole charging on the bottom thing which you only do once in a while it's great that's a pretty big thing for a mouse I mean there's really not much that they have to get right the Apple the Magic Mouse is one of the most frustrating Apple products because it just it could be so good that it
they could with their trillions of dollars they could just hire a building full of the best Mouse designers on the planet they could they could buy whatever people they want to design the most incredible Mouse mankind has ever seen and it could have smooth scrolling but they don't do it they don't do it I knew this was coming it's a bad take tensor sucks and Google should have stuck with Snapdragon I I can get behind half of this take not the whole thing but I can get behind half of this tensor
Is Not Great you know like two years ago Google made this bold choice to move from Qualcomm Snapdragon chips in their phones to their own custom designed tensor chip that's actually built by Samsung and the idea was to be able to dedicate certain parts of the chip to certain functions whether AI related or just you know specific to the phone speech to text things like that we are two generations in now so we're at tensor G2 in the pixel and they have relatively weak raw performance and they als
o don't have great battery life and they're not very efficient so I get why people say tensor sucks but I don't think they should have stuck with Snapdragon I still think there's time I still think in two or three generations even they could get to the point where they have such good optimization and such good calibration with exactly what they want to do with these chips that they'll be the most efficient best battery life best experience something that they could never have created by just buy
ing an off-the-shelf bunch of Snapdragon ships so I think today like if today they literally offered a Snapdragon Google pixel with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and a tensor G2 I think today I would pick the Snapdragon one but I don't think they should just give up on the tensor dream okay take all right beats R and have always been very good often people pretend that sound isn't incredibly subjective a natural audiophilic sound is always less enjoyable and more jarring outside of pro referencing you kn
ow you bring up a really good point audio is subjective audio is definitely subjective now back in the days of uh making fun of Beats headphones for being overpriced garbage sounding plastic there was always uh a little a little kernel of Truth Underneath It All which is that people still bought beats all the time and enjoyed them and I always found that fascinating that you could literally tell people that there there's another pair of headphones out there that sounds better for half the money
and people in that world where it seems like a totally straightforward choice they would still pick the beats and love them and recommend them and the truth is like yeah for most people if you just give them like their their first pair of nice headphones their first pair of expensive headphones and they've got this nice v-shaped equalizer a big thumping bass and they're not really thinking too hard about it being nice and flat and a nice professional sound they're going to be impressed it's goin
g to sound really exciting and interesting for most music listening which is what people are doing with Beats headphones it's great it's fine like audio is it really is one of the most subjective things in all of the tech world and there are tons of reviews and studies out there with countless examples of this it kind of feels like the only trait in audio that people universally find impressive is just loudness just higher volume but kind of across the board anyone can kind of enjoy any sound si
gnature and generally headphones these days are good enough to have an EQ and be able to sound differently based on different types of music and movies and whatever you're doing now all that being said I don't think I could still say that beats have always been very good I they've at some point in the past they were definitely a much more expensive cheaply built version of the average headphones you could kind of just get anywhere else but the marketing team has always been very good that has al
ways been good so I think yeah decent headphones today decent take also side note I continue to be so fascinated by the behavior of them as a company like beats since they've been purchased by Apple and the newest pair of Beats by Dre Studio Pro headphones are the latest example of that let me know if you guys are interested in a video about these things by hitting that like button either way this has been really fun I think we should do this again sometime for sure not doing that one uh so leav
e your hot takes I say leave them in the comments section below and I'll sort of comb through those it's not even mathematically correct and I'll come through those and I'll find the best ones and we'll do another tech hot takes video in the future have you read my shirt this entire video and I think that'll be really fun just make sure they're a little more varied and different from this past one I hate this I hate this one
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