Intro
- 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 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
around the internet from you guys
And we're gonna see if they're good takes or not.
Also, I need to thank JxmyHighroller
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 let's get into some tech hot takes.
Tesla Cybertruck
So here's a hot take.
Tesla Cybertruck will outsell the Ford F-150 by 2026.
And this, well, this is a hot one.
So the Cybertruck,
The Cybertruck 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 being spotted around the roads,
around Tesla headquarters
and it seems like they're finishing up the 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 years because the F-150 as you may already know,
is very popular.
But the thing is, and I don't know if you thought about this
As you were typing it, I don't know if you realize
How popular the F-150 is.
The Ford F-150 has been America's best-selling truck
for 46 years in a row.
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 Cybertruck very hyped
and there are allegedly somewhere in the neighborhood
of 1.5 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 $100 refundable deposits.
The point is, 1.5 million pre-orders
does not equal 1.5 million sales.
It's just that many people have reserved their spots in line
and some fraction of them will convert to orders
but it won't be 100% 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 small, a couple dozen one week,
then 100 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.
At this very moment,
Tesla doesn't even have the capacity
to make a million Model 3s,
let alone a million of something they've never made before.
So you know, we could be optimistic
about the manufacturing process
but it's gonna be tough
to get to a million of these things sold
and dethroning the king by 2026.
So I love the optimism about that Cybertruck
possibly being one of the most disruptive vehicles ever,
maybe could happen
but it's gonna take a little more time than that.
Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
Bad take.
All right, here's another one
Apple Maps is now better than Google Maps.
And this is an interesting take.
Do you remember when Apple Maps first came out
like all the horror stories,
the articles that all came out, how bad it was?
Entire towns were missing.
Some places were just in the wrong spot.
It was getting people lost, driving 'em into water.
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.
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 started adding
some genuinely cool features on top of it.
I can vouch that if you look at Google Street View
and Apple Maps Street View in the same location,
nine times out 10,
The Apple Maps one is 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 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, especially because first of all,
It's multi-platform, it's just so much more available
and then the decades-long headstart that Google has had
in mapping and gathering information
in the most obscure parts of the world
like it's gonna 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 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.
The Magic Mouse
It's a good take.
The Magic Mouse is the best mouse for the Mac.
(Marques breathing heavily)
Ah, you know, y'all pushing this one.
Let's just ignore the take for a second
and just talk about, how does the Magic Mouse exist?
Like how is this the best mouse that Apple,
the world's richest, $3 trillion company could come up with?
All the billions of dollars of research
and development dollars 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 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 lightning 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, Oliur is a smart guy.
I don't think he's trolling.
This is not an 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 makes it impossible to make a better one
than the Apple one.
Like you literally cannot make a better smartwatch
for the iPhone because you'll never get as much access
to the data and the integration
that Apple gives its watch.
You can 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.
The best and only good feature
about the Magic Mouse
is that it has smooth scrolling and gestures.
So you can scroll up and down with one finger
and it just flows with the inertia of a touchscreen.
Like you can toss webpages and apps around
and catch them with this smooth scrolling.
You can two fingers swipe between spaces.
You can zoom in and out things, it's so smooth,
just like a mouse should be.
And every single other mouse for Mac
scrolls in jittery chunks,
because they 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 a 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 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 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.
Except for comfortableness, it's amazing.
Except for the whole charging on the bottom thing,
which you only do once in a while, it's great.
But that's a pretty big thing for a mouse.
I mean, there's not much that they have to get right.
The Magic Mouse is one of the most frustrating
Apple products because it just, it could be so good.
With their trillions of dollars,
They could just hire a building
full of the best mouse designers on the planet,
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
Tensor sucks and Google should have stuck with Snapdragon.
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 design Tensor chip
That's 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 specific to the phone,
speech to text, and 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 also 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,
They could get to the point
where they have such good optimization
and such good calibration with exactly what they wanna do
With these chips, they'll be the most efficient,
best battery life, best experience,
something that they could never have created
by just buying an off-the-shelf bunch of Snapdragon chips.
So I think today, like if today they 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.
Beats Headphones
All right, Beats are 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 know, you bring up a really good point.
Audio is subjective, audio is subjective.
You know back in the days of making fun of Beats headphones
for being overpriced garbage-sounding plastic,
There was always a little kernel of truth underneath it all,
which is that people still buy Beats
all the time and enjoyed them.
And I always found that fascinating
that you could tell people that
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 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 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 thinking too hard
about it being nice and flat and a nice professional sound,
They're gonna be impressed.
It's gonna 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, it 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 enjoy any sound signature
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.
At some point in the past,
They were 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 always been good.
So I think, yeah, decent headphones today, decent take.
Also side note, I continue to be so fascinated
by the behavior of 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 fun,
I think we should do this again sometime for sure.
Not doing that one.
So leave your hot takes,
I say leave them in the comment section below
and I'll sort of comb through those,
it's not even mathematically correct.
And I'll comb 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 fun,
just make sure they're a little more varied
and different from this past one.
I hate this, I hate this one.