We answer your questions about an iPod comeback, an E Ink iPhone Duo, and more
This is an episode of a tech podcast/radio show (hosted by David Imel and Travis Larchuk) covering recent product launches and consumer tech news, including a new Kindle generation, New York City's click-to-cancel subscription law, and HP's MacBook Air rival. The show also runs listener calls and emails speculating about a reimagined physical iPod, a rumored iPhone 'Duo' foldable, and AI-driven security risks to cloud storage, plus a camera-phone technology explainer and a Kodak film supply anecdote. It closes with a debate over whether the TI-83/TI-84 calculator deserves a spot in the show's device Hall of Fame. The episode matters as a snapshot of how consumer tech news, nostalgia-driven product wishes, and emerging AI security concerns are being discussed in real time.
NYC's new click-to-cancel rule took effect, requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up [01:03]
- The city projects the click-to-cancel rule will save New Yorkers between $21.5 million and $162.5 million annually [01:17]
- Amazon launched a new Kindle generation that is a millimeter thinner and 30% faster at opening books than the prior generation [00:34]
- HP launched the Omnibook 514, its MacBook Air rival, starting at $700 with an OLED screen [01:34]
- Palo Alto Networks' IRA product (sponsor segment) replaces permanent permissions with dynamic access across human, machine, and AI identities [03:51]
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- David explains ISP in cameras stands for image signal processor, the chip that demosaics raw camera data into a photo [06:01]
- Caller Austin says he would pay $500 for a revived iPod form factor and would cancel Spotify for Apple Music if it worked on a physical non-phone iPod [09:35]
- A host's blunt response to Austin's wish-list iPod pitch: 'You just described a smartphone' [11:00]
- A host recounts that 2020-2021 film demand surged unexpectedly, forcing Kodak to raise prices and invest hundreds of millions of dollars in new cutters and film machines [11:22]
- Listener Eric asks whether Apple could put an e-ink screen on the inside of the iPhone Fold for reading or note-taking [16:29]
- Host joke: Texas Instruments doesn't care and will keep selling the same calculators no matter what the show decides [28:54]
- David states his position that the TI-84 should not be inducted into the show's Hall of Fame [29:02]
