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00:00This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to anyone, living or dead, is coincidental and unintentional.
00:31So I've been on the internet for a long time, and most of it, at least where I hang out, pretty reasonable.
00:38Which is great. But, you know, there are some tucked away in the corners every once in a while
00:43that do have some pretty controversial opinions, things that they actually believe in.
00:49Some hot takes that are guaranteed to ruffle some feathers.
00:54But sometimes there is some truth to them.
00:57So today, I've gathered some of the hottest takes from around the internet, from you guys,
01:01and we're going to see if they're actually good takes or not.
01:04Also, I need to thank Jimmy Highroller for the concept for this video.
01:07If you haven't already seen his channel, he does a lot of basketball videos, including reacting to NBA hot takes.
01:14They're incredible. So if you somehow, if you're interested in basketball and somehow haven't seen his channel already,
01:18I'll link it below.
01:20But let's get into some tech hot takes.
01:22So, here's a hot take.
01:24Tesla Cybertruck will outsell the Ford F-150 by 2026.
01:30And this, well, this is a hot one.
01:33So, the Cybertruck. The Cybertruck is one of the most hyped vehicles in a long time.
01:38As long as I've been alive.
01:40Certainly the most hyped EV. You know, the numbers speak for themselves.
01:43But now they're actually being spotted around the roads around Tesla headquarters.
01:47And it seems like they're finishing up details of manufacturing and design.
01:51And they may be about to finally go into production with this thing.
01:55Now, the hot take is that it'll outsell the F-150 in three years.
01:58Because the F-150, as you may already know, is very popular.
02:03But the thing is, and I don't know if you thought about this as you were typing it,
02:07I don't know if you realize how popular the F-150 actually is.
02:12The Ford F-150 has been America's best-selling truck for 46 years in a row.
02:19Actually, it's been the number one most popular vehicle for 41 years straight.
02:26Last year, Ford sold one of these trucks every 49 seconds.
02:30And it typically totals anywhere from 600,000 to just under a million of these things every single calendar year.
02:38So, yeah, the Cybertruck, very hyped.
02:41And there are allegedly somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 million pre-orders.
02:46Which is crazy for a vehicle that's not even out yet, that only a handful of people have even seen with their eyes.
02:51But a couple of things.
02:53First of all, those pre-orders are $100 deposits.
02:58I know that because I'm one of them.
03:00I think they're actually $100 refundable deposits.
03:03The point being, 1.5 million pre-orders does not equal 1.5 million sales.
03:09It's just that many people have reserved their spot in line.
03:13And some fraction of them will convert to orders.
03:16But it won't be 100%.
03:18And Tesla knows that.
03:19But then number two, you can't just build them all at once.
03:22You have to ramp up into production.
03:25We've seen this with other models before.
03:26So, you know, they'll start off small.
03:28A couple dozen one week.
03:30Then 100 the next week.
03:32Then 500 the next week.
03:33And they'll have to ramp up.
03:34It'll take a while to get through the first million easily well over a year.
03:39At this very moment, Tesla doesn't even have the capacity to make a million Model 3s.
03:44Let alone a million of something they've never made before.
03:47So, you know, we could be optimistic about the manufacturing process.
03:50But it's going to be tough to get to a million of these things sold.
03:54And dethroning the king by 2026.
03:58So I love the optimism about the Cybertruck possibly being one of the most disruptive vehicles ever.
04:04Maybe.
04:05Could happen.
04:06But it's going to take a little more time than that.
04:08Bad take.
04:09All right.
04:10Here's another one.
04:11That Apple Maps is now better than Google Maps.
04:15And this is an interesting take.
04:19Do you remember when Apple Maps first came out?
04:21Like all the horror stories.
04:23The articles that all came out.
04:24How bad it was.
04:25There were entire towns missing.
04:27There were places that were just in the wrong spot.
04:29It was getting people lost.
04:31Driving them into water.
04:32It was missing a ton of features.
04:35It was so bad that Tim Cook, the CEO, had to issue an apology.
04:39But a lot of things have changed since then.
04:42Basically, I mean, having a good Maps app requires a lot of mapping data.
04:47So they've been plugging away at that since that launch, of course.
04:50All the street view data.
04:51The correct location data.
04:53Businesses.
04:54Public transportation.
04:56Different actual routes.
04:58Real-time traffic.
04:59All that stuff.
05:00They've improved dramatically at all of that.
05:03Plus, they've actually started adding some genuinely cool features on top of it.
05:07I can actually vouch that if you look at Google Street View and Apple Maps Street View
05:12in the same location, nine times out of ten,
05:15the Apple Maps one is actually higher quality and smoother and looks better.
05:19It's easier to navigate.
05:20I also think Apple Maps is generally better designed.
05:23It's just a little better looking than Google Maps.
05:26And as of the latest iOS 17 beta,
05:28it's actually finally getting one of the biggest features that was missing
05:31which is downloading maps for offline.
05:34Finally.
05:35I'm not ready to say that Apple Maps is better than Google Maps yet.
05:40I mean, especially because, first of all, it's multi-platform.
05:43It's just so much more available.
05:45And then the decades-long head start that Google's had in mapping
05:49and gathering information in the most obscure parts of the world.
05:52It's going to take some time for Apple to continue to catch up with that.
05:55But I will say that it's at least caught up to Google Maps.
06:00They're on the same level.
06:01They're actually competitors, which is good
06:03because now they compete to try to get better.
06:05And for certain people, in some places, sometimes,
06:08it's just as good, if not better, than Google Maps.
06:11There, I said it.
06:13I said it.
06:14It's a good take.
06:15The Magic Mouse is the best mouse for the Mac.
06:25You know, y'all are really pushing this one.
06:28Let's just ignore the take for a second
06:30and just talk about how does the Magic Mouse exist.
06:33Like, how is this the best mouse that Apple,
06:37the world's richest $3 trillion company, could come up with?
06:42While there are billions of dollars of research and development dollars
06:45and the best designers in the world
06:47and all the testing and optimizations and strategy on the planet,
06:51this is the best mouse that they could come up with?
06:54Seriously?
06:55Sorry, I should be more objective here.
06:57What makes a good mouse?
06:59Zoom out a little bit.
07:01Good design.
07:02Good performance.
07:04Good features.
07:05Good price.
07:07The best mouse cannot have a fatal flaw
07:11in more than one of these fundamental categories.
07:14And we all know about the fact that the only way to charge it
07:17is a lightning port,
07:19and they put that port at the bottom of the mouse
07:22so you literally can't even use it
07:24while you're waiting for it to charge.
07:26And that can only happen once a month,
07:27but that's more than it should ever happen.
07:29But on top of that, it's also terrible ergonomically.
07:32I mean, there's a reason why all the other best mice in the world
07:35have an arch to rest your hand.
07:37But look, Oliver's a smart guy.
07:39I don't think he's trolling.
07:40This is not a completely empty take.
07:43The reason why people genuinely feel this way about the Magic Mouse
07:47is because Apple has done to this accessory
07:50what they've done to every other accessory
07:52that they possibly can in their universe,
07:54which is making it impossible
07:56to make a better one than the Apple one.
07:59Like, you literally cannot make a better smartwatch for the iPhone
08:02because you'll never get as much access to the data
08:05and the integration that Apple gives its own watch.
08:08You can literally never make headphones
08:10that pair more fluidly and switch more easily
08:12than Apple's own AirPods.
08:14And the Magic Mouse...
08:16Well, the Magic Mouse has smooth scrolling.
08:19Literally the best and only good feature about the Magic Mouse
08:23is that it has really smooth scrolling and gestures.
08:27So you can scroll up and down with one finger
08:29and it just flows with the inertia of a touchscreen.
08:32Like, you can toss web pages and apps around
08:35and catch them with this smooth scrolling.
08:37You can two-finger swipe between spaces.
08:39You can zoom in and out of things.
08:41It's so smooth, just like a mouse should be.
08:44And every single other mouse for Mac
08:48scrolls in jittery chunks,
08:51basically because they literally have to just pick an integer
08:54for how many lines they want to scroll
08:56with every unit scrolled on the scroll wheel.
08:58It's just night and day difference.
09:00There's just no way for it to be as smooth.
09:02Now, this is also true about the Magic Trackpad,
09:05which is actually why I literally use one on my desk
09:08alongside a good mouse.
09:10And I know plenty of people who just use a trackpad
09:12and no mouse at all.
09:14So if you really listen to people who defend the Magic Mouse,
09:17you'll typically hear something along the lines of,
09:19well, except for, insert giant flaw here,
09:22it's a great mouse.
09:24Except for comfortableness, it's amazing.
09:27Except for the whole charging on the bottom thing,
09:29which you only do once in a while, it's great.
09:32That's a pretty big thing for a mouse.
09:34I mean, there's really not much that they have to get right.
09:36The Apple, the Magic Mouse is one of the most frustrating
09:39Apple products
09:41because it just, it could be so good.
09:44They could, with their trillions of dollars,
09:47they could just hire a building full of the best mouse designers
09:51on the planet.
09:52They could buy whatever people they want to design
09:55the most incredible mouse mankind has ever seen.
09:58And it could have smooth scrolling.
10:00But they don't do it.
10:02They don't do it.
10:04I knew this was coming.
10:06It's a bad take.
10:07Tensor sucks, and Google should have stuck with Snapdragon.
10:11I can get behind half of this take.
10:14Not the whole thing, but I can get behind half of this.
10:16Tensor is not great.
10:18Two years ago, Google made this bold choice
10:21to move from Qualcomm Snapdragon chips in their phones
10:24to their own custom designed Tensor chip
10:27that's actually built by Samsung.
10:29And the idea was to be able to dedicate certain parts of the chip
10:32to certain functions, whether AI related
10:35or just specific to the phone, speech to text, things like that.
10:38We are two generations in now,
10:40so we're at Tensor G2 in the Pixel.
10:42And they have relatively weak raw performance,
10:46and they also don't have great battery life,
10:48and they're not very efficient.
10:49So I get why people say Tensor sucks,
10:52but I don't think they should have stuck with Snapdragon.
10:55I still think there's time.
10:56I still think in two or three generations even,
10:58they could get to the point where they have such good optimization
11:02and such good calibration with exactly what they want to do
11:05with these chips that they'll be the most efficient,
11:07best battery life, best experience,
11:09something that they could never have created
11:12by just buying an off-the-shelf bunch of Snapdragon chips.
11:15So I think today, like if today,
11:17they literally offered a Snapdragon Google Pixel
11:20with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and a Tensor G2,
11:24I think today I would pick the Snapdragon one,
11:28but I don't think they should just give up on the Tensor dream.
11:33Okay, take.
11:34All right, Beats are and have always been very good.
11:39Often people pretend that sound isn't incredibly subjective.
11:42A natural slash audiophilic sound is always less enjoyable
11:45and more jarring outside of pro-referencing.
11:48You know, you bring up a really good point.
11:52Audio is subjective. Audio is definitely subjective.
11:55Now, back in the days of making fun of Beats headphones
11:58for being overpriced garbage sounding plastic,
12:00there was always a little kernel of truth underneath it all,
12:04which is that people still bought Beats all the time
12:08and enjoyed them.
12:09And I always found that fascinating
12:10that you could literally tell people
12:12that there's another pair of headphones out there
12:15that sounds better for half the money
12:18and people in that world where it seems
12:20like a totally straightforward choice,
12:22they would still pick the Beats
12:24and love them and recommend them.
12:26And the truth is like, yeah, for most people,
12:28if you just give them like their first pair of nice headphones,
12:31their first pair of expensive headphones,
12:33and they've got this nice V-shaped equalizer,
12:35a big thumping bass,
12:37and they're not really thinking too hard about it
12:39being nice and flat and a nice professional sound,
12:42they're going to be impressed.
12:43It's going to sound really exciting and interesting
12:46for most music listening,
12:47which is what people are doing with Beats headphones.
12:50It's great. It's fine.
12:52Like audio is, it really is one of the most subjective things
12:55in all of the tech world.
12:56And there are tons of reviews and studies out there
12:59with countless examples of this.
13:01It kind of feels like the only trait in audio
13:03that people universally find impressive
13:05is just loudness, just higher volume,
13:08but kind of across the board,
13:10anyone can kind of enjoy any sound signature.
13:13And generally headphones these days are good enough
13:15to have an EQ and be able to sound differently
13:17based on different types of music and movies
13:19and whatever you're doing.
13:20Now, all that being said,
13:21I don't think I could still say
13:23that Beats have always been very good.
13:26They've, at some point in the past,
13:29they were definitely a much more expensive,
13:32cheaply built version of the average headphones
13:35you could kind of just get anywhere else.
13:37But the marketing team has always been very good.
13:42That has always been good.
13:43So I think, yeah, decent headphones today.
13:47Decent take.
13:48Also side note,
13:49I continue to be so fascinated by the behavior of them
13:52as a company like Beats
13:53since they've been purchased by Apple.
13:55And the newest pair of Beats by Dre Studio Pro headphones
13:57are the latest example of that.
13:59Let me know if you guys are interested
14:00in a video about these things
14:01by hitting that like button.
14:02Either way, this has been really fun.
14:03I think we should do this again sometime for sure.
14:07Not doing that one.
14:08So leave your hot takes,
14:09I say leave them in the comment section below
14:11and I'll sort of comb through those.
14:13That's not even mathematically correct.
14:15And I'll come through those
14:16and I'll find the best ones
14:17and we'll do another tech hot takes video in the future.
14:20Have you read my shirt this entire video?
14:22And I think that'll be really fun.
14:23Just make sure they're a little more varied
14:25and different from this past one.
14:27I hate this.
14:28I hate this one.