JB's Podcast with Kai and Nia
A podcast focused on technology from tech products, release strategies, features, marketing, design and of course the customer.
Episodes
76 episodes
Special Episode - Apple 2026 Outlook: Apple Stepped Back on AI. That May Be the Smartest Move It Made.
Apple has quietly retreated and leaned into its strengths, taking criticism and rightly so for its lackluster AI rollout, but don't count Apple out... at all. With rumors of some 30 new devices for 2026, including entering the foldable ca...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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13:08
The Metaverse Gamble: Mark Zuckerberg’s Costly Digital Retreat
Meta's name is now almost a distant memory from Zuckerberg's efforts and foray into the metaverse. Whether it overshot thinking the infrastructure such had high speed connections throughout the world, would be enough to get people everywh...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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10:27
Google's Massive AI Ecosystem Upgrade: Gemini and NotebookLM Evolution
A significant shift in the artificial intelligence landscape, highlighting Google’s recent surge to a dominant market position. The company has moved beyond its initial struggles to launch a comprehensive AI ecosystem featuring ad...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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10:49
Showdown: Apple iPhone Foldable vs Samsung Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra Passport and Z TriFold!
Apple is truly coming to take on and take over the foldable market. Its foldable is now confirmed and it si strongly hinted at that once unfolded it may have more so of a passport shape, which interestingly there are strong rumors Samsung is de...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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8:30
AGI Coming part 2: The End of Human Thinking as Economic Value
People seem to interpret AGI as AI taking over a la Terminator SkyLink, but what it actually is, is when AI is able to outperform any given expert in a given mostly intellectual field. With AI being fed all written knowledge from books, s...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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12:02
AGI Coming part 1: The Race to Build Digital gods
Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses an existential threat more significant than previous technological disruptions... Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—an AI capable of all human cognitive labor - is creating a w...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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12:13
Samsung Z TriFold: An Impressive First Model... with some Significant Caveats
Samsung's Z TriFold is an almost surprisingly polished product. Yes it is an extension of a set of devices that have been around for 7 iterations already, yet it seems to bring it all together in a sophisticated manner. Except for the lack of s...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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11:13
Showdown Apple vs. Apple: Apple’s Executive Exodus and Inflection Point
Apple has recently seen what some may describe as an exodus of executives. A few months back it was John Ive and now Alan Dye has just left. Unlike the others, Alan's departure is celebrated by many who disliked is "glass" design ethos. In the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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11:24
Showdown (special) Alibaba vs Meta, Alibaba Has Just Entered the Smart Glasses War
Alibaba is entering the fray with its own smartglasses with a relatively lower priced product called Quark AI smart glasses. Meta may soon have to fiend with a competitor with a huge access to customers via its decades experience as the Amazon ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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9:35
Showdown: Enterprise AI vs Consumer (AI Slop?) AI vs Open source AI
The Great AI Fragmentation: How the AI landscape is splitting because of what has already been noticed by large businesses. The breakdown into enterprise-mostly platforms, consumer-first models/AI slop, and open-source ecosystems, and wha...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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11:05
The AI Depreciation Tsunami
The growing AI bubble anxiety is gripping the tech market, noting a shift from market euphoria to investor doubt due to high valuations and rising debt financing. Financial skeptics warn that the AI infrastructure buildout is being ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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13:21
Google Gemini 3: The Tectonic Shift That Could Redefine Everyday AI Adoption
With the release of Gemini 3, Google offers a suite of AI solutions that seem to point to Google possibly ending as the winner in the AI race for consumers in the US and other similar markets, as well as for a significant portion of the c...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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12:26
Showdown Tesla vs Reality! Waymo, Unitree and the lineup keeps growing
A realistic, sobering and critical assessment of the current technology landscape of Tesla, arguing that many high-valuation concepts - especially those associated with Elon Musk's companies and the broader AI sector - are based on hype and nar...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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13:13
Showdown: Meta's WhatsApp Challenges Apple's iMessage in the U.S.
The accelerating adoption of WhatsApp in the U.S., challenging Apple's dominant iMessage service among iPhone users is taking hold. Historically, Americans primarily used WhatsApp for international contacts or communicating with Andro...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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13:21
How Apple and Samsung Arguably Make Customers Pay for Beta Testing Products
How Samsung and even Apple sometimes release devices as test run and some consumers fall for these as if they are actual quality products. Samsung released the Frame Speaker which has a literal paper "screen" instead of an electronic screen tha...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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29:12
Showdown: Apple Against AI?
Apple may be roaring back without ultimately having to even develop quickly AI products of its own, in favor of doubling down on their strengths, which includes a die hard fan base, locked into their ecosystem and always ready to upgrade to the...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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9:17
Can Samsung Truly Get Bold Again With a Z Fold 8 Ultra?!
Welcome back to the first episode of our Season 3! Today, it's all about the Z Fold 8 Ultra! Samsung once innovated in a way others didn't: they thought that a large phone could be what people needed. And then the Galaxy Note line saw the light...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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9:07
Last episode of the season: Showdown Meta's Smart Glasses vs Data Centers AI Bet
Meta is in a fight against itself it seems, and this is not the first time. Remember the metaverse? For a while, that was the focus and it was a misfire costing billions. Instead of focusing on growing its social media empire. Fast forward to t...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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10:48
Showdown Microsoft & Apple vs The IT World?!
Microsoft may well be the big winner when all is said and done about the AI race. Its recent renewed cooperation and stake in Open AI ensures it is embedded in the current trajectory of the technology, while putting together an actual superinte...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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12:49
Musk's Shifting Focus Beyond Tesla. What Investors Are Missing Musk May Have Moved On From Tesla
What investors refuse to see: Elon Musk has already moved on from Tesla. The proposed trillion dollar pay incentive package is a desperate plea to keep him interested in the company. But one has to only keep tab of his interests and tweet...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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12:43
Could Apple Inc.’s Delayed AI Play Be One of Its Strongest Moves Yet? Apple's Patient AI Strategy: A Strategic Hedge
Could Apple’s delayed rollout of Apple Intelligence actually be a good thing for the company? As many of the largest tech companies invest heavily in AI and even more worrisome between each other, Apple is continuing to see its stock grow...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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13:14
Showdown Apple Vision Pro vs Samsung Galaxy XR: Is Apple baiting Samsung for a surprise release?
Is Apple baiting Samsung with its "reissue" of the Apple Vision Pro? Apple has re-released an effectively unchanged device while Samsung has proudly introduced its king awaited, and delayed return to headsets with the Samsung Galaxy XR wi...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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11:26
The AI Bubble and the Investment Loop: When Innovation Starts to Look Like Excessive Buyback
Pandora's box was significantly opened with shares buyback that have in some cases a way to hide underperformance given the perceived high demand for a given stock. Now what we're seeing in terms of AI firm investing in one another. This trend ...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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15:07
Samsung Z Fold 8 and... Z Fold 8 Ultra!
Samsung's Z Fold 7 was just released a few months ago and approximately another 9 months separates us from the Z Fold 8, yet the first rumors and leaks have started. And it seems like Samsung is encouraged by the positive response of the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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12:35
Showdown Samsung G Fold Tri-Fold vs Apple Foldable
Samsung’s Chess Move: The Tri-Fold Tease Before Apple Even Speaks Samsung is playing chess lately. After showing off its G Fold to a limited audience but letting some unofficial advertisement, the tri-fold phone is now the ta...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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11:51