WORST Tech of 2024

Matt is the best. I’ve said it before.

I, personally, am not a fan of the Meta Ray-Bans at all. They make it far too easy for some wannabe "influencer" to make a video demeaning someone in a public setting, or for some predator to film someone unsuspecting. And yes, I am aware that they have a light that goes on when filming, but electrical tape isn't even $5 at Lowe's.

I love the Mac mini, but the fact that it only comes with 256GB of storage and if you want to upgrade to 1TB it's $400! FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!

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I bought a Rabbit R1 on Marketplace for $25 and its still getting os updates but still isnt it cheif. But, they havent given up

W Matt!

I agree smart rings are pointless. Smart watch is cheaper and has way more functionality.

I definitely disagree with the Cybertruck one. Having a bulletproof truck that can go 0 to 60 in 3 seconds, have a drive itself, and is also a truck, that might be the funnest toy of the entire list

Cybertruck and AI deserve S-tier 💯%. You guys have become so jaded in your old age. The future is amazing guys! Robots and AI will take all jobs. And AI isn’t going to max out at human level, it’s going to be super-duper-mega human!

It feels like Austin isn't responding to what Matt is saying about the iPhone 16. Austin says it's his "favorite iPhone ever" but to me that's sort of meaningless. It's the newest one, so yes, technically it's the best iPhone there is, but Matt isn't saying that the 16 is worse than the 15. He's saying the jump from 15-16 is the least impressive ever, which I think is true. The flagship feature still hasn't fully launched and unlike previous releases where there were features that might make you want the new phone right away, even if you already had the most recent version, it's hard to see any reason to make the upgrade if you own an iPhone 15.

"buy 4 quest" lmao

austin is definitely a pro rokko's bassilisk guy

my ring is tattooed lol

Stubble. Austin needs a shave. The prominent ad for the ray-bans instigates cheating in a game of skill. Boo! Heh yea the cyber truck is carrying leftover meatloaf. Looks like tupperwear.

Maybe the cohost 2025 New Year’s resolution is to lose some weight😂

Gaming tech has not seen enough of a performance boost to justify a pro version of the consoles, much less talk about the next gen

The base understanding of A.I. I need is how to eliminate it from my life. A.I. is bad because of the privacy and security concerns. The purpose of A.I. isn't to make our lives better or easier; the purpose of A.I. is to data farm.

chatgpt, LLMs and other AI stuff is pretty revolutionary and amazing. The only bad thing with it is how people utilize it in wrong ways.

People who only uses iphone, should not judge other phones.

What are the benefits of AI that are supposed to outweigh the COLOSSAL negatives? I'm seriously asking. It needs to be really huge positives to outweigh the environmental impact, the way AI makes spreading disinformation and fakery much easier, the human cost of AI being used to replace artists of all kinds, the fact that AI does what it does by stealing shit that people made and there's no compensation for those that were stolen from etc. The doe-eyed "Gosh, isn't AI neat?" is getting tiresome as fuck. Saying "It's here to stay, so we need to live with it" is not only bullshit, it's basically a threat considering just how wrong things can go without human intervention. AI threatens to absolutely trample a lot of creative people and cost people jobs...just shrugging and saying "Ah well" is a shitty thing to do in the face of this unchecked nonsense.

How did we ever get a good nights sleep without gadgets?

The cyber truck should be F tear. It is a truck that can’t do truck things that would be like the new iPhone but you can’t use the internet on it automatic F

1st time watching! I LOVE the way Posty taps & plays stuff I remember from back in the day "old school" ❤

Lmao @ austins AI "endorsement"

I’m only 10-15 minutes into the video. But the Z flip and fold phones are just THE WORST. I work at a repair shop And those are the biggest headaches let alone the most expensive ones. For no reason.

When Austin spoke about the Meta Rayband glasses, it sounded like a paid commercial. All the rest of the video felt honest. I still love you. 😂🫶🏾🫶🏾

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I honestly have never ever ever personally owned an iPhone or any Apple device it feels so good to say that

the guy who dailies an iphone saying the latest model is D tier, the guy who doesnt daily an iphone defending it and saying he doesnt care about the 60hz display. you guys are all over the place.

I have a pixel 9 and it doesnt get warm.

Aron: Mellowing while yellowing. LOL!

iPhone 16 I agree is a disappointment for sure. The apple intelligence is laughable at best.

I just found you guys seven minutes ago and gave you a chance and you were 100% correct about the cyber truck and I like how you disagree on things and I’m gonna subscribe and learn and learn and learn from you guys and you’re also entertaining🎉

Austin goes full evil CEO as Matt realizes Austin will replace him with AI eventually

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S : mac mini – i personally love macs, and the capabilities of this one in such a small package is fabulous.

A : meta orion / raybans – the raybans are pretty cool, although i feel like they can do most things a phone can, and the meta orions are cool too but again, they can do what the apple vision pro or meta quest can do. on the upside, they are both sunglasses, so that sleek and lightweight design, paired with some good software is pretty nice, although i will say the orions frames are a too chunky, they need like orion slims.

B : pixel 9, samsung s24, z fold / flip 6, iphone 16 series – they’re all great phones with good specs & capabilities but they aren’t revolutionary, it’s just like every other phone that comes out each year with better features & performance, but those improvements do bump it up to B tier.

C : vision pro & cybertruck – i feel an apple version of the meta quests is so cool, and it’s got smooth interfaces, good for certain interactions too. the biggest downsides are the price and the app selection. the meta quests are pretty similar for a much lower price, with more app selection, therefore, making the apple vision pro just a sleeker gadget in comparison. the cybertruck was also cool, but too much like a regular tesla bumped up way too much in price just because it looks like a delorean.

D : smart ring, chatgpt, microsoft surface & switch 2 – the smart ring has cool and better data tracking, but again, you can get similar practicality and performance in a watch WITH a screen, and quite a few require subscriptions, add-on purchases or even accessories, which isn’t sufficient enough to give it a good score. the switch 2 isn’t even out yet but the features and performance it will have should be really good, but again, the “scam” and obsoletion does make it a D tier. chatgpt has cool features, but its controversies are quite significant. the microsoft surface is a windows laptop, which only boosts gaming, all the rest are so much better on macs.

F : rabbit r1, fisker ocean & ps5 pro – while they first 2 had good ideology, the effort in the r1 failed as it was literally just android on a pin, and the fisker oceans lack of budget meant its stupidity just couldn’t reach a decent score. on the contrary, the ps5 pro was barely even an upgrade, no new design, a way overpriced console and no effort put into making good new features.

Hi Matt 🥰

Biased about meta glasses

I have yet to see a cyber truck, sorry... LLM is however the thing I have learned to appreciate (thanks to Ollama)

Oh god so you're telling me that AR glasses will have people walking around paying attention to talking etc with surf runners or whatever that game is called playing on the side while talking to people lol.