GPT-5.1 Will Be Your Friend Again, Apple’s iPhone Thneed, Literal Quantum Computing

**Stephen Robles** (0:00)
The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there. Welcome to Primary Technology, the show about the tech news that matters this week. OpenAI released GPT 5.1 with a warmer, more relational tone, digital passport in the US, meaning you can add your passport to your Apple Wallet came out. The iPhone Pocket or Sock, however you prefer, came out. Jason's at Web Summit and talked to VP of Design at Adobe about their AI tools plus threads and Netflix, getting into more podcasting and a ton more. This episode is brought to you by CleanMyMac and OnePassword and all of you, the members who support us directly. I'm one of your hosts, Stephen Robles, across the pond from Jason. Joined as always by my friend Jason in Portugal. How's it going, Jason?

**Jason Aten** (0:37)
I'm not always in Portugal.

**Stephen Robles** (0:38)
No, no, not always in Portugal.

**Jason Aten** (0:39)
You're joined always by me. I'm usually, rarely. Although this is the second time we've done this show while I was in Portugal, twice now.

**Stephen Robles** (0:46)
Because we're two years into this show, we're two years in.

**Jason Aten** (0:48)
104 episodes.

**Stephen Robles** (0:49)
104 episodes, it's amazing. There's only one question I have for you right now, Jason. I need to know, I'm hoping the show might be very short. If it's not the answer I'm expecting, did you wear Apple Vision Pro on the plane across the Atlantic Ocean?

**Jason Aten** (1:03)
I did not, but I have a good reason.

**Stephen Robles** (1:04)
I'm hitting stop right now. What is the reason?

**Jason Aten** (1:09)
My good reason is I finally had to box up the M2 Mac or Apple Vision Pro and ship it off. I got an M5 Vision Pro and it is not entirely ready to go yet. So I didn't have a Vision Pro to actually use because I had to send the other one actually to someone else. I didn't even send it back to Apple.

**Stephen Robles** (1:33)
I just sent it to someone else.

**Jason Aten** (1:34)
I just put it on eBay and someone was like, no, I'm kidding. That's not true. But I wanted to get that done before I left. I didn't want that person to have to wait. Yeah. So I did not bring one.

**Stephen Robles** (1:45)
You could have set it up on the plane. Probably had Wi-Fi on that thing. Carry an extra, just carry a Vision Pro just to set it up. I cannot believe this. This is outlandish. You did tell me though that the M5 Apple Vision Pro is much faster in all the ways.

**Jason Aten** (2:00)
Incredibly faster.

**Stephen Robles** (2:01)
Let's see now, you didn't say incredibly faster before. You just said faster. But now incredibly faster. Now I'm thinking about it.

**Jason Aten** (2:06)
No, it's not fast enough for you to buy one.

**Stephen Robles** (2:07)
Okay, very okay. Thank you.

**Jason Aten** (2:08)
It is fast enough to make it much more practically useful and enjoyable when you're using it. I still don't, you have one. I don't think that you, here's the thing. You have one you never use. The reason you never use it isn't that it's slow. It's just that you don't have good use. Nothing about it being faster changes that.

**Stephen Robles** (2:24)
Well, thank you for being the voice of reason. Does it connect to Wi-Fi faster though? That's the question.

**Jason Aten** (2:28)
Yes. It boots up faster. It connects to Wi-Fi faster. It syncs with iCloud faster.

**Stephen Robles** (2:33)
Oh, my word.

**Jason Aten** (2:33)
It does all the things faster.

**Stephen Robles** (2:35)
I'm resisting. It's pretty easy to resist, actually. Almost as easy to resist as the iPhone Sock, which we'll get to. That was Apple's big announcement this week. No HomePod Mini or Apple TV 4K, just iPhone Sock. Real quick, though, because you're traveling, I did a traveling quote. The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there. What is it?

**Jason Aten** (2:54)
Yeah, so I have a question for you. Did you see that the main actor from that movie crashed a wedding, crashed a Hobbit-themed wedding in New Zealand? That's the most amazing thing if you're having a Hobbit-themed wedding and Elijah Wood shows up. It was Lord of the Rings.

**Stephen Robles** (3:11)
It's from Lord of the Rings series. I don't know which of the 718 movies it's from, but yeah, it's the Lord of the Rings quote. It's Gandalf saying it. Yes, you guessed it again. And I'm limited to the movies I can quote now because Jason said, I have to have seen the movie to quote it, which makes sense, but it's very limited. OK, because what was happening is you were just randomly Googling phrases of movies and random Indie movies that no one has seen just because the quote fit. All right, we have some exciting news and announcements. We'll get to the news, too, but primary tech pins. Listen, here's the deal. This went up for sale after we recorded last episode, but I put the link in the show notes. Some of you found it. I've been messaging you version 2 of the primary tech pin is available shipping worldwide. You can get it yourself. But here's the deal. This service, which is fourth wall, is what I'm using for the store. You have to sell at least 250 pins for them to ship. Now, some of you already bought them. We're not at 100 yet. So if you want a pin, you need to go now. It's going to be the first link in the show notes.