Hey everyone welcome back to Nintendo Prime we got a bevy of news stories for you today including some really interesting news on a massive franchise that Microsoft wants to bring to Nintendo's Switch of all things uh and yeah some updates on Xenobite Chronicles 3 updates on a specific lawsuit that Nintendo's been involved in and so much more now before we get into it I will remind you we are giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X to 1 lucky winner all you have to do is go to the glean.io link down in the description or ping comment to enter and I wish everyone luck so our first story is actually dealing with Kit and Krista uh if you remember who Kit and Krista are or aren't aware uh they used to run Nintendo Minute for the official Nintendo YouTube channel it was a nice little show they would interview people sometimes give opinions it was basically a sort of fluff show for Nintendo uh that tried to connect with fans and they did that show for about I don't know 10 13 years they were doing it for a long time uh both Kit and Krista have left Nintendo after Nintendo closed their California office so now the only office for Nintendo America now besides obviously Retro Studios exist in Redmond Washington and they were given the option to move to Redmond Washington and they didn't have to end Nintendo Minute but they decided hey our family our friends everyone's here we're not leaving that well they have decided to return with their own podcast called the Kit and Krista podcast I will put a link to their YouTube channel for down below they also have a Patreon as well for you guys can check all the details out on it if you want their plan for this podcast we have no idea how long the episodes are going to be or if they're going to do interviews in this podcast but they are going to be talking about stories that they were unable to talk about on Nintendo Minute that they have experienced over the last 13 to 14 years uh they're going to do a classic Nintendo Minute segment in each podcast as well and then dive into other things in gaming news and in the industry because they obviously have a lot of thoughts on things that isn't just Nintendo uh so I think it's going to be really interesting to see what how this podcast evolves and how successful it can be because these are obviously two former Nintendo employees that have a decent following uh trying to just spin off and do their own thing they're basically trying to keep it going without having to leave where they are so I give them credit for that and I do hope that it all works out for them next up a massive IP is for sale this is the type of sale we don't see very often and that would be the Lord of the Rings so the Saul Zantz company has decided to sell its holdings in the Tolkien uh which is expected to fetch around two billion dollars at auction now Amazon supposedly in talks with this along with several other companies potentially in talks as well and this does include the movie and video game rights this won't affect Gollum that's scheduled to come out later this year as that's a pre-existing contract and is supposed to come to Nintendo Switch but it could impact several other things coming down the line uh right now uh the movie rights are even up for grabs because despite a different studio handling the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies they haven't done anything film-wise in a while so they've sort of lost their movie rights back to the default and the Saul Zantz company owns a majority of Tolkien holdings so it's really interesting to see uh who ends up with the rights for the TV movies video games stuff like that I wouldn't be surprised if disney's may be in talks as well although um we'll see if that's even something the FCC would approve after they obviously got their hands on Marvel and Fox but we'll have to wait and see how it all turns out but for right now it is up for sale I don't think we need to think Nintendo's probably gonna get involved in this it's too much money for Nintendo to consider for a single IP but hey we'll see what happens down the line next up we have brand new details for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 uh courtesy of the games director Tetsuya Takahashi so let's just jump right into everything he said because it's quite long just over four years since the release of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and one and a half years since the release of Xenoblade Chronicles definitive edition we now bring you news regarding the latest game from Monolith Soft Xenoblade Chronicles 3 as the name indicates it is the third installment in the Xenoblade Chronicles series we are currently making the final adjustments to ensure we make it the best game possible based on everything we've learned from the past games from the series the key visual features a broken greatsword of Machanus and the body of Yuriana Titan with big gaping hole I imagine everyone who saw the trailer was quite surprised by the final scene what is this visual hinting at I can't reveal that yet what I can tell you is this visual was conceived quite some time ago more precisely speaking we came up with it sometime between the end of development of Xenoblade Chronicles and the beginning of development of Xenoblade Chronicles so it's not something we recently added to the series we believe the game will be enjoyable for both those who have played Xenoblade Chronicles and or Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as well as those who will be playing Xenoblade Chronicles game for the first time the characters were designed by Matsuda Yuga Seto who also designed the characters for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 while we can't show them to you at this time Tachi Magutani created some of the key artworks as you can see familiar staff members to the Xenoblade Chronicles series have once again come together to create this game the game music was also handled by artists who have contributed to the series in the past the music for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was composed by Yusamori Mitsuda Manami Kayata Ace Tomakura Chico Kenji Haramatsu and Mariam Abunzer the music in this game maintains a unique Xenoblade Chronicles touch while also taking on a new challenge namely that of integrating as its motif a flute based melody the flute is actually one of the key themes in this game a variety of other elements and themes are hidden in the trailer will be revealing the details bit by bit going forward Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is a brand new adventure bringing together the worlds of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 to take the players into the future while there is still some time left before the release these look forward to it and obviously this is going to build a lot of hype for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 they did reveal a ton of details of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 heading into launch so I expect them to do the same here looks like they're going to be drip feeding through these blog posts maybe press releases obviously trailers and all that as well all the way up to release yeah I don't know if this is going to be the final installment this you know monolith soft tends to do like a three game installment technically we would be fourth games in Xenoblade Chronicles X which was a spin-off I'm not sure what we consider that but yeah um we'll see if this is the last Xenoblade Chronicles game there is but I do expect this to be the end of the current chapter of Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and 2 so this is going to be this is going to be a great way to see how they want to end this story so next up we have the conclusion of a lawsuit with the government and Nintendo against team executor hacker extraordinaire Gary Bowser last we talked about this the update was that the federal government was trying to get five years imprisonment against Gary Bowser to set an example that this sort of behavior stealing games hacking products like this is frowned upon and definitely illegal well they did not get their five-year wish but they did get 40 months Gary Bowser has been officially put in jail now for 40 months which is just over three years you got to let me know if you think this is a fair punishment remember he already owes 15 million dollars worth of fines I owes 5 million to Nintendo and 10 million no wait no 5 million to the government and fines 10 million to Nintendo and damages so let me know if you think this is is fair the two other cohorts of team executor right now are not in custody they have a bunch of pending lawsuits against them as well so maybe we'll have more updates on this story down the line but you guys let me know what you think about this was this a just and fair punishment you think it's too much do you think it's not enough I mean that's that's a valid thought process as well next up I want to tell you guys that all of the big games are seemingly all the big games from yesterday's Nintendo Direct are now up for physical pre-order at many retail it's not all of them have it up the one that we're going to talk about ourselves is just one because we we have a special deal going on between Nintendo and Best Buy at the moment where if you use our affiliate link we actually get a 14% kickback on your pre-orders or really any purchase you buy for Switch so down in the description or the pinned comment we're actually going to put up all of the affiliate links for the Best Buy physical versions of all the big games yesterday from Nintendo Switch sports this was two three Kirby etc all the big ones are up there Mario Strikers the new Fire Emblem Warriors game they're all there so if you were looking to buy those games anyways obviously we encourage you to use our affiliate links and help support the channel without hey you're not donating you're just something you're going to buy anyway so why not give us a small kickback obviously you don't have to use our affiliate links you can go ahead and pre-order at your favorite retail outlets I'm sure Amazon has them up target GameStop etc as well but we're just going to link to our affiliate link because hey you know what why not try to support our channel I don't know you guys you guys could literally am I begging you to Nate don't do this don't be begging people to use your affiliate I don't care get the game wherever you want guys buy it on the eShop in fact Nintendo Switch sports is cheaper digitally than physically physically you get the leg strap digitally you don't so they're only charging you 40 so I mean if you don't care about the leg strap technically you should just buy digitally but hey you know what some people need that physical card and our final story is a bit of an interesting one um this was something that kind of slipped under the radar yesterday and we had a Nintendo Direct so we weren't really going to talk about this yesterday but Phil Spencer put out an interesting update on their purchasing acquisition of Activision Blizzard and their intense moving forward with games especially major IPs like Call of Duty and what's interesting isn't so much that he's you know basically reassuring that beyond currently existing contracts they plan to bring Call of Duty as an example to PlayStation and stuff moving forward it's comments he made specifically applies to Nintendo Switch that I find most interesting since Activision Blizzard hasn't exactly been the greatest supporter of Switch we did get Overwatch we have gotten like you know Crash and Spyro but we we don't get the big IPs although I mean the Overwatch is pretty big and we're supposed to get Overwatch too but in general we don't get their biggest IPs on Switch and that might be changing because Phil Spencer said something that I thought was really shocking we'd like to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo devices we'd like to bring other popular titles that Activision Blizzard has and ensure that they continue to be available on PlayStation and that they become available on Nintendo namely invest more in innovation bring it to more people bring it to more platforms make it even more useful and hopefully delightful for the people who use it now obviously the PlayStation stuff is just maintaining current ways that Activision Blizzard works but the idea that they want to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo and other big Activision Blizzard games to Nintendo as well I find that to be utterly fascinating because again Activision Blizzard has basically been avoiding Nintendo like the plague but was that because Bobby Kotick was making those decisions and he was the one deciding Nintendo switch wasn't worth investing in whereas Phil Spencer has raw sales data of things like Cuphead to look at things like Ori to look at and probably realizes there's a really big untapped audience on Switch for these games so why the hell are we avoiding them and it sounds like under Microsoft's tutelage Activision Blizzard might be actually getting better at being multi-platform instead of becoming more inclusive to Microsoft at least for the really big IPs so I find that to be really interesting that at least starting the Phil Spencer his goal is to get Activision Blizzard Ring Call of Duty and all their other big IPs to Nintendo Switch or future Nintendo platforms that to me is exciting and a very interesting twist of fate here obviously there's a lot of just trying to get the sale approved by the FCC and minds can change down the line and I do expect certain Activision Blizzard games to eventually be exclusive to Xbox Game Pass platforms but I do think that they might see a benefit in Call of Duty the same way they did with Minecraft to keep it a multi-platform experience and if that's the case hey if we're going to keep Call of Duty always infinitely multi-platform then why the hell don't we put this on Switch I don't know why Microsoft is going this way but I'm really happy about it and I think they just see untapped sales potential that Call of Duty could bring the Switch because there's not really a lot of games military shooter-wise that would compete with it I don't know it just makes a lot of sense they brought Call of Duty Black Ops to literally the Wii U and that platform flopped so why the hell not bring it to Switch I understand downgrades and all that who cares right Fortnite's massively successful on here every game that's basically come over has been massively successful so hey you know what Phil I like where you're going with this and I really really hope that you stick to your guns and get Activision Blizzard to deliver a high quality Call of Duty port to Switch all right folks I am Nathan de Rubble Jans from Nintendo Prime one of you guys so much for tuning in it's been a lot of fun today and I'll catch you in the next video


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From the SiliconANGLE Media Office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante. Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of theCUBE Insights powered by ETR. In this breaking analysis, I want to do a quasi-post mortem on AWS re-invent and put the company's prospects into context using some ETR spending data. First, I want to try to summarize some of the high-level things that we heard at the event. I won't go into all the announcements in any kind of great detail. There's a lot that's been written out there on what was announced, but I will touch on a few of the items that I felt were noteworthy and try to give you some of the main themes. I then want to dig into some of the spending data and share with you what's happening from a buyer's perspective in the context of budgets and will specifically focus on AWS's business lines. And then I'm going to bring my colleague, Stu Miniman, into the conversation. And we're going to talk about AWS's hybrid strategy in some detail and then we're going to wrap. So the first thing that I want to do is give you a brief snapshot of the re-invent takeaways. And I'll try to give you some commentary that you might not have heard coming out of the show. So to summarize re-invent, AWS is not big on rinsing and repeating. They have this culture of raising the bar, but one thing that doesn't change is this shock and awe that they do of announcements. It comes out each year and it's obvious. It's always a big theme. And this year, Andy Jassy really wanted to underscore the company's feature and functional lead relative to some of the other cloud providers. Now the overarching theme that Jassy brought home in his keynote this year is that the cloud is enabling transformation. Not just teeny incremental improvement. He's talking about transformation that has to start at the very top of the organization. So it was somewhat a challenge and an appeal to enterprises generally versus what is often a message to startups at re-invent. And he was specifically talking to the C-suite here. Now Jassy didn't say this, but let me paraphrase something that John Furrier said in his analysis on theCUBE. He said, if you're not born in the cloud, you basically better find the religion and get reborn or you're going to be out of business. Now, one of the other big trends that we saw this year at re-invent and it's starting to come into focus is that AWS is increasingly leveraging its acquisition of Antiperna with these new chipsets that give it higher performance and better cost structures and utilization than it can with merchant silicon and specifically Intel. And here's what I'll say about that. AWS is one of the largest, if not the largest customer of Intel's in the world. But here's the thing, Intel wants a level playing field. We've seen this over the years where it's in Intel's best interest to have that level playing field as much as possible in its customer base. You saw it in PCs, in servers, and now you're seeing it in cloud. The more balanced the customer base is, the better it is for Intel because no one customer can exert undue influence and control over Intel. It's the cons, Intel is a consummate arms dealer. And so from AWS's perspective, it makes sense to add capabilities and innovate and vertically integrate in a way that can drive proprietary advances that they can't necessarily get from Intel and drive down costs. So that's kind of what's happening here. The other big thing we saw as a latency what Pat Gelsinger calls the law of physics. You know, well, a few years ago, AWS, they wouldn't even acknowledge on-prem workloads. And Stu and I are going to talk about that, but you know, clearly sees hybrid as an opportunity now. I'm going to talk more in detail and drill into this with Stu, but a big theme of the event was moving outposts closer to on-prem workloads that aren't going to be moving into the cloud anytime soon. And then also the edge, as well as for instance, Amazon's wavelength announcement that puts outposts into 5G networks at major carriers. Now another takeaway is that AWS is unequivocal about the right tool for the right job. And you see this really prominently in database where I've counted at least 10 purpose built databases in the portfolio. AWS took some really indirect shots at Oracle maybe even direct shots at Oracle, which, you know, Oracle treats Oracle database as a hammer in every opportunity as a nail and antithetical to AWS's philosophy. Now there were a ton of announcements around AI and specifically the SageMaker IDE, specifically SageMaker Studio, which stood out as a way to simplify machine intelligence. Now this approach addresses the skill set problem. What I mean by that is the lack of data scientists to leverage AI. But one of the things that we're going to be watching here is it's going to be interesting to see if it exacerbates the AI black box issue, you know, making the logic behind the machine's outcomes less transparent. Now all this builds up to what we've been calling next-gen cloud. And we're entering a new era that goes well beyond infrastructure as a service and lift and shift workloads. And it really ties back to Jassy's theme of transformation where analytics approaches new computing models like serverless, which are fundamental now as a security and a topic that we've addressed in detail in prior breaking analysis segments. AWS even made an announcement around quantum computing as a service. They call it bracket. So those are some of the things that we were watching. All right, now let's pivot and look at some of the data. Here's a reminder of the macro financials for AWS.  In this chart, I've showed before, but it's AWS's absolute revenue and quarterly revenue year on year with the growth rates. It's very large and it's growing. That's the bottom line. But growth is slowing to 35% last quarter, as you can see. But to iterate or reiterate, we're looking at a roughly $36 billion company growing at 35% a year and you don't see that often. And so this market is still as a long way to go. Now let's look at some of the ETR tactical data on spending. Now remember, spending attentions according to ETR are reverting to pre-2018 levels and are beginning to show signs of moderation. This chart shows spending momentum based on what ETR calls net score. And that represents the net percentage of customers that are spending more on a particular platform. Now, here's what's really interesting about this chart. It shows the net scores for AWS across a number of the company's markets comparing the gray, which is October 18 survey with the blue, July 19 and the yellow, October 19. And you can see that workspaces, machine learning and AI, cloud overall, analytic databases, they're all either up or holding the same levels as a year ago. So you see AWS is bucking the trend. And even though spending on containers appears to be a little less than last year, you know it's holding firm in the July survey. So my point is that AWS is really bucking that trend from the overall market and is continuing to do very, very well. Now this next slide takes these same segments and looks at what ETR refers to as market share, which is a measure of pervasiveness in the survey. So as you can see, AWS is gaining in virtually all of its segments. So even though spending overall is softening AWS in the marketplace, AWS is doing a much better job than its peers on balance. Now, the other thing I want to address is this notion of repatriation. I get this a lot as I'm sure do other analysts. People say to me, Dave, you should really look into this. We hear from a lot of customers that they moved to the cloud now they're moving workloads back on-prem because the cloud is so expensive. Okay, so they say you should look into this. So this next chart really does look into this. What the chart shows is across those same offerings from AWS, so same services, the percent of customers that are replacing AWS. So I'm using this as a proxy for repatriation. Look at the numbers, they're low single digits. You see traditional enterprise vendors overall business growing in the low single digits or shrinking, AWS's defections are in the low single digits. So, okay, now look at this next chart. What about adoptions? If the cloud is slowing down, you'd expect a slowdown in new adoptions. What this data shows is the percent of customers that are responding that they're adding AWS in these segments, so there's a new platform. So look, across the board, you're seeing increases of most of AWS's market segments. Notably in respondents citing AWS overall at the very right most bars, you are admittedly seeing some moderation relative to last year. So that's a bit of a concern and clearly something to watch, but as I showed you earlier, AWS overall that same category is holding firm because existing customers are spending more. All right, so that's the data portion of the conversation. Hopefully we put that repatriation stuff to bed and I now want to bring in Stu Miniman to the conversation. We're going to talk more about multi-cloud hybrid on-prem, we'll talk about outposts specifically. So Stu, welcome, thank you very much for coming on. Thanks Dave, glad to be here with you. All right, so let's start with multi-cloud and dig into the role of Kubernetes a little bit. Let me sort of comment on how I think AWS looks at multi-cloud. I think they look at multi-cloud as using multiple public clouds and they look at on-prem is hybrid. Your thoughts on AWS's perspective on multi-cloud and what's going on in the market. Yeah, and first of all Dave, I'll step back for a second. You talked about how Amazon has for years had shots against Oracle. The one that Amazon actually was taking some shots at this year was Microsoft. So not only did they talk about Oracle, they talked about customers looking to flee their SQL customers and I lead into that because when you talk about hybrid cloud, Dave, if you talk to any analyst over the last three, four years and you say, okay, what vendor is best positioned in hybrid? Which cloud provider has the best solution for hybrid cloud? Microsoft is the one that we'd say because there's strong domain in the enterprise of course with Windows, the move to Office 365, the clear number two player in Azure and they've had Azure stack for a number of years and they had Azure pack before that. They'd have a number of offerings. They just announced this year Azure Arc. So three, we've had at least three generations of hybrid multi-cloud solutions from Microsoft. Amazon has a different positioning. As we've talked about for years, Dave, not only doesn't Amazon like to use the words hybrid or multi-cloud for the most part, but they do have a different viewpoint. So the partnership with VMware expanded what they're doing on hybrid. And while Andy Jassy, he at least acknowledges that multi-cloud is a thing. When he sat down with John Furrier, head of the show, he said, well, there might be reasons why customers either, there's a group inside that has a service that they want, that they might want to do a secondary cloud or if I'm concerned that I might fall out of love with the primary supplier I have, I might need a second one. Andy said, and not so, just exactly, said, look, we understand multi-cloud is a thing. Now, architecturally, Amazon's positioning on this is that you should use Amazon and they should be the center of what you're doing. You talked a lot about outposts, outposts critical to what Amazon is doing in this environment. And we're going to talk about that. So, but you're right, Amazon doesn't like to talk about multi-cloud as a term. However, and by the way, they say that multi-cloud is more expensive, less secure or more complicated, more costly and probably true, but you're right. They're acknowledging at least, and I would predict just as hybrid, which we want to talk about right now, they'll be talking about, they'll be participating in some way, shape, or form, but before we go to multi-cloud or hybrid, what about Kubernetes? So, right, first of all, we've been at the KubeCon show for years. We've been watching Kubernetes since the early days. Kubernetes is not a magic layer. It does not automatically say, hey, I've got my application, I can move it willy-nilly. Data gravity is really important. How I architect my microservices solution absolutely is hugely important. When I talk to my friends in the app, Dev World, Dave, hybrid is the way they are building things a lot. If I took some big monolithic application, I start pulling it apart. If I have that data warehouse or data store in my data center, I can't just migrate that to the cloud. David Floyer for years has been talking about the cost of migration. So, microservice architecture is the way most customers are building. A hybrid environment often is there. Multi-cloud, we're not doing cloud bursting. We're not just saying, oh, hey, I woke up today, and cloud A is cheaper than cloud B, let me move my workload. Absolutely, I had a great conversation with a good Amazon customer that said two years ago, when they deployed Kubernetes, they did it on Azure. You wanna know why? The Azure solution was more mature and they were doing Azure, they were doing things there. But as Amazon fully embraced Kubernetes, not just sitting on top of their solution, but launched the service, which is EKS, they looked at it and they took an application and they migrated it from Azure to Amazon. Now, migrating it, there's the underlying services and everybody does things a little bit different. If you look at some of the tooling out there, great one to look at is HashiCorp has some great tooling that can span across multiple clouds. But if you look at how they deploy to Azure, to Google, to AWS, it's different. So you gotta have different code, there's different skill sets. It's not a utility and just generic compute and storage and networking underneath. You need to have specific skills there. So Kubernetes, absolutely, when I've been talking to users for the last few years and saying, why are you using Kubernetes? The answer is, I need that eject lever so that if I want to leave AWS, with an application, I can do that and it's not, press a button and it's easy, that easy, but I know that I can move that because underneath the pods and the containers and all those pieces, the core building blocks are the same. I will have to do some reconfiguration as we know with a migration. Usually, I can get 89% of the way there and then I need to make the last commitment. So it's a viable hedge on your AWS strategy. Okay. Absolutely and I've talked to lots of customers. Amazon shows that most cloud Kubernetes solutions out there are running on Amazon and when I go talk to customers, absolutely, a lot of the customers that are doing Kubernetes in the public cloud are doing that on Amazon and one of the main reasons they're using it is in case they do wanna, as a hedge against being all in on Amazon. Let's talk about outposts specifically as part of Amazon's hybrid strategy and now their edge strategy as well. Right. Azure Stack I mentioned earlier from Microsoft has been out there for a few years. It has not been doing phenomenally well. When I was at Microsoft Ignite this year, I heard basically certain government agencies and service providers are using it and basically acting, delivering Azure as a service. But Azure Stack is basically an availability zone in my data center and Amazon looked at this and says that's not how we're going to build this. Outposts is an extension of your local region. While people look at the box and they say, oh, I took a picture of the box and it was like, hey, who's server and what networking card and the chipset and everything? I said, hold on a second, you might look at that box and you might be able to open the door but Amazon is going to deploy that, they're going to manage that. Really, you should put a curtain in front of it and say, pay no attention to what's behind here because this is Amazon gear. It's an Amazon as a service in your data center and there are only a few handful of services that are going to be there at first. If I want to even use S3, day one, the Amazon native services, well, you can just use S3 in your local region. Well, what if I need special latency? Well, Amazon's going to look at that and see what's available. So it is the Amazon hardware, the Amazon software, the Amazon control plane reaching into that data center and very scalable. It's, Amazon says over time, you should be able to go to thousands of racks if you need. So absolutely that cloud experience closer to my environment, but it's where I need certain applications, certain latency, certain pieces of data that I need to store there. And we've seen Amazon dip its toe into the hybrid on-prem market with snowball and green grass and stuff like that before, but this is a much bigger commitment. One might even say capitulation to hybrid. Well, right. And the reason why I even say, this is hybrid, but it's all Amazon. It is not take my private cloud and my public cloud and tie them together. It's not, I've taken clouded customer or IBM solution where they're saying, I'm going to put a rack here and a rack there and it's all going to work the same. It is the same hardware and software, but it is not all of the pieces. And VMware, and I'll post, is hybrid. Really interesting, Dave, as the native AWS solution is announced first here in 2019 and the VMware solution on Outpost isn't going to be available until 2020. Draw what you will. It's been a strong partnership. There are exabytes of data in the VMware cloud on AWS now, but yeah, it's a little bit of a Amazon- Quo, I think is what you call this. I'd say Amazon is definitely, we're going to encroach a little bit on your business and we're going to woke you into our environment too. Okay, let's talk about the Edge and Outpost at the Edge. They announced WaveLength, which is essentially taking Outpost and putting it into 5G networks at carriers. Yeah, so, right, Outpost is this building block and what Amazon did is they said, this is pretty cool. We actually have our environment and we can do other things with it. So sometimes they're just taking pretty much that same block and using it for another services. So one that you didn't mention was AWS Local Zones. So it is not a whole new availability zone, but it is basically extending the cloud, multi-tenant. The first one is done for the TME market in Los Angeles and you expect, how does Amazon get lower latency and get closer and get specialized services? Local zones are how they're going to do this. The WaveLength solution is something that built specifically for the telco environment. I actually got to sit down with Verizon. This was at least an 18-month integration. Anybody that's worked in the telco space knows that it's usually not standard gear. Neb certification, there's all these things. It's often even DC power. So it is leveraging Outposts, but it is not them rolling the same thing into Verizon that they did in their environments similar how they're going to manage it. But as you said, it's going to push to the telco edge and in a partnership with Verizon, Vodafone, SK, Telecom and some others that will be rolling out across the globe. They are going to have that 5G offering and it's a little bit, I actually buy it from Amazon but you still buy the 5G from your local carrier. It's going to roll out in Chicago first and enabling all of those edge applications. Well, what I like about the Amazon strategy at the edge is, and I've said this before on a number of occasions on theCUBE, break analysis, they're taking programmable infrastructure to the edge. The edge will be won by developers in my view and Amazon obviously has got great developer traction. I don't see that same developer traction at HPE, even Dell EMC proper, even within VMware. Now they've got Pivotal, they've got an opportunity there but they've really got a long way to go in terms of appealing to developers whereas Amazon I think is there obviously today. Yeah, absolutely true Dave. When we first started going to the show seven years ago, it was very much the hoodie crowd and all of those cloud native. Now as you said, it's those companies that are trying to become born again in the cloud and do these environments because I had a great conversation with Andy Jassy on air Dave and I said, do we just shrink wrap solutions and make it easy for the enterprise to deploy or are we doing the enterprise to disservice? Because if you are truly going to thrive and survive in the cloud native era, you've got to go through a little bit of pain. You need to have more developers. I've seen lots of stats about how fast people are hiring developers and I need to, it's really a reversal of that old outsourcing trend. I really need IT and the business working together, being agile and being to respond to the leverage data. It's that hyperscaler mentality that Jassy has. We got engineers, we'll spend time on creating a better mousetrap on lowering cost whereas the enterprise, they don't have necessarily as many resources or as many engineers running around. They'll spend money to save time so your point about solutions I think is right on. We'll see, I mean look, I never say never with Amazon. We've seen it certainly with on-prem hybrid, whatever you want to call it and I think you'll see the same with multi-cloud and so we watch. Yeah Dave, the analogy I gave in the final wrap is finding the right cloud is like Golgi Locke's finding the perfect solution. There's one solution out there, I think it's a little too hot and you're probably not smart enough to use it just yet. There's one solution that yeah, absolutely you can use all of your credits to leverage it and we'll meet you where you are and it's great and then you've got Amazon trying to fit everything in between and they feel that they are just right no matter where you are on that spectrum and that's why you get 36 billion, growing at 35%, not something I've seen in the software space. All right, Stu, thank you for your thoughts on, and thank you for watching this episode of theCUBE Insights powered by ETR. This is Dave Vellante for Stu Miniman. We'll see you next time.


My phone shattered huge and apparently this is me. I think it's 16 millimeter 2.8 Lens for my Sony E-mount camera. It's actually from Charming Charlie's Good morning guys. It is May 9th, and it is about 10 30 a.m. Right now We are just chilling outside the Apple store 30 minutes earlier than it opens because My phone shattered me and my mom actually went to North quay mall yesterday because we thought a sprint store was in there And it said on yelp that it was in there But it wasn't and we went to sprint store kind of like far away from North quay mall and then we Found out that we could get it done at Apple in the same day because sprint doesn't do iPhone 7 plus is in store I just thought that was the best bet just because I didn't want to send my phone away for like three to five days But they had a loner phone, but it was a 5s I thought they were gonna give me like a 7 plus and not to be like picky or anything But it's like a big difference than having like a big phone and then getting like a loner phone that that that's like this tiny Compared to it, so it's just like honestly. It's not even like worth it. So we are at the Apple store bright and early I brought some Cuties for us to eat and Ryan's peeling them for me. Thank you. Thanks Hey They look so good in orange. Are they good?  Oh my god. Avalon has changed so much. They literally built so much more. It's crazy So there's a roomies kitchen here now where we went for our four-year anniversary and mean My parents used to go there all the time and this Apple store behind me guys you you would die Like it is so cool They have like a really big TV in there I Don't want to film it but hopefully you guys can see it It's huge and it looks so like high quality to but this morning we went to the gym and We did fun cardio For fun cardio to be played basketball. So I can have a horse and it's basically if I made a shot And she missed it I make her do something and if like I made a shot and then she made it then she make me do something another way around and She was that first person to make us both do one when she wanted to get in shape Aren't you proud of me? For you lost 25 pounds. Yeah, I freaking wish I Just need to like actually lose weight this summer and try to be healthier just because I don't have a meal plan I lost three pounds. No, that's not fair. How do boys just like lose weight that easily? That's not fair. You see the girls who was pretty bad to the place. Oh, yeah, that's true Also, these apartments in Avalon are beautiful of that one Yeah, with like all those windows up there. I don't know it just like looks like very modern So that's Rumi's kitchen over there and they're like still adding on to this place That's like a little seafood shack over there and more buildings. I think those are office buildings, huh? There are more apartments. Did you say they made a hotel? And apparently this is me Have you asked him for his autograph, that's what you're gonna get Who is So my iPhone is fixed it looks more beautiful than ever it was cracked ever since we went to spring break together in Destin and it wasn't that bad so I was like honestly I don't want to get it fixed because I know I'm probably gonna crack it more so it cracked yesterday at the gym And so I was like, uh, it's kind of bad, but I'm really happy it got fixed.  I think I think I did tell you It was just like a day that we were both busy and I was like I'm going to best buy member Okay, well, yes, I did because I was like that's the fastest I've been in best buy and walked out With like something in my hand Well, anyways, I got the I Think it's 16 millimeter 2.8 lens for my Sony E mount camera and Basically, it's like the same amount of wide angle as my other vlogging kit lens But it has a little bit more blur in the background. I just like love the blur So I saw this package sitting on my counter and I was like, hmm. Who's that for it was for me? I was like, hell, yeah, so it is actually from charming Charlie's Let's see what's in it. This is what it looks like It feels like it's snakeskin, but it's actually cardboard, which is really cool So this is what it looks like inside. I see that I got a bag. I think this is a bag So let me open that first I also have like really bad allergies. Like even if I step out in the sun for like two minutes It's annoying. So this one says that no one likes a shady beach. That's actually really clever This is like the perfect size for like towels and just like water to bring to the pool or the beach I'm gonna open these little packets up. These are really fun So this is what I just pulled out of that pink pouch. These are super cute and super summery They kind of just remind me of like summer or get-togethers, you know, the like colorful lights that some people have on like their decks They just like remind me of them if they're like lanterns or something. So that's really cute And I wanted like more statement earrings. So this is the next thing. It's like a necklace with this like Circle thing here. It's like super edgy. Honestly. Oh my god. Yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I've been wanting one of these for so long I just didn't really want to get myself to like buy it at like Francesca's because Francesca's is, you know Expensive for jewelry. This one's only $14, which is a lot cheaper than Francesca's Oh, and it's magnetic really easy to put on by yourself I always have like hard time like putting on bracelets So that's why I always like the like stretch bracelets so you can just like put your arm in them This video isn't sponsored by Charming Charlie's. They just decided to send me some goodies and thank you guys so much I'm always looking for like more jewelry to wear because I love accessorizing my outfits I think that makes or breaks your outfit. I looked online and their prices are really affordable So if you're going through recruitment or even on the inside of recruitment, you should definitely look at the jewelry because it's kind of like Not like super preppy But you know like the statement earrings and like really just nice quality jewelry for like an affordable price But I am starving right now. So I think I'm gonna try to make myself an omelet I think this might be the first omelet. I've ever made by myself So please pray for me because I don't I don't know what I'm gonna do. I did fail. It still looks really good Hey guys so it's actually the next day and I just wanted to like put this in the vlog really quick because I didn't really explain that We went to the future concert last night and I thought I was just like so rushed and like tired I fell asleep in the car So I totally forgot to vlog it But I did get some clips of like the concert, which is kind of boring and lame I know Brian had a fun time, right? He got to see his favorite So I'm gonna insert some clips really quick of the concert I'm gonna end this vlog right here and start a new one because today we are making a DIY Headboard for my sorority house twin Excel bed So if you guys are moving into like a dorm or anything that has a twin Excel Or I mean any size bed, but I just have the measurements for the twin Excel So I'm really excited to make it. I've been wanting to do a headboard for a really long time ever since I knew I was gonna move Into Katie so it should be really fun and I feel like I haven't done a DIY video in a while But I am gonna vlog it not like the big camera just cuz like you know, it's just easier So I will see you guys in my next video. Bye guys


What is up you guys, welcome back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I'm Goldpony under new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the new 2022 Subaru Outback, courtesy of Apple Subaru in York PA for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so we are in this one today because there is one major change for the 2022 Outback. We actually do have it here today and I'll go over that in a second. But of course you got the best all-wheel drive system in existence really with any Subaru as well. So if you live in a colder climate, like I do here in Pennsylvania and it snows out, this is the one you're gonna wanna be at. And so in this video, I will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering throw, ride quality, exhaust clip, sound system, all of that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. Let's let me first start by saying there are eight different trim levels for the new 2022 Outback, which is the very most I've ever seen I believe. But anyways, and so having said that, I don't feel like ravelling off all of those prices to therefore I'm just gonna put them all on the screen right now, feel free to pause it if you wanted to take a closer look. But do wanna mention that one major change is going to be the wilderness trim level. And that actually is the one we have today. And so I will of course be going over everything about this one. But nonetheless, there are two different engine configurations belonging to all of those trim levels. First one is going to belong to the non-XT trim levels and the non-wilderness trim level as well. Being a 2.5 liter direct-injected, horizontally opposed Subaru boxer engine, putting out 182 horsepower at 5,800 RPM, 176 pound feet of torque coming in at 4,400 RPM. Power of course sent to all four wheels. They're Subaru's legendary symmetrical all-wheel drive system. Power sent to the ground through a linear Tronic CVT, zero to 60 time for this one. Approximately 8.7 seconds with MPG numbers coming in at 26 in the city, 33 on the highway taking regular unleaded fuel. But to them there is the other engine configuration belonging to the XT trim levels and our wilderness trim level that we have today. This one is going to be a 2.4 liter turbocharged, horizontally opposed four-cylinder boxer engine, 260 horsepower at 5,600 RPM, 277 pound feet of torque, coming in at 2,000 RPM. Power sent to all four wheels once again through a linear Tronic CVT with paddle shifters, which we will test out in a little bit here, zero to 60 time on this one.  That's kind of impressive on paper. We of course will be testing that in a little bit here, but MPG numbers coming in at 23 in the city, 30 on the highway for the XT trims, but that wilderness is actually going to go down to 22 in the city, 26 then on the highway taking regular unleaded fuel though once again, which is a good thing. But anyways, before we do that acceleration test or the paddle shifter test, I did want to mention X mode, which is a cool little off-road driving mode setup that Subaru does. It essentially increases all-wheel drive system engagement and it also uses enhanced control of the VDC system to help reduce individual wheel spin, let's say if you're going off-road. So that is a pretty cool little setup there. Did want to also mention though, in addition to that, the Onyx ST model is going to add to that X mode a snow and dirt mode and deep snow and mud mode. And then the wilderness is going to add in addition to that low to medium to high speed functions to that then as well. So it keeps getting better, right? But anyways, now having mentioned all that, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway and let's put the paddle shifters here to the test. By the way, there is a manual shift mode to use that. You simply just slide the shifter to the back and to the left that is going to display what simulated gear that we are in up on the gauge display there. And I say simulated because we have a CVT of course. So anyways, having said all that, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find that straightaway. Let's put the paddle shifters here to the test and let's see how quickly they're going to react for us here. All right, you guys, here we go. Whoa, nice. All right, a couple of things with that. First off, paddle shifters definitely react very quickly, they're instantaneous, which is a good thing, kind of surprised me because again, this is a CVT and that's the second part. Didn't feel like a CVT there. This actually simulated an automatic transmission quite nicely, which is a good thing because typically with CVTs, it's kind of this rubber band kind of style transmission and it's kind of emotionless, but I gotta be honest when you're using the paddle shifters, it simulates an automatic very, very nicely. So if that was something that you're into and the CVT bothers you, the paddle shifters are definitely a good way to go because that actually surprised me. A lot of times CVTs aren't that good in simulating automatics like this one just did there for me. So well done, Subaru. Anyways, let's now get back full control to the outback. I'm just going to slide the shifter back to the right. Therefore, the outback now is full control again and let's go ahead and find yet another straightaway. Let's put this thing into the test and let's see how quickly we can get this one here up to speed. All right, you guys kind of an uphill climb here, but three, two, one. It feels quick. It feels dang quick. Definitely not going to have any issues merging onto the highway. Definitely surprised me. This is a kind of an SUV so to speak. So really you don't expect that quick of an acceleration in vehicles like this, but even with the CVT, it felt good. Like this is a dang good acceleration for the outback without a doubt. I like this engine configuration that we have here today. So well done yet again. So anyways, to go along with that acceleration, as always, braking is equally important.  As far as that 60 to zero stopping distance goes, that is going to come in at 130 feet. As far as the braking feel goes, it's not bad, a little bit on the softer side, but it's definitely not a bad thing for a vehicle like this. It's pretty much as expected. So braking feel is perfectly fine. And touching on suspension and handling upfront, you're going to get an independent strut type front suspension with lower L arm in the back, double wishbone type rear suspension, of course front and rear stabilizer bars. As far as ride quality goes, I kind of wondered at first because we got a race suspension, we got larger all terrain tires, which I'll go over all that in a little bit here, but having said that, I didn't expect the ride quality that we have here today. This almost rides like a luxury vehicle, believe it or not, even with all of that. So well done Subaru. The ride quality is kind of brilliant for what this vehicle is to be quite honest. Definitely sucking up Pennsylvania's road imperfections very nicely here in the outback. So well done. Steering feel is pretty much on par for the course. It's weighted a little bit on the heavier side, definitely not loosey-goosey, like you tend to get with some SUV. So I do appreciate that for sure. As far as cabin noise goes, yet again, very serene cabin. Subaru did a very good job with isolating a lot of the exterior wind noise and even the road noise as well. And again, with the larger tires, it didn't expect that. So overall, as far as driving dynamics go in general, Subaru did a very, very good job with this one. I gotta give it to them. And as far as visibility goes, I can see perfectly fine out the back. So 100% not gonna have any issues there either. But that about rounds out the performance segment of this review, you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2022 Subaru Outback. All right, and so here she is, you guys, the new 2022 Subaru Outback finished in Ice Silver Metallic. In case anybody was curious of our exterior color name here. Let me go ahead and start with ground clearance because we have a heck of a lot of it here in our wilderness trim. And it's gonna differ amongst the trim levels. So for every other trim level but the wilderness, you're actually going to get 8.7 inches of ground clearance. But with this particular trim that we have today, that bumps it up to 9.5 inches. So definitely a good bit up there if you were planning on doing some off-roading. And there's more to that, of course, as far as the off-roading goes. And I'll touch on that as we go on. But let's go ahead and start up front of this one. The LED steering responsive headlights are going to come standard across the board. Meaning when you're going around a bend at night, those headlights are going to swivel based on the direction of your steering angle, better help illuminating what is around that bend. So that is definitely a big perk and something you do not find standard with other manufacturers out there. So I love that automatic feature. Also coming with that, meaning when it starts to get dark at night, those headlights are going to turn on automatically for you there. And also when you turn the windshield wipers on, again, the headlights are going to turn on automatically for you there. Again, another feature usually doesn't come standard on other manufacturers. That's pretty cool. LED fog lights are going to come on all trim levels and they're actually going to be a hexagonal style if you were to go with the wilderness. You guys can see that down below there on the bottom portion of the front bumper. And since I keep touching on it, as far as that wilderness trim level is going to add also a front skid plate down below, redesigned front and rear bumpers for improved approach and departure angles, copper accents throughout, not only on the exterior, but the interior as well. You got some wilderness badging found on both the front doors. That is a pretty cool little accent there. Anti-glare hood design. You guys can see the matte black on the center portion of the hood there. And front and rear tow points then as well. So a pretty good amount. And I'll get to the wheel and tires. You do have that. It's going to be a little bit different with the wilderness too. But speaking of, let's now go ahead and make our way to the side of the outback. All right, so now since we are around to the side, raised roof rails will come standard on every single trim level across the board. Slightly different design, of course, to the wilderness trim that we have today. Rear privacy glass coming with the premium trim level and up, chrome windows surrounds coming standard with the exception of the wilderness that is going to give you black windows surrounds of course. Outback lettering found on the side skirts. I've always liked that touch. It will be silver unless you go with the wilderness and then you're going to get the copper tone to it. As far as the side mirrors go, they are black folding side mirrors with the base. Then the premium trim level and up is going to give you body colored side mirrors with integrated turd signals with the exception of the Onyx which is going to give you a black silica finish to the side mirrors. The Touring is going to give you satin chrome and the wilderness once again is going to give you a black finish. So it's going to be a little bit different again amongst the trim levels there, but chrome inserts found in the door handles can be found with the Touring trim level only. Otherwise they're going to be body colored and taken a look down at the wheel setup. Again, differing slightly amongst the trims, 17 by seven inch aluminum alloys for the base, premium and wilderness trims. And the wilderness trim is also going to add in addition to that all terrain tires which you guys can clearly see right here for some off-roading and actually a full-size spare as well. It's the only trim that's going to give you a full-size spare as opposed to your traditional spare, I guess you could say. Then also all other trims are going to give you 18 by seven inch aluminum alloys down there below. But that about rounds out the side of this one. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around back of this one matte black shark fin antenna found all the way to the top just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light just below that rear window wiper LED tail lights coming standard on this one and just below it all. We do have dual exhaust outlets tucked away. So having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around back of the outback when it comes to opening that rear tailgate there is a hands-free power tailgate coming with the limited trim level and up and it is going to be optional on the premium but there are a few different ways to go ahead and open that. Of course it is hands-free like I said there is a button on the key fob itself there is a button on the tailgate itself and there is a button by the driver's side left knee then as well but once opened up cargo capacity comes in at 32.5 cubic feet. If that was not enough space there is a 6040 split meaning the rear seats do fold down bumping that up substantially to 75.7 cubic feet and it's actually decent amount and being honest for the outback I will say that cargo cover back there coming with the premium trim level and up there are grocery bag hooks back there tie down anchors and little bit of inflow storage not much but a little bit inflow storage also a removable cargo tray area and some cargo lighting back there as well and again the full-size spare at least on our wilderness trim level back there but then making our way up to the rear legroom that is going to come in at 39.5 inches so for reference I mean even six feet tall this is how much space I had in the rear seats there plenty of space for me. Rear center are matched with cup holders also coming standard rear ventilation also standard front seat back mac pockets of course coming standard heated rear seats actually coming with the limited trim level and up so we do have that here I love that especially being here in Pennsylvania it does get quite cold so that is definitely a big selling feature for us here in Pennsylvania at least but dual rear USB charging ports coming with the premium trim level end up you don't always get that in SUVs believe it or not so I do love that it's on our outback here today so pretty much everything you could possibly want back in the rear seats there but then making our way to the front seats manual adjustable cloth seating coming with the base power front seats coming with the premium trim level and up heated front seats coming with the premium trim level and up as well if you want a ventilated front seats go with one of the touring trim levels soft tech seating is going to come with the Onyx and the wilderness so that is currently what we have here today and didn't want to mention in addition to that we do have some Subaru wilderness badging found in the headrest of our outback I thought that was pretty darn cold leather seating coming with the limited then Napa leather seating coming with the touring trim levels and actually overall when it comes to seat comfort it's been perfectly fine for me here today so no issues there and take a look at the steering wheel it is tilt and telescoping it is leather wrapped if you were to go with the premium trim level and up and it will come heated if you were to go with the touring trims or the limited XT that's how you're going to get that heated steering wheel but didn't also mention you got the copper accents towards the bottom portion only if you go with the wilderness trim so otherwise you're not going to get that but now let's go ahead and make our way to the startup let me first start by showing you guys the key all of your buttons located on one side of the key lock unlock the button pop the rear hatch by the way the unlock button is going to be the Subaru logo in the middle there in case anybody was curious but essentially it is all keyless entry with the push button start if you go with a limited trim level and up it is going to be optional then for the premium so therefore all I'm going to do here simply put my foot on the brake and press that engine start button located just by the driver's right knee then and some of them once started up through these gauges will do a full sweep tachometer is all the way to your left speedometer on your right and then there is a digital display front and center giving you information like your outside temperature average MPGs in any given time small digital speedometer located front and center as well and your trip a trip base it pretty much everything you could possibly want within the gauges there then taking a look at overall interior quality power moonroof is going to come with the touring trim levels the limited XT and optional on the other trim levels with the exception of the base I should say overhead sunglass holder coming standard across the board homely controls for the limited trim level and up and that's going to be for up to three different garage doors located just below the rear view mirror there which also has a compass by the way that is pretty darn cool automatic climate control coming with the base outback dual zoom climate control coming with the premium trim level and up overall as far as interior quality goes it is dang good if I'm being honest there is this cool texturized finish which I absolutely love located right around the door handle here you usually never get that it's usually a boring black plastic so I love how they texturized that it's so cool a lot of soft touch material there is this really cool tag that says Subaru wilderness found on the doors as well they didn't have to put that there but I love the little accent there find that dang cool just like to put the Subaru wilderness in the headrest portion of the seating too lot of copper accent stitching just above the passenger side glove box you got a little bit of rubberized storage so things don't slide around as well as that cool texturized finish that you found on the doors located kind of surrounding that that is pretty darn cool just in front of the shifter you have a wireless phone charger two USB charging ports auxiliary port and a lecture mechanical parking brake all of that is very nice just behind the shifter you have some nice soft touch material with some black stitching that is very nice dual cupholders very beefy cupholders I will say for extra large drinks it looks like and within the center arm has the decent amount of storage with the 12-volt power outlet but overall, what I got to say with the Outback is the finishes are really really good well it's a lot of times manufacturers have the option to skimp on some of the finishes and they just leave it black or great plastic Subaru didn't do that here with the Outback and I love that not only that the thought of the extra things as well especially with the wilderness trim like the little tags here on the doors I absolutely love that and all the copper accents of course to go along with that so overall tier quality is absolutely 100% on point here in the Outback but then let's make our way to the tech because it keeps getting better 7-inch color touchscreen display coming with the base 11.6-inch color touchscreen display coming with the premium trim level and up and I will say for that reason alone I would recommend the premium trim level and up because this 11.6-inch screen is pretty darn cool and actually this is where you're going to access X-Mode in case I haven't said that already Bluetooth and audio streaming coming standard Android Auto Apple CarPlay so if you have a smartphone just hook it up to the Outback you have free navigation displayed up on that large screen so that is pretty darn cool factory navigation system if you wanted it coming with the touring trims and also the limited X-T as well and pretty much this is basically everything you could possibly want up on this infotainment screen including the climate control settings found in the bottom portion of that if you wanted to you actually have some car information up here as well like what current angle the car is facing so if you're going up a mountain it's going to tell you what that incline angle is going to be that is pretty darn cool I love that and like I said you can check out your X-Mode information actually let me show you guys that real quick you just hit the little car button up there then within X-Mode you can choose that snow dirt normal or deep snow and mud so that is pretty cool I like that that is up there you do have the option to turn on or off that auto start stop system so I know that annoys some people not everybody but if you do want to turn it off that is how you're going to go ahead and do that so that's always good and you can actually turn off the stirring responsive headlights apparently as well which is interesting I'm not sure why you would ever want to turn this off but that is an option as well and you can check out your radio information by the way and when it comes to the sound systems four speakers coming with the base six speakers coming with the premium Onyx and wilderness that we have today then if you were to go with the limited or touring trends you will get a 12 speaker harming card and sound system with 576 watts that's going to be the crazy one but nonetheless we do have the six speaker sound system here in our wilderness so what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity this one gotta be honest guys that six speaker sound system may be one of the best six speaker sound systems I've heard in quite a while clarity is 100% on point base was decent not the very best but base was actually decent for a six speaker sound system as well and actually a lot better than even some of the eight speaker sound systems that I've heard recently so that's not bad for a six speaker sound system I did want to say that so if you're considering the wilderness but then hesitant because of the sound system that's not that bad I gotta be honest but last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on that infotainment screen is when you do put the outback in reverse you of course will find a rear view camera letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead us into safety and so let me first start by saying IIHS top safety pick plus which is the very highest designation given by IIHS so that pretty much says it all right there front side side curtain airbags do come standard driver's knee airbag as well in addition to that a front passenger seat cushion airbag those two you don't always get so I want to emphasize them in the back you're going to have latch AKA lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats rear child door locks tire pressure monitoring system but also Subaru iSight coming standard on every single trim level so that gives you adaptive cruise control with lane centering pre-collision breaking lane departure and sway warning link keep assist and high beam assist as well and then if you were to go with the limited trim level and up that is going to add in addition to that blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert lane change assist and reverse automatic breaking then as well as overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the outback if you love to off-road the wilderness trim is really where it's at when it comes to ground clearance when it comes to those all terrain tires and everything else when you put it all together that is a pretty darn cool feature because I know a lot of people modify the outback to make it what the wilderness trim now is so that is pretty darn cool if you ask me love the tablet style infotainment screen front and center 11.6 inches that is quite large so I absolutely love that as well again great ground clearance you got the best all-wheel drive system in existence that has been proven over and over again so if you live in a cold climate especially like I do here in Pennsylvania we get a ton of snow this thing is going to trek through it with absolutely no issues whatsoever as far as room for improvement goes really the only thing I could think of is typically I'll say the CVT but the CVT isn't that bad so I can't really say that in the outback to be quite honest it does simulate an automatic quite well digital gauges maybe I'll say that digital gauge clusters that are coming out today are completely customizable it can change the colors you can change the look wouldn't mind seeing that in the outback but really that's about it this one is finished great on the interior quality everything else is actually pretty darn good but anyways let me know what you guys think of the outback in the comments section below that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching for if you're following me on TikTok at the bottom of the screen there if you wanted to see short clips of these vehicles before they actually get to YouTube be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're in your new car reviews that is what we've been doing here for over six years now do appreciate you guys watching more than you know when I will see you guys all in the next video stay gold


This actually has an arm device in it all right as very pie nice now open so hi So who are you? My name is Phillip Funkhouser. I'm the CEO founder and inventor of roller It's the world's first mobile rollable digital display. This is rollable. This is rollable at the end of the night I'll simply detach it from the hook here. I'll roll it down into the tube It rolls into the tube and it'll be protected during transport Our technology is all about the tube here regardless of what type of display that's in the that we can acquire whether it's Whether it's Samsung's micro led or LG's OLED screen and it looks really cool from also from far away It's like really a bright absolutely earlier in the day when the when the lights dimmed This whole area was lit up brightly by our sign in the corner It was even more bright than you see it today right now. How bright are you north of a thousand nits? We haven't run any real testing on the brightness yet, but This is a prototype. We're looking at Working possibly with companies like Home Depot who want to keep feet in the store Keep people on the aisles looking at products And this is a perfect opportunity to put the sign exactly where they want it For the amount of time that they want it and then move it to a different location This one is nineteen hundred and twenty pixels. It's sixty pixels high by thirty-two pixels wide We have a raspberry pie in here that I've written some software. You can't see it I have a cellular modem by hologram which could operate in a hundred and forty plus countries to Deliver content from our signage partner PI PI signage PI signage PI signage is a company that offers cloud-based delivery of scheduled Images to a raspberry pie enabled sign typically they work with Companies that are buying off the shelf 1920 by 1080 displays We've just taken their software and integrated our code which allows it to be written to The to our display So you are a startup or we are a startup right now. We're operating out of Atlanta, Georgia I was originally founded as a project and out of Georgia Tech and Recently we've acquired this display and began Displaint taking it to different shows. We were at CES and now we're here at SID So what's next next is to take the fine-tuning that we've learned over the last month and a half on the mechanical design and Begin selling it So if you're looking for a sign that can help your business keep get people in the door This is the type of sign that you could set right outside of your store and with for instance that Pumpkin you just saw was at a I was at a Starbucks running a demo and a person saw that pumpkin on the Sign and walked right up and ordered a pumpkin spice latte and they said this is May We don't have pumpkin spice lattes until until October. He said well. I just saw it on your sign And they said we don't know who that guy is He's just been visiting us here lately And so I almost got myself kicked out of Starbucks, but it shows the real power of whatever's on this sign really gets people's attention What's going to be the price hopefully we're looking at a price starting price of 1599 for the Wi-Fi enabled version that would Cover you not for the software you'd the software would be additional charge Is it easy to add different graphics and just absolutely absolutely I can whatever What you do is you upload the images you want on the display in a 1920 by 1080 format I've actually used PowerPoint as my go-to software right now. I orient everything in a in a sideways orientation I upload it upload the PNG's to To the cloud-based software pie signage and once it's in in the pie signage Software, then I just simply distribute it to this sign that I want it to go to nice That's that's pretty cool. And it's Attention-getting which is the most important thing for the trade Absolutely that the sale is not made on the sign the sales made by Attracting the people to your booth and then the conversation that it that you have when you're talking to somebody face-to-face That human contact is really what's important for making the the sale happen So whether it's a sign for Starbucks or Home Depot or whether it's a trade show sign We feel like we have an optimal solution for getting you a digital sign at the place you want it At the exact moment you need it


As a geologist, I've had a lot of surprises in the field, but I never expected that a field excursion to a remote corner of Tibet would lead me to a new appreciation for the biblical story of Noah's Flood. But there in the headwaters of the Brahmaputra River, we discovered evidence for how a wall of ice and mud descended the flanks of a 25,000-foot-high peak to block the river, and this glacial dam backed up an enormous lake on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. And as you might imagine, ice does not make for a very good dam, and when the dam failed as it inevitably would have, it set a wall of water surging down the biggest, deepest gorge on Earth. When I told this story about our discovery to a local farmer's wife, an interpreter related her reply. Yes, she knew all about our big ancient flood, and she even pointed to a point high on the valley wall, where three boats apparently had been stranded. It turns out that the Lamas of the local temple had told her about how Guru Rinpoche, the guy who brought Buddhism to Tibet, had fought the demon at the lake, defeated it to drain its waters and reveal the fertile valley bottom that her village now farmed. Did Tibetan villagers really have an oral tradition of our ancient flood? Well, I was intrigued, and this got me interested in looking into the origin of other flood stories from around the world. As a geologist, like most geologists, I considered such stories fairy tales, enrooted in superstition. But as I started to look into other flood stories, I started to realize that an awful lot of areas that had geological evidence for really big ancient floods also had deep cultural traditions of flood stories. And for example, if you look at tsunami-prone coasts, there's traditional stories of large floods that rose from the sea, from Chile all the way up to Alaska and on Pacific Islands from Hawaii right on across to South Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia. And at the end of the last Ice Age, when all the glaciers melted off the poles, and sea level rose enough that the Mediterranean overtopped the Bosporus to spill into what's now the Black Sea and inundate a fertile valley right next door to the Mesopotamian roots of the biblical flood story. I was astonished. Could science really be playing catch-up to folklore? Well, as I looked further into the story of Noah's flood, I was in for another surprise. It turns out that science and religion have not always squared off in polarized conflict. Indeed, some of the first geologists framed their view of the world, and indeed, their interpretation of their data through the story of Noah's flood. You might even say that Noah's flood served as the first geological theory. Steno, the Catholic bishop that is widely revered as the grandfather of geology, developed his foundational principles for how to read the rock record, that the oldest rocks in a stratigraphic pile, a pile of sedimentary rocks, are found at the bottom, the youngest ones are found at the top. He then interpreted his field observations by invoking Noah's flood. Steno's thinking was greatly influenced both by his deep personal religious faith and also by the long-standing tradition in Christian theology that we could learn things from studying the natural world through the application of reason, what we now call science. It turns out Steno was not alone. He was not unusual. He was more the norm than an exception. Most early geologists were also clergy, and they were perfectly comfortable wearing both hats. And as they applied Steno's principles to unraveling the geological story of Northern Europe and Europe, they discovered that the rock record told a story that was far more involved and complex than laid out in the biblical stories of the creation and Noah's flood. Their thinking was basically involved in how you could look at the world through the lens of religion and science and that there was not inherent conflict between the two. Indeed, the first professor of geology at Oxford, William Buckland, argued in his inaugural address at Oxford about that the biblical flood story was backed up by the geologic record. Indeed, what else he argued could explain the large out-of-place boulders that you could find laying all around Northern Europe. It turns out that as he studied the geologic record over the next several decades, he found increasingly conflicting evidence and finally decided that there was no geologic signature of Noah's flood. And indeed, by the late 19th century, geologists had laid to rest the idea of a global flood. Theological and scientific opinions converged on the realization that rocks that make up our world tell a very longer and more elaborate story than laid out in Genesis. Fast forward now to the 21st century and public opinion polls consistently indicate that about 40% of the American public believes creationist ideas that fly in the face of geological evidence. Ideas like the world is less than 10,000 years old and that people and dinosaurs live together in harmony in the days before a world-wrecking flood. Well, I was even more surprised to realize that creationism, modern creationism, is one of the most recently evolved forms of Christianity. Not even the original fundamentalists of the early 20th century did not believe the discredited idea of a global flood. I wonder how many of today's creationists know this. Well, why is all this important today and relevant? Well, we have always and always will interpret the world around us through what we believe and what we can see for ourselves to be true, the filter of faith and the lens of reason. Now, it's for Noah's flood, we know it was not a global flood, but it could have been a local flood or regional flood. It might have been the flooding of the Black Sea. It could have been a catastrophic Mesopotamian flood. I don't think it actually really matters. But if we look at the history of thinking about Noah's flood, it reveals the power and value of an open mind and how both reason and faith shape the evolution of science and religion. And I can't help but think that portraying a fundamental conflict between science and religion is particularly dangerous today now that we really need new creative solutions to basic social and environmental problems if we're gonna maintain civilization on this rock in space. And I'm pretty sure that if you think you know everything, you will never learn anything. Thank you very much. Thank you.