The really really big issue here right now is supply chain issues. So this is where I am very very admiring of Tim Cook — the master of supply chain and logistics.
problems with Ricoh, Fujifilm & these Japanese companies
So it seems the real critical issue here is supply chain issues. For example, I actually wanted to buy a new Fujifilm x100 VI, and also a new Ricoh GR 3HDF … but the problem is they are all out of stock, all backordered… Even if you want to buy it, you cannot. 
Therefore, the critical issue here is availability. I want to buy it I have the money for it, but I can’t buy it! Super annoying.
iPhone Pro thoughts
Looks like Apple listen to me, my idea for a “quick draw“ idea… Made available via the new camera control thing in the bottom right corner. It is a good idea because it makes it very very quick and easy and available to quickly quickly quickly take a picture, without delay. All those other strange touch enabled exposure control stuff seems more like a gimmick, because it kind of looks like what a Samsung phone would do… Anyways, better than nothing. And also having it in the bottom right corner is a good idea because these damn iPhones are so big now… And also the ability to just make all of your apps sit at the bottom of your screen is an insanely great idea because most people have pretty small hands, their thumbs cannot reach all the way to the top.
NEW ERIC KIM APPLE TV+ SERIES: “Mastering the Art of Street Photographyâ€
So I have this pitch idea for Apple TV Apple TV+ (eric@erickim.com)– and the general idea is how can you use an iPhone, iPhone Pro etc.… To travel the world, be like Eric Kim or Henri Cartier-Bresson, and make really awesome photos? 
And also there would be a cool tie in with the iPad Pro… The new M4 one… because I might be the only one I know, the only perhaps influential serious guitar for on the planet who only uses an iPad iPad Pro… I haven’t touched my laptop in about two years?
Why the iPhone might be really good for Japan
 So currently here in LA… The metro E line is insanely great! And I have this top card which I enable through the iPhone wallet… And to simply tap to jump on the metro has been insanely useful! Going to the California science Center, the natural history Museum, even all the way to Santa Monica from Culver city has been a godsend!
Apparently right now is the best time to go to Japan. My buddy Chris Athanasiadis (Cincinnati woot!) just got back, and he remarked about how cheap it is… Even a bowl of ramen is only about five bucks.
And also the really really big news is now, You could use pasmo on your iPhone! This makes transiting around so insanely easy… And also fun fact, you could use plasma at a lot of convenience markets just to buy food and stuff?
Maybe reasons why the new iPhone is a good idea 
OK, finally the iPhone iPhone pro seems like a good idea.  for a long time, I think the iPhone pro was a gimmick, and it still might be… But finally now that Apple is merging with ChatGPT, it is actually finally useful!
Even the issue I’m having right now on my iPad iPad Pro I don’t know why… But it looks like you can no longer use voice dictation if you are not connected to the Internet or tethering? As a consequence… I’m tethering my iPhone pro to my iPhone SE and it doesn’t really work that well. Maybe they’re just going full balls to the wall, all iPhone pro everything assuming that you have a good Internet connection and the ChatGPT paid premium, only 20 bucks a month… Maybe this is the future? 
Now that Covid is essentially over… now what?
So I think we essentially just opt out of World War III, or world war 2.5. And no, Covid was not some sort of weird conspiracy theory to do population control or put 5G Bill Gates chips in your brains.
I think anyone who fall victim to conspiracy theories, even the smart ones are fools. Why? Even if you got all the ultra evil corporation people together, all the Rothschilds or whatever… And put them together in a room to plot some sort of evil plan, they couldn’t pull it off. Why? Daniel Kanhemen thinking fast and slow, the planning fallacy. You got a bunch of Harvard and Ivy League professors together in a room, trying to co-author a book together, with good intentions. And it takes them 10 years to finish what they would consider a one year book project. 
And I think that this is the best way to approach anything in life — use humor satire to playoff anything.
For example, the Katie Holmes moment… in the thank you for smoking documentary in which she asks the main guy on why he works for big tobacco as a lobbyist… He jokes and says “population control.â€
The reason why this highbrow type of humor and satire is interesting to me is because it requires you to use a little bit of intelligence higher order thinking a new ones to understand the humor behind things. Kind of like understanding South Park as an adult. Rather than taking things at face value, the way the children who don’t really understand things.