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Well, one of the things that Debbie, I would say, the Advantage+, again, just for those listeners who have heard on the show before, a lot of Advantage+ was essentially righting the ship from some of the ATT-related Apple challenges that Meta had in 2022.

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The device, developed by a couple who were former Apple employees, is a $700 two-inch square, and it's about 40 grams. It's a magnetic pin, no screen, and it sits on your chest like a Star Trek badge, says Aaron Tilley of the Journal. Good comp. It comes in two parts, a square device and a battery pack that magnetically attaches to your clothes. You control it using your voice.

Yeah, you can't exactly put it on an Apple. Sky Canaves (10:03):. I think it's been best utilized in apparel or clothing type of store scenarios. So UNIQLO has really gained a lot of traction with its boxes that you just put your clothing in and get it scanned and pay for it without having to scan each individual item. And Amazon has integrated RFID as part of its, Just Walk Out offering.

So this week, I saw a news item about Netflix quietly, maybe not so quietly, launching a games controller app in the Apple App Store. And it got me thinking, "Oh, that's interesting." It paves the way for them to allow their subscribers to play games on their televisions instead of their smartphones. And it got me thinking, just what is going on with their games business anyway?

Apple and Walmart will reportedly enter the space this year. BNPL Threatens Credit Cards. Forty-four percent of US credit card customers would consider other financing methods—most notably BNPL—for high-ticket purchases, per the J.D. Power study. And five of the top seven reasons US adults used BNPL were directly related to concerns about credit cards, per June 2022 polling by The Ascent.

This is apples and oranges, or coffee and burritos, but Starbucks did hire Chipotle's CEO. What does Chipotle have that Starbucks is trying to gain? Suzy Davidkhanian (04:42):. So I actually think it's the person they're hiring, this turnaround person, who can come and help sort of revive the chain.