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Hey everybody, it's time for Coffee with Scott Adams. And yeah, the rumors are true. What you've heard is true. I'm afraid this will be the best Coffee with Scott Adams of all time. Pretty sure I'm going to nail it today.

I want to give you an update on the quality of my broadcast. I get a lot of complaints about the quality of my sound. Fair enough. But it turns out that there is a gigantic market opportunity because it turns out if I use my iPad, which I'm using now, I get really good video. But you can't do much with the sound. There's no microphone you can attach to it. There's nothing you can do. There's an internal problem with the iPad. So with the iPad you can have good video but not good sound.

If I go to my Mac laptop, I can get better sound if I connect a good microphone. But it's got a webcam that's not very good. So I have two choices: good sound or good video.

Now you're saying to yourself, "Scott, there are lots of people in the world who have figured out both of those things. They have somehow figured out how to have good video at the same time as good audio." To which I say, have they? No, they haven't. I don't think so. Because if you're live streaming, it's hard to do those things.

Now if you're doing a recorded version you can do everything in high quality. It doesn't matter if your technology is a little uh, you have some hitches in it, because you just fix it and then record it. You're fine. But if you're live streaming, everything has to work. It just has to work.

So I always make the decision to go for what is simple over what is complicated. Now the complicated solution would be to get an external camera, an external microphone, figure out the connections. Because nobody makes a good microphone that just plugs directly into your laptop apparently. So you can get little toy microphones that plug into your laptop. But if you get a nice professional one you've got to get a mixer or something to connect it.

So there's a gigantic market opportunity for someone to make a simple device that has good video and good audio and it works every time. Nobody makes that. Imagine what a big market that

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is, given that everybody's Zooming and stuff. Nobody makes that product. It's kind of fascinating, right? Because it's literally the number one thing that people would want right now: good video and good audio. Nobody makes one. It's just astonishing that Apple doesn't have a product for that. Anyway, I know I could piece it together with various parts. But when I do those things will start break…

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