EP306 - Apple WWDC announcement, Generative AI, and Holiday First Look 

Apple previewed a new mixed reality headset called the Apple Vision Pro at it's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this month. Apple calls the new category spatial computing and we speculate about how it may or may not be a big deal.

We also discuss the latest Echo hardware from Amazon, which is mostly disappointing.

We discuss the rapidly evolving generative AI space and some of the commerce use-cases.

And we take a first look at Holiday 2023.

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Episode 306 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, June 8th 2023.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

Transcript

Jason:
[0:23 ] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 306 being recorded on Thursday June 8 2023 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo.

Scot:
[0:38 ] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners well it's been about a month our weekly pot has become a monthly cut pod because our lives have gotten pretty busy here in this postcode world I know you've been traveling a lot what else is new with you.

Jason:
[0:57 ] Yeah yeah it's finally feels like summer which I'm very grateful for, a lot of interesting stuff going on in the world of Commerce that keeps me engaged but I feel like the main reason our podcast is slow down is because you are an entrepreneurial mogul.

Scot:
[1:15 ] I don't know about mobile but I'll take the entrepreneur piece yeah the day job is a occupying 100 or 99 point, eight percent of my time and I used to be able to use speed like 97 and I could squeeze in more time so I podcast start button but got a there's a lot of cars out there to take care of and we're doing our best to get to all of them.

Jason:
[1:35 ] And we are grateful for it I feel like I'm I'm going back in time about six months because we've been on such a leg but I feel remiss.
There was a huge accomplishment like six months ago you were named one of the founding members of the.
Marketplace Hall of Fame.

Scot:
[1:57 ] I saw that yeah yeah.

Jason:
[2:01 ] Here's the thing I'm going to say about that I didn't know that much about it and I don't think anyone would be surprised to hear you're a founding member but like.
Don't like five names and it was like Jeff Bezos Mar Quarry.
And you and Jack Ma I'm like I'm like man you are going to be the best looking dude on that Mount Rushmore.

Scot:
[2:24 ] Yeah usually I'm I'm kind of Groucho Marx not sure I want to be in the club but this is one I was very happy to be being is like me and like three or four other billionaires all I'll take I'll take being included in that group.

Jason:
[2:39 ] Yeah yeah you don't want to be the fanciest house on the Block so.

Scot:
[2:42 ] Yeah I got a yeah I'm I'm excited I'm punching way above my weight on that list for sure.

Jason:
[2:48 ] Yeah well so anyway congratulations on that for sure I know and westerners would appreciate it and then while I'm thrilled for summer I've been a little down about one bit of news.

Scot:
[3:00 ] What is it Jason.

Jason:
[3:01 ] Disney click closed the Star Wars Hotel before you and I got to go there.

Scot:
[3:08 ] Yeah I know we could have done a live stream when this thing was announced I was excited and then I saw the price and then I saw the promo video and then I saw the reviews and you could just tell they had totally the totally whiffed on the whole thing it was.
It was it wasn't just kind of a hotel you stayed at you had to just do that thing alone you didn't have to but it was so expensive.
You're paying like two or three thousand dollars a night which I don't know this gonna be some.
Someone in California makes these decisions I guess I don't understand the the tolls of the everyday American or even the higher in Star Wars hand that's a that's a big ask and you know I'm not in the cosplay so I think they had this if we kind of put on our marketing hats they had death by a Thousand Cuts so you had to be a Star Wars fan number one number two you had to be willing to spend 5K on this fancy hotel experience number three had to be in the cause playing and then number for the experiences that people that try to gave it you know at best a.

Jason:
[4:11 ] Yeah mediocre.

Scot:
[4:12 ] Yeah it felt very Star Trek e which is definitely a problem for Star Wars fans and you know it had a lot of kind of fun Spacey kind of vibe but like not enough Star Wars so yeah but you know.
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