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425: ‘Through the Wall Like Kool-Aid Man’, With Chance Miller

 

00:00:00   chance miller is good to see you at wwdc a couple weeks ago we ran into each other a couple times

00:00:05   state of the union and then we both got shuttled off on our separate golf carts right afterwards

00:00:11   no opportunity just to sit there and chat no but we could talk about that later we've got some

00:00:16   breaking news before we sort of rehash the highlights of wwdc 25 we we've got a couple

00:00:25   of breaking news items i want to i want to talk about let's lead with the trademark dispute

00:00:31   and i'm laughing yeah between io and io and i just this morning before we recorded blogged

00:00:42   on daring fireball perhaps i'm not paying close enough attention but this is the first i've heard

00:00:47   of i yo the two names certainly the two names certainly sound alike but they don't look alike

00:00:54   are homophones trademarkable question mark and then i left it there and a friend of mine said

00:00:59   you know your wife is a lawyer so i went and asked but she's not her expertise is not in trademark law

00:01:05   she she was a criminal lawyer but she did say that that if this is a surprise to open ai and love from

00:01:13   that they're it's they've been criminally underrepresented yeah and so i added i would expect

00:01:20   a terse letter from coca-cola's lawyers if i tried selling coke under the name k-o-k-e but i'm i'm laughing

00:01:29   because as i podcast i realize just how similar i o and i y o are when you say i o and i yo yeah

00:01:42   you can't it's not easy to discern the difference there and like you i had never heard of i y o until

00:01:50   i saw this news last night yeah and i couldn't even tell you what i y o duh it's a voice ai audio

00:01:57   computer yeah so i think that's part of the problem it is like an ai hardware product right so the verge

00:02:03   says they're a spinoff from google's moonshot unit and i think that's got to contribute to

00:02:11   sort of the animosity i mean i you know even if it was three guys in a garage and not a spinoff from

00:02:17   google maybe they would feel threatened because here here's their description from i yo dot audio

00:02:25   i yo one is a revolutionary new kind of computer without a screen it can run apps just like your

00:02:34   smartphone the key difference is you talk to it through a natural language interface so we don't

00:02:40   know what the love from io is making except that that description of the i yo one does sound like a lot

00:02:51   like what people's guess is yeah i i mean i can't help but laugh i mean all of these hardware

00:03:00   ai products at least right now that you could read me the description of almost all of them and i

00:03:05   wouldn't be able to tell you who made which one because they're all some sort of like egg circle

00:03:09   shaped thing mostly without a screen with microphones that listen to you all the time there's not enough

00:03:15   differentiation on the hardware side of things yet to know which is which and to know if anybody wants

00:03:21   the sam altman johnny ive thing comes out would be able to differentiate between i yo and io i just

00:03:27   sent you a screenshot i don't know maybe we'll put it in the album art here so people can can see it

00:03:33   on the podcast but on their website in terms of how do you capitalize i yo oh yeah in in the header

00:03:41   in the header up top they have a lowercase i a lowercase y and a capital o over on the sidebar for the

00:03:50   overview they capitalize the leading i lowercase the y uppercase the o and then in the body text

00:03:59   it's all lowercase all three letters are lowercase and i noticed on their takedown page open ai

00:04:06   capitalized it one way and then the verge uppercased it a different way now i see that maybe it's not

00:04:13   sloppiness on their part i don't think io themselves knows how they want to uppercase it if you scroll down

00:04:20   further down the page there's a another section and it's capital i capital y capital o capital o

00:04:26   every permutation possible of capitalization is somewhere on this page every it really is it you

00:04:33   just keep scrolling it it just keeps being uppercase differently maybe that maybe that's something they

00:04:38   can use in trademark court yeah um it's kind of embarrassing though really i dread anything like this

00:04:47   i remember when we launched vesper we we did some kind of name search and i think we did file a

00:04:54   trademark to get a trademark on a note-taking app but after we launched i spent like the first month

00:05:00   just nervously wringing my hands every morning looking at my email thinking is there going to be

00:05:05   something from somebody saying this is a trademark violation i hate this sort of stuff but i can't help

00:05:12   i think i don't know it seems like the sort of thing when you work at apple or a big enough company it's

00:05:20   nice because you've got like a veritable army of lawyers and you just bluster right through

00:05:26   remember the whole thing before the launch of the iphone there was rampant speculation that apple was

00:05:34   about to announce a phone but nobody really knew what it was and it compared to today and how much

00:05:40   stuff leaks out of apple all we knew is that it was going to be a phone and it was just sort of

00:05:46   deafening silence though on what it was but people were speculating because at the time they'd name

00:05:54   everything i whatever that they would call it iphone and everybody was like yeah they can't call it iphone

00:05:59   cisco has a trademark on that and during the the keynote introduction when after steve jobs introduced

00:06:06   it he says and we're calling it iphone that's right and it's like i don't know what they did before the

00:06:15   announcement with cisco i don't know what i've never heard the backstory on that like did they reach out

00:06:20   or they're just like screw it we're gonna call it iphone we'll we'll deal with cisco after i don't

00:06:24   know but they just blustered straight through that brick wall like kool-aid man well it's 2025 and

00:06:31   apple is still battling some sort of trademark thing about iphone in brazil i think yeah where

00:06:37   a company igb electronica filed for an iphone trademark in 2000 and was granted it in 2008

00:06:45   so a year after apple's iphone came out and then i guess this is what last month a federal court ruled

00:06:53   in favor of igb electronica in a unanimous decision so that battle is not over apparently at least in

00:07:01   brazil which is just says so much of what you need to know about this trademark system yeah yeah that

00:07:08   it's global you have to fight each of these battles independently but from an open ai standpoint too the

00:07:14   the fact that a the fact that they let this slip through and didn't consider that there is another

00:07:19   ai hardware product with a very similar name and b then the way that i found out about this news

00:07:26   yesterday was first people speculating that the deal between open ai and johnny if had been scrapped

00:07:32   right open i didn't seem to be proactive in saying here is why we removed the blog post here is why we

00:07:39   removed all references to the deal it was kind of people thought the deal was scrapped and then open ai

00:07:43   community open ai comms came and it's like no no no no it's because of this the deal is still very much

00:07:49   on so they kind of screwed both sides of that yeah it was yeah it was a i was because it was a sunday i

00:07:57   was sort of offline or trying to be offline but i caught wind of sort of the tail end of the speculation

00:08:06   that hey maybe the whole deal fell apart because every reference to it has been disappeared without

00:08:11   explanation you know it was like a 404 instead of a terse explanation so that it wasn't hand

00:08:18   that that yeah the takedown of it doing it on a sunday all of it seemed handled very poorly it should

00:08:24   have i don't know but i mean it's water under the bridge i guess i mean yeah you know within two hours

00:08:30   everybody figured it out but it is kind of i don't know what's the word ignominious it just is very

00:08:36   very very strange and it's unclear what they're going to do because i have to say i mean again i'm

00:08:43   not a trademark lawyer but it does seem i don't know like i mean it's not just a company called i

00:08:48   yo they they literally make an ai talk to it device so i don't know they may they may be in trouble here

00:08:54   uh speaking of legal stuff it just reminds me this is sort of a tangent and you know it contradicts my

00:09:01   statement that apple can bluster its way through any kind of legal dispute is the ongoing what's

00:09:07   international trade court thing with the apple watch and the blood oxygen sensor in the u.s which

00:09:14   i think is heading towards year two at this point right like the entire the actual case is heading

00:09:21   towards like god only knows like year five or six but it's coming up on it would be two years this

00:09:27   december that the blood oxygen sensor has not been available on the apple watch in the united states

00:09:33   right which when this case began i don't think anybody i certainly didn't expect it to go on this

00:09:40   long i didn't expect it to ever be removed i thought they'd make a midnight deal the biden administration

00:09:45   would step in and veto it just like obama did in the samsung case in 2008 or whatever but no

00:09:50   18 months at this point yeah and then there was a thing where the founder the company that holds the

00:09:59   the patent on this is massimo and massim massim yeah something like that well m-a-s-s-i-m-o massimo

00:10:07   massimo and there was some kind of internal dispute where the board threw out the founder and ceo and i just

00:10:15   spitballing thought i don't know maybe that's what it will take to settle this and maybe that's even

00:10:21   the reason maybe the board is looking i mean because again i've never heard of massimo i mean i know they

00:10:27   make some kind of dedicated blood oxygen sensor devices but i would imagine that some sort of

00:10:33   settlement that's not a lot of money to apple might be a significant amount of apple to them

00:10:38   and would make good business sense and i thought maybe the backstory is this guy

00:10:44   who's the founder is just such a zealot for the righteousness of the cause of his invention or his

00:10:52   company's invention that the money doesn't matter to him he he wants to be proven correct and that the

00:10:58   board is like uh let's take the money and run but they got rid of him and still no difference and it's very

00:11:03   very strange like so with the series nine watches from 2023 you could there were a couple of months

00:11:12   where you could buy them and i guess you could buy them up until christmas like somehow apple negotiate

00:11:17   right that was a big deal yeah where and they announced that it was like i don't know it was

00:11:23   like christmas eve or something i it was like very very close to christmas like but they were like if

00:11:28   you buy your apple watch in the u.s before december 23rd or maybe the 24th yep you'll get the blood

00:11:35   oxygen feature and if you buy it after you won't and the series 10 watches and like the black ultra 2

00:11:43   from last year have never had the feature in the u.s nope i mean my interpretation is that they still have

00:11:49   the hardware to enable the feature but software it's disabled yep so yeah theoretically anytime

00:11:56   it can flip the switch but it's very funny have you ever asked apple pr about that about whether the

00:12:02   hardware is in the watch i have they don't say they won't they won't acknowledge they won't acknowledge

00:12:08   the existence of this ongoing case at this point no it was christmas of 23 because i remember i was

00:12:18   working very closely with apple pr on that stuff because it was such a big story right and we were like

00:12:24   me and my wife were going to her family's for christmas eve and i was like i got to bring my

00:12:27   laptop i don't i don't think is biden gonna veto is apple gonna settle is something gonna happen it was

00:12:32   hilarious that it all fell during that important shopping season and that somehow they timed it to not

00:12:38   to not miss out on those days of sales yeah i it's and it's i don't know i just never would have

00:12:47   predicted that we'd be in the start of summer 2025 and it would still be ongoing it's very strange but

00:12:53   when i've asked apple about it in person or in email it is the non-answer of non-answers whether

00:13:00   the hardware's there i think it's almost certain that it is i'm sure like i fix it or somebody would

00:13:07   take it i mean there's no reason not to right it doesn't even make any sense i'm sure it's not

00:13:11   a super expensive component and they would if they settle of course they'd want to enable it instantly for

00:13:18   customers you know so it wouldn't make sense not to but for some reason they won't say

00:13:23   that the sensors are in there but inert in the u.s models i don't know why

00:13:28   very strange i i just felt like i should add that because i feel like if i didn't

00:13:35   somebody you know a hundred listeners were going to say apple doesn't win every case look at the blood

00:13:40   oxygen thing but there we go the apple watch has been a point of legal trouble for them for a lot

00:13:46   of reasons and patents and stuff because there was also the alive core case which is another

00:13:50   health startup of some sort and that dispute was over the heart monitoring features in the apple watch

00:13:57   and apple won that case but i've always wondered in the back of my mind if they had lost that case the

00:14:03   heart monitoring features of the apple watch are so important magnitudes more important than the

00:14:09   blood oxygen sensor in the apple watch surely they would have just had to pony up whatever a live

00:14:14   court wanted yeah they would have had to just license the patents or something yeah well i'm glad i'm not a

00:14:20   lawyer the other breaking news story sort of i guess it's from over the weekend but there was this bizarre

00:14:27   very strange story where apple launched a convince your parents to get you a mac short film and online

00:14:35   promotion you know and then the big prominent web page you know it makes sense kids are graduate high

00:14:43   school seniors are graduating i'm sure it's a common i guess most of them have already graduated but it's

00:14:49   june it's time to get going off to college laptops so they launched a campaign with a seven and a

00:14:56   half minute short film starring martin hero hero hereley he from uh early he i don't know how you

00:15:02   pronounce his name no idea from saturnate lives please don't destroy trio who makes the digital short

00:15:10   films they launched it and a day later they again sort of like io just took it down swept it under the rug

00:15:19   very strange i've seen very mixed reactions to the video i mean it is very out of character for apple to

00:15:28   release something so it's kind of deadpan and kind of it's i can't i've been struggling with how to

00:15:35   describe and i've seen people describe it as cringy and it is cringy to a degree but that's the point

00:15:40   it's not cringy in a bad way right it's like deliberately oh yeah and i watched it as soon as

00:15:47   it came out and i thought it was fine i mean it's not the funniest thing you'll ever watch but i thought

00:15:53   it was funny to see an apple marketing campaign in such a different light than what we usually see

00:15:57   yeah yeah i mean i like i don't think it's funny and i think that that's a problem because it's supposed

00:16:05   to be funny yeah but unlike the ipad ad where intimately where they put a bunch of musical

00:16:14   instruments and artistic materials into a i don't know a compressor compactor yeah and crushed it all

00:16:22   down crushed it all down and out came a super thin ipad pro and people were and i thought that the

00:16:30   reaction to that was overblown to be honest i'm pretty sure i'm taking a consistent stance two years

00:16:36   later that they weren't being disrespectful to those things i i think i think the outrage surrounding

00:16:46   that ad was performative but i also think the timing yeah i think that i don't think it was a great

00:16:53   problem yeah but they wound up pulling the ad and then tour merv hold i forget how you pronounce his

00:17:02   myron i think myron yeah myron tour i'll just call him by his first name he's the head of marketing

00:17:09   communications at apple and issued an apology that uh not not groveling but just sort of hey we missed

00:17:17   the mark on this one sorry about that still kind of weird you know for a company that most people would

00:17:23   hold up as one of the best advertising companies in the history or at least in recent decades sort of

00:17:31   weird by my account the convince your parents to buy you a mac ad is the fourth thing they've had to pull

00:17:37   in the last year there was what else was there there was the crushed one with the ipad there was one

00:17:43   that was part of their it's called underdogs series which is like apple at work kind of like apple

00:17:48   enterprise type thing and that was pulled because people said they were misrepresenting thailand i

00:17:55   think and kind of portraying thailand as being underdeveloped and behind the times right and that got an

00:18:01   official apology from apple too yeah which was rare then there was oh and of course the apple

00:18:07   intelligence ones for personal siri and siri and app actions and all that good stuff yeah yeah so i

00:18:15   forgot about that i knew there was something some kind of undercurrent of a bunch of retracted ads or

00:18:21   pulled ads yeah and i i can't believe the ai one in particular didn't pop into mind i guess that's it's

00:18:27   like such a separate issue that it's almost like a different class you know it's funny though thinking

00:18:32   about the ai ads the one that obviously is getting the most attention and is actually the subject of

00:18:38   the false advertising suit is the one ad where bella ramsey is shown using the siri personalized

00:18:48   knowledge feature that had to be postponed a full year back in march where she says hey what was the

00:18:55   who was the guy i went to the cafe with three months ago and siri pulls it up and says that was zach

00:19:01   and she's like oh yeah zach i remember the one that i didn't like was also with bella ramsey was the

00:19:07   one where she has a meeting with like i don't know who it's supposed to be but it's somebody and and

00:19:15   they're like did you read the script do you remember this one yeah and she obviously hasn't she's having

00:19:21   a meeting where they're supposed to talk about a script that bella ramsey is supposed to have read and

00:19:26   she hasn't read it and she goes to her sitting at a table in a restaurant goes to her phone and it gets

00:19:35   gets the the email pulls it up an email and then hits like a summarize button and then reads the summary

00:19:42   from apple intelligence and then talks to this woman about the script that ad bugs me in a couple of

00:19:50   ways because at the first level it it's really it's rude to have a meeting where you're supposed

00:19:57   to have read a script or read whatever and then you show up and you didn't do it like that's just rude

00:20:04   and at the second level it's preposterous like it's and it's not played for laughs it's played straight

00:20:13   it's played like hey this is a great feature on your phone you can get a summary of a thing that you

00:20:19   if you're heading into a meeting and haven't read it you can get a summary and fake your way through it

00:20:23   but it it's comical to think that if

00:20:27   you're sitting if i have lunch with you chase and i i've given you

00:20:33   a very long daring fireball article that i'm seeking your feedback on a draft

00:20:38   and you haven't read it and you look at me and then you turn to your phone

00:20:43   for like 30 seconds get a summary and then you turn back to me go oh yeah yeah yeah that's the

00:20:50   one about the uh the whatever the article is about yeah i actually never read the something rotten in

00:20:56   cupertino post i just summarized it all but the summary was good but it's even if you draw up the

00:21:03   the siri apple intelligence summary it still takes you know i don't know 30 seconds to like tap around

00:21:09   like you're not fooling the person that you read the script there's no it it you know it's it's like

00:21:16   got the the the logic of an episode of gilligan's island it doesn't really hold up you're it's like

00:21:23   being in college and you're cramming for a test five seconds before the test starts it's the same vibe

00:21:29   as that except rude and not just underprepared yes exactly right your professors aren't really

00:21:35   offended that you haven't done yeah they're just mad and give you a bad grade

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00:23:47   so wwdc in the in the tank it always takes me a while to decompress it's always such a busy week

00:23:55   and i i didn't really write my take on it till last week but i think overall i think it was very

00:24:02   successful for apple i think it was sort of a return to form what was your high level takeaway

00:24:08   i had the same takeaway where especially they were wrapping up at hour 28 hour 29 is this really going

00:24:15   to be a tight one hour 30 minute 90 minute keynote and it was and i think that was a excellent return

00:24:21   to form and i think the apple intelligence strategy where like you and neil and joanne talked about

00:24:27   after the show where they touched on the big picture of apple intelligence in like that first

00:24:32   four or five minutes they said the features that haven't shipped are still coming and then we just

00:24:37   dove into this platform by platform breakdown of all the new features on each platform and the apple

00:24:43   intelligence touches on each platform because i just found that 40 minute segment on apple intelligence

00:24:50   yeah to be such a break from the traditional wwdc format and very

00:24:56   very just it felt like it was inserted into the rest of the keynote it wasn't cohesive from

00:25:02   from start to finish and i think the biggest high level takeaway you can have from this year's wwdc is

00:25:09   everything they announced during the event with the exception of voicemail

00:25:15   transcription summaries of all features yeah is available in the first betas and i'm sure you

00:25:21   had briefings and whatnot where they would say that and it was clearly like they'd crack a little smile

00:25:26   it'd be a wink wink like yes it's available in the first beta you can go try it like they took it on

00:25:31   the nose yeah and i was told i think maybe with extra emphasis to me personally that uh that that

00:25:40   everything that was announced in the keynote they expect to ship in the fall and i don't know in the

00:25:47   fall doesn't mean the dot o's especially for ios because ios's hand is always forced by the early

00:25:54   september announcement of the new iphones so it could be a dot one but i i don't think anybody's gonna

00:26:00   complain about that and i i think that's one of the weirder things about their pre-announcement

00:26:09   of everything last year and i definitely wrote about it in the something is rotten piece it just

00:26:17   did it does not make sense to me why they pre-announced those features if they weren't a hundred percent

00:26:25   sure that they could ship them and there's no reason to think that they should have been a hundred

00:26:30   percent sure at the time because why not just wait a couple more months and unveil them you have the

00:26:37   iphone event where if given three more months of work it's like yeah we're we're we're getting

00:26:42   closer we're going to be able to to ship this early next year announce those features then and then you've

00:26:48   got like an amazing surprise ai feature to unveil alongside the iphones and if you didn't make if apple

00:26:57   didn't make sufficient progress well then they dodged a bullet and they never announced it so i think

00:27:02   focusing on i and i the other thing i wrote in my piece is engineering wise i think they have done

00:27:09   and it's been proven very successful in the last i think they've been moving this direction under

00:27:18   federigi for 15 years or close to 15 years but i think in the last five years five or so years in

00:27:26   particular they've really made an effort to break some features off for later in the annual cycle

00:27:36   for the dot three dot four releases that come after new year's and i think for engineering that's proven

00:27:43   to be very i think that's proven to be very successful and i think their marketing could follow that as well

00:27:50   and hold some features that maybe they have planned for the os 26 cycle and announce them in the fall

00:27:58   hey surprise guess what's coming to all of our platforms yeah soon you know we're ready to show

00:28:04   it to you now and it's coming soon and then maybe that week they drop the betas that have the feature so

00:28:09   people who use the betas can start using them but have some new features to show in the fall and i think

00:28:15   that's sort of a return to steve jobs's strategy and i heard from numerous people mostly x apple

00:28:21   after my something was rotten piece people you know not people who left on bad terms people who like

00:28:27   retired people who worked under steve and several people mentioned this exact same point which is that

00:28:34   steve jobs obsessed over constantly having something to announce every two or three months that every two

00:28:44   or three months there would be something and if you look back at a lot of apple's announcements

00:28:49   in the steve jobs era it was often the case where sometimes it would be a hardware event like new

00:28:59   macbooks or if you go back far enough powerbooks or ibooks or whatever and they would show some software

00:29:05   that maybe wasn't fully baked you know that was sort of in a rough state but he wanted to show it

00:29:11   or if it was a software event they would announce sometimes they would announce hardware

00:29:16   like new laptops but they wouldn't be on sale for another month or six weeks or something

00:29:21   they don't do that anymore they don't they don't unveil hardware and say it's it's coming in six weeks or

00:29:27   eight weeks or something like that but he would do that just because he'd want to have a little of

00:29:32   everything to show every two or three months and i think that you know wwdc is obviously a huge strategic

00:29:39   annual almost like a holiday for apple and i get it that it makes sense and they run on a very very

00:29:47   annual the whole company runs on this annual cycle across the board hardware and software now

00:29:53   and it's good to sort of set the annual agenda but i think the idea that everything has to be in it

00:29:59   is kind of crazy because i think trying to predict where you're going to be eight nine months from now

00:30:04   is too unpredictable and i think one thing people have forgotten in apple's failure to ship the sear the

00:30:11   dingus stuff last year was that this was a strategy they'd been employing for years before where they would

00:30:17   announce everything at wwdc and the features that weren't available would be coming later this year in a

00:30:22   right those features would never really get re-promoted or re-advertised when 0.1 0.2 0.3

00:30:30   actually shipped right what would happen is the first beta of ios 18.1 would or ios 17.1 would come

00:30:37   out and the onus is almost on like us as the press and us as the people running the betas to put it on

00:30:43   our phones and be like okay this update enables feature x y and z that was announced at wwdc

00:30:48   it was very much drop everything at wwdc and then release the betas and coast till the next wwdc and

00:30:56   leave it up to nine to five mac and the users to find the new features it's very true so i i think

00:31:04   overall it was a very strong wwdc and i definitely think especially after seeing this keynote and it was

00:31:11   tight it was shorter than usual right it was only like 87 minutes i think and even putting aside

00:31:18   the four minutes of features or however i think i think when federighi was talking to joanna stern

00:31:25   he tried to downplay the postponed siri features by emphasizing how few minutes in a hundred out of a

00:31:33   hundred minute keynote they took which really is kind of like come on you know it's like saying

00:31:40   they only showed the death star blowing up for 30 seconds in star wars it wasn't really it wasn't a

00:31:45   big deal it's like come on it was you know not every minute of a keynote is equal weight to the

00:31:50   others and that was sort of a major plot point in last year's keynote but the thing that really stuck

00:31:55   out to me just thinking about it in that context of hey there was a whole 40 minute segment last year

00:32:01   on apple intelligence and it hadn't really occurred to me until this year and the way they announced new

00:32:08   apple intelligence features that doing it all in one block also was weird last year so even putting

00:32:15   aside the fact that some of the biggest features didn't even ship and had to be postponed an extra

00:32:20   year even putting that aside treating it like it was a platform that gets its own segment of the

00:32:28   keynote just was stilted and unnatural to me and the way they did it this year where it's like as they're

00:32:34   talking about products these new ai features would bubble up naturally you know so when they're talking

00:32:41   about ios they talked about the feature where it answers the phone for you call screening the uh the

00:32:49   very clever which i know is catch up to something that android some android phones have been doing i know

00:32:53   the pixels have been doing it for quite a few years but still i mean credit to google and android for

00:32:59   being first but it's sounds like a great feature and i think new i think it's original what are they

00:33:05   calling it the hold assist hold assist yeah yeah where it uses ai to detect hold music and then offers to

00:33:13   let you put the phone app in the background and it'll buzz you when somebody actually answers on the other

00:33:20   end that sounds very cool that was one of the best features i think that they announced but it's like

00:33:25   that's one of the things where it's going to be a cat and mouse game eventually you're going to have

00:33:30   the person on the other end right have a robot voice come on and says we're ready to take your call

00:33:34   you pick up the phone and then the music starts playing again then you put the phone back and then

00:33:38   siri says you're good now it's just back and it's robots talking to robots but in the year it takes for

00:33:44   those call centers and stuff to adapt it'll be a great year and they'll have to try something new next year

00:33:48   and ios 27 but i thought of that too that it could lead to some kind of cat and mouse game but

00:33:54   i would presume that as long as you know you're on hold and you're keeping your phone nearby you know

00:34:02   that you'll notice and if it adds i don't know five to ten seconds of them waiting for you to get back

00:34:12   to the phone do they really care yeah i don't i don't really think that's going to

00:34:16   adversely affect i'm sure every single person who works like doing those jobs gets you know is measured

00:34:24   how many calls they answer in a day i don't really think that's going to adversely affect their stats

00:34:29   i don't know it seems like a win you know yeah hopefully but just announcing those features in line

00:34:36   with the platforms that they apply to is so much more a natural way of doing it it just fits with

00:34:44   the way the whole company is set up that they're a sort of functional company not a divisional company

00:34:50   the problem that they've had as each platform has grown is that so many of the features overlap and

00:34:58   are available on each platform so they'll announce a feature as part of ios 26 and then that feature is

00:35:03   also coming to mac os 26 and i think in the past few wwdc's as that line has blurred a bit they've

00:35:10   struggled with where to put individual features but this year i think they really nailed it on okay

00:35:16   what features will people care most about on the iphone we'll put that in the iphone section and then

00:35:22   we'll just give it a passing mission in the mac they've really nailed how to break down each platform

00:35:26   yeah and maybe it's my seeing what i want to see but i kind of feel in a lot of years the platform

00:35:35   of the big three ios ipad os and mac os the one that gets the least love is ipad os and so they've been

00:35:42   like well let's well it's for all three platforms but we've got to have something to say about ipad so

00:35:47   we'll put that in the ipad os feature and like last year with the math notes they did it most of

00:35:55   it in ipad because they were showing off and it made some sense because they were showing off the

00:35:59   pencil and that you could handwrite the math notes but the fact is you could do the math notes in the

00:36:05   notes app on any of the platforms and you could just type them which is you know how i think most

00:36:10   people would do it anyway but the pencil made for a good demo but then i think it also was a little

00:36:16   confusing because i think it even left me with the impression at first that maybe it was pencil only

00:36:21   yep i had the same impression right because it is the only platform that uses a pencil so at the one

00:36:27   point it makes for a great demo because it's here it is it's showing you a cool pencil feature and you

00:36:34   can certainly imagine how i don't know i was going to say it makes me think of kids and students but

00:36:39   i'm thinking of my own son who's heading into his senior year of college and he's like hardly

00:36:43   written anything with a pen life right like his handwriting he's a 21 year old young man and his

00:36:50   handwriting looks like he's to me looks like he's a third girl so i don't know i i guess it's sort of

00:36:56   an old person's idea that kids would use the pencil to do their math actually i guess kids are more likely

00:37:01   to use the keyboard but it does leave that weird impression of wait is this ipad only or is it for all

00:37:07   three but we're sort of getting used to the fact that anything that could be all three is all three

00:37:12   is all three yeah yeah what else was a highlight for you before we get into details i mean you

00:37:19   mentioned if you want to just get into it you mentioned ipad os is the platform that never

00:37:23   gets yeah they're grasping at straws to get a segment put together that was not the case this year

00:37:28   they saved it for the very end stole the show and the first impressions i've seen are great

00:37:35   yeah well let's let's come back to that as because that's a good major point that i don't want to sell

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00:39:39   h e l p dot com slash talk show yeah big year for ipad and i know that they think about it every year like

00:39:49   what order to do the platforms in and this year it leaked german had a lot of it but it made sense to

00:39:56   save ipad os for last because it really was the year that ipad fans serious ipad fans who were looking

00:40:04   for it to be more of a computer were waiting for and i think they nailed it i really do and when german

00:40:13   published the first report saying apple is going to make the ipad more mac like it's like okay we've

00:40:19   heard that before yeah they added multitasking with i ios 9 or whatever they added stage manager you could

00:40:25   describe all of those as attempts to make the ipad more mac like so i was highly skeptical but as soon

00:40:33   as they showed off the windowing stuff in ipad os 26 i was like okay this is this is the real deal

00:40:38   finally and it's not just the windowing system too you go you have the local capture for audio which is

00:40:45   going to be great for podcasters you have the background tasks thing where you can actually edit a video in

00:40:51   final cut and then start exporting it and not have to keep the app in the foreground there's all kinds

00:40:56   of little touches like that in addition to the the flagship windowing system yeah in a way as many

00:41:03   scoops as mark german had you know in the last few months leading up to wwdc and he certainly ranked up a

00:41:12   bunch of being right points in a way though a lot of them left a lot for apple to show and i would say

00:41:21   the ipad multitasking slash windowing stuff in particular very much because i think his style has

00:41:30   always even back in the day it's been a long time when he was at nine to five mac he's never been a show

00:41:37   leaker he's been a tell leaker he describes stuff but doesn't show mock-ups or doesn't show

00:41:44   leaked images or something like that so i think exactly like you said we've heard that before even

00:41:51   from german in years past that some features of the ipad were to make it more mac like or bring

00:41:58   some mac like features i think the split screen stuff with the three dots that you tap to manage

00:42:04   the split screen in recent years were i think sort of described similarly leading up to it whereas this

00:42:10   was like oh red yellow green buttons yeah that's there we go i get it right that was the thing when

00:42:17   they showed those buttons on the screen or on the on the keynote for the first time i was like okay

00:42:20   yep they're doing it this year yeah and a menu bar i think that the menu bar is kind of weird it's

00:42:27   weird that it's centered i kind of get it because i have i've installed the beta on my ipad pro and i

00:42:34   kind of get it because depending on how you're holding it you've still got like the date and time up in the

00:42:41   upper left corner where like the the signal strength for your cellular if you have a cellular ipad so i

00:42:49   get you know and at the center is sort of free they don't have there's no notch on an ipad so the center

00:42:55   is available but i don't know there's some something about the 30 year mac user in me 30 plus year mac user in me

00:43:06   that thinks a centered menu bar is just kind of weird right it's weird but at the same time i think

00:43:12   it's going to be once we see more developers take proper advantage of it and put more in the menu bar

00:43:18   yeah you could make the argument that it's as big of a paradigm paradigm shift for the ipad as the

00:43:24   windowing system stuff is just having all of those controls right there and previously you could access

00:43:29   some of it by hitting i think it's the globe key or something no the command key it was yeah it's like

00:43:35   the idea is you hold the command key and then the heads up display would show you it was clearly like

00:43:42   a menu bar and it would show you the same and in fact the apps that support that automatically get a

00:43:47   menu bar now right like that is whatever that's called in the ipad apis is now just shown as the menu

00:43:56   bar that was such a weird in some ways it's even a better example than the windowing like the way that

00:44:03   i think that they've tied they tied themselves in knots for years trying to do split screen or call

00:44:11   them windows even though they didn't act they called things windows that didn't really act like windows

00:44:16   at all but ways to put multiple things on screen at once and do it not like the mac just it to me it

00:44:25   seemed like just for the sake of making it different than the mac that they tied themselves in knots and

00:44:32   wound up with things that were confusing that confused many people that i think were very hard

00:44:38   to discover so i think there are zillions of ipad users who didn't even realize or you know today

00:44:45   still using ipad os 18 don't even realize those features are there everybody in my family i know i've

00:44:52   heard from people who actually like slide over now that i've written about it but in my family

00:44:58   everybody only time i ever hear about slide over is when people in my family get it by accident and

00:45:03   want to know how to make the there's a safari thing on the side of my screen and i don't know how to make

00:45:10   it go away but i think the the menu bar thing is a better example of how trying to do something

00:45:18   different than the mac for the sake of being different gave them something worse so you only

00:45:23   got that heads up display of the commands and they were organized into file and edit and format you know

00:45:31   the same names as menus but you only got it when you were holding the command key down and that meant you

00:45:35   had to have a keyboard connected and yet the ipad you know as they keep telling us even in this

00:45:42   announcement it's a touch first device so also i don't think it was a great design that when you

00:45:48   did the hold down the command key it covered all the content on your screen like part of the beauty of

00:45:54   the menu bar from 1984 onward is it's up there at the top so it doesn't cover the content of your screen

00:46:02   until you pull it down whereas that hold down the command key thing as soon as you did it it covered

00:46:08   everything on your screen kind of weird but the big huge glaring problem with it was there was no way to

00:46:14   invoke that when you didn't have a keyboard attached and not having a keyboard attached is the default state

00:46:20   of an ipad like that's a real fundamental painted yourself into a corner ui design where there's this

00:46:28   great new feature where you have access to all of these commands that only show up when you need them

00:46:34   and you can't use it without a keyboard attached there were rumors in the lead up to the announcement

00:46:40   that it would be exclusive to ipads like you'd dock it into your magic keyboard yeah then you'd get this

00:46:45   option to enable proper windowing but they didn't do that and like you said i think that's a great thing

00:46:51   because it just creates such a yeah turns it into two separate products i mean craig federighi did that

00:46:57   interview with federico vettici trying to explain the balance between giving ipad power users what

00:47:04   they want while still retaining it as a platform for people who just want to like open a netflix app and

00:47:08   watch something full screen and one of the analogies federighi used was not wanting to create a spork

00:47:14   which i think was kind of suggesting you don't want something that does both things but does neither of

00:47:20   them well you want something that can do all of it and retain a use case for each specific thing you're

00:47:27   trying to do and i think they nailed it yeah i think so too but i also think by backing all the way out

00:47:33   to first principles and starting over with all new windowing a new menu bar system that they were able

00:47:41   to do it in a way that works and looks exactly the same whether your ipad is docked with a keyboard

00:47:48   or not it's exactly the same you just you know use your finger to to drag the thing from the corner to

00:47:55   turn a full screen app into a windowed app and you just tap the red yellow green button there's like an

00:48:01   extra tap because the red yellow green buttons start in like a like a small press state yeah yeah and i think

00:48:08   that's a fine compromise you know uh for the ipad i i it i don't think anybody's going to find that

00:48:14   taking two taps to close a window is a ui disaster i think it's a great compromise for a touch device

00:48:20   but it really gets them to a state where you could do all of it even if you don't own a keyboard let

00:48:26   alone have it attached to your keyboard at a time you you get the exact same experience which is as it

00:48:31   should be it's just sort of a good principle of ui design that you should be able to do everything

00:48:36   without having a different mode for when a keyboard is attached i i think it's just great especially

00:48:44   when the cheapest keyboard from apple is like 300 it really kills the argument of the ipad value if you

00:48:51   have to buy a 300 keyboard to take advantage of the proper multitasking right and it you know and as i've

00:48:58   been using it it just feels very natural i realize that takes a lot of design work that the more

00:49:06   obvious the design feels and seems like hey i don't know you know but it does it it it makes me think

00:49:12   like i don't know why they didn't come up with this years ago and i realize it's a lot of work to make

00:49:16   it seem so intuitive but it really does it's and i think people are really going to like it and i also

00:49:22   think that the sort of hey when you upgrade when your ipad it come the fall for the normal people

00:49:31   who don't run the betas and they upgrade to ipad os 26 it's going to ask them do you want to just

00:49:38   stick with single window full screen apps or do you want to use multiple windows and if you pick the

00:49:44   first you don't even get the little affordance in the corner to zoom it so you know somebody like my

00:49:51   dad 87 year old not an advanced computer user loves his ipad pro does almost all of his computing

00:49:58   all of it on it it definitely going to have him stick with single window mode right that's how he

00:50:04   wants to use it i there are people who are advanced users who are super advanced on the mac

00:50:10   who want their ipads to run that way and i think it's great that that's still there and if you change

00:50:17   your mind you just go you don't even have to go to settings it's a like a toggle and control center

00:50:22   i think that's a great compromise that will please both ends of the audience it's just a win it's just

00:50:28   really probably the best year ever for ipad os really easily either one of the best ways i've been

00:50:34   able to describe the experience of using ipad os with the magic keyboard with the multitasking mode

00:50:40   enabled is that it's gets so close to feeling like you're using a touchscreen mac yeah so close and

00:50:47   there's always been the dynamic of you do something on your ipad then you go use your macbook later that

00:50:52   day and you kind of want to reach out and touch the screen because you've been using your ipad but now

00:50:58   that you have this very similar windowing system on ipad that problem is like it's so close they're so

00:51:04   close to each other now which is very much not what i expected yeah you know and federighi does a good

00:51:11   job talking about it but it requires so much nuance the whole addressing the whole question of well if

00:51:18   they're so similar in so many ways now why are they two different platforms why not just make one

00:51:24   platform and different form factors so if you want a laptop you could be running the same os as the

00:51:31   tablet and i think federighi does a good job explaining it probably better than anybody including

00:51:37   me i know why there are two different platforms and i kind of feel like the new background what's the

00:51:44   name of the feature like where final cut can export a very long video back just background tasks background

00:51:51   tasks the way that they've implemented in ipad os 26 exemplifies that feature exemplifies why they are

00:52:01   two different platforms right it's the idea on the mac the idea that you'd have to use a special new

00:52:09   api that just came out in 2025 to do something lengthy computationally expensive in the background

00:52:20   while you do other things is like bananas right that was the whole idea of mac os 10 10.0 in 2001

00:52:31   that we were moving from a platform that didn't really have preemptive multitasking the classic

00:52:37   mac os to one that did and that you know used a unix kernel with best of breed computer science

00:52:45   multitasking that would be bananas but on iphone ios or ipad os the idea that there are apps doing

00:52:53   computationally expensive things in the background is contrary to the nature of the platform that's part of

00:53:00   the appeal of the platform and it's also part of the frustration for power users who want to be able

00:53:07   to do those things and feel like they would be in control of them not the software that they've

00:53:11   installed but for the vast majority of typical users the idea that there are apps doing battery

00:53:19   consuming energy consuming things in the background is against the nature of the platform and people are so

00:53:25   spooked by the idea that it's fueled the whole mania that that nobody's ever you know whatever i'm going with this

00:53:32   yeah quitting you know switching to multitasking mode i mean there are tens of millions of iphone users who

00:53:39   habitually quit apps in the multitasking switcher and think they're doing themselves a favor when in fact they're not

00:53:46   they're doing themselves a disfavor because it actually it costs energy to relaunch the apps

00:53:53   you know as opposed to letting the os freeze them so it's it's really a very nice solution to use and

00:54:01   effectively it's using live activities yeah and ipad os so it's the same thing that you know when you're

00:54:06   following a sports game or you've hailed an uber and you get a live activity showing the progress

00:54:12   of the uber as it the driver comes to pick you up that's what the background export from an app

00:54:20   that's how it presents on ipad os and it's really kind of brilliant there's two rules at least two

00:54:27   rules did you did they explain this to you in your briefing it was kind of a nice briefing

00:54:31   i don't know i don't remember i did not get a dedicated ipad briefing no ah i got a dedicated ipad

00:54:38   briefing and it was very nice they did it in the the center atrium of the steve jobs theater

00:54:43   downstairs yeah you know where the hands-on usually is after like the iphone event so when they have the

00:54:49   hands-on after the iphone it is so freaking crowded in there right it is it's horrible right it's like

00:54:57   you're it's like you're in the lobby at a arena going to an nba playoff game you know and everybody's

00:55:03   excited and it's elbow to elbow so it's this big space and i'm in a group with i don't know i think

00:55:10   five total members of the press and they have like four workstations to show different aspects you know

00:55:17   like they had one that was set up with a big studio display you know like this new windowing system

00:55:23   makes so much more sense now that ipad has external display uh until now i've always thought i don't know

00:55:31   why anybody would use this other than to like present what you're seeing on your ipad to a group

00:55:38   of people but like i can't imagine why people would want to work like that now i see like oh yeah i can

00:55:43   imagine someone who loves working on ipad os they're going to love having external display support but it

00:55:48   was a good little 40 minute 30 minute i always forget how long those the demos are but they emphasized

00:55:54   when they showed us the export i think they even used final cut as the demo app that the two rules

00:56:01   for the api are whatever the task is it has to be completable so you can't use it to do something that is

00:56:10   just constantly pulling oh yeah in the background it has to have a completion you know and you have to be able

00:56:17   to estimate the completion so that you can show a determinate progress bar so there's you're not

00:56:24   allowed to use the api for an indeterminate never-ending task or one that you don't know how long is going

00:56:30   to take or i guess you don't have to ask you know it's not that you know exactly how long it's going to

00:56:34   take but you have to be able to have a completion and the second thing is it has to be user initiated

00:56:41   the user has to tap a button to do the thing you can't just invoke it automatically while the user is

00:56:49   using the app so like i don't just spitballing here but if you have your own custom

00:56:56   background sync or backup for your data you can't just say that every 30 minutes while the user is

00:57:06   using the app the app is going to initiate a background sync and use this api it has to be

00:57:13   user initiated which are two great rules and i think speak to why ipad os is a discrete different

00:57:22   platform from mac os it exemplifies why apple has built out two on the surface very similar

00:57:31   graphical user interface red yellow green button windowing gooey systems but with very different

00:57:38   fundamental rules for what's going on there's other things too in ipad os 26 that as someone who has

00:57:45   only tried a couple times in the past to use my ipad for everything that i was shocked to find out

00:57:51   weren't there one of the biggest being the ability to like resize columns in the files app yeah they

00:57:57   said that and i was like there's no way that this is the first time you've been able to do that but

00:58:01   sure enough it is and there's other stuff and you can like save a a folder to to your doc now which is

00:58:08   another thing as a mac user it's like yeah okay that's yeah i didn't realize you couldn't do that

00:58:12   no and i think the reason it's funny that the files app couldn't resize columns before is that it only

00:58:17   had two columns yeah like the name name and date or something i think that was it and so why let you

00:58:23   resize it if there's only two columns and now it's more i am pleasantly pleased because i feel you know

00:58:31   i don't know i would hope it wasn't even a debate inside apple but i worry that it was i'm always a

00:58:38   little worried especially in a year like this one that somebody inside the company is going to want

00:58:44   to rename the finder files oh yeah well they changed the icon so yeah everybody can complain about that

00:58:52   this summer or the next summer we can have the files complaint i can't help but think there's somebody in

00:58:57   the company who's like why are we still calling this thing finder it's not really you know we should call

00:59:01   it files and then the whole mantra of unifying these platforms in the ways that make sense you know

00:59:08   like the way that apple notes works so similarly across all three it's not the same app right but it's

00:59:15   supposed to feel like it's the same app and so i don't know i i hope they don't rename the finder

00:59:21   and i think there's enough people but i worry that as the people even federighi yeah like federighi's i

00:59:28   think 56 or something like that so he's not too old but it won't be too long where there aren't any

00:59:35   people left who remember yeah the classic mac os from the 80s and early 90s and so whatever

00:59:42   nostalgia fuels some of their decisions to keep some things unchanged like the finder that that'll be gone

00:59:50   but i'm glad it's not i i think it's great that the files app is now a much more serious files app

00:59:56   and i think it's great that the finder still called the finder and i think that flipping the

01:00:02   colors of the finder icon is bananas i don't know why it really bothers me but it really bothers me

01:00:09   i do think that by adding these new multitasking windowing features and all the stuff to ipad os 26

01:00:15   it does give them more room to leave the mac untouched to a degree but yeah and there's less

01:00:23   reason for dramatic changes on the mac now that you have the ipad which can offer a similar experience

01:00:28   right in a newer way and then you have the mac which is can continue to exist in the way people

01:00:35   are familiar with right and in the way that you wind up with things running in the background

01:00:40   and and that you can shoot yourself in the foot in numerous ways you know that it is a power tool

01:00:47   you know and tries to warn you and tries to defend against things i think they've managed that pretty

01:00:52   well i think i think the fear that the mac would get too ipadified hasn't come to fruition i think i think

01:01:02   that they're macifying the ipad especially this year finally i really think this is the year where

01:01:08   they've added just the right amount of mac likeness to ipad and i think it's going to prove very popular

01:01:13   i really do and i think they've kind of put the brakes on ipadifying mac os you know and i don't know

01:01:22   how rampant that the belief was within the company but i know there were some people seven eight years ago

01:01:28   when the apple's what is a computer ipad ad came out yeah and i think people who were worried that

01:01:36   apple was going to what would be the word deprecate the mac sort of turn it into a legacy platform

01:01:42   for a few years and sort of assume that everybody would be using ipad eventually

01:01:48   i i think it was fueled in some regards by comments tim cook made that i think were taken out of context

01:01:54   where tim cook said yeah i do everything on an ipad you know and i i think what tim cook meant by that

01:02:00   is if he had been talking about the iphone instead he would have just said yep i do everything on the

01:02:05   iphone i you know i can i can do my spreadsheets i do my email i do you know whatever the platform he's

01:02:11   talking about he's he's singing the praises of it in the highest regard possible and so i don't really

01:02:17   think he meant we're moving away from the mac but people who were worried that they were took it that

01:02:23   way and i think there was something of a sentiment within the company of well this platform started

01:02:29   in 1984 how long is it going to go on you know and that some people are like you know so we've got this

01:02:34   hot new thing why shouldn't the ipad take over but i think they've reached a really good equilibrium

01:02:41   where they see and they're they're clearly defining the rules for the two platforms and

01:02:47   let you decide and i don't think i know that we joke about it we joked about it i know neil i joked

01:02:53   on stage at my show and i think jaws even made the joke in his interview with joanna stern you know

01:03:00   that it would be great if you bought both and i know that's sort of you know of course apple thinks

01:03:06   you should buy both but they are two different platforms and i think they deserve to be i think

01:03:11   the ipad is finally making the case for why it deserves a standalone status as a graphical user

01:03:18   interface pro thing that many people might use as their primary work computer the thing about the ipad

01:03:26   is that it is the most modular product that apple sells it can adapt to so many different audiences so

01:03:33   many different use cases you can use it like you said your dad can use it as just a full screen app

01:03:38   device you now have this windowing system you can use a touch with a keyboard you can use it on wi-fi

01:03:44   it has cellular built in it is the most modular thing that apple sells and for better for worse the mac

01:03:50   doesn't have that modularity the mac you can use as a laptop as a desktop or connected to a display

01:03:56   so there's a clear reason that the ipad exists even though it is getting closer and closer to the mac

01:04:03   yeah you don't have to explain it any further and so if they're left with most people who don't think

01:04:10   more than superficially about it being a little hmm i wonder why they are two different platforms

01:04:16   just don't worry about it and it's working itself out now that they've got this system uh let's take a

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01:07:10   liquid glass i know it's a testament to the ipad it's so exciting we had to bump bump liquid glass

01:07:17   two weeks out three weeks out what do you what are your thoughts on liquid glass well i put it on my

01:07:23   backup phone i think what i guess yeah i put it on my three yeah i put it on my backup phone i think

01:07:31   while we were sitting together at the state of the union who was downloading and so i haven't used it

01:07:36   full time on day-to-day basis but but did i show you mine when we were sitting there i think so and it

01:07:46   showed because of the what we we we we picked a seat sort of in the front row of the back section

01:07:52   yep so we were far from the stage and far from the ring building and the wi-fi was pretty spotty there

01:07:58   yep and mine was telling me that it would on my spare phone that it was going to take six days to install

01:08:05   i think the most i got was like 12 hours i'd never had six days i got it up to six days and i really

01:08:12   really was impressed that they've programmed that into the estimated time remaining and i was really

01:08:19   once it got to six i was like oh will it get to a week will it give me one week remaining

01:08:24   and we're also sitting outside in and out of the sun so my phone has it was downloading it's like a hot

01:08:31   potato or something yes but i think liquid glass i am very impressed with it i think there are so many

01:08:41   elements of it that are both new and different but not new and different for the sake of being new and

01:08:47   different there are functional improvements to it it looks visually good there are places where it falls

01:08:54   down which i'm sure we'll talk about but it is beta one and i just overall think i like it i see i'm trying

01:09:02   to figure out how to put this into words you can't deny that while the previous design of ios 18 was

01:09:09   relatively consistent relatively solid relatively stable it really was starting to feel stale

01:09:16   yeah you heard it you realize it as an iphone user you hear people talk about how the iphone hasn't

01:09:22   changed in five six ten years and part of that applies to the hardware but it also to a degree applies to the

01:09:30   software if you give everybody who has an iphone now a dramatically new software interface they are no

01:09:36   longer going to say their iphone has felt the same for 10 years will they like the design that's up in

01:09:42   the air i think most people will like this design i think it feels very modern and very fresh but they

01:09:46   get it while the hardware is still evolving because we're not expecting any major new hardware for the

01:09:52   iphone until at least next year right so this addresses that iphone is stale complaint quite well i think

01:09:58   yeah i think so too i do feel like it it seems a bit rushed oh yeah but i kind of think it has to be

01:10:10   i don't know that there's any other way to do it and i feel like i don't know every once in a while

01:10:18   i'll go back or reconsider

01:10:21   older stories like just just the creation of the iphone itself and you go back and reread

01:10:27   some of the books that have been written about it and you think about how quickly it all came together

01:10:32   it was like i don't know 18 months something like that or you know maybe really just a year from when they

01:10:39   really started making it to when steve jobs announced it on stage really really fast you know

01:10:46   or the original ipod which really went from john rubenstein who's then the hardware chief having a

01:10:53   meeting with toshiba executives where they were talking about that they uh this story came up in

01:11:00   patrick mcgee's apple in china again but i've heard the story before but toshiba was like the leading

01:11:06   or a leading maker of spinning hard disks back then and 2.5 inch drives were the standard for laptops

01:11:13   and toshiba had come up with a 1.8 inch drive which was a significant reduction in size but they couldn't

01:11:21   sell them because it turned out all the laptop makers were like yeah 2.5 is fine we've got plenty

01:11:26   of space for a drive we're not going to pay more for a 1.8 inch drive and so toshiba went showed it to

01:11:31   them and was like yeah we've made we've made these amazing new tiny hard drives and nobody wants to buy

01:11:37   them and rubenstein you know had the idea like oh you know what we've been thinking about making a music

01:11:43   player this five gigabyte drive would hold 5 000 songs this would be perfect and told whoever was

01:11:51   the operations guy at the time we should make a deal with them to buy them all go to toshiba and sign a

01:11:56   contract and they were worried it said in the apple in china book that that the check wouldn't wouldn't

01:12:03   cash because i don't know it's like a taiwanese sub subsidiary of apple had to sign the check or

01:12:09   whatever but six months later they unveiled the ipod it happened that fast and i feel like there are

01:12:16   today you know apple just seems to go slower right that yeah i was 16 to 17 to 18 and there have been

01:12:25   tons of stuff to talk about every year in what's new in in these os's but in some sense it feels like

01:12:33   they're just moving slower and iterating and i think it is also the nature of existing 10 15 year old

01:12:42   platforms right the iphone is coming up on 20 years right 20 years of iphone soon yeah it's the nature

01:12:49   that of course they're going to change more iteratively it's an established platform and it's the new

01:12:54   stuff that goes quicker but i think it's good for apple to not spend an extra year on liquid glass

01:13:01   and instead say we're shipping it this year we need some you know and even if it's driven by trying to

01:13:08   distract people from where apple is relative to the rest of the industry in ai and in their own models

01:13:15   it's fine lean into design right what does apple do better than anybody else should be design yeah lean

01:13:23   into it and say we're shipping it this year so go fast and you can kind of feel that and i heard i don't

01:13:30   know if you heard this but i heard from a couple people at apple that i wrote this but that internally

01:13:36   it was really really like hey are we are we gonna be able to oh is this gonna be ready yeah for wwdc like

01:13:44   i heard literally they had some developers come out four weeks in advance to do like the developers who

01:13:52   got featured in the keynote i got my friend gus muller who acorn got featured but he got called out you

01:14:00   you know and they came out to to make a build of acorn using the liquid glass apis so they could show it

01:14:07   in the keynote and so there was like a build of these os's like four weeks ago where it was like

01:14:14   okay this is stable enough for developers that we invite in to build something that we can put in the keynote

01:14:20   but then like three weeks before the keynote everything fell apart and there were like internal

01:14:25   builds that were just like a mess like apple can't show this and they're like wwdc's in three weeks what

01:14:31   are we doing why did we change this you know and it's sort of come together i think we're going to see a

01:14:35   lot of changes over this summer but i think that's good and i think it's fun i don't think it's a sign

01:14:40   of weakness i think it's a sign of confidence that hey we're apple we can pull this together over the

01:14:46   course of a summer yeah and i think in terms of this feeling rushed or feeling like they moved quick

01:14:51   something that i had forgotten about was johnny ive formerly took over software human interface design

01:14:58   in october of 2012 they unveiled ios 7 in june of 2013 and obviously ios 7 was perhaps the most rushed

01:15:08   of any iphone software release ever ios 7 beta 1 is probably the most buggy thing that apple has ever

01:15:15   shipped and allowed the general public to use right and i don't think we'll see an ios 7 style beta cycle

01:15:22   this fall or this summer but it'll be probably the biggest change from beta 1 to release since we've

01:15:28   seen it a long time yeah and i think that the you know this ios 7 was definitely like a total reset

01:15:36   you know you couldn't nobody was going to be like oh yeah i guess it is kind of new looking like it was

01:15:42   whoa this is totally different but i think the same principle holds that directing his team and the

01:15:49   company to hey we're going to do this in six months is sort of the way that and again it's not rushed i

01:15:56   think it's urgency and urgency is is necessary sometimes and that you don't want to dawdle off on

01:16:03   your own for 18 months if your choice is between doing it in six months or 18 months do it in six

01:16:09   months and just know that you'll keep iterating over those 18 months right and ios 8 was a significant

01:16:15   improvement over ios 7 in terms of a lot of the little visual things that were like hey i don't know

01:16:21   this might be too flat right this is supposedly a layer but it doesn't even look like a layer it all

01:16:26   just looks drawn on top of each other i i so i i'm overall very happy i i think the platform where

01:16:34   it looks the worst so far is the mac and i hope i really hope that that's just sort of like yeah we

01:16:41   kind of went iphone first because iphone is iphone ipad inherited a lot of the stuff we focused on for

01:16:51   iphone because let's face it ipad os is a derivative of ios and the mac well sorry it feels

01:16:59   shoehorned in on the mac almost they added what they could in terms of like the menu bars non-existent

01:17:05   now there's some transparency you know the messages app has a similar design and features as the iphone

01:17:11   but there's there doesn't feel at least as as it stands right now that there's any real benefit to

01:17:17   the changes on the mac you don't get any of the animations the new right the new gesture controls

01:17:23   and all of the benefits of scrolling and seeing more of your content none of that's really on the mac

01:17:27   and i don't know how much they're going to walk back but i do think either they'll add more of the

01:17:34   functionality from the iphone and liquid glass or they'll scale it back a little bit because you're

01:17:40   not even getting any of the quote-unquote like liquid animations which is one of the hallmarks of liquid

01:17:45   glass is the animations those just aren't there on the mac and i i think that there's a a real

01:17:51   layering problem on the mac where and i i it jumps out at me every i'm not using the beta on a mac yet

01:17:58   and i'm not going to use it on my main mac until i don't know fall at least but but just having see

01:18:05   every time i see it it's just sort of jarring the way that toolbar buttons look like floating pallets in

01:18:13   front of the window not buttons that are attached to the window and i think that the difference is

01:18:20   like on ios you don't have chrome for the window the buttons really are just on top of the content and

01:18:27   we can argue about content first see the content through everything i think it's an arguable i think

01:18:34   it's a debatable design goal and i think i think it is a little trendy and i think it is

01:18:41   personally i think it's a little counterproductive where you say it's about putting the content first

01:18:48   but i actually think it's sort of disrespectful to the content to make it more ambiguous where the

01:18:54   content starts and ends yeah and sort of have it blur away but it is a choice and so and on ios

01:19:02   on the iphone the buttons literally are right on top of the content of the web page or on the content

01:19:09   of an email you're reading but on the mac there is window chrome where you tap and drag the pointer to

01:19:16   drag the window around and having the toolbar buttons float on top of that doesn't make them look like

01:19:23   they're buttons that are part of the window they look like buttons floating in front of the window which

01:19:28   is a very weird look and it really looks weird when you turn on the button text labels underneath it just

01:19:35   to me it's just beta one and yeah yeah they haven't really looked at it because they don't fit it's it's

01:19:40   the buttons are the wrong size for the text labels underneath i mean on the iphone one of my places where i

01:19:47   noticed the animation of the liquid glass kind of falling down is when you're scrolling like the music app is a

01:19:54   great example you're you start playing something and then you're kind of scrolling through your library

01:19:58   you're scrolling down and you want to skip what's playing that bar at the bottom as you scroll down

01:20:04   collapses so you have your current tab in the left the now playing bar in the middle and a search bar on

01:20:09   the right the now playing bar doesn't have the skip track button unless you scroll back up just a little

01:20:16   bit it pops back up and you can skip your skip your track it's like it's hiding that important

01:20:21   interface element the reasoning being oh you can see half of the album art below as you scroll and that's

01:20:26   not a good trade-off i don't think no i don't think so either so you know hopefully everybody inside apple

01:20:32   is rowing in the same direction on these issues and they're like oh yeah yeah that's a problem that's a

01:20:37   problem so i and i feel like that's a lot what happened with the ios 7 summer right like a lot of the

01:20:44   most egregious design decisions were walked back very quickly i remember remember how male for some

01:20:52   odd reason male and only male used helvetica ultra thin which yes like a variant of helvetica that is

01:21:00   so thin it was baffling that they used it to like render the headers of your email messages and you know

01:21:07   by beta two or three that was fixed it was you know all right let's use a thicker weight well you mentioned

01:21:12   how it kind of collapsed inside apple like three weeks before yeah the keynote usually and i don't

01:21:19   know if this is 100 true this year the timelines might be different but usually the first beta that is

01:21:24   released on the day of the keynote is locked in two weeks before then so if you imagine how buggy it was

01:21:31   three weeks before the keynote i don't know how much they fixed in the next week and we're recording this on

01:21:36   monday morning right so i'd expect beta two to come out today or tomorrow yeah i expect yeah we're

01:21:44   probably poorly timed to this podcast recording probably in 50 minutes honestly yeah yeah honestly

01:21:50   i wouldn't be surprised but uh but hopefully it'll look smart i i expect it to be a vast improvement

01:21:56   of something that is already exciting but i think my biggest takeaway and i sort of emphasized it in my

01:22:02   write-up on daring fireball last week where i compared the way alan dye introduced this to the

01:22:07   way steve jobs introduced aqua where i i just feel like apple today should just be more comfortable

01:22:14   saying hey we did this because it looks cool right i don't know there's some kind of ah we're a big

01:22:20   serious three trillion dollar company so we have to justify this in serious business terms you know like

01:22:26   it's it's putting content first and it increases the harmony of of the coherence between your

01:22:32   different devices how about it looks really looks cool yeah that's what i was trying to say at the

01:22:38   start too is it just to a degree i don't know there's designers out there who might get mad at this but like

01:22:43   design is fashion fashion is design yeah fashion evolves design evolves the ios iphone design hasn't

01:22:50   changed majorly in a long time they did this and sure there might be some usability improvements or

01:22:57   whatever but like you said it just looks cool they did it because it looks cool and i think they spent

01:23:03   a significant amount of time on it in the keynote and i think deservedly so and i also think it is where

01:23:11   liquid glass shows the most polish already which is the iphone lock screen and you could say well that's

01:23:19   superficial right like it's your lock screen the phone is locked you're not using it right like

01:23:24   it's when you've unlocked the phone that you're doing things and using apps and playing games and

01:23:30   watching movies and answering emails and all of that but i don't know i interact with my lock screen a lot

01:23:39   now especially now that they've added widgets and the live activities it's sort of like a two-layer system

01:23:46   right where you've kind of got the ambient iphone that's in your pocket or on your desk all day while

01:23:54   you work on the lock screen and it's useful and usable now in certain ways and it is a constrained

01:24:04   playground for them to hyper focus on the polish and the coolness of liquid glass yeah i love the way that

01:24:15   the time stretches it is it is such a great use of the dynamic nature of the san francisco font i know

01:24:25   i don't know what they call it now adobe used to call it multiple master but it's a similar technology

01:24:31   where you're not just optically stretching a font that wasn't meant to be stretched it the font is defined

01:24:38   in such a complicated way that you can arbitrarily stretch the font and it redraws the width of the

01:24:46   strokes to make it look correct optically correct no matter how you do it squat you can like squish

01:24:55   it and make it really squat or you can stretch it make it really tall and i love playing with that on

01:25:00   my i've spent more time playing with that than anything else in ios 26 i'm doing it i'm just

01:25:07   messing with it right now as we sit here i'm just scrolling up and it's such a good example of

01:25:10   they did that because it looks cool there's literally no functionality right you're given by

01:25:16   making the time shrink and expand right it just looks cool yeah and combined with the new way of making

01:25:24   photos that you've taken spatial yeah and sort of giving a stereoscopic almost uh

01:25:31   you wouldn't want to look at all your photos in your photo library that way permanently but to make a fun

01:25:40   effect for your lock screen i think it's super cool and you know and and the way that they've

01:25:45   really really dialed in the ability to layer things so like zillions of people have a picture of a loved

01:25:52   one a spouse a partner your kids your dog on your lock screen and to pull them forward and have the time

01:26:01   stretched out and cool looking glass numbers but have a little bit of the time behind the head of your

01:26:06   your loved one they've dialed that in to such a degree where they're so much better at like hair

01:26:11   detection and stuff like that i it's just again it's just cool and i think that's the sort of thing

01:26:17   that is the reason people fell in love with apple computers in the first place is yeah you know what

01:26:23   they're just cooler than other computers the photos on the lock screen thing too is a lot like on the apple

01:26:28   watch where they said the photos face on the apple watch is the most popular watch face by like

01:26:32   multiple orders of magnitude and i would imagine it's the same for the iphone where the most popular

01:26:39   picture that people have said is their iphone lock screen is a picture of something whether it's

01:26:43   something they took of a building or something or whether it's a family member a dog so that's why

01:26:47   every year they pay particular focus to those lock screen things because it was it last year that

01:26:52   they made the lock screen fully customizable yeah i guess that was two years ago maybe where you could

01:26:57   change the font you could do all that and every year they don't do a lot with watch faces unfortunately

01:27:03   but they always make a change to the photos face because they know what people use yeah yeah and it

01:27:09   is the you know there's people have sort of given up on that i didn't even see one complaint this year

01:27:15   about the fact that once again they have not announced an api for developers to make custom watch faces

01:27:21   given up yeah but i understand their thinking on that right that they think of themselves as

01:27:27   a traditional watchmaker and they're therefore they're in control of the design of the watch faces

01:27:32   because it's their watch the the photos face has been there since watch 1.0 as the the exception

01:27:39   to that rule that even even while johnny ive was still in charge of it you know and and i'm guessing

01:27:46   was maybe the most resistant but also i i could see how he's like ah yeah but we kind of have to

01:27:52   do that because he is a very emotional person he is he's very empathetic and he understands the idea

01:27:59   that yeah people are definitely going to want to put a picture of their kids on their watch we have to

01:28:04   let them do it it has you know so let's do it and make it look as good as we can and nobody's going

01:28:09   to complain about it because they pick the pictures right yeah the problem we're pivoting a little bit

01:28:15   but the problem with watch os 26 is that not only does it not add third-party watch face support it

01:28:20   doesn't add any new watch faces and it removes five of them from watch os 11 so they're not adding

01:28:29   new faces they remove five with watch os 26 they removed four with watch os 11 so we're down nine

01:28:35   watch faces and a year basically with the only two that they've added i think are the pride one for

01:28:42   this year and the black unity one for this year so i can understand the frustration some people have

01:28:47   and i don't think at this point i think people have given up on winning third-party watch faces

01:28:52   they just want apple to to keep keep doing more ones that they're used to yeah i would i'm a utility

01:28:58   man i've always been on utility from watch 1.0 forward i would be very upset if they got rid of you

01:29:04   they did get rid of one that was like my second favorite it was explorer oh yeah and it you could

01:29:13   see if you like utility why i liked explorer i think it was only on watches that had cellular there

01:29:20   was something because you could get like a it had a custom complication in the center where you could

01:29:25   get four dots to show your cellular strength yeah i really like that face and they got rid of that

01:29:30   that's when they got rid of last year that was like my second favorite watch face and i was kind of

01:29:34   bummed about that so i kind of yeah that and it is kind of breaking the promise of a traditional

01:29:40   watch you know like so if explorer was your favorite watch the idea that you buy a watch and you have a

01:29:46   watch face and you really love it and then you do a software update and it's gone yeah like that just

01:29:53   doesn't happen i mean there aren't software updates for mechanical watches but you don't send it in for

01:29:58   service and have it come back and it has a different watch face it's it is i see it and they don't you

01:30:05   know i get that as they add a couple new ones every year and they usually add new ones when the new watches

01:30:10   come yeah yeah and specifically you know the one thing they did the one good news about watch os 26 is

01:30:16   the analog hand faces like my beloved utility now get the ticking seconds hand yeah yeah right i i i wrote

01:30:27   about it i think only in my apple report card for six colors i didn't really write a proper watch os

01:30:33   review last year i ran out of time but my my complaint about the series 10 watches was that they added this

01:30:42   one second update to the always on mode but they only made one watch face that updated the seconds

01:30:49   hand it was whatever whatever the new one and i didn't really care for that watch face so it's

01:30:55   bananas to me that they had all these other watch faces with seconds hands and only none of the existing

01:31:02   ones updated to tick once per second so they've they have fixed that for the ones that they didn't get

01:31:07   rid of this year so that's good but why it took until a new os is kind of inexplicable to me yeah

01:31:16   i would love to see behind the curtain on some of the watch face development that happens at apple because

01:31:21   there are so many peculiar decisions that are made it there it seems like they have one guy working on

01:31:28   watch faces and he's just doing his best right and it's just sort of focused on getting the pride and

01:31:35   black black unity ones out because there's like a hard deadline for yeah for which month of the year

01:31:40   they have to come out on and it's like oh it is kind of funny to think if it's just like one or two

01:31:45   people yeah frantically updating them trying to think anything else before we sign off that's it's good

01:31:52   overview any other things stick out to you there's so many little things i love this time of the year

01:31:58   when we discover all the little changes firewire going away yep it's had a good run but you know

01:32:06   it you know obviously why it why it didn't make the keynote hey remember firewire we're getting rid of it

01:32:12   yeah one thing that i did want to mention and this is ios 26 i guess but the car play stuff

01:32:18   in ios 26 i'm very excited to see because i was concerned and i've written about this multiple

01:32:25   times so maybe they've read what i wrote but that in a world of what we now know as carplay ultra

01:32:31   that carplay 1.0 or carplay as millions and millions of people have it today

01:32:36   was abandonware basically that it wasn't going to get anything but in ios 26 it's got liquid glass

01:32:43   it's got widgets it's got a new smart display zoom thing like that might have been the highlight of

01:32:49   the keynote for me just to see them actually focusing on that yeah yeah because they haven't really spoken

01:32:55   about it and the vibe i got was that carplay regular and carplay ultra aren't as separate as

01:33:04   maybe we had been led to think you know that it is sort of a a continuum of carplay based on the

01:33:15   capabilities of your car but that it isn't really a fork it's just sort of a well if your car can

01:33:23   support the carplay ultra stuff it does so much more and can expand to more screens but that the same

01:33:29   things like the widgets and the the new liquid glassification of it i i did you get to see that

01:33:36   in person i haven't seen it in person i didn't get a carplay i didn't get a carplay briefing but i

01:33:41   tried it in my car and it's it's very good i mean yeah it looks good it looks great and the thing about

01:33:47   carplay ultra is like why would i need carplay ultra to add like a weather widget to my carplay

01:33:54   screen isn't that possible on carplay 1.0 right and it is now because you have the widget you have widget

01:33:59   stacks and live activities on carplay stood out to me right away because i was driving

01:34:03   my rental car my rental car back from cupertino to sfo and the cincinnati reds were playing so i just had

01:34:12   the live activity up on the carplay screen and it's like that's perfect like yeah yeah lots of great

01:34:16   touches on carplay yeah that makes me wonder why that took so long right because it sort of seems like

01:34:21   that's the point of the whole heavy heavy push towards widgets is the idea of third-party

01:34:29   developers writing software that isn't really software in the traditional sense like you cannot

01:34:35   have third parties writing software that runs on the interface of a car it has to be limited

01:34:40   for safety and regulatory compliance but widgets you know that's the whole point of them is you know you

01:34:45   get some space it's you've got these severe constraints but you can present a baseball game

01:34:51   that updates you know as the score changes and the runners you know the little little dots move around

01:34:58   the bases seems like something that could have been there earlier but it's better late than never

01:35:02   i really believe that they thought they would announce carplay next generation carplay in

01:35:07   june of 2022 and they expected automakers to flock to them and say we want this let's do it within the

01:35:13   next year and then they got crickets in response except for aston martin so they pivoted which is

01:35:19   good i'm glad they pivoted and didn't put all their chips on one thing but yeah too long what i've heard

01:35:25   about that is and i know the mercedes ceo is on the record saying i don't blame him but saying that we

01:35:33   don't you know we're mercedes-benz we're not going to give another company even apple control over the

01:35:39   look of our dashboard that is too integral to the mercedes brand i get that you know especially for a

01:35:45   premium brand like mercedes um but what i've heard is from a couple people is that from most of the car

01:35:55   makers that's not the thinking it's not we don't want to cede control over the look of the dashboard to

01:36:01   apple it's really more apple the carplay ultra comes in with a whole bunch of high level technical

01:36:10   specifications for the screens and the latency and just how good of a computer

01:36:17   the the parts of the car that are a computer need to be yeah the sensors and that the car companies were

01:36:26   like yeah this shit's all way more expensive than the components that we've got in our cars right now

01:36:31   and it's it's really and that what was surprising to apple was that the the apple mindset is oh that

01:36:40   would be awesome so we'll we'll put that screen on every iphone right yeah that's a you know and

01:36:45   cost be damned and that most other companies don't think like that most other companies look at the cost

01:36:52   first and then try to get the best well here's how much we're going to spend on the screen now let's get the

01:36:59   best screen not here's this awesome screen let's make it let's raise the price of the car to make

01:37:04   it work or even here are these software features we've developed but we need this type of screen

01:37:09   to do it so let's go get that screen like right and that it's the reason it's taking longer than even

01:37:16   apple might have expected is that these things are spec'd out years in advance you know and so even

01:37:21   cars that are event car makers that are eventually are going to support car play ultra

01:37:26   if they're committed to it in 2020 early 2024 they might still be looking at 27 or 28 before those

01:37:37   cars have the spec you know meet meet the specs that car play ultra demands that it really does have

01:37:42   very high level component demands of the car maker not just oh just make bigger screens that's it it's

01:37:51   it's a lot of technical stuff and other companies aren't aren't like apple in terms of oh let's

01:37:56   quickly adopt this no yeah uh yeah car play good year for car play good year for apple watch tv

01:38:03   tv uh poor tv os yeah we made fun of it on my live show oh yeah eli did and i think that was sort of

01:38:11   a cheap shot and i didn't know i didn't want to argue with him because we had so much to cover but

01:38:15   you know on the other hand i feel like i i watched my apple tv almost all of my television watching goes

01:38:23   through apple tv and i love it and the more i read about the in shittification of all the other

01:38:28   set-top box platforms and the ads and the tracking and everything i'm so glad apple is in this and it's

01:38:35   like how much do we want it to change every year i don't know not much i mean it i think it was jason

01:38:41   snell who did like his he did like a streaming box showdown or something where he tested out yeah some

01:38:48   roku some fire sticks and the apple tv and like from reading what he wrote the roku and the fire tv have

01:38:54   just been so beat to the ground with ads and tracking and everything like the apple tv is

01:39:00   what i use we have three tvs in the house we have three apple tvs it's not even a debate it's like

01:39:05   that's the only way to watch tv it's apple tv yeah i'm not sure what to make of the fact that they're

01:39:11   going to vertical posters from horizontal ones yeah you know is that change for changes sake because i kind

01:39:18   of like the 16 i think they're roughly 16 to 9 but i like the idea that in the current like tv os 18

01:39:26   the posters for the things you're going through are 16 to 9 so they are sort of representative

01:39:33   of the screen and i know movie posters are traditionally vertically oriented but i feel

01:39:39   like that's a little weird i don't know it feels a little i know netflix changed to netflix changed to

01:39:44   portrait at some point recently so it's just a a thing that's happening i think right so maybe it's

01:39:50   just following the industry trend but anyway good year for wwdc that's about it for me anything else

01:39:56   you wanted to cover no not that i i think we got most of it i guess we forgot vision os but yeah well

01:40:03   you know what i will it's a good add-on i i will say i know i've seen a bunch of people do the same

01:40:08   thing like hey apple hasn't forgotten vision os like it's really a lot of improvements i mean they it's

01:40:13   good yeah it really is and i feel like last year was the oh here's all the stuff we really wanted

01:40:21   to ship in 1.0 but we didn't it's the nature of shipping we had to cut a bunch of stuff we've added

01:40:28   it back in this it's it's well i was going to say it's i was going to call it vision os 3 it's

01:40:34   vision os 26 it's 24 years of upgrades uh but it really is sort of the 2.0 vision for the platform

01:40:43   and nope no pun intended and you know i i don't know i continue to be very bullish on vision as a

01:40:52   platform and i don't i really don't think apple is as disappointed in the sales of vision pro so far as

01:41:00   people would think i i don't really think they had that much higher expectations i think if they're

01:41:05   disappointed in anything it's not sales but developer support for the platform yeah that they're just

01:41:11   there just aren't that many and you know right you at nine to five mac like somebody announces a new

01:41:18   vision app they're going to send you the press release there just isn't that much really no right

01:41:23   so i think that's the disappointment and i think it gets to the larger question which we don't have

01:41:28   time for of apple's developer relations status which kind of went untalked about at wwdc unsurprisingly

01:41:36   but yeah but i i think their heads down and that the the teams at vision os i've i watched some of the

01:41:43   wdc sessions it's really really they're they're full speed ahead you know and they've got again no pun

01:41:49   they've got a vision for the platform and the new avatars what do they call them personas personas

01:41:55   yeah incredible really there's the the rate at which personas have gotten better from

01:41:59   1.0 and then they added the spatial persona aspect of it and now with vision os 26 it's it's night and

01:42:07   day like yeah you joke that your show in 2023 where jaws was like we don't like the term uncanny valley

01:42:14   or whatever they've gotten out of uncanny valley i think it's getting very close anyway in 20 yeah

01:42:20   it's to the point where when i got the the demo of it it it freaked me out like when i saw my

01:42:28   original persona two years ago i was like oh that's cool that does look like me and i am sort of floating

01:42:32   there and here i'm talking to somebody and yeah it kind of looks like them and this time when i made my

01:42:37   persona and they put it right in front of me it was freaky because it's like holy shit that's me and it

01:42:42   was like the right size it was like a completely realistic size of my head and i'm like i'm like

01:42:49   oh whoa that's really weird i've never seen myself before yeah that's very strange so anyway good year

01:42:56   for them too i i'm very bullish on it and i think they need to make new hardware that is more affordable

01:43:02   and less heavy and all sorts of things and i think they're hard at work on it and it's going to be a

01:43:08   bigger thing and then people are going people are going to say when it becomes i think maybe not a

01:43:15   hit product but a successful platform they're going to say ah finally they made it cheaper they should

01:43:21   have done this originally they should have shipped it for fifteen hundred dollars originally not really

01:43:27   seeing that there was no way to ship it in twenty twenty three for fifteen hundred dollars yeah

01:43:32   it's not how it works right it's not how it works so anyway chance good good to have you back on the

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