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00:00:10 ◼   ► >> From Relay FM, this is Upgrade Episode 422.

00:00:15 ◼   ► Today's show is brought to you by Sourcegraph, Capital One, and Zocdoc.

00:00:19 ◼   ► You heard the music.

00:00:20 ◼   ► It's not the summer of fun anymore.

00:00:22 ◼   ► We're drafting today.

00:00:24 ◼   ► Jason Snell, welcome to the show.

00:00:26 ◼   ► >> From Draft Central, it's me.

00:00:28 ◼   ► Jason Snell, your co-host.

00:00:30 ◼   ► Ready to go.

00:00:31 ◼   ► - I have a hashtag SnellTalk question for you.

00:00:37 ◼   ► That comes from me, Myke Hurley, to you, Jason Snell.

00:00:39 ◼   ► Jason, are you gonna be at Apple Park next week?

00:00:42 ◼   ► - Thanks for asking, Myke.

00:00:43 ◼   ► Yes, I am.

00:00:44 ◼   ► I've been invited to drive down to Cupertino

00:00:49 ◼   ► and do something, see an Apple event.

00:00:53 ◼   ► Now what that entails in 2022, unclear,

00:00:58 ◼   ► 'Cause the last time I went down there to see an Apple event,

00:01:00 ◼   ► you know, we sat in chairs and watched a video.

00:01:02 ◼   ► But then afterward got to see new products.

00:01:06 ◼   ► And that may well be what happens this time too,

00:01:09 ◼   ► although it's all to play for about our predictions

00:01:12 ◼   ► about whether that'll be the case.

00:01:13 ◼   ► But I'll be there.

00:01:14 ◼   ► I will be driving down 280 and like the old days.

00:01:18 ◼   ► It's really like the old days to me.

00:01:20 ◼   ► Yeah, good times.

00:01:21 ◼   ► - If you would like to send in a Snow Talk question

00:01:23 ◼   ► to help us open the show,

00:01:25 ◼   ► you can just send out a tweet with the hashtag Snow Talk

00:01:27 ◼   ► we use question mark snow talk

00:01:28 ◼   ► in the relay FM members discord.

00:01:31 ◼   ► So we are going to be drafting today.

00:01:32 ◼   ► We are drafting for the September Apple event.

00:01:35 ◼   ► We're assuming the iPhone event.

00:01:37 ◼   ► Now that means it's draft time, which means,

00:01:40 ◼   ► hey, why don't you buy yourself a draft t-shirt?

00:01:42 ◼   ► These are available always.

00:01:43 ◼   ► Go to upgradeyourwardrobe.com,

00:01:45 ◼   ► buy yourself a draft t-shirt, you know?

00:01:47 ◼   ► And then mine is on the way.

00:01:48 ◼   ► I was very upset, I didn't get it in time.

00:01:50 ◼   ► I wish I could have had it.

00:01:52 ◼   ► I would have been wearing it today, but I didn't.

00:01:54 ◼   ► So I haven't.

00:01:55 ◼   ► But for the next one, I will be.

00:01:57 ◼   ► - And if you're a fan of fantasy sports,

00:02:00 ◼   ► you could get the Upgrade Draft shirt

00:02:03 ◼   ► and then just wear it to your fantasy sports draft.

00:02:05 ◼   ► - Yep, and who would know? - And they would think

00:02:07 ◼   ► that it was for you or for your league,

00:02:10 ◼   ► but it's actually for us.

00:02:12 ◼   ► We know for Upgradians, we know the truth.

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00:02:20 ◼   ► This week in the Upgrade Plus segment,

00:02:22 ◼   ► we will talk about a selection of possible picks

00:02:24 ◼   ► that didn't make it into our draft.

00:02:25 ◼   ► So if you want more little tidbits from us

00:02:28 ◼   ► and thoughts and feelings

00:02:29 ◼   ► about what might be announced next Wednesday,

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00:02:33 ◼   ► Now we spoke about this

00:02:35 ◼   ► in the Six Colors, Six Rescribers podcast,

00:02:37 ◼   ► but you got a new smart lock.

00:02:39 ◼   ► - Yes, we talked about it here two weeks ago,

00:02:43 ◼   ► but we pre, or was it last week?

00:02:45 ◼   ► - It was last, okay.

00:02:46 ◼   ► We spoke about it two weeks ago.

00:02:48 ◼   ► It was on last week's episode.

00:02:49 ◼   ► - It was on last week's episode.

00:02:51 ◼   ► That's it, that was the magic of it.

00:02:53 ◼   ► And that was Monday release, right?

00:02:58 ◼   ► By Friday afternoon, I had a new smart lock

00:03:03 ◼   ► because listener Eric came through

00:03:07 ◼   ► and actually several listeners contacted me to say

00:03:10 ◼   ► what I thought was funny

00:03:11 ◼   ► and we did talk about this

00:03:12 ◼   ► in the Six Colors podcast last week.

00:03:14 ◼   ► Several people apparently were sort of hoarding these

00:03:17 ◼   ► or made lots of orders hoping to get one

00:03:19 ◼   ► and ended up with more than they wanted.

00:03:20 ◼   ► And so I had several people reach out and say,

00:03:23 ◼   ► I've got an extra, including one from Eric

00:03:27 ◼   ► that was in the style that I wanted.

00:03:28 ◼   ► And then I've also heard from several other people

00:03:30 ◼   ► who found it at Home Depot,

00:03:33 ◼   ► which is the thing that I think I mentioned

00:03:34 ◼   ► in the last episode,

00:03:35 ◼   ► which is that this particular Schlage Smart Lock,

00:03:39 ◼   ► Schlage Encode Plus that's got, yes, thank you,

00:03:43 ◼   ► that has NFC support, Apple Home Key support,

00:03:45 ◼   ► so you can just tap and enter your house.

00:03:48 ◼   ► They are slowly trickling into stores

00:03:51 ◼   ► after being announced like in February

00:03:53 ◼   ► and immediately selling out,

00:03:54 ◼   ► and then not having any more stock

00:03:56 ◼   ► for months and months and months.

00:03:57 ◼   ► So anyway, I wrote about it at Six Colors.

00:03:59 ◼   ► Thank you to listener Eric.

00:04:01 ◼   ► And stop sending me links to the Home Depot's page for this

00:04:05 ◼   ► because I already have one.

00:04:06 ◼   ► I don't need any more.

00:04:07 ◼   ► Thanks.

00:04:08 ◼   ► - Well, I mean, some listeners would suggest to you

00:04:10 ◼   ► that you do always need more.

00:04:12 ◼   ► - I don't.

00:04:13 ◼   ► I don't need, I don't have any doors, Myke.

00:04:15 ◼   ► - Well, but like, it's holding them, right?

00:04:17 ◼   ► Just in case, in case somebody else needs them,

00:04:19 ◼   ► you gotta pay it forward.

00:04:19 ◼   ► - Oh yeah, well, I'm not gonna be a lock hoarder

00:04:22 ◼   ► that I'm gonna let that let other people enjoy the locks instead of hoarding them

00:04:26 ◼   ► myself it is September and that means something very important around these

00:04:32 ◼   ► parts well I say it said it's basically September when we're recording this it's

00:04:36 ◼   ► effectively September it's September there's three more days left in August

00:04:41 ◼   ► Myke depends when you're listening it could be September when someone's

00:04:44 ◼   ► listening if you're listening in September send a tweet to Jason say hey

00:04:49 ◼   ► I'm listening to September.

00:04:50 ◼   ► - No, no. - It's fine, it's fine.

00:04:52 ◼   ► - If you listen to this in August

00:04:54 ◼   ► and Myke just told you it's September,

00:04:55 ◼   ► I guess send a tweet to Myke.

00:04:56 ◼   ► - No, you don't need to do that 'cause it's fine.

00:04:58 ◼   ► - Nope, probably not.

00:04:59 ◼   ► - We only need to prove the September point,

00:05:01 ◼   ► we don't need to prove the August point.

00:05:02 ◼   ► - This week includes September, Myke.

00:05:05 ◼   ► This week will include days that are in September.

00:05:09 ◼   ► Isn't that exciting?

00:05:10 ◼   ► Tell the people why that's exciting.

00:05:12 ◼   ► - Because September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

00:05:14 ◼   ► For the fourth consecutive year,

00:05:16 ◼   ► the Relay FM community is rallying together again

00:05:19 ◼   ► to support the life-saving mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which

00:05:24 ◼   ► is finding cures, saving children.

00:05:27 ◼   ► Cancer kills more children under the age of 14 than any other disease. That is a horrifying

00:05:32 ◼   ► statistic. But because of generous supporters like you, St. Jude creates more clinical trials

00:05:38 ◼   ► for pediatric cancer than any other children's hospital in the United States. In 2021, one

00:05:44 ◼   ► of those trials reported a more than 20-point improvement in survival rates for high-risk

00:05:49 ◼   ► neuroblastoma, which is the second most common solid tumor in children, and they did it using

00:05:54 ◼   ► an antibody produced at the St. Jude campus. This progress is just one example of the world-class

00:06:00 ◼   ► research taking place at St. Jude. It is carried out by researchers who are among the world's

00:06:05 ◼   ► most highly cited scientists, which is then shared with the world to help doctors and

00:06:10 ◼   ► patients elsewhere.

00:06:12 ◼   ► If you've been listening to our shows over the last few years, you'll know that we

00:06:15 ◼   ► We partner with St. Jude every September to raise money for things like this.

00:06:19 ◼   ► We raise money with them because St. Jude Children's Research Hospital saved the life

00:06:24 ◼   ► of my co-founder Stephen Hackett's son.

00:06:27 ◼   ► We say we raise money for them because over these last many years we have heard from so

00:06:32 ◼   ► many people whose lives have been touched by this incredible organization.

00:06:37 ◼   ► So we ask you, the Relay FM community, to donate to St. Jude to help continue this message.

00:06:45 ◼   ► Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is an opportunity for us to come together in the fight against

00:06:49 ◼   ► childhood cancer, because together we can make a big impact.

00:06:54 ◼   ► We always ask you to make a donation.

00:06:57 ◼   ► If you go to stju.org/relay you can donate.

00:07:00 ◼   ► Donors who make an individual gift of $60 or more will receive a digital bundle which

00:07:04 ◼   ► includes some really wild wallpapers and an even more wild MacOS screensaver pack.

00:07:09 ◼   ► These will be sent out at the end of the campaign.

00:07:12 ◼   ► Those who make an individual gift of $100 or more will receive these digital gifts and

00:07:18 ◼   ► also, or incentives, there's a specific word I shouldn't have said gift, we'll say incentive,

00:07:23 ◼   ► will also receive a set of stickers in addition to a digital bundle.

00:07:28 ◼   ► We have employee matching, so if your employer offers a matching gift program, you can go

00:07:32 ◼   ► to stju.org/relay and there's a form that you can fill in and that will be credited

00:07:35 ◼   ► to our campaign.

00:07:37 ◼   ► Make sure you're aware of this, check with your employer if they will match donations

00:07:41 ◼   ► that you will make, that's extra money that can go to St. Jude. But there's something

00:07:45 ◼   ► new for this year. If you want to get more hands on, you can now start your own fundraising

00:07:50 ◼   ► campaign to help us reach our goals while earning exclusive Relay FM merch in the process.

00:07:57 ◼   ► If you sign up to fundraise at stjude.org/relay and there's a bunch of information there to

00:08:01 ◼   ► help you get started, if you raise $1 or more you will receive an exclusive St. Jude limited

00:08:06 ◼   ► edition of the Relay of Home Challenge coin. If you raise $250 or more, you will also receive

00:08:12 ◼   ► a very unique desk mat which features the cartoon interpretations of mine and Stephen's

00:08:17 ◼   ► heads. This is something we are trying out this year as a way to help expand the amount

00:08:23 ◼   ► of money that we as a community can raise. There's a couple of interesting things for

00:08:27 ◼   ► this right? You will be able to donate whatever you are able to donate and we will gladly

00:08:32 ◼   ► accept that money, of course, because this is money that St. Jude needs. But if you can

00:08:36 ◼   ► go out to your friends, your community, your family and get any more money from them, that

00:08:42 ◼   ► is money that otherwise would not have been donated to St. Jude this year. Which is just

00:08:46 ◼   ► an incredible thing. If you're also unable to donate right now, this can be a way for

00:08:50 ◼   ► you to get involved and still help us help St. Jude do the work that they're doing.

00:08:56 ◼   ► So, stjude.org/relay. You can donate and find out more about fundraising and find out why

00:09:02 ◼   ► this is such an important thing.

00:09:17 ◼   ► And of course, for a very long time, 8 hours in fact, on September 16th, as me and Stephen

00:09:22 ◼   ► will be, knock on wood, coming together again at St. Jude's campus in Memphis, Tennessee

00:09:28 ◼   ► for the 4th annual podcastathon.

00:09:31 ◼   ► We will be there together from 12 to 8 PM US Eastern Time at twitch.tv/relayfm.

00:09:37 ◼   ► Lots of hijinks.

00:09:38 ◼   ► It's going to be a variety show featuring many Relay FM hosts.

00:09:42 ◼   ► Jason will be hopefully producing a wonderful game show again.

00:09:46 ◼   ► Yes, and I need your help, everybody.

00:09:48 ◼   ► Dear Upgradients, I need your help because it is going to be a Feuding Families edition,

00:09:52 ◼   ► which means we need to take the pulse of the thoughts of Upgradients and other Relay FM

00:10:00 ◼   ► listeners, you have to answer a short survey. To go to that survey, go to tinyurl.com/relayfm22

00:10:07 ◼   ► like the year. And it'll be in the show notes. Fill it out. Again, I just want to say, please

00:10:18 ◼   ► don't try to mess with us. Answer, clear your mind, and then answer with the first thing

00:10:24 ◼   ► that pops into your head. And then, you know, the fun begins after that. And I'll do another

00:10:29 ◼   ► I'll host another game show.

00:10:31 ◼   ► This is what my life is now, Myke.

00:10:32 ◼   ► - Game show! - Every year I host

00:10:34 ◼   ► a game show on a telethon.

00:10:37 ◼   ► - That's very important because--

00:10:39 ◼   ► - It's all been leading up to this.

00:10:40 ◼   ► - Game show is where I get to eat dinner.

00:10:42 ◼   ► So very important to me.

00:10:44 ◼   ► - You're welcome.

00:10:45 ◼   ► - 'Cause I get to take a break

00:10:46 ◼   ► and obviously of course they're fantastic.

00:10:49 ◼   ► So look, we're gonna be talking about this a lot,

00:10:51 ◼   ► but for now go to stjude.org/relay.

00:10:53 ◼   ► You can learn more there, you can donate,

00:10:55 ◼   ► you can find out more about St. Jude,

00:10:57 ◼   ► you can find out why we do this,

00:10:58 ◼   ► and you can also sign up to fundraise

00:11:00 ◼   ► because let's cure childhood cancer together.

00:11:03 ◼   ► It is time for some draft information.

00:11:08 ◼   ► - Okay. - Draft rules.

00:11:10 ◼   ► - When are they gonna be finalized?

00:11:11 ◼   ► - They're already finalized.

00:11:12 ◼   ► We finalized this one time.

00:11:13 ◼   ► - Oh, well, I thought you said it was a draft of...

00:11:16 ◼   ► Did I misunderstand?

00:11:17 ◼   ► - Is this the energy I'm getting from you today?

00:11:21 ◼   ► - I'm the challenger, so yeah.

00:11:24 ◼   ► - You're being very challenging.

00:11:26 ◼   ► That makes sense.

00:11:27 ◼   ► These are the rules of the draft. There will be 10 rounds, 20 overall picks. The draft

00:11:31 ◼   ► will be split into three categories. There will be four picks each for the iPhone, three

00:11:36 ◼   ► for the Apple Watch, and three designated as "other". The winner of the previous

00:11:40 ◼   ► draft gets to pick first. That was me. I won the WWE C-Draft.

00:11:45 ◼   ► The items that we will be choosing are from a predetermined list of picks that we put

00:11:49 ◼   ► together. We have agreed that they could be verifiable on screen and not ridiculously

00:11:54 ◼   ► obvious. For an item to count, it must be either clearly announced on stage or on our

00:11:58 ◼   ► slide during the keynote presentation next Wednesday.

00:12:02 ◼   ► Stephen Hackett will adjudicate in the case of a scoring stalemate between Jason and Myke.

00:12:07 ◼   ► There are no partial points awarded. The points awarded on the episode are final and finalised

00:12:12 ◼   ► during the scoring segment of next week's show.

00:12:16 ◼   ► In the case of a tie, there is a tiebreaker question. The loser will get the pick of the

00:12:20 ◼   ► tiebreaker, which as always is event runtime.

00:12:22 ◼   ► The winner becomes the draft champion and displays the champion pennant proudly.

00:12:28 ◼   ► The loser becomes the draft challenger and also displays the challenger pennant.

00:12:32 ◼   ► Maybe proudly, it depends how they're feeling about themselves.

00:12:35 ◼   ► The 2022 results so far, Jason won the March event, which I have zero memory of.

00:12:40 ◼   ► Do you remember what happened in March?

00:12:42 ◼   ► What did they do?

00:12:43 ◼   ► Was that Macbook Pro?

00:12:45 ◼   ► What was March?

00:12:46 ◼   ► What was March?

00:12:48 ◼   ► Wasn't Macbook Pro.

00:12:49 ◼   ► What did they do in March?

00:12:50 ◼   ► - Oh, Max Studio.

00:12:51 ◼   ► - Max Studio, WWDC, I won that one.

00:12:54 ◼   ► Historically, Jason is undefeated at September drafts.

00:12:59 ◼   ► So we'll see how that one goes.

00:13:02 ◼   ► There will be a scorecard, upgrade.cards,

00:13:07 ◼   ► which was put together by the wonderful Zach Knox.

00:13:10 ◼   ► So you will be able to score the event

00:13:13 ◼   ► along with us next week.

00:13:15 ◼   ► - Well, you know what I'm watching at home?

00:13:19 ◼   ► I do sort of score along with the presentation.

00:13:22 ◼   ► I don't do it that so much when I'm actually there.

00:13:24 ◼   ► But I mean, if you're just watching along in Cupertino,

00:13:28 ◼   ► honestly, you might as well keep score there too.

00:13:31 ◼   ► - Do you want to do a tiebreaker now?

00:13:33 ◼   ► - Yeah, let's do it.

00:13:34 ◼   ► - So we're going to do event runtime as we always do.

00:13:37 ◼   ► Now, remind me, does that mean I get to pick the number,

00:13:40 ◼   ► right, and then you get to do the over under on it?

00:13:43 ◼   ► - I believe so.

00:13:45 ◼   ► Is that right, or is it the other way around?

00:13:46 ◼   ► Did I do, no, 'cause I picked the number last,

00:13:48 ◼   ► I picked the number last time and was wrong,

00:13:50 ◼   ► and that lost me, and I was the winner going into that.

00:13:53 ◼   ► So yes, you pick the number,

00:13:56 ◼   ► and then I will tell you over or under.

00:13:59 ◼   ► And our upgradients have informed us

00:14:02 ◼   ► that last year's iPhone event was 79 minutes long.

00:14:07 ◼   ► - I'm going to go with 83 minutes.

00:14:14 ◼   ► (sighs)

00:14:17 ◼   ► 83 minutes.

00:14:22 ◼   ► Over or under?

00:14:23 ◼   ► 83 minutes.

00:14:25 ◼   ► Over.

00:14:27 ◼   ► Over 83 minutes?

00:14:28 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:14:29 ◼   ► Okay.

00:14:30 ◼   ► What do you think?

00:14:32 ◼   ► I'm intrigued.

00:14:33 ◼   ► I just, I think it's, I think there, it's a two hour slot.

00:14:37 ◼   ► I think being that close to 90 minutes is too short.

00:14:42 ◼   ► So I think it's going to be more.

00:14:44 ◼   ► I think they're going to have more to say than, I think they're going to have at least

00:14:47 ◼   ► an hour and a half to say.

00:14:48 ◼   ► - They always give a two hour slot.

00:14:50 ◼   ► What does that mean, a two hour slot?

00:14:51 ◼   ► - Yeah, I know, I know, but like,

00:14:53 ◼   ► they don't always fill the two hour slot,

00:14:54 ◼   ► but I feel like I'm just gonna go,

00:14:58 ◼   ► I'm gonna be optimistic and think

00:14:59 ◼   ► that it's gonna be more like 90.

00:15:01 ◼   ► - All right.

00:15:02 ◼   ► I thought it would be closer to 90,

00:15:04 ◼   ► which is why I went to 83,

00:15:06 ◼   ► 'cause it's longer than the last one,

00:15:07 ◼   ► but I didn't wanna go exactly to 90.

00:15:09 ◼   ► I thought it'd be fun.

00:15:10 ◼   ► - Yeah, well, I mean, I could see the argument

00:15:12 ◼   ► that it's an hour and they're off, right?

00:15:13 ◼   ► But it is their biggest event,

00:15:15 ◼   ► and we'll see if they take the opportunity.

00:15:17 ◼   ► In the past, they have sometimes taken the opportunity

00:15:19 ◼   ► to talk about lots of other things.

00:15:21 ◼   ► Also, I'm putting in there a little bit of a possibility

00:15:24 ◼   ► they might have a live portion.

00:15:27 ◼   ► And if that happens, I feel like that expands

00:15:29 ◼   ► the amount of time that they spend, but we'll see.

00:15:33 ◼   ► We'll see, but I choose to be optimistic

00:15:35 ◼   ► and think that if they're gonna have us go down there

00:15:38 ◼   ► for an event that they'll give us

00:15:39 ◼   ► at least 90 minutes of material.

00:15:41 ◼   ► But history says that may not be the case.

00:15:43 ◼   ► Still, I choose to be optimistic.

00:15:45 ◼   ► - Jana in the Discord asks,

00:15:47 ◼   ► "What happens if the time at Apple Park is different

00:15:49 ◼   ► "than the time of the stream?"

00:15:50 ◼   ► We only judge on what's streamed.

00:15:52 ◼   ► - It's the time of the stream, right?

00:15:53 ◼   ► Because in fact, we had that last time

00:15:55 ◼   ► where there was a question of like,

00:15:58 ◼   ► Tim Cook appears before the crowd live,

00:16:02 ◼   ► and Tim Cook did appear before the crowd at the event live,

00:16:05 ◼   ► but none of that was streamed.

00:16:07 ◼   ► It's not part of the program, and therefore it doesn't count.

00:16:10 ◼   ► - All right, so I think we're ready.

00:16:12 ◼   ► - I think so.

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00:18:00 ◼   ► So we now move into the first round,

00:18:03 ◼   ► which will be iPhone picks.

00:18:06 ◼   ► - iPhone picks, four of them each.

00:18:09 ◼   ► - Mm-hmm.

00:18:10 ◼   ► - So I get to go first, which is a rare feeling for me.

00:18:13 ◼   ► - You do.

00:18:14 ◼   ► - It's not what usually happens.

00:18:17 ◼   ► So I actually feel a little bit of intimidation

00:18:21 ◼   ► about the fact that I get to make this first pick.

00:18:23 ◼   ► - Just pick something weird.

00:18:25 ◼   ► Pick something unlikely for fun.

00:18:26 ◼   ► - Oh, is that, this is interesting.

00:18:28 ◼   ► I'm enjoying this.

00:18:30 ◼   ► Okay, I'll tell you what I'll go with.

00:18:33 ◼   ► Always on display comes only to iPhone Pro models.

00:18:35 ◼   ► - That's not weird or fun.

00:18:38 ◼   ► No it's not, is it? No, I'm planning to win.

00:18:40 ◼   ► So we have a couple of different picks here,

00:18:42 ◼   ► you can probably guess the kinds of picks that we have

00:18:44 ◼   ► from the way that this one is worded.

00:18:46 ◼   ► I feel like the always on display

00:18:49 ◼   ► is a feature coming to the iPhone,

00:18:51 ◼   ► which we've wanted for a long time.

00:18:53 ◼   ► Feels like it should have been technically possible

00:18:55 ◼   ► for a long time with the OLED displays,

00:18:57 ◼   ► especially with the ProMotion that came last year,

00:18:59 ◼   ► but they haven't done it yet.

00:19:01 ◼   ► But it really does feel like with everything

00:19:03 ◼   ► that they're doing with complications on the lock screen

00:19:06 ◼   ► or widgets on the log screen,

00:19:08 ◼   ► and the dimming states that we've been talking about

00:19:10 ◼   ► in previous Ruma Roundup segments,

00:19:12 ◼   ► I feel pretty confident that this is gonna be the year

00:19:15 ◼   ► of the always-on display.

00:19:16 ◼   ► - Yeah, this was my top two.

00:19:19 ◼   ► I think if we've ever been told about

00:19:22 ◼   ► what is coming, right, a year and a half

00:19:28 ◼   ► in advance sometimes, this is one of the things

00:19:31 ◼   ► that is at the top of the list,

00:19:33 ◼   ► is they've been telling us for a while now

00:19:36 ◼   ► that this is what we were gonna get.

00:19:37 ◼   ► And you're right, it actually feels more like,

00:19:41 ◼   ► why did we wait so long?

00:19:43 ◼   ► Because it does feel like they had

00:19:46 ◼   ► some of this technology sooner,

00:19:48 ◼   ► but I'm sure they're gonna do exactly what they did

00:19:50 ◼   ► with the Apple Watch, right?

00:19:52 ◼   ► We just say, oh, but we had to put in a new display control

00:19:55 ◼   ► in order to get the frame rate down to the lowest level

00:19:57 ◼   ► because otherwise the battery life is unacceptable.

00:19:59 ◼   ► And I believe that, right?

00:20:01 ◼   ► Like I get that.

00:20:03 ◼   ► I think somebody checked in the current OLED displays

00:20:06 ◼   ► only go down to like 10 frames a second

00:20:08 ◼   ► or something like that.

00:20:09 ◼   ► Like it's not enough for an acceptable amount

00:20:11 ◼   ► of power saving apparently.

00:20:13 ◼   ► So, okay.

00:20:16 ◼   ► I'm looking forward to it.

00:20:18 ◼   ► Should be nice.

00:20:18 ◼   ► - What's your pick?

00:20:21 ◼   ► - All right.

00:20:23 ◼   ► Well, that was my first pick.

00:20:25 ◼   ► So good job to you.

00:20:27 ◼   ► That's the air advantage for having one last time.

00:20:33 ◼   ► I am gonna say, I can't pick that one

00:20:36 ◼   ► 'cause Myke already picked it.

00:20:38 ◼   ► I'm gonna, I'm going to say the notch is gone

00:20:43 ◼   ► from at least one iPhone model replaced by cutouts

00:20:47 ◼   ► for cameras and sensors.

00:20:48 ◼   ► This is another one of those rumors

00:20:50 ◼   ► that's been floating out there for more than a year,

00:20:52 ◼   ► which is we're gonna get kind of a hole punch

00:20:55 ◼   ► and a little lozenge,

00:20:56 ◼   ► a couple of objects floating on the screen,

00:20:59 ◼   ► but not the full notch that we've had since the iPhone X

00:21:03 ◼   ► in at least probably the pro models.

00:21:06 ◼   ► But my pick is at least one model.

00:21:09 ◼   ► - I'm personally just excited

00:21:12 ◼   ► for whatever Apple calls these things.

00:21:15 ◼   ► Because it seems like in the rumors it's been--

00:21:18 ◼   ► - Whole Punch and Lozenge.

00:21:20 ◼   ► - Well, I think pill is usually what people go for,

00:21:23 ◼   ► but Lozenge is fun.

00:21:24 ◼   ► And Whole Punch display has been kind of the way

00:21:28 ◼   ► it's been standardized on in the Android world, right?

00:21:31 ◼   ► Because it's been around for a longer time.

00:21:34 ◼   ► Because, you know, the Android phones have mostly stuck

00:21:37 ◼   ► with fingerprint sensors, right?

00:21:40 ◼   ► So the cameras have just been able to be all that's there.

00:21:43 ◼   ► They haven't needed to have the sensor arrays

00:21:45 ◼   ► that Apple's got going on.

00:21:46 ◼   ► 'Cause that's what it would be, right?

00:21:47 ◼   ► You would have, most likely, a hole punch for the camera

00:21:52 ◼   ► and then the pill shaped for the sensors for the Face ID.

00:21:55 ◼   ► - Right.

00:21:56 ◼   ► - And that's separated.

00:21:57 ◼   ► Some people's are round.

00:21:58 ◼   ► It's more like a cap capsule,

00:22:00 ◼   ► - Capsule. - Caplet kind of shape.

00:22:01 ◼   ► It's a tablet and a caplet.

00:22:05 ◼   ► - Although lozenges can be square too.

00:22:07 ◼   ► - They can be square and circular too.

00:22:08 ◼   ► So it doesn't really work that way.

00:22:10 ◼   ► But yes, we all know what we're talking about here.

00:22:12 ◼   ► So I'm gonna go on that one.

00:22:14 ◼   ► That seems like a pretty safe choice

00:22:18 ◼   ► that's been talked about for quite a while now.

00:22:20 ◼   ► - That was very high up on my list.

00:22:21 ◼   ► That was gonna be my third pick.

00:22:23 ◼   ► - Oh, okay.

00:22:24 ◼   ► - 'Cause I feel like this will happen.

00:22:27 ◼   ► and I'm actually, I'm pretty excited about it.

00:22:30 ◼   ► My second pick is, it's gonna be another pro focus thing.

00:22:35 ◼   ► 'Cause that's, you know, I know that's not in the pick.

00:22:38 ◼   ► We say at least one iPhone model,

00:22:40 ◼   ► but this is gonna happen on the pro phones, right?

00:22:42 ◼   ► - Yeah, right, sure. - If it happens now.

00:22:42 ◼   ► - Well, man, imagine that.

00:22:44 ◼   ► They're like, "We've removed the notch,

00:22:45 ◼   ► "but only from the lowest end phone."

00:22:48 ◼   ► - Only the cheapest phone,

00:22:50 ◼   ► not even the max phone will have it.

00:22:51 ◼   ► It's just-- - No, it's the iPhone SE.

00:22:53 ◼   ► We've removed the notch from the iPhone SE.

00:22:55 ◼   ► It gets a little hole punch now.

00:22:57 ◼   ► - You're welcome.

00:22:58 ◼   ► - Yeah, everyone knows the notch on the FNSC

00:23:00 ◼   ► is highly contested.

00:23:01 ◼   ► My second pick is gonna be the Profones

00:23:06 ◼   ► get an upgraded camera.

00:23:09 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:23:10 ◼   ► - We put in brackets more megapixels,

00:23:12 ◼   ► like that's the thing.

00:23:14 ◼   ► - Okay, yeah, let me tell you why I put more megapixels

00:23:17 ◼   ► in this choice in our little menu of pics.

00:23:19 ◼   ► - That's the particular thing.

00:23:21 ◼   ► - They talk about upgrading the camera all the time,

00:23:23 ◼   ► but the megapixels has remained the same, right?

00:23:25 ◼   ► They're like, "Oh, but the focus pixels or the aperture, it picks up more light, it's

00:23:31 ◼   ► a new sensor."

00:23:33 ◼   ► That's not enough this time.

00:23:35 ◼   ► More megapixels.

00:23:36 ◼   ► So here's what I'll ask about the more megapixels.

00:23:40 ◼   ► What if they don't say megapixels, but it's obvious that that's what they're talking about?

00:23:44 ◼   ► What if they call it like high resolution or something like that?

00:23:47 ◼   ► More detail?

00:23:48 ◼   ► We're a gentleman here.

00:23:50 ◼   ► I think it's going to be clear if it has more megapixels.

00:23:53 ◼   ► They'll say something, right?

00:23:54 ◼   ► they don't say megapixels, they will say

00:23:57 ◼   ► it's got four times as many pixels or--

00:24:00 ◼   ► - 'Cause the rumor, the way it's been reported on

00:24:03 ◼   ► is the way that a lot of people do it.

00:24:05 ◼   ► It'll be a 48 megapixel sensor or camera

00:24:08 ◼   ► that will be binged 12 still,

00:24:13 ◼   ► so they'll still be binning the image,

00:24:15 ◼   ► but it'll be of a higher quality.

00:24:16 ◼   ► So we'll work it out, but we'll know what it means.

00:24:19 ◼   ► - We'll, yeah, we'll know it when we see it.

00:24:21 ◼   ► - But yeah, so these three pics at the top,

00:24:24 ◼   ► This is why I am actually really excited for the iPhone 14 Pro.

00:24:28 ◼   ► Because obviously that's the phone I'm going to go for anyway, right?

00:24:32 ◼   ► And these three features, to me, if they do all these three,

00:24:38 ◼   ► this is like as big a change as you could hope for on a phone, I think.

00:24:45 ◼   ► To be like a big feature like an always on display.

00:24:48 ◼   ► That's going to be a big feature, I think, for me.

00:24:51 ◼   ► the notch changing is effectively a new design element,

00:24:56 ◼   ► right, which happens every now and again.

00:24:58 ◼   ► And then the expectation is,

00:25:01 ◼   ► this will be a very sizable change to the camera experience.

00:25:05 ◼   ► So I think those three things just on their own,

00:25:09 ◼   ► I'm very excited about this phone if it happens.

00:25:12 ◼   ► - But wait, there's more mic.

00:25:13 ◼   ► It's also gonna get a new processor.

00:25:15 ◼   ► - I don't care about this.

00:25:16 ◼   ► (laughs)

00:25:17 ◼   ► - The iPhone 14 Pro gets a new A chip is my choice

00:25:20 ◼   ► And here the implication is that maybe

00:25:21 ◼   ► the iPhone 14 proper does not, but I'm not picking that.

00:25:25 ◼   ► I'm just picking new year, new chip in the iPhone Pro.

00:25:28 ◼   ► - The reason this doesn't excite me

00:25:31 ◼   ► is because this is what I'm used to, right?

00:25:32 ◼   ► So like this is gonna be that weird thing of,

00:25:35 ◼   ► it will be nice- - I just wanted to say,

00:25:36 ◼   ► but wait, there's more, you know.

00:25:38 ◼   ► - It'd be nice to have because we'll have it, but you know.

00:25:41 ◼   ► - I'm the challenger, I gotta do what I can.

00:25:43 ◼   ► I gotta do what I can.

00:25:45 ◼   ► New A chip.

00:25:46 ◼   ► - I'm just gonna move straight ahead

00:25:48 ◼   ► 'cause I don't really have a ton to say about this.

00:25:50 ◼   ► I actually think it's more interesting

00:25:51 ◼   ► to talk about the inverse, which we'll talk about, right?

00:25:54 ◼   ► Which is what about the iPhone 14?

00:25:56 ◼   ► - Here, here, new H-hip.

00:25:58 ◼   ► Oh, you know, it'll be the basis of the M3 probably, maybe?

00:26:03 ◼   ► It'll be 10% faster in things.

00:26:07 ◼   ► Yay.

00:26:08 ◼   ► Okay, what's your pick?

00:26:09 ◼   ► - My pick, so this is pick number three, right?

00:26:15 ◼   ► - For you, yes, yeah.

00:26:16 ◼   ► color option added to at least one of the pro phones

00:26:20 ◼   ► is different to what we've seen before.

00:26:22 ◼   ► So not a green or not a blue.

00:26:25 ◼   ► - Yep.

00:26:25 ◼   ► - Now the rumor-

00:26:26 ◼   ► - A lot of purple rumors out there,

00:26:27 ◼   ► a lot of purple rumors out there right now.

00:26:29 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:26:30 ◼   ► That has been going around for a while

00:26:32 ◼   ► and then there was some supposed like

00:26:34 ◼   ► leaked footage of the case,

00:26:38 ◼   ► which also had the property that had been spoken about

00:26:40 ◼   ► that like it was almost iridescent in a way,

00:26:43 ◼   ► like it changes color with the light.

00:26:45 ◼   ► I would like all of that.

00:26:47 ◼   ► I'm intrigued.

00:26:48 ◼   ► It would honestly take a lot to move me from gold.

00:26:50 ◼   ► Like it would have to look really good

00:26:52 ◼   ► because I love the gold iPhone.

00:26:55 ◼   ► But yeah, basically for me,

00:26:58 ◼   ► I just want them to say that pro colors

00:27:02 ◼   ► can be more than green or blue, you know?

00:27:04 ◼   ► - Okay, I, look, color,

00:27:08 ◼   ► one of our favorite topics here, right?

00:27:11 ◼   ► I agree with you.

00:27:12 ◼   ► I think it's a very exciting rumor

00:27:14 ◼   ► that there's gonna be,

00:27:15 ◼   ► that Apple's gonna embrace the purple

00:27:17 ◼   ► and do it in the initial release

00:27:21 ◼   ► and not in their weird, you know,

00:27:23 ◼   ► spring color update that they do.

00:27:25 ◼   ► However, I'm gonna put one caveat here,

00:27:29 ◼   ► which is I love the idea of a purple phone.

00:27:31 ◼   ► It's great.

00:27:32 ◼   ► My daughter has a purple phone.

00:27:34 ◼   ► I love it.

00:27:35 ◼   ► It's fun.

00:27:35 ◼   ► It's a different look.

00:27:37 ◼   ► Purple is a fun color.

00:27:38 ◼   ► Great.

00:27:40 ◼   ► However, what gives me pause is, you know,

00:27:42 ◼   ► Blue and green are kind of fun colors too,

00:27:44 ◼   ► except in the iPhone Pro where they're not.

00:27:49 ◼   ► - They make boring versions of those,

00:27:51 ◼   ► make it boring purple.

00:27:52 ◼   ► - And so this is what I'm afraid of.

00:27:54 ◼   ► I'm afraid they're gonna make the most boring purple ever.

00:27:56 ◼   ► And we're gonna be like, yeah, well,

00:27:58 ◼   ► if you hold it up in the right light,

00:28:00 ◼   ► I guess that's purple.

00:28:02 ◼   ► And so that's my fear is like,

00:28:06 ◼   ► will it be a fun purple or will it just be deep purple?

00:28:11 ◼   ► - I don't know.

00:28:12 ◼   ► - That's a good point.

00:28:14 ◼   ► And yeah, you're probably right, but I don't know.

00:28:18 ◼   ► Maybe more like an amethyst, you know,

00:28:20 ◼   ► which is that might be nice, we'll see.

00:28:22 ◼   ► - Okay, that was my, that was actually rated higher.

00:28:25 ◼   ► I decided at the last minute that the new A chip

00:28:28 ◼   ► was more of an obvious pick.

00:28:30 ◼   ► I mean, it's super obvious, right?

00:28:31 ◼   ► iPhone gets new chip,

00:28:32 ◼   ► but this year there are rumors that there's gonna be,

00:28:35 ◼   ► it's they're changing their chip pattern

00:28:36 ◼   ► and that's why that wasn't allowed pick.

00:28:38 ◼   ► I am gonna go with a pricing.

00:28:43 ◼   ► - Ooh, okay.

00:28:46 ◼   ► - One, which is a little more tricky,

00:28:49 ◼   ► but you know, no guts, no glory.

00:28:53 ◼   ► I'm gonna lean in to inflation

00:28:57 ◼   ► and pick that some phones starting prices

00:29:03 ◼   ► will be higher than on the iPhone 13.

00:29:08 ◼   ► - Yep.

00:29:09 ◼   ► Lean into Inflation would be a great episode title,

00:29:12 ◼   ► by the way, if we didn't title these.

00:29:15 ◼   ► - If we did.

00:29:16 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:29:16 ◼   ► - And to be clear,

00:29:18 ◼   ► the rumored iPhone 14 Max being more than the iPhone 14 Mini

00:29:24 ◼   ► is not what we're talking about here.

00:29:26 ◼   ► We're talking about base, somewhere in the line,

00:29:30 ◼   ► the base model is going to not be what it is now,

00:29:36 ◼   ► because Apple is going to increase their average saving price

00:29:40 ◼   ► or selling price of these phones by doing,

00:29:43 ◼   ► maybe it's a straight up price increase,

00:29:46 ◼   ► maybe it's killing the lower storage tier

00:29:49 ◼   ► and forcing everybody up to the higher storage tier

00:29:52 ◼   ► for the same price,

00:29:54 ◼   ► but the lower storage tier doesn't exist.

00:29:56 ◼   ► But I just, I'm gonna bet on some iPhone price increase here.

00:30:01 ◼   ► I'm gonna do it.

00:30:04 ◼   ► - For easy scoring at home, what we're talking about

00:30:06 ◼   ► is a price change on either the iPhone 14,

00:30:10 ◼   ► the iPhone 14 Pro or the iPhone 14 Pro Max, right?

00:30:13 ◼   ► Because the iPhone 14 Max,

00:30:16 ◼   ► I mean, it's not gonna be cheap.

00:30:17 ◼   ► - It doesn't exist.

00:30:18 ◼   ► - It's like gonna take the price of the mini.

00:30:20 ◼   ► Can you imagine like, look,

00:30:21 ◼   ► we wanted to stick to the prices.

00:30:23 ◼   ► I know this.

00:30:23 ◼   ► - If you'd like a larger phone, pay $100 less, it's great.

00:30:27 ◼   ► - If it was really important to us

00:30:29 ◼   ► to stick to those prices.

00:30:30 ◼   ► - Yeah, but if you imagine like,

00:30:32 ◼   ► If the iPhone 13 Pro starts at 1099, or the 14 Pro,

00:30:36 ◼   ► or the 14 Pro Max starts at 1199, that would be,

00:30:41 ◼   ► or if the iPhone 14 starts at, let's say,

00:30:47 ◼   ► 849 even, right, instead of 799,

00:30:52 ◼   ► that's what we're talking about.

00:30:54 ◼   ► - Right.

00:30:54 ◼   ► I would be very, very surprised

00:30:58 ◼   ► if those prices will stay the same.

00:31:01 ◼   ► - Me too, but Apple has surprised me with their pricing,

00:31:03 ◼   ► being aggressive with pricing before.

00:31:05 ◼   ► So they could do it again.

00:31:06 ◼   ► I mean, the Apple, the Apple, the dollar is strong

00:31:09 ◼   ► and that is bad. - The Apple is strong.

00:31:11 ◼   ► - The Apple is strong.

00:31:12 ◼   ► The state of the Apple is strong.

00:31:14 ◼   ► The dollar is strong and so Apple, you know,

00:31:18 ◼   ► Apple could afford to keep US dollar prices stable

00:31:20 ◼   ► and then just raise the price literally everywhere else

00:31:22 ◼   ► in the world, but I have this feeling,

00:31:26 ◼   ► there was that one report that they were expecting

00:31:28 ◼   ► the average selling price to go up 10 or 15% and I did the math in my spreadsheet and I

00:31:33 ◼   ► was like, I don't see how this isn't a price increase. Like, just changing the mix

00:31:37 ◼   ► from the mini to the max doesn't do it. So, we'll see.

00:31:42 ◼   ► Alright, my final pick in the iPhone round. At least one camera upgrade to the iPhone

00:31:49 ◼   ► 14.

00:31:50 ◼   ► Okay, what does that mean?

00:31:53 ◼   ► - Well, that they will call on stage

00:31:55 ◼   ► some kind of improvement.

00:31:56 ◼   ► My expectation, this isn't in the,

00:31:59 ◼   ► my expectation is it's a higher quality ultra wide,

00:32:02 ◼   ► 'cause that's something that's been lacking

00:32:04 ◼   ► on the regular phone.

00:32:05 ◼   ► - So how is this different from the upgraded camera

00:32:10 ◼   ► more megapixels?

00:32:11 ◼   ► - Oh, this is the iPhone 14, not the Pro.

00:32:13 ◼   ► - Oh, the regular iPhone 14, you're right, right.

00:32:15 ◼   ► The regular, to the regular iPhone 14,

00:32:18 ◼   ► some kind of camera upgrade there.

00:32:20 ◼   ► No, that's good.

00:32:21 ◼   ► That's a good pick.

00:32:22 ◼   ► - Yeah, like it's not gonna be the big change,

00:32:24 ◼   ► but I would be really surprised if they didn't,

00:32:26 ◼   ► if they did nothing.

00:32:28 ◼   ► - Do something.

00:32:29 ◼   ► - Right.

00:32:30 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:32:30 ◼   ► Especially 'cause the iPhone, if I'm remembering right,

00:32:33 ◼   ► the iPhone 13 Pro got a higher quality ultra wide

00:32:37 ◼   ► and the iPhone 13 did not.

00:32:39 ◼   ► And that made the change between color and resolution

00:32:43 ◼   ► way closer.

00:32:44 ◼   ► I expect, personally expect that will come down

00:32:47 ◼   ► to the iPhone 13, that the ultra wide will be high quality.

00:32:51 ◼   ► Is this rear facing only?

00:32:52 ◼   ► Or if they upgrade the front facing camera,

00:32:54 ◼   ► would that be fine?

00:32:55 ◼   ► - I think any camera.

00:32:57 ◼   ► - Any camera.

00:32:58 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:32:59 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:33:00 ◼   ► I think that's good.

00:33:00 ◼   ► I like the idea.

00:33:01 ◼   ► I wonder, we have a bunch of pics

00:33:04 ◼   ► that are related to the iPhone 14.

00:33:05 ◼   ► And I think it's just kind of really hazy of like,

00:33:09 ◼   ► what if you're differentiating these pro models

00:33:12 ◼   ► from the non-pro models,

00:33:14 ◼   ► and you've been doing that for a little while,

00:33:16 ◼   ► what is the path for features from the pro models

00:33:19 ◼   ► to move down, right?

00:33:20 ◼   ► like, 'cause there's ProMotion, which could come down,

00:33:24 ◼   ► there's the LIDAR sensor, there's other camera stuff,

00:33:28 ◼   ► like, there's a bunch of stuff in the Pro phones

00:33:31 ◼   ► that could come down.

00:33:33 ◼   ► When do they do that?

00:33:34 ◼   ► Is it now?

00:33:36 ◼   ► Is it not now?

00:33:37 ◼   ► Do they spread the prices between them even further, right?

00:33:41 ◼   ► We held down the price of the iPhone 14,

00:33:43 ◼   ► but not the iPhone 14 Pro, right?

00:33:45 ◼   ► Like, it's all out there.

00:33:47 ◼   ► And I think that that's one of the big,

00:33:50 ◼   ► what I consider at least,

00:33:51 ◼   ► maybe I'm not reading the right rumor articles

00:33:52 ◼   ► or remembering them,

00:33:53 ◼   ► but I think that there's more mystery

00:33:55 ◼   ► about what exactly gets pulled into the 14,

00:33:57 ◼   ► 'cause everybody's focused on the shiny 14 Pro new features,

00:34:01 ◼   ► but I think it's just as interesting

00:34:02 ◼   ► about what Pro features come out of the Pro line

00:34:05 ◼   ► into the regular line.

00:34:06 ◼   ► - Yep, I agree with you.

00:34:08 ◼   ► - All right.

00:34:09 ◼   ► - You gotta pick one of those?

00:34:10 ◼   ► - I am not.

00:34:11 ◼   ► Certainly not.

00:34:15 ◼   ► - Well then, can I just pause you then

00:34:17 ◼   ► before you give your last bit?

00:34:18 ◼   ► - Yes.

00:34:19 ◼   ► Because you mentioned the LIDAR, because I was considering that one.

00:34:22 ◼   ► And that is a real question to me of when does the LIDAR sensor come to the regular

00:34:28 ◼   ► iPhone and like the regular iPad?

00:34:31 ◼   ► Like when does that happen?

00:34:33 ◼   ► Because it feels like that is only becoming more and more of a future thing.

00:34:38 ◼   ► Like, or does it never happen because they're only doing it to get information

00:34:41 ◼   ► for the sensor, for the headset and like, they don't feel they need it on everything.

00:34:45 ◼   ► Like, I don't know, but I figured it would have happened by now.

00:34:48 ◼   ► - That would be my gut feeling.

00:34:49 ◼   ► My guess is that it's a pro feature

00:34:51 ◼   ► because the only people using it are developers

00:34:54 ◼   ► or people who are interested in AR or,

00:34:58 ◼   ► and really if you're LIDAR scanning furniture

00:35:00 ◼   ► in your house or whatever, like you could just say,

00:35:02 ◼   ► well, that's a pro feature.

00:35:04 ◼   ► But how many people are using the LIDAR sensor

00:35:06 ◼   ► for it to matter?

00:35:07 ◼   ► I mean, Apple knows, I suppose.

00:35:09 ◼   ► But it would be one of those things

00:35:11 ◼   ► that would be easy to keep off of non-pro products

00:35:14 ◼   ► and just be like, you know, it's a pro feature.

00:35:17 ◼   ► - I don't know.

00:35:18 ◼   ► - All right, final pick in the iPhone round.

00:35:20 ◼   ► - Yes, it is a little amorphous,

00:35:23 ◼   ► but you know what I'm talking about here.

00:35:25 ◼   ► Pro phones get a camera software feature

00:35:30 ◼   ► that other phones do not have.

00:35:33 ◼   ► So this is the mysterious,

00:35:36 ◼   ► there'll be something great in the new camera

00:35:39 ◼   ► on the Pro phone that necessitates a change

00:35:44 ◼   ► to the camera app in some way.

00:35:47 ◼   ► - Okay, my clarifying question for you,

00:35:51 ◼   ► 'cause I have a hope, a personal hope.

00:35:53 ◼   ► So like, will this be only an addition of a feature

00:35:57 ◼   ► or could a removal of a feature?

00:36:00 ◼   ► - Oh, well, I mean, you're thinking about sweater mode.

00:36:04 ◼   ► - Yes, which I'm hoping that the higher quality sensor

00:36:07 ◼   ► means they won't need to do deep fusion anymore.

00:36:09 ◼   ► - I have a problem with that only in the sense

00:36:12 ◼   ► that I have a hard time believing that Apple is going

00:36:14 ◼   ► to declare a feature dead on stage.

00:36:17 ◼   ► - Right, we could maybe infer it.

00:36:19 ◼   ► But I will say David has made a good point in the chat,

00:36:22 ◼   ► 8K video recording, which seems pretty good

00:36:25 ◼   ► and that would do it.

00:36:25 ◼   ► - Sure, 8K video recording, astrophotography,

00:36:29 ◼   ► any kind of mode change that they do based on the new thing,

00:36:32 ◼   ► maybe you're changing between the ways that the binning,

00:36:34 ◼   ► the binning works, right?

00:36:35 ◼   ► They have a way of like different ways of doing it

00:36:38 ◼   ► that are on that very particular camera

00:36:40 ◼   ► that gets different effects.

00:36:42 ◼   ► And like, I don't know what it is.

00:36:43 ◼   ► I'm kind of open to whatever,

00:36:45 ◼   ► but I think if you're putting that new camera on there,

00:36:47 ◼   ► one of the Apple like tricks, one of their moves is,

00:36:51 ◼   ► they're also updating the software with a thing

00:36:53 ◼   ► and the software and the hardware work together

00:36:55 ◼   ► and all that.

00:36:56 ◼   ► Also, I'll just say as somebody who writes a book

00:36:57 ◼   ► about photos every year,

00:36:58 ◼   ► and this year I decided I'm gonna do a chapter

00:37:00 ◼   ► about the camera app

00:37:01 ◼   ► because there's so many features

00:37:03 ◼   ► that feed into the photos app

00:37:04 ◼   ► that come out of the camera app.

00:37:06 ◼   ► And I had that moment where I thought,

00:37:08 ◼   ► oh yeah, I can't write that chapter now

00:37:10 ◼   ► 'cause Apple's gonna blow it out of the water in September.

00:37:12 ◼   ► That's gonna happen, right?

00:37:14 ◼   ► They're gonna do a new, surprise,

00:37:16 ◼   ► the new camera app is even more different than you thought.

00:37:19 ◼   ► - We've changed the entire UI.

00:37:21 ◼   ► - Yeah, yeah.

00:37:23 ◼   ► So we'll see, we'll see.

00:37:24 ◼   ► But that's gonna be my pick,

00:37:25 ◼   ► is something new in the camera app.

00:37:28 ◼   ► - All right, that's our iPhone picks.

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00:38:55 ◼   ► Apple Watch.

00:38:56 ◼   ► I'm gonna go first with at least one Apple Watch screen is bigger than any previous watch.

00:39:06 ◼   ► Hmmm. It's time. The big Apple Watch. The bigger Apple Watch. It could just be that

00:39:11 ◼   ► there's- that both Apple Watches are a little bit bigger. Or it could be that there is a

00:39:14 ◼   ► mega watch that is now going to be released. This wasn't in our picks, and there was a

00:39:20 ◼   ► rumor before today, I don't know when I think about it, it's like conflicting rumors about

00:39:24 ◼   ► like whether Apple Watch bands will fit, but I feel like we've been through this already.

00:39:28 ◼   ► We went through this before about whether Apple Watch bands will fit or not, and I don't

00:39:35 ◼   ► know. I don't think it's going to be that much bigger. It will be a bit bigger though.

00:39:39 ◼   ► This is the potential pro one. Apple Watch bands are not compatible across

00:39:45 ◼   ► sizes, so a bigger watch would probably necessitate a bigger band, I would think, unless they

00:39:52 ◼   ► work hard to maintain that, right?

00:39:55 ◼   ► 'Cause they've grown the two sizes

00:39:57 ◼   ► and kept band compatibility, right?

00:39:59 ◼   ► - Yeah, you're right, it could just be a third one, right?

00:40:00 ◼   ► - But the large one and the small one

00:40:03 ◼   ► don't share compatibility.

00:40:04 ◼   ► So if there's a third model that's even larger,

00:40:07 ◼   ► it might not share compatibility.

00:40:09 ◼   ► - That's a very good point, I hadn't considered that.

00:40:11 ◼   ► Yeah, it's different, right?

00:40:12 ◼   ► It's very different.

00:40:13 ◼   ► - Right, it's a third size.

00:40:15 ◼   ► If it's like small, medium and large,

00:40:17 ◼   ► all the mediums, which we've thought of as the big watch,

00:40:20 ◼   ► are shared and all the smalls are shared,

00:40:23 ◼   ► but it might be that this new one is not,

00:40:25 ◼   ► or it might be that it is, I honestly don't know.

00:40:27 ◼   ► - It's not like this bigger screened watch

00:40:29 ◼   ► is going to replace the current biggest.

00:40:31 ◼   ► - Doesn't seem like it would.

00:40:33 ◼   ► - No. - Right?

00:40:34 ◼   ► All right, I'm just gonna throw in,

00:40:38 ◼   ► it's an annual pick for us, somebody's got to pick it,

00:40:40 ◼   ► the new health-related sensor on the Apple Watch.

00:40:44 ◼   ► Rumors are that there's gonna be

00:40:45 ◼   ► a temperature sensor on there,

00:40:46 ◼   ► so that's what I'm pretty much staking.

00:40:49 ◼   ► Remember, the back of your wrist is slightly warmer now.

00:40:52 ◼   ► That's what it's gonna know.

00:40:54 ◼   ► But okay. - Yeah, you know,

00:40:55 ◼   ► I had this in my little short list,

00:40:57 ◼   ► but it was relatively low down,

00:40:59 ◼   ► 'cause I feel like I've been burned on this pic

00:41:01 ◼   ► too many times. - Oh yeah, you have.

00:41:02 ◼   ► You have, you have.

00:41:03 ◼   ► But I think this is the year though.

00:41:04 ◼   ► This is-- - This is the year

00:41:06 ◼   ► of new house senses. - Not this time though.

00:41:07 ◼   ► Not this time.

00:41:08 ◼   ► This time we're gonna get it right.

00:41:09 ◼   ► This time, we got the external display.

00:41:12 ◼   ► We got external display support for the iPad.

00:41:14 ◼   ► This is the year where everything comes true.

00:41:18 ◼   ► - Hmm, I'm gonna make a quick switch out here in my list.

00:41:23 ◼   ► I don't wanna double, I felt like I was gonna end up

00:41:25 ◼   ► doubling down too much.

00:41:26 ◼   ► So I'm gonna say--

00:41:27 ◼   ► - Well, I'll throw in one more item

00:41:29 ◼   ► about the temperature thing, which is just to say,

00:41:31 ◼   ► what I want to see is I'm really interested

00:41:33 ◼   ► in the narrative, I always say that, right?

00:41:35 ◼   ► I always say about everything is like,

00:41:36 ◼   ► how does Apple spin this?

00:41:38 ◼   ► But I'm really interested in the narrative

00:41:39 ◼   ► about a temperature sensor, because there are,

00:41:42 ◼   ► with all the watch features, there are like FDA issues,

00:41:45 ◼   ► but there's also like, what are the benefits to this?

00:41:48 ◼   ► And as we've talked about, we've chronicled on upgrade,

00:41:50 ◼   ► some of the contortions that they've had to do

00:41:52 ◼   ► about things like the oxygen sensor,

00:41:54 ◼   ► where they're like, well, it's not for medical use,

00:41:57 ◼   ► but you can look at it,

00:41:58 ◼   ► but it's really not for medical use.

00:41:59 ◼   ► So for the temperature thing,

00:42:00 ◼   ► that's the question is what's that story?

00:42:02 ◼   ► And what I'm hoping the story is gonna be

00:42:04 ◼   ► is something like we're able to monitor

00:42:06 ◼   ► your body temperature fluctuations over time,

00:42:08 ◼   ► and then identify anytime it deviates

00:42:10 ◼   ► and give you a warning so that you could then use

00:42:13 ◼   ► an actual thermometer and think that you might have a,

00:42:16 ◼   ► there's a possibility that you're starting to run a fever.

00:42:18 ◼   ► Like, but how do they tell that story?

00:42:20 ◼   ► What are they allowed to say?

00:42:21 ◼   ► We'll see.

00:42:22 ◼   ► But that, I'm always fascinated about how Apple has to spin

00:42:26 ◼   ► health-related features in the Apple Watch

00:42:28 ◼   ► because they're so highly regulated.

00:42:30 ◼   ► - So my second pick is at least one watch

00:42:34 ◼   ► gets longer battery life.

00:42:35 ◼   ► - Oh yeah.

00:42:37 ◼   ► - You know what, actually, as I say that,

00:42:40 ◼   ► let me ask you a question.

00:42:42 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:42:42 ◼   ► is the new watch hasn't got a previous model, right?

00:42:47 ◼   ► - Right.

00:42:50 ◼   ► Well, you could say new watch has most battery life

00:42:55 ◼   ► of any Apple Watch ever or something like that

00:42:56 ◼   ► if you wanted to.

00:42:57 ◼   ► - Yeah, 'cause I think that's more what I'm going for,

00:43:00 ◼   ► that the new watch has the highest battery life, you know?

00:43:04 ◼   ► Like that's kind of more what I mean.

00:43:06 ◼   ► I think it's very possible that the regular watch

00:43:09 ◼   ► will also get more battery, but that's not, you know?

00:43:12 ◼   ► - Yeah, well, how about new watch

00:43:13 ◼   ► has longest rated battery life ever?

00:43:16 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:43:17 ◼   ► - Right, 'cause that's the idea here,

00:43:18 ◼   ► is they're gonna make a claim,

00:43:19 ◼   ► it's like this is the longest Apple Watch battery life

00:43:22 ◼   ► we have ever had.

00:43:23 ◼   ► - Yeah, so that's what I'm going for.

00:43:26 ◼   ► 'Cause I think that to me, honestly,

00:43:29 ◼   ► feels like the reason you make the thing bigger, right?

00:43:33 ◼   ► - Yes, number one reason.

00:43:34 ◼   ► - It's one of the big two reasons for making it bigger.

00:43:37 ◼   ► You make it bigger so you can put a bigger battery in it,

00:43:41 ◼   ► because I think people really want that.

00:43:43 ◼   ► That feels pro, right?

00:43:45 ◼   ► Like it's got the, it lasts longer,

00:43:47 ◼   ► like lasts longer like you, you're so active, right?

00:43:50 ◼   ► You're like all over the place, right?

00:43:52 ◼   ► - Yeah, you're killing, you're doing eight workouts a day

00:43:55 ◼   ► and those really kill the battery.

00:43:56 ◼   ► And we, you know, most people don't,

00:43:58 ◼   ► but you do because you're awesome.

00:44:00 ◼   ► And now we've got to watch for you

00:44:01 ◼   ► that isn't gonna let you down because you're awesome.

00:44:04 ◼   ► Did we mention that you're awesome and extreme?

00:44:06 ◼   ► - 'Cause also the longer battery life,

00:44:08 ◼   ► it tells stories for a bunch of different things.

00:44:11 ◼   ► You can also say, "You're a frequent traveler

00:44:14 ◼   ► "and your battery's often dying.

00:44:16 ◼   ► "Now it won't with the pro Apple Watch."

00:44:19 ◼   ► There's a bunch of different stories that they can tell

00:44:22 ◼   ► that aren't sports.

00:44:24 ◼   ► 'Cause this is one of the things

00:44:25 ◼   ► where originally we were talking about,

00:44:27 ◼   ► this is the extreme sports watch.

00:44:29 ◼   ► But then over time, that story has started to refine

00:44:32 ◼   ► and it's like, maybe that's just one of the things

00:44:34 ◼   ► that it's good for.

00:44:35 ◼   ► And I feel like that's more likely for Apple

00:44:38 ◼   ► than to like, "Oh, we made this watch and it's just for people that climb mountains."

00:44:42 ◼   ► That doesn't really seem like something that they would do.

00:44:45 ◼   ► Right.

00:44:46 ◼   ► We'll see.

00:44:47 ◼   ► I'm going to say new Apple Watch SE.

00:44:51 ◼   ► Fails about time.

00:44:52 ◼   ► I'm hopeful that this will be the end of the "we're keeping very old watch models around

00:44:59 ◼   ► and also there's an SE strategy" and replace it with...

00:45:03 ◼   ► I mean, they may keep an old watch model around, that's fine, but it feels like the old SE,

00:45:09 ◼   ► which was what, three years ago now?

00:45:12 ◼   ► Was a misfire.

00:45:15 ◼   ► They wanted it to be their low-end watch, and they couldn't get it there.

00:45:22 ◼   ► And so they kept the Apple Watch 3 around.

00:45:25 ◼   ► And it's still technically around.

00:45:30 ◼   ► The challenge is that the current SE is 279 and the 3 is 199.

00:45:35 ◼   ► I don't know how they're gonna square that,

00:45:38 ◼   ► but I feel like it's time for them to recalibrate

00:45:41 ◼   ► what the SE is and maybe even make it cheaper,

00:45:46 ◼   ► believe it or not, so that they can get rid of the 3.

00:45:51 ◼   ► But we'll see.

00:45:52 ◼   ► This is a shot in the dark, but it feels like,

00:45:56 ◼   ► there are some rumors about it, but it also feels like

00:45:59 ◼   ► this has been a sore point in the Apple Watch product line

00:46:01 ◼   ► for a few years now that it's sort of like,

00:46:03 ◼   ► it can't do what they want.

00:46:05 ◼   ► Look, they don't want that Series 3

00:46:06 ◼   ► to still be hanging out there,

00:46:07 ◼   ► but they really like saying Apple Watch starts at 199.

00:46:10 ◼   ► So do they come up with an SE at 249 or something like that?

00:46:14 ◼   ► That's like a little more modern.

00:46:16 ◼   ► - Do you know, Jason, I had some kind of misplaced memory

00:46:19 ◼   ► that they had gotten rid of the Series 3.

00:46:22 ◼   ► I think, oh, it's that watchOS 9

00:46:25 ◼   ► doesn't come into the Series 3, right?

00:46:27 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:46:28 ◼   ► - So this is the beginning of the end.

00:46:29 ◼   ► Like if you, yeah, it seems like the Series 3

00:46:31 ◼   ► can't survive, right?

00:46:33 ◼   ► But if you go to the Apple Watch page right now--

00:46:37 ◼   ► - You can buy it.

00:46:38 ◼   ► - You can buy it.

00:46:40 ◼   ► Good Things Come in 3 from 199, right?

00:46:44 ◼   ► - You can give them 179 pounds right now

00:46:46 ◼   ► and you can get a watch that in like,

00:46:48 ◼   ► oh, and you know what?

00:46:49 ◼   ► Currently unavailable in the smallest size.

00:46:52 ◼   ► The biggest size I can get,

00:46:54 ◼   ► the smallest size, can't get it right now.

00:46:56 ◼   ► - Well, yeah, I mean, they can't be making them anymore.

00:46:59 ◼   ► - I gotta hope so.

00:47:00 ◼   ► I gotta hope so.

00:47:02 ◼   ► If you can still buy this thing by the end of next week,

00:47:05 ◼   ► I'll be so upset.

00:47:07 ◼   ► But I will say-

00:47:08 ◼   ► - That would be quite a draft pick, really.

00:47:09 ◼   ► - That SE watch-

00:47:10 ◼   ► - The full one series three is still for sale, ah!

00:47:12 ◼   ► - I've been a bit of a hater of the SE

00:47:14 ◼   ► because I think it's not good value at all.

00:47:17 ◼   ► Like it never has been.

00:47:18 ◼   ► - All right, I think that's part of the problem, right?

00:47:19 ◼   ► Is that it didn't do any of the things

00:47:22 ◼   ► that it was trying to do.

00:47:24 ◼   ► - It wasn't cheap enough

00:47:25 ◼   ► and it didn't have enough of the good features.

00:47:27 ◼   ► So like, you know, like me and Adina have been talking,

00:47:30 ◼   ► like she wants to get a watch for her mom.

00:47:32 ◼   ► And what we're most likely gonna do

00:47:34 ◼   ► is wait for the new one to come out

00:47:36 ◼   ► and try and get a good deal on like a series five

00:47:38 ◼   ► or series six or something.

00:47:40 ◼   ► Because many of the features that we would want her to have

00:47:45 ◼   ► are not in the SE.

00:47:47 ◼   ► - Right.

00:47:48 ◼   ► - You know, and one of the things--

00:47:50 ◼   ► - It's okay on one level if that's true,

00:47:53 ◼   ► but I think that the problem is

00:47:55 ◼   ► It's a lot easier to discount that

00:47:56 ◼   ► if it's the cheap Apple Watch, but it's not.

00:47:59 ◼   ► - It's not, it's not the cheap one.

00:47:59 ◼   ► - It's got the Series 3 below it.

00:48:00 ◼   ► - Yeah, it wouldn't bother me if it was $179 or whatever,

00:48:05 ◼   ► right, 'cause it's like, okay, I understand

00:48:08 ◼   ► why it doesn't have an always-on display,

00:48:11 ◼   ► or fall detection, or a blood oxygen sensor.

00:48:13 ◼   ► You know, like, I understand.

00:48:15 ◼   ► - Right, it does have fall detection, by the way.

00:48:17 ◼   ► - It's not.

00:48:17 ◼   ► - SE does have fall detection.

00:48:19 ◼   ► - Does it have all of the fall detection options?

00:48:21 ◼   ► - I think so, yeah.

00:48:22 ◼   ► - Okay, well, let's say it has that one.

00:48:24 ◼   ► but many of the other features, right?

00:48:26 ◼   ► And it's just like, you want all of it,

00:48:28 ◼   ► or at least like make it cheap, and it's neither.

00:48:31 ◼   ► Anyway, my final pick.

00:48:35 ◼   ► Now I've got to make a decision here

00:48:38 ◼   ► as to whether I am going to, okay,

00:48:42 ◼   ► so I am still going to double down

00:48:45 ◼   ► on there being a brand new Apple Watch,

00:48:47 ◼   ► but I'm not going to go with the original pick

00:48:49 ◼   ► that I was going to make.

00:48:50 ◼   ► I'm going to chicken out a little bit and say,

00:48:52 ◼   ► new watch face is announced, not from WWDC.

00:48:56 ◼   ► - Okay, so what goes into a special watch face

00:49:00 ◼   ► for a larger watch?

00:49:03 ◼   ► Just we made some that are bigger?

00:49:05 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:49:06 ◼   ► - And they're gonna say that on stage.

00:49:06 ◼   ► It's like, well, we also have a few new,

00:49:08 ◼   ► or is it gonna be like extreme

00:49:10 ◼   ► or taking advantage of the new space

00:49:11 ◼   ► or for adventures or for active people

00:49:15 ◼   ► or like, I'm just wondering what the story is

00:49:17 ◼   ► around those new watch faces that we haven't seen before.

00:49:19 ◼   ► - My expectation is,

00:49:21 ◼   ► there will be new watch faces that take advantage of the larger screen. So like, more complications

00:49:30 ◼   ► on this watch face, or like we have a new modular one and it's got like a hundred rows

00:49:34 ◼   ► of things on it. Or they just have a, like for example, maybe they have a body temperature

00:49:41 ◼   ► watch face.

00:49:42 ◼   ► - Ah, okay, sure. I mean, that's a good one that means that you get any model. And you

00:49:49 ◼   ► - You know, Zach and the Discord pointed this out

00:49:51 ◼   ► and it's absolutely true.

00:49:51 ◼   ► They add watch faces in September all the time.

00:49:55 ◼   ► Often they don't mention them on stage,

00:49:56 ◼   ► but they're in the screenshots.

00:49:58 ◼   ► So that's a challenge, right?

00:49:59 ◼   ► 'Cause we have to compare,

00:50:00 ◼   ► we have to do a little bit of an analysis

00:50:02 ◼   ► of what was on the screen.

00:50:03 ◼   ► And is that a face we haven't seen before?

00:50:05 ◼   ► I think I got a point at one point for that.

00:50:06 ◼   ► So yeah, I think it's a good pick.

00:50:08 ◼   ► - It's something they can do and should do.

00:50:10 ◼   ► I mean, they should always be adding new watch faces

00:50:12 ◼   ► all the time anyway, because why not?

00:50:13 ◼   ► But, and they can do it in September

00:50:14 ◼   ► because as long as they stick with the conventions

00:50:17 ◼   ► of complications. It doesn't require any developer testing. So they can just announce these new

00:50:22 ◼   ► things. They should always have some for watchOS and some that take advantage of whatever features

00:50:28 ◼   ► are new in the watch hardware. So that's my final pick. New watch faces.

00:50:33 ◼   ► All right. Well, I'm going to do a naming pick and say it's Apple Watch Pro.

00:50:39 ◼   ► Ooooh, alright.

00:50:41 ◼   ► Okay.

00:50:43 ◼   ► I feel like you're probably right.

00:50:46 ◼   ► Um, if I was like, so I only had one naming pick on my shortlist and it was pro.

00:50:52 ◼   ► Pull one out for extreme, right?

00:50:55 ◼   ► Because I love that name.

00:50:57 ◼   ► I've seen people in the Discord over the last week say max, which also could still be the case.

00:51:04 ◼   ► But because it's going to be the most expensive,

00:51:08 ◼   ► they're probably gonna go with Pro, right?

00:51:11 ◼   ► - It breaks compatibility,

00:51:13 ◼   ► also allows them to have a Pro Max later,

00:51:15 ◼   ► but it breaks compatibility, it's like a new model.

00:51:19 ◼   ► How do you place it above the others?

00:51:21 ◼   ► I think the biggest threat

00:51:22 ◼   ► is that they don't call it anything.

00:51:23 ◼   ► They just say that's a larger size.

00:51:25 ◼   ► That it's just Apple Watch and it comes in three sizes.

00:51:27 ◼   ► - It's like, yeah, it's the Apple Watch series 8,

00:51:29 ◼   ► 52 millimeter or whatever.

00:51:31 ◼   ► - Yeah, I think that's the danger

00:51:34 ◼   ► is that they won't differentiate it by product name at all.

00:51:37 ◼   ► - This is part of the Apple Watch Series 8.

00:51:41 ◼   ► Interesting, I hadn't thought of that, but that,

00:51:43 ◼   ► you know what, the only thing--

00:51:46 ◼   ► - Unfortunately, I did.

00:51:47 ◼   ► - Well, no, the only thing in your favor

00:51:49 ◼   ► is that the SE exists.

00:51:52 ◼   ► - Yeah. - Right?

00:51:53 ◼   ► That isn't just called like,

00:51:55 ◼   ► and I think the reason that is

00:51:56 ◼   ► 'cause it doesn't have all the features, right?

00:51:58 ◼   ► So how you see this is the question,

00:52:00 ◼   ► Is it gonna have any features that's different?

00:52:03 ◼   ► Probably not.

00:52:04 ◼   ► - Because if it's just larger with a bigger battery,

00:52:06 ◼   ► then why is it not just a Series 8?

00:52:09 ◼   ► I'm talking myself out of this pick now,

00:52:10 ◼   ► which is unfortunate.

00:52:11 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:52:13 ◼   ► I'm not happy with any of my pick choices here though.

00:52:17 ◼   ► - Do you know what?

00:52:18 ◼   ► - Honestly.

00:52:18 ◼   ► - I actually think they might not name it now.

00:52:20 ◼   ► Because if it is just a longer battery life,

00:52:26 ◼   ► and that's it,

00:52:29 ◼   ► and the bigger screen.

00:52:30 ◼   ► There's no reason. - There may be

00:52:31 ◼   ► some other features in it though.

00:52:32 ◼   ► There may be some other features, right?

00:52:33 ◼   ► - There may be.

00:52:34 ◼   ► - Some picks that we have not made here

00:52:35 ◼   ► that I think could happen would be things

00:52:37 ◼   ► that would allow it to be.

00:52:39 ◼   ► I'm also keeping in mind there's a rumor

00:52:40 ◼   ► that it's only gonna be made of the rugged materials

00:52:42 ◼   ► like titanium or something like that.

00:52:43 ◼   ► So it's essentially a replacement

00:52:45 ◼   ► for the Apple Watch Edition.

00:52:46 ◼   ► - Which technically isn't a different product.

00:52:48 ◼   ► It's still part of the Series 8.

00:52:50 ◼   ► We would never consider that its own thing, right?

00:52:53 ◼   ► - Right, but it is edition, right?

00:52:55 ◼   ► So they could potentially do that.

00:52:56 ◼   ► But right, isn't that interesting?

00:52:58 ◼   ► They could also just say it's only available as an edition.

00:53:02 ◼   ► It's a mystery.

00:53:05 ◼   ► I'm gonna, I mean, but you know, I made that pick.

00:53:07 ◼   ► So even though I've talked myself out of it,

00:53:09 ◼   ► I feel like I already made it.

00:53:10 ◼   ► The pick is in.

00:53:11 ◼   ► - This isn't the pick, but like I would say,

00:53:12 ◼   ► if we said like, it doesn't get a name

00:53:16 ◼   ► and it was the edition, I would say it doesn't get a name.

00:53:19 ◼   ► Right, you know what I mean?

00:53:20 ◼   ► 'Cause like edition is just a configuration of materials.

00:53:24 ◼   ► I'm actually now, I'm now coming around

00:53:27 ◼   ► that they will not give this a name.

00:53:29 ◼   ► And you heard it here first, by the way.

00:53:32 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:53:33 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:53:34 ◼   ► - If this is just part of series eight.

00:53:36 ◼   ► - That wasn't one of the picks I could choose though.

00:53:38 ◼   ► So here we are.

00:53:39 ◼   ► I'm gonna go with it.

00:53:40 ◼   ► - You're gonna go, so you're, Jason,

00:53:42 ◼   ► your final pick is, and the final pick of the watch round is.

00:53:45 ◼   ► - Are you gonna let me change it?

00:53:46 ◼   ► 'Cause then maybe I'll consider changing it.

00:53:47 ◼   ► But I did say it.

00:53:48 ◼   ► - If you wanna change your pick now to that, go for it.

00:53:53 ◼   ► 'Cause I wouldn't have put it in my list.

00:53:55 ◼   ► But if you wanna say that the new Apple Watch

00:53:59 ◼   ► is just part of the Series 8 line,

00:54:00 ◼   ► or however you wanna word it, that's fine by me.

00:54:03 ◼   ► - Hmm, so tempting.

00:54:06 ◼   ► - 'Cause I like that a lot, but I don't like it enough

00:54:10 ◼   ► that it would have been one of my top three.

00:54:12 ◼   ► - Hmm.

00:54:14 ◼   ► (sighs)

00:54:20 ◼   ► Yeah, that's a good question.

00:54:21 ◼   ► - I may, I may, I may, I am now though, as we speak,

00:54:24 ◼   ► putting this as a potential Ricky pic?

00:54:28 ◼   ► - I'm going to keep it where I let,

00:54:32 ◼   ► play it where it lies.

00:54:33 ◼   ► I said pro, we're gonna go with that.

00:54:36 ◼   ► I'm gonna say that they're gonna attach a pro name to it.

00:54:39 ◼   ► Why not?

00:54:41 ◼   ► But I want full credit if you pick that on other podcasts.

00:54:44 ◼   ► - I'm writing it down now.

00:54:46 ◼   ► Spoilers.

00:54:48 ◼   ► This is now one of four potential risky pics

00:54:51 ◼   ► that I'm putting in, 'cause we have to do this

00:54:54 ◼   ► because we have to all agree on them in advance

00:54:56 ◼   ► because otherwise we fight bloody murder on podcasts.

00:54:59 ◼   ► - It's madness.

00:55:01 ◼   ► - So, but that one I think is pretty good

00:55:03 ◼   ► because I haven't seen anybody say that so far.

00:55:07 ◼   ► So I feel like that would be risky.

00:55:10 ◼   ► - Well, right, that's one of the reasons

00:55:12 ◼   ► that nobody seems to know it for sure

00:55:13 ◼   ► is maybe because there isn't one, name wise, right?

00:55:17 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:55:17 ◼   ► - That it's just, we've got these models

00:55:20 ◼   ► and they've got different features

00:55:21 ◼   ► and you get more battery life,

00:55:25 ◼   ► but it's just the bigger watch.

00:55:27 ◼   ► We'll see.

00:55:29 ◼   ► - I'm writing everything down, this is good.

00:55:31 ◼   ► This might be, you may hear this later.

00:55:34 ◼   ► It might at least be a flexi.

00:55:36 ◼   ► - I think the pro story is also compelling,

00:55:38 ◼   ► which is why I'm gonna stay with it.

00:55:39 ◼   ► I think that there's something about differentiating the line

00:55:41 ◼   ► and saying, look, one of the solutions

00:55:44 ◼   ► to how do we get to have expensive Apple watches

00:55:46 ◼   ► and not expensive Apple watches,

00:55:48 ◼   ► like the problems with the SE and the Series 3

00:55:50 ◼   ► is to ultimately split the line into a pro line

00:55:53 ◼   ► and a not pro line.

00:55:54 ◼   ► And this might be a way to start down that path

00:55:57 ◼   ► of having more expensive Apple watches

00:55:59 ◼   ► and less expensive Apple watches.

00:56:01 ◼   ► But I could also see the counter argument,

00:56:02 ◼   ► which is, you know, let's keep it simple.

00:56:04 ◼   ► They range in sizes, and then there's like the old models

00:56:07 ◼   ► and the SE, and they're different.

00:56:10 ◼   ► I can see it both ways, which is why it's a pick,

00:56:12 ◼   ► 'cause I don't really know what's gonna happen.

00:56:14 ◼   ► - I wanna give Joe Steele credit in the Discord.

00:56:16 ◼   ► This is an extra thing, I just think it's really good.

00:56:20 ◼   ► so I want to say that the purple color could be called twilight.

00:56:23 ◼   ► Hmm.

00:56:24 ◼   ► I like that.

00:56:26 ◼   ► Why not?

00:56:26 ◼   ► At least it'd be the first one that makes any sense.

00:56:29 ◼   ► Yeah, that's why it won't happen.

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00:58:10 ◼   ► So we now move into our final round of picks, which is the other picks round.

00:58:31 ◼   ► So this can be any hardware, any software, stagecraft, whatever is left fits right in

00:58:37 ◼   ► here.

00:58:40 ◼   ► And I'm gonna go with new AirPods Pro.

00:58:43 ◼   ► That's my first pick.

00:58:45 ◼   ► Really?

00:58:46 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm trying to manifest this one because the battery life on my AirPods is pretty shocking.

00:58:52 ◼   ► Come to us AirPods Pro now!

00:58:54 ◼   ► Exist!

00:58:55 ◼   ► They've been around for a couple of years.

00:58:57 ◼   ► This flows with the original AirPods.

00:59:00 ◼   ► So they were kind of around for two years before they created the second version of

00:59:04 ◼   ► them.

00:59:05 ◼   ► This has been something heavily rumored for a while.

00:59:08 ◼   ► What features it will get, I don't know, really.

00:59:13 ◼   ► Potentially slightly refined design.

00:59:15 ◼   ► There was some rumors of fitness features for a while that went by the wayside.

00:59:19 ◼   ► There's been some, I think, code found about potentially new Bluetooth technology for higher

00:59:24 ◼   ► quality and lower battery life that's been found in one of the betas.

00:59:28 ◼   ► So we'll see, but I know that just I'm ready because I want a new pair because my

00:59:34 ◼   ► battery life is starting to die pretty quickly.

00:59:37 ◼   ► Well, I'm looking forward to this.

00:59:39 ◼   ► I had one of the rattling pairs, so I got mine replaced a little while ago, so the batteries

00:59:43 ◼   ► are doing fine in those.

00:59:45 ◼   ► But I love them, so I will inevitably buy a new set at some point, and I would like

00:59:52 ◼   ► to see them get an upgrade.

00:59:54 ◼   ► So I would love for you to manifest those into existence.

00:59:58 ◼   ► But I will say, it seems slightly risky here for a first pick in this category.

01:00:04 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:00:05 ◼   ► I mean, then again, I had it second on my list.

01:00:08 ◼   ► So how risky could it be?

01:00:09 ◼   ► I honestly, for me, if there's any hardware that isn't an iPhone or an Apple Watch, I

01:00:13 ◼   ► think it's this.

01:00:14 ◼   ► All right.

01:00:15 ◼   ► I think that's fair.

01:00:16 ◼   ► I think that's right.

01:00:17 ◼   ► I think you're right about that.

01:00:19 ◼   ► Okay.

01:00:20 ◼   ► I'm going to go with the Johnny Shroogee pick and say we're going to visit Apple's old chip

01:00:25 ◼   ► lab in quotation marks.

01:00:27 ◼   ► the thing that might be real or it might be a set,

01:00:30 ◼   ► but the chip lab where they're gonna tell us

01:00:32 ◼   ► about the advances in their new chip.

01:00:34 ◼   ► - Yes, I mean, there's gonna be,

01:00:36 ◼   ► we are very confident it'll be a chip of some kind.

01:00:38 ◼   ► And if there is, they love to go down there.

01:00:41 ◼   ► - Right, I mean, it could happen,

01:00:43 ◼   ► like imagine a year where they don't do a chip update,

01:00:46 ◼   ► but there's been no rumor

01:00:47 ◼   ► that there are no chip updates this year.

01:00:49 ◼   ► So I think there will be one

01:00:50 ◼   ► and that they will talk about it.

01:00:52 ◼   ► - I have a question I'd like to ask you about,

01:00:53 ◼   ► one that we have in here,

01:00:54 ◼   ► which is Apple Fitness Plus features.

01:00:57 ◼   ► Would new types of exercises count as a feature?

01:01:00 ◼   ► - New types of exercises in the Fitness Plus service would?

01:01:06 ◼   ► Sure, but if it's like a new workout type

01:01:09 ◼   ► on the Apple Watch that doesn't count,

01:01:10 ◼   ► that would have to have been in the Apple Watch category.

01:01:12 ◼   ► - No, of course.

01:01:13 ◼   ► Yeah, then I'm gonna pick this,

01:01:14 ◼   ► Apple Fitness Plus features.

01:01:16 ◼   ► - Previously unannounced, right?

01:01:17 ◼   ► 'Cause if they announced,

01:01:18 ◼   ► do they announce some new ones in WWDC?

01:01:20 ◼   ► I'm not sure if they did.

01:01:21 ◼   ► - I don't think so.

01:01:22 ◼   ► The reason I've gone with this

01:01:23 ◼   ► this just fits the pattern of the last few years.

01:01:25 ◼   ► Like, when they talk about the Apple Watch,

01:01:28 ◼   ► they talk about Fitness Plus,

01:01:31 ◼   ► because it's kind of like a one-two.

01:01:33 ◼   ► And Fitness Plus workout types

01:01:38 ◼   ► feels like a really easy thing to just keep adding.

01:01:41 ◼   ► Because you only have to shoot so many of them, right?

01:01:44 ◼   ► And then they're just there, it's part of the catalog,

01:01:46 ◼   ► you just keep growing the catalog.

01:01:48 ◼   ► At a certain point, you'd assume that they would try

01:01:51 ◼   ► and do as many as they possibly could for like however many can fit to match up with

01:01:57 ◼   ► the workout types there from the Apple Watch. You know, I was just thinking like if I was

01:02:01 ◼   ► assuming there would be any services mentioned, it would be Fitness Plus. And so I'm assuming

01:02:08 ◼   ► they will take a trip to Kevin Lynch will go back down to the gym and there'll be some

01:02:13 ◼   ► new Fitness Plus stuff.

01:02:15 ◼   ► It's a good fit with Apple Watch, right? Because the Fitness Plus is an Apple Watch service

01:02:19 ◼   ► essentially. So it makes sense. This is the time to do it. I think I like your

01:02:25 ◼   ► pick. I think that's good. If they're gonna announce things about Fitness Plus,

01:02:28 ◼   ► this is the time. So what's the pick? It's new Apple Fitness Plus features?

01:02:33 ◼   ► Is that it? Yeah. Or is it just that Apple Fitness Plus features in the

01:02:37 ◼   ► presentation in some way? What's the pick there? No, we're gonna go with new Apple

01:02:40 ◼   ► Fitness Plus. Okay. I think that's one and the same. I feel like I would be

01:02:44 ◼   ► really surprised if they were like, "Hey Fitness Plus exists." Let's check in on Fitness Plus.

01:02:47 ◼   ► It's great.

01:02:48 ◼   ► It's the same as it always was.

01:02:49 ◼   ► Back to you, Tim.

01:02:50 ◼   ► All right.

01:02:51 ◼   ► I am going to say that I am going down to Cupertino, to the Steve Jobs Theater, to watch

01:03:01 ◼   ► a prerecorded video.

01:03:03 ◼   ► The event is all prerecorded.

01:03:05 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:03:06 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:03:07 ◼   ► I had this.

01:03:08 ◼   ► This is going to be my next one.

01:03:10 ◼   ► I want them to do part of it live.

01:03:11 ◼   ► I want them to do the opening where they come out on stage and Steve Jobs Theater is like

01:03:16 ◼   ► full of people and they're clapping and there's like, "Hey everybody, let's watch a video,"

01:03:22 ◼   ► and then we go to the video, but I just, and then at the end Tim comes back and he's like,

01:03:25 ◼   ► "Wasn't that a great video? Yay, everybody changed." It's like, "Yay." Or that they pipe

01:03:29 ◼   ► in like the audio when the people are clapping in the front rows who are Apple employees

01:03:33 ◼   ► and VIPs and so it makes it feel more like you're watching it, you know. All of that

01:03:38 ◼   ► is possible, but I just don't think they're gonna do it. I think they're gonna do it just

01:03:41 ◼   ► like WWDC where they're gonna welcome us in advance before the thing rolls. We're gonna

01:03:45 ◼   ► to watch it live with everybody else and then we'll go back to the lobby where they're

01:03:51 ◼   ► going to have the iPhones set out.

01:03:54 ◼   ► I very much would like them to at least do a portion of it live. I feel like maybe this

01:04:01 ◼   ► still isn't the one to do it. I feel like this is going to happen eventually. Even if

01:04:08 ◼   ► Tim Cook just comes out and does his intro and outro on stage, which honestly it would

01:04:15 ◼   ► would surprise me if they didn't do it,

01:04:18 ◼   ► 'cause it seems so easy to do that,

01:04:21 ◼   ► but maybe they just like that they don't need to.

01:04:23 ◼   ► I think it will happen in the future.

01:04:25 ◼   ► Maybe not now, we'll find out.

01:04:27 ◼   ► - I think that this was up in the air too,

01:04:29 ◼   ► so that they produced this video package,

01:04:31 ◼   ► knowing that we can invite people or not, but we can't.

01:04:34 ◼   ► I have a hard time believing that they produced it all

01:04:36 ◼   ► and didn't, and were like, okay,

01:04:40 ◼   ► but we're gonna commit to having people invited

01:04:42 ◼   ► and doing part of this live, right?

01:04:44 ◼   ► So maybe they shot it out both ways.

01:04:46 ◼   ► And so there's an opportunity for them

01:04:48 ◼   ► to do a little wraparound kind of segment

01:04:51 ◼   ► where Tim is there and the people are in the theater.

01:04:54 ◼   ► But my guess is not.

01:04:56 ◼   ► Also there's technical reasons.

01:04:57 ◼   ► Like if it's honest, I don't know how they load things up

01:05:00 ◼   ► and, you know, loading things in advance for a product

01:05:02 ◼   ► and that's one of the CDN, all that.

01:05:03 ◼   ► But like, it's gotta be easier to do it

01:05:05 ◼   ► when you're not streaming it actually live

01:05:06 ◼   ► and you're just going from a pre-taped recording.

01:05:08 ◼   ► So I think that that's my guess,

01:05:11 ◼   ► even though in the long run,

01:05:13 ◼   ► I think that they might go back to having it be more of a kind of wrapping segments

01:05:18 ◼   ► live. They may never go back to live, but they built that theater, so maybe.

01:05:23 ◼   ► All right, so I get my final pick. You do?

01:05:28 ◼   ► The Rainbow Stage at the Center of Apple Park is seen.

01:05:33 ◼   ► I feel like we need to make it a draft rule that one of us has to pick the Rainbow Stage.

01:05:37 ◼   ► I feel like we will always pick the Rainbow Stage in some.

01:05:40 ◼   ► Well, there's usually a flyby and you can see the rainbow stage out there in the middle,

01:05:45 ◼   ► right? So...

01:05:46 ◼   ► Do you remember the one in the darkness?

01:05:48 ◼   ► There was that one where we almost got it, but we got the dark stage, the dark rainbow,

01:05:51 ◼   ► the saddest of all the rainbows.

01:05:53 ◼   ► I feel like that one burned me so bad, that now I have to pick it. Because you picked

01:06:01 ◼   ► that and you won. So now I won it, just in case.

01:06:06 ◼   ► Yeah. Wow. You've left me with slim pickings here, though.

01:06:11 ◼   ► Yeah, it's real slim. It's real slim.

01:06:13 ◼   ► We'll do, like, in Upgrade Plus, we'll do the—

01:06:16 ◼   ► we'll talk about the iPhone and the Apple Watch picks we didn't make,

01:06:19 ◼   ► but I think we should talk about the other ones that we—

01:06:22 ◼   ► like, the picks in the "other" category,

01:06:24 ◼   ► just so we can kind of lay the groundwork for what we realistically think is possible at this event.

01:06:29 ◼   ► I think we'll talk about that once you've picked your last one.

01:06:32 ◼   ► Okay, can I make a modification? 'Cause we've got the Ted Lasso pick, right?

01:06:35 ◼   ► which is there's a Ted Lasso video.

01:06:38 ◼   ► How about this one as an alteration?

01:06:40 ◼   ► Apple TV+ character or characters appear in character

01:06:45 ◼   ► in a promo video.

01:06:47 ◼   ► - Yes, but it's not a trailer is what you're saying.

01:06:49 ◼   ► - Right, right.

01:06:51 ◼   ► So what I'm saying is, is it,

01:06:53 ◼   ► or I don't even need to say in promo video,

01:06:56 ◼   ► appear in character just for this, just for this event.

01:07:00 ◼   ► - Some original content for this event.

01:07:03 ◼   ► What I'm saying is, could it be Ted Lasso?

01:07:06 ◼   ► Yes.

01:07:06 ◼   ► Could it be the Severance people?

01:07:10 ◼   ► Yes.

01:07:11 ◼   ► It could be any kind of like a character,

01:07:14 ◼   ► it could be the morning show people.

01:07:16 ◼   ► They could be, but somebody from out of Apple TV+

01:07:19 ◼   ► appears just in a thing made for this event.

01:07:23 ◼   ► It's not a trailer.

01:07:25 ◼   ► Because I feel like they gotta do that at some point, right?

01:07:29 ◼   ► They gotta do that.

01:07:30 ◼   ► - If they ever do it with Severance,

01:07:32 ◼   ► I will think someone over there has lost their mind.

01:07:35 ◼   ► - I know, but it got nominated for a lot of Emmys.

01:07:39 ◼   ► - Like what would, I tell you what would be

01:07:40 ◼   ► the absolute greatest thing is if they're going downstairs,

01:07:45 ◼   ► you know, like they go through the building.

01:07:48 ◼   ► - Oh yeah.

01:07:49 ◼   ► - And they go through the severance floor.

01:07:50 ◼   ► Now that would be amazing.

01:07:55 ◼   ► - Let me give you a pitch.

01:07:56 ◼   ► One of those transitions between videos,

01:07:59 ◼   ► somebody's going down a white hallway,

01:08:00 ◼   ► Like we're headed to the, let's check in on Craig

01:08:03 ◼   ► or whatever, and they go into the room

01:08:05 ◼   ► and it's the severance room and they're like,

01:08:07 ◼   ► well, sorry, wrong room. - That's what I'm saying.

01:08:09 ◼   ► That would be unbelievable if they did that.

01:08:11 ◼   ► - Right?

01:08:12 ◼   ► - 'Cause I would love it.

01:08:14 ◼   ► I will just say, by the way, Catherine mentioned this,

01:08:15 ◼   ► we never spoke about it on the show.

01:08:17 ◼   ► Jon Hamm's gonna be in the morning show.

01:08:19 ◼   ► That is like the best follow up of all time

01:08:20 ◼   ► to those fantastic ads that they were doing,

01:08:23 ◼   ► everyone but Jon Hamm.

01:08:24 ◼   ► I do not know if this was intentional or not, right?

01:08:27 ◼   ► But love it.

01:08:28 ◼   ► I love that Jon Hamm's gonna be in the morning show.

01:08:30 ◼   ► -Makes me more excited for that season. -He made it. He did it.

01:08:33 ◼   ► He's more excited for that season.

01:08:34 ◼   ► I'm not confident about this pick at all, but I am left with it.

01:08:38 ◼   ► So, there we are.

01:08:39 ◼   ► If they do that thing that we both want now of going through a floor

01:08:44 ◼   ► and it's a severance floor, best Apple event ever.

01:08:46 ◼   ► Like, because that would just be bananas good.

01:08:50 ◼   ► Weird, but brilliant. I would love that so much.

01:08:52 ◼   ► Right. Just good for the comedy of it.

01:08:54 ◼   ► I also was thinking about this because there's a Colbert bit

01:08:58 ◼   ► that was Stephen Colbert cut out of severance.

01:09:01 ◼   ► And so they're shooting, you know,

01:09:03 ◼   ► they were able to shoot that at some point

01:09:04 ◼   ► in the severance sets, right?

01:09:08 ◼   ► And that's part of the thing that,

01:09:10 ◼   ► that's why I keep thinking about Ted Lasso too,

01:09:12 ◼   ► is that they got this third season of Ted Lasso

01:09:14 ◼   ► that they have shot or they just finished shooting

01:09:16 ◼   ► or are shooting.

01:09:16 ◼   ► I don't know exactly the timing,

01:09:17 ◼   ► but like that's when you would wanna do it, right?

01:09:21 ◼   ► As a part of, or right before or after shooting

01:09:23 ◼   ► where you've got the sets and you've got the actors

01:09:25 ◼   ► and they look like their characters.

01:09:27 ◼   ► and that would be the time to do it.

01:09:29 ◼   ► I'm surprised we haven't gotten the Ted Lasso bit up to now,

01:09:32 ◼   ► but maybe it just doesn't make sense.

01:09:33 ◼   ► Severance thing might make sense.

01:09:34 ◼   ► Maybe it's something else.

01:09:35 ◼   ► I don't know, I'm just saying.

01:09:37 ◼   ► Let's throw it in there 'cause I got nothing else.

01:09:40 ◼   ► My other choices here are no good.

01:09:42 ◼   ► So that's what I'm gonna choose.

01:09:44 ◼   ► - So let's go through those then.

01:09:45 ◼   ► So that's the draft done, draft locked up.

01:09:47 ◼   ► - That's it.

01:09:48 ◼   ► - Now, the other things that were in this category

01:09:50 ◼   ► was new AirPods Max, some AirPods in non-white colors.

01:09:55 ◼   ► - Yeah, I love putting that one in there.

01:09:57 ◼   ► What if I pair pods weren't white?

01:10:00 ◼   ► Just for a moment, imagine that's my color.

01:10:03 ◼   ► That's my colors are coming out.

01:10:04 ◼   ► - A new iPad Air is announced

01:10:07 ◼   ► and a new regular iPad is announced.

01:10:09 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's gonna be next month.

01:10:10 ◼   ► - It's gonna be.

01:10:11 ◼   ► - Or sorry, in two months, 'cause it's not September yet.

01:10:13 ◼   ► - Apple TV plus trailers or promo videos shown.

01:10:16 ◼   ► - That could happen.

01:10:17 ◼   ► - Very spotty this one though.

01:10:19 ◼   ► - Yeah, it comes and goes.

01:10:20 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:10:21 ◼   ► - They could get to boast about all their Emmy nominations

01:10:24 ◼   ► and talk about how great that service is.

01:10:26 ◼   ► And maybe there's an Apple TV announcement.

01:10:28 ◼   ► That's not been rumored,

01:10:30 ◼   ► but there could be Apple TV related stuff.

01:10:32 ◼   ► It's possible.

01:10:33 ◼   ► - That's on here.

01:10:34 ◼   ► New TV hardware announced as a possibility,

01:10:36 ◼   ► but I'm not holding that hope.

01:10:39 ◼   ► We usually have a variance of Craig is seen,

01:10:42 ◼   ► so much as much person is seen,

01:10:44 ◼   ► but we didn't do those this time.

01:10:46 ◼   ► - Except for Phil Schiller's voice is heard,

01:10:48 ◼   ► which I thought was weird.

01:10:49 ◼   ► - Disembodied for Schiller.

01:10:50 ◼   ► - Hey everybody.

01:10:52 ◼   ► Maybe he's in the severance floor.

01:10:53 ◼   ► the stage of the Steve Jobs Theater is seen,

01:10:56 ◼   ► what's the possibility? - Oh man.

01:10:57 ◼   ► See, so that's the counter pick to my pick of it not being,

01:11:02 ◼   ► like, so here's one of the weird things is,

01:11:04 ◼   ► could they do a video that's entirely prerecorded

01:11:08 ◼   ► and screen it at the Steve Jobs Theater

01:11:10 ◼   ► for people sitting in the Steve Jobs Theater

01:11:12 ◼   ► that takes place in the Steve Jobs Theater,

01:11:14 ◼   ► but it's not taking place there?

01:11:15 ◼   ► It gets very confusing, right?

01:11:17 ◼   ► Like, but we're in the Steve Jobs Theater

01:11:19 ◼   ► and Tim's not there.

01:11:20 ◼   ► We're watching Tim on, but he's not there.

01:11:22 ◼   ► I mean, we figure it out, but I'm just saying,

01:11:25 ◼   ► would they do that if it's not live?

01:11:28 ◼   ► Maybe, but it's much more spotty than the loving,

01:11:32 ◼   ► panning past the Apple Park campus

01:11:34 ◼   ► and seeing the rainbow stage.

01:11:36 ◼   ► - So yeah, on that as well, one of the picks

01:11:39 ◼   ► for some of the event is live.

01:11:40 ◼   ► - Sure.

01:11:41 ◼   ► - The event mentions that they are welcoming people

01:11:44 ◼   ► back to Apple Park.

01:11:46 ◼   ► - Right, which could happen.

01:11:48 ◼   ► They could say it even in a prerecorded bit.

01:11:50 ◼   ► They could say, you know, we're getting back to work here at Apple Park.

01:11:54 ◼   ► If it's a live event, they would absolutely be like, it's so great to be back live here

01:11:57 ◼   ► at Apple Park with all of you, if they choose to do that.

01:12:01 ◼   ► But I pick that they won't, so I'm not going to counter that with another pick.

01:12:04 ◼   ► - Because again, we could very much have what happened at WWDC.

01:12:07 ◼   ► I actually would expect that, that at the very least, Tim comes out and welcomes you

01:12:11 ◼   ► all and says like, here's a video.

01:12:13 ◼   ► And then the video starts at the same time it starts for everybody else.

01:12:16 ◼   ► - Yep.

01:12:17 ◼   ► messaging about the benefits of the App Store. Oh man, that's a perennial. And they are

01:12:24 ◼   ► going to be talking about iOS release, presumably, and so saying we love developers and isn't

01:12:30 ◼   ► the App Store great, this could be a time where they could do that if they feel they

01:12:33 ◼   ► need to. Apple AR/VR hardware announced. We're not expecting it, right? I don't. I can't

01:12:41 ◼   ► believe we didn't put game demo in here, because game demo is always good for a laugh,

01:12:44 ◼   ► - Yeah. - There's usually a game demo.

01:12:46 ◼   ► - Yeah, but like-- - There's almost always

01:12:47 ◼   ► a game demo.

01:12:48 ◼   ► - It's snoozy time.

01:12:49 ◼   ► A new HomePod hardware announced.

01:12:52 ◼   ► Possible, this one?

01:12:54 ◼   ► - Anything's possible.

01:12:55 ◼   ► - I think of all of the other hardware picks,

01:12:57 ◼   ► like outside of AirPods,

01:12:58 ◼   ► I would maybe rank HomePod as next.

01:13:01 ◼   ► - Maybe. - Or most likely

01:13:04 ◼   ► for this event.

01:13:05 ◼   ► - Or Apple TV.

01:13:06 ◼   ► - I actually think HomePod is more likely than Apple TV.

01:13:10 ◼   ► - Yeah, I think, and this would go to choosing the under,

01:13:13 ◼   ► which I didn't do for the runtime,

01:13:16 ◼   ► is I think that six months ago,

01:13:20 ◼   ► they planned on this being the AR/VR event.

01:13:23 ◼   ► - Yes.

01:13:26 ◼   ► - And now it, but it's been a while

01:13:28 ◼   ► that we've kind of known that they weren't gonna

01:13:31 ◼   ► probably do it that way,

01:13:32 ◼   ► that it's gonna be later on or early next year.

01:13:34 ◼   ► - That's either like end of this year,

01:13:36 ◼   ► start of next year as a node to the event.

01:13:38 ◼   ► - Something like that.

01:13:39 ◼   ► - Dedicated event is I'm still thinking that.

01:13:42 ◼   ► - You never know, maybe they'd surprise us all.

01:13:44 ◼   ► Just surprise us all.

01:13:45 ◼   ► Wouldn't that be fun?

01:13:46 ◼   ► - Wouldn't that be fun?

01:13:48 ◼   ► All right, so next week, kind of some information

01:13:51 ◼   ► on what's gonna be happening, right?

01:13:53 ◼   ► So we won't be recording on Monday.

01:13:56 ◼   ► We will be holding until Wednesday,

01:13:59 ◼   ► 'cause that's when the Apple event is.

01:14:02 ◼   ► We will be recording live as soon as we can

01:14:05 ◼   ► after the event ends.

01:14:08 ◼   ► Keep an eye out on Twitter and we'll let you know

01:14:10 ◼   ► as soon as we know when.

01:14:11 ◼   ► But keep in mind, I'm gonna be in Cupertino,

01:14:14 ◼   ► and there's probably a hands-on area.

01:14:17 ◼   ► So after the event ends, it won't be like I can just

01:14:20 ◼   ► sort of turn to my left and begin doing a podcast.

01:14:23 ◼   ► I'm gonna be in a crowd.

01:14:25 ◼   ► - But we may know in advance a fixed potential time, right?

01:14:29 ◼   ► - Right, if we learn that we've got an ability to record

01:14:33 ◼   ► at a particular time, we'll announce that.

01:14:35 ◼   ► WWDC, I was down on the Apple campus,

01:14:40 ◼   ► and they had set up a recording area.

01:14:43 ◼   ► If that repeats, then we would have the ability

01:14:46 ◼   ► to do it a little earlier.

01:14:47 ◼   ► If I come home, it will be a little later

01:14:49 ◼   ► 'cause I gotta drive all the way home.

01:14:51 ◼   ► So we'll keep you updated about that

01:14:53 ◼   ► if you wanna listen live.

01:14:54 ◼   ► And then of course, the episode will come out

01:14:56 ◼   ► later on Wednesday too.

01:14:58 ◼   ► It's just that we have to record it

01:15:00 ◼   ► and then it has to be edited and then it'll be out.

01:15:02 ◼   ► So everything will be pushed back to Wednesday,

01:15:06 ◼   ► sort of late in the day.

01:15:07 ◼   ► - Yeah, so it will be Wednesday.

01:15:09 ◼   ► still the episode will come out.

01:15:11 ◼   ► But if you wanna hear our impressions immediately,

01:15:12 ◼   ► tune in live and we'll be sharing

01:15:14 ◼   ► about when we're gonna do that.

01:15:16 ◼   ► And because Jason will be at the event,

01:15:18 ◼   ► we can presume there will be a hands-on area

01:15:21 ◼   ► and you will be able to come to the episode

01:15:23 ◼   ► with immediate iPhone impressions,

01:15:26 ◼   ► which has not happened for an incredibly long time.

01:15:29 ◼   ► - Wouldn't that be fun?

01:15:30 ◼   ► And Apple Watch impressions maybe too, who knows?

01:15:33 ◼   ► - Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

01:15:35 ◼   ► Very much looking forward to it.

01:15:36 ◼   ► So that's it for this week's episode.

01:15:38 ◼   ► And

01:15:54 ◼   ► to find Jason online he's @jsnell J S N E double L and at sixcolors.com I am

01:15:59 ◼   ► @imike I M Y K E we'll be back next week the iPhone event and we'll be able to

01:16:08 ◼   ► score the draft and then get right into it talk about everything that is

01:16:11 ◼   ► announced on stage next week until then say goodbye Jason Snow

01:16:16 ◼   ► see you on the other side Myke

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