92: WWDC 2016 Draft
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from relay FM this is upgrade episode number 92 today's show is brought to you
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by the lovely folk over at casper squarespace
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and pingdom my name is mike hurley and i'm joined by mr jason snell hello
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jason snell hi mike it's good to be back uh talking
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to you last week we did our special pre-taped
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holiday edition and we're a day late this time because you were off gallivanting around
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Spain around Catalonia and but we're back and it's good because next week we will be
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together in San Francisco for WWDC.
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We sure will so that can only mean one thing today that we are going to talk about WWDC
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rumors and expectations.
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However dear listener we are doing something slightly different today we are going to be
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doing a WWDC rumor draft, the first annual upgrade WWDC rumor draft.
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Okay, sure, first annual, right.
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The upgradeees pointed out that first annual was the right way to go because we did it
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So I'm going to explain that to you in just a moment about how we're going to go about
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doing all of that today, but we do have a couple of small items of the follow-up.
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And Jason, I believe you need to make some kind of public apology.
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Yeah, I'm a terrible person.
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I mentioned Les Misérables and said that it was about the French Revolution, but it
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said after that, the fact is, I haven't seen Les Misérables as my wife pointed out this
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morning, the 90s musical that I saw when I was in New York City was Phantom of the Opera.
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Oh wow, that's quite an interesting mistake to make.
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So I missed, well, it was actually about to start when I was outside the theater next
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to the hotel that I was staying at and I was alone and was like, "I will just go in and
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see a Broadway show for, you know, at Standing Room for some ridiculously cheap price." And
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the show happened to be The Phantom of the Opera. But anyway, so I haven't seen Les
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Mis and my wife was watching the Carpool Karaoke with James Corden this morning and a bunch
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of Broadway stars because the Tony Awards are coming up and they were singing a song
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from Les Mis and I was like, "Yeah, I don't know that song." So anyway, I got that wrong.
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I have seen Les Mis, but I don't know enough about the history of Les Mis to have corrected
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It's French people. It was all pretty much just the French Revolution for like a hundred
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years, right? Yeah? Sure.
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I think they're still doing it.
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I'm terrible. I don't know anything about musicals or French history. I apologize. The
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other bit of follow-up we have, which is in the category of follow-up we're not going
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to follow up about, which is just this news. We had some podcasting business news. We've
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been talking a little bit about the business of podcasting the last few weeks and our friends
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at mid-roll including Mr. Lex Friedman who was on this very show a few weeks ago bought
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Stitcher the podcast-ish playing app for four and a half million dollars. Four and a half
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million dollars is not a lot of money for a company that had like twelve people. Well
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they bought it from Deezer who bought out Stitcher not too long ago Deezer is like a
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Spotify but in Europe it's not really known in the US. And it looks like either Deezer
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had some cash flow issues or just decided it was not a direction they want to go in.
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And we'll talk about this and sometime down the road I think we'll revisit the business
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and podcasting thing now is not the time but I'm intrigued by that sale price because that
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says something to me. I'm not quite sure whether it says something about Deezer or something
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about viewing the business model of this and deciding maybe that music discovery streaming
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companies don't really fit with podcasts, which I would argue, or whether it says something
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about the value of Stitcher that it was sold for a song essentially. But regardless, Midroll,
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Lexus company, which is a podcast network and an ad sales network, is now also the owner
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of this app that plays podcasts, although in a non-standard way where they're kind of
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of like gobbling up your files and re-encoding them and putting ads in between them and stuff
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like that. But it's an interesting development and you know, definitely something for us
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to perhaps discuss with Lex at some point down the road.
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But not now.
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>> I want to reserve judgement on this one a little bit. I think that on paper for the
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openness of podcasts that we've been speaking about, even when Lex was on, it seems like
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a bad thing but I want to see what mid-roll do with it before I cast a
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judgment but if I was gonna make a guess it would be so they're able to collect
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more data to sell for their advertisers which we know mid-roll would like because
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Lex told us so this gives them a way to do that we'll see how it ends up playing
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out yeah I'm Marco and John Gruber have both reacted negatively to this which is
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not surprising. I've never been a fan of Stitcher, but I view this and think, you know, I'm not
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entirely sure that mid-roll isn't going to make Stitcher better because I think mid-roll
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is less interested in Stitcher's kind of weird total control, re-encode your streams kind
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of approach and maybe more concerned with data, yeah, with understanding the data. But
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the bottom line is, you know, Stitcher's only a few percent of the podcast market, a small
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percentage and their demographics. Midroll's going to be able to tell what the behavior
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of Stitcher listeners is, but Stitcher listeners aren't like other listeners, so they're going
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to get behavioral data about some segment of the podcast market, but that doesn't necessarily
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mean it's behavioral data that can be portable to other parts of the podcast market. So I'm
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also going to wait and see.
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MATT PORTER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER,
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PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER, PRODUCER,
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interest to try and attract as many podcast creators as possible into the Stitcher platform.
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So I'm interested to see what they do with it. Right? Because as you say, they currently
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have a specific type of person who listens in Stitcher. As opposed to the, you know,
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all apps have their own specific types. You know, I bet Overcast skews more technology
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show. I bet the iTunes app skews more NPR. But they're bigger, audience wise, I would
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say than Stitcher are.
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Oh, by far, by far, I would say.
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So you know, it would be interesting to see what the mid-roll do. I mean, we are not on
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Stitcher, we have never been on Stitcher at Real AFM. We just didn't like some of the
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terms in their contract agreements that they make you sign to be as part of their platform.
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Whilst we have signed agreements with other companies, you know, like Google and Spotify,
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we are more comfortable with those companies and those agreements. We take it on like a
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you know, company by company basis, we'll see what the mid-roll will do. I would be
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interested if they're able to create a platform that is as open as you can make a platform.
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Well, let's see. Also, I would say, and I know this seems maybe not intuitive, but,
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you know, we were talking about NPR type, other, you know, leading professional podcasters
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wanting more data, and mid-roll wants more data too, no doubt, because the advertisers
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want more data and as Lex said, they want data and are being sold data that doesn't
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even exist in some cases. But mid-roll also has been very committed to the concept that
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we have here at Relay and that I do on The Incomparable, which is that these are ads
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that are read by the hosts in the host voice. They have not introduced pre-taped radio ads.
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They have not introduced a product that goes through and auto-dynamically inserts radio
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ads in the middle of podcasts based on when you listen and where you listen. There's a
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lot of really junky sleazy ad approaches to podcasts that are out there, and none of those
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have been ones that I've heard Midroll espouse. So although they are a big company, you know,
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owned by a big company, and they definitely want user data because they want to reach
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advertisers, that's the business they're in, I'm not sure they're the ones that I'm concerned
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about. But as Marco and John did point out quite
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rightly, an advertising vendor owning the listening platform is a very peculiar way
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to do things and maybe on paper isn't the best. It feels like maybe that their interests
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would skew differently. Well, I think you could say that about Mitterl
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in general that they are, because they came, Mitterl's story is that they came out of a
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podcast network and they were a podcast network with their own sales team and they decided
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to sell other podcasts. So they have Earwolf, the podcast network, and then they have Midroll,
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which came out of Earwolf. So that is weird in and of itself, right? Because they have
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their own podcast that they're selling ads for and they're selling ads for other podcasts,
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including mine, including The Incomparable. They sell the ads for The Incomparable. And
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they used to sell some ads for Relay too. And I always thought that was a little bit
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weird and potentially a conflict of interest that they're a content provider with their
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own slots that they're trying to sell ads into, and do they, you know, there are lots
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of arguments there about like, are they giving the best slots and is it just sort of leftovers
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or are they really trying to build a business that is neutral about this, but this gets
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thrown in there too, which is like, they're trying to do a lot and it's unclear how these
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things work together or if they should, so it'll be interesting to see.
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I will welcome Lex Friedman back to the show.
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Yeah, love to have him back.
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not too distant future if he wants to talk about this. Lex, our door is open, we enjoyed
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our last discussion, we'd love to hear what you have to say. But today we have even more
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exciting stuff to talk about. So let me run down with you dear listener the rules of engagement
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for the first annual upgrade WWDC draft. We have 28 rumors that have been added to a list
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to buy me and Jason. So we've been collating this list over the last week or so. It's things
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that we expect to happen or things that have been espoused as likely to happen. So we have
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been adding them to a long list. We will each take turns picking from this selection until
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we have put together our own list of 14. We ended up with 14 rumors each. And then after
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the WWDC announcement on Monday on the keynote. We will be able to score who picked the most
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things that ended up coming true and crown the first ever W upgrade WWDC draft winner
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on episode 93. So that is the rules for today's draft.
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So, incomparable does a lot of drafts and if people don't know this is like in professional
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sports they often when people are coming out of high school or college they will all the
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teams take turns picking the players and then they own the rights to those players and they
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can sign them and it and then fantasy sports does that you know every year you pick who's
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on your your football team and the incomparable we do it with silly things like television
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characters or whatever but I'm a little uneasy about the idea that we're gonna pick a winner
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We're all winning, but there has to be one of us that will win the most. And that will
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thank you so much to Pingdom for their support of the first annual upgrade WWDC draft. Now,
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we need to decide who is going to go first, so I think we need to do some kind of coin
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Do you have a coin?
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No, but I have random.org.
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Why don't you go to random.org?
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Random.org is the place you go whenever you need a random number chosen for you at random.
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uh... i'm going to pick uh... i'm gonna pick a number do you want evens or odds
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i'll take odds
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and the number is forty nine you get to go first excellent so
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my first pick
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for the upgrade w_w_t_c_ draft is
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first annual
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first annual thank you so much for reminding me
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i'm gonna say that OS X will be renamed
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Oh Myke, that was going to be my pick.
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I know it was. That's why I picked it first.
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Because I really feel like this is going to happen.
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This is a Jason was right.
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I, to my memory, you were the first person to mention this.
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And I have been along this bandwagon with you.
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This seems so obvious now.
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Just the fact that we have Mac OS
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and an X, right, for the 10.
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And then you have the lineup of everything else,
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which has got some kind of conformity in style and in the way that it's written. You know,
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like they all look the same, they're all written the same, they all sound the same, they all
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have the lowercase stuff, it's all one word. It just seems strange that we have one of
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them out of the four or five now that there is that's not in this style. It just seems
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so obvious that they're going to do it.
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Tim: Yeah, so I've got some questions, I've got some follow-up questions for you that
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We'll get into the details. It's your pick. You got it. You get all of the variations
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here. But I have a couple questions for you. One is, do you think it will be Mac OS, lower
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case M-A-C, capital OS, one word, or do you think it will be Mac OS, sort of keeping the
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capital M and the space? That's question number one. What do you think there?
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- Lower case one word. - Okay, interesting.
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- Otherwise, what's the point? - Well, I'm not, well, I mean, do they need
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to adhere quite that closely? They're almost never listed together. Mac OS with a capital
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as the name. Also Mac is the product. The Mac is a product in a way that TV or i or
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watch isn't quite the product. It's Apple watch, Apple TV, and iPhone, iPad. So I think
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they could call it Mac OS and capitalize it and maybe put the space in. I think it's a
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possibility. Although again, maybe this is just me denying.
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I have to say, when I look at people talking about this and saying this, the people that
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are like "It's gonna be Mac OS, capital M with a space" are the people that used Mac
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OS before. I think that there is an element of like, not wanting to let go.
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The odds, I mean, the odds that people like me and Grouper are going to just defy it if
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it's called Mac OS, one word with a lowercase m, and just continue, just begin to call it
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Mac OS again with capital M and a space. I'd say those odds are pretty good.
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Well it's like the fact that we call them iPads and not like a bushel of iPad or whatever
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iPad devices.
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Yeah, the Apple one is the call.
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iPad branded tablet devices.
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But I do think though that you would end up eventually giving in because it is the product
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name like you're giving it like a different name and not the product but like you know
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it is the name of the OS. Like it might be for a while, like you just hold on tight to
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what you feel is right, but eventually we're gonna have to let go of it.
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- Okay, so the next question I have for you is, what is the version number? Is it Mac OS
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10.12? Is it Mac OS 11? Or as somebody on Twitter pointed out to me today, is it Mac
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OS 12 because it's currently 10.11 so you'd go 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 12. What do you think?
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No, really I don't think they're gonna put a number like in the marketing. Well I mean
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they do iOS 9 right? Yeah I just don't think they're gonna do it with Mac OS. Are they
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gonna stick with California place names? Yeah. So you think it's gonna be Mac OS Monterey?
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Yeah. There will be a number, right, that it has.
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Sure, it might say version 11.0 or even version 10.12 in the about box, but you're saying
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no marketing name. No marketing name.
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No marketing number. Yeah.
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Because I think it's not important. And I also think that once, I think next year.
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Good argument. I think it's not important.
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Now, they've shown that the number's not important now because they've gone to 10, 11, right?
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Like the number doesn't mean anything anymore. But it is important for, they use it in marketing
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for all of their other operating systems. So if they're truly going to be parallel,
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would they not use a number? Right, so this is my other part, is I think
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that iOS 11 will not be called 11. I think they're going to go to 10 and that's it.
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Because I think once you get to a certain point, then the numbers just get too high.
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So I think they'll go to iOS 10 and then they'll change the name.
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Well you know, Android uses their lettering scheme with a clever name, and the Mac has
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just had these nicknames. Would iOS end up with nicknames or would they, would they,
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are they just going to call it iOS and not even talk about the new iOS for 2016?
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I think they'll give it a name like they did with the California place names. Because they
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came up with that, right? They came up with the California place name thing kind of for
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no reason. Like they just wanted to give a name to OS X because the numbers were getting
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ridiculous I think. So, you know, they were done with the cats and they were just like,
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Let's not go to numbers. Let's actually go and give it some names
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So I think they'll either do that for iOS and I'm still holding on to Apple OS at some point
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Where I think that they will just converge them
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Anyway, not like the OS is but I think they'll converge the branding in some way
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I don't think it's gonna remain iOS forever, but that's my own weird little pet thought
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But I do think that this will be Mac OS and then whatever Golden Gate or something, you know
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I have no idea about the name. I don't know enough about California
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- So I have a little, I also have a thing
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I'm gonna put out there that again is not a,
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I would say not a pickable thing.
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So we're gonna roll it in here
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to the first pick in the draft,
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which is, I still wonder and maybe it's not this year,
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but I still feel like it's possible
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that Apple is going to seriously de-emphasize
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their versioning and make it about,
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and then, you know, because the versioning is,
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I think not very valuable for them for marketing reasons,
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It's good to communicate to developers,
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but given that all OS updates are free
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and they can push out OS updates all the time,
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and now they can push out betas for users
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as well as developers all the time.
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I'm starting to wonder if we will get,
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maybe not this year, maybe next year,
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to a point where this, I mean, what you said about,
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maybe the numbers don't matter,
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like that's the point where the numbers really don't matter
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'cause we're not gonna even talk about it anymore.
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It's continuously going, we're gonna keep doing releases
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and you can expect that there's gonna be
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a milestone release that happens
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that gets announced at WWDC,
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but what it is doesn't matter
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because we'll also be doing releases in the fall
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and in the winter and in the spring or whatever, right?
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So I think that's a question is,
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I feel like whether they come out and say it or not,
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that this is maybe a direction that they're going
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to just more continual development of the OS,
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making it less about like, we're gonna make big news.
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It's also bad for them.
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I think it's terrible.
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I know it's necessary because you have to talk
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to the developers and everybody,
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everything Apple says is covered,
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but I'm not sure it's really in Apple's best interest
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to tell the public about these awesome features
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that aren't available for three months or four months.
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Like it's much, people don't,
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They'll forget by the time they come out.
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And all you'll do is frustrate them.
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They're like, "Oh, the iPhone does this thing.
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Oh, not yet.
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So it'll be interesting to see in general.
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Apple is, they're steering the ship, right?
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And we don't know quite where they're going yet,
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but it'll be interesting to see.
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And I'm with you.
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Thank you for picking the Jason was right pick.
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- What's your first pick?
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- All right, for my first pick in the WWDC draft,
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I've got a bunch of choices here.
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So part of the draft strategy is that you wanna pick things
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that the other person might pick like you did.
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Even if there's something that you like better,
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it's not available for you if somebody else picks it.
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So I'm gonna go with
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iPad multitasking improvements.
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- Guess what number that was on my list?
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too. Ha ha ha. In your face, Harley! You got me, you got me. So, so, so iPad multitasking
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improvements, not iPhone multitasking, that one's still on the board, but iPad multitasking.
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So last year the iPad got some love from the iOS update for the first time in a long time,
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all these multitasking features that are not available on the iPhone, they're only available
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on the iPad. And when they announced it, only the iPad Air 2 existed and could support them.
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We're like, "Oh, well, okay." And I bought an iPad Air 2 because I wanted to have something
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that could run this thing. Well, now we've got an iPad Pro and another iPad Pro. And
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even the iPad Mini, the new iPad Mini can do this. But the iPad Pro makes this even
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more interesting. But it was a first take last year, so lots of stuff could be better.
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the app picker could be better.
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The ability to perhaps connect a couple of apps
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so that they can run, they're paired together
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and they open simultaneously.
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Right now, the right side app is always the same
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until you manually change it to be something else.
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There's no drag and drop,
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which is understandable for version one,
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but wouldn't it be great if you could drag data
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from the left side to the right side or vice versa.
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And the ability to possibly either run the same app
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into in split screen or update some apps
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so that they're essentially running themselves
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in split screen, however you wanna cut that,
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but like be able to have two Safari windows open at once,
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wouldn't that be nice instead of having like fake apps
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that fake out Safari just so that you can run them
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in the sidebar.
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So those are my highlights, but just overall,
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I'm gonna say more better multitasking features, please.
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- I think the reason that this is for me a sure winner
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is the way that iOS and the iPad Pro
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has started to make serious inroads
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into people doing more work on iOS.
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I think that that,
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this is something that's definitely out in the press now,
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so I think people are focusing on it more,
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more and more people are doing this.
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Me and you, obviously, and so many of the other people
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that we know are using the iPad Pro more and more,
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And I believe it is because fundamentally
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the changes made to iOS 9 to improve
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the iPad's ability to do stuff.
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And I think that having it been a year
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since people have kind of got to grips
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with the way this works, I think that we can so easily
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see ways that it should be improved.
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I have high hopes that Apple have seen some real
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big changes that can be made here.
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just to make one thing smoother, you know,
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the ability of finding applications
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to launch in the split screen should be a lot smoother,
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as you say, but also to add additional functionality
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like drag and drop and stuff like that.
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I think that this is gonna be something
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that is gonna end up being a big point here.
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I think we're gonna see some really, really great stuff
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from iPad multitasking.
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So that is a very solid pick, Mr. Snell.
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- Thank you.
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- My second draft pick, I'm going back to the Mac.
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- Oh, good, just like Apple did way back when.
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- Exactly, OS X will get Siri support.
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- Okay, this is a rumor.
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So you're getting some points on the board here
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by going with the reported rumor.
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So that's all a good draft strategy for the win, yeah.
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- Yeah, I'm going for the points here.
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But it seems like an obvious one.
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I think, I expect that your next pick
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will be probably something Siri related.
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I think Siri is gonna be one, okay interesting.
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I think Siri's gonna be one of the big players
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at WWDC this year.
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And I think OS X getting Siri support
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is gonna be something that happens mainly because
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what else are you gonna put in OS X or Mac OS
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that you can actually put on the side of a box
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if there was such a thing to say that this is what
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this OS has and Siri support is one of the last things left
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I think for Mac OS to get to make it
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as well-rounded as it can be in the Apple ecosystem.
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Every other Apple device has it, the Mac does not.
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So I think it's time.
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- I agree, although, I mean,
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so I wrote a thing about this yesterday
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on six colors actually about,
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we're doing this week are like wish lists of stuff,
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Dan and I are for the, for the, for WWC,
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we're doing our wish list this week.
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And the theme that I came up with actually
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for a lot of the Mac improvements
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and Siri was the best example
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is I want iOS features when they come to the Mac,
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I want them to be Mac features.
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And this is the question mark I have is,
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Siri on the Mac, what is that?
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Is it a thing that lives in the menu bar
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and in Notification Center and is walled off
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from the rest of the system?
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Because some of the stuff that they brought to the Mac,
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like Find My Friends, for example,
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there is no Find My Friends app on the Mac.
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You can add a widget to Notification Center,
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it lives there, that's it.
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It's like, it's just walled off.
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It doesn't interact with the Mac in any way.
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You can't do anything with it.
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You can view it.
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It is an iOS feature imported, but walled off,
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in a little black box.
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So that's my question about Siri is,
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is Siri gonna let me do useful things on the Mac
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that are like Mac things?
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Or is it just gonna be a replication of Siri from iOS
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that also is available on my Mac?
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Because I'm a lot less excited about it if that's all it is.
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I get why they might do it that way.
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and it would check the box, but it's like, I can,
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and for years have been able to actually on the Mac
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for like more than a decade,
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for a lot more than a decade,
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you've been able to do some rudimentary voice control
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And I'm happy for them to check that out
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because it was really rudimentary,
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but that voice control stuff let you kick off scripts
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and you know, automator actions and stuff like that.
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And I want that.
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I want the Siri on the Mac to be able to do stuff
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with my Mac and interact with the apps on my Mac.
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and let me customize things and have them be triggered.
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And I think that's an open question
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about whether it will do any of those things
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that are like fundamentally Mac things,
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or whether it's really just gonna be a mirror
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of Siri on iOS kind of locked off and on the side,
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maybe with some support and a couple of Apple apps.
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- I think that if Apple was just going to make
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this the basic Siri that we already have and it not be OS X flavored in some way, then
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why did they not do it before? You know, it would seem like such a wasted opportunity
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and kind of pointless if all you do is just be like, "It can check sports scores. Is
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that what you need?" You know, I just feel like it would be a bit of a weird choice,
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know unless it gets feature parity with whatever new Siri might come and I'm sure we'll talk
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about that in a bit. So you want to pick your next one?
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Yeah let's do it. I am going to also shamelessly pick something that's been rumored and therefore
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needs to happen and that is a new MacBook Pro.
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Ooh interesting. So you're going with the hardware.
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Yeah I'm going with the hardware.
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there have been people as well like in the last few days saying no hardware.
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People always say no hardware at WWDC and sometimes there's no hardware at WWDC. I'll
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remind you the last major update to the MacBook Pro, the retina MacBook Pro happened at guess
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Yep, and the Mac Pro right?
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But it was like four years ago that the MacBook Pro, I think the retina MacBook Pro came out.
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It's been a while. It could get thinner and lighter and faster. Somebody was upset with
00:31:30
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me when I said that on Twitter yesterday. They're like, "Oh, but I don't want that terrible
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MacBook One keyboard." It's like, "Well, you're not going to get that." None of the rumors
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say that. The existence of the Magic Keyboard suggests that even Apple is well aware that
00:31:41
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the MacBook keyboard may be a little bit pushing it for their pro users, let's say. But I do
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think it could be thinner and lighter and a little more in line with the MacBook and
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the MacBook Air in terms of being not as thin as that but thinner and lighter. Thunderbolt
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3 which is also USB-C compatibility. The rumor is that there's that screen, the OLED touchscreen
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above the keyboard, that's a rumor too so that might be in there. I'm taking a wait
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and see attitude to that. I am skeptical of a touch device on a keyboard because I don't
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look at my keyboard most of the time, and so forcing my vision down there is not my
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favorite idea, then again it solves the zombie arms problem, right? Which is that Apple firmly
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believes nobody should be reaching out and holding their arm out and interacting on a
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Mac screen, that the whole idea is that you should be interacting down. There's the two
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perpendicular surfaces and they want you down on the keyboard and the mouse, and so if you
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put a screen down there, that would be a better place to interact. And I don't think they're
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wrong about that. So we'll have to see the details of it, but it's been a while, it's
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time for some hardware revisions, and just when you say "oh, but it's a developer conference,"
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they, you know, it's always about software announcements because it's not a major product
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launch, it's a developer conference. Guess what is a fact about developers? 100% of Apple
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platform developers develop on the Mac today,
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because you have to use a Mac to develop iOS apps.
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You have to, you have to.
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So that's a great audience to give pro,
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to make a pro announcement to
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and have them whoop and holler.
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And the time is right.
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So I'm gonna throw it out there.
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I'm gonna, yes, I will take the risk
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that perhaps it won't happen because I think it will.
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And I think, and I'm excited about it 'cause it's time.
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It's past time.
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the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro both are long in the tooth, so I'm gonna say new MacBook
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Pros, that's my pick.
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I'm fully on board with you, I think we're gonna see new MacBook Pros on Monday. I don't
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think they're gonna ship Monday.
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I mean, 'cause there's the question of if it does have this new screen in it, if it
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does have Touch ID in it, what about OS X, which doesn't support these things?
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So they talked about that on ATP a couple weeks ago, and they were way too skeptical
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about it because the fact is when new features like the Retina MacBook Pro, in fact, when
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new features are rolled out on hardware, there's an interim OS update that supports it and
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then there's the proper, you know, and then it has to run that build and then eventually
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there's another bug release build that comes after that and then it can run that build
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and then eventually the full version comes that fall. But I don't think that would be
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if they have a product ready to ship with Touch ID, let's say, it'll ship with a version
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of OS X that has the Touch ID stuff in there and that's just how it'll be. They won't hold
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that for the fall and hold the hardware, they'll just roll it in. That's how they do it. They've
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done that since time immemorial. They've done that. So that's what they'll do. Now they
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may do, you're exactly right, this may not even be one of those "it's shipping now" or
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"it's shipping Friday" or "it's shipping next Friday." It may be "it starts shipping in
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July" or "it starts shipping later this summer." That totally could be the case, because that
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product, the existing MacBook Pro is so old that if they have a month even where they're
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getting those out the door and the new ones coming in, they'll be fine. They'll be fine.
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All right, my next pick then. I'm going all in on Siri now. Siri API.
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Again, another thing long overdue. I think a Siri API is something that we should be
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seeing now this you know what was it the was it the iPhone 4s that introduced
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Siri yes a long time it's been around and I think that there has been enough
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chatter in the right places to suggest that we're gonna see something no I I
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have absolutely no idea what this is gonna look like I know what I want it to
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look like you know like I want it to just be Siri controlling applications I
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developers to have a strong API that they can pick from specific tasks that Siri is able to do.
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Right, so start relatively small. I'm reminded of the when multitasking was first introduced,
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right? It could do like those six things. I'd be totally fine if Siri could do like a small
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subset of things in applications, but they're things that you would really want it to be doing
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to start with and then they can build out from there. I have no idea what could happen with
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Siri I think there's gonna be big Siri changes that bring the API along with it
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and puts it on OS X but I have my fingers crossed I am definitely in the
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camp that WWDC 2016 the big thing that comes out of it is Siri 2.0. I hope so I
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think for all the reasons detailed previously including on this show I
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think we're all waiting for the next leap by Siri and what we've seen is
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incremental stuff with Siri.
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And they do keep adding features,
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but it doesn't feel like Siri is appreciably different
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and better than it was when it was introduced.
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It's incrementally better, but it needs to up its game.
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I think everybody feels that given all the announcements
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from Google and what Amazon is doing.
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And I hope we see that.
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And the API is a part of that, right?
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Being able to, one of the great things
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about the Amazon service is that it has this out,
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It has this hatch that is the external triggers,
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they're called skills.
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And that's huge because then even if it's not native
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and the interactions are not as fresh and friendly
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as they are, if they're native to built by Amazon,
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you can get out of it and do stuff
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and build your own connections.
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And that's a huge deal.
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So if Siri is able to connect to iOS apps or web services
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and basically you've got a third party story for Siri,
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I think that could be a huge part
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of making it a better product.
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- I agree completely.
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Jason, you're number three.
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- All right, so I'm going to choose,
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this is a little bit, again,
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you've gotten in my head a little bit
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about wanting to win this,
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which is making my choices a little bit more practical
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and a little less wacky.
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I guess I'll save the wacky for later.
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- There's a little wacky in this list.
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We're gonna get to it.
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So with my third pick, I'm gonna pick new 3D Touch actions
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and functionality for the iPhone.
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Similar to my iPad multitasking argument,
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I'm gonna say 3D Touch was introduced last year.
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So what we're seeing is a first take on 3D Touch.
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And it's been a year and oftentimes the first take
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is something you can get out the door that's functional.
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I wrote an article about how I thought 3D Touch
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and actually Force Touch on the Mac are kind of not quite right that they need
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to be a little more central. I hope we see that from Apple, a new kind of
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global approach to how you should handle 3D Touch going forward on iOS, but at the
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very least what I want is I want to see some forward progress, some new actions.
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I want anything that looks like it should reasonably be 3D Touchable should
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be. I'm looking at you Control Center, right? Control Center is the one that really kills
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me. It's like it's got a whole bunch of little icons there that you should be able to press
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on with 3D Touch and get a shortcut to a specific feature of the, you know, of whatever app
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is sitting there. And you can't. It just doesn't support those. So 3D Touch in more places,
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more functional, more customization, and I'm holding out hope a little broader kind of
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that Apple provides themselves and to developers saying here's how we want everybody to treat
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3D touch so that it becomes an integral part of the iPhone experience because it's just
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not there yet.
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Yeah and it's gonna have to remain iPhone for now.
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I'm not in the camp of thinking that 3D touch and long touch should be the same thing.
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I think they have to be different things and Apple just needs to work out how they put
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it in all their devices.
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I think combining those two things doesn't help.
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doesn't make it a thing, they may as well have just had right-click long touch a long
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time ago, like, but they didn't do that, I think it's right to kind of split them up.
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>> Yeah, I think they need to find a gesture that will work on non-3D touch devices that
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is the equivalent, and so that everybody can count on it, and 3D touch isn't put in this
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sort of sideline of "nice to have, but never essential", and if that's long-press, then
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I'm fine with it, because I think that's the problem with, fundamentally with both Force
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and 3D Touch is as long as you can't count on it being everywhere and that'll be a long
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time if you don't have an equivalent, what you're doing is you're making it optional
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and when it's optional it's a lot less useful.
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All right, so my next pick is an Apple Music revamp. I think that WWDC is the wrong place
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to do this but they did it last time.
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Why change now?
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Yeah, it's been a year. I don't think they're going to spend a lot of time on it this time.
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I think they have a very busy WWDC as it is, but I think we're going to see a few slides
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of this is some changes that we're making to Apple Music, and then I think they'll just
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move on from there. I don't think we're going to see a lot to it, but I think we are going
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to see some news about it.
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Okay, yeah, I mean, I would hope so. I'm holding out hope that since it's taking the raps off
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of new OS stuff that we may see, yeah, some screenshots of what Apple Music looks like
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now. Again, same argument, right? It's sort of like year two. How did you rethink this
00:41:43
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now that it's out in the world? What does that look like in iOS? What does that look
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like on the Mac? Will we see changes to stuff on the Mac, too? So are you, does this, does
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this, Apple Music, is this about the services, is this about the iOS app? What exactly does
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this cover? Well I was thinking mainly iOS but I think that it's gonna be some
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changes to the service. They might be ready to announce some kind of video
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stuff in there because there's more and more of this happening. Didn't they just sign
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something for a designer for some fashion coverage or something yesterday?
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Right. I think we might start to see some details about how Apple Music is going
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to integrate more video content and that might be the end of Kinect because they
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need to tap. That detail might get you bonus points depending on what
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gets announced so it's good it's good for you to have the bonus points in there.
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All right I want to go next. Wow I'm gonna say I'm gonna I'm gonna go out a
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little bit out on a limb with this one because I think it will be it's a little
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risky but I think I wanna I want to pick it it's developer tools on the iPad Pro
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oh that was one of mine in there and I believe very strongly in this one I
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don't want to say full Xcode because it may not be but I feel like they've got
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an iPad Pro we've been saying for years that you know one of the milestones of a
00:43:23
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platform coming into its own, maturing, is that you can develop for the platform on the
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platform. And the fact is iOS is not something you can develop on an iOS device. You have
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to develop it on a Mac. So I think Apple wants to get there. There have been rumors that
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people in Cupertino on the developer tools team have iPad Pros. And with the iPad Pro,
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especially the big one, the 12.9,
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you could totally develop software on that thing.
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So I wanna see that.
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Now, maybe what we'll see is a light version
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or somebody suggested Swift based,
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maybe like playgrounds and things like that,
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that's something that's light.
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I would like to see Xcode for iPad,
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even if it is limited in what it's capable of doing,
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I would love to see Xcode on the iPad Pro.
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So since this is a developer conference
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and I feel like Apple's got the pieces in place now
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where it's got devices legitimately powerful enough,
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and screens legitimately big enough in the case of the 12.9,
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that I think they could do it.
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So I wanna see it.
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I wanna see developer tools on the iPad Pro.
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- I think you're right.
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I also think that whatever it is, it will be Swift only.
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For like it's a waste of their time and effort
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to go with anything else.
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This is obviously what Apple believe
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is gonna be the future.
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If they're building something new,
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I think they may as well just go all Swift on it
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just wait for people to catch up if they want to.
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That works, right? I mean, I think people complain because people complain
00:44:53
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about everything, but, you know, but the details, yeah, there
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will be some details that will be interesting, but I want it to be,
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I want to be there, and I think some, I think there will be an iPad Pro
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developer story, so that's how I'm gonna, I'm gonna put it, yeah.
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and my last pick in this round will be for a new...
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Okay, that's not how drafts work, but okay.
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That's... it's a round sponsored by Pingdom.
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Yeah, this is... yes, that's true, okay.
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Will be a new Apple Watch home screen design.
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So, saying goodbye to the honeycomb.
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Alright, that was on my top picks list, so good job there. Way to go.
00:45:34
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I think that time has proven that that is just bad design.
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The tiny icons that spool off into the distance that are impossible to move
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around on the device or in the app consistently,
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the kind of shrink and grow whilst it looks really good in a demo is incredibly
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hard to use.
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The icons being so small and being so close to each other makes them incredibly hard to
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pick what you're looking for on the run.
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I just think that time has shown that that was not the best way to try and display the
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type of information Apple's looking to display.
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They want to continue with apps, which they definitely do, because that's what people
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expect on devices now.
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I think that they are going to have to, and they will, do something to change the way
00:46:31
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the hub screen looks and is presented.
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>> MATT STEVENSON Yeah, yeah.
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I fully endorse this.
00:46:38
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I think the big—we've broken it up into a few little bits here—but the big question
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for the Apple Watch is how proud is Apple of its first conception of the Apple Watch
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and the WatchOS?
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And how willing is it to, two years almost after they announced it, how willing is it
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to accept that it, that they missed, they missed some things.
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They didn't get it right outside of the box.
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Because I feel very strongly as an Apple watch user, as somebody who uses it every day and
00:47:14
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likes it, that there are some things about it that are just wrong, that they blew it.
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They didn't know they had this initial, they took a shot.
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It didn't work.
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The home screen is a good example of it.
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terrible. So we'll see. WatchOS 3, right? Like, how much do they rethink the Apple
00:47:32
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Watch and how much do they like double down and be like "No, you're gonna get to
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like it. You're gonna, you're gonna, the honeycomb, you will embrace the honeycomb."
00:47:40
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Right? And I hope they don't. I really hope they don't because that, nothing
00:47:44
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would make me less enthusiastic as an Apple Watch user than Apple coming out
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at WWDC and saying that they think the Apple Watch is fine.
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Because it's not.
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Because we, you know, we are on record as really loving these devices, but they are
00:48:02
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imperfect as you know, as many things are.
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And if, and if Apple doubles down on some of these imperfections, that would be upsetting.
00:48:10
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Fix the problem, fix the things that are getting in the way of your product being great.
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Because those of us who believe that it could be great and that hardware is not the only
00:48:19
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problem here, the software and some of the interface conceptions just are in the way
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of the product. We'll see. I mean, that's about personalities, right? I don't think
00:48:29
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that's even about technical capability. That's like, are you willing to change some of your
00:48:32
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assumptions from two years ago about the Apple Watch? We'll see. But I really hope you're
00:48:37
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right about this one, Ethan, if it gives you points. And I'm going to sit in that keynote
00:48:42
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now and I'm going to be like, "Oh, that's a mic choice. Boo, boo, boo."
00:48:45
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- They'll announce the Siri API
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and you'll hear one man going, "Boo!"
00:48:52
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- Everyone turns to you, it's like, "Myke picked it."
00:48:55
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- Yeah, that's right.
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I thought I was hoping that would be a...
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Boy, yeah, it's gonna be a big,
00:48:59
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all those Siri announcements
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are gonna be big point totals for you.
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But yeah, we'll see.
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It's my turn.
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And so with the last pick of this first cycle,
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I am going, these are all big.
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- I love how much you hate
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that I'm rewriting the rules of drafting here.
00:49:14
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- Yeah, this is Myke, Myke drafts are not.
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- They're not canonical drafts.
00:49:19
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- Non-canonical drafts, exactly right.
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Okay, so I don't want you to make a complete run
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on Siri related things,
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'cause I don't wanna be the guy who's booing
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during the entire Siri section.
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So I'm gonna take a page from that Macworld piece
00:49:37
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that I wrote, speculative Macworld piece
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I wrote a couple of months ago,
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and say Apple's gonna announce the Siri speaker
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or something like it, a piece of hardware
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with Siri integrated that sits somewhere in your house
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and listens to what you have to say
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and talks back to you and plays music and stuff like that.
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I'm gonna put that down, a hardware announcement
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for a Siri related product.
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Now, my hesitation here is this sounds like a fall product,
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not a summer product and not a WWDC product.
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but I just, I want in on the Siri bandwagon.
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So I'm gonna put a chip down on the Siri speaker
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just in case that this is, 'cause Amazon's got theirs,
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Google has announced theirs.
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Does Apple come out and say, yes, us too,
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rather than spend the entire summer,
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even if it doesn't ship until the fall,
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rather than spend the entire summer hearing how,
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oh, Apple's gotta come up with a strategy for this
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'cause Google's coming out with their thing
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and Amazon's already out there, where is Apple?
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That's not necessarily a great reason to introduce a product,
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but some stranger things have happened.
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So I'm gonna throw it out there, the Siri speaker.
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- This is one that I've really considered as a wild card.
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I believe maybe that something like this will exist.
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I'm not entirely convinced.
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- There could be a developer story here too.
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I mean, the way that I get this into the AWDC keynote
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is that it's part of the API discussion.
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- Yeah, for sure.
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- You need to not assume
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that you're gonna have a screen to display on.
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And your APIs that you build will not just be
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for the iPhone and the Apple TV,
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it will also be for this thing.
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And part of that larger Siri 2.0 discussion.
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That's my theory.
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- We'll say, I think that this product might exist.
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I don't feel like it's gonna be now.
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I feel like it's too soon, but I'm willing to be wrong
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because I am becoming increasingly interested
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in these products.
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I'm just waiting for one of them to be announced in my country.
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- They could also decide that it's, well, yeah,
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I mean, that's one of the great advantages
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of what Apple's doing is that they would be able
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to hit way more countries with this presumably over time
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because they're much better at international.
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Yeah, well, I mean, and they're really better at Google
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at this, I think too, but--
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- For sure they are, but like Google's better than Amazon.
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- That is, everybody is better than Amazon.
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So we may see it, the only other hesitation I've got is
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And this is some of this is my own hope which is they could do a thing where they do
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licensing thing and let third-party speaker manufacturers integrate Siri and I hope they don't honestly because
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It won't go well
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And it will still be slow and we seem like with homekit like is this even a thing that people want to do so
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That's also a possibility but given that they bought beats
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beats and given Apple's history and really wanting to make awesome speaker products like
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that old iPod Hi-Fi.
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You know this is the first time that I've ever thought about beats in the speaker discussion
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and it makes a heck of a lot more sense. Beats know how to make speakers.
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Right? Yeah. So maybe a Siri speaker. Maybe even an Apple Beats speaker.
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Yeah, see I don't think they will call it the Siri speaker. I think it will be a product
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that has Siri built into it, but it's also going to be focused around music quite heavily.
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I made the prediction, Jason, you may have not heard the episode yet on Connected, I
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want to just throw it out there that this product will be called iPod.
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Oh, that's nice. The new iPod, that would be great. That's a great name for it. I love
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the idea of reusing names for things that have some cachet but can't be used for what
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they were anymore, so that would be great. I do think, you know, the guys, they kind
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of laughed a little bit and then I kind of talked them around a little bit. It feels
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unlikely based on Apple's current trends of naming, but the iPod has such great brand
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recognition I think it would be interesting to bring it back.
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Especially if it's about music and it lives in your home. That's pretty great.
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Alright Jason, next up. I'm going to pick native watch apps.
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Okay, don't we already have native watch apps? Explain what you mean by this.
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So this will be an Apple Watch app that works completely independently of an iPhone. So
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if there is no connection, it is able to do stuff. The way that the watch apps are working
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right now is there's still a lot of data transfer being made between the phone and the watch,
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right? So like, for example, if I want to add something to OmniFocus, it gets really
00:56:57
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upset if it can't connect to my phone. So these will be apps that will run fast and
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they will be able to collect data and you'll be able to do stuff with them without a phone
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being around. Okay, I'll give you that, although, like I said, WatchOS 2 did allow watch apps
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to pull data over Wi-Fi when they're not near their phone.
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It doesn't work very well.
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Well, okay, so that's why I'm going to give you this and I'm going to give you kind of,
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I think, the catch-all category of like watch apps having more abilities to be away from
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their iPhone, right?
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There's like better--
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Yeah, I should have clarified, that's a better clarification of that for sure, because as
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you say, there are parts of it, but I don't know if this is a hardware thing or a software
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thing, but they really don't feel like they're doing anything.
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You know, very frequently I'll hit a button and it's like, it registers the animation,
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but nothing happens. So I'm hoping to see some more in there.
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Yeah, okay. I mean, really, any watch improvements would be welcome. So in fact, I'm going to
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stick with the Apple Watch thing. I'm going to do it. And I'm going to do it. I know this
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This is esoteric, but this is what I'm going to do.
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My pick is the behavior of the button, the friends button on the Apple Watch will be
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That's my choice.
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Changing the behavior of the friends button because it's dumb.
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Back to our previous conversation.
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is the button on the Apple Watch and I never use it because all it brings up is a little
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screen with a bunch of faces on it that I can send like quick messages to and that's
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not how I use my Apple Watch. So I'm not saying that they won't completely abandon it, although
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they should completely abandon that approach, but I would like it at the very least for
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them to say, "Oh, now you can choose what the button does." It can do all of these other
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different useful things that are way more useful in showing the ring of faces when you
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press the button. The moment they announced that what the button did I thought that was
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a terrible idea and more than a year of using the Apple watch has not changed my opinion
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one bit. It's dumb.
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I think that it is a significant thing if they do it because you know the the digital
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touch was one of the key features of the Apple watch. So taking it away from that button
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will again show a understanding maybe of the way people are using it. I can't imagine many
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people are using the digital touch stuff really. You know like me and my girlfriend both have
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Apple watches and we use it very infrequently and she's the only person in my list of like
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12 people or my multiple lists of 12 people that I can have that I do this stuff with
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any seriousness at all. Yeah I would be very surprised if uh... Again this is one though
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that I can see them potentially doubling down on if they can make it better. So imagine
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if the digital touch stuff now allowed for walkie talkie type stuff. That might be kind
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of cool, you know, and you could use the button in that kind of way. If they doubled down
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on the friend stuff and made it more compelling, then I would maybe be more okay with them
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leaving the button behaviour as it is, rather than, you know, as I wouldn't be okay with
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them doubling down on the honeycomb. Alright. Alright, next up, I am going to go with a
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new Mac Pro. Alright. Following the exact same guidance as your thought about what the
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MacBook Pro would look like and why it would be on stage. I think that we will see a Mac
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Pro update. I think it will be a slide after they've announced the MacBook Pro. Right,
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they would put up a slide and say "and also we have a new Mac Pro today, it has this,
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this and this, moving on. That's all I think it's going to get, but I think they'll do
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it there because if you want to get a cheer from, you know, from any audience about the
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Mac Pro being updated, it's the only one you're going to get it from.
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Oh yeah, I know, exactly right. If you want to do it as something other than a press release,
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this is the audience, and again, they announced it at WWDC, so why not? Okay, I'm going to
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go, "I'm not entirely convinced this is a feature that will be good, but I feel like
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they're probably going to do it, especially since we've seen Google announce it as well,
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which is bring multitasking to the iPhone." And if you saw that Google I/O keynote, they
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showed the split screen on a big Android phone with two apps running top and bottom, and
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I thought, "Okay, what happens when you slide up the keyboard?" Like, the keyboard is the
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size of the app, but that said, you have big phones like the iPhone 6s Plus, #mikewasright.
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Is there a way for Apple to make multitasking somehow useful for people with especially
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the big phones, since they've already built it into the OS for the iPad? Would they allow
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that? Whether it's something like a split screen or something like a virtual screen
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where you've got it peaking it and you sort of like slide them up and down to get the
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quick access to them, or when the keyboard slides in, it slides the one that's not active
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off the screen temporarily while you type. Or even something like SlideOver might be
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useful on a phone, where you could very quickly flip into this thing that you've kept pinned
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to the side, look at something and then flip it back out, which is different and distinct,
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I think, from regular multitasking switcher. You're somebody with an iPhone 6S Plus. What
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What do you think? Is this a possibility and, and, or is it dumb?
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One of the reasons I think it's possible is the landscape mode on the Plus.
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'Cause you kind of need a landscape mode for this to work, and so this is something that
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they actually built into the next version, you know, the developer preview of N, Android
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N. Android didn't have a landscape mode, but when you enter into multitasking mode and
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go to your home screen it will show it in landscape but it doesn't do that if you're
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not in multitasking mode. If you turn your phone on the side it doesn't change things
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into landscape. So it needs a landscape mode kind of fundamentally for it to work because
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I think I've played around with this in N and really it works best when you're in multitasking
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sorry when you're in landscape because you get to see the majority of the applications
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right information side by side. I do want this feature not to do serious work on but
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for little things. So like a couple of days ago I got an email from someone who needed
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me to check a date for something, but it was like three dates that I needed to give them
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and it was annoying me to jump backwards and forwards between apps. I would have loved
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to have just very quickly brought up Chrome that I could check the date of the thing and
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just type them into the email, boom boom boom, like I do on my iPad. I wanted that. I don't
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want to run my phone in that all the time, but for the quick things that I need to check,
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it would be really useful.
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Alright. What's your pick?
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So following on from the Mac Pro, I think if they introduce a new Mac Pro and a new
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MacBook Pro, they will for sure have an external Retina display to go along with it.
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Huh. Bold prediction. Bold prediction. There's been a lot of speculation about it and then
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I think the ATP tipster said, "No, it's not gonna be there." But I feel like you're right
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that you want to see them as a package.
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You want to be able to say, look, hey professionals,
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you have these professional devices,
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and yes, you will have an external display,
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a big external display that you can connect.
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The Thunderbolt display is going out of stock,
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and it's very old.
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And there was a rumor that I thought was fairly credible
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about this idea that what you do is you put a GPU
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in the display, which is kind of in line
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with the Thunderbolt display,
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which had a lot of electronics in it.
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It was kind of a computer on its own.
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And that if you put the GPU in the display,
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you could connect via Thunderbolt 3
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and it would be able to drive like a 27 inch,
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like a 5K display.
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So it's possible that they could make this work
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without having to wait for the next version of DisplayPort
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at the end of next year,
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which I don't think Apple wants to wait.
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So I think the real question is,
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does this happen at WWDC or later on in 2016?
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And it's an open question, but again,
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if you're gonna do it,
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you're not gonna cannibalize any sales.
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Say that you're gonna do it, even if it's just,
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and yes, you will be able to connect this
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to a beautiful brand new 27 inch 5K display
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that Apple is shipping this fall.
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And even if all they said was that,
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I think that that would be fine.
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And people would lose their minds
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and we would come back to it in the fall.
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- Just to know it's coming.
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I mean, my feeling is like,
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I don't know if they're gonna do this,
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But if I'm going with the fact that there's a new Mac Pro,
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I'm going with this as well,
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because I think they have to announce those two things
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together in my mind.
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I just think that it would naturally go together
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because this new Mac Pro should in theory have the support
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for whatever this display will eventually be.
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So you may as well announce them together.
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- Yeah, I think I can buy that.
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I can buy that.
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All right, for my pick in what is what the eighth round
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of this draft, I'm going to pick something
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that is totally just a way for me to collect some points.
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We've seen with the Safari developer preview
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that Apple is really working on a lot of WebKit features.
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The WebKit team is sort of open about the fact
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that they're working on some other features
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that haven't appeared in the preview yet,
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or the technical preview, I guess it's called,
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technology preview, STP.
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And so I think there will be a Safari/WebKits,
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at least a slide on stage
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that will talk about all the awesome things they're doing
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to update Safari, and including the stuff
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that's in the technology preview as some stuff
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that has not yet made it into the technology preview.
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Of interest to podcasters, I think they will announce
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that they're gonna support WebRTC,
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and that would be WebKit, so that'll be iOS and Mac.
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And what that would mean is like all these web-based tools
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that let you do podcasting that record remotely,
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like CAST, will work on iOS once that is implemented.
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So I'm gonna throw that out there,
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that like a bunch of WebKit updates, including WebRTC,
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in the next version of iOS and OS X,
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Mac OS, whatever it's called.
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- I feel like this is one of those things
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they can just put with Mac OS
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because it gives them some features, right?
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That they can say, "Here's some stuff we're doing
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with Mac OS," and then maybe they can like lead
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into iOS from that, but like it gives them a point
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on the slide when it comes to Mac OS.
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- And as a developer, yeah, as a developer conference too,
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just let them saying, "Hey, we did the Safari Technology Preview, there are a lot of amazing
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things. If you're a web developer, look at all these amazing things that we're going
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to have. You can follow along. We're announcing today that these other features are going
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to be in the build of the Technology Preview that comes out today and they'll all be in
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the OS this fall." And something like that.
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- It was like a couple of years ago when they kept talking about the DOM, which made no
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sense to me at all. I had no idea what the DOM was, but everyone was really excited about
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the fact that you could do things with the DOM.
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or Deloise. Either way, it sounds great.
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- All right, so next up for me, and I'm taking one from you,
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major Mac App Store changes.
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- Okay. Lay it on me.
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- The Mac App Store is a disaster.
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I'm not the first person to realize this.
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- No. - It is something
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that has had absolutely no love
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from a design perspective even since it came out.
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It looks old, it looks weird,
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it does very strange things.
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Major developers are not going anywhere near it
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it and or leaving it, something needs to change. I don't know what it would be. I don't know
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if major Mac App Store changes means just they're going to just change the way it looks
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and feels to use to maybe make it more useful. Maybe they bake it even deeper into the OS
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in some way, or maybe they change how it works from a technical perspective and make sandboxing
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more friendly, or they just make the business proposition nicer on the Mac App Store. Maybe
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Mac App Store upgrades. Maybe they put it there to try and bring some people back.
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I don't know what it might be, but I just feel like the Mac App Store is going to get
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some time on stage to announce some kind of fundamental changes to the way it looks, feels,
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or is approached to by developers.
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This will be the first time we've seen Apple at WWDC since the... Well, we've seen, you
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know, there was that story about Phil Schiller taking over some responsibilities for app
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stores, and we've seen the app review times lower and stuff like that. So there's probably
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a story coming from Apple that is, "Look, we're making changes. We've listened and we're
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making changes, and you've already seen it with the app review. Whoa, big applause line
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there, and here's some other things that are going on." My hope is that one of the major
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Mac app store changes is absolutely like, "We're going to loosen this way up because
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we want the Mac App Store to be thriving and there's too much good stuff that's not in
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the store yet and we want you all in the store with your Mac apps. So we're dropping the
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requirements for this and that. And you'll still need to be approved and we'll still
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need to make sure that you're not doing something that's bad, but we're no longer going to lock
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you out if you, whatever. And maybe there's going to be a way for you to have an installer
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and the way your installer will work within the Mac App Store is people will open it and
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then the Mac App Store app will run the installer itself and walk people through what's going
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to happen, or an uninstaller that does the same thing. I mean, whatever, however deep
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this goes, I don't know, but I would love to see that, where Phil Schiller stands on
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stage and says, "Bottom line, we want you all in the Mac App Store. Here's how we're
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going to make it possible for you to be in there, because there aren't enough of you
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in there just now."
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I don't know if they just say, "To hell with sandboxing?"
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I don't know what you do, but maybe.
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- Because you can still install OS X applications
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as easy as you ever could.
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So I don't know if it's necessary.
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Many people might disagree with me.
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Many people will probably agree with me.
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I don't know, but I feel like that wouldn't be
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the worst thing to do.
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- Yeah, I know.
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It's like we're doing it right in the Mac App Store
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and we're doing it so right that nobody uses it.
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- Yeah. - Well, great.
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Good for you.
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Good for you.
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I think-- - We've got our great
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little place here where we don't even observe the rules.
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- So, and you could spin this a couple of ways.
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I would say you could spin this as we are,
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we are really going, doubling down on the Mac App Store.
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We're gonna make so everything can get in the Mac App Store.
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You could also spin it the other way,
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which is we are giving up on the Mac App Store.
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The super curated approach totally failed.
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And so we're gonna open it up.
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But either way, they should do it.
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- Yep, most definitely.
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- All right, for my choice in the ninth round,
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I'm going to pick from iOS a customizable control center.
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- Nice pick.
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- Control center needs to make some changes.
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It's the thing you flip up from the bottom of the screen.
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I mentioned 3D touch earlier.
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The ability to choose some things,
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even if they're all system-based.
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It would be great if third-party apps
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could provide things that go in the,
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you know, that are optional for the control center,
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that would be really great.
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But even if it's customizable, especially on iPads,
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there's a lot of room down there and not a lot of choices.
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I would love to be able to have some other functionality
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that you can toggle quickly from there,
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because sometimes, you know,
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some people don't use some of those buttons.
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They're like, "I'm never gonna flip it open
01:12:53
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"and tap on the calculator,
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"so could I replace that with something else?"
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That would be great.
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it's something that's just from a predefined list of eight things that Apple will do, will
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offer you, or whether it also includes something that third-party app providers can provide.
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But regardless, I like Control Center. I use it all the time, and I would like it to be
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more functional.
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I couldn't agree more. I would love to be able to change some stuff. One of my favorite
01:13:20
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things about Android, they have this stuff in the notification shade, and you can move
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things around in there now. I mean it's in the new version, it's in the developer
01:13:28
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version, like in the beta version of N, but you can customize what goes in there, you
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can move things around to your own order, and there's some great stuff that you can
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choose from. I would love to be able to see some of that. Like for example, I very, very
01:13:41
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rarely need to turn Bluetooth on and off. Now I have the Apple Watch who turns Bluetooth
01:13:45
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on and off. If you're an Apple Watch user, you do not need that there, because you need
01:13:50
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it on all the time.
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Right, but you may be somebody who has a corporate VPN and needs to toggle their VPN on and off,
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and you can't do that from Control Center.
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Or, for example, something I cannot believe is not in there, is Low Power Mode.
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I just cannot believe that Low Power Mode is not in Control Center.
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I flick up Control Center every single time thinking that it's there, even though I know
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The question also about, like, I was doing a presentation at a user group, and one of
01:14:18
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of the things I did was like, it was like secrets
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of the Mac menu bar.
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And one of them is, you know, menu bar items,
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you hold down the option key
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and you get all these extra things.
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And I thought about that for, for control center,
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the idea that maybe 3D touch,
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or maybe it's a touch and hold or whatever,
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but the idea that you could, you know,
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if you go on the Bluetooth item,
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if you want to keep it there,
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it's not just a Bluetooth toggle,
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it lets you pick a device and connect to it,
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or pick a wifi base station and connect to it.
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How about that?
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Wouldn't that be a nice feature?
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But you know, right now it's just, it's, it's too dumb.
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So make it smarter.
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- My next pick is iOS software keyboard improvements.
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And this is a few different things here.
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- I would like to see more layouts in the software keyboard
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on the large iPad Pro.
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I want to see the international layouts promised to us.
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And I also want to see the third party keyboards
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become like actual keyboards.
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You know, I want the switching to be better.
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I would love to see them be able to perform a lot better.
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I just want to see that really kind of pick up now.
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We're a couple of years into this
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and nothing has really significantly changed
01:15:26
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to try and make these keyboards stronger.
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You know, you've got stuff like Gboard,
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which people really love.
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I can't use because Google is, as you mentioned,
01:15:35
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not so great about outside of the US at times.
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But I want to see people being able to use these keyboards
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as their main keyboards without having a nightmare
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trying to switch backwards and forwards. Why can't I turn off the standard one?
01:15:51
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Why does that always have to be enabled? I understand that like they want to
01:15:55
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enable it for security when you're entering passwords, but just show a
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specific password-owning keyboard. Let me choose between SwiftKey and the emoji
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one, and just let me leave it at that. Like if I want to choose a third party one,
01:16:05
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stop giving me the first party one. I really want to see some changes there.
01:16:09
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I will throw in a couple that I want. I want a distinct set of settings for
01:16:15
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hardware and software keyboards.
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Because when I'm typing on a hardware keyboard,
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I do not want auto-capitalization.
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I do not want auto-correct,
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because it incorrects my correct typing,
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and it's infuriating.
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So then I go and turn it off,
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and then I'm sitting with my iPad in my lap
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using the software keyboard,
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- And just looks gibberish.
01:16:36
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- Expecting it to auto-correct, and it totally doesn't.
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Those should be separate features.
01:16:41
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For Pete's sake, we now have the iPad Pro shipping,
01:16:43
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you know, with these accessories that you can get
01:16:45
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that are made by Apple that are external keyboards.
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- A keyboard that you make and put in the marketing.
01:16:50
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- Yeah, they need to be different.
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So I would throw that out there that they need to do that.
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And then actually also from the iPad Pro perspective,
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the two finger track pad feature,
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they need to tweak it a little bit
01:17:05
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because I accidentally set it off with a finger brush
01:17:10
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and delete things that I've written all the time.
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So I want it to be less sensitive.
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I want to have to do a little more work
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to get it into trackpad mode.
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And I also want it to be more reliable about it
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'cause sometimes I put two fingers down
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and I start to move and it just starts tacking keys,
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which is also really annoying.
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So it activates sometimes when I don't want it to,
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and it doesn't activate sometimes when I do.
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And as a result, I get really frustrated by it.
01:17:38
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- It's one of my favorite features of the iPhone
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because it works almost like all the time.
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but it's one of the things that annoys me most
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about the iPad because I can't get it to work consistently.
01:17:49
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- Yeah, when it works, it's great,
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but it is so inconsistent and frustrating.
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So those are my two things that I'll throw in
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on the software keyboard.
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And there are probably others.
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I mean, you could change the whole little auto,
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the smart bar or whatever it is above there.
01:18:07
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That could be a lot better and more contextual
01:18:09
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and have more stuff in it than I think app developers
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are allowed to put in there too.
01:18:13
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- And there's about 17,000 different things you could do
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to improve the emoji keyboard as well.
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- Yes, like make it searchable for one.
01:18:20
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- Yeah, just yeah, yeah.
01:18:22
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- I wrote a whole story for Macworld about that.
01:18:24
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Apple's emoji, our emoji game is really strong
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and their keyboard on iOS is really poor.
01:18:30
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All right, so for my pick rounding out round 10
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and the end of this block,
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I'm going to choose major changes
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and improvements to CarPlay.
01:18:41
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You are probably the only person in the world that has had the amount of experience of CarPlay
01:18:46
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that you've had. I just used it that one day and made the video.
01:18:50
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Technically, no. I actually have it hooked up. I was using it the other day because Apple actually
01:18:56
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has come a long way. One of the weird things about CarPlay is iOS 9 wasn't that great with CarPlay,
01:19:02
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but a couple updates in it got a lot better. CarPlay is way better than it was a year ago
01:19:07
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when I made that video, and I keep thinking about making a follow-up. People who have CarPlay in
01:19:11
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in their cars perhaps have experienced this. I don't. I have CarPlay in a box that I can
01:19:15
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plug in in my house. So I should probably put it in my car at some point just so that
01:19:19
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I can write about it some more. And now it's at the point, it's much better now. At this
01:19:23
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point I would be willing to have it in my car, where a year ago I wasn't. But, you know,
01:19:27
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they are, Apple's trying to get in the car, they are in this competition with Android
01:19:31
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Auto, they need to make CarPlay better. So I want to hear them talk about, and I hope
01:19:37
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they do, that's why I'm picking them, talk about CarPlay and ways that they're going
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make it better because it's still not that great and I feel like they need to
01:19:45
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spend some time saying we're gonna you know we're gonna make it better they've
01:19:48
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they've teased that they're going to be able to do it completely wirelessly how's
01:19:51
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that going to work are they going to do other features I'm gonna roll Siri in
01:19:54
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the car in here too I feel like Siri needs to get smarter in the car
01:19:57
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regardless but especially needs to get smarter in the car when there's carplay
01:20:01
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because a lot of times you know what you can't interact with a screen you need to
01:20:05
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talk to a device and Siri is not good enough at being a conversationalist in the car and
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help you get information that you seek while your eyes are on the road. So some sort of
01:20:21
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Apple in-car story that is not Apple building a car but is Apple is committed to making
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more improvements to car play. I want to see it so I'm going to put it on my list.
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you'll get 10% off your first purchase. Thank you so much to Squarespace for their continued
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support of this show, Relay FM, and of course, the upgrade WWDC draft 2016. So we are in
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the final stretch now, Jason.
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Yes, the lightning round, if you will.
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You could say that. I am going to go with system-wide iOS dark mode.
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That's my next pick here.
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Good choice.
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Now, this thing is being called dark mode. You know, Federico did some great stuff here
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when he did his iOS 10 pics. But I actually think it's going to be slightly more than
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this. I have a hunch that the Instagram design, the new black and white Instagram design is
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going to be something that we see wider in iOS. I think that is a fresh, kind of black
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and white style design or just way calmer design. You take a look at the WWDC pages,
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everything's dark and you know there's a simple color there that could easily be flicked backwards
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and forwards. I think that Apple is going to start to really change the way that the
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design guidelines are so things will be a bit sharper, a bit plainer, even more plain
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than what iOS 7 was, to allow for an easier ability to switch between dark and light.
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- Yeah, so they introduced a dark menu bar
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in OS X a couple versions ago,
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and it's really dumb because it's a dark menu bar,
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and that's it.
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And I think originally people who had apps
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that ran in the menu bar couldn't even easily tell
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if the menu bar was dark or not, and they fixed that.
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So now they can tell and they can change their icon
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to be the opposite when it's a dark menu bar.
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but what it's not is a dark mode for the operating system.
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Like, and I know, you know, you got a window,
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a lot of windows are gonna be like documents
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and they're gonna be lots of white with black text
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and that's how it is.
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But some interface elements throughout could get picked up
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and sort of like darkened and you have a second theme
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and they didn't do it.
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So on iOS, I would love to see it.
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I would love to see a dark mode.
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I would love to see it something that all the OS can,
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all the apps can pick up and do pick up
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that you should be able to set it to turn on at sunset.
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All of those things I would like to see,
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because it's nice.
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It's nice when you're working in the dark,
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having a white screen in front of your face is painful
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when it doesn't have to be.
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And like if you've looked at overcast dark mode,
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for example, that's a good example of that.
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Something like, even like notes,
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I would rather have it be when I'm taking notes
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in a darkened room, like I often am
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when I'm watching a movie or something for a podcast,
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I would love to be able to have a dark mode for it.
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Instead, what I do is I end up triple clicking
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and I have triple click set to be invert screen.
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And since everything in iOS is so aggressively,
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you know, white with a little bit of black,
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if you triple click, it turns into a sort of a dark mode.
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It's weird, but sort of,
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but a proper dark mode would be great.
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- So I think that's what we're gonna,
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I think we're gonna see something along those lines
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will be a bigger kind of interface change again. I mean it's been some years since iOS 7 now.
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>> So a lot of what we've been saying it has been about the Apple Watch has been fix it, fix it,
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fix the things that are wrong. I'm gonna say something completely new here which is
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time for watchOS 3.0 to include the ability for custom watch faces. Expanding the abilities of the
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existing watch faces is something that should also be on the list and I think we all assume that
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there will be some incremental improvements to how watch faces are
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displayed, but I think I want to see the ability for third parties to build apps
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that provide custom watch faces that, you know, they got to be approved by Apple,
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but I feel like it's time. The Apple Watch, one of the things that it does is
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tell the time, and if you would ask me what the state of the Apple Watch's
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watch face game would be a year after it shipped, I would not--I would be
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disappointed with the reality of it if you know it's just not enough and I
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realize there are lots of reasons you want to there's intellectual property
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reasons you want to knock off existing watch faces there's a quality reasons
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where a lot of like pebble watch faces are really gross that said you know
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having Apple have approval and have guidelines I would like to see that and
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I would I would like to see watch faces in general be more customizable than
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they currently are. I would trade this for fewer, more flexible Apple watch faces. I
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would probably do that, where, you know, right now an Apple watch face sort of can only do
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one thing. If those all could be a little more variable in terms of where they put text
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and what they put where, that would be nice too. But I'm gonna go with the custom watch
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faces too. I think, why not?
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Do you foresee custom watch faces as anyone can make one or Apple makes it possible for
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approved designers to do it?
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I think it's the latter, right?
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Apple approval is going to be a key part of it.
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I would have just imagined it's going to be an app store style process.
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Right, but anyone can come along and make one.
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They've just got to get it approved as opposed to Apple saying Louis Vuitton and Gucci and
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Exactly. That was what I was thinking. And it might even be something that just, you know, the store for it, if you will, is in the Apple Watch app.
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And it just, that's where it lives and you install a watch face and there's no, you know, there's no app you install on your phone that has a watch face extension.
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It's more like there are watch faces in the watch face. I mean, that Apple Watch app is pretty bare. There's not a lot happening in there.
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So putting in a watch, a watch face gallery and letting you load things on. I mean, that's something that, that Pebble did that I liked. So I'd like to see that.
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Alright, next up, this is a kind of a continuation from what I was saying about native watch
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apps but I think further untethering the Apple Watch from the phone, so allowing the Apple
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Watch to get more information from some kind of connection, whether it be a cell connection
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and we can maybe get to that with a later prediction or just to be able to do more with
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than it can currently do so you can kind of have this device be its own little
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thing if it wants to be I think that's something that they're gonna do more
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with because I think that whilst the Apple kind of said that this was the
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case it doesn't feel like that's the case because if I'm at my in my in my
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home and the phone is not around my watch gets really upset so and I know
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it's connected to the Wi-Fi so I think that this could be significantly
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improved upon, if not completely revolutionized.
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>> All right, I'm going to, I mean, some of those things were in watchOS 2.0, but as you
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pointed out when we talked about this earlier with apps standing alone, it doesn't go far
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enough, it needs to go further. I'm going to stay on the watch thing for a little watch
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segment here, my pick, which is a very specific pick and it is something that I actually added
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while we were talking. I'm going to throw down the ability to migrate an Apple Watch
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to a new iPhone without having to wipe it and reinstall it from a backup. If you ever
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buy a new iPhone or have your iPhone break and have to replace it, guess what you have
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to do to your Apple Watch? You have to completely erase it and then re-pair it and then let
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it load your last backup, if you have a backup, from that iPhone. So I'm going to say, "New
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feature of WatchOS 3, if you're using a phone that's got an existing Apple ID that's the
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same as the new phone that you're going to, it will just be able to migrate without wiping
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itself clean and starting again.
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That would be great.
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Especially when we all get new phones again.
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I mean, if we remember what happened last September in the meeting, you just shouted
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for four weeks.
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Exactly right.
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It's upgrading.
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Upgrading should be a delight.
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And if you've got an Apple Watch, upgrading your iPhone is a pain.
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So make it more delightful.
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I'm gonna venture into territory I don't understand and say that there will be some kind of big
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Swift announcement.
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That's all I know is that there will be time devoted to Swift and it will be big stuff,
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not just like, "Hey, Swift's going good."
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Like I think that they're gonna do something which will be significant with Swift.
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New version of Swift, they learned their lesson, they've listened to developers, and it does
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more awesome things now.
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That's all I have to say on that.
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That's good.
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You don't want to elaborate on some of the thoughts about what those big new features
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of Swift would be?
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I think that the integer parameter is going to significantly change.
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And everyone stop listening.
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Well, it'll be more dynamic.
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There'll be some more dynamic typing, I hope.
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Dynamic typing.
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That's when you type really fast, right?
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Yeah, that's what new keyboards do.
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They just make it more dynamic.
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Okay, I'm with you there.
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All right, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say something that's totally nuts
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But I it's wish fulfillment time here late in the draft and I'm gonna I'm gonna I want credit if my wish is fulfilled
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The fulfillment itself won't be enough. I'll also get draft credit for it
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replacement for iTunes on the Mac
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The idea that Apple needs to split some of this stuff off
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that there's a new version of iTunes that is focused on music,
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perhaps there's a separate app that is for device sync and maintenance and backup and things
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for people who are still doing wired connections to their iOS devices.
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But breaking it up, breaking up the monopoly,
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simplifying iTunes, having the whole music story be a little bit more,
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actually having it be more like iOS, where there's a music app, and there's a store app,
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and there's a device sync app in this case since it's on the Mac and that's
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and that's it instead of one place the the long requested never delivered
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breakup of big iTunes. Big iTunes. Go get big iTunes out of the way.
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Alright so we're into our last and final picks now then. I guess we are. Now one of
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the things so I'm struggling now with what we have left in this document
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Because I can either go for something that is potential but I don't think will happen or I can just take crib something
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Immediately from what you just put in your article about the Mac
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But I think that's a bit outlandish and I do want you to maybe go through it
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So I'm just gonna go with Apple watch to announced. I
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Don't think that they're gonna do this
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Like I really don't think that this is gonna happen and this is what happens when you get to the end of the draft here
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But no left there could be some stuff in Apple watch 3
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That they just can't talk about unless they talk about the Apple watch 2
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fundamentally like if they say something like
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Let's just say for argument's sake that the Apple watch 2 has a SIM card in it and it has a cell connection
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Let's just say again. I think we're still another version away from that
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But let's just say that's the case and that's why they talk about independent
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You know that the watch can talk independently when you're out on a run
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There's no way they can do that without kind of acknowledging the fact that it's gonna have a cell connection
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Which means they need to maybe talk about the hardware. I
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Don't know depends on how much they want to give developers now as opposed to giving them like three weeks pull the thing ships
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So it could be uncharted territory a little bit with what they want to announce and what they don't want to announce and how this
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impacts the hardware
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But that's why I say that there is a slim chance that they announced the Apple watch to
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Shipping in a month two months if the products not selling gangbusters. They know it's a q4 product like Tim has said
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It's a holiday product
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Maybe they just don't care about the fact that are gonna cannibalize some sales for a little while. I don't know
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All right. Well, I think that's unlikely highly unlikely, but why is my last pick my friend?
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So for my last pick and the last pick of the draft, I've got some stuff that I could pick
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But I'm not gonna pick I'm not gonna pick any of those instead
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I'm gonna pick something that's slightly more possible than the Apple watch 2 appearing on stage at
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WWDC and it's this
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To celebrate the fact that OS 10 is now Mac OS 11
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they're going to say these go to 11 and
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Spinal tap is going to appear on stage and perform at the end of the keynote
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I think there is more chance of a live upgrade from the keynote stage
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Then then spinal tap to appear. I don't think I don't agree. I think I think the appearance of spinal tap is
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More likely than a live upgrade or the Apple watch to appearing. So that's what I'm gonna say spinal tap slash Mac OS
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11 there it is
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Just mark it mark it down. All right
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I get like I win the draft if that happens. How about that? Will you agree to that? That's a double or nothing
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Yeah, I'll tell you what
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I'll give you that if spinal tap come out on stage no matter what the scoring is you win the draft. Okay. Thank you
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And that's the end of the draft and that's the end of this week's episode
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Thank you so much for listening and I hope you've been playing along at home
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I'm look very much looking forward to next week when we announce the winner
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Uh, who will be crowned champion of the, uh,
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first annual upgrade WWDC draft, but let's
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talk about next week for a moment.
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So, um, next week, uh, upgrade, we will be
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recording in person, uh, after the keynote.
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So we will, you know, sometime after the
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keynote, we'll be recording in person.
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We may or may not stream live.
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I hope that we will be able to stream live.
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So you'll be able to tune in if you want to.
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Um, something that I will mention this, uh,
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like just after the keynote, but I'll say
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it now so you can bear it in mind.
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We love to do extended ask upgrade for this type of stuff.
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So if you have any questions, thoughts that you want us to elaborate on that kind of stuff
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because of the keynote announcements, just send them in with the hashtag ask upgrade
01:36:46
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and we'll try and get to as many of those as we can.
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So feel free to do that.
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I love doing that sort of stuff because you pick up on like the random
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and weird little things that people thought of or found because of that.
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So please send any of that sort of stuff into us
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so we can address it on the show with the hashtag ask upgrade.
01:37:02
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So we'll be recording that episode, but also on Monday, it's RelayCon.
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Now you may have, may not have heard of this.
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I hope that you have, but we're doing an event in San Francisco for the first time.
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Um, it's going to be a live show.
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Um, we're going to be doing some fun stuff.
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We've got some great things planned.
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Uh, part of it is going to be, uh, the connected hosts.
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So me, Steven and Federico.
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And then there's going to be a segment that I've put down in my
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document, title was Myke and Friends, which is going to be me, you and
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Serenity Coldwell talking about the announcements of the day.
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This is going to be recorded live and it will be out in the connected feed.
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So we'll be talking about it, we'll be linking to it, but if you're interested in picking
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up what I think is going to be a really fun episode, go subscribe to connected now and
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you'll get that next week.
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And you'll also get this week's episode of connected, which will be fun.
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So go to relay.fm/connected to find out more and subscribe there.
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But we're really excited for RelayCon and Jason, I'll say now thank you for being a
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part of it on stage with me. I am very excited. We've got a big night planned, so I think
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it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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- Monday's gonna be a big day, and somewhere in there between a keynote and relaycon, we
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will find at an undisclosed location, we will find enough time to do upgrade. That's the
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agenda for Monday. And again, I will offer, we can just ride around in my car if you really
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want to. Do a car cast. But we should probably do it at a secret location instead of in my
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I feel like, you know, for the car cast to exist in the future, which I'm sure it will
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make an appearance later on, there needs to be extenuating circumstances. Me and you being
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together in person with the ability to walk to multiple locations where we could record
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does not need a car cast. But I appreciate the invitation.
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Probably right. Fine, you don't want to be in my car, that's fine. Alright, no, I'm looking
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forward to it. You and me together in San Francisco. That part in San Francisco is less
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exciting for me because this is basically where I live but you'll be here and a lot of other people
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will be here and there'll be a big apple event I'll be there and then I will find you afterward
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and we will do an upgrade next week and keep score about the draft which will be ugly probably
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yeah especially because we'll be in person you know it might come to fisticuffs who knows it could
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thank you so much for listening to this week's show if you want to find our show notes head on
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over to relay.fm/upgrades/92 thanks again to our lovely sponsors this week Casper, Squarespace,
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and Pingdom and we'll be back in person next week.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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Say goodbye Mr. Snow.
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- Goodbye everybody, next week in San Francisco.
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- San Francisco.
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