Connected

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00:00:02 ◼   ► - Hello and welcome to Connected, episode 348.

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00:00:14 ◼   ► Pingdom, Squarespace, CleanMyMac X, and StoryWorth.

00:00:19 ◼   ► My name is Steven Hackett

00:00:20 ◼   ► and I am joined by Mr. Federico Vittucci.

00:00:22 ◼   ► - Hello, hi, how are you, Steven?

00:00:24 ◼   ► - You're going down today, son.

00:00:26 ◼   ► - Mm-hmm, I know, I'm ready.

00:00:28 ◼   ► - Going down.

00:00:29 ◼   ► Myke, how are you?

00:00:30 ◼   ► The road to consolidation begins again.

00:00:34 ◼   ► This is the road to consolidation.

00:00:36 ◼   ► I'm going to unify the Rickey Championships to become one true champion.

00:00:42 ◼   ► That's going to be me?

00:00:45 ◼   ► One true champion.

00:00:46 ◼   ► Well, Myke, if you win, you'll be the consolidated winner for quite a while, probably, because

00:00:52 ◼   ► it'll be the fall before we have another one of these things.

00:00:55 ◼   ► Well, I mean forever, because I'll then just never lose.

00:00:58 ◼   ► That is quite the assumption.

00:01:01 ◼   ► But that's the other thing though, is like when I win I just never lose again, so I'll

00:01:05 ◼   ► just be able to put them all together.

00:01:08 ◼   ► Well before we get to the Ricky's, we've got some other stuff to do, but we're going to

00:01:13 ◼   ► start by talking about Ricky tracking websites.

00:01:18 ◼   ► Of which there are an abundance at this point.

00:01:21 ◼   ► This is like shelf apps.

00:01:22 ◼   ► - Now we have Ricky tracking. - There are more actively maintained Ricky

00:01:27 ◼   ► tracking websites than shelf apps. - We should get Ryan back on Mac stories and do a roundup

00:01:33 ◼   ► of these Ricky... - Of Ricky apps. Especially now you've abandoned the shelf as well and

00:01:38 ◼   ► they probably... everyone stopped maintaining it. - Friendship ended with the shelf, so...

00:01:42 ◼   ► - Best friend is now a Ricky tracker. - Listener Lex has made rickys.co,

00:01:50 ◼   ► which is an amazing website. Also thank you to Lex for the chat for the show art this week because

00:01:54 ◼   ► I'm using his trophy art he sent me. This has... I feel like, can I just say you you brush past that,

00:02:01 ◼   ► this is a truly amazing website. Yeah. Like an absolutely unbelievable... That's where I was going.

00:02:08 ◼   ► Screaming when I was reading it kind of website. So it includes, as you would expect, the full

00:02:14 ◼   ► history of our predictions. It has really nice host leaderboard tracking, complete with

00:02:21 ◼   ► custom emoji of us that, if you refresh the page, change. Amazing. It has all of our current

00:02:28 ◼   ► titles, our achievements. I will say that percentage-wise, we're all very close with

00:02:34 ◼   ► each other, closer than you would think, even though I've donated over $200 and Myke has

00:02:39 ◼   ► donated nothing.

00:02:40 ◼   ► because I'm good like that and bad like that I guess.

00:02:44 ◼   ► My very favorite thing about this website,

00:02:46 ◼   ► so there are loads of wonderful little features

00:02:48 ◼   ► and really we recommend that you go and poke around with it.

00:02:51 ◼   ► It will be in the show notes but it's also at rickys.co

00:02:53 ◼   ► is the Bill of Rickys page,

00:02:55 ◼   ► which as well as having music embedded in it,

00:02:58 ◼   ► has a interactive changelog.

00:03:01 ◼   ► You can drag our globe icon back through time

00:03:05 ◼   ► and see how the Ricky rules,

00:03:08 ◼   ► well, what they used to be called drafting rules, then became Ricky rules, then the Bill

00:03:12 ◼   ► of Ricky's, how it has adapted and amended over time. And then there are scorecards,

00:03:18 ◼   ► there's active scorecards now for the events, and then there are previous scorecards for

00:03:23 ◼   ► the previous events. And they even have things like which version of the rules were used

00:03:28 ◼   ► for which Ricky's event. It's truly unbelievable. And it's made by Lex, which I think Stephen

00:03:36 ◼   ► already said and yeah it's truly this this is a work of art this thing yeah so yeah unbelievable

00:03:44 ◼   ► yeah absolutely absolutely amazing there's a link in the show notes to the github repo this website

00:03:51 ◼   ► lives in and there's a details.md file so you can go read about some of these little touches

00:03:57 ◼   ► and it's just it's so incredible uh Lex really knocked it out of the park with this it's fantastic

00:04:04 ◼   ► It's a labor of love that we love.

00:04:06 ◼   ► It is.

00:04:07 ◼   ► It definitely is.

00:04:09 ◼   ► There's also rickys.net, the rickypedia, where Jason has been doing some amazing things,

00:04:16 ◼   ► also some amazing artwork on this, which is like a weird fish in the middle of this beautiful

00:04:21 ◼   ► spiral artwork, which I really love.

00:04:23 ◼   ► Beautiful, beautiful.

00:04:24 ◼   ► Yes.

00:04:25 ◼   ► I believe that some of the work that Jason had done helped provide the data for Lex's

00:04:30 ◼   ► rickys.co.

00:04:31 ◼   ► So this is a stacking situation we've got here.

00:04:34 ◼   ► Right.

00:04:35 ◼   ► Everyone's building on top of each other's incredible work.

00:04:38 ◼   ► And Jason has provided some statistics and past results

00:04:43 ◼   ► of just our WWDC events, which is really intriguing.

00:04:47 ◼   ► I want to read a couple of excerpts from the page

00:04:50 ◼   ► that Jason has put together that talks

00:04:52 ◼   ► through the previous Ricky's adventures around WWDC.

00:04:56 ◼   ► The 2019 event was graded at a Rokkus live show,

00:04:58 ◼   ► where at one point Federico threatened to call the police

00:05:01 ◼   ► when his arguments didn't seem to be getting traction.

00:05:04 ◼   ► Ultimately, all three hosts had perfect scores

00:05:07 ◼   ► leading to the game's first and so far only three-way tie,

00:05:11 ◼   ► which also led to the only coin flip that Myke has ever lost.

00:05:15 ◼   ► Since then, he has an active streak of five coin flip wins.

00:05:18 ◼   ► 2020 also saw perfect scores for Myke and Steven,

00:05:21 ◼   ► but Federico did not fare quite as well.

00:05:23 ◼   ► He had hoped for new iMessage features and Xcode for iPad.

00:05:27 ◼   ► Myke did well with an iOS focus slate of picks

00:05:29 ◼   ► while Stephen staked most of his picks on the Mac.

00:05:32 ◼   ► Jason also put a topics section into Wikipedia as well,

00:05:37 ◼   ► which shows the success that we have each had

00:05:41 ◼   ► over certain types of products and initiatives,

00:05:44 ◼   ► which is also really interesting.

00:05:46 ◼   ► So like, say our iPhone picks across all of them,

00:05:49 ◼   ► iPad, Mac, all that kind of stuff,

00:05:51 ◼   ► how many we've got right out of everything

00:05:53 ◼   ► we picked in other percentages. - Look at my Mac picks.

00:05:54 ◼   ► 30%! I'm 100% on iOS. You sure are, but you've also made three iOS

00:05:59 ◼   ► picks across everything, which is very... every WWDC.

00:06:03 ◼   ► Well, look, it's not about the number of picks, it's about the percentage correct.

00:06:08 ◼   ► That's not how it works. That's not, no. We are very blessed, I think,

00:06:12 ◼   ► to have such an incredibly enthusiastic audience group, and we absolutely love to see these

00:06:18 ◼   ► things and please go and check out these websites and support the work of these very, very wonderful,

00:06:24 ◼   ► I've made 22 Stagecraft picks.

00:06:28 ◼   ► That's an obscene amount.

00:06:29 ◼   ► I really like them.

00:06:31 ◼   ► And two iPod Touch ones.

00:06:32 ◼   ► More than iOS, it would seem.

00:06:34 ◼   ► You care much more for how the event is presented, rather than what happens with iOS.

00:06:39 ◼   ► That's about right.

00:06:41 ◼   ► Myke, how is your multiple monitor experiment going?

00:06:44 ◼   ► Remind people what you have done.

00:06:47 ◼   ► I'm still using my wonderful yellow iMac, iMac, I was going to say Pro, it's not an

00:06:52 ◼   ► iMac Pro, it's just an iMac.

00:06:54 ◼   ► I've been using that, I'm still loving it very much while I'm recording, I still have

00:06:58 ◼   ► it for a few more weeks, and I'm using my Dell monitor that I was using for my Mac Mini

00:07:03 ◼   ► now on the side in a portrait orientation where I have all of the various apps and such

00:07:10 ◼   ► that I use when I'm recording, so Audio Hijack and Zoom, Skype and all that kind of stuff.

00:07:16 ◼   ► And I really like it.

00:07:17 ◼   ► I like that that stuff's just all off to the side.

00:07:19 ◼   ► I don't ever have to worry about touching it, messing anything up.

00:07:22 ◼   ► It's just doing its thing.

00:07:23 ◼   ► And then I have more screen real estate to play with on the iMac.

00:07:27 ◼   ► I feel pretty sold with this, honestly.

00:07:29 ◼   ► Do you think you would do it even if a bigger iMac lands on your desk?

00:07:33 ◼   ► Yes, because even with the 27-inch iMac Pro, I still had stuff overlapping all the time

00:07:41 ◼   ► and I didn't really like that.

00:07:43 ◼   ► now it's just everything is just off. What I like most about it is that it's

00:07:48 ◼   ► just a way to the side like I can't you know like it doesn't get in my way like

00:07:53 ◼   ► all the recording stuff and then also like when I'm not recording I just leave

00:07:57 ◼   ► those apps open because I get them all laid out and so now when I'm on this

00:08:01 ◼   ► machine and I'm not actively recording like all these apps are not all up in my

00:08:05 ◼   ► business so I like having this off to the side here it feels like a pretty

00:08:09 ◼   ► good solution for me honestly. See the problem with using a Pro Display XDR is

00:08:15 ◼   ► you can't afford a second one and where would you put it? You don't have to get a

00:08:20 ◼   ► Pro Display XDR I haven't got two iMacs. Yeah but if you have two externals they

00:08:24 ◼   ► have to match. Why? That's all I'm saying. They don't. Because then I couldn't sit in

00:08:29 ◼   ► front of them. Right but that's a you problem. I'm a very

00:08:34 ◼   ► particular person it turns out. I had to I had to say goodbye to my iMac

00:08:39 ◼   ► You had an orange one for a not very long time, huh? Yeah, so I didn't get a review unit. I

00:08:45 ◼   ► Purchased it and you know the phrase

00:08:48 ◼   ► If you love someone you have to set them free. That's how it was with me in the orange iMac

00:08:54 ◼   ► I really liked it. There's absolutely no place for it in my household in my studio

00:09:00 ◼   ► Like there's no need for it. So I thought before I really

00:09:04 ◼   ► really fall in love with it. I've got to let it go. And so I did my video, got talked about that last week and

00:09:10 ◼   ► took some photos

00:09:13 ◼   ► reviewed it for

00:09:16 ◼   ► more power users, the membership version of MPU, and then I mailed it back and

00:09:21 ◼   ► it's gone. I did keep one of the orange Apple stickers, so we'll see if Apple rejects my return because of that.

00:09:30 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm uh, I'm planning to do my review

00:09:33 ◼   ► I just won't stick them to anything. Yeah, I kept the bright one. Why don't you put like a secret message in there?

00:09:41 ◼   ► Like a ransom note

00:09:43 ◼   ► No, like like like a coded message if you ever want to see these stickers again

00:09:48 ◼   ► No, like I don't know Myke was right or something like that. Maybe like a like a little secret thing

00:09:54 ◼   ► I feel like that would draw attention definitely to the fact that I'd taken the stickers

00:09:59 ◼   ► probably.

00:10:00 ◼   ► What stickers?

00:10:01 ◼   ► And then we set it on the show.

00:10:04 ◼   ► Nah, nah, nah, don't worry about it.

00:10:07 ◼   ► They don't listen, don't worry about it.

00:10:08 ◼   ► Little bit of follow-out, I published a new video on Monday customizing macOS system preferences

00:10:17 ◼   ► that apparently no one knows was possible, so you can set them in alphabetical order

00:10:22 ◼   ► or you can hide them.

00:10:23 ◼   ► I didn't know you could do this.

00:10:25 ◼   ► It's like, it's like a minute 45, just like a little tip video, I want to play with this

00:10:30 ◼   ► format for a couple of reasons.

00:10:32 ◼   ► One I did it in ScreenFlow, which is a Mac app that I know a lot of people have used,

00:10:37 ◼   ► I had never used it.

00:10:39 ◼   ► And it's really cool.

00:10:40 ◼   ► So you can do the capture of video and audio and you can do some special audio routing

00:10:45 ◼   ► and stuff.

00:10:46 ◼   ► And then after you record it, you can say, Oh, I actually want the mouse to be bigger,

00:10:51 ◼   ► Or I want little clicks to come out of it.

00:10:54 ◼   ► I click little radius circles to come out of it.

00:10:56 ◼   ► You can do that afterwards?

00:10:58 ◼   ► Yes.

00:10:59 ◼   ► So like the magnification and stuff in that video around the cursor, you do all that in

00:11:03 ◼   ► post.

00:11:04 ◼   ► You can say I want the magnification to be this big, I don't want it to last this long.

00:11:10 ◼   ► It's really, it can be true.

00:11:11 ◼   ► It's really cool.

00:11:12 ◼   ► I don't understand how that's technically even possible.

00:11:15 ◼   ► It doesn't make any sense to me.

00:11:16 ◼   ► How does time even work?

00:11:19 ◼   ► Like you did it before and then you can do it after, what?

00:11:22 ◼   ► Yeah, it's really cool.

00:11:24 ◼   ► So that's all done.

00:11:26 ◼   ► TJ is pointing out in the Discord, this has come up on the MPU forums several times, including

00:11:32 ◼   ► a post that he's linking that he did.

00:11:34 ◼   ► So I bounced off of that and did this little video.

00:11:37 ◼   ► I can't believe you don't read your own forums, Steven.

00:11:40 ◼   ► That's where I saw it.

00:11:41 ◼   ► I said, "This should be a video."

00:11:42 ◼   ► So if you post good things in the MPU forum, I may sell them for YouTube videos is the

00:11:46 ◼   ► lesson here.

00:11:47 ◼   ► Wow, that's a big "wow".

00:11:49 ◼   ► You're just thieving content.

00:11:51 ◼   ► Anyways, so I want to play with this format a little bit,

00:11:54 ◼   ► and ScreenFlow's really cool,

00:11:55 ◼   ► so I wanted to just give it a shout out.

00:11:57 ◼   ► Speaking of other shout outs,

00:12:00 ◼   ► let's give a shout out to the Italian architectural team

00:12:05 ◼   ► responsible for that beautiful Apple Store museum

00:12:07 ◼   ► you've got going on over there, Federico.

00:12:09 ◼   ► That was a fun little article you put together.

00:12:10 ◼   ► Shout out to the city of Rome for being beautiful,

00:12:14 ◼   ► I would say. Yeah.

00:12:16 ◼   ► Yeah, that was fun, right?

00:12:20 ◼   ► So we were able, Silvia and I, to attend,

00:12:22 ◼   ► to visit the new Apple Store in Rombia del Corso

00:12:25 ◼   ► before its grand opening to the public.

00:12:28 ◼   ► This is like celebrities that wanna go shopping

00:12:31 ◼   ► and they close down a store for them.

00:12:34 ◼   ► You know, like if, I don't know,

00:12:35 ◼   ► if you're like Justin Timberlake

00:12:36 ◼   ► and you wanna go buy some Gucci shoes,

00:12:39 ◼   ► they'll like close the store, so like you're not bothered.

00:12:41 ◼   ► And this is what Apple Stores will do for Federico now.

00:12:44 ◼   ► So Federico wants to go to a store, close down the store, kick everyone out, and Federico gets the car.

00:12:49 ◼   ► That is not really how it works, but I like to imagine...

00:12:52 ◼   ► Where was everybody in the pictures, huh?

00:12:54 ◼   ► Well, um, good point.

00:12:57 ◼   ► Well, um, so a bunch of Italian press was there.

00:13:00 ◼   ► Um, I don't... I'm trying to phrase my way around this very carefully.

00:13:07 ◼   ► I don't really know these people.

00:13:09 ◼   ► I don't think these people like me.

00:13:12 ◼   ► You know when you get that weird vibe from someone?

00:13:16 ◼   ► You know, "Oh, he's the English blogger."

00:13:17 ◼   ► You know?

00:13:19 ◼   ► The Italian Apple news scene is very competitive.

00:13:25 ◼   ► And it gets even more weird

00:13:29 ◼   ► if you don't try to even compete with them.

00:13:32 ◼   ► I don't know.

00:13:33 ◼   ► Silvia and I, we mostly just minded our own business,

00:13:35 ◼   ► you know?

00:13:36 ◼   ► So we just walked around the store, took pictures.

00:13:40 ◼   ► We were given a few interesting details to focus on,

00:13:44 ◼   ► like the staircase, some information that is really

00:13:49 ◼   ► fascinating when you hear it.

00:13:52 ◼   ► The type of marble, the type of stone that was used,

00:13:55 ◼   ► how the skylight that they have is actually

00:13:59 ◼   ► based on LEDs that simulate the behavior of the sun

00:14:04 ◼   ► during the day.

00:14:04 ◼   ► That was cool.

00:14:06 ◼   ► Have you ever heard of a window apple?

00:14:08 ◼   ► Are we not just going to bother with that?

00:14:10 ◼   ► [LAUGHS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► I think that's because my interpretation of it

00:14:15 ◼   ► is that the original was destroyed anyway.

00:14:19 ◼   ► And so I don't know.

00:14:20 ◼   ► Maybe they just thought it was easier and cooler, I don't know,

00:14:23 ◼   ► to just do the--

00:14:24 ◼   ► I read through this whole article, right?

00:14:27 ◼   ► And also in the things you're saying now.

00:14:31 ◼   ► And the one thought that I'm struck with constantly

00:14:34 ◼   ► is this is the kind of thing that shows how much money Apple

00:14:37 ◼   ► has because so much of this is unnecessary,

00:14:42 ◼   ► in the sense of what you should do for a retail store.

00:14:46 ◼   ► It is amazing that they took the care

00:14:48 ◼   ► and they restored this place and made it beautiful,

00:14:50 ◼   ► but they are a company who sells computers and phones.

00:14:55 ◼   ► To do what they have done to this building

00:14:58 ◼   ► is completely, unbelievably outside

00:15:04 ◼   ► of anybody's typical realm of expectation for what any company would do moving into

00:15:09 ◼   ► a space like this, right? It's just like, they have so much money that they can just

00:15:14 ◼   ► painstakingly restore a mural.

00:15:16 ◼   ► Yeah, and that is true. But also, when you see it in person, it's incredible. And like,

00:15:25 ◼   ► and I actually talked about this with Jon earlier today. I got a bunch of tweets from

00:15:31 ◼   ► people saying "oh, so don't you think it's sad that private corporations have to come

00:15:37 ◼   ► in with their big money and take advantage of these historical places and just show off

00:15:42 ◼   ► how much money they have? This stuff should be in the public domain, it should be governments

00:15:47 ◼   ► that restore these buildings." Sure, I agree. Like in an ideal world, Palazzo Marignoli,

00:15:54 ◼   ► which would be the building where this new Apple Store is located, would be an open museum

00:15:59 ◼   ► for all citizens of Rome and all tourists to see. That's not how it works in Italy.

00:16:05 ◼   ► We don't have the money, the city of Rome doesn't have the money, we don't have the

00:16:07 ◼   ► funding to support that kind of restoring of all the buildings that we have, especially

00:16:14 ◼   ► in the center of Rome. And so unfortunately, as much as I would like all these buildings

00:16:20 ◼   ► to be open to the public, all these buildings in the center of Rome, they are used by companies

00:16:25 ◼   ► that buy businesses, buy banks, buy, you know, boutiques like Our Money or Gucci, whatever.

00:16:34 ◼   ► They're all used by companies that, to different extents, they care for the building and they

00:16:40 ◼   ► restore the building. And I can tell you that this building in particular was in really,

00:16:47 ◼   ► really bad shape. It was disgusting. Like, this building was grimy and dirty, and all

00:16:54 ◼   ► the works of art were hidden or damaged before. It used to be this, as I wrote in the story,

00:17:01 ◼   ► this was actually the fast food sort of a pizza chain where I used to go as a kid when

00:17:08 ◼   ► we visited Rome with my parents. It was just loud and dirty and gross. It was one of those

00:17:15 ◼   ► cheap fast food places where thousands of people go every day. And you couldn't even

00:17:22 ◼   ► tell that this was actually like a pretty cool building from the 19th century with the

00:17:26 ◼   ► fascinating story behind it. And so, yeah, ideally, this should all be taken care of

00:17:32 ◼   ► by the government for a bunch of different reasons. That is not possible. And so at the

00:17:37 ◼   ► very least, you know, Apple did a pretty good job and it it's really stunning to see in

00:17:42 ◼   ► person. So, uh, sure. You're visiting a store by a company that wants you to spend money

00:17:48 ◼   ► inside of it, that is true. It's also equally true that they have done an excellent job at restoring

00:17:55 ◼   ► the place, at restoring the, you know, the ceiling paintings and the hand-painted ceiling, which is

00:18:03 ◼   ► really incredible to see above the Genius Bar. So I understand the argument that, you know, "Oh, it's

00:18:10 ◼   ► still an Apple store," but I can tell you it's so much better than what it used to be. So I guess,

00:18:17 ◼   ► Why not? Right?

00:18:19 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:18:20 ◼   ► I mean, if it's the only way forward for the property, then...

00:18:22 ◼   ► Exactly. I mean, it was closed anyway.

00:18:24 ◼   ► It was closed in 2014.

00:18:26 ◼   ► I think Apple took over.

00:18:28 ◼   ► My understanding is in 2015.

00:18:30 ◼   ► So they spent like five or six years working on it.

00:18:32 ◼   ► It was closed the entire time.

00:18:33 ◼   ► And then at one point it became obvious that it was,

00:18:36 ◼   ► you know, initially it was a rumor

00:18:37 ◼   ► that Apple had purchased the location,

00:18:40 ◼   ► or leased the location.

00:18:41 ◼   ► I don't have details of that,

00:18:42 ◼   ► how it works with the city of Rome.

00:18:45 ◼   ► But yeah, at least now it's open again, it's beautiful.

00:18:49 ◼   ► It really stands out in the other courses

00:18:52 ◼   ► because like all the other buildings are like,

00:18:54 ◼   ► you know, they're very grimy and gray and dirty.

00:18:57 ◼   ► And this one is really polished now.

00:18:59 ◼   ► It's like really clean facade and all the white columns.

00:19:02 ◼   ► It really stands out.

00:19:04 ◼   ► It's beautiful.

00:19:05 ◼   ► If you're ever in Rome in the future, I mean, look,

00:19:07 ◼   ► there's plenty of other things to see in Rome, right?

00:19:10 ◼   ► It's not like-

00:19:11 ◼   ► - Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:19:12 ◼   ► But look, if you are,

00:19:13 ◼   ► If you're listening to this show, and you're in Rome, go to the Apple Store.

00:19:18 ◼   ► It's like I went to the Louvre Apple Store in Paris, because I wanted to see it.

00:19:22 ◼   ► I was around there, I'm just gonna go see it. I didn't need to buy anything.

00:19:26 ◼   ► When we were in New York, underscore, and I went to the Glass Cube Store.

00:19:30 ◼   ► It was closed for renovation though.

00:19:33 ◼   ► Yeah, that store wasn't very impressive beforehand.

00:19:36 ◼   ► Like, I'd been there a couple of years before just to go see it,

00:19:40 ◼   ► and it had the real old look to it, you know, which is why it's been renovated.

00:19:44 ◼   ► But yeah, traveling I think should involve going to an Apple store.

00:19:47 ◼   ► You know, the one in Chicago on the river we've been in several times.

00:19:50 ◼   ► Like, it's fantastic.

00:19:51 ◼   ► And we have amazing ones here in London.

00:19:54 ◼   ► Let's take a break and then we're gonna talk about AirPods and then we'll read the Bill

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00:21:25 ◼   ► Mark Gurman published an article about AirPods. It wasn't what I was expecting at this

00:21:32 ◼   ► time of year. I will say that maybe I'm about to jinx this. There hasn't been a lot

00:21:37 ◼   ► of "Hey, here's what's coming in iOS" articles this year, right? Seems like

00:21:43 ◼   ► things have been locked down pretty tight. And I guess it's worth comparing

00:21:46 ◼   ► to last year, if I'm remembering correctly,

00:21:49 ◼   ► I was 14, there was a bunch of articles from,

00:21:52 ◼   ► I think, 9to5Mac and some others because it seemed like some,

00:21:56 ◼   ► a version of iOS had gotten out, right?

00:21:59 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:22:00 ◼   ► - People were able to look through the code.

00:22:01 ◼   ► And I guess if that wouldn't have happened,

00:22:03 ◼   ► there wouldn't have been so many stories.

00:22:05 ◼   ► So, you know, we're a week away from WWDC

00:22:09 ◼   ► and we don't really know anything, like really anything.

00:22:12 ◼   ► The only thing was that report that Mark Gurman published

00:22:14 ◼   ► a few weeks ago saying notifications and widgets on the iPad home screen maybe.

00:22:21 ◼   ► But this was an article about AirPods. So Mark was kind of going over the three AirPods lines

00:22:27 ◼   ► and talking about updates that are in the works for them. So there will be some new AirPods,

00:22:35 ◼   ► original AirPods this year with a design similar to the AirPods Pro, so a shorter stem and a new

00:22:44 ◼   ► case. I'm expecting they will still be fully all plastic, I guess. I don't think they're

00:22:49 ◼   ► going to go to the AirPods Pro style in-ear things, and I hope that for Steven's case

00:22:55 ◼   ► especially.

00:22:56 ◼   ► Me too. I'll be very sad.

00:22:58 ◼   ► That's your issue with the Pro, right? Is the going in the ear part.

00:23:01 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean, and I wear like in-ear monitors to record, but something about the silicon,

00:23:07 ◼   ► like I don't know, something about the AirPod Pro tips I really didn't like.

00:23:10 ◼   ► Federico, are you still using the foam ones?

00:23:12 ◼   ► Oh yeah, big time. I ordered my new set just last week and I swapped it because I replace it every, basically every couple of months.

00:23:21 ◼   ► I am very precise at cleaning my AirPods with BluTack, but the foam tapes, I just like to replace them.

00:23:30 ◼   ► You use the Comply ones still?

00:23:32 ◼   ► Yes, I do. I do. Comply medium size. That's my preferred flavor of them.

00:23:38 ◼   ► Sizing part wasn't necessary, but I appreciate that you decided to share it anyway.

00:23:43 ◼   ► Well, you'd be surprised by how many people would ask that question, like, very particular question.

00:23:48 ◼   ► It's weird, because like, what are you going to do with that? Like, I don't know the size of your ear to my ear.

00:23:53 ◼   ► Do I? Anyway, I don't know.

00:23:55 ◼   ► I don't know, you strike me as a big ear person, Myke.

00:23:58 ◼   ► Well, I either am or I aren't, right? Like, I don't think there's something about my personality.

00:24:02 ◼   ► Sure, but I like to think about it. I like to say, "Hey, do you think Myke has big or small ears?"

00:24:07 ◼   ► I don't know, maybe.

00:24:07 ◼   ► Probably big ears.

00:24:08 ◼   ► Big ears. He's a podcaster, you know, big ear person.

00:24:12 ◼   ► Like evolved to get bigger ears? Is that what you're seeing?

00:24:16 ◼   ► Right, exactly. Like giraffes evolved to eat leaves from tall trees. You grew bigger ears

00:24:23 ◼   ► for better editing when podcasting.

00:24:25 ◼   ► Fair enough.

00:24:26 ◼   ► Yeah, that's how evolution works. I mean, Darwin said it, not me.

00:24:32 ◼   ► AirPods Pro coming next year. Apple is testing a design with no stems at all. Now there is

00:24:40 ◼   ► some something to be said about this. There is there's been a rumor of an upcoming Beats

00:24:46 ◼   ► headphone which is just pure in-ear things. They've been MacRumors found them and then

00:24:52 ◼   ► LeBron James was pictured wearing them which is I kind of love the Beats like stuff like

00:24:58 ◼   ► this happens with Beats, which I just kind of really enjoy. It's just like, ah, whatever.

00:25:02 ◼   ► Just give it to them. They don't care, right? It's like the opposite of an Apple product,

00:25:06 ◼   ► but it's owned by Apple. So yeah, let's just give them to a bunch of people who are going

00:25:10 ◼   ► to take Instagram photos with them. And I imagine that they're not as worried about

00:25:14 ◼   ► it as well, Apple, right? Like, because the Beats stuff, I mean, it gets more attention

00:25:19 ◼   ► in this way now because it's owned by Apple, but like ultimately it doesn't matter. If

00:25:26 ◼   ► If anything with Beats, this only serves the brand the way that it was probably wanted.

00:25:32 ◼   ► That's why they gave them to LeBron James anyway.

00:25:34 ◼   ► Don't wear these in public, but you know...

00:25:37 ◼   ► If you're gonna, make sure there's photographers around.

00:25:41 ◼   ► You never see like, "Oh, this celebrity had the new iPhone before everyone else."

00:25:45 ◼   ► No, but do you remember when a bunch of people had the gold Apple Watch?

00:25:49 ◼   ► Oh, yeah, but that was also that, right?

00:25:52 ◼   ► Was like, "Wear this.

00:25:53 ◼   ► Go out and wear this."

00:25:55 ◼   ► had it and like it was very clearly not set up. Probably Karl Lagerfeld. Probably, yes.

00:26:01 ◼   ► I think so. Karl Lagerfeld was the guy who used to carry the briefcase of iPods. Everyone

00:26:06 ◼   ► remembers that story. Really? Yeah, that was like a thing that he did, like I had this

00:26:11 ◼   ► briefcase full of iPods. It's basically what Steven does also. In case he breaks one. What

00:26:20 ◼   ► What do you think about the idea of AirPods just going in the ears with no stems on them?

00:26:29 ◼   ► I kind of dig it myself.

00:26:33 ◼   ► I am concerned...

00:26:35 ◼   ► So I have, I can tell you, I have Sony earbuds that have that kind of design and I really

00:26:42 ◼   ► like them.

00:26:43 ◼   ► However, there's a big issue there.

00:26:47 ◼   ► gestures to control those Sony earbuds are awful, right? Pressing on the stem on the

00:26:54 ◼   ► AirPods Pro is a much better way to control playback or Siri than having to tap precisely

00:27:02 ◼   ► on the Sony earbuds. Now, I don't know if the problem is that Sony's motion detection

00:27:08 ◼   ► feature whatever sucks and that Apple's is going to be so much better, but conceptually

00:27:15 ◼   ► speaking pressing the stem has really grown on me as a way to control audio but physically

00:27:23 ◼   ► speaking I really prefer the design of something like the Sony earbuds that I have or these

00:27:28 ◼   ► Beats earbuds that I'm seeing now where you don't have that little thing poking out of

00:27:34 ◼   ► your ear, you know that stem going down toward your neck.

00:27:40 ◼   ► I don't want to go back to the tapping my ears again.

00:27:45 ◼   ► Me neither, so that's the problem, right?

00:27:47 ◼   ► Like do you want to have the new design or not?

00:27:51 ◼   ► Or would you rather have, you know, keep the current design and pressing the stem?

00:27:55 ◼   ► Maybe, look, maybe there's another way that they can make this possible.

00:27:59 ◼   ► Maybe you're just going to have to squeeze the earbud, like without having to tap on

00:28:03 ◼   ► your head, basically.

00:28:04 ◼   ► Yeah, I also don't like that.

00:28:05 ◼   ► Because that's a quick way to them falling out.

00:28:08 ◼   ► I don't know.

00:28:09 ◼   ► I've been having a problem recently, and I don't know why this is a new thing in my life,

00:28:13 ◼   ► where my left AirPod falls out more than it ever has before.

00:28:16 ◼   ► Maybe my ears, because they're getting bigger--

00:28:18 ◼   ► They're growing.

00:28:19 ◼   ► Because my ears continue to get bigger, it's changing.

00:28:22 ◼   ► I guess this is the proof.

00:28:24 ◼   ► Apple are apparently also not currently

00:28:26 ◼   ► working on a second generation of AirPods Max,

00:28:29 ◼   ► but they may revise the color offerings.

00:28:33 ◼   ► Not a great sign, but we'll see, I guess.

00:28:38 ◼   ► I really want to see what happens in iOS 15

00:28:40 ◼   ► terms of this lossless story going on with Apple Music. Maybe they don't have to work

00:28:48 ◼   ► on a second generation version of the AirPods Max.

00:28:51 ◼   ► Maybe it does everything it needs. But look, it is worth noting that...

00:28:55 ◼   ► Or maybe it wasn't successful at all and they're not going to make those any longer.

00:28:58 ◼   ► The HomePod is for the head.

00:29:00 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:29:01 ◼   ► But AirPods products, they are around for multiple years. So it doesn't mean they won't

00:29:06 ◼   ► start working on it next year like all of the products that we're talking about like

00:29:10 ◼   ► the original AirPods they've been out for ages with no update so i mean yeah an AirPods pro

00:29:17 ◼   ► will be updated in 2022 and they will release in 2020 so um it's not released in 2020 unusual

00:29:25 ◼   ► the pro yeah yeah were they previewed in 2019 no they were rumored in 2019 i think wow that's wild

00:29:36 ◼   ► Huh, fair enough.

00:29:38 ◼   ► Yeah, so it's not unusual for AirPods products to stick around two years.

00:29:43 ◼   ► Also that seems to be pretty much the kind of, at least for the smaller ones,

00:29:46 ◼   ► the kind of battery life that you can expect like after two years.

00:29:51 ◼   ► Do you remember like the second version of AirPods seemed to get delayed a bit

00:29:56 ◼   ► and everyone's batteries were just like really really lagging.

00:30:00 ◼   ► Because we are the kind of users that they bought it on day one

00:30:05 ◼   ► and we use them every day, and so it's pretty much a given that they're all gonna die around the same time.

00:30:11 ◼   ► Real-time follow-up, Apple announced AirPods Pro on October 28th 2019 and released them on October 30th 2019.

00:30:19 ◼   ► Okay, so it's late 2019. I mean, time is all, you know, blending together, who knows.

00:30:25 ◼   ► Okay, so they will be updated in 2022 and they will release in 2019, so...

00:30:30 ◼   ► Makes sense if AirPods Max work on them, hasn't started yet.

00:30:35 ◼   ► Yeah, they just came out.

00:30:37 ◼   ► That's the optimistic view and I choose to go with that.

00:30:40 ◼   ► The original AirPods were first released on September 7th, 2016, which seems to have seen

00:30:46 ◼   ► them out a time ago.

00:30:47 ◼   ► Second generation released in March of 2019.

00:30:50 ◼   ► Okay, okay.

00:30:51 ◼   ► So that's good.

00:30:52 ◼   ► This is all tracking.

00:30:53 ◼   ► I'm pleased we could put this all in perspective for us.

00:30:58 ◼   ► Good work, boys.

00:31:00 ◼   ► It's time for the Bill of Rookies.

00:31:03 ◼   ► Woo!

00:31:04 ◼   ► Everybody, please stand.

00:31:05 ◼   ► I'm standing.

00:31:06 ◼   ► Good.

00:31:07 ◼   ► I am now standing.

00:31:08 ◼   ► I'm standing.

00:31:09 ◼   ► Me too.

00:31:10 ◼   ► I'm gonna stand too and read them.

00:31:11 ◼   ► I don't know why.

00:31:12 ◼   ► I'm standing in my bedroom.

00:31:13 ◼   ► Oh, don't do that unless you can move your microphone.

00:31:14 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm good.

00:31:15 ◼   ► I can't move it high enough.

00:31:17 ◼   ► I'm gonna sit back down.

00:31:18 ◼   ► Do I have to put my hand on my heart?

00:31:20 ◼   ► Like when they're singing the national anthem?

00:31:21 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:31:22 ◼   ► Okay.

00:31:23 ◼   ► The Bill of Rookies.

00:31:24 ◼   ► There are two types of Rookies.

00:31:25 ◼   ► Annual Rookies.

00:31:26 ◼   ► You didn't say when it was last amended.

00:31:28 ◼   ► I feel like that's probably important.

00:31:30 ◼   ► - The Bill of Rickeys, last amended on January 13th, 2021.

00:31:35 ◼   ► Past results can be seen at rickys.co and rickys.net.

00:31:41 ◼   ► There are two types of Rickies,

00:31:42 ◼   ► annual Rickies and keynote Rickies.

00:31:45 ◼   ► The winner of the annual Rickies is named annual chairman

00:31:49 ◼   ► and retains the rights to the corresponding Twitter account

00:31:52 ◼   ► for the full year.

00:31:53 ◼   ► This position is awarded every January.

00:31:56 ◼   ► The Keynote Ricky's winner is named the Keynote Chairman and retains the rights to the

00:32:25 ◼   ► corresponding Twitter account until the next keynote is held.

00:32:37 ◼   ► Annual winners roll over to preserve the order of picks.

00:32:40 ◼   ► For example, the 2019 annual winner gets to go first for the next annual picks.

00:32:44 ◼   ► Order of the keynote rookies is based on the previous Apple event.

00:32:48 ◼   ► The loser goes last.

00:32:51 ◼   ► To earn any points, everything written down in the prediction document must come true.

00:32:56 ◼   ► No half points may be awarded in any round, and picks cannot be reused.

00:33:01 ◼   ► One point is awarded for any pick deemed correct in the first two rounds.

00:33:06 ◼   ► Two points will be awarded for the correct pick in the risky pick round.

00:33:11 ◼   ► If your risky pick is wrong, you lose a point.

00:33:15 ◼   ► The two other hosts must agree that your pick is "risky."

00:33:20 ◼   ► For Keynote Riki's, the scoring window starts when the event begins and closes when the

00:33:26 ◼   ► picks are scored.

00:33:29 ◼   ► The winner of the regular and risky picks must be granted access to the annual or event

00:33:34 ◼   ► chairman Twitter account and will retain access until another winner is named.

00:33:41 ◼   ► The Flexis Loser of the Flexis must compensate the winner

00:33:45 ◼   ► of the Flexis by donating to the charity of the winner's choice.

00:33:49 ◼   ► amount of the donation is $25 per wrong flexi made by the loser. In the case of a

00:33:55 ◼   ► tie, the ratio of correct to incorrect flexis will be taken into account. Each

00:34:01 ◼   ► host must make a minimum of five flexi picks. Flexis may be reused as future

00:34:08 ◼   ► flexis or regular picks. The money must be donated on air. As a reminder, Myke is

00:34:15 ◼   ► the current annual chairman, so he holds that title for a while longer, and

00:34:19 ◼   ► Federico is the current keynote chairman. Twitter handles are on the line. We have

00:34:27 ◼   ► been spending the last few days sending our Ricky's backwards and forwards,

00:34:33 ◼   ► agreeing upon the riskiness. We've actually gotten pretty efficient now.

00:34:39 ◼   ► The way that it tends to go these days is we will all send multiples now

00:34:45 ◼   ► now, of Ricky picks via text message, and then there will be an adjudication period

00:34:51 ◼   ► of like, one is Ricky, two needs additional information. There's less screaming, but there

00:34:58 ◼   ► is still, there has still been quite a lot of debating of, I think there was one thing

00:35:03 ◼   ► where I just kept saying to Steven, no this isn't enough, and I think he ended up abandoning.

00:35:09 ◼   ► I just kept asking for more, and I was not satiated, so I think he just threw it out

00:35:14 ◼   ► the window. Imagine reading those messages out of context, like glancing at the lock

00:35:20 ◼   ► screen of somebody else and seeing the message, "No, this is not Ricky enough."

00:35:26 ◼   ► You must do more to make this adequately Ricky. What is wrong with you?

00:35:31 ◼   ► What would you think? Well, really, what is it like to just listen

00:35:34 ◼   ► into this podcast for the first time? Right. I think you're right. Yeah. Okay,

00:35:42 ◼   ► So the Bill of Rickeys has been read.

00:35:45 ◼   ► Very nicely, I might add.

00:35:46 ◼   ► Very nicely, well done.

00:35:47 ◼   ► It is time to commence the Rickeys.

00:35:51 ◼   ► Straight after this break.

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00:37:45 ◼   ► So my first regular pick in the next version of iPadOS, you can put

00:37:52 ◼   ► widgets in more places out of the left column on the home screen. So I think

00:37:58 ◼   ► I think we all agree that one of the surprises last year

00:38:05 ◼   ► was the lack of widgets on the iPad home screen.

00:38:08 ◼   ► And it really feels to me like that's

00:38:11 ◼   ► one of the obvious features that have to be added to iPadOS 15.

00:38:16 ◼   ► I think a lot of iPad users will be really upset

00:38:20 ◼   ► if widgets are still going to be limited to the left column

00:38:25 ◼   ► on iPad.

00:38:26 ◼   ► And so I tried to phrase my pick very carefully

00:38:32 ◼   ► by saying, in the next version of iPadOS,

00:38:34 ◼   ► you can put widgets in more places.

00:38:36 ◼   ► Because I could see Apple doing something

00:38:38 ◼   ► that we do not expect.

00:38:41 ◼   ► The obvious solution is, yeah, now you

00:38:44 ◼   ► can drag them on the home screen,

00:38:45 ◼   ► and you can put them alongside icons, just like on the iPhone.

00:38:49 ◼   ► But I tried to phrase it more to make it as broad as possible,

00:38:56 ◼   ► because I could see Apple do something strange and unusual with the iPad home screen,

00:39:00 ◼   ► like it's not a home screen anymore.

00:39:02 ◼   ► It's more similar to the dashboard or whatever.

00:39:05 ◼   ► So I just...

00:39:06 ◼   ► We all know what I mean by you can drag them out of the left column.

00:39:10 ◼   ► That's really what I want to see in iPadOS 15.

00:39:13 ◼   ► I think it's an obvious feature to add.

00:39:15 ◼   ► I could see Apple...

00:39:16 ◼   ► This is all context, by the way, that I'm providing.

00:39:18 ◼   ► It's not part of the pick.

00:39:20 ◼   ► I could see Apple do things like additional sizes for iPad,

00:39:25 ◼   ► different shapes.

00:39:26 ◼   ► It would be fun to have, I don't know, L-shaped widgets,

00:39:31 ◼   ► because why not?

00:39:33 ◼   ► More realistically, they will take a more classic approach,

00:39:38 ◼   ► maybe some new sizes for iPad.

00:39:42 ◼   ► But really, I just wanna be able to drag them

00:39:44 ◼   ► out of the left column, put them anywhere I want,

00:39:47 ◼   ► except from the dock, I guess.

00:39:49 ◼   ► you cannot put a widget in the dock.

00:39:51 ◼   ► - So to be clear, your pick just says,

00:39:54 ◼   ► in the next version of iPadOS,

00:39:56 ◼   ► you can put widgets in more places out of the left column.

00:39:59 ◼   ► - More places out of the left, yes.

00:40:01 ◼   ► - Okay, okay. - That's correct.

00:40:03 ◼   ► - I feel like if we get anything for the iPad this year,

00:40:08 ◼   ► it's gotta be this.

00:40:10 ◼   ► Like I expect, unlike a lot of features

00:40:12 ◼   ► that Apple introduces in a version of iOS,

00:40:17 ◼   ► I expect widgets to get updates on every platform this year.

00:40:22 ◼   ► Yes, I agree.

00:40:23 ◼   ► Right?

00:40:24 ◼   ► This isn't one of those features where it's like, hey,

00:40:26 ◼   ► we did this thing, and maybe we'll

00:40:29 ◼   ► come back to it in a couple of years' time.

00:40:32 ◼   ► Because this is one of the rare times

00:40:34 ◼   ► where they've actually had a runaway success.

00:40:38 ◼   ► And so for them not to add more--

00:40:41 ◼   ► when it was obvious to us that they would

00:40:43 ◼   ► need to add more anyway, right?

00:40:45 ◼   ► Like last year we were saying, all right, I've done this

00:40:48 ◼   ► and surely they're gonna do different sizes

00:40:51 ◼   ► and they're gonna add some interactivity

00:40:52 ◼   ► and they're gonna put them on the iPad.

00:40:55 ◼   ► So we would have expected all of that anyway.

00:40:59 ◼   ► And considering how successful they have been,

00:41:02 ◼   ► you would expect that all of those things

00:41:05 ◼   ► and maybe more will be done.

00:41:06 ◼   ► - This is like top priority for them at the moment,

00:41:09 ◼   ► like top of the list. - It should be.

00:41:10 ◼   ► - I would assume it should be.

00:41:12 ◼   ► - Like, you know, I know people were super into the idea

00:41:14 ◼   ► like oh let's get some custom icons and design themes and all that kind of stuff.

00:41:20 ◼   ► But they are all only things that people were doing because of widgets.

00:41:25 ◼   ► So as long as you make sure you're fulfilling like more on widgets you'll be making enough

00:41:30 ◼   ► people happy anyway.

00:41:32 ◼   ► People weren't creating custom icons with shortcuts until widgets became a thing because

00:41:36 ◼   ► Well, we were, but...

00:41:38 ◼   ► No, but not on mass, right?

00:41:40 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, I know.

00:41:41 ◼   ► It did not become a mass market thing to do that.

00:41:43 ◼   ► Nope, not at all.

00:41:44 ◼   ► You know, people could only do it because it was possible.

00:41:46 ◼   ► Like, you were doing it, but you were doing it because that's who you are, right?

00:41:51 ◼   ► Like, you found the way to make that work.

00:41:54 ◼   ► People only wanted to change the icons of their home screens the way that they wanted to

00:41:59 ◼   ► because they could set up their aesthetic AF widget environment, you know?

00:42:05 ◼   ► Okay, so for my first pick, I don't feel like I have to say that I don't feel like this is needs to even really be said

00:42:11 ◼   ► This seems like such an obvious thing to me

00:42:14 ◼   ► But I want to go for it anyway

00:42:17 ◼   ► Because I know there's gonna be some people that think that this is going to happen

00:42:20 ◼   ► There will be no preview of AR focused hardware at WWDC. So this is a negative pick negative pick

00:42:27 ◼   ► Yeah, okay a dispassionate pick can can can negativity be passionate I guess. Yeah, of course it can

00:42:33 ◼   ► You've literally described murder

00:42:35 ◼   ► That's the most negative

00:42:38 ◼   ► Anyway, so I've got a couple of things one. I think it's early anyway, right?

00:42:42 ◼   ► And

00:42:46 ◼   ► The main thing for me is I just don't see why you would need to do it now. So one I feel very I

00:42:53 ◼   ► feel very confident in this idea that

00:42:57 ◼   ► Apple will first show off this device when they can actually have people from the press try on in an environment they control

00:43:05 ◼   ► which I mean honestly is

00:43:09 ◼   ► Probably not that far away in the US within the next couple of months

00:43:13 ◼   ► I'm sure Apple could provide a very limited press environment

00:43:17 ◼   ► Even if they don't do a like tech typical event right where they bring a bunch of people in they could at least bring like

00:43:25 ◼   ► 15 to 20 people from the tech press to Apple Park

00:43:30 ◼   ► and give them a hands-on after an event

00:43:32 ◼   ► has been shown to the world.

00:43:34 ◼   ► Because for this technology to have the introduction

00:43:38 ◼   ► that they're looking for, they're going to want people

00:43:41 ◼   ► to say, "I've tried this and it blew me away."

00:43:44 ◼   ► Like you wait until you get an opportunity

00:43:47 ◼   ► to try this on, right?

00:43:48 ◼   ► Which is what they've done with all of their technology.

00:43:50 ◼   ► It's a tried and true method

00:43:52 ◼   ► of introducing something for Apple.

00:43:54 ◼   ► And so I feel like that seems to me like the logical thing to do.

00:43:59 ◼   ► And then people say to me, "But what about developers?"

00:44:01 ◼   ► As if developers can only work at one time of the year, right?

00:44:05 ◼   ► Developers only work between June and September.

00:44:08 ◼   ► Like it's an impossibility to assume that an SDK could be released in October

00:44:12 ◼   ► or at any other point in the year.

00:44:14 ◼   ► Like Apple can release SDKs at any time, right?

00:44:19 ◼   ► They could just be like, "Here is this hardware.

00:44:22 ◼   ► it's coming out sometime next year,

00:44:25 ◼   ► and we have now made a selection of tools available

00:44:28 ◼   ► for developers, right?

00:44:29 ◼   ► Like, not only at WWDC is that the only time,

00:44:33 ◼   ► like it's not just at WWDC is the only time

00:44:35 ◼   ► that can happen.

00:44:36 ◼   ► It's not what they did with the Apple Watch.

00:44:38 ◼   ► The Apple Watch wasn't first shown off at WWDC.

00:44:41 ◼   ► It was shown off in like a September event,

00:44:44 ◼   ► and it came out in March or something.

00:44:45 ◼   ► - Yeah, it was the iPhone 6 event.

00:44:47 ◼   ► - Yeah, and then it came out in March,

00:44:48 ◼   ► so you had like five months.

00:44:50 ◼   ► because then they get to just choose whatever way they want to do these things.

00:44:54 ◼   ► And I actually think that there is a benefit into not releasing an SDK for this device

00:45:01 ◼   ► at the same time they're doing everything else.

00:45:03 ◼   ► So I don't think it's happening now.

00:45:06 ◼   ► I think they're going to want to devote serious time to it when they can really go through

00:45:10 ◼   ► -- have like a one-hour event showing off this brand-new, incredible technology that

00:45:16 ◼   ► they're producing.

00:45:17 ◼   ► I don't think that it's going to be at this year's WWDC.

00:45:20 ◼   ► Didn't I pick that we were going to see it at some point?

00:45:22 ◼   ► Oh, I tried to sneak it in on the iPad.

00:45:25 ◼   ► We did this and I gave you a mini version of what I just said then.

00:45:29 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:45:30 ◼   ► So where are you then?

00:45:31 ◼   ► Do you still, do you think they're going to do it now if you thought they were going to

00:45:33 ◼   ► do it in April?

00:45:34 ◼   ► Well, my thing in April was a trick that if they put AR something on the iPad, I was going

00:45:39 ◼   ► to say I got the point.

00:45:41 ◼   ► Remember?

00:45:42 ◼   ► It was a trick.

00:45:43 ◼   ► So I don't know.

00:45:44 ◼   ► I mean, I think your reasons are good, but who knows?

00:45:49 ◼   ► - Can I clarify a few things here?

00:45:51 ◼   ► - Is it a trick?

00:45:52 ◼   ► - So if they show off like a developer headset,

00:45:59 ◼   ► that is more VR or mixed reality, right?

00:46:04 ◼   ► - Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

00:46:05 ◼   ► I'm talking about what, AR, VR, mixed reality, any of it.

00:46:09 ◼   ► We can put...

00:46:11 ◼   ► - All of those count.

00:46:12 ◼   ► So you're saying no hardware whatsoever for this kind of stuff?

00:46:16 ◼   ► Correct.

00:46:17 ◼   ► So that may be needed to be rewarded.

00:46:19 ◼   ► Right.

00:46:21 ◼   ► All right.

00:46:22 ◼   ► No, because if they do a VR headset, you can say,

00:46:24 ◼   ► "Well, I said AR, so..."

00:46:26 ◼   ► Yeah, no, that's fine.

00:46:27 ◼   ► I knew what I meant, and I've put it in the document.

00:46:30 ◼   ► "No preview of AR/VR/MR focused hardware."

00:46:33 ◼   ► Okay.

00:46:33 ◼   ► I think it's too early,

00:46:35 ◼   ► and I don't know why they would need to do it next week.

00:46:38 ◼   ► Not too early for VR.

00:46:41 ◼   ► But Apple aren't gonna do just a VR product.

00:46:44 ◼   ► - Wasn't there a rumor they were gonna do that first?

00:46:46 ◼   ► - There was, yes.

00:46:47 ◼   ► - No, they were gonna do a mixed reality product.

00:46:49 ◼   ► - I said, I remember.

00:46:51 ◼   ► - No, no, it was an MR headset,

00:46:53 ◼   ► which people call it a VR headset,

00:46:56 ◼   ► but the rumor is that it would be a mixed reality headset.

00:46:59 ◼   ► So you could do both or whatever, like a headset,

00:47:02 ◼   ► but it wasn't supposed to be VR or what.

00:47:04 ◼   ► But even then, like, I don't think Apple is going to do,

00:47:09 ◼   ► Because the reason I don't think they would do VR

00:47:11 ◼   ► is 'cause they're not going to do VR.

00:47:13 ◼   ► Apple's ambition is not to be a virtual reality company.

00:47:17 ◼   ► That doesn't make any sense for them.

00:47:19 ◼   ► So they're not gonna be like,

00:47:20 ◼   ► "Hey, we've created this entire

00:47:23 ◼   ► virtual reality operating system."

00:47:25 ◼   ► It doesn't make any sense for Apple, in my opinion.

00:47:28 ◼   ► AR is where they wanna go,

00:47:30 ◼   ► and they're only gonna do the mixed reality headset first,

00:47:32 ◼   ► which you do a combination of AR and VR-like activities,

00:47:35 ◼   ► because they've got to get this product out there

00:47:38 ◼   ► into developers hands and they are years away from a product comfortable enough to wear

00:47:43 ◼   ► on our faces and walk around in the street all the time.

00:47:46 ◼   ► Additional question, what if they show off an accessory that turns your phone into a

00:47:53 ◼   ► headset?

00:47:54 ◼   ► I mean if they do that, I will happily lose the pick because Apple will come dorky.

00:48:00 ◼   ► Okay.

00:48:01 ◼   ► Like if that's what they do, if they make Google Cardboard, right, or like,

00:48:04 ◼   ► Right, whatever, yes, that kind of thing.

00:48:07 ◼   ► That would just be stupid. Google tried that like three times and none of it worked.

00:48:12 ◼   ► Okay. Okay. I'm just making sure that we're covering all the ground here. Okay.

00:48:16 ◼   ► That would be hardware that Apple would sell and it was focus would be VR, I suppose.

00:48:21 ◼   ► I like how much you need to clarify this. Very specific.

00:48:27 ◼   ► Yes.

00:48:28 ◼   ► All right.

00:48:29 ◼   ► Steven, you're up.

00:48:31 ◼   ► iPad OS 15 changes the home screen in a way that breaks continuity with the iPhone.

00:48:36 ◼   ► I don't understand this, but I don't know what this means.

00:48:40 ◼   ► Me neither.

00:48:41 ◼   ► So earlier when I said about me asking Stephen

00:48:45 ◼   ► for multiple levels of clarification,

00:48:46 ◼   ► this was originally a candidate for one of his Ricky picks,

00:48:49 ◼   ► which is interesting to me that it's now made its way

00:48:51 ◼   ► to a regular pick.

00:48:52 ◼   ► And I feel like I could not get the answer

00:48:54 ◼   ► I was looking for.

00:48:56 ◼   ► So I'm pleased that we're having this conversation now.

00:48:58 ◼   ► Maybe continuity is a bad word.

00:49:00 ◼   ► Maybe we can come up with something better.

00:49:01 ◼   ► Oh, because you could say that the iPad

00:49:03 ◼   ► has already broken continuity with the iPhone

00:49:05 ◼   ► because it's got a left column and the iPhone doesn't.

00:49:08 ◼   ► - And the iPhone broke continuity with the iPad

00:49:11 ◼   ► because you put widgets wherever you want in app library.

00:49:13 ◼   ► So I don't know what this means.

00:49:15 ◼   ► Can you try and explain what you're thinking

00:49:18 ◼   ► rather than just trying to come up with a new word?

00:49:20 ◼   ► - So my thought is the iPad acts basically like an iPhone

00:49:25 ◼   ► in terms of the home screen.

00:49:27 ◼   ► Yes, there's app library,

00:49:28 ◼   ► yes, the widgets are in different places,

00:49:29 ◼   ► but it's a grid of icons and there's some widgets

00:49:33 ◼   ► And there's a search thing that's hidden that most people probably don't know about.

00:49:37 ◼   ► I think there's room for the iPad to go beyond just a grid of apps.

00:49:42 ◼   ► And hopefully, if Federico gets his point, and I hope you do, widgets in more places.

00:49:47 ◼   ► I would, and this actually comes, I think, I think you wrote about this in an iPad OS

00:49:52 ◼   ► review, or iOS review years ago, maybe.

00:49:55 ◼   ► Why can't I have things like a pinned folder or documents on the home screen of the iPad?

00:50:02 ◼   ► Why can't I have things where I want them on the iPad home screen like I do the Mac?

00:50:08 ◼   ► I'm not saying turn the home screen of the iPad into Finder.

00:50:12 ◼   ► I'm not saying to turn it into the Mac desktop, but I think there's room for increased flexibility,

00:50:18 ◼   ► especially as people are using these things more and more like laptops.

00:50:23 ◼   ► And Apple wants you to, right?

00:50:24 ◼   ► They sell a very expensive keyboard and trackpad option.

00:50:27 ◼   ► And a lot of people really like them.

00:50:28 ◼   ► A lot of people, including me, my iPad never comes out of it.

00:50:32 ◼   ► But when I wake it up, it's just this grid of apps, and it feels like such a wasted space.

00:50:38 ◼   ► And I think that they could push it further than the iPhone and continue to move them

00:50:42 ◼   ► apart in this way.

00:50:45 ◼   ► Okay.

00:50:46 ◼   ► So what's your pick then?

00:50:47 ◼   ► Because my problem with this, Stephen, is that what if on the iPhone you can also put

00:50:53 ◼   ► files and folders on the home screen?

00:50:55 ◼   ► Yeah, then it hasn't...

00:50:56 ◼   ► Then I don't get it, because they're the same.

00:50:59 ◼   ► All right.

00:51:00 ◼   ► My point really is the iPhone and iPad will diverge in the way it treats its home screen.

00:51:06 ◼   ► More than they have now.

00:51:07 ◼   ► So maybe a way to describe it is the iPad home screen changes with features that are

00:51:13 ◼   ► not available on the iPhone's home screen.

00:51:16 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:51:17 ◼   ► Like it has to have things that you just cannot put on the iPhone in iOS 15.

00:51:25 ◼   ► So you could say brings organizational changes.

00:51:30 ◼   ► iPadOS 15 brings organizational changes that do not exist, up to the home screen, that

00:51:35 ◼   ► do not exist on the iPhone.

00:51:37 ◼   ► And then you need to put an additional bullet, which is this does not include widgets.

00:51:42 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean...

00:51:43 ◼   ► Well yeah, because if Federico just gets his point, and that's all they do, I don't get

00:51:48 ◼   ► mine, because then there's just continuity between the two.

00:51:50 ◼   ► Because that is actually consistent with the iPhone, if they do that.

00:51:53 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm saying the iPad's gonna leapfrog the iPhone

00:51:56 ◼   ► and go beyond what the iPhone is today.

00:51:58 ◼   ► Okay.

00:51:59 ◼   ► Basically, I'm trying to mitigate here

00:52:03 ◼   ► a situation where you both score a point for the same thing

00:52:06 ◼   ► because that's technically not allowed.

00:52:09 ◼   ► Okay, so I'm gonna put as a note, not in part of the pic.

00:52:12 ◼   ► I think I understand the spirit of Steven's pic,

00:52:16 ◼   ► like something that is more, like,

00:52:20 ◼   ► in a way sort of reminiscent of the Mac,

00:52:22 ◼   ► is obviously not like the Mac. Like, something totally different.

00:52:26 ◼   ► Yeah, I get it too. But it's not about whether we say we understand it now. It's whether we can all agree next week.

00:52:32 ◼   ► It has to be codified in the document, obviously.

00:52:36 ◼   ► So the note says "widgets on home screen and app library don't count as they are on the iPhone already."

00:52:43 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying that it's wrong, but like, I'll tell you the thing that I don't like.

00:52:47 ◼   ► If they announce, the only thing that they announce is you can put widgets arbitrarily

00:52:55 ◼   ► anywhere on the home screen, you both get a point for that one thing.

00:52:58 ◼   ► No, I don't because…

00:53:00 ◼   ► It, Steven, doesn't.

00:53:01 ◼   ► Because that already exists on the iPhone.

00:53:03 ◼   ► But it already exists on the iPhone.

00:53:05 ◼   ► But what if you can just put widgets wherever you want and they don't snap to a grid?

00:53:09 ◼   ► That would be new because the iPhone is forced into a grid.

00:53:12 ◼   ► But, but what if the iPhone gets it too?

00:53:17 ◼   ► I don't get it because they're the same. Yeah. Yeah, okay, I can live with that. I still,

00:53:21 ◼   ► I mean, it's still, I don't like it. There's some dicing here we'll have to do. Hold on,

00:53:25 ◼   ► hold on. iPadOS 15 brings organizational changes to the home screen that don't exist on the iPhone,

00:53:31 ◼   ► including iOS 15. Yes, yeah, yeah, I meant to infer that, but yes, absolutely.

00:53:41 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm not going to compare iPadOS 15 to iOS 14. Or iOS 7. The original iPhone,

00:53:46 ◼   ► you couldn't even move apps around so i get a i get a point okay so the final the final reading

00:53:51 ◼   ► and i'll copy it in the discord for people keeping score ipad os 15 brings organizational changes

00:53:57 ◼   ► organization changes to the home screen that don't exist on the iphone including ios 15

00:54:03 ◼   ► and then we have an internal note widgets on home screen and apple library don't count as they're on

00:54:09 ◼   ► the iphone already yeah okay it has to have new stuff new stuff that is ipad only yes that's

00:54:16 ◼   ► basically what it is. Yeah, okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you for helping me clarify that. I see now

00:54:21 ◼   ► that my original language was not clear enough. Round two. Okay, so as you can start to infer by

00:54:27 ◼   ► now, I'm going all in on widgets. So my second prediction is WidgetKit, which is the developer

00:54:36 ◼   ► framework to make widgets, gains new interactivity features that allow you to perform actions inside

00:54:45 ◼   ► widgets without launching the associated app. This is the big limitation of iOS 14, that

00:54:54 ◼   ► every time you tap on a widget, it's not really interactive, it launches something. Basically,

00:55:00 ◼   ► widgets right now are glorified URL launchers. And that would explain why we haven't seen

00:55:08 ◼   ► widgets from Apple, such as playback controls on the home screen or HomeKit widgets that

00:55:15 ◼   ► let you turn off the lights and stuff.

00:55:17 ◼   ► Well, I mean, they could do whatever they wanted, because they didn't care about shortcuts.

00:55:21 ◼   ► Right, but I think, sure. But I think if Apple wanted to do these widgets, they would probably

00:55:26 ◼   ► wait for proper interactions within widgets on the home screen. So for this to be true,

00:55:33 ◼   ► For this pick to be correct, I mean, obviously, Apple would have documentation for developers

00:55:39 ◼   ► to make these kinds of widgets, and I think they will show off some built-in examples

00:55:46 ◼   ► of these widgets.

00:55:48 ◼   ► Now, my pick says WidgetKit gains new interactivity features.

00:55:53 ◼   ► So this has to be... by WidgetKit, I mean the developer framework.

00:55:58 ◼   ► So if they change the name of WidgetKit from WidgetKit to something else, like I obviously

00:56:03 ◼   ► still get the point, the idea is that as developers you can now make widgets that support actions

00:56:11 ◼   ► and don't launch stuff necessarily.

00:56:14 ◼   ► And what's also important here, I like that you stipulated this actually, is if Apple

00:56:18 ◼   ► just introduced a bunch of widgets that you can press buttons in, this isn't the point

00:56:22 ◼   ► for you because it's not in WidgetKit.

00:56:23 ◼   ► No.

00:56:24 ◼   ► I think this will be, like, this will be the one of,

00:56:27 ◼   ► should be one of the key additions to widgets

00:56:31 ◼   ► for everybody this year,

00:56:33 ◼   ► that you can have glanceable widgets, sure,

00:56:37 ◼   ► and all of that stuff from last year,

00:56:39 ◼   ► but also now you can perform actions

00:56:41 ◼   ► directly on the home screen

00:56:42 ◼   ► without launching apps all the time.

00:56:46 ◼   ► So as you can imagine, stuff like Timery,

00:56:49 ◼   ► like, you know, home widgets, music players, right?

00:56:54 ◼   ► right? All that kind of stuff should be possible in theory if this pick is correct.

00:56:58 ◼   ► Very nice. I would love it.

00:57:00 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean, it's easy to imagine what this is because that's what we had, right? You'd be able

00:57:07 ◼   ► to check things off a to-do list in a widget, and it just seems inevitable to me that they will

00:57:12 ◼   ► bring that back because what we have now is great, and I love having them on the home screen, but

00:57:16 ◼   ► it's disappointing when you go to interact with them and you realize, "Oh, right, this is just

00:57:20 ◼   ► one big dumb button."

00:57:23 ◼   ► So I'll ask you a question.

00:57:25 ◼   ► Obviously, Apple did announce that the old style widget

00:57:30 ◼   ► would be deprecated.

00:57:32 ◼   ► And then they kind of hid them a little bit as well,

00:57:35 ◼   ► made it not as easy to get to.

00:57:37 ◼   ► They didn't announce when they would disappear.

00:57:40 ◼   ► Do you think that the deprecation of the old widget

00:57:45 ◼   ► type would make it any more likely that Apple

00:57:49 ◼   ► would have interactivity?

00:57:50 ◼   ► Or do you think that they kind of--

00:57:52 ◼   ► Do you want to wait for the risky picks or not?

00:57:55 ◼   ► I'm asking this question specifically around not talking about your...

00:58:00 ◼   ► I think the two things you just mentioned are related.

00:58:05 ◼   ► So you would imagine that if they were going to deprecate the old style widget they would

00:58:12 ◼   ► want to replace the basic functionality of it?

00:58:15 ◼   ► Well, the old style widgets are already deprecated, and they have been since last year.

00:58:22 ◼   ► The question is, will they remove those, actually remove those?

00:58:25 ◼   ► Yeah, deprecation eventually results in something being taken away, but that is a flexible timeframe.

00:58:33 ◼   ► There isn't a set amount of time when something's deprecated.

00:58:36 ◼   ► It is removed in X amount of software versions afterwards.

00:58:40 ◼   ► Because I just wonder if, my feelings, I don't really feel like one has to happen for the

00:58:46 ◼   ► other to happen.

00:58:47 ◼   ► I feel like Apple, I could imagine Apple deprecating the old and removing the old

00:58:53 ◼   ► and not replacing them with interactive widgets.

00:58:56 ◼   ► Like I could also imagine that as easily as I could imagine them doing it.

00:59:02 ◼   ► I feel like though this would be a totally Apple thing to do, like you introduce Widget Kit version 1,

00:59:10 ◼   ► the previous year, and it's based on Glanceability and previews, doesn't have interactions.

00:59:17 ◼   ► You keep the old widgets around if you want to use them, however you cannot place them on the home screen,

00:59:23 ◼   ► and you say "look, these widgets are deprecated and they will be removed in the future".

00:59:30 ◼   ► The following year you had a year to see the response to widgets. You can tell that people

00:59:34 ◼   ► are really happy about widgets and they want more out of them, so you introduce support for

00:59:39 ◼   ► interactions in widgets and while you're at it you say well now those widgets we

00:59:46 ◼   ► said they're deprecated now you cannot install those anymore and there's no

00:59:51 ◼   ► need to because now if you're a developer you have a much better way to make

00:59:54 ◼   ► interactive widgets that you can also place anywhere on the home screen I

00:59:59 ◼   ► could see Apple do that and we're gonna talk about more about these in a few

01:00:04 ◼   ► minutes but yeah shortcuts for the Mac is my pick so I have a question about

01:00:11 ◼   ► this you're saying the shortcuts application or are you saying something

01:00:17 ◼   ► like for instance shortcuts actions and apps can be used to something like

01:00:22 ◼   ► automator no like shortcuts it's shortcuts app for the bank that would be

01:00:28 ◼   ► bananas to do that no I think I'm gonna bring bigger to do it shortcuts for the

01:00:32 ◼   ► Mac. Like I think it's gonna happen at some point and I want it to be now so

01:00:37 ◼   ► I'm wishing it into existence. Shortcuts for the Mac. So shortcut shortcuts for

01:00:41 ◼   ► the Mac. I mean there's nothing else to say like it's just the shortcuts up on

01:00:45 ◼   ► the Mac. That's all you want to see. Yeah I mean. Fair enough. I want to see lots of

01:00:50 ◼   ► things you know like there's lots of ways that I would want it to work but

01:00:54 ◼   ► for this year all I want them to do is to create a version of it that works on

01:01:01 ◼   ► the Mac and maybe if you use catalyst apps those are really easy to make

01:01:08 ◼   ► shortcuts actions for and maybe they give tools to developers of more

01:01:13 ◼   ► traditional Mac apps for them to like offer up shortcuts to the system. I just

01:01:19 ◼   ► want to see this project start because it feels like it is already a little bit

01:01:25 ◼   ► overdue. It's not like any of Apple's other user automation systems are getting any love.

01:01:32 ◼   ► Clearly they feel this was important enough to put into their most popular operating system.

01:01:38 ◼   ► They should put it into the Mac as well. At this point I don't really know why you wouldn't do this.

01:01:45 ◼   ► Even if you just created it so you could do simple things like automating system actions,

01:01:52 ◼   ► that would be great but yeah I really miss shortcuts on the Mac than from my

01:01:58 ◼   ► iPad and my iPhone and it's too frequently I feel like I have to pick up

01:02:02 ◼   ► my iPhone to run a shortcut when I'm sitting at my Mac and so I want to have

01:02:07 ◼   ► it I want to have shortcuts for the Mac so I'm putting my passion where my picks

01:02:12 ◼   ► are. I agree I agree I love this so yeah I hope you get it I think you'll get it

01:02:20 ◼   ► also. Steven. Yes. Another negative pick in these Ricky's. And also very confusing.

01:02:28 ◼   ► And also are you sure about this? No word on an Apple, Silicon, and Mac Pro. Can I

01:02:36 ◼   ► lift the curtain a little bit? Yeah I'm dressed. One of Steven's Ricky

01:02:41 ◼   ► picks that he sent to us for consideration was Apple gives a

01:02:47 ◼   ► launch date for the Apple Silicon Mac Pro. What changed in 24 hours for you?

01:02:54 ◼   ► You went from "not only are they gonna show it off, they're gonna tell us

01:02:59 ◼   ► exactly when it's coming" to "nothing at all". What changed?

01:03:03 ◼   ► A couple things.

01:03:05 ◼   ► Are you cheating here?

01:03:07 ◼   ► No, I don't know anything.

01:03:09 ◼   ► Hmm.

01:03:10 ◼   ► A couple things though. There's a rumor out today that the MacBook Pros with the new

01:03:15 ◼   ► screen technology or in Q3. That makes me wonder if we're going to see any

01:03:18 ◼   ► hardware at all at WBC. Q3 is like four weeks away. Yeah but Q3 is also two or

01:03:28 ◼   ► three and a half months away because Apple ships things at the end of things. I

01:03:32 ◼   ► just I don't think it's ready. I just don't think that the more I think about

01:03:37 ◼   ► it they've got MacBook Pros to do, potentially a higher-end Mac mini, a big

01:03:43 ◼   ► iMac it just feels like it's too soon. But who suggests what other things need to be released in?

01:03:50 ◼   ► The Mac Pro is always last. Why? Because it's the most powerful and it's the most and it's the most

01:03:57 ◼   ► it's the most niche product they have in the Mac line and so get the stuff that's actually going

01:04:03 ◼   ► to sell in real numbers done first and do the Mac Pro last. It was last in the Intel transition

01:04:12 ◼   ► It went 19 years without an update, and now here we are.

01:04:15 ◼   ► The iMac was first in the Intel transition.

01:04:18 ◼   ► There's also the...

01:04:19 ◼   ► And it wasn't first in the Apple Silicon transition.

01:04:21 ◼   ► Well, it got a redesign.

01:04:23 ◼   ► It was like fourth.

01:04:24 ◼   ► It got a redesign, which made it later.

01:04:26 ◼   ► And the rumor is the Mac Pro is getting a redesign again, and there's also a rumor floating

01:04:30 ◼   ► around that there's possibly an Intel update coming to the Mac Pro before the Apple Silicon

01:04:36 ◼   ► one is out.

01:04:37 ◼   ► thought about it the more I think it's not it's not for next week I've never

01:04:43 ◼   ► seen such a huge reversal here's what happened when I said we're gonna get a

01:04:52 ◼   ► date that was my heart speaking right and now my head has come in I said look

01:04:57 ◼   ► heart what's wrong of you you're foolish you feel you fool you foolish heartful

01:05:03 ◼   ► man and so that's where we are no word on the macro I think we're getting a

01:05:09 ◼   ► teaser so we'll see how that goes no word well no no read my pick no word on

01:05:15 ◼   ► an Apple silicon Mac Pro there's an Intel update yeah oh yeah no I think

01:05:21 ◼   ► why would you show off the Intel update spec bump to the Mac Pro no they

01:05:27 ◼   ► won't I think if they I think if they do update the Intel Mac Pro it'll be

01:05:31 ◼   ► silent. It was be like, you go to someone goes to the config page one day and nine

01:05:36 ◼   ► to five Mac is like, look, there's a new processor option.

01:05:38 ◼   ► And that's, you know, how these things go.

01:05:39 ◼   ► You know, I could also imagine them whenever they announced the Apple Silicon

01:05:44 ◼   ► Mac Pro, just like as a footnote at the end of their presentation, be like, and

01:05:48 ◼   ► we're also update like, you know, when they show off the price and we're also

01:05:51 ◼   ► updating the Intel Apple Silicon Mac Pro.

01:05:53 ◼   ► It's at the very it's at the very end of the show, like the Ted Lasso short

01:05:58 ◼   ► recipe. It's cut off.

01:05:59 ◼   ► This is half of the configuration.

01:06:02 ◼   ► The new, there's also a Mac Pro updated with the new Intel,

01:06:05 ◼   ► and then it's just cut off.

01:06:07 ◼   ► Okay.

01:06:08 ◼   ► With those old chips, I'd say.

01:06:09 ◼   ► So that's it for the regular Pics.

01:06:13 ◼   ► Have we been light on passion?

01:06:15 ◼   ► No, I think that's what we do for the regular Pics.

01:06:19 ◼   ► I feel like they've,

01:06:20 ◼   ► I don't think that we've picked run-of-the-mill things.

01:06:23 ◼   ► I'm pretty happy with them.

01:06:25 ◼   ► We got specific.

01:06:26 ◼   ► I think the amount of time it's taken us

01:06:28 ◼   ► clarify some of these. Yeah, especially you, Steven. Yeah, would suggest some like fever

01:06:35 ◼   ► dream like. And the AR VR MR also like that was pretty specific. No, have we been accused

01:06:43 ◼   ► of this passion? I would say if there was a passion scale, Federico, you would be at

01:06:48 ◼   ► the bottom of it so far. But that's how. Maybe, I'm very confident you'll make up for it later

01:06:54 ◼   ► but that's how I win. That's how I win these games. And also I'm saving a surprise for

01:07:00 ◼   ► the end.

01:07:01 ◼   ► Hang on a second. Hang on a second. It's how you win until you lose. And when you lose,

01:07:06 ◼   ► you then say there was no passion from anybody else.

01:07:10 ◼   ► That's your interpretation.

01:07:11 ◼   ► Passion is fungible for you.

01:07:15 ◼   ► Yes. Sometimes.

01:07:16 ◼   ► Fungible passion picks. FFPs.

01:07:19 ◼   ► Also, I think I will make up for my safe regular picks.

01:07:23 ◼   ► I mean, the regular picks because they're supposed to be safe.

01:07:26 ◼   ► Like you're supposed to get the point.

01:07:28 ◼   ► I think I'll make up for it in the risky pick because I have very strong opinions about

01:07:33 ◼   ► it.

01:07:34 ◼   ► And also I'm saving a surprise for the flexes.

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01:09:15 ◼   ► for the Ricky's. I'm gonna read the pick first and then we can talk about it.

01:09:21 ◼   ► "The Today page is removed from the left side of the home screen in iOS 15. Legacy

01:09:29 ◼   ► widgets are completely removed from the system." So we were talking about this a

01:09:34 ◼   ► few minutes ago. This is a double pick if you think about it. Okay, so let me explain.

01:09:39 ◼   ► The Today page only exists in iOS on the iPhone, right? It's what you see when you

01:09:44 ◼   ► swipe to the right, so it sits on the left side of the first page of your home screen.

01:09:51 ◼   ► It's the page that contains all the widgets and the search bar on iPhone.

01:09:58 ◼   ► That page also contains - it's very hidden, you gotta go look for it - it contains legacy

01:10:04 ◼   ► widgets from iOS 13.

01:10:08 ◼   ► As I was saying a few minutes ago, I really feel like Apple kept those legacy widgets

01:10:12 ◼   ► because WidgetKit last year, the new widget framework in iOS 14, couldn't support interactions.

01:10:21 ◼   ► And so a lot of widgets that were possible thanks to the older framework couldn't be

01:10:27 ◼   ► rebuilt with WidgetKit.

01:10:30 ◼   ► Now a lot of developers adapted, of course, but a lot of widgets that were possible before

01:10:34 ◼   ► just could no longer exist, such as Peacock, for example.

01:10:38 ◼   ► Like the Pcalc widget, which was an actual calculator inside of a widget, it's just not

01:10:43 ◼   ► possible with WidgetKit.

01:10:45 ◼   ► And so my theory is that Apple kept those legacy widgets around for compatibility purposes,

01:10:53 ◼   ► waiting until WidgetKit, the new framework, could support interactions.

01:10:59 ◼   ► And so if you had to keep those widgets around, and you couldn't drag them on other pages

01:11:04 ◼   ► of the home screen. It was only logical that you were forced to keep the "Today" page around.

01:11:11 ◼   ► But as I wrote in my iOS review last year, there's something quite strange about the

01:11:16 ◼   ► layout of the home screen right now in iOS, which is Apple made a big deal out of this

01:11:21 ◼   ► new feature called the "App Library", and it's pretty nice. It's not perfect, but it's

01:11:27 ◼   ► pretty nice. And yet, that major new feature, you have to scroll all the pages of your home

01:11:34 ◼   ► screen to get to it. It's at the very end on the right side. I don't think that really

01:11:39 ◼   ► makes sense. I think the app library belongs to the first page on the left side of your

01:11:46 ◼   ► home screen. The app library belongs to where the "Today" page is today.

01:11:51 ◼   ► No, I want SwipeUp.

01:11:54 ◼   ► Like on Android?

01:11:55 ◼   ► Yeah, you want the Android launcher. So my theory is that Apple wanted to do that last

01:12:01 ◼   ► year, but they couldn't because they had to keep legacy widgets around. So what I

01:12:08 ◼   ► want to see, what I could see Apple do in iOS 15 is, "Okay, we're launching Widget

01:12:13 ◼   ► Kit and it supports Interact." It's like a cascade type of approach, like, "We're

01:12:18 ◼   ► launching Widget Kit 2.0 and it supports Interactions." Therefore, developers of

01:12:23 ◼   ► those older widgets can now use the new system to make interactive widgets that

01:12:28 ◼   ► you can also put anywhere. Therefore, we can get rid of those legacy widgets. But if we're

01:12:34 ◼   ► getting rid of those legacy widgets, is there really any reason to keep the Today page around?

01:12:40 ◼   ► If any page can be your widget page, we already have a way to open search from the home screen

01:12:48 ◼   ► on iPhone by swiping down. I really don't see why the Today page should stick around

01:12:54 ◼   ► now, and if we're going to have widgets anywhere that support interactions.

01:13:00 ◼   ► I would be sad, because I like having an infinite scrolling page where I can just put as many

01:13:08 ◼   ► widgets as I want in, that I can just access all the time.

01:13:12 ◼   ► I like it.

01:13:13 ◼   ► That's the counterargument.

01:13:14 ◼   ► Like, I have no problem with them getting rid of the old widgets, I don't use any of

01:13:20 ◼   ► them anymore.

01:13:22 ◼   ► I would be bummed out if they got rid of that view, to be honest.

01:13:28 ◼   ► Because otherwise, I would just scroll, scroll, scroll through home screen pages all the time.

01:13:33 ◼   ► I wouldn't like that.

01:13:35 ◼   ► I want to point out something in my pic.

01:13:38 ◼   ► I say the today page is removed from the left side of the home screen.

01:13:42 ◼   ► I wanted to clarify this because if they keep it on the lock screen, I still get the point.

01:13:48 ◼   ► However, I still believe the legacy widgets will be completely removed anywhere, like

01:13:53 ◼   ► from the entire system.

01:13:56 ◼   ► So both have to happen for you to get this?

01:13:59 ◼   ► Yes.

01:14:00 ◼   ► You really are all in on widgets this time.

01:14:04 ◼   ► And I'm a man of passion.

01:14:05 ◼   ► Man, you could really bomb out here, buddy.

01:14:10 ◼   ► Can you imagine the iOS portion starts and it's like, "People have really loved widgets

01:14:15 ◼   ► this year, so we're going to give you additional sizes."

01:14:18 ◼   ► Alright, let's move on. And then Federico is just over.

01:14:21 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:14:22 ◼   ► Like, "Duh."

01:14:23 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:14:24 ◼   ► Because you just won the one thing you didn't pick.

01:14:26 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

01:14:28 ◼   ► Well, it can be a flexy.

01:14:29 ◼   ► We don't know yet.

01:14:30 ◼   ► Right, but still, there's still Federico out of the game.

01:14:33 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:14:34 ◼   ► That'd be incredible. No one... Has anyone scored...

01:14:38 ◼   ► I guess people have scored zero before.

01:14:40 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:14:41 ◼   ► I don't think so. But I feel pretty confident about this.

01:14:45 ◼   ► I feel confident about at least two of them.

01:14:48 ◼   ► Mm-hmm. Your Ricky... It's too complicated for your own good.

01:14:53 ◼   ► No, I just I don't know if I don't know why they would get rid of the today page.

01:15:00 ◼   ► Like I understand what you're saying but I don't feel like this is a

01:15:06 ◼   ► surefire thing, right? Mm-hmm. Which I'm sure you believe too, right? I'm sure you

01:15:11 ◼   ► don't believe this 100% this is going to happen. No, no I mean it wouldn't be risky. I just want to clarify

01:15:18 ◼   ► because we're saying that today page is removed. Now, what if it's still called

01:15:23 ◼   ► today but it's something else completely? Like, what if it's called today but it's

01:15:27 ◼   ► actually the app library? Like, what are the ways that this pick could potentially

01:15:31 ◼   ► lead to an argument between us?

01:15:34 ◼   ► Well, I think an easier way to score this is just to say that there isn't a page left of the home screen

01:15:47 ◼   ► where you can put widgets. And also, legacy widgets are completely removed from the system.

01:15:52 ◼   ► So legacy widgets have to be removed. And that's easy to understand. Like the old widgets

01:15:57 ◼   ► with the translucent background, those are gone. Right? The today page is removed from

01:16:04 ◼   ► the left side. Now, what if there's still a page on the left but it's the app library?

01:16:11 ◼   ► I get the point, right?

01:16:13 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:16:14 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:16:15 ◼   ► So on the left side,

01:16:18 ◼   ► there's no longer a page that is just for widgets.

01:16:23 ◼   ► - Correct.

01:16:23 ◼   ► Put that.

01:16:24 ◼   ► Because they could do loads of things and call it today.

01:16:29 ◼   ► - Exactly.

01:16:30 ◼   ► Like what if they rel...

01:16:32 ◼   ► Like what if...

01:16:33 ◼   ► But what if they relaunch it, they call it today,

01:16:36 ◼   ► but it's like Siri predictions

01:16:39 ◼   ► and search and if you want you can put widgets. Like how does that qualify? Like what if it becomes

01:16:48 ◼   ► the pro... what if it becomes the proactive page? I've changed your pick. Okay. Legacy widgets

01:16:55 ◼   ► completely removed from the system and there is no longer a place to put widgets to the left of

01:16:59 ◼   ► the main home screen. Okay. Good Federico? Yeah. Yeah. Great. The discord has said that Federico,

01:17:07 ◼   ► you got a minus one point on the annual 2020 picks. That's not zero. Zero is yeah

01:17:21 ◼   ► what we think of a zero is minus one right because minus one is you've got

01:17:26 ◼   ► nothing correct right you end up with minus one to get a zero there are many

01:17:31 ◼   ► ways to get a zero yeah oh that's rough man. How beautifully confusing.

01:17:36 ◼   ► - Okay, Myke hit us with your Ricky pic.

01:17:39 ◼   ► - Apple makes changes to the rules on in-app purchases,

01:17:42 ◼   ► removing restrictions on linking to external websites

01:17:45 ◼   ► for account creation, et cetera.

01:17:48 ◼   ► Now I may need some massaging of the wording here

01:17:52 ◼   ► like to, for it to like, but I think, you know,

01:17:54 ◼   ► what I'm saying, but I'm just gonna say it again,

01:17:58 ◼   ► in case we wanna change some stuff up.

01:17:59 ◼   ► So I think that the thing that they're going to change

01:18:03 ◼   ► is when you go to say you open up the Netflix app for the first time

01:18:08 ◼   ► and it says sign in that currently there's nowhere that Netflix can

01:18:12 ◼   ► even put a link for you to go out and sign up.

01:18:16 ◼   ► That's what I think they're going to bring back

01:18:19 ◼   ► at least. The ability for a developer to put a link to account creation

01:18:26 ◼   ► back in their applications.

01:18:30 ◼   ► So when you say "makes changes to rules"

01:18:33 ◼   ► it has to be like an official thing?

01:18:37 ◼   ► Like they have to say it?

01:18:38 ◼   ► Yes, we have to be able to know.

01:18:40 ◼   ► Like, where I actually expect this to be found out is

01:18:44 ◼   ► When they update the developer's guidelines or agreement.

01:18:48 ◼   ► Yeah, okay.

01:18:49 ◼   ► I don't think this will be in the keynote.

01:18:51 ◼   ► I don't even think it will be in the State of the Union.

01:18:53 ◼   ► Right.

01:18:54 ◼   ► They may talk about it,

01:18:55 ◼   ► and I think they probably would talk about it,

01:18:58 ◼   ► but the key place that we'll find out about it is there.

01:19:01 ◼   ► Like how last year, remember there was like a big thing about like, oh...

01:19:06 ◼   ► I actually think I came before WWDC, which could end up being a problem for me,

01:19:10 ◼   ► but about how they were doing some like rule-changing stuff.

01:19:14 ◼   ► So this could be one of those things where I'm right, but I'm burned by...

01:19:18 ◼   ► Honestly, I forgot the rule. I thought the rule...

01:19:21 ◼   ► I'm still sticking with my pick.

01:19:23 ◼   ► I was a little bit upset earlier during the reading of the rules.

01:19:27 ◼   ► in my memory picking began when the episode between episodes but

01:19:34 ◼   ► nevertheless I'm sticking with this you know they're gonna announce it on Friday

01:19:38 ◼   ► and you won't get it but then I'll still take them I'll take the moral victory

01:19:43 ◼   ► that I was right but I just won't get any points the moral victory doesn't get

01:19:46 ◼   ► you a Twitter account my friend I already got one how many is a boy need

01:19:50 ◼   ► oh my god Jason Jason of Wikipedia has said I was the person that made the rule

01:19:56 ◼   ► this way. And I stand by it. It's a good rule because, you know, I actually think that for

01:20:02 ◼   ► doing this it makes the most sense for the for the grading to begin from keynote and

01:20:08 ◼   ► a keynote start to when we record. I think that's the best way for this rule to be. But

01:20:13 ◼   ► I still think I basically my thinking on this pick is they're gonna have to make this change

01:20:18 ◼   ► at some point. Why not just do it now? Yeah, do it before a judge makes you do it. Here's

01:20:25 ◼   ► Here's the thing. I feel like you've been light on passion. And I've got...

01:20:30 ◼   ► I just had a double Ricky in a single... come on.

01:20:33 ◼   ► And I have a dump truck full of passion I'm getting ready to back up to your door.

01:20:38 ◼   ► I don't even... I don't think this is passion, but you've got that on me.

01:20:40 ◼   ► This is not passion. This is being foolish with your Ricky.

01:20:44 ◼   ► This is just... yeah.

01:20:45 ◼   ► This is just throwing away the point.

01:20:48 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:20:49 ◼   ► Federico, I'm doing this for you.

01:20:51 ◼   ► I know and I appreciate it, but you don't have to.

01:20:54 ◼   ► where the passion is. Is there some kind of like maximum limit of accounts that

01:21:00 ◼   ► you can be signed into the Twitter app or something that you've met and so you

01:21:03 ◼   ► don't want another one so you're like purposefully torpedoing your chances at

01:21:07 ◼   ► winning the rookies this year? Apple unveils a new high-end audio product. I don't

01:21:14 ◼   ► understand. I mean I would love it. Why would you do this to yourself? Were you

01:21:19 ◼   ► inspired by the iPod touch conversation? I was inspired by the DAC conversation.

01:21:26 ◼   ► Oh really? And I think that Apple wants people to enjoy music and what better

01:21:33 ◼   ► way to do it than sell a $399 DAC that you can plug into your iPhone. Wait, what?

01:21:39 ◼   ► You think they're gonna sell a standalone DAC? That's one of the many

01:21:44 ◼   ► possibilities. You really think they would make that product? Yeah. It's a

01:21:50 ◼   ► high-end expensive product that makes their services more from the company

01:21:55 ◼   ► that brought you the HomePod. But why wouldn't they just make Federico's iPod?

01:21:59 ◼   ► Why would they make a DAC? Because then you can use it with your phone and it

01:22:03 ◼   ► can be way more than an iPod touch. Well it can be just a DAC. You can, yeah, you can just...

01:22:08 ◼   ► No, Steven man, are you okay?

01:22:11 ◼   ► No one in the Discord likes this pick.

01:22:13 ◼   ► Because it's bad!

01:22:14 ◼   ► That's why!

01:22:15 ◼   ► No, that's why!

01:22:16 ◼   ► Hold on, hold on, hold on.

01:22:19 ◼   ► They could've...

01:22:20 ◼   ► What if...

01:22:21 ◼   ► Okay, what if they unveil a new HomePod?

01:22:24 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:22:25 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, you would get that, but they're not gonna do that either.

01:22:27 ◼   ► They're not gonna do any of these things.

01:22:28 ◼   ► So here's my problem, here's my problem with this pick.

01:22:31 ◼   ► How can we make sure that it meets the threshold for high-end?

01:22:38 ◼   ► Okay, so here's what I'll ask.

01:22:41 ◼   ► Original HomePod, was that high-end?

01:22:43 ◼   ► Yes, I would think so.

01:22:45 ◼   ► Right, so it's, you don't, oh, alright, Federico?

01:22:48 ◼   ► I said I would think so, yes, I think so.

01:22:50 ◼   ► Oh, I thought you said I don't think so.

01:22:52 ◼   ► And then we're going to have to have a conversation.

01:22:54 ◼   ► No, no.

01:22:57 ◼   ► So it has to start at the price the home pods started at, which is what?

01:23:01 ◼   ► $399?

01:23:02 ◼   ► But it's a price base.

01:23:03 ◼   ► I mean, what if they make a DAC and it's $100?

01:23:06 ◼   ► A DAC's high-end.

01:23:07 ◼   ► Then that's not high-end.

01:23:08 ◼   ► I think a DAC is.

01:23:09 ◼   ► Normal people don't have DACs.

01:23:11 ◼   ► High-end audio.

01:23:12 ◼   ► See?

01:23:13 ◼   ► No, no, just saying normal people don't have it doesn't equate to high-end.

01:23:16 ◼   ► Apple unveils an A.

01:23:18 ◼   ► Oh, this is going places.

01:23:23 ◼   ► What if we give you both?

01:23:25 ◼   ► you a pick that can do both. It's a DAC of any price or anything else over $399.

01:23:32 ◼   ► Hold on, hold on. What if, what if it's an audio only device? Audio only pro- like it's a speaker.

01:23:44 ◼   ► No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

01:23:47 ◼   ► no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

01:23:48 ◼   ► no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

01:23:49 ◼   ► no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

01:23:50 ◼   ► no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

01:23:50 ◼   ► - Right, and then you get to the question of

01:23:52 ◼   ► is like the inclusion of Siri make it an audio only product?

01:23:55 ◼   ► What is a computer? - No, I think we go with

01:23:57 ◼   ► it's either over $399 or it's a standalone DAC.

01:24:00 ◼   ► I want standalone DAC put down in the document of record

01:24:05 ◼   ► because it is such a bananas thing

01:24:08 ◼   ► that you have dared to utter on this show.

01:24:09 ◼   ► - If that's what inspired Steven, it should be in the pic.

01:24:13 ◼   ► - Can I do it as a note not in the pic?

01:24:16 ◼   ► - No, 'cause we were trying to define what is high-end.

01:24:20 ◼   ► - Right?

01:24:21 ◼   ► - As defined by a price, I'm just going for it,

01:24:25 ◼   ► over $3.99 or it's a DAC.

01:24:27 ◼   ► - People complained about my pick being long.

01:24:29 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:24:31 ◼   ► - Standalone DAC, standalone DAC is the important part.

01:24:35 ◼   ► - It has to be standalone, okay, yeah, it's standalone.

01:24:37 ◼   ► - Oh my God, Stephen.

01:24:40 ◼   ► - Remember, you mocked me

01:24:42 ◼   ► about an Apple Silicon desktop computer.

01:24:44 ◼   ► - Yeah, but that wasn't outside of the realm of possibility.

01:24:46 ◼   ► We all knew it was gonna happen,

01:24:48 ◼   ► we just thought it was too early.

01:24:50 ◼   ► If Steven wins this game with, and I just want to repeat these picks, iPadOS 15 brings

01:24:56 ◼   ► organizational changes to the home screen that don't exist on the iPhone, including

01:25:01 ◼   ► iOS 15, and no word on an Apple Silicon Mac Pro, and Apple unveils a new high-end audio

01:25:08 ◼   ► product that's defined by a price over $399 or it's a standalone DAC, I am going to quit

01:25:14 ◼   ► this show.

01:25:15 ◼   ► You know, I was going to say the same thing. So everything's on the line for you here.

01:25:21 ◼   ► Mad respect, Steven. Like, but...

01:25:24 ◼   ► That's it. We can't get, we can't get any more than that. We're done.

01:25:27 ◼   ► Look, I mean, if you lose the game, we told you.

01:25:34 ◼   ► And it's an all-screw.

01:25:35 ◼   ► We tried to warn you.

01:25:36 ◼   ► But if you win the game with this pizza, it means I don't understand Apple anymore. None

01:25:42 ◼   ► of us here do. So, Apple unveils a new high-end audio product as defined by a price of or

01:25:50 ◼   ► -- wait, by a price of or -- over $399. Because the Discord asks, "What if it costs $399?"

01:25:58 ◼   ► Ah, of or over, sure. $399. Or it's a standalone DAC.

01:26:03 ◼   ► That's a terrible sentence. You know what's going to happen to me? I'm not going to get

01:26:07 ◼   ► it now but they'll release a deck at the iPhone event in the fall. No they won't

01:26:13 ◼   ► Steven! They're never going to do that! No, the iPhone will have a new built-in deck

01:26:19 ◼   ► that's it. Yeah that's very likely, right? But Apple's not going to release a

01:26:25 ◼   ► standalone deck. They won't do this. We'll see. They'll release an iPod Touch with a

01:26:32 ◼   ► good deck in it. Like it just, this is madness. I love it, I love it. Imagine that the

01:26:37 ◼   ► that I have but made by Apple.

01:26:39 ◼   ► I just, I don't.

01:26:41 ◼   ► - You know, as I'm saying this now, I'm like--

01:26:44 ◼   ► - You see the wisdom in it.

01:26:45 ◼   ► - No, I'm realizing this horrible situation

01:26:49 ◼   ► where they're like, "Hey, we've released a new cable

01:26:52 ◼   ► "for the AirPods Max."

01:26:55 ◼   ► - It has a deck in it. - And it costs $25.

01:26:57 ◼   ► And it has a deck inside.

01:26:59 ◼   ► - Oh my, oh my.

01:27:01 ◼   ► And he gets the point.

01:27:02 ◼   ► - I get the point.

01:27:03 ◼   ► All right, hang on.

01:27:06 ◼   ► - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

01:27:36 ◼   ► really wild pick, because they're not going to do that next week.

01:27:41 ◼   ► Right? Like, they just got rid of the HomePod.

01:27:45 ◼   ► They just...

01:27:47 ◼   ► I told you, a dump truck full of passion.

01:27:50 ◼   ► This is...

01:27:51 ◼   ► I don't think it's passion.

01:27:52 ◼   ► This pick is a fake-out in its first part.

01:27:56 ◼   ► The real trick to this pick is the standalone dab.

01:28:00 ◼   ► No, it's not a trick.

01:28:01 ◼   ► No, I will not allow for this conversation to have changed my mind on this.

01:28:07 ◼   ► They are totally going to do the $20 DAC that it's a cable.

01:28:10 ◼   ► They are totally going to do that.

01:28:12 ◼   ► No, no, no, no. Actually, you know what I'm thinking about it?

01:28:15 ◼   ► They would have done that already.

01:28:17 ◼   ► They wouldn't wait for WWDC to release that cable.

01:28:19 ◼   ► They would have done it last week.

01:28:21 ◼   ► But what if you're a choir?

01:28:23 ◼   ► No, they cannot do that though. It doesn't make sense to announce.

01:28:26 ◼   ► They would have said, "We've got this DAC coming."

01:28:28 ◼   ► Like here, and when Apple Music Glassless rolls out, you'll be able to buy this cable

01:28:33 ◼   ► for your AirPods Max.

01:28:34 ◼   ► They would have dealt with that already if that was the thing that they were releasing.

01:28:37 ◼   ► Not gonna wait for WWDC to release an AirPods Max cable.

01:28:40 ◼   ► This is an incredible pick.

01:28:43 ◼   ► I love it.

01:28:44 ◼   ► Bravo to you.

01:28:45 ◼   ► It could go so wrong in so many different ways.

01:28:47 ◼   ► What is it?

01:28:48 ◼   ► You're like thinking different over there.

01:28:50 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:28:51 ◼   ► I'll get Huxibrain.

01:28:52 ◼   ► Here's to the Hackett ones.

01:28:58 ◼   ► Let's take a break and then we'll get into the flexies.

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01:30:35 ◼   ► - You know how some people are comfortable living

01:30:41 ◼   ► with the status quo, with the current rules.

01:30:46 ◼   ► You know, just living in a society

01:30:48 ◼   ► with rules that everybody knows and accepts and respects.

01:30:53 ◼   ► Right? Well, I am not that kind of person.

01:30:58 ◼   ► No.

01:30:59 ◼   ► And for that reason, today, for the first time on this show,

01:31:03 ◼   ► I will pick 10 flexes.

01:31:05 ◼   ► I opened the document and I saw this

01:31:12 ◼   ► and I just closed Google docs and walked away.

01:31:15 ◼   ► What are you doing?

01:31:17 ◼   ► I am putting my money and my reputation

01:31:23 ◼   ► on the line by saying that I'm going to do 10 flexes and I feel very good about at least

01:31:31 ◼   ► seven of them. Which is bad. That's bad. If you've only got 70%, that's bad for you,

01:31:43 ◼   ► right? You understand that's like it's like getting three. But where would the passion be?

01:31:50 ◼   ► you know, the ups and downs of getting a flexi right and then another wrong and then three

01:31:56 ◼   ► more right and so forth until you reach ten. Yeah, yeah, all of that. But you said you're

01:31:59 ◼   ► staking your reputation on this. Right. And if you only got 70%... Look, and people will say he lost,

01:32:08 ◼   ► if I get... You're like Icarus. If he lost $75, doing what he loved. Just being bold.

01:32:18 ◼   ► - Well, they said that.

01:32:21 ◼   ► Okay, that's what they'll say.

01:32:23 ◼   ► - The great thing about this is,

01:32:24 ◼   ► people have already forgotten about my risky pick.

01:32:27 ◼   ► This is now the focus.

01:32:28 ◼   ► - Nah, Steven?

01:32:29 ◼   ► - Yes?

01:32:30 ◼   ► - Federico could roll up with 75 flexes.

01:32:33 ◼   ► No one's forgetting the deck, right?

01:32:35 ◼   ► No one's gonna forget that.

01:32:37 ◼   ► That is gonna be infamous.

01:32:38 ◼   ► - All right, all right.

01:32:43 ◼   ► 10 flexes, let's do it.

01:32:44 ◼   ► Number one, the weather app comes to iPad.

01:32:48 ◼   ► How is that still the case that we don't have a weather app on the iPad?

01:32:55 ◼   ► Especially since they own Dark Sky. Just throw that on there.

01:32:58 ◼   ► And they have weather widgets and weather actions on iPad, but the invisible app...

01:33:02 ◼   ► But no app!

01:33:03 ◼   ► There's an invisible weather app on iPad that you cannot see, but it's there.

01:33:09 ◼   ► It just doesn't have a UI.

01:33:11 ◼   ► So, weather app in iPadOS 15.

01:33:14 ◼   ► Number two, the Files app gets new features.

01:33:17 ◼   ► Literally anything could work here. Just update the files up, please.

01:33:23 ◼   ► No, they give the files out new features every year, they just don't ship.

01:33:27 ◼   ► Yeah, they announce lots of new things.

01:33:29 ◼   ► Look, they announce... Hence why I'm picking that. I'm pretty sure they will announce them, but...

01:33:34 ◼   ► What if they announce, remember, pen files? We got them this year. That's not a new feature.

01:33:40 ◼   ► It's a new feature because it was never shipped. It was never shipped.

01:33:43 ◼   ► and two generations of iOS have passed, therefore the statute of limitations has lived. I don't know.

01:33:49 ◼   ► I wouldn't mind actually creating a statute of limitations for the rookies.

01:33:59 ◼   ► No, they can't be reused. Well, unless we created a statute of limitations.

01:34:04 ◼   ► Oh, oh, Becky, that's a terrible... Do you see what Becky wrote in Discord?

01:34:08 ◼   ► If Stephen gets his risky pick, he should change his Twitter name to Dackdaddy for like a week.

01:34:12 ◼   ► Oh my god, yes!

01:34:14 ◼   ► You're the Dac daddy.

01:34:17 ◼   ► Yeah, maybe we'll just start calling you that anyway.

01:34:20 ◼   ► It's so perfect that I could have been the Dac daddy, but Steven will be instead. I love it.

01:34:28 ◼   ► Yeah, and you're just like, I don't know, like Dac's son or something. What do you know?

01:34:33 ◼   ► Son of Dac.

01:34:35 ◼   ► All right, what's your third flexi?

01:34:37 ◼   ► Uh, can I be a Lil Dac?

01:34:40 ◼   ► Well, that little ducky, that daddy and little ducky, you're getting ready debut album.

01:34:49 ◼   ► That daddy feature a little duck.

01:34:57 ◼   ► Oh, yes. Seven more to go or whatever.

01:35:08 ◼   ► It's shopping, we're just getting started here.

01:35:10 ◼   ► A normal person will start here.

01:35:12 ◼   ► No, that's not even true.

01:35:13 ◼   ► They will start at five.

01:35:15 ◼   ► Number three, Shortcuts gets new files actions.

01:35:21 ◼   ► So I'm thinking there will be some new integrations

01:35:25 ◼   ► with the Files app in Shortcuts.

01:35:27 ◼   ► Ideally, you should be able to access any locations,

01:35:31 ◼   ► but again, same as above,

01:35:32 ◼   ► I would be happy with any new file-related action.

01:35:37 ◼   ► So that's number three.

01:35:40 ◼   ► Number four, this is a Flexi because I think I couldn't reuse it as a regular pick from

01:35:46 ◼   ► last time.

01:35:47 ◼   ► That's right.

01:35:48 ◼   ► So number four, better external display support on iPad.

01:35:53 ◼   ► We talked about this last month.

01:35:55 ◼   ► We all know what it is.

01:35:57 ◼   ► Just let us use iPadOS with an external display with more features than mirroring that we

01:36:03 ◼   ► have now.

01:36:04 ◼   ► Number five, I hinted at this before.

01:36:07 ◼   ► iOS and iPadOS 15 risk get native HomeKit widgets.

01:36:12 ◼   ► The Home app is one of the few built-in apps

01:36:17 ◼   ► that don't offer a widget at all, or widgets at all in iOS.

01:36:22 ◼   ► - I thought about this, and I wanted to ask you about it.

01:36:25 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:36:25 ◼   ► - I mean, A, it's tied up and your widgets

01:36:28 ◼   ► should have buttons that work, right?

01:36:30 ◼   ► - Yes.

01:36:31 ◼   ► - But also, do you think that it being

01:36:35 ◼   ► all in Control Center is like a release valve for this feature?

01:36:39 ◼   ► Maybe, but I think it's also like Control Center is already quite...

01:36:45 ◼   ► Sucks.

01:36:46 ◼   ► Yeah, it's not great, it's crowded, and it limits you in terms of how much UI you can

01:36:53 ◼   ► design for a Control Center toggle.

01:36:56 ◼   ► Sure, you can open the full-on home view in Control Center, but at that point, wouldn't

01:37:01 ◼   ► it be easier to just have a widget on the home screen that toggles on and off your lights

01:37:06 ◼   ► with one tap and it would make for a perfect demo of the new widget kit?

01:37:11 ◼   ► So yeah, that's a counter argument for sure though.

01:37:14 ◼   ► You can have those controls in Control Center and you can use Siri.

01:37:18 ◼   ► Why make a widget?

01:37:19 ◼   ► But that argument could also go for a bunch of other features, right?

01:37:23 ◼   ► And they still made widgets for them.

01:37:26 ◼   ► Number six, the passwords feature of Settings, also known as the Keychain, becomes a standalone

01:37:35 ◼   ► app. I've been thinking this for the past few years. I'm pretty sure I mentioned this

01:37:42 ◼   ► very specific wish in all of my iOS reviews now. That feature of Settings, the passwords

01:37:49 ◼   ► feature. Some of Apple's best work in settings, and it's a cross-collaboration of the authentication

01:37:58 ◼   ► teams and Safari teams at Apple. It's really well done. And I think this should be its

01:38:06 ◼   ► own thing. There are a lot of features that are included in that page. And I think as

01:38:13 ◼   ► As soon as Apple gets, you know, adds support for one-time authentication codes, for example,

01:38:20 ◼   ► for two-factor authentication, if passwords can do that, it should totally become a standalone

01:38:27 ◼   ► app.

01:38:28 ◼   ► It already is a standalone password manager.

01:38:30 ◼   ► It's just a little weird that it's built into settings.

01:38:33 ◼   ► It's always a pain to find.

01:38:36 ◼   ► It's a pain to find.

01:38:37 ◼   ► should be... Making it an actual app on the home screen would also expose a lot more people

01:38:44 ◼   ► to what it can do, and therefore could push a lot more people to create strong and secure

01:38:48 ◼   ► passwords and realize, "Oh, the system actually does this for me," and they're also easier

01:38:53 ◼   ► to find. Otherwise, you have to navigate in Settings and you've got to scroll to find

01:38:57 ◼   ► it. Why? Just make it a standalone app. I mean, you made apps for clips and whatever,

01:39:05 ◼   ► I mean, is measure more important than passwords? I don't know.

01:39:11 ◼   ► Number seven, Apple updates the Listen Now page of the Music app. Now, set aside the

01:39:18 ◼   ► fact that I switched to Spotify months ago, I really don't think the Listen Now page that

01:39:23 ◼   ► we got in iOS 14 is good. The information density compared, I mean, let's all face it,

01:39:30 ◼   ► Compared to Spotify, which is Apple's biggest competitor here, it's not good.

01:39:38 ◼   ► You open the main Spotify homepage and you can see a lot of things at once.

01:39:43 ◼   ► And they're pretty easy to interact with.

01:39:45 ◼   ► You have your recent activity, you have your featured items, you have albums, you have

01:39:50 ◼   ► podcasts.

01:39:51 ◼   ► Now, I don't think Apple will do the podcast music integration that Spotify does, but the

01:39:57 ◼   ► the Listen Now page, man. I mean, come on. There's just like you open the page and on

01:40:01 ◼   ► an iPhone 12 Pro Max, it shows you like three things because everything is so big and spaced

01:40:08 ◼   ► out.

01:40:09 ◼   ► They've been leaving room for an ad for the DAC.

01:40:13 ◼   ► Sure, sure. That would be a banner to get you a 10% off discount on the DAC. I think

01:40:20 ◼   ► they will do something here. I don't think it's a great starting page for Apple Music.

01:40:27 ◼   ► It's too clunky to use, and it's kind of boring.

01:40:31 ◼   ► It doesn't do anything special.

01:40:32 ◼   ► And I feel like it could use a bit of an update.

01:40:35 ◼   ► Number eight, iOS 15 drops support for the iPhone 6s.

01:40:40 ◼   ► It's about time.

01:40:42 ◼   ► That phone is old.

01:40:44 ◼   ► Let's get rid of it.

01:40:45 ◼   ► And it's got a great sort of a conclusion with iOS 14, but the next version will be

01:40:53 ◼   ► iPhone 7 and up only. Number nine, and I'm almost done, the next version of iOS lets

01:41:04 ◼   ► you change icons for apps natively without shortcuts or using custom profiles.

01:41:10 ◼   ► Why wasn't this a pick for you?

01:41:13 ◼   ► I don't know, because I felt like it was a more, it was a whole story, you know, all

01:41:18 ◼   ► All my picks are widget-based.

01:41:20 ◼   ► I don't know, it felt like more of a thing to do what I did.

01:41:24 ◼   ► And yeah, really, what they should do,

01:41:26 ◼   ► like, people will probably overthink this.

01:41:28 ◼   ► I'm going to offer you the solution here right now.

01:41:32 ◼   ► Long press on the icon on the home screen.

01:41:35 ◼   ► There's a new quick action that says "change icon,"

01:41:38 ◼   ► and you pick the file you want to use, and that's it.

01:41:41 ◼   ► Mmm. That's good.

01:41:43 ◼   ► That's all it is.

01:41:44 ◼   ► No settings, no weird screen.

01:41:47 ◼   ► I mean, they could do the screen.

01:41:48 ◼   ► I mean, if you want to do a full-on UI customization

01:41:52 ◼   ► screen, great.

01:41:53 ◼   ► Do it.

01:41:54 ◼   ► But otherwise, just do the quick action

01:41:56 ◼   ► and let me pick the icon that I want to use.

01:41:58 ◼   ► It's one of those things where Apple knows

01:42:01 ◼   ► how people have been using iOS.

01:42:04 ◼   ► They see at the top of the charts

01:42:06 ◼   ► all these apps that install custom profiles for you.

01:42:09 ◼   ► And those profiles, most of them are harmless.

01:42:12 ◼   ► But if you're not careful, those profiles could do other things

01:42:15 ◼   ► on your phone.

01:42:16 ◼   ► And I don't think Apple loves the idea.

01:42:19 ◼   ► And also, if people really love customization,

01:42:21 ◼   ► why force them to do the shortcut, right?

01:42:24 ◼   ► That's more of a workaround.

01:42:25 ◼   ► It's a clever workaround to do a custom shortcut

01:42:28 ◼   ► just for the custom icon.

01:42:30 ◼   ► So just let people change icons natively.

01:42:33 ◼   ► And finally, number 10, also about shortcuts,

01:42:36 ◼   ► there's a new way to turn off the confirmation banners

01:42:40 ◼   ► in the shortcuts app.

01:42:41 ◼   ► You know what I'm talking about,

01:42:42 ◼   ► that little rectangle that pops down with the check mark.

01:42:46 ◼   ► every single time you run a shortcut.

01:42:49 ◼   ► You get the confirmation band that says,

01:42:51 ◼   ► "Good job, you just ran a shortcut."

01:42:54 ◼   ► Like, "Please let me turn it off."

01:42:56 ◼   ► And I think iOS 15 will have a way to turn it off.

01:42:59 ◼   ► And that's it, 10 flexes.

01:43:00 ◼   ► - Just well done.

01:43:03 ◼   ► - But there's, do you see the poetry to these flexes?

01:43:07 ◼   ► Like, how did, like, remember it was like 10 minutes ago,

01:43:11 ◼   ► we were all joking and yelling,

01:43:12 ◼   ► "Oh my God, 10 flexes."

01:43:13 ◼   ► And now, look, time has flown by because there's beauty to these flexes that is rare to find

01:43:21 ◼   ► in this program.

01:43:23 ◼   ► You're gonna look back on this as a mistake.

01:43:26 ◼   ► You're definitely gonna owe somebody some money.

01:43:30 ◼   ► I have six.

01:43:31 ◼   ► Wow.

01:43:32 ◼   ► Six flexes.

01:43:33 ◼   ► That's weak.

01:43:34 ◼   ► Okay, so originally Federico had seven and I had seven and I didn't want to do seven

01:43:40 ◼   ► and then Federica went to 10, so I removed one and now I have six.

01:43:44 ◼   ► New MacBook Pro.

01:43:45 ◼   ► Preview of the Apple Silicon Mac Pro.

01:43:48 ◼   ► Yeah!

01:43:49 ◼   ► Let's do it.

01:43:51 ◼   ► It'll be great.

01:43:53 ◼   ► The Home app gets redesigned.

01:43:55 ◼   ► Oh please, Apple.

01:43:57 ◼   ► Please.

01:43:59 ◼   ► New features for FaceTime.

01:44:01 ◼   ► I'm not asking you to clarify your Flexi, but like what would you want to see?

01:44:05 ◼   ► So I will apologize to people that have listened to Upgrade before this.

01:44:09 ◼   ► I have reused a bunch of things because I'm about one human and I have, spoiler alert,

01:44:16 ◼   ► recorded them back to back today.

01:44:18 ◼   ► What are we?

01:44:19 ◼   ► Federico, I listen to app stories.

01:44:21 ◼   ► I've been hearing you talk about these things that are in your flexes today.

01:44:26 ◼   ► Okay?

01:44:27 ◼   ► So don't even come at me with that.

01:44:29 ◼   ► So new features for FaceTime.

01:44:32 ◼   ► One of the couple of things that me and Jason were talking about, like backgrounds, being

01:44:36 ◼   ► able to start, be able to send a link to someone to join a FaceTime, kind of like how you do

01:44:42 ◼   ► with Zoom, and FaceTime on the web. So I don't know why, you know, Apple really should be

01:44:49 ◼   ► pushing this and just, you know, be better than Zoom, I guess.

01:44:56 ◼   ► New notification management options. So this is what Mark Gorman was talking about. And

01:45:01 ◼   ► this is a weird one, all right, but just bear with me a second. I want to say it, I don't

01:45:05 ◼   ► I want to see if either of you can guess why I picked this.

01:45:09 ◼   ► Tools for developers to make smoother

01:45:12 ◼   ► or faster animations in iOS.

01:45:15 ◼   ► - Higher refresh rate on future iPhones.

01:45:18 ◼   ► - Yes.

01:45:20 ◼   ► The reason I made this pick is really roundabout.

01:45:22 ◼   ► I was using my iPad the other day and was like,

01:45:25 ◼   ► oh yeah, I guess like we're gonna get

01:45:27 ◼   ► high refresh rate displays.

01:45:29 ◼   ► And then I was thinking to myself,

01:45:30 ◼   ► how could we guess from WWDC that it's coming?

01:45:34 ◼   ► Like, you know, like every now and again,

01:45:36 ◼   ► Apple does something at WWDC and you're like,

01:45:38 ◼   ► "Oh, they've added this because of this."

01:45:39 ◼   ► Make sure your apps can change sizes.

01:45:42 ◼   ► Yeah, that's the classic one, right?

01:45:44 ◼   ► And so that's what I'm thinking.

01:45:45 ◼   ► Like, if we're going to get some kind of telegraphing,

01:45:49 ◼   ► it would be to make your animations smoother or quicker.

01:45:53 ◼   ► So either way, it works nicer.

01:45:57 ◼   ► Like, so, you know, it shows off the...

01:46:00 ◼   ► I think it'd be like a twofold thing.

01:46:02 ◼   ► It will show off.

01:46:02 ◼   ► Like, you want to make your animations be smooth

01:46:04 ◼   ► because then it will show off the high refresh rate display.

01:46:07 ◼   ► But also, if you have animations just move more quickly,

01:46:11 ◼   ► it's going to make people feel even more so.

01:46:14 ◼   ► - And there's also an accessibility angle here,

01:46:16 ◼   ► which would be, we give you controls

01:46:18 ◼   ► to make sure that you're timing your animations just right

01:46:20 ◼   ► for different kinds of users, right?

01:46:22 ◼   ► It's a very intelligent pick, Myke.

01:46:26 ◼   ► I think especially in the context of,

01:46:28 ◼   ► oh, it's that kind of feature that you're doing it now

01:46:31 ◼   ► to prepare for future hardware on the iPhone.

01:46:36 ◼   ► Very clever. I love it.

01:46:38 ◼   ► - Oh, thank you.

01:46:39 ◼   ► Well, that's my six because I'm not a maniac.

01:46:42 ◼   ► - I have five.

01:46:45 ◼   ► - Yeah, of course you do.

01:46:46 ◼   ► 'Cause you know you're gonna lose.

01:46:47 ◼   ► You don't wanna lose money as well as losing the competition.

01:46:51 ◼   ► - Oh, we'll see how mine go.

01:46:53 ◼   ► We have quite a few of these

01:46:55 ◼   ► that are in direct opposition to y'all's picks.

01:46:57 ◼   ► - Steven, I've just,

01:46:59 ◼   ► If either of us lose to Federico's 10, that's gonna be real bad.

01:47:04 ◼   ► Yeah, that's embarrassing.

01:47:06 ◼   ► That'll be real bad.

01:47:08 ◼   ► Mac OS skips ahead to version 15 to match iOS and iPadOS.

01:47:13 ◼   ► This is bananas! Why?

01:47:15 ◼   ► Why do you think they would do this?

01:47:17 ◼   ► What, do you think they're gonna watch OS 15 as well?

01:47:19 ◼   ► Like they did for Windows.

01:47:21 ◼   ► Yeah, they made Windows 10.

01:47:23 ◼   ► You've based this purely on tvOS, haven't you?

01:47:26 ◼   ► Like, this is your thinking here?

01:47:28 ◼   ► the core OS in Apple's lineup. But what about watch OS? TV OS is the core. You missed the...

01:47:35 ◼   ► Number two! I think I would know that. No new Mac notebooks are announced. Did you say DAC notebooks?

01:47:43 ◼   ► No new Mac notebooks are announced. Yeah, I mean, because why would they introduce a Mac when they

01:47:50 ◼   ► can introduce a DAC, am I right? I don't think the MacBook Pros are ready. If they're going to have

01:47:55 ◼   ► have that new screen technology. I don't think they're ready. That Dax are ready.

01:48:00 ◼   ► The next version of macOS comes with a redesigned today view.

01:48:04 ◼   ► I mean, please, yes, yes. Just, just, this is literally the only pick you've made today

01:48:10 ◼   ► that makes sense. Like this is the only one.

01:48:12 ◼   ► John spoke about it on App Stories, but like it's just, it's there, there's widgets.

01:48:18 ◼   ► I still don't understand how it works.

01:48:20 ◼   ► No. So the top, because it doesn't. Okay. So my screen, the top.

01:48:25 ◼   ► 20% are widgets, and the middle section,

01:48:30 ◼   ► I'm sorry, the top part is notifications,

01:48:32 ◼   ► the middle part is widgets, and then it just stops.

01:48:35 ◼   ► It's like not even long enough to fill my screen.

01:48:36 ◼   ► - So you know the notifications on the Mac are infinite,

01:48:39 ◼   ► right, like have you ever managed

01:48:42 ◼   ► to clear all notifications, like all of them?

01:48:45 ◼   ► - No. - I think they just repeat

01:48:48 ◼   ► over and over. - The stack

01:48:49 ◼   ► of my Slack notifications says 99 more notifications.

01:48:53 ◼   ► I just don't ever go in here.

01:48:55 ◼   ► It's a nightmare. Apple has made it worse than it used to be.

01:48:58 ◼   ► And now it's in behind the clock, which makes no sense.

01:49:02 ◼   ► Just burn it down. Try again. Yeah. What else do I have here? I have,

01:49:07 ◼   ► uh,

01:49:08 ◼   ► we get some happy messaging from Apple about how much they value developers.

01:49:12 ◼   ► I mean, sure.

01:49:14 ◼   ► But there's a lot of, there's a lot of angst more than normal.

01:49:18 ◼   ► At the very least you will get this point.

01:49:22 ◼   ► One point all day.

01:49:24 ◼   ► Number five, Apple unveils a new external display.

01:49:29 ◼   ► No new Macs yet, but the display is ready.

01:49:31 ◼   ► [ Laughter ]

01:49:34 ◼   ► I let the universe speak to me.

01:49:37 ◼   ► It's too late for this.

01:49:38 ◼   ► This is what the universe has said.

01:49:40 ◼   ► So, I have a feeling about these Rickeys.

01:49:43 ◼   ► They will be much, much worse than usual.

01:49:48 ◼   ► I don't know. I feel pretty good about mine.

01:49:50 ◼   ► Yeah, you'd probably win. I think Cielo and I are gonna be a mess after this one.

01:49:56 ◼   ► You could owe a lot of money, Federico. Like, a lot of money.

01:50:00 ◼   ► How much is it per wrong flexi? $25. That's $250!

01:50:04 ◼   ► For a good cause, you know?

01:50:06 ◼   ► Yeah, that I get to pick. Or Myke gets to pick. Probably Myke.

01:50:09 ◼   ► It's fine. For a good cause. It's money well spent. I mean, I would spend it on decks, anyway.

01:50:18 ◼   ► That's right. Well, you're gonna need a little bit more because it's gonna be at least $3.99.

01:50:22 ◼   ► I thought they were cheap. That was the whole point of putting the standalone

01:50:24 ◼   ► DAC thing in there because you thought it was gonna be $100.

01:50:28 ◼   ► We're never gonna let this go, Stephen, by the way.

01:50:30 ◼   ► Yeah, you will never be able to lift this one.

01:50:32 ◼   ► What if, I'm not going to do this, but what if in the edit I just put in a different Ricky?

01:50:36 ◼   ► No.

01:50:37 ◼   ► And we're just like, "Oh, you're so ridiculous!" It's just like the most plain.

01:50:44 ◼   ► This is like, you know how before... is it before and is it only in Italy or is it also elsewhere?

01:50:49 ◼   ► Like before a trial you have to like put your hand on the bible or something.

01:50:54 ◼   ► Yeah, we have that here. Yeah, you swear to the whole truth.

01:50:57 ◼   ► To the bill of rickies.

01:50:59 ◼   ► Put your hand on the rickies.

01:51:00 ◼   ► Actually we don't have a rule that says pigs cannot be modified in post.

01:51:05 ◼   ► Not me neither. I don't want to think about it.

01:51:10 ◼   ► I don't want to make that rule.

01:51:13 ◼   ► Well that does it we have made our picks for WWDC 2021. We will be back next week on Wednesday

01:51:22 ◼   ► to score these. Be sure to check out the websites that cover this.

01:51:28 ◼   ► rickys.co, rickys.net both great options. You can go see what we did. You can keep tabs as the event

01:51:37 ◼   ► goes on and we're all really excited. I'm excited that it's WBC again. It's the most fun

01:51:43 ◼   ► but busy week of the year covering Apple. If you want to find links to the stuff we spoke about,

01:51:49 ◼   ► which is not a whole lot this week, but there's some weird stuff in there, you can head on over

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01:52:43 ◼   ► Until next week, when we find our value as humans based on our picks, say goodbye.

01:52:49 ◼   ► Arrivederci. Well, that ended fast. I wasn't ready for that. Bye. Cheerio.

01:53:00 ◼   ► He said Jirio. I was confused. It came really... The goodbye came out of nowhere.

01:53:05 ◼   ► I wasn't ready for it.