Connected

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00:00:02 ◼   ► Hello and welcome to Connected episode 274.

00:00:13 ◼   ► This is our 2019 year interview episode

00:00:16 ◼   ► and it is made possible by our sponsors,

00:00:18 ◼   ► Squarespace, Pingdom, Hover and StoryWorth.

00:00:23 ◼   ► My name is Steven Hackett

00:00:24 ◼   ► and I am joined by Mr. Federico Vittucci.

00:00:27 ◼   ► - Hello, happy end of the year.

00:00:30 ◼   ► Is that a thing that people say?

00:00:31 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's the end of the year.

00:00:33 ◼   ► It's almost over.

00:00:36 ◼   ► - Finally, the year of Steven is ending.

00:00:39 ◼   ► - The year of Steven two is just around the corner.

00:00:41 ◼   ► - Oh no.

00:00:42 ◼   ► - And we're also joined by our friend, Myke Hurley.

00:00:47 ◼   ► - Oh, hello.

00:00:48 ◼   ► - Hey buddy, the year in review.

00:00:49 ◼   ► So if you are not familiar with this episode,

00:00:53 ◼   ► what we're gonna do is we're gonna go through

00:00:55 ◼   ► the major Apple headlines for the year.

00:00:58 ◼   ► And we kind of see what stories ended up being important,

00:01:01 ◼   ► what stories seem like a big deal,

00:01:03 ◼   ► but weren't funny things that happened.

00:01:05 ◼   ► And we will just work our way through 2019 together.

00:01:09 ◼   ► We do this round robin style, and so we don't mess that up.

00:01:12 ◼   ► Myke has very helpfully put in initials

00:01:14 ◼   ► next to the month names in the Google doc.

00:01:16 ◼   ► - I had to do it 'cause you would probably do

00:01:18 ◼   ► like round robin, but the rounds of round robin per quarter,

00:01:22 ◼   ► so it adjusts the order and then there's like,

00:01:26 ◼   ► we go like a round robin per every half year,

00:01:28 ◼   ► which is different to that one.

00:01:31 ◼   ► - You really want nested round robins.

00:01:33 ◼   ► So like every level down is another round robin.

00:01:36 ◼   ► - It's round, round robin, robin.

00:01:38 ◼   ► - Exactly.

00:01:39 ◼   ► We're gonna start in January.

00:01:43 ◼   ► - Do we have to?

00:01:44 ◼   ► - We do, we do need to go in order.

00:01:45 ◼   ► - Why do we just start in January?

00:01:47 ◼   ► Why don't we round robin the months?

00:01:49 ◼   ► - Time is a social construct.

00:01:51 ◼   ► We should start from June.

00:01:53 ◼   ► - Yeah, that's true actually.

00:01:54 ◼   ► - Yes.

00:01:54 ◼   ► - I agree with that.

00:01:55 ◼   ► - Let me tell you guys something.

00:01:56 ◼   ► I have tried several times to write an episode of "Ungeniest,"

00:02:00 ◼   ► which is the show Myke,

00:02:01 ◼   ► you and I have about things on Wikipedia.

00:02:02 ◼   ► I've tried several times to write an episode

00:02:04 ◼   ► about how calendars work, and it's impossible.

00:02:07 ◼   ► - Oh no. (laughs)

00:02:08 ◼   ► - It cannot be explained by me or any really other human.

00:02:13 ◼   ► Yeah, we're all just in the system.

00:02:15 ◼   ► The Matrix says we start in January,

00:02:16 ◼   ► so we're gonna start in January,

00:02:17 ◼   ► and I'm going to start with huge news, guys.

00:02:21 ◼   ► huge news reported by MacRumors, AirPower has entered production and is coming soon.

00:02:26 ◼   ► This is where you put in the crickets playing.

00:02:29 ◼   ► About every month for the first six months of the year there was a link in one episode which was

00:02:38 ◼   ► about AirPower coming. So I put this one in and it will come up later on when it was cancelled.

00:02:45 ◼   ► This is probably one of the bigger themes of the year because by this point it was very old, right?

00:02:54 ◼   ► Because, well, they announced it with the iPhone 10. They did, right? Yes. In 2017. That's correct.

00:03:01 ◼   ► Then we missed a whole second holiday season. Yes. And so the desperation started to set in

00:03:09 ◼   ► And then the desperation created more rumors.

00:03:14 ◼   ► And then that was one of the big themes of 2019 was just airpower.

00:03:18 ◼   ► It's mere like a hint of a possible existence and then cancellation, which happens later.

00:03:26 ◼   ► Well don't spoil it.

00:03:28 ◼   ► Jesus, Myke.

00:03:29 ◼   ► Or not.

00:03:30 ◼   ► We don't know.

00:03:31 ◼   ► It's January.

00:03:32 ◼   ► Yeah, or not.

00:03:33 ◼   ► We haven't gotten there yet.

00:03:33 ◼   ► It's only January.

00:03:35 ◼   ► Up next, more product rumors. The 2019 iPhones are to adopt USB-C and Apple is working on

00:03:43 ◼   ► seventh generation iPod touch. That did come true. They did ship a new iPod touch in May of 2019

00:03:50 ◼   ► with the the A10 Fusion in it. It's a pretty, pretty beefy little iPod touch, but no USB-C yet

00:03:57 ◼   ► on the iPhones. And we've talked about this a lot. We have not talked about because the cycle of the

00:04:02 ◼   ► the way we've done our show recently is that there's a rumor that Apple is gonna do an iPhone with no ports

00:04:07 ◼   ► It's like jump over USB C to nothing that makes me sad to think about the iPhone

00:04:13 ◼   ► I'll be really disappointed if that's what they do like I hope the 2020 phone has USB C on it. Me too. I

00:04:19 ◼   ► Hope they never get rid of the ports, but that's all other discussion. Yeah, we can have that one another time

00:04:25 ◼   ► Yeah, in fact, I want another button. I want a camera shutter button. But anyways, I want an extra port double ports. Mm-hmm

00:04:31 ◼   ► not the headphone jack though don't want that one give me like two USB C ports

00:04:37 ◼   ► that's what I want nice actually yep Myke in January you tried out the paper

00:04:44 ◼   ► like screen protector on your iPad remember this is that still on your

00:04:49 ◼   ► iPad no I took it off remember it's like some sometime in a few months after I

00:04:53 ◼   ► took it off the reason I've put this in there is because sitting next to me I

00:04:56 ◼   ► have the new one I haven't put it on yet they did a Kickstarter campaign for a

00:05:00 ◼   ► second one and Marco was talking about an ATP a few weeks ago. I had backed

00:05:05 ◼   ► the Kickstarter campaign but didn't want to tell you. I was waiting for

00:05:12 ◼   ► the right time and now is kind of the right time but I haven't actually put it

00:05:16 ◼   ► on my iPad yet but I'm going to. Why don't you do it while we're on the show? Do it

00:05:20 ◼   ► now. That is not something I'm gonna do. Something I did do as well recently was

00:05:25 ◼   ► I got my first dbrand skin. I put a dbrand skin on my Galaxy Fold to make it

00:05:29 ◼   ► look a little bit more like a Pokedex. Can you explain to Steven what a Pokedex is?

00:05:35 ◼   ► It's like a computer encyclopedia of Pokemon. It's like a Rolodex. A Rolodex of Pokemon.

00:05:42 ◼   ► Yes. Oh my, that's where it comes from! It's a Rolodex. Of course Steven knew. I've got

00:05:48 ◼   ► white and red. White on one side, red on another side. So it looks like a, it kind of, in my

00:05:53 ◼   ► mind looks like how a Pokedex would look. Because this device kind of feels like a Pokedex

00:05:56 ◼   ► to me it's kind of cute also in january we got the best apple p of the year meme of all time

00:06:03 ◼   ► yep our personal meme of the year yes uh this was a press release about um airlines apple music

00:06:12 ◼   ► on american airlines so apple did a deal with american airlines where there would be you could

00:06:17 ◼   ► stream apple music for free over their wi-fi whether you were connected to the wi-fi or not

00:06:22 ◼   ► and they created a incomprehensible image.

00:06:26 ◼   ► Like just...

00:06:27 ◼   ► They created an image which is clearly meant to like...

00:06:33 ◼   ► Like replicate a...

00:06:35 ◼   ► Oh yeah.

00:06:36 ◼   ► In-flight safety card.

00:06:37 ◼   ► The safety card, yes.

00:06:38 ◼   ► But there is just like every...

00:06:40 ◼   ► So it's a three box image.

00:06:42 ◼   ► Every image has like so many questions related to it.

00:06:46 ◼   ► It's so good.

00:06:47 ◼   ► I love it.

00:06:50 ◼   ► I love it so much.

00:06:51 ◼   ► The first box is the best one. Just because of the expression of the guy in the picture.

00:06:56 ◼   ► He's just happy.

00:06:57 ◼   ► He's just staring.

00:06:59 ◼   ► What I like is that the lady next to him is reading a blank notebook.

00:07:04 ◼   ► Which is good.

00:07:07 ◼   ► With her eyes half closed also. She's kind of falling asleep.

00:07:10 ◼   ► It's because she's got nothing to read. She's sleepy.

00:07:13 ◼   ► Something that I just noticed is that the playlist that the guy is listening to is the

00:07:18 ◼   ► the new Chicago. So either the guy's leaving Chicago and it's like he's so happy that he's

00:07:22 ◼   ► leaving Chicago or he's arriving, he's landing in Chicago. It's like, yes. And I like that

00:07:28 ◼   ► the image is poorly cropped. So like the arrow on the search back button is like touching

00:07:34 ◼   ► the edge of the phone, which is bad. The piece de resistance is just the satisfied face.

00:07:40 ◼   ► The satisfied, yeah. Of listening to his beats. Because he's looking at the playlist and he's

00:07:44 ◼   ► "Oh yeah, give me some of that sweet, sweet Illinois."

00:07:46 ◼   ► You have to go to the show notes and check this out. Like, if you've not seen this image

00:07:52 ◼   ► before, it's so good.

00:07:55 ◼   ► There should be an award for the Apple person that came up with this illustration. This

00:08:00 ◼   ► is so good. Everything about it is perfect. This is the only good thing that happened

00:08:04 ◼   ► in 2019. And yeah.

00:08:06 ◼   ► I agree.

00:08:07 ◼   ► This image.

00:08:08 ◼   ► I agree.

00:08:09 ◼   ► Like, what's your favorite thing of the year? A JPEG file. This one. Yeah.

00:08:13 ◼   ► Well do we just want to wrap it up here?

00:08:15 ◼   ► Like I can just do four ad reads and we can go.

00:08:18 ◼   ► Yeah okay good.

00:08:19 ◼   ► Before we get into these next, so four items left for January.

00:08:23 ◼   ► You may remember or may not remember these all happened within the span of like two weeks

00:08:28 ◼   ► and it was a nightmare for Apple.

00:08:31 ◼   ► Right?

00:08:32 ◼   ► Like I just wanted to make sure that that was like these four things we're about to

00:08:35 ◼   ► talk about which round out January.

00:08:38 ◼   ► like it was so bad at the time because it just felt like everything was falling

00:08:44 ◼   ► to pieces which was it was very fun. Up first we have the FaceTime bug that

00:08:50 ◼   ► allowed access to the microphone maybe even your camera without you giving that

00:08:58 ◼   ► access. So not only was there that bug do you remember Apple's response to it?

00:09:04 ◼   ► Was it the story with the kid that discovered...

00:09:07 ◼   ► Yes, the kid that discovered it and then the parent wrote that big letter and then Apple

00:09:11 ◼   ► tried to brush it off and then they eventually had an executive go to the house.

00:09:15 ◼   ► They had a photo op or something, right?

00:09:18 ◼   ► Yeah, and that they named the kid and I think that they gave them money from the bounty

00:09:22 ◼   ► program if I remember rightly.

00:09:24 ◼   ► It wasn't just that they had this bad bug, they tried to like, and there's another story

00:09:28 ◼   ► like this later on in the year, Apple tried to brush it away and it got way worse.

00:09:34 ◼   ► - Yeah, they ended up having a software update.

00:09:37 ◼   ► I think they ended up turning off group FaceTime.

00:09:40 ◼   ► - They turned off FaceTime, yes.

00:09:42 ◼   ► - Yeah, until you ran the update

00:09:43 ◼   ► and they never re-enabled it for this old version of iOS.

00:09:46 ◼   ► Yeah, not Apple's finest handling of a situation like this,

00:09:51 ◼   ► but definitely an unusual story.

00:09:54 ◼   ► We don't see this sort of,

00:09:56 ◼   ► there's definitely quality control issues,

00:09:57 ◼   ► but this is a pretty big deal.

00:10:00 ◼   ► - Yeah, 'cause it was to the point

00:10:02 ◼   ► where they had to server side disable a feature of the iPhone.

00:10:06 ◼   ► And as well, if you remember, Group FaceTime was hilariously late as well.

00:10:13 ◼   ► So it came late and then had this massive flaw.

00:10:18 ◼   ► So yeah, that was not a good time.

00:10:19 ◼   ► I remember testing Group FaceTime with you all and John, I think when it was in beta,

00:10:24 ◼   ► and I saw my phone being hot to the touch, like this isn't ready yet.

00:10:28 ◼   ► I was in Seattle, I think, and we tried it all out and like it was just it was

00:10:32 ◼   ► Has anybody ever used it? Group FaceTime?

00:10:35 ◼   ► No, I've never used it. But I very rarely use FaceTime to be honest. Like I very rarely video call anybody.

00:10:40 ◼   ► Maybe if I did that I would if you know what I mean, right? Like if I was

00:10:46 ◼   ► If my family were a FaceTime family, which I know a lot of people are, I could imagine us doing multiple people

00:10:53 ◼   ► on a call, but like we just never do that.

00:10:55 ◼   ► Yeah, I agree.

00:10:57 ◼   ► In January we also had Facebook's VPN app.

00:11:02 ◼   ► It came out that they were using that to collect a lot of data on people.

00:11:06 ◼   ► It was called Project Atlas.

00:11:08 ◼   ► It was basically Facebook went around to a bunch of teenagers and paid them.

00:11:12 ◼   ► That's a good name if we're going to spy on people.

00:11:15 ◼   ► Project Atlas.

00:11:16 ◼   ► And it was previously called Onavo?

00:11:18 ◼   ► Yeah, that's the Onavo VPN thing.

00:11:21 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:11:22 ◼   ► But the problem was with this, as you may remember, this wasn't in the App Store.

00:11:26 ◼   ► it was being spread around with an enterprise certificate,

00:11:30 ◼   ► which Facebook were publicly getting people into.

00:11:33 ◼   ► Like they had like Instagram ads and stuff like that

00:11:36 ◼   ► to get people to sign up for this.

00:11:39 ◼   ► And then they were installing an app

00:11:40 ◼   ► with an enterprise certificate,

00:11:41 ◼   ► which made Apple revoke Facebook's enterprise certificate

00:11:45 ◼   ► completely for a period of time while they fixed it.

00:11:49 ◼   ► And if you remember, they also did it to Google as well.

00:11:51 ◼   ► - Which basically broke Facebook

00:11:53 ◼   ► because they used that certificate

00:11:54 ◼   ► on all their internal apps.

00:11:56 ◼   ► and we've been to Facebook's campus, right?

00:11:58 ◼   ► You need an app to order food or do all these things.

00:12:01 ◼   ► And from accounts in the company,

00:12:03 ◼   ► it basically just meant no one could do anything for a while.

00:12:06 ◼   ► And then Facebook and Apple came to some sort of agreement.

00:12:10 ◼   ► Because I mean, look, these companies,

00:12:12 ◼   ► as kind of gross as it is, they do all need each other.

00:12:15 ◼   ► The iPhone has to have the Facebook app on it

00:12:17 ◼   ► to be a smartphone people want.

00:12:20 ◼   ► But they got it worked out, I guess.

00:12:23 ◼   ► And it did spin off a bunch of discussion

00:12:26 ◼   ► about these enterprise certificates

00:12:28 ◼   ► and Apple's rules about them are actually pretty strict

00:12:31 ◼   ► in how a lot of big companies were basically

00:12:34 ◼   ► just doing what they wanted to with them.

00:12:36 ◼   ► So I don't know if they've made any big changes

00:12:39 ◼   ► to that program, but I think these companies

00:12:41 ◼   ► are gonna be a lot more careful about using them

00:12:45 ◼   ► with public people in the future.

00:12:48 ◼   ► - Yeah, 'cause you gotta imagine, right,

00:12:50 ◼   ► like Apple did kind of bring down the hammer a little bit,

00:12:52 ◼   ► not as much as some people would have liked, but they did,

00:12:55 ◼   ► there were ramifications. Yeah.

00:12:57 ◼   ► I wouldn't be surprised if those ramifications came with a more serious threat,

00:13:01 ◼   ► right? Just like we catch you doing this again. It's over.

00:13:06 ◼   ► Which is within Apple's right. You know, it's, it's their,

00:13:09 ◼   ► their right to protect their platform and Facebook man.

00:13:13 ◼   ► Cause I'm pretty sure that the,

00:13:14 ◼   ► like the agreement terms of the enterprise program is that you cannot use

00:13:20 ◼   ► program to make publicly available software.

00:13:23 ◼   ► Right.

00:13:23 ◼   ► What they were doing.

00:13:24 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:13:24 ◼   ► They're made for internal testing and depending on how you read it, even

00:13:30 ◼   ► Facebook's use of it for like internal apps for their employees, like even that

00:13:35 ◼   ► may be beyond the scope of what Apple intends with these certificates.

00:13:39 ◼   ► So, yeah, I think that, I mean, I don't know, there are people smart and

00:13:42 ◼   ► in me, but like, I think ultimately there needs to be a method of only being able

00:13:46 ◼   ► to distribute these over like a net company's network.

00:13:50 ◼   ► And that's the only way it can be done.

00:13:52 ◼   ► You know, you have to be connected to this Facebook Wi-Fi, corporate Wi-Fi,

00:13:57 ◼   ► and it can be distributed that way.

00:13:58 ◼   ► Otherwise, you can't. I think having these things distributed over the Internet is a problem.

00:14:02 ◼   ► Or like, by cable or something, if it's for distributed workers, I don't know.

00:14:07 ◼   ► But it just feels like that it's not really a great system.

00:14:13 ◼   ► I think the Enterprise Certificate was actually just created so teams of developers could install the apps they were testing.

00:14:19 ◼   ► I don't think that they were it was created so like a

00:14:23 ◼   ► Company of a thousand people could have the app that they do have said at lunch that they just don't want to go into the public

00:14:29 ◼   ► That stuff should be done through web apps probably so that is that's January. That's January so we've on to February

00:14:37 ◼   ► So Angela Arendt leaves Apple and Deidre O'Brien assumes the retail role

00:14:43 ◼   ► Combining retail and people and the year of Steven

00:14:47 ◼   ► This is where Steven got drunk with power because we made our picks and then just a couple of weeks later the first

00:14:53 ◼   ► executive of the year left

00:14:55 ◼   ► Apple and it was surprising and it was one of those it was weird because it happened very quickly like

00:15:01 ◼   ► Angela's going, Deirdre's in place, Angela's gone, right? Like it wasn't like the Johnny thing where it's like it was

00:15:08 ◼   ► much more in advance

00:15:10 ◼   ► It seems like that they announced his departure before he actually left like Angela seemed to have been gone immediately. And of course

00:15:17 ◼   ► You may remember that this was also around the time that Apple started doing a lot of different things around the way that iPhones were

00:15:23 ◼   ► sold after a disappointing quarterly result the year before

00:15:26 ◼   ► and that the tea leaves and then some reports afterwards seemed to indicate that

00:15:32 ◼   ► Angela came in to do a specific job and to build Apple stores a specific way with with programs

00:15:39 ◼   ► But then Apple's business changed and the things that she was brought in to do

00:15:46 ◼   ► couldn't work anymore and they had to change a lot of stuff around the way that iPhones were sold and that the

00:15:51 ◼   ► Apple stores looked and they needed somebody different for that because it was not the role that Angela was brought in for and so

00:15:57 ◼   ► It seemed like that. It seemed like I don't know like an amicable parting of ways probably

00:16:01 ◼   ► Do we think the Apple stores have gotten better in terms of buying stuff or getting support? I haven't been there

00:16:09 ◼   ► I wouldn't say that. I mean I've never had terrible problems, but like

00:16:13 ◼   ► It's a thing that I've seen constant like, you know, it's like yes like that's

00:16:17 ◼   ► It is as bad as it's always been or as good as it's always been but the main thing that I've seen is like

00:16:23 ◼   ► Well, there's different signage and stuff in the Apple stores that more clearly spell out some stuff about the phones

00:16:28 ◼   ► Yes, they're trying to separate the phone line

00:16:30 ◼   ► Yeah and show people and there but then the biggest thing is

00:16:33 ◼   ► There are like these are the ways you can get an iPhone for cheaper than you thought supposed us all over the place

00:16:38 ◼   ► Yeah, I saw also I worked by

00:16:42 ◼   ► recently and I saw new signage for Apple TV+ that clearly explains like if you buy a new

00:16:49 ◼   ► device, you get a year of Apple TV+ and you get all these shows. It's like super like

00:16:55 ◼   ► clear language, you know, not aspirational posters or that kind of stuff, which I think

00:17:00 ◼   ► is good. I think it's good to, you know, to have a more pragmatic approach.

00:17:04 ◼   ► All right. So what else do we have? Reports of alternate app stores that use the Enterprise

00:17:11 ◼   ► certificate not being taken down by Apple. So TechCrunch were on a beat at this point

00:17:15 ◼   ► because the VPN app thing was a big exclusive for them. And then they kept having a bunch

00:17:21 ◼   ► of really great reports. And so they kept going and kept going. And then they found

00:17:25 ◼   ► that not only were companies using enterprise certificates, there were shady individuals

00:17:31 ◼   ► who were using the enterprise certificate program to create underground app stores to

00:17:37 ◼   ► distribute things that were against Apple's rules like pornographic applications, gambling

00:17:43 ◼   ► applications and other illegal and then also illegal activity stuff so people would download

00:17:50 ◼   ► a enterprise certificate and then they could get their hands on these different applications.

00:17:54 ◼   ► So this was like another thing that this program was being used for so that is gone.

00:18:03 ◼   ► And then Federico, I know your favorite story of the year. USB 3.0 and 3.1 merged under new USB 3.2 branding.

00:18:10 ◼   ► Yes, there's a great change. Basically, if things weren't already confusing before,

00:18:17 ◼   ► so the USB 3.0 spec was divided between USB 3.0 and 3.1, and 3.1 used to be split in 3.1 Gen 1,

00:18:31 ◼   ► which is 5 gigabits per second and 3.1 Gen 2, which is 10, which is also what the 2018 iPad Pro features.

00:18:40 ◼   ► Now, the USB, what's it called, the USB-IF, the implementers forum, decided to change USB 3.1 Gen 1

00:18:53 ◼   ► to USB 3.2 Gen 1 and USB... so basically upgrade them by one step each

00:19:02 ◼   ► so from 3.1 to 3.2 but still Gen 1 and Gen 2 and then what else did they do?

00:19:11 ◼   ► It was like super speed? Yeah that was the super speed branding right? Oh yeah now

00:19:16 ◼   ► there's also a thing called USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, which is 20 gigabits per second. And it's

00:19:25 ◼   ► known as SuperSpeed USB 20 gigabits per second.

00:19:30 ◼   ► My favorite speed.

00:19:33 ◼   ► So it's, you know, this is the worst. This is the, you know, engineers coming up with

00:19:40 ◼   ► names that make sense on a spreadsheet and then you gotta explain them to manufacturers.

00:19:46 ◼   ► So yeah, there you have it. If you're looking for the... I don't know of any Apple computers

00:19:52 ◼   ► or I mean the iPad Pro doesn't. USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, 20 gigabits per second. Does the Mac

00:19:59 ◼   ► Pro support this, Steven? Would you know if it supports 20 gigabits?

00:20:05 ◼   ► I'm not sure off the top of my head.

00:20:09 ◼   ► the next iPad Pro will. So yeah, I remember I had, I really struggled to write the linked

00:20:16 ◼   ► post for these on Mac stories because of all the names and, you know, super speed USB.

00:20:22 ◼   ► Yeah. But this does tie in, like even that question

00:20:26 ◼   ► you just asked, there's a problem with like USB-C and Thunderbolt. It is almost impossible

00:20:31 ◼   ► for you to know easily what you need and what supports what. It's like a nightmare. Because

00:20:37 ◼   ► Because then as well companies don't say.

00:20:39 ◼   ► So something that we should mention, like we've been referencing for a while, is like

00:20:44 ◼   ► will the Pro, like we talk about the Pro display XDR right?

00:20:48 ◼   ► Last week.

00:20:49 ◼   ► Well the Pro display XDR will be, like you can use it with an iMac Pro, even though Apple

00:20:54 ◼   ► doesn't list it.

00:20:55 ◼   ► You can also use it with an iPad Pro, which was Federico's prophecy from a while back.

00:21:00 ◼   ► So like, Apple, like so companies don't even list what you, like these things properly

00:21:04 ◼   ► for whatever reason.

00:21:06 ◼   ► And it's because it will run at 5K, not 6K, but it does work.

00:21:10 ◼   ► So it's like, this is the whole problem with Thunderbolt and USB-C and USB-3 and all that

00:21:15 ◼   ► nonsense.

00:21:16 ◼   ► It's a nightmare.

00:21:17 ◼   ► Some real-time follow-up, the I/O card in the Mac Pro, the USB-A ports are only to 5

00:21:25 ◼   ► gigabytes per second.

00:21:26 ◼   ► Really?

00:21:27 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

00:21:28 ◼   ► So they're not even the 10.

00:21:29 ◼   ► But it also has two Thunderbolt ports, so you get the 10 gigabit there, but if you want

00:21:32 ◼   ► the 5 gigabit, USB-A is going to be slower.

00:21:35 ◼   ► Alright, it's a bummer.

00:21:38 ◼   ► And then lastly in February the Galaxy S10 launched with an ultrasonic fingerprint reader.

00:21:43 ◼   ► I put this in here because it just looked kind of like a note of record.

00:21:47 ◼   ► I weren't the first one to do it but they were the biggest market phone to do it first.

00:21:53 ◼   ► There were some phones from other manufacturers that had this but now it's become more of

00:21:56 ◼   ► a thing on Android as phones are going edge to edge.

00:22:00 ◼   ► They're putting their fingerprint readers onto the screen.

00:22:02 ◼   ► And the reason that I want to put this in there is because it's still very possible

00:22:06 ◼   ► that we could end up with one of these and an iPhone in the future.

00:22:11 ◼   ► I would like it.

00:22:14 ◼   ► It'd be sweet.

00:22:15 ◼   ► Yeah, I would like it too.

00:22:16 ◼   ► All right, so that is February.

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00:24:05 ◼   ► Alright, it is March and we begin with Spotify,

00:24:10 ◼   ► launching a time to play fair campaign against Apple and filing a complaint with the European Commission,

00:24:18 ◼   ► which is a regulatory body that controls non-competitive practices in the market and whatnot.

00:24:27 ◼   ► Basically Spotify had a blog post written by CEO...

00:24:31 ◼   ► And they also created that whole website.

00:24:33 ◼   ► Yes, they had a blog post and a website at time2playfair.com,

00:24:38 ◼   ► essentially arguing that Apple was stifling innovation and competition via a few...

00:24:46 ◼   ► They basically mentioned a few issues.

00:24:48 ◼   ► Apple's commission of 30% from App Store subscriptions that

00:24:53 ◼   ► for services with recurring revenue and subscriptions like Spotify, the company was arguing that it's too much.

00:25:00 ◼   ► And they also mentioned the fact that Spotify users could not take advantage of

00:25:06 ◼   ► integrations with the

00:25:09 ◼   ► iPhone's operating system like Siri, for example. So this locked-in approach that Apple was using

00:25:15 ◼   ► to promote their own services like Apple music at the expense of third-party services like Spotify. There was a big

00:25:22 ◼   ► discussion on all tech blogs and

00:25:26 ◼   ► basically on all major news websites about Spotify launching this campaign.

00:25:31 ◼   ► Then I sort of I don't know what happened because doesn't feel like we've nothing has come out of this basically.

00:25:40 ◼   ► Well, Apple has allowed some stuff.

00:25:43 ◼   ► Apple has, yes, at WWDC with iOS 13, Apple opened up the Siri media intent to allow Spotify,

00:25:53 ◼   ► for example, or other music or podcast apps, to start playback with Siri.

00:26:00 ◼   ► So you can search the entire Spotify catalog with Siri, you can play music, you can play

00:26:04 ◼   ► playlists.

00:26:05 ◼   ► Obviously you don't have all of the commands that you have with Apple Music, but I guess it's a start.

00:26:11 ◼   ► And you can do, you know, if you want to play your discovery weekly with Siri, you can do that now.

00:26:16 ◼   ► But when it comes down to like the cotton stuff, well nothing's happened, so I guess we're assuming

00:26:21 ◼   ► something to come out of the European Commission if they accept the complaint from Spotify.

00:26:25 ◼   ► So the website is still up, time2playfair.com, there's a video, there's a few...

00:26:31 ◼   ► five fast facts about Apple's anti-competitive behavior.

00:26:36 ◼   ► So that happened, we talked about it.

00:26:40 ◼   ► I thought that, you know, I remember that Spotify

00:26:43 ◼   ► had a point about the fact that Apple

00:26:47 ◼   ► should have opened up the platform more,

00:26:49 ◼   ► and they did that, so that's fine about the money stuff.

00:26:52 ◼   ► Well, you know, somebody smarter than me

00:26:55 ◼   ► will decide whether that's anti-competitive or not.

00:26:59 ◼   ► - Yeah, the last that I can find is that

00:27:01 ◼   ► a EU commission started looking into this in May.

00:27:07 ◼   ► - Okay, so maybe they went on vacation afterwards.

00:27:12 ◼   ► - I think these things just move very, very slowly.

00:27:16 ◼   ► - So before the, spoiler alert,

00:27:20 ◼   ► there's gonna be an Apple media event in March,

00:27:23 ◼   ► but before that, Apple sort of cleared the deck

00:27:26 ◼   ► with a few announcements.

00:27:27 ◼   ► New iPad Air and iPad Mini.

00:27:29 ◼   ► So the iPad Mini hadn't received an update since 2015,

00:27:34 ◼   ► so big comeback four years later.

00:27:36 ◼   ► Updated CPU and home button, of course,

00:27:41 ◼   ► no Face ID, still Touch ID.

00:27:43 ◼   ► And the iPad Air was essentially the old 10.5 inch iPad Pro,

00:27:48 ◼   ► but with a new name and a cheaper price.

00:27:50 ◼   ► So the 10.5 iPad Pro basically became the new iPad Air,

00:27:55 ◼   ► which is a great deal for a lot of people, I think.

00:27:59 ◼   ► Confusing name, I know, we've had iPad,

00:28:02 ◼   ► now we have iPad and iPad Air,

00:28:04 ◼   ► and iPad Mini and iPad Pro,

00:28:06 ◼   ► but I think it's a, you know, the iPad Air is a great deal.

00:28:09 ◼   ► It supports the Apple Pencil, the first generation one.

00:28:12 ◼   ► Doesn't have all the fancy stuff of the new,

00:28:14 ◼   ► of the 2018, well, not new anymore,

00:28:17 ◼   ► of the 2018 iPad Pro, like USB-C,

00:28:20 ◼   ► or the second generation Apple Pencil,

00:28:22 ◼   ► or the fancy, what do they call it?

00:28:24 ◼   ► Liquid Retina Display, but it's again, supports the Smart Keyboard, supports the first generation

00:28:30 ◼   ► Pencil, runs iPadOS, I think it's a great deal, people seem to like it. I absolutely

00:28:40 ◼   ► do not remember the fact that the iMac was updated, but I do remember the episode of

00:28:45 ◼   ► Upgrade about it, Myke. Thank you. Yeah, this was when we interviewed

00:28:49 ◼   ► Collinoviale. It was by and large a relatively regular update to the iMac

00:28:55 ◼   ► but I was just really proud of this episode so I put it in the year update.

00:29:01 ◼   ► AirPods 2, we were really happy to see this an update to the AirPods three

00:29:08 ◼   ► years after the original ones. I remember we were talking back then about the fact

00:29:13 ◼   ► that my AirPods were dying just in time for the new ones to arrive.

00:29:17 ◼   ► Yep, we were all starting to have battery problems, but yours were in a pretty bad situation.

00:29:21 ◼   ► Yeah, and basically the week after one of them completely died, Apple announced the new AirPods.

00:29:28 ◼   ► I guess the most notable feature of the new AirPods is the option to get a wireless charging case,

00:29:36 ◼   ► which to this day I still love the fact that I can just put the AirPods on a wireless charging mat

00:29:42 ◼   ► and they charge. That's great. They also had support for voice activation for Siri. So

00:29:49 ◼   ► overall I think people liked the second generation AirPods. I remember a few folks complaining

00:29:56 ◼   ► about the price increase for the wireless charging option, but you know, you got an

00:30:01 ◼   ► extra and you pay for the extra. So we all love our second generation AirPods, but wait

00:30:06 ◼   ► until we talk about the AirPods Pro.

00:30:08 ◼   ► Hey, some of us are still using our AirPods 2.

00:30:11 ◼   ► Oh yeah.

00:30:12 ◼   ► Oh yeah.

00:30:13 ◼   ► Oh yeah.

00:30:14 ◼   ► I'm not a pro boy.

00:30:15 ◼   ► You're not a pro.

00:30:16 ◼   ► Period.

00:30:17 ◼   ► Wow.

00:30:18 ◼   ► Yes.

00:30:19 ◼   ► There was an Apple...

00:30:21 ◼   ► This is, I guess, one of the most surprising announcements or maybe just changes of the

00:30:27 ◼   ► year.

00:30:28 ◼   ► The fact that Apple had a service-focused event in March.

00:30:31 ◼   ► They talked about Apple News+, the Apple Card, and Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade.

00:30:38 ◼   ► So a bunch of services all at once.

00:30:40 ◼   ► Apple News+ rolled it out with, what was that, 100 magazines in theory?

00:30:45 ◼   ► So you pay a subscription.

00:30:48 ◼   ► Is that...

00:30:49 ◼   ► So I don't remember because I stopped paying for this months ago.

00:30:52 ◼   ► $9.99 a month, right?

00:30:54 ◼   ► Yes, it is.

00:30:55 ◼   ► A single monthly fee of $9.99.

00:30:57 ◼   ► So $10, 300 magazines.

00:31:00 ◼   ► I remember that night when I went through Apple News and compiled the list of all the

00:31:04 ◼   ► magazines that I could find. I don't remember why I did that to myself, but I did. So largely

00:31:09 ◼   ► a disappointment, I would say. The service is struggling to gain traction. There's a

00:31:16 ◼   ► few reports that are saying it's not really working out for publishers. Some other reports

00:31:20 ◼   ► are saying, well, some publishers do make some money off of Apple News Plus. The experience,

00:31:26 ◼   ► from a customer point of view, really horrible.

00:31:30 ◼   ► The fact that the news app is this mesh of

00:31:34 ◼   ► original news content from publications

00:31:38 ◼   ► that are using the Apple News format,

00:31:40 ◼   ► including some of the magazines from Apple News Plus,

00:31:43 ◼   ► but then some other magazines are essentially glorified PDFs

00:31:47 ◼   ► that you need to actually read the scanned page

00:31:50 ◼   ► inside the news app.

00:31:51 ◼   ► You need to zoom in because it's not text, it's a PDF.

00:31:55 ◼   ► So not a great experience, not a great pricing model.

00:32:00 ◼   ► This is a, Apple News Plus is probably ripe

00:32:05 ◼   ► for being bundled with some other service eventually.

00:32:08 ◼   ► - Do you remember the Apple News app on the Mac

00:32:11 ◼   ► allowed for people to just rip the PDFs?

00:32:13 ◼   ► - For a period of time, you could find the PDFs

00:32:16 ◼   ► on Apple's CDN and just download the PDF documents

00:32:19 ◼   ► for paid for publications for free using Safari.

00:32:24 ◼   ► So really good job there. Apple card. I really don't know how to describe this. So Apple

00:32:28 ◼   ► partnered with Goldman Sachs, which is a bank in America. Yes. Kind of. It's like a financial

00:32:35 ◼   ► institution. Is that a better to say that? Better to say that. So they made a credit

00:32:40 ◼   ► card and I'm going to get this wrong. I saw an Apple card in person recently. And I touched

00:32:45 ◼   ► one finally. It's a heavy card. They're cool. Yes. They're cool. It's very cool. What's

00:32:51 ◼   ► So this is my best description as an Italian with no experience about American banks and

00:32:55 ◼   ► credit cards. What sets it apart is the integration with the iPhone, the fact that it's made by

00:33:00 ◼   ► Apple so it's all integrated with the Wallet app, but it's got also the daily cashback

00:33:06 ◼   ► feature. So basically you spend money, you get money back. You don't get points, you

00:33:10 ◼   ► don't get rewards, you get actual cash in your Apple Wallet.

00:33:14 ◼   ► Yep, that's perfectly explained.

00:33:17 ◼   ► Okay, cool.

00:33:18 ◼   ► Good job.

00:33:19 ◼   ► you. And finally Apple TV+, of course after two, three years of rumors and

00:33:26 ◼   ► reports from Hollywood publications, it's real, it's coming at the end of the year.

00:33:31 ◼   ► Later we would know it was gonna be November, or maybe they said in March it

00:33:34 ◼   ► was gonna be November. Do you remember, Myke? Did they say it's November or just

00:33:38 ◼   ► this fall? They said... I think they said later. Yeah. Yeah. But we saw... Yeah, the day of

00:33:47 ◼   ► of November came in September. Yeah. Okay. For the same fair at the arcade. They were

00:33:52 ◼   ► both just like later this year and the dates came in the September event for the WWDC.

00:33:59 ◼   ► In hindsight, has that announcement event aged well in your minds? You know,

00:34:03 ◼   ► they had all the people on stage and like talked about their shows, but didn't show any clips.

00:34:08 ◼   ► It's very strange. I thought it was fine. I mean, but again, like I was paying way more attention.

00:34:12 ◼   ► I knew all of the shows that they were announcing anyway. So like, I don't know how it came across

00:34:16 ◼   ► for people that weren't paying the level of attention that I did, but I still felt like

00:34:20 ◼   ► they did a good job, I think.

00:34:23 ◼   ► And are you all watching anything on Apple TV+?

00:34:27 ◼   ► The first season of most of the shows is wrapping up right about now.

00:34:30 ◼   ► Yeah, so by the end of this week, maybe the answer is no to that question.

00:34:34 ◼   ► Right, it's all done.

00:34:36 ◼   ► But what have you watched?

00:34:39 ◼   ► For All Mankind.

00:34:40 ◼   ► Yes.

00:34:41 ◼   ► Very good.

00:34:42 ◼   ► Which is just like, no spoilers, but like, Jesus!

00:34:45 ◼   ► I'm two episodes behind, so no spoilers. Thank you.

00:34:48 ◼   ► Right, but that's all I'll say then. And the morning show, I think, has been consistently

00:34:54 ◼   ► good. I think that For All Mankind started good and has gotten really good. And see,

00:35:04 ◼   ► I watched the first episode, didn't like it. I've watched a handful of episodes of

00:35:07 ◼   ► Dickinson. Like, I will finish it, but I'm in no real rush to. And I want to try out

00:35:13 ◼   ► the the the crime podcast drama one to be told. Because the trailer looked good I thought

00:35:19 ◼   ► the premise is ridiculous but the trailer looked good so I want to give it a shot. Is

00:35:23 ◼   ► that the one where the podcaster murders somebody or something? It's where like a murder podcaster

00:35:27 ◼   ► goes back because she realizes that like she put someone in prison and then she realizes

00:35:33 ◼   ► that she shouldn't have. I mean look who hasn't accidentally done that with with their podcast?

00:35:37 ◼   ► No one's seen Kyle Le Gray for a while. It's basically a TV show about crime podcasts follow-up

00:35:45 ◼   ► when you think about it.

00:35:48 ◼   ► Oh my God, yeah. It's like it's weaponized follow-up, I guess. Criminalized follow-up.

00:35:54 ◼   ► Most important follow-up, right? When you get someone out of prison.

00:35:58 ◼   ► Actually, you know, I should go back to this topic. Maybe the guy's not guilty. Apple Arcade

00:36:05 ◼   ► was also announced and I think we were all pretty impressed with the fact that Apple

00:36:09 ◼   ► was promising a service of regional, well not regional but at least exclusive on iOS

00:36:16 ◼   ► games, some regional games, a hundred games, I think they mentioned a hundred games, right?

00:36:22 ◼   ► And they had, yeah, and they showed a slide of a bunch of publishers, there were demos,

00:36:27 ◼   ► yeah it was good, it was good. So that was the Apple services event. Here's a question

00:36:32 ◼   ► before we move on to the next month, which is April, because that's how calendars work.

00:36:37 ◼   ► Do we think that Apple will have a services event again?

00:36:43 ◼   ► It's possible. So there's a thing in the media industry called up-fronts, where there's like

00:36:50 ◼   ► a certain time of year, it happens a couple of times a year, where you are showing off

00:36:54 ◼   ► typically, traditionally, you are showing off what shows you have to interest advertisers,

00:37:01 ◼   ► But it's also over time become media.

00:37:04 ◼   ► So you are showing your products to advertisers, so they'll sponsor you or give you advertisements

00:37:10 ◼   ► for your shows.

00:37:11 ◼   ► And or because all the media is there as well, so you want them to see the content that you

00:37:15 ◼   ► have coming.

00:37:17 ◼   ► I would be really surprised if Apple did not participate in these types of things.

00:37:24 ◼   ► But knowing them, they wouldn't want to go to the turf of everybody else and do it.

00:37:29 ◼   ► But they might.

00:37:30 ◼   ► And they have shown some willingness to bend to the TV industry.

00:37:35 ◼   ► But I expect that there will be another event for Apple TV+ next year where they show off

00:37:40 ◼   ► some of their upcoming programming for the year.

00:37:43 ◼   ► Mm hmm.

00:37:44 ◼   ► No, it makes sense.

00:37:45 ◼   ► I mean, but there is there could also be if they wanted to do it and like, oh, and here's

00:37:47 ◼   ► a bunch of Apple Arcade stuff that we're going to do and like, and or tie in a media thing,

00:37:54 ◼   ► services thing in with other stuff.

00:37:56 ◼   ► So it might become part of a like the music event.

00:37:58 ◼   ► know like the music event ultimately started to become an event that had more

00:38:04 ◼   ► things in it yeah so that might be the same all right we're gonna move into

00:38:08 ◼   ► April this next thing actually happened in March but I it would be awkward for

00:38:14 ◼   ► Federico to talk about it because he got a lovely quote tweet from Tim Cook we

00:38:21 ◼   ► spoke about it in April it happened on March 28th yeah I apologize yeah that's

00:38:25 ◼   ► I saw the date and I decided to keep it in April.

00:38:28 ◼   ► Federica, you had tweeted about setting up the ECG stuff in the Apple Watch, which is

00:38:34 ◼   ► really cool.

00:38:35 ◼   ► And Federica, you got a lovely Tim Cook tweet saying that they were thrilled that their

00:38:40 ◼   ► new heart health features are available in Europe and Hong Kong.

00:38:44 ◼   ► That's cool.

00:38:45 ◼   ► That was cool.

00:38:46 ◼   ► Oh, that was also in the week where Tim was releasing all his products all the time.

00:38:51 ◼   ► Do you remember when he was just over the shoulder shots of him just like with different

00:38:56 ◼   ► products in his hands?

00:38:57 ◼   ► Oh yeah, that happened this year.

00:38:59 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:39:00 ◼   ► That was in March.

00:39:01 ◼   ► The best part about that tweet, I mean besides the tweet alone, which is awesome, is the

00:39:05 ◼   ► fact that so many people tweeted at me saying things along the lines of "you made it?"

00:39:14 ◼   ► As if like now because of a single tweet my career is like complete.

00:39:19 ◼   ► I finally made it.

00:39:20 ◼   ► Congrats.

00:39:21 ◼   ► It's not like, I mean, the way I would see that is it is a very selective, very cool

00:39:29 ◼   ► hill to have climbed over.

00:39:33 ◼   ► To get a, I mean, I think most people like to get an acknowledgement like this on social

00:39:39 ◼   ► media from any of the Apple executives is something that a lot of people in the technology

00:39:44 ◼   ► industry aspire to achieve.

00:39:48 ◼   ► And that was one of them.

00:39:49 ◼   ► Tim Cook tweet is like a particularly rare tweet. Yeah, that's what people meant by that. It's cool. You should feel good about it

00:39:55 ◼   ► Yeah, I do up up next we have the

00:39:58 ◼   ► power beats Pro being announced

00:40:02 ◼   ► In in early April we've my wife has been on the show to review them. They seem popular think people like them

00:40:09 ◼   ► There of course the the wireless power beats with the the air potted goodness in them, but completely independent with the ear hooks

00:40:15 ◼   ► so they're sort of designed for

00:40:18 ◼   ► Activity and working out and that sort of thing. So they seem like people are happy with that

00:40:22 ◼   ► We also have Myke is another one from March Apple

00:40:26 ◼   ► On March 29th, not April. Hey, you know canceled. I remember saying I've guys don't worry

00:40:33 ◼   ► I've gone through an added I spent the time and gone through and added all this you could have checked it

00:40:38 ◼   ► I did it. I did not know this is based upon when we spoke about it on the show

00:40:43 ◼   ► So we spoke about an April air power is dead

00:40:46 ◼   ► This is an article from Matt pans Reno over on TechCrunch. There's a quote in here

00:40:51 ◼   ► that

00:40:53 ◼   ► After much effort we concluded that airpower will not achieve our high standards and we have canceled the project

00:40:59 ◼   ► Yeah, poor airpower

00:41:04 ◼   ► Michael's right

00:41:06 ◼   ► Did you say it was dead? I was the only one out of three of us to thought it was completely dead. Yeah

00:41:11 ◼   ► So we had a prediction, one of the predictions included Air Palace somewhere.

00:41:18 ◼   ► I was very convinced that it was not going to live on, because once the information started

00:41:24 ◼   ► coming out about how complicated it was to build, like how many coils were needed, I

00:41:29 ◼   ► was convinced that there was no way that it could live, because it just seemed like it

00:41:34 ◼   ► was an incredibly complicated manufacturing problem, and that was what it seemed like

00:41:39 ◼   ► they could not have overcome. Yeah, so it's dead and gone, rest in peace Airpower.

00:41:47 ◼   ► We also saw leaks, beginning leaks of iOS 13 including dark mode and multitasking.

00:41:56 ◼   ► Federico, when this broke what did you what did you think? I thought the dark

00:42:03 ◼   ► mode. This was the 9 to 5 Mac. They had a multiple day long thing. This was the

00:42:10 ◼   ► first of those. Yeah, I remember being surprised by the details on the

00:42:16 ◼   ► undue gestures and the font management because those looked very

00:42:20 ◼   ► specific, to have specific gestures and details about fonts. What I

00:42:30 ◼   ► But I guess what I was really excited to see was the idea that, and it didn't pan out actually

00:42:34 ◼   ► in practice, that on iPad with multitasking you could be, according to 95 mic you could

00:42:41 ◼   ► be able to detach popovers from the UI and have these floating panels that you can rearrange

00:42:50 ◼   ► on screen.

00:42:51 ◼   ► And that didn't happen with iPadOS.

00:42:54 ◼   ► So that's possible that Apple maybe punted the feature and that's still coming next year.

00:42:59 ◼   ► saw before, there was this open source framework made by a guy who now works at

00:43:04 ◼   ► Apple, at the Xcode team of all places, called PanelKit, that allowed developers

00:43:10 ◼   ► to implement these floating panels, like take a popover, long-press it, detach it,

00:43:16 ◼   ► and resize it, and place it on screen, do whatever you want. I

00:43:20 ◼   ► would have liked to see that, and I still think it's a good idea, especially if you

00:43:25 ◼   ► have a big iPad and you want to customize the interface and the elements

00:43:30 ◼   ► that you see according to your taste and needs, that'd be nice, but that didn't

00:43:35 ◼   ► happen. I was really excited to see that, but it didn't happen. But yeah, otherwise

00:43:39 ◼   ► they got it all right, I think, including the new volume HUD. That also happened.

00:43:44 ◼   ► Yeah, and they redesigned the Reminders app, so there was a bunch of information

00:43:48 ◼   ► here that actually was correct. I have never, and I still have not gotten used

00:43:54 ◼   ► to that three-finger tap gesture.

00:43:55 ◼   ► Oh, really?

00:43:56 ◼   ► Oh, I use it all the time.

00:43:58 ◼   ► It's so nice.

00:43:58 ◼   ► I just haven't got used to it yet.

00:44:01 ◼   ► Same as with, like, the changes to the way

00:44:03 ◼   ► the text selection works.

00:44:04 ◼   ► Oh, yeah, that's horrible.

00:44:05 ◼   ► Text selection is so bad.

00:44:06 ◼   ► They should just go back to the way that it used to be.

00:44:08 ◼   ► I cannot select--

00:44:10 ◼   ► Jeremy Burge was tweeting about this recently.

00:44:12 ◼   ► I cannot select text reliably anymore.

00:44:15 ◼   ► It's effectively become impossible to move the cursor

00:44:18 ◼   ► exactly where you want it to be.

00:44:20 ◼   ► But even just, they have the news like intelligent or smart text selection, which is nice in that if you double tap something that is detected to be a specific piece of data, like a person's name or a company name or a song, and you double tap, the whole thing gets selected, which is nice.

00:44:42 ◼   ► So if you have something like Fallout Boy, for example,

00:44:44 ◼   ► and you double tap anywhere near that,

00:44:48 ◼   ► the entire three words get selected.

00:44:50 ◼   ► So that's nice because it's recognized

00:44:52 ◼   ► to be a band name, Steven.

00:44:54 ◼   ► There are musicians.

00:44:55 ◼   ► - Got it. - Yeah.

00:44:58 ◼   ► But like the whole thing is just so fiddly now

00:45:02 ◼   ► and you don't have the magnification loop anymore,

00:45:04 ◼   ► which I still, and I wrote this in my review,

00:45:07 ◼   ► I don't understand why the magnification loop

00:45:09 ◼   ► had to be removed.

00:45:10 ◼   ► This was the feature that allowed you to see

00:45:12 ◼   ► zoomed-in view of what you were selecting, because your finger is covering the text that you're selecting.

00:45:20 ◼   ► It only made sense. It's been available since the iPhone was able to select text.

00:45:24 ◼   ► So with iOS 3, iPhone OS 3 maybe, 4, years ago, many many years ago. And now it's gone, for no good reason.

00:45:32 ◼   ► Like, you can still have a magnification loop, it's fine, and now you're in a situation where you select text,

00:45:40 ◼   ► if you can, and when you do, you cannot see what's underneath your finger because the loop is gone.

00:45:46 ◼   ► I don't get it. Yeah, it's way too complicated. I don't like it. I've tried and I haven't wanted

00:45:51 ◼   ► to talk about it, but I really, really don't like it. Myke, this month also brought the best news of

00:45:58 ◼   ► the year. Wonderful/terrible Galaxy Fold. And since you're a Galaxy Fold enthusiast,

00:46:04 ◼   ► tell us what happened this spring. Two things happened in April. The first Galaxy Fold review

00:46:10 ◼   ► started dropping and then all of the devices immediately started breaking.

00:46:15 ◼   ► So we had, there were a couple of issues, Dieter Bohn had a problem where some dust

00:46:19 ◼   ► got in the hinge and broke the screen of his and then other like various media types, YouTubers,

00:46:25 ◼   ► reporters peeled off what they thought was a screen protector on the device and it actually

00:46:30 ◼   ► peeled the whole screen off and all the phones broke and then Samsung promptly first said

00:46:35 ◼   ► they were going to continue charging on and then they didn't and they

00:46:40 ◼   ► unfortunately delayed the phone at that point. I say unfortunately, I say

00:46:44 ◼   ► fortunately delayed the phone. They took the time to get it right, like to fix

00:46:48 ◼   ► some of the problems and make the phone better and it came out later on in the

00:46:52 ◼   ► year. And is yours broken? Mine is going strong and I as I said like I play with

00:46:57 ◼   ► it quite a lot and I am not careful with it by design, right? Like I'm not trying

00:47:02 ◼   ► to like treat this thing with kid gloves right like I I use it like I would any

00:47:09 ◼   ► device and I think it's great I'm so excited for the razor the folding razor

00:47:17 ◼   ► oh yeah the Motorola hmm it does look cool anyway I get the best

00:47:23 ◼   ► new story of the year from May Warren Buffett paper wizard game of the year

00:47:29 ◼   ► Absolutely.

00:47:30 ◼   ► I'm going to say that this is, there is a travesty, travesty in Max Story Select, which

00:47:37 ◼   ► we'll talk about later on, that it did not, that Warren Buffett Paper Wizard was not even

00:47:42 ◼   ► considered.

00:47:43 ◼   ► I think that this is a travesty and I'm going to be writing a letter, a strongly worded

00:47:48 ◼   ► letter to the editor in chief of Max Stories about this.

00:47:52 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:47:53 ◼   ► Brooke, I think it's just a, just a disaster.

00:47:55 ◼   ► This created one of my very favorite episodes of connected where we dug deep into Warren Buffett's kind of hope thing

00:48:03 ◼   ► Oh, yeah, and we're losing our minds as we learn more and more about war. He's a strange individual

00:48:08 ◼   ► He likes his coke a certain way and I mean coca-cola

00:48:11 ◼   ► You know, he has very is a man of particular taste

00:48:14 ◼   ► This warren buffett. So super interesting character in a bunch of ways actually Warren Buffett

00:48:20 ◼   ► But I will recommend to you guys if you have not seen the documentary Inside Bill's Brain

00:48:25 ◼   ► on Netflix, it's the Bill Gates documentary.

00:48:29 ◼   ► Warren Buffett pops up in that a bunch, but it's actually just like a really interesting

00:48:33 ◼   ► documentary that I recommend.

00:48:36 ◼   ► So we have Warren Buffett Paper Wizard where we also realised that nobody could beat Warren

00:48:41 ◼   ► Buffett's score which is kind of like the most perfect thing.

00:48:45 ◼   ► And it's just also one of those really wonderful and weird Apple stories where someone was

00:48:49 ◼   ► made to do something that they didn't want to do and it's so fun to imagine how on earth

00:48:54 ◼   ► this thing was made.

00:48:56 ◼   ► And then Apple also updated the MacBook Pro, they tweaked the keyboard again and then extended

00:49:01 ◼   ► the keyboard service program to include that keyboard.

00:49:04 ◼   ► So still going well in May.

00:49:08 ◼   ► I think it is yet to be proven how those keyboards will age.

00:49:13 ◼   ► I have one of these MacBook Pros, one of the 2019 ones, and the keyboard's been totally

00:49:18 ◼   ► It may stay that way, but clearly they had to move away from it, and we'll talk about

00:49:23 ◼   ► that later in this episode.

00:49:24 ◼   ► This was the final revision, right, of the keyboard.

00:49:27 ◼   ► It was.

00:49:28 ◼   ► It was the one, so they had the first one.

00:49:30 ◼   ► They revised the MacBook Pro again, didn't they, but they kept the keyboard the same?

00:49:34 ◼   ► "MacbookPro_final_final_v3.pdf"

00:49:38 ◼   ► Underscore, we promise the keyboard's fixed, Underscore.

00:49:45 ◼   ► This is the one that they already had had the little rubber covers and then this change

00:49:51 ◼   ► included material changes and some people think, including iFixit, that the stainless

00:49:56 ◼   ► steel dome switch is tougher than maybe those were failing and causing some of the issues.

00:50:01 ◼   ► But mine has been fine.

00:50:03 ◼   ► Now I don't use it every day, but I do travel with it and it has been fine so far and my

00:50:08 ◼   ► 2016 failed within a few months and again, not a daily driver.

00:50:13 ◼   ► So far, mine's been fine, but it is under that extended keyboard service program, and

00:50:18 ◼   ► so I know that I'm cool if something does happen.

00:50:20 ◼   ► Halfway?

00:50:21 ◼   ► Halfway!

00:50:22 ◼   ► We're gonna jump back in to June, right after this break, where I talk about Pingdom.

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00:50:39 ◼   ► Come on!

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00:50:42 ◼   ► You know we have just terrified a bunch of our listeners who have realized they have

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00:50:49 ◼   ► I'm here to help.

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00:51:55 ◼   ► - In June, of course, WWDC happens,

00:51:59 ◼   ► and that is where I unveiled the tattoo

00:52:03 ◼   ► that I didn't get in June.

00:52:05 ◼   ► I actually got months before, so there was this whole story that I invented about the

00:52:11 ◼   ► fact that I was going to get a skin biopsy to help other people.

00:52:15 ◼   ► Because you're a terrible person.

00:52:17 ◼   ► I'm a terrible person.

00:52:19 ◼   ► So basically, try to understand my position here.

00:52:23 ◼   ► I got a weird fish tattoo like months before in April, so it was fully healed by WWDC,

00:52:31 ◼   ► But I needed to come up with a method to hide the fact that I had this tattoo in my inner...

00:52:40 ◼   ► What's this?

00:52:41 ◼   ► Bicep.

00:52:42 ◼   ► Part of the human body.

00:52:43 ◼   ► Bicep, yes.

00:52:44 ◼   ► Bicep.

00:52:45 ◼   ► Hide it.

00:52:46 ◼   ► So imagine this.

00:52:47 ◼   ► California in June, it's gonna be hot, you know?

00:52:49 ◼   ► Nice weather.

00:52:50 ◼   ► You don't wanna wear like a sweater or a long-sleeve shirt.

00:52:55 ◼   ► So I needed to hide this tattoo that is very visible on my bicep from Myke, who I was

00:53:01 ◼   ► sharing a hotel room with for four, five days actually. It's not like I just could walk

00:53:10 ◼   ► for five days with my left arm attached to my body without ever moving it. That would

00:53:15 ◼   ► have looked weird.

00:53:16 ◼   ► Nobody has ever contested that you needed some idea of which to hide this.

00:53:23 ◼   ► I need an excuse to put on a huge patch on my bicep and explain why. So...

00:53:30 ◼   ► But you never had to say that it was to assist with cancer diagnoses in other people.

00:53:39 ◼   ► Well, I needed to sell it and I thought that my history with cancer and stuff would avoid

00:53:50 ◼   ► any kind of question from people. And it did! It worked! It was like, yeah, I gotta...

00:53:53 ◼   ► I mean, yes, it definitely worked.

00:53:56 ◼   ► So my plan was to make everybody feel bad forever asking why I had a patch.

00:54:01 ◼   ► And that's it.

00:54:02 ◼   ► Nobody's ever going to ask again.

00:54:04 ◼   ► Perfect.

00:54:05 ◼   ► So I needed to come up with a story.

00:54:06 ◼   ► And I did.

00:54:07 ◼   ► And I kind of regret it because, you know, it's bad to lie, but it was for a good reason.

00:54:12 ◼   ► Because I wanted to unveil the tattoo at our live show for Connected Live.

00:54:18 ◼   ► And it was beautifully done.

00:54:20 ◼   ► Yes.

00:54:21 ◼   ► I'm very happy with the execution that also, by the way, involved a quiz during the show.

00:54:26 ◼   ► we had a little game where I had Steven jot down ideas. Well, not ideas, but answers to

00:54:33 ◼   ► a long question. Eventually those words would put together, they would take you to an Emojipedia

00:54:40 ◼   ► page. So I collaborated with Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia. And on that page, for the weird

00:54:47 ◼   ► fish emoji page, you could find the Max Stories link, you tap the Max Stories link and you

00:54:52 ◼   ► see the photos. Then I get up on stage and I remove my jacket and Myke looks at it too.

00:54:58 ◼   ► It was very nicely done, I think. Anyways, WWDC was also going on, of all things.

00:55:08 ◼   ► In my life, it really is just that WWDC was the also that year to this.

00:55:14 ◼   ► Yeah, a bunch of things happened. I interviewed Craig Federighi. That happened.

00:55:20 ◼   ► Oh yeah.

00:55:21 ◼   ► Yes, um

00:55:23 ◼   ► iPadOS was announced so

00:55:26 ◼   ► Apple announced that they were gonna split iOS in two iOS for iPhone and iPod touch I guess because it's still a thing and

00:55:33 ◼   ► iPadOS for iPads

00:55:35 ◼   ► They unveiled the Mac Pro the new Mac Pro. Yes, it did. Yes

00:55:41 ◼   ► Yep, and we got to interview Doug Brooks the product manager for that on Mac power users, which was really cool

00:55:47 ◼   ► Of course iOS 13 with dark mode and what else is new on the iPhone?

00:55:53 ◼   ► I mean the updated shortcuts app, a bunch of things really.

00:55:57 ◼   ► Yeah, Mac,

00:56:17 ◼   ► app was new, a lot of things you can check out the... well we can talk about it later.

00:56:21 ◼   ► Well I completely forgot about this phone but Huawei postponed the Mate X foldable phone.

00:56:30 ◼   ► Is it still in a postponed state or did it actually come out?

00:56:34 ◼   ► I think the the latest that I'd noted is that they had released it in limited quantities in China only.

00:56:42 ◼   ► So it is essentially still not available, widely anyway.

00:56:46 ◼   ► anyway. Okay. There have been no reviews of this product in any outlet that I have come across.

00:56:51 ◼   ► Let's move on to July. Yeah, let's do that. We got the news that

00:56:58 ◼   ► Johnny Ive leaving Apple to form an independent design company, and this ends a really like

00:57:08 ◼   ► impressively long career at Apple. Of course, he was a close collaborator with Steve Jobs.

00:57:15 ◼   ► He designed the most iconic Apple products you can think of.

00:57:19 ◼   ► He designed Apple Park, like down to like the chairs

00:57:22 ◼   ► and the bolts holding doors on to bathroom stalls,

00:57:25 ◼   ► like all of it.

00:57:26 ◼   ► And I don't think this was a huge surprise

00:57:30 ◼   ► to people paying attention,

00:57:32 ◼   ► but they sort of made it official.

00:57:34 ◼   ► This was a process.

00:57:35 ◼   ► You mentioned Angela and the retail changes earlier.

00:57:40 ◼   ► With Johnny, it was different.

00:57:43 ◼   ► This was the beginning of a process

00:57:45 ◼   ► that really just ended at Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago.

00:57:47 ◼   ► He's out doing his thing.

00:57:49 ◼   ► He took some of the designers with him.

00:57:51 ◼   ► There's new bosses.

00:57:52 ◼   ► One change here is that now the industrial design

00:57:56 ◼   ► organization doesn't report to Tim Cook directly.

00:57:58 ◼   ► It reports to Jeff Williams, the chief operating officer,

00:58:03 ◼   ► and, assumedly, the CEO in waiting.

00:58:05 ◼   ► And so that is a huge structural change,

00:58:08 ◼   ► but this is a thing where we'll know over time

00:58:11 ◼   ► whether this was good or not for Apple.

00:58:14 ◼   ► I think a lot of people are happy with where a lot of Apple stuff is today, but that stuff

00:58:18 ◼   ► didn't start over the summer.

00:58:20 ◼   ► That stuff has been in the works for a while.

00:58:22 ◼   ► So I still feel like we're probably a couple of years out from really understanding what

00:58:27 ◼   ► this means.

00:58:28 ◼   ► But the most important thing is it means that the year of Steven continued, that my pick

00:58:32 ◼   ► of changes on Apple's executive team continued throughout the summer.

00:58:39 ◼   ► Johnny Ive.

00:58:40 ◼   ► Bye-bye.

00:58:41 ◼   ► Bye.

00:58:42 ◼   ► - Federica, I had totally forgotten about this,

00:58:45 ◼   ► but there was a feature for FaceTime

00:58:47 ◼   ► called attention correction,

00:58:49 ◼   ► and it was using machine learning and all sorts of stuff

00:58:52 ◼   ► that would basically,

00:58:53 ◼   ► if you were not looking at the FaceTime camera

00:58:55 ◼   ► on a FaceTime call, it would move your eyeballs,

00:58:58 ◼   ► like the focus of your eyes,

00:59:00 ◼   ► to make it look like it was looking in the camera.

00:59:02 ◼   ► - Yes. - Which,

00:59:03 ◼   ► people fell into two camps on this.

00:59:04 ◼   ► They thought it was really cool

00:59:05 ◼   ► and a good use of technology,

00:59:07 ◼   ► and other people thought it was super creepy.

00:59:10 ◼   ► But then you have a note in here

00:59:11 ◼   ► that says it was later removed. Is it not there? It's not here anymore. It never shipped.

00:59:17 ◼   ► Rightfully so because it was creepy. I fell into both camps. Creepy, but cool. It was

00:59:24 ◼   ► like a very interesting use of technology, very well implemented, but it never should

00:59:32 ◼   ► have shipped. It should have gone as far as "hey look what I can do, somebody show somebody

00:59:38 ◼   ► else at Apple and they go "that's cool, don't ever commit it" right? Like just leave it

00:59:43 ◼   ► at that. I think yeah sure it's cool. Which it kind of seems like that was the case in

00:59:46 ◼   ► the end really. When technology works, I think it's cool, but especially this kind of stuff

00:59:53 ◼   ► that is really impressive in real time, it's real time video communication so it's even

00:59:56 ◼   ► more impressive, but no, thanks. It's like the kind of thing you'd see at a TechCrunch

01:00:02 ◼   ► hackathon. Right? I'm so pleased you did that but don't ever release it to the world.

01:00:11 ◼   ► This is not a product. Yeah, yes, yes. Like a tech crunch disrupt or something.

01:00:16 ◼   ► Sure, sure, we could go with that. In July Apple revised the MacBook Air and the

01:00:25 ◼   ► 13 inch MacBook Pro so the MacBook Air became cheaper it got the true tone

01:00:35 ◼   ► display the only change here the bigger change though was with the entry-level

01:00:39 ◼   ► MacBook Pro it had previously been the MacBook Pro but had function keys it was

01:00:45 ◼   ► called the MacBook escape by Federico he named it not Marco and Federico loves

01:00:50 ◼   ► names of products done don't ever do this to me this is like the greatest

01:00:54 ◼   ► insult that you could ever say.

01:00:58 ◼   ► Yes.

01:00:59 ◼   ► Great scenes on the show that I like to come up with nicknames.

01:01:02 ◼   ► Sorry.

01:01:03 ◼   ► I'm sorry.

01:01:04 ◼   ► Please forgive me.

01:01:05 ◼   ► Uh, but it got a, uh, a guy touch bar and so there's that.

01:01:10 ◼   ► Um, so yeah, it kind of evened out that weirdness, that entry-level Mac book pro I think was

01:01:15 ◼   ► supposed to be the Mac book air replacement, but that never really took off.

01:01:19 ◼   ► So just an adjustment in the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro line up at the low end.

01:01:27 ◼   ► But this is not like people are still unhappy at this point with these MacBook Pros?

01:01:31 ◼   ► Yes.

01:01:32 ◼   ► Well, and these, I mean, to skip forward to today, these Macs still don't have the new

01:01:35 ◼   ► keyboard.

01:01:36 ◼   ► So there's still an asterisk with buying these.

01:01:40 ◼   ► But it's just, you know, also these came out like a week after the first rumors of the

01:01:45 ◼   ► 16 inch MacBook Pro from Inchi Kuo.

01:01:47 ◼   ► It was very close.

01:01:48 ◼   ► I mean, she quote published his first report and then like a week later the these revisions came out

01:01:52 ◼   ► Yeah, so like people already had in their mind this future product anyway. Mm-hmm

01:01:57 ◼   ► Also in July we had a visitor in Myke the Oracle

01:02:04 ◼   ► You were you were

01:02:07 ◼   ► You were quite sick and it was quite sick you wanted to be on the show

01:02:12 ◼   ► But we didn't wanna let you talk because you sounded like you were really like you should have been in bed

01:02:16 ◼   ► You shouldn't have you should not have hung out with us. I wasn't sick at that point, though

01:02:20 ◼   ► I'd only lost my voice and then the sickness came and it came bad, but after the voice losing

01:02:25 ◼   ► And so we we limited you to single word answers on that show and we thought about it

01:02:32 ◼   ► I think it came up on the show like we didn't talk about it before I don't think

01:02:35 ◼   ► No, we didn't and it's one of my favorite things that's ever happened on this show. Yes

01:02:40 ◼   ► And then somebody created mike the oracle dot space where you can go and ask a question like a magic eight ball and click

01:02:46 ◼   ► the button and it just gives you one of my one word answers which is just fantastic.

01:02:52 ◼   ► You will hear things like Amazon or complicated.

01:02:57 ◼   ► That was Marina Ivanova and Myke Apurin who made that website which is just the very best.

01:03:03 ◼   ► Yes, yes very very good very good website.

01:03:06 ◼   ► Oh my voice was so bad.

01:03:09 ◼   ► I just clicked the button and you just said the word groceries. I don't know why.

01:03:14 ◼   ► Yeah, I clicked it and it said "Bassy".

01:03:19 ◼   ► Yes, more.

01:03:23 ◼   ► It was a creative challenge for me that episode.

01:03:27 ◼   ► Because you would ask me quite complex questions and I was only allowed to say one thing.

01:03:32 ◼   ► An exercising restraint, Myke.

01:03:34 ◼   ► I'm pretty sure one of the words is "Jeremy" in there somewhere.

01:03:37 ◼   ► It is, yeah.

01:03:38 ◼   ► I remember that from somewhere.

01:03:40 ◼   ► That's really good.

01:03:41 ◼   ► If you haven't looked at that website, you should.

01:03:44 ◼   ► We end July with actually really big news.

01:03:47 ◼   ► So Qualcomm and Apple had been fighting for years

01:03:52 ◼   ► over modem patents and all sorts of stuff.

01:03:55 ◼   ► And basically this was a one-two punch.

01:03:57 ◼   ► Apple settled with Qualcomm

01:03:59 ◼   ► and then bought Intel's modem division.

01:04:02 ◼   ► And like one big move.

01:04:04 ◼   ► Apple for a while had been using Intel modems.

01:04:07 ◼   ► I think it started in some phones,

01:04:08 ◼   ► but it was like some phones had Intel, some had Qualcomm.

01:04:11 ◼   ► people thought one was better than the other.

01:04:13 ◼   ► I think we're clearly moving to a world

01:04:15 ◼   ► where Apple will just make the modems in their own phones

01:04:19 ◼   ► and with 5G coming, that's even more complicated.

01:04:22 ◼   ► But this was a huge move and again,

01:04:26 ◼   ► like the Johnny Ive thing, this will be something

01:04:28 ◼   ► that we find out over the next few years what it means,

01:04:31 ◼   ► but definitely huge headlines to end in July.

01:04:35 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's one of these stories

01:04:36 ◼   ► that I am desperate to know which way the cards fell.

01:04:40 ◼   ► Like, did Apple realize that they couldn't beat Qualcomm in court?

01:04:43 ◼   ► Or did Intel or did they come to a realization that Intel were lying to them

01:04:49 ◼   ► about how far along in the modems that they, you know?

01:04:53 ◼   ► Like, what was the situation?

01:04:55 ◼   ► Because these two things happened at the same time.

01:04:57 ◼   ► And both situations could be true of like, did they settle with Qualcomm then

01:05:03 ◼   ► buying Intel's thing or did they find out that they had no choice and had to buy

01:05:08 ◼   ► Intel's work and then settle.

01:05:10 ◼   ► Like it's a I would love to know the way that this actually fell.

01:05:13 ◼   ► At some point it'll come out.

01:05:15 ◼   ► But I agree with you.

01:05:16 ◼   ► I would love to know what went down here.

01:05:19 ◼   ► In one of my favorite little tangents of the year in August, FileMaker,

01:05:24 ◼   ► the subsidiary, the wholly owned subsidiary of Apple Incorporated, became

01:05:28 ◼   ► Clarus. They rebranded, got a new CEO and set forth a very strong business plan

01:05:35 ◼   ► in what almost feels like an internal mutiny within Apple.

01:05:38 ◼   ► It's like this guy came in and was like, you know what?

01:05:41 ◼   ► I'm shaking things up.

01:05:42 ◼   ► And so now Clarus is a thing and they have other products.

01:05:46 ◼   ► And that's that.

01:05:47 ◼   ► No, FileMaker isn't now part of the Clarus lineup.

01:05:50 ◼   ► Relay FM turned five years old.

01:05:53 ◼   ► Wow. We did a bunch of stuff, including a big live show.

01:05:57 ◼   ► And yeah, the first ever family feud

01:06:01 ◼   ► we put on this big show in San Francisco.

01:06:04 ◼   ► and yeah, turned five years old as a company, which was great.

01:06:08 ◼   ► That was a very good week.

01:06:09 ◼   ► It was a very, very good week.

01:06:11 ◼   ► And Apple, it was discovered by The Guardian,

01:06:14 ◼   ► were having contract employees

01:06:18 ◼   ► listen to misfired recordings of Siri.

01:06:21 ◼   ► So if you accidentally trigger Siri and nothing occurred,

01:06:26 ◼   ► they would send these out to contract employees who would listen to the audio.

01:06:30 ◼   ► The Guardian initially reported this.

01:06:32 ◼   ► Apple kind of tried to shrug it off and it snowballed to the point that Apple changed

01:06:38 ◼   ► their tact on this and got rid of all the contractors, which was kind of sad really,

01:06:45 ◼   ► like that wasn't necessarily the nicest thing to do in that situation, but they fired all

01:06:49 ◼   ► the contract employees and/or hired some of them because they said it was now going to

01:06:52 ◼   ► be, everything was going to be done by Apple employees and then they made it an opt-in

01:06:57 ◼   ► after pausing the thing. As I said many times before, which I still don't like,

01:07:03 ◼   ► you cannot opt out of transcripts being sent, but you can opt out of audio being

01:07:10 ◼   ► sent for misfired Siri interactions. It's another example. Apple's had a few of

01:07:14 ◼   ► these this year where I feel like they've sort of dropped the ball in the

01:07:17 ◼   ► way they handle a story. Like FaceTime and this, they're like, I think it's

01:07:21 ◼   ► it's like they underestimate the response maybe? I don't know, something

01:07:26 ◼   ► just sort of funny about that. We're going to get to September another big

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01:09:09 ◼   ► September means Apple event. So new iPhones, new Apple Watch, and a bunch of software updates.

01:09:18 ◼   ► So Apple unveiled the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 Pro line.

01:09:21 ◼   ► The iPhone 11 Pro you can get in two sizes, the Pro and the Pro Max.

01:09:26 ◼   ► And I remember we could not believe, well at least I couldn't believe that they were gonna call it the iPhone 11 Pro Max, but they did.

01:09:33 ◼   ► So that's a bad name, I still think it's a bad name.

01:09:37 ◼   ► I still kinda don't believe they did it, even though I know it was done.

01:09:40 ◼   ► They did it, it's called the iPhone 11 Pro Max.

01:09:42 ◼   ► So it happened.

01:09:45 ◼   ► Apple Watch Series 5 with an Always On Display. This was the big surprise from the event.

01:09:52 ◼   ► I don't think we were expecting maybe to have sleep tracking.

01:09:57 ◼   ► Sleep tracking was the rumor. There were absolutely zero credible rumors that indicated that there would be a big hardware change to the Apple Watch.

01:10:09 ◼   ► And of course the new iPhone 11 and 11 Pro lines with the iPhone 11 Pro having three cameras,

01:10:16 ◼   ► one of them being the ultra wide and the iPhone 11 taking the place of the iPhone XR and offering

01:10:25 ◼   ► the wide angle and ultra wide, so the standard and the ultra wide camera, but not a telephoto lens.

01:10:32 ◼   ► So the iPhone 11 Pro has all of them. There's no difference in terms of performance between

01:10:36 ◼   ► the iPhone 11 Pro and the Pro Max but the iPhone 11 does not have the 2x telephoto camera.

01:10:42 ◼   ► And it also has an LCD screen right? Compared to the OLEDs?

01:10:45 ◼   ► It has an LCD screen, it has a liquid retina but it's not the OLED one basically. Is it called

01:10:53 ◼   ► super retina? I think so.

01:10:55 ◼   ► Yeah super retina display I think. Or is it liquid retina?

01:11:01 ◼   ► Liquid. Oh.

01:11:03 ◼   ► It's liquid retina when it's LCD. It's super retina when it's OLED. I don't know.

01:11:10 ◼   ► It's confusing. All these names are confusing.

01:11:12 ◼   ► I think that's right.

01:11:13 ◼   ► Mega Retina. Hyper Retina.

01:11:15 ◼   ► Hyper Retina Display.

01:11:16 ◼   ► Max Retina.

01:11:17 ◼   ► Yes, Retina Max.

01:11:18 ◼   ► There you go.

01:11:20 ◼   ► And also the event Apple confirmed the release date for iOS 13, but we're gonna talk about that in a few minutes.

01:11:26 ◼   ► First I need to mention that this was awesome and I'm so happy that I played a small part

01:11:32 ◼   ► in this event.

01:11:33 ◼   ► Real AFM raised almost, which is incredible, $315,000 for St. Jude.

01:11:40 ◼   ► Yeah we did!

01:11:41 ◼   ► You guys had your first ever podcastathon, which I also think is the first time anybody

01:11:47 ◼   ► has ever used this word or come up with this thing, a podcastathon, which is awesome.

01:11:53 ◼   ► And you raised-

01:11:54 ◼   ► it before but we I'd come up we had come up with this word like five years ago

01:11:59 ◼   ► uh-huh but just me and Steven is referred to it with each other as a

01:12:03 ◼   ► thing we wanted to do and then we ended up doing it I'm so proud of this yeah

01:12:09 ◼   ► we do like $315,000 is a lot of money mm-hmm yeah it's it's incredible it's

01:12:16 ◼   ► like what 4x your original expectations something like that yeah Myke ended up

01:12:23 ◼   ► with a bunch of glitter on his beard so that was cool. Stephen had way less hair.

01:12:28 ◼   ► Stephen shaved. Had a mustache. Yes. Which you should bring it back. That was super

01:12:34 ◼   ► good Stephen. So that happens. We'll see. We're gonna do another one so you never

01:12:38 ◼   ► never know. Okay. Is that #BreakingNews? Yeah we're gonna do

01:12:43 ◼   ► one we're gonna do one in 2020. There you go #BreakingNews we're doing it

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01:12:50 ◼   ► Yes. September saw the release of iOS and iPadOS 13, but with a weird twist toward the

01:13:00 ◼   ► very end. A lot of features were delayed to 13.1, which would follow 13 by like 10 days.

01:13:11 ◼   ► So I had to make a decision, do I want my review? Well, I knew that my review was going

01:13:15 ◼   ► include both iOS and iPadOS. iPadOS also didn't launch alongside iOS, I believe. iPadOS came

01:13:25 ◼   ► ten days later. But I had to make a decision, do I want to split it? What do I want to do?

01:13:29 ◼   ► And I decided I'm going to do it as I was planning to do all at once, two OSes and also

01:13:36 ◼   ► the features that are going to come out in ten days. I had to make a bunch of changes

01:13:40 ◼   ► to the story saying this feature will come out with 13.1, but otherwise it was fine and

01:13:45 ◼   ► and I'm very happy with how it went.

01:13:47 ◼   ► Like, I'm super, super happy.

01:13:49 ◼   ► I know that every year is the best year ever,

01:13:51 ◼   ► but I was happy with the graphics,

01:13:53 ◼   ► with the animations that we did,

01:13:54 ◼   ► with the section, with the fact that it was,

01:13:56 ◼   ► well, I mean, it was a huge review,

01:13:57 ◼   ► but it was also two operating systems at once.

01:14:00 ◼   ► People liked it, and the extras, they went really well.

01:14:07 ◼   ► And I also like iPadOS and iOS.

01:14:10 ◼   ► So, you know, well, I don't love the fact

01:14:13 ◼   ► that they turned out.

01:14:14 ◼   ► So here's the thing, now that I'm just thinking about it now.

01:14:18 ◼   ► One of the things that I will have to address next year

01:14:21 ◼   ► that I got wrong in hindsight was just how much iOS 13 ended

01:14:28 ◼   ► up being, just how much buggy, sorry, ended up being.

01:14:33 ◼   ► I was not expecting it to be that much buggy, honestly.

01:14:38 ◼   ► But also something weird that I noticed,

01:14:40 ◼   ► and that I don't know what you guys think about it,

01:14:43 ◼   ► but iOS has gotten worse for me over its many updates.

01:14:48 ◼   ► Like I'm having more issues. - Oh, really?

01:14:51 ◼   ► - Yes, I'm having more issues now on 13.3

01:14:55 ◼   ► with like shortcuts or file.

01:14:58 ◼   ► Shortcuts has gotten really worse for me, but also files.

01:15:01 ◼   ► - Shortcuts is wonky in places for sure.

01:15:05 ◼   ► - But it's like, it's worse than before.

01:15:07 ◼   ► And even files, the files app is worse for me than before.

01:15:10 ◼   ► So many times I have to force quit files

01:15:13 ◼   ► And I was not doing that in September.

01:15:15 ◼   ► Like, I was not for screening files all the time,

01:15:18 ◼   ► but now I am.

01:15:19 ◼   ► So in any case, I will have to address the performance stuff

01:15:22 ◼   ► in next year's review.

01:15:23 ◼   ► But yeah, so September was a busy month.

01:15:26 ◼   ► - Let's not do that again, though, remember?

01:15:29 ◼   ► Keep saying it to you now, the length of the review.

01:15:31 ◼   ► - Well, yeah, it's--

01:15:33 ◼   ► - Let's not do that again.

01:15:34 ◼   ► - The plan is already in place for next year

01:15:37 ◼   ► to have more stories in the summer to relieve me

01:15:42 ◼   ► from having to cover it all.

01:15:44 ◼   ► So the plan is definitely to go shorter again,

01:15:48 ◼   ► even though I do want to have two OSs in the same review,

01:15:52 ◼   ► but more--

01:15:53 ◼   ► I think that's fine.

01:15:54 ◼   ► More help from other people in the summer.

01:15:56 ◼   ► Yeah, that's probably a good idea.

01:15:58 ◼   ► October brought macOS Catalina.

01:16:01 ◼   ► I wrote a review of that. Hooray!

01:16:03 ◼   ► Not as lengthy as Federico's,

01:16:06 ◼   ► but still pretty good, very proud of it.

01:16:08 ◼   ► It's a really big deal.

01:16:11 ◼   ► I mean, we talk about iOS 13 and iPadOS 13

01:16:13 ◼   ► being like a big departure point.

01:16:15 ◼   ► Catalina is right there with it,

01:16:16 ◼   ► with the death of 64-bit apps.

01:16:18 ◼   ► This was a return to the review for me.

01:16:21 ◼   ► I did reviews for a long time,

01:16:23 ◼   ► and then I did some sort of oddball stuff

01:16:26 ◼   ► for a couple of years, but with Catalina,

01:16:29 ◼   ► I knew that I wanted to review it.

01:16:32 ◼   ► And John Vorhees wrote a review on Mac Stories as well,

01:16:35 ◼   ► also very good.

01:16:36 ◼   ► And yeah, it's just a very polarizing release

01:16:39 ◼   ► 'cause it brings so many changes

01:16:42 ◼   ► and a lot of people can't run it yet

01:16:45 ◼   ► because they have software that would break on it.

01:16:49 ◼   ► And then there's a lot of features in it

01:16:50 ◼   ► that aren't really fully formed.

01:16:52 ◼   ► Like screen time is just super weird on the Mac

01:16:56 ◼   ► and the ghost of iTunes being broken into multiple apps

01:17:01 ◼   ► is like pretty good, but there are some features

01:17:03 ◼   ► that aren't around anymore.

01:17:06 ◼   ► And if you needed those, then you're sort of stuck.

01:17:08 ◼   ► So it's definitely a release to prepare for, not to install blindly, but that sort of kicked

01:17:16 ◼   ► off October.

01:17:17 ◼   ► R.I.P.

01:17:18 ◼   ► IWeb, am I right?

01:17:19 ◼   ► I know.

01:17:20 ◼   ► That's gone from Catalina.

01:17:21 ◼   ► IDisk?

01:17:22 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:17:23 ◼   ► Is that gone?

01:17:24 ◼   ► Has that finally gone to you?

01:17:25 ◼   ► That's been gone a long time.

01:17:26 ◼   ► Backup.app.

01:17:27 ◼   ► But could it run before though?

01:17:30 ◼   ► Like was it 32-bit?

01:17:31 ◼   ► No, IDisk was like an iCloud drive sort of thing.

01:17:33 ◼   ► Like it was a feature of the OS that got turned on by mobile media.

01:17:37 ◼   ► So what was the one that made... iDVD!

01:17:39 ◼   ► I was thinking of iDVD.

01:17:41 ◼   ► That was a thing.

01:17:42 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:17:43 ◼   ► iDisk was like...

01:17:44 ◼   ► I went out for iDVD.

01:17:45 ◼   ► Right.

01:17:46 ◼   ► iDisk was like .max file syncing thing.

01:17:47 ◼   ► Yeah, I remember it now.

01:17:49 ◼   ► Not good.

01:17:50 ◼   ► I had an iDisk.

01:17:51 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

01:17:52 ◼   ► Me too.

01:17:53 ◼   ► Myke, you bought a new phone in October.

01:17:56 ◼   ► Samsung Galaxy Fold.

01:17:57 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

01:17:58 ◼   ► I worked very hard on a review that will be respected after my time.

01:18:03 ◼   ► Wow.

01:18:04 ◼   ► Because it was not respected in its time.

01:18:07 ◼   ► Far into the future people will respect my review. Okay, we also had

01:18:11 ◼   ► The same episode is it the same episode? Geez, we'll screw with me Apple Apple screw with me

01:18:17 ◼   ► I worked so friggin hard on the galaxy fold review and then they released the emoji

01:18:23 ◼   ► Mm-hmm that episode is where we named that contest the Jeremy's where it's where weird fish comes from to where we make

01:18:30 ◼   ► Federico guess the names of the emoji and you go into like media blackout so you don't read any coverage of it

01:18:36 ◼   ► We just send you a JPEG and you have to name them.

01:18:38 ◼   ► Yes.

01:18:39 ◼   ► And then we all took a sip of Grandpa.

01:18:41 ◼   ► We did.

01:18:42 ◼   ► That's what I will always remember from that episode,

01:18:44 ◼   ► taking a sip of Grandpa.

01:18:45 ◼   ► Yes.

01:18:46 ◼   ► That was a-- it's a horrible thing that you guys make me do,

01:18:51 ◼   ► but I also enjoy it.

01:18:53 ◼   ► Mostly because I don't get to read Emojipedia

01:18:55 ◼   ► for like nine months, and then I need

01:18:59 ◼   ► to fill Emojipedia with page views from September--

01:19:01 ◼   ► from October to December.

01:19:02 ◼   ► It's like click, click, click.

01:19:03 ◼   ► I know Jeremy's really hurting for those very cool page

01:19:06 ◼   ► I'm sorry, I don't give you my business no more.

01:19:09 ◼   ► Where's my traffic from Italy?

01:19:10 ◼   ► Where is it?

01:19:11 ◼   ► But yeah, the taking a sip of Grandpa and the Kiwi meatballs were highlights of the

01:19:18 ◼   ► year.

01:19:19 ◼   ► Kiwi meatballs is a highlight, but like the level in which taking a sip of Grandpa is

01:19:23 ◼   ► a highlight for me is like so much more.

01:19:25 ◼   ► It's like a Bezos chart type deal, right?

01:19:27 ◼   ► Like it's like significantly more important to me.

01:19:31 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:19:32 ◼   ► It just came out before I realized it.

01:19:34 ◼   ► We also had AirPods Pro come out in October.

01:19:38 ◼   ► They came out, big surprise, just like one day, like product page and available to purchase,

01:19:43 ◼   ► and they like shipped the next day.

01:19:44 ◼   ► It was like wild.

01:19:45 ◼   ► It was.

01:19:46 ◼   ► We were thinking, is there going to be an event, are there going to be embargos, but

01:19:50 ◼   ► no, just like a press release and a webpage.

01:19:54 ◼   ► And the two of you really liked them, a lot of our listeners really liked them.

01:19:58 ◼   ► I love them.

01:19:59 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:20:00 ◼   ► I will just say though, I just want to say, right, like let's see if we're amongst friends

01:20:02 ◼   ► here, so I'm going to say it.

01:20:04 ◼   ► It's the most gross piece of technology I've ever owned in my entire life.

01:20:07 ◼   ► Oh yeah, you gotta clean it all the time.

01:20:09 ◼   ► Yes.

01:20:10 ◼   ► It's totally gross, gross, gross, gross.

01:20:13 ◼   ► But I let you in on a little secret.

01:20:15 ◼   ► Something that I'm planning for like a holiday project,

01:20:19 ◼   ► like a do-it-yourself project sort of way.

01:20:22 ◼   ► So there's a whole... and by whole...

01:20:24 ◼   ► Kickstance?

01:20:25 ◼   ► There's a whole community, and by whole community I mean like 20 people,

01:20:30 ◼   ► on the MacRumors forums, writing about how they modified the silicone ear tips of the

01:20:38 ◼   ► AirPods Pro to fit in a layer of memory foam underneath the silicone.

01:20:44 ◼   ► So basically, there's even a YouTube video from a person who did this.

01:20:49 ◼   ► You buy one of the Comply foam tips and you slide in the AirPod silicone one in a way

01:20:57 ◼   ► that you can sort of pull it back and basically you end up with foam underneath the silicone

01:21:04 ◼   ► tip, which is something that I want to do. I ordered these very specific foam tips from

01:21:11 ◼   ► Amazon Japan, so they're Japanese so you know they're quality stuff.

01:21:14 ◼   ► Yeah it's the best stuff.

01:21:16 ◼   ► You know, "ario" means Japan and therefore it's quality. So I will be destroying my AirPods

01:21:24 ◼   ► silicon tips soon enough because I know that this will go horribly wrong. But I'm going

01:21:31 ◼   ► to do it. I will go.

01:21:33 ◼   ► So why, maybe I missed it, why are people doing this?

01:21:36 ◼   ► Because it's more comfortable if you have this memory foam layer at least underneath

01:21:42 ◼   ► the silicon layer, you know?

01:21:45 ◼   ► Foam is also significantly more gross, right? You think the silicon's gross, the foam is

01:21:50 ◼   ► grosser.

01:21:51 ◼   ► So ideally somebody should make real foam tape replacements for the AirPods Pro, but

01:22:00 ◼   ► they need to have like a specific plastic clip to attach to the AirPods Pro.

01:22:04 ◼   ► Someone's going to do it, just nobody's been able to do it yet.

01:22:07 ◼   ► So what I'm doing now, so the silicone will still touch my ears, right? Because the foam

01:22:13 ◼   ► will be underneath the silicone, the foam will sit in between the central structure

01:22:21 ◼   ► of the tip and the outer silicone layer, right? So if you look, if you remove the silicone

01:22:28 ◼   ► tip and you look at it, you see that there's like an empty section, like an empty circular

01:22:32 ◼   ► section. I'm wondering though, how comfortable it's actually going to be. I'm wondering that

01:22:37 ◼   ► too. It's not going to be as comfortable as just the foam, I guess. It's supposed to act

01:22:43 ◼   ► like a filler for the tips. So we'll see, I don't know, I know, I'm going to destroy

01:22:51 ◼   ► This will go really, really bad for me.

01:22:53 ◼   ► -My recommendation to you before you do this

01:22:56 ◼   ► is to go to the Apple Store and buy replacement tips.

01:23:00 ◼   ► -Yes, I plan to do that.

01:23:01 ◼   ► But the theory is that because you add the foam,

01:23:05 ◼   ► the silicone tip will still --

01:23:07 ◼   ► Like, because of the foam, it will fit better.

01:23:10 ◼   ► And, like, it'll fit itself to the shape of your ear better

01:23:14 ◼   ► because it's not just silicone.

01:23:16 ◼   ► There's also this memory foam layer

01:23:19 ◼   ► that sort of makes it, you know, allows its shape to change in a better way.

01:23:24 ◼   ► That's the theory from these 20 people on the MacRumors forums. And I want to

01:23:28 ◼   ► believe them. I feel like these individuals with very funny usernames are up to

01:23:33 ◼   ► something and I want to believe them. So I'm gonna do it. I still think there's

01:23:38 ◼   ► room for Apple to do different style tips for these things. I agree. You know,

01:23:43 ◼   ► they could do foam, they could do various things and, you know, still could. Maybe

01:23:48 ◼   ► Maybe when they revise the AirPods Pro,

01:23:50 ◼   ► that would be a thing they could offer.

01:23:52 ◼   ► - Federico, I have a question for you.

01:23:54 ◼   ► How'd you find this?

01:23:55 ◼   ► - Well, it's funny you ask.

01:23:57 ◼   ► I started searching, I've been searching on amazon.com

01:24:02 ◼   ► because of course these things do not arrive in Italy ever.

01:24:05 ◼   ► For, here's a quick tip for you.

01:24:08 ◼   ► You can search Amazon results by latest arrivals.

01:24:11 ◼   ► So for the past few weeks, every, like everything,

01:24:13 ◼   ► like every couple of days, I would go to amazon.com

01:24:16 ◼   ► and search for "Foam Tips AirPods Pro"

01:24:19 ◼   ► and sort search results by latest arrivals.

01:24:22 ◼   ► Nothing was ever happening, so I Googled that,

01:24:25 ◼   ► and I filtered the Google search results for the last month,

01:24:30 ◼   ► and that's where I discovered the MacRumors people

01:24:34 ◼   ► hanging out and discussing this technique,

01:24:37 ◼   ► and eventually one of them made a video.

01:24:39 ◼   ► The person makes it look very easy.

01:24:41 ◼   ► It's not gonna be very easy, and at some point,

01:24:45 ◼   ► they start pulling the silicon tip with pliers or something.

01:24:50 ◼   ► It goes, this is gonna go super bad, I know it,

01:24:55 ◼   ► we all know it, but I gotta try it.

01:24:57 ◼   ► This is gonna be a more involved project

01:25:00 ◼   ► than the kickstands that I attached to my iPad Pro,

01:25:03 ◼   ► well, to the smart, which I still love

01:25:05 ◼   ► and I use every day, they're perfect.

01:25:08 ◼   ► So that went well, but this is more involved.

01:25:11 ◼   ► I will probably have to request Silvia's help

01:25:14 ◼   ► because she has smaller hands,

01:25:16 ◼   ► and I don't think I will be able to handle

01:25:18 ◼   ► this very precise job myself.

01:25:20 ◼   ► So we'll see, but I'm definitely gonna buy

01:25:23 ◼   ► the replacement tips from Apple, for sure.

01:25:27 ◼   ► - Yeah. - Mm-hmm.

01:25:28 ◼   ► But if it works, they could be so much more comfortable

01:25:31 ◼   ► for me, so we'll see.

01:25:34 ◼   ► - Please make an Instagram story of this as you do it.

01:25:36 ◼   ► - I will try, yes.

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01:27:13 ◼   ► - It's time for November.

01:27:14 ◼   ► November was very busy, full of way more news

01:27:17 ◼   ► than you would expect at this time of year.

01:27:19 ◼   ► The first piece I would like to bring to you

01:27:21 ◼   ► is Photoshop for iPad.

01:27:22 ◼   ► It was released much later than anybody had expected,

01:27:26 ◼   ► and also with less features than most people wanted,

01:27:30 ◼   ► but Adobe since have seemed to commit

01:27:33 ◼   ► that this is an important thing for them

01:27:35 ◼   ► and they're gonna keep working on it

01:27:36 ◼   ► and adding new features.

01:27:37 ◼   ► It really does feel like the beginning

01:27:39 ◼   ► of Photoshop for iPad, even though people wanted more.

01:27:43 ◼   ► We spoke about them already a little earlier,

01:27:45 ◼   ► but in November was when Apple's TV+ shows debuted.

01:27:50 ◼   ► The 16-inch MacBook Pro was unveiled

01:27:52 ◼   ► to the world in November.

01:27:54 ◼   ► Everybody was much excited about this.

01:27:56 ◼   ► Of course, it killed the butterfly keyboard,

01:27:58 ◼   ► which is no longer around.

01:28:00 ◼   ► - It killed it for one laptop, not two other sets.

01:28:02 ◼   ► - Yes, it has gone in this very MacBook Pro,

01:28:04 ◼   ► but also brought with it a bunch of interesting features

01:28:07 ◼   ► and performance and stuff.

01:28:08 ◼   ► Like overall, like it seemed like this computer

01:28:11 ◼   ► is very well regarded.

01:28:12 ◼   ► So.

01:28:13 ◼   ► - Yeah, I think people are really enjoying it.

01:28:15 ◼   ► - Yeah, which is great news, right?

01:28:17 ◼   ► Like Apple did exactly what people were hoping

01:28:19 ◼   ► that they would do with this product.

01:28:21 ◼   ► So it's good to see that.

01:28:22 ◼   ► - You said that and that they killed

01:28:25 ◼   ► the butterfly keyboard in my brain because it's weird.

01:28:28 ◼   ► I instantly imagined like the cover of Kendrick Lamar's

01:28:33 ◼   ► Pimp a Butterfly album, but it's called To Kill a Butterfly and there's a MacBook on the cover.

01:28:38 ◼   ► Somebody should make that. Please make that. I need that in my life if you ever have the time

01:28:42 ◼   ► to do so. Thank you. The information spoke about a report, well they gave a report of a meeting

01:28:49 ◼   ► that happened inside of Apple that laid out an internal roadmap for AR products including an AR

01:28:54 ◼   ► headset in 2022 with glasses in 2023. You will note that the hosts of this very show were very

01:29:00 ◼   ► dubious of this idea and technology. Apple Music Replay launched, which was Apple's attempt

01:29:06 ◼   ► at doing something like Spotify Wrapped. Spotify Wrapped came later and absolutely destroyed

01:29:11 ◼   ► in quality and features Apple Music Replay, but like, better luck next time Apple, because

01:29:17 ◼   ► Spotify did a far better job with Spotify Wrapped. Did you guys get to see it much at

01:29:22 ◼   ► all?

01:29:23 ◼   ► I saw that they had the, well I mean besides the cultural influence of it alone, like I

01:29:30 ◼   ► I saw people sharing and tweeting about Spotify.

01:29:33 ◼   ► - It basically created a UI,

01:29:35 ◼   ► which is like an Instagram story inside of Spotify,

01:29:38 ◼   ► which showed all these graphs and graphics

01:29:40 ◼   ► and things you could share.

01:29:42 ◼   ► It also included podcasts, which was cool.

01:29:44 ◼   ► - And the really good idea they had

01:29:45 ◼   ► was to have your songs of the decade,

01:29:48 ◼   ► which I think is what really resonated with people.

01:29:50 ◼   ► And it was a missed opportunity for Apple

01:29:52 ◼   ► because they should have seen this coming.

01:29:54 ◼   ► Like it's the end of the decade.

01:29:56 ◼   ► Let's show people.

01:29:57 ◼   ► And I guess that the problem for Apple

01:29:58 ◼   ► that Apple Music has only been around for five years now, just over four years, basically.

01:30:04 ◼   ► So it kinda doesn't make sense to do songs of the decade, but, you know, whatever. People

01:30:09 ◼   ► don't remember how time works, so Apple Music should have done it, even if it's just for

01:30:13 ◼   ► like five years of data, you know? So Spotify has it, better luck next decade, I guess,

01:30:20 ◼   ► Apple. And Apple Music Replay is still around, it updates weekly. So I'm guessing that on

01:30:27 ◼   ► January 1st or maybe the first Sunday of January 2020 you will have to go to...

01:30:32 ◼   ► You'll get your 2020 replay? You will have to go to the website to replay... what is it?

01:30:37 ◼   ► beta.music.apple.com/replay and generate the Replay 20 playlist. But after

01:30:44 ◼   ► that you can listen to music and every week of the year 2020 you will get an

01:30:48 ◼   ► updated set of songs in your Replay 20 playlist. So we'll see how it goes.

01:30:55 ◼   ► Motorola showed off the folding Razer phone which will be available next year

01:31:00 ◼   ► which I'm very excited about and of course Tesla showed off Federico's

01:31:04 ◼   ► favorite the Cybertruck.

01:31:06 ◼   ► Yeah, that sound, that sound you made.

01:31:12 ◼   ► Can we move to December?

01:31:14 ◼   ► Please.

01:31:14 ◼   ► Let's move to December.

01:31:15 ◼   ► Apple held a secret awards ceremony for the what used to be just a press release and sometimes a

01:31:24 ◼   ► web page and often just a section of the App Store. The best lists for apps and games and

01:31:32 ◼   ► books and podcasts of the year. Now they had this private event, I suppose in New York

01:31:38 ◼   ► City, and there were some, there were picks, you know, there were apps chosen and games

01:31:47 ◼   ► chosen, the work categories were selected, and yeah, we talked about them, you know,

01:31:55 ◼   ► Moleskine Flow won its 10th award of the year from Apple.

01:32:00 ◼   ► Whoa, so much shade.

01:32:02 ◼   ► No, I mean, it's a good app. I'm kidding.

01:32:05 ◼   ► Yeah. What do you think about their watch pick for the year? I think they really nailed

01:32:09 ◼   ► that category.

01:32:10 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a really good pick. I think absolutely, you know, from an editorial

01:32:15 ◼   ► standpoint, what a peak, right?

01:32:17 ◼   ► We've all got to agree, the coolest physical awards given of the year, right? The Apple

01:32:23 ◼   ► Music Awards?

01:32:24 ◼   ► Yes! Well, actually, yes. They had the Apple Music Awards.

01:32:28 ◼   ► God damn it!

01:32:29 ◼   ► Yeah, actually, they are the coolest. The Apple Music Awards made out of silicon, like,

01:32:36 ◼   ► I'm guessing unused silicon parts for Apple-made chips. And they're big, right? We talked about

01:32:43 ◼   ► they're like the size of an LP. The circular part of the size of the LP then it has a

01:32:48 ◼   ► huge piece of aluminium around it. It is an object, they are a substantial object. So

01:32:54 ◼   ► Billie Eilish basically swept the Apple Music Awards, but there were also other

01:33:01 ◼   ► picks and there's a list that we published, you can still find it

01:33:05 ◼   ► somewhere on the App Store at Apple Music I think. But yeah, Specter Camera was the

01:33:10 ◼   ► up of the year and Sky was the game of the year. What else is happening in December?

01:33:18 ◼   ► Let's see. Oh yeah, the Mac Pro finally came out. A bunch of people are excited about this.

01:33:25 ◼   ► You know, some people are buying it, other people are not.

01:33:30 ◼   ► John Sircus has got one coming.

01:33:34 ◼   ► There are podcasts being made about the Mac Pro that will come out.

01:33:39 ◼   ► podcasts are being made about the Mac Pro. People seem happy, but also people are not

01:33:43 ◼   ► happy because folks, and this is like, I'm sort of out of this discussion, but I sort

01:33:49 ◼   ► of pay attention to it in passing.

01:33:52 ◼   ► I like how you pay attention to the MacRumors forums.

01:33:54 ◼   ► Oh no, I actually, I do.

01:33:56 ◼   ► Pay way more attention to those.

01:33:58 ◼   ► Those are my people. The MacRumors forums people. Folks were expecting better performance

01:34:04 ◼   ► out of a Mac Pro, like the base model or the medium model.

01:34:08 ◼   ► Like if you spend $3,000 or $5,000 on a Mac Pro,

01:34:11 ◼   ► you know, still like a good expense,

01:34:15 ◼   ► like it's a good amount of money,

01:34:17 ◼   ► but people do not seem happy

01:34:19 ◼   ► about the performance that you get.

01:34:20 ◼   ► So Steven, can you shed some light

01:34:22 ◼   ► on what is going on with this debate?

01:34:25 ◼   ► - Well, you gotta spend $6,000, not three,

01:34:28 ◼   ► to even get in the door,

01:34:28 ◼   ► but it seems like the base eight core

01:34:32 ◼   ► and then maybe even the 12 core doesn't really outpace the iMac

01:34:36 ◼   ► Pro in some things, but that should not

01:34:39 ◼   ► be surprising to anybody.

01:34:40 ◼   ► Because they both use the Intel chipsets, right?

01:34:44 ◼   ► Like it speaks highly of the iMac Pro

01:34:47 ◼   ► that is as fast as it is.

01:34:49 ◼   ► But I really think that the Mac Pro, as far as performance,

01:34:53 ◼   ► goes beyond just like raw CPU numbers.

01:34:56 ◼   ► Because you can get those in that other machine.

01:34:59 ◼   ► But where the Mac Pro is going to shine

01:35:01 ◼   ► is in RAM capacity and then GPU computational stuff and the afterburner if you're working in

01:35:09 ◼   ► ProRes. And so if you look at it more holistically, the Mac Pro smokes the iMac Pro for

01:35:18 ◼   ► some workflows. But I mean, I think people just want to find something to complain about. Like,

01:35:21 ◼   ► I don't read much into that being a problem for this machine, because on paper, like, yeah,

01:35:25 ◼   ► they're going to benchmark about the same, because they have the same CPUs.

01:35:29 ◼   ► Well, you know, I guess if your job is to run Geekbench scores, it's important,

01:35:34 ◼   ► but I don't think that's anybody's job, so it's probably not that important.

01:35:37 ◼   ► Next up, do I have to read my own stuff?

01:35:41 ◼   ► Well, you can, or Myke can do it.

01:35:44 ◼   ► Okay. All right, so this is stuff that we hadn't reported on, but it has happened,

01:35:48 ◼   ► so it's worth mentioning. So there are two things.

01:35:50 ◼   ► First is Federico published the most ambitious shortcuts crossover of the year.

01:35:57 ◼   ► A is two shortcuts, one has like 800 actions, another has a thousand actions.

01:36:02 ◼   ► But I've called music bot, you've got music bot and music bot pro.

01:36:05 ◼   ► Music bot pro as of this release is not available,

01:36:08 ◼   ► it will be sent out in this week's club max stories weekly.

01:36:12 ◼   ► Music bot is a shortcut which I think I saw Stephen say this earlier and it's completely true,

01:36:17 ◼   ► goes way further than not only any shortcut I have seen before,

01:36:21 ◼   ► but more than I actually believed was possible for what shortcuts could do,

01:36:26 ◼   ► because I've never seen an 800 action shortcut before.

01:36:29 ◼   ► And if you want to see what it's like because of the way that shortcuts

01:36:32 ◼   ► makes you enable it, you have to scroll through the list and you can get like,

01:36:36 ◼   ► like as you as you install it, you scroll through and it shows you all the actions

01:36:39 ◼   ► before you can add it. But I actually like that because it gives

01:36:42 ◼   ► you an appreciation for what you are adding.

01:36:45 ◼   ► Plus I had to at one point because I had this a little bit early,

01:36:49 ◼   ► I was helping because as we mentioned on the show, I break all of Federico

01:36:53 ◼   ► shortcuts for reasons that don't make any complete sense. But one of the things that

01:36:57 ◼   ► was funny this time was when going into Apple's because okay actually let me pause, I'm going

01:37:02 ◼   ► to pause there I'll explain a little bit more about what it is. MusicBot is a collection

01:37:06 ◼   ► of shortcuts wrapped into one very large shortcut essentially which will allow you to operate

01:37:12 ◼   ► the music in your Apple Music library in many various ways from picking playlists to saving

01:37:19 ◼   ► albums, to having MusicBot keep track of albums that are coming out later in the year, to

01:37:25 ◼   ► letting you search your library, to playing music by genre, to being able to control the

01:37:31 ◼   ► audio from the sense of the volume of your device, to sending it to other devices via

01:37:37 ◼   ► Airplay. It does all of this stuff and it's incredible. It will also allow you to pick

01:37:43 ◼   ► Apple mixes, so like your friend mix and stuff like that. Well, one of them, can you remember

01:37:51 ◼   ► which mix it was? The favorites. There's a mix called favorites, which kept failing for

01:37:56 ◼   ► me because in the UK it's spelt with a U, right? And so like it couldn't find it, so

01:38:04 ◼   ► stuff like that. But when I did that, Federico said to me, "Oh, just go in and add it, just

01:38:08 ◼   ► amend it yourself. So I entered the matrix of the shortcut. I had to one, find the area

01:38:17 ◼   ► where I had to add this U and then two, like I, like at one point I like accidentally picked

01:38:24 ◼   ► something up, right, you know you can feel the haptic, and I was like, ahh! I forced

01:38:28 ◼   ► quick shortcuts, that was the way that I dealt with that. It was like, I don't wanna do,

01:38:33 ◼   ► I ended up finding it and adding the you in the right place.

01:38:37 ◼   ► But like it was almost it's kind of funny, like at the time,

01:38:40 ◼   ► like even though I knew that this would only affect my local version,

01:38:45 ◼   ► there was a part of me that was like, I can't believe Federico's

01:38:48 ◼   ► trusting me to do this.

01:38:49 ◼   ► But I had done it. I've been in there and I asked Federico,

01:38:53 ◼   ► how did you edit this? Can you tell people?

01:38:55 ◼   ► Because I was like, how would you keep in track of this

01:38:58 ◼   ► when you were building it? And you told me the way that you did it.

01:39:01 ◼   ► Can you just reference like when you were building this shortcut,

01:39:03 ◼   ► the way that you would build it.

01:39:05 ◼   ► - So initially, so the first thing I do

01:39:09 ◼   ► for these complex shortcuts is I try to build

01:39:12 ◼   ► a structure out first, so I don't actually,

01:39:15 ◼   ► it's not working, it's not functioning,

01:39:17 ◼   ► but I do build the structure of like menus and lists

01:39:20 ◼   ► and conditional blocks.

01:39:21 ◼   ► So to do this, I use my iPad, but later when I needed

01:39:25 ◼   ► to actually fill the shortcut with data and actions

01:39:27 ◼   ► and parameters, I had to use a second device.

01:39:31 ◼   ► So a second device disconnected from the internet

01:39:34 ◼   ► so that it wouldn't sync changes back and forth

01:39:37 ◼   ► as I was editing on my main iPad.

01:39:39 ◼   ► So imagine one iPad editing the shortcut,

01:39:43 ◼   ► another iPad in portrait mode

01:39:46 ◼   ► so that I could see more actions at the same time

01:39:48 ◼   ► because of the vertical orientation,

01:39:50 ◼   ► disconnected from the internet,

01:39:52 ◼   ► that would allow me to scroll the shortcut back and forth

01:39:54 ◼   ► and see where data was coming from,

01:39:57 ◼   ► as the other one was actually making changes

01:39:59 ◼   ► to the live copy.

01:40:00 ◼   ► this is not an ideal situation. And later, for example, now when I'm building MusicBot Pro

01:40:07 ◼   ► and I'm adding features to the Pro version, I'm relying on the scroll bar method a lot in iOS 13,

01:40:15 ◼   ► that you can pick the scroll bar and scrub it through real quick, and that allows you to navigate

01:40:21 ◼   ► real fast in a long document. I'm using that. I now have a sense of where things are located,

01:40:28 ◼   ► more or less in MusicBot, but also the combo of using the scroll bar and looking at the

01:40:34 ◼   ► emoji that I used. The emoji are used in MusicBot for menus and lists, both for presentation

01:40:42 ◼   ► purposes but also for me to keep track of sections through the colors of the characters,

01:40:47 ◼   ► of the emoji. So yeah, not an ideal situation editing in MusicBot, but yeah, I got it done.

01:40:54 ◼   ► MusicBot Pro is now well over a thousand actions, so that should be fun.

01:41:00 ◼   ► And it just adds more features in, right?

01:41:03 ◼   ► It adds more features, yeah. So basically, MusicBot Pro,

01:41:06 ◼   ► as I wrote on Mac Stories, you will have to own the Toolbox Pro app,

01:41:13 ◼   ► which is the shortcuts companion utility we talked about.

01:41:16 ◼   ► And thanks to that, you will be able to have additional Apple Music actions.

01:41:22 ◼   ► Initially the plan was for me to let people create a developer token for Apple music, but now thanks to toolbox Pro

01:41:28 ◼   ► I no longer have to so there's nothing you need to worry about basically on Friday

01:41:32 ◼   ► just make sure that you have toolbox Pro installed and download music pop pro and

01:41:37 ◼   ► Do the normal configuration?

01:41:39 ◼   ► No developer stuff involved anymore, and it'll work for you, and you will you will be able to do things like

01:41:46 ◼   ► love or dislike a song that is currently playing, you will be able to do this for any song

01:41:52 ◼   ► regardless of whether it's already in your library or not.

01:41:56 ◼   ► So basically the idea of MusicPod Pro is that the limitation of the free version,

01:42:02 ◼   ► that it only works for stuff that is in your library, that's gone.

01:42:06 ◼   ► Because Toolbox Pro has actions that talk directly to the Apple Music API,

01:42:10 ◼   ► the web service. So you can search for any song and

01:42:15 ◼   ► and you can start playing any song, even if it's not in your library.

01:42:19 ◼   ► So like, you think of something, you can open MusicBot Pro, and there's a new action called "Search and Play".

01:42:25 ◼   ► And you can just type in the name of a song and start playing it right away, in the background.

01:42:30 ◼   ► It doesn't even launch music.

01:42:32 ◼   ► So, a bunch of features like that, and you can also save curated playlists from Apple Music.

01:42:40 ◼   ► Like there's a really good... Yeah. So, you know, any Apple Music playlist, like, I don't know,

01:42:45 ◼   ► best of like the... What's it called? The alternative, you know, the top of the alternative...

01:42:50 ◼   ► A-list.

01:42:52 ◼   ► A-list. There's an excellent new playlist that I just saw today called Emo Rap, which is really,

01:42:58 ◼   ► really good for, you know, that kind of genre. Those playlists you can now save in MusicBot Pro

01:43:05 ◼   ► because they normally... that's all Apple Music catalog stuff, as they call it.

01:43:11 ◼   ► And the favorite albums features in MusicBot Pro is just called favorites, because you can save

01:43:19 ◼   ► singles, albums and playlists to your favorites. So that's nice.

01:43:24 ◼   ► Very cool. It's very, very cool. And then today, MaxStory Selects, which were your...

01:43:29 ◼   ► I think last year was the first year you did this, where you did basically your apps of the year.

01:43:35 ◼   ► It included two different categories this year, right?

01:43:37 ◼   ► It was a reader's choice and was it...

01:43:38 ◼   ► Was Best New Feature, was that new?

01:43:41 ◼   ► I think it was four, four categories actually.

01:43:44 ◼   ► Best New Feature, Reader's Choice, Best Watch App,

01:43:48 ◼   ► Hint, Hint, and Best Mac App,

01:43:51 ◼   ► because we also remember about those.

01:43:54 ◼   ► So making...

01:43:55 ◼   ► That's a total of six awards now that you give out?

01:43:58 ◼   ► Eight.

01:43:59 ◼   ► That's eight awards.

01:43:59 ◼   ► Oh my God, what's wrong with me?

01:44:00 ◼   ► I can't count.

01:44:02 ◼   ► There's like an amount of awards

01:44:04 ◼   ► and something. But the awards are really nice and you did something which I think is amazing,

01:44:10 ◼   ► which is physical trophies with the Max Story Select logo in them, which is a very nice

01:44:14 ◼   ► touch. It's very classy.

01:44:16 ◼   ► Yeah, I knew.

01:44:17 ◼   ► I want one of those.

01:44:18 ◼   ► Well, create something and maybe you will be considered.

01:44:22 ◼   ► Oh wow. Poof. Okay.

01:44:25 ◼   ► Well, so here's the thing. I knew that I wanted to do this last year, but I needed to see

01:44:31 ◼   ► if it was like a thing that people would care about before committing because it's an investment,

01:44:35 ◼   ► right? The awards do not build themselves out of thin air.

01:44:41 ◼   ► Yeah, see, like we, so me and Jason do the upgrade is right, which is like the awards

01:44:45 ◼   ► that we've done. And I thought to myself a bunch of times, like, Oh, it'd be really cool

01:44:49 ◼   ► to make physical awards. But our categories are so wide reaching because we do like a

01:44:54 ◼   ► favorite movie. It's like no movie studios except in the awards. So I've never bothered

01:44:57 ◼   ► doing it, but it makes perfect sense for you to do it because you have the captive audience.

01:45:03 ◼   ► Like the developers of applications are reading the site anyway, so they are all super excited.

01:45:10 ◼   ► With the upgradeers, it seems to have been over the last few years that it is podcasters

01:45:15 ◼   ► care most about the upgradeers. So other podcasters want to receive upgradey awards, right? That

01:45:23 ◼   ► seems to have been a thing. But we're not just going to make awards for two categories

01:45:28 ◼   ► of our 12 categories or whatever it is. But I think this is a very cool idea to do. I

01:45:33 ◼   ► think you've executed it perfectly. Thank you. There's obviously more we want to do

01:45:38 ◼   ► next year. But I am naturally assuming Jon made this happen. Well, actually we did a

01:45:46 ◼   ► lot of research, but yet the manufacturer of the awards is based in the US. So Jon had

01:45:56 ◼   ► to talk to them.

01:45:57 ◼   ► This just feels like a very John Voorhees project, like the execution of a project like

01:46:00 ◼   ► this. This feels like something Jon would do.

01:46:03 ◼   ► Yes, and he took all the photos and the videos that we have, these spinning animations that

01:46:08 ◼   ► we're sharing on Twitter and Instagram today.

01:46:10 ◼   ► Very cute. Yeah, very cute.

01:46:12 ◼   ► But also a fun detail, each winner, so we'll proceed with shipping the awards later this

01:46:19 ◼   ► week. Each winner will get the award and a lovely card alongside the award. And because

01:46:27 ◼   ► both Jon and I have really, really horrible handwriting, we had Silvia do the handwriting

01:46:35 ◼   ► on the card. Because Jon and I cannot write. And Jon was here in Rome, obviously last week,

01:46:42 ◼   ► So it was convenient to plan all of that.

01:46:45 ◼   ► But yeah, physical awards.

01:46:47 ◼   ► It was fun.

01:46:48 ◼   ► I haven't seen them in person, by the way.

01:46:50 ◼   ► Maybe in a couple of years time, there can be like an actual ceremony and you can hand

01:46:54 ◼   ► them out to people.

01:46:55 ◼   ► Imagine that.

01:46:56 ◼   ► Yeah, that would be cool, actually.

01:46:58 ◼   ► Yes, we'll see.

01:47:00 ◼   ► You know, okay, maybe we can have this conversation offline, but like, if you shifted the awards

01:47:07 ◼   ► to June?

01:47:08 ◼   ► Well, yeah.

01:47:10 ◼   ► So I thought about it actually, but I don't know how to... there's maybe something we

01:47:16 ◼   ► can do.

01:47:17 ◼   ► We'll see.

01:47:18 ◼   ► You can counter-program against the ADAs.

01:47:19 ◼   ► Just like do it at the same time.

01:47:22 ◼   ► Especially, you know.

01:47:23 ◼   ► And the max-or you select goes to flow by moleskine.

01:47:28 ◼   ► You do it outside on the sidewalk, outside WWDC, you know, like in protest.

01:47:31 ◼   ► You just hand one out to everybody.

01:47:33 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:47:34 ◼   ► See, now you made it terrible, Steven.

01:47:36 ◼   ► So now it's not something I want to do anymore.

01:47:38 ◼   ► Aww.

01:47:39 ◼   ► - Oh, well, on that disappointment,

01:47:43 ◼   ► we should wrap this up.

01:47:44 ◼   ► Some housekeeping, we will be off on Christmas Day,

01:47:49 ◼   ► but we will be back on January 1st with the 2020 Rickies.

01:47:55 ◼   ► Our predictions for next year,

01:47:58 ◼   ► we will grade our predictions from 2019.

01:48:02 ◼   ► We've already been arguing about what's a Ricky and not,

01:48:05 ◼   ► so do not miss that.

01:48:06 ◼   ► - There is way less bloodshed so far.

01:48:09 ◼   ► I mean, there's still some time to go before we nail it down,

01:48:12 ◼   ► but like there was some bloodshed six months ago,

01:48:16 ◼   ► but there's been way less this time, which is good.

01:48:19 ◼   ► - We are preparing for that.

01:48:21 ◼   ► Also just want to say, you know,

01:48:22 ◼   ► we are really fortunate to do this show

01:48:24 ◼   ► and it is something that is only possible

01:48:27 ◼   ► because of y'all out there listening.

01:48:30 ◼   ► So in talking about the year in review,

01:48:32 ◼   ► like Connected has had a great year

01:48:34 ◼   ► and that's because of y'all.

01:48:35 ◼   ► So the three of us wanted to say thank you

01:48:37 ◼   ► our listeners out there for making it possible for another year. Yeah and I think to kind of put

01:48:43 ◼   ► a slight bent on that. You don't want to thank our listeners for listening? No no because we thank

01:48:49 ◼   ► people every year right as is totally right because like we're super happy that people tune in.

01:48:54 ◼   ► Yeah. But this show got really weird in 2019. Yes. Right like we leaned into a specific way that we

01:49:03 ◼   ► we want to produce this show and it seems to have also hit our listeners with exactly

01:49:11 ◼   ► I think what a lot of them were looking for and so I want to thank everyone for coming

01:49:16 ◼   ► along with us on this journey for making this show I think for the three of us like way

01:49:22 ◼   ► more fun to produce as well as trying to balance with the interesting commentary that we want

01:49:28 ◼   ► to do but like we have a lot of fun with this show now and it's kind of taken its own path

01:49:33 ◼   ► And I'm you know, it seems like people have really

01:49:36 ◼   ► Warmed to that idea along with us

01:49:38 ◼   ► Which has given me like a whole new appreciation for a project that I have been doing that we have all been doing

01:49:46 ◼   ► For a very long time at this point. So, you know like this show the

01:49:50 ◼   ► Us three working together. It's like how many years now coming up on seven six seven? Yeah, right

01:49:57 ◼   ► And so I feel completely refreshed like we're doing a brand new show

01:50:02 ◼   ► Yeah, and that has happened in 2019 and it's made me very it makes me

01:50:06 ◼   ► Really look forward to every Wednesday

01:50:10 ◼   ► So yeah, I'm not a person who believes in these things, but I'm just saying

01:50:15 ◼   ► We began the show with a trashcan Mac Pro and the show was re you know

01:50:21 ◼   ► Basically reborn with them with the new Mac Pro. So is it a coincidence?

01:50:26 ◼   ► I don't know. You know, I think when you say that you say like I guess the identity of our program is tied up in

01:50:32 ◼   ► The Mac Pro and we should be remembered for that. You know, we are the Mac Pro show and all those ATP folks.

01:50:38 ◼   ► I agree actually.

01:50:39 ◼   ► There you go. Who? Yeah, exactly. So yes, we're super. We're the Mac Pro show. We are the Mac Pro show. We are pro Mac

01:50:46 ◼   ► people over here. Macintosh professionals. We love the Macintosh.

01:50:50 ◼   ► We love the Macintosh professional. We do.

01:50:55 ◼   ► We do so yes, thank you everybody for listening and especially when we go on our weird, you know side topics

01:51:01 ◼   ► Including the Macintosh professional look forward to our first part purpose of the year where Federico talks about how he split some

01:51:09 ◼   ► AirPods silicon tips in half

01:51:11 ◼   ► I am going to buy a Mac Pro just to watch the video and you know with with with a better video codec

01:51:22 ◼   ► Because of good afterburner a thing that's right. It makes video faster like it actually goes faster

01:51:29 ◼   ► So I think I think that does it for 2019 for connected

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01:52:05 ◼   ► Next year gentlemen say goodbye

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