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00:00:02 ◼   ► Hello and welcome to Connected, episode 272.

00:00:12 ◼   ► It's made possible this week by our sponsors,

00:00:14 ◼   ► Smile, Pingdom, and Eero.

00:00:17 ◼   ► My name is Stephen Hackett

00:00:18 ◼   ► and I am joined by Mr. Myke Hurley.

00:00:20 ◼   ► - Ahoy there.

00:00:22 ◼   ► - Oh, hi.

00:00:23 ◼   ► - I'm a man of the sea now.

00:00:25 ◼   ► - Are you?

00:00:27 ◼   ► - Mm-hmm.

00:00:28 ◼   ► - What does that mean?

00:00:29 ◼   ► Do you have a boat?

00:00:30 ◼   ► I live on the ocean.

00:00:31 ◼   ► Okay.

00:00:32 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:00:33 ◼   ► Interesting.

00:00:34 ◼   ► I have a boat now.

00:00:35 ◼   ► I've been to your house.

00:00:36 ◼   ► I don't remember it being near the ocean, but you know.

00:00:38 ◼   ► I suppose I've moved to the ocean.

00:00:41 ◼   ► Or you know, rising sea levels have claimed large swaths of England.

00:00:45 ◼   ► It's going to happen eventually.

00:00:47 ◼   ► Also joined by Mr. Federico Vittucci.

00:00:50 ◼   ► Hello, hi.

00:00:51 ◼   ► I don't live by the ocean.

00:00:52 ◼   ► Guys, I need to confess to you that I introduced you in the wrong order.

00:00:57 ◼   ► I'm sorry.

00:00:58 ◼   ► What? Can you just edit it correctly?

00:01:02 ◼   ► Probably not. That's...

00:01:04 ◼   ► I mean, you could, but you shouldn't.

00:01:06 ◼   ► No, you should just own it.

00:01:08 ◼   ► Own your mistake.

00:01:10 ◼   ► So do you have to change it forever now, or am I going to get two intros in a row?

00:01:15 ◼   ► I tell you what, I'm going to fix it. So if you're listening to this...

00:01:20 ◼   ► Here you go.

00:01:27 ◼   ► Hello and welcome to Connected episode 272. It's made possible this week by our

00:01:33 ◼   ► sponsors Smile, Pingdom and Eero. My name is Stephen Hackett and I'm joined by Mr.

00:01:39 ◼   ► Federico Vittigi. Hello, hi. And by Mr. Myke Hurley. Ahoy there, I'm a man of the sea now.

00:01:47 ◼   ► And it's fixed! Wow. Who knows what you've done? Not us. You just have to listen to the show and find out how I fixed it.

00:01:56 ◼   ► We're gonna move into follow-up, and Myke, there is some news out of your household.

00:02:02 ◼   ► I don't wanna talk about it.

00:02:03 ◼   ► No, this is so sad.

00:02:06 ◼   ► This is of great personal trauma to me, I really don't wanna talk about it.

00:02:09 ◼   ► This is worse than when somebody returns a puppy.

00:02:13 ◼   ► Like this is horrible news.

00:02:15 ◼   ► Well, it's worse than...

00:02:18 ◼   ► The story is even worse than you know it to be.

00:02:20 ◼   ► Oh my God.

00:02:21 ◼   ► What did you do?

00:02:22 ◼   ► How can it be worse?

00:02:24 ◼   ► you break the TV before returning it? That'd be sad. Nobody knows what we're talking about

00:02:28 ◼   ► yet. So the TV that I was very happy to welcome into my home, it actually didn't last a day

00:02:36 ◼   ► until it was deemed that this TV was too big for the house. Frankly, guys, the TV is too

00:02:43 ◼   ► big. It's 55 inches, it's too big. I loved it, but it was just too big. And it made my

00:02:52 ◼   ► wife feel very uncomfortable and tired in her eyes like she couldn't watch tv like it was just too

00:02:59 ◼   ► much so we decided that yes 55 inches was too big especially because so you know i said i had a 42

00:03:08 ◼   ► inch like a 42 inch tv i actually have a i think a 40 inch tv so the the jump was like over 15 inches

00:03:17 ◼   ► which is too much. It's a lot of TV. It's a lot of TV really to go up to. So it has been deemed that

00:03:27 ◼   ► we will not have the TV in the house anymore, so we've gone back to the previous Panasonic TV that

00:03:32 ◼   ► I had, which is now a tiny, small, sad thing. It's now 40 inches instead of the 55. There is a

00:03:43 ◼   ► problem we can't return it because we used it. What? Oh my god. So there is now a 55

00:03:52 ◼   ► inch television in my home. That's not possible. In a box. How can you not return something?

00:03:58 ◼   ► No no no. I'm pretty sure there's some EU. Oh well. Can you? How dare you? At this time.

00:04:08 ◼   ► How dare you bring that plague upon my house? How dare you?

00:04:13 ◼   ► Wow.

00:04:14 ◼   ► How dare you? We checked the terms and conditions, because I assembled it, we can't return it.

00:04:20 ◼   ► So what are you going to do with it? Sell it?

00:04:23 ◼   ► Exactly. Trying to. Trying to. It's not going well so far, so it's a huge box in the living

00:04:31 ◼   ► room taunting me. Here's the TV that you wanted that you messed up and bought too big. Problem

00:04:37 ◼   ► is problem is OLED does not exist below 55 inches right now you cannot get a

00:04:43 ◼   ► decent sub 55 inch OLED TV it just doesn't exist

00:04:48 ◼   ► Samsung have a technology called QLED which is not OLED but offers a lot of

00:04:53 ◼   ► the benefits and they do smaller panels but none of the Samsung TV have home kit

00:05:04 ◼   ► they just have airplay, so that doesn't work. LG have said that at some point next year

00:05:12 ◼   ► they're going to introduce sub 50 inch OLED panels, but who knows if that's going to happen.

00:05:18 ◼   ► Yeah, they've been seeing this for a while.

00:05:20 ◼   ► Yeah, that was the impression that I got. So I don't really know what we're going to

00:05:24 ◼   ► do, but we can't really have a TV above 50. I think 50 is the absolute maximum we could

00:05:31 ◼   ► go to. So yeah, there is now just a big TV in the house. You're thinking about

00:05:36 ◼   ► this wrong. You are under the assumption that the TV is wrong for the

00:05:40 ◼   ► house, but really the house is wrong for the TV. The TV is fine. It's not a problem

00:05:45 ◼   ► with the TV. It's a problem with your living space, so clearly you just need to

00:05:49 ◼   ► move to a bigger place with a massive room for the television to be in. Then

00:05:53 ◼   ► you sit further back and it's fine. Because of my sadness, Idina did

00:05:57 ◼   ► recommend rearranging our entire room and I said that that was too much. That was too

00:06:03 ◼   ► much. I don't want to rearrange our house for this TV. The TV must go, but I am going

00:06:09 ◼   ► to take a, I am expecting significant loss on this television.

00:06:12 ◼   ► What if you bought the house next door to you and merged them and so you could like

00:06:17 ◼   ► have a really long house? Can I just say you are not helpful?

00:06:22 ◼   ► Well, you know, look, I'm just spitballing. An ideas guy.

00:06:26 ◼   ► So no television, television, well okay let me rephrase that.

00:06:30 ◼   ► We definitely have television, but we are not using television.

00:06:35 ◼   ► And that is that.

00:06:36 ◼   ► If anybody would like to buy a television.

00:06:39 ◼   ► Email Stephen.

00:06:41 ◼   ► Yeah, I mean look, I've been looking kind of halfway at a TV.

00:06:47 ◼   ► You bought basically the one I was gonna buy, so just bring it with you next time you come

00:06:50 ◼   ► over.

00:06:51 ◼   ► I'll just book some freight.

00:06:53 ◼   ► Yeah, put it on a boat.

00:06:54 ◼   ► Put it on a boat, send it to you.

00:06:56 ◼   ► So 55 inches, huh?

00:06:58 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:06:59 ◼   ► Federica's gonna buy it. That's how that goes.

00:07:02 ◼   ► I'm thinking about it.

00:07:04 ◼   ► It's the most incredible television I've ever looked at.

00:07:07 ◼   ► Well look, you don't need to sell me on it. I believe you. I know that it's a great television.

00:07:12 ◼   ► I can't even fathom how I would ship this television.

00:07:16 ◼   ► This is part of the problem as well. It's very difficult to ship a television. We've been looking into this.

00:07:21 ◼   ► I don't want to talk about this anymore, we have to move on.

00:07:26 ◼   ► Okay.

00:07:27 ◼   ► Sorry for your loss, Myke.

00:07:29 ◼   ► Like literally, sorry for your future loss.

00:07:32 ◼   ► There is a financial loss, yes.

00:07:37 ◼   ► That's terrible.

00:07:38 ◼   ► Apple has updated its HomeKit accessory list.

00:07:41 ◼   ► This is a page on its website, talks about devices that work with HomeKit, bringing some

00:07:47 ◼   ► routers including Eero and a Linksys device and security systems and cameras

00:07:53 ◼   ► and stuff that have been quote announced with HomeKit. We don't we don't really

00:08:00 ◼   ► know when this stuff is rolling out. I continue to be intrigued by the idea of

00:08:03 ◼   ► HomeKit router support like what that could look like what that would mean but

00:08:09 ◼   ► it seems like it's very hand-wavy at this point but you know companies are

00:08:13 ◼   ► moving forward with this and while we haven't really seen any fixes for our

00:08:17 ◼   ► shared HomeKit security video woes. Things continue to move forward, albeit

00:08:24 ◼   ► slowly, in HomeKit land. I think it's at least good that Apple have assembled

00:08:29 ◼   ► some of this stuff. Yeah. Right? Like, so you actually know. And I would not

00:08:35 ◼   ► recommend anybody buy a product on this list with the hope that you'll get it at

00:08:40 ◼   ► some point, right? But it's good to know if you already have one of these

00:08:44 ◼   ► products then you can be like "oh at some point this will work" but like if you

00:08:50 ◼   ► want to upgrade your like router or camera or whatever I would just so you

00:08:56 ◼   ► can get this feature I'd recommend waiting. The other thing is I mean look

00:08:59 ◼   ► how like how well the HomeKit Secure Video started off I wouldn't necessarily

00:09:05 ◼   ► think the router stuff's gonna be much easier at least at first. Never liked the

00:09:11 ◼   ► sound of those two words together and HomeKit and announced like that's

00:09:17 ◼   ► usually never you know they say oh it's been announced and any day now canary's

00:09:23 ◼   ► gonna get home kiss two years later like as where I've seen so many stories of

00:09:27 ◼   ► like things that were announced two years before finally having HomeKit

00:09:32 ◼   ► support and now maybe you bought that device haven't been able to take

00:09:36 ◼   ► advantage of HomeKit for the past couple of years, native HomeKit, probably better devices

00:09:42 ◼   ► have come out in the meantime and you're still holding out hope that it'll receive the HomeKit

00:09:48 ◼   ► support. Like, I do not recommend buying things that have just been announced. Like, take

00:09:56 ◼   ► a look at what's available now, because you know you're going to be able to take advantage

00:10:00 ◼   ► of that immediately instead of... because we've seen so many instances of like companies

00:10:06 ◼   ► saying, "Oh, we actually said we were going to support HomeKit, but that turned out to

00:10:11 ◼   ► be more difficult than expected, so goodbye.

00:10:13 ◼   ► It's not going to happen."

00:10:16 ◼   ► So yeah, buy things that are available now.

00:10:20 ◼   ► Don't hope for announced HomeKit support.

00:10:23 ◼   ► It's like waiting for the Cybertruck, right?

00:10:26 ◼   ► Just buy an F-150.

00:10:27 ◼   ► No, nobody's waiting for that.

00:10:30 ◼   ► Nobody is.

00:10:32 ◼   ► The year of Steven continues.

00:10:34 ◼   ► Doesn't.

00:10:35 ◼   ► It's the same thing.

00:10:36 ◼   ► It doesn't continue.

00:10:37 ◼   ► From Apple's website.

00:10:38 ◼   ► Well, it's two stories.

00:10:39 ◼   ► But you've already claimed this.

00:10:40 ◼   ► You have won.

00:10:41 ◼   ► The victory is yours.

00:10:42 ◼   ► That's great.

00:10:43 ◼   ► We'll find out soon enough, because in the next couple weeks we will be judging our yearly

00:10:44 ◼   ► picks.

00:10:45 ◼   ► And making new ones.

00:10:46 ◼   ► And making new ones.

00:10:47 ◼   ► The story is, though, Johnny Ive was quietly removed from Apple's leadership page on Thanksgiving

00:10:48 ◼   ► Day, the best time to bury a story, completing the "The

00:11:04 ◼   ► Completing the month-long transition of him leaving Apple and doing his own thing

00:11:08 ◼   ► I don't read anything into the date except that Apple wanted to try to bury it on Thanksgiving. So

00:11:13 ◼   ► Maybe they were thankful to Johnny. That's what it meant. Yeah

00:11:17 ◼   ► Maybe do you think they escorted him out of the spaceship?

00:11:22 ◼   ► Secret tunnel in there anyway, so he can get back in if he wants to he's gonna stop him

00:11:31 ◼   ► He knows his way around that place.

00:11:34 ◼   ► If you use a secret code, you know like when Apple bloggers go to the Steve Jobs theater

00:11:42 ◼   ► and everybody likes to make fun of those elevator buttons that are so unlike Apple?

00:11:48 ◼   ► But maybe they're ugly because...

00:11:49 ◼   ► Someone like Apple to make an elevator button like that.

00:11:52 ◼   ► Maybe they do support some kind of secret code that only Johnny knows and he takes you

00:11:56 ◼   ► to the secret tunnel.

00:11:58 ◼   ► If you align it correctly, it opens a secret door.

00:12:02 ◼   ► Like I want to believe there's a secret tunnel that takes you from the spaceship to the Catalina

00:12:06 ◼   ► Island.

00:12:07 ◼   ► And it's like he's built his evil lair on the Catalina Island.

00:12:13 ◼   ► That would be incredible.

00:12:14 ◼   ► He's been living breadcrumbs for years.

00:12:16 ◼   ► It's like the Da Vinci Code.

00:12:20 ◼   ► The Johnny Code.

00:12:24 ◼   ► So yeah, he's gone.

00:12:26 ◼   ► Thank you.

00:12:27 ◼   ► Bye, John.

00:12:28 ◼   ► Maybe, so here's a thought, what if, and we're going to talk about this in a bit, those Apple

00:12:34 ◼   ► Music Awards, what if those are the first product from the new Johnny consultant company,

00:12:42 ◼   ► what's it called, Love From Johnny?

00:12:46 ◼   ► Maybe those are a Love From Johnny product.

00:12:49 ◼   ► It seems like the kind of person that would design an award for Apple Music based on,

00:12:57 ◼   ► you know, silicon chips. I don't know. That was my thought though. Like, "Oh, wouldn't

00:13:02 ◼   ► it be funny if this is actually a Johnny Ive product but in the role of a consultant that

00:13:06 ◼   ► can now design weird and fascinating small objects?"

00:13:10 ◼   ► I bet if that was the case, that is the maximum only one thing that they will ever commission

00:13:16 ◼   ► from Johnny's agency. Because they will never ever, ever, ever work with him again.

00:13:24 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:13:25 ◼   ► That's how it's going to be.

00:13:27 ◼   ► Except for maybe the odd charity item.

00:13:30 ◼   ► Google has gotten into the Year of Steven celebration.

00:13:33 ◼   ► Jeez, this absolutely means nothing.

00:13:35 ◼   ► This is meaningless.

00:13:37 ◼   ► It's completely unrelated.

00:13:40 ◼   ► You did pretty well.

00:13:41 ◼   ► The Year of Steven does not extend to any executive.

00:13:46 ◼   ► Any company.

00:13:47 ◼   ► Of any company.

00:13:48 ◼   ► Tell that to Google.

00:13:49 ◼   ► A friend of mine quit their job this year.

00:13:50 ◼   ► Year of Steven continues.

00:13:54 ◼   ► So Myke, do you want to explain what's going on here?

00:13:58 ◼   ► Larry and Sergey, the founders of Google, have...

00:14:02 ◼   ► Drop the mic.

00:14:04 ◼   ► It's difficult to explain what they've actually done here.

00:14:08 ◼   ► They have created a design company.

00:14:10 ◼   ► Wait, no, that's...

00:14:11 ◼   ► Love from Larry and Sergey.

00:14:14 ◼   ► They have stepped aside as dual CEOs of Alphabet.

00:14:21 ◼   ► Sundar Pichai is now the CEO of both Google and Alphabet.

00:14:27 ◼   ► But Larry and Sergey have not given up their voting power on the board.

00:14:33 ◼   ► So I read a very good Twitter thread, which I will put in the show notes, which kind of

00:14:40 ◼   ► talks about and goes through all of the times that Larry and Sergey have been able to, and

00:14:46 ◼   ► again this is one sided, right?

00:14:48 ◼   ► I don't know all the story about this, but it is interesting.

00:14:51 ◼   ► All of the times that, um, they have been able to step aside from ever

00:14:56 ◼   ► appearing in front of a court.

00:14:58 ◼   ► There are like all these different times when they may have been had to either

00:15:02 ◼   ► they were interposed and they said they were sick, uh, or the Uber and Waymo thing

00:15:06 ◼   ► where they ended up settling out of court.

00:15:08 ◼   ► And of course, everybody knows, right?

00:15:10 ◼   ► Like both the U S government and a potential future U S government and the

00:15:16 ◼   ► European Union are closing in on company monopolies, like more and more and more.

00:15:20 ◼   ► And it may be that Larry and Sergey are trying to get away from ever having to

00:15:25 ◼   ► appear in front of Congress like Zuckerberg did, because they have

00:15:34 ◼   ► now stepped out of the limelight, but they continue to be in control of the

00:15:39 ◼   ► company, or have a controlling interest in the company with their voting rights.

00:15:42 ◼   ► Again, I just found that like a very interesting thing.

00:15:46 ◼   ► I don't know the full story because I've not done enough research, but it is an interesting

00:15:50 ◼   ► thought.

00:15:52 ◼   ► I do not envy Sundar Pichai in this because that is a huge job he has now as the CEO of

00:16:00 ◼   ► Google and Alphabet.

00:16:04 ◼   ► That seems like a lot of work for one person.

00:16:07 ◼   ► It's kind of like being your own dad in a way.

00:16:09 ◼   ► He's in charge of Google.

00:16:11 ◼   ► in charge of Google's parent company. That's a good point. Very strange. It's like the

00:16:15 ◼   ► Spider-Man meme with the two Spider-Men pointing at each other. That's very good.

00:16:25 ◼   ► That's very good. Look, he is now his own co-CEO. Like, that's a dream job right

00:16:33 ◼   ► there. You got to have somebody he can trust, might as well be him. Yeah. What

00:16:38 ◼   ► about yourself. Yes. It's just, it just seems, it's just strange. It's like a very strange

00:16:44 ◼   ► situation but like, I like some of the aperture though. It seems cool. We do. So moving on

00:16:51 ◼   ► through follow-up, we do want to let everybody know about a new show here on Relay FM called

00:16:58 ◼   ► Pictorial. It's hosted by Quinn Rose and Betty Chin. It is a show about art culture and art

00:17:06 ◼   ► history it's been a lot of fun working with this show getting it up and running

00:17:11 ◼   ► with Quinn and Betty. Betty has an awesome YouTube channel she should go check out

00:17:15 ◼   ► called Articulations where she explains all sorts of things that we see every

00:17:20 ◼   ► day and how art informs them it's it's really fascinating. They're doing

00:17:24 ◼   ► something interesting too. Pictorial will also be shared on YouTube and they will

00:17:28 ◼   ► be having additional content in the YouTube video so you'd imagine a show

00:17:33 ◼   ► about art they're talking about things that it's helpful to see and so they are

00:17:37 ◼   ► sort of harnessing YouTube to do that which I think is it's pretty cool but

00:17:41 ◼   ► we're excited about it we're honored that they would have it on Relay and you

00:17:44 ◼   ► should go check it out. Alright we have some some topics we're gonna get to but

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00:18:54 ◼   ► document that made the rounds this morning, Apple alerting users of the,

00:18:59 ◼   ► this is the full name, Mac book pro 13 inch 2019 to Thunderbolt three ports.

00:19:06 ◼   ► You know, that machine,

00:19:07 ◼   ► do you like that nickname? Federico?

00:19:09 ◼   ► Yeah, it's perfect.

00:19:11 ◼   ► I call this the Mac book pro no escape because it replaced the escape.

00:19:16 ◼   ► It just has two thunder reports, but they slapped a, uh, the touch bar on it.

00:19:19 ◼   ► So the Mac escape.

00:19:22 ◼   ► No, it's called the 13 inch 2019, 2003 ports.

00:19:26 ◼   ► - It's the cheap MacBook Pro.

00:19:28 ◼   ► - It's, it's, whatever.

00:19:32 ◼   ► What's wrong with this computer?

00:19:34 ◼   ► - It's broken, it seems like.

00:19:35 ◼   ► So users were having issues where the computer

00:19:38 ◼   ► would randomly turn off, even though the battery told you

00:19:41 ◼   ► you had to charge still, which is not what you want

00:19:45 ◼   ► from a computer, you want it to be on,

00:19:47 ◼   ► you don't want it to turn off unexpectedly.

00:19:49 ◼   ► And Apple has this like kind of convoluted thing

00:19:52 ◼   ► you're supposed to do where if you're having this,

00:19:55 ◼   ► get the battery to a certain battery percentage

00:19:58 ◼   ► and then connect it to its power adapter,

00:20:01 ◼   ► quit all the applications,

00:20:02 ◼   ► sleep the computer with the lid closed,

00:20:04 ◼   ► let it charge for eight hours and then update Mac OS.

00:20:07 ◼   ► - Are you being serious?

00:20:08 ◼   ► Is that actually--

00:20:09 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's six steps.

00:20:10 ◼   ► - That seems like something you would have made up.

00:20:12 ◼   ► - Nah, it is exactly what Apple tells you to do.

00:20:16 ◼   ► - Okay, let me--

00:20:17 ◼   ► Oh my word, look at this.

00:20:18 ◼   ► have no idea what this does to this computer.

00:20:22 ◼   ► My only guess is that it is cycling the,

00:20:27 ◼   ► there's a controller that sits kind of in between

00:20:29 ◼   ► the battery and the rest of the system.

00:20:31 ◼   ► My only guess is that it resets that somehow.

00:20:34 ◼   ► - I think the word randomly in a support article

00:20:38 ◼   ► is not good.

00:20:39 ◼   ► - It's troubling, right?

00:20:40 ◼   ► - Right, like if things have gotten bad,

00:20:43 ◼   ► if they're just like, I randomly turn,

00:20:46 ◼   ► it might randomly turn off on you.

00:20:48 ◼   ► So there's that.

00:20:49 ◼   ► If you have one of these machines

00:20:50 ◼   ► and you're having this problem, you can do this.

00:20:52 ◼   ► I would expect a--

00:20:53 ◼   ► - Why do you have to quit all that?

00:20:55 ◼   ► - I don't know.

00:20:56 ◼   ► This is voodoo.

00:20:57 ◼   ► This doesn't do anything.

00:20:58 ◼   ► My expectation would be that the next version of Catalina

00:21:02 ◼   ► or maybe a firmware update will solve this

00:21:05 ◼   ► and hopefully it's not an issue

00:21:06 ◼   ► where you have to get your computer serviced.

00:21:08 ◼   ► But if you have this computer and you're having this issue,

00:21:12 ◼   ► check out the support document

00:21:13 ◼   ► and good luck with the song and dance.

00:21:16 ◼   ► What if you're already on the latest version of Mac OS?

00:21:20 ◼   ► Do the rest of it?

00:21:21 ◼   ► I don't know.

00:21:24 ◼   ► It says, if the issue persists, contact Apple.

00:21:27 ◼   ► Or you have to wait until there's an update, then do it.

00:21:31 ◼   ► Yeah, it's weird.

00:21:32 ◼   ► That's the worst.

00:21:33 ◼   ► It's a weird--

00:21:34 ◼   ► That's a wild thing.

00:21:35 ◼   ► That's why I want to talk about it.

00:21:36 ◼   ► It can't be very widespread, though.

00:21:38 ◼   ► Because I mean, I don't know.

00:21:39 ◼   ► I feel like we'd hear from people if--

00:21:41 ◼   ► I haven't heard a word about this.

00:21:42 ◼   ► How strange.

00:21:43 ◼   ► I mean, it's obviously happened in some instances.

00:21:45 ◼   ► Like what a weird set of things.

00:21:48 ◼   ► - Very strange.

00:21:49 ◼   ► That's why I wanna talk about it, 'cause it's so unusual.

00:21:52 ◼   ► It's like if you're, you know,

00:21:54 ◼   ► if your computer's acting funny,

00:21:55 ◼   ► just plug it in at a very certain time,

00:21:57 ◼   ► in a very certain way.

00:21:59 ◼   ► You need to make sure that the lid

00:22:00 ◼   ► of the computer's facing north,

00:22:02 ◼   ► and you have to be wearing all black,

00:22:04 ◼   ► and sacrifice a living thing.

00:22:08 ◼   ► Then maybe it'll work.

00:22:09 ◼   ► Myke, you come bearing some news.

00:22:11 ◼   ► - Yeah, I always have news for the show.

00:22:13 ◼   ► (Jared vocalizing)

00:22:15 ◼   ► my news this time, which is if you're not a long time listener of the show, this is

00:22:20 ◼   ► going to sound very peculiar. I have switched to Safari.

00:22:24 ◼   ► Wow. On all my devices.

00:22:27 ◼   ► Wow. End of an era.

00:22:29 ◼   ► End of an era. I have been a Chrome user on all of my devices, including my iPhone, for

00:22:34 ◼   ► many, many years because I was a Chrome user on the Mac because Google Docs was support

00:22:39 ◼   ► just didn't really work very well for a while in Safari.

00:22:43 ◼   ► So I used Chrome.

00:22:44 ◼   ► And then when I used Chrome on one device,

00:22:46 ◼   ► I was like, well, I want to use Chrome on all devices.

00:22:49 ◼   ► So all of my history syncs up, right?

00:22:51 ◼   ► Because that's why you want to use a browser everywhere.

00:22:54 ◼   ► So you can get your tabs, you can get your history,

00:22:57 ◼   ► and you get all your autofill and all that kind of stuff.

00:22:59 ◼   ► So I suffered in silence using Chrome on my iPhone

00:23:03 ◼   ► for many years.

00:23:04 ◼   ► It just brings of it a million different weird problems,

00:23:07 ◼   ► but they were all worth it.

00:23:08 ◼   ► Plus I prefer the design of Chrome to Safari.

00:23:12 ◼   ► I think Chrome is a better designed browser on the iPhone than Safari is.

00:23:17 ◼   ► I will get to why in a minute.

00:23:19 ◼   ► But Safari on iPadOS is so good that you would be a fool to use anything else because that

00:23:27 ◼   ► desktop Safari really just really changes the way that you're able to use the iPad.

00:23:33 ◼   ► So I've been using Desktop Safari for a few months and now I've decided that it was getting

00:23:40 ◼   ► frustrating that things weren't being synced up so I have now switched to Safari on my

00:23:45 ◼   ► iPhone and on the Mac too.

00:23:49 ◼   ► So that's where I am.

00:23:51 ◼   ► I like that everything's back in sync.

00:23:53 ◼   ► Apple Pay, being able to use Apple Pay like all the time when buying things online is

00:23:57 ◼   ► really good because it only works in Safari.

00:24:01 ◼   ► And also website logins with like Keychain and 1Password are much more consistent than

00:24:07 ◼   ► they were before.

00:24:08 ◼   ► I have some frustrations.

00:24:10 ◼   ► I have frustrations that are on iOS and on the Mac.

00:24:14 ◼   ► I hate the way that tabs work on Safari on the Mac.

00:24:19 ◼   ► In Chrome, the tabs just get smaller and smaller the more that you open them.

00:24:24 ◼   ► So all of your tabs are available to you, right?

00:24:27 ◼   ► And then you can just click them.

00:24:29 ◼   ► On Safari, the tabs don't get smaller, they just become a scrollable bar.

00:24:34 ◼   ► Go to left to right.

00:24:35 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:24:36 ◼   ► It's stupid.

00:24:37 ◼   ► It's stupid.

00:24:38 ◼   ► Who wants that?

00:24:39 ◼   ► Like, it's stupid.

00:24:40 ◼   ► So now I have had to pin five tabs to the left, because I always need them, but three

00:24:45 ◼   ► of those tabs have the exact same favicon.

00:24:48 ◼   ► Yeah, I have the same problem.

00:24:50 ◼   ► Yes.

00:24:51 ◼   ► I would really like to be able to somehow distinguish between these other than different

00:24:57 ◼   ► favicons.

00:24:58 ◼   ► Like, I would also like to tab some, like, Google Docs there, but then it's just going

00:25:02 ◼   ► to be, like, just impossible.

00:25:04 ◼   ► So it's, you know, I hate that.

00:25:08 ◼   ► I hate on the iPhone that tabs seem to open, this actually happens on the Mac too, in a

00:25:14 ◼   ► somewhat seemingly random order.

00:25:17 ◼   ► In Chrome, when you open a new tab followed by a link or whatever, it just becomes the

00:25:21 ◼   ► most recent tab in the scrollable view.

00:25:24 ◼   ► on the iPhone it just opens in the middle sometimes. I think what's happening is it's

00:25:31 ◼   ► opening the tab next to the most recent tab that you had open, no matter how you open

00:25:38 ◼   ► the new tab. So if I click on a link in Messages, it puts it in the middle. Why would anybody

00:25:43 ◼   ► ever want that? Why would you ever want that?

00:25:46 ◼   ► It's a different behaviour I think. If you follow a link from another app, it behaves

00:25:52 ◼   ► in one way but if you're using Safari and you do like tap and hold on a link and you

00:25:57 ◼   ► open in the background it uses a different order so like it breaks your mental model

00:26:03 ◼   ► every single time.

00:26:04 ◼   ► I always want the most recent tab to be the most like the one either on the far right

00:26:10 ◼   ► or you know like the bottom right depending on how you're looking at it in a scoring view

00:26:14 ◼   ► I will never ever ever ever ever ever like the horrifically ugly carousel view on the

00:26:21 ◼   ► the iPhone. It's bad when you go into all tabs. I cannot believe they have kept it.

00:26:26 ◼   ► Chrome does a much better job of this. It has basically what the iPad has and what the

00:26:30 ◼   ► Mac has. I don't know why the iPhone doesn't have that view too of the grid. Why the carousel?

00:26:36 ◼   ► Why the carousel? Hi iOS 6! Like, what are you doing? Who needs a carousel? It's like

00:26:41 ◼   ► the worst way to look at this information because you see barely anything on the webpage.

00:26:46 ◼   ► It's terrible.

00:26:47 ◼   ► It should be a grid view with support for a long-pressed preview.

00:26:52 ◼   ► And that's it.

00:26:53 ◼   ► That's it.

00:26:54 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:26:55 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:26:56 ◼   ► And finally, I hate how the UI goes away when you scroll.

00:27:02 ◼   ► Oh, you do?

00:27:04 ◼   ► Yes.

00:27:05 ◼   ► That's interesting.

00:27:06 ◼   ► Why?

00:27:07 ◼   ► Sometimes I need the buttons and it's annoying to have to either scroll a very long way to

00:27:13 ◼   ► get them to come back up or I learned a little trick.

00:27:15 ◼   ► I don't know if this is like a trick everybody knows, but if you tap the like the status bar it comes back

00:27:20 ◼   ► But I just don't want that. I just want the controls there all the time. My phone is so big

00:27:25 ◼   ► I don't need you to hide

00:27:27 ◼   ► Those are the thing I have lots of frustrate my frustrations with Safari make me more angry than my things

00:27:34 ◼   ► I like about Safari make me happy, but the

00:27:37 ◼   ► Reasons I'm doing it

00:27:39 ◼   ► It's just like I want it all the same everywhere and it's so good on the iPad that I will able to use it

00:27:45 ◼   ► But there are just some really strange design decisions in Safari that I just I can't get my head around.

00:27:50 ◼   ► I share your frustrations on the iPhone design and something that I really don't understand

00:27:57 ◼   ► The tab view should really be redone from scratch

00:28:01 ◼   ► But what's even worse is that the iPhone does have many of the new useful gestures that were introduced on

00:28:09 ◼   ► Safari for iPadOS

00:28:11 ◼   ► So like how you can tap and hold on a tab and you can do for example, there's close all tabs

00:28:18 ◼   ► Except this one which I do all the time on my iPad

00:28:23 ◼   ► Like if I have a bunch of tabs open nice and I no longer need them

00:28:26 ◼   ► I can tap and hold and say keep this one and close all the rest

00:28:29 ◼   ► That's great and you can do the same on the iPhone, but here's where insanity lies

00:28:34 ◼   ► It's only supported in the tab view

00:28:39 ◼   ► which becomes a grid view in landscape mode only.

00:28:44 ◼   ► Oh my god.

00:28:46 ◼   ► In landscape...

00:28:47 ◼   ► I hate everything.

00:28:48 ◼   ► In landscape it is a grid, but you need to turn your iPhone sideways.

00:28:53 ◼   ► Ugh!

00:28:55 ◼   ► If you tap and hold on tabs in the carousel portrait view, nothing happens.

00:29:01 ◼   ► Like, why?

00:29:03 ◼   ► Like, again, like you said...

00:29:05 ◼   ► Why would you build both of these views?

00:29:07 ◼   ► 2012 all over again.

00:29:10 ◼   ► Like, what is this carousel view?

00:29:12 ◼   ► Nobody needs it. Nobody likes it.

00:29:14 ◼   ► And the tap and hold in portrait mode doesn't even work reliably.

00:29:20 ◼   ► Look at that. Arrange tabs by title, arrange tabs by website.

00:29:23 ◼   ► That's so useful.

00:29:25 ◼   ► It's so useful, but it's it's only like who uses the iPhone in landscape anymore?

00:29:30 ◼   ► Not even, you know, I was thinking about that a few days ago.

00:29:33 ◼   ► Like when the then the plus was announced,

00:29:37 ◼   ► and we're all so excited about landscape view.

00:29:39 ◼   ► But it's just like, I hate it.

00:29:40 ◼   ► I actually hate landscape view.

00:29:42 ◼   ► You should never trust somebody who types on their iPhone

00:29:47 ◼   ► in landscape.

00:29:48 ◼   ► Like, don't trust that.

00:29:48 ◼   ► That person cannot be trusted.

00:29:51 ◼   ► That's one of my rules for life.

00:29:53 ◼   ► Because nobody does it.

00:29:55 ◼   ► Like, who does that?

00:29:56 ◼   ► Who does that?

00:29:57 ◼   ► What do you have to hide that you're typing

00:29:59 ◼   ► on your iPhone in landscape?

00:30:01 ◼   ► You got something to hide.

00:30:02 ◼   ► You're not wrong.

00:30:03 ◼   ► It's terrible.

00:30:04 ◼   ► It's terrible.

00:30:05 ◼   ► It's terrible.

00:30:06 ◼   ► It's like people drink Pepsi.

00:30:07 ◼   ► There I said it.

00:30:09 ◼   ► All right. I said it.

00:30:10 ◼   ► Email Stephen.

00:30:12 ◼   ► Email Stephen.

00:30:13 ◼   ► That does remind me of the like the

00:30:14 ◼   ► the ad campaign they did, the

00:30:16 ◼   ► Is Pepsi OK ad?

00:30:18 ◼   ► Do you remember that? They did it for

00:30:20 ◼   ► the Super Bowl?

00:30:21 ◼   ► They did an ad like Pepsi did an ad

00:30:24 ◼   ► where like somebody

00:30:27 ◼   ► it's actually Steve Carell it starts

00:30:28 ◼   ► with and it's

00:30:30 ◼   ► like the waitress is

00:30:32 ◼   ► like, is Pepsi OK?

00:30:33 ◼   ► And he's like, OK,

00:30:35 ◼   ► right? Like, of course it's okay. It's a great ad. It's a very good ad. I like ads where

00:30:41 ◼   ► companies are aware of the memes about them. I'll put it in the show notes. It also has

00:30:45 ◼   ► Cardi B and Lil Jon in it because they both have very interesting and fun ways of saying

00:30:49 ◼   ► the word okay.

00:30:50 ◼   ► Steven knows them.

00:30:52 ◼   ► This is what we had last time. I remember this. We were talking about it a while ago

00:30:57 ◼   ► and I was the only one that knew that Cardi B said okay in a fun way and Steven had never

00:31:03 ◼   ► heard of Cardi B.

00:31:05 ◼   ► I switched back to Safari maybe earlier this year,

00:31:09 ◼   ► and I agree with everything you said.

00:31:12 ◼   ► It's a pretty good browser wrapped in kind of

00:31:16 ◼   ► a bad application in places,

00:31:17 ◼   ► or like an application that does weird things.

00:31:20 ◼   ► It's like if you had a tasty sandwich,

00:31:23 ◼   ► but the bread you put it on was a little old,

00:31:26 ◼   ► little stale.

00:31:27 ◼   ► - That's a good metaphor.

00:31:29 ◼   ► - And used one of the inside of the sandwich.

00:31:30 ◼   ► - You want good bread on your sandwich.

00:31:31 ◼   ► - You want good bread.

00:31:32 ◼   ► - That's for sure.

00:31:33 ◼   ► - Good browser bread.

00:31:34 ◼   ► - Right, so there's that.

00:31:36 ◼   ► I'm glad you're doing this, Myke,

00:31:38 ◼   ► 'cause I think it is interesting to talk about

00:31:40 ◼   ► the differences between the two,

00:31:41 ◼   ► because so many people just default to Chrome, right,

00:31:45 ◼   ► is hugely popular, and if you're cross-platform,

00:31:48 ◼   ► like you are Mac and Windows, or Windows and iPhone,

00:31:53 ◼   ► you kinda have to use Chrome or Firefox or something

00:31:56 ◼   ► to have your browser history and bookmarks

00:31:59 ◼   ► and everything synced, and once you're used to that,

00:32:01 ◼   ► Like, I never want to go without that syncing again.

00:32:04 ◼   ► It's so helpful to be looking at something on one computer

00:32:08 ◼   ► and the next day pick it up when I get to the office

00:32:11 ◼   ► or something like that.

00:32:13 ◼   ► All those little iCloud features make Safari

00:32:15 ◼   ► a pretty nice place to be.

00:32:17 ◼   ► But yeah, Apple has some odd ideas

00:32:19 ◼   ► about how things should work.

00:32:22 ◼   ► I was surprised.

00:32:23 ◼   ► We're going to talk about the best apps of the year later on.

00:32:25 ◼   ► And Apple was talking about what the most downloaded apps were.

00:32:28 ◼   ► Chrome was 20th free, top downloaded free app of the year.

00:32:35 ◼   ► So people want that browser.

00:32:38 ◼   ► So I was thinking about this as Myke was talking.

00:32:41 ◼   ► There's four things that I would like to see in Safari next year.

00:32:45 ◼   ► I rethink the tab view on the iPhone, for sure.

00:32:49 ◼   ► Make the keychain its own passwords app.

00:32:53 ◼   ► Yes.

00:32:54 ◼   ► Don't let people dig into settings to find passwords on accounts.

00:32:59 ◼   ► That's crazy, isn't it?

00:33:00 ◼   ► Kitchen needs to be its own thing.

00:33:02 ◼   ► It's really well done.

00:33:04 ◼   ► And the moment that Apple adds support for one time password codes,

00:33:09 ◼   ► that they should have their own kitchen app for iOS.

00:33:14 ◼   ► That would like kill one password.

00:33:16 ◼   ► I know. Yeah, it would become like a serious proposition.

00:33:22 ◼   ► Third, I would say the Safari reading list needs to be...

00:33:30 ◼   ► they need to do something because it's been basically unchanged for the past six, seven years.

00:33:36 ◼   ► Oh, I do love ReaderView by the way.

00:33:38 ◼   ► ReaderView is really nice, it's really well done. It's really well done.

00:33:42 ◼   ► I have this problem with MacRumors. This is very specific.

00:33:45 ◼   ► MacRumors in half size, right? You know, like in like two apps side by side.

00:33:52 ◼   ► when I load the web page they have their like "ah cookies" thing. You can't say yes.

00:33:59 ◼   ► It just grays out the screen but I can't, there's nowhere to press to say like "accept the cookie?"

00:34:08 ◼   ► hmm so I just read everything in reader view when I go to MacRumors. It's a very specific thing that

00:34:14 ◼   ► I have happen to me. Yeah. You just need to have a content blocker block all that stuff. Do you both

00:34:20 ◼   ► use content blockers? I do, yes. And you just block in ads of them? What are you blocking?

00:34:26 ◼   ► I block everything and then I white list websites that I like. Because the reason I don't use a

00:34:31 ◼   ► content blocker is because every time I ever have a problem with a website or every time we have

00:34:38 ◼   ► somebody contact us of a problem with our website, the first response is "are you using a content

00:34:43 ◼   ► blocker?" Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like I don't want to live in that world where I always have a

00:34:49 ◼   ► problem that is that. But everything is so much faster and if something is not

00:34:55 ◼   ► working I know that my first step, like my first debug step, is always turn off

00:35:00 ◼   ► ContentBlocker and see if it works. So I'm used to that now. And the fourth

00:35:04 ◼   ► thing that I would like to see, and this may sound kind of odd given the time

00:35:09 ◼   ► that I've spent complaining about this feature and that Apple brought this

00:35:12 ◼   ► feature to 13, the file downloader, right? You can now download files in Safari for

00:35:18 ◼   ► iPhone and iPad and they get saved into the Files app and you can go to Settings and you can change

00:35:24 ◼   ► the default downloads location. It's great, I love it. But you will not believe the number of people

00:35:31 ◼   ► who have emailed me and Silvia for the Mac series shortcut icons because they cannot find the

00:35:40 ◼   ► download on their devices. I am guessing that, of course, they are not familiar with this feature

00:35:47 ◼   ► being new in 13, and they don't notice the animation when you tap on a download link.

00:35:54 ◼   ► Most people don't read alerts that pop up on screen, and so they just tap OK. They don't

00:36:01 ◼   ► notice that there's a Downloader icon in the Safari toolbar, and they say, "Well, I tapped

00:36:09 ◼   ► the link and nothing happens." And this is the paradox that I'm facing right now. This is a

00:36:16 ◼   ► better feature than what it used to be because Safari previously did not have a

00:36:22 ◼   ► downloader built in. But when you tapped on a link it showed you like a

00:36:29 ◼   ► different page with the icon of the file in the middle of the screen. You couldn't

00:36:35 ◼   ► miss it. Now it is better because you can actually download multiple files. There's

00:36:40 ◼   ► There's a progress bar, there's a default downloads location, but it's easy to miss.

00:36:47 ◼   ► So like, maybe there should be a better balance between...

00:36:52 ◼   ► I think that, you know, I know that like developers and designers, they have a dislike in most

00:36:59 ◼   ► instances of like walking you through something.

00:37:04 ◼   ► People want to, and I understand the thinking of this, they want to be able to design something

00:37:10 ◼   ► that doesn't require prompts.

00:37:13 ◼   ► But I just don't think it's the worst thing that the first time you download a

00:37:18 ◼   ► file, it pops up and says, "Hey,

00:37:21 ◼   ► your downloads are now saved in the Files app."

00:37:27 ◼   ► I don't think that's the worst thing in the world to do that,

00:37:30 ◼   ► especially if the software is going to continue to get more complex and

00:37:34 ◼   ► complicated in good reason. Like that's a great,

00:37:37 ◼   ► is a great thing to have, right? To actually have things downloaded in the background and

00:37:42 ◼   ► that you can choose wherever you want it to go and like you can do a lot of really cool

00:37:45 ◼   ► stuff with that. But you gotta tell people, like just let them know. It's not the worst

00:37:51 ◼   ► thing in the world, right?

00:37:53 ◼   ► Mm-hmm. Yeah. And like every single time I get an email from somebody who bought the

00:37:59 ◼   ► icons and said, I go to your download page and I tap the link and nothing happens. And

00:38:05 ◼   ► know, like I need to walk them through, like if you go to settings,

00:38:10 ◼   ► Safari downloads, can you tell me what it says? And most people say it just

00:38:16 ◼   ► says "downloads" or some people say it says "on my iPad" and so I need to

00:38:22 ◼   ► tell them well that's because Safari is downloading files for you in that

00:38:26 ◼   ► location. Like they had no idea that that was happening and then everybody's like

00:38:31 ◼   ► oh yeah you're right it's in the files app, it's in that folder. So like yeah

00:38:34 ◼   ► Maybe there should be like a like I know that it's not elegant and it's not like

00:38:38 ◼   ► And I'm guessing the most designers and developers have this

00:38:43 ◼   ► Myth of the interface that explains itself like you don't need a manual you don't need prompts. You don't need a tutorial

00:38:51 ◼   ► But you know everything is so complicated these days that maybe you do and it's not the worst thing to have

00:38:57 ◼   ► Like a big splashy alert because that's also the problem right Apple likes to design these alerts

00:39:03 ◼   ► that are really subtle and really not in your face,

00:39:07 ◼   ► whereas sometimes I would liken to design stuff

00:39:09 ◼   ► that is more in your face,

00:39:11 ◼   ► like with a big red exclamation point that says,

00:39:14 ◼   ► "Look at this.

00:39:16 ◼   ► Your files are here,"

00:39:18 ◼   ► and not some fancy English sentence.

00:39:21 ◼   ► "Your files that you downloaded from..."

00:39:24 ◼   ► Make it simple.

00:39:25 ◼   ► -There's an easy fix

00:39:26 ◼   ► that other companies already thought of.

00:39:28 ◼   ► You get a character that is made of an object

00:39:32 ◼   ► everyone knows, like a paper clip.

00:39:33 ◼   ► Johnny let's call it Johnny but he looks like a paperclip that's fine but his name is Johnny

00:39:38 ◼   ► no you should get you should get Phil Schiller from the poker game that's what you should get

00:39:43 ◼   ► he comes in from the side he says hi it looks like you're trying to download a file can I help you

00:39:49 ◼   ► this is where it's going I think people would really be into that by the way would you like

00:39:53 ◼   ► to play poker could you download this sorry finishes every you download this app that we

00:39:57 ◼   ► released exactly a year late for some reason?

00:39:59 ◼   ► I don't know. It's just, you know, people cannot find their downloads. So that's

00:40:07 ◼   ► my problem. I sent at least, I'm not joking, 50 emails. Like, just like this. Like, open

00:40:15 ◼   ► files and you'll find it. So maybe there's a better way. I don't know.

00:40:20 ◼   ► We seem to be on the verge of the new Mac Pro coming. Apple said it will be December.

00:40:26 ◼   ► is slowly ticking away.

00:40:28 ◼   ► And I want to talk a little bit about how we may think

00:40:31 ◼   ► that it's gonna roll out.

00:40:33 ◼   ► Because it's unusual that we know

00:40:36 ◼   ► when a machine is coming in advance,

00:40:38 ◼   ► and this is obviously a computer that has

00:40:40 ◼   ► a lot of people interested in it,

00:40:42 ◼   ► although most of those people won't end up with it.

00:40:46 ◼   ► But it's the Halo car, right?

00:40:47 ◼   ► It's the exciting Mac that people will aspire to.

00:40:51 ◼   ► And I'm curious if y'all have any thoughts

00:40:53 ◼   ► on how Apple may roll this out. What about you, Myke?

00:40:58 ◼   ► No fanfare. I do not believe it will appear on Apple.com and the homepage, right? Like,

00:41:05 ◼   ► here's our new product. I'd be very surprised if they did that. I think there'll be a press

00:41:08 ◼   ► release and I think professional focused press will get it in advance. Not everyone. So like,

00:41:16 ◼   ► maybe people like, there'll be some YouTubers for sure. I would assume like MKBHD, but I

00:41:22 ◼   ► I think they will lean quite heavy into YouTube because Apple really fancies this as a video machine

00:41:28 ◼   ► and that it does double duty there, right? Because you're putting it through its proper paces

00:41:34 ◼   ► because every YouTuber will talk about their workflow and how much faster it is

00:41:38 ◼   ► the same as they did with the MacBook Pros, right?

00:41:40 ◼   ► It's like, this is how much faster Final Cut is

00:41:42 ◼   ► but also video is good because it's video, right? So it's like a double win

00:41:47 ◼   ► when and then I think like some maybe like Oztechnica or something like you know like

00:41:51 ◼   ► a site that is way more focus on performance than an average site because I'm not sure

00:42:00 ◼   ► like would they give it to the Verge like I figure if they gave it to any of the more

00:42:04 ◼   ► general consumer sites the Verge would be the one because it's probably the biggest

00:42:09 ◼   ► yeah but like a non-tech is going to get one right because they talk about performance

00:42:13 ◼   ► and heat and processors. When I said Oztechnica I was thinking of a Nuntec.

00:42:17 ◼   ► Maybe Oz too, but that's the one I was thinking of. I was thinking of a Nuntec.

00:42:21 ◼   ► They should give one to John Siracusa, but I would... they should do it, but

00:42:27 ◼   ► they probably won't do it, but they should do it. Because I think it just,

00:42:31 ◼   ► you know. They should give him one, not as a review, they should just hand him one.

00:42:34 ◼   ► They should hand him one because it would be hilarious. Craig should bring it over.

00:42:38 ◼   ► It would be. It's like I brought this one to your house. It could be John, he's like I got this for you on

00:42:42 ◼   ► the way out the door. It has wheels on it so I could pull it out of the lab. I

00:42:47 ◼   ► agree with you. I think whatever the process is will be pretty selective. It

00:42:54 ◼   ► will not be like the MacBook Pro. No, because that is a computer for basically

00:42:59 ◼   ► everybody, right? Like, even the iMac Pro. Mm-hmm. Well, the iMac Pro I think is

00:43:04 ◼   ► closer to this, but the Mac Pro is not for everybody, and I think there is

00:43:09 ◼   ► possible backlash to be had from like regular Apple customers who would come

00:43:15 ◼   ► across this not know much about it and think holy smokes why is this computer so

00:43:19 ◼   ► expensive Apple's gone crazy and by putting it in the hands of people who do

00:43:26 ◼   ► things like 8k video footage and do these really high-end things and their

00:43:30 ◼   ► audiences know they do those things then maybe they can mitigate some of that

00:43:35 ◼   ► potential backlash. Yeah because it's like you don't it's it's unnecessary to

00:43:41 ◼   ► put this machine in front of a large audience. You don't need to do it. I would

00:43:47 ◼   ► say everybody that is ever going to buy one of these already knows about it.

00:43:52 ◼   ► Right? No one's gonna be surprised by this computer and then make the decision

00:43:56 ◼   ► surely. Like oh it's the new Mac Pro! It's been 10 grand! So I don't have any particular opinion

00:44:02 ◼   ► on this rollout, but the only thought that I have is I wonder if there will be some kind,

00:44:09 ◼   ► and bear with me, I know that it sounds ridiculous at first, some kind of Apple service tie-in

00:44:15 ◼   ► with this. Like, I could imagine, like, here's how the directors of an Apple TV+ show have

00:44:21 ◼   ► used the Mac Pro.

00:44:22 ◼   ► Oh, the website will 100% have a video like that. I, yeah, like, look at this scene from

00:44:27 ◼   ► For All Mankind, which was rendered on the new Mac Pro.

00:44:31 ◼   ► Like I 100% agree with you on that one.

00:44:33 ◼   ► Even something for Apple Music, like here's how this album that by the way is...

00:44:37 ◼   ► Here's how Calvin Harris uses his Mac Pro because everyone knows he has one.

00:44:41 ◼   ► So yeah, I think that the website, I would agree with you, will have those kinds of stories

00:44:46 ◼   ► on it, right?

00:44:47 ◼   ► Like that makes sense, I think.

00:44:50 ◼   ► If they didn't do something to be like, "Oh, this was from For All Mankind" or like "Whatever

00:44:54 ◼   ► was made on the Mac", like that'd be really...

00:44:56 ◼   ► I'd find that peculiar, in honesty, if they didn't do that.

00:45:00 ◼   ► a really good point. It's gonna be any day now though, right? It's got to be soon. We're in

00:45:04 ◼   ► December. Yeah, I think they've got to do it probably before Christmas just because Christmas

00:45:09 ◼   ► and New Year's is on a Wednesday, so there's not even like a full business week between them.

00:45:14 ◼   ► I would say it has to happen before the 20th. They're not going to do it Christmas week,

00:45:19 ◼   ► right? So it has to be between now and the 20th if they're going to do anything. Christmas for nerds.

00:45:26 ◼   ► Christmas for nerds. Especially if you know these things are going to ship before the holidays.

00:45:30 ◼   ► In case anyone gets their Mac Pro in their stock. Yeah it may be that the stock ones get out,

00:45:35 ◼   ► but you know this was true with the iMac Pro. The base model shipped first and then the higher

00:45:40 ◼   ► end ones were actually in January. So mine is a base model. I got it at the very end of the year,

00:45:44 ◼   ► but January most of them didn't ship for you know another week or so. So I'd imagine that's how

00:45:50 ◼   ► this may go. So 2020 is going to be the year of Syracuse. He's gonna get uh gonna get one

00:45:56 ◼   ► and he's gonna... or maybe 2021, who knows? Yeah, he may waffle a bit. So yeah, I'm excited about it.

00:46:02 ◼   ► I mean, this is a machine that I am interested in. Like, it's not in the budget, but it's fun

00:46:07 ◼   ► to think about it, and it'll be fun to talk about. And I know that Federico is really looking

00:46:13 ◼   ► forward to it, so... I'm gonna use it as a Plex server.

00:46:20 ◼   ► That's what I'm going to do.

00:46:22 ◼   ► That would be the biggest flex.

00:46:24 ◼   ► The Plex flex.

00:46:25 ◼   ► I bought a Mac Pro and it's a Plex server.

00:46:27 ◼   ► Plex flex.

00:46:28 ◼   ► And not even for H.265 videos, H.264, the old content.

00:46:33 ◼   ► That's what I'm going to use it for.

00:46:37 ◼   ► I just want to watch The Sopranos in SD.

00:46:39 ◼   ► That's all I want to serve.

00:46:41 ◼   ► I don't care.

00:46:42 ◼   ► I use a Mac Pro tower as a Plex decoder.

00:46:45 ◼   ► You know, Casey on ATP has been moaning about what to buy

00:46:50 ◼   ► and he needs Plex server, blah, blah, blah.

00:46:52 ◼   ► And I, what I should have done is I should have told him

00:46:55 ◼   ► he could have one of my X serves, right?

00:46:57 ◼   ► Like it's small.

00:46:59 ◼   ► - Can you not get a Mac Mini?

00:47:00 ◼   ► - It's small. - He got a Mac Mini.

00:47:01 ◼   ► - In terms of height.

00:47:03 ◼   ► - He has been suggested this

00:47:04 ◼   ► in every other possible computer configuration under the sun.

00:47:07 ◼   ► - So apparently he bought something.

00:47:09 ◼   ► We'll see what that is.

00:47:10 ◼   ► - I know what he has.

00:47:11 ◼   ► - So do I, but the audience hasn't heard ATP yet,

00:47:13 ◼   ► so don't spoil it.

00:47:14 ◼   ► Don't spoil what hasn't been shared.

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00:48:55 ◼   ► - Apple had some awards.

00:48:57 ◼   ► So we spoke about this ceremony

00:49:01 ◼   ► that they were gonna be having

00:49:02 ◼   ► that Lance Yulinoff shared with the world

00:49:04 ◼   ► but he shouldn't have.

00:49:05 ◼   ► And so it happened on Monday in New York.

00:49:10 ◼   ► The event itself, from 9 to 5 Mac, is saying,

00:49:14 ◼   ► the event centered on Apple inviting developers

00:49:17 ◼   ► to their New York City office to talk about inspiration

00:49:20 ◼   ► of stories behind their applications.

00:49:21 ◼   ► Really, this was an event for the developers

00:49:25 ◼   ► who won these awards to come and share

00:49:27 ◼   ► their stories with the press.

00:49:29 ◼   ► So I guess there would be a bit more of a fanfare

00:49:31 ◼   ► around the event itself.

00:49:33 ◼   ► But I guess also, and I think rightly so,

00:49:35 ◼   ► actually making these developers feel special,

00:49:38 ◼   ► like more special, which they deserve.

00:49:40 ◼   ► They've won an award, right?

00:49:42 ◼   ► Like I think that people who win awards

00:49:44 ◼   ► should be given some kind of a good feeling for that, right?

00:49:48 ◼   ► So like, that's why it happened.

00:49:51 ◼   ► We can see now why Apple said,

00:49:53 ◼   ► "Please don't talk about this

00:49:55 ◼   ► because there's nothing to talk about," right?

00:49:58 ◼   ► Like in advance, like it's,

00:50:00 ◼   ► we're just doing this thing and that's all it is.

00:50:03 ◼   ► But we have now, of course,

00:50:04 ◼   ► if you've been on the App Store in the last couple of days,

00:50:07 ◼   ► It's dominated at the moment with this coverage.

00:50:11 ◼   ► So I figured we could maybe touch on the winners

00:50:13 ◼   ► a little bit.

00:50:15 ◼   ► So the iPhone app of the year is Specter,

00:50:18 ◼   ► which is the AI long exposure app

00:50:21 ◼   ► from the makers of Halide.

00:50:25 ◼   ► It's a camera app.

00:50:26 ◼   ► Kind of surprised about this one, in all honesty.

00:50:31 ◼   ► I know this is an application that people

00:50:33 ◼   ► like having fun with.

00:50:34 ◼   ► I never really got it to work.

00:50:38 ◼   ► And the long exposure, whenever I wanted to do a long exposure photography, the long exposure

00:50:44 ◼   ► feature in the photos app has worked fine for me.

00:50:48 ◼   ► But I also never really want to do this.

00:50:52 ◼   ► So it's cool that it's there, but I was surprised.

00:50:57 ◼   ► It's nicely made, like it's a very nicely made application.

00:51:00 ◼   ► The design is great.

00:51:01 ◼   ► I would have expected Halide to win over this if one of these apps were gonna win.

00:51:06 ◼   ► Yeah me too, me too honestly.

00:51:08 ◼   ► Because Halide is amazing, it's amazing!

00:51:11 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:51:12 ◼   ► So it was a surprise. I'm not trying to say it's a bad app, it's a cool app,

00:51:15 ◼   ► but as the iPhone app of the year was surprising.

00:51:18 ◼   ► The iPad app of the year was Flow by Moleskine, which I didn't even know existed.

00:51:24 ◼   ► Which I'm pretty sure also won an Apple designer award?

00:51:28 ◼   ► No, Timepage did.

00:51:31 ◼   ► Time page did, okay.

00:51:32 ◼   ► I believe, maybe it was Flow, but I think it was Time Page.

00:51:37 ◼   ► Pretty sure it was Time Page.

00:51:39 ◼   ► Flow by Moleskine was the iPad app of the year.

00:51:42 ◼   ► I didn't even know this app existed, but I took a look at it today in the App Store,

00:51:46 ◼   ► downloaded it, and I want to play around with it.

00:51:47 ◼   ► It looks like a really fun, well-made drawing application for the iPad.

00:51:52 ◼   ► No, Flow won an Apple Design Award.

00:51:54 ◼   ► Oh, okay, so cool.

00:51:56 ◼   ► I guess that makes sense though, really, doesn't it?

00:51:59 ◼   ► But sure, double dipping. Someone at Apple loves Moleskine. I should send them some notebooks

00:52:05 ◼   ► instead so they can understand there are better products available.

00:52:09 ◼   ► Actually, the notebooks are fine. They're not great. There's a million products that are better.

00:52:18 ◼   ► No, keep digging. Keep digging the difficult.

00:52:20 ◼   ► But long-time listeners of the Pan Act will know, I applaud Moleskine's technology forward

00:52:29 ◼   ► approach. They also make a lot of, they are like the heavy investor in products of like

00:52:34 ◼   ► write on this paper and you can have it in an app right and they have like pens and

00:52:38 ◼   ► notebooks that do that. And I think it's very clever that they are in the iOS app business

00:52:44 ◼   ► and in this business because they are understanding two things. One, where their market is and two,

00:52:50 ◼   ► what their future should be and they all other companies that are making notebooks are going

00:52:55 ◼   ► to get left behind by them again. I think they made a very clever move in doing these things

00:53:00 ◼   ► because they are expanding their brand and showing that they are the tech forward company

00:53:05 ◼   ► that if you need to take notes in the office, yeah you can use paper but then it'll also be

00:53:10 ◼   ► in an application which everyone thinks that they want. So this is an interesting thing that they're

00:53:15 ◼   ► doing but I didn't I don't really think I even I've never tried this application so I'm looking

00:53:19 ◼   ► forward to trying it but it seems like Apple really love it. The iPhone game of the year is

00:53:24 ◼   ► Sky Children of Light, which is made by the company behind Journey?

00:53:28 ◼   ► Yeah, I don't know.

00:53:32 ◼   ► I have a few problems with these picks.

00:53:36 ◼   ► Like I think I'm happy for the winners.

00:53:39 ◼   ► Let me say I want to make something clear.

00:53:42 ◼   ► I'm very happy for everybody who won.

00:53:45 ◼   ► I just think that as the organization that does these awards,

00:53:50 ◼   ► I just find them a bit uninspired this year.

00:53:53 ◼   ► And that's due to the small number of awards, like very few categories.

00:54:01 ◼   ► No watch apps at all, no runner's app in any category. The repeat winner of Flow, which won

00:54:12 ◼   ► an Apple Design Award, and it's also like the best of the year awards, like, some variety would have

00:54:16 ◼   ► have been nice, more categories would have been nice, but the games are... like, it could

00:54:23 ◼   ► be argued that Sky launched to a lot of press, right?

00:54:28 ◼   ► It was highly anticipated.

00:54:29 ◼   ► Apple had it on stage.

00:54:31 ◼   ► Highly anticipated game, didn't really make much of an impact.

00:54:36 ◼   ► You know, it's a fun game, it's a beautiful game, it's not the new journey.

00:54:42 ◼   ► And it could be argued that there were better, more impactful, culturally speaking, iPhone

00:54:48 ◼   ► games this year. Even if you look at Apple Arcade alone, there were more games that people

00:54:54 ◼   ► keep talking about. And the iPad game is not even an iPad original game. Hyper Light Drifter

00:55:02 ◼   ► came out of PC and consoles years ago.

00:55:06 ◼   ► That was a weird one for me, for them to have featured a port so prominently.

00:55:12 ◼   ► Like I don't get it. This seems, and this is quite odd, that the year that Apple decided

00:55:22 ◼   ► to do something more with these awards, they actually feel like a bit less than previous

00:55:31 ◼   ► Less inspired, less original, less... fewer categories? Like, I don't know.

00:55:38 ◼   ► The two games... I mean, sure, they are fun games. I love Hyper Light Drifter.

00:55:44 ◼   ► Sky is a fun game. There were better titles deserving the award, in my opinion.

00:55:52 ◼   ► The Apple Arcade Game of the Year, Sayonara Wild Hearts, which I am...

00:55:57 ◼   ► This is a good one, yes.

00:55:59 ◼   ► It's one of my favorites, so I agree.

00:56:01 ◼   ► Like it is one of the best games on Apple Arcade.

00:56:05 ◼   ► But again, it is kind of funny that it is not a game that was made for Apple Arcade.

00:56:09 ◼   ► That won it.

00:56:11 ◼   ► This is a game made for PC and console, which is also on Apple Arcade.

00:56:15 ◼   ► Yes, but it is a is a good game to feature because it is that good.

00:56:19 ◼   ► And people might know it from other places.

00:56:21 ◼   ► So it's like, oh, it's on the iPhone, too. Great. I'll get that.

00:56:23 ◼   ► The app trend of the year was storytelling simplified.

00:56:27 ◼   ► The idea behind this is that this year, what they have seen as one of the biggest trends

00:56:33 ◼   ► in applications is apps that exist to help you tell stories.

00:56:38 ◼   ► They feature Anchor, which is the podcast creation app.

00:56:43 ◼   ► They feature Spark Camera, which is really good for Instagram Stories.

00:56:48 ◼   ► They feature a few applications that are good for Instagram Stories.

00:56:52 ◼   ► Unfold is another one of them.

00:56:55 ◼   ► And then they have an app called Noisy Book, one second every day.

00:56:58 ◼   ► They have a bunch of applications that are focused around helping you tell stories and

00:57:02 ◼   ► share stories.

00:57:03 ◼   ► I think the trend thing is honestly more interesting to me than in both app and game, I'll give

00:57:08 ◼   ► that again in a second, than the actual wars themselves.

00:57:11 ◼   ► The game trend of the year was Blockbuster's Reborn, so the idea of old titles or games

00:57:16 ◼   ► in existing areas seeing new games on iOS.

00:57:20 ◼   ► So Mario Kart Tour, Minecraft Earth, The Elder Scrolls Blade, Pokemon Masters, those like...

00:57:26 ◼   ► And I was like, okay.

00:57:27 ◼   ► But again, whilst that is interesting, you're really leaning on the mainstream there, Apple.

00:57:32 ◼   ► Yeah, I wanted to go there, in fact, with you.

00:57:35 ◼   ► Like is this really something worth bragging about?

00:57:38 ◼   ► Like that you got...

00:57:40 ◼   ► Especially because Minecraft Earth has not made a huge splash.

00:57:44 ◼   ► No, and...

00:57:45 ◼   ► Neither did Pokemon Masters.

00:57:48 ◼   ► And you got Assassin's Creed Rebellion, really? Call of Duty Mobile and Mario Kart Tour, sure.

00:57:54 ◼   ► Those have been two of the biggest game releases of the year. Dr. Mario World...

00:57:58 ◼   ► Mario Kart Tour, very surprised, is the most downloaded game of the year.

00:58:02 ◼   ► Yeah, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:58:04 ◼   ► Which is, I feel like it completely passed me by. I played it for a little bit and I

00:58:08 ◼   ► was like, "Okay, this is exactly what I thought it was and I don't want it."

00:58:11 ◼   ► I have so many friends who are still playing the game every single day. Like, it's been...

00:58:16 ◼   ► I think it's done well for Nintendo.

00:58:18 ◼   ► It's Nintendo's best iOS game so far. I am be keen to see if Nintendo are happy about

00:58:27 ◼   ► this though because they were not happy with Super Mario Go run run run.

00:58:33 ◼   ► Finance run financially speaking.

00:58:35 ◼   ► Yeah, I don't know. They were not happy with it. And I wonder if Mario Kart Tour has done

00:58:39 ◼   ► any better for them.

00:58:40 ◼   ► I know that Sylvia hasn't spent a single cent on it. So she keeps playing. So I don't know.

00:58:47 ◼   ► Yeah, I don't know if...

00:58:48 ◼   ► So those are the games?

00:58:49 ◼   ► ...celebrating the game trend of the year as, "Oh yeah, let's take a bunch of console

00:58:55 ◼   ► titles and make them freemium mobile versions with a bunch of gems, because this is what's

00:59:00 ◼   ► common to all of these games."

00:59:02 ◼   ► Is it something really worth celebrating with, like, mentioning in an awards ceremony?

00:59:07 ◼   ► Like shouldn't you be celebrating original content for iOS?

00:59:12 ◼   ► Like yeah, this is mainstream.

00:59:14 ◼   ► yes, this is pop content, but like it doesn't feel classy, maybe?

00:59:22 ◼   ► In a way that...

00:59:23 ◼   ► Some of it feels in contrary to the work that is done by the editors of the App Store.

00:59:32 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:59:33 ◼   ► Where they very frequently focus on more indie titles and like smaller titles of both apps

00:59:42 ◼   ► and games but then some of the awards, not all of them, but then some of the awards seem

00:59:47 ◼   ► very mainstream. It's just interesting.

00:59:51 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah.

00:59:53 ◼   ► I mean like, again, iPhone app of the year, Specta, that's awesome. I know a lot of people

01:00:00 ◼   ► like the app, I'm happy to see that they went with something like this because I just think

01:00:04 ◼   ► it's great. But if it was my choice I would have gone with Helen instead because that

01:00:11 ◼   ► just feels like a better app to me. It's a more, you know, complete, full-featured,

01:00:17 ◼   ► deeper type of software. But it might be that like that highlight is too complicated to

01:00:23 ◼   ► call the iPhone app of the year. It's like what it does as an app, where Spectre is way

01:00:28 ◼   ► more focused and like more regular people can see more of an output of it. On the other

01:00:33 ◼   ► hand, you're recommending a utility that does a feature that is also part of your own photos.

01:00:39 ◼   ► Which is what makes things even more peculiar to me.

01:00:45 ◼   ► Apple also released the most downloaded apps and games.

01:00:49 ◼   ► So I mentioned that Chrome was on that list earlier.

01:00:53 ◼   ► Mario Kart was the best free game.

01:00:57 ◼   ► I was super surprised about some of the entrants on the paid section.

01:01:01 ◼   ► So the most paid for applications of the year.

01:01:05 ◼   ► It features Autosleep for Apple Watch.

01:01:09 ◼   ► That is one of the most bought apps of the entire year.

01:01:13 ◼   ► That surprised me.

01:01:15 ◼   ► I was very surprised about this and you figure Apple must, must, surely be working on sleep

01:01:24 ◼   ► tracking for the Apple Watch now if they were not before.

01:01:27 ◼   ► It was the fifth most bought app this year.

01:01:32 ◼   ► This app is consistently at the top of the pay charts for iPhone.

01:01:37 ◼   ► remarkable really and it's made by a single person so like yes it's the indie

01:01:42 ◼   ► app that is crossed over to the mainstream like for real like every

01:01:46 ◼   ► single week it's at the... Isn't it wild as well that Dark Sky is number three?

01:01:49 ◼   ► Yeah. Still? Still? Dark Sky? Still. Yeah I know. There's better weather apps out there but

01:01:57 ◼   ► yeah folks know Dark Sky. Yeah I mean they must be working on sleep

01:02:03 ◼   ► checking them they must be seeing these two right they have to be right they

01:02:08 ◼   ► must be at this point another one that I was super interested to see it's like

01:02:12 ◼   ► number 18 on the list is things I guess know that Apple has to mark off tasks

01:02:18 ◼   ► that are repeating before they're due but but like this is people buying yeah

01:02:24 ◼   ► the $10 app this you know the up to I want to be optimistic and and say you

01:02:31 ◼   ► Maybe this is a wake-up call that tells Apple,

01:02:33 ◼   ► "Look, people want to use a task manager,

01:02:35 ◼   ► so don't be afraid of adding new features to reminders."

01:02:40 ◼   ► Like, folks are looking for that kind of to-do app.

01:02:47 ◼   ► But I don't know. Then again,

01:02:50 ◼   ► Apple likes the idea of Apple software covering the basics,

01:02:54 ◼   ► and then there's the app store for everything else.

01:02:56 ◼   ► But I would like them to steal a bunch of ideas here and there.

01:03:01 ◼   ► Slip tracking, having better support for task properties

01:03:10 ◼   ► in Reminders.

01:03:11 ◼   ► That would be fun.

01:03:12 ◼   ► Oh my god.

01:03:13 ◼   ► There is a time tracking app on this list.

01:03:16 ◼   ► Is there?

01:03:17 ◼   ► It's called Forest.

01:03:20 ◼   ► Oh yeah, Forest is usually the number one paid app.

01:03:25 ◼   ► I have never heard of this before.

01:03:26 ◼   ► In the productivity section.

01:03:27 ◼   ► So Forest is-- we looked into this a while back.

01:03:30 ◼   ► We wanted to do a feature story on the site.

01:03:32 ◼   ► Forest is very unique type of-- it's

01:03:35 ◼   ► like a mix of a time tracking app and a Pomodoro technique

01:03:38 ◼   ► app.

01:03:39 ◼   ► The basic gist is that if you work

01:03:42 ◼   ► and you're focused on your work, you

01:03:44 ◼   ► leave this timer running in the app.

01:03:47 ◼   ► And with the timer running, you plant virtual trees

01:03:51 ◼   ► and you create your own forest.

01:03:53 ◼   ► And there's a tie in with the app that I think the developers themselves donate money to relief funds or

01:04:03 ◼   ► no-profit organizations that actually plant trees around the world.

01:04:07 ◼   ► I need to look into this app.

01:04:09 ◼   ► Yeah, it's a fascinating story.

01:04:11 ◼   ► I'm just very excited to see that time tracking is in the top paid list.

01:04:15 ◼   ► You know, somewhere.

01:04:17 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:04:18 ◼   ► Then there's a metronome. There's some weird stuff in here.

01:04:21 ◼   ► - I think it does go to show how wide the App Store is

01:04:26 ◼   ► and how many different types of people use their phones

01:04:30 ◼   ► in totally different ways than us, right?

01:04:33 ◼   ► It's super broad and yeah, these apps don't make any sense

01:04:37 ◼   ► for us or our audiences, but other people,

01:04:40 ◼   ► they couldn't use their iPhone without it, right?

01:04:42 ◼   ► - We should have mentioned, because we forgot,

01:04:44 ◼   ► there's also Mac and Apple TV categories.

01:04:47 ◼   ► So the Mac app of the year is Affinity Publisher,

01:04:51 ◼   ► also not a Mac exclusive.

01:04:53 ◼   ► The Mac game of the year is "Grease".

01:04:56 ◼   ► Excellent game, also not a Mac exclusive.

01:04:58 ◼   ► This is a console game that's been brought to the Mac.

01:05:02 ◼   ► So for anybody who was looking for this,

01:05:04 ◼   ► the Apple TV app of the year is "The Explorers".

01:05:09 ◼   ► Tour the planet in stunning 4K video.

01:05:13 ◼   ► So it's a video app.

01:05:14 ◼   ► - It's like a new screensaver, right?

01:05:16 ◼   ► Like it's like, it's people that want more screensavers.

01:05:19 ◼   ► The Apple TV Game of the Year is Wonder Boy the Dragon's Trap, which I'm pretty sure

01:05:27 ◼   ► also not an original game. So yeah, and there's no Apple Watch category at all.

01:05:35 ◼   ► The Year Apple Watch got a standalone app store.

01:05:39 ◼   ► I know, right? It's not the Apple Watch.

01:05:41 ◼   ► No Apple Watch.

01:05:43 ◼   ► Like, who worked on these awards? Like, I don't know. I don't get it.

01:05:47 ◼   ► I have a question. I mean, I don't know.

01:05:49 ◼   ► I don't know what you guys think about this, but where do you think more apps are downloaded?

01:05:55 ◼   ► The Mac App Store or the Watch App Store?

01:05:59 ◼   ► The Watch App Store.

01:06:00 ◼   ► No. No way.

01:06:02 ◼   ► Yeah, because Mac users who download apps, they know how to go to websites to download

01:06:07 ◼   ► apps. And most people just who don't download apps on the Mac just use websites.

01:06:13 ◼   ► A better one then is watch App Store TV app store.

01:06:17 ◼   ► See, now you're getting somewhere.

01:06:19 ◼   ► I still think it's the watch app store.

01:06:21 ◼   ► Yeah, I think I agree with that, too.

01:06:23 ◼   ► It's got to be the watch.

01:06:24 ◼   ► It's got to be the watch.

01:06:26 ◼   ► So Autosleep, Autosleep.

01:06:28 ◼   ► Does it only work on the Apple Watch?

01:06:31 ◼   ► You need an Apple Watch.

01:06:33 ◼   ► Right. So there you go.

01:06:34 ◼   ► Doesn't that say something?

01:06:35 ◼   ► That is the fifth most downloaded app of the year, most paid.

01:06:38 ◼   ► And it is an Apple Watch needed application.

01:06:42 ◼   ► Yeah, it's an iPhone app, but you need an Apple Watch for the data.

01:06:46 ◼   ► See, AutoSleep should have been the Apple Watch app of the year then.

01:06:50 ◼   ► In theory.

01:06:51 ◼   ► But what's funny there is that AutoSleep has an optional Apple Watch app.

01:06:56 ◼   ► Because the way that it works, you don't need the AutoSleep Apple Watch app installed at all.

01:07:00 ◼   ► The AutoSleep app for iPhone just uses data from health and sensors

01:07:05 ◼   ► to aggregate heart rate data and movement and all that stuff.

01:07:09 ◼   ► stuff, you can install an optional watch app, but it's not necessary. But I mean, there's

01:07:15 ◼   ► so many options that they could have gone with for WatchOS 6 with the independent watch

01:07:20 ◼   ► apps. But yes, let's pick this fancy screensaver for Apple TV and a bunch of games that were

01:07:28 ◼   ► ported from consoles. Like, I don't know. Very strange. So real mixed bag there. But

01:07:35 ◼   ► did also have the first ever Apple Music Awards. Really, it should just be renamed the Billie

01:07:42 ◼   ► Eilish Awards Ceremony. It's kind of funny, I wrote this in our document today, then read

01:07:47 ◼   ► Ryan's article on MacStories and he said the same thing at the bottom. I was like, he gets

01:07:52 ◼   ► me, right? Like we're on the same road being that kid. So Global Artist of the Year, Billie

01:07:57 ◼   ► Eilish, Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Lizzo, Song of the Year, Old Town Road by Lil Nas

01:08:03 ◼   ► X album of the year when we fall asleep where do we go by Billy Eilish and songwriter of the year

01:08:07 ◼   ► Billy Eilish and her brother Phineas for co-writing when we fall asleep where do we go

01:08:12 ◼   ► it's important to note that the song of the year and the album of the year they were on uh the

01:08:21 ◼   ► amount of stream stuff downloaded um so album and song that's like the that reflect streaming data

01:08:28 ◼   ► Global Artist of the Year, Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year were hand

01:08:34 ◼   ► picked by, I will actually, I'm going to read a quote here, "Hand selected by Apple Music's global

01:08:40 ◼   ► editorial team of experts and tastemakers and given to artists who have true passion for their craft,

01:08:45 ◼   ► who boldly defy conventions in the category and who embody a sense of humanity where listeners

01:08:51 ◼   ► are drawn as much to who they are as to their music." I like that, but I will say it's kind of

01:08:57 ◼   ► funny I mean if you gave your artist of the year to Billie Eilish but her album

01:09:02 ◼   ► was the most listened to album of the year is she really defying conventions

01:09:07 ◼   ► she is the convention she is the most popular artist in the world right now

01:09:15 ◼   ► everyone everyone lives long enough to see themselves become the man right like

01:09:19 ◼   ► yeah you're not a rebel she's not defying come the convention right I

01:09:26 ◼   ► She did initially, maybe.

01:09:28 ◼   ► She did initially, 100%.

01:09:31 ◼   ► She is super different.

01:09:33 ◼   ► The way that they say this is like, "We picked our artists who are against the curve."

01:09:40 ◼   ► She is the curve now.

01:09:42 ◼   ► You're about ten months late to that.

01:09:45 ◼   ► Yeah, yes.

01:09:46 ◼   ► If they would have given this to her before the album came out, maybe we'd be in a different

01:09:49 ◼   ► situation.

01:09:50 ◼   ► Well, she was the Apple Music app next, you know, highlight, artist highlight, whatever.

01:09:58 ◼   ► But yeah, she doesn't, she is the conventional, as you said, she is.

01:10:03 ◼   ► She deserves the awards because her album is insane, like in a great way, like it's

01:10:06 ◼   ► crazy. Like as Federico says, you listen to that thing at over 80% on your Humpod and

01:10:11 ◼   ► it's like your Humpod's gonna explode. Some of the bass on that album is wild. Stephen,

01:10:17 ◼   ► do you know any of these people?

01:10:19 ◼   ► I know the names.

01:10:20 ◼   ► Oh, do you? Lizzo?

01:10:22 ◼   ► You know the songs?

01:10:23 ◼   ► I don't live under a rock. Do I have any of these songs in my music library? No, I do not.

01:10:28 ◼   ► You know "All Town Road"?

01:10:30 ◼   ► Sure.

01:10:31 ◼   ► Do you know that Billy Ray Cyrus is on that song?

01:10:34 ◼   ► I feel like you are maybe trolling me, so I'm not gonna answer.

01:10:37 ◼   ► It sounds like I am, right? I'm not. That song is featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.

01:10:41 ◼   ► "Time is a Flat Circle."

01:10:42 ◼   ► You can Google it. You can Google it. But that's the funniest thing to me. It's like, oh.

01:10:47 ◼   ► You can break your heart, I guess.

01:10:49 ◼   ► There's gonna be an Apple Music Awards ceremony though, right Federico?

01:10:55 ◼   ► Yes.

01:10:56 ◼   ► There's actually gonna be a video that they're putting out, I think.

01:11:01 ◼   ► Funnily enough, you know, Apple Music Awards, I guess they're gonna call it the AMAs, but

01:11:08 ◼   ► we already have those.

01:11:10 ◼   ► Well, it's the Apple logo MAs.

01:11:14 ◼   ► Yeah, Billie Eilish is performing at the Steve Jobs Theatre today, December 4th at 6.30pm

01:11:20 ◼   ► Pacific and they're gonna be streaming that on Apple Music.

01:11:24 ◼   ► I like this idea, I think it's a good idea to have Apple Music Awards.

01:11:29 ◼   ► This should be more comprehensive.

01:11:31 ◼   ► More categories, more comprehensive selections here.

01:11:34 ◼   ► There should be like male and female artists, right?

01:11:37 ◼   ► What is this?

01:11:38 ◼   ► Like four, how many?

01:11:39 ◼   ► Five picks?

01:11:41 ◼   ► Really?

01:11:42 ◼   ► an entire music streaming service? I mean, I get that it's the first version. Still,

01:11:48 ◼   ► it does sound like, it does feel like something that you put together at the last minute,

01:11:54 ◼   ► in like a month.

01:11:55 ◼   ► Well, they have those weird trophies.

01:11:58 ◼   ► Sure. That's, you know, Johnny's side project.

01:12:02 ◼   ► What is in those?

01:12:03 ◼   ► Magic.

01:12:04 ◼   ► No, but like inside of them, that looks like something from Intel.

01:12:09 ◼   ► Yeah. Why don't it be funny if those were like chips from unsold home pods?

01:12:14 ◼   ► The wafers start as a perfect 12 inch disc of silicon with nanometer level flatness.

01:12:20 ◼   ► It's like a whole thing. Of course there is. Each award features custom silicone suspended

01:12:27 ◼   ► between a polished steel sheet of glass and a machined and anodized aluminium body.

01:12:32 ◼   ► The wafers start as perfect 12 inch discs. They're 12 inches, they're massive those awards

01:12:37 ◼   ► of silicon with nanometer level flatness. I want to know what is it? It took them months to make.

01:12:44 ◼   ► Copper layers are deposited and patterned by ultraviolet lithography to create connections

01:12:49 ◼   ► between billions of transistors. The results of this multi-month process before it is sliced

01:12:53 ◼   ► into hundreds of individual chips is stun- oh no they're talking about actually making

01:12:58 ◼   ► the chips. This is very confusing. In a symbolic gesture the same chips which power the devices

01:13:04 ◼   ► that put the world's music at your fingertips, sit at the very heart of the Apple Music Awards.

01:13:08 ◼   ► So it's HomePod guts.

01:13:10 ◼   ► It's totally HomePod guts. That's what it is.

01:13:13 ◼   ► So the unsolved one said to do something with them.

01:13:16 ◼   ► At least it's a pretty neat award. Like a pretty cool physical object.

01:13:21 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:13:22 ◼   ► Still, we want to see more categories, more pics, more variety, a proper ceremony. You

01:13:28 ◼   ► know, do more. You could do better than this. It's nice that you're, you know, celebrating...

01:13:35 ◼   ► It's nice to have this kind of recognition for music streaming and whatnot, and I get

01:13:39 ◼   ► that it's functional to Apple selling you a subscription. I get that. But at the end

01:13:44 ◼   ► of the day, there's still art in this. There's people making music, and they should do...

01:13:49 ◼   ► Apple should do a better job at celebrating them, because five picks is not enough at

01:13:54 ◼   ► at all. Come on, do better next year.

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01:15:29 ◼   ► So we're gonna do our official 2020 predictions

01:15:32 ◼   ► in a couple of weeks.

01:15:33 ◼   ► That is not what this is.

01:15:35 ◼   ► We just wanna kind of round up a bunch of the rumors

01:15:37 ◼   ► about 2020 and sort of go over them

01:15:39 ◼   ► and see how we think they may shape up.

01:15:42 ◼   ► I find this fun this early on

01:15:44 ◼   ► because we're talking about things

01:15:45 ◼   ► that are nine months away in some cases.

01:15:47 ◼   ► So things always change.

01:15:48 ◼   ► There's also a lot of contradictory rumors in here which is kind of funny.

01:15:53 ◼   ► It's early, it's messy, you know?

01:15:56 ◼   ► Let's start with the iPhone.

01:15:59 ◼   ► Myke, what is the scoop on 2020's iPhones?

01:16:02 ◼   ► Alright, so there's a few things.

01:16:04 ◼   ► 9to5Mac are quoting from supply chain reports that suggest all three 2020 iPhones will feature

01:16:11 ◼   ► OLED screens but the pro models will be more advanced.

01:16:15 ◼   ► The more advanced should mean that the panels are thinner, and this is because they will

01:16:18 ◼   ► be eliminating the separate touch sensitive layer that currently exists.

01:16:22 ◼   ► Samsung have created a new OLED panel which will have touch sensitivity built into it.

01:16:29 ◼   ► So apparently there was always a layer, but this new OLED panel has its built in.

01:16:33 ◼   ► This makes apparently Samsung the sole supplier of these models, like for the screens for

01:16:38 ◼   ► these models, which is an interesting thing that typically doesn't happen with Apple.

01:16:44 ◼   ► The I don't really know particularly what more advanced would mean.

01:16:49 ◼   ► My hope is that it lines up with a Digitimes report that says the 2020 iPhone will feature

01:16:55 ◼   ► a ProMotion display, which is at 120Hz, still OLED.

01:17:00 ◼   ► So that's what I'm hoping, right?

01:17:01 ◼   ► Because like thinner is fine.

01:17:03 ◼   ► I don't know how much they can do with thinner because I can't imagine it's super thick,

01:17:08 ◼   ► but thinner would be great.

01:17:11 ◼   ► But I'm hoping that more advanced could also mean 120Hz.

01:17:16 ◼   ► I think it's important for Apple to go there for 2020 because 90+Hz screen refresh rates

01:17:25 ◼   ► is becoming a very very popular pretty much checkbox item on Android phones right now.

01:17:32 ◼   ► And I think it would be peculiar if Apple didn't find a way to get there for the iPhone,

01:17:39 ◼   ► especially considering that the iPad has had this technology for many years at this point.

01:17:44 ◼   ► Like three years? ProMotion?

01:17:48 ◼   ► Going into the third year, I believe it was added in 2017.

01:17:52 ◼   ► Because wasn't it added in the first smaller iPad Pro?

01:17:57 ◼   ► The 10.5, I think. Yeah. Yeah, because I remember checking it out.

01:18:02 ◼   ► When you got one at WWDC. Yeah, and that was multiple years ago. So I would like to see

01:18:08 ◼   ► them do that. What do you both think about those things? I want it. I want promotion. I love it on

01:18:18 ◼   ► the iPad. I know Steven doesn't like it. So I'll just want to hear what Steven thinks. Yeah, I

01:18:23 ◼   ► haven't turned off on the iPad, the high refresh rate just makes my brain feel bad. It's very

01:18:28 ◼   ► strange. Strange. It's interesting. But I wonder, so other phones have done this, right? There's a

01:18:35 ◼   ► a Razer phone that has high refresh rate that Google Pixel 4 has under certain circumstances

01:18:39 ◼   ► and those phones either have giant batteries or have taken a big battery hit and I just

01:18:45 ◼   ► wonder how that plays with the battery margin Apple got in the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro. Would

01:18:50 ◼   ► they be willing to eat into that to enable this or would they enable this and keep that

01:18:55 ◼   ► battery life? It's very hard to take battery life away from people once they get used to

01:18:58 ◼   ► it so my big question is just like power consumption. They're never gonna, I cannot imagine them

01:19:04 ◼   ► doing that. Maybe the thinness helps, right? I don't know. I'm not in tune enough with

01:19:10 ◼   ► that to understand why the power draw is what it is. I assume it's the refreshing that just

01:19:15 ◼   ► causes issues. But also Apple has its own chip team and they are killing everybody else

01:19:20 ◼   ► in the streets with the chip war. So if anyone can pull it off without a battery hit, it'll

01:19:25 ◼   ► be Apple. So maybe they're in a really good position to do this and I think a lot of people

01:19:30 ◼   ► going to love it and there's an accessibility option to turn it off so I

01:19:33 ◼   ► leave it off. I really really hope that they do it though. I think it's

01:19:39 ◼   ► inevitable that that one will happen. Yeah. Next, you know, like it feels like it

01:19:43 ◼   ► will happen eventually, maybe 2020, who knows. The next one is maybe a little bit

01:19:47 ◼   ► more up in the air. Reports circle that Apple is going to be using an in-screen

01:19:54 ◼   ► fingerprint sensor made by Qualcomm in 2020, which is convenient as yesterday

01:19:59 ◼   ► Qualcomm announced a vastly superior version of their technology for in-screen fingerprint

01:20:03 ◼   ► reading. So what do you think about this? I also want it. I want it too!

01:20:09 ◼   ► Like years ago I would have said that the idea of simultaneous biometric authentication systems

01:20:20 ◼   ► was ridiculous. Now I see why I was wrong. I want both and I want whatever is fastest to just

01:20:30 ◼   ► authenticate me. There's times when Face ID is perfect, there's other times when Touch ID is more

01:20:37 ◼   ► convenient. So why not both? So I want it, yeah? Why not both, really? I'm not trying to compare

01:20:44 ◼   ► them but like it is interesting. Most Android phones have multiple methods. I mean typically

01:20:49 ◼   ► that is because the face ID is not as strong. Not very secure. But wouldn't it be nice to

01:20:56 ◼   ► just have multiple methods? And also like, I think this is going to happen and it will

01:21:01 ◼   ► be on at least the Pro phones because I think they can sell it as a premium futuristic thing.

01:21:08 ◼   ► And I think I genuinely think it's something people want. So why not have both? I agree.

01:21:15 ◼   ► I have always considered this, that Apple would combine them, that it's not a use your

01:21:21 ◼   ► fingerprint or your face, whatever is faster, but that they would make it one system.

01:21:27 ◼   ► And so it would be even more secure because it's like two factor, you need your face and

01:21:31 ◼   ► your finger.

01:21:32 ◼   ► But hearing y'all talk about it, I think that that would be a bad call.

01:21:36 ◼   ► So having either one would be better.

01:21:40 ◼   ► I can see why you would think it, right?

01:21:42 ◼   ► Because it would be like, well, now it's like even more secure.

01:21:45 ◼   ► It's like, I get that.

01:21:46 ◼   ► But then I would be annoyed.

01:21:47 ◼   ► Like, I'd be more annoyed.

01:21:49 ◼   ► Yeah, I've changed my mind on that after hearing hearing y'all talk about it.

01:21:53 ◼   ► It does make me think about the the rumor that there's going to be an iPhone SE, right?

01:21:58 ◼   ► So a phone with maybe the 10s or 11 guts, but in the case of the 8, right?

01:22:05 ◼   ► And I just wonder if this would open the door for Apple to do that, but still ditch the

01:22:11 ◼   ► the home button so it looked like the other phones and it just has in-screen

01:22:15 ◼   ► fingerprint. I don't think that's likely because the iPhone SE in the past at

01:22:19 ◼   ► least was about keeping people who like that form factor happy and making a

01:22:24 ◼   ► cheap phone and I was sure this fingerprint stuff would be way more

01:22:28 ◼   ► expensive than a touch ID button that they've made for a hundred years so I

01:22:32 ◼   ► don't know it made me think about that I don't think that's a realistic outcome

01:22:35 ◼   ► here but I think it's super interesting that Apple could be working towards this

01:22:41 ◼   ► and what would really be cool is what if this were the way that they brought

01:22:46 ◼   ► biometrics to the Mac. So Face ID could fit in an iMac I think thickness wise

01:22:53 ◼   ► but the notebook lids are very thin and I really believe that's the reason we

01:22:57 ◼   ► haven't seen Face ID in the Mac that they can't get that module in the

01:23:02 ◼   ► existing MacBook lids. You don't want a MacBook lid with a big hump on it so

01:23:05 ◼   ► they've moved to Touch ID. But what if this sort of in-screen fingerprint thing,

01:23:12 ◼   ► not putting it on the screen of your Mac because that would be terrible, but like

01:23:15 ◼   ► could they use this technology to put it in the mouse or the trackpad somewhere

01:23:19 ◼   ► and like make it integrated much more than Touch ID is now? I don't know. Like

01:23:24 ◼   ► this seems like really interesting technology and it'd be it'd be cool to

01:23:27 ◼   ► see Apple use it in different ways. I don't know. Yeah I don't know if all of

01:23:33 ◼   ► of these require lighting. Some of these systems require illumination of the finger. Just be

01:23:39 ◼   ► impressed and that would be difficult for a trackpad but I don't think they all do.

01:23:42 ◼   ► A glowing trackpad.

01:23:44 ◼   ► I'm not sure what the Qualcomm system needs, the one that they just announced, I don't

01:23:48 ◼   ► know if it needs light or not.

01:23:50 ◼   ► I tried reading their press release about it and my brain exploded.

01:23:55 ◼   ► Yes, it's not for us. It's not for the public.

01:23:59 ◼   ► interesting too, right, because Apple and Qualcomm just had this massive fight and Apple...

01:24:04 ◼   ► But, ah, but then they became the best of friends.

01:24:07 ◼   ► Well, well, I was gonna say, it's like Samsung, right? Apple on one hand is trying to sue Samsung

01:24:11 ◼   ► into oblivion several years ago, but then Samsung was building all their chips, right? These

01:24:15 ◼   ► companies are so big, parts of them can be mad at each other while the other parts are friends. So

01:24:19 ◼   ► like, I saw some tweets like, "Oh, they'll never go to Qualcomm." It's like, yeah, they will if

01:24:25 ◼   ► if that's the way to do it, if that's the way to go,

01:24:28 ◼   ► then they'll swallow that and do it.

01:24:31 ◼   ► - Yeah, if they wanna do this technology,

01:24:33 ◼   ► they need to go to Qualcomm right now,

01:24:35 ◼   ► 'cause they're the company that's leading the way.

01:24:37 ◼   ► And so that's the iPhone,

01:24:38 ◼   ► actually a little bit more on the iPhone,

01:24:40 ◼   ► but then we're gonna move into the iPad.

01:24:42 ◼   ► The iPhone will be 5G, I think we can all agree on that.

01:24:44 ◼   ► More powerful processor,

01:24:45 ◼   ► it is coming from Bloomberg report,

01:24:47 ◼   ► and a rear-facing 3D camera for better AR.

01:24:51 ◼   ► That's something we've been hearing about for a while,

01:24:53 ◼   ► but also in the iPad Pro, which should be coming apparently in the first half of 2020,

01:24:59 ◼   ► according to Mark Gurman, with a new camera module, which also includes this 3D system,

01:25:04 ◼   ► which will allow for better room mapping.

01:25:06 ◼   ► Yes, yes, yes.

01:25:08 ◼   ► Okay.

01:25:09 ◼   ► That all makes sense, right?

01:25:10 ◼   ► And this is the rumor that we've heard for a while, but then in the last couple of days,

01:25:14 ◼   ► Ming-Chi Kuo has reported two things.

01:25:16 ◼   ► Well, one thing, two products, that the 16-inch MacBook Pro and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro will

01:25:22 ◼   ► be the first products to feature Apple's Mini LED screens. Now Mini LED screens give you

01:25:28 ◼   ► a bunch of things. A wider color gamut, higher contrast ratios, higher dynamic range, localized

01:25:33 ◼   ► dimming, thinner displays, more power efficient and no issue of burn in. It's effectively

01:25:39 ◼   ► OLED. It gives you a lot of the advantages of OLED but it's more power efficient, it's

01:25:45 ◼   ► easier to do apparently. I'm from listening to ATP, my understanding is like Mini LED

01:25:50 ◼   ► would come after OLED, like so it's actually like TVs will have this in the future. So

01:25:55 ◼   ► it's like it's a better technology for a bunch of reasons. But Ming-Chi Kuo is saying that

01:26:00 ◼   ► both of these products will appear in the second half of 2020. So what happens to the

01:26:05 ◼   ► iPad? Do we get just the 11 inch updated in the first half of the year and then the 12.9

01:26:12 ◼   ► later? Do we get two iPads in one year?

01:26:16 ◼   ► I bet we'll see an iPad Pro update at WWDC.

01:26:23 ◼   ► If they cannot get the small one to have Mini-LED, just the big one will have it.

01:26:30 ◼   ► Both of them will have the new camera, maybe both of them will have 5G, which hasn't really

01:26:34 ◼   ► been reported for the iPad Pro line.

01:26:36 ◼   ► I would be surprised if the iPad Pro does not get 5G next year.

01:26:41 ◼   ► I could see a scenario where just the big one has the new fancy display tech, but not

01:26:46 ◼   ► the small one.

01:26:48 ◼   ► But you think they're going to be announced at WWDC?

01:26:50 ◼   ► I think they're going to be announced at WWDC and they'll be announced together.

01:26:54 ◼   ► I think it makes the most sense.

01:26:57 ◼   ► This is mostly wishful thinking, but I also believe it makes sense to do it.

01:27:03 ◼   ► Especially if it's, you know, display tech, so it involves color game, it involves color

01:27:07 ◼   ► reproduction, HDR content, it makes sense to talk to a developer audience about this

01:27:12 ◼   ► stuff.

01:27:13 ◼   ► Especially the 3D camera.

01:27:16 ◼   ► And the 3D camera, of course, so you can imagine there's going to be sessions.

01:27:20 ◼   ► In fact, why announce an Apple Pro with a 3D camera at WWDC?

01:27:24 ◼   ► Because it allows you to talk to developers and have them test a new API that everybody

01:27:31 ◼   ► knows will be on the next iPhone without actually talking about the next iPhone.

01:27:36 ◼   ► Very interesting.

01:27:37 ◼   ► right? So you want developers to jump on board. This is going to be like the new size classes

01:27:45 ◼   ► thing all over again. Like you can talk about something that is obviously happening without

01:27:50 ◼   ► actually mentioning it on stage.

01:27:53 ◼   ► Yes, because it's worth remembering, like what you think to yourself, why the hell would

01:27:57 ◼   ► I care about this 3D system for AR? This is the beginning of the technology that would

01:28:01 ◼   ► appear in the on your face stuff, right? Like that's why they were doing this. Why are they

01:28:07 ◼   ► to put it in the iPhones, but they're going to put it in the iPad Pro because they want

01:28:09 ◼   ► people using it, developing for it, getting used to it, because they need applications

01:28:14 ◼   ► for their glasses.

01:28:17 ◼   ► So you do it at WWDC, you have developers come to sessions, you have developers, you

01:28:23 ◼   ► tell them, "Look, you can now build camera apps for the iPad Pro with new fancy 3Ds,

01:28:29 ◼   ► tracking APIs, but everybody knows those are mostly going to be used on the iPhone, but

01:28:33 ◼   ► You don't need to mention the iPhone because the iPad Pro actually has them and you can have sessions

01:28:37 ◼   ► You can have developers discuss them and come to the labs and whatnot. I think it would make sense

01:28:42 ◼   ► Yeah, I buy that that is my rumor roundup. Thank you. Yeah, it's a it's a very good. Thank you

01:28:48 ◼   ► It's a very good rumor roundup. I won all of these features and products. Well, I mean except the MacBook Pro

01:28:53 ◼   ► I don't care about that

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01:29:23 ◼   ► Net Federico you guys have anything exciting to?

01:29:26 ◼   ► Close out the year

01:29:29 ◼   ► Yes. Yes, we

01:29:32 ◼   ► We're going to do the Max Stories Selects, you know, actual awards for...

01:29:40 ◼   ► I can't wait to criticize your awards.

01:29:42 ◼   ► Yeah, I know.

01:29:44 ◼   ► I'm going to bring a critical eye to those things. We'll see. We'll see.

01:29:47 ◼   ► I know. It's going to be fun. We're going to do more than last year.

01:29:51 ◼   ► So it will be real fun.

01:29:53 ◼   ► People do not expect what we're doing.

01:29:56 ◼   ► And personally speaking, I'm working on the release of Music Bot.

01:30:01 ◼   ► for the end of the year. That's my Apple Music shortcut.

01:30:06 ◼   ► Including one last big surprise that I haven't told anybody about, and I think people are going to love it.

01:30:11 ◼   ► Why do you keep doing this?

01:30:13 ◼   ► Look, it's a competitive business. You gotta keep people on their toes and surprise them.

01:30:18 ◼   ► What am I going to do?

01:30:20 ◼   ► You gotta surprise them.

01:30:22 ◼   ► But like, you can tell me. You can tell Steven.

01:30:26 ◼   ► No, but it's not finished. That's the point.

01:30:28 ◼   ► I don't want us. I don't want you to look at a draft of something that some finished you got a look at the finished product

01:30:35 ◼   ► Okay, so yeah

01:30:39 ◼   ► Fun times. Yes. Thank you. What I've seen is very exciting

01:30:41 ◼   ► You can find me on Twitter as ismh and I write at 512 pixels dotnet

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